The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 3, 1931, Page 4

~ the epidemic. Daily Alaska Empire | ;(;Iiw.r TR;Y - - -VEDITOR AND MANAGER Entered in the Pc matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Dellvered by carrier In Juneau, Douglas. Thane for $1.25 per month By mall, postage pa he follow e v n advand month Treadwell and ng rates In advance ¢ will promptly irregularity 1EMBER OF ASSO CIATED PRESS, vely er d to th ANTEED TO BE LARGER HER P | LEGISLATURE MAKES FINE START. Yesterday the speed and harmony with the Senate and House of Rapresentatives perfectod the organi of the Tenth Alaska Leg- re promised fine things for the memk n performance of their official duties and rxcellent results for the people they represent It augurs well for the outcome of the session to have these men from communities so widely separated as those from which they have come to Juneau at a common understanding with so little play of partisan politics. of politics in organization dent set by all of who have the whom arrive friction, and without any d Of course, wholly in keeping with the the present Legislature's predey eschewed partisan considerations in selecting presid- ing officers, the appo ment of committees and the selecting of the employees of both branches lack SS0rS The Senate has elec a Democrat to preside | over its deliberations while the House picked a for Speaker. The fact that Senator Hess t and Representative Winn a Repub- | lican does mot mean that the Senate is controlled by the party to which the President gives his allegiance, nor that the House will operate on a partisan basis because Mr. Winn is a Republican and a majority of the members are, also, of that| faith. In organizations as limited in numbers as | they are, representative of men and women of all parties, there is no room or need for partisanship. | Both the Senate and House made splendid selec- tions, and yet they could have honored of the rest of without lessening the quality and caliber of the members to be given the honors. Mr. Hess is a real pioneer of the Territory. { He has been intimately connected with the mining | industry of interior Alaska for many years, and | as a banker is familiar with other industries and business generally. He brings to his post experience first in the House and later in the Senate which will be a valuable asset to him and his associates | in transacting the business that will come before them. Mr. Winn has lived most of his life here. He is a product of the Juneau public schools, an | alumnus of its high school. His previous legislative 5 experience, his service in other public offices well as his training and experience as an attorney, | equip him splendidly for the Speakership. His fair- ness and that of Senator Hess is beyond dispute. The Empire' is confident that under their guidance the 1931 Legislature will make a record for effic- fency and harmony which will set a mark for their successors that will be difficult to surpass. any their membership CAUC S DECIDES NOTHING. The Republican caucus in Washington, at which Mr. Longworth and Mr. Tilson were again chosen to be Speaker and Floor Leader respectively for the | next Congress, decided nothing. Its selections wers | rendered indecisive by the action of 15 Republican | members remaining away from the gathering. Nom- | inally the party has a majority of ome, and only if every member elected on the Republican ticket should vote for the candidates approved by the caucus would its organization of the House be assured. But the recalcitrant 15, if they cannot be ‘ured back into the fold before the next session convenes next December, unless called into special session earlier, by voting with the Democrats, or not voting, can upset the plans of their party and permit the organization of the House by the Demo- crats. In the end, these insurgents are almost certain to be found aligned with their party in the organi- zation fight. They have little to gain by putting the opposition party in power and much to lose. The organization can afford to offer a com- promise which will permit-the irregulars to “save their faces,” and thus both factions can claim victory. One other factor may upset these calcu- lations. It would be phenomenal if death did not cause changes in the elected personnel of the next House before December. The death of one Re- publican member and the -election of a Democrat in his place would reverse the standing and relegate the Republicans to a minority position. too, INFLUENZA NOT ALTOGETHER ¢ DEMOCRATIC. Perhaps no observation during the great influenza epidemic of 1918-1919 was more common than the familiar comment that “the flu hits the rich and the poor alike.” Apparent]y there was ample ground for a belief in the impartiality of the disease. Its widespread prevalence throughout the country, the frequency with which households in ev social class were attacked, and the fact that prominent persons in every community were struck down, were among the outstanding, undeniable experiences in A certain consolation seemed to be afforded by the thought that the pestilence was democratic, even in so dreadful a sense, in its in ates Public Health Service indic S G vat m the poor. But ion was ted to the close: by actual records of influenza 3 in enumer populations, were marked and idence—with espect ality—among persons iation 8 ndication appe consistent difference morbi y ent d An a economic atus, the ack the parently lower was the at mside h of the p 1 sincerely ondeavor | and w pass such laws as will meet them In chat affort y deserve the support and sympathy of all ihe yeople of Alaska ‘We congratu, Ketchikan and Fairbanks upon on 12 buildings to house Government agencies centered i Both cities have long needed such struc- wes and the m of this fact By the Treas- ury Dy ifying. rec. ment The Land of the Racketeer. | | (New York Herald-Tribune.) ‘ has been estimated,” writes Dr. Walter E. Spahr, professor of economics at New York Unl- versity, “that there are some 200 rackets in this country involving 5,000,000 people; that the liquor; racket alone paid bootleggers last year more than' $3,000,000,000.” His article is one of four published | in last Sunday's Herald Tribune, all of them from members of the faculty and all of them “Tt THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, TUESDAY, M Also Wetter than Average §; ARCH 3, PLAN TO FOREST PALESTINE Associated Press Phot At a banquet given Dr. Albert Einstein, famous scientist, by Southern California Jewish organizations in Los Angeles plans were announced for an Einstein forest in the Holy Land. Ludwig Schiff, toastmaster, Dr. Einstein and Mrs. Schiff are shown above at the banquet table. farc mum WARM MONTH, - C 2.1 of 1339 inches and the driest| wa at of 1911 inet enow fell on 25 days —Other Charaeteris- tics Mentioned h inches, or temper in me ture above Temperature or below were recorded be- al precipitation was 8.26 inches in 4 normal. The wettest February of record was that of 1891 with at w tots the with a total of The greatest amount 24-hour period was 1.49 on the 21st-22d. Rain or and there were two days pitation. s slightly f the average amount. nowfail { more The N. Y. U pre- amoun ground did not ex- devoted to the same subject—namely, the growth of oi = F was ceed seven inches at any time. the racket in American life and its causes and cure.' o 1o ihan g sR. O.'"T 1 relative humidity at 4 The symposium is chiefly interesting for IS npzo i his month's summary to-lam 86 per cent; at ncon 81 loyalty to generalities. Thus we learn from Dr. Ak per ; and at 4 p.m. 84 per cent Douglas H. Fryer, professor of psychology, that the “f . 1o torierature was 363! T 1A wind. Otceabion Widh phenomenon has its source in the natural exhibi- degrees or 58 degrees above theirouthe and the averag volocit';l tionism of the under dog and is fostered by the normal. This has been eeded 7.4 miles per hour. The maximum romantic publicity it re The same note is',;y 4y 1912 when the mean tem-velc a3 31 miles per hour from struck by Dr. Char Shaw, professor Of (hoture was 37.3 degrees. The cold- |the southeast on the 21st. philosophy, who say: have rackets in OUr oo mepryary of record was that of —Th were no clear days, two cities because we want them along with baseball ja00 with a mean of 22.4 degrees. |partly cloudy ys, and 26 cloudy games and band concerts.” As for remedies, Pro- There were 30.6 hours of The highest temperature during day. fessor Jay B. Nash, of the School of Education, yp. month was 45 rees on the|sunshine, or 12 per cent of the thinks that athletic games can be made to provide j1op andg the low was 28 de- [possible amount. the moral equivalent of the thrills which under-| ooc on the 14th. Previous e 2 SR privileged youth finds today In gang activities, and | fomes were 51 degrecs and 2 de- Daity mmpwre Wanu Ads Pay. Dr. Spahr exp: s the opinion that “fearless and il A incorruptible honesty in government seems to offer | the only solution.” ! All of which, it seems to us, begs the question. | Human nature in this country and age does not differ from that in other countries and other ages We have no more under dogs seeking revenge on the social order than are to be found elsewhere, rather fewer in proportion to population if there is any virtue in democracy. We make no more fuss over ! Al Capone than our grandfathers did over Jesse James or our remote ancestors over Robin Hood We promote and encourage athletic sports among all cl s to a degree never equaled before any- wher And we resent quite as much as other peo- ple dishonesty in government; our scandals prove it. Yet the racket is Heculiar to the United States. In no other civilized land does it flourish as it does here and in on other period of our history has ‘t attained to the status of a social menace which it occupies at present. | Of course, it is a product of human nature, but! why beat about the bush in explaining that its ascendancy is the fruit of a law without popular sanction, whose highly remunerative violation has enthroned the underworld in our midst? The liquor racket, as Dr. Spahr indicates, ranks among the| greatest of our national industries. It has de-| bauched our local governments and through them | bred most of the other rackets to which we pay | tribute. It is the king and patriarch of rackets, and its patron saint is Mr. Volstead. No doubt rackets would continue should we| abolish Prohibition, but their progressive enfeeble-! ment would date from such action. It is the only remedy short of a complete reversal of human nature that promises any improvement. Dr. Einstein’s Umverse. to (New York Werld.) The Associated Press was fortunate enough have a man at Mount Wilson Laboratory in Cali- | fornia when Dr. Albert Einstein talked with two, fellow scientists on Wednesday. These scientists| were Dr. Edwin C. Hubble and Dr. Walter S.| Adams, discoverers of what is known as the “red| shift” of island universes receding from the earth.| Dr. Einstein's interest in the discovery lay partly| in its bearing upon his theory of the shape of the| unive “This shift of distant nebulae has smash-| ed my old construction like a hammer blow,” he| told the Associated Press. ‘“The red shift is S(Jll’ a myste | If we stop for a moment to remember the bitter: ness and the intolerance with which men have quar- reled over questions of faith for centuries on end, the quiet remark of Dr. Einstein seems suddenly dramatic. Men have been exiled hy their nations, excommunicated by their churches and condemned to death or prison by their peers for daring to believe that the earth was round or the sun a star| or the heavens to be millions of years older than the first sign of life upon our own small planet. Dr. Einstein reconstructs his theory of the universe on a February day in 1931; and so free from its| old shackles is science in the modern world m:n; it occurs to no one to challenge his right to picture the universe as he pleases. “ Science has won its freedom in large part be-| cause it has won the confidence of modern nu-nl in its integrity. Dr. Einstein builds a theory of| the shape of the universp. He buttressés this theory | with observations drawn from many sources. He is confronted suddenly in a laboratory on a California mountain with a new set of facts of whose existence | he was unaware. His theory does not fit these| facts. Very well; he will scrap his theory. “This, red shift of distant nebulae has smashed my old construction ilke a hammer blow.” In the simpl ity and candor of this statement is expressed | its best the spirit of modern science. ; | | Reading the Wickersham report, which is now ssued in booklet form, one is led to remember old expression, “nothing doing.” — (Florida ‘Times-Union.) Members of the Wickersham Commission have demonstrated that they have the ability to turn out some ratling good mystery stories.—(Milwaukee Journal.) | It is not so important for the United States to be right as it is to be dry, appears to be the| behavior. More detailed studies ,gonducted by the United deliberated conclusion of certain Prohibition lead- ars—(Buffalo Courier-Express.) o v e Every Month in the Year i931 SALES DATEZES March 17 August 18 April 14 September 15 May 19 October 20 June 16 November 17 July 14 “December 15 Special Sales Held on Request of Shippers. 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