The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 3, 1933, Page 4

{ i " rights. Other points said “Cad- ' name, and that the snake should | in part by fo eans o Daily Alaska Empire GENERAL MANAGER ROBERT W. BENDER - - the ouhlished e evening _except Sunday by EMPIRE_PRIN COMPANY at Second and Main Streets, ska. 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. By mail, postage pald, at the following rates: ar, in_advance, $12.00; six months, in advance, n advance, $1.25. Il confer a favor if they will promptly Office of any failure or irregularity their papers. torial and Business Offices, 374 OF ASSOCIATED month, MEMBER PRESS. The Assoclated Press 18 exclusively entitled t e for republication of all news dispatches credit credited in this paper and als d herein ALASKA CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER FUBLICATION ¥y upward rmous fun: ould n a danger to our independence. I WE HOPE IT’S TRUE. An unconfirmed report from Washington, coming | t{0 The Empire via the Associated Press, declaredfimad& ey il that the Public Works Administration has earmarked | Talls by Ear i $18,000,000 for construction work in connection with | & % the proposed 2,200-mile extension of lhe'Paciric‘ Highway from Vancouver, B. C, to Fairbanks. The | Associated Press made it clear that it did not vouch | for the accuracy of the report and said the Public | Works Administration refused to confirm the re-| ported allotment. | Washington, Gov The source of the report was not revealed. Were jng the dollars it known there might be some basis for judging its taxes following correctness. Normally, we would unhesitatingly'ment. and NRA contin The new policy d to ot, t old of the Gove s le instru- ment for the recovery of prices. We can fairly expect. however. the m| f in the doliar will be ironed out, and reign monetary difficulties will be eliminated in substantial part as| own price structure is a declaration of monetary independence from foreign t mear pressures if not independence from the great forces| iof demand and supply for dollars which arise out|book to the problem as Americans | |of our foreign trade and our foreign relations. | The Republican campaign strategy for next year s to criticize President seems like ill-chosen campaigning Roosevelt and NRA, which If the President ues the achievement record already be immune to criticism. If NRA wont be necessary to criticize either it or the President Taxing Liquor. (New York Times.) ernment officials are already count- they ‘hope to receive from liquor repeal of the Eighteenth Amend- Messrs. Fosdick and Scott point out, in the brand it is unfounded. There is one big reason why study of post-Prohibition problems which they have it seems unlikely that such a sum has been set |made for Mr. Rockefeller, that an increase of public aside. proposed extension, known locally as o Yukon Highway, the Alaska Road Commission has|is theory they estimated that about $2,000,000 will be sufficient.| e “broadly social Preliminary estimates of Canadian authorities, which | ! o are wholly tentative and subject to drastic rewsmn'me Treasury ne Ibelieve that the fundamental To comstruct the American section of the|'evenues is frequently described as the primary ob- the Pacmc(pecuve to be pursued in taxing liquor. But with are in sharp disagreement. They purpose should be nd not narrowly fiscal,” that taxes should be imposed in the first instance not because eds funds but because ‘“taxes will i | of course, fix the costs of the section through'help to make the liquor controls more effective.” Canada at about $12,000,000. The combined cost toi both countries, is, therefore, $4,000,000 less They illustrate their than'American whiskey can be produced and sold at 45 point by supposing that the sum reported set aside by the Public \Vorks}cents a quart, before payment of an excise or license Administration. |of any kind, and It is hardly likely, too, that Government is going to put up the money for Canada. It could, of course, make a loan to the| Dominion. Although the latter has definitely said| oy crue Would be it lacks the funds to devote to the project, nothing {gnq “the moonshi has transpired to indicate it wanted or has asked for a loan from the United States for that purpose. So, on the whole, there would seem to be little Federal, State an trast they suppo: likelihood that the reported allotment has actually ments were as low as 5 cents a quart. |revenues would be small, Naturally, we hope it has. It would mean more Volume of sales would br ggers would lose their markets and been made. than anyone can imagine for Alaska to be linked Urers and bootleg by a road to the States. The construction of such a highway would do a great deal in solving unem- ployment in Alaska, Yukon Territory and British! Columbia. of as ! Prohibition would It is hecause uickly That end and the larger achievement :wderzne prices advancing development of this Territory well of the Rockefelles that of northwestern Canada, tem of liquor corruption would flourish.” deinobilize that the retailer’s profit would be the American |50 cents. If heavy taxes were then imposed by the d local governments, increasing the retail cost to some such figure as $7, the resulting large. But substitutes more harm- ful than seasoned spirits would be used increasingly iner and bootlegger and whole sys- By con- se, at the opposite extreme, that the combined taxes levied by the various govern- In this case pite the fact that the «gh; but illicit manufact- the system of corruption which has prospered under disintegrate for lack of funds. they believe that nothing will so the illegal liquor traffic as for legal spirits that the authors r report regard low taxes as “im- would certainly |perative,” at least “for the next three to five years,” justify the Public Works Administration in making preferring meantime to rely on other methods of dis- the and allotment. | couraging controlling excessve consumption. | This counsel is not only sound in theary but is sup- Iported by the evidence of American experience under EFFECTING MONETARY [the Eighteenth Al INDEPENDENCE. |ment at any one has merely stimul First by its establishment of a Federal gold|As early as 1926 General market at home and then by extending its purchase &blest of enforce throughout the world, the Administration has taken | the surest way of freeing the American dollar from’ foreign domination. That seems to be the most immediate benefit achieved by the President’s new gold policy. industrial alcohol jopinion then, later, that “the multiplied the number of illegal stills. and the experience mendment. More effective enforce- point, increasing the cost of liquor, lated illegal production at another. Andrews, one of the ment officers, told a Senate com- mittee that by making it more difficult to divert to illicit purposes he had merely It was his = THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, FRIDAY, NOV. 3 1933, L Federal Liquor Taxation After Repeal Copyright, 1933, New York Tribune Inc. Judge R. W. Jennings stated R it h 307 Goldstein Buildi There are, I suspect, few of us]of one part of the problem; that ;L‘,“‘vz‘fde‘z""o':,"eg,e"’m]:.‘“fiw‘{"':.zi'f | Phone Office, Zlfln‘ | who have as yet really made up|of keeping retail prices low. Buz\'jng Io‘r the Westward LHE %lé he | ¥———"-—--—----—% minds as to how we should|by itself it would, of courss, de-|gid not ex ,,,: A Wit i e to see liquor dealt with after | prive the government of revenues|, . Thevrg' ete, Hye o el | peal. The anti-liquor prohibi-| that it could collect and that it‘;rygi.n which Judge Fr;‘d M. Erown DRS. KASER & FREEBURGER | tionists have hesitated to commit | ought to have.. So they recom-|yas' gisqualified and it was ex- DENTISTS | hemselves to any particular plan,| mend that every manufacturer be|pected to take not more than two| | Blomgren Building i g to divide their forces; made to pay also a second liquor | eeks | PHONE 56 I among the people at large there| profits tax based on net incomes f i Hours 9 am. to § pm. been little discussion because or on excess profits. Their ar-| A pig interest was being taken | : e have been so many other|gum:nt is based on the principle, in the meetim» :)f foe Confmercxal | g T T R Y ot | gs to worry about. Yet th-erejg'nn agreed to by economists, Club, called Dtor the purpose of ‘ Dl‘. C. P ]enne ! s a landslide for repeal. In a|that income or Profit taxes, ex-|qisowssing the matter of entertain.| | DENTIST | few weeks the Federal government | cept perhaps where there is “‘\ing Col. Wilds P. mmmf;,; Peo- 1 Rooms 8 and 9 Valentine |and those states that are dry by monopoly, cannot be passed on to| e felt that the coming‘ visit of | | Building | their own constitution or their|the consumer. These are paid by:Col R;clxurd~011 would be a good| ! Telephone 176 i town statutes have to take in hand| manufacturer. They do not affectiyime (o show their a reciagtion ™ = o [ the regulation and the taxation of| pri Such a tax, therefore,|or the work Col Ricm):g.wn had e By . the liquor traffic. How are they|would bring back to the govern-!gone as head of the Alaska Road = to go about it? They can make | ment a large revenue which it|commission. x Dr. J. W. Bayne | no better beginning than to study the book called “Toward Liquor | control.” This is the report that | Mr. Rockefeller asked Messrs, Fos- ) dick and Scot.t to prepare. There is no comparable guide must deal with it. A whole library | of books exists on the general sub- ject of liquor control, but there s no other book, or if there is, i so clearly and comprehensively our | peculiar problem—the problem not merely of the liquor traffic, but | of the liquor traffic after the fail iure of the Eighteenth Amendment. | The book is short, simple, shrewd |and though the authors state their own conclusions definitely, they | have made it their principal busi- . s The liquor problem after repeal can conveniently be divided into two grand divisions. One is con- cerned with the system of regu- lation to be set up by the states when they recover their author- ity. The other is concerned with stafe and local, which should be applied to legalized Tiquor. Tt is with the second of these two divis- jons that we must most immed- iately deal. For regulation is bound to be a subject of continual ex- periments by the states, and it is one of the advantages of repeal that it gives freedom to experi- ment. But taxation is in part a national question; it is urgent, and the difference between a good and a bad system of taxation wmi affect not only the government revenues but may determine how successfully the country can ex- terminate organized bootleggers. Messrs. Fosdick and Scott have,| it seems to me, been especially clear-headed in their discussion of} Federal taxation. Their essential} argument may be restated about as follows: 1In levying taxes on| liquor we should like to do these things—to obtain as much money as possible for the government, to drive the bootlegger out of business, and to discourage the consumption of hard liquor. If we did not have the bootlegging in- dustry, very high taxes would pro- duce much revenue and would also discourage consumption. But the bootlegger complicates the matter. If taxes are too high, he will con-| tinue in business. Therefore, we have to make up our minds ‘what it is that we wish most to do. Messrs. Fosdick and Scott think of the country old law of supply and demand jcarries in the case of bootleg liquor as well as of True, it is calculated to aid in the recovery of any other merchandise.” business. But too much should not be expected in this direction in a short time. In itself, it is; neither directly inflationary or deflationary but it does enable the Government to exercise a greater control over the gold value of the dollar in the interest of stable money and prices. Since American departure from the gold standard last April, the value of the dollar in terms of gold has been determined in part by the value of the If the present ernment will be paid up.—(Florid; It is not so (Toledo Blade.) Sea S;afpent’s Name N;)w | Depends on Egg; It Is Amy | Or Maybe Hiaschuckoluk! SEATTLE, Nov. 3.—The camel- headed sea-serpent of Point Cad- boro started a controversy today “It's probably the wife of Ogo- | pago,” said E. J. Dalby, Seattle | fish expert and marine editor,| which will not be settled unless|“as it was seen preening its scales | the monster lays an egg. |on the rocks at Point Cladboro. The egg is to determine the sex|If it is a giant conger eel, some of the 80-foot monster reported by of the seven and eight-foot eels two-score citizens so that they can|caught and photographed in this| decide upon a name. region may be the offspring.” “Hiaschuckoluk,” meaning ‘‘big| v, Geo: water snake,” was the lemporary‘Ha?;),n nmlmm"' e ol #0g . e ' y Ilson of Victoria said the name the reptile received in the .. day they saw the serpen!‘ States, but the Canadian press re-| .. Cpermainus River, and it| ported that Victoria taxpayers, un- eft a wake like a speedboat.” derstanding the word as “‘Hias-| 2 o B Slickaluck” which they interpret| Ja.ck Nord of Oyster River, B. B 5i¢ eamble” eald indignantly| O 28 00e Of thase saying he saw ; A Ho 'xunbli SHout the it months ago, but kept silent be-‘ there od theg 4 mber of| CAuse he thought he would not 2 mwit . g’““ W pincsgrrdii be believed. Now that Hiaschuck- | L pye- ’mwhflem?odelm e oo, fi"oluk's followers include so many | m' i aaraai Haaded 'om_"veractipus persons, ranging in oc- | ;"m’e - this nv\cupa ion from fishermen to }:ro-‘ ‘was l ) vincial government officials, he - dubbed "l,tr Cfi@:;’““’“s;d i | came forward and described it. ‘ ~ #caddy’ short, Teserv “About ninety feet long, with | ! - » was merely a generlc<mngs in its mouth some six inch- | es long, and what looked like a mane on the back of its head,” he sald. “I was with Peter An-| called “Amy,” to distinguish it| derson. I took two shots at n.; water dragon DUB-|p "ot effect.” claim to have seen in Ok- n B. C, near the l border. Daily Empire Want Ads Pay ' R \ 5 3 / {The important thing is to stand by the eagle.— ; The human race and its tendency to chisel French franc, in part by the value of sterling, and are not soon parted.—(Buffalo Courier-Express.) high tax rate keeps up, the Gov- giving medals to those who keep a Times-Union.) much what the eagle stands for. KICK MADE the elimination of the bootlegger ought to be the first objective.| and most persons will agree with them. But then it becomes abso- lutely essential fhat the price of | legal liquor should be low enough | to make it unprofitable for the bootlegger to compete. Messrs. Fosdick and Scott think that to achieve this end the price of beer ought fo be reduced slightly; that ordinary wine should sell at re-| tail for from $150 to $250 a gal- Jon: that whiskey. gin and other spirits should sell at $150 and up per quart. With prices at this Jevel they think that organized bootlegging would disintegrate. In choosing such relatively low pric- es, they frankly accept the con- clusion that until bootlegging is Vienna Business Protests to Japan's Sales in Austria VIENNA, Nov. 3.—Japanese in- vasion of the Austrian market, be- ginning with electric bulbs, has been extended to artificial silk, cotton goods and dyes. Austrian manufacturers calling these facts to the government's at- tention demand protective meas- ures. They say that in spite of heavy duties the Japanese goods are of- fered at prices far below Austrian production cost. Japanese sales of dye products break into a hitherto unchalleng- ed Austro-German domain. Nurse Pleads Not Guilty of Murder SANTA CRUZ, Cai, Nov. 3.— Miss Wilhelmina Weltz, 43, nurse eliminated, it is impossible to dis- courage consumption by high tax- es and high prices. o They have estimated that even at these low prices, a well devis- ed scheme of taxation should be able to derive $700.000000 a year from liauor, over and above the wormal taves that liquor manufac- turers and dealers would .as bus- iness men, have to vay. It is not quite clear to me how they hava | arrived at thie estimate, but what is clear to me is that they have discovered a vrinciple of taxation| that will yield the greatest pos-| sible revenue and vet keep retai prices down. The discovery is well worth examining. The usual way of taxing liquor is to charge the manufacturer a small, flat license fee—for beer it is nmow $1.000—and then puf an exice tax—for beer it is $5 a bar- rel—on the ouantity he produces. Messrs. Fosdick and Scott point out fHat tfe excise tax is a sales tax which is passed on to the ~onsumer. They areue, therefor>. that if we wish low prices to | + | charged with the murder of her former employer, Francis J. M. Grace, member of the prominent San Francisco shipping gamily, pleaded not guilty and not guilty by reason of insanity when ar- raigned in Superior Court. Trial was set to begin November 13. hreak up bootlegging, we must noty lay hieh excise taxes. They would. therefore. reduce the excise tax from $5 to $3: thev would put the | tax on wine at 40 cents a eallon Today and Tomorrow By WALTER LIPPMANN | 1 have not seen it, which analyzes | main issues. | the systems of taxation, Federal, 20 YEARS AGO From The Empire e ! il Bl inatusonmts ot NOVEMBER 3, 1913. s taxes. T'eould not obtain by & The football game played be The principle seems to me uN-|{yeen Juneau and Treadwell dem- mistakably sound. It provides the)oniirateq that there was some ‘b(',\I means ?f combining low re- good material among the High tail br b- x\lth as much TEVeNUe | 5ohool lads. The teams lined up ‘a\‘ ‘nr“ “Lfsmess wl}lll stand. BY| ¢ follows: Treadwell, Walter Bar- 1k'“~mlu prices low the government| quist center; Grundler and John- will be doing its best fo return son, guards; Nelson nd Swarva. the liguor business to the legaliz- tackles; Schar and Atkinson, ends ed manufacturer; | by taxing their| i Barquist, quarterback; Gross profits it will be taking ils share|ang Mauseth, halves, and Allen, {of the proceeds. The proposal is| fyNpack. Juneau, Burford, center; | not only ingeniously adapted to Nelson, guard, Casey and Davis, | the problem of the bootlegger, but, iis thoroughly consistent with the { philosophy of the Administration. | To make such a system work- tackles; Hendrickson, Kashevaroff and Chulick, ends; Perkins, quar- terback; MacKinnon, Kashevaroff and Jameson, halfbacks and Her- |able, there ought as the auth ner, fullback. ;pz,;xz out, to be an agreement be-| the Federal Government, tween The Junior circle of the Camp { In many of the State capitals, as well as mine,u to explain and to clarify the;and the sfates under which the| pie girls enjoyed an outing with | Federal government alone would!peir guardian, Miss Edith Kemp- tax manufacture and the states| tpome The party of seventeen would tax only the retail business.|gins and their guardian left town ‘Some part of the Federal revenue| o the lower dam at Salmon ,could be returned to fthe states. creek. but did not get quite that but the tax on manufacture should| sy They built a blazing camp be bughout the coun-)fire and ate their Junch. Before jtry i is no tto be evasion refyrning to town they were given and confusion at the state lines.|, rige on the “Alaska Gastineau I | “choo choo.” proposal made by Messrs. Fosdick and Scott seems to me 10 7 g Barragar returned on the | meet one of the real issues square-| alameda from a visit of a few ly. If there is an important error' yeeks in Portland, Oregon. rs. in it, some one ought to point it| Barragar and the children expect- out as soon as possible. led to return in about a month. ——,— | f R s e g PROFESSIONAL 1 5 8 Helene W. L. Albrecht PHYSIOTHERAPY | Massage, Electricity, Infra Red Ray, Medical Gymnastics. | DENTIST I | Rooms 5-6 Triangle Bldg. | | Ofice hours, 9 am. to 5 pm. Evenings by appointment Phore 321 | » | | Dr. i DENTIST | Hours 9 am. to 6 pm. | SEWARD BUILDING | Office Phone 49, Res. | | Phone 276 [ | Dr. Richard Williams | DENTIST g OF+ICE AND RESIDENCE i | Gastineau Building, Phone 481 | | | Wi ol e Robert Simpson ! Opt. D. Greduate Angeles Col- lege of Optometry and | Onthalmology | Glasses Fitted, Lenses Ground g TR S | DR. R. E. SOUTHWELL | Optometrist—Optician | Eyes Examined—Glasses Fitted Room 7, Valentine Bldg. | Office Fnone 484; Residence claims at least 30 feet. He said he had the unusual experience of hooking a duck on a line while Cigars fishing for rock cod in more than . 30 feet of water. After the duck Cigarettes had been unhooked it was re- leased. candy Cards The New Arctic Pabst Famous Draught Beer On Tap “JIMMY” CARLSON VISIT THE Salmon Creek Roadhouse ANTON RIESS - Conservatism —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 thé busi- ness and personal interests of Juneau people. Broad experience has equipped us to help our customers convert present day~ business advantages into new and greater achievements. The B. M. Behrends Bank and on spirits at §3 a proof gal lon. Such a policy would take cnrel | | | B. P. 0. ELKS meets every Wednesday at 8 p. m. Visiting ] ) A. W. Stewart ; '!z i Fraternal Societies _T OF | Gastineau Channel | —3 brothers welcome. L. W. Turoff, Exalt- ed Ruler. M. H. Sides, Secretary. KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS Seghers Council No. 1760. Meetings second and last Monday at 7:30 p. m. Transient brothers urg- ed to attend. Council Chambers, Fifth Streci. JOHN F. MULLEN, G. K. H. J. TURNER, Secretary T RS N - Our trucks go any place amy | time. A tank for Diesel Ol | and a tank for crude oil save' burner trouble. PHONE 149, NIGHT 148 RELIABLE TRANSFER i I | ) l}l i\ Wise to Call 48 E Juneau Transfer i Co. when in need 5 { { { { { ) of MOVING or STORAGE 1 Fuel Qil Coal Transfer Konnerup’s MODRE for LESS JUNEAU-YOUNG | ! 2 | SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Nov. 3., Don't neglect your feet. Fallen \ Office Hours: 9:30 —Speaking figuratively, the son of |arches corrected. Corns. 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