The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 27, 1932, Page 4

Daily Alaska Empir JOHN W. TROY - - - EDITOR AND MANAGER Published every evening axcept 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 vear, in advance, $12.00; six months, in advance, $6.00; one month, in advance, $1.25 Subscribers wiil confer a favor if they will promptly notify the Bu s Office of any failure or irregularity in the delivery their papers. Telephone for Editorial and Business Offices, 374. 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 GUAWANTEE THAT OF ANY OTHER F ATION IS SECRETARY HYDE CONSISTENT? Last week the National House of Representatives rejected an amendment to the Department of Agriculture Supply Bill which sought to provide funds for the continued operation of Agricultural Experiment Stations in Alaska. It was voted down, said an Associated Press despatch from Washing- ton, “because Hyde said the stations were too far north to justify the expense.” The Matanuska experiment station, which was specifically mentioned in the despatch, is in the heart of the valley of that name. It south of the Alaska Range. Tt is located in a region typical of agricultural areas lying along the Alaska Rail- road between Anchorage and the Alaska Range In the Tanana Valley are other extensive areas of farming lands adjacent to the Government-owned railroad. Some two or three years ago, the management of the road, with the approval of the Interior De- partment which is in charge of its operation, realiz- ing that profitable operation could be made possible only through the upbuilding of permanent popula- tion, launched an aggressive campaign for settlement by homesteaders of the regions suitable for farming. Since that time it has expended a not inconsider- able sum for salaries and expenses of one or two who have canvassed wide parated agri- communities in the States seeking to interest the right kind of individuals in Alaska farm lands. As a result’ of 'this drive,” a 'respectable num- ber of new scttlers have been attracted to the districts and have taken up homesteads. If Secretary Hyde is correct in his contention that the Matanuska Experiment Station is too far north to justify the expenses of operation, then Seccretary of Interior Wilbur has wronged those induced to transport themselves and families from the States, at no little expense to themselves, to the same region. Both cannot be right. If it is not good public policy, which is or ought to be the con- trolling reason for the expenditure of public funds, even to conduct agricultural experiments because they are too costly to be justified by the benefits obtained, then it is reprehensive public policy to expend public funds to induce private individuals to g0 to the same place to try to make a living off the very same industry. If the Government cannot afford experimentation in the industry, than no private individual can afford to undertake it from a practical standpoint. We believe that Secretary Hyde has undervalued the benefits of the work that the stations in Alaska have done, i the part they are playing velopment an agricultural industry in Alaska which will make it in a large measure sclf-sustaining. His opposition is serious, as is shown by the fact that the House based its rejection of the amendment upon it alone. The fact that those in charge of the work of the stations submitted estimates and in recommended appropriations to cover them indicates | they do not share the Secretary’s view as to exces- sive costs. Apparently he has reached that con- clusion on his own account and is arbitrarily hold- ing to it without regard for consistent Defeat in the House is, naturally, discouraging. It should not, however, wholly dishearten Alaskans seeking to preserve the stations intact. The fight should be transferred to the Senate and waged there more vigorously than ever, since in it rests the last chance to prevent the killing of a work that is really vital for the progress of agriculture in the Territory and means a great deal to those who, trusting the Federal Government to play fair and square wih them, have invested all they have in homesteads in the Territory NOW WE KNOW WHY. In his “Inside Story of the Harding Tragedy,” former United States Attorney General Harry M. Daugherty speaks up boldly in his own behalf. He was not dismissed from of becouse of any official shortcomings on his part. No, indeed! Any idea to that effect gained by the country at large is based upon lack of knowledge of the true situation. Mr. Daugherty was the victin of a Soviet plot. The Reds, sensing that he was the greatest menace to their proselyting in the United States successfully ‘conspired to drag him down from his high estate. Back in 1922, says the ex-Cabinet officer's new book, ‘the Reds plotted the immediate overthrow of this ‘republic angd the inauguration of a government pat- terned after Russia’s. He enacted the role of Horatius at the bridge and saved the nation. In revenge the Bolsheviks brought about his persecu- tion and downfall. Now that the nation is enlight- ened it should not delay in adding the head of the “Ohio Gang” to its list of martyrs. AN INCENTIVE TO -STUDY. The George Washington Bicentennial Celebra- tion this year brings a special incentive to youthful a y of the early history of the republic, nely foreword to the FaE. TO BE LARGER the de- | ’mmon booklet | clamatory, ‘0 block Hoover, one of the most | PHYSIOTHERAPY — " —— | ssued to schools by the Bicentennial Mr. Hoover. Now it appears noth- T————. it | Commission which describes the organization and ing of the sort will happen. PROFESSIONAL Fraternal Societies |fixes the regulations governing the nationwide de- The d"‘(;"’p:‘e"‘ i‘s interesting FOREST . " |' ol"S essay and oratorical contests it is spon- | when considered against this back- = 3 \ n : i ;round: When the Insurgent Sen- *|| Gastineau Channc} soring. Others, including Dr. William John™ Cooper, | A g H | e United States Commissioner of Education, and Sol. | g S e d OOD elene W L Albre(:ht | — | | Bloom, Associate Director of the Commission, wrote |commendatory prefaces to the booklet. | Mr. Hoover's short article to young America | follows: Celebration of the two hundredth anni- versary of the birth of George Washington brings to our million teachers and thirty- | two million school children a special in- | centive to fresh study of the formative period of the nation. So rich and vivid is the record that the founders live again in the epic of laying the foundations of the re- | public. Washington as the central figure | kindles our imagination as the embodiment of the courage, idealism and wisdom which | transformed scattered and dependent colonies | into a free and indcpendent nation. The i | neritage of freedom which we enjoy had its beginning in the spirit and deeds of Wash- [ The study of that bright page of our i history will quicken our patriotism and deep- en our devotion to the land we love. Even when Huey Long goes to Washington to| taks his seat as Senator, he retains his proprietary hold on the gubernatorial job in Louisiana. We thought when he was elected to the Senate Louisiana would get a new deal from the Statehouse. an tourist trade to Canada, says a news Amer {item, has taken a drop. And as that is one of the main reasons the American tourist goes to| |canada we suppose he was pleased with the trip. | First to Be Eilected. | (New York Times.) | A woman now sits in the United States Senate |by right of election, Mrs. Caraway of Arkansas. She |stood at the polls in her State against two male lopponents and, in a light vote, was easily the win- ner. For a few weeks she was a member of the Senate by appointment of the Governor—the second |woman thus to serve. But with the mandate of the ‘pcnple of Arkansas behind her, Mrs. Caraway heads a new category and encourages women in the belief {that many will join it in years to come. | In a larger sense, however, the election of Mrs. |Caraway has not yet demonstrated that a woman can enter the political lists on the same terms with men and survive the primaries and the election | to take her seat in the Senate. In the House of Representatives this has happened frequently. But there were sentimental considerations to aid Mrs. Caraway which moved the machinery of her elec- tion for the term which ends in March, 1933. If she should be a candidate for re-election, and should be successful the qualification could no longer be made. For the chivalric impulse which prompted the Governor, the Democratic State Committee and finally a percentage of the voters of Arkansas to permit the female Caraway to serve out the term to which the male member of the family was elected could not be stretched so far. That would be a four- | square test, as was Mrs. Ruth Hanna McCormick’s lin Iilinois. Her husband's position ‘as Senator con- |tributed to the success of her first candidacy for Representative at Large from Illinois. When she ran for the Senate and won the nomination she| wasu@appealing on her own personaity and record. Any male candiddte would probably have been de- feated by James Hamilton Lewis in Illinois in 1930, yet Mrs. McCormick's failure postponed the electoral test of a woman Senate aspirant in the broad sense. If Mrs. Ruth Bryan Owen should file in Florida, and win, she could legitimately lay claim | to having made political history for her sex. It is believed in Arkansas that, even though Mrs. Caraway's succession was put on a basis of chivalry and family feudalism, she will prove herself as competent and useful as most of the members of the Senate. Everything that she has done indicates that this home opinion is accurate. In Jonesboro some one said: “Hattie is as witty as Thad was. But she leaves the sharp things unsaid.” The Foreign Bogy. (New York World-Telegram.) Some one should debunk the idea that foreign debts and securities are chiefly responsible for America’s troubles. To hear Senator Hiram John- son and our isolationists talk one would think no- body ever lost anything on domestic American in- vestments, i | Of course the American public at the moment | {is looking for a scapegoat. One day it is President Hoover. The next day it is the international bank- ers. Then it is Mr. Hoover and the international bankers, the charge being that they led us astray into foreign investments. As for the bankers, they certainly showed little judgment and less leadership in failing to halt |the boom market. Nevertheless the fault went much deeper. It is the whole boom psychology. The public, which wanted to get rich quick, was basically to blame. The investing public in the period 1927-29 was extremely bullish on everything. Foreign securities {were only a small item in the total. When we rub the bumps on our heads from foreign losses, we might remember also the losses at home-—the vacant office buildings and idle fac- |tories reflected in depreciated real estate bonds (and industrial stocks. The point that the isolationists miss is that for- eign depression means American depression, and American depression means foreign depression. It will do no good to curse Europe for faults we share and conditions for which we are jointly responsible. American prosperity depends in part on foreign trade and foreign investments. American peace depends on international co-operation. Still Thundering! (New York World-Telegram.) Here is Bishcp James Cannon, Jr., laying down the law to both parties, telling them they must both the Eighteenth Amendment.” Nor is the applause by any means confined to the South Richmond -(Va.) Federation of Men's |Bible Classes, before whom the Bishop's commands were issued. Scandal, rebuke, indictment seem powerless to| quiet this amazing dictator or to lessen by one iota the arrogance of his orders to all and sundry. Apparently nothing discredits a dry—in dry eyes! In international affairs, as you may have gleaned from the debates in the nation’s capital, the holiday |comes after the debts. In every-day life, however, |it's vice versa.—(Boston Herald.) There are two kinds of Americans: Those who have loaned money to’Europe and those who don't care a whoop whether Europe sinks or swims.— (Akron, Ohio, Beacon Journal.) One reason why the old-timers survived hard- ship was because they depended on Providence in- stead of Congr |Running for President “nominate men for President who belicve in| - RANDOM By BYRON PRICE (Chief of Bureau, The Associated Press, Washington) ‘The Presidential handicap con- tinues to furnish one reminder af- ter another that it is money, after all, that makes the political mare go. And that sort of provender, ir case you havne't noticed it, is ex- ceedingly hard to lay hands on at the present stage of the proceed- ings. A good many men are talked of for the Presidency, but the list of actual entries is surprisingly scant nowadays isn't done on a shoestring. A third of the states have. pri. mary laws, which means a candi- date cannot simply deal with the leaders, but must get this message down to grass-roots in the far literature—it runs into money. Wishes For A Million “If 1 only knew where I could get a million dollars, I'd try it sighed one aspirant not long ago. That may sound like an extrava- gant wish, but in other times it would have been easy. During the flush years, almost anyone with ¢ national reputation could find a sponsor willing to gamble a million on him, for real stakes. It is safe to say that some of those who eventually landed in the White House probably never would have made a serious campaign i’ they had had a raise funds under present conditions. The parties themselves are feel- ing the pinch terribly. The Repub- lican treasury is empty, and the Democrats are far in the hole. That is why money talked so loudly in taking both national con- ventions to Chicago. The Hoover Republicans really wanted to go te Cleveland. The Roosevelt Demo- crats, and some other Democrats, really wanted to go to Kansas City But in both cases Chicago said it with the biggest bonus check, and Chicago it was, with cheers. Eye North Dakota The early bird of primary states North Dakota, seems certain to contribute a lot of interesting chirps to the 1932 medley, in one way or another. The March 15 primary will be watched not only because of the test among those candidates who! go in, but because of the possible intentions of those who stay out. Senator Frazier, for instance, Some weeks ago it looked certain; that he would run for President in his home state, with the hope of keeping the delegation away from PSR Gl Sy ) Juneau Public Library Free Reading Room | City Hall, Second Floor Main Street and Fourth Reading Room Open From 8a m to 10 p. m. Circulation Room Open from 1 to 5:30 p. m.—7:00 to 8:30 p. m. Current Magazines, Newspapers, Reference, Books, Ete. FREE TO ALL i ) PRINTING precincts. Headquarters, traveling, £ STATIONERY BINDERY GEO. M. SIMPKINS COMPANY nfluential strongly urged that none »f them take any part in any pri- mary. That, he argued, would divest| them of responsibility for the re- sults, and leave them free to go over to the Democrats or form 2 Third party, as they might decide. Hasty inferences are hazardous." but at least what Frazier does| about this will be worth watching. | Senators Have Troubles Although Senators, for some rea- son unexplained, nearly always are head over heels in Presidential pol- jtics, it should not be supposed they have no interests elsewhere. /-two of them are up for on themselves this year, and the list contains some distinguished names. TThere are Watson of Indiana, the Republican leader, whose state a swift flipflop toward the ‘Democrats in the 1930 congres- sional elections; Smoot of Utah Whose opponent may be Democrat- leyGovernor Dern, hitherto an effe- tive vote-getter; Davis of politically ‘disturbed Pennsylvania; Moses of New Hampshire, which has just ziven a Republican house seat to the Democrats. 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