The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 1, 1931, Page 4

l THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, TUESDAY, SEPT. 1, 1931. Daily Alaska Empire JOHN W. TROY - - - EDITOR AND MANAGER Published every eveninz except Sunday by EMPHRE PRINTING COMPANY at Second ana Streets, Juneau, Alaska the Main Entered in the Post Office in Juneau as Second Class matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Oelivered by carrier In Juneau, Douglas, Treadwell and | Thane for $1.25 per month. postage paid, at the following rates: By mall, $12.00; six months, in advance, One year, in advanc $6.00; one month, in advance, $1.25 Subscribers will confer a favor if they will promptly | notify the Business Office of any fallure or irregularity in the delivery of their paper: Telephone for Bditorial and Business Offices, 374. | e i “Coin” MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS. The Assoclated Press is exclusively entitled to the | use for republication of all news dispatches credited to | it or wot otherwise credited in this paper and also the | local news published here | ALASKA CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER | THAN THAT COF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION. PROSPERITY DEPENDS ON FOREIGN TRADE. rman of ihe Board, Gen- eral Electric Company, and author of the repara- tion plan, stresses the importance of the Pacific Foreign Trade Council's convention, to be held in Oakland, California, September 17 and 18, in a telegram to A. F. Haines, President of the Council Prosperity, Young declares, depends on perfect- ing and enlarging our machinery for foreign trade His telegram, sent six weeks in advance of the Oakland trade conference, was received with immense satisfaction by the business men of the eleven West- ern States, Canada, Mexico, Alaska, Hawali and other countries around the Pacific littoral, said Mr. Haines. Young's message is being taken as first class confirmation that Eastern business is keenly inter- ested in the elaborate preparations now going on in connection with the September convention and foresezs far-reaching convention results in foreign and domestic trade stimulation and the re-establish- ment of prosperity on a sound and enduring basis. With assurances that business leaders from many foreign countries wil attend, the Oakland conven- tion already has assumed an international aspect. A program, designed to aid the delegates in planning a great trade revival is in process of formulation. Young's message follows: The exchange of our surplus goods, that is to say, those we cannot consume at home, for the products of other countries, which we can use, accomplishes a double benefit. Pirst, it brings in to our markets goods which we do mot produce but cam consume, and second, it takes out of our markets our own surpluses which tend to cause de- moralization of cur domestic prices and consequznt loss of profits in every line in which surpluses exist. This is equally true of agriculture, manufacture and mining If we are to be prosperous, therefore, we must develop and extend our machinery for foreign trade. Qur products must be adapted to foreign markets — our credits must be such as will meet their needs—our purchases must be so adequate as in the end they will substantially balance our ex- ports. Underlying all the mechanism of foreign wade must be good understanding with our customers, actval and potential in all lands, and in addition to understanding, there must be good will. Such organizations as the Pacific Foreign Trade Council are rendering the greatest service to our domestic welfare by develop- ing and promoting our foreign trade. Owen D. Young, Cha GANGLAND KILLERS CONVICTED—OF SELLING BEER. “Scarface” Al Capone and Jack “Legs” Diamond are two of America’s most famous racketeers. Both are survivors of many gun fights. The public has clamored for their arrest and conviction for murder for years. At last they have been convicted and ‘will probably go to prison—for selling beer. Al, in addition, has been convicted of not paying income tax on his gangland loot. In other words, the laws against murder lie idly in the statute books, but Prohibition and tax laws must seem to be enforced. People mmy kill almost with impunity and may gain riches by bootlegging and retain respectability if they pay for not being detected, pay taxes to the Government on their profits and escape the attention of fanatical drys. At that the scarfaced one plead guilty or he might not have been convicted. It is said that he took the rap in fear that a trial might have devel- oped evidence that would not have enabled him and his gang to escape prosecution for killings. It is said, further, the prosecuting officials were glad to compromise by forgetting everything else for gulity pleas of violating Prohibition and taxpaying laws. Those whe claim custody of law enforce- ment sentiment are always ready to forgive any- thing if they can get a bootlegger behind the bars. They have been known to encourage killing by en- forcement agents in the name of Prohibition. To them a lawbreaker is one who violates Prohibition laws. Murder, rape, arson and other crimes are of minor importance, but Prohibition is sacred. The Treasury insists of course, that tax-dodging is a major crime—more important than anything else. So Al kad to pay the penalty for that. So gangland killers go scot free if they can bribz their way through the Prohibition enforce- ment laws and pay their income taxes. PROHIBITION ENFORCERS WILL FOUL PRACTICE. Dispatches say Prohibition Enforcement authorities have decided to quit using professional vamps and harlots to lure violators of ths Volstead Act into the clutches of the law. While, as far as we know this practice has not been followed in Alaska, in . the States it has been alleged to be common pro- cedure. Women have been used as “bait” to induce to purchase liquor under circumstances where STOP | for him they might be arrested and the “evidence” seized. It is charged on apparently good authority that this process has resulted in the ruination of girls who did not previously drink liquor. It has pro- vided the officers of the law with lewd companions. Innecent boys were induced by the “girls” to make liquor purchases in Ohio at least. The fact Prohibition Bureau is about ice would seem to be an admission that has been followed. It is shameful that it has |taken a dozen years to convince the Government | that it ought to stop this disgraceful thing. | The things that have been done and the crimes |committed in the name of Prohibition enforcement |shames all real Americans. |t | it | — — Harvey, whose Coin's Financial School such a vogue in 1896, has been nominated for the first in the 1932 race. He is the candidate of the Liberty Party. He was probably put in the race early so that the papers might make note of it. They probably wouldn't have space next year. was President, A 19-year-old girl, while employed by Prohibi- tion agents to bait male violators of Prohibition got drunk on Government purchased whiskey, was injured in an automobile accident. Who ought to tried in that case? Ryves be comet which flashed over the United States and quickly disappeared, probably never to be seen again, may have got a glimpse of the tariff wall and refused to risk a jump. That Congressman Murphy’s Center Shots. (Seward Gateway.) There may be a reason why the Federal Government, with great credit to its states- manship, built a railroad system in Alaska at a cost of many millons of dollars, which was a most worthy and laudakle proect. though a country marvelously rich in re- sources, in a country containing tens of thousands of square miles of coal deposits any many millions of acres of valuable tim- ber, but does not provide bunkers at tide water to have the coal brought out, and takes no steps to have the timber devel- oped. There may be a reason. I am going to try and find out. Congressman Frank Murphy, who visited Seward and the railroad belt with a party of Congressmen representing the powerful House Committee on Appropriations, spoke those words the Tth of August in an address to 500 Seattle businessmen gathered in the Chamber of Commerce of that city. But that was only the first of his bell ringers in that spirited speech. He gave another: There may be a reason why the Federal Government spends one million dollars, and more, every year in educating Eskimo chil- dren in Alaska, but only one-third that amount in eduoating American white chil- dren, and then tries to saddle upon 12,- 000 piongers in the Alaska Railroad belt the burden of making up a eomparatively small deficit in the earnings of the Alaska Railroad, through exhorbitant increase in freight and passenger charges, when those hardy pioneers are doing yeomen service in preparing that wonderful land for future settlement for the benefit and prosperity of all the Nation. There may be a reason, but I don't know what it is. I am going to try and find out. And that hard fisted, strong minded, clear sighted Congressman Frank Murphy went on with| other center shots, just as telling, just as incisive as those two, until he brought the 500 business- men and women of his audience to their feet in cheers. They saw the point. The Nation is going to hear from Congressman Frank Murphy when Congress convenes next win- ter, and from other Congressmen who accompanied him. They are now busy telling some truths about Alaska and the Alaska Railroad. Congresman Frank Murphy, of Ohio, is the type Nations build monuments to; Alaskans will ever recall his clear sighted and courageous serv- ices in daring to do his duties fearlessly and| patriotically, in defense and understanding of Al- aska and the Alaska Railroad. DEMPSEY PUTS to prohibit ] Eruptions for Tourists. (New York Times.) | In Hawall volcanic eruptions are supposed to} attract tourists. This is stated on the authority | of the Department of the Interior. Eruptions will| soon occur, in the opinion of Dr. Jaggar of thef Geological Survey, from Mauna Loa and Kilauea, the two famous volcanoes in ine Hawailan Na-\ tional Park. His study ef volcanoes in Hawaii has extended over many years. He says that Mauna | Loa and Kilauea are on the same “rift” as those parts of Japan where seismic disturbances recently occurred. Mauna Loa gives a splendid display when in eruption. The lava does not break from the enor- | mous crater at the summit, but from the flanks| at elevations of from eight to twelve thousand feet.; In the last hundred years there have been about sixteen “principal flows,” four in the present century. It is said of Kilauea that “although an' independent volcano and elder than Mauna Loa, it is merely a hole in the side of the latter at an| elevation of 4,000 feet.” It can be reached by auto-' mobile over a concrete road which passes through | tropical forests. Kilauea has not erupted as frequently as Mauna Loa, but it gives a more devilish show, and in its time has done a great deal of damage. In 1790 it overwhelmed a division of the native army. As late as 1924 the spouted lava covered a space of fifty acres. If these eruptions In the National Forest can be witnessed “with reasonable safety”| today, it was not always so. In 1868 a landslide caused by an eruption killed thirty-one persons. However, a volcanic observatory has been main- tained at Kilauea since 1911 and the scientists should know where the danger begins and ends. | xt Year City. (Prince Rupert Empire.) Prince Rupert is sometimes called a “next year city.” The inference is that expectation is not al- ways realized. This is true of most places. It is true of every ambitious and forward looking town to anticipate—to visualize growth and development. Disappointments are inevitable, but no town ever suffered because of a tendency to plan and work for the future, The Prohibition Bureau reports conviction of more than 50,000 persons in a year, which must be almost as many as violate the liquor law in Washington every day.—(Washington Post.) Any Congressional candidate who tries to carry |/ water on both shoulders in the forthcoming cam- paign may have to send his lC!-tI suitcase to the |l dry cleaner—(Toledo Blade.) i FOUR MEN OUT, SPOKANE SHOW Clowns wifiif[h Heavy! Two Rounds—21,000 Witness Bouts SPOKANE, Wash, Sept. 1— Jack Dempsey, former heavyweight champion, knocked out four blund- | ering heavies and clowned two rounds with a fifth here last| night. | Elgin Taylor, a Spokane negro, was the first victim and he lasted | 35 seconds. | Dee. Richmond, of Chewelah, Wash., was the next to hit the| mat for slumberland. He lasted 33| seconds. { Big Bill Neecring, of Coeur d’| Alene, Idaho, followed and he was | towed away in two minutes and | twenty-two seconds. Then Tony | Talerico, of Walla Walla, Wash,, | exchanged punches for half a minute with Dempsey, then went to sleep. D:mpsey clowned two with Cyclone Thompson, of Wen- atchee, Wash, There were more than 21,000 spectators, a record, for a Spokane boxing show. ————-——— Ivan Windsor, Assistant District Engineer, United States Bureau of Public Roads, left today on the steamer Yukon for Seward to in- spect road construction activities in that district. rounds | Forms New Cabinet Assocwated Press Photo Count Julius Karolyi (above), for- eign minister, accepted a mandate to form a new government in Hun- gary succeeding that of Count Stefan Bethlen, who resigned after 10 years as premier, COMING Don’t Get LEFT! Some Folks try to make up their own greetings some folks try shopping at the last minute— others come in early and make a happy selection from our big line of CHRISTMAS CARDS and Enjoy Christmas! The Dally Alaska Empire TELEPHONE 374 (PEEsssssssssssssssssssesssEssisatssiassasasssssasanas: Secretary Mellon on THRIFT “To save part of what one earns is an- other vital element in a successful life. 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