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THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, MONDAY, AUGUST 21, 1933. Daily Alaska Empire ROBERT W. BENDER - - necessary costs, including stenographic fees of the Highway Engineer in carrying out the provisions of the foregoing section.” (Section five.) Thus the GENERAL MANAGER Procedure of which so sharp complaint is made was not only directed by the Legislature, actually no Published every evening except Sunday by the|funds were appropriated for any other kind, par- EMPIRE_PRINTING COMPANY at Second and Main Streets, Juneau, Alaska. Entered in the Post Office In Juneau as Second Clasa matter, SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Delivered by carrier In Juneay and Douglas for $1.85 per_mont| By mail, postage baid st the followlng rates: One year, in advance, $12.00; six months, in advance, $0.00; one mionth, in advance, $1.26. Subscribers will confer a favor if they will promptly potify ‘the Business Office of any fuilure or irregularity in the delivery of their pa Telephone Yor 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 it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also th. to advancing costs of labor and material local news published herein. ALASKA CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION. UNFAIR TO COMMISSION. In an adjoining column there is reprinted an editorial article recently appearing in the Anchorage Times relative to the action of the Pioneers’ Home Building Commission in selecting Sitka as the site of the new Home, in which that board is directly accused of two grievous shortcomings: It entered ‘upon its duties with the minds of its members already made up, and that “the manner in which the socalled Commission went about its work smack- ed of a joke in the beginning.” As the Times said, four of the five members of the Commission, named by the Legislature last Spring, have resided in Southeast Alaska for a number of years. Yet that is not cause for it to impute dishonorable action on their part. Four of them have resided in other parts of Alaska during their long residence in the Territory. And all five have personal knowledge of all parts of Alaska through actual visitations to them and through personal contacts with residents of all sections. Insofar as personal qualifications are concerned, from a standpoint of knowledge of conditions and personal acquaintance, the Legislature could have selected no more competent board than the five men all popularly elected public officials— chosen by it. Of course, Anchorage is disappointed over the outcome. Naturally, The Times voices that feeling. But it doesn't represent the true Alaskan spirit in charging that the Commission did not go about its task with an open mind. We believe upon reflection that both Anchorage and the Times will agree that this is unjust, and unworthy of that fine community and of the excellent neswpaper that speaks for it. . . There is equally no ground for criticism of the manner in which the Commission performed its duty. To quote the charge of lack of performance: For one member of the Commission to go about the country taking evidence for the whole of a board of body of men, who acord- ing to all precedent, should be present to personally listen to and interrogate any citizens sufficiently interested to appear be- fore the board, demonstrated to what lu- dicrous lengths the board method of doing things can be carried. As to the delibera- tions of the board on the evidence taken down, the general public has yet to hear. The Times has correctly set out the method fol- lowed. One member, the Chairman, held the hear- ings, interrogated the witnesses who appeared, made up the record with the aid of stenographers, and submitted it to the individual members of the Commission. If the city of Anchorage, or the Times, finds fault with that method, its criticism should be directed against the Legislature and not against the Commission, which merely followed out the instructions of the Legislature as detailed by law. . . . . . . The creation of the Commission, its duties and how they shall be ‘performed are set forth in full in Chapter 121 of the Session Laws of Alaska, 1933. Section two of that law designates the Highway Engineer as Chairman, the Auditor, Treasurer, Com- missioner of Education and Attorney General of the Territory as members. The procedure of the Commission is then fixed in section five as follows: The said Commission shall immediately organize and authorize the Chairman to hold hearings at Juneau, Sitka, Anchorage, and such other places as may seem de- sirable for the purpose of determinig the most appropriate location for the said Pioneers' Home, giving due consideration to climatic conditions, accessibility from all parts of the Territory, cost of construction and maintenance. The substance of the testimony received at such hearings shall be reduced to writing and from the data so gathered the Commission shall be empowered to make a decision as to the location of the said Home. The decision of the Commission when announced in conformity herewith shall be final. That is just what the Commission did, 88 iS{,. Coon Hollow or Lynnfield Center has an old to death; his mother and small admitted by its Anchorage critics. The Chairman, Mr. Hesse, held hearings at various places, including those specifically mentioned in the law, prepared a complete stenographic record and furnished a complete set to each member of the Commission so that each could study it individually and arrive at a decision unbiased and unprejudiced by any discussion or argument that might have been of- fered by any other member of the Commission. After each member had read and digested the record for himself, a general meeting was held at which * the record was discussed and a vote taken by secret ballot with the result that Sitka received four out of the five votes. . ‘That the Legislature did not intend for the whole Commission to conduct hearings in widely ated towns desiring them is further demon- ited by the language of section six of the act appropriated not to exceed $2,500 “for the of paying the transportation, and other . . . 1 | ticularly of the nature that the Times apparently thinks ought to have been used. The Anchorage paper is correct in saying that the “Legislature passed the buck” in creating a Commission to pick the site for the Home. How- ever, that did not make any difference in the final outcome. It was known to every observer of the Legislature that had it picked the site itself, Sitka would tically the same percentage of majority that ob- tained in the Commission when it took action. The only difference to the Territory is that the delay has already cost from $35,000 to $40,000, due incident 'to construction, and a whole Summer that ought to have been devoted to actual construction work has been consumed in investigations. Anchorage has no real grievance #gainst the Commission. That body honestly and hoonrably ful- filled the trust imposed upon it by the Legislature. It was impartial in its hearings and fair in its decision. That fact is attested to by the over- whelming manner in which the residents of the Home voted in secret ballot for Sitka. Anyway those 6,000,000 men that the Adminis- tration is going to put back to work by Labor Day can take comfort in the thought that they can have a holiday on that occasion at any rate. End of the Trail. (Anchorage Times.) Yesterday's dispatches say that the Commission | authorized by the last Legislature to select a perm- anent site for ths new quarter million dollar Pioneers’ Home for the Territory has selected Sitka. The result is no surprise to residents in this part of Alaska if in any other part. That the buck was passed when the matter was sent to a com- mission and that the Commission was made up of men all residents of Southeast Alaska for a long time with exception of one who recently moved to ithat section speaks for itself as to how representa- |tive the Commission was for the whole of Alaska. The manner in which the socalled Commission went about its work smacked of a joke from the beginning. For one member of a Commission to 20 about the country taking evidence for the whole of a board or body of men, who according to all precedents, should be present to personally listen to and interrogate any citizens sufficiently interested |to appear before the board, demonstrated to what | ludicrous lengths the board method of doing things can be carried. As to the deliberations of the board on evidence taken down, the general public has yet to hear. With a Commission overwhelmingly sectional the results were as predicted generally in this region. Anchorage was a candidate for the Home, and presented logical reasons—all of which are well known to people of this section. The Third Division, as the heaviest taxpayer of Alaska has a good {deal to do with the permanent welfare of the Ter- future in selection of members of the Legislature with a clear recollection of experience of the past goes without saying. Sitka will have the Home, and doutbless it will be a good one, but other parts of Alaska interested in the selection will not forget the action of the famous Commission notwithstanding there never was much real hope entertained of the Home going elsewhere when the Legislature passed the buck to a Commission not hailing respectively from each of the four Divisions—all of which were equally inter- ested. ‘The Legislature appropriated $2,500 for purposes of investigating the question of a site for the Home. How little travel was done by the Commission in investigating is generally known. Aside from this some well informed members of the legal fraternity have suggested that it is a very serious question it the Legislature had the power to delegate authority to a Commission to determine a matter peculiarly within what they term the power and discretion of a legislative body elected by the people for the purpose of legislating for the Territory of Alaska. Anchorage has the superior central site, reasons and argument and everything but the final vote— but from all appearance the silent city by the sea off .all regular lines of transportation becomes the future home for trail blazers of Alaska and the Commission gets the leather medal punched .with five emblematic holes. Deadwood Days. (New York Herald Tribune.) ‘The mad, bad days of Deadwood, South Dakota, have ‘come into being again, recalling the glamorous verisimilitude, the rugged and spacious times of the gold rush to the Black Hills, when ‘red-eye” was a universal solvent and Bill Hickok, former Marshal of Abilene, was the toughest customer the old law- less West ever knew, Deadwood is celebrating a Days of "16 pageant in honor of its lusty and roar- ing youth, Wheels click, the bars are handsomely open raspberry pop), the entire masculine populace has grown a magnificence of whiskers and, in general, reminiscent merriment is unconfined. ‘Towns the size of Deadwood and of Central City, the ghost. town of Colorado that Delos Chappell has brought back to two weeks of annual life in the name of the Central City Opera House productions, have, among other advantages over the great cities of the land, that of being able to turn back the pages of time this way. The entire community can get into the spirit of such colorful revivals as these, where an attempt to relive the days of “little old New York” would of necessity be confined to a very small part of its citizens. Even in Boston the recent celebration of the city's tercentenary with pageants and costumes and open house was confined to the reaches of Beacon Hill, but when Deadwood home week and jollification it can go it whole hog. When a man in China doesn't pay his debts, they remove his door. But in this country they just slam it in the bill collector's face.—(Atlanta Constitution.) > With apologies to the Coue and the apple- doctor theory, every day in every way the country is getting wetter and wetter.—(Toledo Blade.) Anyhow the eternal question “Is it hot enough for you?” has been temporarily side-tracked in favor of “What do you think of the NRA?"—(Ohio State Journal.) Kidnaping and gang murders must makeé Europe wonder why we call baseball the national pastime. —(Indianapolis Star.) The Blue Eagle seems to be flying high, wide and handsome.—(Boston Globe) 2. 2% (BRI have been selected by pxac»' ritory, and that its voice will be registered in the | (and, we'll wager, not altogether devoted to ‘MENUS of the_ DAY By MRS. ALEXANDER GEORGE SPICED PEACHES Menu for Dinner Sliced Roast Lamb Hashed Browned Potatoes Buttered Corn Bread Plum Butter Head Lettuce Roquefort Cheese Dressing Sponge Cake Coffee Rogquefort Cheese Dressing (For Vegetable or Fruit Salads.) 1 teaspoon salt, 2 teaspoons su- gar, % teaspoon dry mustard, % teaspoon celery seed, % teaspoon paprika, % teaspoon chopped on- ion, 5 tablespoons vinegar, 2-3 cup salad oil, % cup Roquefort cheese, Mix dry ingredients. gar and oil. Beat 2 minutes with rotary beater. Chill. Cream cheese with fork or crumble into small hits. Add to oil mixture, mix well, serve poured over salads. Spiced Peaches 7 pounds peaches, 7 cups sugar, 4 cups vinegar, 'z cup broken cin- namon bark, % cup whole cloves. Pour boiling water over select- ed peaches and remove the skins. Loosely tie spices in white mus- lin bag, add to sugar and vinegar. Boil ten minutes, add peaches, boil slowly 10 minutes. Pour into stone jar. After a week, drain off juic- es, leaving peaches in jar. Bojl juice 5 minutes and pour over peaches. When cool, cover and store in cool, dry place. Leave spice bag in jar with peaches, as it flavors them. The peaches will be ready for serving after two weeks. Add vine- MAKE FOR WINTER USE Canned Tomato Juice 6 quarts tomatoes, 2 tablespons salt. Wash tomatoes, immerse 5 mins utes in boiling water. This will loosen the skins so that they can be quickly pulled off. Cut out the stem ends. Cut tomatoes in quar- ters, add salt, cook slowly until | very soft. Pour through strainer or let drip in jelly bag. Boil the juice 3 minutes, pour into ster- ilized jars, seal at once. This juice can then be chilled and served alone or it can be sea- soned with mustard, horseradish and lemon juice and then served. THOUSANDS OF GHILDREN USED IN HARVESTING Communists Put Younger Generation to Work in Wheat Fields MOSCOW, Aug. 21. — Approxi- mately 100,000 children, from kin- dergarten to 16 years of age, are being used to harvest in the North Caucasus, Ukraine and mid-Volga regions to protect the Socialist crop. The children are being organ- ized by the Communist political section, which now exercises rigid| control over all agriculture, mw; light cavalry detachments. Both boys and girls are called on to watch sharply to prevent grain theft and other depreda- tions in these troublesome areas, also to retrieve the grain left on| the field by harvesters. One 9-year-old boy has been com- mended for denouncing and caus- ing the arrest of his father who the child charged took more grain than due from the common pro- duction. ——— ONE IS DEAD, 3 INJURED IN EVICTION CASE Fatal Shooting Occurs Near Yakima, in State of Washington YAKIMA, Wash,, Aug. 21.—Louis Gunkle, aged 19 years, was shot sister are suffering from gunshot wounds, and their landlord, James Parker is in the hospital with a shattered leg following the alleged attempt of Parker to evict Alva Gunkle and his family from al ranch near here. 1 Clarence Gunkle, another son, shot Parker after Parker had shot| Junkle’s brother, sister and moth- er. Parker’s leg will probably amputated. ———ee— The cheaper cuts of .meat con-| taln as much nutriment as the more expensive cuts. The differ- 2nce lies in the preparation. ———— Lay pieces of waxed paper under :he dresser scarfs and if anything be| i opinion. Today and Tomorrow By WALTER LIPPMANN ___ Masters of* Their Fate Copyrignt, 1933, New York Tribune Inc. are directing the movement for recovery you will be given all sorts of theories to are doing. 'You will not find, think, that they are wording ac- cording to a comprehensive and definite point. You will not find that there exists a clearly formu- lated policy embracing and co-o dinating the many different mat- ters with which the government is concerned. Much is said about the New Deal. But there is no dogmatic creed, enunciated from on high, which everyone believs in who has responsibility in Wash- ington Not only in the details of ad- ministration, but in the decisions of policy as well, circumstance and personality, individual force and eccentricity, factionalism and favoritism, accident and improvis- ation, rather than logic and theory and formulae, are usually the de- ciding elements. To some tempera- ments a close view of the conduct of affairs will, therefore, be dis- couraging. Looking for a sense of definite direction and clear pur- pose, they will find only arguments and practical expedience; they will see not a revolution and a recon- struction but a very active and energetic example of muddling through. To other temperaments the character of this movement If you talk with the men who | 2xplain what they | | are impotent; 5| do not show that we have will be neither astonishing nor dis-' couraging. They will recall that the method of muddling through is the classic method of the Eng- lish-speaking peoples, and that us- ing this method these peoples have succeeded, as no other peoples have, in riding out the storms of history and remaining free. Close doctrine and rigid pur- poses that apply to a whole na- tion have to be paid for their price is the suppression of individ- uality and the regimentation of A community of free men, who proceed by argument to leadership and consent, necessarily work out their policies as they go along. Events rather than the- ories, experience rather than doc- trine, supply the reasons by which men are brought into line. They do not advance in a straight line, but forward and vackward and sidewise, and most of the time they look as if they did not know what they were doing or where they were going. Sometimes they do not know. But our political traditions ) teach us that it is better to move irregularly but with the minds of {the people participating and con- vinced, than to impose grandiose logical patterns of conduct upon them, and compel them to obey. P As we look over the spectacu- lar history of the past six months, nothing, it seems to me, is so im- pressive or so deeply reassuring as the evidence we have had that there are indeed great reserves of political wisdom in a nation hab- ituated by self-government. The knowledge to do this or that par- ticular thing may be lacking. We cannot be certain, for example, that we have chosen the best of all possible monetary policies. We do not know as yet how to ad- just our internal measures to the outer world. We cannot see very far ahead as to how the agricul- tural control will work or what will be the consequences of the N. R. A, But what we do know is that !in the spring we overcame. the paralysis of government in Wash- ington, and were able to achieve | unity of action. We do know that we were able to sweep aside the obstructions of organized minori- ties and the influences of private powers. ‘We do know that we have seen new energies, new faces, young enterprising and hopeful minds in the responsible posts. We do know that the national spirit has been revived, that fright- ened calculation is giving way to confidence and cven to magnani- mity. Men no longer feel, as they did some months ago, that our society is doomed and that that they are caught in a current of forces which car- ries them irresistibly along. « v o» Thus, although the statisticians recov- ered prosperity, though millions of men are still' without the decen- | cies of life, we have recovered our courage, our self-respect, our faith in the power of mind and will to determine our fate. While this lasts there can be no doubt as to the outcome. We shall not be de- stroyed by mistakes. We shall not be savea by wright ideas. We can be destroyed only by demor- alization, we can be saved only by our own resolution. as the spirit of the nation coherent and as temperate, as con- fident, and as magnanimous as it is today, there is no danger. De- cisions can be made, and if they are wrong they can be reversed Plans can be adopted, and when they don’t work they. can be changed. For recovery is not a fitting to- gether of cogs in a broken-down machine; it 1s u renascence in the energy and character of a people. For whatever the right or the wrong of this or that, in a na- tion as among individua when their spirit is strong they are in- vincible to circumstance and mas- ters of their fate. is as Mr. Lippmann begins his sum- mer vacation today. His articles for “Today and Tomorrow” will be resumed in these columns upon his return. .- NOTICE To whom is may concern: I will no longer be responsible for any debts contracted by my wife, Mrs. Leona Fleek. —adv. WM. A. FLEEK. 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