The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 2, 1932, Page 4

PRI RS R .. | UEHBUES T HHBHTH BT BE UL BB B T Ll i T¢ Ja e cs THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 2, 1932. Daily Alaska Empire JOHEN W. TROY - - - EDITOR AND MANAGER | Sunday by _the t Published every evemng excep! £ EMPIRE_PRINTING COMPANY at Second Streets, Juneau, Alaska. Entered In the Post Office In Juneau as Second Class matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Dellvered by carrier In Juneau, Douglas, By mall, postage paid, a e follo '3 One year, In nd\‘:xnfs. !12“(‘;‘15‘22 months, in advance, 6.00; one month, in advance, 4 ) Subscribers will confer a favor if they will promptly notify the Business Office of any failure or irregularity in the delivery of their papers. B slephone for Editorial and Business Offices, 374. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATEL PRESS, he Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the usI for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not othe credited in this paper and also the local news ‘publ Treadwell and ALASKA CIRCULATION GUAWANTEED TO BE LARGER THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION SENATOR LEWIS POINTS TO PERIL. In a recent radio address, broadcast under the auspices of a Washington, D. C., newspaper, Senator James Hamilton Le predicted a conflict in the not distant future between the United States on » one side and Japan and Russia on the other. jth of those nations, he declared, would not find difficult to discover a pretext for hostilities. His prophecy was made in a review of present nditions in the Orient and possible early future developments there. It is particulalry interesting to Alaskans because the Territory was visioned as the bone of contention with Russia. In this connection Senator Lewis said: Let it be expected that soon America will confront a union of Japan and Russia. This will confront the United States with a de- fiance, and at such hour, my fellow country- men, we will be fortunate if, under the guise of some alleged offense by the United States, Russia will be not incited by influences to seize Alaska, her former posession, now disclosed as rich in all resources. At the same time of this invasion Japan will move to take the Philippines for all their uses. This move, as will be observed surely by all military tacticians, would divide the Ameri- can defenses thousands of miles apart and in these distractions bring us to a point of danger where it is assumed by the Asiatic master that to avoid the results of a con- flict between ourselves and the now com- bined Asia the United States would yield to a new proposed relationship, accepting an international' equality with the new al- liance of Asia. The Illinois solon's prediction is interesting wheth- er it has soundly based, or a highly imaginary picture. And it serves to bring to mind that Alaska is the most defenseless of Uncle Sam's territories. A single two-company infantry garrison comprises the armed forced maintained here by the Govern- ment, Although its strategic position is well recog- nized by American military and naval critics, there is no naval base, no store of supplies for fleets and airplanes to use in case of emergency, and not a single military or naval plane has its station with- cut its boundaries. We are not uneasy about a war with Russia, and sleep soundly without fear of being awakened by the guns of a Japanese squadron of warships. How- ever, the lack of any threat of war should not deter the Government from making proper provision, through skeleton organizations at least, for defend- ing its rich treasure house here should the occasion ever arise. JOTH SENTIMENTAL AND SELFISH. Most of the arguments concerning trading at me have been worn out with constant repetition. t the subject is still a vital and an important e During the past few years there have been im- ¢ ftant changes in merchandising. The argument by most local merchants is mot now so much to trade at home as to trade with the particular type of store that they represent. Mail order business has declined and most of the mail order houses have established their retail outlets. The method of distributing merchandise over the counter, a personal transportation between buyer and seller, was never more firmly established than today. That is a favorable fact for local merchants. The local merchant still has his competition. It is usually in the next town or nearby city. The appeal to people to buy at home must be put upon more than mere sentimental grounds, though there is force to the argument of loyalty to friends, neighbors and customers. Many people in small communities state that they cannot buy as cheaply at home as in some distant point. Sometimes facts bear out this argu- ment. But when people live in a small community they must expect to do business on the basis that is essential to success of business in & smaller town. It is selfish to expect your customers to pay the prices that you ask and yet be unwilling to pay fair prices for what you buy of them. Business must be done at a profit. you must expect to pay one to the other fellow. We are not discouraged about the small town and city. Some folks say that decline of tht smaller centers is inevitable. There is little to prove it. Population is not growing as rapidly in smaller communities as in the cities. But the cities have grown too rapidily—too many of their people have no work. Population is no asset unless that popula- tion is well employed. On every hand there is evidence of improvement in small communities. That improvement consists of better streets, schools, highways, homes and stores. sAnd with all of these things there is a most reason- ing evidence of community loyalty—a spirit which makes for sound development and for general good will 1o trade with you. These are both sentimental and selfish seasons for trading with your neighbors. If you.get a profit yoursen‘ ‘When you trade at home you help other people A TAX ON MANUFACTURES. The Democratic House Ways and Means Com- mittee is officially reported to have definitely agreed upon the levy of a Federal tax on manufactured |goods. This idea was per cent. inues were |the figure is too high since the total | manufactures is based upon reports for 1927. be in the United States. and has a rate of four per cent. | Inevitably the tax will add directly to the of living, but not so much as a general sales which has its influential sponsors in Congress. It, naturally, will be easier to administer than the general sales tax. There would be no easy way for |duplication under it, and unlike special taxes, all industries would be put under it. cost tax Mayor “Jimmy” Walker has been suggested as {the Democratic candidate for Vice-President. In case he were elected, as presiding officer of the Senate he would have a wonderful chance to put some life in the Congressional Record. Senator Moses finds fault with Speaker Garner for saying President Hoover caused the panic. That's nothing to what Moses would have said about Al' Smith if the Brown Derby candidatz had beaten the world's “greatest engineer” in 1928. An Ideal Choice. (New York Herald Tribune.) President Hoover's naming of Judge Cardozo to the Supreme Court is one of those ideal selections for public offices which are all too uncommon. One simple reason for their infrequency is that ideally equipped men are so tragically rare. There was but one respect in which the Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals did not precisely |meet the situation created at Washington by the |resignation of Justice Holmes. That was due to |accidents of geography. Judge Cardozo comes from |a State which has already furnished two members }ur the present court—Chief Justice Hughes and Jus- |tice Stone. Justice Roberts, of Pennsylvania, hails from the same general region. In contrast, the Pacific Coast is without a representative, and so are the Southern and Southwestern districts. But this greatest of courts was not founded upon any theory of local representation any more than it was foundsd upon partisanship. Other things being equal, a President will naturally give weight to questions of geography. Similarly, some degree of | political balance is desirable. But the vital points lare ability and character. In the present situation tha pre-eminence of Judge Cardozo's essential quali- fications became plainer, in our judgment, the more the available material was studied. We rejoice that Mr. Hoover, after due deliberation, has reached the same conclusion and has ignored the lesser con- siderations for the transcending ones. It is seldom that a justice ascends the Supreme Court bench amid such unanimous applause as |greets Judge Cardozo. The reason is not far to seek. |He has been a lifelong laborer for a humane and advancing jurisprudence. Yet he has never been tempted to join those tangential minds which would placed their pet theories of social reform above the orderly development of the law. Learned in ths e-books and the treatises, a philosopher of law and government, Judge Cardozo has again.and again been able to bridge the gap between radical and conservative minds and unite them in a common cause. To name that cause as the maintenance of law, as a living and growing body rather than a list of dead rules, points the way, though it leaves much undefined. Judge Cardozo himself, after expounding in general terms his philosophical approach to the law, once said: I know this is all distressingly vague. between the literalism that is the exalta- tion of the written word and the nihilism that is destructive of regularity and order. Here is an outlok for which, plainly, no shop- worn tag like “liberal” is adequate. The diverse minds which unite in praise of Judge Cardozo point to a more fundamental quality than can be con- tained in any single theory of society. For it the only words are such old-fashioned terms as purity of spirit and nobility of mind. Before such absorp- tion in a task, such devotion to the truth, the dis- putes of politics seem absurdly irrelevant. A coun- try with enough citizens like Judge Cardozo would not know what partisanship meant. ‘The loss to this State is great, but it is gladly to be borne for the sake of the gain to the Federal State of which New York is so large a part. We congratulate the President on his admirable deci- sion and we tender our heartfelt good wishes to Judge Cardozo in his new seat of learning and the law. A Tremendous Battle. (Cincinnati Enquirer.) The American Legion was born of battle, in the turmoil of danger and epic distress. It still is ply- ing its militant way in the interests of humanity’'s cause. It just has entered upon one of its most vital and impressive campaigns — the nationwide campaign to obtain jobs for 1,000,000 unemployed. It will act in cooperation with the American Fed- eration of Labor, the National Association of Ad- vertisers and other organizations represented in the National Employment Commission. In more than 7,000 towns and cities, supported by more than 10,000 posts of the Legion and 30,000 local unions affiliated with the American Federation of Labor, committees will cooperate in the great work of finding jobs for the jobless. This means |something more substantial and more enduring than ill-advised proposals to present the idle with a par- ental Government's dole. American unemployed want jobs, not precarious and dubious Federal charity. ‘The Legion movement has the indorsement and support of President Hoover, William Green, the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America, the National Catholic Welfare Council, the Central Conference of Rabbis, the Benevolent and Pro- tective Order of Elks and other leading church, fraternal and civic bodies. This movement constitutes another of the mighty forces now assembling to crush the national obses- sion of depression. It is a part of the vast co- operative design proposed by President Hoover, who unselfishly is being aided by the ablest men in public life — in politics and in business — without (thought of partisanship. It suggests what might be accomplished in the interests of the nation’s economic and social affairs if the guiding principle of cooperation could be applied in normal time o!f peace as in time of national emergency. It repre- sents true patriotism and sound economics. It seems that a man named Smith is accused of putting a chestnut burr under the donkey's tail right at a time the animal was set to a race.— (Ohio State Journal.) first put forward by the | Petroleum Institute which suggested a tax of one By estimating the value of manufactured products of the country at $60,000,000,000, the reve- estimated at $600,000,000. It may be that value of Such a levy is not entirely new, although it would Canada employs the plan By BYRON PRICE (Chief of Bureau, The Associated Press, Washington) The voice that made “Twenty- four votes for Underwood” famous at Madison Square Garden in 1924 may be heard again when the Dem-* ocrats call the roll in the Chicago stadium next June; for W. 'W. Brandon of Tuscaloosa, again is a candidate for delegate at Jlarge from Alabama. . .. Several mem- bers of the Hoover cabinet already have gone into action on the stump for the glory of the G. O. P. The long reach which Democrats are seeking to give their “victory campaign fund” appeal is showm by a circular distributed by John W .Davis, Democratic party, but “to the cit- izenship of America.” committee met on Lincoln's birth- their slogan for 1932. Minnecsota “urns Back After 12 primary rule, the Republicans of Minnesota will go back this year to the practice of holding a state con- vention to endorse a slate of can- didates and recommend its accept- ance at the later primary. .. An- other father-and-son succession may be in the making at Detroit, where Frank Couzens, son of the Senator and already president of the city council, is being boomed for mayor and groomed for pos- sible later responsibilities still high- er up. The chain of “Young Republi- can” clubs fostered by party head- quarters in Washington now ex- tends pretty well across the country and ambitious plans are afoot for missionary work among the young- er voters set. .. Just as the politi- cal dopesters thought it all settled that Postmaster General Walter Brown would be the new Chair- man of the Republican National Committee, someone started a re- port that the gavel might go to War Secretary Patrick Hurley; President Hoover, who will decide, says nothing and probably hasn't finally made up his mind. " Jerseyite admirers of Joseph P. Tu- multy, who hung up a shingle in Washington after he retired as secretary to Woodrow Wilson, are trying, without apparent success thus far, to induce him to run |for the Senate. Governorship Appeals platforms. Some of the friends of Senator Bronson Cutting are urging himto translate into more formal terms his Republican leadership in New Mexico, and become that state’s member of the National Commit- With the years of crowded thought I have tee. . .. Two of the most-tailored given to the subject I cannot make it more figures in American politics re- precise. The judicial process is one of ceived co-incidental acclaim recent- compromise, a compromise between para- ly when Illinois endorsed Senator doxes, between certainty and uncertainty, James Hamilton Lewis for Presi- addressed, not to the . Senator Borah was nct present nor heard from when the Idaho Republican day and adopted “Elect Hoover” as years of simon pure Porrrics i Rardom about Mayor James J. Walker for Vive-President; whereupon one cor- respondent wrote in to nominate vis and Walker as the best- sed ticket in Democratic his- 13 Candidates Already It may or may not be a prophetic parallel, but on the first ballot of the Democratic Madison Square rumpus in 1924 sixteen presidential candidates had the support of one or more states, whereas 13 such candidates already appear assured of a like support at the convention of 1932... “Uncle Joe” Daniels, who was the Wilson wartime sec- retary of the navy, undoubtedly took a lot of starch and color out of the North Carolina state cam- NUGGET BRIDGE PROBLEM NO. g SOLUTION Problem: If West doubles and is not redoubled what should he lead? If West doubles and is redoubled by North, what should he lead? If West doubles and is redoubled by South, what should he lead? Solution: West should pass—not double. 1f West doubles, the chances are he will never be called upon to lead to Diamonds. Either North or South have been guilty of “Psychic Bids" and either one may switch the suit to another that may mean victory. As a matter of fact, this hand happened, and when West doubled, North became alarmed, bid six Spades and made it, whereas West would have defeated their Diamond contract by three tricks. This rather tricky problem, hesitated to pass on to you, but as it is the only one in the book that exemplifies the incautious double, we decided to use it. The following hand was handed to us by a friend who clipped it from the Washington, (D.C.) Post. If you are one of those who saw it there and the solution, please keep quiet while we give our local talent a chance at it. North: Spades—2. Hearts—9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3. Diamonds—2 Clubs—10, 6, 4, 3. East: Spades—None. | | February crop surveys imhcau'd} Hearts—Q, J, 10. {a bumper production of candidatc Diamonds—10, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3. for governor in most states, and an Clubs—9, 8, 5. impressive percentage of such can- South: didates are making local tax re- Spades—A, K, Q, J, 10, 9. form a paramount plank in their Hearts—A, 2. Diamonds—None. Clubs—A, K, Q, J, 2. West: Spades—8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3. Hearts—K. 'Diamonds—A, K, Q, J, 9. Clubs—1. This freak hand was played at Contract Bridge and South bid six Spades which West doubled; and let a Diamond. How would you play it? THE NUGGET SHOP adv. dent, and New Yorkers started talk by Chry Floating Power The most revolutionary improvement since ‘Four Wheel Brakes. Pioneered sler’ Motors and introduced The sure way to get GETTING ALONG to save some money ALL the time. FOR INSURANCE See H. R. SHEPARD & SON Telephone 409 B. M. 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