The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 29, 1931, Page 4

4 THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, THURSDAY, JAN. 29, 193i. Daily :4rlaska E rfpir_‘(l JOHN W, TROY - - - EDITOR AND MANAGER ‘Sunday by _the Published _every except EMPIRE_PRINTI COMPANY at Second and Main Streets, Juneau, Alaska ) o Entered in the Post Office in Juneau as Second Class matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Dellvered by carrier in Juneau, Douglas, Trea Thane for $1.25 per month. ; By mall, postage paid, at the following rates: One year, in advance, 00; six months, in advance, ; in advance, $1.25. “gj\?fin?rliehtm?nvb?fl oy favor It they will promptly notify the Business Office of any failure in the dell Telephol ASSOCIATED PRESS. The Ao Press ib exciusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not oth credited in this paper and also the| local 1 herein dwell and d Business Offices, 374. e | A CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER ALAS‘?HAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION. HOW THEY STOOD. The Wickersham Committee’s report on Prohibi- tion, which seems to be almost all things to all men, which has been praised and condemned alike by both Wets and Drys, is not really roprnsnnmuve‘ of the opinions held by the individual members of the Commission. This is indicated clearly by the summary of the position assumed by each in indi- vidual reports they submitted as a part of the gen- eral report which Chairman Wickersham prepared and submitted to President Hoover. Every member of the Commission, except Monte M. Lemann, signed | the general report. As summarized by the Associated Press, the sev- eral members of the Commission expressed their following convictions: Chairman George W. Wickersham, New York, Republican—Further trial of present law with a referendum on repeal. Col. Henry W. Anderson, Richmond, Va, Republican—Revision of 18th Amendment to permit liquor sale under Government control. Newton D. Baker, Cleveland, Democrat— Repeal of the 18th Amendment. Miss Ada L. Comstock, Cambridge, Mass., Independent—Revision of 18th Amendment | and National Prohibition Act. Judge Willlam I. Grubb, Birmingham, Ala, Democrat—Further trial of present law. Judge William S. Kenyon, Fort Dodge, Iowa, Republican—Further trial of existing law. Monte M. Lemann, New Orleans, Demo- crat—Outright repeal of 18th Amendment; did not sign report. ’ Frank J. Loesch, Chicago, Republican— Revision of 18th Amendment to permit liquor sale under Anderson's plan. Judge Kenneth Mackintosh, Seattle, Re- publican — Further trial of present law, with eventual modification as proposed by Anderson if proved unenforceable. Judge Paul J. McCormick, Los Angeles, Republican—Further trial for one year and a referendum on repeal with ultimate re- vision as suggested by Anderson if enforce- ment unsuccessful. Roscoe Pound, Cambridge, Mass., Repub- lican — Revision of 18th Amendment to allow liquor sale under Government con- trol; endorses Anderson plan. The alignment as to parties showed four Re- publicans favored a change from the present sys- tem and four recommended further trial of it. Two Democrats were for change, both recommending outright repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment, and a third Democrat favored continuation. AIR SAFETY KECORDS SMASHED. For the last six months of the calendar year, 1930, all records for transporting passengers by air were smashed by companies engaged in scheduled aerial operations, Only two fatalitles were reported for the entire six months in this class of aviation. The total for the year was 24 deaths, 22 occurring in the first six months. During the last six-month period, the Department of Commerce estimates planes operating on schedule flew about 20,000,000 miles and the passenger mileage at more than 60,- 000,000, both figures being slightly higher than for the first six months. It is apparent that the estab- lished companies are experiencing material success in their campaign to make travel by air as safe as good aircraft and competent and efficient pilots can do. PERSHING BREAKS SILENCE. Gen. John J. Pershing, who, as Commander in Chief of the American Forces in France during the World War, probably knows better than any- one else the inside story of America’'s part in that momentous struggle, has broken his silence that he has maintained since the Armistice was signed. His story of the war is now appearing in various newspapers throughout the country. It will be read widely and students will find in it much for serious thought. ‘This is indicated by his foreword which gives the primary purpose of the story as being “to render an important service to my country.” There are many lessons to be found in the period from 1917 to the end of the war that should be useful to the country, he added, and “I felt it a duty to record them as I saw them.” His story, dedicated to the men of all ranks who served in the American Expeditionary Forces and “partitularly to those who gave their lives to the cause for which we fought,” he does not regard as history. In fact, he disclaims any attempt write a comprehensive history of the World War. merely has tried to portray the activities of force under his own Jeadership. “I write of our army and for our own people, and I have not consclously magnified or minimized the effort of any army or any people.” After all, as the great American Commander said, “there is credit for all g or irregularity | President {change from | $3,841,000,000. in the final triumph of our united arms. The strug- gle of the allies was much longer, their sacrifices very much greater, than ours.” to answer the old query, “Who won the war?”, but a chronicle of events leading from the time of Am- erica’s break of relations with Germany to the end Wilson and Secretary of War Baker, he denounced these as unfounded. In the foreword to his own memoirs, he expressed his gratitude to both officials for “selecting me to command .our armies and for the whole-hearted and unfailing support they accorded me in France.” William Eohenzollern celebrated his birthday an- of the German empire. The Federal Commissioner of Prohibition ad- mits his agents spent $31,940 for drinks in four months . Only the Government could afford ‘o sup- port such hard drinkers. Foreign Trade Losses. (Boston News Bureau.) While the whole world’s business depressed, and all countries consequently selling to or buying from one another in much smaller volume, and with that same volumne measured in sharply reduced mone- tary unit terms, no other outcome in our own ‘foreign trade totals for 1930 could have been ex- pected than a drastic recession. Perhaps the only new comment possible on the actual figures is that the downward trend had become toward the year- end surprisingly accelerated. It so happens because of light cotton shipments at the time— had been one of the few months of that year to record any export shrinkage from 1928, at $426, 000,000 as against $475,000,000 in the last month of 1928. Now comes a December, 1930, export total of lonly $273,000,000. Here is a decrease of $153,000,000, or 36 per cent from a year eariier, and of 42 per cent from two years before. Similarly the money value of our imports last month at $310,000,000, a decrease of $101,000,000, was off 33 per cent from the total a twelvemonth earlier. The tendency to recede, in keeping with the |course of world business activity and trade move- | ment, and more particularly with the steady s&g-i ging in commodity prices, was cumulative in its! records of valuation shrinkage. Thus for the first half of 1930 there had been a drop of about 21 per cent. in merchandise export value 1929. But in the second six months of this past| year the corresponding decreases rose to 32.7 per‘ cent for exports and to 37.2 per cent for imports | from a year earlier. Hence for the calendar year a very lean show- | ing, with the value of our merchandise exports only | Here is a drop of no less than $1,-| 400,000,000 or almost 27 per cent. It is necessary | to go back to the other lean year of 1922 to find | so low a total. .In the intervening years our gross 4export total was approaching five billions, and in| 1928 and 1929 it substantially exceeded that figure.!‘ Similarly the 1930 import total of only $3-| 061,000,000 is no less than $1,338,000,000, or 30 per‘ cent smaller than the figure for 1929—and is the smallest since 1920. For each of the five calendar years preceding 1930 our import total ran well! above four billions. | These are the statistical ravages of lessened | physical volume and drastically lowered unit values. And with the usual time lag in trade records, there | is little doubt but that these effects will carry over, perhaps increasingly for a brief while, into 1931,—until the trade turns eventually comes. Lord Cecil on Disarmament. (Manchesterr Weekly Guardian.) It is to be hoped that all those who listened to Lord Cecil's broadcast address on disarmament will have absorbed at least some of the fervor of his convictions. For at bottom the possibility of dis- armament depends more upon the possibility of cre- ating the proper sentiments and emotions than upon finding any rigid logical proof that it pays to dis- arm. The logical proof has been supplied often| enough, but it has not reduced military establish- | ments. Nothing will, except the opinion that you! are not going to fight and that nobody is going to fight you. Armaments have to be shown to be| futile as well as dangerous before they can be| scrapped. That is. why we got on so famously with the scrapping of battleships. From this point of view it is probable that Lord Cecil was not wise to, hint at the possibility that we might have to bribe certain other nations tp disarm by promising to come to their defense if they were attacked. That certainly is not the way to impress upon people's minds the futility of armaments. On the contrary, it encourages the idea that peace pacts and arbitra- tion treaties count for nothing, that every country must still expect attack and can only count upon military guarantees of some kind for its safety. nothing is more unlikely than that this country will be persuaded to extend its existing military commitments. We have enough, perhaps more than enough, already. To take a definite example, if the French, in view of the fact that we have under- taken unconditionally and irrevocably to protect their frontier from German attack, will agree, by way of an installment of disarmament, to aban- don conscription, then this country might be better prepared to accept Lord Cecil's view of the value of military guarantees in promoting disarmament, In the course of a duel between two Hungarian counts the combatants twice dropped their swords and went for each other with their fists. It is very regrettable when these displays of ill-feeling occur upon the field of honor.—(London Punch.) If Mr. Edison succeeds in enabling aviators to see through a fog maybe he can do something for the politicians.—(Indianapolis News.) Back home in the old days a magician was a chap who could light a carbide auto lamp in a high wind on a country road.—(Detroit News.) This is a free country. You can do mighty near as you please until a Prohibition agent knocks at your front door.—(Florida Times-Union.) SR P AR The Chicago gangsters finally got in wrong. They tried .to hold out on their income taxes.—(Macon. Ga., Telegraph.) ——— The kind of alcohol used to keep radiators from freezing makes a drinker very cold indeed.—(Cin- cinnat{ Enquirer.) This is not then to be a story which undertakes % VFEE M. ~ PROFESSIONAL 1 PHYSIOTHERAPY o || Helene W. L. Albrecht Massage, Electricity, Infra Red reiterated a statement made shortly after the war's end when in answering criticisms directed against N niversary by chopping wood and gardening. Quite a | the days when his celebration was; the occasion for a fresh display of the mailed fist | that December of 1929—largely | and 24/ per cent in import value from the first half of| If that is a correct view the outlook is black, for| 8 = “Perhaps,” says Puff, “it's not a dragon that we want to find. A Chinese Nightingale’s a better present, to my mind.” They scraps together pennies such as China people spend And mail the bird to Captain | | | | Indoor Net Champ | | . Associated Press Photo Marco Hecht, 16, of the DeWitt| Clinton high school, New York, win- ner of the national junior and boys’ indoor tennis championship in New York tournament. BAN CHRISTIAN FILMS ! SHANGHAI — “Noak’s Ark,” an American movie, has been banned| in China on the ground that it exploits religious superstition. The picture is the escond of its type| to be barred in this country, the| other being “The King of Kings.” | - \ CLEARANCE SALE Heron labeled, “Do Not Bend.”|% of hostilities. Gen. 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