The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 5, 1931, Page 4

i R ST S AR L Daily Alaska Empire JOHN W. TROY - - - EDITOR AND MANAGER»;. by the| and except Sunday every evening PANY at Seconc INTING COM Alaska Published {PIRE_ P! SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Delivered by carrier in Juneau, Douglas, Thane for $1.25 per month. Treadwell and {measure of relief for uncmployment, ihe permanent 3 1 of course bring | Dr. j. W. Bayne s s concerned and chould i DENTIST ~ i (mdvns ¥, not as a temporary relief no Rooms 5-6 Triangle Bldg. |but as an aid to permanent ns n wgainst il stimulating cconomic levelopment George F. Marshall, to whom has | | Evenings by appointment. ne ealth the over, been assigned the duty of directing | | Phone 321 Bobby Jones when the golf cham- ‘e — % i pion makes his movie ds‘but shortly | Ritchie of Maryland. in the series of films, “How I Play |#———————————¢ — Golf.” Marshall, in addition to | Dr. A. W. Stewart (New York World.) | being a veteran movie ?rectoé, l“ { DENTIST | esterday Albert C. Ritchie entered upon his ;‘ofn‘l’:f:';;o;fin‘o};f e iy Hours 9 & m.to 8 p. p fourth term as Governor of Ma nd. The Demo- | yoan'2 4" one-time champion of the SEWARD BUILLING LIBERALIZING RULES. ‘ THE Despite the witty denials of Representative Snell, | Republicar of the Rules Committee of the Hc tives, it is pretty generally | of the House is in the| Y peaker Long- | and Floor Leader Jol n. It is no to say 101 that Demo- liberalization is ill-timed be- side of the House is under nb of Minority Leader John N. Garner old days of Reed, and later Uncle Joe he Spe of the House was absolute In his authority, Finally the present plan was evolved after George W. then a young Representa- | tive from \ and now insurgent leader in the | Senate, led lt against “‘Czar” Cannon which | deprive iker of his power to name all » present rules, which were framed by | ederick H. Gillettee, now Senator from | and enforced inflexibly since 1925 by | legislation of importance can e in the through the powerful Rules Committee. It is, nated by Administration Republica Lon most vote House on.y rule of of course, di with Snell as Chairman. He, Longworth and Ti son undoubte have the power to delay a vote| on any measure that the Administration rejects since a petition signed by 218 members, or 50 per cent of the whole membership, to get out | to the y measure that has been pigeonholed by any committee id even if a majority succeed forcing a measure out, it can be rcon- sidered ¢ one day in each week and action on it may be defeated by a filibuster—if those opposed to a vote can obtain recognition from ‘the Speaker | which is not a difficult matter if the presiding officer is in sympathy with them Movement launched crat, to liberalize the rules was recently Representative Crisp, Georgia Demo- and leading parliamentary expert of that| He declared he proposed to wage war for | tion of rules in the next session of Con- e egardless of who organizes the House. He has | three changes from existing rules which he propusml to offer to the House. One would be to make it possible to force bills out of committees upon veti- tions signed by 100 members, providing, of course, | the committee was delaying action. Another would |® require a public hearing on any measure if a major- ity of the members of the committee asked for it. by Now this is subject to the will of the chairman.| Mr. Crisp has not made public his third proposal. Mr. Snell's statement this week was the bre- lude to the actual battle over the rules. Western Republicans, who are in sympathy with the Demo- cratic liberlization movement, have openly declared they will oppose the re-election of Mr.' Longworth as Speaker unlc he party caucus agrees to make | some concessior ich will deprive the triumvirate | of its autc powers. His disclaimer of | powers is probably designed to pave the way plans to steamroller the organization’s program through the com caucus to be held the latter | part of this month The outcome of the battle of rules will be hed with interest. Ifs outcome is probably | more important than the election of several Speak- ers in a s of Congr Speakers have habit of passing from office frequently, but rules| last over ms | SP h'\ll THREE BILLION ON 1931 ROADS. and ten nations and political sub- world will spend at least $3,000,000,- hundred of the roads and road construction during 1931, | estimate made by the Automotive | the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic World-wide investigations disclose ihe that in the majority of the countries of the road build been st lated as a mea: ure of unemplo; relief, and as a o world hi ts were larger in in 1929 are expected, in 1931, to be larger than ever before That history repeats itself in this respect, at is to by recent findings in India a and other places where ancient roads have | come to light built many years ago by sovereigns to provide employment for their people. Many of these ancient roads are in use today, indicating the high quality of construction It is g fying to note that the United States leads the parade of highway construction, with expenditures which, accord will reach $2,000,000,000 du: Though not in as large quantities, many other countries are proportionately increasing their high- way budgets to relieve unemployment. From Japan comes the news of a special and additional 40,000,- 000 yen (20,000,000 dollars) for 1931 roads; expenditures are expected to be increased by about $20,000,000. Mexico is pushing its great trunk highwey system to give Mexico City modern high- | to the best the y estimates, ng Main | | {have additional plans for the hway construction for the relief aner £ and in Porto Rico cne million Jdollars will ’ J)l‘. Ch:\rles P. Jenne pent on “oads i . DONTIST ! Thus we see all over the world stimulated netiv- )} Rooms 8 and 9 Valentine | § ghway construction and greatly increased 1 Building | expenditures durinz 1930 and 1931. Although this Telephrae 176 | | his principles. There has never been any i | Hellenthal Building - R]n ]\:‘h:‘rv he stood Im the hysterical storms PACKET HEADS {| OFFICE SERVICE ONLY | ‘\\ 1ich ave swept over the country since war time z i Hours: 10 a. m. to 12 noon Ritchic and Maryland, his State, have stood for LETTER HEADS i 2 p. m. to5p m. | liberty and reason. They have been an example| i 6 p. m. to 8 p. m. to the nation. They did not bow to the anti-alien| INVITATIONS I By Appointment hysteria of war time. They did not bow to the red| | PHON# 259 ysteria. They did not bow to the Klan. They STATEMENTS ", have rejected Prohibition from the start. They| ! {have been the most uncompromising opponents of | PILL HEADS 7 Rol Si Federal centralization. They have been the cham- | ENVELOPES | obert Simpson pions of personal liberty, of home rule, of States'| D i Opt. D, rights, of self-government in industry and of free| 1l Graduate Los Angeles Col- co-operation toward the maintenance of peace. ni RECEIPTS | } lege of Opwmefry and | | political liberalism in America is a body of doctrine, | Opthalmol, it is the Maryland Democrats who have preserved DODGERS ! Glasses F‘Xaed Le:f:; Ground !it. 1If during this last decade political liberalism DERS FL e has had a sincere champion, it has been Ritchie FOL = |of Maryland BLANKS DR. R. E. SOUTHWELL His steadfastness has been of inestimable value,! i Optonidtlit-Opticlan land if the party has a rebirth his services can-| CARDS fi i | Eves Examined—Glasses Fitted not be forgotten. For more than ten years the n] Room 17, Valentine Bldg. party has been sunk in confusion and division be-| T AG S ! Il Office phone 484, residense ause its sold its principles for apparent immediate ! | phone 238. Office Hours: 9:30 nd\'.\lnlzl e r L5 ehsess umyI to nams h(yl\" G | deee and guarantee your | to 12; 1:00 to 5:30 which have been the centers of the trouble to see . . that if only the party had been loyal Ao its own| f’f_“f“f“f“ f"“h our work | = aditions it would never have become confused and | s ; [ divided. Take, first, the issue of Federal Prohibi-| S 1 tion. Ts there an cducated Democrat anywhere IRIDIUM TIP [| ROOM and BOARD |who dare to argue that Federal Prohibition is not . Mrs. John B. Marshall in direct contradiction with the basic principles of F P 5 : the Democratic Parly? Take, then, the queston| 4! OUREALIL I~ €NS PHONE 2201 of religious tolerance. Is there a Democrat any-| |existing tariff and the whole scheme of subsidies. {erats can avow? {fused its counsels and destroyed is energies. in Canada | THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, THURSDAY, FEB. 5, 1931. * {Way connecticn z on the Gulf and PO AR R R TR ad the United Statcs on the North, arzen- Movie Mentor to / PROFESSIONAL in the clos of 1030 issued a decrec| Golf Champlon 4 ling for bids construction of some 300 . — of paved hi h an outlay estimated Hei W‘_—“— eiene W.L. 0,000,000 or more. Algeria, the Sudan, Czecho- F Pnrsxor&mé}}z;ec}n 2 and Gre: 1l have increased their 1930 Aasesdlt SRR Tira . Ray, Medical Gymnastics, has a $13,000,000 project on fo o 410 Goldstein Building D 00 miles. Hungary ha mbitious Phone Office, 216 pr iy under way and Bulgaria has - I doubled its highway budget for the previous year. 5 taly has a vast public works program under way DRS. KASER & FREEBURGER | employing close to 60,000 men for highway const 301_30313!(3;;’11(;1:3;5 St tion. Belgium, Australia and the United Kingdom all (& St S year. Hours 9 a. m. to 9 p. m. for In the Philippines $6,000,000 are to be used being undertaken at the present time as a direct Office hours, 9 am. to 5 p.m. | | Office Phone 469, Res. I Phone 276 cratic Party will do well to study his inaugural| Iakeside Country Club in Los | address. For the party will find there its own! Angeles. historic principles, stated by a modest genetlman| . who has been steadfast when so many others com-| |‘ y o ° promised and recanted .,. 3 Of all men in public life today no one in either ' We I ht | | Dr Geo. L. Barton |party has such an unbroken record of fidelity to! | ; CHIROPRACTOR doubt | | o oot ’—__] pS e NEXT § 183 : i AMERICAN LEGION § TAXI SMOKER STAND AT PIONEER Graham’s Taxi Phone 565 STAND AT ARCADE CAFE Day and Night Service Any Place in the Citv fo= $1.00 POOL ROOM Day and Night Service February 11th W. P. Johnson FRIGIDAIRE DELCO LIGHT PRODUCTS MAYTAG WASHING MACHINES GENERAL MOTORS RADIOS Phone 17 Front Street Franklin Street, bctween Front and Second Streets PHONE 359 Juneau $1.50 to $3.50 where so bold as to deny that the Ku Klux Klan | o and all its works are not the very opposite of the faith that descends from Jefferson? Consider the GARB AGE HAULED AND LOT CLEANING E. O. DAVIS Phone 584 The cheapest GUARANTEED | Fountain Pen on the ___Market. Can they be defended by any principle that Demo- Yet these are the principal ten years has divided the Democratic Party, con- Pro- hibition, intolerance and economic paternalism: these are the false gods which different factions in the party have wodshiped. But not Ritchie of convictions, clear-sighted and brave. We salute him | Maryland. He has been true to himself, al to his gratefully. matters which for| POSSS S HOTEL ZYNDA - ELEVATOR SERVICE loy Free Reading Room City Hall, Second Floor Main Street and Fourth Migrating Industries. (Cincinnati Enquirer.) Latest of a long list of industries to move out . of the United States is a motion picture .\tndm_“ Reading Room Opea From Tree— BEPRET 15 to be built in Canada. It is to produce “Amer mm"; 8 a. m. to 10 p. m. e movies for British and Canadian consumption. In-| nocent enough as a step in the decentralization of | a great industry, this movement of American capi-| tal to a foreign country illustrates the effects of| recent tariff legislation. The United States, G Britain and Canada all have increased their rates greatly in late years. This has made it HARRIS Hardware Co. CASH CUTS COSTS Open until 9 p.m. Circulation Room Open from 1 to 5:30 p. m.—7:00 to 8:30 m. Current Magazines, Newspapers, Reference, Books, Ete. p. Juneau Public lerar)i’ { § ‘ iff too ; ; g FREE TO ALL § | costly to import motion pictures across frontiers | ) If this were an isolated instance it would not & oo oomo oo R matter greatly. But it typifies a vast migration of | T American capital into other countries, for no reason | except that artificial tariff laws have disturbed the| natural growth of this and many other industries.| By boosting our import duties against a mumum”‘l of foreign products we in the United States have| forced many countries to retaliate in self-defen: The results are becoming more apparent each ye: It is possible that in some cases establishment of branch plants will bring economies in produc-| (tion. But where that is true decentralization of industries will come about regardless of tariffs. The Frye-Bruhn Company Featuring Frye’s Pe- licious Hams and Bacon misfortune lies in the natural growth of an industry | being thwarted or twisted out of its course by tariff PHONE 38 or other tax legislation—legislation dictated by na- tionalistic, not economic, considerations. This con-| j |dition, which has become more serious in the s i e = =5 vear, calls for a careful reconsideration of our ov {taritf policy and for a much clearer realism in our|} | approach to foreign economic policy. | . in About Thrift-- of the G. Mr. T Norris, be A year from now, when to organize the Senate, will not be such a terrible-looking fellow (Milwaukee Journal.) A knowledge that you are If the main idea is to put something into alco- thrifty and prudent insures {hol to make the consumer il without actually S 1 annihilating him, why not put in some alcohol?— | employment and enables you (Detroit News.) 1 to face old age without alarm. | If a private citizen decides against the Eigh-| It takes character, determ- teenth Amendment he gets jailed. If a Federal| ined effort g 1 e Judge does it he gets 8462 columns.—(Akron, Olnu.i ’4‘ ..md at t}mes pree | Beacon-Journal.) sonal sacrifice to bnilt a Sav- BT, TP L e 1 o8 A o »| Whether or not a special session of Congr Angs Account but no one has ever regretted the thrift habit. is held, Senator Borah can be counted on to have plenty of say.—(Milwaukee Journal.) The ancient Hebrews also had a goat on which they blamed their sins, but they didn't call it a B M \ . M. Behrends Bank President.—(San Francisco Chronicle.) Up to this time, Senator Norris has kindly re- | frained from reading everybody but himself out (of the Republican Party.—(Detroit Free Press.) J et et rprrrr rrrv el [ IPHONE YOUR ORDERS is to promptly. Grai reason. Give ug a trial order You Can’t Help Being | 1 Second Hand Guns Bought || WORK CO. 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