The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 2, 1933, Page 4

A A T T -5 ! 4 THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, THURSDAY NOV 2 1933. Dmly Alaska Empzre ‘\ oubli Sunday by _the EMPIRE ed eve evemng _except PRINTING COMPANY Juneau, Alaska. Entered in the Post Office In Juneau as Second Class matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Dellvered by carrier in Juneau and Douglas for $1.25 per month. age paid, at the following rates: One year, vance, $12.00; six months, in advance, one month, in advance, $1.25 ribers will confer a favor if they will promptly Business Office of any failure or irregularity delivery of their papers. |a at Second and Main | CONTINUES ITS FINE RECORD. The Storage honds, Juneau Cold mortgage that sum the same desirability When these annual redem) the Company of $12,000 and biennial interest nd $23,000 remaining outstanding | security, again brings out forcibly |of investing in sound local projects | bonds were sold six years ago, the security and stock | market of the Nation was booming. Paper fortu were being made overnight. Stocks pyramided for the next two years then toppled, of doilars of the money a gullible public invested Contrast that with the record of the local cold storage, or the Juneau Lumber Mills. These firl by in its on payment of wiping out billion phone for Editorial and Business ( financed locally, have met ev pledge to B o, \M‘ T?'Edfiporfaffqumlxs\ 0?4»,;:5.?1}-d t5r ke investors despite the fact that they have bee e for ation of all news ¢ ches credited to |Oberating under depression conditions. They have not e credited in this paper and also the | done more than that. They have materially bettered 'd_herein news publ ALASKA CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION PROCESSING TAX ON F PRODUCTS. » Dimond's fear of the effects on Alaska Dele; and Alaskans of the proposed processing tax on canned salmon, fresh fish and herring is not mis- placed. Such a step as that proposed by the Agricultural Adjustment Administration would deal this Territory a well-nigh fatal blow, causing wide- spread unemployment and depriving the Territory i 5 not Amm-,cflni of the source of the major portion of its revenues. ving & nd{u‘ds. | A Fed tax of $2.40 per case on canned salmon California’s “brain trust” knows that too. State- | sl = ments have just been issued by the State’s nine considered according It would retail which is the figure tentatively to the Delegate, would ruin that industry Gouble the cost of production, forcing the price to such a prohibitive figure that sales would be impossible. Canned salmon is already high when compared to other forms of food fish and meats. Experience has conclusively demonstrated that there is a limit to what can be asked for it and when that is reached people just quit eating it The salmon packing industry normally employs from 20,000 to 25,000 persons, me 10,000 of which are Alaskans. If the industry is forced to discon- tinue, they will go on the charity list. There is no other industry here to absorb all or any part of them. About 85 per cent of Alaska's revenues are derived from the Territory's fishing industries. They support our schools, our Pioneers' Home, our pension system and provide funds for indigent relief. If it is taken away from us, we have nothing with which to replace it These are reasons serious enough to make -the A. A. A. pause before putting its proposed processing tax into effect. Certainly it does not want to de- prive 10,000 Alaskans of their sole means of earning a living, or take action that will practically put the Territory into bankruptey. And that is literally what such a tax would do. In addition to this, the vision of Alaska's fis products as competition to the hog raisers of the country seems far-fetched. Fish is not a substitute for pork in any form. On the basis of price pork has the advantage. Any benefit that the farmers might receive from the proposed step would be far out of proportion to the saster that would be suffered by Alaska and its people. The salmon packers and others engaged in pro- ducing fish in other forms for the market deserve| some consideration, also. They have some $70,000,- 000 or more invested in plant and equipment. They have suffered losses proportionately as heavy as the hog growers and wheat and cotton farmers during the past three years. Only through the grace of | banking institutions have many of them weathered the storm thus far. They have asked for no governmental aid . They are courageously working out their own prob]ems.f getting back on their own feet, and paying up the debts incurred since 1930. If they are subjected now to a processing tax of the sort revealed by Delegate Dimond, their industry will be wiped out. farmers wont collect anything under the tax, but| that will be no consolation to the Alaskan who is| forced out of work, to the Territory that is robbed of its revenues, or to the packer and other pro-| sor who loses his investment, which means his entire fortune. 12 ce: cases, The seriousness of the proposal is unmistakabie. It should be protested as vigorously as possible and without any delay. The Delegate has done every- thing he can to prevent its consummation. It is up to Alas selves and the Territory's greatest industry. A ROOF OF ICE DISCOVERED. Sixty miles high over the polar regions of the earth, an “ice ceiling,” a layer of frozen moisture which may be the indirect source of terrific storms, has been discovered by French scientists. Naval| officers attached to the Polar mission, returning to Paris after a year's observation on the ice shelf of East Greenland asserted they were able to prove| the existence of a layer of ice particles congealed from “wet abmosphere a million times finer than raindrops” at approximately 10 kilometres above the earth’s surface. Their finding was confirmed by electrical impulse sent to the ceiling and reflected back The | time required for the return of the impulse to the earth was recorded and the height thus estimated. The military phase of the expedition’s report is completed and the scientific section is in the process of compilation. It is reported this will be com- pleted in about five months, during which the scientists intend to compare their meteorological find- ings with observations made along the ship lanes of the North Atlantic Otean and in Europe and America. o The French mission hopes to prove the origin of the storms of the North, and their work possibly will lead to meterological station in Greenland, manned by scientists of different nationalities. an international conference of the mwwwmtwmwlfl an |price. Tne‘anmxys change in public taste. in mobtlw three-quarters of a pound. More lobacco, too, is |ror every person in 1830 to over three pounds today. ans generally now to help him save them-is no doubt that this shifting of the balance from establishment of an international | their plants and equipment so that the stockholders shares represent more actual value than they did when they were purchased. The bondholders have had their seven per cent interest each year, and the bonds are being retired either on or ahead of schedule. That is a record to be proud of at any time, and under the conditions of the past three years is a notable achievement. | The New York woman who placed a value of $4,000,000 on her her income tax return. husband didn't put that on California Reconsiders. | (over 1 (New York World-Telegram.) California politicians persuaded Congress in 1924 to write the Asiatic exclusion clause into the Immi- | gration Act and thereby affront the proud puop]m‘ of the Far East. California’s sober thinkers today | are backing the proposal to wipe out that affront by | placing Oriental nations under the quota law. ‘ For some years union labor favored the affront i This month both the California State Federation ! and the American Federation of Labor conventions failed to demand retention of the exclusion clause. | Labor knows that quotas of 185 Japanese and 10! Chinese non-laborers will threaten leading college Presidents all urging the quota. Finally, California business men are speaking up in the interest of peaceful relations and better commercial dealings in the Pacific. Foreign trade | clubs have joined the growing .chorus demanding the quota way. The issue, Californians are coming to see, is not that of adequate control of Oriental immigration. Letting in a small handful of non-laboring Asiatics under nominal quotas is more effective control, in- deed, than the present roundabout and offensive method. Effect of New Gold Price. (Seward Gateway.) | Nothing affecting the industrial life of the Ter- ritory could be more beneficial than the new ruling which gives the United States gold miner access to world markets for his product. The price of gold now ranges around $30 per ounce, as against $20.67, the price set by the treasury of the United States. On the basis of an average of $30 per ounce, Alaska's gold output for tne season just ending, based upon the figure of 1932—$9,300,- 000, will be worth $12,400,000. Owners of low-grade ground, who a few months ago could not interest capital in dredging opera- tions are already feeling the stimulus of the new | Snipers, who have been just able to sustain themselves by hand methods, find themselves emerg- ing with a surplus. The same effect is being manifested in quartz. The long-awaited renaissance of Alaska's gold industry looms bright for the coming year, and every claim owner is hastening to perfect his title while new prospectors are restaking old ground which was impossible of working under the old price of the yellow metal. Fashions in Anodynes. (Manchester, Eng., Guardian.) “Civilized man is certain to use drugs of some kind,” says the writer of an article in this week’s “British .Medical Journal,” “and it is extremely lucky that he is concentrating at present on such harmless” ones. Whatever we may think of the proposition that drugs are necessary to heighten the enjoyment or relieve the tedium of civilization, |it is gratifying to be told once again that those ‘msmoname at the moment are moderately innocuous. |The writer gives some interesting particulars of a A hundred years |ago every person consumed on the average a pound each of tea and coffee during the course of a year. |Today the consumption of tea has risen to nearly ten pounds a head, while that of coffee has fallen |smoked—it has risen from under one pound a year Against this must be set the decline in the con- sumption of alcohol, which has dropped (reckoning |form o! in gallons of proof spirit) from nearly five gallons ‘m 1875 to an average of two gallons today. There alcohol to tea and tobacco involves a definite im- provement in general social habits. This medical authority refuses also to join in the recurrent scares over the high tea and tobacco consumtion. He mentions certainly that “the average consump- \uon in cases of tobacco amblyopia (an eye com- |plaint) is only three ounces a week” (not much \more than the average national consumption) and also that an individual's daily cups of tea “contain |about six grains of caffein, which represents a full |pharmacopoeial dose” But he also adds that the “great majority of civiliged people” can take these |drugs regularly throughout their adult life “without |suffering any demonstrable injury.” e Relations With Russia Copyright, 1933, New Y The opening up of negotiations | gime, W iet Russia is not merely ever of a modification of to policy. Since the Wilson tion, in the Colby note 10, 1920 declared against he recognition of Russia, there has been hin Russia a radical hange of Communist policy. Pres- dent Roosevelt is dealing with a m. different Russian government from it he Russian government that President Wilson refused to rec- ognit ognize. decisive been brought about by the ) ry of Stalin and his doctrin la ialism in a single country’ rotzky and those who held Adminis of Augu ion Today and Tomorrow weeeereecee By WALTER LIPPMANN --ooeeeeeeeei | difference At po T —— 20 YEARE AGO | Frcmm The Empire L — \ i s s e 3 NOVEMBER 2, 1913. B. L. Thane, General Manager of the Alaska-Gastineau Mining | Company and Mrs. Thanz left for weight | the south on the Princess Sophia. | They were going to San Francisco ! where he planned to confer with oad outline this may be as- | ol D, G, Jackling. to be the background of = ich has caused the Admin-| s . Nowell, president to open negotiations. The | manager of the Juneau Steamship on ‘{0 recognition has ;Cumpqm and agent for the Alas- been reduced even ifi, steamship Company, who went absolutely eliminated h several weeks before, was returning home on the Jeffiorson Iribune Inc. | e who are so far away reason for giving r judgment. is mnot position of advantages of rec- e many. Russia is the 24 ich lies between the spots of the modsm“ n Asia and in Cen- | If Russia wants! it is plain that she| The Dolphin arrived from the south, bringing members of the United States District Couri party back from Ketchikan. Those ar riving w Judge R. W. Jen- | the doctrine that communism c: does, then it is of great advant-|inss' and Mrs. Jennings, U. S. not succeed in Russia unless therc age to the world that she should | yraychal H. L. Faulkner, District is a world revolution encouraged to act as a Yespon- | oot Clerk J. W. Bell, Assistant It is this change In Russian world power interested in the| pygtrict Attorney H. H. Folsom, policy, now apparently establish- enance of peace. American; ooyt Stenographer H. S. Milwee, ed and consolidated, that removes ition can have no _d:rec: In- peputy Clerk Harry Malone. Ithe only real obstacle there has f{luence upon Russian policy; but it | AR ver been to the recognition of Wwould undoubtedly add some rein-| y A paine, an attorney at law Russia. The problem of the debts {orcement to those who, like Sta- Paine a who arrived with Mrs. Litvnoff, are interested in and of damages for property con- !in and A0 short time previo from Valdez, | fiscated has never been a difficult sm for Russia, in peace and| .4 jocated in Juneau with offices one. The real obstacle has always (rade outside of Russia in the Seward Building. They been the doctrine of world revolu-/ Recognition would presumably p.q an apartment in the Cain Ho- tion held by the Third Internation- be the prelude to a policy of ac-lye) gor the time being. al of which the Russian Communist e encouragement of Russian- : party is the chief component. Even .\nm-n-mx}rade. How much trade Miss Edith Kempthorne was to | those Americans who reject the can be financed I do not KNow. j.oure at the Orpheum Theatre idea that diplomatic recognition of but it is c_lear that in theory al| . New Zealand, its people, their a government implies moral ap- least, Russia is the greatest new .,.oms life and pursuits, the in- proval of that government have potential market calling for the| g giries and resources of the coun- regarded Russia as a special case kind of goods that our Industry 4o anq all the other characteris- because they saw in the Third most urgently needs to sell. Rus-| ;. surrounding it. She was a International an organized agen- sia is transforming hersell into ,.iye of New Zealand but had ¢y, closely allied with the Soviet an industrial state. She needs i ,ueeq extensively in America government, which proclaimed the som® raw materials, which we pos-' ., myrope, 5 intention of overthrowing Amer- and she needs the type of ican institutions. This obstacle machinery we are so well able to Harry Davidson was a member supply. m to to recognition could not have been removed by mere formal promise S of the Soviet government. It has been removed to the satisfaction lof most close observers, by ths long political struggle in Russia paid that has endsd in the downfall obviousl of the world revolutionists and ¥ by the practical repudiation of the d ploma imed. Third International. Any one who wishes to acquaint himself with the main facts of this internal Russian struggle can KAR policy of Litvinoff has become one gress 1ts a complete eclips No « has been called since 1928 permanent organization cor trade prudently, to determine how much can and how much of our exports can PRINCESS NORAH ON The problem then would th S th: am o BRI fivasion. wich of the Douglas soccer football te: which was scheduled to play the| Juneau team on the Troadw-l] grounds the following d. e be financed by credit for by imports. This is} y a problem to be dealt HOSPITAL GUILD MEETS detailed negotiation after | ON MONDAY AFTERNOON tic relations have been re- ! On Monday afternoon at 230 o'clock, members of the Hospital Guild will meet at St. Ann's Hospi- tal for their ragular meeting, which will be held the first Monday of L THEILE ABOARD and | 'v—P—— - = —— 'ROFESSIONAL | Fraternal Societies T e RN ——— OF | 7 = | Gastineau Channel Helene W. L. Albrecht _.-————fi_ql PHYSIOTHERAPY 2 Massage, Electricity, Infra Red | | B P- Owfi:rfifd;"“fi . | Ray, Medical Gymnastics. | ;‘e”m el tymg -y Mpsddatg;n e ! brr?z‘hc'r‘s welcome. i s i o | L. W. Turoff, Exalt- e ~ | ed Ruler. M. H. Sides, |. l- Secretary. | DRS.KASER & FREEBURGER | | ~ RKNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS ! DENTISTS i Seghers Council No. 1760. Blomgren Bullding | | Meetings second and last i . S 560 Y ! { Monday at 7:30 p. m. DS, ¥ Jev-oW S e ‘. Transient brothers urg- RS ——"|ed to attrnd. Councll | a | | Chambers, Fifth Strecd. | i gm?msg("m | JOHN F. MULLEN, G. K Rooms 8 and 9 Valentine H. J. TURNER, Secretary | Building sy R | Telephone 176 1‘0nr trucks go any | | time. A tank for DI SamSES | and & tank for erude oil save ' | burner tvouble. | Dr. J. W. Bayne g s ’ PHONE 149. NIGHT 18 | Rooms 5-6 Triangle Bldg. ||| RELIABLE TRANSFER ] Of’ice hours, 9 am. to 5 pm. | |3 S Y Evenings by appointment T O D SN R Phore 321 | : T TS A. W. Stewart DENTIST | Hours 9 am. to 6 p.m. | SEWARD BUILDING Office Phone 4t3, Res. l Wise to Call 48 Phone 276 ] | Juneau Transfer m— ) Co. when in need » = of MOVING | Dr. Richard Williams STORAGE ‘ DENTIST § o 3 | g Batdine, Fws 48| Fuel Oil ‘ i a Coal = i o Transfer | Robert Simpson | ) I wimia S| Greduate x..oe Angeles Col- e e e Opt. D. lege of Optometry and Konneru P’s | Onthalmology ! | Glasses Fitted, Lenses Ground | B = 3 MARE for LESS i DR. K. E. SOUTAWELL ' A Optometrist—Optician H WA IR Y Eyes Examined—Glasses Fitted | Office Pnone 484; Room 7, Valentine Bldg. | | | Residence | | | | JUNEAU-YOUNG | . of assuring peace on the fron- Gastineau tiers and of expanding foreign| M™Mr. and rs. John Martin trade. Douglas; A. J. LaGasa, city. This does not mean that the Alaskan ew Third International has been for-| W.J. Mu- Tallapoosa; Wilbur | mally renounced. But Mr. Flor-|sStorey, J 1. Smith, Joe Hanson | insky points out “it has suffered|and J. D. Lilly of Juneau. e — CARD PARTY | Arctic f a reprint from ‘L'Human- jte; the organ of the French Communist party.” From inci- dents like these, and from more direct knowledge, close observers like Mr. Walter Duranty and Mr, | Ralph W. Barnes and others have reached the conclusion that. while the Bolsheviks cannot formally re- nounce their revolutionary rhetor- jc, to the present rulers of Rus- sia the doctrine of world revo- lution is a sentimental memory, a considerable embarrassment, and in practice a dead letter. A PRI . All this, however, would not be conclusive were it not for evis dence of Russian pacifism to ba found in Soviet foreign polic Cuba's President, Dr. Ramon Grau San Martin ‘_\- Madrid, needn’'t have any calling cards engraved | yet awhile until he sees whether he is going to |need cards any more—(Dallas News.) Americanism.—Deciding to risk no unnecessary spending until recovery is assured; denouncing the firm that doesn’'t cooperate with NRA.—(Akron Bea- con-Journal.) Sixty-five theatres still dark on Broadway should suggest something to the NRA. We have several box-office boys in mind, when the plowing-under starts.—(Detroit News.) | IR R GRS This country is not yet ready, for government of the people, by the kidnapers and for the kid- napers.—(Butfalo Courier-Express.) Naturally the Blue Eagle will attract a lot of | friends who are related to Janus.—(Toledo Blade. Think of the free publicity a certain eminent automobile manufacturer is getting under the Blue [Eagle of his competitors.—(Chicago News.) | Russia has borrowed considerable | sums of money to finance impo |So far as I know there has never | been any question raised as to her ‘good faith in the fulfillment of ‘com.rsct,s But even more impres- | sive than that is the way in which Russia has cleaned up her rela- | tions with Poland and with all the other border states from Finland |to Turkey. The treaty signed in London last July is the clearest non-aggression treaty that has been formulated since the war, Tt is far more realistic and defin- |ite than the Kellogg Pact. What matters is that the states closest to Russia, and therefore mosf, | threatened if Russia is ag have taken this treaty seriously :md rely upon it. Se have the French, These nations cannot afford to| " ’/‘ delude themselves, and if they have confidence in the pacific aims of the present Russian re- m\*‘*‘\\\\\mmu/m/ u/‘// U41204414/4 11072 //////”/”"""V!nu!fl“““ to exist, but interest in has| The Moose series of card parties fallen off. There is \ ive |starts Friday night at the Moose | Pabst Famous committee. In the autumn of 1932 | Hall. Play star promptly at 8| it held the twelfth plenary session |p'clock. Good prizes. Admission 50| Draught Beer and produced a series of “Theses|cents. Public invited. —adv. | and Resolutions” on the support BB | Oll Tap of world revolution. ‘Izvestia,”| Don't ne;,l(-cL your feet. Fallen | o e the official newspaper of the So-larches corrected. Corns. Next to JIMMY CARLSON viet government, did not even|Brownie's Barber Shop. —adv. print Them. “Pravda’ the organ = of the Communist party did pub- 2 lish them, “oddly enough, in the » \ \‘ \ \ k ‘/ 7, . Conservatism z ” —which in the banking business means 'f' 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- 4 ness and personal interests of Juneau people. - Broad experience has equipped us to R help our customers convert present day < business advantages into new and (S greater achievements. ~ N The B. M. Behrends Ban (Y JUNEAU ALASKA “\\w\\ i r] t forth in| each month, Mi W. A. Holz- % o ce HMours: 9:30 | | | ™ |1na nem ety st fortn, 0\ G WAY O SEATTLE Seimer-sresttent, snnoinced osas: | | P2, 3%, Offcs Fiues: 930 || - Tuneral Parlors olution and the U. S. 8. R” It| ! ST T S T Ee e ice dF;nem Directors ppears that Communist writers| Karl Theile, of the Diamond K Daily Empire Want Adc Tay. e 3 N htP}:n mbalmers | have been arguing for at least Pack Company at Wrangell, who — — g] one 1851 Day Phone 12 b deige fal- |1 * ¥ - ——e Rose A. Andrews || a thirty years as to whether social-|h been in Juneau for the last ! ! — {sm eould or could mot be estabs |several days on business, left this' | FINE | Graduate Nurse i = lished in a single country in the morning on the Princess Norah for; | Watch and Jewelry Repairing || | Electric Cabinet Baths—Mas- » { midst of a capitalist world. Mr.|Seattle where he will join Mrs.| | at very reasonable rates :, o”-l-c-:e}.mfi:m;llc El:lrt-;“;n:)m | SABIN S | insky vs tha is Issue be-|Theile, Karl Theile, Jr., and little | 7 fo bl S 0. m. | i g(xmt"cui:m:ne?“c;?;deat; of Il;flfvmm'xr'. Lhon‘e”)enf:m daughter. | WRIGHT SHOPPE I Evenings by Appointment | = t {Lenin in 1924, and that for some| Mr. Theile plans to remain in. } PAUL BLOEDHORN | | second and Main Phone 259 | verything in Furnishings vears it was fought out by the ad- [Seattle with his family until next b . . for Men herents of Stalin and of Trotzky.|March when he will return to Ju- ' = ZE o e i 2l | There is a whole library of con-lneau for a short time before going Jones-Stevens Shop ! e TS troversal literature The thinglto Wrangell to supervise the prep- . o1 o was debated with the utmost vol-|arations at the cannery for the c'Em LADIES'—CHILDREN’S || TaE Juseau La | ubulity, with hot passion, anc|next season. Mrs. Theile and the Cigarettes READY-TO-WEAR | Al UNDRY with tireless pedantry. But in the|children will come north in June Seward Street Near Third | m"“"“‘l‘ ) between g end Stalin won. In 1929 Trotzky |and spend the summer in Wrangell, Candy <& | an? Becond Streets : went into exile, and his adherents |he said. ] lost their influence. Since that Seamsolilia Cards c" PHONE 359 i time the encrgies of Stalin haveje @ ¢ © 6 6 o v w = @ @ @ ® e ‘1 —a been concentrated upon the up-|e AT THE HOTELS . e building of Russia and the foreignie @ e @ e ¢ ¢ e 0o v 0 @ 0 o The ALLAMAE SCOTT I Entrance Pioneer Barber Shop Expert Beauty Specialist e ettt i JUNEAU FROCK § SHOPPE i “Exclusive but not Expensive” Coats, Dresses, Lingeris Hoslery and Hate | PERMANENT WAVING | Phone 218 for Appointment | | o g————— 8 To sell! To sell!l Advertising i ! your best bet now. | Smith Flectric Co. | Gastineau Building | EVERYTHING | F 0 R D ! ELECTRICAL | | e —— 1 Juneau Coffee Shop Opposite MacKinnon Apts. Breakfast, Luncheon Dinner | Open 7:30 am. to 9 pm. | JUNEAU SAMPLE SHOP The Little Store with the BIG VALUES Large Sample Rooms ELEVATOR SERVICE HOTEL ZYNDA l \ C. L. 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