The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 8, 1931, Page 4

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, SATURDAY, AUGUST 8, 1931 Dail \ Alaska Em pire JOHN W TROY - .- EDITOR AND MANAG]AER Published ning except EMPIRE_PRINTING COMPANY at nday by s Second Class | sound UBSCRIPTION Dellvered by carrier in Juneau, Douglas, Thane for $1.25 per month, the following rates: six months, in adva By mail year, ir ne month ers wi confer a favor ess Office of any failure or of their papers. ne ¥or Editoria] and Business Office MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS, 1 Press is exclusively entitled to the n of all news dispatches credited to erwise creditéd in paper and also the s published they 374 IRCULATION GUARANTEED T THAT OF ANY OTHER P ALASKA C THAN BE LARGER UBLICATION “PORCH-CLIMBERS.” In another place is an articie by Lawrence H Conrad, profas in a New Jersey State Teachers College, that is well worth reading. The article is directed at the door to door peddling nuisance, and makes the case against the “porch-climbers” from many angles. @ There is anothar reason why these “porch-climb- ers” should be quickly dispersed. If local stores were given all the local trade possible, if everyone would buy 21l needed articles possible to get from the local stores, the stores would be able to carry even better assorted stocks and give even better service than they do. They would need more assistance and would give more employment to local people. They would keep more of the young men and women of the community at home. They would help to build a bigger and better town. N. D. BAKER AND JOE GUFFEY FOR ROOSEVELT. One of the things that is likely to slow down | the campaign his friends are making for the nom- ination of former Secrctary of the Navy Baker for President is the fact that Mr. Baker himself is for the nomination of Gov. Roosevelt. Gov. Roosevelt is popular, very able, sound on all the issues, a man of the highest character and would make a very fine President. However, Mr. Baker is only being urged for the nomination “in the event” that Gov. Roosevelt should fail to get a two-thirds vote in the Natio Convention. Col. House, who | is actively supporting- Goy.:Roosevells -probably h-i-“{ said ' for the nom- | that that Mr. ination. Joe Guffey, Democratic leader of Pennsylvania, is the last big Eastern Democrat to declare for Gov. Roosevelt. Guffey is a little wetter than Delaware Bay and supported Al Smith for the nomination in both 1924 and 1828. The New York Herald Tribune -contains following concerning Joe Guffey's attitude: Joseph F. Guffey, Democratic leader of Pennsylvania and in 1924 and 1928 one of the stanchest supporters of former Gov. Al- fred E. Smith for the Presidential nomina- tion, yesterday declared himself in favor of the nomination of Gov. Franklin D. Roose- velt in 1932 and said that he would risk his “reputation as a political prophet” on the prediction that Gov. Roosevelt will have the support of “not less than sixty-six” of Penn- sylvania's seventy-two delegates to the next National Convention “first, last and all the time.” . “I have just returned from an extended trip during which I had conferences with Democrats in all parts of the State, as well as confernces with leaders and representative Democrats in neighboring States,” he said. “It is apparent that Gov. Roosevelt is not only the outstanding -leader -of his party, but he is also the most able and courageous executive and statesman in Amnnum public life today. “The Democratic Party is foftunate in having a man of his character and achieve- ments to be its standard bearer in the battle to lead the country out of the slough of despond in which it has wallowed for most of the Hoover Administration. Roosevelt has been tried and proved in the fires of an executive responsibility second only to the chief magi. y of the nation. He faces squarely, honestly and courageously the prin- cipal problems of today and tomorrow, such as national depression and unemployment, the necessity of an ‘intelligent solution of our agriculturdal distress and the wrongful concentration and abus: of the power re- sources of the nation.” remote contingency in mind when he Baker is his second choice the DOUGLAS ('HArMil{ER OF COMMERCE Chamber of Commerce represented sentiment, of this City when it ion of the Douglas Chamber its members to the lunch- eon Thursday. The Douglas organization made plain its desire to work in harmony with the older body on this side of the channel by accepting the invita-| tion and sending a delegation to the luncheon. There is work for a commercial organization at Douglas to do and it is well that people over there have one. The Juneau and Douglas Chambers will work in harmony, and working together they ought to be able to accomplish a lot for the Island town. In common with all citizens of Gastineau Channel, The Empire wishes a long life and fruitful career for the Douglas Chamber of Commerce Winston Churchill says Americans cannot escape a bad law and therefore must endure or evade it. Under those circumstances most people are for evasion. The Juneau the unanimous welcomed the organiz of Commerce by inviti. Victoria as will carry They are considering Britannia or a name for that new Qunard liner that 5,000 passengers. Why not Sardinia? | e um id and Main Treadwell and will_promptly irregularity strong | He declares that | ‘ I’orch-('limhers. "Rf’ddr"k Digest Cnnd( nsed from The Forum, April 1931, by L ce H. Conrad, Professor in the State Teachers College at Montelair, New Jersey.) During the present century America has reversed its" attitude toward the front door. For our fathers and mothers, a knock or a ring was a welcome to be answered with alacri with courtesy, with that famous thing called hospitality. With us, the door is answered suspiciously, and only after a | pause ing which we harden our hearts and sum- mon all our natare cunning. When our fathers an- ered the door, they found guests; we find, in more tances than not, merely another porch-climber. [ Whether it is a young man working his way through college, or an old man sending his daughter to finishing school, or just an ordinary soft of man bringi you the compliments of a brush or lini- ment company, you may be sure that his sppearance |at’ your door is mo casual occurrence. Your visitor {has studied your habits; he has rehearsed his speech; he has practiced hard and long at meeting |all your objections. Smart men are behind him, | supplying him with arguments, with openings, with |advantages over you. He stands there smiling, but ihe is doing a cold-blooded thing | You are supposed to be glad to see the porch- |climber on your premises. He2 is apparently all jcourtesy. “Here I am,” he says, with incaluable | brass, “back again, to serve you further. Now this time I want you to buy such and so.” The man has come down a long street, stopping at every house. IHe is still alive. You do not want to be more severe lmnn your neighbors. You do not want to make a scene. So, though you are thoroughly exasperated, ‘you treat him fairly, as you would treat any guest. Well, he has counted upon this. He has esti- |mated the strength of your courtesy. He has cal- rculxlml your devotion to your home, your fear of | your neighbors, your natural desire to be just and |kind. And he plays his whole game just inside your |boundaries. He has ten times the hold upon you| |that you can possibly have upon him. Standing out- | side, he can be utterly insincere down to the soles lof his shoes. Standing on your own threshold, with | your home behind you, you can never be; and well | he knows it. Porch-climbers prey primarily upon women. In most instances they ignore the man of the house, |or brazenly ask him for an appointment’ with ‘mre The wife, presumably, is less adept at turn- ing down ‘“opportunities.” When she comes to the }dom they hail her by name. Her response is im- mediately courtesy and hospitality. Having greeted | her visitor with the assumption that he is her hus- |band’s cousin, she cannot, a moment later, change | her voice and call him a viper. And so, if he needs lta he can proceed to be one. Though her baby may be in the bath; though her cake may be burning; |though her whole household may be at that moment iin a crisis, she must stand and hear this story to “lhp end. Far from caring about her affairs, the !salesman is quick to detect her concern, and to place {his proposition in such a light that she had best ‘buy and get it over Both husbands and wives have studied ways of meeting this daily annoyance. You could refuse to {answer the bell. But it might be a messenger with |a telegram. ¥ou could go to the door, jerk it open, and cry out that you do not want anything. But it might be Uncle Ben running in for a chat. You could put up a yn, as farmers post their premises against hunters. But you would never do that. No; {you will continue to answer the bell. And each {time you do, you will find the whole duel of wits {to be gone through again, with the man outside |steadily winning. And at each ring of the bell, you ! will_shudder, sigh, and drag yourself to the door. e TIng “comed fTom a legitimate guest, you wxll be immediately chagrined at the . suspicic showed in opening to him The thing basically wrong with the whole porch- | climing racket is that it makes a place of business ;0\1[ of the American home. Thus it assaults the| {home on its weakest side. For by every rule by |which it was built, and by every idea for which it stands, the home strives to be what a place of | business it not. The home is almost exactly the op- Iposite of a business office. “Our company,” the young man on the porch says proudly, “does not sell through the stores, and does not have a store anywhere.” So he proposes to make a store of your threshold. He gives you no choice of business hours, no choice of goods to be handled in this store; and he calls only when |you are away at your own business office, for which |you pay a handsome rental. Yet one company boasts on millions of doorsteps that it does not rent a store. And no householder to my knowledge has ever had the discourtesy to make the obvious retort. The second assumption upon which the racket proceeds is that no.one will ever be deliberately impolite upon his own threshold. A man of my acquaintance kept a tin egg beater just inside his door. When an agent came, this friend stopped him in the middle of his first |breath, flashed the egg beater, and started his own selling spiel. “Just a moment,” he would say, “I have a very fine article here that I want you to buy. It is one of the most ingenious contraptions that civilized man has devised. You just turn this erank. . . The agent was always insulted as the assumption that he could possibly use an egg beater, and furious at having his valuable time wasted over such a trivial matter. Yet my friend | {had more than a hundred times as much right to sell goods at that spot as did the stranger who climbed his porch. If the American home is to be {made into a place of business, the householder should be able to say what kind of business, and should be able to derive the profit. After all, he owns the property. Some of us slam the door on these commercial visitors. But that is hard to do. And no stranger has any right to make us take a violent attitude toward our front door. The front door must reflect the home within. If we lose courtesy and hospital- ity, we may as well take to the woods again. Yet if we pratcice courtesy in the face of this invasion, the invading force will use every wile and every subterfuge in order to gain its point. You have only to answer the door twenty times in one week to realize that you are dealing with a vast and; well-trained army.’ There is only one thing left to do: that is sweetly and kindly to announce as a household pol- cy—“We do not buy anything at the door.’” You |may have to say it in six or seven ways in order |to overcome the incredulity of the salesman. You may have to say, “This is my home; not a place of business” You may have to say, “Granted that | jyour product is essential to life, that our need for it is manifest, and that you are the sole agent for it in the world—we still won't buy it. We're funny that way.” You may even have to have all this printed on a card, to be kept inside the door and handed without comment to annoying agents. And you may have to shut the door rather decisively. after all. For the porch-climber has counted on the priv- ilege of using your home as a sample room. It saves store rent and hotel bills. Moreover, he has| counted on your being more than courteous to him. Should you fail him in either of these par- ticulars, he will be dreadfully, dreadfully disappoint- ed in you. 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