The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 6, 1930, Page 4

baily Alaska Em pire JOHN W. TROY - - - EDITOR AND MANAGER EMPIRE F I AT Rt Benond an® Me E F RATES. Douglas, Treadwell and ARANTEED TO BE LARGER ¢ OTHER PUBLICATION BISHOP CANNON FLIRTS WITH DANGER. Senator Walsh, one of the ablest if not the ablest | lawyer in the United States Senate, declares that Bishop Cannon is guilty of contempt because he | stepped down from the witness chair and left the Senate investigating committee’s chamber without leave after making a statement to his own liking and refusing to be cross examined. The little Bishop may succeed in breaking into jail yet through his fnordinate conceit and sublime conviction that he is a law unto himself. He may manipulate politics, handle campaign funds without making a report > p = purchase all her present enemies. But what's the use? Soon there would be swarms of other enemies. It's profitable to i be an enemy of Nanking! China had to humble herself before Russia for Russian fficers could not be bought But in China the “itching palm” is con- HUS. Remember this and you can derstand much about the wars in this eezer-greaser” land China is worse and worse. Property-rights are gone. | Life is unsafe dom of the press and speech has vanished. | Loyalty and obedience are not. Liberty is dead. Bandits abound. But Nanking makes- believe all is “as fine as pie” and issues pious reports. Among officials there are doubtless sincere ones who would put things ght but the make-believes predominate and block every move for good. But don't judge harshly. Most officials are sons of the laboring class and of the newly-rich. They are young and inexperienced. They pay great attention to trivial things and neglect great things. If in our Washington it's said, | “He that is without gin among you let him first cast a stone,” can we condemn heathen China? We hope that some day China strip- lings will tire of “playing house” and will gét down to horse sense But I'm getting away from the New Year. | Gambling is everywhere. Superstition is ; rife. Money is wasted that might relieve | | famine suffering. Every temple is crowded with people offering incense, candles, paper- money and prayers to all the gods. They pray most for wealth. That prayer is not make-believe. They want wealth, and they worship the god-of-wealth with all their | hearts. Every home has one made of wood, mud, or of paper but he is “Dzai-zen” all the same. When business gets poor in China they say the god-of-wealth has gone to America. The paper Dzai-zen is interesting. The god's throne is a big ingot of gold set with jewels. Mountains of gold are at the god's left and Silver Hill is at his right. In front of him is a great bowl of jewels. On Silver Hill is the money tree a shake of which will shower you untold wealth. Over | Dzai-zen's head is “Foh"—blessedness, All around are his servants ready to carry | wealth to those whom the god favors. This | god is very amenable to flattery and he who flatters best gets most. But he too is make- believe. of expenditures or rendering an accounting, gamble on the stock exchange or keep the conscience of | a people at his sweet will, all in the name of a great church, and with a pompous and self-satisfied | mien that in others would be regarded as wholly out of place. i However, we suspect that even Bishop Cannon | cannot flaunt his strutting defiance in the face of Senator Walsh and get away with it. He is flirt- ing with danger when he attempts it. Great as he is, he has limitations. | FOOD IS MOST IMPORTANT. Man can exist without reading and live wlthoutl clothing, but if he has no food, he must perish As he grows more civilized he may eat less in quan- | ely | tity, but what he does eat costs him progre: more and more. This is emphasized by a study | made by the General Foods Corporation, the re- | sults of which were recently made public. On the | basis of an annual income variously estimated to be between $78,000,000,000 and $89,000,000,000, one- fourth of all the money spent by the American people is used to purchase food products, said that company. Most research workers agree that the | value of food bought reaches $21,000,000,000, plus | $3,000,000,000 more in products ‘“consumed on lhe‘ premises,” including food raised and eaten on farms and not cleared through any market. | Other interesting facts revealed by the study | was that: The retail value of all textiles in the | United States was $12,000,000,000. Automotive ex-| pense, including cars, trucks, tires, and accessories approximates between $5,000,000,000 and $6,000,000,- |groups which have been able to muster sufficient | 000 on a retail basis. Adding gasoline, oil and maintenance, however, the automotive expense is ing regard for the welfare of the American people, about on a par with textiles. Building construction |nor even for American industry as a whole, in the costs range between $7,000,000,000 and $8,000,000,000. Railroads receive between $6,000,000,000 and $7,000,~ 000,000 in operating income. The iron and steel business, not including machinery, is recorded at around $6,000,000,000. The food industry, probably the oldest of all Industries as well as the largest, is today Browing what he believes to be the public interest but also faster than population, due to the demands of the public for better and more varied foods. A WORD PICTURE FROM CHINA. China, “Land of Make-Believe,” and scene of| bitter internecine strife, is strikingly depicted in a letter just received by The Empire from Rev. H. G. C. Hallock, of Shanghai. A China that de- fies a law forbidding a thousand-year old custom with the same abandon that many Americans ig- nore the national edict against drinking. Rev. Hallock's letter, which follows, is well worth reading because it does throw some light on conditions of the present day in the Land of the Dragon Here comes a letter from this land of | “make-believe.” This is Chinese New Year, fJan. 30] but the Government would make believe it is abolished and forbids its cele- bration. But it is Chinese New Year. Fire- crackers boom as of old. People in their best “go-to-meetin's” greet their friends with “Kong-hsi fah-dzai"—"Congratulations and abounding wealth.” Stores are closed. Nanking’s order is ignored You can't change 1000-year-old customs of 450 million people in a night. But this is not the only make-believe. Nanking makes-believe China is unified. It “ain't China is split into smithereens. Chang Fa-kwei in Kwangsi is fighting Nan- king. Yet Sii-shan has Shansi and Chihli and rules well. Chang Hsueh-liang lords it over Manchuria Tang Seng-chi keeps a hornet’s nest buzzing in Honan. Vong Yoh- dziang sways Shensi. Szechuen goes its own way, and other rebels keep the Capitol on “pins and needles” Yet Nanking has re- peatedly reported each of these discordant ones overcome or won over. But it is only make-believe to hood-wink the world. Chiang Kai-shek is the “conqueror of the North and the unifier of China,” But what he seems to have done was done mostly with Russian brains and capital until he took Nanking. After that the rest was won by squeezing money from people in the rear of the “fighting lines” and buying enemy commanders in front. There was hardly one worth-the-name battle fought. It was mostly victory by purchase and buying victory takes the gloss off the glory. If Nanking had the money now she could i It must not be taken for granted that Mrs.: Ruth Bryan Owen was renominated for Congress because she is a dry and ran against a wet. Mrs.| Owen has been a colorful member of Congress and | she has given her district more advertising than most Congressional districts have received during the last year or two. Bishop Cannon, who tried for many years to control Virginia politics, has refused to tell a Sen- ate committee anything about his 1928 political activities. It would probably be expecting too, much to conclude that he is ashamed of them. Theory and Effective Power. (Cincinnati Enquirer.) When the outstanding economists of the United |States with one accord condemn a piece of pend- |ing legislation in unqualified terms, it is quite safe | ‘to assume that tHere is something radically wrong with the bill in question. In fact, many of Lhe‘ \members of Congress who have participated in th‘ drafting and redrafting of the Hawley-Smoot tarifi measure admit that it is totally unsatisfactory. But in a political system such as we have worked out | in this country, soundly reasoned objections are | of little avail against the intrenched power ofi economic pressure groups imposing their will on | the Legislature. i The tariff bill about to go to the President | for his signature is nothing more than a patch- work of provisions adjusted to please the sundry | ifriends in the Congress. There has been no abid-| preparation of this bill. Perhaps it really merits| the veto of the President, but it is asking a great| |deal of the Chief Executive to seek his disapproval of the measure which has involved nearly a year of legislative effort in the making. The President’s task is necessarily one of com- promise. He must concern himself not only with with the wishes of predominant groups whose ef- fective power is more than all the rest of the public combined. He must play the game in some- thing of the spirit in which it is played in Con- gress and in the lobbies of Congress. It is idle for him to seek the ideal, either in legislation or administration. We can hardly look for his veto, therefore, despite the overwhelming opinicn through the country that the tariff bill is malicious. Still, it is Mr. Hoover's chance to go down in his- tory as a courageous public leader if he chooses to negate the sordid work of a year of legislation. In the Shadow of the Tradition. (New York Times.) It is sixty-five years since Appomattox, but there is to be a Confederate reunion this year as usual. As on previous occasions, Southern news- papers speculate whether this reunion will be the last. Some one described the Civil War as a “boys’ war” because of the youth of the majority of the combatants. But lads who were 15 in 1861 are 84 this year, and that is rather old to march in par- ades and make long, hot journeys. Nevertheless, accommodations have been prepared for 5000, and a full attendance is expected, partly because there is much talk that this reunion will be the last. partly because it is being held at Gulfport, Miss. Here was the home of Jefferson Davis. From his place near by, Beauvoir, he went to the Senate and to his tragic Presidency at Richmond. At Beauvoir, too, he wrote the story of the Con- federacy. Lee and Jackson, much more than Davis, were the idols of the Confederate Army. But the Iname of Davis stands for the tradition, and June 3 will see as many of the veterans as can reach Gulfport paying tribute to the Southern President and will hear them yelping thinly the rebel yell. A stealthy knock at a mysterious door, a furtive peephole opened, a suspicious face peers out, and a few reassuring words are spoken. The door is opened, and the visitor enters and buys a dozen corks.—(Boston Herald.) is over—at least the one that our Madison Square Garden is still in session.—(New York The air show was held here in Congress, of course, Post.) getting | Business is paralyzed. Free- | THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE P FRIDAY, JUNE 6, 1930. ( ROLLER Wednesday, Friday and Sunday Evenings Fancy Ball Room Dancing Taught “lasses are now . PHYSIOTHERAPY RINK OPEN Phone Office, 216 DENTISTS PHONE 56 Hours § &. m. to 8 p. m. PROFESSIONAL R L | Helene W. L. Albrecht Massage, Electricity, Infra Red Rev, Medical Gymnastica. 410 Goldstein Building A2 . o DRS. KASFR & FREEBURGER 301-303 Goldstein Bldg. DENTIST " Dr. Charles P. Jenne Rooms 8 and § Valentine il being formed Building I' Telephone 176 | 5 ] Roller Skating at P Dr. J. W Bayne i Wednesday, Friday and Sunday Evenings Dr. A. W. Stewart DENTIST e ol Hours 9 a. m. to 6 p. m. | | R T SEWARD BUILDING Office Phone 469, Res. Phone 276 | o— — Phone: Office 1671. 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