The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 17, 1933, Page 4

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, MONDAY, JULY 17, 1933. = ° | Daily Alaska Empire GENERAL MANAGER ROBERT W. BENDER - - Published every evening except Sunday by the MPIRE_PRINTING COMPANY at Second and Maln reets, Juneau, Alaska. ntered in the Post Office In Juneau as Second Class matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES, Dellvered by carrler in Juneau and Douglas for $1.25 per month, mall, postage pald, at the following rates: s yom D Ay nce. $12.00; Aix monthe: 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 faflure or irregularity the delivery of their papers. I elephone for Editorial and Business Offices, 374. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS. Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the luw-n(I:r Tepublication 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. — WHAT IS THE MATTER WITH THE ALASKA EXHIBIT. “The less said about it the better!” exclaimed B. F. Heintzleman in a brief mention to the Cha n- ber of Commerce of the Alaska Exhibit at the Cen- tury of Progress Exhibit at Chicago. We do not like to disagree with him. But we feel that some- thing ought to be said about it. Maybe some harsh things will have to be said. There is absolutely no excuse for the conditions he described. Briefly, Mr. Heintzleman said the imitation log cabin, an imitation so poor it would impress no one, is situated in an out-of-the-way spot and has to be searched for if one wants to find it. It was closed on one of the biggest days of the exposition. He went to the building on Saturday afternoon and Sunday and it was closed on both occasions. Glimpses of the interior obtained through a window showed the place in disorder, scanty exhibits and no sort of an effort to make a display. Of course, nothing can be done about the location of the building, nor about the type of construction and materials used. But certainly something can and should be done about the condition of the display itself, and to see that it is kept open. ‘ Alaska furnished a portion of the funds neces- sary to erect the building and to send the exhibits to Chicago. It furnished. from its official Museum and otherwise a goodly number of exhibits for dis-! play. It did so on the assurance of the Interior Department, through then Gov. George A. Parks, that it would construct a suitable building, properly displaly the exhibit and keep a' competent attendant on hand at all times. If it is not doing this, and Mr. Heintzleman, A. M. Smith and other local people who have visited the Fair have seen for themselves that it is not, the Territory should de- mand that it do so. It has a right to expect the Department of Interior to carry out in every detail its part of the agreement. The Chicago Exposition has some months yet to run. It offers the finest opportunity for publicizing Alaska that has come in many years. It is unfair to the Territory that through neglect of some one in Washington, or Chicago, it should be lost. PORTLAND URGED TO SEEK ALASKA TRADE. Alaska’s trade, now largely a Seattle asset, is being viewed by Portland, Oregon, with apprecia- tion and at least one Portland newspaper is urging the wisdom of a direct steamship contact with ports of this Territory. Alaska consumes many products that Oregon excels in, and could offer keen competition to Seattle if transportation handi- caps now existing were eradicated. In this connection, the Oregon Journal, published in Portland, recently said: Let Portlanders study these figures: Alaska imported farm products in 1932 totaling 31,877,761 pounds. Of the amount, due to lack of a direct ship service, Oregon contributed only 288,000 pounds. There can be no local pride in the record that Portland has made in Alaska. The trade of Alaska is very large. And it is growing by leaps and bounds. Vancoucer, B. C, shares in it. Seattle profits heavily from it. San Prancisco, 700 miles farther away than Portland,.does a heavy business with Alaska. But for lack of a ship service, Portland has almost no Alaskan trade. Yet, Alaska is a heavy buyer of much that Portland could supply. Thus, in 1932 Alaska imported 6,504,342 pounds of butter, 1,507,445 dozen eggs, 18,035,099 pounds of flour, oatmeal, wheat, oats and barley, and 5,830,875 pounds of ham, bacon and other meats. But in that same year Oregon’s entire contribution to that big total was only 288,000 pounds, and valued at only $41,783. What a poor showing Oregon's great ship- ping metropolis makes in connection with Seattle, Vancouver and San Francisco in supplying Alaska with farm products! Alaska Is a buying market, to the tune of millions of dollars a year. In 1932 that Territory bought imports to the value of $20510,238. Between 1906 and 1929 the total of purchases by Alaska was $792,829,534. They are alluring figures. It is a great trade, not far from Portland’s back door, but in which Portland traders have but a tiny share. And there is a perennial call up there in the icy North for Oregon farm products; but the only way those products can get to Alaska is to go via Seattle, or Vancouver, B. C. And the added rail charge to ship these farm products to the ship lines that operate direct with Alaska makes it al- most impossible for Oregon farmers to share in the sale of their farm output to the Alaskans. And the same extra charge places Portland manufacturers and tradesmen under an extreme handicap in marketing their ‘wares and products in the great white North. It is a heavy prive that Oregon is paying for the lack of enterprise in which Port- |of the Puget Sound metropolis. inational co-operation forever, land maintains not a single ship ‘in’ the Alaska trade. The way to bulld a city and sustain an increasing population is not by dealing in town lots. Real estate is a splendid activity, and realtors are a highly essential part of business life. But what makes a city and State is what a city and State makes or produces and then sells. And to sell, there must be markets. And a few hundred miles to the north is an empire of markets and con- sumption of which Portland business leaders are comparatively oblivious. Cannot the Portland Chamber of Com- merce find even one ship to carry on be- tween Portland and the many Alaskan ports? Portland is taking on new life on the sea in home-owned ship lines, established in comparatively recent times. Portland’s open road to the ocean is one of her: greatest assets. And Alaska ought to be in the picture. Portland is not very Alaska-conscious. ,Its trade in this Territory is very negligible. So long as Seattle continues to be the center of our: trans- portation system, that' city will reap the bulk of our trade. Portland cannot compete with Seattle and ship through that city over vessels sailing out If it really desires to compete for Alaskan business, it will have to provide a direct connection. Until it does its busi- ness with Alaskan merchants will remain in- significant. Kansans must be a strangely unsophisticated peo- ple if it takes a Judge to decide for them that three point two is non-intoxicating. Congress said it wasn't, and the experience of millions who have tried it since has confirmed the Congressional dictum. Most people admit that honesty is the best policy but it is a sad commentary that it often takes an inquiry to prove it. International Folly. (New York World-Telegram.) On the same day the headlines announce the break-up of the World Disarmament Conference and a declaration by Secretary Swanson that Am- erican policy favors a navy “second to none.” The itwo are not unrelated. They reflect the rising tide of nationalism, the loss of faith in treaties, the failure of governments to make good their grandilo- quent pledges of international co-operation. The United States on the economic side, espec- ially, contributed to world chaos by its debt policy and initiation of a tariff and trade war. But our hands are cleaner than most. Even in the matter of tariffs our Government offered a truce which the foreign governments did not accept completely and in good faith. And although at the moment we are blamed for the destructive fluctuations of foreign exchanges, the currency depreciation race was started by the British and French, who now protest too much. Despite the fog at London and murky reports that the Roosevelt policy is wrecking the conference, one fact is clear: The United States Government is the only one making a serious effort at home to raise prices and to increase mass purchasing power. | The United States is not responsible for the |latest failure of disarmament negotiations. Year in |and year out we/have begged and argued with the {other Powers to permit effective arms reduction. |But always they blocked us. At the Coolidge Geneva Arms Conference it was the British Tory Government which refused to go along. At the London Arms Conference it was the French and Itallans. Now it is the British, French and Japanese, with Hitler's Germany .in the back- ground. Repeatedly during recent years this newspaper has warned the foreign Powers that they could not expect the United States to go on begging for inter- that their stubborn nationalism in time would provide a revival of Am- erican nationalsim. That time is approaching rap- idly, if indeed it has not already arrived. America, with all her faults, has tried patiently to prevent a costly and dangerous armament race. Secretary Swanson’s declaration of policy is official notice that if the other Powers persist in their re- fusal to reduce armaments the richest and strongest nation in the world will begin large-scale prepara- tions for war. The decision rests with the foreign Powers. Shining Dol_nes in the Depression. . Today and By WALTER Toward a Decen LONDON, July 5.—The problem of adjourning the conference is now the main business of the con- ference. On the essential point there is really no disagreement. It is generally recognized that except possibly for certain arrangements relating to the controi of produc- tion, no important decisions are possible at this time. Tariffs can be discus$éd. They cannot be regu- lated untfl prices 'and currencies are more dlearly defined. The mon- etary problem cannot be dealt with here under present conditions. In its immediate aspects mo de- cisions are possible because the American monetary movement has [Bot yet been, completed, because the uture of the gold currencies has not ' yet been finally tested, be- cause the British cannot or will not openly . commit themselves. The more far-reaching aspects of the money problem, such as the work- ing out of plans for the future of & managed gold standard, could, perhaps, be examined quietly by experts but they cannot, I believe, 'be publicly discussed by responsi- ble ministers as long as the po- sition of some of the gold cur- rencies is unsettled. Therefore in one form or anoth- ler an adjournment or a recess, or the equivalent by some other name; is necessary. The question is how to produce this adjournment in a way which will inflict the Jleast damage upon the prestige of the governments. Here there is ropm for ingenuity and diplomatic fj- nesse, and in the next few days many different formulae Wwill be considered. What is desired is a form of adjournment which will not be a breakdown amidst bitterness and recrimination. What is needed is the kind of adjournment.which will give time for American policy to be consummated, for American ideas to be more clearly formulat- ed, for the American representa- tion to be recognized, for the fur ture of the gold currencies to be- come unfolded, for Britain to choose a definite course. In short, the problem is how to achieve a constructive rather than a destructive adjournment. e It must be realized that except among public men who have a po- litical stake in the conference and among economists and financiers who are shocked by the American financial heresies, the underlying sentiment here is one of genuine hopefulness that a world recovery has actually begun. Men are not waiting for the con- Copyrignt, 1933, New Tomorrow LIPPMANN 2L Sy t Adjournment ference to save them. The recovery has been proceeding while the con- ference has been wrangling, and it is on the economic facts rather than upon conference resolutions and declarations that men's inter- est everywhere is centered. Naturally evety onc is reserved and skeptical and no one wishes to appear a foolish optimist. The governments are capable of doing reactionary and dangerous things. A controlled inflation which Iis really controlled is not yet a guar- anteed success. ' But iithe fact s there, nevertheless, that the world prices and mnot' merely American. prices, are jrllh;( .and that men all over Europeas ‘well‘asih Ameri are beginning to go back to work. In the group of countries which do about 75 per cent of the trade of the world, in the whole dollar and sterling area, it is hardly dis- puted that the American program is in its actual effects not a selfish and isolated kind of nationalism but an example to and an ener- gizing force upon the whole world economy. It is well to bear these things in mind. For they are the real things which offset the rela- tively petty melancholia that per- vades this misconceived and dis- organized and badly timed con- ference. Here, for example, is the finan- cial editor of ‘“The London Times,” who rarely fails to represent the highest British orthodoxy, writing today that “in quarters well quali- fied to judge it is felt that the American experiment can be con- tinued without interfering much, if at all, at this stage, with the slow but steady improvement in economic conditions in other and more stabilized countries” and that “the American experiment has so far succeeded in raising American prices without producing any de- flationary effects abroad. So long as this remains the case no really disturbing effects to the outside world are likely to be caused.” This is admitting a great deal. It is ad- jod |Slee iwas making & vigorous effort gét the new sewers laid and all (& 20 YEARS AGO | From The Empire imm } JULY 17, 1913. The governhferit closed its case against Joseph MacDonald during the morning and the defense began the introduction. of- testimony dur- ing the day. Before closing, the government introduced evidence to prove that N. C. Jones had come to his death as the result of bullet 'wounds caused by Joseph Mnmon-l ald. It was testified that there 'were four wounds and that at lees!.l one of them was fatal. ‘The City of Juneau was employ- ing all of .the men that could e worked to advantage on the pub- lic work that was under way. Ow- ing to the approach- of the wet season, City Engineer B. D. Blake- the street grading that was im- peratively needed, completed. Archdeacon Hudson Stuck, who made the successful climb of Mt. ‘McKinley in June, expected to leave soon for the states to pre- sent his data.of the climb before the mathematicians of Harvard for certified compilation. The Arch- deacon also sald he would ask the National IGeographic Society to change the name to the old Indian one of Dinali. Although the Pioneers’ Home was not ready for occupancy many ap- plications for entrance had been received from all parts of the Ter- ritory. The home was not expect- ed to be opened before August as much equipment and furniture had to be purchased. —o——— 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. To sell!l To sell!! ..dvertising is your best bet now. mitting, as the President has so rightly judged, that the need for immediate stabilization was not nearly so important as it has been made to appear. e e Our task then is to contribute FINE | Watch and Jewelry Repairing | at very reasonable rates | | | | | WRIGHT SHOPPE | . PAUL BLOEDHORN what we can toward helping the | conference to adjourn in a decent spirit, to provide for a continuance of the exploratory discussions, and during the recess to let the effects of a managed recovery be experi- enced. York Tribune Inc. RICH MAN DIES - LONDON, July' 17.,— Sir John Ellerman, aged 71 years, shipping magnate, reputedly the richest man in England, died today in Dieppe, France. ANDREW PETERSON IS FOUND DEAD ON WEST ISLAND, NEAR KAKE Andrew Peterson, for many years a troller in Southeast Alaska wat- ers, but who retired from that calling some ‘two years ago to make his home on West Island, was found dead there late last week by Mrs. V. A. Paine. Word of the man's death was sent by (New York Herald Tribune.) In its annual conclave at Chicago the American Association for the Advancement of Science has found time from the discussion of more esoteric matters to consider the relation between the state of one's hair and that of his bank balance. One of the delegates announced that there seems to exist a close connection between income and capillary growth, evidently due to the influence of nervous anxiety on the roots of the hair. According to the new hypothesis, a happy age is apparently a hirsute age,'and a harried generation is a hairless one. Hitherto we have looked on baldness as a purely physical affair without mental affiliations. True, we have noticed that the Indians were never troubled with baldness, though once given to in- flicting it on those whites who fell into their hands. If the locks of every Indian from Powhatan to Sitting Bull seemed as shaggy as a buffalo’s head, we ascribed it to their outdoor life rather than to their lack of cerebration and worry. If the brunette peoples about the Mediterranean seemed less given to the sun. If we lift the hats of representative figures in history, we find little basis for generalizings Socrates and Cicero, Shakespeare and Voltaire, Bismarck and Lenin were bald, though some of them found com- pensation in a beard. The fact that Caesar was bald and in debt for 25,000,000 sesterces when he joined the triumvirate was probably a case of cause and effect. Evidence in the bewigged eighteenth century is difficult to gather, but when pates issued again with the French Revolution we find the heads of Benjamin Franklin and John Quincy Adams gleaming in all their republican nudity. In our own time both Mussolini and Mayor O'Brien have shin- ing domes. On the other hand, among the well crested have been Pericles and Plato, Mirabeau and Andrew Jackson, the lion-maned Gooethe and Beethoven, and Dumas and Tbsen. So are Trotzky and Hitler, Herriot and MacDonald, however their coiffures may differ. Congressman Snell, Republican, issued a blast the other day about the enormous amount of-money appropriated by the recent Congress, unmindful that prosperity comes high and is worth it.—(Boston Globe.) From the way beer tax monéy is rolling In a good many people who voted wet wished a drink. —(Indianapolis News.) to falling hair than the blond Nordics we laid it her to Judge Paine yesterday. After informing Federal and Ter- ritorial officials of the .matter, Judge Paine left today by plane for Kake. He will go from there by boat to West Island, which is near his fox ranch on Keku Island, and get the body. He will bring it back here for burial. Peterson was an elderly man, and had not been in good health for some time. It is reported that he had no surviving relatives so far as is known here. — e League Counts Noses GENEVA — About 2,000,000,000 persons dwell on this terrestrial globe, says the new year hook of the League of Nations. Both births and deathes show a tendency to decrease. DISAPPEARS NEW YORK, July 17. — Joseph Harriman, former Chairman of the Harriman National Bank and Trust Company, has disappeared from a nursing home. It is believed he is headed for the Canadian border. CAPT. ERNEST HAYES SEVERELY BURNED BY STEAM FROM ENGINE Capt. Ernest Hayes, who is with the Curtis-Wiley Salvage Company operations at the scene of the Islander wreck, was brought into Juneau on the tug Georgia Sat- urday afternoon suffering with se- vere burns around the face and hands caused by steam from the engine on one of the boals,- and was taken to St. Ann's Hospital for treatment. He left the hospital today and planned to return to the scene of operations at the southern end of Douglas Island on the Georgia this afternoon, returning to the hos- pital each day for treatment. ———— Arthur B. Anderson and Venota E. Stevens were married recently in Cordove by United States Com- missioner K. G. Robinson, at the bride’s home in the presence of a few friends. Bob Adams and Frank Cotter, of Seattle, who went into the Nabesna mining district about two months ago, have located forty-eight placer claims on Chiselina Creek and will JUNEAU SAMPLE SHOP The Little Store with the BIG VALUVES FRESH and CLEAN Are you moving, or just cleaning house? 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