The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 4, 1930, Page 4

¢ K . . [nhonn situation. Nearly 25000000 of these bear Daily Alaska Empire [ s = 2 | Now America is getting interested in the air- JOHN W. TROY - - - EDITOR AND MANAGER plane. Leading engineers, working for manufactur- — - ers, and one group employed by a large chain B ehed oG Calng | except Sunday oo miie [store concern, are now undertaking to develop a Juneau, Alask riced, dlow-cost of operation plane for individual 1 Post Office In Juneau ¢ ss|use by the average wage earner. By the time the et |1940 census takers get busy on the job, it is not 3 SUBSCRIPTION RATES. |inconceivable that aircraft may be running a neck Dellvered by e for 91,28 ber marth. T coawell a1 ce with both automobiles and telephones, i By mail, 1 o t following rates 553, iR i months, An advanc 4 Georgia Mayor has come forward with the o on e hEoPllY | suggestion that a new bridge in that State be named e Gen. Sherman. Since he hasn’t been hanged | and Business Offi MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRES: ssociated [ exclusively 1 all news dispat in this paper and N GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER ANY OTHER PUBLICATIO PIONEERING AN INDUSTRY. Some idea of the immensity of the undertaking to build up a meat packing industry in northwestern Alaska through the utilization of surplus reindee: owned largely by the individual Eskimos, whos conception of marketing has hardly passed a primi- tive bartering stage, s presented to the Chamber of Commerce last week by Carl J. Lomen who, with his brothers and associates, has for many years been almost alone in an undertaking to solve problems incidental to raising the animals and creating a market for them. There are now more than one million reindeer in Alaska. While the Lomen interests control the largest herd corpor- ately held, their holdings are actually in the min- ority when compared with the vast numbers held by the Eskimos. First came the effort to produce healthy ani- mals. In this, Mr. Lomen said, had it not been for the assistance of the United States Biological Survey, success never could have been attained. Scientific ,assistance by that Bureau was timely and effective. Co-operating with the Territory, which is furnishing financial aid, the Bureau is still en- gaged in warfare on parasitic enemies of the herds in the hope of increasing the value of each animal. Next, and of paramount importance, was to a packing industry. Without that ownership of herds would naturally become a liability instead of an asset as their numbers increased past a given point. Good headway has been made in this direc- tion. Educational publicity throughout the country has produced material results, starting a demand for a meat, the valué of which few people had any |Department of Commerce, is too lttle understood ! knowledge before the Lomens launched their cam- [€ither here or abroad. paign. In supplying this market, the Lomens have built corrals, abbatoirs, cold storages, bought and operated steamships, made contacts with rail transportation companies and dealers in packing house products and maintained their already made contacts with the buying public. This has cost them and their associates some $2,500,000, and their investment probably will become larger before any returns can be carned. The industry in its infancy. The pioneer work is still progressing. Yet the Territory is already reaping substantial benefits from the busi- ness. Last year the Lomen corporation expended some $210,000 in payrolls in Alaska, much of which went to Eskimo employees. This expenditure nat- urally will be greater rather than less as the industry grows. Originally a gold producing coun- try, with trapping a minor industry, the North- western section of Alaska promises to be made one of permanent settlement and prosperity through the eventual utilization of its reindeer. Its gold deposits nec'essarily become more nearly exhausted with each succeeding year of operations. While it will always produce a certain amount of fur, that production must always remain limited and trapping, as with any fisheries industry that may be developed in time, by force of natural conditions a seasonal occupation. The upbuilding of the reindeer indus- try, therefore, at this time appears as the main hope of that section for permanency for any ap- preciable self-supporting population. To the Lomen interests, and to others who have contributed to the undertaking, the Territory owes a debt of gratitude. It has already recognized that fact by extending aid in solving some of the pioneer problems, and probably will continue to co-operate with them in like manner in the future. To build up an entirely new industry, which has no counterpart in previous history, is a8 task of no mean size, an achievement of note. If the reindeer industry becomes such, it will be very largely due to the pioneering of Messrs, Lomen of Nome. is ALK AND RIDE. AMERICANS In facilities for talking and riding, actuaries have recently been delighted to prove, the United States leads the world. In fact, this country has a sta- tistics plurality over the rest of mankind that con- servatives may well find alarming. And when the radio totals compiled by the census takers who have been prowling into the nation’s living rooms roll in it will probably be found that America also holds the listeners' sweepstakes as well Of the 33,000,000 odd telephones now serving the world, about 60 per or nearly 22,000,000, are in the United States. Europe has some 10,000,000. Persons who have tried to use European telephones are said to have been astonished that there are so many. But apparently Americans are ride than to talk. The nation has one automo- bile for every five persons. Contrast this with Afghanistan, where the proportion is one automo- bile for every 23166 persons, which may account for the recent disturbances in that combative coun- try. A quarrel over a couple of automobiles could obviously embroil quite a lot of citizens In the' world count there are about 32,000,000 motor vehicles—an interesting parallel to the tele- more eager to |in effigy or lynched, it must be concluded that| Georgians actually have quit talking about Sher- man's celebrated march to the sea and only| {scrap about Prohibition Ambassador Morrow’s Challenge. (Cincinnati Enquirer.) bassador Morrow's campaign declaration |against the Eighteenth Amendment particularly is| {to be taken as signifcant of a popular changing |attitude with reference to the Prohibition policy [It is not, however, essential that his views on this |question should be here approved or disapproved |The fact of importance suggested' by his action |is that a man so able and prominent, both in {politics and in the major fields of business, finance {and high diplomatic service, should at this time | deliberately choose to stand for a Senatorial nom- |ination on a platform for repeal of the most-dis- cussed amendment to the Constitution. The candidacy of Ambassador Morrow, in the event of a successful issue, means simply that a |most powerful opponent of “a noble experiment” |would champion the wet cause in the iwlthout fear or favor. In this situation is sug- gested something very different from the attitude politician: Ambassador of the average Senatorial Morrow appears not at all afraid of the powers and influences which rather rigidly for ten years |have controlled the majority representation in both |House and Senate. | Having convinced himself that are fundamental and right, the distinguished Am- ‘b:\ssador to Mexico, and recent important delegate | ‘lu the London Disarmament Conference, proceeds |to fight for the nomination to an office which| Senate, | THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 4, 1930. (| PROFESSIONAL e & ROLLER H PHYSIOTHERAPY R I N K | Massage, Electricity, Infra Red Rev, Medical Gymnastics, ] 410 Goldstein Building, Phone Office, 218 OPEN i Wednesday, Friday and DENTISTS 301-303 Goldstein Bldg. PHONE 56 Hours 9 a. m. to § p. m. Sunday Evenings Fancy Ball Room i 3 e Helene W. L. Albrecht TRIRSCL I o 8 RO T T DRS. KASER & FREEBURGER Dancing Taught Classes are now | DENIEE . | Rooms 8 and 8 Valentine being formed i Building ‘Telephone 176 Roller Skating at 5 e i; Bay_ne DENTIST A. B. Hall Rooms 5-6 Triangle Bldg. Office hours, 9 am. to 5 p.m. Evenings by appoinment. | y y_e || Wednesday, Friday and Fhidne 888 Sunday MR N T !| Dr. Charles P. Jenne e ivenings — DENTIST Hours 9 a. m. to 6 p. m. SEWARD BUILDING Office Phone 469, Res. | Phone 276 i " 7 CHRYSLER MOTOR CO. l | Osteopath—201 Coldst>in Bldg. | Hours: 10 to 12; 1 to 5; 7 to ® or by appointment Licensed Osteopathic Physiclan Phone: Office 1671. Residence, MacKinnon Apta. World’s Lowest Priced 4y Full Size | without opposition he might have had by execu- tive appointment which was offered to him by | |New Jersey’'s Governor and refused. | | It is characteristic of such men as Ambassador | |Morrow to stand four-square with reference to all| {important questions and problems of life and gov-1 |ernment. His entry into the present canvass for| Senator brings New Jersey distinctly into the field | |of political national importance and interest. Indispensable Minerals. (New York Times.) |~ Control of minerals by some form of interna- |tlonalization has from time to time interested | {political economists, for the reason that nature has dealt unevenly with different nations. The| own or control an enormous part of the world’s known available supplies of coal, oil, iron, copper, |tin, aluminum, sulphur and nickel. Yet no nation | {—not even fhe United States—is self-sufficient in regard to minerals. This fact, stressed last week in an article in The United States Daily by Dr. J. |W. Furness, Chief of the Minerals Division of the He recalls the fact that! there are only three really great iron and steel jcenters in the world—in the United States, in |Great Britain and along the Franco-German !ron-} {tier. They produce about 85 per cent. of the world's iron output. Figures from other sources show that the| United States produces about 70 per cent. of world’s oil, 80 per cent. of the lead ore, 80 ‘cent, of sulphur, 55 per cent. of the copper, 50 jcent. of the steel, 45 per cent. of the iron, 40 per |cent. of the coal. The British Empire, while rich 'in coal, is comparatively poor in copper, steel and | |sulphur, but has a virtual monopoly of nickel land a large share of tin. The United States and | {Great Britain both lack antimony and platinum, |and the United States has practically no manganese. ' One of the interesting points brought out by | Dr. Furness is the extent to which certain metals| —notably lead and to a lesser extent copper—are used over again. This is not so true of the fer- rous products. Lead is readily recoverable. Even that used in electric batteries is returned for re- use every few years. About 95 per cent. of the lead so employed is thus recovered. Much of the copper is likewise reclaimed. Coal may within a few centuries be a museum specimen, as Mr. Kaempffert suggests. Our oil sup- |plies are going so fast that it is freely predicted chat within a century we shall have consumed |most of them. Unless better methods of avoid- |ing waste are developed we may expect to see cer- |tain nations become progressively poorer in essen- tial minerals, and probably even less self-suffi- cient than at present. the per per | | First Americans Arrived Ages Ago. | (Seattle Business Chronicle.) | Down in a cave in Nevada Western scientists |have just uncovered charcoal remains of a fire {which they say warmed prehistoric Americans at |least 20,000 years ago, and possibly 30,000 years ago. ' |The cave discoveries indicate the presence of human dwellers in this country in the Pleistocene Age, |three times farther back in dim antiquity than prior evidence had established. These scientific delvers are piling up evidence that this land of |ours was anything but a “new continent” when | Columbus nosed his toy boats against its shores a little while ago. There are some of us who believe thwt whatever else further study of the aborigines of this continent may disclose, it ‘will prove relationship between the earlier “Americans” and the peoples of Eastern Asia. Less than a month ago was published the amazing tale of a Russian prisoner who traveled most of the dis- tance between Siberia and Alaska over Arctic ice. |It is so logical to believe in prehistoric travel be- {tween the northwestern arm of this continent and |Northeastern Asia, whether or not there was closer contact of land than now, the idea must persist | that ‘havv ancestral relations on the other side of the | Pacific Ocean. After all, there is only one American who has a leasehold on the front page. His initials are 0, Ak, Herald.) The attitude of certain Senators toward the Su- !preme Court suggests that they would like to reduce it to the competence level of the Senate.—(Detroit Free Press.) A Prohibition snooper testifying in a New York Court saild he could take more than a hundred at the head of his class.—(Macon, Ga., Telegraph.) | | United States and the British ire | aar create a demand for deer meat and by-products of | Y Empire happen to many Indian tribes and the Alaska Eskimos | but we don't mean Coolidge.—(Boston | drinks a night and not show it, and if he is as|(f able a snooper as he is a liar he ought to be|[i FOUR DOOR SEDAN ti D_r Geo. L. Barton CHIROPRACT R Hellenthal Building | OFFICE SERVICE ONLY || Hours: 10 a. m. %o 12 noon 2p. m o0 p. m 6 p. m to8 p m. | By Appointment i PHONE 258 F. 0. B. Junean $875.00 McCAUL MOTOR CO. Dr. A. W. Stewart ] [ Dr. Hi Vs ——— | | ! i i | | i Service With Satisfaction i ! Opt. D. 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