The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 13, 1932, Page 4

T | THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, WEDNESDAY, JAN. 13, 1932. Daily Alaska Empire JOHN W. TROY - - - EDITOR AND MANAGER Published every evening except Sunday by the EMPIRE_PRINTING COMPANY at Second and Main Streets, Juneau, Alaska. Entered in the Post Office in Juneau as Second Class matter, SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Dellvered by carrier in Juneau, Douglas, Treadwell and Thane for $1.25 per month. By mall, postage paid, at the following rates: One year, in advance, $12.00; six months, in advance, $6.00; one month, in advance, $1.25 ‘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 Fditorial and Business Offices, 374. ( MEMBER OF ASSOCIATEL PRESS. | The Assoclated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise ted in this paper and also the local news published ( \ ALASKA CIRCULATION GUAWANTEED TO BE LARGER ( THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION { A POSSIBLE SOLUTION. For a long time the United States Treasury Department, has, through its income tax bureau, recognized bootlegging as an established business. It requires rum runners, moonshiners and speakeasiss to pay income taxes, and it guarantees secrecy regard- ing the transactions. It makes no such arrangements with forgers, emblezzlers, bank robbers, etc. It is not, apparently, so much interested in their incomes as it is in capturing them. The liquor business is different. Now comes Speaker Russell S. Wise of the lower House of the New Jersey Legislature and seriously proposes that the State tax speakeasies. He says they are running wide open and thriving from one end of the Stat to the other. The Federal Gov- ernment recognizes them to the extent of collecting its taxes from them and protects the information it gets through them. Speaker Russell thinks his State ought to get its bit. He thinks it is not fair that the Federal Government, Prohibition agents, police and grafters of one sort and another should get their rake-off while the State gets no taxes. And this suggests that it is not outside of the pos- sibilities that Prohibition will dispose of itself if it be given time. People and governments—Federal, State ‘and municipal—may in the course of time adjust themselves to the speakeasies and home brew- ers and home distillers. They are patronizing them now and in some instances taxing them. The next | step may be to regulate them, and then what shall we have? Just saloons. DR. GODDARD. The death of Dr. F. L. Goddard was a severe shock to the people of this section of Alaska. For more than a quarter of a century he lived in the Territory and was loved by all who knew him. A very capable physician, the benefactor of hundreds of people, the friend of all who knew him, he will be sadly missed. He had the spirit of the pioneer and the West though a native of New Efgland. His hospitality had become proverbial. He lived to do good. The sympathy of all the people of this part of Alaska goes out in full measure to the stricken relatives of Dr. Goddard. RASKOB'S STATEMENT. Chairman John J. Raskob told the Democratic National Committee in plain words that there is “not a word of truth” in the propaganda stories that he and Al Smith and Jouett Shouse are trying to defeat the Presidential candidacy of Gov. Frank- lin D. Roosevelt. That causes one to recall that Adolph S. Ochs, publisher of the New York Times, less than a year ago in Honolulu assured Hawaiian Democrats that there was neither rivalry nor canflicting opinions in important matters between the former Governor of New York and the present Governor. He pre- dicted that when the next Democratic National Con- vention met it would be found that former Gov. Smith would be the real power behind the Roosevelt campaign for nomination. Whatever one might have thought about the situation, there is not a reason in the world why Mr. Raskob’s statement should not be taken at its face. Mr. Raskob does not dissemble and does not use weasel words. He meant just what he said. Of that there is no reason to doubt. If Gov. Roosevelt gets the support of former Gov. Smith and the New York delegation in the National Convention he will be nominated on the first or second ballot. LEFT-HANDED BOOST. That was rather a left-handed boost Secretary Hyde gave to President Hoover's aspirations for re-election when he said that “the President might be overwhelmed in defeat * * * but it is better to go down fighting.” It is not customary for good party men to sug- gest the idea of defeat ten months before election. Most Democrats nearly always claim everything in sight until election eve. It is rare, indeed, that one loses confidence until well alfter the August dog days. However, it must be remembered that Mr. Hyde comes from Missouri and that is a Democratic State except in overwhelmingly Republican years. The situation has to look very rosy for a Missouri Re- publican to be over-hopeful. TWO STRONG CANDIDATES. William Nathaniel Rogers who was elected to Congress Tuesday from New Hampshire's First Con- gressional District and First Assistant Postmaster- General and former Gov. John Henry Bartlett, Re- publican, whom he defeated, were regarded as two of the ablest and most popular citizens of the Granite State. Both are lawyers by profession. Both RGTOM Britain has this country. shire. Both Masons. Rogers is an Episcopalian and Bartlett a Methodist. Rogers is wet and Bart- lett dry. Rogers is just under forty and Bartlett sixty-three. Rogers is from Concord and Bartlett from Portsmouth. Bartlett was Postmaster of Ports- mouth for ten years under McKinley and Roose- velt and First Assitsant Postmaster-General since 1922. Rogers has practiced law at Concord, served in the State Legislature for three two-year terms, beginning when he was twenty-five, was elected to Congress at thirty, is married and has two daughters. Representative McFadden, who made the out- rageous assault on President Hoover from the floor of Congress, asked the Postmaster-General if his attack would interfere with the appointment of people in his district he had recommended for Post- masters. The Postmaster-General replied that his advice ig anything would not be helpful to the De- partment. Wonder what he expected! The United States is not likely to get far with the Japanese and that Nine Power Treaty if the other treaty signatories do not co-operate with her. refused to follow the lead of At least Joe Fordney, who has just passed away, was not a four-flusher. He knew what he wanted and he made no bones about it. He favored a tariff where each producer would write his own rates and he favored giving the public positions as a reward for faithful party work, and said so. A poll of the student bodies of 300 American colleges and universities discloses that 92 per cent. of them favor disarmament. Small Majority Beats Minority. (New York World-Telegram.) Congress is controlled by the Democrats by a close majority. There is no consolation for the op- position in close majorities. All through American history it was the close majority, generally of one, that ushered in the permanent change and put the opposition out of the running altogether. Landslides never seem to have inaugurated any- thing significant but failure and corruption; they have buried the victors as well as the vanquished. But the close majority has been fateful. The Democratic Party won its first Presidency by a majority of one electoral vote in 1880, or 66 to 65. By that same token the Federal Party was buried forever—by one vote it was through. The close majority means that the people are thinking, and that means that the end is in sight. The Whig Party motion in Parliament to terminate the Revolutionary War was, on second vote, carried by one majority. The fate of America was de- termined by a single vote. The impeachment of Andrew Johnson was de- feated by one vote, and with it the Republican plot to set up an oligarchic republic. The first vote on independence was carried by a majority of one State only. In the first election, ‘when Presidential electors English method, 15 States were carried by the Whigs and 15 by the Democrats—a close triumph for the Democrats in the Electoral College. But it was the end of the Whig political party. The Constitution of the United States was car- ried by only one majority in the New York State convention in 1787. William Pennington, Republican, was elected Speaker of the House in 1860, says McMasters, “by a bare majority,” and Congress organized on an anti-slave basis. The victroy was celebrated in scores of cities and towns by salute of seventeen guns. Well might they boom, for that bare major- ity, coming before the election of Lincoln, ushered in the country's greatest crisis. But once a majority of one vote was not so good —or maybe the point of view may differ. Quoting from Sear’s “American Diplomacy”:—“By one vote the Senate was organized (against President Wil- son) on an opposition basis. That vote belonged to Newberry, of Michigan. That one vote of New- berry’s assured to Henry Cabot Lodge the Chairman- ship of the Committee on Foreign Relations and ultimate defeat o fthe League of Nations and the Versailles Treaty.” The decision by one majority in most cases in history has been final. But landslides—never! Where He Was Wrong. (Port Angeles News.) Governor Roland Hartley should not be so uni- versaly condemned for his decision in the Niccolls' boy case, for the reason that either course would have subjected him to a battery of criticism. He likely acted as he believed wise. There was no excuse, however, for his tirade against Father Flanagan, who made the trip from Omaha, at his own expense, in an effort to serve humanity by taking the boy in charge. There was a time when the Governor's theatrical utterances piled up votes because that they made other candidates look silly. But here was a case of national prominence, where a visitor came to the State to try and help. He deserved praise, and not ridicule from the State Executive and it is most unfortunate that Governor Hartley did not sense this. were chosen on the same day, and not after the! POLITICS | AT RANDOM By BYRON PRICE (Chief of Bureau, Press, Washington) can be summarized matters stand. New York is so far ahead that he est difficulty, if at all. Along with this goes a wide- spread expectation that a really formidable effort to stop him will Kmke form in the near {future, | probably parading Newton D. Baker of Ohio as its candidate. Predictions of the outcome would have to hinge on several factors yet unknown. There is much con- flict in the returns from confiden- and many state leaders are dis- playing extraordinary hesitancy as -|they wait for present disturbed con- ditions to crystallize. It is possible, however, to recog- nize certain facts as they are to- day, for whatever they may be worth to the reader in making his own ticket. Roosevelt Snows Strength Roosevelt organizations, func- tioning now in most of the states, have piled up a considerable strength, particularly in the South and West. This strength cannnt be meas- ured exactly, but there is no dis- pute that the Roosevelt managers have been promised delegations— and by those who should be in a position to promise -— which will carry him well along toward a nomination. maining “ifs.” Unless the appor- tionment is changed, the 1932 con- vention will be composed of 1,100 delegates. To be nominated, a candidate must have 733 1-3, and 367 adverse votes can block a nom- ination. The general assumptlion now is that Maryland will vote for Rit- chie; Missouri for Reed; Oklahoma Ohio for Baker, White of some other Ohioan. These six delegations total 194 votes. Other States Doubtful At present there are influential party leaders who are actively for other candidates or openly and pointedly hesitant about Roosevelt in Arkansas, Connecticut, Dela- | ware, Florida, Kentucky, Massa- chusetts, Jersey, Pennsylvania, Rhode Isl- and, Texas and Virginia. In this group are 292 more dele— gates which today are put down by politicians as - contestable. grand total is 486. Nor does this total take into ac- count the 90 votes of Gov. Roose- velt’s own New York, about which there still is much dispute. The figures, of course, prove nothing as to the ultimate result. Roosevelt might get in the end The Associated The inside information about the Democratic Presidential nomination in one short sentence: Those supposedly in the know are not themselves sure how There is widespread conviction that Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt of can be stopped only with the great- tial canvasses of the popular drift | It is easier to reckon up the re-| for Murray; Illinois for Lewis; and | New Hampshire, New, The | most or even all the contestable delegates. He might lose all of them and some besides which now | look certainly for him. It will be weeks yet before the| first delegate actually is chosen. | With things as they are, much can happen in a short time. Smith Unknown Quantity Many of the leaders who are hesitating are in the States clus- tered around New York. Al Smith is one who is keeping his ideas to himself, and there are other party pillars in New Jersey, Masachusetts, Rhode Isl- and, Pennsylvania, Connecticut,| Delaware and New Hampshire— voting 178 without New York—vwho‘ are expected to follow Smith’s | lead. Which is another way of saying that Al Smith is still the principal X of all Democratic mathematics. e CARD OF THANKS The Alaska Native Brotherhood and ‘he Alaska Native Sisterhood wish, to thank their friends for their co-operation in making our Costume Dance a success by at- tendance and purchase of tickets. Also the Capitol and the Coli- seum theatres for the publicity given. —adv. e, — Daily Empire Want Ads Pay. NOTICE TO CREDITORS In the United States Commission- er’s Court, Juneau Precinct, Divi- sion Number One, Territory of Alaska, before the Honorable Charles Sey, in Probate. In the Matter of the Administra- tion of the Estate of the part- nership of GEORGE FRANKLIN, GEORGE W. SAMPLE and H. C. DAVIS, Deceased. NOTICE: This is to give you notice that George Franklin has been duly and regularly appointed adminis- trator of the estate of the partner- ip of which George Franklin, ‘Gswge ‘W. Sample and H. C. Davi prior to his decease, were partners. All persons having claims against the estate are required to present | their claims gainst said estate with the proper vouchers within six (6) .months from the date hereof, to the undersigned administrator at | the offices of Hellenthal & Hellen- thal, over the First National Bank, { Juneau, Alaska. Dated at Juneau, Alaska, this !12th day of January, A. D., 1932. | GEORGE FRANKLIN, Administrator. First publication, Jan. 13, 1932. publlcauon. Feb. 3, 1932. PRINTING STATIONERY ! BINDERY GEO. M. SIMPKINS ; COMPANY | COLDS THAT Persistent coughs and colds lead to with Creomulsion, an emulsified creosote that is pleasant to take. Creomulsion isa tion; it soothes and heals the infl membranes and inhibits germ yam.h. nized by high medical authorities as one of the greatest heali l;enclu lu per- sistent coughs and # of throat troubles. Creonu!non in addition to creosote, other ‘ments which soothe and hu! Abolishing Billboards. (Olympia Olympian.) The Roadside Bulletin is a little magazine put out by the American Nature Association to aid in the fight against the beauty-destroying billboard. In a recent issue it contains two sets of photo- graphs which ought to help the fight along very materially. One set shows four pictures of the countryside in Southern Illinois, along roads where billboards are missing. The pictures show a country of peace- ful, drowsy beauty, so attractive that the beholder automatically murmurs to himself, “I'd like to drive through there some d: The other shot shows four pictures, taken in the same part of Illinois, along roads where there is a profusion of billboards. The landscape's charm is totally destroyed. Seeing them, one instantly resolves never to drive along those roads, or any roads like them, if it can possibly be avoided. When public opinion finally wakes up, all bill- boards will vanish. How long is it going to take to accomplish the awakening? In the House 155 Congressmen are for a refer- endum on the eighteenth amendment; 96 are against it, and 183 are noncommittal. “Noncommittal” is a nice long word for on-the-fence.—(St. Louis Globe- Democrat.) Once a year may be all we can stand Christ- mas, but we could stand its spirit all year 'round. —(Cincinnati Enquirer.) The best way to make it “a happy new year” \is to say it with money taken out of hiding places. —(Dayton, Ohio, Journal.) It is figured that the year 1932 will be a good !n Dartmouth men. Both natives of New Hamp- xone for sonorous: platitudes.—(Florida Times-Union.) serious trouble. 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