The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 11, 1933, Page 7

—_— N\ poo<!N 1 N ) A HO | ANS On /7 O30, 7 CHAMP. TO_SAAY-THIS IS MISTAH SuULLY'S J FIR-RRST APPEARANC! BARNEY GOOGLE AND gP;RK PL(TE TH' WAN AN’ oNLY ULLY- VAN SINCE BENAR-RR-D GOOGLE CEASED TO BE HIS MANAGER - -= S S S T That TECI'}(NOCRACY Question —Machines and Jobs S St EDITOR'S NOTE: This is | the third cf a ceries of six daily articles giving a new in- sight into Technccracy whose prediction of pessible econcmic collapse started a far-flung centroversy. The articles also present other statisties per- taining to displacement of men by machincs, energy consump- tion, debts and cther peints invelved. By J. R. BRACKETT (Ccpyright, 1932, By The Asso- ciated Press.) NEW YORK, Jan. 11.—A new “money,” an exact, invariable to- ken of exchange based on ene is one of the tentative prop: of Howard Scott, director of T nocracy as a need of this mic system. But why a new money? Because, in the eyes of Scott, the pi system of exchange, coupled with other attributes of the price sys- tem such as debt, inte and the dollar's variability . ment of wealth, in machine and so ‘This is part of th poverty in the midst wherein huge factories are idle, willing and pl cally able to produce, but prevented from doing s0 because of the lack of purchas- ing power among the people—a lack partly accounted for, accord- TECHNOCRACY in the wheels cf social progress, e S SS PSS USSR HOLDS PRICE SYSTEM RETARDING WHEELS OF PROGRESS —— The sketch above, showing the price system as a monkey wrench illustrates a basic theory ¢f Tech- LY ALASKA EMPIRE, WEDNESDAY, JAN. 11, 1933 HEY - BARNEY ~- THE BouT's GONNA START -- SHOW THAT YAM YER BE YA EVER WOZ - DOUGLAS NEWS HOOP GAME AT DOUGLAS, FIRE BOYS,BUTCHERS "First Clash Xéecond .Half! of Series Will Be | Tonight The first game of the second | half of the Channel League hoop series to be played on the local | | floor, comes off tonight at the| | Natatorium with the Douglas Fire- | {men and the United Meat men] arrayed against each other. The game promises to be a good one2. The starting time is 8 o'clock. - MRS. GALLWAS ILL Mrs. F. A. J. Gallwas has been sick for the past week or more | as a result of a bad cold and is still afflicted with some of the al- ter complications. | { e >, — } MAIL ARRIVES THIS A. M. “ | To allow the residents of the | |Island to get their mail from the | Northwestern in time to respond to letters on the boat due to sail \ | | | | X C'MON; SULLY= - By BILL THE BELL! SULLY--- \F T B& TTER'N W\ s Fashion solons have long contende woman may be from the neck down, chic she tries to convey. Here are that leave nothing to be des player, is a white silk turba worn at a jaunty angle. little creation of black erinkly crg COURT PARTY T ONLY SEE MR. mater ing to Scott, by the concentration of money in the hands of the few. Says “Price System” Finished necracy, a research group at Columbia University. Debt, and other attributes of the price system, prevent, according to Technocracy, the natural flow of goods, and allow the present paradox of poverty south today, a special delivery of the first class mail to Douglas from Juneau was made this morn- LEAVE TODAY ON Does Scott propose the total abo- lition of the price system, banks,~of interest, of mortgages and finally of the dollar itself? The present system is fin- ished, Technccracy says, and the country must realize that the price system will no long- er work. Neither Scott nor Technocracy has publicly explained fully what ¢ a new system of direction would nation could have such control as include, 50 far as the replacement this, present old-fashioned money of the present exchange system Would do quite well. is concerned. | for Scott’s statements that A unit of “yalue” under the price SMer8Y units would furnish exact system as Scott describes it, is a “certification of debt’—a lien, the- Wall Street financial house points oretically, against a physical en- OUt that the amount of energy tity. Under technological control, Produced from coal oil and water- a unit of “measurement” would be PPWer is variable and that in the midst ¢f plenty. this implies central distribution of incomes and a more rigid con- trol of the division of .goods. Economists are critical of such ' proposals. ist and Associate Editor of the George Soule, econom- | the | cally given to the people. i‘;l] of mist said, factors tending to make‘ energy extremely unstable. Many economists have proposed |a commodity dollar to alleviate the generally admitted evils of the present variable dollar. Such a dollar would be allocated purchas- New York Republic, says if the ing power, according to a com- L, S_ PECK OFF modity index and would vary as the supplies of ‘the various com- modities varied. Thus, money would always have approximately the same purchasing {in their burdensomeness. | Temerrew — Machines and Debts. a “certification of available ener- Mfasuréments of it are also varia- | gy produced.” Unless Technocracy propos Instead of trying to value goods 2Pfolute control of the entire ec- in terms of dollars of variable pur- °ROMIC system, this economiist says, ; chasing power, Technocracy would the more efficient user of fuel would receive more income and measure the energy produced—so to speak, would measure the in- Would accumulate things, against | state prevented such | come instead of the capital—in 0Ies3 the calories,” ergs foot-pounds, British 2ccumulation. : Thermal Units, horsepower or with Boctleg “Energy Mceney”? some of the other terms of energy| Anc r e measurement which are theoretical- or less facetiously that “energy ly exact and which would be used money” cquld be quite easily boot- up. | lezged. This, Technocracy holds, would “illicit prevent debt and huge accumula- tions of wealth. The individual would receive a proportionate share of the energy produced. He would spend it in certain ways for the things he desired. The energy unit would not be a measurs of de- sire as is the dollar, but a meas- urement of what actually was ayailable and might be economi- stills” for the manufactur- allowed in a technologically con- trolled system. Izl:t_h Elder Fet omist holds more e hills might be full of g of energy: which would be| wired secreply to towns and cities. €IS, Who is leaving with the Court of Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. Kauf- It mignt be transported across Party for Ketchikan, as far as mann, returned home on the steam- national lines, if such lines wem‘that city. continuing south from er Northwestern after having spent And what would | happen if transmission of power | were made possible by radio, a pos- sibility now receiving considerable | wheat, study? These would be, the econ- |sheep. ed After 7Securir‘lg Dibdrce \MRS. LEIVERS AND i DAUGHTER GO SOUTH and stopped off in Juneau for | Lelvers. Mrs. W. J. Leivers and her daugh- ter, Beverley, will leave tomorrow |on the steamer Alaska for Seattle Leiver’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. ;M. Jorgensen, formerly of Junesu, | for about six weeks. Mr. Jorgen- |sen has been seriously ill for over ia year. | They will accompany Mr. Leiv- | there. — e Japanese ex-service men who will be settled in Manchuria will raise cotton, soya beans and o S AGUA CALIENTE, Mexico.—Ruth Elder, beauty queen, flier and film actress, was back in Hol- lywood from Reno, wheré she and Walter Camp, Jr., were divorced. tiyitiez. She is pictured above with Oraig Wood (left) snd Joseph B Her return was the signal for fes- Schenck during the Christmas Eve ;fiw-fi'%:& ing by Postmaster Spickett. -t GOODY SALE POSTPONED January 14 by the: Altar Society, lhas been postponed. until a later | date on account of the epidemic| of sickness prevailing. v FOR WESTWARD ONNORTHWESTERN L. S. Peck, manager of the Al-| measurements, an economist for a | power and debts would not vary aska Pacific Airways, léft on the| ,stcamer_ Northwestern for Cordova ! where he will be mat by a com-| pany plane which will take him to| his headquarters in Fairbanks. Mr.i Peck went to Seattle shortly be-/ fore Christmas to spend the holi-| days with his family and also to transact business for the company, several days on his return, to visit| with friends here. Mr. Peck expects to be in Ju-! neau sometime early in March at| |where they will visit with Mrs. Which time he may make a trip, @ East. — ot MISS LENORE KAUFMANN RETURNS TO JUNEAU | | | Miss Lenore Kaufmann, daughter several months in the south. Mrs. Kaufmann will remain in the States for some time longer before returning to Juneau. e ————— S. A. BERG RETURNS FROM TRIP S()U'l‘llI 8. A. Berg foreman for the War- rack Construction Company, in charge of building opefations at the Assembly Apartments, return-| ed to Juneau on the Steamer Northwestern after a short visit to the Sftates over the holidays. UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR GENERAL LAND OFFICE DISTRICT LAND OFFICE Anchorage, Alaska October 10, 1932. . Notice is hereby given that tine Alaska Pacific Salmon Corporation has filed an application for a 50l- diers’ additional homestead Anchor- age 07469, for a tract of land em- braced in g 8. Survey No. 1985 from which corner No. 1 of sald survey U.SLM. No. 209 bears N 86° 18’ 20” E. 96.53 chains, situatc on the north shore of Tenakee Inlet, east coast of Chichagoif Island, containing 2392 acres. Any and all persons claiming adversely any of the above men- tioned land should file their ari- verse claimg in the Anchorage Land Office within the period of publica- tion or thirty days thereafter cr |they will be batred by the pro- visions of the Statutes. J. LINDLEY GREEN, | Register | | STEAMERALASKA The Goody ‘Sale announced for | ™ To Conduct T;rm of Court at _Ketchikan, Officials 1 Take Passage South Ao conduct a term of Court at Keétehikan, members of the United States District Court party will leave for the First City on the steamer Alaska. The Court party was preceded by G. W. Folta, Assistant United States Attorney, who-left last week to prepare cases for the grand jury. Those leaving for the Court term today are: Judge and Mrs. J. W. Harding, Miss Ann Gdynor, Mr. and Mrs. Howard D. Stabler, Mr and Mrs. John H. Dunn, and J. W. Pave the Patb o s+ro3perity With Printing! 7 E DE BECK COULD d that no matter how well dressea « , an unsuitable hat ruins the effect of three creations of the milliner’s art n by Charlotte Susa, sergen 2 embroidered pattern. e. In center Ruth Selwyn wears a neat pe, with bow trimming of the same ALASKA FURS " REACH SOUTH; {Active Demand Is Noticed| —Prices, However, Lowest in Years | SEATTLE, Jan. 11.—At a meeting | of the Seattle Fur Exchange, Henry | Wagner, Treasurer, reported the | market was generally stabilized, | | with an active demand for furs at| the present prices, which are the! lowest in many years. The Alaska catch is beginning to arrive. The quality is good. Bkins from the Western smtes‘r are not numerous and are not good. An active Spring market is ex- pected. .- Smoke in the air is estimated to have reduced the amount of sunshine in London by 800 hours in the last year. 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The House is fighting out the issue of helping the farmer by imposing processing taxes on some | of his commoditiés and paying him a bounty. {INSPECTOR FOR Glass Banking Measure— IMMMIGRATION IS HERE FOR WEEK Row'ind F. Wyatt, Inspector for Also Take Refunds | Under A“@Ckg 2 the United States Immigration | Service, who arrived in Juncau WASHINGTON, Jan. ll,—::gls- lative snarls are tangling Congress| i ¥ and threatening to catch vital| o Dis beadauarters in Ketchi A kan, will be in Juneau about a measures in the powerful grlp Of [yeo to take care of immigration filibuster. business. There is an attack on the Glass 2 While here Mr. Wyatt will be banking bill and the filibuster may i b e S gy glad to receive applications for cer. tiicate of registration for citizen- M. o e M In| ship or.attend to other- immigra- tatked AGwH s o 4 l";tl(m problems. He is staying at Senste Leaders Worty | the QGastineau Hotel while in town. - The first deficiency measure has begun to worty the Senate leaders, Use Type and Ink—and Why? / «vvisssss Read This--- Many Juneau homes are getting the maximum heating comfort, with little furnace attention and with LE. ST FUEL COST—by using INDIAN coal and CARBONADO coal—TOGETHER. QUALITY 600D First, you start your fire with INDIAN— (the white-hot ¢oals, sketched). Then, you poss“in-a' plentiful sup‘gly of CARBONADO to BANK and HOLD your fire. ALWAYS leave a part of the white-hot ecoals uncovered, so that gases driven off th‘el fuel bed may be ignited—and all heat units utilized, Rémember, in COAL~—as in everyt"ng else, you get what you pay for. Demand the WN- VALUE QUALITY coals—~INDIAN and CARBON- ADO. Remember also that Indian and Carbonado used together give you real heating satisfaction with an added measure of heating value for your fuel dollars—backed by this 60-year-old depend- able fuel companhy. 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