The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 10, 1933, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XLL, NO. 6233. JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, JANUARY 10, 1933. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTY DEMOCRATS HAVE NEW PLAN FOR BUDGET BALANCING PROHIBITION REPEAL AGAIN BLOCKED HOUSE, SENATE HAVE SEPARATE IDEAS ON ISSUE Speaker Garner Criticises Resolution Present- ed Yesterday MAKES STATEMENT Ban on Saloons, Ratifica- tion Proposals, Come Under Attack WASHINGTON, Jan. 10.— The wide breach between the| Senate and House Democrats on the form the Prohibition RRepeal Resolution should take, threatened today to kill any chances-of Congress- ional approval this session. Speaker John N. Garner is cutspoken in his criticism of the proposal reported to the Senate yesterday by the Sen- ate Judiciary Committee, pro- viding fer protection to dry States, giving Congress pow- € cation, by Legislatures. g Speaker G arner asserted the resolution for the repeal ¢f the Eighteenth Amend- ment, as reported to the Sen- ate, does not conform to the party platform. said the Democrats will not allow to be taken up in the House under the rules of suspen- n. Senate Democrats appar- cntly have decided to accept the resolution. NAVAL PROGRAM T0 BE PUT UP T0 ROOSEVELT Pl'csiden:Elecl Must Shoulder One More Responsibility SHINGTON, Jan. 10.—Demo- Congressional leaders have >d to put another problem on President-Elect Roosevelt's shoulders—how much, if any, the Navy shall be built up. Despite continued criticism, from big Navy advocates that the Unit- cd States Fleet rapidly is becom- ing cond rate” the leaders have ncluded that no authorizations for new ships shall go through > present Congress. It is, they say, the fag end of the end of a naval poliey that has in effect since the World They find too, demands for | economy right now that the yfeel weuld be fatal fo any effort to AL rize new construction. Consequently, Democratic leaders say naval legislation this session will be limited to the annual ap- propriation bill, which will carny something for continued modern- ization of battleships ‘and possibly a comparatively small sum for the construction of destroyers author- ized in 1916. Much Advice But after March 4 there will be many to offer advice to the new President as he molds the naval policy. Some of the big Navy men say they will remind Mr. Roosevelt that not since Mr. Hoo- | ver became President has Congress approved any new ships, while at| the same time other nations Were‘ building up to treaty limits. Among those who will have con- struction programs ready for the new President to scrutinize will be "~ Continued ou Page Sevem te ban saloons and ratifi-| He further| the Senate resolution| | | ployment. The nation has atl,empt—\ ed to progress, figuratively speak- Republican Administration, the | EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the second of six daily articles about Technocracy whose pre- dictions of possible cconomic collapse started a far-flung centroversy. The es give a new insight into Technocracy and present other statistics pertaining to the 2cement of men by machines, everyday consumption, debts and cther points involved. ar| J. R. BRACKETT (Cepyright, 1932, By the Asso- ciated Press.) NEW YORK. Jan. 9.—Energy |is Technocracy’'s fundamenta 1 word. It is on the basis of the rapid !increase in the use of energy that Howard Scott, Technocracy's direc. tor, has stated that drastic chang- es must be made in this economic system to save it from possik collapse. ‘Technocracy the group of engineers Columbia university in an “Energy |Survey of North America,” the purpose of which is simplyac- cording to public statements, to make a technical analysis which, if successful, the Technocrats be- |lieve would indicate necessary cor- rections in the economic system Here is why Scott believes en- 7 is so importan For all the years of man’s history up to about 1800, he used | the~efiérgy resoufves 01 wne eartl |at about the rate of 2,000 Calories | per capita (a measure of energy) per day. He used little coal, no electricity, and scarcely any of {the devices. which need energy. | Then suddenly the machines came, and today man uses about 150,000 |Calories per capita per day—a |gain of 75 times. | 2. Butf, in the, meantime, man jdid not change materially his| |methods of directing society. What | change there was probably occur- red at a rate similar to the rate at which it has changed in all {history. In other words, energy | flowed into the social mechanism at a rate entirely new in history and 50 y was not prepared to cope with that change. 3. The result has been a disor- derly and fluctuation in production of goods, depressions and unem- is name of a working at | ing, in an oxcart equipped with 1,000 horsepower airplane en- gine. This Technocracy believes, | will become increasingly difficult. Other economists have stressed |the importance of power, but some |of them object to the greater stress | s i STALINPLANS BIG INCREASE - IN PRODUCTION Industrial Program Mapped | | Out for Next Five Years Is Challenge MOSCOW, Jan. lu—A challenge to the capitalist world is made by| |Josef Stalin in the industrial pro-| |gram he has mapped out for Rus- sia for the next five years. Stalin announced a 15 per cent increase in general production over last year for this year's goal. The annual increase for the sec-| ond 5-year plan, Stalin announced,| In\ust be not less than 13 or 14 per cent and this is something that; { capitalist countrics would be un-| able to meet. | Stalin claims the “successful ful=| fillment of the first 5-year plan”! and declared the entire aim is to change the country from one wim; the technique of the middle ages| to one of contemporary technique to make the nation independent| of the whims of capitalism. | —eeo— { MR. AND MRS. E. E. NINNIS ARRIVE ON NORTHWESTERN ! Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Ninnis, who | were recently married in Everett, Washington, arrived in Juneau to-| day after a short wedding trip 0 { California. Mrs. Ninnis was form- 1erly Miss Betty Barragar. {in inches, That TECHNOCRACY Question No. 2—Machines And Power An increasing use of energy or power to drive machinery is causing business fluctuation, ¢ays Technocracy. The chart at top illustrates the point, shewing a theoretical business curve going up and down and Geeper and higher and oftener as caergy consumption gains. which Technocracy has given it. They further consider that a com- parison between 1800 and now is not particularly revealing, point- ing out that relatively speaking the nation made probably as as- tounding gains in the last century as in this one to date. F. G. Tyron of the Institute of Economics in Washington has writ- ten that “the industrial production of a nation may be gauged by its use of power.” He calculated an index of energy consumption between 1899 and 1926 and found that, ucing 1899 as 100, consumption Hoover’s Veto of *hilippine Bill Is Expected WASHINGTON, Jan. 10— President Hoover is studying the Philippines independence measure, as pasced by Congress, and his veto is_expected. _...w‘ —— ALASKA TOTS DIE IN FIRE Home' Is Destroyed at Nin- ilchik with Fatal Re- sults to Two ANCHORAGE, alaska, Jan. 10.— A McGee Airways plans from Nin-| ilchik reported that Wallie John- son, aged 3, and his sister Evelyn, aged 2, were killed in a fire that destroyed the home last Saturday. e — ALASKAN SNOW COVER The following amount of snow, was reported on the ground at various Alaskan stations Monday afternoon, January 9: Bethel 1, Cordova 19, Eagle 1, (Fairbanks 10, Fort Yukon 6, Ju- neau 8, Nome 4. Jce on the Chena Slough at Fairbanks was 40 inches thick, and on Snake River at Nome was 45 iinche& e | el in U. S. increased to 310 — about three times. Going back to 1849 and using {actual heat measurements, he cal- { culated that production in 1849, calculated that production in 1849, not including water power for which there were no figures was 178 trillion B. T. U, a measure {of energy; that by 1899, including | water power, it was 7246 trillion |B. T. U. and in 1923, it was 24,- 494 trillion B. T. U. { Technclogy's statistics are that tctal encrgy production in 1840 was 75 trillion B. T. U. and that it was 27,000 trillion B. T. U. in 1929—a gain of 353 times. Technocracy said most of this increase has occurred since 1900, when, according to Technocracy, production was 2,640 trillion B. T.| U. This la figure compares to Tryon's 7.246 trillion B. T. U. for 1899. The two groups of sta-| tistics may not be exactly parable due to differences in the| methods of computation. They are| | similar for the last decade, how-| ever. | Neither set of figures makes comparable calculations relating the igrowth of ener to growth in; population. Sin population in- {creased, the per capita gain of energy was not as great as the total gain. Tyron consumed | com- | calculated that energ increased to about the| to 7 per cent per year as compared to an in- the physical volume of production of 4 per cent per year.| Comparing 1899 to 1916 Tyron | found that population gained a| total of 36 per cent.; physical| !yolume of agricultural, manufac- | turing, and mining production, and railroad transportation increased | ‘n total of 80 per cent, and energy production 150 per cent. As to what machines used this ! energy, Carrol Roop Daugherty.} in a U. S. Geological Survey Bul- letin, has calculated that, using| 1899 as 100, capacity to use powcx'; increased from 16 to 1099 if auto-| mobiles are included. If autos are| not included, the change was from | 16 to 399, ' This indicates that much more| than half of the consumption of| energy was accounted for by the automobiles in using oil and gas,| and that by excluding autos from the general computations of B. T U. the general computations of B.| T. U. the gains would not seem |so important as an influence on | production. (Temerrow — Machines and | Economices.) | 60V, HARTLEY | SENDS IN HIS LAST MESSAGE |Declares He Had Been Bit- | terly Opposed During Eight Years OLYMPIA, Wash, Jan. 10—, Mingled with the assertion tha during his eight years in office h has encountered the “most insid ious bitter opposition,” Gov. R. H Hartley today gave his final me | sage to the State Legislature, sounc ing again the familiar keynote celling for economy and curtai ment of unnecessary State activ ties. The Governor side - stepped d. tailed recommendations to the Lec islators. He confined himself Wi a review of “some of the mor important recommendations here- tofore made but which failed to re- ceive consideration.” ————— MISS DENNIS BECOMES BRIDE OF SAM'L’ ADAM> i At the home of Mr. and Mr F. Pacator, Miss Iris June Denn became the bride of Mr. Samu Adams yesterday afternoon. are residents of this city. The cerc- mony was performed by Jud i | hundred LIBERTY LOAN DRIVES LOOM, LOAN PROGRAM Financial and Political Quarters Discus’s New Scheme SERIOUS STUDY IS GIVEN TO SUBJECT About One_?l;rd of Gov-| ernment’s Debt Will Soon Mature NEW YORK, Jan. 10.—Liberty Loan drives, of the World War period, may be revived in a modi- fied form, if proposals of financial and political quarters are adopted. It is proposed to launch a gov- ernment loan program for a fund | for a part of the sixteen million dollar Fad floating indebtedness. Liberate Credit The proposal is receiving serious study in prominent banking quar- ters, some .authorities holding it might go far toward liberating credit to normal channels Almost one third of the Govern- ment’s debt of sixteen billion eight million dollars is in se- curities which mature within the next two years and until this short term indebtedness is placed on a mee. permesent basis, anthorities hold it extremely difficult to forecast probable development in the money market. e e Rural Life Is Urged to Save Nation is Migration to City Since World War Brings Birth Rate Decline WASHINGTON, van. 10—'Go back to the village and save the nation.” That is the advice of Dr. E. O. Baker of the Agricultural Depart- ment'’s Bureau of Economics, who says the migration to the city since the World War has brought such a decline in birth rate that Amer- a will be fortunate to maintain |a stationary production in the next decade. He predicted that henceforth the trend would be to the rural areas, and asserted that with it would come wider extension of electric and gas power and trans- portation, facilities and replanning of industry Dr. Baker, in an address as re- tiring president of t Assciation of American Geograpuers, said the declining birth rate the great- est danger facing the country, but that a return to the village prob- ably would bring a revival of the old religious beliefs that “children are worth having.” D 0.8, C. LINES UP 4 GAMES CORVALLIS, Ore,, Jan. 10.—Only four conference foothall games have been signed up by Oregon State College so far for their 1933 sched- ule, Stanford was not on the list for he first time in many seasons. The Orangemen's big game with Southern California will be in Port- land, October 21 Other games scheduled include Montana at Corvallis, September 30; Gonzaga at Corvallis, October 14; Washington State at Portland, October 28; Oregon at Eugene, No- vember 11,-and another intersec- tional tilt with Fordham at New York, November 18. - CARL F. WHITHAM O WAY TO WESTWARD Carl F. Whitham, President and|or General Manager of the Nabesna| Mining Company, is aboard the Northwestern bound for Cordova. xderal Government's | DIMOND OFF ON DEATH SUMMONS Amerncan Nobel Wlnner Honoreg Dr. Irving Langmuir (right), American scientist, is shown as he received LPF& 1932311'!:)13(:1 Prize for chemistry from King Gustav of Sweden, at the recent ceremony in Stockholm, which was attended by many mem- bers of the Swedish royal family, At extreme left is Crown Prince Gustav Adolf. Dr, Langmuir is the thirteenth American to win a coveted Nobel award. AIRPLANE TOUR DAN J. WILLIAMS OF TERRITORY AS HE SLUMBERS ~ . } Delegate - Elect on Aerml!Heart Attack Probable| Tour —Announces Part | Cause of Death — Re- | of His Own Program | mains Arrive Today | ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Jan. 10, Death came to Daniel —Delegate - Elect Anthony J. Di-:liams, general manager mond hopped off from here today Hirst-Chichagof Mining Company, by plane on a 3000-mile tour of early last Sunday morning as he the principal northern points of the slept just a few feet away from Territory. He will circle Bristol his wife. Between 3 and 4 o'clock Bay to Bethel on the lower Kus-;«n,.x morning he brought Mrs, kokwim River, circle the Kusko- Williams A glass of water and when kwim Valley, go to Fairbanks,'she called to him about 9 o'clock thence to Nome and return to he had passed on Fairbanks and Anchorage. , Heart disease was evidently the His trip has as its object a study| cause of death. The body arrived | of conditions in the districts he here this morning on the Isis visited and a personal contact with mine tender accompanied by Mrs, people generally well as with Williams party leaders i He reiterated J. wil- of the Mother Jeins Her Others in the party included Rex John W. Tr itor of the Dai and his mother, Mrs. M. M. Alaska Empire at Juneau and vet- rly, W. H. Biggs, W. A. Brown eran party leader, for Governor ofiand John Marinovich. Mrs. wil- the Territory. He said he would jiams at once to the Gas- advocate early construction of theitin Hotel with Mrs. Early to Pacific-Yukon Highway, and would | the arrival of her mother, work earnestly for Territorial con-|Mrs, W. H. Roe on the steam- trol of the fish, fur and game re-fer Northwestern this afternoon i sources. {The remins were taken to merlvs‘l T, - S e 1 Mortuary to await ar- BABY SLAlN for funeral and inter- Seven-Inch Slielto Plung- ed Into Infant—Po- lice Horrified - his support of went | | | o] | | W. Cart rangement { ment,. | Mrs. wiliams nac made no Se- cision on this early today. Final blans were deferred until she had conferred’ with mother. She ywas afso await me word from {Mr. Williams her, Mrs. Eunice | Williams, and er, Mrs. H. D. ‘(; bovh of Seattle, who were {ne by radiogrm last Sunday Williams’ death. jof ' Health Seemed Good NEW YORK, Jan. 10—The dis-| . Williams was seemingly in covery of the body of a four- ihe very best of health right up months-old baby, slain by a sev to the time of his death, said Mr. inch stiletto, while in a crib, has Biggs today. He had been active sent the police searching for the jn directing the general operations perpetrator of one of the brutali (of the mine and milling plant crimes in police experience. ,and had recently outline ; i {new work for the immec L 3 £ |in which he was deeply intercsted Stimson Explains i He was at home most of the day Conm’ liom ()f ?Sa‘.urd.ay, not visiting mill or mine, and seeme Hoover and Laval | pertectly norma WASHINGTON, Jan. 10. — The | Senate has been informed through gy ne; ’ : r customary hour Saturday Secretary of State Stimson that evening, Mr. Biggs said. Sunday last year's conversations between|morning about 9:30 o'clock. the President Hoover, and then Prench jayter was called by Mrs. Williams Premier Laval, gave no as: nd see what was the committments on cancellation 'matter with Mr. Williams. He went | on of war debts. The in-'gt once o the Williams's bedroom | i her i ng mo Mr Expires in Sieep Mr. and. Mrs. Williams retired SUrances ¢n come | made Was_requested by the gng found that life was extinct. i (Continued on Page Eight) } COVERNMENT EXPENSES T0 BE CUT DOWN Slashing of Appropriations to Be Made Before Taxation REVENUE ACTS ARE TO BE SIDETRACKED Decision Is Reached by Members of Senate ; Finance Com. WASHINGTON, Jan. 10.— The Demeocratic leadership in Congress will put economy in Government operation at the top of their Budget balancing program and the leaders have already set about sharpening their already active pruning kniyes. Proposals to increase reve- nue through new taxes will be sidetracked until the last possible dollar has been cut off appropriations. The decision to prune ap- propriations further was vesterday by Demo- cratic members of the Senate Finance Committee after a conference in which the fiscal situation was surveyed. Senator Pat Harrison said it was agreed that no revenue raising measures will be enacted until after the economy legislation has been passed. Fiscal Budgetary questions are also being studied by President Hoover, it is said. Failure Cited The postponement by the Demo- crats of any revenue raising plans until the end of the session and their announced intention of de- pending mainly on expenditure re- ductions for bringing a balanced Budget, brought from Representa- tive Bertrand H. Snell, House Lead- er of the Republicans, the predic- tion that they would fail. Snell said the act showed they have thrown it up in despair by not intending to try befors the end of the session to balance the Budget. HOOVER WANTS AUTHORITY To USE EMBARGD {Special Message Sent to Congress Today by . President WASHINGTON, Jan. 10.—Presi- ent Hoover, in a special message to Congress today, urged either speedy ratification of the projected convention to suppress trade in im- plements of war, or special legisla- tion empowering the President to limit or forbid shipment of arms for military purposes. The President said recent events emphasized the need for more authority for control of shipments of arms from the United States for military purposes. Senator King offered a resolution authorizing the President to enter negotiations with all countries ‘o outlaw war or declare any nation to be an “international criminal” that goes to war in violation of its treaties. BRSNS {RODSEVELT AND STIMSON MEET NEW YORK, Jan. 10.—President- Elect Roosevelt and Secretary of State Stimson- discussed the whole field of internationa’ ms ab an informal luncheon. Each de- clined to go into specific details,