The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 25, 1933, Page 4

§ 1 i _ Blue Eagle, if it were accurately 4 THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, WEDNESDAY, OCT. 25, 1933. Alaska Empire Daily ROBERT W. BENDER - - GENERAL MANAGER 'he most sacred commandments given to e o i R | makind are not made to work by punish- NN G COMPANT at Main| ments, but by the consent of those who see pets, Ju u, Alaska. ol them to be trye. By willing obedience to Entered in the Post Office In Juneau as Second Class them a man creates his own conscience, matter. and when many believe in them they be- " SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Dellvered by carrier in Juneau and Douglas for $1.25 r month. By mail, postage paid, at the following rates: One year, in advance, $12.00; six months, in advance, $6.00; one month, in advance, $1.25 Subscribers will confer a favor if they will promptly notify the Busin Office of any failure or irregularity delivery of their pape ¥ for Editorial and Business Office stherwise ¢ al news published h ALASKA CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER FUBLICATION CIENCE. A CODE OF CO NRA codes represent a Nation's conscience rather than a system of laws and will work only as supported by the nation’s citizens, declared the Houghton Line, a house organ of an Eastern manu- facturer. The analysis of this little magazine, which is well worth reading, follows in part: NRA was never a system of laws, but a code of conscience. For it cannot convert a crook into a good citizen, nor compel capital to be generous to labor, nor make a lazy man do 40 hours honest work in a week. It cannot wipe out all the wick- edness in the business world in six weeks. It cannot make injustice impossible by call- ing it illegal. It cannot find enough punish- ment to fit all the crimes which men commit in their industrial dealings with one another. But 1t can set forth, as was done once before in American history, certain “self- ident truths” which have waited a long time for statement and the endorsement of pub- lic approval and practice. And that is what it does. The Nation's new code of conscience says plainly that men ought to be paid a living wage somehow, and not left in slavery to economic circumstances which they cannot control. It says that young children should not be made to do the work of grown men and women. It says that men should not work too long while their neighbors are in desperate need of something to do. It says that profits ought not to be piled high on a pyramid of poverty. It says that dividends, stocks and bonds, interest and usury, un- earned incomes and inheritances should not be held so sacred as human life and the essentials of human happiness. It wouldn't matter much if thiese offenses were made illegal by all the laws of the Con- gressional Record. What really matters is that decent men and women know they are wrong. It was known before, but now a great Nation has made public acknowledge- ment that they are wrong, whether the law allows them or not. So the real support of the NRA program comes from conviction, not from necessity or the fear of punishment. A decent man doesn’t argue whether it is legal that a ten-year-old child should work long hours in a factory, so that some able-bodied adult may spend an idle winter in Florida. He says it isn't right, reasonable or humane. So does the NRA. A well-fed workman doesn’t excuse the starvation of his fellow men by legal argu- ment or the quibbling of economics. He says it isn't decent that men should work like slaves for starvation wages. So does the NRA. An honest wage-earner won't admit that anybody has a sacred right to inherit luxury and idleness, to be paid for forever by the sweat and weariness of underpaid labor. A fair-minded man won't approve of cheating and chicanery in business, though it lies within the law. Neither does the NRA. There is a great gulf of difference be- tween what is legal and what is right. And the Nation at large knows that the NRA and the power behind it is not a new code of business law but a new code of con- science. It lays down laws, but they must ( finally be obeyed in freedom, because they » found to be just and fair and necessary the well-being of the Nation and the ghbor. | to net come the firm foundations of human society and civilization. Now a great Nation has written for itself a code of economic con- science. It is faulty and fallible, it will be challeneged and changed and criticized. But in essentials it will survive and succeed in its purposes, because of the truth which is in it and the willing spirit of the Am- erican people which supports it. The Blue Eagle, after having screamed in true eagle fashion, is now proceeding to show some of the chiselers it has a beak and talons Now that the Macon is safely housed in its big shed at Sunnydale, Calif., the Navy's lighter than air experts can breathe with more ease. Ends and Means. (New York Times.) In one of his essays Bacon spoke of what he called “the solecism of power.” It consisted, he said, of “thinking to command the end yet not to endure the mean.” He was writing of sovereigns and governments. But his remark is just as true of a modern democratic nation and of rulers elected by the people. However great and._nable the - ideals (they cherish and the projects they propose, they cannot escape the labor and even drudgery, to- gether with patience and sustained effort, necessary to carry into execution what they have hoped and planned. This is a truth which it is obviously the duty of Americans to hold firmly in mind, and | to endeavor to live up to, at this stage of the translation of the purposes of the Recovery Act into realities. i Much that is encouraging has already been at- tained. Unemployment has been greatly relieved, although far from being conquered. Many branches of business, especially the railways, have shown marked gains. Such concrete evidence of improve- ment has often been massed and commented upon. Still more important, however, is something that cannot be measured or weighed. It is the great quickening of the public spirit and the entirely altered ‘popular morale wrought under the leader- ship of the President. That has been, so far, his greatest gift to the country. He has caused despair to pass into hopefulness, and even into the con- tinuing depression has injected confidence and a cheerful looking for better things. | It remains true that the work is but partly accomplished. A great deal is yet to be done. And it is néessary for both the Government and the people to face the facts without illusions, and to settle down to the long grind before us. This will require endurance, which in this case means sub- mission to the means without which the ends we have put before ourselves cannot be achieved. Al- ready we have passed out of the national excite- ment and emotion in which the whole business was for a time enwrapped. Now the period of stern realities is upon.us. How are the people confront- ing them? Not in the most satisfactory temper, it must be confessed. Grumblings at the slow progress are beginning to be heard in larger volume. In place of willing and wide cooperation, special claims and separate privileges are rearing their heads to make selfish demands. In particular, it must frankly be said, organized labor has been too often seeking its own supposed advantage at the expense of the general good. Such things were doubtless inevitable. [*he N. R. A. has stimulated by in- {creases of pay. rolls |back, to work from rent, which is a small frac- tion, in retail shops. Now the manufactured goods sold to work- ingmen in retail shops are made by the least depressed of all the industries. The really depressed industries, which contribute the bulk of unemployment, do not pro- duce the kind of goods sold to workingmen in retail shops: There- fore, was never possible to cure memployment by relatively trifling increases in pay rolls. There arc a number of different ways of providing these assertions. They are not disputed, I think, by students of the problem, however much these students’ may differ on vhat are the most promising reme- To fix the matter in our minds, we may say that there are |agriculture. Of these about one- third, or 10 million, were unem- ployed in May. At least two-thirds jof these unemployed workers be- long [2oods not sold in retail shops. They belong to the con- struction, transportation and ma- chine-making industries—to what are called the durable and capital goods industries. These figures snow that the main Ibody of the industrial depression —in human terms nearly seven out of the ten million unemployed— does not lie in the industries which The-..decply depressed industries are those which depend directly not upon the pur- chasing power of pay rolls but upon the purchasing power of in- vested savings and bank credit. It is from the placing of mortgages, the sale of bonds, the use of cor- porate reserves, and the making of bank loans that the initial pur- chasing power has to come to put| approximately seven million unemployed. generally recognized | and elsewhere. That is why, within the past month, the! emphasis has been shifted from | the N. R. A. to the expansion of| credit, to the revival of the capital market, and the speeding up of the out of the ten This is now in Washington about 30 million workers outside of | it through higher hours, or in- and prob- must have either or shorter ed social services, hrough all three, share of the national in- No system of the N. 2 pariicularly in the labor pro- but so in other of its developments, promises to about a better distribution 1 national income. this desirable result can be the mational in- red that to say, b has been a Recovery. I am seriously mistaken, the n’s miscalculation 1n ed in applying a sound what was wrong under onditions of prosperity to n of depression. saying to a man who is you are where you are 1 did not take exercise— iling to see that im- t is to teach him to se, it is equally import- get him out of bed. In s, the long term reform d the need for immediate labor, when the difficulty which is nstantly to confront this ation, for it cannot aban- either of the two objectives it 125 set out to attain. It cannot e-minded as a conservative ment might be for Recovery le-minded as-a radical gov- T would be for Reconstruc- jon. All the more reason why it 12 be critically aware at each moment which one of its objectives it is working toward, and how each particular measure is related to the one or to the other. Ihe same problem arises at once in the undertaking to revive the 1l market, as I shall attempt ite in tomorrow’s article. RS 7 v TR P60 00000000000 AT THE HOTELS 20 000 e ®te w0 Alaskan Miller, Hawk Inlet; J. W. Hawk Inlet; Alfred Axtell, M. A. Snow, Juneau. Gastineau T is Pete Felix, Juneau; publice works program. Does this mean, as some persons are saying that the N. R. A. has been a fail ure? Far from it. If we remem ber that the Administration 1s| working both for Recovery and for | Reconstruction, we may say of the | N. R. A. that its contribution to Recovery was greatly exaggerated,| but that as a measure of Recon- struction it is a magnificent | achievement, To have introduced into the vast complexity of Amer- ican industry as much law and order as these codes promise, to have impressed upon a whole peo- ple so many new enlightened stand- ards, to have created the frame- work within which industries can co-operate, can plan, and can po- lice themselves, and to have done this in two months is a very real and substantial installment of the New Deal. The only fundamental criticism to be made of the N. R. A. is that it was mistakenly regarded as a Happily they are not yet pervasive or dominant. But they do indicate the sort of obstacles which lie in the path of the nation still resolved as a whole to press forward as good soldiers and to do and bear whatever may be needful in order to reach the desired goal. They will all need constant re- minders and examples in the coming months that it is a part of their discipline and their duty to |“endure happiness.” Without a long fight there can e no complete victory. | These things are not said by way of dampening |courage. There is abundant reason to believe that the United States will, as many times before, display the ingenuity and resolution and team-play neces- sary to survive the hard times and turn them into better days. But it would be foolish to deceive ourselves into thinking that the process will be easy or rapid. There are days and months of anxiety ahead of us, during which we shall have to draw our belts tighter and call each to the 'other that we must preserve until the end. t If Cuba’s President sticks to his determination to present an unyielding front, our best advice to him is to put a bullet-proof vest on it.—(Boston Herald.) | | The Prohibition fight is about as would be a double-header between the Senators and a picked nine from the Home.—(Macon Telegraph.) exciting as Washington Old Ladies’ D e Today and Tomorr By WALTER LIPPMANN The President’s Task In yesterday's article I poirted speculative boom out that two things were expected | tured fame time reform it. further that while the President sion. both purposes, they frequently 1n-1parlxcular codes terfere with each other, and that decided upon. Ii the problem of combining them, right of way and for many weeks choosing now to advance one and completely absorbed the energies of now the other, is the deepest dif-|the Administration and the atten- ficulty he has to deal with. For tion of the public. the mystic letters N. R. A. signify | x ‘not merely National Recovery but | Now what, we N 1 Reconstruction | selves, was the and the | symbolic, would be a bird with two | ening hours, the . . . us see what light this throws luntil an increase the practical experience of |business restored months. For it is in begun to| it ob- [power. And then 2.—A Lesson from the N. R. A. Copyright, 1933, New York Tribune Inc. About the middle of July of the Roosevelt Administration: the Administration set to work in that it revive business and at the earnest to revive employment under 1 suggested Government initiative and compul- The campaign for the tem- was in duty bound to carry forward porary Blanket Code and for the pended upon whom you consulted. | Some saw the campaign as a mere | scheme to spread work by short- |be financed out of capital reserves ‘it, as an “orderly revolution” in months, since Con-|which industry and labor would the President |both become organized in a kind vacation, ‘that | of constitutional government bene- has volently supervised by the Federal who looked upon the scheme as the depression: that is by increas- ing the purchasing power of the people through enlarging pay rolls. As nearly as one can judge from the official explanations it was the desire to increase purchasing power which caused the Administration to concentrate so much energy on the scheme and to be in such a tre- mendous hurry. Now if this idea was sound, if you could increas® purchasing power sufficently in this fashion to overcome the de- pression, the Blue Eagle campaign was worth every ounce of energy ow had been punc- major move toward Recovery was not clearly understood as in es- sence a move toward Reconstruc- tion, and that therefore real moves for Recovery, which should have been made simultaneously by other agencies of the Government, were delayed. Some time has been lost, Charles Williams, Hawk Inlet; Jc U. S. Bureau of Fish- Janet Johnson, Seattle;Philip S. Smith, U. S. Geological Survey; H. B. Carbray, Seattle; Charles Bury, Longview; Alice P. Griggs. Virginia; Mr. and Mrs. John Da idson, Washington, D. C.; Rasmussen. —ee— STREET IMPROVEMENT At a cost 000, Stedman Street, in Ketchikan near the pany's plant, is to be rebuilt, ac- ording to a decision of the City Council. MONEY ‘The money you spend on & but it will not be wholly lost if we can learn from the experienca to distinguish more definitely be- tween the measures which will re= vive and the measures which will reform. . N . We can perhaps maxe e mat- ter clearer to ourselves if we ask ourselves: How did it happen that the Administration fell evenr tem- porarily into the error of thinking that Recovery could come through | a quick expansion of pay rolls? I| shall venture a guess. Among the closest advisers of the President are men who have devoted much study. to the defects of our economic order before 1929. Now it is clear’ that in the great industrial ex- pansion of the Twenties the real earnings of labor and of agriculture did not keep pace with the growth of profits. These enlarged profits were plowed back into capital equipment which became capable of producing more goods than the purchasing power of the people could take up. It is, therefore, gen- erally agreed that there was a misinvestment of capital owing to a maldistribution of income and that this was at least one of the washwoman 52 times a year; the cost of soap and wash- ing utensils that have to be frequently replaced; the ‘wear and tear on clothes far greater by home methods; : the possible illness due to unsanitary processes or over- taxing of your own vitality + « . just add these up and then compare the result with our low-priced laundry serv- 4 Alaska . Laundry il I Richard D. Tripple, Seattle; Oscar hnson and wife, Chatham; L. G.| of approximately $6,.- ® from its intersection with Thomas | ’ Street to the end of the planking | Watch and Jewelry Repairing ! idalgo Packing Com-| | { | 20 YEARS AGO : PFrcm The Empire 4 e e OCTOBER 25, 1913 The woman's branch of Masonry was perfected in Juneau when John Orchard, Past Grand Pat- ron of Texas, instituted Juneau Chapter No. 7, Order of the East- ern Star. The organization and services attending it octurred in Magsonic hall in the Odd Fellows’ building. The new branch in Jun- eau was launched under favorable auspices and started off with the| thirty nine charter members. Offi- It was a cers installed were; Mrs. Nine M. Hyde, Worthy Matron, W|/W. Casey, Worthy Patron, Mrs. W. H. Case, Assoclate Matron. Ralph E. Robertson, member of the firm of Gunnison and Rob- ertson, returned to Juneau from Ketchikan where he had been attending Court for several days. Mr. and Mrs. Charles D. Gar- field arived in Juneau on the Mariposa from the States. Mrs. Garfield had been visiting friends and relatives south for some time. with H. R. Shepard, Martin Holst and Ole Jacobson aboard; :hel ' Tishing launch, Belle, an 8-ton boat, capsized early in the morning a few days previously, during a terrific squall, while trying to make Whitestone Bay, whither the craft was being driven to escape the storm prevailing at Pt. Augusta. The little vessel turned over on her beam ends and stuck in that position for two hours while the men worked desperately. They fin- ally got the engines to working and the boat righted and pounded into Whitestone Bay. Mr. Shep- ard said he had not yet recoversd from the thrilling experience, and did not care to go through it again. He said they owed their lives to the heroic work of Holst and Jacobson. They were out to look at some quartz property. SR WHY COOK AT HOME When you can get a lovely home cooked meat ball dinner at the Lutheran Church Parlors ‘Wednes- day evening from 5:30 to 7 for 65 cents? —adyv. e The Empire wii Snow you the J. R. pest way to save and invest what cash you have. Read the advertise- ments of the local merchants in PROFESSIONAL e e e G e [ Helene W. L. Albrecht | | PHYSIOTHERAPY | Massage, Electricity, Infra Red | Ray, Medical Gymnastics. | | 307 Goldstein Building | Phone Office, 216 | DRS. KASER & FREEBURGER DENTISTS Blomgren Buillding PHONE 56 Hours 9 am. to 9 pm. e —. [* Dr. C. P. Jenne DENTIST Rooms 8 and 9 Valentine Building Telephone 176 ——— —n VPSR Dr. J. W. Bayne DENTIST | Rooms 5-6 Triangle Bidg. | Ofice hours, 9 a.m. to 5 pm. Evenings by appointment Phone 321 K& | PERoITUIIN . B IO L Eosee e L Y e L R S ek e BT | Dr. A. W. 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The New Arctic Pabst Famous Draught Beer On Tap “JIMMY" CARLSON many causes of the breakdown. The conclusion followed that in a New that could be put into it. For in one full swoop it would not only cure the depression but lay the foundation of a new industrial order. To an Administration which is committed to the achievement of both of these objects, the pros- pect must have been inordinately alluring. was the means t was given the However, the cnance of achiev- ing Recovey as well as Reconstruc- tion by means of the N. R. A. de- pended upon how true it was that recovery can be engineered by in- creasing purchasing power via the pay rolls. Unfortunately it was not true, and I imagine that few, if any, of the many able profession- al economists attached to the Ad- ministration ever thought it was true. 133 The simplest way to state the fallacy is to say that workingmen's wages particularly in the minimum wages with which the N. R. 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