The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 4, 1933, Page 4

- # THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, FRIDAY, AUGUST 4, 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. Deilvered 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; one month, in advance, $1.26. bscribers 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 exciusively 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. A SERUM TO CURE CANCER? Is cancer, that dreaded scourge of mankind, about to be conquered by the medical science? While it is probably too early to claim that much, there are encouraging signs that point in that direction. From time immemorial physicians have sought some remedy for the disease that annually numbers its victims high into the thousands. Since the beginning of the nineteenth century the work has been on a systematic and organized basis. Numerous cures have been hailed only to be ex- ploded as fakes. Radium treatment was discovered not so many years ago, but in the main the surgeon’s knife is the chief source of relief. A short time ago, however, at the annual meet- ing of the British Empire Cancer Campaign in London, Dr. Thomas Lumsden, of the London Hos- pital, announced “encouraging results” in the treat- ment of 25 human cases of the malignant disease with a anti-cancer serum. These patients volun- teered to undergo the serum treatment which has been worked on by Dr. Lumsden for seven years. They were suffering from cancers which had re- curred after the original tumors had been treated in surgery or radium. Their condition was diagnosed as hopeless by physicians. Each of these patients had some of the serum injected into the main mass of his cancer or into the artery leading to it. Dr. Lumsden reported that the results were so encouraging as to justify “in- tensive pursuit of the method,” although he made it clear that he conmsiders the work still in the experimental stage. The boon of such a cure-would be incalculable. In every country, the death rate from cancer is increasing rather than declining. In the United States in two decades, between 1912 and 1930, it jumped from 77.1 per hundred thousand to 97.2. Every other nation has experienced a similar growth. The London announcement gives rise to the hope that the incessant labor and untiring study of scientists during the past century and a quarter are about to be rewarded with success. PLANES FOR FISH PATROL WORK. The use of airplanes for fishery patrol work, which Commissioner Frank T. Bell has just an- nounced in Spokane will be undertaken in Alaska next season, is not new. So when the plan is put into effect here, it will not be in the nature of an experiment. For several years past, the De- partment of Fisheries of British Columbia has patroled the coastline of that Province with sea- planes. It has proved that the plane is more practical and more efficient for that work than the gasboats which were formerly used. One plane can visit daily all of Southeast Alaska where four vessels are now in use and cannot cover the district in an entire week of patrolling. It can detect violations that a boat would never see, due to its speed of travel. It could curb illegal fish- ing of all kinds, whether by trap, seine or net, and the cost of maintenance and operation would be less than that required for the fleet of vessels now maintained. The change would, of course, reduce the number of employees engaged in patrol work. Funds saved in that way, however, could be diverted to hire more stream watchmen. With an adequate number of the latter class of employees and an airplane patrol, the protection of the Territory's salmon fishery would be as close to perfect as it would be possible to devise. A NEEDED STUDY. The prospective investigation of conditions among . Southeast Alaska’s Indian population, announced by Delegate Dimond, is one that all Alaskans will gen- uinely welcome. There has been for many years an apparent lack of definite information on this subject in Congress which is called on every year to deal with matters, usually connected with appropriations for educational and welfare work. This has natur- ally resulted in some injustices being done to these wards of the Government, unintentional, of course, but none the less real injustices. The personnel of the subcommittee to make the trip—Senators Burton K. Wheeler, Elmer Thomas * and Lynn J. Frazier—is as nearly ideal for the purpose as could be desired or attained. All three of them live in States that have had Indian prob- lems of their own throughout their history. Senator Wheeler is the senior Senator from Mantana and is Chairman of the Committee on Indian Affairs. Senator Thomas has resided in Oklahoma most of his life and is a member of the same committee, as is Senator Frazier who lives in North Dakota. The North Dakotan is the only Republican on the subcommittee that plans to make the trip. Their knowledge of the Indians in their own homes, their experience in legislating for them, and their sym- pathetic viewpoint on questions relating to them, fit them peculiarly for the mission. Real good ought to result. to the Indians of Alaska from their study which, we hope, will be as comprehensive as possible. ‘While their visit is principally to survey condi- tions affecting the Indian population, these Senators ‘are member of other committees which handle leg- islation affecting the interests of Alaska, white and Indian. All three are members of the Committee on Agriculture and Forestry. Senator Wheeler holds memberships on the Interstate Commerce, Manu- factures and Pensions committees; Senator Thomas on Appropriations; and Senator Frazier on Mines and Mining, Pensions and Post Offices and Post Roads. The potential value of the vast forests of South- Today and Tomorrow Stop, Look In his radio speech General By WALTER LIPPMANN _______..__.} and Listen! But for the smaller employers cast Alaska ought to be of interest to them, as|Johnson announced that “the bulk |there is, to begin with, no prima should the mineral resources of all the Territory.|0f all our industry’ has already |facie evidence that they ever en- Senator Thomas will probably be keen to hear|Jjoined the campaign to raise wag- | something about Alaska’s needs for appropriations,)©S and reduce hours. More spe- Seantor Frazier about its road necessities. Much information of value to them can be furnished here that will aid the Senate in the consideration nous coal, cifically he announced that practi- cally the whole of the iron and steel, textile, auitomobile, bitumi- lumber, garment, ship- joyed a profit inflation of the boom and none that they can quickly make large profits now. They are not in a position w0 go to Wash- ington and argue with General Johnson. Therefore, it seems to of future legislation and ought to be of benefit|building and petroleum industries me that it is most cruel and un- o Alaska. COPPER BEGINS TO MOVE. Stocks of refined copper in the United States were reduced 75,000,000 pounds, or 37,500 short tons, and foreign stocks of the red metal were cut 2,- 000,000 in June, the largest withdrawals of any month in approximately three years. On the basis »f producers’ shipments, copper consumption in June ¥as about 100,000,000 for domestic and 20,000,000 pounds for foreign markets. However, as shipments by fabricators into consumption in recent months have been running about 15,000,000 pounds a month more than producers’ shipments, domestic consump- tion would be 115,000,000 and foreign 135,000,000 pounds, providing the same differential obtained. For the six months ended June 30, it is estimated world stocks of copper were reduced 100,000 to 135, 000 short tons. The total stocks on July 1 are variously estimated at 600,000 to 650,000 tons, or less than six months' supply at the June con- sumtion rate. This condition brightens materially the outlook for the copper producing Industry. With steady even though somewhat small advances in prices, present quotations ranging around nine and one- half cents a pound, it ought not to be a great while before the Kennecott mines are again on a normal operating basis. nd in addition more than two hundred smaller industries had joined or given assurance that they would join. This is, on its face, a substantial response, although it scarcely touches the very great mass of small employers in the neighborhoods and suburbs of cit- ies, in the towns and villages of the country. Humanly speaking the question is whether the Administration in- tends to concentrate its efforts on those industries which have come forward because they are sufficient- ly organized to qualify ultimately under the more detailed codes, or whether it really means to make this drive “universal” and carry its threats and its appeals to all the little workshops and stores throughout the length and breadth of the land. As a matter of justice and in its practical consequences it will make a vast difference wheth- er the Administration decides to be discriminating and selective, spending its efforts where results are possible, or whether it really means to incite the people to bad- ger and boycott those who can- not take part. P The case for increasing the real just to arouse public opinion against them with slogans and buttons and placards. Who is go- ing to distinguish between the shopkeeper who is pocketing good | profits and the shopkeeper who is just managing to exist? Are we really going to let loose from Washington with all the mass ap- peal of modern propaganda a pub- lic opinion which is quite incapable of distinguishing betweén what Washington is beginning to call “the slacker” and the man Wwi® would like to have his button and Jook like a patriot but simply has not the money to get his button? This plan is good enough for the well to do and the powerful. They can and should be brought into it. But for the weak and help- less it is brutal, and if carried through with martial spirit will in- flict upon them wholly unwarrant- ed humiliations and losses. There |is nothing men resent’ so much as being compelled to do things they cannot do and being punished |when they are innocent. All over {this country today there are men {with little shops who in the face of -incredible difficulties have just ! managed to stay in business. Walk The ' prosecutor of a search to find the man|income of the workers in the basic down Main Street in almost any who understands all about the recovery measures|industries operated by large cor- small town and see the empty now in progress would have need for more than a|porations is excellent. Thus, for ex- ' stores and you will realize how Diogenes lantern. Jobs and Payrolls. (New York Times.) Two things stand out as especially significant in the Government report on employment and pay- rolls in manufacturing industries last month. One is the striking reversal of a usual seasonal trend. Only twice during the decade from 1923 to 1932 inclusive did employment improve in June as com- pared with May, and in both cases the gain was | ight to do that kind of " land wage earners. Such a profit in= {rive the right o tha ”,‘."r"lfm“‘;’;‘,',',‘:’ ; :zgmnsdmf;fmdi Onlf o d;’; [flation led inevitably to over-in-|thing? In what statute is there : g 9 gain also was hE . iment in relation to the con-|such a grant of power? In what fractional margin of 0.1 per cent. But in June o(‘ this year employment advanced by 7.0 per cent and payrolls by 108. It would appear that the return of men to work has been accompanied in numerous { cases by an increase of wages. The other noteworthy feature of the Govern- ment's report is the evidence that improvement has been made on an exceedingly wide front. The sharp increase of output reported recently in steel, tex- tiles and automobiles clearly forecast larger employ- ment in industries making these products. Special influences have been operalive in other cases. very extended research is needed, for example, to explain why jobs in the “beverage” industry increased by nearly 20 per cent in June and now stand more than 60 per cent above the number for 1926, the year taken by the Department of Labor as its norm. But it is not only in a few favorably situated indus- tries that improvement has been made. In all but ten of the eighty-nine manufacturing trades of which the Government keeps records, June wit- nessed an increase both of employment and of pay- rolls. The forward movement was broad enough to include industries so diverse as those manufact- uring pottery and stoves, agricultural machinery and rubber boots, cash registers and water wheels. June figures for non-manufacturing industries have also been published by the Labor Department. They point in the same direction. In fourteen of the sixteen industries included here—anthracite min- ing and telephone and telegraph are the two excep- tions—an increase of employment occurred in June. Of particular interest is a gain of 6.1 per cent in the case of building construction. For this industry has lagged behind most others ih the movement toward recovery. The increase of employment re- ported by the Labor Department last month finds corroboration in data on new construction compiled by the F. W. Dodge Corporation. Contracts in thirty-seven Eastern States aggregated $103,000,000 in June, which was 34 per cent above the May figure and only 9 per cent below that for June a year ago. It is interesting to note that the decline from last year is due entirely to publicly financed projects. Privately financed work showed a gain of 53 per cent above the figure for last year. False Hopes—A Danger. (Cincinnati Enquirer.) The gravest danger now attaching to the Na- tional Recovery program is probably the tendency of men and women everywhere to wait for a miracle. Steeped in the reckless promises of idealistic econ- omists, or pseudo-economists, countless persons are watching confidently for the birth of a utopia. They imagine that through some alchemy of leg- islation we are going to create in this country a new' industrial system in which they will work a half day for two days’ pay. They expect unemploy- ment to evaporate when exorcised by slogans of optimism. To expect such a result is to build false hopes which will serve as boomerangs. When those hopes are not realized the consequent disillusion is certain to operate as a destructive force, just as the false hopes of quick profits in the markets led to a disastrous reaction only last week. We will serve our common cause far better if we adopt a realistic attitude, and, while cooperating, progress must of necessity be slow. . is a “shortage of labor” imminent. There have been substantial gains, and doubtless we shall see con- tinuing improvement in many lines. But economic law transcends the fiat of governments today as in the past. Recovery must be built on the firm foundation of sacrifice and hard work. It cannot be conjured into sudden reality by any miracle of enthusiasm or legislation. A sound approach therefore appears to include both the knowledge that confidence and optimism themselves provide progress and the further know- ledge that economic realities set a limit to the rate of progress. In judging the situation, we need to take stock of both. More than ever before in his- tory the rank and file of the citizenry are playing a major part in economic life. ‘Recovery depends in great part on their faith and their confidence. But it is no less true that recovery can be frus- trated by the false hopes current today which are not justified by the facts, ample, if one compares wholesale prices, wages, and mnet profits of the 536 chief business corporations in 1926 and in 1929, it appears that in that boom period whole- sale prices fell 3.5 per cent, wages rose 1.8 per cent while net profits rose 25 per cent. Here was an ob- vious profit inflation in the sense that profits outstripped the pur- chasing power of farmers, miners |terrible has been the struggle to \survive. It is intolerable to my imind that the Federal government |should now reach into these towns, |and, without any investigation of {the facts, without any knowledge of each man’s circumstances, pre- | sume - to make public judgments as to whether this man or that is a slacker or a patriot. Where, T | should like to know, does it de- SOVIET MAY LIMIT HEELS MOSCOW, Aug. 4. — Decrying “ridiculous dictates of fashion which call * for high heels,” the newspaper “Light Industry” has be- gun a campaign to standardize the height of heels on all women's shoes manufactured in Russia at a fraction over an inch. UMPIRES’ VERDICT GOES EXCEPT WHEN NAMING CHILDREN WASHINGTON, Aug. 4. — The weatherbeaten countenance of Rob- ert Emmett (Red) Ormsby, veteran American league umpire, assumed a rather beatific expression while he was calling them on the bases at Griffith stadium the other day. Ormsby* had just become the fa- ther of child No. 10-—a 10 2-3 pound daughter. The other Ormsby chil- dren are Dorthea, aged 1; Robert, 2; Edward, 3; Dolores, 5; Byron, 6; Emmett, 7; Helen, 8; Rosemary, 9, and Rita 10, Mrs. Ormsby hasn't quite decided what the new baby will be chris- tened, but is partial to the name of Nancy. Umpire Ormsby admits that while his decisions are su- preme in the ball park they don't bulk so big when it comes to nam- ing little Ormsbys. S TG Depression Helped Frosh COLUMBUS, Ohio, Aug. 4—One person who had no cause for com- plaint because of the depression was the college freshman, in the opinion of Ohio State university’s dean of men. Most freshmen had plenty of “bids” to join fraternities, hard put to it- to keep their houses full and “horse play” was held to a minimum for fear the pledges would quit, the dean says. ROSE BOWL VISIONS STATE COLLEGE, Miss., Aug. 4. —The Mississippi State college Tootball team has adopted “To the Rose Bowl in Four Years” as its slogan and goal. AL BT ER SR WILL ROGERS SUNDAY ;earn enormous profits. recognize that | Utopia is not just around the corner. Nelther | suming power of the community, and was undoubtedly one of the major causes of the depression. think that during the past four |years the leading industries have {so greatly reduced their costs of | production that with anything like the old volume they would quickly There are |indications of this in the rapidity NO, with which the Steel Corporation |and General Motors have recently |increased their net earnings. It is |clear, therefore, that for a sound and stabilized recovery, it is es- sential that there should be a bet- |ter distribution of the earnings of industries capable of making great profits. The better distribution should be had by raising wages, improving working conditions and in many instances by lowering prices. In so far as tne blanket code is inspired by this conception of af- fairs, it is as sound as any highly generalized plan could be. The Ad- ministration may justly demand the participation of the large cor- porate enterprises. Even when the scheme is difficult to apply in’ particular cases no great hardship or danger involved. For the larg- \er corporations and the frade as- Isoclatlons are in a position to make |representations in Washington and {work out adjustments and compro- | mises. Now there is good reason to| {principle of American government |is there the authority for such |an: inquisition? | P “The idea of reaching out to | force every one into such a scheme |y the sheer force of public opinion |is not only utterly unjust, but it is a case where the remedy will Aggravate the disease. To foment discord and discrimination, boy- ¢otts and bitterness, in the neigh- borhoods of cities and in the towns is no way to revive business. Suppose John Smith on the corner takes on three more men, gets his button, and Tom Brown down the street cannot take on more men, does not get button, and loses to John Smith a part of his cus- tomers. What have you accomp- lished? Probably you have ruined Tom Brown, who then defaults on his lease, stops paying his taxes and cannot meet his mort- gage. Does any one seriously think that kind of thing will make us prosperous? ‘The vice of the scheme is that it does not and cannot take ac- count of the Tom Browns, who would like to have their buttons but cannot pay the price. Upon them it threatens to unloose a mob spirit, and once the mob spirit is loose it is farewell to justice Imd sympathy and decency among men. | Copyrignt, 1933, New York Tribune Inc. Divorce Sought by Miss Odeta Newberg LOS ANGELES, Aug. 4— At- tractive Odeta Marion Newberg, film actress, inserted a novel charge day. Besides being quarrelsome, she alleged that Philip R. Newberg ac- cused her of being the cause of the depression. o WILL ROGERS SUNDAY e CAPITOL “STATE FAIR.” adv ————— Palisade glacier in Inyo coun- ty, Cal, the most southerly ice mountain on the continent, is seven miles long, a mile and a half wide! and is estimated to be 750 feet deep. 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