The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 16, 1933, Page 4

| THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, THURSDAY, NOV. 16, 1933 Daily Alaska Empire GENERAL MANAGER ROBERT W. BENDER - - ©Sypblished every evening except Sunday by the RE PR \'rn;r COMPANY at Second and Main 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. By mail, postage paid, at the following rates: ance, $12.00; six months, in advance, in advance, $1.25. | ¢ill confer a favor if they will promptly notify Business Office of any fallure or irregularity in the delivery of their Dapers. lephone for Editorial and Business Offices, 374. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS. ed Press 18 exclusively entitled to the n of all news dispatches credited to e credited in this paper and also the ed herein. The Assocts use for Tepubl it or not other local news publ KA CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER | ALAS| THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION SEPARATE JRVEY JUSTIFIED. Delegate Dimond's request for a separate survey of living costs in Alaska, in connection with the reconsideration by the Government of its salary schedules, is wholly justified by local conditions. No average for the country as. a whole can do justice to Federal employees attached to Governmendy agencies anywhere in the Territory. They are not entitled to, nor are any of them asking for, any special consideration that is“*not based upon ecoonmic grounds. That is, they do not urge that by reason of Alaskan service they are entitled to more com- pensation than similar employees receive in the States. Their position, and it is well taken, is that lwving costs here are always proportionately higher than exists anywhere else in the country and that the sharply decreased costs of living experienced outside of Alaska during the past three years have not been duplicated here. We believe their con- tention is correct. But no general survey can possibly show these facts. Only an individual study of Territorial conditions can determine whether or not they exist. WILL NOT IMPRESS THE WORLD. The “mandate” given Herr Hitler last Sunday in the German elections will not impress the world greatly. Every nation knew in advance that the Nazi program would get an almost unenimous en- dorsement from the people of the country at large If there were an appreciable sentiment in Germany against the Nazi withdrawal from the Disarmament Conference and its notice that Germany will with- draw from the League of Nations, which is to be doubfed, it had no fair chance to be registered at Sunday’s polling. The result of that polling is to leave the situa- tion unchanged. It doesn't persuade other nations that Germany should be permitted to re-arm or convince them that she should be allowed to dictate the conditions of disarmament among other countries. It merely shows that Hitler is firmly seated in the saddle for the time being. That it will be followed by an effort from Germany to rer-arm itself contrary to the Versailles Treaty seems almost incredible. France, England, Italy and their allies in Europe could not be expected to stand idly by and watch her go to that extreme. Nonc of them wants war just now, but they might act in concert to prevent Germany from creating a great new military machine that inevitably would lead to a more serious and disastrous conflict at a later date. A TEXTBOOK OF TEMPERANCE. The Rockefeller report on liquor control, by Ray- mond Fosdick and Albert Scott, is now available in final form at book stores. It is one of the most important and timely books published this year because it supplies cogent facts and persuasive arguments on a subject of immediate concern to the whole American people. Although it recommends a specific plan for liquor control, and a good one, it is eminently worth reading for the broad survey of the liquor problem which it contains. Messrs. Fosdick and Scott have had the assistance of a dozen competent experts in studying the liquor control methods in various countries and here in the United States. They have written from no didactic point of view, but have faced the whole problem in terms of finding a system that will work and will promote eventual temperance among our own people. The result is a book of clarity and persuasive reasoning. The authors are not trying to cram any specific plan down the throats of every reader. On the ' contrary, they recognize as a first principle that 9rollsfor . . . . TELEPHONES 92—95 BATH ROOM TISSUE (any law adopted must follow the lines of public opinion. They, therefore, propose a number of achxnamc programs. Their prime recommendation, huwm er, is for a State monopoly to handle spirituous liquors and fortified wines, and the ready sale of beer and natural wines by grocers and other mer- |chants. This plan appears to have enough merit | for it to be considered by the people of every State in which State prohibition is not contemplated, and !could be studied with profit by those in the latter | category. After all, temperance might be more readily and easily achieved under that plan than !by prohibitory laws. Because it is one of the ablest and most enlight- ened as well as the latest approach to this vital | problem, the Fosdick-Scott volume is recommended earnestly to the attention of thoughtful citizens and leaders of public opinion everywhere. It should be studied carefully here. If, as we desire, Congress permits us to control and regulate the liquor traffic |in the Territory, there is much in this book of value, not only suggestions for a specific icontrol law, but we can get from it a fresh grasp of the basic principles which must underlie any lasting system of liquor control A Kentucy Colonel thinks nothing is more import- ant than a mint julep, in which opinion we agree. Mint can be had on occasion, but the liquid for the more important part of the concoction seems to be more than ordinarily scarce. Comptroller McCarl ruled the other day that Ford dealers are eligible to be awarded NRA con- tracts. We note, too, that the ruling was made after it was announced Ford was now within the re- quirements of the automobile code. Recalcitrant Bankers. (Cincinnati Enquirer.) A huge outcry is coming from the bankers of the country just now against the Federal system of guaranteeing bank deposits. Congress setting up a temporary mechanism for that purpose is to take effect January 1. As the time draws nearer, bankers are more than ever sure they do not want such a system. Since the act is in effect compulsory, th have comply, but they are directing their efforts to secure repeal of the measure at the coming session of Congress. The objective student of banking problems can sympathize with the attitude of the banker, be- cause the statute as it now stands is defective in certian respects. But he cannot overlook what Walter J. Cummings, Administrator of the new deposit guarantee plan, calls “an unmistakable and perhaps unprecedented popular demand for insurance of bank deposits, resulting in passage with only a few dis- senting votes in the House and unanimously in the Senate.” This widespread public demand for absolute safe- ty of bank deposits is a factor to be reckoned with. We have come through a grave financial crisis, the effects of which are not yet wholly obliterated. In no small measure the renewed confidence of the people is based on the knowledge that after Janua: next their bank accounts will be insured by the prestige and, to some extent, the financial re- sources of the Federal Government. To abandon the plan at the next session of Congress is to take a backward step and to invite a renewal of fear on the part of depositors. This is not to say the Federal Banking Act of 1933 is letter-perfect. On the contrary, some revision is greatly needed. It is particularly necessary that a proper distinction be made between savings banks and commercial banks, taking account of the dif- ferential risks involved in their investment policies. Likewise a permanent application of the deposit guarantee scheme requires the establishment of a more thorough inspection service and the extension of the Federal Reserve System's control over the whole banking structure. The Same Row. (Boston News Bureau.) Secretary Wallace is going to keep on hoeing diligently at the same row. (Which in his case means busily and effectively seeing to is the other folks have fewer literal rows to hoe.) No new de- gree of inflation talk or action will deter him, according to reported views of his intentions. That is, he adheres with adamantine consist- ency to his basic program of farm adjustment via crop curtailment. Having set his official hand to that figurative plow, there could, of course, not well be any turning back, politically or practically, till the great experiment—one of the many frankly so made—is carried to a revealing conclusion. And it is not a brief working; other seasons than this must also be covered,—meaning patience in our too easily disturbed hinterland. The philosophy of the undertaking remains quite the same, whatever new refinements or additions of detail may become expedient. Just as gold is the new focal joint on the monetary sectc is supply the apex of strategic assault in the farm field. Commodity prices must come up; and both agencies may jointly but variously help achieve this. Or per- haps it may all be likened to a tilt; now it is dollar and gold ounces at its separate ends, again it is crop volume versus buying need. So the Secretary, who before now has expressed his inclination toward “controlled inflation,” firmly believes with his adjustment coadjutors that also the new decimation of output is requisite. Not a scarcity value, as with diamonds, but an end to crushing surpluses and carryovers. And so we get yet more processing tax complications, with 28 cents on corn the latest recruit. And Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners will figure helpfully in the relief progmm Gold is but part of the story! Anniversary Special ! 50c¢ . . GEORGE BROS. FIVE FAST DELIVERIES liquor | {boycott, | st up codes in a hurry, could pos- no choice but toj Today and ~eeeeeeeeo— By WALTER The N. R. A. has now passed out of the phase of ballyhoo into the phase of critical discussion. The country has realized that as a means of promo!ing a quick re- covery too much was promised and too much was expected, and that | the real importance of N. R. A, is that it inaugurates a long-term | change in industrial control. In influential quarters there is a disposition to challenge the idea that such a long-term change of industrial control is desirable or is warranted. The argument is that the Roosevelt Administration has no mandate entitling it to inaugu- | rate permanent changes; that N. | R. A. must jusify itself as a meas- | ure of immediate recovery. It has to be admitted, I think, that the Administration laid itself open to this form of attack when, last July, it persuaded itself that the blue eagle campaign was the way | to restore prosperity. For it was only as a method of quick reeov-‘ ery that the blanket code, the the general coercion to sibly have been justified. Yet whatever the initial mis- takes of policy in executing N. R. f A. however necessary it may be| to correct those mistakes, the basic The recent act of | conteptions of N. R. A. are, it seems to me, bound to remain and to determine the future of indus- trial control in the United States. This conclusion, is, T think, ines- capable, and is also easily demon- strable. ! it A What is the basic conception of | N. R. A? It is that compulsory competition, as embodied in the philosophy of the anti-trust laws,| does not produce an orderly and satisfactory industrial system; that for compusory competition, it is| necassary to substitute a method of combination and to-operation; that combination and co-operation | merely among business men work- ing for profit would, however, pro- duce all the evils of monopoly; that _consequently if combination is to be permitted, this concen- tration of power must be checked | and balanced by organized labor on the one hand, by government on the other. For once you ad- mit that competition is not to be the principal method of regulat- ing business, the only alterantives are private monopoly or a ‘part- nership” with organized labor and with government Now business men who object to the principle of collective bar- gaining and to the principle of government regulation should ask themselves, before they go the whole way in opposition to the N. R. A what is the alternative? ~What would happen, if, at the end of the two-year period of trial the act were allowed to lapse, and we reverted to the status quo ante The law of the land would then again be compulsory competition. Now this law has been like the prohibition law; it has been en- forced just enough to be a nui- sance and not enough to do any good. Yet if N. R. A. is scrapped, the government will be compelled to resume the effort to enforce the anti-trust laws. Is that a de- sirable alternitive to N. R. A.? I should doubt it. Enlightened business men are faced with plen- ty of difficult problems undcx N. HAND MADE || Suits Overcoats $50 up (414742 44444//4/4d4 SN\l ddilddisld in new location on Front Street VISIT THE Salmon Creek Roadhouse ANTON RIESS | thing | tac Tomorrow LIPPMANN Permanence of NRA Copyright, 1933, New York Tribune Inc. R. A, both in relation te organ- ized labor and in relation to the government. But would these problems be any easier if, instead of dealing with the N. R. A. ad- ministrators they had to deal with the Department of Justice? He who objects to N. R. A. in ble must therefore answer the n: do you prefer compulsory comy jon, or is it unregulated monopoly that you desire? The truth is, I think, that any- tending toward unregulated will not be accepted by Compulscry p que monopoly the American people. on the other hand, competition has broken down as completely as national prohibition. It fol- lows that N. R. A. is nmot a bit of wishful idealism, is not a phan- tasy of the brain trust, but an inescapable recognition of this breakdown of compulsory compzti- At bottom it is not, there- a new experiment but vledgment of a condition has been becoming increas- evident over the course of a fore, ack: ingl | generation an era in which an old was gradually knocked out realities. It has become nec y for business to combine and co-operate, but combination in business is intolerable i, in the control of the combination, organ-| ized labor and government is the| representative of the general in-| terest are mof partners. This is the meaning of N. R. A. That is why, in spite of all the 1 errors and superficial mis- conceptions of the first few months, N. R. A. is almost cer- tain to mark a permanent and a basic change in industdial con- trol. In so far as public opinion recognizes this, ing itself to work out the many theorietical and practical adjust- ments which are required by this new industrial order. end of theory by new ——————— 0o 00000000000 . AT THE HCTELS © ee o0 mwegoececeoocn Gastineau Ed Benson, Juneau; Wilbur Wes- ter, Jr., Seattle; C. W. Hucking, Seattle; H. Stuart, Seattle; G ithero, Seattle; P. Cr MacRae, ; Mrs. Jessie Snook Klawock. Zynda Arne Johnson, Juneau. ...... e Daily Emplre Want Ads Pay. the ! N. R. A. registers the | it will be prepar-! ] 20 YEARS AGO § From The Empire St e e & NOVEMBER 16, 1913. With cold and snappy weather prevailing, ideal for football, the first of a series of games between the Alaska-Gastineau and Tread- well teams took place on the field at Treadwell with the former team winning 21 to 0. Both teams put up a good fight but the five- pounds additional weight per man on the Alaska-Gastineau team made it impossible for the Tread- well men to break through. A large crowd from all points on the Channel attended the game in spite of the cold weather, Miss Edith Kempthorne, encour- aged by the reception her talk on New Zealand had in Juneau, was presenting the same program at the Lyric Theatre in Douglas. The C. W. Young Company management claimed to have the best baseball timber in the country for indoor baseball. The two teams, one from the hardware and one from the plumbing department had a hotly contested game in Jaxon's rink and J. C. McBride said that out of the two teams one could | be obtained which would be the best in Southeast Alaska. “We | challenge all comers,” he declar- | ed. | ws were working night and | day on the new city hall to have the upper floors ready to be used by school rooms by the end of the | we Furniture for the rooms {had arrived and was to be in- is alled immediately upon the com- pletion of the rooms. 1 An irresistible comedy: “Three Bachelor’s Turkeys” was the draw- ing card at the Orpheum Theatre together with *The Musketeers of {Pig Alley” a Biograph drama; “Signal Fire,” a Vitagraph marine drama; “A Railway Lochinvar,” a | thrilling Kalem drama. - e — Don't neglect yoar feet. tallen arches corrected. Corns. Next tc Brownie's Barber Shop. —adv Advvrt‘ls’er;lexm apmd world { products before you. e SO S ) IDEAL PAINT SHOP | If It's Paint PHONE 549 We Have It! Wendt & Garster INSURANCE . Allen Shaituck, Inc. 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