The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 21, 1931, Page 4

A e i susiatod B 50 8y T 4 (4 rTm——— JAGER| The end to this idyll came more than a year V. . . - EDITOR AND MANAGER is idy ame e tha J,OH}I W LR — —~ ago. Since the eclipse of the “prosperity era” ihe e G, COMPANY ot 19 oY yihe|demands upon charity have been unprecedented. Lt b O The Red Cross is now staging a drive for $10,000,- Entered in the Post Office in Juneau as Second Class matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Thane for $1.25 per month. the following rates: By mail One 5 $6.00; ¢ Subscribers wil notify the Busine fn the delivery c Telephone for will promptly s or irregularit r papers. torial and Business Offices, MEMBER OF The Associated Pr use for republicatic it or not otherwise ¢ local news pu ASSOCIATED PRESS. s is exclusively entitled to the ws dispatches credited to 4 in this paper and also the hereir TO BE LARGER SKA CIRCULATION GUARAN ALASK LICATION, THAN THAT OF CHANGE IS DEMANDED. {But out of the suggestions made by While the form in which the Wickersham Law Enforcement Commission reported on Prohibition Is likely to prove confusing to the country, the out- standing feature, which is the recommendation for a change, undoubtedly reflects the majority senti- — [suffering. THE DAILY Al ( products back into the normal channels of a peace- s which no other could ap- ful world on a proach {000 by private jerating appropri lous debate. "| However, if all the claims be conceded as well- ’Immded, we contend that the scales are still bal- anced against Prohibition. | descended upon the United States with the Dry regime wipe out these material gains. We have |in effect in large and populous sections of the | country what amounts to open :rebellion against this law at any rate. We have a growing disrespect (for other laws to the great detriment of if not | cerious menace to orderly government. We have |a spectacle of public service admittedly honey- [combed with corruption that is widespread. We |have a citizenry divided by a rift deeper than any |that has disturbed its serenity since the days of fs]a\'{‘r}', And like that problem it cannot be met with evasion and admits of no temporizing. . . * . { ’ The sincerity of the Commission is not to be questioned. of public good should be reaped. The fact that a majority favor a radical change in the Dry mode of today should convince Congress it must act. The Commission as a body failed to point to any -emedy. ndividual ‘membnrs. a line of action may be found by Con-) To many Americans repeal seems the mosti | | gress. | desirable solution—that | vidual States of t and a return to the ‘ndi- ment of the country. Neither the Drys nor the Wets | ., may see fit to do. will be wholly pleased with the tenor of this long | awaited document, that in the end took the form | of 12 papers instead of merely one. Possibly had the Commission’s personnel numbered cleven ‘umn.,\ cleven instead of merely eleven, there would have | been 121 individual reports to explain why and| wherefor each Commissioner took this or that posi- tion 1 There are two striking facts demonstrated by ,hei Commission’s findings—one, the country desires "i change from Constitutional Prohibition and, Wwo, so far no common method of change can be 'Lgreedi upon by those out of sympathy with the present system. Two members, Newton D. Baker and Monte M. Lemann, favored outright repeal, and four others | recommended modification. In other words six out of the eleven Commissioners are opposed to the present system. To these might well be added two more who, while favoring a present continuation | of Prohibition as is, would submit the whole quos-i tion to the people by some form of referendum. In other words, they see nothing objectionable to re-|find larger markets for its manufactures. peal or modification, but they would first want to |1e Britain’'s Woes and Ours. ubscription, and Congress s delib- ing $25,000,000 more to relieve Whether increased savings came from Delivered by carrier in Juneau, Douglas, Treadwell nnd“mrl higher wages of private as well as public cm- i ployment, lessening of industrial accidents irom x months, in advance.|petter trained workers and an industry more so- cial-minded, than from Prohibition, is subject to The evils that have “I've found the part,” says Puffy“ “of this boat v pleasant cabin nor the Out of its investigations a great deal| right to legislate upon Ahe,‘ | whole question as a majority of the citizens of | (New York World.) The clear and clean-cut diagnosis of Bri economic ailments recently made by Henry Clay noted English economist, deserves careful attention! on this side of the Atlantic; for the conditions| which Mr. Clay describes are not peculiar to the British Isles. In seeking a cause for the slump in| the British export trade Mr. Clay finds that the average price of British imports has fallen 23 per| cent since 1924 and is now only 18 per cent above | the pre-war level, while the average price of Briushi exports has fallen only 20 per cent since 1924 and is 51 per cent above the pre-war level. Britain's export trade has thus lagged because of the failure| of producers to adjust th vels. German leaders have made the same discover: and the Government has embarked on a defini | program of readjustment to enable Germany to British lexports are a fourth less in quantity than they be so instructed by the people. This leaves but three | were before the war, and that is the chief cause, | Commissioners who are so wedded to the Eigh- teenth Amendment that they believe further time is necessary in order to thoroughly test it. So much for the future. As to the present, the | Commission seems fairly well agreed ihat enforce- | ment of Prohibition is notable for its absence. After eleven years of the Eighteenth Amendment about the only changes to distinguish the Dry mil- lenium from the Wet era are that the licensed saloon has been replaced by graft-subsidized speakeasy, ihe quality of liquor has been sadly lowered, and organ- ized crime rings control a traffic that was former!y] controlled by organized society The Commission took official note of the con- ditions—that there is widespread nonobservance of the law and a lack of adequate enforcement, and a regime of corruption has grown up that is the scandal of the country and makes the United States the object of ridicule in the eyes of the world. It comments that enforcement has been impaired be- cause some of the larger cities had refused to permit enforcement of the law. This need not have 007 | casioned any astonishment to the investigators. In| its preliminary report made many months ago, the | Commission pointed out that the problem of en- forcement could not be separated from the large | “question of the views and habits of the American | people with respect to private judgment as to the | statutes and regulations affecting their conduct.” Perhaps these views and habits have been taken into consideration by those members who were suf- ficiently bold to recommend repeal or modification. | . . . . The recommendation for increased personnel in | enforcement forces is not strictly consistent with the findings of corruption. If it is not possible to prevent grafting in the present personnel, its ex- pansion will furnish greater opportunities for graft- ers to work their way into the ranks and carry on their nefarious operations. To double the force would likely result in trebling the corruption. Regardless of the restrictions that hedge in the | appointments to this body of Government agents, the very nature of their service, as experience has | shown, leads to corruption. The opportunities for personal enrichment are so great, the rewards so | high as compared to the s that the Gov-| wmment can afford to pay, that even the “higher | class” operatives that are employed fall more than occasionally. That is no more than man nature Even if angelic agents w called into the ’-rmk.:l of the Prohibition Enforcement Unit, the slimy | monster upon which they attendant would in no time at all splatter thei of the filth that has its abiding place suption. cor- ‘The list of the benefits of Prohibition as seen | by the Commission is itself highly controversial. In the past decade, to be sure, these thir about in the United States. But the “prosperity era” in the United States so ‘widely heralded throughout the world. The golden age which made this country the cynosure of the rest of the universe. Its foundation was highly me- chanized industry, the outgrowth of an industry intense]y organized to meet wartime demands of a world stripped largely of its most productive workers, which, with its own producing units frans- formed into factories for war supplies, was forced to look to this country for manufactured goods as well as raw materials. With the chaining of the martial gods, the industry of this nation, far in s have come bright wings with all | | college has to teach; but what is more in Mr. Clay's opinion, of persistent unemployment in both good years and bad since the World War To regain their foreign markets, he says, British | exporters will have to offer their products to the world at what the world things they are worth. { This principle applies also to the United States./ Yet we have deliberately adopted an opposite pol-] icy. We are trying to maintain a price level above | that of the world market, and we are being told| by our political leaders that if we make this level| high enough, keep out foreign goods and trade only | Such an idea has guided the unhappy experiment ' of the Farm Board, but it is by no means confined | to the sphere of agriculture. It is a false and dan-j gerous notion. Our huge surpluses and our army | of unemployed speak eloquently for wider markets' and freer trade, and they attest the fallacy of| maintaining prices artificially above the level in the | world markets. | The Newspaper Man. (New York Times.) The United States Department of the Interior, through its “Office of Education,” has been making | a survey of the field of journalism, with the pur-| pose of “giving the opportunities and limitations of writing as a career.” There are more than 28,000 men and 5,000 women who write for 20,000/ newspapers, magazines, trade journal and similar| publications—nearly 2,300 of these being daily papers | with a circulation of 44,000,000 copies. This means| that one person in every three buys a daily news-| paper—or, omitting children under fourteen years of age, one in every two. But as one paper has often several readers, it may be assumed that nearly every literate person in the United States has a newspaper daily under his eyes. There are 6000 men and women “studying Journalism” in colleges and universities, the approv- ed schools offering a four-year course leading to the bachelor's degree. Professional courses are put first in the curriculum of these schools, but if the advice of Charles A. Dana is followed—and it is the soundest advice—the courses called “supple- mentary” which it is suggested would prepare the reporter for better service—in history, economics, government, politics, sociology, literature, natural science and psychology and philosophy—should be the basic disciplines. His definition of a well-trained newspaper man is as follows: A journalist must be an all-round man. He must know whether the theology of the parson is sound, whether the physiology of the doctor is genuine, whether the law of the lawyer is good law or not. His edu- cation, accordingly, should be exceedingly extensive. If possible, he should be sent to college. He must learn everything the imoprtant, he should be sent to the school of practical life and of active and actual business. He must know a great many things, and the better he knows them, the better he will be in his profession. There is no chance for an ignoramus. The r ion to the plan for excluding immigrants tw will come when we run short of men women to do the rough and unpleasant work |of the nation—(Los Angeles Times.) That alcohol denaturant that smells like rotten cegs and garlic recalls the home brew that tastes as if it were made of pond water and brass filings —(Macon, Ga., Telegraph.) If the politicians can't agree on what con- stitutes party regularity, how can they ever hope to reach a common understanding on Prohibition? thes van of other industrial countries, turned its —(Milwaukee Journal,) Herbert H. 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