The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 26, 1931, Page 4

Daily Alas ka Empire JOHN W. TROY - - - EDITOR AND MANAGER BRI PRINTING. COMPANT 8t Sccond. and Main ‘E' tered in the Post Office In Juneau as Second Class matter S SUBSCRIPTION RATES. ellvered by carrier in Juneau, Douglas, < Y Cfhane for §1.25 per month Treadwell and By mail age paid, at the following rates: BH s, b s 2 six months, in advance, 6.00; one month R iectivens ¥ they will promptly notify the Busine ure or irregul in the delivery of t pape Teleph for Editorial and Business Offices, 3 MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS. iated P s is exclusively entitled The ase it or tocal ALASKA CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION 1 ne paper and t otherwise cred ws published hereir COMMUNICATION STATUS IMPORTANT. Governmeni's 5ys- Alaska to private owne which the Terrl t should The proposed transfer of ihe tem of com £ ship and operation is a matter and on which s in in tory has a very real interest be given an opportunity to be heard. It fully informed of the details of any that may be authorized by Congress and have some- thing to say in fixing the provisions of the sale and requirements for operations. The very nature of the system makes it certain that its acquisition by any private interest will give to that intere: monopoly on all communication privileges that will be unbreakable for years—for the present generation at least. There is no objection to such monopoly per se, but there can and will be should be transaction objection unless there is proper control of service and rates. Both of these items are of vital !mport to the north, upon them hinge to a great extent all forms of business and social life. In the past, the Government, through the Army Signal Corps and to a lesser degree, the Navy Bureau of Com- munications, has been reasonable in rates and as generous in rendering service as could have been expected. There should be some guarantee that these policies will not be abandoned under private control. The theory that Government activity in busines is more expensive than private enterp simila; engaged is sound. It is fundamentally unAme an for the Government to engs any kind of business that can_be, or is conducted by private capital. In Alaska, however, the Signal Corps has not engaged in competition with any private company. It has rendered efficient service at a low cost, and maintained the system econ- omically. Possibly private interests can do as well. If so, and if Alaska is positively assured of it in advance of any change, it has no logical grounds for any protest. Through its organizations, official, semi-official and civic bodies, it should make sure that its interests will be adequately safeguarded if and when the transfer is made. CLIMATE The United States Public Health Service has re- cently pointed out that there was a time when change of climate was almost ays recommended for tuberculosis. People believed that certain cli- mates cured tuberculosis. They thought that dry afr or mountain air or warm or cold air was better than some other kind of air and that the climate of the arid Southwest or of Florida or of California would cure tuberculosis. Medical opinion has chang- ed. We no longer believe that climate will cure tuberculosis. We ask ourselves where treatment can be obtained of the kind required and within the means of AND TUBERCULOSIS. the patient. A child or an aged person A young man or woman sed to go away if there is some good reason for it. The most important thing is good medical ca usually in a sanatorium, no matter vhat the climate is. Good medical care can now usually be found near home, although twenty years ago one often had to go to a resort to find a tuberculosis spec- is seldom sent far away may be ad ialist. Skillful doctors and nurses and good sani- toriums can be found in almost every State, and, as for climate, no State in the Union has found it necessary to go outside its borders to locate its State nitorium. The home climate, even if it the worst climate in the world, is best if proper medical and nursing care is available there but lacking elsewhere. Many persons have lost their lives by going to a distant place reputed to cure tuberculosis, where they camped out or lived in a boarding-house or ht a light job, and they might have recovered if the money had been invested in proper treatment A wealthy patient can, of cour he pleases, wherever good treatment c obtained, and there is no reason why he do but it not follow that because a persons may indulge in the luxury indulgence is common necessity. The average patient must get the great- est amount of good from limited funds. He should choose a sanatorium near home, not a hotel in a resort; a long period of treatment near home rather home. se, go whe be not few climate, should 50, does of such a than a short iod elsewhere; rest instead of travel; and proper food rather than scener The average tuberculosis patient desires to go away. He seeks high adventure and self sacrifice. To win a great fight he would brave new and un- known dangers. Also he wants to travel. And he still believes in the specific virtues of special climates. Like Naaman, the leper in the Bible story, he is willing to some great thing for quick results. He would seek a mountain top or a mountain or a desert where, he thinks, the waters are cleaner than those of Jordan and the air js purer than among the hills home. But the patient is unsually willing to take advice, and he should be told that the ordinary case of tuber- culosis does not need a change of climate There are unusual cases, one in a hundred, per- do of haps, when a change of climate is actually needed, most frequently to estape hot weather. Cold weather is usu rable. A radical change in the habits [of the individual is often necesary. That is why he should go for the first six months to a nearby sanatorium There the chief business is getting well. He lends himself to the routine of rest and more rest, asleep and awake, freely flowing air night and day, good food, proper food habits, and the elements of sanatorium life. He learns to other ‘play the game,” and after graduation from a | sanatorium he is a safe risk for his family physician to treat. THOMPSON MACH E TRIUMPH/ “Big Bill” Thompson and his machine are still dominant factors in Chicago’s Republican organiza- That is evident from the plurality of 68,841 he received over his nearest opponent, Judge H. Lyle, for Mayor of the Windy City. The | other two candidates received some 112,000 between | them, enough to have nominated Judge Lyle had been Thompson's only opponent and had ve- ceived them, which is not assured. Those opponents of the Thompson demagogery who have been hope- ful of ridding the city of his dominance have lost | |in the first round. They have another chance jor | success in the April election when, if the primary ‘vote is any indication, Anton Cermak, President |of the Cook County Commission, and Democratic | nominee for the Mayoralty, will test the ‘nvulner- ability of Thompson’s machine. T. tion votes John he | Bl | | Writing, declares Hergesheimer, these days is as | hard work as ditch digging. Yes, and some of the | writers show as much familiarity with dirt as the | most expert ditch digger has ever displayed. The king of the practical jokers of England has abandoned bachelorhood for the double harnes and life thus takes on a serious aspect for him. | (Boston News Bureau.) United States did not intend that it should be divided between two or more political parties. The men who founded the Government of the| VANDALIA, O., There had been no political parties in the Con-|ince. tinental Congress of revolutionary days; none in“ Averaging 9286 on 1150 registered the Congress under the Articles of Confederation; targets, Miss Marie Kautzky, of| and the original method of electing the admin trative head of the nation under the Constitution |centage quite too provided that the man receiving most votes in the |male trapshooters. Electoral College should be President, with the | second man as Vice-President, and with no desire more than mere {to have the two of sympathetic political creeds. Party government in this country was born with | superiority. the Jeffersonian administration; and while it nearly |ed women’s Monroe, it passed, ph(»en:x-hkv,‘te\u' Trapshooting association. f ‘y whose experience ment of Republican and Democrat came into beingat the traps dates back to 1920, While that |five times has been women’s cham- | not ( pion of Iowa. died out under ;Lhrmxuh many rebirths until the traditional align-| before the Presidential election in 1856 alignment nominally still exists, there have been lacking in recent years signs of a breakdown of which the “Bull Moose” and La Follette bolts are less significant than some less open breaks. On the whole, party government in this country | __ has worked exceedingly well. There has been, gen- erally, a majority party in power, hedged in by a) strong minority large enough to demand protection for those it represented and to prevent | the abuses | to which such a party majority as those at present in Russia and Italy may render a country subject.| " When, “however, “Party” tends to be merely a | label, it is time for party leaders to t | Prominently mentioned as possible recipients of the | Democratic nomination for President next year are| several men—notably Owen D. Young—for whom a | great many men who believe in what they consider{ | the principles of the Republican Party would rather vote than for such nominal Republicans as Senators | | Nye, Norris, Borah, and others—who, fortunately for |Republican Party loyalty, stand little chance of re- | |ceiving a Presidential nomination. ! The recent defeats of Senators Simmons and | Heflin indicate that there are Democrats alive to | \the importance of maintaining a unified party. | jTho combination of the business depression, with | |its result on the elections of last fall, and of Pro-| | hibition, with the likelihood that the Democratic |Party will come out flatly against that travesty in |its platform next year, makes it none too early | |to call the attention of Republican leaders to the | | necessity for mending fences if the two-pary system in American politics is to be preserved. | There are many who honestly believe that Am- ! | erican Government is best served by a Republican | administration. Such men are encouraged by the | lwisdnm shown, for instance, by Republicans in the |* | Massachusetts Legislature, who are showing a prais | worthy degree of co-operation with a Democratic Governor without yielding to him on any point of | principle, and are not silent on Prohibition. | But unless a little such wisdom and co-operation |1s shown in Washington, especially in the Senate, there are going to be a great many Republicans | {who will abstain from voting next year, or will | express a preference for a unified Democracy over | a disunited Republican Party. It is only a little | more than a year before the issue will be drawn. thought. | No More Reports. | | | i | (Cincinnati Enquirer.) | | The stream of reports from investigating com- | | missions has risen to new high levels with each | succeeding month, until it is a veritable flood. Could anything be more regrettable than' a Congress and | }48 State Legislatures drowned in a deluge of printed | | pages from reports they themselves have author-| | ized? | Not only is the volume of reports appalling. | Reader interest has declined in something of an in-| verse proportion. Three daily newspapers pnmod“ the full text of the Wickersham Commission—90,- 000 words. But the Congressional Record, with a| skeptical view of its merits, used a short summary prepared by a press service. | It is undeniable that these investigating com- | missions unearth an impressive body of fact in their | researches and hearings. But it is highly debatable whether they contribute, in the last analysis, to| the prompt and wise solution of the proplems under | survey. | Perhaps the trouble lies in an undue reliance! on fact-finding, in place of solid thinking by the| Legislators themseives. Facts, whether relating to| | Communism or Prohibition or water power or crime | | statistics, are next to useless, except as they are!| | digested and interpreted, and their logical con- | clusions accepted with an open mind. Too often | fact-finding has been nothing more than an attempt | to prove what the investigators wanted to believe. This is not the scientific approach, and it does not bring wholesome results. “Groundhog sees shadow and retires in disgust.” —headline. Our opinion is that he didn’t even notice | the weather, but just glanced over the Wickersham | report.—(Springfield, Ohio, News.) Mr. Coolidge's $2 a word articles look like Woolworth stuff alongside the $6 and somethingJ a word article turned in by Mr. Wickersham.—(Ma- con, Ga., Telegraph.) 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