The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 12, 1933, Page 4

% THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, WEDNESDAY, JULY 12, 1933. Daily Alaska Em pire GENERAL MANAGER ROBERT W. BENDER - - Published every evening except Sunday by the EMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY at Second and Main Streets, Juneau, Alaska Entered in the Post Office in Juneau as Second Class matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Dellvered by carrier In Juneau and Douglas for $1.28 per month. By mall, postage paid, at the following rates: One year, in advance, $12.00; six months, in advance, $6.00; one month, in advance, $1.26. Subscribers will confer a favor if they will promptly notify the Business Office of any fallure or irregularity in the delivery of their paper: Telephone for Editorial fihd 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. o DR. SMITH EXPOUNDS A DOCTRINE. Dr. Alfred E. Smith, more affectionately known as Governor or just plain Al', as President of the New York Repeal Convention, took advantage of the occasion to expound anew one of the doctrines of government that he has voiced continuously for almost a decade and a half. He pointed to the dangers of permitting ratification of Constitutional amendments by State Legislatures rather than by the people of the State. As he pointed out, the New York Repeal Convention did nothing that it wasn't known would be done before the delegates left their homes. It wasn't what they did, but the fact that they were instructed by the voters of New York State to do it that contained the lesson. Commenting on this feature, New York's great leader said: But, however, the convention has a great significance. It will have its place in his- tory. It will stand out as a lesson and a warning for all time to come for the people of this and every other State fo be very careful in the future and never allow any- thing like the Eighteenth Amendment to get into our Federal Constitution. It has its lesson also for the people of our time, and that is, that ratification of constitutional amendments, taking anything away from the people, should hereafter be decided by them and not by Legislatures. Amendments to the Constitution adopted almost directly after it was approved, such as those embody- ing the Bill of Rights, said Gov. Smith, might well be ratified by the State Legislatures since their very nature removes them from the debatable field. But those like the Eighteenth Amendment “which seeks to regulate the ordinary everyday like of a citizen, or take away from him some privilege or some liberty that he enjoyed,” is altogether another matter, and one that the whole people who are affected have a right to express their views upon. Continuing Gov. Smith said: For all time to come these conventions that are being held around the country should be a lesson and a warning not to permit submission by the national Congress through legislative branches, of such a mat- ter. Obviously, they ate not organized to represent the popular will or the popular majority. I held back in 1919—T felt I was right then—that the Legislature of this State, when it ratified the Eighteenth Amend- ment, did not express the popular will. Now, there may be some reason for acreage representation in legislative bodies as against square blocks of tenement houses in the city when it comes to the ordinary conduct of the business of government, but it is an entirely different thing when an unfair basis of representation can speak not the will of the people, not the desire of the majority, but what appears to be the politically expedient thing to do. General Wickersham, in his report to the President of the United States, made the statement that State Legislatures were not organized to pass upon amendments such as the Eighteenth Amendment and that there was a large volume, and a large body of the people, that were not therein rep- resented. ‘We have another lesson to learn and that is to keep your eye on organized minori- ties. Of course, it must be to the delegates that I have seen struggling with this ques- tion for the last thirteen years a great deal of satisfaction to be in this chamber and to cast their votes after what they were compelled to go through during all of that thirteen years, to be referred to as nulli- ficationists, as enemies of the Constiu- tion, as people that wanted to destroy or- ganized and properly constituted government. However, the convention, and every other one that is held in any other part of the country, is a clear vindication of the clear fundamental theory of democratic govern- ment. All the ills of democracy can be cured by more democracy. Let the people speak. This is sound doctrine. It is one that Gov. Smith has preached fearlessly and consistently throughout his long public career. It was on such a philosophy of government, on his own art in governing and in making the business of government administra- tion plain to the ordinary man in the street that Harvard was proud to bestow upon him recently the degree of Doctor of Laws. WHO IS RADICAL? With Congressional elections only a year away, Republican campaign managers are laying the framework for their drive against the Democratic- __controlled Congress by charging the Roosevelt Ad- W with dangerous radicalism, “with de- from traditional American customs and prin- empowered to aid industry in planning for itself, or, in default of self-planning by it, to do the flanning for it. Probably as concise and clear an answer to the charges of the opposition political managers as could be given is contained in a recent comment by the President of the Standard Oil Company of Ohie, who, of course, cannot be suspected of being a radical. Urging whole-hearted support of the business interests of the Government's activities under the National Recovery Act, he said: The immediate purpose of the law is to stop the downward spiral of wages, spread employment and distribute purchasing power. It can accomlish these results only if it° has the united support of industry and the public. It will be possible under the law to estab- lish minimum wages and maximum hours for various industries. The law strikes a death blow at sweatshops. When something needs to be done which business or industry cannot de, then the Government is not intruding upon business when it does those things. The real radicals today are the conserva- tives who denounce change and experiment. Senator Hatfield and Representative Snell, who are acting as spokesmen for the Republicans in preliminary campaign propagandizing, will not agree with this view, of course. It is part of their political job to create dissatisfaction with the Roosevelt Ad- ministration.” But in selecting the President’s emer- gency program, particularly the National Recovery Act, as their target, they show poor judgment. This undoubtedly has the support of both labor and industry, and the nation’s leading business men have outspokenly endorsed it. Many beer drinkers agree that the hardest habit to break away from is that of leaving about two inches in the bottom of the bottle in pouring out the three point two beverage. Beer on the Campus. (Cincinnati Enquirer.) College executives have reacted variously to the return of legal beer. Ohio Wesleyan University, which pioneered by teaching a course in Prohibition a few years ago and gave both sides of the ques- tion, has ruled that 3.2 beer is not proper, and has banned it from the campus. A little pressure also banned it from some of the near-by soda emporiums frequently by students. On the other hand, Dart- mouth College has welcomed beer with open arms, and it is sold at campus establishments. The reception of the world’s only nonintoxicating intoxicant has been similarly diverse in other uni- versities of the country. Doubtless the moral and religious traditions of alumni and wealthy friends of the colleges, as well as local sentiment, play & part in determining policy. Among students, however, beer has found a hearty welcome, and has paid dividends in terms of reduced use of strong liquor, a careful survey discloses. Whether the new brew is available in college halls, or whether students must go off the reservation for it, they are giving it preference over the gin and corn that have been Hobson's choice for thirsty collegians since thé war. Beer is preeminently a social drink. It provides the relaxation which students are so convinced they require after the rigors of an hour or two on their books. It is calculated to arouse little if any of the unseemly hilarity which is the bane of Deans of Men on every campus. For cautious administrative heads of universities one might well cite the experience of the Ohio Liquor Control Commission. By allowing the sale of beer in every corner drug store and every grocery store the mystery and the sin of drink are done away with. Perhaps by allowing the ready sale of beer at the campus restaurant the long-suffering Dean of Men will find his Prohibition problems solved. After the Night—the Dawn! (Daily Journal of Commerce, Seattle.) The present economic crisis has extended longer than any previous period of similar character in history, with the possible exception of the dark Middle Ages when progress in all fields was stifled for a period so long that historians are able to condense the record of any single century of the era into a few pages of the normal volume of world history. Some of the seeds of this economic upset were sown as long as 100 years ago, and most of them were in the pre-Great War years. Yet our economic system and our civilization in general have survived it, and the believers in the theory that a brand new world would have to be called into being before the ordinary man could enjoy the fruits of whatever is his conception of prosperity are hardly likely to see their prophecies implemented. The effect of the political, social and economic ideas of man of the war period will be apparent for many years to come. The clash between the knowledge of experience and the intellectualism of theory will continue to rail at the backwardness of mankind in general. But the anticipated col- lapse of the modern world that troubled the fears of panic-stricken men only a year ago is no longer held up to us as a menace. The new world is going to be the old world after all, with little more improvement than is added every year, every gen- eration, and every century through good times and bad. Justice for Veterans. (New York World-Telegram.) Republican members of Congress who tried to make political capital out of opposition to the Roosevelt reduction of veteran payments during the closing days of the session doubtless will be sur- prised and grieved by the latest statement of the American Legion. After careful anlaysis of the complex legislation the Legion finds that it restores $96,000,000 of veteran payments and that it keeps many thousands of worthy cases on the compensa- tion list compared with the original economy pro- gram. On the major issue of justice to the war wounded the Legion states that the law, if properly ad- ministered, “assures the service-connected disabled and their widows, orphans and dependent parents reasonable protection for the present, and at the same time increases the compensation of totally permanently disabled veterans whose affliction was not of service origin.” In other words, the Roosevelt compromise meas- ure is fair to the veterans, as the President said it was. Those Republicans who plan to make this a campaign issue in 1934 probably will have to look for a better issue when the time comes. The President and Budget Director Douglas should make clear to the Veterans' Administration that red tape is not to interfere with adequate care of the war wounded and that channels of personal # and mn usurpation of Constitutional powers the President through Congressional complais- main attack is directed against the M under whk:h the President is appeal for such cases are to remain open always. Tt isn't the heat of ‘the the Drys ob- ject to, it's the humidity.—(Detrolt Free Press.) Today and Tomorrow The Rejected Declaration LONDON, July 2—The declara- countries desired. That is why they tlon which the President has re- wanted the declaration. That Is Jected was one of those diplomatic formulae which the governments the conference if the declaration| resort to when they are unable to is not made. make decisions. There is a con-| M (Ve flict in London between the gov-| What persuaded Americans in ernments which wish at any cost London to agree to the declaration to maintain the gold value of their was, first, a desire to escape the currencies and the governments, o('rnsponsiblmy for breaking up the which the WUnited States is the conference; second, to escape. the leader, which wish to raise prices responsibility ' for busmng other by controlled inflation. In its litera! countries off gold, third to prove terms the rejected declaration did to a cynical world that the Uhited not commit either party to any- States not only has the will to in- thing except some common effort flate, but the Will to control the| to discourage organized predatory inflation. This latter consideration speculation. |is of specific importance. There is doubt example of Am- But the force of the document :1‘-)10& has m:"p‘;‘* mpe‘m del-1 did not reside in what it said buil i Whitk 1t could-be made 'to M egates &t this conference. But at to imply. Looked at this way the document gave great rhetorical em- phasis to the view that the main- tenance of the gold standard where it still exists and a prompt return to gold by the other countries, was the dominant purpose of the con- ference. Had it been accepted by the President, the net result pub- lic opinion would have been al- most equivalent to an announce-, ment that a cormerted policy of' price raising was not contemplated in London. This explains the ardor with which the gold countries insisted upon the declaration. They saw in it, and quite correctly it seems to me, something very much like a guaranty that Great Britain and America would not jointly lead the way towards an inflationary policy it s deeply desirable that we in the world at large. Such jont ghoulq find ways of persuading the action would force them off gold gritish, who are tempted but hesi- and they are using all thelr efforts tant, that our course is not only to prevent such joint action. Tt jmmediately successful but in the explains, too, why, without bein€ jong run sound and under firm able to state any very cogent Ob- gontrol. For they agree that we jections to the text itself, so man¥ can inflate. What they need to be Americans, the President agreeing gnown is that we really have the with them, instinctively rejécted wi to control inflation. To do it. They felt, and they too Were tnat the Administration must in right, T think, that whatever tht the near future take some action document said, its meaning was t0 which proves that T is not infected, put an end to whatever chance eyen unconsciously, by a specula- there has been to agree upon a tjye fever. Any action which dem- positive dollar and sterling Pro- onstrates that the ticker is not de- gram. termining our policy will do. The declaration would have made i F a little easier for the gold 1t is too early to say what will countries to maintain the gold pe the effect of this second dash- standard. It would have done ing of hopes at London, but I think nothing to aid, in fact, would have j; s clear that unless the Admin- greatly hindered, the effort of oth- jstration takes some action to prove er countries to raise prices by that it is in control of American monetary action. Though it is jnfiation, the purpose which ‘we quite true that the declaration came to London to achieve—that is would not have prevented the to persuade the sterling bloc to join United States from taking, any with us in a parallel policy—is for course it chooses, the declaration the time being defeated. The con- would almost certainly have acted Bervative view will dominate Brit- as a moral inhibition upon Brit- jsh policy and, while the British ain’s taking a course parallel with il not break away openly from our own. That is what the gold &5, they will not openly join us. Copyrignt, 1933, New. York Tribune Inc. RUPPERT MAKES] spread conviction that in our re- a part, and the reality of our sta- tistics is, trusted. But for this distrust our example would be irresistibly con- tagious, and until this distrust is removed we shall not persuade this British government to take a course like our own. Yet, unless the British decide to| go in our direction, the conference is from our point of view, a failure, and we shall be compelled to pro- ceed by ourselves withouf the sup- port of concurrent action in other countries, We can, T suppose, suc- ceed alone. But the experiment is more difficult and more hazardous than if our price level rises with the world price level. That is why it Anchorage, Alaska. April 24, 1933. By WALTER LIPPMANN i |why they have threatened to leave 'States District - Court were Gude- the same time there is a wide- |. s e, therefore, widely dis- ' 20 YEARS AGO Prom The Empire e Sy JULY 12, 1913 Additional jurors accepted:in the McDonald case in the United man Jensen and Grant Baldwin. It 'was thought that a jury might be accepted by the next day. A farewell party - was given at the Governor’s house for Miss Cor- delia Jennings, daughter of Judgel and Mrs. R. L. Jennings, who was to leave for Victoria where she 'would enter a young ladies’ finish- elene W. L. Albrecht PHYSIOTHERAPY Massage, Electricity, Infra Red | Ray, Medical Gymnastics. | 307 Goldstein Bullding | Phone Office, 216 | | DRS. KASER & FREEBURGER DENTISTS ing school.” Guests in addition to Miss . Jennings :were. the Misses Henrietta Heid, Beatrice Behrends, Gertrude Heid, Elizabeth Heid, Muriel Folsom, Wollenberg, Moore, s Tripp, Alide Margrie, Baker, |Georgia Caro, Klonda Olds, Mrs. Black, Miss Mayme <Charon, Mr. Frederick . J. Wettrick, covery speculation plays too lnrgei“nd Messrs. . Victor . Dupuy, Earle Jameson, Wollenberg, R. Martin, Shepard, Jack Mullen, Bayless, Fotheringham, Cobb, Tore, Martin, Bryant, Healey, Sperry, Kennedy, 'Wood, Harris and Ward. Before adjourning the Grand Camp of the Arctic Brotherhood, which met here, adopted a resolu- tion of thanks to John T. Spickett, who had donated the use of his Orpheum Theatre for the use of the meetings. 5 ‘William Britt, of Juneau, was elected President of the Alaska Board of Pharmacy; W. H. Chs- well, of Valdez, was chosen vice- president and Floyd E. Ryus, sec- retary and treasurer. Theodore J. Richardson, the noted water color artist, was spend- ing two or three weeks in Alaska making sketches of Alaska scenery. He made his home at Pacific (Grove, California. —————— NOTICE! The Juneau Water Works have| moved their offices to the First National Bank from where it will transact all business. adv. JOHN RECK, Manager. .Dr. Charles P. Jenn‘ !mmnw'vmm' 'n:lcnm 176 f, Beclaiag ll _Fr_J: W. Bayne Rooms 5-6 Triangle Bidg. | OIMMm.mefinu.‘ | Dr. A. W. Stewart Hours 9 am. to 8 pm. SAWARD BUILDING Office Phone 469, hons 276 I DENTIST OFFICE' AND RESIDEN ] r. Richard Williams { Gestinesu: Bullding, Fhns b | Robert Simpson D. | Graduate Angeles Col- | lege ‘of Optometty. and | ! | | Opthalmology Glasses- Fitted, - Lenses ' Ground - B. ¥. 0. ELKS Regular meeting tonight 8 p.m. M. H. SIDES, Secretary. T BETTY MAC BEAUTY SHOP —adv. g L Notlce is hereby given that Tur- ney L. Burkhart, entryman, to- gether with his witnesses Alfred Tilson and James H. Gilpatrick all of Sitka, Alaska, has made final proof of his homestead entry An- chorage 07282, for a track of land embraced in U. 8. Survey No. 1047, situate at Sitka, Alaska, containing 21.15 acres, and it is now in the files of the U. S.. Land Office, An- chorage, Alaska, and if no protest is filed in the local land office at Anchorage, Alaska, within the per- jod of publication or thirty days thereafter, said final proof will be accepted and final certificate is- sued. A PROMISE; HE'S STUCK WITHIT NEWARK, N. J, July 12— A speech that Col. Jacob Ruppert of the Yankees made over a year ago to Newark's baseball fans might cost the smiling brewer a pretty penny before it is forgotten. Said the Yankees' owner at the time he bought this city’s Inter- national league franchise: “I prom- ise we won't recall players from your team as long as you are in the pennant race in your league.” It was a nice statement and now he’s stuck with it. In mid-June the Yankee pitching staff became shot full of holes. Manager Jo: McCarthy wanted the worst way to exchange a couple of his flingers for Jim Weaver and Charley Dev- lens, who have been pitching sen- sational ball for the Bears. But he was reminded of the col- onel's promise. Close friends be- lieve Ruppert will keep his word. s ae. an o e CALL FOR BIDS Sealed bids will be received up to 5 pm. July 14, for the construc- tion of approximately 186 ft. of concrete sidewalk on the south side of Second St., between Seward and | ) Franklin Sts. Specifications on fileq: at Clerk's Office. A. W. HENNING, City Clerk. J. LINDLEY GBEEN, Register. First publication, June 21, 1933, Last publication, Aug. 16, 1933. Mature persons up to 50 years of age learn most things better than puplils of high school age, says Dr. Edwin A. Lee, Director of Vocational Education at the Uni- versity of California. . R “Tomorrow’s Stylél Today” —adv. Juneau’s Own Store Daily Bmpne Want Ad.l Pay b " MURESCO:. We Carry a Full Line . Juneau Paint Store JUST IN! 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