The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 28, 1931, Page 4

4 Daily Alaska Empire JOHN W. TROY - - - EDITOR AND MANAGER Published every eve ing +xcept Sundey EMPIRY_PRINTING ¢ OMP: Btreets, Juneau, Alsska Entered In the Tost Office 'n Juneuu as Second Claes matter. S8UBSCRIPTION RATES. Dellvered by carrisr In Juneau, Douglas, Treacweil and Thars for $1.25 per month, By mall, postage paid, at the following rates: One year, in advance, $12.00; six mouths, in advance, $6.00; one month, in advance, $1.26 ‘Subscribers will confer « favor it they will promptly notify the Business Office of any ‘ailure or irregularity In the delivery of the' [ spera. 4 T.flephaner{nr Pditcricl and Business Offices. 374. MEMBER G- /350CIATED PRE®S. The Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to the use for republicaticn of all news dispatches eredited to 2% not otherwise crete in this paper and also the local news public el .crei ALASKA CIRCULATIO THAN THAT OF AlLY OTHER ~“UBLICATION. SALE OF CABLE SYSTEM UNDESIRABLE. The desire of the Administration to seil th2 Washington-Alaska Military Cable and Telegraph | System, commonly known in the Territory as the Signal Corps System, can be explained only on the ground that President Hoover is strongly opposed to th> Federal Government intruding into the recog- nized field of private business enterprises. On principle there can be no serious criticism of such a policy. But in its application, there ought to be a finer discrimination shown than is evident in this instance. There are other business activities engaged in by the Government that should be carefully studied before any such action is taken. | The Federal Government is engaged in business on a broad scale in Alaska. It operates a rail transportation system and a line of steamboats. It manufactures and distributes power, competing with privately-owned utilities. It is a purveyor of oil, coal, timber and waterpowers. Through the post- office it competes with the printer for stationery. It is landlord, lessor and merchant. It engages in fur-farming extensively, and in some branches of that industry comes into direct competition with private enterpris:s. And out of all of its business operations, the cable, wireless telegraph and land telegraph communications system 1is the only one to pay its way. Peculiarly, this one, which renders the most timely service of all to the people of Alaska, and which probably saves to the public the greatest sum of money each year, is the one it is sought to| sell. For the fiscal year 1930, the Signal Corps’ gross receipts from iic Alaska lines were $670,883.99. From this o'h:r lines, owned by private interests, received a share amouniing to $50,597.16, leaving to the Government a total of $320,286.83. This, of course, was not nrofit. Tt total expenditures for all purposes weré 570470 11, leaving a clear profit of $4381652. But pait ol the expenditures listed were not caused by the operation of the lines. Pay and allowances to operating personnel, amounting to $315,163.81, were properly chargeable to maintenance of the Army. Even if the system should be turned over to private interests this amount still would be expended. Thus there was chargeable to the Alaska system the sum of $261506.50. The cost of operat- ing the Dellwood, the cableship, 1,836.73. That vessel is now going on the reserve list, and costs of operation and ine :tenancc thus will further be cut to less than $200,000, which would leave a profit of some 3470,000 per year. In the receipts of the system are shown tolls for Government business amounting to $312977.73. This is a matter of bookkeeping, of course, under the present system. However, it would become an actual cash transaction if the system were sold. Not only that, but ther: would be a radical increase in that item, if comparative rates available can be taken as an indication of the charges that would be assessed under private ownership and operation. No one questions for an instant that tolls would be materially higher under it than those that now prevail. It is true that a considerable proportion of the Government messages now handled by tele- graph would probablv go by mail if the ‘Government sold the system. This would result in a less efficient service to the public and instead of being an argument for the sale ought to be a factor in determining against it. These are but a few of \the many valid ob- jections to turning over the Alaska system to private interests. Such a transaction would be one of the severest blows to the Territory that it could re- ceive. The Administration should not press the matter for the time being. JAPAN’'S POSITION UNTENABLE. If the League of Nations permils Japan to defy its decision in the Manchurian dispute, its very existence will be threatened. Indeed, its whole use- fulness so far as major powers are concerned prob- ably will b: ended. This is its first real test, the first occasion when its authority has been ques- tioned by a power of first rank. If it fails in this, the consequence will be far-reaching and so serious as to make hopeless any real armament reduction when the League's Disarmament Conference con- venes in February. Confronted by such a break- down of the League, every power in the world will pe forced to believe that it can only hope for security in its own armed forces. This would be but a prelude to the greatest armament race the world has ever known. Japan’s position, apparently, is based upon sophistry. The Japanese Government's representa- tive to the League cast the only vote in opposi- tion to the League's order for withdrawal of Jap- anese troops from the disputed zone not later than November 16. On the basis that the vote was not unanimous, Japan declares the decision is not binding. Such reasoning, it is clear to all, applied in every instance that might arise between na- tions, would make it impossible for the League w prevent aggression and effect ' peaceable sottle- by _the | ¥ at Second and Main UARANTEFD TO BE LARGER | |months ahead of the primaries and more than a THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, WEDNESDAY, OCT. 28, 1931. | ments based upon justice and right. The Japanese }Govemment will gain no friends by insisting upon |its interpretation of the League’'s constitution. Its | position is wholly untenable. | THE SAD CASE OF RUTH. | Babe Ruth’s sad, uncolorful existence, as de- picted in a copyrighted interview in the Los Ang:les |Examiner, is enough to soften a heart of stone, make strong men weep and tenderhearted women lcr,\' No movies, no dancing, not even a night club |to enliven the evenings, nor a book to read aboard |trains to drive away dull care. He must even curb his good fellowship by refraining from handshaking. Swimming is taboo, he might sneeze. Owner of a 16-cylinder car, h2 can't speed, a refinement of cruelty. His golf is broken up with hordes of pests seeking autographs. Here is the Babe, an $80,000 dollar a year man with a few extras thrown in on the side, and nothing for which to spend it. A great life for a Scotchman, but torture for the Bambino. Th: Ruthian sigh over it is almost as prodigious as the Ruthian home- run. What Price Glory! By declaring his candidacy for renomination six year ahead of election, set Judge Wickersham prob- in ably a new record for early declarations Alaska. ! [ In the thawing out of the frozen asseis of| | the country’s banks, everyone will wish President Hoover the very wid:sst possible measure of suc-| cess. Our Brother’s Keeper. (Los Angeles Times.) This period through which the world is strug- gling is more than an economic crisis. It involves| more than a study of stratsgic plans to ambuscade | the dollars which fled. Humanity itself is on trial. The civilization which we have evolved is undergoing the supreme test. 1f there is such a thing as brotaerhood among men, now is the time to show it. Drunk with wealth, we have strayed a lcng‘ |way from the fundamental and eternal truth. We have been living in a house stuck upon golden stilts. |And it has crashed. | In our agony and suffering we have discovered |that Jesus Christ meant what he said. The Golden |Rule was not a pleasant homily intended for re- |ward-of-merit cards with silk fringe on the edges| [and diamond dust shining on the snow scenes. 1t! |was a simple statement of the eternal law, the |same law that keeps the stars in the skies and the | All-Alaska News PO ST S In Cordova, the report is current |summit when he was moving a shot- that the Copper River and North- gun that was in the truck. The gun, western Railroad will close down which was loaded, was discharged January 1 and remain closed down |and the load of shot tore its way until June 1. Finding on the shore of Bristol Bay of part of the cargo of a gasboat in which Nick Jensen and Peter Knutsen, Jr., were making a voyage supports the theory that the craft and its two occupants. missing for some time, were lost at sea. The discovery of the cargo articles was made by Pilot Harry Blunt, in a Pacific international Airways plane, after diligent search Seldovia's board walk, 2,000 feet long and 8 feet wide, with railings is completed. It was built by popu- lar subscription of money and work. One man, from start to finish of the project, worked eight hours a day without pay. The Fairbanks Radio ‘Association has taken steps toward elimin- ating radio interference. It was voted to send to Portland, Ore., for a noise locator. A correspondent of the Seward Gateway says that from the Alaska- Railroad Hotel garden at Curry | vates along the right hand and wrist. Dr. Nunn, attending physician hopes |to save all the fingers of the in- jured hand. Apples, crabapples and cherries were produced this fall in the or- chard of Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Cooper near Wrangell. Four-year plum rees are expected to bear next year. Mr. Cooper has 42 fruit trees in all. He also has two stands |of bees and 170 mink. He culti- well-assorted vegetable and flower gardens. Patrick Kelly, Benjamin Duffy and Cleve Bard of Wrangell cut short their hunting trip to Virginia cake when Kelly's French bull- dog Micky engaged in a fight with a porcupine. Full of quills the dog was brought to Wrangell where a doctor helped to extract the stick- ers. One of the dog’s eyes was pemanently blinded. With fine trophies of a 45-day hunt, in the Cassiar country, Ma- jor James Workman of Belfast, Treland, returned recpntly to Wran- “they have procured -cauliflower that weighed over seven pounds per head and potatoes that weigh up to eight pounds apiece. Although these are extremely large in size, the pulp is just as solid and deli- cate in taste as the smaller heads.” On a recent Sunday all the hunters of Dawson turned out and crossed the Yukon River to West Dawson, where the caribou were roaming by the hundreds. Many larders were filled and there will be no scarcity of meat this winter. Some of the hunters were treated to a “real” sight when they came upon two bulls staging a battle royal. Fritz Tittle, pioneer mining man |world turning on its axis. We speak of breaking the law and command-| ments. You can’t break them; but they break you “Love one another” was more tnan an admonition | to light the path of virtue. It was the statement| {of an eternal principle upon which all law, all| philosophy, all business, all ethics, all civilization | rests. Like all the doctrines left by the Christ,| this was the sublimity of common sense—the finality of practicality—the only sure foundation upon which civilization can rest. | During these money-glutted years we have tried each to go our own way alone. Years of greed and money lust have ended with this terrible lesson: |That wealth evaporates and leaves men stark and | with naked hearts. i It is for us to see that this terrible rebuke has not been in vain. For us to see that we rebuild the fallen structure on the rock of brotherhood. This winter will be a period that calls for all men to have fortitude, strength and sympathy. It is, for once, clear to the dullest mind that we can only help ourselves by helping others. Out of this period of re-adjustment we can re- gain our souls. It can be a better world because of this period of hunger and sorrow; a stronger America and a sounder civilization if it brings to us a realization we are given the privilege of being our brother's keeper. The remedy for our financial crisis lies not in laws, Federal commissions, in panacea or finan- cial errors. The sound and practical answer was told two thousands years ago in a sermon spoken on a moun- tain in Palestine. “On Top of the World.” (New York Times.) When Prime Minister Bennet, of Canada said that Canada is on top of the world, he was not using the word in a geographical sense, indicating a latitude where, as the American in John Fiske's story said, the aurora borealis bounded the New World on the North. Mr. Bennett meant merely that the resolute pioneer spirit of Canada is still superior to all her economic and other difficulties. It was not a vainglorious statement. Rather was it the expression of a man who does not speak of his believed in percentages of devotion. In searching for the sources of what might be called his “reasoned optimism,” Mr. Bennett at- tributes this confidence not to Canada’s incal- culable wealth in mineral and other natural re- sources, nor to her comparative youth, which keeps her from falling so readily “a victim to the -evils that prey on older civilization,” nor to the unity of action—though these are all factors—but to some- thing not found in printed documents, “an uncon- querable belief in herself.” Her people have en- countered difficulties almost unparalleled in the history of other countries. The thrift and economy which were necessities in their pioneering lives furnished a sound foundation for the unified polit- ical, economic and social national structure. “What are our difficulties,” Mr. Bennett asks, “compared with those we have already overcome?” “What are our problems which compare with those we have long since solved?” This courageous confidence of one who has him- self triumphed in the face of great obstacles is a challenge to Americans. The visit of so cheerful a neighbor in these troublous times is as invigorat- ing as his country’s climate. He admits that nature was unkind to Canada’s Western wheat areas this year, but this calamity is one from which he sees an early recovery. The unemployment situation is serious but is “controllable.” So does he face with the fortitude and resolution of a pioneer the con- ditions that front him in his country's service. Fortunately, thers are no tariffs against such a spirit. We should welcome its import. Looking at those British tax figures us Ameri- cans ought not to feel that we have nothing to hold a Thanksgiving Day over.—(Atlanta Constitu- tion.) Wets and Drys are going to spend a half bil- lion each for national campaigns. Why don't both cancel their dates and give the billion to the un- employed ?—(Washington Post.) The question is, if veterans’ reunions are the drunken orgies Dr. Clarance True Wilson claims, where then is our boasted Prohibition?—(Philade!- of the Kuskokwim district died in Anchorage of heart trouble. He | had been taken in an airplane from his home on the Kuskokwim to Anchorage. “Bill" Elliott, foreman of a Daw- son road crew, met with an unfortunate accident at the Hunker Ask:—. any teacher of cooking Ask her this:— Which do you prefer— * a cream of tartar baking powder or one of the substitutes? The substi- tutes are cheap in price. But many pure food de- partments—most dieti- tians—and most domes- tic science teachers, defi- nitely prefer cream of tartar. Whether the dif- ference beslight or great —there IS a difference, and Schilling prefers the kind that is £ beyond ques- P".lkill‘l tion. So would NRNUY you, if you NUMIHE knew the facts. P Schilling Baking Powder (eream of tartar) | gell. He got a moose, a caribou, wo mountain goats, two mountain heep and a brown bear. He said qe would return to Alaska next year to hunt brown bear on Ad- miralty Island. Slightly more than 40 per cent of the students enrolled at the Alaska Agricultural College and School of Mines near Fairbanks are drawn from places outside of Alaska. Of ‘he 112 students, 40 are from vari- us states, 5 from foreign coun- ries and 67 from Alaska. Any young man—or, perhaps, woman, for that matter—who knows the barber trade and seeks a higher education, can earn his or her way through the Alaska College of Ag- riculture and School of Mines. A barber-student is wanted there. “Don't write; wire,” is the admon- ition to any aspirant by the Stu- dent Body Association. H. G. Steel, owner and editor of the Cordova Daily Times, has been elected treasurer of the Cordova Elks lodge, succeeding Paul Bloed- horn, jeweler, who recently moved to, Juneau. Forty-five persons have registered as unemployed at Cordova. The Chamber of Commerce and the American Legion Post are working together to take care of the unem- ployment situation this winter. United States Judge Cecll H. Clegg, whose headquarters are in Fairbanks, is believed to be the pre- siding jurist over the only federal | flying court under the American flag. To transact judicial business in the remote parts of his district i he began making use of the air- plane several years ago. Recently, with the court reporter, the judge I'flew from Ruby to Wiseman and | back to Fairbanks, in a plane pilot- 1 OFFICE ROOMS FOR RENT Will remodel to suit tenant BUILDING i GOLDSTEIN LUDWIG NELSON JEWELER Watch Repairing Brunswick Agency FRONT STREET The Florence Shop Phone 427 for Appointment shscesszsisisseiseeEseseasTiRsEEs: T — One dollar or more will phia Inquirer.) i [ —— Some Essentials of Success “Every boy and girl must have certain assets to achieve success—not material assets alone, but assets of character, and among the most important of these are ambition, industry, personality, and THRIFT.”—A. W. Mellon. The B. M. Behrends Bank OLDEST BANK IN ALASKA open a savings account would have required weeks to ac- |complish by the old methods of travel was accomplished in a few days by the new. Frank Chalk, 50 years old, Alas- |ka resident in the Cordova region, for several years, committed sui- cide by shootnig himself at Jack {Lake, while going to the Nabesna |country with two friends on ¢ | prospecting trip. The road over the Valdez Sum- | mit is closed to travel for the win- \ter. The snow is 8 feet deep. | E:oary Claude Carsteens, con- tractor at Fairbanks and Miss Bes- sie Rudolph of Seattle, were mar- ried at Chitina, on the arrival of the bride from Cordova, where she disembarked from a steamship from the States. The couple will make their home in Fairbanks. Earl Hirst of the Chestochina Roadhouse and Mrs. Brown Logan of Valdez, were married at Valdez. They will make their home at the Chestochina Roadhouse, which is on the Gokona-Chestochina trail Andrew Loe of Cordova, shot by the accidental discharge of his gun, suffered the loss of the index finger of his left hand recently, while hunting near Cordova. Returns on 6,710 pounds of gold ore, shipped by the Goyne brothers from Nuka Bay, netted $71.16 per ton after all treatment charges werc paid. The gross value of the ore was $80.29 per ton, of which $79.95 was gold and 34 cents silver. Peter (Pistol Pete) Anderson, a stream watchman near Seward for the Bureau of Fisheries, recently left for a visit to his old home in Sweden. It is his first trip from Alaska in many years. Miss Helen B. Cacy and Alton C. Lindsay, surveyor, were married at Fairbanks. They will make their home there. The Overland Transportation Company, owned by Bob Buzby and Ira Weesner, of Fairbanks, will start a fast dog team passenger and freight service between Nenana and | Tanana November 1. The company between Hot Springs and Tofty. In an editorial, the Fairbanks News Miner says: “The business section of Fairbanks is always lit up, plenty of lights and electric signs. But the residential section| is as dark as Hades. 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