The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 21, 1933, Page 4

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, FRIDAY, JULY -21, 1933. Daily Alaska Empire 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 carrler In Juneau and Douglas for $1.25 per month, By mail, postage pald, at the following rates: One year, In advance, $12.00; six months, in advance, | $6.00; one month, in advance, $1.26. ibscribers will confer a favor if they will promptly notify the Business Office of any failure or irregularity in the delivery of their pape Tr!qv'mm. for Editorial and Business Offices, 374. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS, The A ted Press is exclusively entitled to the use for T cation 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. REMOVE THE RED TAPE. Days have elapsed since it was officially an- nounced that certain allocations from the Federal public work relief funds for Alaska projects had been approved by the President. The press heralded this fact more than one week ago. It has taken a week for Washington authorities to notify local Federal agencies of allotments to them that the press heralded then. All they have done is to inform their local representatives that the alloca- tions were approved. If the money is available that fact has been withheld. If certain projects have been approved, it hasn't been made public. This in the face of the urgent requests of Presi- dent Roosevelt that work on such undertaking be launched without delay. Maybe we are too impatient. Yet there is cause for impatience. Half of Alaska’s short working season has gone. Each day definiteiy brings us near- er to the season when field work is out of the question. In the time that is left of it, if the 30- hour work week requirement is made effective here, |forevxer on the throne.” no reasonable wage rate that may be paid can give laborers sufficient money to keep them through the winter. If relief is to come from public works and not from public grants of money, activity must start now. Once again we urge upon the President and his advisers to eliminate bureaucratic red tape. Remove control of expenditures from Washington. Decentral- ize the system. Vest the authority over expenditures here in aska, preferably in the hands of the Governor as the logical: co-ordinating agent for the Federal Government and the Territory, or, if that be deemed inadvisable, in the hands of the senior officer in charge of the several bureaus to whom allotments have been made. Require them to justify expenditures, that is proper. But don’t curb them with a centralized supervisory control from Wash- ington. That will greatly limit the benefits that the President so earnestly desires for the unem- ployed of the Territory. STOCKHOLDERS TO BE CONGRATULATED. In the selection of P. R. Bradley to be President of the Alaska Juneau Gold Mining Company and its allied corporations of the Treadwell group, the stockholders did the expected thing. It was expected by those familiar with the company's history and its operations because they were fully aware of the new President’s close associations with the Alaska Juneau and the part he had played in its great and successful development from a financially losing proposition into one of the world’s greatest gold mines. It was due to him as much as, if not more than, to any other individual that its grave problems of mining and milling the low grade ore deposits owned by the company were so brilliantly solved. In the working out of these problems along with his predecessor, he proved his capacity as an en- gineer and his ability as a business executive of high caliber. Some ten years ago when the late F. W. Bradley was visiting in Juneau, in conversing of the Alaska Juneau's future with friends, he made the assertion that he was looking to P. R. Bradley to handle that property. In effect, he said that the latter had already arrived as an engineer, and that a great deal of the rrsponslbllhy formerly Ion his own shoulders was being transferred to those of his brother. In the intervening years this process continued. It gave the finishing touches, if they !were needed, to equip the newly elected President of the company for that important position. The Empire adds its own congratulations to {those extended to him by Messrs. B. M. Baruch, {Ogden L. Mills and James W. Gerard upon his felection. But it feels that the stockholders should 'be congratulated in having had the wisdom to select one so eminently qualified to carry on the Bradley |policies and the Bradley traditions in the Bradley 'name at the head of the Alaska Juneau. THE HUMAN 'PHONE SYSTEM. The figure one, followed by 15,000,000 zeros, is declared by scientists to represent the number of 1telephflnc lines in the human brain. You can get {a vague idea of what that means by remembering |that the figure two, followed by only seven zeros, represents the number of telephone lines in the United States. We think we have a very elaborate and comple: | telephone system. We have been more than 5 years developing it and hundreds of thousands of people are required to keep it going. It bears about the same relation to the brain's telephone system, however, that a speck of dust does to the earth. The brain's telephone system develops auto- matically from a minute germ cell in a few years. We do not know how or why and probably never will know. The laws which govern the individual growth and development are too complicated and exact for us to understand, except in a fragmentary way. About all we have learned, after 10,000 years of study, is that they work. Every time repeal steps into the national shoot- ing gallery it certainly rings up a bull's eye. Jack Garner rises to remark he is deaf, dumb and blind politically. Well, wasn't that what the Republicans charged during the last Presidential campaign? But Jack and his teammate, Frank, showed the G. O. P. boys a few things at the ringside. Perfectly Normal. (New York Times.} As belated returns from the speech-precincts fat- ten the Appendix of the Congressional Record, a lifelong reader of that fascinating publication might almost wonder what year this is. Here are the ancient landmarks of quotation. The New Deal hasn’t touched the old poetry. On the same day, it may be at the same moment, of June 15 Senator Schall of Minnesota and Representative Jenkins of Ohio saw “Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong Fifty or ten or two years ago this cheerful remark of Lowell's was being heard or printed in Washington. The crisis is always present there. When a bill with votes in it fails, Truth climbs the ladder while the Congressman weeps for the benefit of his district. And here is a still older friend. Goldsmith orders another bottle on tick and writes of Irish rural economy: 11l fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay. Princes and lords may flourish or may fade,— {(¥L A breath can make them, as a breath has made; But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroy'd, can never be sup- plied. That must have been “going strong” in our First Congress. It is the hardest perennial quota- tion known to our statesmen. It is purely formal, but so long as it continues to bloom in our Record, “our institutions are safe.” Moreover, in these bright progressive days there must be improvement or at least change of the familiar facts in the poets’ gallery. Thus, the Hon. Charles Vercingetorix Traux, Ohio Representative at Large, offers this new arrangement of Markham's bucolic: Bowed by the weight of centuries, he leans Upon his hoe and gazes on the ground, ‘The emptiness of ages in his face. In ‘“Shakespeare’s immortal Tragedy of ‘Julius Caesar’” Mr. Traux find this interesting reading: And you, too, Brutus, that was the unkind- est cut of all. So song and scholarship pursue the even tenor of their way, in spite of the leagued devils whom Mr. Truax calls “the international bankers, the money lenders, the 36 per cent loan sharks, the superindustrialists, probanker Governors and preda- tory, heartless State Bank Superintendents.” Race horses, a learned economist explains, can- not create wealth. We fancy you must be right, professor. At any rate, the ones we put out money on never seem to create any for us.—(Boston Herald.) Let's see! What was that scentific theory about the sun’s gradual cool-off, leaving the earth ever more and more shivery? There's a catch it in somewhere, we always thought. — (Cleveland Plain Dealer.) Order Now at These Low Prices ROLLED OATS, 10 Ib. bags . . . 40c CORN MEAL, 9 Ib. bags.....30c MEXICAN BEANS, pound o e RELIANCE COFF EE, 3 1b. cans . 85¢ (The highest grade on the market) SILK TOILET PAPER, 4 rolls for 25¢ 1000-SHEET ROLIS GARNICK’ Phone The Logic of PARIS, July 11.—At this writ- ing it appears that the United States has agreed to a virtual ad- Journment of the debate on mone- tary questions. If this is true, it is a wise decision. The whole argu- talking has been unreal. No praeti- cal decision could have come out of the talk. The alignment of Great Britain with the United States in the conference maney- vers has been political rather than financial or economic. The questioh the sterling bloc toward inflatioh could not have been determi: the World Economic Conference. Tt will necessarily be determined by is interpreted by the Bank of Eng- ers of the Conservative Nothing could be accomplished by plished without the debate. On the other hand, insistence on continuing the debate would have| made future agreements more dif- ficult. For while the debate could have settled nothing, it would have emphasized and consolidated the division among the nations, and it in a position where it would be charged with the responsibility for every financial developnpnt in Europe. There will be very im- portant developments. It would be highly imprudent to accept re- sponsibility for them. There are three fundamental un- certainties which have to be clear- ed up before international mone- tary agreements are possible. One is the uncertainty as to the de- gree of inflation which President Today and Tomorrow 'By WALTER LIPPMANN ment for the past few days about at whether to adjourn or to go on! as to whether Britain would lead | I ned }nl the logic of events as that logie, land, the Treasury, and the lead-' party. t debate which will not be accom- would have put the United States, Adjournment Copyrignt, 1933, New York Tribune Inc. R velt is seeking. The sccond is the uncertainty as to whether in view of the inherently grave con- ditions of the French and of cer- tain other Continental budgets, the gold currencies can be maintained their present parities. The third is the uncertainty as to whether Britain will continue to keep the pound sterling stabilized with the franc or whethet it will allow the pound sterling to depreciate with the dollar. i No one of these questions can |now be debated in the conference. The President has insisted that for the time ‘being- he must have an absolutely - free hand. The gold countries will nhot, for obvious rea- (sons, debate in public the ques- tions which trouble them, such as | whether they can really deflate 1eir budgets and their manufac- ng costs enough to maintain their credit. And Great Britain will not, we may be reasonably certain, discuss before any interna- [t onal committee the question as to what policy she will adopt for the pound. (Certainly it is hard to imagine such a discussion with men like Mr. Neville Chamberlain and Mr. Montague Norman at the helm. Inevitably, therefore, a continua- tion of the debate would be mean- ingless in the realm of finance but highly dangerous in the realm of politics. No financial policy would be decided, but every attempt to touch the realities would provoke sharp opposition from that one of ,the three parties—the dollar, the sterling and the gold—whose po- sition was threatened. It is, therefore, better to adjourn, and then quietly to resume conver- sations with a view to important agreements later. SALMON BAN IS PROTESTED Great Bntam Suddenly Raises Duty on Alaska and Coast Products (Seattle Post-Intelligencer) The British parliament by an act passed suddenly July 4, excluded from Great Britain frozen salmon originating in Alaska and the American states along the Paeific. Tt increased the duty from 1% cents to 3 cents on other Ameri- can frozen salmon and exempted Canadian salmon. | This news was cabled from Lon- don by Kemper Freeman to his father here, Miller Freeman, pub- lisher of trade journals in the in- terest of Northwest industries. Caused Losses ! The raise caught several Seattle shippers with several hundred thou- sand pounds of fish in transit, causing them severe losses. Britain’s action aroused a storm, Puget Sound cities. The Trolling, Vessel Owners Association, the Pu- get Sound Fish Dealers Association, the Alaska Cold Storage Associa- tion, the Association of Pacific Fisheries and the Alaska Fish Deal- ers Association immediately cabled Freeman to protest this action to the American delegation at Lon- don. The prohibitory duty was called to the attention of Frank T. Bell,' Commissioner of Fisheries, who immediately took up the matter with Senator Dill “The unfriendly gesture came sig- nificantly on July 4, said Miller Freeman. “It came just when there was so much talk of amity and mutual concessions at the London conference. It shows what can be; expected from Europe in action on American commerce.” ' Under the supposition that the beneficiary of this legislation prob- ably inspired it, West Coast fish- ing interests will seek retaliatory action at ‘Washington against Can- ada, great quantities of whose fish and fish products are admitted free to the United States. Will Retaliate The frozen salmon exported to England from the Northwest, come mainly from Alaska trollers, many hundreds of whom will be without market for that portion of their catch. They have been receiving 3% to 4 cents a pound for the spe- cies neretofore shipped to Great Britain. The 3-cent duty cannot be absorbed by trollers. Lawrence Calvert, head of the San Juan Fishing and Packing Company here, said yesterday that the duty abso- lutely shuts out Alaska fish from that foreign market. Based on the figures of 1931, the last completed record available here, Canada bought $884.833 worth of American fish and sold in the United States fish valued at $11,- | 303401, a ratio of 127 to 1. In that year, the United King- dom bought $239776 worth of of protest in Alaska and among’ & ; Church Moderator ! € Dr. John McDowell of New Yorl as elected moderator of the Pres. yterian Church in the U.S8.A, at e church’s general assembly in olumbus. S’ozen salmon from the [United ates, while the United States bought $576,904 of fresh and frozen salmon from Canada. The complete transaction in fish between Britain and the United étates in 1931 showed a balance in favor of the United States of more ,$han $2500,000, which included fresh frozen and canned. e, ,—— BEYMOUR TAKES ON .ICE AT COLD STORAGE CO. ' The Seymour, Capt. Harry Sum- dum, took on ice at the Juneau Cold Storage company yesterday afternoon preparatory to leaving for the fishing grounds. —,,o o1d Dapers at The Emplra FORD AGENCY (Authorized Dealers) GAS OILS GREASES Juneau Motors FOOT OF MAIN ST. JUNEAU SAMPLE SHOP The Little Store with the BIG VALUES i‘*"““*! ZflYEARSAGOI i From The Empire JULY 21, 1913 dence by the defense. That N. C Jones, for the shooting of whom admitted before his death that the shooting was his own fault, and that he asked the Lord to care for him, was again testified to. The witness who gave this, testimony was R. A. Kinzie, superintendent of the Treadwell mines. Mr. Kinzie had been assistant superintendent while Mr. MacDonald was superin- tendent. One of the most; attractive a comfortable homes to be built in Alaska, was sthe new residence erectéd on the country te of Jules.B. Caro, facing the Salmon Creek government road near the Burridge homestead. was designed and the grounds plan- ned by Mrs, Caro. I. Goldstein returned from a short trip to Seattle on business, on the steamer Northwestern. Mr. and Mrs. Z. R. Cheney en- tertained at their home with a dancing party. While Col. D. C. Jackling was, in Juneau, the plan was settled for the mill construction down at Sheep Creek and orders were being placed for the steel to be used in duction works and for the immense amount of massive machinery with which the mills" would be con- structed. 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