The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 21, 1933, Page 4

o 1] 2% ¥ Daily Alaska Emp{re £ ROBERT W. BENDER GENERAL MANAGER Published every evening except Sunday by the EMPIRE_PRINTING COMPANY at Second and Main Btreets, Juneau, Alaska. Entered In the Post Office In Juneau as Second Class matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Delivered by carrier In Juneau and Douglas for $1.25 per _month. By mall, postage paid, at the following rates: One year, in advance, $12.00; six months, In advance, $6.00; one month, in advance, $1. Subscribers will confer a favor if they will promptly notify the Rusiness 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 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. WORK OF A VICIOUS MIND. No one, execpt an utterly vicious individual or one with a mind badly unbalanced would have tried to so cripple the Alaska Juneau's milling plant thao it would be unable to operate. The method taken to do it indicates one of deranged mentality or a feeble-minded person. The dynamiting of the big water main that crosses the hillside above that section of the town lying east of Front Street and Gastineau Avenue, had it been wholly successful could at best have inconvenienced the company and forced a suspension of millig operations only a few hours. Repairs to it can be, and were, made easily | and quickly. The property owned by private citizens, wholly unconnected with the company, and their very lives were in greater danger than the company’s prop- erties. Anyone with a modicum of common sense and average wit could see that without having to| study it out. The damage to the company, even with the big main completely broken, would have been limited to the pipe itself and the loss occasion- ed by suspension of milling operations during a few hours necessary for repairs. If the whole volume of watet had been released, it is not only possible, it is almost certain that homes, boarding houses and business properties would have been engulfed by a serious earthslide, such as was experienced in the same section from natural causes some decade and a half ago. The resulting damage would have mounted into thou- sands of dollars and, occurring in the middle of the night without any warning whatever, only a miracle could have prevented loss of life and lesser casualties. All of that points to a vicious or criminally deranged mind in the person responsible for the dynamiting of early Wednesday morning. Even were it possible to have damaged only the Alaska Juneau mill, the same is true. The Alaska Juneau is the mainstay of Juneau's present well-being. Its pay- roll of more than 700 employees makes Juneau the most prosperous town on the Pacific Coast. Serious injury to it, stoppage of its operations, would be a worse catastrophe to the community than to the stockholders of the company. Anyone who would undertake to put the mine out of business is a menace to the community and too dangerous to be permitted to run at large. No pains or effort should be spared by both municipal and Federal officers in trying to discover the guilty person, or persons, and put him where he will have no opportunity to work what might be incalculable harm to Juneau and its greater industry. THE FEDERATION DRIVE. The announcement of President Green that the American Federation of Labor is. to launch a drive to bring into its fold all labor unions should not astonish anyone. Under the National Recovery Act organized labor has practically been given a bill of rights, since it- specifitally guarantees to industrial workers, or for that matter workers of any class, the right to organize. It makes it practically impossible for employers to prevent the formation of unions within the ranks of their own workers. But it does not elevate the American Federa- tion of Labor, or any other association of *labor unions, to a position of domination. Nor can the Federation, or any other association, any more than the employers, resort to unethical or forceful means to whip small local unions into their ranks. This point about the NRA was recently emphasized by Donald R. Richberg, General Counsel for NRA, in a widely broadcast address, in which he said: The law is not intended to enthrone any national labor organization or to dissolve any local organization. It does not destroy the right of an employer to manage his own affairs, but it does establish the right of his employees to manage theif* own af- fairs, and it recognizes that fixing wages, hours and conditions of employment is equally the business of employers and em- ployees, and that no single man or group of men, no single interest or group of inter- ests, no single organization or group of organizations, can be permitted to chart the course of industry, and to determine prices end to fix wages, if democratic institutions are to survive. The law recognizes that only through the cooperative action of all groups of interests—self-organized, self-governed and held by the Government to like responsi- bilities for the exercise of their powers in the public interest—that only through such voluntary but disciplined cooperation can we go forward into a new era of freedom and security. LAST OF THE BIG FOUR. ‘Wth the signing of the coal code and its approval President Roosevelt, the last of the big four dmm—‘hfl.w.ofllfldm potor car—came under the NRA banner. Difficul- s were encountered in all those in the of them, o required the longest time for solution. Most of the efforts of Gen. Johnson for the past six weeks have been devoted to the coal indus- try. If it had been successful in resisting the Government’s pressure and refused to enter into an agreement it would have unquestionably been a blow to the prestige of the NRA section of the Administration’s recovery program. Now that it is out of the way, Gen. Johnson can turn his atten- tion to other problems of which there seem to be no end. None has as many angles as the retail price fixing proposition. Many business S. interests, who are already operating either under the Presi- dent's blanket agreement or some special code applicable to the particular granch of trade in which they are engaged, oppose any retail price fixing. Gen. Johnson has in the past opposed all price fixing. He objected to including it in the oil industry and was only persauded to accept that feature after the leaders of the industry convinced him it was the only way to control certain forms of wildcatting. Maybe price control is the only way to protect the consumer, That, we believe is not yet demon- strated. There ought to be sufficient protection if ‘businesses of a class all come under the same wage and hours of labor requirments. Retail price fixing seems a last resort proposition and only to be entered into to prevent defeat of the NRA program. On ‘November 7, the Governors of North and South Carolina will have an opportunity to repeat that traditional remark about it being a long time between drinks. Change in People’s Thought Greatest. (Daily Olympian.) Back of all the concrete developments of the new program at Washington there exists a profound change in the outlook of the American people—a change which, in the long run, may well prove the most important single development of the whole “new deal.” This changed outlook finds its reflection in the various legislative and administrative acts by which the Administration is seeking to implement recov- ery. But it is a deeper thing than any mere change in the machinery of government or political theory; it is not born of any party and it does not owe its existence to the presence or absence of any particular group on Capitol Hill Briefly, this change can be described by saying that we have at last got entirely away from the psychology and the odd kind of idealism that char- acterized us during nearly all of the '20s. We have outgrown, that is to say, a stage in our history during which we were berhaps the most purely ‘materialistic people on earth. In that stage we worshiped material success in a way that was almost devout. With a few exceptions, our heroes were the men who knew how to make money. fast —and we weren't particular about how they made it. The go-getter and the high-pressure lad were iln the limelight, and most of us envied them and tried to copy them. That this was an extremely unhealthy period is, by this time, pretty clear. The machine age was beginning to dump its greatest problems in our laps, and we blithely ignored them because the machine age was making some people rich. The seeds of all our present misfortunes took root in those days, and we were too self-satisfied to try to dig them out. We are wiser, now; and in our attainment of wisdom we have had something like a spiritual rebirth. For in giving up our slavish admiration of money and the moneymakers, we have made possible a return to the traditional American idealism. We have stopped defining progress as a steady in- crease in the number of millionaires, and because of that fact we have opened the way for progress of the kind that is worth making—the progress that represents a fuller and wider life for the ordinary man. 0. K. Beer. (New York World-Telegram.) Beer has made a good start. The campaign promises of the friends of beer are redeemed to perfection in the initial reports from the up-State counties to the State Alcoholic Beverage Control Board. Even the drys, according to some of the reports, are pleased with the results of the beer bill. But many a die hard, it must be, when he went into the silences was expecting to come roaring out again at the first excuse. Reports such as these should raise a question in their breasts as to their own original infallibility The up-State counties report less crime, fewer drunken drivers, more speakeasies closed, “less de- mand for hard liquors now that people are able to obtain legalized beer.” The people, it appears, prefer legal beer to gin and moonshine. They prefer 3.2 beer if it's good to liquor which has, according to most kitchen sink formulae, about 50 per cent alcoholic content by volume. This would seem to dispose of a basic doctrine of the pre-beer Prohibition faith, which was that humanity was desperately bent upon besotting itself in the greatest quantity of the hardest ‘liquor in the shortest time, unless restrained by law. The reports from up-State place a question mark at least after this point. The beer experiment will be judged in the long run not by the amount of beer tax collected but by the way it affects the health, happiness and character of the community. By this test thus far beer is winning out. i The Consumer’s Wages. (Hartford Times.) The NRA Administrator frankly admits that the new deal will increase prices proportionately to the increased costs of production and distribution which it makes inevitable. The public must expect that. Hours of labor cannot be shortened and wages increased, or payrolls increased through the em- ployment of additional hands, without adding to the cost of doing business. The consumer must expect to pay this additional percentage. The consumer will not object if he is at work and sufficiently paid. If too many consumers are idle, or short of funds, then, regardless of prices, goods will stay on the shelves for want of customers. Such a condition presupposes continuance of the depression from which the nation is trying to lift itself, a condition which all of us hope and believe will be ended through the increased purchasing power of the people created by the reduction of hours of labor and establishment of higher basic rates of pay. Industry is buckling on its armor preparing to follow the Nira Blue Eagle into battle.—(Jackson- ville Times-Union.) The Blue Eagle has so plastered the coun that 1t may soon be out of the red.—( Courier-Journal.) DAM WORK ON MISSISSIPPI IS NOW T0 START \Improvement in Valley Ex- | pected to Reduce Freight Costs - By D. R. MACKENZIE MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. Sept. 21— The upper Mississippi river, wild and turbulent at times, is to be in a straightjacket of locks and dams | —and made to pay for its exis- tence. Agriculture, industry and con- of the vast inland domain their pockets with revenue—represent- in transportation su expect to line the resultant ing +a saving costs. A. C. Wiprud, general counsel of the Upper Mississippi Waterway Association, has estimated this sav- ing at $10,630,000 annually. First An “Operation” First, however, the Father of Waters must undergo a major op- eration—having its 6-foot channal deepened to 9 feet from the mouth of the Illinois river morth to Min- neapolis, and submitting to con- struction of 23 more dams and locks. Four already have been completed. The Federal Government is to foot the bill. For work this year, $33,000,000 has been allotted from the $3,300,000,000 public works pro- gram. Senator Schall of Minne- sota has announced that the Pres- ident advised him he was author- izing immediate use of $12,000,000¢ to provide a 9-foot channel in the upper Mississippi, ‘indicating also that he favored eventual deepening to 12 feet. Altogether, it is esti- mated the 9-foot project will cost} more than $100,000,000. Put 20,000 To Work It will be a two and one-half year job, on which some 20,000 men will be given employment. Once the 9-foot channel is op- ened, Wiprud predicts a huge jump | in freight volume to 10,500,000 tons a year—against only about| 120,000 now—with 2,000-ton bflrges‘ carrying grain to Memphis, flour| and wool to New Orleans. | Barges will carry coffee, cotton, sugar, tobacco and coal from the| south and east on return trips. | Only 500-ton barges are used at; present, because of the shallow channel and because it costs about 85 cents a bushel to ship wheat| and flour on the barge line, com- pared to 7 or 8 cents a bushel via the Great Lakes to the east. { With completion of the Upper | Mississippi project, however, trans-| portation costs on wheat and flour | are expected to be reduced to 5| or 6 cents a bushel. Big Saving on Coal Reduced freight costs, he says.‘ would be reflected in a greater| margin of profit to producers and lower prices to consumers. The northwest would save $5,000,000an-| nually, it is estimated, on coal| shipped by barge into this area. In 1931 steel shipments from | Chicago to Minneapolis cost about | 28 cents a ton, via the Great Lakes. With the 9-foot channel,| engineers say, a rate of about 20 cents a ton would be possible. | Eighty barges ply the river now| under government operation. With| completion of the 9-foot channel, shipping would be turned over tc| private carriers. | ——eto—— | ATTENTION i WOMEN OF THE MOOSE | | The Women of the Moose will| hold a regular ‘meeting Thursday, evening at 8 o'clock. A social gath-/ ering will be held immediately after the regular meeting and all brother Moose are invited. A large attend-| ance is greatly desired. | GERTIE OLSON, | Recorder. | — i Advertisements spread world products before you. —adv. A | { Junean Coffee Shop | Opposite MacKinnon Apts. | Breakfast, Luncheon Dinner | Open 7:30 am. to 9 pm. HELEN MODER I | L | | i FORD | AGENCY | (Authorized Dealers) GAS OILS ‘ GREASES Juneau Motors FOOT OF MAIN ST MENUS of the_ DAY RS. ALEXANDER GEORGE DINNER FOR FOUR Tomatoes and Cheese Buttered Squash Bread Peach Butter 8liced Cucumbers Mayonnaisz Pineapple Filled Cake Iced Coffee By M Tomatoes and Cheese for Four 2 cups tomatoes, % cup diced Cheese, '. cup crumbs, 2 tablz- spoons chopped onions, 2 table- chopped parsley, % tea- ‘4 teaspoon paprika, espoons butter, melted, 2 cooked eggs, sliced. Mix ingredients and pour into butt:red baking dish. Bake 20 spoons minutes in moderate oven. Serve In dish in which baked. Pineapple Filled Cake 1, cup.fat, 1 cup sugar, 2-3 cup milk, 1 teaspoon vanilla, 2 eggs, 2 cups flour, 3 teaspoons baking powder, '¢ teaspoon salt. Cream the fat and sugar. Add rest of ingredients and beat 2 minutes. Bake 20 minutes in 2 layer cake pans in moderate oven. Pineapple Filling 4 cup sugar, 3 tablespoons flour, 1 egg yolk, '2 cup pineapple juice, 2 tablfpoons lemon juice, % cup water, !¢ cup crushed pineapple, 1 tablespoon butter. .Blend sugar and flour. Add yolk, fruit juices and water. Cook 1 in double boiler until thick. and creamy. Stir frequently. Add rest Lof ingredients and cook 3 min- utes. Cool. Use as filling between bak:d cake layers and top layer may be covered with white frost- ing or sprinkled with sugar. e 20 YEARS AGO From The Empire Tt e o 2 SEPTEMBER 21, 1913. Several hunting parties returned ,from bird hunts, some successful and others not. Harry J. Ray- mond, Percy Jackson and George 1 Butzer returned from a trip near Sumdum each with the full legal ,limit of birds, but another party, made up of John Museth, Harold Manners, Fred Hamburg and Will Merchant, which hunted in the wilds near Lemon Creek, succeed- ed in getting one snipe. i A summary of the benefits to Juncau and amount of ore avail- able in the Alaska-Juneau prop- erty, as revealed in a review by F. W. Bradley, President, was that there would be required a working force of 1500 men, to be cared for in Juneau. There were said to be 254,150 tons of ore in sight, that will be mined and milled at a profit of more than $1 a ton. Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Hawkes- worth were teaching at the Na- tive school in Hydaburg, together with Miss Mable B. Gerber, of Washington, and Miss Margaret Hamilton of Alaska. Firemen of Treadwell, Douglas and Juneau were invited to attend the big smoker to bz held at the TreadweTl club. Interesting events were ‘planned and good music was to be part of the entertainment. Peter S. Early, Yankee Cove mining man, and his" family, had moved to Juneau from Yankee Cove where they spent the sum- mer. They moved into town so that the younger members of the family might attend school. GLENDALE, Cal. — The lowly gourd may come into its own. A sociely to promote interest in this obscure member of the vegstable family has been organized in Glen- dale, Burbank and other southern California cities. It is hoped to make the society international with “gourd experts” as members in many lands. WAKE UP YOUR LIVER BILE— s yrouz iver. It should pour out tvo liquid bile into your daily. bile is not flowing freely, your food St T sk Qecays o (e powela: J. W. SORRI | Woodworking Cabinet Making + Small Jobs a Specialty Phone 349 85 Gastineau Ave. [ “Tomorrow’s Styles Today” Juneau’s Own Store SV Cheaper BUT BETTER RICE & AHLERS CO. PLUMBING HEATING SHEET METAL “We tell you in advance what Job will cost” UNITED FOOD CO. CASH GROCERS Phone 16 We Deliver Meats—Phone 16 S\ L Building 10414/447747 00 Dy Times VAR UiLifiddiid, 0 5 for Better /4 o\ Relying upon the natural resources of this section, its wealth in gold and timber, its fisheries and its rich dairying land, and above all upon the faith and courage of its people, The B. M. Behrends Bank is building confidently for better times which Alaska will enjoy as business — stimulated by the National Recovery movement — improves in the States. This institution stands shoulder to shoulder with those .who believe in the future of the Juneau district. The B. M. Behrends Bank JUNEAU, ALASKA wi! N M. 7/ —— o PROFESSIONAL e —— Helene W. L. Albrecht | PHYSIOTHERAPY Massage, Electricity, Infra Red Ray, Medical Gymnastics. 307 Goldstein Building | Phone Office, 216 | vl e ——— L - | DRS.KASER & FREEBURGER DENTISTS Blomgren Building | PHONE 56 Hours 9 am. to 9 pm. | T T Dr. Charles J. J DENTIST Rocms 8 and 9 Valentine Building | Telephone 176 SRR ——E enne Dr. J. W. Bayne DENTIST Réoms 5-6 Triangle Bldg. | Office hours, 9 am. to 5 pm. | Evenings by appointment Phone 321 .- | s TS { Dr. A. W. Stewart DENTIST Hours 9 am. to 6 pm. | SEWARD BUILDING Office Phone 469, Res. | Phone 276 -2 £ B E.Dr. Richard Williams | DENTIST OF+ICE AND RESIDENCE | | Gastineau Building, Phone 481 | = — ———8 K\ SERTIEE ] Robert Simpson | Fraternal Societies -T OF | Gastineau Channel | -+ \ B. P. 0. ELKS meets every Wednesday at 8 p. m. Visiting brothers welcome. L. W. Turoff, Exalt- ed Ruler. M. H. Sides, Secretary. e KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS Seghers Council No. 1760. Meetings second and last Monday at 7:30 p. m. Transiei brothers urg- 2d to attend. Councll Chambers, Fifth Strecs. JOHN F. MULLEN, G. K. H. J. TURNER, Secretary [ Our trucks go any place any | time. A tank for Diesel Oil | and a tank for crude oil save | burner trouble. ; PHONE 149, NIGHT 148 ] RELIABLE TRANSFER e ir's Wise to Call 48 Juneau Transfer Co. when in need of MOVING or STORAGE Fuel 0il Coal Transfer e < 2 I S —— Opt. D. Grzduate Los Angeles Col- lege of Optometry and Onthalmology Glasses Fitted, Lenses Ground — —a ] " DR. K. E. SOUTHWELL ' Optometrist—Optician 1 Eyes Examined—Glasses Fitted Room 17, Valentine Bldg. Office Pnone 484; Residence | Phone 238. Office ™ours: 9:30 to 12; 1:00 to 5:30 | SIS RRARY . <3 Andrews Graduate Nurse | | Electric Cabinet Baths—Mas- sage, Colonic Irrigations Office hours 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. | Evenings by Appointment Second and Main Phone 259 g am Rose A. . o TR A | [ RESED LEON ENSCH CHIROPRACTOR i Palmer School Graduate Over First National Bank | PHONE 451 | Konnerup’s MORE for LESS JUNEAU-YOUNG Funeral Parlors Licensed Funeral Directors | and Embalmers | Night Phone 1851 Day Phone 12 | | —— —n SABIN'S | Everything in Furnishings for Men ) \ | THE JuNEAU LAUNDRY Franklin Street betweem Front an? Second Streets PHONE 359 7 1 ALLAMAE SCOTT Expert Beauty Specialist PERMANENT WAVING Phone 218 for Appointment Entrance Piopeer Barber Shop E \ JUNEAU SAMPLE SHOP The Little Store with the BIG VALUES ————————e C. L. FENTON CHIROPRACTOR Soutn ¥ront St., next to Brownie’s Barber Shop ortice Hours: 10-12; 2-§ Evenings by Appointment The advertisements bring you news of better things to have and easier ways to live. A Harry Race DRUGGIST “THE SQUIBE STORE” TEEIRLAAARLA AR AR /’/// 1444 i 3T ey N = Want to Make a Good Steak Taste Better? i I JUNEAU FROCK SHOPPE “Excl " Goat, Dremes, Lingor ™ Hoslery and Hate | ] HOTEL ZYNDA Large Sample Rooms ELEVATOR SERVICE 8. ZYNDA, Prop. ' e mared [ 1 . | GARBAGE HAULED Reasonable Monthly Rates E. 0. DAVIS TELEPHONE 584 Day Phone 371 4 | 1 : g GENERAL MOTORS and MAYTAG PRODUCTS W. P. JOHNSON = ¢ McCAUL MOTOR | COMPANY 1 Dodge and Plymouth Dealers ' o —_— Smith Flectric Co. Gastineau Building, EVERYTHING ELECTRICAL . —‘_‘ SEE BIG VAN Guns and Ammunition 204 Front St. 205 Seward St. | GUNS FOR RENT T ——— —_— L. C. SMITH and €ORO! ‘TYPEWRITERS J. B, Burford & Co. . customers” “Our doorstep worn —ax)