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3 ;Duily .flnska Em pire 7,000,000; and miscellaneous funds $263,000,- { 000, But T . inaugurat der President Wilson, and after :uch | 3 . NAGER | inaugurated under | JOHN W. TROY - - - EDITOR AND M%NA | opposition, particularly in Congress, this record| I evening except by the not been le. In commenting on 3 COMPANY an Main ; | Alnska, value of the budget, Mr. Mills said: “It is only ugh the budget m that the Treasury is able | eet so well the enormous demand of the Fed-| SUBSCRIPTION RATES jeral Government and at the same time keep a| Delivered by f“'r‘\”’ in Juneau, Douglas, Treadwell fl"d‘)mnmmm of cas on hand, or that it is able 0| Thane for $1.25 per month. . [deal in such tremendous figures of money, without | ein x months, in advance, | disturbing the balance of the money market.” Only | ¢ they will promptly |the most backward of governments, whether ihi i sularity | pe National, Stateé, Territorial, County or Municipal, have failed to recognize the vital importance of the budget system and the necessity, in the interest of conducting government on sound business lines, of maintaining a balanced budget. in the T MEMBER OF ASSOCIA Washington has decided to permit petting “with- | |in bounds” in the parks. We wonder if the vetters |or the park poli lefine the bounds. s | res children e fed up on defini- ignorant enough to think that | filled them. TO BE LARGER OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION TION GUARANTEED 1stein de And we W .‘" was questions PR ¢ candy will dispel fear. | Probably inspired by the “be nonchalant” of cig- that professor says ¢ |avette fame. You take a shovel, Bunny, and I'll Phone 321 % | S e v take a pick to dig i o — < February 11th Day and Night [ And we'll concertate on turning up S L7 | S 4 A Hard Law to Upset. a Chinese China Pig.” ervice | Lo S R Dr. A. W. Stewart (New York Herald-Tribune.) ELLCTRICAL WORK 1 DENTIST I s N L None of the litigation over the radio act has so| Call Schombel. Telephone 4502. Hours :RB;D"; “L:‘I;GV-- | e = |chaped itself as to elicit from the Supreme Court|———— — ———— = ap S(P;‘W Ph Uisg -R ‘ T 4 L QUESTION OF FACT NOT AN ISSUE. |of the United States a decision on the constitu- | === oftloa EmE AR e W P ]ohnson uE JuNEAU LAUNDRY g |tionality of the law. Various broadcasting stations IRIDIUM TIP & 5 . » by i Franklin Street, between Gen. Smedley D. Butler, United States Marine |injuriously affected by time divisions, new alloca- 2 FRIGIDAIRE |! Front and Second Streets i ) first came into the national spotlight |tions of wave lengths and otherwise have tried to % - H QR oo ot came dnwgthe natlonal SpOYEIM) RUAUTIEENG hroperty: bt thiind WAk IRERR WItRGHY) FO"" tain Pens Dr Geo. L. Barton ||| PELCO LIGHT PRODUCTS ! THONE " as Prohibition C of Philadelphia whose | s ! 247 WASHING \ * : by nojey | COmPensation, in violation of the Fifth Amendment.) | "HIROPRACTOR MAYTAG WASH 3 admin there was marked as much by nolsy | 5 rined by’ ths’ OauEt 6L, Appeais) $1.50 | 8 MACHINES i talk as action, and who added to his notoriety of Columbia, on appeal from rulings| $1.50 to i Hellenthal Building later when, after being recalled to duty with the |of the Federal Radio Commission. the constitutional | {| OFFICE SERVICE ONLY ||| GENERAL MOTORS RADIOS Marines and at another officer’s house, he |challenge has been held in abeyance and the Su- preferred charg inst his host because he |preme Court has declined to review these cases. alcoholic drink: his is again achieving And now the highest court has refused to an- widespread publicity by crashing the front pages of \”‘f"‘—’r a set of mlPsUmls certified by the Clrcuxt_ Cour:.i newspapers all over the world. His bid for \°f Appeals for the 7th Circuit directly bearing un; 4 isidiiliog ! Philadelphia in which |the Validity of the law. Did the complaining sta- | i B oepecos An 2 **" [tion have “property” rights in the operation of its| he placed for the death of a| | business, and, if so, wer small child dictator, Mussolini. “3111(‘ Fifth Amendment? sl latest the responsibility the alian on Almost with asperity the| Duce was credited with having treated the alleged |Supreme Court, speaking through Justice Roberts,| tragedy in cold blood. |rejects “questions of objectionable generality” and | Mussolini at once denied the truth of Gen,|8ys “it was never ml:ntlvr‘l that invunswexj to 8/ Butler's statement. But the bold Marine, despite |2uestion certified we should give a dissertation on| ro. | the application of the Fifth Amendment.” Moreover, | |Justice Roberts finds that the aggrieved station, Rather | which sought its remedy in a district court, should | orders to that end from the Navy Department, fused to apologize for his ill-timed charge would he resign from the service of his country.!haye gone to the Court of Appeals of the District ! Possibly he will resign, but not, apparently, before |of Columbia. | he has faced a Naval Board sitting in court martial.| Avoidance of the constitutional issue if it can - [ possibly be es { aped is traditional with the Supreme That is the answer made to his arrogance by & retary Adams of the Navy Department jCourt, and the ingenuity of counsel thus far has There was no other course left open to the|Tot contrived to put the radio act, in force since Naval authorities. Gen. Butler's opinions are his| 1927, to the fundamental test. It may perhaps be deduced from the Supreme Cour ders the radio law a warrar under the interstate s attitude that | able regulation commerce clause own as long as he entertains them in privacy when he utters them publicly, they cease to be sonal property and take on an official aspect % | a high oilicer of the United He cannot AL N MR | dodge the official responsibility for his acts. As i | an American officer he pu thjs, nation in_the | Mr. Lucas and the President. | position of being discourteous to the head of an-| e | other and friendly nation for which this Govern- (Naw TR YOI | ment has properly apologized. The truth or falsity| WPat is President Hoover going to do about Rob- | % e ; b |ert H. Lucas? Here is the Executive Director of the | of his utterances are not a part of the issue he| _, .~ |Republican National Committee, by Mr. Hodver's! created. The conduct of Mussolini is none of his|gesignation, He is shown up as using Republican | official business. If he felt irresistably compelled |campaign funds in a campaign against a Republi- to criticise him, he should first taken the|can Senator to circulate a scurrilous cartoon sup- precaution of resigning. In that way what he had |ported by a faked quotation ascribed to ex-Governor | to say would have been of no concern to the|Smith. In this scurvy transaction he is branded| American Government and not of sufficient import- | With the mark of the Klan. When Mr. Smith de- | | ance to have justified its notice by Il Duce. e have |mands a proper apology Mr. Lucas dodges with the | |silly question whether Mr. Smith has become a con- | vert to Prohibition since the cartoon and the forged. THE SITUATION. | - (VAR evidence gathered by The World's Washington | bureau that no longer ago than last October Lucas| was card-indexing the nearly 12,000 employees of the Internal Revenue Bureau, of which he had been the d until August 15, in an attempt to enroll them a political phalanx in the Republican Party | service, “keeping me [him] advised of political conditions in your community.” | It is fortunately not often that the annals of American politics chronicle the commission of so many dirty tricks by one man in so short a time.| Most of the business news consists of despatches | from various industrial centers telling of increased employment and resumption of operations by var- fous units. All of this is quite to be expected at this time of the year and especially following so severe a curtailment of production in the last few weeks of December. Those plants that have been able to keep going, however, except in the case of motor companiest the mildest sort of improvement.|They are now no secret. The man is bared to th Buyers are not coming into the market, new projects |E°neral view. The people see him for what he is 'id“d what he represents. In effect, he is at the Xperiencing are not coming to light. In short, revival is not h 85 She head of the Republican Party machinery. He is ; : there at the President’s will. He is subject to the Meantime, it is becoming increasingly clear how | president's recall What is Mr. Hoover going to do low the level of industrial earning power has lately |ahout him? When is he golng to do it? dipped. Estimates of p enterprises for had been a Texas Corpo; ing. It is idle, ie fourth quarter are far worse than | and such figures as the submits are undeniably sober- moreover, to expect much improve- ment in the current three months. The most hopeful factor continues to be the extreme ease of which is facilitating new fina g and which will gradually thaw out credits. Tag ends of liquidation in both finance and trade pated on (Cincinnati Enquirer.) Robert A. Millikan, who isolated the elec- tron, a recipient of the Noble prize, and one of the foremost physicists in the world, at Cleveland | last week took issue with his distinguished English ! fellow scientists, Sir Arthur Eddington and Sir James Jeans. ‘ Dr. Millikan conceives creation as still going| Continuity. J : | money. may remain to be completed but the broad move-|on, with Creator directing the Universe. Hel ment has largely been completed and after the|holds that evolution does not conflict with re-| usual period of convalescence business should be on |ligion, but reveals God in nobler aspect. 1 the mend Unlike his English fellows, Dr. Millikan d | 5 | ;u;){ beieve that the Universe is doomed to run down. | His researc! RETIREMENT OF WAR DEBT BY 1949.|him that infinite intelligence ceaselessly is at work, | £ Al ST 4§ everlastin, winding up the clock of stars and suns In eighteen years, or by 1949, the war debt of |and my rious voids. | the United States may reasonably be expected to| Dr- Millikan is a cosmic optimist. To him be wiped out, in the view of Treasury officials as |Ch6T8Y I the Universe is not slowly disappearing revealed by a recent address in 2 but inexorably is reemployed in endless continuity. | New York City : a ; Such view is helpful and hopeful. It should also by Ogden L. Mills, Under Secretary of the Treasury.|pe more reasonable than that the cosmos must He reviewed the debt situation over the past decade. disintegrate in ultimate annihilation. | pointing to reductions made in that period in sub- There is beauty and majesty in the conceptiou} stantiation of this view. of an er-developing universe. It enlarges the| On July 30, 1920, the country's interest-bearing |s , 80 to speak. It tends to lift the| debt totaled $24061,000,000 and the average :nterest | thoug! to spiritual human physical | rate was 4.225 per cent, bringing the annual interest { BeCess human material desire. It suggests ¢charge to $1,016,000,000. On the same date in 1930 wondrous things in the future insteed | " the total debt was reduced to $15,921,000,000, the = i 2 v‘““-\“IO"““ by i dnterest charge to $606,000000, representing an an-|part of man, the soul, be said to pass and diebe| ‘nual saving of some $410,000,000. The Second and |absorbed in extinction? | Third Liberty Loans had been paid off in the inter- j mm $3,187,000,000;; foreign debt repayments,|ances it ‘prin P“' and interest, $1,416,000,000; surplus funds.lbune.» WO! be anything extra vening decade and, in addition, $827,000,000 in War : Al Smith is for an apology from the Savings Certificates. Ten years ago there were|G. O P. which probably is all the G. 0. P has | $16,000,000,000 in bonds not redeemable until after “g“ Judging by what the recent campaign cost.— | ve years, while foday this has been reduced to|‘P2Ylon Ohio, News) ]‘ 1000,000,000. Is Congress going to have an i e S8 1 an extra session? In making the reductions, the sinking fund €on- |1y may have one, but judging from past pcrfurm~} | quotation were circulated. And now it appears from | . fits of representative major o=z s in the realm of cosmic ray convince | e THE DAILY forf the ‘budget system a reform which was v U F “Now that we're here” says Puffy,| | We'll organize an exple and—explore. The cheapest these rights protected by | ~ Phone 25—We Deliver Lot ezs show gowu some ||| | semples to Ulusirate | 1 Al s ALASKA EMPIRE, SATURDAY, JAN. 31, 1931 N\l PROFESSIONAL . Heiene W. L. Albrecht PHYSIOTHERAPY Massage, Electricity, Infra Red Ray, Medical Gymnastics. i 410 Goldstein Building, Phone Office, 216 ,,Cfi;hanfs'Faxi DRS. 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