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

Daily Alaska Efnpi;'e Sunday by _ the ond and Main except Publish ) PANY at Sec d PIRE | ts ost Office in Juneau as Second Cl JOHN W. TROY - - - EDITOR AND MANAGER | available funds for continuing this important branch of the Government's activities here. CARELE MOCKERY? Charles Asbury Stevens, whose stories of the Maine woods delighted a generation of NESS OR SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Delivered by carrier In Juneau, Douglas, Thane for $1.25 per month. follc Treadwell and | | they will promptly lure or irregularity boys when they appeared in the Yo S Companion some thirty years ago, died re- cently.—(Saturday Review of Literature.) Is that careless writing or the subtle mockery of youth? There are boys living who still re- member the thrills induced by Mr. Stevens's Youth's Companion out-door ries almost or quite a half- century ago. All the news we have from Europe seems to S exclusively entitled to the| I news dispatches credited to | d in this paper and also the The Associated e for repul ANTEED TO BE LARGER R PUBLICATION POOR ECONOMY AND WOR BUSINESS. | It is clearly apparent from statements to The Empire from Commissioner Charles H. Flory, of the Federal Department of Agriculture, and Dr. H. W.. Alberts, Director of United States Agricultural Ex- periment Stations in Alaska, that the Hoover Ad- ministration desires to withdraw active Federal sup- port from future development of the agricultural industry in Alaska. That is a position that Alaska | must view with deep concern. The extent of the Territory's agricultural industry is not generally realized even here at home. The 1930 Federal Decennial Census shows it had a normal and material growth for the decade preceding | that date. The Alaska census report reveals an investment in farm lands, buildings and machinery of almost $3500,000, exclusive of livestock on the farms. The settler in Alaska is primarily a pioneer, engaged in trying to build up a home out of a wilderness under natural and climatic conditions strange to him and of which he can not gain a working knowledge unless he has expert scientific and technical aid. He is entitled to have help in solving these problems and is justified in look- ing to the Federal Government for the necdud‘ assistance. In the past he has had that help. For 30-odd| years the Experiment Stations have taken a lead- | and practical demon- climate, land clearing harvesting and ership in a series of studies strations of soil conditions, methods, crop varieties and yields, marketing that has made farming in Alaska less of a gamble and more of a business. It has devel- | oped hardy grains that can be grown successfully; | evolved small fruits that are being cultivated almost within the shadow of the Arctic Circle; bred a strain of stock that bids fair to replace the o]deri strains of dairy cattle. There is scarcely a yard in Southeast Alaska | that doss not contain shrubbery, fruit bushes, straw- berries and other fruits, that have been developed through years of patient research and experimenta- tion at the Sitka station. Homesteaders through- out the great interior valleys annually reap wheat, barley and other grain crops for local needs from | varieties proved up by the stations at Fairbanks and Matanuska. The latter plant is now standard- izing a hybrid breed of cattle, known to be better suited to the interior farmer than anything he can get from the States. ‘While this work is naturally of benefit to the already established agricultural community and to the Territory, it has an even larger significance. It is througih this medium, and it alone, that selective agricultural settlement can be made of the fertile lands of such fine areas as the Mata- nuska, Susitna and Tanana valleys. The Federal Government is, or, at least, it ought to be, more concerned about such settlement than anyone else. It owns the land, and until that passes into private ownership, the costs of administering it as well as a proportionate share of Territorial administration costs, must come from the national treasury. Some four years ago, the Alaska Railroad, the Federal Government's $60,000,000 utility, and on| which it loses about $1,000,000 annually without | including interest charges on capital investment, | launched a program of bringing homesteaders to | the agricultural lands adjacent to it. As a result of the Alaska Railroad's advertising program and through the efforts of its colonization agent, a large number of families have been induced to settle! along the road > This is sound business only if they can make comfortable livings. They will remain and grow in number only so long as they have commensurate reward for the privations they naturally undergo in this pioneering. The colonization plan un- doubtedly rests on good business judgment and is supported by the experience of the Western rail- roads of the country which have learned that each new settler along their routes brings to them an additional annual revenue of about $700 The Federal Government ought to learn some- thing from the experience of the Western roads. It ought to extend every possible assistance to settlers on its lands, and bring in as many as the local markets for their products will support. It has two great ends possible of achievement by doing so. It can rid itself of lands now idle and capable of sustaining a prosperous, home-owning population. It can take its railroad out of the deficit-paying class and put it on a sound founda- tion. This Administration has failed signally to recog- nize its opportunity. First, it has hamstrung the railroad with excessive freight and passenger rates. Now it proposes, in the interests of economy, to wipe out of existence the only agency through which it can hope to assist in agricultural devel- opment and through it build up permanent settle- ment. In this it is guilty of poor economy and unsound business judgment. Alaska should bring these matters to the atten- tion of Congress. That body,, once correctly in- |for payment |scoff found justify the Crown Prince's declaration that busi- ness and other conditions are good in Sweden. That country is one that held itself down to conservative principles during r and reconstruction period that followed. and d The gress wet early y que: new ion is coming up in Con- n the year. That will give the nclined plenty opportunity to talk to constituents and to the country. Many Sen- and Representatives will probably have some- heir ators thing to say. In spite of the great Christian holiday the Orientals in Manchuria continued their war. Reparations and Private Debts. (Manchester Guardian.) Negotiations are still in progress between France and Germany over the question of reparations and | short-term credits. The reparations payments are in July at the expiry of the Hoover mora- torium; the bankers' debts in February. German | finances are still very precarious and it is obvious that Germany cannot meet both these obligations in full. She wants a conference called to consider the whole question of her capacity to pay . The French, however, are anxious to confine any in- quiry “within the framework of the Young Plan” 5o that there would be no opporunity even to dis- cuss a reduction of the unconditioned annuities, which go almost entirely to France. There is a danger, however, that without a reduction of these payments, the American and English bankers, who have their money at present “frozen” in short- term credits to Germany, would be obliged to press in February, in which case German finances will almost certainly collapse and repara- tions as well as investments will disappear. There have been various rumors from Paris that some sort of compromise has been arranged, but so far none of these is confirmed. The matter is extreme- ly urgent, and it is hard to believe that the French will deliberately precipitate a complete collapse of Germany's finances rather than consent to an ade- quate investigation of all the relevant factors. A Poet and Bard. (Cincinnati Enquirer.) With the death of Vachel Lindsay an extra- ordinary figure in American literature is gone Lindsay had a distinctive theory of poetry, followed it faithfully, sought unique subject matter, and carved for himself a niche quite alone in the ranks of our poets Lindsay's poems have been widely read in book form, but the greatest appreciation of his work has come through hearing him read them, or better said, chant them. Nothing in literary history quite resembles the compelling effect of the gaunt figure from Illinois, standing on a platform, chanting the monotonous yet fascinating rhythms of “Congo” or the “Chinese Nightingale.” Audiences that came to themselves joining in the chant of “Daniel in the Lion's Den,” carried into the spirit of the narrative by a persuasive, elemental rhythm. Debates about the greatness of Vachel Lindsay will go in for many years among the cognoscenli.l But none will deny that here was a distinguished figure in poetry, who not only created unusual| images of beauty and power, but breathed into them a throbbing life unlike the classical dignity of historic poetry. By essaying the role of troubadour, he was at once poet and bard, and put into his verse more life, more warmth than printed words alone convey. A Deadly Slogan. (New York Times.) The motto-writer who cried from the floor of the Chicago Board of Trade, “Get rich with Ritchie!” when he saw the handsome figure of the Governor of Maryland did no service to him. It will be years before the American people can be made again |to believe that the success of one candidate or party will make them either rich or poor. They have been taught a bitter lesson in economics, and it has taught them one in politics. It is odd how long the argument persisted in this country that the “full dinner pail,” smoking factory chimneys and millions to be made in Wall Street were the certain accompaniment of Re- publican rule. The myth grew out of the “soup kitchen” prophecies of the time when McKinley was “the advance agent of prosperity.” Mr. Hoover's experiences as President have, at least temporarily, destroyed it. A band from Oklahoma City at the Houston convention, a volunteer organization, was devoted to Smith. All night and all day it paraded the corridors of the Rice Hotel. Whether consciously or accidentally, this band reversed the traditional argument of the political orators and stumbled on a prohecy. One of its songs went: We're for Al We've had enough of Cal. You'll never get rich if you stay in Republican Party. S AR L T Asia is on fire. The blaze may spread to Europe. And we are unalterably opposed to the suggestion that Uncle Sam should send a fire department. Let Asia and Europe put out the fires they start. —(Atchison, Kan., Globe.) —_— ) Our farmers have already paid a fourth of the | loans advanced by the Government after the 1930 drought. British, French, Italian, Belgian, Ger- many and all other European papers please copy.— (St. Louis Post-Dispatch.) e Finland will take two days off before the end of the year and vote on repeal, modification or restriction of Prohibition. Think of a country being | able to get it over with as soon as that?—(Wash- ington Post.) ‘ g L i ol s Apparently the only Pretender to a who makes any money at it is the King of | —(Philadelphia Inquirer.) — H. G. Wells thinks all nations should have the |same currency. There's also just now a need for inll of them to have more cash.—(Cincinnati En- quirer,) throne Ttaly. —_—— Just what will the British liquor commission accomplish by studying the Wickersham report?— | the By BYRON PRICE (Chief of Bureau, The Associated Press, Washington.) | He may be only Speaker of the |House in all things official, but in things political John N. Garner now becomes in large degree the | responsible leader of the Democra- tic party. Sitting in a higher seat of power | than any Democrat since Woodrow | Wilson, he will guide the hand that | writes a Democratic legislative plan |of economic reconstruction—which | must become in turn a party creed in 1932. Nor does his leadership lack in |any sense the color of authority. In the party caucus not a single voice was raised against him. He was eleveated to power by the unanimous act of all elements of a party which is quarreling openly over the titular leadership of John J. Raskob as chairman and Al Smith as the standard-bearer of 1928. It is the hour of destiny for this peppery, straight-speaking Texan. He is face to face with opportunity —and danger. A Disappointment One of the great disappointments of political history John Tilson of Connecticut. Through 20 weary years of House service he plodded upward toward the shining goal of the Speaker- ship. When Speaker Longworth died last spring, Tilson stood near- er the chair of power than any other man. The Republicans had Republican leader. Then unexpectedly time turned the majority to the Democrats, and the Republican caucus transferred reins of party leadership to Bertrand Snell of New York. The full story of the Tilson-Snell contest may never be published. It is certain, however, that some who supported Snell felt Tilson had overdone the plodding type a little too pat in his relations with the ‘White House. They thought they saw in Snell a prospect of more virile and in- dependent leadership. Tilson is a good soldier, and will go along. But some of his friends are wounded too deeply to forgive and forget overnight. Baker Backers Active ‘While Congress monopolizes the spotlight, a good deal of quiet but highly important politics is stirring elsewhere. The stop - Roosevelt movement among the Democrats shows such evidence of real effort that Gov. Roosevelt's supporters may be ex- pected to organize shortly on a na- tional basis, and formally launch his candidacy for President. They count his chances best by far, but they realize now that the nomina- tion won't go to him by default. For the first time a concerted § Politics at Random has come to| a narrow majority, and he was the | ment been started to delegates to Newton D.| Baker of Ohio, regarded everywhere as one of the strongest Democra- tic vote-getters. The increasing activitles of Gov. | Ritchie of Maryland have been ac-“ companied by widespread rumors, —nothing more—that Al Smith and Chairman Raskob are giving| Ritchie a trial run, and may turni definitely if he goes well. | Keep Question Open Al that can be said with assur- about the Democratic situa- a considerable number | alwarts are determined the nomination shall not be fore- closed, months in advance, in favor of anyone. The idea is that if the question can be kept open right up to the | convention, the party can make its choice on the basis of conditions at that moment. This need nct mean Roosevelt's defeat, although it has evoked no ging peans from the amp. B e OLD TIMER SHOW. YOUNGER JOCKEYS TRICKS OF TRADE | . NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 29.—Out at |Jefferson Park, an old-timer is fshow:m a younger generation of | jockeys how it is done. ! 1t is Eddie Martin, still riding winners at 44 after more than 30 years on American tracks. He came down in front by a {Whisker the other day in the most |spectacular finish of the season as (four thoroughbreds stretched their I necks to pass the striped pole first Martin's mount was Forget Not and the old-timer seized the op- 'portunity to show his younger rivals a thing or two. He had |started easily, taking the pace set| by Ha rd, but the last sixteenth found Forget Not, Halliard, Dry Dock and My Inver on such even \terms that it looked like an un- heard of four-way dead heat from the judge's stand. But Martin had saved somethinz and his final lunge at the wire won | | the race | Dick Leigh, assistant secretary {and placing judge at Jefferson re- |called after the race that it was the same Eddie Martin who won |a match race against him in Colo- |rado back in 1900. { “When an old man like that 'beats you, ‘it's time to hang up your |boots,” one of the kids in the race {remarked. Ay which Eddie smiled and re- joidled: “If I couldn't ride an |beiter than you boys do I'd have hung up mine long ago.” R NOTICE The Juneau Choral! Society will not meet until Monday, Jan. 4th. Members please take notice. adv. S — “The Last Service Is Corner 4th and Franklin FOR INS THE CHAS. W. CARTER MORTUARY See H. R. SHEPARD & SON Telephone 409 B. M. Behrends Bank Bldg. D e e U RR | the Greatest Tribute” | Sts. Phone 136-2 RANCE Dri-Brite Wax NO RUBBING—NO POLISHING Juneau Paint Store THE HOTEL OF ALASKAN HOTELS THE GASTINEAU Our Services to You Begin and End at the Gang Plank of Every Passenger-Carrying Boat —Oliver formed on them, probably will be willing to make ‘(Des Moines Register.) Poetic Justice in Saving “If youth but knew £ What age would crave Many a penny Youth would save.” ONE DOLLAR OR MORE WILL OPEN A SAVINGS ACCOUNT The B. M. Behrends Bank Oldest Bank in Alaska Wendell Holmes. 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