The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 8, 1933, Page 4

TR R N . R e e — Daily Alaska Empire | GENERAL MANAGER | | every evemng except Sunday by the | ING COMPANY at Second and Mnn‘ aska ROBERT W. BENDER - - ©ublished Entered in the Post Office in Juneau as Second Cla matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. | Dellvered by carrier in Juneau and Douglas for $1.28 per 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. Subseribers will confer a favor if they will promptly notify the Business Office of any failure or irregularity in the delivery of their papers. Telephone for Editorial and Business Office MEMBER oF Assoc ATED PRESS. s 18 Iy entitled to the ches credited to aper and also the ¢ herein, news puh]nhl d ALASKA CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION. THE DEED IS DO} Yesterday National Prohibition, mortally ill now for weeks, died. The wet majority polled in Ohio. Pennsylvania and Utah brought about its long- delayed and not-to-be-regretted demise. Whatever Kentucky may have done, and it probably voted for repeal, will not affect the status of repeal. The Kentucky vote will not be known until Thursday since the vote is not counted until 24 hours after the polls close in that State. Thirty-three States bhad already ratified the repeal resolution before yesterday. The three which did it then brought the total to 36, the required three-fourths necessary to validate repeal. The two Carolinas went into the Dry column, the first to occupy a place in it since Congress authorized the vote. On December 6, the interment of the Eighteenth Amendment will take place and that great flaw in our Constitutional structure relegated to the limbo of the forgotten. But it will be many years before the Nation can forget it. It will be as many years activities in land and water first-aid in- struction. It expanded volunteer service through cotton garment production to almost war-time proportions. It enlisted more vol- u. s for Braille book production for the blind and for the varied volunteer services and maintained its strength in the enroll- ment of children in the Junior Red Cross. And in the relief of Lh(‘ unemployed, the Red Cross chapters assisted more than 739,000 civilian famili The Red Cross cannot retreat or turn aside. Its permanent base is its practical interpretation of the will of our people to serve humanity in distress, with no thought of race, creed or color. Our. greatest happiness arises from service to others.. Ever since the World War, people have struggled to uplift the human race; but not until the Red Cross came into being was there found a universal thought upon which every people, no matter of what religion or nationality or language, agreed— and that was the consecration of service to humanity. .The Junesu Chapter of the Red Cross-has earned the reputation of being always ready to handle any local problem that arises, of bearing its share of emergency relief as a Red Cross unit, and of keeping well above its membership quota. TIts services to all of the communities within its juris- diction are so well known that enumeration would be superfluous. Because of them, and of its par- ticipation in all of the work of the National organi- zation, the local Chapter will, as usual, show a fine gain in enrolment in this year's roll call. ing his efforts is the abuse the Republican Na- tional Committee is beginning to shower on Presi- denl Roosevelt. Recalling the Middle West’s Ancestry. (Daily Olympian.) One of the commonest misconceptions ‘of Am- erican history is the notion that the Middle West has a “past,” historically speaking, that goes back only about a century. Just to show how faulty that idea is ,the city of Fond du Lac, Wis., is going to hold a tercentenary celebration next year. It will celebrate the 300th anniversary or the landing in Green Bay of Jean Nicolet, one "of those amazing Frenchmen who pushed into the heart of the American continent at a time when anything west of the Alleghenies was more remote and unknown than the center of Asia is today. As far hack as 1634, then, of the Middle West was getting could have assembled all its white a good-sized auto bus, if you had had one the recorded history under way. You inhabitants into handy, re it can rid itself of the poisonous growths, the 3 3 ]bd(;f: 1 pan gid ‘n.mx ‘]’ (h(l PO ”“‘0 |\lu‘:m~(‘l\(’> on and its signs of civilization were few and far R rianians thai. fasionod sk between. But it is worth remembering that the the body politic because of that mistake. It can never recover the hundreds of millions of dollars that were wasted in futile efforts at enforeement. It cannot restore life to those victims of poison liquor, of flaming guns of Government agents and racketeers, to the agents themselves who died vainly. It cannot make good the waste of men, money and materials that were swallowed in the maw of the monster to gratify the vanity and salve the intoler- ance of a minority that dominated the Government | for more than 13 trapic years. It cannot restore to the people of the country the revenue that was cast aside when liquor was made an outlaw and which instead of going into Government coffers, was paid as tribute to criminal rings and their political aids and abettors. That has been the history of National Prohibition to the shame of the country. But as costly as the experience is, it may be one of real value to the country. It ought to con- vince us that never again should we permit the adopuon of any amendment to the Federal Con- stitution that would affect the personal habits and customs and long-established procedure of the indi- viduals that comprise the population without it is first ratified by State Conventions directly elected by the people for that purpose. Alfred E. Smith, as Governor of New York, a decade ago urged that step. Now is the time to take it. Now that we have repeal, or will have as soon as the necessary ratifying conventions have been held, what are we going to do about it? Are we going to do nothing and let the old conditions renew themselves? Are we going to put a tax burden on liquor that will shoot the price sky- ward? Are we going to permit the trade to be operated for private profit as it was before the Eighteenth Amendment? If we do, we shall have failed to keep faith with millions of voters who cast their ballots for repeal because they were convinced that it was the one way in which to end the bootleg racket, and other plunderbunds that had their roots in Prohibition. Not too many regulations, but strong and effective ones are needed. Complete separation of the dis- tilling end from the selling end, both wholesale and retail, is necessary. Limitation of private profits to a legitimate return on the money invested must be had. Reasonable taxation to the end that legitimate pul , whether they be State agencies, semi-official or private interests, can sell their wares at bootlegger cannot meet is the first essential. If that is not done, bootlegging will not disappear, and with it will continue to exist the other rackets that is fostered during the Prohibition epoch. And the good work now completed will be almost wholly wasted effort. agenci prices that the SYMBOLIC OF GOOD DEEDS. In the minds of the feople of this country, says John Barton Payne, Chairman of fhe American National Red Cross, that great organization is a symbol of good deeds. In a stirring appeal to all Americans to make the forthcoming roll call, which starts November 11 and closes on November 30, the most successful on record, he said: The Red Cross carries on! More than 25,000,000 of our people have had that fact brought home to them in the last 18 months. They were fed and clothed by the Red Cross, to which a generous Congress entrusted the task of the nation-wide flour and cotton distribution. The responsibility was accepted cheerfully. The duty has been discharged effectually due to the unfailing cooperation, support and helpfulness of our Chapters and Branches. The Red Cross has the while carried on its regular program of services with no curtailment. In disaster areas it gave service to sufferers from Southern California to New England, bringing relief and re- habilitation to more than 117 communities. It gave in increasing volume, due to economy legislation, service to the war veterans. It discharged its obligated services to the en- |for which benefits are paid to ex-soldiers. pedigree of the interior goes back nearly as far as that of the Eastern seaboard. Furthermore, it's a pedigree worth reading. There are few stories of romantic adventure more truly satisfying than the one which tells about French penetration of the Great Lakes region. Those old names like Nicolet, Marquette, La Salle, Joliet, Hennepin, Cadillac, and so on have a glamour about them that time cannot dim Those men were empire builders, whose efforts— in the strangest way imaginable—paved the way for the building of a sociéty that they never anticipated. They dotted the land with their names and with words from their language. Today's Middle West still uses them—names like Fond du Lac, and Prairie du Chien, and Marquette, and Detroit, and Vin- cennes, and Navarre; you could fill'a page with vhem. The land that now is the granary and work- shop of a nation once was part of the dominions of the Grand Monarque of France; the fleur-de- lis waved over it generations before Betsy Ross sewed together the first Stars and Stripes. It is an exceedingly wise thing that these folk at Fond du Lac are doing, with their tercentenary celebration. The life of any region grows richer when its inhabitants take the trouble to study their background. The French substratum of the Middle Wi under the foundations st has been neglected. Veterans’ Benefits. (New York Times.) For several months boards of review have been considering the so-called “presumptive” disabilities These are the cases in which various illnesses and in- Jjuries are “presumed” to have been incurred in line of duty, despite lack of direct evidence. When the Administration set about reform of the pension system last Spring it wished to sweep the slate |clean of “peace veterans” and to return to the sound first principle that public funds should be spent only for the benefit of ex-soldiers actually dis- |abled in war service. Objection in the Senate blocked this plan, and in the end the Administra- tion accepted a compromise. This was the estab- lishment of boards of review to examine each “presumptive” case, in order to determine whether a service connection should be granted. These boards were instructed by Congress to “resolve all reason- able doubts in favor of the veteran, the burden of proof in such cases being on the Government.” The Associated Press now reports that about half of the individual cases have been examined gnd that, even with the benefit of doubt running so strongly in favor of the veteran, approximately 60 per cent of the claims thus far examined have been disallowed. Although no figures have been announced officially by the Veterans Administration, an unusually wide variation is reported in claims granted and dismissed in different sections. In some States only 20 per cent of the “presumptive” cases have been retained on the pénsion list; in others as high as 80. Variations so wide as these must reflect decidedly different standards of judgment in the examining boards themselves. | Congress set October 31 as the deadline for com- pletion of the review, but it seems likely that the President will have t0 grant an extension of time. It also seems likely that the findings of the boards will figure in the controversy over veterans' relief which is plainly in store for the next session of Congress, particularly in view of the failure of the American Legion to endorse the Administration’s program and its action in demanding restoration of some of the benefits discontinued by the enact- ment of the National Economy Act last Spring. It would be a great relief in these bandit- ridden days if one were only afraid of the big, bad wolf —(Indianapolis Star.) and Russia is that both couldn’t lose.—(Ohio State Journal.) General Hugh Johnson shudders at the thought that "~ chiseling y become more prevalent than bootlegging. O.m. go'News.) listed men of the Army and Navy.: woui"-': mmwm its It ad- | : {give three cheers—(Toledo Blade) NRA calls. for sacrifice—and no profiteers to One of the surest signs that success is attend-; The worst feature about a war between Japan | frrrrrrr e Copyright, 1933, Ne: All the signs indicate that the political regime under which we have been living since March 4th is about to be re-examined by the American pezople. By the word: “political regime,” I mean two things: the concentration of au- thority in the hands of the Exe- cutive and the moratorium on or- ganized criticism of and opposition to the exercise of that authority. The last ten days, that is to say, the period since the Presi- ed a turn in underlying sentiment So at least it seems to me. The change of sentiment has not as | yet become articulate. It has haps not even become clearly de- fined in the thoughts of any large number of men. But the crystal-| ization of rather searching doubts | has begun. It is not too early to note this change, and it is only prudent to take account of it. owmee It is easier to illustrate the na- than it is to describe it in all its manifestations. When Congre: passed the Thomas amendment, it vested in the President what is vir- tually the whole power of the gov- ernment under the Constitution to regulate the value of money. In- asmuch as alterations in the value of money are alterations in the distribution of wealth, affecting the econmic relationships of each man with all other men, the reg- ulation of money is one of the greatest of all the powers of sov- ereign state. The exercise of this power involves the deepest ques- tions of social justice. The del>- gation of this power to the Pres- ident rested upon the conviction that he represented the nation ac a whole, whereas Congress more or e frankly represented its component parts. It was believed that this great power would be exercised in a more distinterested manner and for more truly na- tional purposes by the President than by Congress. This belief has peen disturbed since the President’s radio ad- dress. For what men see is that a monetary policy has been adopt- ed without adequate explanation The country does not understand this policy, and no one has as yet come forward who is able to ex- plain it. This state of affairs would in itself signify bewilder- ment which might be tolerable for a while if nothing else had hap- pened to create a radical doubt That other event is the coinci- dence that the new monetary pol- icy was adopted when the agita- tion of certain groups of farmers had become acute. This coincidence is precipitating the question as to whether the vast power over money is to be be administered in response to the needs of particular groups of pro- ducers or by disinterested judg- ment as to the complex needs of the nation as a whole. The ques- tion has been pushed forward ow- ing to the fact that in his radio address the President appeared to be telling the farmers, not mere- ly that he would raise the prices of their particular products, but that he could raise them by regu- lating the value of the dollar of all the people. He did not defin- itely say that. But he did not def- initely put away the popular in- ference in the farming areas that the value of the dollar could and should be determined by the needs of certain producers. Let us be clear about this. The raising of the price level repre- senting the weighted average of the whole mass of commodities is a possible, a desirable, and a na- tional use of the power over mon- ey. The Administration would not only be entitled to, but as a mat- ter of policy it ought to, take specific action to enhance the val- ue of the farmer's products. But it would never be justified in de- termining the value of the dollar to meet the particular need of the cotton and grain producers. The determination of the value of the dollar is a mational trust. It can be administered properly only if, in fact and in appearance, the cri- terion is as fair a balance and compromise among all interests as independent human judgment can arrive at. Once let the conviction crystal- ize in men's minds that the pow- ers concentrated in the President are not being used in a midely na- tional spirit, the political truce will collapse. Men will say that if these powers are allowed to re- spond to the agitation of one group of producers, then every one else must organize and agitate to de- fend or promote his own interest. This would be a truly deplorable prospect. The country should not be subjected to such confusion and conflict. There is, however, only one way to avoid it. That is by making it perfectly clear to the whole peo- ple, through words and through | deeds, that the Adminisfration fully realizes that the country has accepted the concentration of pow- er in the Executive and has put complete trust in ihe President’s leadership on the understanding that he would allow no pressure of particular interest to distort his judgment of the national im: terest as a whole. I do not m to say or to imply that there hs Today and ~oeesereereeas By WALTER LIPPMANN -= Danger w York dent's radio address, have witness- | ture of this change of sentiment | R R R R A R A A R 20 YEARS AGO From The Empire £ e NOVEMBER 8, 1913. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Goldstein arrived home on the steamer Spo- | kane from a trip south. Mr. Goldstein had visited New York City during his absence. Signal Tribune Inc. been any such distortion. contrary, I believe that, iere have been mistakes, as been not only perfect in the exercise of power 'rsistance in seeking to bal- he various interests of the Night school sessions were be- gun in the Juneau Public Schools with Professor Bell, High School principal, Professor Perkins, ath+ letic coach and Principal Green in charge of the classes. Other teachers were to be added if thei t the coincidence between the incement of new monetary cy and the agitation in the 1 belt is a danger signal that t be disregarded STOCK PRICES TAKE ADVANCE IN LATE RALLY! o v s o | passenger on the Mariposa from | the south, bound for Juneau. Final Hour of Trading Wit-\ It was pay day for the em- gt | ployees of the Alaska-Gastineaul| [esses General Up!um Mining Company. There were over for Many Issues demand necessitated it. J. F. Mullen and Fred Hebert |opened fheir new men’s habsr- i dashery in the Seward Building Judge R. W. Jennings planned to leave on the Mariposa for the Westward to try a few cases in which Judge Fred M. Brown was disqualified. hooo men on the pay-roll and ‘Lhere was paid out in the three NEW YORK, Nov. 8—The bears divisions of the work for the month were chased to the woods today of September, $125,000. This was in a last hour rally which lifted|a little over the average through- prices of many issues of one to out the year. und five points. The run-up| - is attributed largely to the revival CARD OF THANKS of inflationary psychology. Pro- fessionals accounted for most of T T the trading. Today's close was| 1o Our many lriends: ong | We are unable to express in Wheat was up two to three cents, Words the depth of our appreciation a bushel. jof your wonderful fine spirit mani- Bonds were strong. i fested in our bereavement. We can Dull Opening only say that the evidence of your Early activities were extremely | 10V for our Mother, your hand qull and little attention was paid |Clasps, your words of sympathy and at first to another advance of c¢heer and your presence have light- domestic gold price, further slump ened the sorrow and strengthened of the international dollar rates,|Us to carry on. Profit taking shaded extreme gains| MR. AND MRS. REX EARLY, both grains and equities. STEVE EARLY, Shares In Upturn ANN EARLY SMITH, American Telephone and Tele-| JULIA EARLY FLEMMING. of of graph and Case shares led in the . —adv. upturn with five point gains. U e S.Smelting and Allied Chemical! NOTICE went up four points. Other Gainers i g ey Gains of two fo three points| After November 10 no telephonc wete registered for United States rentals fer the month of November Steel, National Distillers, Com- | will be accepted at a discount. All mefcial Alcohol, American Smelt-|remittances by mail must bear ing, Western Union, DePasco, Gen- | postmark of not later than last eral Motors, Goodyear, Johns-Man- | discount date. Please be prompf ville, Sears, Dupont, Chrysler,! JUNEAU AND DOUGLAS United Aircraft, Bethlehem Steel,| | adv. TELEPHONE CO. Westinghouse and Auburn. FT Tt { | SHOP IN JUNEAU CLOSING PRICES TODAY NEW YORK, Nov. E—C]oflng quotations of Alaska Juneau mine e e T 'k today is 26%, American Can 905, American Power and Light Clgars 7%, Anaconda 15%, Armour B. . 2%, Bethlehem Steel 311, Calumet Cigarettes and Hecla 5%, Colorado Fuel and Tron 5%, Curtiss-Wright 2%, Can- Candy | adian Pacific 13%, Fox Films 14%, General Motors 30'%, International Harvester 39%, Kennecott 22, Pack-, ard Motors 3%, Chicago and Mil- waukee (preferred) 8%, Standard 0il of California 41%, United Cor-! poration 5%, United States Steel 42%. Hollywood Fame Sought By Sydney Movie Studio SYDNEY, Australia, Nov. 8.— Sydney is making a bold bid to become Australia’s Hollywood. . One commnv is planning to spend $750,000 a year on all-Aus- | tralian talkies. There will be 12} feature pictures, 12 “shorts” 52 reviews each year. 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