The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 5, 1933, Page 4

4 B i R PG LT A h & B I0dh SR A A (e AR O AT R I® DT 0 M THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, TUESDAY, DEC. 5, F T NRN AN S R N ol Ja s al e o S e oy 933, Daily Alaska Empire - - GENERAL MANAGER ROBERT W. BENDER Published every eveming except Sunday by the PRINTING COMPANY at Second and Main Juneau, Alaska. Ent e-rnu in the Post Office In Juneau as Second Class matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES, Delivered by carrier In Juneau and Douglas for $1.26 per_month, By mall, postage paid, at the following rates: One year, In_advance, $12.00; six months, in advance, $6.00; one month, in advance, $1.25. ribers will confer a favor if they will promptly the Business Office of any failure or irregularity delivery of their papers. elephone for Editorial and Business Offices, 374. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS. The Associated Press 1s exclusively entitled to the use for re n of all news dispatches credited to it or not credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. ALASKA CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER HAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION. A MERE CHANGE IN STATUS. with the repeal of the Eighteenth Amend- The T ment, National Prohibition comes to an end Nation, technically speaking, went on a dry basis on January 16, 1920, the date that the Nationall Prohibition Act became effective. Today the sale of liquor becomes legal throughout the country, ex- cept in those States where State laws prohibit it, and in the District of Columbia, the Territories and possessions of the United States which will continue legally dry until the National Prohibition Act is formally repealed, and in Alaska until Con- gress wipes out our local monstrosity—the Alaska Bone Dry Law. It would be a mistake, however, to say that as a Nation we are wet again. We have never been dry actually. We are merely chang- ing the status of the sale of liguor. We are making legal a business that for almost 14 years has been conducted nation-wide illegally, but openly and flagrantly, the profits going to subsidize all kinds of crime and venality. It was that element brought about by Prohibition that made repeal so easy of accomplishment once the people were permitted to vote on the question, just as it was the abuses arising from the old saloon system that.made it possible for a militant, well-organized minority to foist Prohibition upon the American people. If similar or equal abuses are the United" States was forced off the gold standard, ind did not give it up merely to experiment with new policy. The conditions which forced us off gold are mostly still in existence. The “uncertainty” which “sound money men” are criticising is not half is great as the uncertainty which the country faced last April when President Roosevelt took us off ihe 7old standard and which we will face again if pre- mature return to it should be attempted. By facing facts we can break down the tyranny of at least one catch phrase, and one that is working material harm. The fall of French Cabinets is so common that it has ceased to be news. But if France should decide to make a payment on its past due war debts, it would make the first pages of all news- papers in this country. A Cuban pint, in case you don't know, is a single drink of whiskey, a snort, a snooker, a shot, and, by the natughty English, a spot. We wont have to worry about losing the camel as a National emblem. The Blue Eagle has already displaced it in most of the newspaper cartoons. Reclaiming Four Million. (New York World-Telegram.) The new Civil Works Administration, announced yesterday by President Roosevelt, is a bold and ap- parently a necessary national relief move. Under it $400,000,000 will be taken from the Public Works Administration funds and poured into quick but socially useful Federal and local projects. All local work relief administrations are to be absorbed into the “CWA,” and between now and mid- February the Government and communities will be spending $200,000,000 a month on new projects not in conflict with previous public works plans. The new plan means that 2,000,000 men will be taken from the relief rolls at once and given thirty- hour-a-week jobs at prevailing local wages, and 2,- 000,000 more destitute will be given part. -time work 1at increased wages. ‘The President is proposing to do more than keep his promise that no home shall feel hunger this winter. If the plan works, it should substitute jobs for charity. It aims to free from the hummaung dole system some two-thirds of the 3,000,000 families on relief and offer their bread-winners useful jobs. Eventually it will put 2,000,000 additional Americans [ Today and Tomorrow By WALTER LIPPMANN The Credit of the United States Copyright, 1933, New York Tribune Inc. | 20 YEARS AGO Prom The Empire i e DECEMBER 5, 1913. One of the most enjoyable and isuccess&u} social affairs of the | | On March 10 the President ad- also to the banks, insurance com-|Elks Club given for members and dressed a message to Congress in panies and other institutions which |their ladies the previous cvening. which he stated that: Upon the unimpaired credit of the United States govern- ment rests the safety of de- posits, the sccurity of insur- ance policies, the activity of industrial enterprises, the val- ue of our agricultural pro- ducts and the availability of employment. The credit of the United States government definitely affects these fundamental hu- man values. It, therefore, be- comes our first concern to make secure the foundation. National recovery depends up- on it. Too often in recent history | liberal governments have been wrecked on rocks of loose fis- cal policy. We must avoid this danger. When the President said that national recovery was dependent upon the credit of the United States, he undoubtedly had in mind not merely the maxims or orthodox finance but the great program of measures for recovery | and relief which he was about to propose. Today that program has| been authorized and is in opera-| tion, and every one can now see, what few could have seen very clearly eight months ago, how ab- solutely dependent is the Roose- velt program upon the national credit. So dependent is it that it would not be unreasonable to say that the President has based his| whole program upon the use of| on a work-relief basis. Unless we remained satistied to make mendi- cants of millions this move was unavoidable. Private charity has its limits. Local public relief funds are low. Six State Governments, including rich and once proud Kentucky, are receiving their entire relief from the Federal treasury. In some locali- ties relief standards are an invitation to disease, riot and crime. It is hoped that before another winter private industry can absorb the bulk of these needy and that the States and communities can make them- selves solvent enough through economies and tax reforms to assume their share of relief. The Fed- eral Government cannot carry the entire nation’s relief burden indefinitely. permitted to return we shall witness another revul- sion of public sentiment and another era of Federal | liquor control or regulation if not another trial oii Prohibition. | We do not believe that the country will be-‘ plunged fiffo sudden chaos and debaMchty because | of repeal, contrary to the warnings of the die-hard | drys. Of 19 States, 10 have passed control laws and nine others are now considering laws to be enacted at special State legislative sessions. The/| President has placed the sale and transportation of liquor under Federal regulation pending Congressional enactment of laws on the subject. The next year or two will be a time of experi-| ment in liquor control by the States. Out of this laboratory may come laws fitted to each region’s habits and ideals. Already a national attitude seems to be forming. It is one of moderation. There is growing agree- ment that the laws should distinguish between wine and beer on the one hand, and hard liquor on the| other. A minimum of regulation on the former and | a maximum of regulation of the latter, it is felt, will promote temperance. Wets and drys are also coming to agree that| liquor cannot be made to balance all budgets, and| that attempts to overtax it would invite smuggling| and bootlegging. The try-out period just ahead will test the ability of the States to effectively regulate the com-| mercial liquor interests. If the States fail in this, the people, in self-protection, will probably demand elimination of the private profit motive through public monopoly of the liquor traffic. THE SOUND-MONEY MYTH. The greatest enemy of the American people is the catch phrase. Too lazy to study and inform themselves regarding many public problems of great censequence, too prone to accept the dictum of self-constituted spokesmen who are often no better informed than we are, we often become the victims of catch phrases which destroy rather than epitomize the essential truth. Just such a catch phrase is “sound money.” At ‘he moment a vast oppostilon to the President’s monetary policies is developing among certain busi- ness and banking interests. The rallying cry of this group is “sound money.” There is danger that our progress toward recovery will be seriously impaired for no rgason other than the popular emotional reaction to this meaningless phrase, “sound money.” What is sound money? How many of its advo- cates could give an adequate definition? Was the gold dollar of 1929 sound money? If so, why were we forced off the gold standard, and why has every major nation save France been similarly forced to abandon gold? If returning to gold means restoring sound money, shall we return to gold at $20 an Junce, $30, or $40? These are questions rarely asked and never answered. Those who are satisfied with catch phrases are content to use them without troubling to analyze these problems. To break down the myth of sound money would require a whole textbook. But a series of factual observations can be noted that may help annihilate the tryranny now exer- cised over some people by the catch phrase First, the gold standard, by its rigidity, is re- ponsible in no small measure for the severity of the business depression. Second, the dollar of fixed gold content is not stable in value, because it changes with the widely fluctuating value of gold. Third, the gold standard in the last 20 years has functioned only because it has } -Sypplemented | ¢ by mmmm “through - central 1 and govern- mental manipulation. In other words, the gold dollar ‘fl“-" 'l‘ ‘something of a “managed cur- ‘|trillion kilograms for each public kilometer. |gold in that water, but Gold in the Sea. (New York Times.) The Smithsonian Institution’s “Physical Tables” for 1933 is the last place where one would seek romance. Yet it prints figures to make the eyes of | treasure-hunters opeli“wide. They are figure of gold —gold in sea water, gold enough to make cvery |one of the 2,000,000,000 people on earth rich to the |extent of $24,000 at prevailing prices. Figure it out for yourself on the basis of a billion cubic kilo- meters of water, forty-five millionths of a milli- gram of gold in each kilogram and a weight of a But ithis is not all. According to Drs. Thompson and Robinson, whose analyses for the National Research Council appear in the “Tables,” there is one thou- sand times as much silver as gold in the ocean, so that we must add somewhat to this fortune of $24000. We prefer the more modest estimates of Dr. Fritz Haber, Nobel Prize winner and inventor of the synthetic ammonia process that enabled Ger- many to manufacture high explosives during the |war when she was cut off from Chilean nitrate. According to him, there is somewhat more than twice as much silver as gold in the sea. We must add the bromine, calcium, iodine, manganese and |a dozen other elements to complete the picture of marine wealth and to arrive at a figure for each world inhabitant utterly beyond the comprehension of an Australian bushman or an African pygmy. The Smithsonian Institution is not trying to revive interest in an old swindling scheme. Thar’s s harder to get at than it ever was in “them hills.” Haber made what must be regarded as the supreme effort at experimental extraction with all the resources of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute behind him, only to find that the amount of gold varies widely at different depths and in different latitudes. He even tried to coax the metal out of polar ice, a cubic metersof which contains as much as twenty milligrams—enough to make a California dredging company begin to figure. Yet he retired to write for the Zeitschrift fur angewandte Chemie a pessimistic paper which has become a kind of classic in technical literature. There is a better chance of finding the proverbial needle in the haystack than of reducing gold from sea water commercially, is his sad conclusion. ' In fact, he sometimes discovered more gold in minute living organisms of the sea than in the water itself. A trillion five hundred billion ounces of .gold— and one of the ablest chemists of our time throws up his hands. Yet the living plankton that he examined in his thoroughness had managed to filch enough precious metal for detection. How do these little organisms do it? What is it about an oyster that gives it the power to extract copper and ‘manganese from the ocean? We have harnessed bacteria in the fermentation industries without knowing in the least how they work. Must we harness miicro-organisms and shelifish for ocean gold? After repeal, what? asks the Palmetto News. Why, Tom and Jerry, we suppose.—(Florida Times Union.) ' The idea of some people in this country seems to be Federal aid for everything. — (Indianapolis Star.) A connoisseur says Jersey applejack should be drunk with a little water. About the contents of a small beaver pond would be right.—(Detroit News.) “A good bartender has got to know every- thing,” says an authority. Sorter like a college freshman!—(Atlanta Constitution.) ‘This may be a mad world, but not mad enough, it is to be ‘hoped, for a currency war.—(Chicago News.) Amerlubism—Muddlmg along under the “chaos” of Prohibition for 14 yedrs; crying havoc hecause with repeal, we don't find a substitute for Pro- | the national credit. The Roosevelt | recovery program is in substance a gigantic credit operation. | R ] Lest’ anyone say that in;lst,ence‘ upon the crucial importance of the hold the people’s money: you do not mortgage. Brown can pay. Then lend the money to the United States, and let it lend You will not lend money to your cit; You will not build a new or order new machinery, ! because you are afraid. Lend your and let it build roads and public| works and the like. What does it mean? and banks have faith in the ability of the United States to pay what it borrows, and, for the time being, little faith in any one else's. That belief in the United States is the credit of the United States. The credit is mno sentimental fiction. It is no tory dogma. It is no banker's fetish. Tt is no re- actionary war cry. It is no conser- vative's idol. It is the foundation of the Roosevelt program, and that foundation it must keep se- cure come what may. S e MENUS the DAY By MRS. ALEXANDER GEORGE RECIPES SERVING TWO Dinner Menu Carolina Meat TLoaf Baked Sweet Potatoes Creamed Onions Biscuits Peach Jam Head Lettuce Russian Dressing wish to renew John Brown's You do not think John| it to John Brown.| money to the Unitzd States,| It means that individuals| | Entertainment included bowling, billiards, cards, music and danc- ‘ing. Monte Snow obliged with a jvocal solo and Ralph Healey |gave some piano sclections. | E. P. Pond took passage on the steamer Spokane on a short busi- ness trip to Petersburg. Among the people from Skag- { way who visited in Juneau on their way south were Supt. V. I. Hahn, of the White Pass and Yukon | Railway and Mr. and Mrs. F. J. Vanderwall. { The insurance firm of H. R. | Shepard and Son had taken a least on the ground floor office, immediately adjoining the offices of the Alaska Gastineau Com- {ing. It was expected that the work- | Ing force at the Perseverance {mine was to be increased by the | addition of from 100 to 150 more | men than were working there {because of the installation of a new Nordberg compressor. | Ladles of Trinity Guild an- nounced that owing to the success ‘of the dance given by them they | were going to give a New “Year's Ball at the Elks' H.ll. with elab- ‘orate decorations and the best ob- tainable music. At a meeting held at the home of the presi- |dent, Mrs. J. W. 'Rummel, full ‘; plans and details were decided i { upon. e NOTICE TO MOTORISTS Gold- Street and Ninth St. have national credit comes from those Gottage Pudding, Chocolate Sauce been set aside for coasting, and who are opposed to the New Deal, ‘\ let us recall the President’s own‘ account, in his radio speech of Ot- | tober 22, of how he is “construct-} ing the edifice of recovery.” Here are some of the “stones and the columns” of the temple. 1. Relief for the unemploy- ed. This money has to be borrowed. 2. The saving of farms. and homes threatened with fore- closure. The money is ad- vanced by the government. The money which is advanced has to be borrowed. 3. The lending of “large sums to industry and finance” by the R. F. C. The money that the R. F. C. lends has to be borrowed. 4. Several millions for public works. The money for these works has to be borrowed. 5. Paying a billion dollars to depositors in closed banks. The money to pay them has to be borrowed. 6. The repair of the impair- ed capital of banks. The mon- { H ey for this operation has %o be borrowed. 7. There should also be mentioned the recent policy of making loans to farmers to sustain farm prices. The mon- ey for these loans has to be borrowed. ; Can it be doubted that the Na- tional Recovery as planned by the President depends upon the credit of the United States? Will any! one who professestobelieve in the President’s program dare to come forward and say that he is not vitally, deeply and continuously interested in maintaining the credit of the United States? . o+ % e There are, it should be recog- nized. many reputable persons who disbelieve entirely in the theory that a government can promote recovery by borrowing money and distributing it as purchasing pow- er. But the Roosevelt adminis- tration is committed to this doc- trine. Its fiscal policy rests on two principles; one is that the or- dinary expenses of government, including interest on the debt. must be covered by revenue; that the routine budget must be in balance. The other principle is that having achieved this, the gov- ernment can and should borrow and spend in sufficiently large amounts to overcome the incrtia caused by the lack of private spending on the part of consum- ers and investors. The unem- ployed have no money to spend. They must be supplied with mon- ey. The farmer, the home owner, the railroad or industrial corpora- tion, cannot renew a mortgage at the bank or in the capital mar- ket; the government must do the work the bank is unable to do. Enterprise is at low ebb; men will not or cannot borrow to build; the government must start enter- prices of its own. 2 This is the theory on which the Administration has been working in so far as it has been dealing with the depression as a produet of the business cycle. Tt is com- mitted to financing the recovery until such time as the resumption of private opening and private in- vestment relieves it of den. Obviously, the whole pro- gram rests upon credit; that «s. say, upon the willingness of people to lend money to the Unit- ed States, though they will lend it to no one else. Mr. Roosevelt has{ said ‘to the people directly and the bur- [ Coffee Carolina Meat Loaf, Serving 2 % pound beef round, veal round, 2 teaspoon salt, 3 ‘ ?tehspoon paprika, 1 teaspoon chop- teaspoon chopped 1 ped onion, 1 parsley. 1 egg or 2 yolks, spgon catsup. Mix ingredients, shape into loaf 1% inches thick. Fit into small baking pan. Add half inch of water and cover. Bake 45 min- utes in moderate oven. Baked Sweet Potatoes ;3 sweet potatoes, %4 teaspoon salt, % teaspoon paprika. Peel potatoes, sprinkle with salt and paprika and place around meat loaf. Baste several times during baking. Cottage Pudding 1 cup flour, 14 teaspoons bak- ing powder, '% teaspoon salt, 1-3 cup sugar, 1 egg, % cup milk. 3 tablespoons fat, melted, 12 tea- spoon vanilla. Mix ingredients and beat two minutes. Pour into shallow pan lined with waxed paper. Bake 20 minutes in moderate oven. Serve warm or cold cut in squares. Chocolate Sauce * % cup sugar, 1 tablespoon flour, % square chocolate cut fine, 1 cup water, 1 tablespoon butter, % teaspon vanilla, speck of salt. Blend sugar and flour. Add chocolate and water. Cook slowly and stir constantly until thickens. fents and beat well. or cold. oo ANNUAL LUTHERAN SALE Wednesday, Dec. 6, Turkey Dinner —adv. Daily Emprre Want Ads Pay % pound cup | cracker or bread crumbs, 3 table-; sauce Add remaining ingred- ( Serve warm ' | motorists are warned to keep out jof these zones, except on emer- |gency business, and to stop at all cyossings. Violators will be proses- cuted. C. J. DAVIS, —adv. Chief of Police. e ee— Daily Empire Wanc Ads Pay. No PARKER pen point is considered good enough to use until we've tested it eleven times! But then you can count on it for a lifetime of easy writing! Why not select a Parker today, or give one to a quisite colors. The famous “pressure- less touch.” Leak- procf, non-break- able barrel. 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