The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 6, 1933, Page 4

i 3 THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, THURSDAY, JULY 6, 1933. Daily Alaska Empire GENERAL MANAGER ROBERT W. BENDER - - evening except Sunday by the COMPANY at Second and Main a Published EMPIRE_ PRI Streets, Juneau, Entered in the Post Office in Juneau as Second Class matter. every G Ala: SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Dellvered by carrier In Juneau and Douglas for $1.25 per month. By malil, postage paid, at the following rates: ear, in_advance, $12.00; six months, In advance, e month, in advance, $1.26. scribers will confer a favor i they will promptly delivery of their ps phone for Editorial ers. and Business Offices, 374. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS. vn,e Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the on of all news dispatches credited to crwise_credited in this paper and also the vs published herein. ALASKA CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION AN UNJUST TAX. The license fees imposed upon the operators and owners of automobiles that use all or any part of Richardson Highway by the Interior Department constitute a tax that is wholly indefensible. The argument of Secretary Ickes, who inherited the plan from the Hoover Administration and made it his own with refinements, is so weak that it requires no refutation and so inconsistent that it defeats its own purposes. He postulates that competition over the highway hurts the Alaska Railroad; that because both were constructed and are maintained out of Federal funds that a toll is justified over the highway to protect the rail line. Even if that were true, and it isn't, there would still be no justification to tax traffic that does not compete with the railroad. Yet it was Secretary Ickes's own idea to put a fee on privately owned and driven automobiles, pleasure vehicles that could not under any combination of circumstances compete with the railroad. Such an imposition is the height of absurdity and cannot be defended either in theory or practically. The Secretary is wrong when he takes the posi- tion that Richardson Highway was constructed and is maintained wholly by Federal funds. Twenty- five per cent of the money so expended was de- rived from Territorial sources—from money collected in taxes upon business and occupations in Alaska —taxes that are peculiarly Alaskan and have no counterpart in the entire nation. In addition to that, thousands of dollars have been turned over by the Territory to Federal authorities to be ex- pended on road projects and maintenance in Al- aska thus releasing money appropriated by Congress for expenditure on the highway that would other- wise have had to be diverted to other projects less important but which had to be maintained. Lack- ing Territorial funds, money that the Alaska Road Commission received from Congress would have had to be diverted from the highway to these other projects. Thus it is clear that Alaska has a substantial equity in Richardson Highway. Without its con- sent, any tax imposed on traffic over it by Federal authority is the arbitrary action of an autocratic despot. It ought to be resisted to the last. Congress last year authorized the Secretary of Interior to make regulations for traffic over the highway. That officer has interpreted that to mean to make out of it a toll road. But Congress did not then and has not since then fixed a penalty for those who do not conform to the regulations. That is to say, the Secretary of Interior is probably within his power when he fixes tolls on traffic passing over it. But he is powerless to penalize anyone who refuses to pay the tolls. The road is publicly owned. The Interior Department can fix tolls, but it cannot under existing laws successfully prosecute anyone who declines to pay them. And the Department of Interior can hardly used armed force to close the road to those who do not pay. Congress may sometime in the future pass leg- islation providing penalties for anyone convicted of nonpayment of the license fees imposed. It hasn't done so yet. When it shall have done so, it will be time then for the Territory, or some of those injured to question in the proper court the right of the Secretary of Interior to put a tax on traffic over a public road that has been built and is main- tained partly out of funds derived from Alaskan sources. That such an action will follow is inevit- able, for the tax is unjust, unAmerican and in violation of all the precedents heretofore set by Congress. AIDING ONE MILLION. President Roosevelt's Emergency Conservation Work program is already lightening the relief load of many cities and towns, and has directly bene- fitted more than 1,000,000 persons. This is revealed by Director Robert Fechner whose reeord.s show where and how the money is being expended and the number of allotments made by persons em- ployed to their families. By mid-June 250,000 men were enrolled in the camps and 15,000 additional ‘were employed in supervisory capacities. . Reports reaching his office showed that the men enrolled in these camps and in the Indian Service Work had arranged for the payment of cash allotments to more than 300,000 families aggregating close to 1,000,000 persons. In many instances the families receiving allotments will be made entirely self-supporting. In thousands of other instances the arrival of the allotment money will bolster up the family budgets to such an extent that relief organizations will be able to substantially reduce the monthly relief funds paid to them. The men enrolled are doing a highly useful for which they are paid a wage. Not a high it is true, but. they are earning their own are off the breadline. They have been again. That is worth almost as nation as the material help given the President Roosevelt’s first action ] to relieve the emergenc well as even its predicted. situation is working out as most enthusiastic supporters THE HOG SURPLLU Unlike the excesses of some other commodities, the excess of hogs in the home market has not been piling up in warehouses. 'Rather, it is actually being consumed. Pork is a relatively perishable product, and is moved through to the consumer as rapidly as possible for whatever price it will bring. Some parts of the carcass may be cured and placed in storage, but there has not been the normal accumulation of new stocks for some time because packers have feared a loss in such operations. Storage stocks of pork on May 1, 1933, were 21 per cent smaller than those of a year earlier, according to the United States Department of Agri- culture. Lard stocks were 35 per cent smaller and the smallest on record for that date. The total reduction of pork and lard stocks from those of a year earlier was equivalent to about 1,300,000 head of market-weight hogs. This large quantity has been shoved on the market. Not a single arrest was made locally by Federal officials during the Fourth of July Celebration. Possibly the boys really are sincere about pre- ferring three point two beer to Admiralty Island “mule.” As we understand Mr. Farley's reply to Repre- sentative Snell, some Republicans are so cussed contrary that they prefer to remain poor and hungry rather than to see prosperity come back under Democratic chaperonage. Technocracy After All. (Cincinnati Enquirer.) The movement called technocracy had its mo- ment of glory and then collupsed with finality. So, also, did the theory of energy determinants and all the rest of the mystical jargon amassed by tha technocrats in their visionary program. But the essence of technocracy—the assumption of vast pow- ers by engineers and economic planning experts— is more alive than ever. The so-called “brain trust” of President Roosevelt has come to be an informal but very real machinery for national economic planning. Most of the leg- islation of the special session of Congress, just closed, is evidence of the planning done behind the scenes by that -group and the large numbers of financiers and business men who were consulted. If there were not ample proof that technocracy, in a new guise, were coming to pass, we might consider the flock of engineers catapulted into positions of great authority in recent weeks. From New York and Dayton engineer-administrators have been called to Washington by telegram to assume large responsibilities in public - works enterprises. Colonel Henry Waite and several aids have left their completed Terminal and moved on to the nation's capital to share in the administration of the National Recovery Act. These and many other men with scientific train- ing are to be utilized, not merely to construct dams and highways and buildings, but to plan for a bal- anced national economy. With them are lawyers to iron out the legal complications of public-works undertakings and the control of industry through trade agreements. In a word, technocracy is being born—not out of the visionary dreams of theorists, but from the com- pelling needs of present-day reality. There is being created a great machine to survey the national economic system and regulate it in the interest of stability and the common well-being. That, in the last analysis, is what technocracy really means. This is being done with scarcely a cry of “so- cialism” from cautious business men, bankers and merchants. It is accepted as the way of common sense required by the complexity of our business civilization and by the imperative need for economic recovery. There is no need to apply epithets to the new course that has been charted. There is need only to see that able men are chosen for posts of responsibility, and to insure that public planning serves as a stimulant and stabilizing force, not a destructive influence, in enterprise. Radio Advertising. (Daily Jqurnal of Commerce, Seattle.) The Canadian Radio Broadcasting Commission has issued orders that direct advertising in the future is not to occupy more than 5 per cent of the time of programs. Amreican programs being sup- plied to Canadian broadcasting stations are being brought into conformity with the new regulations. The National and Columbia, the two major Ameri- can systems, have assured the commission of their cooperation. How long will the suffering .radio listeners of the United States have to wait for some sort of action to curb the ever-increasing ballyhoo? Under the present system the valuable evening hours will always be chopped up into small chunks and sold at high prices to advertisers. The bulk of the broadcasters’ revenue is earned after 6 p.m. While this prevails all really good music will be rele- gated to the mornings and afternoons. Only fif- teen-minute samples, plentifully smeared with cheap ballyhoo, will be available in the evenings. And even such samples of good music are growing more scarce while talking and singing skits of low-grade humor, sandwiched in between sales talk, are be- coming more and more predominant. There are few things we possess so far re- moved from the dark ages as the radio, but the inferior quality of entertainment that emanates from the loud speaker is proof that no matter how far we advance, the wonders of science, motivated largely by commercial gain, can still be used for the exploitation of ignorance. Broadcasting in the United States is operated primarily for the sale of goods and service through its relation to private| The Issue LONDON, June 26—The first impression which one receives on arriving in London is that Amcrican delegation has lost con- become divided and demoralized The impression is not in untrue. It is evident, for exam- ple, tempting to follow a set of in- that were current before the logic of the American domestic program or of the force it has already set in motion were stood. The consequence the delegates, when they arrived to negotiate, were like men who thought they were sitting down to a light breakfast of orange juice and coffee and found themselve. the guests of honor at a heavy banquet. They are bewildered In their bewilderment they have lost their morale, and are at the moment wandering around in a fog of gossip and innuendo. All of this is only too painful- ly ecvideni. Bul it is very easy to exaggerate its importance, and easier still to be wholly misled by it. Thus a little inquisitiveness will soon teach any observer here that divided counsels and uncer- tainty of policy are not confined to the Americans. They are pres- ent among the British. If any one supposes that the British gov- ernment has more definite convic- tions than ours as to what it wants and where it is going, he is I think, greatly deluded. Thes Brit- ish are more discreet than we are They keep up appearances more successfully. They do their hesi- tating and their arguing in pri- vate. But they argue and they Hesitate and under the outward calm and correctness of their pub- lic behavior they are, I hbelieve, beset by even deeper conflicts of purpose and of interest than we are at this moment in the United States. In candid conversation well-in- formed Britons not only recognize this but admit that the decision which confronts the American gov- ernment is one which it is mot easy to make, and that the diffi- culty of making this decision ex- ion of American policy: s o T is this decision which confronts the '‘American govern- ment? Tt is whether definitely to revalue the dollar now or to keep the dollar depreciated and What future devaluation to an unde- fined amount. There are the two, possible courses we can take, and nothing else of any consequence jcan or will be settled here until our decision has been reached: For the value which we ultimate- ly put upon the dollar will deter- mine the monetary policy of the! other nations. The first two weeks of the conference have established this important truth. Although there is much talk about return- ing to the gold standard, the fact is that the effeotive monetary standard of the world is the dol- lar. v Our task is to weigh the ad- vantage and disadvantages of the two policies. The policy of ims mediate devaluation by a definite amount and our present policy of the tact with the President and has itself are that our delegates are at-; structions which derive from ideas v clearly under- : is that 1 plains all the superficial confus- fluctuating under the threat of a; Today and Tomorrow By WALTER LIPPMANN at London uctuating depreciation under the reat of eventual devaluation. t is to be said for our present po ? Chiefly, I think that un- til American prices have risen to the point where costs and prices in working balance, no one knows exactly how to value the 'y in terms of gold. Since we do mot know how much prices 1l rise in other countries we do know how much, if it all, the tollar needs to be depreciated, and so we hesitate now to fix its value bitrarily. We might devalue too h and get too great a rise in ur prices. We might devalue too little and get too small a rise. What is to be said for the op- posite policy; That of immediate definite devaluation? The first thing to be said for it is that an American devaluation of 25 to 30 per cent would almost certainly bring about devaluation in practi- ly every other country. The ef- t of this should be to raise t only American prices but world ces, and thus produce a gen- 1 upward movement every- vhere. If this was achieved, it would certainly be to our advant- age, for obviously, though we must raise our own prices in any event, it would be far better if they did not rise too much above prices elsewhere, The second, advantage claimed r immediate devaluation is that ¢ uld avert the danger that the present upward movement of pric- es in the United States might be halted suddenly by a sharp rise in the value of a dollar due to a fall in the value of sterling and of the franc. I do not know how real this danger is, but many competent and disinterested men believe that in the autumn this danger will exist, owing to the fact that at that season the ex- r n changes tend to move strongly|® against Europe. This is a ques- tion which ought to be examined |very carefully with a view to de- termining whether a definite de- valuation this summer will or will not provide a more solid founda- tion for the advance of prices than we now have from the threat of eventual but indefinite devaluation, W e This is the decision we have to take. In taking it we must not be misled by the talk which is now so common about whether we are pursuing a “national” or an “international” policy. Those who best understand the situation over ‘here do not, I think, see the prob- lem in catchwords like these. The !British opinion which will in the end prevail, and the greater part 'of instructed world opinion as it lis reflected here, recognizes that |the United States alone is strong lenough to lead the world out of the depression and that it is.of the Xut.mosc importance that the Amer- ican recovery should not be inter- ‘rupted. We need have no doubts |that on the monetary question the right decision for us to take in our own interests is the right decision from the point of view of the world in general. It is not a matter of our being nationalistic or of our not being mationalistic. It is a matter of reaching a wise decision on a question of great moment and of great difficulty at a time when no mind in the whole world can absolutely guarantee the outcome. Copyright, 1933, New York Tribune Inc. HARDY SHIFTE TO KETCHIKA Fisheries Warden Moved from Cordova to Larg-: er Southern District & Enroute to Ketchikan to assume charge of the work of the Bu- reau of Fisherie$ in the Souther district, N. G. Hardy, Warden, Was a passenger on the steamer Yukon last Monday. He was ac- companied by Mrs. Hardy. Mr. Hardy takes the place of Asst. Agent Frank W.Hynes, whose resignation was effective July 1, and ‘who left Ketchikan last for Seattle. He was succeeded at Cordova, his station for the past two or three years, by A. W. Haw- radio advertising. Entertainment and information features are mere by-products. This condition can- not endure forever. Broadcasting is too important | a function to be mere bait concealing the ballyhoo hook. Some hope for its improvement is seen in the Fulmer resolution creating a Congressional commission. The purpose of this commission is to get at the true facts of American broadcasting and frame legislation necessary to cure its ills. As we understand it ,a doctor may now pre- scribe a quantity of whiskey which will last the patient 80 days if the patient’s friends don't get wind of it.—(Boston Herald.) Mahatma Gangdhi doesn't drink, but he no doubt gets three sheets in the wind.—(Jacksonville Times-Union.) ‘Three-point-two can't be expected to satisfy everybody.. There are some thirsts that not even 999 would' quench.—(Charleston, W. Va., Mail.) Now we have a Prohibition Director urging the liberalization of the wine laws. He doesn’t even specify dry wines.—(Buffalo Courier-Express.) kins, who was formerly in charge of a Pacific American Fisheries cannery at Bering River Mr. Hynes, according to reports from Ketchikan, expects to return ' to Southeast Alaska and enter the salmon packing own -account. Fred W. Oliver, who has been master of the Fisheries boat Murre for several years and sta- tioned at Ketchikan, also resigned at the same time Hynes left the service. Capt. Oliver is well known here and lived here for many years. —ee— NORDALES IN DAWSON A. J Nordale, of the First Na- tional Bank of Fairbanks, and wife were recent visitors in Daw=- son and the creeks and the young couple were showered with invitas tions to many affairs. by —.eoe—— 3 Daily Empire Want Ads Pay industry on his DAVENPORT SET TO BE AWARDED DURING S. E. ALASKA FAIR Announcement was made today by the Business and Professional Women’s Club that a davenport awarded at the Southeast Alaska to be held in Juneau next | September. The club is the first to make definite announcement of ing part in the annual fair and further particulars regarding the set will be made public later. ———— Daily Empire Want Ads Pay I'IGGI.Y f * A FORD AGENCY (Authorized Dealers) GAS | OILS GREASES Juneau Motors FOOT OF MAIN ST. ~ set, manufactured in Junegu, will|e- 20 YEARS AGO From The Empire T e e JULY 6, 1913, ‘Among the passengers arriving on the Northwestern were, Mrs. E. J. Margerie, her daughters, Miss Olive and Miss Leonore Margerie, and Miss Gladys Tripp. United States Distriet Attorney ner party for gentlemen at his home in honor of F. W. Bradley, of San Francisco, president of the Alaska-Treadwell and the Alaska- Juneau. Guests in addition to Mr. Bradley were, R. A. Kinzle and E. P. Kennedy, of Treadwell; R. D. Pinneo, of Seattle; J. R. Willis, R. V. Nye and John W. Troy, of Juneau. Judge R. W. Jennings planned to leave Juneau for the West- ward on the Admiral Sampson, going directly to Valdez and from there continue to the Westward on the United States revenue cut- ter Thetis. Rev. R. C. Blackwell, Mrs. Blackwell and Miss Helen Black- well were to leave in' their cruis- ing Jlaunch “Boreas” for Sitka. ‘They planned to cruise leisurely along the route, stopping at points to suit their convenience, fishing a bit, now and then. They planned to live aboard the ship during the entire vacation trip. Rustgard was the host at & din-| PROFESSIONAL i | Helene W. L. Albrecht PHYSIOTHERAPY e, Electricity, Infra Red | Ray, Medical Gymnastics. | | 307 Goldstein Building | Phone Office, 216 L. [ | DRS. KASER & FREEBURGER DENTISTS Blomgren Building | PHONE 56 | Hours 9 am. to 9 pm. [ T Dr. Charles P, Jenn DENTIST Rcyms 8 and 8 Valentine Building ‘Tulephone 176 o — .r' i = Dr. JDEW Bayne Rooms 5-6 Triangle Bldg. Office hours, § am. to 5 p.m. * Evenings hv -ppolnunem Phone 331 g e Dr. A. W. Stewart DENTIST Hours 9 am. to 8 pm. | SIWARD BUILDING Office Phone 469, Res. rhone 276 t TR 3 The “Golden Rod,” handsome gas yacht, belonging to Capt. John Newell, of Sitka, a native Thlin- get, was in port with teachers from Sitka aboard. Capt. Newell and his nephew, Ralph Young, were the discoverers of the Chi- chagof mine. While hunting on the island they discovered a piece of float rich with free gold. Both secured a fortune from the royal- ties and sale of the property. | Smith Electric Co. | | Gastinesu Bullding | | EVERYTHING | i ELECTRICAL { JUNEAU SAMPLE SHOP The Little Store with the BIG VALUES FresH and CLEAN Are you moving, or just . cleaning house? In either case you'll want your drapes cleaned. Alaska l ) [ | Dr. Richard Williams | DENTIST OFFICE AND RESIDENCE Gastineau Building, Plone 481 | | i Robert Simpson Opt. D. Graduate Angeles Col- lege of Optometry and | Opthalmology ed Ruler. M. H. Sides, Secretary. ' Seghers Council No, 1760. * Transient brothers urg- ed to attend. Couneil B. P. 0. ELKS meets every Wednesday at 8 5 brothers welcome. Mt M ‘Chflmb!rfl. Fifth Strecs. ! ) | t JUNEAU TRANSFER F; raternalofocieties | | Gastineau Channel - | v p. m. Visiting ‘W. Turoff, Exalt- — KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS leetings second and last onday at 7:30 p. m. JOHN F. MULLEN, G. K. H. J. TURNER, Secretary I 5 ) AT Gur trucks go any piace any | time. A tank for Diesel Ofl | and a tank for crude oit save | burner trouble. PHONE 149, NIGHT 148 RELIABLE TRANSFER 4 COMPANY Mming and Storage Moves, Packs and Stores Freight and Baggage Prompt Delivery of FUEL OIL ALL KINDS OF COAL PHONE 48 e e e | Konneru p’s MORE for LESS Ghllu!lned,uznlelmmmd[ DR. R. E. SOUTHWELL | . Optometrist—Optician | Eyes Examined—Glasses Fitted | Room 7. Valentine Bldg. | | Office Pmone 484; Residence | | | | Phone 238. Office Hours: 9:30 | to 12; 1:00 to 5:30 — g - . Rose A. Andrews Graduate Nurse 1 Electric Cabinet Baths—Mas- sage, Colonic Irrigations Office hours 11 am. to 5 p.m. Evenings by Appointment Second and Main - Phone 250 L o— ALLAMAE SCOTT Expert Beauty Specialist , PERMANENT WAVING Phone 218 for Appointment Entrance Pioneer Barber Shop e e—————————y CHIROPRACTIC | “Health from Within” * Solarium Baths —Authentic— Palmer School Graduate | | DR. DOELKER | PHONE 477 * | Juneau Ice Cream Parlors Exclusive Dealers HORLUCK'S | DANISH ICE CREAM | . —— JUNEAU-YOUNG | F | | . SABIN lv-'ythll‘ Juneau : The B. M. Behrends Bank BANKERS SINCE 1891 Strong———?rogrcssive——Comervative . We cordially invite you to avail . yourselves of our facilities -for ‘handling your business. C. L. FENTON CRIROPRACTOR Golasteln Building Office ' Hours: 10-12; 2-5, Evenings by Appointment L. C. SMITH and CORONA TYPEWEITERS J. B. Burford & Co. cust Alaska "GARBAGE HAULED | BB el MR THE JuNEAU LAUNDRY ' ¥ Franklin Street betwoen Front and Second Streets PHONE 359 JUNEAU FROCK - SHOPPE “Exclusive but not Expensive” Coats, Dresses, Lingerie Hoslery and Hate s HOTEL ZYNDA Large Sample Rooms ELEVATOR SERVICE 8. ZYNDA, Prop. Reasonable Monthly Rates E. 0. DAVIS | TELEPHONE 584 ] Day Phone 371 | SOMETHING NEW! —Try OQur— TOMATO ROLLS Juneau GENERAL MOTORS and MAYTAG PRODUCTS W. P. JOHNSON RUSSIAN BATHS The Green Building Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday from 1 pm. to 1 a.m. ORPHEUM ROOMS Rates by day, | week or month. Near Commer- cial Dock, foot of Main St. Telephone 396 Bessie Lund | PEERLESS BREAD Always Good— ‘ Always Fresh *“Ask Your Grocer”