The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 31, 1933, Page 4

| | g i § i = g 1933. - THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, TUESDAY, OCT. 31, - Dail [ l ka Em ire Cross advances its charitable and relief work T PISER A y ‘ls P throughout the year. The calls made on it are ! endless. During the next year, as for several last TOday antl To,norrou; 2‘\ YE AR(\ AGO PROFESSIONAL ! ROBERT W. BENDER - - GENERAL MANAGER | Past. they will constitute a drain upon the local A " % g —|Chapter’s treasury. Therefore, the reasons for en-|} _______ i From The Empire : Oublished every evening except Sunday by the|rolling as a member are as compelling now as they | 5 By WALTER LIPPMANN i Helene W.L A]«brecbt IMPIRE_PRINTING COMPANY at Second and Main B b s e PHYSIOTHERAPY Streets, Juneau, Alaska. have ever been. We can't afford to ignore them,| The Pact’ (!f 7'hings g ’M El leity, Infra Red B. P. 0. ELKS meets m ) a 3 : Gt st : 307 Goldstein " 8 p. m. Visiting g SUBSCRIPTION RATES. The novice plants the seeds and | runner does not try to sprint the S liolle alarourid; atijete,, Bad ! Phone mm:“g‘:‘" brothers welcome. "l' Delivered by carrier in Juneau and Douglas for $1.25 per _month. mail, postage paid, at the following rates: On. year, in_advance, $12.00; six months, in advance, $6.00; one month, in advance, $1.25 bscribers will confer a favor if they will promptly notify the Business Office of any failure or irregularity in the delivery of their papers. T: ]l pllum for Editorial and Business O”l('Pl 374. 9 ™ R OF ASSOCIATED PRESS. The Assoclated Press 1s exclusively entitied 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 T £ LARGER _THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION THE The spirits will be abroad tonight, as always they come forth on Hallowe'en. It is the time when merriment and mischief have full sway. At such time we think of Burns, particularly, and all the Celtic folklore which tells us of this rare night when divination may become an attribute of youth and maid—if they have the courage to pronounce the proper incantations and abide by the result. In its spiritual significance, it is not so generally understood, or observed, in this country as in certain parts of Europe, or as was the case in the earlier days of the church, when on All Holy Night the truly devout indulged in rites of reverence in honor of the kindly saints. But merrymaking with a clean heart should bé SPIRITS ARE ABROAD. the | in At any rate, the debt discussions between United States and England now in progress Washington seem to avoid a great deal of publicity. | We reckon the question of who's going to pay who| and what remains unchanged Unseen fogs are now toghe the subject of 'n scientific study. Probably trying to discover a rem- | edy for that morning after fog that beclouds 'md‘ benumbs without being seen | The Rockefeller report suggests that we get our liquor in packages after repeal. That's all right| with us, just so we get some liquor. | Work and Wages. | (New York Times.) | For the sixth consecutive month both employ- | ment and payrolls in American factories increased in September. This is shown by the indices of the Federal Bureau of Labor Statistics. In March em- ployment was estimated at 55.1, on a scale with the average for the full year 1926 reckoned at 100. By September the figure had advanced to 73.9—a | gain of 34 per cent for the half year. Meantime, | payrolls calculated on the same basis have increased from 334 in March to 53.3 last month—a gain of 50 per cent. Translating these abstract figures into | human terms, Secretary Perkins, a sober handler of statistics, estimates that during the past six months 2,700,000 men have gone back to work in the industries surveyed by her department, and that | more than $60,000000 weekly has been added to industrial payrolls. Several points in the record of this half year are of particular interest. One is the fact that payrolls have advanced nearly twice as rapidly as employment, evidence that more men are at work on full-time jobs and that wages have been in- creased in many cases. Another is the broad front on which improvement has been made; all important groups of industries have shared in it. Also, it is interesting to note that the most recent figures not too remote from uplifting devotion to goodness, so Hallowe'en still may be reckoned to hold something of the essence of its worthy purposes and expression. . This unique festival of the year, perhaps in America at least, appeals more strongly to the kiddies and adolescent youth than to grownups, who all too often and too soon grow beyond the emotions and impulses of youth. Children are in affinity with the earth spirits which ride athwart the moon on this mystic night of nights. For them strange creatures troop forth to play their antic games—the fairies shyly reveal thmeslves; the goblins mock and menace; the elves and pixies dance to the weird pipings of the minstre} gnomes, who for the nonce come up from their grottos and caverns. It is a great night. We go forth to join in innocent carnival pleasure. We make obeisance to the pumpkin god, and note the black cats with shivery delight. Sometimes we look in mirrors on a dark stair at midnight, or otherwise seek to pierce the future, in order to glimpse the face of our true love, and usually we get frightened half to death, notwith- standing our protestations to the contrary—when we have drawn away from spooky experience. 'Tis a brave night, and let us all be happy. A NOVEL REFERENDUM. The precise nature of the poll to be taken in Germany on November 12, is not clear. But it appears that the people of the Reich will have no opportunity to vote against Chancellor Hitler's course. They can approve his withdrawal from the League of Nations and the Disarmament Con- ference and endorse all his defiance of world opin- ion, or they can stay at home and not vote at all. No wonder President von Hindenburg is contemplat- ing resigning from the office, thus making Hitler supreme head of Germany in name as well as in fact. Herr Hitler astonished many observers of foreign affairs by announcing the poll, for he is com- mitted to end all the “nonsense of democracy” such as election and referenda. His is a strong arm government which tells the people what to think, and does not ask them what they want done. He sets himself up as a ruler and not as a public servant. In spite of this he has found it expedient to call for a referendum, so manipulated as to insure a fevorable vote. Probably this strategic move is calculated to impress foreign governments with the unanimity of German sentiment behind the present regime. If so, it will be worthless, for every foreign govern- ment knows the poll will be a distorted expression of German opinion. More probably, the vote is calculated to strengthen Hitler within Germany, to convince recalcitrant Germans that Hitlerism holds undisputed sway. Hitler's recent election action is unguestionably popular in Gerrmany, and he natur- ally wants to capitalize on this fact to conmlldnte his position. The poll is not a matter of importance, there- fore, save as a point in time before which no sub- stantial progress in international negotiations is pos- sible. Until Chancellor Hitler has completed his gesture of seeking popular approval, he cannot, risk the appearance of weakness, before his own people, by any compromise settlement with the Powers. There are advantages in this enforced delay. After a fortnight hotheads will have cooled off in several foreign countries, and the break between the Reich and the world will not seem quite as final as at this time. “No news is ever as good or as bad as it seems at first.” This applies with peculiar validity to the present European crisis. IT'S ROLL CALL TIME. This year the Red Cross roll call will be held at the usual time from Armistice Day to Thanks- giving y and that period will be devoted pri- marily the raising of funds to continue Red Cross work in Juneau and the other communities com- prising the Juneau Chapter. A small portion of the money raised goes to the national activities of the Bed Cross, but in bygone years the local Chapter m more aid from the national organiza- sent to it. If a strict balance were Bflmm corroborate the reversal of a trend which pro- voked much discussion earlier in the year. At that time gains in industrial production were outstripping those in employment and wages. Thus the Federal Reserve Board's adjusted index of pro- duction advanced by 67 per cent between March and July, while jobs were increasing by only 22 per cent and payrolls by 39. But production halted its advance in midsummer. Now we find that, des- pite the subsequent recession, both employment and payrolls have continued consistently to gain. In this respect recent experience is not unlike that which characterized recovery from earlier de- pressions. In 1921, for example, production started up much more rapidly than the return of men to work. Gains in employment followed later. A lag between the two has been traditional. In the present’ case it is fair to credit NRA with helping to close the gap. Fisheries Code. (Anchorage Daily Times.) No section of the United States is more vitally interested in the meeting called to be held in Seattle October 19 and 20 to prepare a master code for the fishing industry than is Alaska. Alaskans will have a lot to watch in prepaartion of such a code in order to see that the code con- tains all clauses necessary to protect their interests. The magnitude and importance of the fishery business exceeds that of all other industries in Alaska. In 1931 fisheries exports were valued at $36,000,000, or more than three times that of her gold yield. The gold mines of the sea are still and probably for a long time will continue her greatest mines of wealth. The Territorial Government in 1930 derived over half a million dollars in taxes from the Alaska fisheries, while approximately 27,000 people found employment in the industry, receiving therefor mil- lions in wages. The salmon output this year exceeds 5,000,000 cases, and the pack is more than half sold. Well informed men say the outlook is splendid for the next three years, as it would require that long at least to again cause a serious oversupply. In any event, Alaskans are vitally interested in the code meeting to be held next week in Seattle, and should not fail to be adequately represented. Now is the time for all concerned in Anchorage and elsewhere to get busy. Down to the Dirt in Ships. (New York World-Telegram.) During the Coolidge Administration it was con- sidered the part of patriotism to wreck the Gov- | then the mnext morning before breakfast rushes out into the gar- den to see whether they have sprouted. Seeing no sign of life above ground, he digs up the seeds to have a look at them. The amateur cook would like to eat the cake when he has mixed his dough The bad golfer looks up to see | where his shot has landed before he has hit the ball. The results are inevitably disappointing. In the application of measures during this er! most of us fall into these bad habits, and raise unnecessary difficulties and disappointments, It | is the part of wisdom in human| | nature to have a true sense of the| pace of action and the timing of avents. a8 One of the most dangerous forms that unwisdom can take is to fix a date and say, unless this or that | is achieved by that date, all’ is lost. In the months preceding the World Economic Conference, for example, statesmen all over the| world made a point of telling their people that they must do or dic| at the London parley on June twelfth. There was to be either recovery or catastrophe at a cer- tain point on the calendar. What| was the result? Though there was neither catastrophe nor recovery,, the unwarranted esxpectations brought on such corresponding dis- appointment, that the whole ef- fort, necessarily complex and d:r- ficult, of international co-opera- | tion was brought to a complete standstill. The world has to for- get what it. expected in June be- fore it can again begin to do what it can. The same unfortunate habit of mind has played a part in the Disarmament Conference. Because Europe was deeply disiurbed last spring, men whose ardor for peace is beyond question allowed them- selves to make the mistake of pro- claiming to the peoples that un- less there was no immediate treaty a great disaster would ensue. Such | talk merely aggravated the situa- tion. With Europe deeply disturb- ed the prospects of an immediate | treaty were poorer, not better, | therefore insisting upon a t,reaty‘ when it was not possible to make one, tended to add to the disturb- ance rather than to allay it. a critical situation the wise man promises only what he can surely realize, anything more than that sharpens the crisis by raising false expectations. « s e In our domesii¢ affairs we have indulged heavily in calendar-wor- ship. In Washington, for example, the administration of the N. R. A. has been beset by a kind of breath- less anxiety that certain definite results had to be achieved on a particular day. There had to be a million men at work by Labor Day. There had to be a million more by the New Year. And if there ‘were mnot, the whole thing was a failure. At least two different kinds of mischief have resulted from this feeling that the whole experiment was a race against the clock inexorably ticking its way to the millennium or to disaster. It inspired N. R. A. adminis- trators to attempt much more than they could effectively handle. In- stead of taking up the problem of making codes for industries in the order of their importance, achiev- ing a series of definite reforms where they were most urgently needed, the N. R. A. jumped for the blanket code and got itself en- tangled in a maze of inconsequent- al matters pertaining to little in- dustries and little shops, to indus- tries which are relatively in good condition and left itself all too little energy and time for consid- ered action on the industries that most needed attention. R. A. will, I believe, prove itself ernment’s merchant marine. The frankly stated policy was to get rid of the vessels which had cost hundreds of millions of the people’s money; no matter what the loss, to get rid of them. The re- sult was that shipping companies obtained some tremendous bargains. Ships acquired by one Henry Herberman, ac- cording to testimony taken by a Senate Committee this week, had cost the Government $42,000,000, Her- berman paid $1,000,000 for them. At the same time he got mail contracts assuring payment to him of $18,000,000 over a ten-year period. In one instance, according to Senator Black, Herberman's company was paid $13,672 for carrying one pound of mail. There is a lot of romance connected with ship- ping. Romance, heartache and mystery. What could be more romantic than the story of C. Bascom Slemp, retiring from office as private secretary to President Coolidge and picking up a fee of $15,000 three months later for helping Mr. Herberman obtain some of those ships? Heartache? Why, Slemp wanted $50,000 for that little job. And mystery? The committee hasn't yet discovered just who paid that $510 tailor bill for Chairman O'Con- nor of the Shipping Board! A British statesman expresses the opinion that China will “win in the long run.” Apparently it is just a matter of getting its second win.—(Philadel- phia Inquirer.) In fresh milk, an information item tells us, fat accumulates at the top. This, we have often ob- served, is also true of fresh alecks. — (Boston Herald.) u has been a long time since the representatives any European nation crossed the ocean to help the vnmd States—(Toledo Blade.) So far no public officeholder has resigned on the ground that the ey —— to be a great boon. But there is no doubt that real progress un- der it would have been greater if problems had not been raised fast- er than the Administration was prepared to deal with them. The sense of urgency the feeling that the clock was ticking, has distort- ed the perspective of the N. R. A. executives. It has also distorted the per- spective of the people. All through- out the summer they were taught to believe that the Blue Eagle was the sole bringer of recovery, and that it was a swiftly moving bird. The expectations raised from Washington could not conceivably have been met. The result has been to distract attention from the very substantial progress that has been made and to fix atten- tion upon the promises that have not been fulfilled. There is im- patience, manifesting itself in many troublesome forms, because the N. R. A. promised too much too soon. At the same time the ad- ministrators have neglected to make the country understand the true function and the real possi- bilities of the N. R. A.; its prom- ise of a more orderly and stable industrial system worked out by constitution and consent. Such a system cannot be begun quickly; it cannot be established by mas. Even the dictatorships, everything is done so lickety-spiit, have allowed. themselves, in the case of Russia, five years. The N. R. A. would have borrowed | unwisdom to | they In| The N.| first mile. P An equally mischievous form of anxiety about the clock is that now prevailing in the circles, most con- cerned about a sound and stable currency. A phobia is rapidly be- ing evolved which has fixed up- on the assembling of Congress in January as the Day of Judgment for our monetary system. It is a dangerous phobia. It we put our- slves into the state of mind| where we have to solve the mane-‘ problem in the next smLyl days we shall only make more hke-, ly the dangers that we fear. | For it may not be possible to| solve the monetary problem in| sixty days, and it is the height of inculcate the belief if we do not, we shall never regret it. I am not arguing that' we should drift; on the contrary,' I have ventured to bclieve that we hould have begun at least as zarly s July to exercise control and steady the exchange. But it is one thing to excrcise control and to demonstrate your control; it is quite another to settle the ques- tion finally. It may require more that | than sixty days to find the level of depreciation from the old gold parity which can be made to| work, and more than sixty days to work out with the British, and then with the French, practicable rates of exchange. It would be folly, therefore, to build up an expectation that would produce either a wrong decision or no de- cision followed Ly .great pertur- bation hecuu there was no de- cision T'he safe thing to do is to for-, get the calendar, have faith in the! American people and the Ameri-! can Congress, and assume that will trust the President’s leadership as long as he makes it evident that he knows what he is doing. In the money question it is not the calendar but the prob- lem itself that needs attention and discussion. | e | This is, T hope, no plea for com-| placency or inaction. It is a plea for a recognition that when you set the kettle on the stove you cannot make it boil faster by blow- ing on it. — et | MRS. R. L. BERNARD IS VISITING IN SEATTLE| Mrs. R. L. Bernard, who has been visiting her mother in Moose- jaw, Saskatchewan, Canada, for; several months, recently arrived in| Seattle where she is visiting her' sister, Mrs. E. J. Newman, accord- ing to Mr. Bernard, who arrived in Juneau Saturday from Wrangell where he has spent the summer. ——————— l)nfly Empire Want Ads Pay VISIT THE Salmon Creek- Roadhouse ANTON RIESS { fine time in spite of bad weather. | minutes, to allow the free vassage C. J. DAVIS, {—adv. Chief of Police. R Advertisemere spread world started to work at the Machine, Shop in Treadwell. The new Valentine Building, at the junction of Seward and Front Streets was practically completad and tenants were beginning to take possession of their leaseholds. This building was one of the best imposing structures in Juneau. It was expected that the entire building would be occupied by the end of November. Ray G. Day was to leave on th> Humboldt and planned to go to Santa Cruz. Mrs. Charles Goldstein expect- ed to leave for a visit in the States on the Humboldt leaving Juneau in the evening. George Simpkins, of the Simp- kins and Freiman Stationery and Bindery, which was being estab- Jished in the Seward Building, arrived home on the Princess So- phia the previous evening. Mr. Freiman returned on the last trip| of the Mariposa. While south they purchased a first-class stock of stationery and machinery and supplies for the bindery. Mayor C. W. Carter. Robert Semple, Harry J. Fisher and Gene Rowe, of Windham, had just Tin- ished a very successful deer hunt- ing excursion embracing the terri- tory around Koofsnahoo, Funter Bay and Poison Cove. They brought in a number of fine deer and nine wild geese and reporfed a President John Reck, of the Ju- neau Commercial Club, issued a call for the executive committee to meet to make arrangements for a banquet to be given for Col. Wilds P. Richardson, head of the Alaska Road Commission, who was due to arrive in Juneau Irom the Westward on the next steamer. — - — NOTICE TO MOTORISTS When a fire alarm is sounded, every vehicle must pull over to,the curb and stay there for <everal of fire trucks and cars, carrying | firemen. 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