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

O S G S R S T S 'W, C. ’f’ U. made 4 grave and costly "mistake when THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, SATURDAY, NOV. 28, 1931. increasingly successful forty year | temperance campaign of education and persuasion Daily Alaska Empire | ‘ u‘d made common cause with the Anti-Saloon JOEN W. TROY - - - }'DITOB AHD MANAGE]; League's campaign to make the country dry through | ferce it abandoned inday by _the Second and Main evening COMPA ublished _every Fi4PIRS_ PRINTING Sirects, Juneaw, Al Entered in the P yatter READS LIKE A DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM. That platform suggested for the Republicans by Delivered by earrier In Juncau, Douglain'; Treadwell and Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia University Thas for 3123 PR MO A Tates: |reads more like a Democratic than a Republican in advance, ' program. Particularly true is that of the “State suggestion on Prohibition, the tariff re- potlfy” tne Busiuces Ofice of any failurs or Irregularity | duction proposal and the simplification of the Gov- ; 'lln‘lt[nune 1-.— Editorial and Bu.lnu- Offices. 374. jernment by doing away with “huge and wasteful | bureaucracy which has grown up at Washington.” If his party should act in accordance {Butler's plan, there would seem little use for the | De ats to adopt a platform. They might do {well to endorse the plan and add a multiplication sign. “TAUBSCRIPTION RATES, at“the paid six months, By mall, postage One year, in advance month, in advance, 26. { confer a favor if they will pro.iptly | Rig MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS. iated Press is exclusively entitled to the | ume for blication of all news dispatches credited w It or not otherwise credited in this paper and also th: local news published herein The ALASKA CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO SE LARGER THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION. | Edison's estatz was valued at $12,000,000, thus |exploding the declaration made at the time of his death that he was not wealthy. Most of the estate went to h two younger ‘sons, the result of his marriage. Th: widow had already been {provided for with gift: ond Tex seems to be doing her best to show that she is sorry for that Hoovercratic majority of 1928.| which | nal supported Cleveland with such de: ‘ln the San Antonio Congressional District 'has been represented by a Republican for a dozen more there were seven Democrats and one | Republican running. The Republican was a m'h“r ‘|wn- third in the race. years or NO WAR IN MANCHURIA. —_— That rise in the price of wheat, silver, and stocks seems to have been a false alarm. lows for the year ar2 again being recorded. copper news dispatches New over n contained in recent Japanese-Chinese controversy \L\m‘:\A leads to the conviction that Japan pur- permanent occupation of the Province and none of the powers will interpose with arms withdra The trouble will be limited vo Asiatic countries, and its detarmina-| certain to be favorable to the Tokyo Informa 1 0 the po. I General Smut’s Warning. force her wal the (Manchester Guardian.) seems Covernment. Japan ju Manchuria by | Address at Sheffield last week warned |be too greatly disappointed if the Disarmament | Conference falls short of our high hopes. We are fact that her investments there ,sxing a great deal of a disordered world to ex- $750,000,000 and her nationals|pect it to surrender the “dearest fetish” of its past not fewer than 200,000, and because the and to give up to the infant League the one solid i Government has been in the past and is thing that has seemed to stand between the peoples now unable to protect either from the depredations &nd destruction. Five months hence the economic of native bandit armies. distractions may be even greater than they are at No doubt, the Japanese covet the country, with | the g oy We should, therefore, General Smuts g iFe g Sh el argued in effect, discount our anticipations and 0 square miles—two and a half times as ', ,"pe qiscouraged if the advance made appears e as (helr own—for settlement of overflow POPU-sma)l” What is vital is that there should be a halt lation from the island gdom. Nippon must find |in the armaments race—progressive decreases instead placz for her rapidly increasing surplus |of progressive increases, the application to land nts. She cennot emigrate them to the disarmament of the policy already begun in in all of which public sentiment is|naval agreements of the Great Powers In entrance of Orientals. She must look to!the details General Smuts suggested that the gov- for more room; Manchuria is the most avail- |ing consideration should be the - 5 |lag, a breathing space, between the dispute and able part d |its issue in hostilities. In an extremely interesting China cannot offer effective resistance. She is{pistorical argument he showed how the state of disrupted by domestic dissentions that have persisted armed peace, of preparedness for instant war, from | more decade. Her military forces, so- which the catastrophe of 1914 sprang, is a develop- | are lacking in loyalty, organization and many of her generals and soldiers can- ment of the last sixty years. lag “that used to intervene between the call to| ed to refuse enemy bribes or to refrain murdering their own country- ifies the presence of her troops into the some in- inst for than a ca; equipment not be t from men. The aspects do not indicate that Russia will be provoked to oppose Japan. Muscovite territory has not been invaded, nor seems likely to be invaded Moscow Tokyo bent on maintaining a mutual peace. mobilization and attack we should give the machin-| ery of the League time for its operation. Modern |transport and industry have changzd :the condi-| Itions of mobilization, but there are two principal cases in which we may hope to provide automatically for the lag—to secure that ordinary industrial ma-| chines, ships, and aercplanes are not converted into milit weapons in peac: time, and that the |manufacture of new types of war weapon in peace Western European countries may indulge in|time is strictly controlled. 5 be interposed the more opportunity do we give for diplomatic gestures to defleet Japan's course, but { poTIag 8 G 5 F \the peace functions of the League to operate. none of their peoples will support military demon- strations on the part of the rulers. Resort to war on the Asiatic front by any European government | would invite its overthrow at home. ] The attitude of the United States has b0m1| Were ned by Charles G. Dawes, Ambassador to Great jexicon than “landslide” and ‘“avalanche,” they| and observer for the Republican Adminis- might fit what has happened in Britain. The reper- tration at sessions of the League of Nations, who cussions of that smashing defeat of a socialism said this country would not participate in even | which had so botched things should reach far, in an economic b t to influence Japanese action, area and in time. and by Senator Joseph T. Robinson, of Arkansas,! The count itself is, as MacDonald said, “astound- | |ing.” Of the 615 seats in Commons only 51 seats Demeccratic leader in the upper branch of Congress, | % 9 2o who declared he was opposed to any policy that :frigi‘:::g(,?wb‘p,;"g’g:x,g::in:“lfiiefez;gesiz‘o(‘; would inject this Nation into the Manchurian con- Wthh the Tories themselves get 464), out of 597 troversy ‘qo far counted. Equally remarkable was the uni- Two combatants are required to make a fight.|versal swing of majorities by districts of as many Asia now, there is only one in the modern |thousands against Labor as had been for it. Japan. China is helpless. There will pe! Obviously the average Britisher, male and fe- no other, for the rest of the large nations are M&le, whose pay or whose dole had been cut, struggling desperately to recover from their lastwhemed most to swell that great poll. .Th?y Chos‘e S |those cuts rather than collapse of their country's 2 {credit, however dimly they sensed that threat. An Tokyo chose an opportune time for her Ma“‘lemelgenq called, they a ered. churian incursion. It was not choicé of parties or issues so much as a trust in character in emergency which spoke. Soclalism had twice won on appeals to discontent; (it is now scourged out by a vastly greater resent- {ment—for its failure in a crisis which its own |ineptitude had done so much to create. It had inearly wrecked the sacred pound, which other, strong- hands are new given the mandate to sustain. The resolute putting of the national house in good order again is what that mandate amounts to, with an authority of the most complete sort given by the whole people to the trusted hands undertaking the task, however drastic may be the measures they take. When that prime task is attended to, |teis of British politics may show more p! figures clearly suggest the Conservativ to take the helm. Baldwin may steer then: other honor, in India or Washington, may well go then | to MacDonald—who was true in the test Meanwhile a first fruit of the new order may |soon ripen in that great historic novelty—a British | taiff, plus preference. robbing and and Britain’s Choice. (Boston News Bureau.) d there any stronger nouns in the political Britain ANOTHER ROOSEVELT A PROHIBITION. AINST Mrs. Archibald Roosevelt, wife of a son of the late illustrious President Theodore Roosevelt, made an effective point against Prohibition when she de- clared ‘The unfortunate sconomic conditions which conffont our country at this time have robbed the drys of -their prosperity argu- ment. Mrs. Roosevelt Organization the reali- ainly right then was one of the founders of the for Prohibition Reform. She a large broadcasting hook-up of the Eighteenth Amend- of the worst the country Despite the depressions in r came upon us when e country was in the grip of rum rings, illegal liquor syndicates and racketeers, I think it would be ridiculous to emulate the Prohibit and claim that the present economic depression is due to National Prohibition I do firmly believe, however, that the repeal of ths Eighteenth Amendment would be an important factor in restoring pros- perity to this country. Faced with a prob- able National deficit of $1,500,000,000, one need not be an economist or a statistician to appreciate the fact that the loss of over $1,000,000,000 annually, h a law that has failed disastrously, is not good economics. Over $40,000,000 a year is wasted by the Federal Government in a futile attempt at the enforcement of this law. About $982- 000,000 is lost annually in Federal and State revenues and finds its way into the pockets of bootleggers, rack:teers and corrupt of- llchll 5. Reosevelt declared that the well-meaning one that ry of If a Democratic House does no better than a Republican House, the Democrats may be mis- taken in thinking teday that they already have the 1932 Presidential election in the bag.—(New York World-Telegram.) Chicago is said to be growing chesty conviction of Al Capone, although it is to sece why. What did Chicago have —(Macon, Ga., Telegraph.) over the not easy to do with For the land’s sake Think of controlling the beer supply of a place as big as Chicago and being {locked up where you can't get any of it!—(Macon, |Ga., Telegraph.) lump in the out- sign.—(Cincinnati Have you noticed th put of croaking? It's a Enquirer.) cent good The Japanese reluctance to withdraw from Man- churia suggests that the country might adopt the ‘arm) mule as ,the army emblem. (Indianapolis Star, with Dr.| General Smuts, in his finely eloguent Basil Hwk’,mzerest of lower freight rates be- * us not tol the | settling | securing of a| If we could restore the| The more delay can| The|_ IFORMER CABINET MEMBER PASSES - AWAY IN SOUTH |Hoke Smith, -Tw1ce Gover nor, Twice U. S. Sena- tor Dies in Atlanta (Continuen wa Page Six) ame year gained recognition for successfully representing the state in the prosecution of convict les- sees. A year later he projected the Evening Journal into a fight rhat contributed toward seating him in a President’s cabinet. | For Tariff Reform | Smith was for tariff reform and | his beliefs led him to support Gro- ver Cleveland in 1888, through his paper, and his position as ent of the stale convention. years later, Cleveland was the nomination of The Evening Jour- advocates of David B. Hill. ‘xmensny and success that a Cleve-{ |land delegation went to the Na- I'tional convention. Hoke Smith was |a delegate. |came Secretary of the Interior. His record as a Cabinet officer' !included one incident that later |was to be remembered tically by those who desired that he make the race for Governor of his state. He alone of the Cabinet ]‘stood for the retaining by the United States Government of the ownership of the Union Pacif railroad and its operation in th tween the two oceans. The rail- roads later furnished him a battle- ground for one of the most inter- esting contests of his career. Was Opposed to Bryan In the campaign of 1896, Smith Bryan and engaged in a series of joint debates with Charles D. Crisp, then Speaker of the House. When Bryan was nominated Smith re- | signed from the Cabinet, upon | learning that President and other members of the official lramx]_\' would not support | Democratic nominee. Although op- posed to Bryan in the primaries he regarded it as his duty to his party to support its nominee. A large law practice enLafled him when he returned to Atlanta. In 1900 he sold the Evening Jour- | nal to James R. Gray and for the | the next five years devoted him- | self solely to his profession. Tn 1906, the call of politics again drew him from the law. Alleged discrimina.lon by railroads against Georgia cities and | towns breught | for governor as a candidate | opposing forces. | Of the 145 counties, he carried 122, the twenty-three others being divided among fcur other candi- the of th" BUSY | - WHY Not Only Cheaper but Better RICE & AHLERS CO. GOOD PLUMBING “We tell you in advance what job will cost” antagonized in Georgia by ' A year later he be-h enthusias-; was opposed to Willlam Jennings! Cleveland | the; dates. Of a popular vote of 170,- 000, Smith received 110,000. Panic Sweeps Country The new administration was but arcely three months old when| 1e panic of 1907 swept the coun- | try and although Georgia suffered | in comparison with some C , the futur ewa snot 1 in golden colors. The railroad stion then precipitated a dis- agreement that ended in a row. | Joseph M. Brown was the only of three railroad commission- | to vote against the reduction of | a-state passenger rates, a piece | legislation dear to Governor Smith. As a result, the Governor | removed Brown. { In the spring of 1908, Governor | Smith became a candidate for a second term. Joseph M. Brown, he discharged commissioner, was | he opposing candidate. Brown and Bread with a slogan, “Brown and ad,” the opposition carried on a | determined campaign and at the maries in June, 1908, Brown wi d, receiving in round num- 109,000 votes to Smith’s 99,000. The state dates the present sys- of disposing of her labor of convicts from the last year of Gov- {ernor Smith's first term. After a | series of revelations of abuses un-| the lease system, Governor h gave notice he would veto any bill renewing the convict lease and finally called an extra session | of the legislature to end it. This| | was successfully accomplished and 5,000 convicts were put to work on the public roads of the state. The law held Smith's attention for only a few months. Toward the close of Governor Brown's term, he incorporated in one of his mes sages to the legislature an attack the policies of his predecessor. | ith accepted the challenge, deos- ibed his cause as that of the rgressive Democracy,” and madc a whirlwind campaign of the state. At the primary, he was nominated | by a popular vote of 97,000 to 93,- 000. The convention vote, on the county unit plan, gave him a ma- jority of a hundred. Inaugurated Governor His inauguration took place July 1, 1911. Twelve days later the legislature elected him to the Sen- ate by an overwhelming majority to fill a vacancy caused by the| de: of Senator A. S. Clay, who| | still had four years of service. He | continued as Governor until Con-| gress met in December. |} Washington remembered him as the member of President Clev: In E EXCLUSIVE DISTRIBUTORS Smith into the race | UNITED FOOD CO. “Cash Is King” TWO SUITS for the Price of One JACK, The Tailor THE JuNEAU LAUNDRY Franklin Street, betwcen Front and Second Streets PHONE 359 —Oliver | OPEN A § Poetic Justice in Saving y | “If youth but knew | What age would crave Many a penny | Youth would save.” Wendell Holmes. ONE DOLLAR OR MORE WILL SAVINGS ACCOUNT The B. M. Behrends Bank | Oldest Bank in Alaska paint- | fi | abandoning his private practice in land’s cabinet; it formed the ac- quaintance during his first term as Senator of a man the newspapers called the “trust-busting ex-gov- ernor.” Differed With Wilson In 1915, he was re-elected to the Senate. The League of Nations ght in the Senate found him at difference with President Wilson. Senator Smith’s opposition to the policies of President Wilson car- ried him so far that his name was offered in the Presidential primaries in his state. He lost the ht and when he offered a year later for re-eleciion to the Senate, was de’zated. FEis term expired, he took up the practice of law in Washington. He was employed by the government |of Peru in 1923 to represent it in litigation involving that country with Chile, work which kept him in Washington much of the time. Wade Ellis, of Washington, was as- sociate counsel in the litigation. In 1924 he removed to Atlanta, Washington. As counsel for the| Peruvian government, however, his| interest demanded ‘that much of his time be spent in the Capital City. —————— TO LEAVE FOR SOUTH Mrs. Margaret Jones, sister of Mrs. John Biggs, will leave on the steamship Northwestern tomorrow for Seattle. She is going to see |her grandchild, and will be absent (rom Juneau a couple of months —_—————— Have your furs cleaned and re- paired at Chas. Goldstein & Co NOW FOR WINTER Don’t be caught with your radiator frozen. Use Amnti- Freeze for your motor's proe tection and your conven- ience. Remember a frozen radiator means untold delay and expense. Be prepared, fill up now with Anti-Freeze. JUNEAU MOTORS Foot of Main Street GARBAGE . HAULED Reasonable Monthly Rates HEMLOCK WOOD Order Now at These Prices Full Cord .$8.50 Half Cord $4.50 Five Cords or over, $7.00 cord E. O. DAVIS TELEPHONE 584 £ | The Florence Shop | ! | Phone 427 for Appointmeut | . RINGLETTE and NAIVETTE | | CROQUIGNOLE and SPIRAL | ! 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