The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 23, 1933, Page 4

: : ! ettt s o i M i e THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, MONDAY, OCT. 23, 1933. published _every eveming except Sunday by the v:.\|‘x:;|!§: PRINTING COMPANY at Second and Main Streets, Juneau, Alaska Fntered in the Post Office in Juneau as Second Class matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Dellvered by carrier In Juneau and Douglas for $1.2¢ per month, the following rates: ;"Six months, in advance, By mail, postage paid, One yes they will promptly failure or irregularity iness jelivery of their papers. phone for Editorial and Business Offices MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS. nvullul‘ it or not local news published herein BE LARGER OTHER PUBLICATION ALASKA CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO THAN THAT OF ANY ROCKEFELLER SURVEY URGES | STATE CONTROL. “Authority” control the Formation in every State of an clothed with “absolute power to traffic in liquor is recommended in a survey of the liquor situation just completed by Raymond B. Fosdick and Albert L. Scott for John D. Rocke- feller, Jr. The report, which has been published serially in newspapers throughout the country, con- cludes that State Prohibition is just as ineffective as National and is not the road to true temperance. In a foreword to the report, Mr. Rockefeller said: I was born a teetotaler and I have been a teetotaler on principle all my life. Neither my father nor his father ever tasted a drop | of intoxicating liquor. I could hope that the same might be true of my children and their children. It is my earnest convicuon that total abstinence is th> wisest, best and safest position for both the individual and society. But the regrettable failure of the Eighteenth Amendment has demonstrated the fact that the majority of the people of this country ' are not yet ready for total abstinence, at least when it is attempted through legal coercion. To develop the habit of temperance in individuals, to take up again the slow march of education—this is the real and fundamental approach to the problem of alcohol. For magy years, Mr. Rockefeller was one of the largest confributors to the Anti-Saloonkeague and one of the strongest supporters of National Pro- hibition. When he became convinced of the worse than futility of that system, he stopped contribut- ing and withdrew his support. He advocated repeal as the first step toward righting a situation that he realized had become intolerable. In this new survey, he has rendered a striking public service and the results of the studies ought to be reflected in a more intelligent approach to handling liquor after the Eighteenth Amendment is repealed. MAN’S QUEST FOR LIGHT. Man's search for light is graphically depicted in a collection of primitive lighting devices soon to be exhibited at the Smithsonion Institution in Washington by Dr. Walter Hough,, curator of anthropology. The methods employed by various peoples of the earth, the scientist says, have varied with their natural resources, each using what nature offered that was most fitted for producing light. Dr. Hough recalls that on the Shetland Islands, within the memory of living inhabitants, the fat body of a bird, the stormy petrel, was used as a torch, or lamp. The small, but excessively fat, bird was used by the islanders. When it was dead a wick was thrust down its throat and lighted. The resultant glow was but a feeble illumination. | The bodies of the great auk, an extinct bird of the North Atlantic Ocean, also, was used for the same purpose. The ancient Danes used a wick of dried moss buried in the stomach of the bird, which was Jaden with fat i Fish, likewise, have been used for lighting. Most striking is the so-called candlefish, a salmon-like | FOUND GUILTY a9 S gain from 1932. . as a method of control even in individual States.” TRIP SCHEDULED TUES. species found off the northwest coast of North America. .The fish was dried and then stuck in the end of a cleft stick of wood. The fish was so fat and full of oil that no wick seems to have been necessary. Other fish serving the same function have been suckers from the Penobscot River in Maine, used by the Penobscot Indians. The tail of the dogfish has been used by the fishermen off the Grand Banks, and the muttonfish is similarly em- ployed near its native waters off New Zealand. The candle is comparatively a recently invention, and was preceded by a torch.of wood. The bark of the Mexican candletree is one such wood, being naturally waxy. Pine torches are, of course, well known and still common. A good piece of heart pine is still used in some sections of the South. Oil lamps are of our own generation, and the modern incandescent light is so recent as to be still in the development staze EXPORT ROLE MAINTAINED. The United States has kept its position as the leading export Nation despite trade and exchange barriers. This is evidenced by reports recently made public by the Department of Commerce. In eight months, ending August 31, this country had exported goods worth $944,527,000. Its imports for the same periocd were worth $890,131,000. Both figures were slightly under the preceding year's volume of trade,! which set a new low for the past few decades. Exports for the calendar year 1932, were valued ) at $1,611,000,000, off 33 per cent from 1931, and imports were worth $1,323,000,000, off 37 per cent. Because of the prevailing lower prices the volume 'of exports and imports fell only 23 and 20 per cent respectively. Since the American business recovery began last April, sweeping gains have taken place in our foreign trade. Americans bought heavily in foreign | goods in angicipation of higher prices, and domestic producers found a better market for their goods abroad. Imports in August were so great that this country suffered an unfavorable balance of trade amounting to $24,000,000. If the country’s foreign business continues at the rate of July and August, despite the abnormal declines experienced during the first quarter of this year, the entire year's trade is apt to show a For a Thorough Job. (Cincinnati Enquirer.) When John D. Rockefeller, Jr., declared National Prohibition to be a failure the Wets applauded. What will they say now that the Rockefeller Liquor Control Study, sponsored by him, further finds State-wide Prohibition to be an equally inefficient means of obtaining that most desirable of results— a sober country? There can, however, be no mistaking the words of Raymond B. Fosdick and Albert D. Scott, who made the study for Mr. Rockefeller: “We, frankly, are not impressed with the possibilities of Prohibition Of course a hypothetical exception is made of such States—if any—as record “an overwhelming majority in favor of this type of control,” but in the main the investigators realize that repressive meas- ures only create the condition their advocates seek to avoid even in limited areas. We have, therefore, the odd spectacle of the former champion of a mistaken policy deploring that its rectification on a national basis does not automatically wipe it out in the several States. He returns the isstie of strong drink to its natural and proper sphere—the individual conscience and moral suasion. Fortunately many, if not most, of the States that have so far ratified repeal also at the same time voted to abrogate their State laws on the subject. There remains a few who have not, and these the nation is pledged to aid by protecting them from liquor invasion from without. Even that the Rockefeller Study characterizes as a mistake in the perpetuation, on a smaller scale, of the “widespread evils that followed the adoption of the Eighteenth Amendment.” And, as if this was not odd enough, the fact remains that this report, like Mr. Rockefeller’s own courageous declaration of many months ago, eman- ates from men zealous to do their bit in bringing to this distressed and distracted country an era of real temperance on a solid and enduring basis. Now that General Johnson is out of the hos- pital, most chiselers feel decidedly worse.—(Buffalo Courier-Express.) Advocates of fiat money do not care what sacrifices others make, supposedly, for the good of the country.—(Chicago News.) By and by is not the time to buy and buy. It's now, according to the newest NRA slogan.—(Boston Herald.) —There’s this to remember: If the NRA doesn't work, a lot of others won't either.—(Philadelphia By WALTE! The Disarm In his formal statement announc- ing Germany’s withdrawal from the League and from the Disarmament Conference Chancellor Hitler said: “After the Reich’s Government in consequence of the German 11, 1932, again declared itself ready to participate in the discussions of the Disarmament Conference, the official representatives of thc other States now have informed the Reich's Foreign Minister and . our delegates in public speeches ‘and direct declaration that this equality for the time being can no longer be conceded to the present-day Germany.” Simon’s account of the conclusion: reached -in the recenl diplomatic| conversations discloses that Bri- had agreed that Germany shoul wait a maximum of four years while her armaments and those of | all others were internationally su-! pervised, before France and the| other heavily armed States werc! obligated to begin a reduction of | their armaments. The period of waiting might have been reduced by negotiation. But the principie was clear: that Germany must for some years accept inferiority of armaments and submit to interna- tional inspection of her military forces. It is against this decision that Germany has rebelled. For while the powers might have gone (o] considerable lengths in the nego- tiations to make the principle ap- pear less unpalatable, they would essence of it. . . . The reasons for this decision were indicated by Sir John Simon. “The present unsettled state of Europe.”| he said, “is a fact, and statesmen in drawing up their plans have to face facts.” Chief among these facts, it is evident, are the war- like spirit of Nazi Germany and | the aggressiveness of its attitude toward the countries to the east of it. The Chancellor in his radio address avowed his desire for peace | and spoke in conciliatory terms toward France. He went so far as to renounce by implication the re- covery of Alsace-Lorraine. But in all that he said there ‘was no word renouncing Nazi ambitions in Aus- tria, in Poland, in the Baltic States. It is here obviously that! the danger lies, and that this danger is real has been made evi- dent by the attacks on Austria, by the spectacular demonstrations | in East Prussia, by the Nazi plat-| form and by the Chancellor’s own book. The British and the French have both become convinced that Hitler's Reich, if it had the power, would expand to the east. It has the will. Moreover, the re-education of German youth by the Nazis is clearly a moral re-armament. The' Nazis have taught the German youth to believe not merely that Germany was not alone guilty in 1914, a view shared by many im- partial historians, but that Ger- many was never defeated in open battle. Germany, they are being taught to believe, was -invincible until she was betrayed from the rear by pacifists, Socialists, and| Jews. This myth of the invincible nation combined with the notion of the supremely superior nation | has created a state of mind in Germany which the British have judged so dangerous as to warrant them in aligning themselves with| the French. So they are demard-| ing that Germany be kept relative- | ly disarmed long enough to see what it all signifies and to let! Germany cool off a bit. . . The technical dispute about e ON THIN ICE, BOY DROWNS BY WIND; armament is complicated. But the| military ideas at the base of the dispute are reasonably clear. In both France and Germany military men agree that no nation can in time of peace prepare itself ade- Today and Tomorrow Copyright, 1933, New equality vouchsafed it on December This appears to be an accurate statement of the position. Sir John’ tain, France and the United States !t undoubtedly have adhered to the|? ? LIPPMANN ament Crisis ' York Tribune Inc. that while Germany has resigned from the League and left the Dis- ment Conference, she has not abrogated the Treaty of Ver- s and has not yet declared thing one must wait to fore, is what Germany : will she abrogate the will she proceed to ¢ will do ne: | Treaty and m? The American part in this busi- to do two things. if it is possible to do so, effort io resume the negotia- to avert, if it can be done,’ la decisive break and the begin-| nirg of German re-armament. ¢ it is hard to see how a real| ion of the whole problem can found, to postpone the crisis be something. y to assume that recovery from world depression would ease tension. For recovery time is eded The other thing we must do is make our own position un- vocally clear, so that no one ance or Germany has the lightest doubt as to the American determination not to participate in a continental war. The French and the Germans must make their de- cisions on that premise. We must ss no solution upon them which directly or indirectly implies that we might intervene. We must make no engagements which are in the| slightest degree ambiguous. For the day of amiable good intentions has gone by, and it} would be unfair and confusing not is {ne to |t ) Wwh One is} t 20 YEARS AGO ! From The Empire SO RSe Volney Richmond, manager for the Northern Commercial Com- pany, passed through Juneau on the Alameda on his way to the States. He confirmed news given The Empire by the Very Reverend R. J. Crimont, about the reported strike on the lower Yukon 40 miles above Andrefsky. -2 Dr. L' H Moore expected to leave Seattle on the Admiral Sampson for' Junsau for the pur- pose of locating in this city to practice medicine. His family were to follow him later and Southeast Alaska would again become their home. An eight-mile race on roller skates was being planned by the management of the Jaxon rink and the Armstrong rink at Doug- las. The entries were Steve Stan- worth and Ray Dadabaugh. There It is neces-|was said to be a side bet of $250 and the managements were to give the contestants half of the gate receipts. The John Orchard Mining and Manufacturing Company was the style of the new corporation re- cently formed by John Orchard and his son S. C. Orchard for the purpose of engaging in business in Alaska. The first efforts were to be to establish a large pulp mill at a point on Shrimp Bay about |40 miles north of Ketchikan, La- ter on they expected to manufac- ture pulp into paper both for home use. and export. According to advices received from Washington, D. C. the Fed- eral Government would extend aid to tell the statesmen and the peo-| ples of Europe that theirs is the| responsibility for the de-j ions they take. | - e, ——— [%; | MILITARY BAND IS } ORGANIZED, COLLEGE! With the organization of a Mil.-‘ tary Band, the Alaska Agricultural; College Fairbanks is taking its place among the leading colleges and universi- ties of the States in another ac-| tivity. The new organization is the result of ‘the joint efforts of ! Prof. Franklin and the Military Department headed by Prof. Huber. | Under the direction of Glen Franklin, a former Washington State College student, the band| hgs been holding a regular prac-| ticeeach Monday and Friday. Its! pérsonrel is composed of a number | of experienced musicians headed by Herbert McClarty, Carl Weller,: Richard Date and George Hcmon.‘f Not Because We Are Cheaper T BETTER RICE & AHLERS CO. PLUMBING HEATING SHEET METAL “We tell you in advance what B to the sufferers of Nome’s flood to the extent of $4,000 at least, and more would come if necessary. The big Alaska film, including the members of Alaska’s First Leg- islature assembly and some won- derful scenery of Southeast Alaska returned to Juneau from an ex- tensive tour of the Territory and was soon to be exhibited by its and School of Mines at!owner, W. D. Gross of the Grand Theatre. The picture had been a great money maker throughout Yukon and Interior Alaska and on Seward Peninsula. 0ld papers av The Empire FINE | Watch and Jewelry Repairing ' | at very reasonable rates ! | WRIGHT SHOPPE | PAUL BLOEDHORN —m—— Cigars Cigarettes Candy Cards Pabst Famous Draught Beer On Tap- “JIMMY" CARLSON Conservatism * this state. OF SLAYING 3 IN AUTO CAMP Verdict of Jury, However, Recommends Against Death Penalty MOUNT VERNON, Wash, Oct 23 —Henry Cassidy, aged 49, was convicted late last Saturday night of murder in the first degree for the slaying of his wife, his broth- er Michael and a friend, Edward Bennett. The jury recommended against the death penalty. The shooting occurred at an auto tourist camp at Anacortes last May. 3 Cassidy pleaded mental irrespon- sibility because of his wife's al- leged unfaithfulness; also because he said he overheard the three plotting to get his property. The verdict returned by the jury | normally means life sentence in ——————— Old Sprung BRUSSELS — A movie theatre , to patrons who after find themselves trapped by rain. ¢ -f overhaul, he said. Though it has been battered by | wind and waves for three days, the Alaska Southern Airways hangar is still intact except for some tar ‘Pflper from the roof and the trim | Lockheed seaplane Baranof hasnot | been damaged, Gene Meyring, pi- lot, said today. | Due to storms of several weeks | ago, the hangar was towed from | the Keeney float to the vicinity of the lower City Float near the Al- aska-Juneau, but in spite of the | protection of the rock dump, the | Northeast gale which . has been |raging, has blown directly into the |open face of the hangar and the waves have entered unimpeded, un- til today, when the wind has been | higher, Mr. Meyring said. Both he and Chandlar Hicks, mechanic, have been constantly on watch, though there is liftle that could be done, as the channel has} been too rough to permit the plane taking off to find, if possible, a more protected spot. Chichagof Trip Tomorrow The regular scheduled round|€ry week. quately for a long war. The first CORDOVA, Alaska, Oct. 23— |phase of a European war would, Frankie Bethell, aged 11 years, son|therefore, be a struggle to carry of George Bethell railroad em-|the war into the enemy’s territory, | ployee, was drowned last Satur-|to prevent him from mobilizing his day when he broke through the |industry, to permit the invading! thin ice on Lake Eyak. nation to mobilize its industry. That | — is why heavy guns and tanks and CHANGES IN LAW TO |sieh viar importance Tres age BE CONSIDERED BY the weapons which would decide BAR _ASSOCIATION which side won the first phase of the war. Now this may or may not be a sound theory. It is clearly the| theory held both by the German and the French General Staffs. The French want the heavy armaments 50 that they can, in the event of war, break into Germany and dis- organize German industrial mobili- The Juneau Bar Assoclation, at its meeting Saturday for luncheon in Bailey’'s Cafe, made arrange- ments for the weekly discussion of proposed changes in Territorial laws, It is the plan of the organiza-|zation. The Germans want the tion to appoint one of its mem-|French armaments so (hat they bers to present new laws, amend-|could stop the French and have ments to laws, or laws which hel|!ime to set their superior indus- considers should be repealed for|irial equipment to work discussion by the organjzation ey-| It is not pleasant to be talking The first member to|about such matters. But it is just —which in the banking business means putting safety FIRST in every trans- ction—has been the working principle of The B. M. Behrends Bank through all the years that it has served the busi- ness and personal interests of .Juneau people. 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