The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 29, 1931, Page 4

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, THURSDAY, OCT. 29, 1931 Daily Alaska Empire | JOHN W. TROY - - - EDITOR AND MANAGER | Published every evening EMPIRS_ PRINTING CUI Btreets, Juneau, Alasia. except Sunday by the NY at Secord and Main | matter. SUBSCRIPTION FATES. Dellvered by carrier '~ Juneau, Douglas, Thars for $1.25 per month, mall, postage paid, at the following rates: One year, in advance, $1°.00; six months, in advance, $6.00; one month, in advance, $1.26. Subscribers will confer a favor if they will promptly notify the Business Office of any failure or irregularity in the delivery of their papers. " Telephone for Editorial and Business Offices, 374, . MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRE®S. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of ail news dispatches eredited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the | focal news published herein Treadwell and ALASKA CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER | THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION. A POINTER FOR ACTING SECRETARY MORGAN. Alaska, declared Acting Secretary Morgan, United States Department of Commerce, has no “sound reasons” for sharing in any profits that may accrue from the administration of the seal herds at the Pribilof Islands. But another executive de- partment, the Department of Agriculture, holds ex- actly the opposite. Alaska, it holds, not only has an equity in the timber resources, but is entitled to have them crvelcped «ven if they compete with both privately-owr.ed «nd puablic forests in other sections of the United States Perhaps if Mr. Morgan would study a statement issued recently by the latior departmecnt through Acting United States ore-ter L. F. Kneip, he would discover a few rcasons thil were not discernable to him when he wyote the Juneau Chamber of Com- merca curtly dismissing its petition asking for a division of revenues from the sealing industry, Two short paragiaphs from Mr. Kneip's state- ment illustrate the wilc divergence of views en- tertained by the two branches of the Government. They follow: Alaska is a Territory of the United States. Its people are American citizens. Its econ- omic and socia. aavancement is a matter of national interost and concern. Its lack of complets £cli-zovernment establishes an ad- ditional obligation upon the nation to avold creation of conditions inimical to its wel- fare. The development of Alaska has been in the face of m .ny handicaps. Its early wealth “of placer gcld largely has been exploited and a number of circumstances have mili- tated against the development of lode min- ing to a compensatory degree. Proper con- servation of its seal and fisheries resources compels limitation upon their exploitation. Fur production, by trupping or farming, does not seem to afford much larger possibilities for expansion. Agriculture has ifs limita- tions due partly to climatic and soil factors, partly to the competition of the products of the continent:! United States and part- ly to world conditicus. The people of Alaska therefore are confronted with many serious problems in their efforts to hold the gains already made and to properly build up their social and industrial insti- tutions. ‘Therefore, Mr. Kneip contends, and he was sup- ported by Secretary Hyde of his own Department, the Territory has a right to ask that the Govern- ment lend every legitimate aid in the early de- velopment of its forests that the revenues it re- ceives from that source may be augumented. The seal herds are just as much a resource of the Territory as the forests are. The industry that the Government has built and operates at the Pribilofs is as Alaskan as are the contemplated pulp and paper mills. And the Territory has just as much right to share in the revenues from the one as the other. IN THE MIDST OF PLENTY. Natives, who have always been able to (favor were cast by delegates from such materially alter the situation. But unless it is transformed, Judge Wickersham will need all of his experience, every bit of strategy that the party leaders can conceive, and must blaze the way with th: most strenuous campaign in his career if he is to emerge successful. In 1920, Judge Wickersham narrowly escaped elements in the party in this Division. Without }Lhat submergence of factional differences he surely lecuted by Charles Miller and B. | would have lost. That was an off-year cumpasgn,}G'Abrxelson on their claims on last Next year will be national election time. Political observers are agreed that the Democratic Party right now has the edg: and even seasoned Re- publicans admit that the chances are favorable for a Democrat to replace Mr, Hoover. With that kind of sentiment prevailing throughout the country, there can be no question about the Democratic Party in Alaska casting the biggsst vote in more than a decade. Judge Wickersham may or may not be re-elected in 1932, but if he is, he will have polled more votes than were cast for him in 1930. At this stage of the campaign, his chances to do this do not szem encouraging. Democrats of Douglas, in up:niy endorsing the American Legion’s anti-Prohibition resolution, prov- ed they had no fears of the wrath of Dr. Clarence True Wilson. All-Alaska News | Entered In the Post Office in Juneau "as Second c,“,}dereat. largely because of a combination of factional \| ms—— Winter prospecting will be pros-) Jole told the Seldovia Herald.| He planted a patch of ground 300 feet square with wheat and it Chance Creek, a tributary of the|ripened to fine maturity. Oats Big Delta, 153 miles south of Fair- |banks on the Richardson Highway. ‘They have put in a 200-foot drain and will work the ground with machinery. have always been a good crop at| Kasilof. Mr. Cole thinks barley| would do well. At a meeting of the Fairbanks Chamber of Commerce, at which| Col. O. F. Ohlson, general manager, and J. T. Cunningham, superin tendent of transportation of the Alaskan Rallroad, were present, protests were voiced against a con- tinuance of high freight rates and high passenger fares on the rail road and statments were reiter- eated that in consequence of the rates the cost of living in the in- terior was greatly enhanced and traffic was being deflecteed over the Richardson Highway. The Chamber will lead in the railroad To raise funds for charity, the Elks of Fairbanks put on a mins- trel show October 27 and 28. Walace D. Wheeler, aged rancher |near Fairbanks, is believed to have {died of exhaustion after he had lost himself while hunting moose. 1He has been missing several, days. Scarchers have failed to find him. Bids for the construction of a new federal building in Fairbanks will be called for by the super- From current market quotations it seems as if President Hoover's plan for thawing out frozen| credits is slow in getting under way. Possibly too many of them are in a state of permanent re-i frigeration. " | A Vote Against Panic. (New York Times.) 1 At Vancouver the American Federation of Labor | has declared against compulsory unemployment in- surance under Government supervision. The un- favorable report from the Committee on Resolutions was sustained after warm debate on the floor. Since the summary rejection of a similar resolution last year there has been a decided growth of sentiment in favor of compulsory insurance, and it is the opinion of our correspondent at the convention that if hard times continue for another year it will be difficult to prevent the 1932 convention from re-‘ versing today’s vote. But, obviously, another year of depresion on top of two years already behind us would constitute a factor of grave importance for workers as well as everybody else in the country. A change under such pressure will be compre- hensible. For the moment it is enough to note that the veteran federation leaders, the men who| are presumably most deeply conscious of the pur- poses of the trade-union movement and its best in- terests, are opposed to insurance. The votes in “white- collar” unions as the teachers and the postoffice clerks, or from the Pacific Coast unions. The metal workers, seamen and typographers were opposed. The opponents of insurance frankly rejected it as a threat to organized labor. They feared its effeots on freedom of action by the unions. They made the point that organized labor has more to gain by collective bargaining and other forms of mass action than through insurance relief. But along with this avowal of self-interest there made itself heard in the Vancouver debates what may be called the assertion of Credo; it is still too early to confess than the special conditions under which American labor has lived and prospered have come to an end; that the chapter of higher living stnn-: dards and freer opportunities has been closed. An- other year of hard times may force a changz of view, but another year the majority in the federa- tion is willing to wait. The action at Vancouver might well serve as an example of steadfastness and intelligent self-in- terest to nervous business men who have been be- having and talking as if the end of this familiar American world of opportunity, courage, energy and enterprise were here. They ought to be willing to wait a little while longer before throwing up their hands and calling for revolutions and miracles. The Federation of Labor, with a general unemploy- ment rate of perhaps 25 per cent—and in some trades nearly 50 per cent—has been as hard hit as any economic interest in the country. The Government’s Example. (New York Herald Tribune) If President Hoover had wished to discourage every private employer endeavoring to keep as many employees in jobs as possible, he could scarcely have done anything more effective than the threat- ened cut in the Navy. In view of the Administra- tion's long and consistent fight to preserve jobs and keep wages up to a living standard, the charge of inconsistency is inescapable. ‘We do not share the opinion prevalent in Wash- ington that the country cares little about national defense and that the Army and Navy are in ordi- nary times fair game for political attack. The in- dex of editorial opinion runs overwhelmingly the other way. The country voted for a strong national defense when it voted for the Republican Party in supply themselves with a few stray ducks or geese for Thanksgiving, are grieved to hear they will not be allowed that privilege this year, but they are thankful, however, that there is no restriction on ravens and gulls. They seem to be plentiful—Klawock Notes in Wrangell Sentinel. Alaska Indians are not the only Alaskans who, because of President Hoover's “duck ediet,” are forced to a raven and gull diet, except they delib- erately violate the law and voluntarily ‘“bootleg” a few migratory wild birds which furnish their sole supply of fresh meat. There are a number of communities in Southeast Alaska where wild fowl constitutes the scle source of fresh meat. This has been repeatecly expla:ued to the powers that be in Washington, and their refusal to modify in the slightest the Alaska limitaticns is incomprehensible. Of what advantage is it to enyone that the people of Klawock, or any other community, bc subjected to a raven and gull mcnu in the mudst of plenty, when to do so does not Lenefit anybody else in the entire country? FACES STIFFEST FIGHT. Commenting on the declaration of Judge James Wickersham of his ir.enfion to be a candidate for the Republican nomination for rc-election as Dele- © gate from Alaska to Congress an enthusiastic con- - temporary asserted that his nomination would be g*’.qulvlleut to election. Judge Wickersham is too * experienced a poliliclan to be misled by such ill- founded optimism. Conceding for the sake of argu- ment that he will win the pn-'y nomination, his ‘biggest hurdle will bave to be iaced in the general | election the following November. Right now that looks to we an -lmost insur- ‘mountable cbstacle for almost any candidate run- ‘nhl on the Repuulican Licket. Of course, it is | more than & year until thal even occurs and developments m.ua {ranspire which would 1928, and we do not believe it has changed its mind. But even if the Washington view were correct these are not “ordinary times.” Unemployment has become a great national tragedy. It must be met in every possible method consonant with American principles. The President has done an admirable work in opposing the dole and insisting that the answer lies in jobs; but what becomes of his plea if in one of the most important industries in his charge (the Navy) he threatens to close yards, lay up ships, halt construction and inevitably add thou- sands to the ranks of the unemployed? To the precise contrary, as we have contended in these columns, the present is the moment for increasing construction, for enlisting not fewer men but more. The numbers involved are not large; but the example is vital. Unless the problem of unemployment is approached by every employer in this spirit it cannot possibly be solved. As we have previously attempted to make clear, the President's attitude seems to us unsound from every point of view, an abandonment of established domestic policy and a destruction of any influence toward the reduction of world armaments; ‘he most tragic effect of the example, in our judg- ment, is upon the more immediate problem of caring for the nation's workers. If times are so bad that workers in the nation’s first line of de- || fense must be sacrificed, what job anywhere is safe? Instead of a mere scrap of paper, Japan may |/} regard those treaties protecting China as an old laundry bag—(Indianapolis Star.) After all, the loan Mr. Raskob made the Demo- cratic Party is as safe as many a Wall Street nvestment—(Detroit Free Press.) That noise you hear is the ice breaking up which has been so long damming the flow of credit. {at Flat, but | zone in a petition to the next Congress to restore the old rates and fares. Col. Ohlson and Mr. Cunningham are said to have been “sympathetic listeners.” | vising architect of the United States Treasury, January 1, according to advices received by the Fairbanks News-Miner from Delegate in Cong ress James Wickersham. So far this season, the total snowfall in Fairbanks is two and one-half inches. The heaviest fall Output of gold in the Liven- was two inches October 16. good district in 1931 will total $50,000, estimated Luther C. Hess.‘ Completion -of Seldovia’s board who returned to Fairbanks after walk, 3039 feet long, was cele- his summer's operations in the brated with a dance. A white gold Livengood area. watch was presented by residents lof the town of W. A. Bstus, who Begining January 1, the only bossed the consiruction without pay. tax automobiles will have to pay The total cost was $2,991 cash out- in Fairbanks will be $10 annually lay for materials and $2408 in for license plates, acording to an labor services figured at 60 cenis ordinance passed by the Fairbanks an hour. Both cash and labor city council. | were contributed by residents. Wiseman has had a foot of snow this season; Tanana, six inches. Outstanding warrants against the' George W. Henk, 70, merchant city treasury of Fairbanks total at Seldovia, died there. $6,000, according to the report of e T City Clerk Charles W. Joynt. When' HALLOWEEN Mask Dance at taxes due in October are received Moose Hall Saturday night. Gen- the municipality will be able to tlemen, $1.00; ladies, 25 cents. adv. redeem all outstanding warrants. Episcopal rectory in Fairbanks has | been completed. When completed! This is a serious skin disease the structure wil represent an in- usually of a stubborn nature and vestment of $7,500. |causes no end of trouble to folks who are unfortunate enough tocon- ‘Whooping cough in mild form is tract it. quite generally prevalent among| The antiseptic Emerald Oil treat- children in Fairbanks. . ment takes right hold with the first p application and good results con- For the benefit of aviators, weath- tinue daily. er equipment has been installed If powerful antiseptic Emerald | MacGrath and Takotna Oil doesn’t conquer your trouble by Howard J. Thompson, associate Butler Mauro Drug Co. and Juneau meteoroligist in charge of the Drug.Co.'or any live druggist any- Alaskan Airways weather service at where will rturn the purchase price. 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