The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 24, 1931, Page 4

I R RO ==, i Daily 41(131«1 Em mr(i J'OKN w. TROY .- LDITOR AND MANAGEB day by the hed (.‘,.n\ .‘\4;‘[;;';\:;”'.;[1 &‘\v‘\ a8y R ”“‘ notoriety in recent months over alleged graft| ggof"kl‘l:l'“‘ “’3“\]1‘11(““ = 1n its municipal judiciary. Tammany, which in! Sbiainaiil — lthe minds of many is synonymous with New York Entered in the Post Office in Juneau as Sccond CIA) ypy “soamg to have been reverting to type. But the matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Delivered by carrier in Juneau, Douglas, Thane for $1.25 per month By mail, postage paid, at the following rates One year, in’ advant six months, in advance, 6.00; one month, in ad $1.26. ¥ Subscribers will confe if they will promptly | failure or irregularity notify the Business Oftice of any e delivery of their pape. " Ellyn lep] ;' ‘(\u for orial and Business Offices, 4. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the The se for republication of all news dispatches credited to | TEr ot otherw i in this paper and also the! local news publi ALASKA CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION PROTESTS ARE SOUND. The protests being voiced by various Alaska | communities. including Juneau, through their re- spective chambers of commerce against increased rates for freight and passengers on the Alaska Railroad are soundly based. Unquestionably it is) true that such radical tariff increases as oroposed will tend to defeat the end for which they were devised—namely to wipe out an annual deficit in operations that has extended over every year of its operating career. Higher rates will certainly curtail both freight and passenger traffic and limit de- velopment of new industries. It is not impossible, | also, that these increases will restore river trans- portation on the Tanana and Yukon rivers to some- thing like its former status by bringing private companies into the field. This would hurt the Alaska Railroad materially since much of the heavier | commodities now transported by rail from Seward would find cheap water hauls to their advantage. It is doubtful if the Interior Department will change its mind because of the protests. Senate criticism is more powerful than Alaskan objection. | However, Alaska is wise in protecting its record in this matter. At some future time it may prove | valuable in a renewed effort to adjust rates | more equitably than is provided for by those now | proposed. REPRESENTATION A LA i SUTHERLAND. The Congressional Record of December 15, quoted by The Empire recently, showed how efficiently | Alaska is represented in Congress by its present Delegate. Some months ago, the Senate passed n bill which provided that the Governor of Alaska should receive an annual salary of $10,000. This measure, which was of no particular interest to any member of the House of Representatives cxcept Alaska’s representative there, had made its way through committee and finally attained a command- ing position on the Consent Calendar, its only hope for consideration. But if any member interposed | an objection, the unanimity was broken and the bill not only could not be considered at that time, but it would lose its standing and revert to the bottom of the calendar. This procedure is followed in order to expedite business. So many bills are before the House for consideration that measures of no national import are lumped on this calendar and acted on without debate. Where an objection is raised instead of arguing the question the measure involved drops out of sight. That is what happened to the bill to pay the Chief Executive of Alaska an adequate salary. It was knifed, and deliberately, by Alaska's own Dele- gate to Congress. He spoke but two words—"“I object.” No reason was advanced. None was necessary under the rules. He simply didn't want it to pass and that was the end of the matter. Why did Mr. Sutherland “object.” It is no secret that he has no love for Gov. Parks. But that should be a personal and not an official affair. It was not Gov. Parks alone he hit when he said “I object.” The present Governor of this Territory has no lifetime tenure. Possibly his val- uable services to Alaska will end with his present term. Others wili succeed him and they would have received the full benefit of the salary increase that the Senate was willing Gov. Parks should have and that no other member of the House except Alaska's Delegate objected to. The Delegate himself receives $10,000 each year of his tenure and has a liberal mileage allowance as well as other perquisites. Possibly Mr. Sutherland rates himself on a higher scale than he is willing to allow to any man who may fill the Governor's office. Even so, since it was the Federal Govern- ment that was to pay the Governor's salary and not the Torritory, that should not have caused his opposition. It looks like a genuine dog in the manger attitude. Alaska has been queerly :epre- sented in Congress on other occasions, but never more queerly than it was at that time. NEW YORK CITY AIDS JOBLESS. While a nationwide drive is being made for funds for the Red Cross to aid the drought-stricken, and Congress is preparing to appropriate $25,000,000 to the same agency for the same purpose, it should be remembered that there are millions of involuntary idle persons without means of sustaining life other than is furnished through charity. The straits of the unemployed, though not so dire as those inhabi- tants of the drought-swept sections, are extreme, and suffering is undoubtedly widespread. New York City, which months ago was alive to the seriousness of the situation, has alone raised $8,000,000 to relieve the unemployed of the city. A committee of its leading citizens are administering the fund which supplements aid that the municipal government is giving. This fund, it is now esti- mated, will not be sufficient to carry over longer than April. Unemployment has not reached its|with the political party they daily damn.—(Atchison, " peak, and it is feared that the high point in idle- Treadwell and | | the management.” | ater jor adapt itself to lower levels of remuneration, THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, SATURDAY, JAN. 24, 1931. Incss and destitution will not occur until next Spring. {Mayor Walker and various civic leaders are working ' on plans to augment public work in 'y possible all needy cases may be hnndle(l.‘ has been getting a ot/ way in order that Amerim's greatest city in which the city has come to the Iron! is one of the finest examples of genuine American | | spirit that we have noted in recent months. It has| | raised by public subscription a sum of money four- fifths as large as the Red Cross has asked the ontire | ‘cmmlry to furnish it for drought relief. | manner And it is| | administering it without any great fanfare of pub- ‘hmly The Senate’s Alaska Railroad Committee declares | “Congress should exercise a closer supervision of the property and maintain a closer touch with The idea being, oresume, that eventually gas instead of steam will be used to operate trains. we The Liquorsham Law Enforcement Commission, | completing its investigations of Prohibition | Enforcement, is now to be subjected to an Inves- tigation by the Senate. If this investigation busi- ness keeps on, we may find out just what overy- one really thinks about the Eighteenth Amendment. Unemployment Insurance in Europe. (New York World.) The unemployment-insurance systems of Ger- many and Great Britain are depicted by some; students of labor problems as models which the| United States should follow; by others they are| pointed to as a warning. In both Germany and Great Britain opinion as to the merits of this in-/ wé | “The slender form,” says Mrs. Hel ron, “now is oui of style. | Why don’t you lend me some of || Rooms 5-6 Triangle Bldg. your nice plumpness for a|| Office hours, 9 am. to 5 pm. while?” Evenings by appointment. |“T wish T could,” says Puffy, “but I Phone 321 fear we're And then they laugh e Daily Empire want Ads Pay. surance—wrongly called the dole system—is divided. To Lloyd George the British system appears as a preventive of social revolution. To Henry Clay,! one of the economic experts on the royal commis- | sion investigating unemployment insurance, the sys- tem has mitigated the suffering of the post-war readjustment, but at the same time it has tended to delay the completion of this readjustment. Bri-| tain, he says, is confronted with three choices: it | may find new outlets for its economic activity,| or| maintain a high-price level with curtailed produc- tion and with much unemployment. So far it hdS chosen to suffer unemployment. The shift of work-; ers from declining to expanding industries has been deferred, and so has the readjustment of wages and prices which eventually must come. Almost simultaneously with this analysis of !he British situation, Finance Minister Dietrich of Ger- many gave his opinion of the effects of the unem- ployment benefits on German industry. In his opinion the money now going to support the unem- | ployed, amounting yearly to about $750,000,000, could be better used in spurring industrial activity and providing them with work. If the money went as a! premium to key industries, enabling them to lower their costs and find wider markets, he maintained that the employment problem would soon take care of itself. Dr. Dietrich drew a rather nebulous dis-| tinction between a premium and a subsidy, to the! latter of which he is opposed. It is difficult to| see how his program would provide promptly for | Germany’s 4,000,000 unemployed, or what would happen to these if their insurance benefits were removed. | Nevertheless, the criticism from such sources of | the British and German systems show that un- employment insurance is not yet out of the experi-| mental stage. We shall eventually know whether | it is all that its proponents claim it to be, and| whether, even with some imperfections, it is the| best method that can be devised for mitigating | the ills of unemployment. In this country the progress of the British and German experiments| will be watched with great interest. y The Marines in Nicaragua. (Cincinnati Enquirer.) Not only has the Senate requested all papers and documents relating to the occupation of Nicara- gua by American troops, but many of that body are prepared to force the Administration, if at all possible, to withdraw the troops promptly. The killing of eight marines and wounding of several more last week by Nicaraguan bandits has done| little more than to focus attention of the coumry‘ on our occupation of this Central American State. Since 1924 we have maintained troops in Nicara-l gua, numbering from 1,000 to 5,000 at various times. ! Casualties have been very few, less than 50 in all.| Nicaraguan casualties doubtless have run into hun- dreds. But it is not a war we are waging in Ni- caragua. The two countries are at peace and on the best of terms, officially. Rather, the United States is intervening there, to aid Nicaragua in maintaining stable government and to protect Ameri- can property. Neither White House nor State Department ever has given to the public a full and honest statement of the purposes of intervention. Even the Congress largely is uninformed of what the Executive seeks to do in the Caribbean. True, we are surveying a new canal route across Southern Nicaragua, but this is hundreds of miles from the village of Octol in the northern wilderness where the marines were | trapped and killed. Whatever the purposes of inter- vention, it is clear that its effects have been: (1) To strengthen the Nicaraguan Government now in power, and (2) to aid Nicaragua in policing her own country. But if the United States has made a friend o(‘ the present Nicaraguan Government—a friend that will be kind to American property and to American overtures for a canal—it is also true that we have made many enemies among Nicaraguans out of power—who are just as likely to be in office when the canal project is to be started in earnest. Our record is none too good. But whether it is good or bad, the American people are entitled to a| clearer statement of what Washington seeks to do there. Milestone on the highway of civilization: Wash- ington dispatch says 50,000 persons spent Christmas Day behind bars of Federal, State and county penal institutions because of the Prohibition law—(Macon, Ga., Teelgraph.) It isn't Senator Norris’s irregularity that makes the regular Republicans so hopping mad; it's the fact that he got reelected since he became irregular. —(Milwaukee Journal.) Senator Borah probably feels that there is n: need for any other third party—(Philadelphia Bul- letin.) In 1928 there were 511 persons in the United States with incomes of $1,000,000 or more. Them were the good old days!—(Boston Globe.) 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