The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 12, 1932, Page 4

H i o« "4 THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, SATURDAY, MARCH 12,.1932. Da_i-ly Alaska Emplre JOHN W. TROY - - - EDITOR AND MANAGQ Published _every evemng except Sunday by the EMPIRE_PRINTING COMPANY at Second and Malr Streets, Juneau, Alaska. Entered in the Post Office in Juneau as Second Class matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Dellvered by carrier In Juneau, Douglas, Treadwell ano Thane for $1.25 per month, ik mail, postage paid, at the following rates: one yeam i advanee, $12.00; six nfonths, in advance $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 delivery of their papers. Talephone for Editorial and Business Offices, 374. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATEDL PRESS. The Associated Press is exclusively entitied to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited tc it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein 4 o ALASKA CIRCULATION GUAWANTEED TO BE LARGER THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION ANOTHER “UNIFICATION” PLEA. Long before Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur entered on the scene as Secretary of Alaska there were those who agitated for “unification” of Federal bureaus in Alaska. “Centralized control” became on more than one occ n a shibboleth. Then now when Secretary Wilbur tells Congress that economies can as be effected by putting the Territory into the hands of a single department with an “all-embracing budget,” it was urged that efficiency in administra- tion would be promoted and savings to the Fed- eral Government assured ; The dist shed Secretary of I nf Cong t Federal administration in Alas is “complicated None will dispute his dictum. But it is not different here from any other State or Territory in‘ which the holdings of the Federal authority are as extensive as they are here. The same system of Federal adminisi ion is in vogue here that is to be found all over the country. What- ever complexity is to be found, is due to the over- whelming percentage of Federally held land and resources rather than to any peculiarity in the system itself to distinguish it from the national system. With possibly two exceptions, every Federal agency in Alaska has its counterpart in one or more States or Territories. The exceptions are minor entities insofar as expenditures are concern- ed. Every governmental agency, or bureau, func- tioning in Alaska, except the two—the Alaska Road Commission and the Reindeer Administration—is but a branch of the gigantic system of bureaus that has its vital center in the nation's capital. The Treasury Department is represented by the Customs Service, the Bureau of Internal Revenue and the Coast Guard Service. The Department of Agriculture has many agents, including the Forest Service, Bureau of Public Roads, Weather Bureau, Agricultural Experiment Stations, Biological Survey and possibly others. From the Interior Department we get the Governor's Office, the Secretary of Al- aska, the Bureau of Public Survey, Alaska Rail- road, local and General Land Office agents, the Office of Indian Affairs, Geological Survey. The War Department has the United States Signal Corps, the Alaska Road Commission, United States District Engineer, and the Infantry post at Chil- koot Barracks. The Department of Commerce is represented by the Bureau of Fisheries, Lighthouse Service, Coast and Geodetic Survey, Steamboat In- spection and Bureau of Mines. The Department of Labor gives us the Immigration Service, We have postoffices and the Railway Mail Service under the Post Office Department. From the Department of Justices comes our Federal District and Commission- er’s Courts, United States Attorneys, Marshals and the Prohibition Enforcement Unit. Unification of these heterogenous units under one department might have a tendency to curtail appropriations, but the very nature of the work of most of them would make inevitable a confusion that could not but be disastrous to the Territory. and destroy in a very large measure their useful- ness to the public. Depriving the Forest Service of its contact with its parent in Washington and the facilities afforded it by other branches of the same bureau would make it highly ineffective. And the same result would be felt by virtually every other Federal bureau mentioned. There is a single possible exception. There is no sound reason for the existence of the Prohibition bureau here. The work it does can easily be done by the Marshals and their deputies since they, also, daily . perform services identical with that imposed upon the Pro- hibition agents. Such a consolidation has been re- peatedly urged by the Governor of the Territory but without result. We hope that Congress will not take Secretary Wilbur's comments seriously. About the only sen- e policy for the Federal Government to pursue t desires to reduce its’ecxpenditures here, iS5 to liberalize its policies under which public resources in the Ter v are locked up from the kind of development that made the winning of the West possible, It can't cut costs and at the same time| confinue its own grasp on most of the major re- sources on and under the land surface and those of the sea WETS FAR IN LEAD. At the end of the third week's tabulation in the Literary Digest'’s new Prohibition poll, out of more than 1300,000 ballots counted the repealists were Jeading almost five to one. Their advantage, how- ever, was slightly less than in the preceding week’s tabulation, dropping from more than 80 per cent of the total to 77.39 per cent. . Votes from 24 States were included in the latest figures. Only one of that number had given the Drys a majority. Kansas, where the celebrated Carrie Nation oncg ravaged sgloons with her hatchet, favored retentiop of the Eighteenth Amendment by 2 narrow margin, ‘the gabulx’éon showing 8590 for ow Mississippi, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Vermont, Virginia and West Virginia have given majorities for repeal. As he vote from the rural regions naturally comes in nore slowly than that of urban dwellers, it is to be xpected that the overwhelming percentage of lead ittained in the earlier tabulations will not be main- ained. Some of the States already listed as giving Wet majorities by narrow margins probably will be ound in the Dry column before the poll ends. The West and Far West remains to be heard from. None of the Rocky Mountain or Pacific Coast States is shown in the tabulations of the first hree weeks. The trend, it is clear, is Wet. And he voters of 50 per cent of the States so far listed re declaring it is in' no uncertain fashion. It is reported that Judge, wellknown humorous veekly magazine that coined the “full dinner pail” logan in the McKinley campaign, is about to go nto the hands of receivers. Well, it lasted longer han the full dinner pail at any rate. 1 infers President Coolidge vouldn't run on a platform containing a “dry” eferendum plank. He did it, however, before the eturns from the Literary Digest’s latest poll were forthcoming in numbers. Secretary Pa An engineer predicts that shortly all sidewalks il be made of rubber. What sport the-autoists will have watching the pedestrians bounce when they come down. Q. E. D. (New York Times.) When Governor Roosevelt made his speech in Buffalo demanding the repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment and 'the return to State control of the iquor traffic, all ears were turned to catch the echoes from the Southern States. They have been and still profess to be incurably Dry. They refused o support Smith in 1928 because he was a Wet. They have since almost unanimously transferred their political allegiance to Governor Roosevelt, predict- ing, or hoping, that he would avoid the Prohibition issue altogether. But now that he has announced imself to be fully as Wet as “Al” Smith, what are v saying or proposing to do? Absolutely nothing. ¢ inquirers are told that the Governor's flat- ooted speech against Prohibition will not alienate any of his supporters in the South. They were for him before, and they are still for him. What does this prove? Various things. It shows, no doubt, that Southern politicians are burning with anxiety to win the election this year and get back the offices, and that they are not going to be too scrupulous about ways and means of doing it. But the one truth which above all others has been demonstrated by the present attitude of the Demo- cratic leaders in the Southern States is that their opposition to Governor Smith four years ago was not really for the reason which they gave for it. The ostensible cause was Prohibition. The actual cause was religious bigotry. That was vehemently denied at the time, though the evidence for it was ample and convincing. But now the fact has been irre- futably established. Mr. Smith was rejected with the excuse that he was against Prohibition, though actually it was because he was a Catholic. The same people are now ready and glad to accept Governor Roosevelt, although he is as strongly against Prohibition as Smith ever was. He, however, is not a Catholic The event makes the demonstration complete. It is now established that States which continue to protest that they and their people are as Dry as the Sahara Desert are willing to rally to a can- didate dripping Wet, provided they are not restrain- ed by a religious prejudice which they disavow but which evidently actuates them. Let us hear no more of the claim that the Southern States broke away from Smith in 1928 simply because they were sworn to stand by Prohibition forevermore. Another International Conference. (Cincinnat: €nquirer.) Another proof of the growing international mind- edness of America is contained in news reports from Halifax, N. S. Scenes reminiscent of Geneva are being enacted as rum runners and bootleggers as- semble to discuss peace treaties, competitive prices, territorial rights and other vital issues of the liquor trade. According to one of the spokesmen attending the annual spring conference which, through the irony of coincidence, opened on Washington's Birthday, important problems to be solved included the elim- ination of waste, duplication of effort and graft. One cloud darkens the horizon of amity and good will—Canadian wholesalers have “muscled in” on the Province of Nova Scotia, thereby injuring the trade of rum ships bound for New York and New England. Members of the American League, com- posed of large operators from the United States, are threatening reprisals unless their grievance is adjusted. It is to be hoped that the bootleggers settle their differences by signing on the dotted line rather |than by “putting on the spot.” If they do another victory will have been gained for arbitration and disarmament. It is a safe prediction that the Halifax con- ference will come closer to success than the one in Geneva. Yes, Even Up-State! (New York World-Telegram.) = Ninetzen Republican Assemblymen, led by James J. Wadsworth, Jr., of Livingston, joined the Demo- crats in passing the Streit resolution petitioning Congress to amend the present Prohibition law. Twenty-one Republican Assemblymen joined the Democrats in adopting the Cuvillier resolution apply- {ing the Raskob plan to give the people of the States new voice as to the future of Prohibition, Thus does the State of New York emerge stronger control. Wet sentiment is not only dominant, but steadily gaining, in this Commonwealth, i New York Republicans are not going to split their party wide open merely to.insure the Anti- Saloon League the comfort of its illusions. Wet Republicans will win and take charge. And now Washington has learned that the Nation has suffered more than a $10,000,000,000 loss from Prohibition in 10 years. And yet Congress is tearing its shirt to find a way to secure funds to make up the national deficit (Florida Times- Union,) The problem confronting those putting up the political platforms is to make the flaws in the wood look like knotholes to the drys and bung- holes to the wets.—(Ohio State Journal.) o7 s R St America is prepared for w The Chicago gang- sters have more machine guns than the Japanese and 8167 for repeal. - , Illinois, Indiana, E T have,—(Atchison, Kan.,, Globe.) and more determined than ever against prolonga- tion of the “noble experiment.” | Thus does up-State Republicanism refute the claims of the drys that they have it again in THO PROJECTS IN ALASKA ON APPROVED LIST DEMAND TRIAL 'OF HENRY FORD, MURDER CHARGE War Department Recom-|Communists Sponsor Meet- mends Improvements in Wrangell District ing in Detroit, Follow- ing Fatal Riot DETROIT, Mich March 12—A Preliminary , examinations and| .t surveys covering projected im- mv»"mgGaofd 5,000 Wn{; "beefl provements ai Wrangell Harbor|A%n2 Gar ens, ‘said “’m o era and Stikine River have been fay-|sponsored by Communiss, bOae orably considered by the War De-|the speakers ottt Sneciate partment and forwarded to Con-|ir?! and conviction of Henry Ford gress for its consideration, it was| ' ‘vountgna.rvxcmg 1he sy o announced today by Maj. Mal-|Our comIa ‘;S‘ ailed. § . colm Elliott, District Engineer, y,| The meeting was ¢ . S. Board of Engineers. Actual |Dectnon with last Monday's riot work on the projects cannot be|2 Deartom, where fou uncis done unless and until Congress p:"(‘(“W:‘::“;}gsgn?;reor’me Ford has authorized these items in a p;‘ nt were stormed in an effort Rivers and Harbors bill, and made an appropriation to cover the cost of the work, he said. Bills covering both have been introduced in the House by Dele- gate Wickersham, according to Associated Press dispatches re- cently received by The Empire, Small Boat Harbor The proposed work at Wrangell] Ha Harbor consists of dredging a basin 10 feet deep and about 400 feet by 600 feet in area at the south end of the harbor at an estimated cost of $56,000, with maintenance at the rate of $500 annually. This improvement is for the benefit of small vessels which make Wrangell Harbor their home port. It is estimated that the vessels using the harbor consist of about 300 documented vessels, 6 river vessels and about 200 smaller craft, and the com- merce for the past five years has averaged 4500 tons and 3500 passengers per year. The project for improvement of the lower reaches of the Stikine River consists merely of removal of snags in the lower 30 miles of the river at an estimated cost of $600 per annum. It is under- stood that the Canadian Gov- ernment expends from $3,000 to $5000 a year for snag removal in the upper 130 miles. This im- provement also must await fur- ther action by Congress actual work can be undertaken. The Stikine River serves a large area in Northern British Colum- bia in the wvicinity of Telegraph, Creek. interest in the the transportation Examined in 1930 Preliminary examinations ‘of both these projects were mage in the fall of 1830 by Lt. Jas, 6. Christianson, “Corps of - Enginbels United States Army, at that time an assistant to the district engin- eer. The reports on preliminary examinations were submitted to the Chief of Engineers by Maj. Malcolm Elliott, District Engineer, and based thereon more complete surveys of the projects were au- thorized. The surveys were made in the fall of 1931 by Mr. Jas. G. Truitt, Associate Engineer of the United States Engineer Office at Juneau and the reports thereon were submitted to Maj. L. E. At- kins, Acting District Engnieer. The ‘The reports were concurred inby Col. Thomas M. Robins, Division river centers in NUGGET CAFE J. F. McDONALD At Your Service with the Best Foods at Popular Prices HOURS: 6 a m 'till 1 a. m. Chicken Tamales, Chile Con Carne, Noodles, Chop Suey, Special Sandwiches OPPOSITE THE WRIGHT SHOPPE, FRONT STREET before, The American commesgial’ ooy i for such steam heating service furn- ure jobs. ger Baldwin, Director of the ican Civil Liberties Union an- nounced he intended to bring Henry Ford into court. neer, San Francisco; by the rd of Engineers for Riversand ; and by Major General rown, Chief of Engineers. The Wrangell Harbor report is contained in House of Representa- tives Document No. 202, 72d Con- jto B Ly gr first session. The Stikine Ri report is contained in House of Representatives Document No 210, 72d Congress, firsi session. These documents contain full de- tail s to the projects and are ed by maps. e APRIL FOOL DANCE Don’t miss it, April 1, given by the Business and Professional Wom- en's Club at Elks' Hall. Favors 'n’ everything. —adv. NOTICE OF ELECTION UPON FRANCHISE TO THE ELECTORS OF THE Il CITY OF JUNEAU, ALASKA: NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on March 4, 1932, the Com- 1 Council of the City of Juneau, ska, enacted, subject to the rati- fication of the electors of said municipality, that certain Ordinance No. 207, entitled “An Ordinance granting a franchise to J. A. Bulger H. J. Eberhart, of Juneau, Al- their heirs, executors, ad- gministrators and assigns, to con- truct, operate and maintain a team heating service in the City of Juneau, Alaska, and to charge ilu d thereby,” which ordinance grants a franchise to J. H. Bulger and H, J. Eberhart, their heirs, ex- ecutors, administrators and assigns, tosconstruct, operate and maintain a steam heating service in the City of Juneau, Alaska, and to charge for said steam heating service furn- ished thereby. NOTICE IS FURTHER HERE- BY GIVEN that said franchise will be submitted to the qualified elect- ors of the City of Juneau, Alaska, at the annual municipal election t0. be held therein on April 5, 1932, and that at such election the elect- ors of said municipality may ex- press by their vote their approval or disapproval of said franchise, and that such franchise will not become valid until it has been submitted to the electors of said municipality at said annual municipal election and unless at least 55 per centum shall be | chise. CE IS FURTHER HERE- BY GIVEN that by said ordinance the Common Council designated said annual municipal election to 'be the election at which said fran- chise should be submitted to the qualified electors of said munici- pality. NOTICE IS FURTHER HERE- BY GIVEN that a copy of said Ordinance, containing said fran- thise, may be inspected at the City Clerk's office in the City Hall, in Juneau, Alaska. 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