The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 18, 1933, Page 4

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, TUESDAY, JULY 18, 1933 Daily Alaska Empire ROBERT W. BENDER - - GENERAL MANAGER 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 carrler In Juneau and Douglas for $1.26 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, Subscribers will confer a favor if they will promptly notify the Businese Office of any fallure or irregularity in the dellvery of their papers. Telephone for Editorial and Business Offices, 374. o) MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS, The As: 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. NO TIME FOR DELAY. There was nothing to amaze in President Roose- velt's recent statement urging prompt ratification of | the resolution repealing the Eighteenth Amendment. As he pointed out, the Democratic Party in its national platform committed itself unqualifiedly for repeal. He formally accepted that platform 100 per | cent. More thah that in his campaign he strongly advocated repeal. That: record should have been sufficient to prevent any question as to his present | position on the issue. Early this month the Federal treasury announced; that about $11,000,000 monthly revenue is coming, into it as the current fiscal year opens merely from the legalized sale of 3.2 per cent beer. This is at the rate of more than $130,000,000 annually—a re- spectable sum. And the rate is increasing daily as the output of beer increases and the supply begins to creep upward to meet a demand that has swamped the brewers from the day sale became legal. But this of the is from beer alone. Repeal _Eighteenth Amendment, lifting the ban from wines and spirits and permitting beer of higher alcoholic content, will mean Federal fevenue, as Mr. Farley | recently pointed out, estimated at $1500,000,000 a year. Compare these figures with the. Federal de- ficit last year of $1,750,000,000 and it can be at once realized how potent an argument they are for immediate repeal. In this light, the President’s message to Con- gress on public works and re-employment. . taxes has special significance. He said: ‘Whenever the repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment now pending before the States shall have been ratified and the repeal of the Volstead Act effected the pre-Prohibition revenue laws would then automatically go into effect and yield enough wholly to elim- inate these temporary re-employment taxes. How can any State choose to delay over the process of ratification when these facts and figures clearly show what repeal will do toward reducing deficits and relieving tax burdens for the whole country? On the basis of self-interest alone, leaving out patriotic considerations, every State ought to ratify the resolution as quickly as its laws will permit. Several States, including Montana, Florida and Utah have not yet fixed days for voting. In Missouri and Ohio dry tactics are calculated to prevent voting this year if possible. It is possible for 37 States to have acted before January 1, 1934, if the pressure of public opinion is brought to bear. It is time to demand action for the sake of the taxpayers of tke nation so that benefits can be attained without any needless delay whatever. In vigorously setting forth his own position and urging prompt ratification, President Roosevelt has again served the nation well. COMMISSION ACTS TO PROTECT BUYERS. Last week the Federal Trade Commission an- nounced the promulgation of regulations for the list- ing of securities, offered for sale to the public, under the Federal Securities Act. 1Its purpose, it an- nounced, would be protection of the investing public without handicapping the general business financing. That is the goal set up by Mr. Roosevelt in his campalgn last Fall when he condemned the un- restricted sale of securities of the past few years as a result of which millions of persons were bilked out of billions of dollars. ‘The Federal Securities Act doesn’'t guarantee buyers of securities from loss. It does, ‘however, do away with the old maxim, “Let the buyer beware,” and substitutes for it, “let the seller beware.” It makes it obligatory upon the seller to abn.nd behind the securities he offers to the investor. Commenting on this new system, the Seattle Business Chronicle recently said: Millions of people feeling themselves swindled, cheated and defrauded by purvey- ors of stocks and bonds acting either con- sciencelessly or with poor judgment in ap- praising asset and earning values—result the same so far as victims are concerned—cried aloud and Congress answered with this Federal Securities Act which - dealers now complain will put them out of business. Plerce Fair and Company, one of the larger Pacific Coast investment houses, an- nounce they will quit, as they have been “legislated out of business,” and similar an- nouncements ¢ome from others. Reading the many protests from security dealers, the point they all make is that they feel they cannot accept the risks involved , in having to stand back of all represen- tations made to prospective purchasers. Why not? Do not manufacturers stand back of their goods, is not the processer of foods beholden to strict Federal law for his rep- resentations as to quality and wholesome- ness? Federal Securities -Act is certainly drastic —possibly unreasonably so as regards those dealers of integrity and unblemished busi- ness record. Doubtless it will work hard- ships on them, for the law as written does semingly tend to invite suits for damages or recovery of investment funds under which unprincipled persons conceivably could turn such legal proceedings into a form of rack- eteering. However, the good suffer with the bad when the public interset is contravened by the group to which they belong. Even before the speculative house of cards col- lapsed of its own weight in 1929, there were rumblings of discontent throughout the land with the high pressure salesmanship of se- curities houses. Too bad, for them, that reputable people in the business did not evolve some effective method of cleaning up their own backyard before the wrecking crew was called in. The public will stand for abuses just about so long. Securities dealers are not the first to learn this bitter and expensive lesson. The Mexican artist chap who painted Lenin on the ceiling of the Rockefeller building in Radio City probably wont get a commission to paint the Vatican for fear he might try to decorate it with a likeness of Martin Luther. After the farmers get their refinancing suc- cessfully consummated, we are going to ask one of them how we may go and do likewise. Excommunication of the Press. (Portland Oregonian.) A conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, recently assembled in Indiana, adopted a resolution declaring: “The American newspaper today is one of the chief enemies of the kingdom of God.” This intolerant denunciation must, naturally enough, be given wide publicity or fail of its scathing purpose. But the parsons knew the press. The black sheep of letters, as they regard it, might confidently be depended upon to print the story and give it appro- priate headlines. It should carry the news of its own damnation forth to the people. And it did. News editors leaped into action, and fashioned the startling summary of that clerical indictment. By morning half of America had been told, on authority of the parsons, but by agency of journalism, that the American newspaper is anathema. This has somehow the seeming of turning the other cheek. It savors, too, not a little of tolerance. Peculiar, very peculiar, we should call it, in publications that are branded as enemies of the kingdom. Would the parsons themselves have been equal to such an occasion? This newspaper may, of course, be mistaken, but it believes that it perceives, in the excommunicatory proclamation, the visage of bigotry. The oppor- tunity for positive identification, however, will be foregone. Yet we cannot but feel that the kingdom of God must be narrowly theological and sec- tarian if certain of those that serve it familiarly have failed to observe that newspapers make for literacy, that they are the light-bearers, and that, whatever their faults, they are rather consistently disposed to give battle to evil. We think the par- sons, for that matter, wouldn't know what to do without them. Those ministerial critics who were so emphatic in their damning of the American newspaper, at the Indiana conference would dis- cover their godly ways to be far more wearying and perilous if the newspapers—the reprehensible, implous, unregenerate press—ceased to function. This gist and the jest of it is that the parsons must know this to be true. The newspapers can- not be said to be churchly, in point of view nor in utterance—it would not be a newspaper if it were— but to any reasonable servant in the vineyard it should seem the veritable staff that it is. It is the peculiarity of most ministers, and we say this with- out trace of criticism, that they feel they have editorial gifts also, and consider their call to direct and supervise the press scarcely to be less positive than their summons to preach. But we consider it fortunate, and we hope this is sald without bias, that matters should rest as they are. Child Labor. (Boston News Bureau.) The steady march toward elimination of Pro- hibition from the Constitution makes an interesting foil to the far more confused status of another proposed constitutional alteration that is in a de- cided state of flux or uncertainty. That is the so-called “child labor” amendment*to confer large regulatory or prohibitive powers on the Federal Government. Inspired by labor union and various soclal re- formers’ advocacy it has had a very rough road from the beginning. State jealousy of such grant of authority led to only a few scattered acceptances and many more rejections. Now its prospects-ap- pear to have changed in two diverse directions. Certain objections from other than political quarters, partly ecclesiastical, as against Federal Today and Tomorrow By WALTER LIPPMANN After the President’s Second Statement LONDON, July 6—The President’s the existing gold value of their new statement helps to mak . |currencies. ‘What would be the ef- what clearer topsthe co:rwmze” on the, people of the Conti- what are the purposes of his palicy, b and upon the currency specu- and in some measure it mi lators if they saw responsible min- the emotional effects of the . |isters who had sworn allegiance o ment_he made on Monday, " But|thc 8old standard seriously debat- it ‘comes t00 late to revivity the|in¢ a radically mew monetary sys- and it lacks practical tem? The effect jwould be to con- confererice, proposals which the. conference vince them that:their gold cur- could discuss. Thus, while ’the rencies were.doomed, and that con- tion would in itdelf immediately /e their currencies off gold. is, therefore, impossible under American position has been a little |V improved by the statement, it pro- vides no reason for reconsidering |ference together for .the purpose.of ‘exploring’ the monetary reforms which .48 President has’in mind. To think it wan be held together without' producing even ‘more seri- ous crises than it has already pro- duced is to misunderstand the ac- tual elements of the situation. e is necessary. ‘The form of the adjournment is of secondary importance. What' does ' matter is that 3,000 delegates’ and ' experts with the spotlight of tf world’s press focused upon them should not be held in London at a time when they can come to no decisions on the questions that con- cern them most. It would be very dangerous to keep them here. The decision not to stabilize the dollar now is, I think, a wise de- cision. But the unstabilized dollar produces effects from hour to’hour in every market, in every central bank, and in every parliament, which make impossible a discussion of monetary and tariff reform. The struggle of the gold countries to remain on gold, and the hesi- tation of the British government between the Americans and the French, preclude any calm exmi- |\ "Byt with the conference ad- nation of plans for the future. journed I think 1t reasonable to One might as well ask three men },,,, that Britain will before long who are swimming the rapids 10 y,x the path which her dominions pause in midstream and make ;4 the Scandinavian countries are plans for a bridge that ought some pressing her to take, and will grad- day to be bullt. ually move toward expansion. We L ‘have, therefore, a better chance of The essential fact is that with achieving our objective by ad- the United States refusing to re- journing that by keeping the con- value now, with (France resisting ference in being. revaluation, with Britain waiting' As to the larger reforms, all that to sece, there is nothing to talk can safely be said now is that the about in London. Even if we had President’s aims are widely sup- formulated a plan for a managéd ported in the sterling bloc. How gold standard, which, of course, we far they will be adopted in the haven't, the plan could be discussed future will depand upon many only in the abstract. We should considerations, but the foremost be compelled to refuse to diseuss among them will be the President's the gold value of the managed dol- ability to translate his ideals into lar which we are proposing to cre- a definite project. He is not now ate. Such an abstract discussion prepared to do that, and it will might have its uses were it mot require months of careful study for the fact that the abstract dis- technical preparation the attempt cussion itself would have enormious.to work out a plan. Without such practical consequences in the gold to offer the conference a mere countries. They are trying des- ideal could have no result but to perately to maintain confidence' in discredit the ideal. Copyrignt, 1933, New York Tribune Inc. BOY SCOUTS ! SEARCH FOR From the American point of view the most desirable result that might have been obtained here in London would have been to per- suade Britain and the sterling bloc to adopt a policy of expansion. The sterling bloc is more than half per- suaded. But while the conference | is sitting, after the way the issues have been joined, Britain will not and probably cannot take a position which would cause a breach with France and her financial allies. Britain has to take into account the political situation on the Con- Puget Sound district, is a passenger on the steamer Alaska enroute to the Hood Bay cannery, where he is employed as a mechanic. MISS BERGSTRAND, ROY M'MATH WILL P. CHILBERG BE WED SATURDAY Sixteen members of the Juneau| apoo anne Bergstrand and Roy Boy Scouts early today took UPnematn, whose approaching mar- the search for Pete Chilberg, miss- riage has been the occasion for Ing oldtimer. numerous parties in their honor The Scouts beat the brush on tlhe recently, have chosen Saturday, hill on both sides of the mine ' i trall,. then w0z ' the Barin tiond] .Yuly'flz, as the date for their wed covering the hills on both 'sides! ne ceremony will be in the to the old picnic grounds, then!nortnern Light Presbyterian Church down in the hills'around 'Twelfth|a¢ g oclock in the evening and Street. Crows were watched—but'the Rev. John A. Glasse will offi- there were none, and no trace of |qiate the missing man was found. Both Miss Bergstrand and Mr. R 2l McMath are well known in Juneau. COLLEGE PHYSICIAN IS Miss Bergstrand has been on the MAKING ALASKA 'IRIP staff of the U. S. Forest Service office here for several years and Dr. B. F. Jennes, physician and Mr. McMath, who is a traveling surgeon and his wife, are making|salesman, has made many trips the round trip on the Alaska. This north. is their first trip to Alaska. Dr. Jennes is a retired Lieutenant Com- mander of the U. 8. Navy Medical ——— JAMES KRAMER RECEIVES MEDICAL CARE AT ST. ANN'S bureaucratic invasion of a wide realm of family as well as business affairs, seem to have diminished materially of late. The obvious need of more em- ployment opportunity for a family's adult bread- winners has been a potent factor in lessening such opposition and enhancing the suggested amend- ment's chances. Now comes the Industrial Recovery Act with its promise of largely solving the situation for at least two years and perhaps permanently. The for- bidding of employment of any under 16 in the | textile industry, with its likely extension to coal ;mlning. seems to take care of the more serious phases that the reformers had protested. Other codes might well guard against sweatshop abuses. At the same time there is a steady if slow drift toward more protection and enlightened State leg- islation. | "Thus at a time when a former still opposition to the amendment had softened the apparent need for it has almost vanished. Its earnest advocates are left almost like Othello, with occupation gone, and the Constitution may be kept from being clut- tered up further. Many persons report one of the hardest habits to break is that of pulling down the window shades before opening a bottle of beer.—(Dayton, Ohio, News.) Debtor nations are now divided between default goats and those that have made a sheepish token payment.—(Washington Post.) An island is a keg of 3.2 beer surrounded by a flock of picnickers—(Jacksonville Times-Union.) Song for Jim Farley: “When It's Repeal Time Down South."—(Buffalo Courigr-Express.) Paris leads all the world in styles and defaults. —(Ohio State Journal) “Must Cut Big Salaries” sdys a headline. May have to use an ax. The hatchet with h little salaries were hacked to pieces is ,—(Toledo Blade.) « Corps, and during the World War the opinion that an adjournment Present.conditions to hold the con- rher entgrtainments. @t :J uneaw, was recruiting officer in his home city of El Paso, Texas. He is now connected with the Texas Callege of Mines of the University' daf E' Paso, and is also the college physi- clan. El Paso, with a population of 102,000, is on the U. S.-Mexico boundary line, and is the gateway to Old Mexico. It has the largest smelter in the nation. ————— GOING TO HOOD BAY A. G. McKay of Deer Harbor, Orcas Island, one of the San Juan group of islands, in the upper| James Kramer is receiving medi- cal treatment in St. Ann's Hospital. Mr. Kramer is employed at the United States Forest Service. T PIGGLY 20 YEARS AGO | From The Empire JULY 18,1913 ‘With 700 tierces of mild cured salmon, the largest single ship- the steamship Northland, of the Northland Steamship Co., arrived in Seattle from Southeast Alaska: ‘At the market price prevailing, the shipment was worth $91,000. 1 Grace V. Bonner, impersonator and ventriloquist, was bobked to appear at the Orpheum Theatre in “The Woman Next Door.” She had visited Alaska seven years previous- ly and had been well received in ‘Douglas, towns. H i James: W. Dorai; ploneer ‘druggist ment ever taken from the North, | Bkagway and other| PROFESSIONAL _ f Helene W. L. Albrecht PHRYSIOTHERAPY i Massage, Electriclty, Infra Red | Ray, d Gymnastics. | I 307, Galdstein Building Phone Office, 216 | | DRS. KASER & FREEBURGER . ' DENTISTS | Blomgrén Bullding | il . PHONE 56 | | Hours ® am.to 0 pm. | — Dr. Charles P. Jenne "Rems 8 and 9 Valentine ", Bullding lephone 176 | | | of Uunea, passed away at his home after - an extended = {llness. Mr. Doran had lived continuously in ‘Juneau ‘since coming to the town in. 1898, twenty years pre- viously, and had many friends in the city' and nearby communities. He was a member of many lodges and organizations and funeral services were under the direction of the Masonic Lodge. Twelve Alaska islands were to be leased to those people desiring to engage in -fox -culture in the Territory and making the best of- fer for the islands, according to an announcement by the Department of Commerce. The defense in the MacDonald case continued the introduction of evidence for the purpose of im- peaching the witnesses for the gov- ernment that had said they wit- nessed the shooting of N. C. Jones by Joseph. MacDonald. Not only was evidence introduced to show that these witnesses had testified differently before the Skagway grand jury which investigated the case eleven years prior to the trial, but evidence was produced to show that they had testified differently before the grand jury in Juneau the winter before, than they had at the trial. Attorney J. A. Hellen- thal, for the defense; called a num- ber of members ol the Skagway grand jury to testify as to the evidence given at that time by present witnesses for the govern- ment, showing' the discrepancy in their testimony. | Smith Electric Co. | | Gastineau Building | | EVERYTHING | | ELECTRICAL J | f FRESH and CLEAN Are you moving, or just cleaning house? In either case you’ll want your drapes cleaned. JUNEAU-YOUNG | ,I Funeral Parlors | Triangle Building Telephone 38 MURESCO , We Carry ‘a Full Line Juneau « Paint Store FRYE’S BABY BEEF ! “DELICIOUS” HAMS and BACON Frye-Bruhn Company Prompt Delivery - Juneaun M | T Dr. 3. . Bayne T * r. J. W. 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