The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 11, 1933, Page 4

Daily Alaska Empire AL MANAGER ROBERT W. BENDER - - G Published every evening except by the EMPIRE PRIN COMPANY at Second and Main Streets, June 1 Tntered in the Post Office In Juneau as Second Class matter. SCRIPTION RATES. Dellvered by carrier In Juneau and Douglas for $1.25 per_month. t the follow'ng rates: ; six months, In advance, $1 it they will promptly Subscribers will confer a fav wny failure or irregularity notify the Business Office of in the deliver f their papers. Telephone for Editorial and Business Offices, 374. s MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS. The Press is exclusively entitled to the n of all patches credited to use for it or not othe local news pub! paper and also the SUARANTEED TO BE LARGER N MORE GOOD NEWS. The decision of Libby McNeill and Libby to re- build the ki Harbor cannery this Fall is gratifying to Juneau. When the plant burned just before the 1932 c ing season, it was a real blow to the commur From it originated considerable business for the ts of the town ermen with homes on sau Channel annually earned thou- sands of dollars from the fares they sold to it. Dur- ing the past two seasons both business men and fishermen have missed these things. The early re- construction of the cannery is welcome indeed. ss dispatches telling of the decision of the company said a cannery vessel was bringing lumber from Seattle for the buildi It is regrettable if that is correct. The Juneau Lumber Mills ought to be given an opportunity to supply the lumber re- quirements as far as they are able. Most of the needs undoubte could be filled by it, and should be if relative prices are not too disproportionate. Local labor, too, should be given employment in construction. These are things that Alaskans expect of such & company as “Libby,” and properly so. Should it adopt any other policy, particularly in the present state of industry and in view of current unemp! pent in this district, it would involve considerable loss of prestige for it and disappoint its many friends. RECOVERY MOVEMENT UNBROKEN. Recent breaks in stock and commodity prices, formative period. But the condition has become including staples such rain and cotton, should worse during the last few months because of the not be taken too seriously, advises the National City Jarge number of emergency agencies established. Bank of New York in its comments on general con- Despite a desire for teamwork, Cabinet officers ditions for the current month. The break hz\vevround themselves bumPing into each other B o i ithes ohet ot dast rmonfly b dbdlares; SRS & Cosen Rew adminlugiots SHK GRS e There has been neither time nor machinery for engaged public attention in a- greater its economic importance warranted declared: There is no reason to think that the recovery movement is exhausted. The new buying power which has been created by the rise of primary products and by the return of a million or more workers to employ- ment will increase consumption and thus give further impetus to the movement. In place of the vicious cycle of declining trade, falling prices, diminishing employment and diminishing consumption, a reverse cycle has begun, and if wise counsels prevail, all of the lost ground may be recovered. The ex- tensive plans adopted for the restoration of a “balanced economy” are not yet effective. In short, the latent forces making for natural recovery are just getting under way. ‘What is needed now above everything else is confidence in the natural forces which have degree than Regarding gen- eral progress being made nationally in all lines, it peing done better in the old departments. made so splendid a beginning and intelligent cooperation with them. . . . Considering that a revival of prosperity is a spreading movement, gaining strength as employment and buying power increase and as the different sections of the indus- trial system receive stimulus from each other, it is evident that time is required to bring all the idle resources into action and accomplish the full recovery. CORDOVA GETS READY FOR A L. MEET AUBUST 17 That is the purport of the President’s voluntary|Chairman Ellis of Commit- code for employers of labor. To the end that some 6,000,000 idle persons may be restored to the ranks of the gainfully employed by September, Mr. Roose- velt has called upon all employers to shorten weekly work hours and raise wages. Once invol- untary idleness is banished and the millions of men and women out of work for the past three or four years are again on pdyrolls, natural forces bring the United States the greatest era resperity it has ever known. will to POLITICS TAKES STAGE. manner unprecedented in our generation, has usurped the whole attention of the That does not mean partisan politics which just now is on vacation. By politics is meant the problem of government, including the task of order- ; the nation’s economic life, and not merely the tegies of rival candidates and parties. Art and zion, science and society, these and countless maller aspects of American life are dwarfed while men and women everywhere are applying themselves to the imperative need for a mobolized economic llife under the aegis of government. There are cries in this economic wilderness from those who mourn the passing of literature and painting in their pure form. These critics see in the obsession of economic problems a profound slump in creative art A man no longer commands respect, they say, unless he is writing or painting or etching along the lines of organized industry and social reform One can understand these complaints. The arts and sciences are suffering at the hands of economic and politics. But what is to be done about it? The life of the nation is founded on bread and butter. It must insure to its people a decent minimum of! In a politics people. food and warmth and security, as the prerequisit‘e]H of any flowering of art or any advance in science. Until an even tenor of production and con- sumption is accomplished we live in a period of emergency. Artists and philosophers may not find themselves wholly suited to the subject matter of industrial recovery. But if they are not they may as well concede that they are in the shadow, to| remain there until the emergency is over. There will be no peace and quiet for them until the nation is once more restored to what it is determined to regard as normal living. The Super-Cabinet. (New York World-Telegram.) The chief weakness of the Roosevelt Administra- tion has been lack of co-ordination. Too often its right hand does not know what its left is doing. That is apt to occur in any new Administration with inexperienced personnel, especially during the apportioning work. Some of the new agencies have thrown up temporary bureaus, which duplicate work So long as the President was in Washington (laboring sixteen hours a day and in touch with new and old departmental chiefs, there was a de- gre of spontaneous co-ordination. But wheh the President went on vacation, chaos grew. When he |returned to Washington only a few days' observa- tion was required to convince him of the need of Ireform. \ Now he is trying to solve the problem in a very ntelligent fashion. He has created an Executive ouncil, consisting of the Cabinet, the Budget |Director and nine of the new administrators. One lof the two Cabinet meetings a week will be trans- !formed into an Executive Council meeting. | This system under a weak President might easily result in more confusion and delay. But lunder President Roosevelt it probably will produce imore unity of command and quicker execution of Jorders. Quality Bakery Bargains FRENCH PASTR CREAM PUFFS, 2 for . . . (FRESH CREAM) TOMATO ROLLS (OUR FAMOUS) CREAM PIES, large . . . . Y. 2 for . . 15¢ . 15¢ . 20¢ ,dozen . . . 25¢ (ASSORTED FLAVORS) Juneau TELEPHONE 577 Bakery PROMPT DELIVERY tee Announces Plans Now Complete (Cordova Times) Plans are rapidly developing for the Territorial annual American Legion and Legion Auxiliary con- vention this year which will be held in Cordova the seventeenth and eighteenth of August. Clyde .R. Ellis, Department Commander, heads the committee which has charge of all the ar- rangements for the convention. Others on the committee are Ed Saari, Paul Herring, Harold Chad- wick and Dr. Thos. G. Sutherland. According to Chairman Ellis, de- tails for the convention are fairly well organized and unless boat schedules are tardy the convention will open as planned Thursday morning, August 17. Mayor Chase will start activities By welcom- ing the wvisitors to Cordova, after which the program as arranged will be carried out for the two days. Following is the order of events: Thursday 9:00 a. m. Registration of dele- gates and visitors in Elks’ Hall. 10:00 a. m. Opening of conven- tion. Joint Assembly. Call to order, department com- mander. Invocation, lain. Advancement of colors. ‘Song, “America.” Address of Welcome, Mayor W. Chase. Response, Auxiliary, Mrs. E. M. Polly; Legion, Ernest Campbell. Vocal solo, Earl Means. Introduction of delegates. Recess. 1:30 p. m. Business session. 8:00 p. m. Delegates and vis- itors leave for cabin to attend mixer. department chap- Friday 9:30 p.m. Business session. 1:30 pm. Final session. 3:30 p. m. Joint installation of department officers at Elks' Hall. 6:00 p. m. Banquet at Masonic Hall. 8:00 p. m. Show at Empress. 10:30 p. m. Convention ball at Masonic Hall. Among some of the importan? items that will be taken up at the| business sessions held during the convention will be the formation of additional plans to have a mili- tary air base established in Al- aska, disposal of a resolution for the fight against tuberculosis among children in Alaska, and the election of Department officers. Approximately thirty delegates are| expected and they will arrive by steamer, small hboat and plane from the different posts of the Territory. SEL'EM Sez George =®ohinepp ‘The next game of baseball in the Ju- neau City League will be a polo game, maybe. Sez Donald Armour—Now that I am going on 8 hours a day what the Piggly Wiggly will I do with the other 16 hours. Sez John Barrymore—I am go- ing to strip fishing salmon or by the Kleig Lights they’ll strip me. Sez Robert E. Ellis—No attempts at a world solo flight for me—I am content with my daily Chich- ago-offs. Sez Jack Kearney—Those ru- mors are lies. I did not spend three early mornings trying to fish for trout from that ponT at Gold and Fourth Streets which was caused by sidewalk excavalors and the recent heavy rains. Those ru- mors are all wet—I still have plenty of gold fish In my glass bowl. Sez Weather Man Mize It wasn’t my fault the sun shone today and the rain ceased. Some- one must have turned off the faucet—but watch out—my predic- tion was rain today, tomorrow is another day. —lpll A BLESSED EVENT Is Coming adv. Pfunder’s Tablets Sole Agents Butler Mauro Drug Co. “Express Money Orders Anytime” _ Remember the 12th Annual Southeastern Alaska Fair, Sept. 13, 14, 15, 16 THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, FRIDAY, AUGUST 11, 1933. Kidnaping, Racketee Kidnaping, racketeering and boot- legzing differ from ordinary crimes of passion and violenece in that the criminals operate with the as- sistance of the public and with the connivance of the authorities, They constitute, therefore, a fair- ly distinct category of crime, and a peculiarly dangerous one in that these crimes tend to be well or- ganized, well financed and well protected. The ordinary criminal works with the knowledge that every man’s hand is against him. The bootlegger, the racketeer and the kidnaper have allies among the innocent and respectable. P The attack upon these forms of crime is not, therefore, merely a swift. Nor is it, in any short term dealing with the poisoned heredity, the early maladjustments, and the corrupting environment by which criminal tendencies are fixed. These organized crimes are the products of a bad political and so- cial organization and of bad pub- lic policy. ‘The most obvious example is, of course, bootlegging. Here is a vast industry, created by -constitution- al fiat, run by statutory outlaws, and patronized by a very great part of respectable society. It is doubtful whether there has ever been in any modern civilized state spectable and the lawbreaking as we have under the Eighteenth Amendment. For as that law has worked, most of us, including judg- es and policemen and preachers and professors and editors, old gentlemen, schoolboys, dow agers and young girls have been the cus- tomers and the patrons of Al Ca- pone and Jack Diamond and their like. This has meant that the force of opinion has been exerted | to protect the Al Capones in their { main business of lawbreaking. The source of racketeering is less obvious to many persons but in a false conception of public pol- icy. The chief organized rackets derive either from cut-throat com- petition in organized little indus- { tries or from a lack of strong or- ganized system of collective bar- gaining for labor. The fetish of competition, and the laws against combination, have produced the racketeering trade association in which employers pay tribute to gangsters and get in return not protection against the violence of gangsters but against the compe- tition of new employers in the same line of business. That is ;why it is so hard to persuade busi- ness men to testify against rack- |eteers. In part they are terrorized 'up the advantage of combination. ‘The union side of racketeering is the product on the other hand of the long resistance by benighted employees to open well organized, matter of making detection more | certain and the punishment more ' view of the problem, a matter or‘ such a vast alliance of the re-| the main it, too, is the product of ; and in part they are loath to give | Today and Tomorrow By WALTER LIPPMANN ____________§ ring and Bootlegging truly representative collective bar- gaining. The resistance has been sufficient in many trades to drive out responsible labor officials and has cleared the way for the gangs- ter labor leader. « .. Against the organized criminal- ity which lives on bootlegging the repeal of the Eighteenth Amend- ment will do much. For when th: production of liquor ceases to be a statutory crime, the public will cease to ally itself with the under- ,world in order to obtain liquor. Repeal will not, of course, solve the liquor problem. Tt will take moré than repeal to do that. But it will solve the problem of crime as it arises from bootlegging. It will cut off the largest source of mon- ey which has ever gone to finance the underworld. Against racketeering the policy embodied in the National Recovery Act is the most promising that has ever been proposed. That act, if it is as wisely administered as it is well conceived, can be used to | reorganize the disorderly, diseased, | over-competitive, irresponsible in- | dustries in which racketeering now flourishes. It can organize them, , standardize them, and develop ,means of protection under the law, thus depriving the racketeer of that justification for his existence which today keeps him from being treated as a wholly predatory crimi- nal. .. | In this category the most diffi- cult crime to deal with is kid- naping, because the victim is so helpless. There can be little doubt that kidnaping would cease if the family and friends of the victim could be prevented from paying the ransom. But who has the heart to say that the Lindberghs should not have tried to ransom their son? Who, if he were the victim, would be brave enough to say: “Do | not ransom me!” What jury would convict a father for “compounding a felony” by ransoming his child? Yet therf is not doubt that the kidnapers flourish just because they know the families will pay and that the public authorities will stand aside and give them a good chance to escape with the ransom. That is what makes the problem so poignant. There is no difficulty about arousing public sentiment for inflicting the death penalty | on kidnapers. But first you have | to catch the kidnaper, and how |are you gonig to do that if the “pollce are going to stand aside while the family pays the ransom and meets the kidnaper's terms? The question is whether the Am- erican people are Spartan enough to enact and enforce laws which forbid private dealings with kid- napers, and therefore make kidnap- | ing unprofitable. It seems like the right and the necessary thing to | do, but it has the uncomfortable quality of being brave at some one else’s expense. Copyrignt, 1933, New York Tribune Inc. WARREN SMITH SENT TO RELIEVE SARBER Warren Smith, subforeman at the Auk Bay ECW camp has been transferred to the Mole Harbor camp as foreman, succeeding for ber, it was made known today at Regional Forest Service headquar- ters. Sarber has been granted a two- weeks leave of absence on pri- | vate business. Smith will be ta- ken to the camp tomorrow on the Ranger VI, by J. P. Williams Camp Supervisor. Daily Emprre Want Ads Pay the present at least, Hosea Sar-/ KELLERS IN ANCHORAGE Mrs. W. K. Keller, wife of the new Superintendent of Anchorage Schools, arrived in Anchorage from the South on the last train, ac- companied by their young son, Kenneth, says the Times. Mr. and Mrs. Keller have taken an apart- ment at the Hotel Anchorage, where they will make their home. The young man will be a stu- dent in the local High School. - ., A BLESSED EVENT Is Coming adv. The advertisements are your guide to efficient spending. 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