The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 5, 1933, Page 4

i THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, WEDNESDAY, JULY 5, 1933. Daily Alaska Empire GENERAL MANAGER ROBERT W. BENDER - - Published every evening except Sunday by the EMPIRE_PRINTING COMPANY at Second and Main reets, Juneau, Alaska ered in the Post Office in Juneau as Second Class matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Dellvered by carrier In Juneau and Douglas for $1.25 per month. t the following rates: By mall, postage paid o in s ix months, In advance, 5. g 12.0 it they will promptly failure or irregularity | Subscribers will confer a fav notify the Business Office of any apers. and Business Offices, 374. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS. 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 GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION. FISHERMEN. BELL HELPI In opening large fishing areas in the Kodiak district to purse seining, Frank T. Bell, United States Commissioner of Fisheries, has undoubwdly( been guided largely by the needs of the local| population for employment. Reports received re-| cently by Gov. Troy from Coast Guard officials who visited villages in that vicinity revealed a distressing condition. Fishing is the sole source of employment and seining grounds had been closed | to such an extent that most of the fishermen were unable to operate. Commissioner Bell's new regula- tions will remedy that situation. It is to be hoped| that the salmon packers will buy the seine-caught fish at prices that will permit the fishermen to earn sufficient money to carry them and their dependents through the coming Winter. Commissioner Bell has a similar opportunity in; Southeast Alaska. Troll fishing in the areas where | that occupation can be carried on at a profit will be closed on August 25 under existing regula- tions. There doesn't seem to be any particular need for such closure so far as conservation is con- cerned. The trollers take kings and cohoes and| neither of these species are threatened with exiinc- tion. The Commissioner could well afford to set| aside this regulation and permit trolling for the remainder of the year. Such a modification would be especially timely this season. Up to now there has been very little trolling done, due to a sympathetic strike. The trollers and buyers have negotiated for weeks with-| out success over the question of prices. Late devel-| opments indicated they were gradually getting to- gether and there is every reason to believe a satisfactory settlement will be made in the near future. The fishermen have lost a great part of the season when the runs were at their peak.| Few if any of them will be able to earn enough to live on next Winter, even though the strike | should end at once, if they have to suspend fishing in August. If the Commissioner would cancel the closed season, it would help the situation materially. It would not only give the fishermen employment and a chahce to support themselves and families, it would lighten the relief burden under which all Alaskan communities are already staggering. PORK CONSUMPTION. The American people now are eating approxi- mately 8 per cent more pork and lard per person than they did in the pre-war period, reports the United States Department of Agriculture. And they are eating a higher percentage of the total produc- tion of hogs. In the 1910-14 period, the American people consumed 93 per cent of the pork produced in this country. During the abnormal post-war year 1919 they took only 76 per cent of the produc- tion, because exportations to Europe were running unusually high. But as exports began to fall off and hog| production changed only slightly, the percentage of the total pork production (excluding lard) avail- able to domestic consumers exceeded the percentage consumed in the normal pre-war period. In 1929, domestic consumers took 96 per cent of the total production of pork, 2 per cent more than in the pre-war period. And in 1932, approximately 98 per cent of our practically unchanged pork produc- tion was shoved onto the domestic market. This was 5 per cent more than the percentage consumed by the American people in 1910-14. It was inevitable that during the industrial inactivity of the past three years that home consumers would take the same or an increased quantity of pork at only a very low price. With hogs, then, the excess produc- tion has been reflected almost entirely in the lo market price. . JUNEAU IS TOURIST-MINDED. Juneau is glad to welcome John A. Hooper, President of the associated and incorporated Tour- ist Societies, and Mrs. Hooper who are visiting here again after several years absence. It is to him and the members of the tourist organizations he heads that we look to herald in large measure the unigue and unparalleled outing opportunities Alaska has to offer to the vacationist. A tourist himself of many years standing, Mr. Hooper's advice on how to attract these visitors here is valuable and well worth listening to. For many years he has been a booster of northern tours and has set a fine example by making them repeatedly. His suggestion to the transportation companies for a divided season, with special low fares to create travel before and after the rush of the peak months, is sound and based on practical experience of rail and bus lines. His demand for unlimited stopover privilege has been voiced for many years by the local Chamber of Commerce. That is the only way in which Alaska will ever derive any material financial advantage from the tourist traffic. IVclL'S selection of an Ambassador to represent the {in the happy choice of Pofessor William E. Dodd As long as it is confined to unbroken voyages, only the transportation interests are benefitted. W believe that Mr. Hooper fails to do justice when he terms Juneau as being not tourist-minded. Just now, it is true, the community is not expending large sums of money to advertise for tourists. But it has expended in past years many thousands of dollars for that purpose. It has circulated many thousands of pieces of literature describing Alaska’s matchless scenery, its climate, its sport fishing and big game hunting. The latest pamphlet issued by the Chamber of Commerce is designed to interest vachtsmen, particularly, and sportmen generally in cruises in this vicinity. The Chamber long ago recognized the potential value of the tourist trade and has probably expended more in seeking to cultivate and promote it than any other organiza- tion of its kind in the Territory. Unquestionably it appreciates Mr. Hooper's gen- erous offer to personally co-operate in giving pub- licity to Alaska as a tourist mecca. May his evangelistic efforts be productive of unbounded suc- cess. Ships and Jobs. (New York Herald Tribune.) President Roosevelt has shown courage and clear- headedness in approving the naval building program. The sveenteen ships, ranging from aircrafe carriers to destroyers and submarines, for which bids were asked yesterday from private yards will mean as much to re-employment as they will mean to na- tional defense. The rest of the thirty-two ships to be commenced forthwith will be constructed in the navy yards, it is understood. The total makes a formidable effort to recover lost ground and will bring the United States to the Naval Conference of 1935, if still hopelessly behind its treaty quota, at least energetically demonstrating its resolve to achieve that status. The orders to be let to private yards are espe- cially important in view of their relation to the merchant marine and the whole shipbuilding in- dustry. .It is impossible to separate the two classes of bottoms. A great nation that is powerful in one «will inevitably be powerful in the other, and a nation that lacks merchant fleets, the yards to build them and the men to sail them cannot possibly maintain strong fleets of warships. This building program will put thousands of men to work in mine, in steel mill, in factory, in shipyard. It will keep alive and effective private yards by which the American merchant marine has been restored to a position of strength and confidence. The whole program reflects the highest credit on the new Administration. The emergency and the need of governmental projects ready to hand for instant execution have doubtless aided in the de- cision. But the stroke delivered in behalf of the safety of the nation is none the less notable. Mr. Roosevelt has plainly not forgotten his happy days in the Navy Department. His loyalty to this admirable cause, in the face of the highly organ- ized and constantly vocal propaganda in behalf of weakening the national defenses, deserves the highest credit. Ambassador to Germany. (New York Times.) It has been well understood that President Roose- United States in Berlin had long given him pause. The difficulty of filling the position became plain after the events in Germany last March, with their sequels. But the wait of three months has ended of Chicago University. He seems to meet all reason- able requirements. His education was partly in Germany, he has published at least one book in German, and speaks the langaugs readily. A Ph. D. of Leipzig University, distinguished in his own coun- try as a writer and lecturer on American history, recently honored by being made President of the American Historical Association, he is distinctly a Gelehrte of the type which the Germany of other days would have been glad fo welcome. In learn- ing and academic standing Professor Dodd is a worthy successor to Bancroft, Anarew D, White and Dr. Schurmann. Besides being a scholar, the new Ambassador has hard a large experience in practical politics and public affairs. He was a close friend of Woodrow Wilson. He has been a student .of American political theory, of which his favorite exemplar is Thomas Jefferson. This being so, he is doubtless prepared to carry with him to Germany full-bodied Jeffer- sonian doctrine concerning the equality of all citi- zens before the law, and the sacred rights of religious freedom, which the Germany of today may yet come to respect and apply. True Doctor of Laws. (New York World-Telegram.) The purpose of a university is to encourage and develop the arts and sciences. In a democracy there are few more important sciences or more useful arts than that of explaining |to the people the principles of self-government and making current issues so clear to them that they Today and Tomorrow By WALTER LIPPMANN ___________} The Token Payment In the British note, dated June Lausanne Convention has not been 13, it is said that |ratified and will not be ratified The conclusion at which His intil Britain, France, and the Majesty’s government has ar- |other creditors of Germany ob- rived is thai payment of the |tain a final war debt settlement. June installment could not be |If they do not obtain it, either by made at this juncture without |agreemen: or default, vhey have to gravely imperiling the success |have arother reparatiois confer- of the Conference and involv- |ence with Germany. ing widespread political con- It will easily be Trealized how sequence of a most serious unprofitable, and how Jangerous consequence. to the peace of Europs; would be In his reply the President, pre- a conference with Herr Hitler over sumably with deliberate intention, the dead bones of reparations. It makes a rather deep distinction would yield no money and it would between the economic consequenc- provide Herr Hitler with a grand- es of war debt payments and the oise opportunity to defy France political consequences. This he and win a respunding diplomatic “by’ no means concedes some oOf viotory. the statements concerning the e T T world-wide economic cause and ef-| These, in brief, are those fect” of the debts, but he does “widespread political consequenc- not deny, in fact, he “under- es of a most serious character” stands” that payment now would which the British Note refers to have widespread political conse- without dissent by the President. quences of a most serious char- It may be asked wny the British acter.” could not have made their pay- It is these “political consequenc- ment and washed their hands of es” which must be understood in German reparations. Thz answer the United States, if we are to is first, that they have agreed understand why the British gov- not to do it, and second that it ernment has not made a full pay- would make matters woise i{ they ment. For obviously it could not did it. TFor then Lausanne would be said today that the British still remain unratified by France, government is unable to pay the and a direct conflict over repara- June installment, which in the past tions between France and Ger- few months Britain has accumu- many would be far more danger- lated a larger gold stock.than &t ous to peace than negotiations in any time since ‘the war. The de- what Great Brlraln was still a cision not to pay in full, and to participant and, able to exert a ask for immediate revision, is not, moderating infleunce on both sides. as the British note clearly shows, based on inability to pay, but on larger political considerations. - They originate in the agree- at Lausanne about a ;::;nsagr:adit will be recalled that |sponsible statesmanship. The Brit- by the Lausanne Convention sign-|ish could not cut loose from Eur- ed on July 9, 1932, reparations as OoP% and leave the continent to such were canceled, but Germany stew in its own juice. By paying agreed under certain circumstanc-|in full, they would have separ- es to make a contribution to her ated themselves from France, creditors. She was to deposit|wrecked the Lausanne Convention, bonds for about 750 million dol-|and precipitated a Franco-Ger- No one, I think, who really comprehends the Europzan situa- {tion will hesitate in agreeing that the British government's decision is sincere and is an act of re- 20 YEARS AGO i From The Empire July 5, 1913. Celebration of the Fourth of July was marked by the attend- ance of enormous crowds at all points where the sporting events were pulled off. Tt was estimat- ed that the attendance at the baseball park was between three and four thousand. The ferry service was over-taxed despite the fact that three boats were on the run and hundreds travelled back and forth to see the baseball games. Juneau won the afternoon game and the Douglas-Treadwell team the one played in the morn- ing so everybody was satisfied at the even break. Judge Fred M. Brown, of the Uti.ced States District Court for the Third Division, arrived in Ju- neau to try tt . McDonald case, as Judge R. W. Jennings was dis- 6% qualified because of previous asso- ciation in the litigation of the ten year old case. David Paul, marine editor of the Seattle Times, and Mrs, Paul were Juneau visitors. Mr. Paul, who had made a trip the year previous, sald he was astonlshed at the de- velopment that had taken place. Miss Kempthorne, a moving spirit in local musical circles, was returning to Juneau from a trip to New England and her friends PROFESSIONAL | | H ] | | H | in town were delighted. Reports that Miss Kempthorne was to marry a New Zealand barrister were erroneous according to her letter. v — ATTENTION See the announcement of Dr. Ed- munds on page 8 of this paper. | Gastineau Bullding, Plone 481 | —adv. Old papers for sale at Empire. Smith Electric Co. Gastineau Bullding lars, but these bonds were not to man dispute which, under the pay interest for at least three|present cOIX itions of fear and years. The bonds were not to be suspicion, could lead no one issued, however, until and unless knows where. other German government secur- ol NI ities are on a 5 per cent basis| The payment of something less or better. (They are worse.) qut‘:han 10 per cent has been call- the point to be noted is that this ed a “token payment.” It is dou- agreement reduced Germany'scap-;bly a token. Toward the United ital liability to a little less thanStates it signifies a-recognition of 10 per cent of her liability underjthe Lausanne agreement. If the the Young plan. The paymentfan of statesmanship is to com- made by Britain on Thursday is|poses divergent interests, this is a little less than 10 per cent of |statesmanship of a high order. For what was due. This is not a co-|while it does not settle the issue, incidence. it averts a breakdown over the It must next be recalled that a|issue. Within the time limits more week before the Lausanne Conven- [than that could not have been tion was signed, Great Britain,done. France and the other creditors of | The President's response has Germany entered into a “Gentle-jbeen equally far-sighted and re- men’s Agreement” which provide nsible. He has shown that he that they would not ratify t what would be the conse- convention with Germany until ces of a breakdown and then they had made satisfactory debtja reopening of the reparations settlements with one another and |question; and that these cons2- with the United States. They said|quences are so serious that even further that if the agreement|default would have been less dan- with Germany was not ratified|gerous to the general interests of “the legal position, as between all{the world. By not refusing this the governments would revert to|small payment, he has preserved that which existed before thefthe legal claim which is more Hoover moratorium.” In other|than he would have done had he words, legally, Germany would be liable for the payment stipulated in the Young plan. When Herr von Papen, who rep- resented Germany at Lausanne] learned of this Gentlemen's Agree- ment, he put a question publicly to Mr. McDonald, the British Pre- mier, asking what would happen if the Lausanne agreement were not ‘ratified. The reply was that in the event “a further confer- default. " The irreconciliables may cry out default. But less than ten per cent without repudiation of the contract will not be considered a default by the opinion of the world. Tn stating that he does not personally consider it a de- fault, the President has uttered a moral judgment which reasonable ence will be held.” Now as a re-|men everywhere will be only too sul the position today is that: The'lglad to support. Copyright, 1933, New York Tribune Inc. MAN AND WIFE STUDYING PRIMITIVE ESKIMOS AND INDIANS OF TERRITORY ington, D. C., passed through Ju- neau on the steamer Aleutian which was in port Monday. PRSI E. J. HOWEY ARRIVES FROM Dr. and Mrs. W. A. Price are can intelligently apply those principles when they vote. In this field of both science and art the United States has produced no greater master than Alfred E. Smith, former Governor of New York, whose only college was his own brain, industry and ob- servation in public life, but whose ability to sim- |plify political problems for his fellow citizens has long been unrivalled. Therefore, in conferring the honorary Degree of Doctor of Laws upon Al Smith next ‘Thursday, its own discernment of what constitutes great liberal capacity and achievement reached without academic ald We doubt that Harvard ever made a man Doctor of Laws who was more simply, truly and literally just that in his power to show millions of voters how to understand and deal with laws. Dublin University and Columbia have given him the same degree. But the whole country will be glad to hear that conservative, careful Harvard is proud to have him at her Commencement and to make it three times “Al, LL. D.” The steamships must be making out pretty well despite the depression just from carrying delegates to and from conferences—(Ohio State Journal.) ‘That midget who climbed to Mr. Morgan's knee knows how it is to sit in the lap of welth.—(Dallas News.) % Oh, for another blissful summer like '29, when the coupons needed clipping as regularly as the grass.—(Detroit News.) It's a fact that prosperity is beginning to play peekaboo around the corner.—(Toledo Blade.) F. D. is becoming as well known the world over as was T. R—(Boston Transcript.) Harvard University will at the same time honor|S. JLast publication, Aug. 23, 1933, passengers aboard the Aleutian|” " ON. THE ALGFITAN bound for the Kuskokwim country and later return to Southeast Al- aska and go into the Stilkine River and Dease Lake country for some time. Dr. Price is studying the primi- tive Eskimos in the Interior and the Indians in the Dease Lake country. - R. CAPPS JASSES THROUGH JUNEAU ON THE ALEUTIAN 8. R. Capps, who is with the U. 8. Geclogical Survey in Wash- E. J. Howey, of Seattle, sales manager of the Columbia Steel Co., a subsidiary of the United States Steel Corporation, arrived in Juneau on the steamer Aleu- tian, from Ketchikan, where he stopped on his way north. e MRS. FRED HENNING AND BABY ARRIVE MONDAY Mrs. Fred Henning and her in- fant daughter, were northbound passengers on the steamer Aleu- tian arriving in Juneau Monday. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR GENERAL LAND OFFICE District Land Office Anchorage, Alaska. June 20, 1933. Notice is hereby given that Charles W. Stearns, entryman, to- gether with his witnesses, Willis W. Roff, and E. M. Richardson, has submitted final proof on his home- stead entry, Anchorage 07711, for a tract of land situated on the east shore of Gastineau Channel, and included in U. S. Survey No. 2107, containing 6.76 acres, and it is now in the files of the U. S. Land Office, Anchorage, Alnskn,l and if no protest is filed in the| local land office within the period of publication, or thirty days there-| after sald final proof will be ac- cepted and final certificate issued. J. LINDLEY GREEN. First publication, June 28, 1933. 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