The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 20, 1931, Page 4

f e S T S R Dml\ 4laska Empire JOHN W. TROY - - - EDITOR AND MANAGEB blished every evening except Sunday by the F‘fi‘?’lll“ PRINTING COMPANY ut Second and Main | Streets, Juneau, Aluska. Entered in the Post Office matter SUBSCRIPTION RATES, Dellvered by carrier in Juneau, Douglas, Treadwell and Thars for $1.25 per month. . postage paid, at the following rates: 3 . in advance, $12.00; six months, tn advance, $6.00; one month, in adv. $1.25. Subscribers will confer a favor it they will promptly notify the Business Office of any failure or Irregularity 1 the delivery of their papers. Telephone for Editorial and Business Offices, $74. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRE®S. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches eredited to it or not otherwise iceal news published herein ALASKA CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER FPUBLICATION THOMAS A. EDISON. With the death of Thomas A. Edison, one of the useful lives in the annals of mankind came to a close. His inventive genius relieved humanity of many of heaviest burdens, increased in large measure its store of knowledge and added in in- calculable degree to the joy of existence. Because of the wonders he wrought, life is easier, more intelligently directed and happier, all over world. its His caresr is an inspiration. As a boy, he lacked the advantages commonly enjoyed by youths of today. His school attendance was limited to a few months. Quite early, resources. His mental endowments were of such extraordinary character that scarc:ly any young man can reasonably hope to be blessed with like inheritance, but they would have been valueless if they had not been fortified by indefatigabl> industry. The famous inventor's mentality may defy duplica- tien; his untiring energy, however, is possible of emulatio: In many practical fields of endeavor, he attained universal pr:eminence, but in any czlling or activity average intelligence if supple- mented by persistent application will achieve worth- while success Like all geniuses, Edison gave early manifesta- tions of his unusual mental equipment. He was not 26 years old when he amassed what was con- sidered at the time a competency—$40,000—for per- fecting a device for the speedy transmission of New | York Stock Exchange quotati 31 when he ablished his first laboratory at Menlo Park, where subsequently, for 55 years, with cease- less effort, he explored and experimented in the | realm of science, and made such astounding dis- coveries as the incandescent electric light, the phono- graph and more than 1,300 other utilitarian agencies and conveniences. ns. He scarcely was Fortunately for mankind, Edison was spared for a long life. His fruitful accomplshments continued until just a few weeks before his demise. He leaves | a rich and bounteous legacy for the present gen- eration and succeeding ages. The lad of humble origin and no schooling lived to receive in manhood the plaudits of statesmen and the tributes of scholars. He was honored sby his own country with the Congressional Medal of Honor and by foreign governments with various sorts | of distinctions. On his birthday anniversaries, rulers of near and distant lands were glad to communicate their congratulations and good wishes. innumerable universitics conferred their highest de- grees. No part of the earth but knows his fame and benefits from his commanding talents. No nations now but what pause at his passing to mur- mur in their divers tongues prayers of gratitude for his existence. America can b justly proud he was a son of hers. ! HOOVER BLOCKS BIG NAVY PROPONENTS. In his skirmish with proponents for a big navy, and with that element of the Navy Department which has been seeking to evade the President’s edict to the several departments to pare to the lowest possible figure estimates for appropriatinns next yoar, President Hoover has emerged with a complete victory. The “big navy” $401,000,000 as the sum to be sought from the next Congress for all needs of the department. Recently news despatches sent out from Washington to the effect that the President desired to reduce it by $125.000,000 were termed “big navy” propaganda by Administration spokesmen who declared the President had asked for certain economies, includ- ing a partial cessation of ship building, which would reduce the naval appropriation for next year to $340,000,000, which is $25,000.000 less than was appropriated for the current fiscal year. The Navy Department’s estimates made public yesterday call for exactly the sum fixed by the President. While that ends the battle over the estimates, it probably will prove to be the opening gun in the conflict over appropriations. The “big navy" group is powerful and will not hesitate to carry its fight to the floor of Congress where, indeed, it has already been assured of an official welcome in both houses. Senator Hale, who was Cahirman of the Commitlez on Naval Affairs in the upper branch in the last Congress and probably will be in the next, and Congressmen Britton, Chairman of the Naval Subcommittee of the House Appropriatins Committee, have both proclaimed their opposition to reducing naval building at this time The battle over the Nav) funds for next year looms as one of the hottest in the coming session which already threatens to be even more turbulent than the last one. PROHIBITION IN There are estimated to be 10,000 saloons in the State of New Jersey. Calculating the average daily sales of each at 20, which is an extremely con- gorvative estimate, there are 200,000 sales made each NEW JERSEY. in Juneau as Second Claes credited in this paper and also the | the | he was thrown on his own| on him, | group had set | |day in the State. Thus in one year there would be 75,000,000 sales made in New Jersey alone. These are the estimates of Federal Judge George M. Bourquin, widely known Butte, Mont., jurist who | first gained fame when he was sent to the Pacific Coast to assist in clearing up the criminal calendars | in Federal Courts, and more recently was trans- ferred to New Jersey to help out Seventy-five million sales are just 75,000,000 violations of the | National Prohibition Act. And that is how Pro-| hibition is enforced in New Jersey. “My! My! It only goes to show the hopeless- ness cf the effort to cope with this business,’ Judge Bourquin commented. And in this he is in (agreement with an ever-mounting majority of the {American people. | 2 diamri | It one is to believe the critics of Adminis- tration’s Navy building policy, the would be no |need for any naval disarmament conferences in the futu it only England and Japan will defer further ship construction until the United States jhu 1ds up to the treaty ratio Busch of Anheus: | President Busch Inc, says logalization of the manufacture of beer would| | furnish employment to 1,250,000 persons in 100 | industries. Pshaw! There's more people than that | now engaged in beer-making without any permission | from anyone As we understand it, what the Governor of Ly ana said to the Licut. Governor is one of the passages cut out by the censor. (New York Times.) Onz school of economists some time been advocating inflation the tional need of the hour. As the drop in the ex- !change value of the pound sterling has tended in that direction, these writers and public men have (hailed it as a step in the right direction. But ithey might take warning from the solemn words uttered yesterday by Chancellor Bruening in Ger- many. He declared that no people who, like the Germans, had gone through “the frightful iperience of inflation” could bear the thought of (it egain. Consequently, the German Government would exert the last atom of its power, if neces- l‘sary. in order to keep the currency stable at gold value. The British Government announced, when it was forced to the disagreeable necessity of suspending ‘gold payments, that the pound sterling would never be allowed to follow the disastrous course of the German mark. But the trouble with inflation is that when you begin it, you cannot tell how far it will go or how it can bz ended. Already in London there is short selling of sterling. Chancellor Snow- | den warned against its continuance, '|§sextng that such dealers were certain to “make losses,” and | [ | | Inflation and Tariffs. | 1 | i for in England has also implying that there would be official inter- |but their amount trends sharply‘ vention, should it be needed, to prevent such tran- sactions. There are, of course, other ways of bringing about currency inflation. No less an authority than Mr. Keynes has proposed that some- | thing like $2,000,000,000 in paper money be put out without a gold reserve. This shows how, when .moderate inflation is advocated, there are always people ready to blow up the bubble until it bursts. Another easy descent into trouble, when sound 'principles are abandoned, is seen in the British agitation for a tariff. The rate of duty is placed at a low figure, 10 per cent ad valorem. But every one knows that if this does not prove sufficient to protect favored industries they will clamor for a (higher duty. It is said that there must be a tariff /in order to produce revenue to balance the budget, but it has been pretty clearly shown that, in order to get that desired result, the rate of duty on |the imports which' it is proposed to tax would have to be shoved up nearly 50 per cent. Former free- traders, now veering toward protection, comfort themselves by saying that anyhow the tariff will be only “temporary.” But Americans could tell |them something about this delusion. Chancellor Snowden himself said acidly in the House of Com- mons that there is no such thing as a temporary jtariff. Once you try it, you find yourself perma- |nently saddled with it. Taniffs are, in fact, like |inflation, in that once started they seem inevitably |to go to extremes. | The World’s Need. i (Cincinnati Enquirer.) H Newton D. Baker wes a great War Secretary. |His accomplishments during the World War were |nothing less than colossal. His transportation of great armies in practical safety overseas was an achievement that would have attracted the com- imendation of that master of military science, Napo- |leon himself. | But Mr. Baker hates war, though not opposed {to conflict when necessary. In his recent address before th> American Legion Convention at Detroit he told his auditors that until the World War broke out civilized men believed that under mod- ern conditions war was no longer possible. But the “impossible” came to pass. It was expected. | “Therefore,” said the former Secretary, “in every country in Europe, when they remember 1914 and lits unexpected obsessions of horror, there is grave anxiety that during the next few years another | war from some unexpected quarter will land upon them to further devastate their lands. * * * As Mr. Baker sees it, therefore, at present needs is to have restored to it not merely business confidence, but a higher faith, the faith of the fathers who fashioned this Nation. Men must stand for the free institutions under which liberty could be preserved and prosperity obtained. The teaching of this lesson, its constant defense—as he put it, “the thrusting yourselves with the same reckless courage into its defense that you did in battle, is the great and lasting mission and lesson of this legion to the American people.” When men of courage and conviction speak on behalf of the larger good their words sink deeply into the popular consciousness. How empty and inane are the slanders and detractions cof lesser men, who would belittle and hamper the defensive impulses of the nation which shelters them, who would speak disparaingly of those who met the issue of battle in the red days of battle wrath! Some foreign visitors, tive comfort, think our seeing Ameria's compara- problem has only reached the point of keeping the wolf from the garage door.—(Washington Post.) We used to say “where there's smoke there’ itire” Now the hopeful have it: “when there's 50 much brewing there must be beer."—(Wheeling W. Va. Register.) It's getting so we have to dodge the fellows who buttonhole us and insist have inside dope that beer is coming back. aukee Journal.) Senator Dave Reed wants 2 sales tax because it will “hit everybody,” and that's just why every- body toesn't want it—(Atlanta Cunstxtuuonl na- | ex-| its | what the world |} IARGENTINA GIITS LUXURY BUYING BY TARIFF RULE Un- | favorable Trade Bal- ‘Government Attacks ance by Novel Way By Deming Seymour BUENOS AIRES, Oct. warehouses of Buenos Aires bulging with automobiles, radios. electrie refrigerators, phonographs, power farm machinery and kindred imports sufficient to fill Argen- tina’s needs for from one to three years. The (of manufacturers, largely in the policy under which thé "Argentine government, in order to obtain a favorable balance of trade, is cur- zens for imported “luxuries.” Slices Trade Balance { When the revolutionary govern- ment came into power a year ago it | found Argentina spending more than it earned. In 1930, with a |rather pcor harvest, the country |spent for foreign merchandise | more than it got for produce sold | abroad. | The government could hardly in- crease the nation’s earnings, for the | staple exports are grain and meat |on which the producer does not set the price and the production of which canot be stimulated in one year or two. But it could and did attack the unfavorable trade bal- |lanece by curtailing the nation" shoping habit. | Climaxing months of experiment | designed to bring income above | outgo, the government put into ef- fect on September 1 a new basis of import valuations aimed frankly at keeping Argentines from spending so much abroad. Scores Big Nea Gain Such imports as motor cars, elec- | tric refrigerators and radios had been assessed 32 per cent duty on rather haphazard valuations. Under |the new decree valuations are set ac- |cordmr' to welght. The duties re-| | main gencrally around 32 per cent, | upward. | Argentina has sold a much larger | quantity of produce abroad this year than in 1930, but prices of meat and grain have been much lower. Nonetheless the monetary value of Argentina’s exports is onl 27 per cent less in 1931 than if | was in 1930, while the value of its Imports has been reduced by 25 per cent Thus Argentina's trade balance, adverse last ye by $44,500.000, will be favorable in 1931 by more than $30,000,000, and Argentina at the end of 1931 will be $75,000,000 better off than it was a year ago. e INDIAN FARM PAYS RIVERSIDE, Cai. — Eighty In- dian tribes are represented in the school membership of 1250 stu- dents enrolled at the Sehrman Institute. The last fiscal year a profit of $14958 was made from 200 acres of land farmed by the Indian boys. Girls of the school canned 4,000 gallons of tomatoes during the year, and baked 975 loaves of bready daily EEsm e BUSY WHY | Not Only Chcaper but - Bette: RICE & AHLERS CO. GOOD PLUMBING “We tell you in advance what job will cost” 20—The | are | stocks represent the e!fort:‘: { United States. to cope with a tarrif - tailing the expenditures of its citi- Associuted Press Piore | Captain Frank Bittner, halfback, ' heads nearly a score of lettermen back at the University of Missouri, | determined to wipe out memories of last year when the Tigers had their most disastrous season since Cvach Gwinn Henry took charge in 1923. NN S3V 7 I NS Quarts ana pacer location Do- tices at The Fmpirs Parker ll 1 1.01) f old side...no lever to o |\nuu¥nl]m gand The Parker filling devi is sealed tight. IU's justan other of the 47 improve- ments which give Parker Duofold leadership. 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Cleveland rubber man, in a main 20. Risko outweighed Loughran 13! pounds, who fought at 198% pounds. Loughran stepped away to lead in the first round and continued to jab his left into Risko’s face and body until the final gong. Loughran sent Risko’s head back sharply in nearly every round, but the Cleveland man came back for more. Risko sought for infighting and Loughran insisted on long-range work and ruled most of the way METCALF THWARTED AGAIN IN TRY FOR COVETED 600 MARK For the setond time this montb Il“mnk Metcalf last night came within one pin of reaching the cov- eted 600 mark for thres games. i But his 599 score helped his team, the Athletics, to win two out of three games from the Braves in ,,the first match and to lose the other game by one lone pin, in the Elks' tournament. { Gunnar Blomgren rolled a great game for the Tigers in the s2cond match, reaching a total of 571, but his team dropped all three con- tests to the Cardinals. Fred Hen- ning's 228 was high score of the evening. White Sox in Lead The White Sox, with a total of 9694 now lead the league by a comfortable margin. The other teams follow: Athletics, 9,499; Car- dinals, 9,421; Yankees, 9,401; Sen- ators, 9,362; Braves, 9,291; 19,287; Tigers, 9,234; Cubs, 8,955. The first match tonight at 7:15 will be between the White Sox and the Yankees. At 9 o'clock the Tigers meet the Giants. Scores last night were as follows: T PROFESSIONAL | [ ! . IS VICTOR IN |m| 'YSIOTHERAPY , Electr!zity, Infra Red R\y. “Medica! Jymnastics. 410 Goldstein Building Phone Office, 216 | | [ DRS. KASER & FREEBURGER DENTISTS Blomgren Building PHONE 56 Hours 9 am. to 9 pm. Dr. Charles P. Jenne DENTIST Rooms 8 and 9 Valentine Building Telephone 176 | Dr, J. W. Bayne DENTIST Roums 5-6 Triangle Bldg. DENTIST Hours 9 a m. to 6 n. ™. SEWARD BUILLING Office Phone 469, Res. Phene 276 Dr. A. W. Stewm— | Robert Simpson Opt. D. 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