The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 21, 1931, Page 4

o o 1 THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, MONDAY, SEPT. 21, 1931. Daily Alaska Empire JOHN W. TROY - - - EDITOR AND MANAGER Sunday by _ the Second and Main Published every eveninz except EMPIR™_PRINTING COMPANY at Streets, Juneau, Alaska. Entered In the Post Office In Juneau as Second Claes matter. SUBSCRIFTION RATES. Dellvered by carrier In Juneau, Douglas, Treadwell and Thane for 11.25 per month. By mall, postage ;a1 i, at the following rates: One year, in advance, t12.00; six months, In advance, $6.00; one month, in advance, $1.25 Subscribers wiil confer a favor if they will promptly notify the Business Off'ce of ny failure or irregularity in the delivery of thelr paper Telephone for Editorial anc 1 isiness Offices, 374. MEMBER OF ASSOCI/ TED PREWS, The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches eredited to | it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein ALASKA CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION WISE PRECAUTION. The Chamber of Commerce acted wisely when it decided to advise people in t.e States and else- where that there is nct work for more pzople in Juneau. In fact, unemployment is a problem here Juneau will take care of her own people, but it would be impossible for her to take care of all that might come here. Juneau is already organizing to give employ- ment during the late fall and winter to those at home that might be in need at a wage that will prevent actual distress. Other towns in Alaska ought to proceed likewise. If every community will care for its own residents the burden will not be unbearable and there will be no severe distress in the Territory. But that will not be the case if there should be an influx of people. A PERVERSE MAN. Frederick W. Lehmann was a peculiar sort of a man in some respects. He was a great lawyer— and sucessful. He made a large fortune in the practice. But that is not the curious phase. He was intensely interested in politics and, it is said, dreamed of a career in Congress. Yet, as a young man when he was most active politically, he lived in Republican States and was a very strong Demo- crat. He then moved to a Democratic State and glmost immediately became a Republican. He couldn’t make the Senate, but did become Solicitor General. Then in 1928, Missouri became Republican and Mr. Lehmann became as strongly Democratic as he had been as young man. It is said this trait of switching from party to party at the wrong time to win any pots prevented him from following a suceessful political career. That was probably help- ful to him personally in the long run. Happiness or wealth or real position do not always accompany a political career. WHEN PRESIDENT WASHINGTON PUT DOWN A “REBELLION.” When Theodore Roosavelt, 26th President of the United States, and Grover Cleveland, 22d President, used the authority of their office in meeting serious economic disturbances during their terms, there were those who questioned the Presidential power and the historic precedent for such acts. But the power and the precedent had been established by the First President, George Washington, who omitted not even this detail from the countless other lasting examples and precedents he sct in putting in motion the machinery of our Government. The disturbance that moved President Washing- ton to his first test of Federal power in putting down a serious threat to its stability was the famous “Whiskey Insurrection” which originated during his first Administration. That historic ‘uprising, as the Division of In- formation and Publcation of the United States George Washington Biceniennial Commission points out, was not, as its /:me implies, a moral differ- ence on the wet-and-dry issue. It had its origin in an economic question and was much like the serious strikes which the later Presidents, Cleve- land and Roosevelt, were called on to master. The chief differenca in the “Whiskey Insurrection” was that this “strike” ran ofoul of a Federal law, and hence directly inviied Federal interference. The trouble began in the early 1780's. By then the valleys westward of th: Alleganies were pro- ducing grain, but nc' yet had roads or other means of transportation been developed. As & result it was found that the easicst way to ship this grain was in the form of whiskey, and distilling became the principal industry of the four western counties of Pennsylvania. In 1791, the young, and still needy, Government of the United States, casting about for revenues, passed an excise law that laid something of a loan on Western Pennsylvania’s chief industrial product. Quite apart from the moral aspects of the question, the Pennsylvania distillers looked upon this cut in their profits as an unjust discriminating against an industry, and under the leadership of one David Bradford, they promptly “organized” and put up resistance to the law. This in itself was direct defiance of Federal authority, and the situation was further darkened when Federal officers who attempted to seize the chief offenders were driven away by force. Neville, Federal Tax Collector, was besieged in his own house. In no very long time these first “insur- gents” had cowed all other elements about them and were virtual dictators of their end of Penn- sylvania. The real gravity of this first threat to the stability of the new United States Government lay in the fact that these insurgents were not precisely hoodlums but were men who in these days would regard themselves as “industrialists.” "In real alarm for the safety of the Union, and to bring these violators of law to their senses, President Washington issued on August 7, 1794, & ‘thunderous “Pmchlion Warning the Insurgents _ in° the Western Parts of Pennsylvania to Desist from their Opposition to the Laws.” He recited at ‘!ength their outrages against the laws and on the | persons of those appointed to execute them, and |with a reminder of another Federal law empowering the President to call out the militia, should his warning be disregarded, his proclamation ended, | “Therefore . . . I, George Washington, President of the United States, do hereby | command all persons, on or before the first day of September next, to disperse, and re- ! tire peaceably to their respective homes. | President Washington had taken one of the ‘m‘ps prescribed by law, and on September 25, {1794, he was obliged to take the other. His Pro- | clamation of Warning having been ignored, he issued another, calling out the militia of New Jersey, vania, Maryland, and Virginia, 15,000 strong | To show further that he meant business, he left ladelphia, then the capital of the United States, to take personal command of the army. His westward route was to take him through Fort Cumberland, and Bedford, but he to go no further than Fort Cumberland. ston’s Attorney-General, Bradford, writing at », reports that the insurgents laughed at the but shook in their shoes at thoughts of Morgan's Virginia Riflemen. When these ap- ed on the Alleghenies, which so long had served bulwark against Federal authority, the in- on broke. David Bradford, the prime mover, his life. At another convention at Perkin- the insurgents pledged submission to and Gov. Lee of Virginia, in command the troops, issued a proclamation of amnesty. Two leaders convicted of treason were pardoned |by President Washington. And so, without blood- shed, the Whiskey Insurrection was over. needed a p laws, of i The dog days are over and the time is ripe | for the politiclans to take the stage. They usually |do so after August in the years immediately pre- | ceding Presidential elections. That is all right. h”(w[)l(‘ ought to follow the course of politics and politicians. They ought, however, to be on guard. | There will be a lot said and written for the sole ipurpus» of influencing future political action. Europe has sent to America for help to savz their bison. There are only 59 specimens remain- |ing in that continent. We still have a rather large ‘supnlv in the United States and Canada. But we | call them buffalo. | With nurses being paid $300 a year it is not curprising that there is a shortage in England. Why Austraiia’s Collapse. | (Atlanta Constitution.) The usually well-posted and level-headed Wash- ington Post assumes a positon difficult of defense in a recent editorial in which the blame for Aus- tralia’s critical economic condition is laid to the much-advertised white Australian policy. As a matter of fact, the responsibility for Aus- tralia’s present financial plight should be laid at the door of her Government-ownership policy, and not be charged to her policy of excluding all immi- grants except Caucasians. It is no doubt true that the exclusion of labor- ing classes from the yellow-skinned oriental races| has retarded the development of her latent resources | —but what good would result from the development of agricultural lands in the central part of the country if their products could not be shipped to the ports at a rate cheap enough to permit suc- cessful competition in the markets of the world. Australia’s railroads and other public utilities of all kinds are Government-owned and operated. So are many of her hotels, farms, factories and stores. The net result is that costs are higher and profits non-existent. The farmer who raises wheat in the has to pay more freight on his product few hundred miles to the seacoast than to ship the same quantity of wheat from to New York and thence to Liverpool. Australia’s workers are faced with bankruptey and the bonds of the country are practically worth- less as the result of its experiment of putting the Government in business. To that must be laid the blame for its present crisis and not to the fact that its exclusion policy has resulted in the lack of development of its natural resources. Unquestionably the policy under which it has excluded hard-working laboring classes which would have been invaluable in the opening up of its vast unsettled areas, has been a mistake. But in view of the lamentable failure of the experiment in government ownership, it is not logical to lay the blame for the country’s economic crisis to its white Australian policy. interior for the it costs Chicago Not Enough Nurses in England. (New York Times.) Recent reports indicate that there is now an abundant supply of nurses in the United States. In England the shortage is causing anxiety to hospital authorities. Some hospitals are deliberately recruit- ing unpromising candidates, in the hope that the inefficient nurses can be weeded out later. A commission appointed by The Lancet has pre- sented a preliminary report giving a clear picture of present conditions in 686 representative hos- pitals. In nearly two-thirds of them the working day is between 13% and 14% hours, with night duty from 11% to 12 hours. As for pay, th: full-fledged staff nurse is lucky if she starts at about $300 a year. ‘The shortage of nurses is attributed to the “bet- ter salaries, better prospects, more freedom, more social amenities and shorter hours” offered in other lines of work. There is a strange fear that sharter hours and better pay would attract “the wrong type of girl.” Some hospitals suggest that expense of probationers, tuition for student work. who should be charged Every census shows the population center of America taking a stride farther westward and the shift is due mainly to the rapid growth along the Pacific Coast. It is a Far Western rather than a Middle Western development. — (Seattle Post- | Intelligencer.) Having recovered from the deluge of books on the World War, who caused it, who won it and how to prevent the next one, we are now being flooded with books and booklets on the world depression, its cause and cure.—(Seattle Post-Intel- ligencer.) Organized labor has embarked on a campaign to mobilize the nation’s 15,000,000 eligible but silent voters behind a drive in the next elections to legalize manufacture and sale of four per cent. beer.—(Bos- ton News Bureau.) It is said oyer 16,000,000 Americans visited Can- ada last summer. You can do your own guessing as to how many of them talked only about the wonderful scenery up ‘there when they came home. —(Cincinnati Enquirer.) the- pay for the trained staff should be raised at the ”1 TIE-MAKING T0 RELIEVE IDLE IN TWO AREAS Alaska Railroad and Cop- per River Route Letting Winter Contracts Tic making on the Alaska Rail- rcad and Copper River and North- western Railway is being used to “ombat unemployment in those two districts, according to B. F. Heint- zleman, Asst. Regional Forester, who returned here today after a three-weeks trip to Chugach Na- tional Forest points. The Alaska Railroad is confining its tie-buying to the country ad- jacent to the road and about 80,- 000 will be cut out there this win- ter. While the Copper River Route’s purchases will not be nearly so ex- tensive, it is allocated its require- ments and limiting all contractors 50 that all of them will share in the work, Mr. Heintzleman said. “Their ideas are identical—to give employment to local residents, and to stimulate business in all lines in the towns situated on the roads,” Mr. Heintzleman said. There are about 30 camps to be operated in the Kenai Peninsula section, utilizing timber in Chu- gach National Forest and selling their product to the Alaska Rail- road. Between two and eight tic hewers will be employed in each camp. They will cut and hau! their ties out during the winter mentns. Mr. Heintzleman spent some time in the district looking over areas on which cutting will be done, and making arrangements for sales to the tie men. Later he came to Cordova and went over the work in that district. Two of the Forest Service force !M Cordova, C. H. Forward, Forest | Examiner, and Lee C. Pratt, Ac- countant, will come here for per- manent station about Ociober 5. At | the same time, Supervisor W. J. | McDonald will go to Ketchikan tc¢ | assume his new duties at Tongass Forest headquarters trere, Mr. Heintzleman said. AT THE HOTELS ! Gostineau r G. W. Gray, Mrs. J. A. Handra- han, W. J. Funk, Thomas Hall, Dr Frederick G. Nichols, J. T. Robert- son, Robert Wakelin, Mrs. Ethel D Pagel, Seattle; Capt. L. R. R. Jen- ning, Ketchikan; J. J. Meherin, L M. Carrigan, Juneau; H. D. Camp- bell, Mrs. Ernest Anderson, Wran- gell, Alaskan Mrs. J. J. Lee, James Paul, Kil- lisnoo; John Higgins, Dupont; J. McGavin, Taku; Chris Landering Cordova; Peter Johnson, Anchor- age; Willlam Tamaneff, Wrangell; H. Preepter, Seward. Zynda Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Krogh, T. J. Brennan, Seattle; R. C. Hayden MINING BROKER ON End-o-Corn Moves Corns Easily $1.00 Juneau Drug Company and son, Annex Creek; E'izabeth 3 33 o ity eiee iient Tes, Tabat| | TE0% DOUYSEFA g Eline kee; Charles A. Hamilton, Port- Post Office Substatios land; Oscar Clawson, Fairbanks. Ne. 1 e HIS WAY TO ATLIN J. N. Erickson, broker of Buffa- lo, New York, passed through Ju- neau last night aboard the Prin- cess Louise enroute to the Atlin District. Mr. Erickson will visit the Ruffner mining property where so far this year, he said, $150,000 has been used in operations. Next year, Mr. Erickson said, a larger amount will be spent in the de- velopment program. ——— SERVICE MOTOR CO. 4 THIRD and MAIN STS. “Jim” and “Marvan” “! | Old papers for sale at The Em- pire. for consultation. ALSIE J. VALENTINE BUILDING The American Beauty Parlor Where ladies will find perfect satisfaction in their search for beautification, in a pleasant atmosphere. Telephone 397 for an appointment. 1921 Graduate of Cosmetology and Hairdressing G There is no charge ON i { WIL TELEPHONE 397 INDIAN LUMP NUT Popular Coals ADMIRALTY ISLAND PACIFIC COAST NUT DIAMOND BRIQUETS CALL US DIRECT— PHONE 412 PACIFIC COAST COAL CO. 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