The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 28, 1931, Page 4

+ THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, SATURDAY, FEB. 28, 1931 will subside before long and sanity will return, [u . . Daily Alaska E Tpiré When it does, and when the day comes to pay the piper for playing for some of the capers that have |7 PROFESSIONAL Bowls and Souls Fraternal Societies oF T S AN B AN MR SV PO i W Sl 4 L MR 514 a0 BRI s GO W € A S e 4 : i -« \ ) £ \ been cut, there is the chance that public opinion PR 55 71" YU, S VRSO RRI Watch For ' Gastineau Channel JOHN W. TROY - - - EDITOR AND MANAGER | unjustly will turn its face away from men and || Helene W.L. Albrecht | TA X’ o T ot R b 2 TR e i —— .. |women, World War sufferers, direly in need of SIOTHERAPY | X8 blished every evening except Sunday by _ the| 43 PHY! % B. P. 0. 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Loy Associated Press is exclusively ent 0 the u.’fhfur republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein ASKA CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER ALASKAAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION “WHISPERING WIRES.” Washington State, through its Legislature, hasl just made an effective comment upon the avowal |be most considerate of all has been shown for Government relief to the able- bodied veteran which does not apply with equal through force of circumstances are not fortunate | enough to be ex-service men. As for the veterans dis- abled through the effect of wounds or disease, the Gov- |ernment is making every possible provision for their |care and comfort. Only recently Congress passed an appropriation measure involving the expenditure of almost $1,000,000,000 for their relief the coming |vear. It has done much otherwise and is extendipg the scope of its relief all the time. Hospitals and | hospitalization, cash compensation for disabilities, |and many further measures of aid have been ex- |fended and will continue to be in the nation’s |effort to repay a part at least of the debt which It freely admits it owes them. It would indeed be a calamity if the forcing of the bonus to the able- bodied should eventually disrupt and prematurely end this deserved and worthy relief work. Loans, through the action of Congress, are now iavailable to the veterans. For their own good, ‘or the sake of their families, and for the best jests of the country to which they rendered such valiant service in the days of war, they should limit their requests to actual needs, and not pledge | their certificates of adjusted compensation to satisfy idle whims of the moment or just because the :noney is there to be drawn against. | | The Philadelphia Direcior of Public Safety says So far as has been demonstrated yet, no need force to the drought and depression sufferers who 7 | inter- | | & | The Rev. C. Lansing Seymour, of Proctor, Vt., has bowled a perfect score of 300 for the second time | within a year. In 26 balls he scored 25 strikes. If the reverend of Federal Attorney General William Mitchell vh:\l"lhe big club’s saloon is just the same as the blind | gentleman can knock backsliding he Department of Justice has authorized its Pro- hibition Enforcement agents to use their own dis- [in the kind of liquor served even though they may | ere to of in in tapping telephone and telegraph wires obtain evidence in working up cases of violation the National Prohibition Act. the shape of the passage of a measure making it a felony to tap such wires and prohibiting xhei use of testimony obtained in that manner. | Senator Benn, former United States Marshal for | Western Washington, and who occupied that posi- tion at the time of the notorious Olmsted trial, was author of the bill. He described graphically the evils growing out of this kind of tactics. Wire Its comment was | ipig in an alley. But there’s a wide difference "pay the same man for protection. The Illusion of Milder Winters. (New York World.) Al Smith, in a recent article for The World, isaid it seemed to him that! winters are milder now than they were when he was a boy; many have the same idea, and the letter of Benjamin Franklin | just made public by Yale University shows that| it was “common opinion” as early as 168 years ago., { tapping, he declared, resulted in the rise of a new |1The Weather Bureau, however, has repeatedly ns—! kind of vicious character, the professional wire tap- |serted that there has been no change in the winters, per and stool pigeon, who travels from city to city, | county to county and State to State, changing names frequently and who deliberately invades the constitutional rights of the citizen, and, upon occasion, unhesitatingly resorting to perjury bolster up his cases. Public sentiment unquestionably is overwhelm- ingly against wire tapping. It condemns a prac- tice which destroys the privacy of the telephone and thus invades the personal rights of its users. Backed by the Supreme Court's opinion in the Olmsted case, the Department of Justice has na legal right to continue such tactics. But each State can put it beyond the local officers’ power to use them. ¥ to | THE BONUS VETO. In vetoing the soldiers’ bonus, or Veterans' Relief measure, President Hoover fulfilled the prediction of both his friends and foes. Weeks ago, when agita- tion before Congress was at its highest point, Sec- retary Mellon voiced the views of the Treasury De-5 partment so unmistakably in opposition to the com- lyntil it is gone. promise plan that it was universally felt the Presi- dent could do nothing else except disapprove the bill, which Mr. Mellon had opposed it would have left the latter no alternative to resigning. As had been predicted by Washington observers, Congress overrode the Presidential disapproval. Only a handful of the Administration's supporters had the political courage to refrain from joining the stam- pede for the bonus bandwagon. But the reasoning in Mr. Hoover's veto is not affected by Congres- sional action. Unlike the executive, Congress is subject to reaction from feared political results and its course many times is predicated upon its out- come as represented by the ballot box count to come | than by the economic necessities of the time. Pos- sibly Mr. Hoover foresaw that Congress would re- | verse his decision and addressed his veto message |jke. as much to the country at large as to its law- makers. His objections to it are unquestionably serious. Under its provisions if every ex-service man entitled to do so were to apply for the loan authorized, it would require $1,700,000,000 to defray the cost. Many, of course, will not apply, but even so the total loan demands must aggregate a tremendous sum, probably approximately $1,000,000,000. Of course, the Treasury has no such fund in its vaults to apply for that purpose. To obtain it, securities must be put on the open market at a reasonable rate of Interest. Financiers generally are agreed that such an issue will unsettle the securities markets of the country, which will have a harmful effect upon other businesses and industries. Within the next few years the country, as Mr. Mellon has pointed out, has several billions of dollars in oulstanding bonds which must be refunded. A large percentage of these issues are wartime securi- ties bearing 4':. per cent interest. It had been hoped to finance them with lower interest bonds. Mr. Mellon is convinced this will not be practical if a large new issue is floated. Thus, with the interest payments required for the veterans' loan issue, these costs can only be met by taxation. A deficit is certain to be encountered in the next fiscal year in the conduct of the Government's busi- ness, the Treasury estimating it will be $500,000,000. It is evident, therefore, that Mr. Hoover was not an alarmist when he warned Congress that the proposed loan program will cause higher Federal taxes. This, too, will hurt business and industry and retard the recovery from depression which everyone is so anxious to see take place without long delay. Mr. Hoover’s warning that it will not be good for the veterans themselves is based upon two factors. If the loan program is not good for the country as a whole, it cannot be good for the veterans. It is self-evident if it is bad business for the rest of the country, whatever temporary t may accrue from it to the veterans, in the end it is just as bad for them. There is, more- . over, a further contingency which may, indeed is more than likely to, arise in the not so distant future. The present unthinking hysteria that makes people acquiesce in such demands upon the treasury If he had signed the measure, the vigor with /now from thirty years ago. except for small variations from year to year, since| records have been kept, and one wonders what the| jreason is for the prevalent belief to the contrary.} It probably results from two things: the dis-| |torted recollections of childhood, and the extent | to which invention in the course of anybody’s life- | time has a tendency to diminish the rigors of win- ter. With regard to the first, most of us can re-\ member snowdrifts of fabulous height and days| when we wept from cold, and we wonder why we| |never see them now. We forget that when we were ! |young we were three feet high, more or less, and| \that a drift as high as our waists seemed like a | small mountain of snow. Now we step over it and | barely see it. Again, children suffer more acutely from cold than grown people do, and a day which we now consider pleasantly brisk would have been\ a cruel experience when we wore buttoned leggings. ! It should not be overlooked, either, that such things: as snowdrifts, ice and cold bulk much larger in al childish world than they do in ours. Just as a dead | |cat in an alley is a terrific, ghastly fact for sma]li boys to examine and discuss for the better part of a day, so a fall of snow changes their whole life; they sled on it, throw it at each other, roll jt| into great balls, and in general think of little elsej But we forget it as soon as we take off our rubbers. With regard to the second, consider the change Then, unless we lived | lin the city, the first storm found us “snowed in.”! Except for short sleigh rides, it was impossible to go anywhere, and we didn‘t try. Now, however, snow melts on tar roads, and we drive about in a car with little consciousness of it. The winters have not changed, but we have. The Present Highway Prospect. (Prince Rupert News.) The Provincial Government has to meet a diffi- | cult situation with falling revenues and demands! coming from all parts of the Province and there| seems a possibility that Prince Rupert may not, get as much highway construction as she would In view of the situation it might be well for the people to be very alert and try to head off any possible move toward cutting down. By now it should be understood that the Princci Rupert-Terrace highway has first claim on the| Provincial finances, especially at a time when Pre-| mier Tolmie is still discussing the possibility of a highway to Alaska. Premier Tolmie has admitted Prince Rupert's claim but if Prince Rupert is first and it gets con- struction work only at the rate of two or three miles a year, what speed can it be expected the Alaska highway will make? | What a good many people seem to fear is that| the Alaska highway construction will be rushed, | once it is started, and that Prince Rupert will be kept dangling along for years while the auto busi- | ness is going to Alaska. Prince Rupert is not, we think, opposed to the Alaska highway. Most local people favor it, but they will raise a tremendous howl if the highway to this city is allowed to take second place to a road designed primarily to serve the people of the United States and Alaska, The Miner and the Nation. (Seward Gaveway.) In this era of consolidation to destroy our competition | i it | 4 | sheep back into the fold' like he topples the pins, Proctor must be a fine place in which to live. o Starts Training Associated Press Photo Johnny Kuck is training at hls home in Wilson, Kas., for the Olym. pic tryouts in shot-put events. He | established a new Olympic record In the games at Amsterdam In 1928 | S O Al | SNOW STORM HITS TRAFFIC IN COLORADO Train, Highway Service' Threatened—Moisture Needed for Crops DENVER, Colo., Feb. 28.—A driv- ing snow storm today threatened train schedules and highway traf- fic in Colorado. The storm also hampered the air mail service. At noon today there was 10 inches of snow in Denver and it was still falling. The moisture is badly needed for the crops. A s Daily Empire Waps Ads Pay. it is of note that the metal mining industry is one that encourages and supports all others and competes wih none. A miner creates real wealth. The amount of mineral development determines the amount of his purchases. As a promoter of railroad traffic, as a creator of new enterprises, as a customer of manufacturers of all kinds, the miner is the best purchaser vivi- fying a wide circle of activities. It has been calculated that each underground miner affords employment for 10 men above ground. The miner asks for little, but self interests in Alaska or elsewhere suggests to every man in every capacity, that anything that aids the mining industry aids his own business. When the miner has money to spend, every- body in his vicinity is prosperous. And the truth of these patent facts should be recognized in the x His work | sets in motion and sustains a legion of other | industries, all operating to the common good. | Legislature of every mining State and Territory. ‘Help the miners, then help yourself! ;8 Phone Office, 216 DENTISTS | 301-303 Goldsteln Bldg. ! PHONE 56 | Hours 9 a. m. to 9 p. m. [ Dr. Charles P. Jenne | B e r DRS. 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