The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 15, 1933, Page 4

o Daily Alaska Empire ROBERT W. BENDER GENERAL MANAGER 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. g SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Delivered by carrier in Juneau and Douglas for $1.25 By matl, postage paid, at the follow tes: mail, post paid, at the fol Ing ra i One year, In advance, $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 in the delivery of their papers. Telephone for Editorial and Business Offices, 374. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS, ‘The Assoclated Press is excl entitled to the use for republication of all news atches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. ALASKA CIRCULATION GUARANTE] THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER TO BE LARGER PUBLICATION. NO CAUSE FOR HYSTERIA. Although there is no evidence that Alaskans, and Juneau residents in particular, are going to lose their sense of fairness and proportions over the President’s re-employment agreement, or NRA code, it is well to bear in mind that the President and his chief of staff as Administrator of the National Recovery Act, Gen. Hugh S. Johnson, have both urged the public to refrain at the present time from boycotting those who have not yet com- plied with the code. Gen. Johnson, last week, urged the people to give employers, and especially small merchants who have to make adjustments before they can honestly sign the agreements, time to make these necessary adjustments. Everyone ought to be guided by that request. The re-employment agreements are voluntary with the President. They are not contracts and are not enforceable by law. They are enforceable, to some extent, by public opinion. But coercion has no place in the movement now under way at this stage. Local business men have given assurance of complance with the code. They are in good faith about it. None can mistake that. It is to their credit that they are making certain they know what they are about and can perform what they promise before they do sign. Once they sign, if they fail to live up to the codes, they are subject to disciplinary action by the Government. If wages are reduced after acceptance, or there is deliberate and planned evasion, Gen. Johnson has warned there will be certain and drastic punishment for those involved. So employers, who have any doubt as to what is required, act wisely in first making sure before signing. A reasonable time is assured them by the Gov- ernment to study the matter. We are not engaged in martial combat. We are, however, making a mass effort to raise wages and reduce working hours. ‘We are relying on the force of public opinion and the foresight of employeers to make the program a success. After permanent codes are set up, en- forcement through the Government will be under- taken decisively. It is desirable that the President have 100 per cent co-operation with his plan. But just now it is more important to avoid public hysteria which would turn the blanket code into an instrument of prejudice and oppression and endanger the objects Mr. Roosevelt had in mind when he promulgated it. RUBBER CONSUMPTION RECORD SMASHED. All monthly records for consumption of crude rubber in the United States were smashed in the month of June, which reflects the greatly increased activity in tire manufacturing plants and other fac- tories using that commodity. The total used in that 30-day period was 51326 long tons, the highest consumptive figure on record. This compares with 44,580 long tons for May, 1933, and represents an increase of 15.1 per cent over May and 23.8 per cent over June, 1932, according to the Rubber Manu- facturers’ Association. June consumption, however, was the first in which there was any substantial improvement this year. This is indicated by the figures for the first six months of the year. Consumption for that period was 184,724 long tons, while during the first six months of 1932 the aggregate used was 190,924 long tons. Imports decreased in June to 22,729 long tons, 175 per cent below May and 45.1 below June of last year. JUST POOR SPORTSMANSHIP. Prohibitionists have revealed that they hoped to block - repeal by contesting legality of State con- ventions in which repeal had been ratified by dele- gates elected at large. This move is based on a decision of the Supreme Court of Maine that dele- gates must be elected by districts. The dry chal- lenge was directed specifically at New York and New Jersey. Canon Chase outlined the reasoning under which delegate-at-large conventions are to be challenged. I am reasonably confident that elec- tions in States where the law authorizing ‘them was similar to that in New York and New Jersey will be declared unconstitutional Supreme Court, Delegates-at-large ponderant in conventions as author- two States. Court of Maine in reply from the State Senate of that “In every constitutional con- of which we have knowledge dele- chosen not at large, but method requirement has been t the members of the body selected modifications of the fundamental represent the people whom We do not deem it per- vention wherein the delegates entitled to participate are elected at large.” Chase . said that on basis of that decision 1t| would be contended that conve itions in most States so far were not truly representative and were "not' deliberative bodies as was clearly contemplated by those who wrote the Constitution.” *“I am con- fident the Supreme Court will uphold this view and that repeal will be defeated,” Chase said. One cannot but wonder at the peculiar philosophy of such men as Canon Chase. National Prohibition ratified by State Legislatures which had no mandate from the people on that subject, and which are less representative in such States as New York and Pennsylvania than any other similar organization, was so sacrosanct that he and his ilk sere horri- fied that it should even be criticised. Yet, on a technicality, they would undertake to block the will of the people which, to the lay mind, seems to have been pretty clearly established to date. These champions have sedulously avoided elections on this issue for the past 13 years. Now that' they must |perforce submit to the test at the polls and are |dissatistied with the registered decision of the great ymass of the voters, they exhibit the poorest brand of sportsmanship of which they have ever been | guilty. There is one distinct disadvantage about these |shorter working hours—it's going to be hard for some of us to explain to our better halves where {we went after the shift was over. After Mr. Roosevelt gets old man depression whipped, he might turn his hand toward relieving California of its hot weather by juggling some of Alaska’s liquid sunshine down that way. S e S . The Psychological Start. (Boston News Bureau.) The close of this week presents a vivid example of the workings of mass psychology, in the re- ported rush to enlist under Nira's banner. There is almost a resurrected wartime flavor about the recruiting. ‘The wholesome aspect of this response is that it appears to be so largely voluntary. This quite carries out the theme of the President’s radio ap- peal, in declaring that the real answer must come | from the great bulk of the people, who alone could | guarantee the success of any such effort. The cur- rent newspaper reports would indicate that they are hopefully taking him fully at his word, in a recognition of their own rule. The initial impetus, of course, came from Wash- ington, through the multifarious channels of the mail. There was another recruiting, or rather im- pressment, of the nation’s letter carriers. They had in turn been listing all those on their routes who seemed to be hiring three or more persons, as com- ing under the blanket code. Through their hands | flowed out the five million letters with slips for such employers to sign, expressing agreement to comply and also certifying compliance. Boston's 100,000 letters arrived yesterday. The degree of response is suggested by the re- ports of not enough pledge cards to go round in some cities, so general and keen was the rush to enroll, with sundry instances reported of the draft- ing of individual versions of agreements in view of the lack of printed forms. It is that spontaneity | of response which may augur best for the conduct of the great experiment. Yet to come are the “blue eagles” and other “drive” insignia, including seals, stickers, posters, etc. When they begin to appear in manifold strategic spots, we may more fully get the color as well as flavor of the enterprise, perhaps rem- iniscent of some earlier days. ‘There may yet be many complexities, irritations, possibly disappointments, to come in this unpre- cedented performance. But it seems to be off to a good psychological start. What About the Saloons? (Daily Journal of Commerce, Seattle.) ‘The pendulum swings and the Eighteenth Amend- ment is doomed. In a few weeks, or months, hard liquor will be here again. What is being done to regulate a traffic that certainly requires regula- tion? The “wets” have consistently and vociferously admitted that the old-time saloon was a curse, a cesspool of corruption and something America was well rid of, in their opinion. The “drys” went too far in their advocacy of temperance and brought about Prohibition and in its wake all manner of crime, disrespect of law and attendant ills. Even the word “Prohibition” was and is distasteful to most American citizens. It was simply an example of the old contention that the most difficult thing in the world is for our people to keep to the mid- dle of the road. It is, and usually has been, a feast or a famine with us. Our tendency is to go to extremes, and we are now headed for the reverse of temperance. With crime the industry it now is in this country, a flood of hard liquor will result in a serious situation unless steps are taken with respect to its control. And those steps should not be toward the one goal to which beer regulations have been directed — that of revenue production only. ‘The way is paved for the open saloon. There is no legislation now in effect permitting proper con- trol of liquor, and unless such legislation is enacted, chaotic conditions will result. Plans shoyld now be in process of formulation as to the best method of controling liquor traffic. Many of us have vivid recollection of conditions that caused thousands of people who might have been classed as ‘“wets” to vote with the “drys” in raising the bars against all liquor. Unless we take steps to regulate hard liquor—steps that recognize the moral problem involved—we may again find a situation similar to that above referred to in effect. | Shall we have Government liquor stores? Shall weé have a permit system? Or shall we simply let matters drift until even those now clamoring for hard liquor become so disgusted with conditions that' they will force the pendulum back, in another impotent attempt to make the country bone dry? The Illinois ' Beer Commission rules that the pretzel is not essentially a food. Its idea is, prob- ably, that a pretzel is a continuous gastronomic detour.—(Philadelphia Inquirer.) What has become of the man who made the statement five years ago that the Eighteenth Amendment would not be repealed in 50 years?— (Jacksonville Florida Times-Union.) Indians in Oklahoma, mow permitted to drink 3.2 beer, may be pardoned if they describe it as firewater with the fire gone out.—(Boston Globe.) If he looks especially happy coming out of the doctor’s office, you can imagine what's in the pre- scription.—(Ohio State Journal) It's fair enough. Miners take gold from the ground a dentists pack it in teeth and sent it back.—(Akron Beacon-Journal.) By MRS. ALEXANDER GEORGE PICKLE RECIPES Dinner Menu Jellied Veal Loaf Creamed Potatoes Bread Butter Lettuce and Celery Salad ‘Watermelon Coffee Mammy’s Watermelon Pickles 3 pounds watermelon rind, 3 ta- blespoons salt, 2 quarts water. Cut off outer green rind and in- ner pink part of watermelon. Cut into 1 by 2-inch strips, add salf and’ water and let stand 12 hours. Rinse well in cold water, soak 3 hours in cold water to cover. Drain well, cover by 2 inches with water and boil gently until very tender when tested with a fork. Add spice mixture. Spice Mixture 2 cups sugar, 1 cup vinegar, % cup water, 16 whole cloves, 1-3 cup bark cinnamon, broken. Loosely tie spices in white cloth bag, add t orest of ingredients and boil 2 minutes, Add prepared melon rind, cook slowly and stir frequently until syrup is very fmick and rind well glazed. Remove spice bag and pour melon and sy- rup into a jar and seal If desired, this mixture can be poured into earthenware jar and when cool, covered with a plate and stored in a cool place. Bread and Butter Pickles 12 cucumbers, 6 onions, % cup salt, 14 cups sugar, 2 cups vin- egar, 1 tablespoon celery seed, teaspoon ginger, 2 teaspoons white mustard seed, 6 sticks cinnamon and 12 whole cloves and two cups water. Select cucumbers 4 inches long and 1% inches thick. Wipe off with damp cloth and cut into thin crossway slices. Select onions 1% inches in diameter and peel and cut into thin slices. Mix the cu- cumbers, onions and salt. Let stand 3 hours, drain and rinse in cold water. Loosely tie spices in white muslin bag, add to the su- gar and vinegar. Boil 2 min- utes, add onions and cucumbers and boil gently 30 minutes. Pour into sterilized jars and seal. SUBWAY JOINS RAILS,MARKETS BUENOS AIRES, Aug. 15—A link| between a new city subway and/ the Plaza Once railway terminal enables trains of four roads to de- liver meat, fruit, vegetables and dairy produce to markets without trans-shipment or trucking. The railway produce trains, in- cluding those from Paraguay, use the subway tracks between 1 a.m. and dawn. The largest market thus served supplies most street peddlers of fruits and vegetables. It has two 15-ton elevators, the largest in South America, to handle daily 800 tons of vegetables, 700 of fruit, 120 of meat and 60 of dairy products. e — King Cuts Taxes PNOM-PENH, Cambodia — King Sisowath Moniwong, moved by the economic plight of his people, has cut the present tax of his 2,000,000 subjects by 16 per cent. | SOMETHING NEW! —Try Our— TOMATO ROLLS Juneau Bakery 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 136-3 “The Last Service Is the Qreatest Tribute” Today and Tomorrow By WALTER LIPPMANN Reform in the Stock Exchange In the little bull market which cracked up in the middle of July we learned that almost nothing had been learned from the great bull market which cracked up nearly four years ago. The specu- lative appetite was unimpaired. The efficiency of the Stock Ex- change in catering to it was un- chastened. We had the pools, the tips, the high pressure salesman- ship, the indiscriminate margin accounts, and all the other ap- purtenances which have made the American capital market the most feverish market of its kind in the civilized world. The money chang- ers who on March 4, were indeed in the same temple, but on their knees praying, had been driven out and had resumed about where they had left off some years ago. It is clear ‘enough, I think, that the reversion to the old ways was due, in the first instance, to the Administration’s failure to exhib- it capacity and willingness to man- age the dollar. When men hope or fear that the currency is out of control, they are compelled to speculate, even though they have no other ambition than to con- serve their capital. But when all ‘tlmv. can be said on this subject has been said, it was still startling to discover how little the exper- jence of the past few years had done to awaken a sense of public responsibility in those who are professionally responsible for the vast business of trading in securi- ties. Compared with the manifest evils and dangers of national gambling in securities, the reforms initiated by the governors of the | Sfock Exchange during the past three years can only be described as pitiably inadequate. So slug- gish were they to move that it had begun to appear that they {would not institute real reforms | except by compulsion from the outside. Men whose every instinct is to prefer self-regulation to new {laws came to feel that the Stack Exchange and the brokerage bus- iness would probably have to be treated to legislation as drastic as that with which the Federal au- securities act surrounds the un- derwriting and promotion of new issues. PR The crack-up 1n the middle “of July seems to have brought home to the governors of the Stock Ex- change a realization that they must bestir themselves. At any |tate, they have at last come for- ward with some reforms which have some poinf and some edge. They have made up their minds to regulate the building up of weak and dangerous margin accounts. They are proceeding to deprive the management o* pools of the im- munity of secrecy, and they rec- ognize that they must begin to do something to deflate the high pres- sure salesmanship by which the public is lured into the stock market. This is excellent. Quite apart from the question as to whether these reforms are adequate, it is excellent because it dignifies a radically new conception of the duty of the Stock Exchange. The orthodox theory has always been that the Stock Exchange is merely a market place and that the bro- kerage houses are merely agents through whom orders to buy and sell are executed. This, for exam- ple, is the tenor of Mr. Richard ‘Whitney's testimony before the Senate Banking and Currency Committee in the spring of 1932. When he was asked about the Copyrignt, 1933, New York Tribune Inc. part played hy the exchange .in the bull speculation of 1929, the testimony ran as follows: Q—Led by the New York Stock Exchange? A—I deny that, sir. Q—It does not lead anything? A—It is a market place. On this theory the duties of the officers of the exchange would bef | confined to providing an orderly and honest market. But the in- dubitable truth is that the Stock Exchange is more than a market place. It is a guild of brokerage houses who, in times of public par- ticipation, are for all practical purposes investment or speculative advisers to the owners of securi- ties. The responsibilities of this relationship cannot be sloughed off. It is a fiduciary relation- ship, and therefore it has come imperative that theexchange, | as a corporate body, should have)| standards and should enforce| them, which will protect the pub- lic against rigging manipulation and ignorance. Under modern con- ditions of corporate finance indus- try draws upon the savings of a multitude of people. In the na- ture of things this muiltitude can- not have the knowledge necessary to make prudent investment. That knowledge must be supplied by intermediaries who are oblig- ed to defend the savings of their clients. P The question is whether the ex- change and the brokers who com- pose it will accept this obliga- tion. If they will not, then the government will have to impose it from the outside. There is no other alternative. The days when the Stock Exchange could regard itself solely as a market place are as irrevocable ash the days when railroads could be regarded as a wholly private possession of their promoters. The question as to how far public regulation of a pub- lic institution like the Stock EX- change is to be carried is now solely a question of how prompt- 1y and how effectively the ex- change regulates itself. My own conception is that the exchange has about six months in which to show what it can and will do by way of erecting new fiduciary standards and or organ- izing itself to enforce them. I say six months, because at the end of that time Congress will again be in session, and if the ex- change is not demonstrably re- | formed by that time, it will be the duty of the Administration to propose a plan of reform. Longer than that it is not possi- ble to wait for convincing evi- dence of change because as re- covery proceeds, the nation must not be subjected to the risk of a wild bull market like the one which, happily, has just been in- terrupted. . It is to be nopea, therefore, that the reforms which have been in- stituted by the governors of the exchange are to be regarded as recognition of a new duty, and therefore as the beginning rather than as the fulfillment of a new policy. 1If it is, the governors will be doing nothing more than that which the most obvious horse sense requires, and if among their members and their members’ clien- tel, they find some who think these measures too radical or too| incordvenient, they should tell them that it is no good trying to sleep past the zero hour. MOST COAL IN NORTH AMERIGA WASHINGTON, Aug. 15.—A stu- dy by the minerals division of the Department of Commerce saysthat North America has 69 per cent of the world’s 7,397,000,000,000 metric tons of coal Teserve. —_— e —— Hunters Outfox Foxes i ADELAIDE—Fear that a short- age of rabbits might cause foxes to attack lambs has led Australian Junean farmers to devise a new method of outwitting Sir Reynard. 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