The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 17, 1931, Page 4

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, TUESDAY, FEB. 17, 1931. A e R _Dail;' Alaska Em pire pect me of being only a cheap skate after all, and drop me like a hot potato. Of course, as he himself admits frankly, most of | JOHN W. TROY - - - EDITOR "AND MANAGER | the things he has to say about us are obvious'y true e 2 ——————— |of all peoples on earth. Many Americans, however, | | Syery evening sxcept Sunday by athe | take them more seriously than anyone elee and for neau that reason finally come to the conclusion that! TEntered In the Post Office In Juneau a5 Second Class |they are different from all others. For ourselves, matter. we hope Mr. Shaw will continue to function for our edification and amusement for many more years | and that “senile sentimentality” never does overtake | SUBSCRIPTION RATES. livered by carrier In Juneau, Douglas —_——— = Thane for $1.25 per mon Treadwell and g rates: 10! ge paid, at the foi i oneyoam i advance, $12.00; six months, in advance, | MM $6.00; one month, in advance, $1.25. s 4 Jiles Subseribers will confer a favor if they will promptly| g 4o aonarent it the Wickersham Commission notify the Business ‘Office of any faflure or irregularity in the delivery of their papeps. had written the Eighteenth Amendment everyone Telephone for Editorial and Business Offices, 374. R he approved |would have been satisfied because could have picked out just the part and let his conscience be his guide. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to jt or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein Lucas's corner is getting an hardly be possible in the “mum club.” | This silence from Mr. |to be quite a strain. It he has joined Grandma Fes: ASKA CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER ALAS AN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION An Imaginary Visit. ! (Cincinnati Enquirer.) | The event is most improbable, if we know our| | science, but a visit from the signers of the Declara- | ‘tion of Independence just now would produce some lextraordinary reflections. Those ardent champions | |of liberty doubtless would be interested in the fmarvelous physical changes in American life since |their own heyday. But once they had exhausted their curiosity about subways and skyscrapers, electric lighting and me- | teoric transportation methods, they surely would turn reflectively to see just what progress has been made in the matter of closest concern to them. | Larger than anything else in their lives was the | | conflict of the Great Britain of George III. and| his American colonies. They would recall the mani-| |fest tyrannies of colonial Governors, the unjust,} vas well advised in |taxes, the resort of smuggling, and finally the re- filis Bhsmiber, of | Oninieros, was Well s + |bellion of eight years when petitions and pleas failed | endorsing national lugnslav'.xon designed to protec! R R st | Alaskan industries, and those to come here, against | Doubtless they SAA B \mpressed with the Iacli the competition originating from Soviet Russia. c?n,that the United States, a giant beside their 13| even terms, Alaska need not fear foreign 1"’°d“C“5-,struggling colonies, is living in peace with the but where they are manufactured as under ihe ' mother country, and that Canada is ruling herself | existing Russian system even tariff walls cannot while remaining loyal. They might look upon the/ protect American labor and industries from disaster. | British Empire with even more surprise than upon Only an embargo will prove adequate. | America’s own industrial empire. 4 Reliable information from Russia is convmcmgfm f%*ibllst'i 'hg Tlulstand;ng fefl!ufg %f l’igexlt muzlfilwx 7 Jabor— | that would challenge them woul e the spectacle that the Soviet has resorted to enforced labor—| %, Wo . 0" C0L PO meeting with de]egatesi virtual slavery—to speed up its production of manu-j o oty b O b e equality about the council facuerd goods as well as agricultural products. Labor‘mmev to discuss differences and work out a means is rigidly conscripted and paid wages just above the |of evolutionary self-government. starvation level. It has the alternative of ;.tnrva-‘ They would recall the futile petitions they sent tion of selves and families and persecution if it to England, the ever more onerous taxes that fol- refuses to work at the tasks assigned. What is lowed, and the sanguinary struggle that culminated. produced is then dumped on the world’s ~narketszhey could not fail to detect in the technic of | at costs below those obtaining in those countries|80vernment a significant advance—the replacement | where workers are better compensated. of military and economic force by negotiation and| conciliation. Two commodities so dumped are softwood and | . _ 2 No doubt they would conclude, after such a! woodpulp. Alaska is rich in natural resources ’or“panoramic survey of political life in 1931, that some these materials. It can supply a very large Pro-irea] gains have been made since they lived on portion of the entire country’s needs for them. But|earth, and that however mankind blunders, there it cannot meet the competition of “slave” labor as are clear signs of progress—for those far enough' typified under the Russian system. Other parts of’flWfly to look about with detachment and pers- the country are feeling the effects of compemion‘:l?w“\'e- from other Russian products. Congress should act| to end this before serious damage is done to buthE industry and labor. | | G LOCAL LABOR AND DUSTRIES. PROTECT | [ A.-Y.-P. Road Commission. (Seattle Times.) Premier Tolmie’s announcement at Victoria, B. C., |of the organization of the international commission | {to consider the feasibility of constructing the Al-| Commonsense at last has prevailed in national aska-vukon-Pacific Highway, indicates that pre-| legislative and executive councils where, after weeks liminary work on that magnificent project soon will of discord over relief appropriations, some semblance be undertaken. The American members of the com- of harmony has been restored by the adoption orimlssion were appointed last Novmeber. Herbert H.| a compromise which has satisfied those Senators|Rice of Detroit, Assistant to the President of Gen-: who demanded Government aid for suffering man-ieml Motors, heads the representatives from the| kind and met the approval of President Hoover g:;tfg if;::;enstf;;":gewg: al:ltn;e:;.eofr:;ffllvgjx};mrl who determinedly resisted anything that smacked and.Mé\jur Malcolm Elliott ‘;f the Army. ?I‘hrel C:nr-, of a Federal dole. If in the compromise & WaYy'qgian commissioners are J. M. Wardle, of Bantf, has been found to ameliorate the misery of thelrepresenting the Dominion Government; James Mc- WAY CLEARED FOR ACTION. runs acress the plate. Associated Press Phote Christian “Red” Cagle, Army grid- Iron star for four seasons, has turned his talents to the New York stock exchange, and now Is a fioor, clerk for a firm eof Wall street brokers. - o — Lack of Runs |Knocked in Hurts {Terry's Hold Out NEW YORK, Feb. 17.—Offi- cials ef the New York Giants have found one flaw in the .401 batting average that Bill Terry, first baseman, has thrown up to them in a demand for a salary cf $25,000 for the coming season. Though Terry led both leagues in hitting last ccason and was the first member of the Giants to capture the batting cham- pienchip since 1915, it is report- ed, hints have been made that his predigious feat had some- thing of an crnamental flavor. Terry, batting clean-up in the full 154 games, drove 129 On the cther hand, “Hack” Wilson, Chicage Cub cutfielder, who hit 45 points less drove in 190. And Chuck Klein, cleanup slug- ger for the Phillies, used his .386 batting average to drive home 174 runs. .- — In Wisconsin, 1,800 billboards are Y | devoted to an appeal from Gov- | ernor La Follette for jobs for un- employed. hundreds of thousands of men, women and children | Neill of Dawson, representing Yukon Territory; and without forcing the nation to adopt the dole sys-lGeorge P. Napire of Victoria, representing British tem the country has cause for thanksgiving. Columbia. It has reason, also, to be relieved that thus is| Since the greater part of the road, which will the way cleared for Congressional action on the de- |link Fairbanks with Seattle, will be through Can- partmental supply measures. These bills carrry 2dian territory, the success of the great project § |depends upon the whole-hearted support of our the money which the various departments must have | neighb Pri in order for the Government to carry neighbors to the northward. emier Tolmie has on its normal | activities. Their total is almost three and one-half | pc ‘f,?;:ou'?mfim‘:gfiig Ry (o e m billion dollars. Any serious delay in their enact- |}oca] highway development. Presumably aid will be ment could only be productive of disorganization |sought of the Dominion Parliament. No difficulty | and add to the confusion and distress caused by thejis seen in extending the Alaska end of the highway widespread unemployment which already detracts|from Fairbanks to the border, and a road already from our prosperity. There are only two weeks re- |is built from Seattle to Hazelton, B. C. The re- maining of the Tist session of Congress—all too m;un‘ing stretch through the wilds of British Co- nrief a space of time in which to consider details‘]“mbm and Yukon Territory presents no extraordinary of the several appropriation measures, But with a*mmmmes' : majority of both branches sincerely minded to enact‘ The Tshway: weuld open’ up o Hieh fempire e Northern British Columbia, and Yukon Territory. | IRIDIUM TIP Fountain Pens $1.50 to $3.50 The cheapest GUARANTEED Fountain Pen on the Market. Phone 25—We Deliver PROFESSIONAL PHYSIOTHERAPY | Massage, 410 Goldstein Building Phone Office, 216 | Heiene W.L. Albrecht | Electriity, Infra Red Ray, Medical Gymnastics. D] 301-303 Goldstein Bldg. PHONE 56 Hours 9 a. m. to 9 p. m. I——— ] DRS. KASER & FREEBURGER DENTIST Rooms 8 and 9 Valentine Building ‘Telephrme 176 Dr. Charles P. Jenne | Dr. J. W. Bayne [ DENTIST || Rooms 5-6 Triangle Bldg. | Evenings by appointment. | Phone 321 i L . | Dr. A. W. 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CASH CUTS COSTS Open until 9 p.m. them and thus prevent any necessity for a speclal |\ Tne vast resources of that wild region are as yet | session of the 72nd Congress, there should be no almost untouched. The cost of the highway would great difficulty in attaining that object. ‘be but a small part of the new wealth made avail- l“bli dfor the people of the northern provinces. Wk o 3 vocates of the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Highwa: SECRET OF POPULARITY. |dream of a road extending the full length of the R {two Americas. What development will be possible If a writer or lecturer desires to be beloved by can be only conjectured, but the link between the people of the United States all he has to do is Seattle and Fairbanks is up for first consideration. to say harsh things of them, ridicule, lambast, hold | It Will be well worth while to ascertain if such them up to scorn and otherwise show them ecvery |8R ambitious project is practicable. possible incivility. That is the rule which George“ T Bernard Shaw has made his own in dealing with | es:f ANis, B Pk o R Re T ke ) g America and American topics, he recently told Lhe:feport threem;aesm:iifltopsg d:;d:g.e \x:z‘e;:h;:; New York Times. | & o 9 ? His remarks were in response 0 |why? and What of 1t?>—(Philadelphia Inquirer.) a query from a Times' correspondent for Shaw's opinion on Sinclair Lewis’s address at Stockholm, accepting the Nobel prize for literature, in which the American satirist attacked the present literary standards in this country Mr. Shaw was less serious in his contention than he would have us believe. He credits Ameri- | cans with less familiarity with his own works than | they actually possess. It is upon the basis of its| general excellence, upon his own forthrightness and | forceful individuality that his American popularity rests rather than upon his comments, almost always Keenly caustic, about American life and customs. ‘While we as nationals often disagree with what he has to say about ourselves, we nevertheless read | with interest, and often amusement, what he says and how he says it. Even his revelation of the rule he follows n| writing about Americana is so delightfully rude that no one will take offense at him for saying: I myself have been particularly careful never to say a clvil word to the United Btates. I have scoffed at their inhabitants as a nation of villagers. I have defined Still, when you stop to think of all the honey- mooners' baby talk Niagara Falls has had to listen to the wonder is that it didn't collapse a long time ago.—(Macon, Ga., Telegraph.) AR A 3 Deaf, dumb and blind World War veteran is place some banana peelings on the steps of the Capitol at Washington.—(Los Angeles Times.) AR e NI 30 The Washington Star says that the Wickersham Commission did not decide with off-hand impet- uosity. Many regard its production as a sleight of hand performance.—(Milwaukee Journal.) Despite his attainments in mathematics Pro- fessor Einstein probably has as much trouble keep- ing his checking account straight as anyone else does, or even more.—(Ohio State Journal.) MBS SR The Wickersham report is a brilliant exampie of how to fire a blunderbus and miss the bull's eye—(Atlanta Constitution.) Chairman Wickersham says the report of his the 100 per cent American as 90 per :ent Commission speaks for itself. Nevertheless it has an idiot. And they just adore mec and | many interpreters.—(Milwaukee Journal.) will go on adoring me until in a moment «f PR C, l Bi L Ye senile sentimentality I say something nice Hollywood—out where the Sex begins.—(Spring- about them, when they will begin to sus- l:eld. Ohio, Sun.) cured by falling downstairs. Won't somebody please [ Frye-Bruhn Company Featuring Frye’s Pe- _licious Hams and Bacon PHONE 38 A knowledge that you are thrifty and: prudent insures employment and enables you to face old age without alarm. It takes character, determ- ined effort and at times per- sonal sacrifice to bnilt a Sav- ings Account but no one has ever regretted the thrift habit. B. M. Behrends Bank s promptly. PHONE YOUR ORDERS TO US You Can’t Help Being Pleased D. B. FEMMER PHONE 114 We will attend to them Our COAL, Hay, ® |Grain and Transfer business is increasing daily. There’s a reason. Give ug a trial order | today and learn why. Office phone 484, residense .[ Second Hand Guns Bought 1 phone 238. 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