The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 25, 1932, Page 4

R D SRS Dail& ‘Alaska Em[;ir; JOHEN W. TROY - - - EDITOR AND MANAGER Published every evemng aoxcept 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; in advance, $6.00; one month, in ad Subscribers wiil confer 8 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. pix months, MEMBER OF ASSOCIATEL PRESS. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. ALASKA CIRCULATION GUAWANTEED TO BE LARGER THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION WITH OUR FINGERS CROSSED. That is about th> way that we as a nation seem to be dealing with. our Prchibition Enforcement. If other peoples get the idea that we are more or less national hypocrites, can they be critielsed? What other conclusion can the uninformed foreigner form when he reads about how Government-owned and operated passenger lines, plying the Atlantic Ocean, conduct a retail liquor business as soon as they clear the 12-mile limit? Or that prosecution has been started against New York supper clubs for sale of liquor without payment of a Federal license? Or that Scarface Al Capone was sent to a Federal | prison and heavily fined because he neglected to pay income taxes on a business that has been out- lawed by Constitutional fiat? As a nation we prohibit traffic in alcoholic bev- erages. Then one of the nation's official agents turns liquor dealer. Because firms alleged to be selling liquor have failed to first obtain an excise license, they are haled into court to be prosecuted for violation of a revenue statute. A racketeer waxes wealthy operating a business the Constitution for- bids to exist, and he is puhished under the income tax laws, not for operating a contraband trade but because he didn't share his ill-gotten gains with the nation How can anyone arrive at any other conclusion than that as a nation we have crossed our fingers? | That we know we are not sincere about either Pro- | hibition Or 'its “enforcéntent? Prohibition as a national policy and started on the farcicial system of enforcement that still prevails, we forsook decency for hypocrisy and every year sees us sink worse into the foul-smelling mess. PURE FOOD LAW INSURES TRUE LABEL ON SALMON. In years gone by, it was the custom of the In- dians in the Northwest and in Alaska to catch salmon during the season and dry and store them for winter. The Indians still do this in Canada and Alaska, but most of us get our salmon from cans. The demand for canned salmon has increased greatly in the last 20 years and the salmon-canning‘ business is now one -of the largest and most im- portant of the food-manufacturing indutries, ac- cording to Dr. A. C. Hunter of the Federal Food and Drug Administration. Recent discoveries indicate that canned salmon contains vitamin D. It has been known for some time that this fish contains some of the other vitamins and -that it possesses considerable food value. “While all of the varieties. when properly | canned are wholesome, because of the enforcement ' of the national pure food law, there is considerable difference in the qualities of salmon found on the | market,” says Doctor Hunter. There are five leading varieties of canned sal- mon. The kind generally considered to be choicest is spring caught Columbia River chinook and this sort | generally costs more money than the other four varisties. The others, in order of popular preference, are: Red (or sockeye), medium red (or cohoe), pink, and chum. There is considerable difference between the genuine red and the medium red salmon, and there is a price difference of approximately 75 cents per dozen cans. Chum salmon is the cheapest kind packed, but it is nutritious and wholesome when properly canned. It lacks the color and oil of the better grades. The administration gquite frequently encounters cases where packers have mislabeled their fish as to variety. For example, medium red salmon has been labled as red, a superior grade. ment has taken numerous actions, under the pure food law, against salmon packers who have beern guilty of this sort of mislabeling. “PELICANS—A PARABLE.” Under the above caption, Fred L. Purdy, the Ban Francisco News's expert on fish and game, recently recounted a tale about the pelicans . of Santa Monica Bay in Mis columns that ought to carry a lesson, point a moral, or something of the gort to all of us these days.~ ! Well let Mr. Purdy tell his story in'his own way and let it speak for itself. He wrote: For years these pelicans had been fed by fishermen from their surplus catch, and the fishermen no longer had any fish to spare. They noticed that the pelicans lan- guished and grew thin, and it dawned on them that they had forgotten how to fish for themselves. So they went down the coast and found some unpampered pelicans who had never hn ruined by easy living and free fish, turned m Joose among the starving _pelicans went ‘an eye-opener. Whei ‘we adopted| bird with energy and enterprise. And they have quit talking about the depression. FEWER FUR ANIMALS. Farmers and trappers are trapping fewer fur animals each year, says the Bureau of Biological Some of the causes of this are: Over- trapping for many years in reduced breeding areas, | low prices for raw furs in the last few years, and the drought of 1930, which reduced the number of fur animals. The floods of 1927 also destroyed many fur animals in the Mississippi Basin and New England. The number of foxes, martens, minks, fishers, and beavers reaching the mark:t are de- creasing, says the bureau, but there are still many skunks, opossums, raccoons, and muskrats. The muskrat, which breeds often and raises large fam- 'mts. is one of the bigg:st fur producers. England’s great university, Oxford, is having the | stained glass windows in one of its college chapels cleaned for the first time in 620 years. Probably just heard of the injunction, “Let There Be Light.” President Hoover’s action in insisting that con- tractors on Government projects pay the prevailing wage scale in the communities in which they are located will be heartily approved by everyone, except ‘pc:mbly the contractors involved. But just now the |launching of more projects to give work to the {unemployed is & more timely subject than wages |to those already employed. The Employed. (New York Times.) If the forecast of American Federation of Labor officials comes true, the peak of unemployment this Winter will find 7.500,000 persons without work. That is the dark view of the matter, and a sufficiently scmber picture it makes. A somewhat cheerier statement of the case would show that if in the next two months we are to have 7,500,000 people without employment it means that we shall still have 41,000,000 pecple in employment. The Federal census last April enumerated very nearly 48,400,000 persons in gainful occupations. Forty-one million |people at work would give us something less than |six persons with a job against one person idle. Or we may say that at the height of unemployment we shall still have as many people at work as were found in all gainful occupations in the years 1920. That number was 40,615,000 men and women. Actual- ly our showing would be somewhat better today, since unemployment in the best of years numbers close to two millions. In this hard Winter, therefore, we are likely to have 2,000,000 more people with jobs than were at work in 1920. But of course today our workers have to support a population jabout 16 per cent larger than in 1920, One consideration which gives to employment numbers in the total a higher production value to- day than formerly is the decline in child labor. In the year 1910, for instance, there were very nearly 2,000,000 children under the age of 16 in gainful occupations. Ten years later the number was down to something over a million. From local and State |figures for the 1930 census it is plain that the past |decade has witnessed almost as sharp a decline pro- | portionately since 1920. The number of workers |under 16 today must be not much more than half {a million, instead of a million and a quarter, if the 1920 ratio prevailed today, or more than two nd a half.miflion ehild workers if we were living under 1910 conditions. ‘This is a state of affairs which lends itself to ]a double interpretation. The fact that today only ione worker in a hundred is a child under 16 justifies us in saying that every unemployed work- er means greater hardship than it did formerly. A person thrown out of work is more likely to be adult and the head of a family than formerly. But from the national instead of the individual standpoint the argument runs the other way. If we count em- ployment instead of unemployment, it means more for the country if its 41,000,000 persons at work are mostly all grown men and women than if there were a couple of million children among them. Since in the last resort and until the return of {normal times the employed of the nation must carry the unemployed, it is & consideration that employed shoulders today are sturdier than they were in the days of widespread child labor. i Avoiding Vain Effort. (New York Times.) Democratic leadership in Congress has shown Jcomn'mn sense in its tariff program. The futile gest.ure of preparing new rate schedules has been abandoned. They could not escape the double check |of a Republican Senate and a Republican President. Even if a two-thirds majority of both houses could have been marshaled for certain changed rates against a veto, the new measure would not have been Democatic; it would have been mongrel. There is no 1932 issue to be found in a coalition tariff bill. These facts must have been as apparent to |the members of the rank and file with tariff sched- ‘ules in their desks as they were to the leaders. |The country will also approve the statement of the Democratic Policy Committee that “sound public }pohc) is to act “as speedily as practicable to balance the budget.” Tariff orators need not be too cast down by the |decision not to try to revise the tariff rates at {this time. In the bill introduced yesterday there (is plenty to talk about. With leave to print, any member can fill pages of the Record about the Simmons agreement, the proposed consumer’s counsel {for the Tariff Commission, the increased commission powers, the decreased Presidential powers, and the The Govern- |iernational tariff conference which the report that |accompanies the measure authorizes Mr. Hoover to {summon. In proposing the enactment of the Sim- {mons agreement, the Democratic Policy Committee leaves both the party free-traders and the for-reve- nue-only doctrinaries in the background and ap- proaches the viewpoint of protection. It is not {exactly the Pemmsylvania Republican kind of pro- |tection, but it is a little nearer the 1928 Omaha |speech of Alfred E. Smith than the tariff planks drafted at Houstoh by Senator Hull of Tennessee. \However, the language is cautious—the situation re- quiring it—so that the policy committee may clamber |without embarrassment upon the platform planks on which Mr. Hull stands. Our idea of the person who imagines vain things is the individual who thinks that Calvin Coolidge can be forced into the Presidential race next year. —(Detroit Free Press.) It looks as if all our country, England and France can do in Manchuria is solemnly to lock the stable door.—(Dallas News.) The levees along the Southern Mississippi seem to work admirably exeept in flood times.—(Dayton, Ohio, Journal.) The Nine-Power Treaty versus the posession 'which is nine points of the law! — (Boston Tran- script.) INEW BOOK |§ | Newr.c.coHesa PUBLISHED BY F. BRETT YOUNG Jessie Favmet Introduces New American Group in Novel By WARE TORREY NEW YORK, Jan. 25.—“Mr. and Mrs. Pennington,” by Francis Brett | Young, contributes a quiet sojourn’ in an English industrial town to| the week’s excursions in books. The placid mood persists through the book, despite the dismays and troubles of Dick and Susie, Dick's trial in a coroner’s court for mur- der and the many temperamental adjustments of the young pecple to married life. | Francis Brett Young's tooled and | finished style gives substance to a ! rather mildly conceived plot. A new group of Americans is in- troduced into fiction in Jessie Fauset’s novel, “The Chinaberry | Tree"—the cultured and educated negro. i Zona Gale says, in the book’s in- troduction: “It seems strange to arrirm—as! news for many— that there is in of education and substance who are living lives of quiet interests and pursuits, quite unconnected with | white folk save as these are casu- ally met. They merit the aware-| ness of their fellow-countrymen.” Miss Fauset not only presents|: her characters convincingly, but in- | volves them in a plot of perception and power. About the Mountain Folk A tree takes symbolic place in the title of another novel, “The ‘Weather Tree,” by Maristan Chap- man, other Mary and Stanley Chapman. In “The Weather Tree,” Glen Hazard, a Southern mountain town, is interrupted in its grooved routine by an energetic young man from | beyond the hills, who tries to bring the mountain people up to date and is withstood by their calm philoso- | phy. The book is absorbing and | carries sincerity. Ray Tucker has written a chapter on Borah to replace the one on the |/ late Senator Morrow, for the new edition of “Mirrors of Washington.” Borah, Tucker says, is “a great po- litical egotist, in an innocuous and impersonal fashion.” “The Economic Survey of the Book Industry” comprises the final report of O. H, Cheney, director of the survey. Tt is a detailed and many-sided textbook on the busi- ness of books. Christopher Morley makes shrewd and humorous comment on Ameri- can life in “Swiss Family Manhat- tan” and flavors his satire with a modern version of the famous fam- ily. Books Of Columns Forty of the columns written by one of America a great group of Nemzsibe\\'h_ will meet 18 pm {in honor All members urged to attend. —adv Associated Press Photo Claude R.Poter of lowa, a demo crat, is the new chairman of the Interstate commerce commission, He aucceedu’ Ezra Brainerd, jr., of Oklahoma. the founders of the The ed Press, is among the 40 ions, Other columns treat such personalities as Sinclair Calvin Coolidge and Eugene Field —— et — ATTENTION EASTERN STARS Juneau Chapter ster No. 7, O. E. S, Tuesday, January 26, at The officers will entertain of the charter members. EDITH HOWARD, Worthy Matron. FANNY L. ROBINSON, Secretary. e e—————— Quartz and places locallon no- tices at The Empire. e e CROFUT—KNAPP and STETSON CAPS $3.00 SABIN’S Charles Crane for the Brattleboro (Vt.) Daily Reformer are assem- bled in a little volume labeled “Pen- drift.” Humor and substantial sentiment and the absence of wise cracks and slush lend him distinction among | columnists. 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