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g A THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, THURSDAY, AUGUST 3, 1933 Daily Alaska Empire GENERAL MANAGER ROBERT W. BENDER - - Published every evening except Sunday by the EMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY at Second and Main Btreets, Juneau, Alaska. Entered in the Post Office In Juneau as Second Class matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES, Dellvered by carrier In Juneau and Douglas for $1.25 per month. By mall, postage pald, at the following rates: One year, In advance, $12.00; six months, In advance, $6.00; ane month, in advance, $1.26. Subscribers will confer a favor if they will promptly notify the Business Office of any failure or irregularity in the delivery of their papers. Telephone for Editorial and Business Offices, 374. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to \t 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. WINTER MUST NOT HALT WORK. If the starting of needful public works is delayed because of cold weather, or if projects mark time until winter passes, much of the tonic effects of the public works program will be lost. This is the conclusion of F. W. Morse, President of the Producers’ Council. Undoubtedly it is well considered and based upon a knowledge of un- employment conditions throughout the country. If the country is keyed up through the employment on public works of hundreds of thousands, directly and indirectly, it will lose the. momentum thus acquired if they are thrown back into idleness through the closing down of public construction through the winter months. There is no real reason, Mr. Morse pointed out, for such a shut down. Experience, he declared, has shown that there are few days in the winter when effective work cannot be done. It has been definitely proved that, even in the severest winters, there are very few days—usually less than two weeks—in which work cannot be done as well as in mid- summer. Indeed, many contractors say their men do better work in the cold season. Tech- nically, there is no reason why work cannot go on in spite of weather. That statement will not hold true for some parts of Alaska so far as work in the open is concerned. After the freeze-up comes to them, work on roads necessarily must suspend until the breakup. But there are sections of Alaska where work is possible practically all winter. In allocating funds for im- mediate work, the Government ought to be guided by that condition and select enough projects in the more temperate sections to furnish employment throughout the winter to Alasak’s unemployed. In that way, the winter slump will be avoided, and Alaskans will be able to earn. their daily bread rather than be forced to depend upon some form of charity for it. GOV. SMITH ADDS ONE MORE JOB TO LIST. Alfred E. Smith, who manages the Empire Trust Building corporation and in his spare time edits the New Outlook, lately has added another job to his other numerous activities. He recently accepted & position as member of the Board of Directors and the company’s agency committee of the New York Life Insurance Company. The famous New Yorker sald he regarded service on the New York Life Board as a distinct public service. He added: Certainly no better advice can be given the average man than to take steps to create an emergency fund, safeguard his family’s future, and at the same time provide for his own sunset days. As a practical philosophy life insurance and annuities are doing a, great deal to make the lives of the American people safe and secure. Mr. Smith’s appointment to the Board was similar to that of the late President Coolidge, who became a director and chairman of the agency committee after his retirement from public life. He succeeded George M. Reynolds, Chicago banker. This is the eighth corporation which he serves as member of the board of directors. KETCHIKAN OFFERED HATCHERY. Following the recent announcement by Frank T. Bell, United States Commissioner of Fisheries, that the fish hatchery at Yes Bay would be abandoned, the Chamber of Commerce of Ketchikan telegraphed cannot afford to underwrite that project any more than Juneau can. It is likely that he took that method to impress his petitioners with the serious- ness of his own position. After it, no one can doubt that he is really in earnest about shutting the commercial fishery hatcheries. He doesn't apply the same line of reasoning to the hatcheries for the benefit of sportsmen, which number millions in this country. The take of game fish by sportsmen is tremendous. The Government by the expenditure of relatively few thousands of dollars annually can permit sport fishing on a vast scale by the present generation of sportsmen and at the same time insure the same privilege to future generations of the disciples of Isaak Walton. The Ohio headquarters of the Anti-Saloon League are reported to have shut up. Lack of funds is assigned as the reason. However, it doesn't seem to have had the same effect upon some of the Dry leaders. Medicinal whiskey prices are being raised. Here's a case where the Administration ought to use any force necessary to stop price “kiting” and punisa the “kiters.” Managed Patronage. (New York Herald Tribune.) Postmaster General Farley, patronage dispenser extraordinary to the Roosevelt Administration, has developed that important branch®of politics almost to a sclence. He has adopted formulas and rules. He has gone so far to announce his code in a magazine article with typically Farley frankness. Under the patronage New Deal there should no longer be any question as to just where every jobholder and would-be jobholder fits into the pic- ture. If the system is carrled out as announced each one will automatically fall into a certain classi- fication in accordance with his party -standing and record. It is designed to free the national chair- man from any charge of playing favorites. : Mr. Farley takes pains to declare that qualifica- tion for the work is the first requisite for appoint- ments, but falls short of saying that the best quali- fied will win in every case. He puts it something like this: A Republican in an exempt job stands a chance of remaining, if he is “a wizard in his own field,” but he may as well understand he has “two strikes on him.” If there is a qualified Demo- crat, out goes the Republican. No hypocrisy there. |Nor is there any here: And among the Democrats who are quali- fied, who will get the first chance at the job? The F. R. B. C. men. That means the men who were “for Roosevelt Before Chi- cago.” The Democrats who jumped on the bandwagon later are next in line. If they are the best qualified—they will get the jobs. I don't think any master of patronage has ever stated the proposition so frankly before. How more pointedly could notice be served on Tammany Hall that it may sit in at the patronage table only after the “F. R. B. C.’s” have had their fill. A most discouraging prospect for Tammany, but a rather intelligent policy from the view- point of keeping people in line for President Roose- velt's renomination in 1936. Then Mr. Farley has worked out a system of having key men in various governmental depart- ments responsible for seeing that the Democrats get as much of a New Deal as it is possible to give them. There have been patronage men in this and that department in the past; but they never have been co-ordinated and brought into a smooth-work- ing machine. before. The system as now framed pro- vides that all patronage shall clear through the central organization of the national ‘committee. Mistakes and disagreements will be rendered less frequent, all of which is intended to help those who seek to build up the Democratic Party politically and to keep it in power. The Securities Snag. (New York World-Telegram.) There are ugly rumors concerning administration of the new securities act. The Federal Trade Commission is engaged in writing regulations which will govern it in enforcing the act. Experience in the past has shown that no matter how excellently a law may be drawn, the regulations determine whether enforcement is effective or is lax. People are still indignant over sharp corporation practices which have fleeced them of millions of dollars. They will not again invest money until they are reasonably sure they can know what they are buying. Only strict and honorable enforcement of Today and Tomorrow By WALTER LIPPMANN e The Administration’s Appeal From the beginning those who have been planning for industrial recovery have felt the pull of two more or less distinct ideas. Ome was to stimulate a quick revival of industry. The other was to lay the foundation of an industrial re- construction. When the idea of a quick revival has been in the ascendant, attention has been cen tered upon employing more men by reducing the hours of those who are employed and upon in- creasing pay rolls by raising min- imum wages. When the idea of permanent reconstruction has been in the ascendant, the emphasis has been upon eliminating the wastes of competition by cooper- tive organization of industry un- der a new body of industrial law. In the first stages of the discuss sion last spring the idea of quick revival through a blanket limita- tion of hours and a basic mini- mum wage predominated. But the discussion showed that it would be difficult to apply such general rules to the almost infinite variety of industrial conditions, and that the project really required an amount of sacrifice from employers that many of them could not or would not make. So attention was turned to the idea of legalizing organized action among employers. In effect, em- ployers were persuaded to approve the ‘idea of shorter hours and higher wages in return for a sus-| pension of many features of the anti-trust laws. The National In-, dustrial Recovery Act, as it was finally approved, was a kind of treaty In which the promise of better working conditions was set off against the promise that the government would henceforth ap- prove a much higher degree of combination among employers. . e on Once the act was passed the work of organizing and codifying the higher wages won't do any good, and the whole bright chance will just turn out (o be a ghastly failure and another shattered hope.” se two observations go to th2 heart of the project which the Ad- ministration has launched, and it is safe to say that the crucial sec- tion of the blanket code, the most difficult to operate and yet the most essential part of it, is Sec- tion 9, which limits the increase of prices. The whole scheme depends upon the willingness and the abil- ity of employefs to increase their at the expense of profits and es rather than by raising prices, Because they are asked to do a thing which is contrary to the established habits of business conducted for profit, it is necessary to appeal to their patriotism, to their higher emotions, and also to their fear of a boycott and other forms of public pressure. Y re: No human mind can, I should suppose, estimate the practical ef- fects of a campaign of this sort. But clearly it will be easier to bring in the large corporate em- iplnyers than the small employers ‘m the smaller towns. The Presi- ldent recognized this in his radio ’address by pointing out that ‘‘the |great basic industries have come | forward willingly . . . and . .. ac- \cept the principles leading to mass |re-employment,” but to the small- er employers the President knew Ithat he still had to make his case. This is not difficult to under- stand. The great corporations have reserves which they can draw upon. They are by and large high- 1y .mechanized so that wages are a relatively smaller part of their costs. They have much to gaih by the relaxation of the anti-trust laws, and have many reasons for cultivating the good will of Wash- ington. The small employers are in a began. The assumption was that L. .por gifferent position. They do a better organized industry, which not in general have any great mar- by code had eliminated wasteful ;i o reserves to draw upon. La- competitive costs, would be able(y,. costs are often decisive for to pay higher wages for shorter|in.m They have less to gain in hours. This assumption has not|.,. reasonable time from the new been abandoned. But the experi- ence of the past thirty days has shown, as the President put it, that “it takes a good deal of or- ganizing and a great many hear- ings and many months to get these codes perfected and signed.” Tt could not have been otherwise. The formulation of a new body of in- dustrial law cannot be done in a few weeks. The discovery that it could not be done made it impossible to give employers those advantages of com- bination quickly enough to induce them, for economic reasons alone, to shorten hours and raise wages. Hence the present appeal to their patriotism. They are asked in ef- fect to discount the future ad- vantage of combination and to shorten hours and raise wages at the expense of immediate profit. P That this is the meaning of the campaign now under way is evi- dent enough from the character of the campaign itself. Were it be- lieved that the blanket code would be enforced by the self-interest of employers, it would not be neces- sary to set up an elaborate propa- ganda and to threaten to boycott those who do not play their part. But the matter has been plainly stated in earlier statements by the President and by General Johnson. the securities act can assure business the flow of money it will need in coming years. The Federal Trade Commission, we believe, should be particularly scrupulous about calling in or consulting with those bankers whose practices, recently disclosed by the Senate committee, have so shocked the American people. The President of the United States, who prom- ised the people a new deal in securities, should take a searching look at what is happening in the Trade Commission and take whatever steps may be neces- sary to save his excellent legislation from bureau- cratic oblivion. Insurance—A Solid Industry. (Cincinnati Enquirer.) One of the largest industries of the nation is insurance. After three years and a half of contin- uing depression the great life insurance companies a protest against that action and urged its opera-|Stand as towers of strength, supporting the economic fabric of the country. The ravages of a long de- tions be continued by the Bureau of Fisheries. The Commissioner promptly and courteously ac- their 1 t t 1 knowledged the Ketchikan communication, and with |!helr investment policles have beed soundly con- great liberality offered to turn the plant over to|c ..., ‘proporuon pehinad. cnly i the Chamber of Commerce there if it believed the The great leg-al reserve companies, some of them work done was of too great value to be eliminated.|with assets of a billion dollars or more, have At the latest hearing, the offer had not ‘been|guided their enormous funds into rul.roud'bonds. accepted, farm and urban mortgages, and Government bonds. During his visit to this city, Mr. Bell in an|Not only have they thus made possible a needed Interview given The Empire first made known his|flow of investment into these channels of national program for shutting down & number of fish growth, but they have found a safe medium of hatcheries all over the country, including the two investment for themselves and so for their policy operated in Alaska. All of them have been main- holders. = In the light of this record, and in recogniti “ e gnition operated for the benefit of commercial of the staunch faith of the insurance exeecutives fisheries. “I do not believe,” he said in substance,|i, the future of the country, it is LS Sz the Dinited States Government owes!Ib 50 08 |iibutts to the Iaaiers i, this Tdustey. . With wisim, commercial interests engaged in fishing enterprises |and skill they have proved to be public benefactors, to plant their crops for them any more than it|for the strength of their companies is interwoven ought to plant the wheat, corn and cotton crops|with the structure of American ecoonmic life. of the farmers of the nation. Its hatchery opera- Had they been seduced in thriving times by the tions for the benefit of commercial fisheries is|lure of less conservative investments, or had they nothing more or less than a subsidy. In Alaska, in depression lost their confidence in the ultimate where the Government is in control of fisheries|Soundness of real estate and railways, the story regulation, we can assure future fish crops by seeing might be different. The major life insurance com- e bt e’ fah panies have in fact been a backlog of sound supply of spa 8 is adequate| . ovatism, a foundation for public confidence, to seed the beds. If shortages occur we can put hi f most i on a few more regulations to curtail fishing until :y:;u,:h e:;e hou :h:mm;m SR, 80, encionn’y the supply is restored to a safe position.” . Probably Commissioner Bell did not expect Ket- It seems to be the tendency of kidnapers to chikan to take his offer of Yes Bay seriously.. It |substitute adult for kid.—(Philadelphia Bulletin.) flation have left them firm and unshakable, because Both of them have insisted that at Jeast in the first stages employ- ers must not raise the prices of manufactured goods as quickly as they increase their pay rolls. Thus, on June 16, Mr. Roosevelt said that “if we now inflate prices as fast and as far as we increase wages, the whole project will be set at naught. We cannot hope for the full effect of this plan, unless, in these first critical months, and, even at the expense of full initial profits, we defer price increases as long as possible” On June 25 General Johnson was no less ex- plicit: “The tendency of ‘higher wages is higher prices. If we do a thing like this and do not also put some control on undue price increases so that prices will not move up one bit faster than is justified by higher costs, the con- suming public is going to suffer, JUNEAU BOYS ARE SEA SCOUT GUESTS Three Juneau boys, Walter P. Scott, Jr., Arthur Ficken, Jr., and J. Latimer Gray, Jr., are leaving tomorrow morning on the Princess Louise for Seattle. In the south they will be the guests of Sea Scouts and will return home on the Sea Scouts’ boat Tyee Scout, about September 1. ———————— SEATTLE OIL MAN MAKES ROUND TRIP TO SEWARD H. A. Jackson, Divisional Man- ager for the Asociated Oifl Com- pany with headquarters at Seattle, and Mrs. Jackson are making the roundtrip between there and Sew- ard on the steamer Aleutian, They visited friends here while that steamer was in port yesterday. —————— Advertisements spread world products before you, liberty to combine. And they are less sensitive to national opinion. o | | One can readily forsee that some of the major difficulties will be | found in attempting to apply this | code to the hundreds of thousands of small industries and small shops | scattered all over the country. The other great difficulty will .be to keep prices down so that they will Flag behind wages. I do not know |how Washington will do this, ex- cept In tne relatively simple case of the highly organized industries. If Washington is relying upon propaganda and boycotts to force the enormous number of small em- ployers into line, it is greatly to be hoped that it will think twice before using such dangerous wea- pons carelessly. Tt is one thing to use the pressure of national opin- jon to compel great anonymous corporations. It is quite another thing .to set people against each other who must go on living to- gether as neighbors. .. For my part I do not like that kind of coercion. I do not like to hear the Administration using scornful epithets to browbeat men whose difficulties no one in Wash- ington can conceivably have under- stood. I do not like government by propaganda which may in a thousand communities incite dis- cord and jealousy and hysteria and fear among the people. A govern- ment should govern by the use of its lawful powers and not by un- Joosing popular emotions. So T venture to say, be careful. Be very careful not to carry moral coercion too far. Be on guard against those who love the excite- ment and enjoy coercion for its own sake. It will be easier to call them forth than to restrain them later. Tt is easier to touch off hys- teria and rancor than to quell it Nor is tt worth wnile to resort to such measures. What can be done by an appeal to reason and through moderation of feeling is worth do- ing and will help somewhat. But anything that requires a propa- ganda of intolerance is worse than useless. It is monkeying with dyna- mite. Copyrignt, 1933, New York Tribune Inc. g+ ~— Uniforms—Men’s Shirts | Tallored to Order , f SMART DRESSMAKING SHoPPE Hours 8 to 12 N—1 to 6 pm. | 100 Main St. Phone 219 | - D McCAUL MOTOR COMPANY Dodge and Plymouth Dealers ' . | o JUNEAU SAMPLE SHOP The Little Store with the BIG VALUES e mts spread world Mm before you, AMATEUR RADIO OPERATORS AID SUFFERING BOY Transmit Messages to Doc- tor—Airplane Rushed from Anchorage | SEATTLE, Aug. 3.—An airplane has been dispatched from Anchor- age to Aiaktalik, Kodiak Island, to take the 5.year-old son of Henry Looff, former Bureau of Fisheries warden, to Anchorage for treat- ment for peritonitis. The case was - diagnosed by & Seattle physician to an amateur wireless operator, Ed Stevens, of Seattle, who talked to the operator at Aiaktalik who had told the symptoms to the Seattle operator. [The doctor then urged the boy be sent to Anchorage. The Seattle op- erator relayed the message to An- chorage when the Aiaktalik sta- tion failed to get it through . PROFESSIONAL ; Helene W. L. Albrecht PHYSIOTHERAPY Massage, Electricity, Infrs Red Ray, Medical Gymnastics. | 307 Goldsteln Bullding | - Phone Office, 216 | l DRS. KASER & FREEBURGER | DENTISTS i Blomgren Building | PHONE 56 Hours 9 am. to 9 pm. o e il l | Dr. Charles J. Jenne DENTIST | Rooms 8 and 9 Valentine Building ! Telephone 176 * i IR | Dr. J. W. Bayne DENTIST Rooms 5-6 Triangle Bldg.. Office hours, 9 am. to 5 pm. Evenings by appointment Phone 321 T | . MOOSE TO PLAY For the last time this season, the two lodge entries in the City League will match wits and strengt@ tonight on the ball dia- mond when the Moose and EIks play in the next to the final game on the schedule. If the Moose win they will hold a half-game margin on the American Legion for the second half championship, and brighten the prospects of the usual Little World's Series. If they lose, then the Vets will have to lose to the Elks in the fi- nal game of the season for the Moose to stay in the picture. A victory for both the Vets and| Moose will necessitate a playoff game to determine the winner of the second half. Jack Schmitz is expected to do the pitching for the Paps. Joe Nello probably will heave for the FElks, although Erskine may be called. —_————— Read the advert{sements and sim- plify your shopping. 1 Resurrecti(;n Lutheran Church REV. ERLING K. OLAFSON, | Pastor Morning Worship 10:30 AM. 7 i % b’m’ 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 | JUNEAU-YOUNG I | © Funeral Parlors | Licensed Funeral Directors | and Embalmers | Night Phone 1851 Day Phone 12 2 — 8 SABIN'S | BILLS TONIGHT| e e Dr. A. W. Stewart DENTIST Hours 9 am. to 6 pm. SEWARD BUILDING Office Phone 469, Res. | Phone 276 — _———a Dr. Richard Williams DENTIST OFFICE AND RESIDENCE | Gastineau Building, Phone 481 \ | i Robert Simpson Opt. D. Graduate Los Angeles Col- lege of Optometry and Opthalmology Glasses Fitted, Lenses Ground \ DE. R. E. SOUTHWELL | Optometrist—Optician | | Eyes Examined—Glasses Fitted | | | | Room 7, Valentine Bldg. | Office Pnone 484; Residence | Phone 238. Office Hours: 9:30 | to 13; 1:00 to 5:30 | Fraternal Societies oF | Gastineau Channel | B. P. 0. ELKS meets every Wednesday at y 8 p. m. Visiting brothers welcome. L. W. Turoff, Exalt- ed Ruler, M. H. Sides, Secretary. KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS Seghers Counctl No. 1760. Meetings second and last Monday at 7:30 p. m. Transient brothers urg- Chambers, Pifth Strees. JOHN F. MULLEN, G. K. H. J. TURNER, BSecretary —— . Our trucks go -any place any | time. A tank for Diesel OMl | and & tank for crude oil' save ! burner trouble. 3 PHONE 149, NIGHT s | RELIABLE TRANSFER ! e S JUNEAU TRANSFER COMPANY Moting and Storage Mov:s, Packs and Stores Freight and Baggage Prompi Delivery of FUEL OIL ALL KINDS OF COAL PHONE 48 — MORE for LESS P Konnerup’s . | “Tomorrow’s Styles Today” ALLAMAE SCOTT Expert Beauty Specialist PERMANENT WAVING Phone 218 for Appolritment | Entrance Pioneer Barber Shop | ! CHIROPRACTIC “Health from Within” * GSolarium Baths * | —Authentic— Palmer School Graduate DR. POELKER PHONE 477 C. L. FENTON CHIROPRACTOR Golastein Building Office Hours: 10-12; 2-5 Evenings by Appointment L. C. SMITH and CORONA TYPEWRITERS J. B. Burford & Co. The world's greatest need is courage—show yours by advertising. Read the advertisementsand sim- plify your shopping. The B. M. 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