The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 15, 1932, Page 4

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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. IGLOO’S PROTEST PRAI A recent edition of the New York World-Tele- gram, a Scripps Howard daily newspaper, under the caption, “The Igloo Speaks” commented editorially as follows: Without knowing just what the Pioneers of Alaska are, we are struck by the sturdy tone of a letter they addressed to Bishop James Cannon, Jr. It comes from the Ket- chikan Igloo and breaths a warmth of con- viction that belies the Arctic surroundings from which it issued. The Bishop, it appears, spoke before a House Committee against the repeal of the Alaska bone-dry act. “The Igloo vigorously protests against your presumptuous interference in a matter which is wholly the business of the residents of the Territory,” the letter reads. “In what way are you qualified to speak on this question, and who requested you to do so? It appears to us voluntary and unwarranted imperti- nence on your part, and as such we unhesi- tatingly condemn it.” This has the tang of the real pioneer, the voice of men unaccustomed to be goose- stepped or intimidated. There are distances too great for the club of the militant minority to reach, and for |lected $359,816,254 in cigarette taxes. In the same |vear, the manufacturers’ total income was $105,- |168,112. In 13 States, an additional tax is placed on the cigarette. Arkansas with a five-cent per package |tax, and Tennessee with four cents, almost equal the Federal levy. Alabama has a 15 per cent tax and Georgia levies 20 per cent. Nine other States have two and three-cent levies. Naturally, when more taxes are added, the in- dustry is bound to suffer. Smokers will buy “tailor mades” only as long as the cost is reasonable. The manufacturers cannot absorb any material increase in cost through taxation which must be passed on to the consumer. When he ceases to buy, the reve- nues which now constitute one of the Federal Gov- ernment’s sources of income will quit flowing into the Treasury. Secretary Hurley didn't do anything to further the interests of the War Department when he walked out of the Senate Committee hearing dis- cussing the future of the Philippines. For a political spellbinder Prince Pat came off a poor second best in his encounter with Senator King. The Republican political fire staged coincident with the Lincoln Birthday celebration wasn't made any more impressive because of the Dry tinge which has pervaded the party’s ammunition depot under the Hoover regime. Mr. Baker Returns to the Picture. (New York Herald Tribune.) Mr. Newton D. Baker must once more be regard- ed as an important factor in the race for the Demo- cratic Presidential nomination. This is the inter- pretation generally given in political circles to his statement released for publication yesterday after he sailed for Vera Cruz. No other interpretation seems to us possible; for his utterance bears every earmark of careful deliberation and an intention to restore its ;maker to the race from which he had eliminated himself by his insistent advocacy of the League of Nations. Thus comes unexpectedly an important |change in the national political picture. For a time Mr. Baker, the choice of powerful lmleresm opposed to Governor Roosevelt, made rapid progress as a possible nominee. Then he began publicly to reiterate his faith in the League as an international instrument which this country should join. Since sentiment in this country was running more strongly against the League than ever, his attitude caused him to fade as an outstanding pos- sibility. : Now Mr. Baker takes great pains to remove from the minds of all who may be interested any impres- sion that his nomination would hurry America into the League. He doesn't even want a League plank in the Democratic platform. The League should not be a partisan issue. “I would not take the United States into the League, if I had the power to do so, until there is an informed and convinced majority sentiment in favor of that action in the United States.” These words—and the further de- claration that any opinion he may have as to Am- erica’s relationship to the League must be looked upon simply as that of a private citizen—were un- men used to a way of living in which mistakably uttered with _Lhe hope of relieving the individual initiative is essential to the speaker of the burden which advocacy of the League maintenance of life itself, such efforts as inevitaby imposes upon any candidate for public Bishop Cannon’s to dragoon them into meek office. acceptance of the yoke of the Anti-Saloon | League must rouse such resentment as their letter bespeaks. The Ketchikan Igloo's vigorous words represent a sentiment that is overwhelming in the Territory. Alaskans, who are as well acquainted with Bishop Cannon’s odoriferous political record as anyone else, do not see in him any fitness, moral or other- wise, that would induce them to accept him as a guide in matters either temporal or spiritual. And the resentment of his intrusion in this matter which concerns Alaskans solely is widespread throughout Alaska. The protest of the Ketchikan Pioneers was time- ly. 1It, apparently, attracted more than passing notice, and most of the attention it created was favorable. VESUVIUS SULKING. Naples is alarmed. Mt. Vesuvius, the world's most famous volcano, has gone on a strike—her internal fires are darkened. Neapolitans, accustomed to their pillars of fire and columns of smoke and the sinister groanings, grumblings and growlings of the historic mountain of flame, are perturbed by its peculiar behavior. The volcano went out of active business with earthquake and explosive accompaniment. Scientists have been unable to account for its vagaries. Some centuries ago Pompeii, Stablae and Her- culaneum were destroyed by a titanic explosion of Vesuvius in 79 A. D, and in December of 1631, 18,- 000 lives were wiped out by another convlusion of the monster. No disaster since then has overtaken those who have dared to challenge its flames and fumaroles. But people who live under its shadow are wondering if the ragged old colossus is not taking a day off in order to get ready to inflict punishment on those who have gone about their daily lives in seeming mockery of its power. BLOCKING UNSOLICITED BUSINESS. A measure was recently introduced in the Senate by Senator Hayden, Arizona, that is designed to put an end to the sending by mail of unsolicited merchandise. Such merchandise, the bill provides, ‘would be declared nonmailable and when deposited in the mails would not be delivered to the addressee but would be returned to the sender chaiged with fails to pay the return postage the merchandise would be turned over to the Dead Letter Office for disposal. There is a big volume of merchandise, not ordered, as regular mail matter in being delivered to the addressee. It is the worst one of the mail order evils. Senator Hayden's bill will have the support of all legitimate business organizations and of most In the face of this elaborate explanation, Mr. Baker's “No” when asked by the ship news reporters if he were a candidate has little significance. It means doubtless that he will not go after delegates with a brass band. But no one expected that he would. His friends are now free to act, and they can be counted upon to go to work with a will. Mr. Baker's return to the pioture will be widely welcomed. The pity is that he ever felt it necessary to handicap his candidacy with such a hopelessly unpractical and doomed issue as American entrance into the League. Changeless. (Boston News Bureau.) Sometimes poets and musicians by some flash of insight catch a pretty clear perception of social or political or even economic truths. It may be just through their intuitive imagination, of the sort which gave Goethe so true a vision of the Italy he had not visited. Thus it is that Paderewski turns economist mo- mentarily and on arriving in New York attributes a major part of the world’s present woes to greed and envy. These he sees as roots of several social disorders manifesting themselves mostly in economic ways, among which he includes an overdoing of instalment buying, as inspired by an undue envy of the luxury of the rich, and as fostered by mer- chants’ greed and as leading on thereby to the over- production malady. He would have us all revert to simplier living. There will of course be retort that “deferred pay- ments” are here singled out for an unwarranted share of such blame; but possibly these emotions themselves, as manifested in many other ways in our complex living, could still be held responsible for much of our excesses of cupidity and also |gullibility of the recent dramatic past. Nor is that story really a new one, Let a poet—of the long ago—also testify. He wrote around 1430, just about five centuries since. And the interesting thing is that he started off with those same traits of greed and envy in his list of five qualties the permanent extirpation of which would ensure perpetual peace—in a time when feuds were many. What Petrarch then said of Italian princes comes to mind as our peace dele- gates to Geneva land on the other side. It has also its obvious economic flavor,—just as the five billions spent yearly on armament have an econ- omic significance. Add another commentator who claims to be neither poet nor fiddler—Calvin Coolidge. Note the emphasis he puts on that initial quality of “greed” in his current American Magazine article on the origins of our economic malaise. And how he also extolls a simpler living. Human nature hasn't altered much in five cen- turies; also, as Chairman Wiggin rather intimated a while ago, it isn't apt to change much in the next five—or in fifty, We suppose that the Finns had become so used to bootleg liquor that when they got the real stuff they had to spike it with wood lye, insect of the patrons of the Postal Department, many of - whom have been inconvenienced by the nuisance. TAXING THE SMOKER. In considering the revenue problem, Congress should be slow to add to the already high rate that ~ is now assessed against cigarettes. Under the cur- rent schedules, each package of 20 cigarettes pays a six-cent tax to the Federal Government. During the four years, 1927 to 1930, the largest for which definite figures are available, the income to the exterminator and rat poison to keep it from tast- ing flat.—(Okhio, State Journal) More Japanese warships have been sent to China to see that the Chinese buy Japanese ‘goods, a trade device showing how a little help from higher up blasts the way for the boys on the road.— (Indianapolis News.) Secretary Mills appealed to the people to take the added taxation burdens with a smile, and immediately handed him the horse laugh.—(Dayton, Ohio, News.) You'll have to give Japan credit for one thing. she starts out “to restore order” she doesn't pick on a littlé Central American republic—(Bos-|| e PRI RGBT LIS T Ex-Mud Village Is Center of Recent developments reveal Italy and Russia as rival wooers of Turkey. That the Mussolini influence is already strong in the Republic is illustrated by Turkish Boy Scoutls’ use of the Fascist salute. Above are Maxim Litvinoff (left), Russian Foreign Minister, and Ismet Pasha, Turkish Premier. They are exchanging diplomatic visits. | {pave( the way for establishing dip- ANGORA, Feb. 15—A mud vil- | lomat lations between his coun- lage nine years ago, Mustxpha!"y and Russia with Turkey acting Kemal's rebuilt capital is mnow|®$ ltermediary. finding a place in the sun of in Rumania, too, is reported to be ternational prestige. seeking the good offices of Turkey Soviet Russia, Italy and the Bal- | iR seitling her differences with the kan countries are sending envoys SOVie : and invitations to Angora, courting | these circumstances, Mus- the favor of the young mpub“c\tapm Kemal’'s recognition of the of Turkey. King Zog government in Albania Close on the heels of the second |l1elped Turkey's position, especially Balkan conference, which held its| With Italy, which is Albania’s ally tinal meeting here, the soviets com- | missar for foreign affairs, Maxim Litvinoff, sped to Angora. Russia knows that if a Balkan federation ! is formed, Mustapha Kemel will| probably be its president. By Prinscilla Ring Sahara Desert Gas Dump Is Scene of Air Congress PETROL TIN 5, Sahara Desert, Balkan Diplomatic Maneuvers| He is already the biggest figure, with Eleutherios Venizelos of Greece a close second, in the affairs of the Near East and the Balkans The second Balkan conference. had scarcely ended, in fact, when simultaneous invitations came from ! Rome and Moscow to the Turkish, premier, Ismet Pasha, requestmg‘ Feb. 15—An international air con- ference has just been held nere. Eight airmen landed simultane- ously at this remote spot, which is one “of the- gasoline dumps main- tainedf aloang the airways to Tim- buctoo, Twe@ were Britishers flying to the honor of a visit. 1:Aran m Gao, on the Niger. Three Turkey is no bashful debutante in | Othets also were from Gao, two diplomacy. She accepted both m_;werg from Oran and the eighth was vitations. May 1 has been definite- & Pilot of the Trans-Saharan air- ly set for the arrival of Ismet Pasha |1N¢, Who had made a forced land- in Moscow, and he will be accompa- | i€ and waited alone five days for nied by Tewfik Rushdi Bey, the Someane fo turn up. minister for foreign affairs. | Y R e 1 A Turkey's premier 1s shrewd and Wide doors for automobiles in- active. He recently made friend- Vented by an Ttalian open from ship-cementing visits to Athens and | ¢ither end, being mounted on locks Budapest and is expected to fortify that also serve the purpose of Turkey's already strong position hinges. when he calls upon Mussolini and g Stalin next spring. 1 The Balkan powers also have not | . SEE YURMAN been slow in recognizing the signi- ' New !;“' Garments in ficance of these developments. Close | ew Styles ¥ on the heels of Litvinoff the Bulga- | | Cleaning, Repairing, Remodeling rian prime minister came to An-| | Yurman, the Furrier gora. | Triangle Building His conversations here may have | e. PAINT. PREG | DECORAI:;?VG STATIONERY | : KALSOMINING BINDERY : ESTIMATES FURNISHED | FREE First Class Work Guaranteed J. W. MEYERS TELEPHONE 2552 GEO. M. SIMPKINS COMPANY FOR INSURANCE See H. R. SHEPARD & SON Telephone 409 B. M. Behrends Bank Bldg. sy A Rocking Horse makes motion but no progress. If you are to be progressive you must not only work but you must save your earnings. ’ WE PAY o INTEREST compounded semi - annually upon savings ac- counts. While you work make your dollars work. One Dollar or more will open a Savings Account The B. M. Behrends Bank Orpest BANk v ALASKA @ FOREST wWOooD RIDGEGROWN HEMLOCK Cut Ary Length $4.25 per load DRIHEARTS—Free of knots for ranges, kindling, etec. 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