The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 4, 1932, Page 4

i § T s TR e s LI TREE PLANTING PART OF MEMORIAL. the birth of George' B THE-DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, THURSDAY, FEB. 4,.1932.. BRI o A oy ovvo = Daily Alaska Empire } JOEN W. TROY - - - EDITOR AND MANAGER Published every evemng except Sunday by the | EMPIRE_PRINTING COMPANY at Second and Main | Streets, Juneau, Alaska. | Entered In the Post Office In Juneau as Second Claas‘ matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Dellvered by carrier In Juneau, Douglas, Treadwell nnd Thane for $1.25 per month. | he following rates: six months, In advance, By mall, postage paid, at One year, in advance, $12 $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 deliv their papers. Telephone for Editorial and Business Offices, 374. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATEL PRESS. Press is exclusively entitled to the ion 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. ALASKANS' RIGHTS. RE-AFFIRMING The statement of Alaska’s case against locking up Admiralty Island as a sanctuary for brown bear | which was adopted recently by the Chamber u[‘ Commerce, sets up facts sufficient to kill that project for all time if the case is settled upon its merits. It is a conservative pressntation of the | subject—too conservative if there is any room at all for criticism. | It properly assures the Senate Committee n)\w Conservation of Wild Life Resources that Am:.kd.n.\‘ subseribs to the principle of protecting the wild | life of the Territory, more particularly the brown | and grizzly bears. Local people, more than anyone else, have a realization of their value to,Alaska. And they are in the best position to properly evaluate | their importance in its relation to the other natural resources of the Territory and their place in Alaska's development. They have a large place, and no informed person would undertake to deny it to them. Already great areas of the Territory have been set aside from use by the public to protect the bears and other forms of wild life—areas larger than some of the Eastern States that support large industrial populations. All of the evidence—as con- trasted to the propaganda spread abroad to incite| the fears of the uninformed and easily alarmed conservationists — supports the Chamber's position that present protective adequate to insure the perpetuation of the species invoived in the controversy. Even Stewart Edward White has on at least one occasion admitted that to be factually true. This evidence is more fully covered by the Chamber’s statement than has yet been done by | any authority. It should be sufficient to block this latest move that is sponsored by Lawyer Sportsman Holzworth. measures are IN SUPPORT OF DON MARQUIS. Usually we are inclined to be fearful of persons who would become dictators. They are generally ill- mannered, bumptious, egotistic individuals who find no good in any thing, institution or their fellow men. On:z can't meet them in a familiar plane because they know no plane except the ones they occupy and there’s no room on them for anyone except the dictators. There seems to be an excsption to this rule. Hey- wood Broun, columnist for the New York World Telegram and onetime politician, brings it to light in the platform of Don Marquis, another former Park Row habitant who now cavorts in Hollywood. Mr. Broun gives publicity to his former colleague's platform at some length. The concluding paragraph is worthy of support, we think. It follows: It is not my intention to command any specific way of life. But I do have an ideal of my own. I should like to see every man in America privileged, if he so desires, to sit all day long, every wintry day, in front of an open wood fire, with a good book in his hand, his feet in a bucket of hot water, with a quart of Bourbon whiskey with hoarhound candy in it nearby, and in sum- mer time he should have a hammock near the mint bed. No Government or general system of life is worth a good damn unless it contributes o the happiness of the indi- vidual who pays for it. Translate the wood fire and the hammock into whatever terms Pplease you the most—I am merely stating my personal ideal. DOLLAR SIZES AGAIN LARGER. The New York Times in a recent editorial which is reprinted in an adjoining column points out v,hav. although the national wealth in 1929 was about twice, in dollars, what it was in 1912, it wasn't actually twice as large. We had more dollars as a nation, but the 1929 dollar had shrunk materially in size. That is, the 1912 dollar applied to the purchase of either necessities of life or for lux'uries, went a good deal farther in 1912 than in 1929, Prices soared as wages and income ascended to new lofty heights. Of course, its reasoning is sound. By the same process of logic the 1932 dollars | Convention begin to congest the traffic. | luxuries |ed from the |omitted to note that they were smaller dollars. | measuring the growth of our national wealth since iwhat it meant |wealth in dollars was 186 billions in 1912 and 362 | billions splendid success since to date more than 9,000,000 trees have been planted and the campaign is con- tinuing. The Association’s efforts deserves wholehearted |support from everyone. For decades the nation's trees were cut down to meet its industrial needs without a great deal of thought being taken about |replacement to meet the demands of future genera- tions. In recent years this attitude has given way to a saner viewpoint, and the country has besn m("ldl]} forging ahead with reforestation. Thus the Washington Bicentennial tree planting not only provides worthwhile memorials to our First | President but it serves to arouse Americans to the need of increasing their tree supply, and in a prac- tical way demonstrates how it can be done. When candidates for party offices such as Na- tional Committeeman and Delegates to the National it is usually the sign that the party so honored top dog. These offices pay no salaries and are expensive if they are efficiently filled. Thers is littie glory in them, but sometimes the encumbents are given seats in the patronage bandwagon. Hence their occasional popularity. is Thi peace meeting that has just convened in ay as well as adjourn and send its dele- gates back home if Japan doesn’t desist from its warlike maneuvers against China. Dollar Sizes. (New York Times) Mr. Coolidge diagnoses a bad case of national swelled head when he curtly reports “we have found that we were not so big as we thought we were.” It is now easy enough to see in how many ways we failed to show ourselves really big. We let suc- cess go to our heads. We gave free rein to the gambling instinct and the acquisitive instinet. We |believed ourselves the complete masters of our fate, whereas we were only riding the waves of circum- stance. We boasted that we had entered upon a INew Era, and with a glow of satisfaction which sug- gested that we had invented it. We declaimed |about the new miracle of Maes Production. To sum it up, we failed in the traits of self-criticism and self-control by which the grown man is dlstlnguish- child. We were not really big. We were only, as it now turns out, “So Big.” In one instance of actual concrete bigness we went sadly wrong. We developed wrong ideas about the size of our dollars. We rejoiced that there were many more dollars around than formerly, but In the years before the war we often failed to re- member that the dollar in 1928-29 did not mean in 1912, We grew more and more fond of assessing our national wealth. This was partly due to the influence of the war, which fam- iliarized the entire world with the ideas of national wealth and national income as the background for taxes and reparations and war debts. We need not read 100 per cent accuracy into the estimates of our national wealth issued at intervals by the Census Bureau or by private experts. They were a proper | enough basis for comparisons. These we proceedad to make, and when we learned that our national in 1929 the indicated increase seemed to| justify the adjective “unprecedented.” We seldom | stopped to think that our 1929 wealth if stated in 1912 dollars would show a considerable shrinkage. We might then have discovered that the rate of our increase in wealth during this period, while not- able indeed, was scarcely unprecedented, and might even be found to have been surpassed in the first decade of the present century. | In more or less definite form the belief that we were living in an age of “unprecedented” billions spread among the people. It entered into the fancy of that New Era wherein our well-being was to o on multiplying at previously unheard-of speed. Te- day the people are being educated to the necessity of getting on with fewer dollars, but are also learn- ing that today’s dollars are bigger than three years ago. Had people weighed their dollars as well as counted them in the years before 1929, they might not have gone in for “riding too high,” as Mr. Coolidge puts it. A;oint for Americans. (Cincinnati Enquirer.) It is not unlikely that the voters of America soon will be facing the same problem that the Government of Finland {s wrestling with now— namely the framing of a 14w to regulate instead of prohibit the use of liquors. In that circumstance, Americans cannot watch too closely the approach ithe Finns are making to this extremely intricate problem. Foremost of all the factors which the Finns are stressing is the control of profits in the manufacture and distribution of liquor. They are framing a law that will permit the making and sale of alcoholic drinks without allowing any individual to profit. Profits, such as they are, will revert to the State. It will be to no one’s advantage to encourage the consumption of liquor. The most important point has several advantages. By taking the profit motive out of the liquor traffic, it is designed to prevent entrenched liquor interests from pressing liquor on individuals who cannot af- ford it or are likely to be demoralized by it. And it assures that all revenues from the business go to the public purse, where they can be used in the common welfare. - In all the discussion of Prohibition repeal, this point has been overlooked almost completely in America. Yet it is the one factor which the sober- {thinking American is most concerned about. It was not the abuse of liquor by consumers that brought Prohibition in America, but the abuse of power by the makers and sellers of liquor. Sanely regulated, alcoholic drinks can be a gracious lubricant in the social life of the Nation. But mere return of .power over liquor regulation to the individual States—an idea which has attracted many notable leaders—is not a sufficient guarantee that we will have sane regulation. It is time that protagonists of repeal awakened to this vital point. When will American voters be allowed an op- of the nation, much less in number than the 1929 dollars, are larger in size. It doesn't require nearly so many of them now to buy more of any - commodity to be had, any security, even, the most intrinsically sound, and even labor, as it did to buy the same things in 1929. And that is the main reason why buying now is wiser than buying in 1929 was. Our dollars are approaching right now the size of 1912, and we have more of them than we had then. The American Tree Association is one of the organizations that is doing its part in the national observance of the two hundredth anniversary of It is endeavoring to promote tree planting on a nationwide scale to wmm portunity to express their opinion of Prohibition? —(Boston Globs.) “What did man descend from?” asks a headline. Thinking back to 1920 we'd say a high horse— (Wheeling, W. Va., Register.) There is one .thing to be said for Chinese tac- tics; they do not take any chances of attack from the rear.—(Rochester Democrat and Chronicle.) A country that is known for its Prohibition laws seems to be known also for its rackets.—(Buffalo Courier-Express.) It's a poor depression that blows no Gbvern- ment some economy.—(Buffalo Courier-Express.) Some of that Anti-Saloon League oratory also’ rated less than one-half of 1 per cent.—(Indianapolis it keeps the liquor traffic out of politics. Likewise | POLITICS AT RANDOM By BYRON PRICE (Chief of Bureau, The Associated Press, Washington) “What will Borah do?” For more than 20 years, with multiple variations to fit the oe- casion, this question has had a place all its own in national poli- tical speculation. It is so in 1932, No one expects the senior Sena- tor from Idaho to help President Hoover along woward nomination, Few' belive he will himself be an avowed candidaie. And it is hard‘ to visualize him remaining silen’ altogether. The truth is that when you have disposed of these more or less ob- vious negative aspects of the case, even the Senator himself probably could not answer now what his course will be. He would like very much to be President. If he saw a real chance to defeat Hoover for the nomina- tion, he probably would run. The conviction grows that, as matters stand, he will do nothing to stop any movement in his behalf, and little to promote it. In other words, if his friends see fit to enter his name in those pri- mary states where the written con- sent of the candidate is not re- quired by law, it is believed likely- he will keep as quiet as possible, and let public opinion take its course. Keeps 'Em Guessing Borah not a man to make hasty committments nor storm through a campaign burning his bridges behind him. Almost more than any other major figure in politics, today, he in: on com- plete freedom of action. The maxim of “no entangling alliances,” preached so assiduously by him as a rule of national con- duct, is no less a tenet of his own political code. As far back as the Taft-Bryan campaign of 1908, when he was a newcomer in the national scene, he was making and then breaking en- | gagements to speak for the Repub- lican ticket. In 1912 he surprised nearly everyone by refusing to go along with the Roosevelt Bull Moose ticket. Ever since he has seemed ih take a sort of whimsical delight “lef "jn {pectancy la in. keeping ‘the politicians guessing. Much has been said, and truly, the grect effect of Secretary Mellon’s declaration « for Hoover Just as the Kansas City convention was assembling in 1928. Many forgot there was a time managers were looking anxously toward an entirely different wing of the party, and then sighing with relief when a fully satisfactory re- ply made to the “what will Borah do?” was Watches His Step The question of what he will do to aid the drive of the insurgents against another Hoover nomination is one which Borah himself is noc yet prepared to answer. Hiram Johnson and all the others mentioned as insurgent candidates have stood with Borah on many issues. In 1920 Borah's voice was one of the most inssient in favor on’s nominewon, just as in 1928 it was a powcr for Hoover. But there has been disagree- ments, too, of a kind well-known to all those on the inside in na- tional politics. The ccnnection be- tween Johnson and Borah is looked upon by most politicians as one of those bonds upon which little ex- can be placed. has put nimself rather in the attitude of having been able to step off the Hoover reservation without setting foot on any one's else. “What Will He Do?” Then there is the question what he will do about the projected third party, if any. He refused to follow either Roos2- velt or La Follette when they bolted, but there is no question ne has been listening to those who say neither the Republicans nor the Democrats can work out a west-winning ° combination this, year. He is listening, and considering, —and sending his conferees away ng one another “what will he h do? S e DAILY EMPII!E ‘WANT ADS FAY HOLLYWOOD STYLE SHOP SARGON PRINTING STATIONERY BINDERY l GEO. M. SIMPKINS COMPANY That Overhaul JOB Come in and see us about our SPECIAL WINTER MONTH OVERHAUL PRICES CONNORS MOTOR CO., Inc. SARGON PILLS Butler Mauro Drug Co. 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