The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 14, 1933, Page 4

SN THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, MONDAY, AUGUST 14 1933, Daily Alaska Empire GENERAL MANAGER ROBERT W. BENDER - - Pubiished 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. Delivered by carrier In Juneau and Douglas for $1.26 By mall, postage paid at the following rates mall, postage pal al e follow!ng rai d One year, in advance, six months, In advance, $6.00; one month, in advance, $1.25. Subscribers will confer a favor if they will promptly potlfy the Business Office of any failure or irregularity in the delivery of eir papers. Telephone for Editorial and Business Offices, 374. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS, The Assoclated Press is exclusively 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. ONLY 15 MORE. Arizona, voting three to one for repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment, brought the total that has to date rejected National Prohibition to 21 States. Only 15 more are needed to accomplish that ob- jective. A year ago, prophesies that such an even- tuality was in sight were greeted by derision by the Drys and even optimistic-minded Wets thought the prophets were a wee bit too previous in their prognostications. As a matter of fact, at this time last year there was a great deal of doubt if a Congress could be elected that would submit a repeal resolution to the States, and few dreamed that con- ditions would so develop that the then existing Congress woulds do so. Now there is no longer any doubt that repeal is but a question of a few months, surely not later than early next year. And the returns to date seem to show conclusively that it will be accomplished before January 1. Twenty-one States have acted. Fifteen more are needed. Coincident with the an- nouncement of the election results in Arizona on Tuesday, came the news that Colorado had fixed September 12, next, for its election. That brings the number up to 36, and the confidence of the Wets that all of them will ratify the repeal resolution is apparently justified. East, West, North, South and in between, wherever there has been a chance to vote on the issue, the outcome has been the same. The voters, without regard for geographical Jocation, have expressed themselves with a unanimity that has turned the defeat of the Prohibitionists into a confused rout. Three more States vote this month, in which the Mississippi Valley, Southwest and Pacific Coast voters will register their will. Missouri is the next, voting on August 19. A week later the scene shifts to Texas where Senator Morric Sheppard, one of the authors of the Eighteenth Amendment, is lead- ing a desperate fight to stave off defeat. On August 29, Washington State voters march to the polls in the twenty-fourth State test. WHAT THE NRA CODE WILL DO. The question has been raised in numerous quarters as to what extent the unemployed of the country will be aided by the adoption of the President’s voluntary code generally by business and industry throughout the country. The National Recovery Administration answered that query .re- cently. It estimated that more than 1,100,000 per- sons, representing approximately $900,000,000 in ‘wages will be re-employed almost immediately under the retail and grocery code agreements. The 40-hour week code probably will affect 3,000,000 employees in dry goods and department stores, specialty shops, mail order houses, men’s clothing and furnishings, furniture, hardware and shoe stores. The code covering food stores, the Administration said, would require an immediate increase of 34 per cent in the number of employees because of the reduction in working hours. LIQUIDATING WAR DEBTS. The steady march of repeal adds interest to a proposal which heretofore has had but academic interest. Since the supply of matured whiskies and wines in this country is extremely limited, foreign nations which are in debt to us may make annual payments in wines and liquor. Economists have been at pains to point out that payments in gold are out of the question. It is recalled that the United States consumed an- nually 60,000,000 gallons of whiskey before the Na- tional Prohibition Act outlawed a legalized and controlled industry and put the business in the hand of racketeers. Just how much good, indiffer- ent and bad liquor the country is now consuming is a matter of speculation, But the consumption rate of today probably is not less than it was 13 years ago. Except for Kentucky's 5,000,000 gallons of pre- war whiskey, and 4,000,000 gallons of medicinal whiskey manufactured since 1928, there is but 4,- 000,000 gallons of other hard liquor stacked up in warehouses of the United States. With repeal now counted a virtual certainty, it is possible to visualize the rush of foreign wines and whiskies, brandies, rums and gins to the shores of America. Some Government supervision, tariffs and handling of them are predictable. ‘Why not take them all in payments of debts we are not likely to ever collect in cash? One thing which the plan does offer is relief to the present financial strain of a friendly debtor who evinces a desire to pay—England. Her trade to us in whiskey alone used to amount to $60,000000 annually. It shiuld help, also, the Italians. And it might be a powerful inducement to France not to remain in default. One set of estimates places a minimum mwmwumb.m,um-yeuu plan were followed. vintners and distillers may have ob- jections to this. If a move should be made to liquidate debts in this manner, they would certainly n_&manmhmwm to the on protecting American labor and industry. But the consumer “might rejoicé to have the Government take a hand if it could thereby force all foreign beverages to pass through its control, setting stand- ards which our own regulations demand. For a few years, at any rate, the American distillers would not be seriously hurt by such liquidation of war debts. The current liquor stocks are not large enough to supply the country more than three months or so after repeal is effective. Whiskey cannot be matured for consumption in less than four years. A substantial part of the war debts owed us by Europe could be wiped out before American distillers would be able to begin to supply the demand While the Administration does not advocate the boycott as a weapon to bring about compliance with the NRA code, it isn’t going to let any of the public {dollars go over the counters of any business thut! hasn't qualified to display the Blue Eagle in its shop windows. Japan is worked up over a rumor that the United States is strengthening the Naval Base at [Manila. What difference does it make if it is, since Japan hasn't the slightest idea ‘of ever attacking | the Philippines? Governor’s Tour. (Anchorage Times.) H Governor Troy left Juneau yestreday on a tour of Alaska. The modest announcement of his start- ing on the trip may not evoke much interest in distant quarters but to Alaskans the trip is fraught with much of consequence. Few Governors the world over preside over as large a geographical area. Many boasted ancient kingdoms were insignificant in extent as compared to Alaska, and this Territory is by far the largest single geographical division under the Stars and Stripes. Governor Troy's tour will enable him to learn first hand the wants of the people throughout his vast domain, and he will return to his executive headquarters far better informed about the Territory and-the wants of its people. He will be much better equipped to decide matters of importance coming before him and will have a deeper understanding Government on matters he will be called upon to take up with the Administration at Washington. Each and every community will look forward to the Governor's coming and be prepared to show him over their respeticve localities and present their various wants. Anchorage will be no exception, and has quite a lot to present to the Governor. It will be well for the representative bodies in Anchorage to prepare to give the Governor a fitting reception and to be reaay to furnish him with data on all live issues of the day touching this locality. The Governor will appreciate all reliable information and helpful sug- gestions. In order to assure the Governor sojourn- ing here a reasonable length of time when he does arrive it will not be amiss to start immediately to make arrangements for his visit, to contact him and see that he is provided with the desired con- nections that will land him here in such time that he will not have to be rushed away before the citizens can meet and fully confer with him. The Governor will not be able to come this way often, and now is the opportunity to present the case of Anchorage and vicinity. The Governor deals with many Territorial affairs and is in an influential position respecting all matters under Fed- eral administration in the North. Now is the time to enlist his sympathy in all worthy movements and at the same time lend him the co-operation and aid that he needs in order to discharge his duties to the best interest of Alaska as a whole. Exempt. (Boston News Bureau.) On the same day that general comment was directed toward the universality of NIRA's sover- eignty, with the nation virtually transformed into an economic and perhaps also a social laboratory, wherein a vast experiment was hopefully begun to conquer a four-year-old ailment, it may be noted in passing that there were some significant stray exemptions decreed. They are, in fact, the sort of exceptions that “prove” (in the sense of testing) the rule. Thus, while an army of workers are being regimented and added to by recruiting and the way is being paved for extension of the new impulse to the other myriad of consumers, who are to direct their buying favor according to presence or absence of the “blue eagle,” it is announced that a very few groups have nothing tangible to sell which can be so made by a clock or be measured in any sort of bulk. Often their only marketable ware, even though they work for a set weekly wage, is Jjust some sort of service. So the hospital interne or nurse, for example, cannot be constrained by NIRA's requirements as to a day's or week's toil, even though in every other sense they fall within the purview of wage workers. Likewise research technicians. Also wage workers, perhaps, the substance of their toil may be too elusive to fall readily within a time chart's borders. Likewise as to the editorial staffs of news- papers,—concerning which there obviously was much searching of thought on both sides of the fence in recent days. No doubt, as humans, they'd individually love more leisure. It just isn't pos- sible. Theirs from of old has been a code which has inflexibly known many exactions and no dis- pensations. They are slaves to time in the sharpest' sense and it may not be flouted in their behalf, ! lest their clients (a nation) suffer, So ‘“reporters, editorial writers, rewrite men and other staff members” are immune to NIRA. Just| as the world at times simply must have its medi- cine or its nursing individually, so must it have its news collectively. There the clock counts—and | doesn’t count! “Many go out for wool” said Cervantes, who Was probably one of the first to envision the stock markets, “and come home shorn themselves."—(Phil- adelphia Inquirer.) . Five bandits held up a Chicago golf club and stole $46,000. That disposes of the theory that a fivesome has no rights on a golf course.—(Boston Globe.) It is terribly hard lines for a fellow to lose his job these days. Wipe away a tear or two for 1,300 Prohibition agents. (Jacksonville Times- Union.) An intellectual is the person who can under- stand the directions as given by a native on how to reach a desired point.—(Atlanta Constitution.) What effect, if any, will the repeal of Prohibi- tion have on still life?—(Boston Transcript.) Administration slogan: door.”—(New York Sun.) “A wolf trap for every Roosevelt Administration which is so obviously bent’ MENUS ‘o/flu_ oAyl By MRS. ALEXANDER GEORGE CHOCOLATE ANGEL FOOD CAKE Breakfast Orange Juice Ready Cooked Corn Cer:al, Cream Buttered Toast Jam Coffee Luncheon Vegetable Salad Bread Apple Sauce Tea Dinner Spaghetti Napoli Buttered Spinach Bread Butter Pear Salad Chocolate Angel Food Cake Coffe Spaghetti Napoli, Serving 4 3 cups cooked spaghetti, 1-3 éup diced bacon, 3 tablespoons chopped onions, 3 tablespoons chopped green peppers, 3 tablespoons chop- ped celery. % teaspoon salt, % teaspoon pa- prika, 3 cups tomatoes, 'z cup of grated cheese. Heat bacon fat in frying pan. Add and brown onions, peppers and celery. Add spaghetti, cook several minutes. ‘Add salt, papri- ka and tomatoes. Cook 20 minutes, stirring frequently. Add cheese, mix well and serve. Pear Salad 4 halves canned pears, 4 marsh- mallows, 4 nuts, 1-3 cup salad dressing. Chill ingredients. Arrange the pears on lettuce leaves, stuff cavi- ties with marshmallows and nuts. Top with dressing, serve at once. Canned or fresh pears can be and be much more able to advise the Federsllused Chocolate Angel Food Cake 11 egg whites, 1 teaspoon cream of tartar, % teaspoon salt, 1% cups sugar, % cups pastray flour, 4 tablespoons cocoa, 1 teaspoon vanilla. Sift sugar three times, then measure required amount. Beat egg whites untfl frothy, add salt and cream of tartar and heat un- til it will form in peaks, add half the sugar and flour which has been sifted 3 times and fold in rest of ingredients. Mix very lightly. Pour into an ungreased pan and bake one hour in slow i oven. - et — IT'S HOPELESS ) [ETSTeTs o To students of labor conditions t astonishing to onization, being initiated and ied through not by organized labor or a labor party but by the government. They are bound to isk themselves how permanent the improved status of the wage-earn- | er is likely to be when that im-, provement depends not upon his, position in his industry but upon enlightened benevolence andi the sense of expediency of pub- lic officials who can be turned out, of office by the next election.| The answer to this question is| likely to depend, I should suppose,; upon whether American labor| leaders are capable of utilizing th> opportunity and meeting the | responsibilities which the Nation-/ al Recovery Act i$ creating. PR ow Once before in recent years the status of labor and of labor un- ionism was greatly improved by | government action. This happen- | ad during the war and just after it. Not only were wages greatly increased but so too was trade: union membership. According to Dr. Leo Wolman's estimates, which ' are the most authoritative, in this field, there were about 2,800,000 ‘rade unions in all kinds in 1916. In 1920 there were a little more than 5,000,000. Unionism almost doubled in strength during the war period. Conditions were fa-! vorable. On the one side there was a shortage of labor from the stopping of immigration and the enlistment of 4,000,000 men in the army. On the other side there was an intense demand for labor to produce war supplies. More- over, in those years there was an Administration in Washington which, like the present one, was instinctively favorable to labor un- ionism. For that reason, and also because it was necessary to avoid all strikes, the government did very much the same sort of thing it is doing mow. It fixed labor conditions in contracts and threw the might of its influence on the side of collective bargaining. ! Under these artificially favor- able condittons labor walonism as measured by membership and by influence made the greatest ad-| vance it has ever made in our| history. But the record shows that labor unionism made very lit- tle real advance in gaining the al-| l¢giance of wage earners or of Amazon Has No “Source” Declares Italian Explorer RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug. 14— Expeditions which set out to dis- cover the “source” of the Ama- zon river are wasting their time in the opinion of Dr. Ferdinando Parracini, an Ttalian scientist. He has made a dozen trips to remote upper Amazon territory within 30 years. The mighty river, says Dr. Par- racini, is a confluence of a score of streams originating in five countries. “It is,” he explained, a sea with many sources.” The contributory streams, he added, rise in the Andean cordil- lera in Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador and Colombia and in the Aguapey mountains of Matto Grosso, Bra- zil. “river- Loaf ‘Goes to Duce LITTORIA, Italy—The first loaf of bread made from wheat raised in this new agricultural center was sent to Mussolini under escort of a group of pretty girls. Lit- toria, half way between Rome and Naples, was built under Musso- lini’s direction"on reclaimed swamp lands. ——.ee ‘There s something 1n the adver- tisements today to interest you Read them. TO THE WOMAN BEREFT . . . Many times we are called upon to act for a grief- stricken widow with only small children and no one to assume the responsibil- ity of burial arrangements. ‘We are thoroughly sym- pathetic and considerate in such situations and can be completely relied upon to render a well-directed and attentive service ad- justed to the familys means or ideas of expen- diture. Chapel Service Free The Charles W. 'Carter Mortuary PHONE 136-2 “The Last Service Is the demonstrating its power to repre- sent their interests. When the artificially favorable conditions were removed, the membership and influence of the unions went into a' rapid decline. By 1928 the unions had lost all that they had 2ained between 1918 and 1920. By 1932 they had probably receded to their pre-war size. P But even more striking and more significant than the decline in total membership has been the virtual disappearance of trade un- ionism from the main body of American industry and its concen- tration in a very few trades where there are on the whole artificial- ly favorable conditions. Even be- fore the depression had devastat- ed the ranks of unionism, in 1930, 70 per cent of its membership was in five industries. Transportation, which, of course, means chiefly the railroads, accounted for a lit-| Copyrignt, 1933, New York Tribune Inc. in other countries it must be ra-|ists. see a great| vement to raise wages, reduc:|mental . and remove the obstacles to | trades accounted for another quar- | able. Today and Tomorrow By WALTER LIPPMANN ____________ T-Helenc W.L. Albrecht Labor and the New Deal tle over a quarter of the union- The railroads are a “shel- tered” industry under govern- regulation. The building ter. They are a sheltered trade in that 'you cannot build houses where it is cheapest to build them, they have to be bullt where peo- ple need them. The building trades, moreover, through public contracts and building laws, are intimately entangled with munici- pal politics. ‘This covers half of American un- ionism today. Another quarter is concentrated in the printing trade, which, because of the high skill required, is very favorable to un- ionism; in the public services, which are politically sheltered, and in the theatre industry, which is so speculative and competitive in its nature that it is cither rolling in wealth or is bankrupt, so that it will pay anything when it is successful and then shuts down when it is not. Beyond these five industries trade unionism is al- most negligible. Since 1920 the metal unions have lost three-quar- ters of their members miners about one-quarter. Wolman and Mr. Gustav Peck have pointed out recently, “the As Dr. and thel T PROFESSIONAL | f. PROFIRNC o ) PHYSIOTHERAPY Massage, Electricity, Infra Red | Ray, Medical Gymnastics. | | 307 Goldstein Building | i Phone Office, 218 | . . | DRS.KASER & FREEBURGER | | DENTISTS | Blomgren ‘Buildir.g | PHONE 56 | Hours 9 am. to 9 pm. | Dr. Charles J. Jenne | i DENTIST | Rooms 8 and 9 Valentine | Building | Telephone 176 | 5 — | Dr. A. W. Stewart r DENTIST | Hours 9 am. to 6 p.n. | SEWARD BUILDING Office Phone 469, Res. | basic industries of iron and stecl, food packing, automobiles, rubber products, chemical and electrical products. . . . remain free from unionism altogether.” The record of the rise and de- cline of unionism is well worth remembering as the N. R. A. ex- periment proceeds. For it must be clear, it seems to me, to any one who thinks about the codes. that a co-operative system of em- ployers in an industry would nei- ther be tolerable in the long run nor workable unless there were a strong representative, and intelli- gently led labor organization cov- ering the same field as the trade association. For one thing, a com- bination of employers which did not deal collectively with its em- ployees would destroy all equality in wage bargalning, and would be susceptible of the grossest abuses of blacklisting and discrimination. For another thing, one of the bas- is principles of the codes is that the marginal employer, who Iis either week or unscrupulous, or both, must not be allowed to wreck the standards of the industry. To maintain these standards effective unionism of ail the labor in the field is both necessary and desir- And, finally, it must be evident that if we are to enter an era of constitutional government in industry, then labor must be represented in that. Now, the fact is that for all these responsibilities American un- jonism today is as badly prepared as are the great majority of in- dividualistic employers. Once be- fore in this generation the gov- ernment has fostered unionism and artificially inflated it. The unions could not develop enough inherent strength to preserve their gains and consolidate their posi- tion in American life. It will be interesting to see what happens this time when the experiment is being repeated, above all to see whether American labor will or- ganize its structures, its discipline, and its leadership enough to be a partner, rather than a mere beneficiary, in the New Deal. CAR HITS HOUSE; 2 TIRES EXPLODE; SUNDAY EXCITEMENT There was lots of excitement rfor a time on Twelfth Street Sunday | morning. A couple coming into town from the Glacier Highway in a new coupe about 6:30 o'clock yesterday morning, through some manuvering of stegring sped between two trees on the lawn and then crashed into the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Garnick. At the same time as the crash, two tires exploded with a roar and soon the street was filled with dressed and near- dressed residents inquiring as to the cause and whyfore of the explosion. . The car was damaged to such |products before you. an extent that the wrecker took it away. The occupants were taken to their abodes by Ed Garnick. | | i i " " Seghers Couneil No. 1760. Meetings second and last Monday at 7:30 p. m. Cransient brothers urz- «d to attend. —_— I e — ) | Fraternal Societies | oF L Gastineau Channel | B. P. 0. ELKS meets every Wednesday ot 8 p.m Visiting brothers welcome. 2| L. W. Turoff, Exalt- ed Ruler. M. H. Sides, Secretary, KN[GHT’S OF COLUMBUS Counctl Shambers, Fifth Strecs. JOHN F. MULLEN, G. K. H. J. TURNER. Secretary Our trucks go any place Any”\_x | M| | time. A tank for Diesel Ol | o .l | and a tank for crude oil save | | burner trouble, DENTIST {|| _PHONE 15, NIGHT 15 | Rooms 5-6 Triangle Bldg. ||| RELIABLE TRANSTER | | Office hours, 9 am. to 5 p.m. a SRR S . 3 & Evenings by appointment —_— > Phone 321 i - - [ ot e JUNEAU TRANSFER COMPANY Moring and 1 ' hone 276 J grsinid i Storage | A e ME < h ¢ Dr. Richard Williams M;:"—‘f%hl’acks and Siores ! | DENTIS ] t and Baggag | DENTIST reight and Paggage | OFFICE AND RESIDENCE !i Prompé Delivery of l i Gastineau Building, Phone 481 ‘ FUEZ OIL . s —%(} ALL KINDS OF COAL TS T = Robert Simpson PHONE 48 ‘ Opt. D. s Graduate Los Angeles Col- . lege of Optometry and Konn D) Opthalmology ) Glasses Fitted, Lenses Ground erll’l’ s - o o PO R T SR DR. R. E. SOUTHWELL ¥ Optometrist—Optician | Byea Examined—Glasses Fitted Room 7. 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FENTON CHIROPRACTOR Soutn ¥ront St., next to Brownie’s Barber Shop orfice Hours: 10-12; 2-5 Evenings by Appointment < - CARD OF THANKS We wish to extend our since thanks to all friends for the kind- ness shown us in our bereavement, especially to Mrs. Johnson and Mrs. Weiss for their help and en- couragement, to Mrs. Cahill for the use of her car, and to all who so generously contributed flowers for our boy. MR. AND MRS. EDWARD adv. MARTINSON. ——— - — More than 850 games were played in the San Quentin prison, California chess tournament. — Advertisements spread world Greatest Tribute” The B. M. Behrends Bank Juneau i ! BANKERS SINCE 1891 Strong—Progressive—Conservative We cordially invite you to avail yourselves of our facilities for handling your business. JUNEAU SAMPLE SHOP . The Little Store with the — PRI G s T ke JUNEAU FROCK SHOPPE “Exclusive but not Expensive” Coats, Dresses, Lingerie Hoslery and Hats HOTEL ZYNDA Large Sample Rooms ELEVATOR SERVICE 8. ZYNDA, Prop. 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