The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 29, 1933, Page 4

7780 AT R g THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, SATURDAY, JULY 29, 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 Clasa matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Dellvered by carrier In Juneau and Douglas for $1.26 per month, 1, postage pald, at the following rates: One’yenr. 11l ‘wdvance, $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 n the delivery of their papers. M elephone for Editorial and Business Offices, 374. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS. i oclated Press 18 exclusively entitled to the nse’r;’:y ?n’-‘;?u‘i)l’x‘: ation of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. ASKA CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER ALASIILAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION. NO BOARD FOR ALASKA. Announcement has just been made in the press that President Roosevelt has appointed boards in 48 States to have control of public works programs. No mention is made of one having been named for Alaska, and it is practically certain that none was. These boards will submit programs of projects upon which work can be started immediately, relieving unemployment and thus utilizing the funds made available for that purpose by the special session of Congress. The organization thus created by Mr. Roosevelt is practical. It places responsibility for all projects upon local shoulders, as it should be, and severs the coils of red tape inevitably accompanying con- trol from Washington. We say that without intend- ing to be critical. It is an admitted fact that, dur- ing the course of years, the Federal Government has built up a system of expenditure of public funds that calls for quite a complicated procedure. It re- quires weeks from the time funds are authorized for expenditure before actual work can be started. It has been found extremely difficult, if not im- possible, to suspend the system. The elimination of delay in getting men to work on public projects is an essential factor in the President’s program. That is the main reason why the local boards he has named ought to be able to function more satisfactorily than centralized authority in Wash- ington. We age convinced that it is a grave mistake to exclude Alaska from the local board organization. It is true that there are already existing Federal agencies in the Territory charged with construction of various kinds of public works. They are efficient, and also ably administered. But they are shackled really competitive bids. That seems to have accom- plished the object sought. Satisfactory bids were received at a figure that saves some $500,000 over the original tenders. The amount saved isn't large in these days of billion dollar appropriations, but the incident serves to illustrate that Mr. Ickes has an idea that a public official ought to be as careful with public funds as with his own, a conception that too many public officers do not have. PINT-LIFER IS PARDONED. Fred Palm, sentenced to Penitentiary once more a free man. the State’s habitual criminal law. His conviction of possessing the flask of whiskey was the fourth felony for him and he automatically was committed to prison for life. The case created a stir through- life for imprisonment in the out the country . He was pardoned early this month, after having served five years and nine months. None can blame him for shaking the dust of Michigan from his feet and going to an- other State to get a new start in life. Palm may run afoul of the law again and again be locked away from his fellow men. But it is safe to say that it will not be under a Federal statute against possessing liquor. Bishop Cannon rises to remark that if he knew every State would go wet, it would not change his attitude on the question. As we see it, the country doesn’t give a hoot what the Bishop's attitude is, or will be after every State has gone wet. As we understand Gen. Johnson’s recent warn- ing to bakers anent boosting of bread prices, what the Government expects is that the bakers will use yeast in the bread and not in prices. Everyone Writing. (Journal of Commerce, Seattle.) Probably there never was a time so many people were trying to turn themselves into writers as the present. Every publishing house and every magazine office is deluged with manuscripts. Colleges and univer- sities, to say nothing of correspondence schools and so-called schools set up by worn-out hack-writers offer innumerable courses designed to show that you too can become a poet, or a playwright, or a novelist, or whatnot. The click-clack of the type- writer is heard everywhere, from kitchens to prisons, and from deepwater ships to city flats. But the net result of it all, unfortunately, is only a very slight addition to the world’s supply of worth-while literature. Much is being written, these days, but little of it is of value. The overwhelming majority of completed manuscripts, of course, never are printed; but even of those that do make the grade, only a few are worth the paper and pulp used. American life as a source for the creative writer, and the extent to which the urge for creative works has spread among people everywhere, this is a trifle odd; and the reason, very possibly, is simply the fact that we have too many people trying to teach others how to write and not enough people trying to teach themselves, H. L. Mencken remarked not long ago that the one good way to learn to write is to soak yourself In the works of the great writers. The embryonic writer who immerses himself in Hardy, Conrad, Thackeray, Poe and the others may learn, un- by control from Washington. They are bound by red tape procedure that, functioning well enough in normal times, is wholly out of place in the present emergency. They are powerless to change the procedure, or' to even protest against its use. And weeks of delay must result after funds are allotted before men can be put to work. The time element in Alaska is more important than in the States. Construction of roads, trails, airplane land- ing fields and similar projects is severely limited by our climatic conditions. Already the season in the greater portion of the Territory is rapidly draw- ing to a close. After October 1, except for re- stricted areas along the southeeastern and southern coasts, that work cannot be carried on. Closely related to this condition, is the second reason why Alaska ought to have a local board possessed of authority identical with that of the State boards. The local Federal agencies must fol- low the routine established for their regular programs. Each submits projects for approval of their superior officers in Washington. These projects are, natur- ally enough, limited to such work similar to that in their normal programs. That is to say, relief of unemployment is not by any means a major element in determining the projects. Each bureau confines its projects to these sections of the Territory in which its interests are paramount. One or more of them might be given hundreds of thousands of dollars to expend on projects located in an area where climatic conditions would prevent work being done before next Spring. This money thus would be absolutely tied up while in areas where work could be performed the failure of other Federal agencies functioning there would limit greatly un- employment relief. Under the Federal control system, it would not be possible to use the funds in the first class for work under the direction of the second. And thousands of people who could earn enough to sustain them and their dependents will be forced to go through another winter dependent upon public and private charity just because of that fact. All of these hindrances to unemployment relief could be avoided by the establishment of a local board by the President. We hope that the situation in Alaska can be brought to his attention in its true light. That, apparently, is the only way in which relief can be had. ICKES WINS FIGHT WITH CEMENT MAKERS. Sometime ago Secretary Ickes of the Interior Department called for bids for cement to be furn- A - ished on the Boulder Dam project. The first bids were rejected by him on the ground that all of ' them were too high. He said frankly that it looked like a combination in restraint of trade. New bids ‘were submitted and Mr. Ickes threw them out, The cement makers rather huffily intimated that e Secretary was too high handed and it might the Bouldet Dam work would have to get th muhedldn't act more cir- at subue Mr. Ickes? To the contrary. He was entirely possibly for the Gov- ”‘m Jfor its own uses g“ unless it got some consciously, how great tales are put together and how great English is written, far better than any one can teach you. And Charles J. Finger points out that “Bunyan the tinker, and Burns the plowman, and Whitman the office man, and Keats the apothecary, and Dickens the factory boy had no schooling to train them in writing. They had something to express and they expressed themselves.” The Kidnaping Menace. (New York Herald Tribune.) Without recourse to statistics It is evident that the crime of kidnaping has become epidemic in this country. To be sure, the publicity it gets, due to the inevitable prominence of its victims, is out of proportion to its prevalence, but when one day brings news of three fresh outrages of the sort there can be little doubt that the underworld has adopted kidnaping as one of its most popular and audacious rackets. For crime, like dress or sport, has its fads. Yesterday its votaries concentrated on_beer-running; - today, deprived of this lucrative outlet,” many . of them have turned to abduction. The transition is a natural one. The same sort of organization required for beer-running is needed in kidnaping. In either case there must be a “‘mob,” secret storage facilities, confederates political- ly influential—in brief, an elaborate conspiracy in- volving a relatively numerous personnel held to loyalty through fear of underworld vengeance and screened from justice by affiliates in politics. What happens when this organization is lacking is well illustrated in the case of little Margaret McMath, whose amateur abductor is now serving a prison term of twenty-four years. We do not mean to suggest that the country would have been free from kidnapings had it never trained a huge criminal class to help it in evading the Prohibition statute. On the other hand, the sudden increase in his form of crime with the legalization of beer and the collapse of Prohibi- tion enforcement generally is surely more than a coincidence. There is cause and effect in the enormous growth of rackets of every description since Prohibition began breeding lawlessness. Mr. Fred A. Victor thinks not and in a letter in another column returns to, his charge that this newspaper has been unfairly indicting Prohibition for the corruption and criminality of the day. But few will be able to follow his reasoning who from personal observation and experience can compare conditions before the Volstead era with those since. Who remembers, for instance, any such eruption of kidnapings as that now challenging society? It is a challenge of major proportions. Fortun- ately, to judge from the efforts to meet it promised by local, State and Federal authorities, it is being recognized as such. The same public which con- doned beer-running and has feebly protested against forms of extortion involving property will insist on war to the knife against this hideous menace. And what it insists on it will get. Let the underworld tuck the warning away if it would escape an- nihilation. Franklin Roosevelt, we believe, is the first man in the Presidential office competent to sail any other craft than the Ship of State.—(Boston Tran- seript.) _— Fifty years ago the only bottle a woman carried was one with a little rubber “dido” on the open end.—(Jacksonville Times-Union.) Hitler Consolidates Program Michigan resident who in 1927 was State possessing a- pint of liquor, is /Palm was sentenced under Considering the incredible richness and color of | ol The Hitler Government has undertaken to administer Germany’s unemployment relief projects under one blanket decree covering private, municipal and Federal effort to get the idle back to work. Above, unemployed men are show getting a free meal. Below, job- less workers are cooperating in building homes for themselves in a Berlin suburb. By TOM WILHELM ! BERLIN, July 29.—Plans for re-|. J lieving the unemployment situation advanced by previous governments have been rolled into one gigantic measure by the Hitler cabinet in an effort to pull Germany out of the rut. | Throughout the plan which cal-' culates to spend a billion marks, or $250,000,000, and put 1,250,000 men | back to work in fields, factories| and offices, one may observe Brue- ning, von Papen dnd von, Schleich- | By MRS. ALEXANDER GEORGE A SUMMER DINNER (Serving Three) The Menu Broiled Lamb Chops Creamed Celery er, all of whom busied themselves with the same problem. : Chopped Pickle Relish x k- | Bread Plum Jam Unemployment Cut Claimed Cucumber and Pineapple Celery Broadly speaxing the plans 15| Spica Cookies Tced Coffee based on two theses, lightening of | the debt and tax burdens througn | various means, and stimulation uii Three tablespoons butter; business by means of treasury tablespoons flour; onme and one- loans to groups, individuals and'half cups milk; one-quarter tea- municipalities. spoon salt; one-eighth teaspoon The Hitler administration claims paprika; one cup cooked celery; t:at mu.siw\'ar ;L has hxiouggttd()\;n |one tablespoon chopped green pep- e number of unemploy 0 5= per. 000,000, roughly a million 1less | )elt butter and add flour. Mix than the high point this winter well, add milk, cook until creamy and some 60,000 less than the low 'sauce forms. Stir constantly. Add of last yefll'mm L e |rest of ingredients, cook one min- The 1,000,000,000 marks will be e, amortized through budget levxes\ Cucumber and Pineapple Salad over the next five years. | ©One-half package lemon-flavored Replacements Reduce Taxes gelatin mixture; one cup boiling Tax exemptions will be allowed|water; one-half tup diced cucum- for various machinery replacements bers; one-half cup diced pineapple; in factories, as long as the pur- gpe-quarter teaspoon salt; one- chases are made within Germany. eighth teaspoon paprika; one table- Funds will be put at the dispos’ll"spoon lemon juice; one-half tea- of water and electricity works for speon sugar; one tablespoon chop- extension of their services and t0 peq pimientos. mY1x1Acxmli:;es and d.i.;!rict_s wh‘ilcn: Pour water over gelatin mxxm:, Will ‘use the money for Improve- gtir until dissolved. Cool and al- ment of canals, subways ':nd ID“b" low to thicken a little. Add rest of lic buildings. These latter loans ingredients. Pour into glass mold, will be interest free, but other chin ugtil stiff. Unmold on let- loans will bear a nominal rate. tuce, top with salad dressing. Fritz Reinhardt, state secretary | Salad Dressing il the ministry of finance, esti-| Pour egg yolks; two tablespoons mates that the plan will absorb flour; one teaspoon - salt; one-half 1250,000 persons from the floating teaspoon dry mustard; one-quarter supply of unemployed workers. He teaspoon paprika; one-third cup indicated that additional laws sugar; one-half cup vinegar; three would be promulgated by the cabi- | taplespoons butter. net from time to time as conditions | Beat yolks. Add dry ingredients, wag::t. o M when blended add the remaining raced in the W aré ingredients. Cook in a double boiler zx;opgtuliw Wh(;reb)f' ta: evaders, un- yntjl the dressing is thick and tober 1 of this year, may . Stir frequently while cook- avoid the risk of jail sencences'f;:mc’;of sty | and fines, 1 Spice Cookies (3 dozen) A tax evader whose conscience| One cup fat; two cups brown su- bothers him may go to his lawyer gar; three eggs; four tablespoons: and pay the amount of the evasion. gour cfeam; one teaspoon vanilla. Thereupon the lawyer sends it in two teaspoons cinnamon; one tea- his own name to the finance de-'spoon cloves; one teaspoon nut- partment and receives a receipt. meg; one-quarter teaspoon salt; ’(l'k:ls receipt Ssna guarantee against 't.hree and one-half cups flour; .one uture prosecution. ! temspoon soda. ‘The government said this wouldi ©Cream fat and sugar. Add eggs be the last amnesty for tax dodg-lm cream and beat two minutes. ers. |Add rest of ingredients, mixing Private funds established to al- )jghtly, Drop portions from end of leviate the lot of the unemployed spoon onto greased baking sheets. may be deducted in their entirety mjatten down with broad side of from the gross income in figuring gpijfe, Bake 12 minutes in mod- incomes taxes the new law provides. grgte oven. SWEUMS RETURN TO JUNEAU ; DELIGHTFUL FORD TRIP HAD IN SOUTH AGENCY Ed G. Sweum, Manager of the (Authorized Dealers) local Piggly Wiggly store, accom- * panied by his wife and daughter, GAS June, returned on the steamer GREASES Northland this afternoon after a Creamed Celery four month’s visit with relatives in Seattle, Tacoma, Everett, Belling- ham, Wash., and Vancouver, B. C. During the Sweum’s stay in the south the weather was perfect and this was greatly enjoyed. Both Mr. and Mrs. Sweum expressed & pre- ference for Juneau and they are glad to be home. Juneau Motors FOOT OF MAIN ST. ‘To sell! To sell!! Advertising 1s your best bet now. i ROOMS | SCANDINAVIAN 4 Phone 513 | | Rates by Day, Week or Month : -— 20 YEARS AGO From The Empire ! e il JULY 29, 1913 \Arguments in the MacDonald case still continued, J. A Hellen- thal, who spoke for the defense had excited greater interest than any which had been tried in the United States District Court in the First Division, and with the possible exception of the testimony of the first government witness, who tragedy, and that of Joseph Mac- Donald himself, no part of the case had drawn more people to the courthouse than the arguments that had occupied two days. Law- yers regarded the speech given by Mr. Hellent hal as one of the strongest ever delivered to a jury in a Juneau court room. R. R. Rogers and wife, E. Wat- kins, E. J. Morrison, S. Winchester, Mrs. T. A. Tubbs, all witnesses or agents of the government in the MacDonald case, took passage for the south. Miss Beatrice Behrends and Miss Belle Goldstein entertained with a linen shower at the home of the former in honor of Miss Henrtietta 'Heid, who was to be an August bride. Little Frances Wulzen, dress- ed as cupld, dragged in a huge pink basket filled with the shower gifts. Gilded shoes of all sizes, strung with phk ribbons and hearts, composed the decoration over the dining room table on which was @ gorgeous center piece of pink roses and tulle of the same shade. ‘The work of excavating for the concrete foundation for the new structure to be érected at the cor- ner of Gold and Sixth Streets for St. Ann’s Hospital, was about fin- ished and the contract for the foundation was to be let in a short time. The new building was to have a frontage of 110 feet on Sixth Street and was to be three stories above the basement, People were watching with keen interest the situation in Mexico which had become critical. The ad- ministration, while hoping that no crisis would develop, was preparing for any emergency. i Resurrection Lutheran | \ Church | REV. ERLING K. OLAFSON, [ Pastor [ | Morning Worship 10:30 AM. . msout. Sevpice Better ECAUSE professional methods are vastly gen- tler and more cleansing than any home method. Because it gives the housewife more time for practical home management, leisure and so- cial activities. Because the clothes are always more thoroughly and sanitarily washed, fresher, sweeter and better in appearance when done at a modern laundry like this one. Alaska Laundry ) JUNEAU-YOUNG Funeral Parlors | Licensed Funeral:Directors and Embalmers |mm.rnone1m Day Phone 12 B e i el SABIN’S Everything in Furnishings for Men # l PROFESSIONAL - I Helene W. L. Albrecht PHYSIOTHERAPY Massage, Electricity, Infra Red B. P. 0. ELKS meets was followed by United States At-|&#—————————& torney John Rustgard. The case|l@g—— & claimed to be eye witness of the |l % The B. M. 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