The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 27, 1931, Page 4

2 3 3 > sviliinion . THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, MONDAY, APRIL 27, 1931 Daily Alaska Empire ’OHN W. TROY - - - EDITOR AND MANAGER by _the Main every evening except Sunday EMPIRE_PRINTING COMPANY at Second and Streets, Juneau, Alaska. Published Entered in the Post Office in Juneau as Second Class | matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Deilvered by carrier In Juneau, Douglas, Treadwell and | Thane for $1.25 per month. By mall, postage paid, at the following rates: One year, {n advante, $12.00; six months, in advance, | $6.00; one month, in advanc Subscribers wiil eonfer a favor if they will promptly | notify the Business Office of any failure or ‘rregularity in the delivery of their papes. Telephone for Editorial and Business Offices, 374. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRMSS, The Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to the ase for republication of all news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the ocal news published herein. ALASKA CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TC BE LARGER THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION. TAXES OUGHT TO BE REDUCED, NOT RAISED. Very logical Patrick Henry gave utterance the thought that there is no way to foretell what the future holds except from past experience. The Legislature ought to bear this in mind when writing the revenue measure. In Alaska taxes once raised are not reduced. The revenue laws have produced surpluses in the past but demands for public expenditures rather than reduced taxation have consumed them. Alaska’s industries are fisheries and mining. The fisheries are operating at a loss. They are not ‘n condition to stand up under heavier taxation. Many cannery companies have gone to the wall. Others are on the brink of disaster. All of them have lost heavily the last year. The welfare of Alaska ide- pends very largely upon preserving the fisheries in- dustry. That cannot be done for long unless ihey are operated at a profit. If possible, while both are absolutely ossential to the progress of the Territory, mining is even more important than the fisheries. The mines are usually operated for longer periods each year than the fisheries. Often they run throughout the year. They bring a larger percentage of permanent resi- dents to the country. Those mining companies that are operating at a profit in most instances are anxious to extend their operations and increase employment and population. They need capital for that purpose. Many mines are struggling to attain profitable production. Most of them need additional capital. Hundreds of pros- pects are in need of capital to make mines of them There is ample capital for the development of gold mines where the prospects are favorable. While it might be argued that the law does not require taxes from mines unless they are working at a profit and that small profits are exempted from iaxation, many of the properties will require such large capital to make them profitable that large returns must be forthcoming in order to enable them (o pay reason- able dividends on the investments. Two things must be always borne in mind. First, the mines are absolutely necessary in order that population may be held and further development is essential to bring population gain. BSecond, capital is timid. It must see a field without obstacles ex- cept those provided by nature. It must see a wel- coming public sentiment and a disposition to help otherwise it will not come. If taxes are to be raised everytime an-emergency in government seems to call for more money—and never reduced—there is not the proper sort of encouragement. The taxes on the industries of Alaska have been permitted to grow too high already. They are not only burdensome on the capital employed but they bear down upon the employees and tend to curtail employment. The mines are in a developing stage. They are infant industries such as the governments of the world are fostering. The fisheries are in such a rate that it suggests emergency ald rather than heavier taxation. Common sense and good business demand that the Territory get along without many things that would be desirable in order not to raise taxes at this time. The situation is such that taxes really ought to be reduced. o THE ETERNAL CIRCLE. Perhaps a better illustration of the probability that good times will follow as soon as readjustments are worked out has not been made than the following from a California paper, the West Side Index of Newman: There are a million men in the United States who would like to buy automobiles, if they had jobs. And there are a good many thousands who would like jobs building auto- mobiles, if somebody would buy them. And there are a good many who would like to loan the money to build and to buy the automobiles, if the buyers had jobs. And this condition exists in almost every other line. People want the goods—workmen want the jobs—lenders want the loans. Yet they wait on each other and business stands still. Can't somebody suggest a method of getting them together? All the elements for the renewal of prosperity seem to be present except, perhaps, an overstock of unsold products. And this overstock in a large degree is on hand because trade and industrial chan- nels are gummed up. There are many people who would like to consume it if they could get work at a living wage. But the connections between production and consumption are not functioning. However, lower prices and curtailment of production are gradually reducing the surplus products and the time is not distant when the wheels will again begin to turn. There is ample capital in the country seeking employment to care for the situation when- ever the readjusments are m: One thing that would help the country im-| mensely would be the elimination of the absurdi- ' ties and narrow but hurtful selfishness from the Smoot-Hawley tariff so that foreign countries would | shows. ‘cease to discriminate against the United States. If \zhnt discrimination would cease foreign trade would pck up. The American foreign branch is help- ful to the stockholders of American concerns but they decrease rather than increase employment in | this country. ! Too much tariff has a similar effect on Industry and commerce that too much alcoholic drink has on individuals. It stimulates and induces a lot of :dcmorallzlng reaction sets in. Nicnragua refuses to let Honduras's | have the front page all to itself. She is putting some additional pep into her own continuous per- |formance and demanding her share of the spotlight. Japanese movies are giving free eats with uheir Now might we to expect the .estaurants to give free shows with the ecats they sell? The gin Islands. (Cincinnati Enquirer.) The Virgh Islands—poetic name—are not so desirable in the aesthetic sense as many have imagined. We bought them for the tidy sum of $25,000,000, and secured, as President Hoover has phrased it, “an effective poorhouse.” But the islands are now numbered among our national wards in the Caribbean. And this is well, notwithstanding certain objections that have been | raised touching our ownership of them. When we took them over from the Danish | Government we had in view their importance as| estimated by our naval experts and strategists That was in 1917, when no man knew what might be the determination of the World War. They had no business in the possession of any European power. But from the commercial point of view, the islands are not much good to us. Romantic, yes. They once were the secure abiding place of the pirate and the buccaneer; a fine place, in later days, from which to buy rum. But even in this respect the islands have lost their source of revenue and their distinction, for Havana is not far away, and in Havana they care little for Mr. Volstead and his law. ‘The islands, too, are dry in more respects than one. They are cursed with droughts, which makes sugar culture difficult and uncertain. No wonder that President Hoover does not look upon them with a kindly eye. But the islands are ours, and we've got to take care of them, consoled by the thought that they may stress prove their importance and worth in the naval view. Literary Quarrels. (Manchester Guardian.) Quarrels amongst literary men are common one another’s personal character. for wine and of an appetite for undiscriminating praise, and one author will sometimes present a thinly veiled portrait of another, magnifying his | secret weaknesses and holding him up to general!| contempt. Lately, however, two famous American | writers have actually come to blows. At least Mr. | Dreiser struck Mr. Sinclair Lewis, who retaliated most effectively by turning the other check. ’I‘he‘ curfous thing is that the bad feeling between them | is due not so much to literary rivalry as to per-| sonal antipathy. Mr. Lewis reads “The American Tragedy” with avidity, but when he finds himself in the same room as its author he cannot prevent | himself from showing how much he dislikes him. “New York Times” that if their quarrel leads to an actual contest Mr. Bernard Shaw might be matched against the winner. And, indeed, if Bom- bardier Wells can canvass for the United Empire party, why should not men of letters essay his profession? It would be entertaining to see an author vindicate his work in the ring, pay back an unkind critic with a straight left, and show his contempt for a best-seller by knocking him out in the first round. Perhaps Mr. Dreiser has set | a fashion. Safety for Aviation. (Cincinnati Enquirer.) It is absurd to affirm that aviation suffered a black eye, a serious set-bock, because of the crash of the plane in which Knute Rockne was killed. The cause of the catastrophe is suggested, in a report made by the Department of Commerce, to have been “ice on the wings.” Eight men myster- iously died. But the fact remains that the tragedy is an additional powerful reason why the Commerce Department should make known all that it is able to find out about this and all other plane crashes. It certainly is for the good of aviation that this should be done. The public is ready and wants to fly. The record of plane service, in fact, is a phenomenal record insofar as safety of transportation is con- cerned. But the fact that a national hero, idol of sportsmen throughout the world became a victim of air disaster gives to the incident an importance which easily may be perverted by persons not given to thought and observation. Close, thorough and expert inspection of planes before take-off should be made compulsory; knowl- edge of meteorology should be made a chief quali- fication in the issuance of a pilot license. The in- ventive genius of the industry may be trusted to provide additional safety devices for planes as rap- idly as experience and circumstance suggest and permit. The largest grapevine in the world is growing in Carpenteria County, California. It is 105 years old, covers a third of an acre and yields 10 tons of grapes, from which, it is alleged, a few tumblers of jelly are made.—(Detroit News.) Each United States Senator costs the American taxpayers $38,876 a year. We will permit you to express your indignation in your own way.—(Atchi- son, Kan. Glabe.) Mr. Fess hardly would make a good running mate, even though the wets have had him on the run for some time.—(Cincinnati Enquirer.) Florida announces that this year it finally got rid of the Mediterranean fruit fly. It probably froze to death.—(New York Sun.) However, there is probably no Humpty Dumpty pep for a time, but in the end it intoxicates :mdi rebellion | in some day of| enough and famous for their venom, but generally the weapons used have been words and intrigue. | They accuse one another of plagiarism, making m-; sulting suggestions about one another’s work and ent of canneries in Southeast Al- Pope infuriated | aska for Libby, Mcweill and Libby, Addison by accusing him of an undue fondness|arrived in Juneau at 5 o'clock this The ingenious suggestion was made in yesterday's | TAGDAY FOR JUNEAU GIRL ANNUAL TOTEM ~ WINS HONORS {High School Studdail All Iris Gray Makes High | Excited Over Appear- Grade at Oregon ance of Issue State College Iris Gray, Juneau High School graduate, daughter of Mr.* and Mrs. J. L. Gray, optional student at the Oregon State College at Corvallis, was one of 32 honor stu- dents who made a straight “A" average in the courses in which she was enrolled last term, ac- cording to advices received here frecm the college. This average is the highest that a student can make at college. Miss Gray was one of 27 students who are special students. The number of students receiv- ing straight “A” last term is almost double that of any one of the four preceding quarters. Miss Gray is a talented musi- Totem day is Wednesday but to- | morrow in the Juneau schools, es- | pecially the High School, it is To- {tem tag day and from early unti {late tags will be sold for the To- tem which will be distributed the next day. The students, their parents and !general public is awaiting eagerly |for the appearance of the High School Annual. It is a work of art, filled with good stuff and particularly interesting to all. The jart in the annual is original, by | Juneau school artists, and the ari- jicles themselves are of a high caliber. The large stgff engaged ;on the periodical has individually and ccllectively done exceptionally good work in preparing the edi- cian, and spends much of her timc tion. \doing accompanist work at Cor- —————— vallis. Lo g | vy AT THE HOTELS i -— _ . IN PARIS TOMB TR, Mr. and Mrs. M. Themas, L. S. 1Cumn, Frank Parrish, J. B. saplro, Tnfanta Isabella of Spain,|N A. McEachren, M. Cartright, Se- o - H (attle; Mr. and Mrs. G. L. Rlch Dle? mn Exile, Bur- |W. McGee, Ketchikan; Fred F.| ied in France | Schrey, Sitka; Dale Kent, Marys- iville, Calif.; Mrs. A. Hamilton,| PARIS, April 27.—Clothed in the | Wrangell. sombre robe of a Sister of the Or- | Alsskan der of St. Francls Assissi, the| A. Daggett, F. J. Corneluisen, body of Infanta Isabella of Spain,|Fred D. Cameron, Seattle; O. Siob- aged 79, who died in exile last!/ers, F. L. Wallace, Martin Kurset, Thursday, was borne to the tomb Ketéhikan; M. Goldberg, J. Mur-| last Saturday. Three masses were Phy, Tenakee; Pajo Vucetich, Chi- said in the mortuary department chagof; E. O. Erickson, Morrison, of the Ladies Home, where she Penn. died. The body was taken to the‘ Zynda Pere Lachaise Cemetery, where the| W. Lester Troast, Sitka; Mr. and | family vault was opened for it.|Mrs. A. Matson, Gustavus, Alaska; Exiled King Alfonso and others of Don MacDonald, Los Angeles. the Royal family, and Queen Ma- l rie of Rumania, attended the|$” 7 T i services. | | Music--Entertainment | —_— [ | furnished for DANCES—PARTIES {CAPT. AHUES VISITS | LODGE GATHERINGS HERE DURING TODAY “SMOKEY” MILLS Telephone 402 | C. E. Ahues, superlmend- i Capt. IIIII||IIlll|IIIlIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIlIIIIIlllIIIIl morning. He conferred while here with D. W. Branch, Manager of the Salmon Department of his com- | pany, and visited with friends. He cailed at noon for Taku Harbor | where he will be for two days be- ! fore returning to his headquurters‘ at Craig. Mrs. Ahues and other! members of his family, well known\ in Juneau where they frequently | visited when they resided at Taku Harbor, are now making their| home at Craig. ———.——— Old papers at the Emplre office { The Florence Shop | Phone 427 for Appointment | RINGLETTE and NAIVETTE | CROQUIGNOLE and SPIRAL | WAVES | . \ | i | | | 3 | T T'S easy to lacquer things gvouru“ with Nitrokote Brushing Lacquer—and it dries in one-half hour! You can get beautiful color effects with this rich lacquer by finish« )ing furniture, candlesticks, book- ends, trays, wicker piecces—any= thing in wood, reed, pottery or metal, Ask us for descriptive color cards and complete information. Let us help you with your painting. Beauty Specialists [ —— f Autogart SOCKS Also: Nitrokote Floor Lacquer The Latest Product of A HOLEPROOF HOSIERY W. P. FULLER & CO. 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The compounding of interest is automatic. The money is not idle, but is constantly making more money for you, accumulating for the rainy day or the day of need when other sources fail. We would be pleased to have you call and open a savings account with us. who gets broken to pleces oftener than a plan to pare the expenditures of government.—(Buffalo Courier-Express.) Someone suggests fashionable costumes for women prisoners, which might seem more logical if we l |had co-ed penitentiaries.—(Cincinnati Enquirer.) The B. M. Behrends Bank Oldest Bank in Alaska i o ) WATCH FOR NEXT AMERICAN LEGION SMOKER A. B. Hall W. P . J ohn.sun FRIGIDAIRE DELCO LIGHT PRODUCTS mygma WASHING MACHINES GENERAL MOTOES RADIOS Phone 17 Front Street ° | Second Hand Guns Pought | and Sold New Guns and Ammunition SEE BIG VAN | THE GUN MAN | Oppulle Coliseum Thentre . 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