The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 13, 1931, Page 4

4 THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, THURSDAY, AUGUST 13 1931. his budget calculated to raise a smile in these great days was an annual outlay of $50 for firewood. And all this at a annual cost of $8,000. Dail y ziiaska Empire JOHN W. TROY - - - EDITOR AND MANAGER Yet even now, when our country has become the uag e R RSN ol 2 “grea of world powers, and when many of these Published every evening except Sunday by thelonoingl duties of the State Department have been EMPIRE_ PR COMPANY at Second and Main Streets, a |taken over by other great departments, like those S kb Bitiond Cinse | the Post Office, thé Interior, and Commerce, |the United States still requires perhaps the most | highly organized of all foreign offices for the con- steadily enlarging relations with the lof in Jun Entered in the Post Office matter, SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Delivered by carrier In Juneau, Douglas, Treadwell and | du Thane for $1.25 per month. botla postage paid, at the following rates : 3 e year, in advance, $12.00; six months, in advance, It is one of the startling contrasts sure to arise n every American mind in 1932 when the nation one month, in adv . $1.35 |celebrates the two hundredth anriversary of the ct of its Subscribers will confer a favor if they will promptly notify the Bus! Office of any faflure or irregularity in the delivery of r papers. | Telephone for F rial and Business Offices, 374 |birth of George Washington, the man who, more e ENa e OF BRAGGIRTED PRESS. than any other, sct going this vast political devel- The vely entitled to the | Opment. use for spatches credited to paper and also the | i T If President Heover should be re-elected on a — |dry pla¢form it will be by Republican and not dry TO BE LARGER ICATION | votes. There are a whole lot more voters who are " | Republicans first than there are who are wet first, {and they are the President’s main reliance. ALASKA CIRCULATION THAN THAT OF AN week,” etc. It would ke illegal. | Our Native Speech. ((New York Times.) 1 | Few foreign writers, even Englishmen, have been | |able to master dialects of the American language. They attempt frequently to reflect our native speech, but as frequently fail. Edgar Wallace is fairly accurate in his use of underworld slang. No foreigner can reproduce the Afro-Americanese |either of Harlem or of the South. In “Juan in Amerjca” Mr. Linklater is letter perfect in the Islang of the campus and the city, so accurate that |his English audience must require a glossary. But| The Davis Cup apparently has become a perman-|....; aAmerica talk eludes him. ent French possesion. The recent French Victory | A master of this phraseology was a recent visitor was the fifth in five succes: years. However, it [to New York. He is Urey Woodson of Owensboro, must not be taken for granted that the cup will fl]-ny‘ for long the Secretary of the Democratic Na- Time wears down a great tional Committee. It was he who, when asked and there |concerning the chance of Alton B. Parker just be- fore the 1904 election, remarked that “the hog's eye is sot.” When Bryan got his third nomination in 1908 Mr. Woodson pointed out that “you can’'t keep a squirrel on the ground.” This week, asked con- cerning the chances of young Mayor Harrison of Louisville, Republican nominee for Governor, to de- feat Judge Ruby Laffoon, a countryman, Mr. Wood- son said that the Mayor, while popular in the cities, “can’t run fast on plowed ground.” Town-fast New Yorkers may not, understand these‘ locutions any better than Englishmen would. They | are pure rural American. DAVIS CUP IS STILL FRENCH. ways remain in France tennis team as it does everything else, are ominous signs that the famous French combma-‘ tion that has stood guard over the Davis Cup is| menaced. Lacostz is in ill health, and has all but abandoned tennis for golf. Borota is admitted toy be losing zest as he leaves his twenties further and further behind. Cochat, hero of the latest Davis| Cup contest, is said to be about to abandon ;umneu:r‘l tennis for the flesh pots of professionalism. In the | meantime America and England are developing fast and ambitious youngsters who are anxious to go. Just as the rotirement of graceful Suzanne Lenglen from amateurism for professionalism and a stake for that menacing rainy day made room for the years of Helen Wills championships, and the aging of Bill Tilden caused him to think less of glory and more of cash, giving the young French- men, now growing older, their chance, so disintegra- tion may bring about English or American victories in France and give the Davis Cup a new home. British Census Deductions. (Manchester Guardian.) The preliminary reports on the census which have been published this week show that, though the death-rate has fallen appreciably, the population ot England and Wales has increased by only a little more than two millions. The birth-rate has stead- ily declined, until it has now reached the low figure of 16.3 per thousand, less than half the birth-rate that was considered normal before 1890. The sta- tistical experts say that a continuation of the present tendencies will mean the reaching of a popu- lation. maximum during the next twenty years, fol- lowed by decline. 'This is the outstanding revelation of the census of 1931. Two other points of interest emerge. One is the diminution in the preponder- ance of females over males. This preponderance, which rose as high as 1,732,221 in 1921 as the result of the losses in the war has fallen in the last ten| years to 1670243, and as the war recedes farther | into the past the fall will become more marked. The remaining point of interest is the tendency for population to drift southward. The counties north | of Cheshire and Yorkshire lost 443,000 by migration during the past ten years, Central Wales 259,000, the Midlands 81,000, and the Eastern region 41,000. The South, and especially the Southeast, had compara- | tively large gains. OUR TE DEPARTMENT IN WASHINGTON’S DAY. Nothing illustrates more clearly the great growth of the United States sinée George Washington's day than the =normously increased activities of our Gov- ernment. As one evidence of this, the Division of Information and Publication of the United States George Washington Bicentennial Commission points to the expansion in the United States Department of State since its beginnings as a Committee on Foreign Affairs of the Continental Congress. The first secretary, of that committee, which might be called our first Foreign Secretary was the famous Thomas Paine who wrote the lines, “These are the times that try men’s souls” The state of Colonial finances at the time is reflected in the fact that Congress was able to offer him the modest salary of seventy dolars a month. This was in 1777, and Paine held the position for two years. At the end of that period Congress dropped him for publishing a State paper which it thought he should have kept confidential. After that the Continental Congress decided to manage its own foreign affairs. It soon found itself in con- fusion and chaos, however, as a result of clumsy committee handling of a rapid expansion in its dealings with other countries. Accordingly, in 1781, Robert Livingston of New York was made Secre- tary of the Congressional Committee on Foreign Af- fairs. He received the respectable salary of $4,000 & year, and was given powers closely approaching those of a prasent day Secretary of State. To Livingston goes much of the credit for skil- ful management of our diplomacy during the later period of the Revolution, but in two years time Livingston complained to Congress that his living expenses were $3,000 more than his yearly salary. Besides, he was honored with election as Chancellor | of New York, and under pressure of lure to another field, he resigned. Another period of chaos in our foreign relations ensued, until John Jay assumed the duties of Foreign Secretary, with still larger powers, which included authority to frame treaties with other nations. Finally, in 1789, the Constitution having been adopted and the new United States having been formally established, Congress passed the act creat- jng the Department of State as we know it today. President Washington appointed Thomas Jefferson the first Secretary of State, but as Jefferson was away at the time, it was six months before he assumed the duties of his office. Today the Department of State recelves from Congress an appropriation of more than $17,000,000 whereas the first annual budget submitted by Sec- retary of State Jefferson called for an outlay of $8,00850. At this almost amusingly moderate cost to the country, the Department of State under Jef- ferson ran almost everything. In Jefferson's own words, the department “embraced the whole do- mestic administration, war and finance excepted.” The Secretary of State then transmitted all commissions to Federal officers appointed by the Secretary, except military commands. He kept the great seal of the United States, and promulgated all the laws passed by Congress. He even ran the Post Office service, until President Washington de- cided that this belonged to the Treasury Depart- ment. Nevertheless the Setretary of State con- tinued to manage thz United States mint. He had control of copyrights and patents. He took the census and issued all maps and charts. - Many of the acts of pardon passed through his . hands. He conducted all our Territorial affalrs, collected the customs, issued consular reports, and authonty over the sale of public lands. And" this domestic business, together with our foreign affairs, Jefferson managed with the assist- ' two Under Secretaries, four clerks, two and a Prench lnberpr‘w:r. One item*in Paying for Prohibition. (New York World-Telegram.) The direct expenditures of the Bureau of Pro- hibition in its first year under the Department of Justice amounted to eight cents per capita, accord- ing to Prohibition Director Woodcock. | Such figures are apt to be misleading, for the| total cost of enforcement to the Federal Govern-| ment was a great deal more than the amount spent by Mr. Woodcock's establishment. This year, for instance, the Bureau of Prohibition has been allowed $11,369,000 by Congress. The Bureau of Industrial Alcohol will spend close to $5,000,000. At least half and probably more of the Coast Guard’s appropriation of $33,000,000 will be used to check liquor smuggling. The Department of Justice will spend at least $10,000,000 of its regular appropriation in prosecut- ing and imprisoning Prohibition violators. The Sccret Service, the Customs Service and the border patrols will spend other millions. So the total cost is somewhere around $45,000- 000, and Mr. Woodcock's per capita estimate was based only on the $9,500,000 his bureau spent last year. Nor is that per capita cost by any means equally divided. International revenue statistics just pub- lished show that in the last fiscal years that seven- teen States which either have never enacted or have repeal State enforcement laws pay about sixty per cent. of all income taxes. They not only are kept dry by their sister States, but are forced to foot most of the bills for the Prohibition army. These States—California, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Min- nesota, Missouri, Montana, New Jersey, Nevada, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont and ‘Wisconsin—contain nearly half of the country’s pop- ulation, some 60,000,000 of our 122,000,000. The other half keeps them dry. Another diverting sight in these days of toll, travail and sadness, is when an avowed dry walks up to a refreshment stand and absentmindedly begins pawing around for a foot rest.—(Ohio State Journal.) The American citizen has a right tq be served, thunders a Western Senator. Still, there seems to be no reason to get excited about it at this late date, when he has become pretty well accustomed to taking it with him.—(Boston Herald.- ‘When thoroughly wearied of hearing men say business is bad we walk to a near-by gas station and ask the man in charge about it. His reply is invariably the same: Can't complain.—(Toledo Blade.) v Let's hope it won't be possible to say the moratorium was a success but the patient died— (New York Sun.) It appears that Germany needs a much stronger financial pulmotor than the moratorium.—(Milwau- kee Journal) “If the election were held tomorrow or next| BOAT MARGNITA T0 POLAR BEAR Takes Horses to Kodiak Island | Aboard a craft that called at Juneau yesterday was a string of trained pinto ponies for the use of big game hunters on Kodiak Island. The animals are on the 90-foot long boat Polar Bear which arrived from Seattle with Captain Pete Wold and Charles Madsen on board, Other members on the vessel are J. W. Isackson, chief engineer; R. Hofstad, floating cannery man, Carl Hoel and Eddy Gjosund. 3 Formerly the Margnita The Polar Bear was formerly the Margnita, on the mail run out of Juneau, and is about four years old. It was bcught by the Kodiak Guides Association, with headquart~ ers at Kodiak, to be used for hunting parties, and is being taken north by C. Madsen, field manager for the association and Captain Wold, a well known halibut skip~ per. It is powered by a 200-horse- power diesel engine. The horses on board are all trained ponies with Arabian blood. Two of them - are polo ponies. Kodiak it will pick up the regular Peninsula. The horses will then| be taken up the river in river boats equipped with outboard moc-( ors for the use of hunting parties| to hunt moose and sheep and| black bear. Caribou and Bear Hunting parties also will be con-| ducted to Broad Pass for caribou and later to Kodiak Island for brown bear. Among those already booked arel Mr. and Mrs. Thompson and Mr. and Mrs. Jernstad of Carlton, Ore- gon, Dr. Kinsolving, of Bristol, Tennessee; Herman Koetlin, of De- | troit, Michigan, President of a na-| tionaly known tool concern, and| later in - the season, after she| makes a trip up the Stikine, Bar- | vett Willoughby, the Alaska author. Representatives of Fox News are CHANGES NAME {Vessel; Bought by Guidés! When the Polar Bear arrived at) hunting guides and crew and pro-| ceed to Kusilof, on the Aleutian One for the association extending year. Wold will be back in the early days in the Arctic. Oh Boy! Wkat Joy LIFT CORNS RIGHT OUT The English Way Right from England comes the new, better, joyful way to take out corns—roots and all § Callouses go also and you can rub off that hard skin on heels and toes with your hand—the magic | treatment. Ask Butler Mauro Drug Co. or any leading druggist for a package of Radox—put 2 tablespoonfuls in |a gallon of hot water—do this for 13 or 4 nights in succession—then |1ift out the corns. This joyful exhilarating foot bath is simply great—you’ll enjoy every ! minute of it and your burning, sore, tired, aching feet will feel better !than they have for years—ask for Radox and foot comfort will be —adv. yours. of the reasons for buying the Polar Bear is owing to plans its plans to including polar bear and walrus hunts in the Arctic next in his element again, as he hunted walrus WATCH FOR NEXT AMERICA™ LEGION SMOKER | W. P. Johiison FRIGIDAIRE DELCO LIGRT PRODUCTS MAYTAG WASHING MACHINES GENERAL MOTOES RADIOS Phone 17 You Can Save Money at Our Store SEE US FIRST Harris Hardware Co. Lower Front Street o 5 ! i Alligator COATS, HATS and PANTS For the rainy weather We carry a full and complete kne SABIN’S Everything in Furnishings for Men included. S T BUSY S I i SEceepueseeseiecasaseonaaazz [ RICE & AHLERS CO. GOOD PLUMBING “We tell you in advance what job will cost” S tr a price; LET US FIT YOU 6 RIOT! 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