The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 6, 1933, Page 4

i of the total number of animals taken. . . WAR DEBT BREAKDOWN. Dally Alaska Emplre Two major factors, the long delay of the Roose- EOBERT W. BENDER - - GENERAL MANAGER}""“ Administration in getting around to the question jand the uncertainty arising from American and e | British differences on the monetary policy, seem to {have caused the recent failure of the British- Sublished every evening _sxcept Sunday by the KMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY at Second and Strects, Juneau, Alaska. | i i s Fomt Difice 1o Vurku:sa Sheond Dlasg | AIrICn N (bE beTplRvDas, Thete might have matter. |been a good opportunity to have taken up the war !debt issue soon after the inauguration, but the SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Dellvered by carrier in Juneau and Douglas for per month. | 3y mail, postage paid, at the following rates: | One year, in advance, $12.00; six months, In advance, $6.00; one month, in advance, $1.26. O b Wwill confer & favor if they will promptly competing for advantage 1 \otify the Business Office of any fallure or irregularity | exchange, then at least pursuing policies which are n e el e < Editorial and Business Offices, 874, | basically in conflict. - g Commenting on the monetary duel, cinnati Enquirer says: But any such monetary agreement ap- pears a good way off. The British are eager to maintain the pound sterling at a rate low enough to compete easily with American and other exporters, but they do not welcome a currency war because they require a reasonably stable currency as the | basis of Empire trade. The Americans, on | the other hand, are not greatly concerned about the foreign value of the dollar save as it affects the domestic price level, and are willing to depreciate the dollar drastically if that will induce higher prices at home. | In the meanwhile the British will indicate good | faith by another token payment of ten per cent of the installment due. It is quite certain no other | country will pay any more than that. The longer | this goes on, it seems, there is less chance for a | general revision of all war debts favorable to the | United States. | Price level is more important than the debts, consequently debts must be sacrificed rather than premature stabilization of the dollar in foreign exchange. $1.25| Administration perhaps felt it was political dynamite. directly the Cin- MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS. soclated Press 1s exclusively entitled to the A publion £°all news dispatches credited to | paper and also the The use for republication of it or not otherwise credited in this local news published herein. ALASKA CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION. | CHANCE TO PROVE CASE. For several years trappers and buyers of fur have protested vigorously against the Alaska Game Commission's regulations requiring sealing and tag- ging of beaver and marten skins. The main cause of the objections was found in the admitted delay frequently encountered in getting the skins tagged Somehow or other, we have become convinced }yeszerday ought to have been set aside as Al' Smith Day. It was his courageous and intelligent fight on National Prohibition back in 1928, when his own and properly authenticated by agents of the Com- | party dodged on the issue, that paved the way for mission. It was commonly charged that trappers|the successful drive against it this year. in many instances lost chance for profitable sales | to buyers because no officer was available to do| e ‘mealiniy’ and tagsing. Unquestionably there were/ | OUE|zecoguitiin of Russla wont call for the numerous cases of that nature. printing of revised geographies and atlasses. Russia 5l 1Ocsmistion. ‘conténded thit it hiad no. way JAS bban ion AHe imap all the time. We were just of enforcing its bag limits regulation on these DOt noticing her. animals unless authentication of all the skins taken was required. It was evidently convinced that with-' out that check the beaver and marten stock of the Territory would be dangerously depleted if not en- tirely wiped out. Trappers have indignantly denied there is any such danger, and they have had the support of many business men and others. During the approaching season, a chance to demonstrate which s correct, the Commission or‘anqr}ex:pe;'s:c:;::a‘l)u:bex;ex'?;x;oif urtl}‘:;:s‘new I the trappers and their supporters, will present g by puplic Works Administrator Ickes to be el itself. Due to lack of funds to pay an adequate q,ying of several millions in the cost of the 237 new staff of agents to authenticate the skins, the seal- ot offices to be erected throughout the country. ing and tagging regulations are to be suspended Under the old hit-or-miss regime, when political until October 31, 1934. The seasonal bag limits have pressure apparently picked the sites and passed the not been changed and it rests largely with the appropriations, the more generous the local spend- trappers gnd fur-buyers to see that, xy _are ob- ing meant the more votes, But that fallacy has served. ‘The Commission’s force of eris is too happily perished. =’ small to adequately patrol the Territory and check Case after case developed last year of determined or prevent violations altogether, or eevn to begin local opposition by tax-paying citizens to even the location of any such politically chosen postal edifice to do so. They can, however, keep accurate check . . If the in their home community. This year such senti- i X ment is unquestionably keener still so far as the season's take is excessively large, out of proportion size of outlay is concerned. The one prime ex- to previous years and to the number of trappers tepyation of the whole program is the public works Post Offices, Etec. (Boston News Bureau.) The simpler life and the cheaper, or the plainer living and higher thinking, is now to apply also to Federal architecture. There will be thought given more to utility and economy than to ornamentation licensed to operate, the Commission could reason- theory of putting idle men to work as soon and in| ably assume it was because of the suspension of the as great numbers as possible. And the one best regulations at issue. If, however, there is only a mitigation is that avoidance of extravagance of any normal take, if the surveys of the Commission at sort in either land or material cost is now promised the end of the season show no appreciable deple- |under a revamping of the building projects. tion of the stocks, then the trappers can justly) More modest and probably just as serviceable claim to have proved their own case. | in costs. And they will typify not merely a greater We do not believe trappers are chronic game utility to be extracted f h G t doll law violators. We think the great majority of them ‘n e T A e k than formerly, but also better taste th recognize the value of preserving adequate breeding lavish days :1’ filigree, statues, :fc. V&f‘en}:?es:l‘:\i&g;g stocks of Alaska’s fur-bearers, realizing that they 4, jp these leaner times are not soon again to ane necessary if trapping is to continue to be the|yitness such ornately ambitious structures in the source of livelihood for thousands of Alaskans. That|way of churches, railroad stations and bank build- realization, we are confident, will do more to|ings as the years prior to 1929 evolved. Our new protect beaver and marten stocks than all of v,helpmt offices will be of a type of our new times. regulations ever written. In fact, too many regula- AR tions ?nght result in driving men into “boot-| North Carolina and South Carolina have been legging” fur just as the Prohibition laws drove themreunited in at least one common bond.—(Detroit to bootlegging liquor. Free Press.) n [ [ GALOSHES 150 - CLOSE OUT ON BROKEN LINES OF WOMEN'S SHOES Values up to $7.45 $1.95 $2.95 $3.95 i a;‘\milyl Shoe Store £ .. - Seward Street - When negotiations were started, the two govern-|naps not ments were engaged in a monetary duel, if not|the Twenty-first Amendment does in the foreign|not merely repeal the Eighteenth. |buildings will, it is reported, mean 51 per cent cut 1 | each state may control liguor and THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, WEDNESDAY, DEC. 6, 1933 Today and Tomorrow :‘ In the wetter states it is per- fully understood that It contains a second section which prohibits the importation, trans- portation of liquor into any state where the effect would be to vio- late the laws of that State. This prohibition has to be enforced by the Federal Government. Ths obligation will give rise to many complicated problems. There are, ing about. 20 million people which still have state constitutional pro- hibition. There are also about seventesn more states which have +statutory prohibition, théugh sev- eral of them are about to repeal their statutes. There are per- haps an additional 45 million peo- ple in these states. Thus for a long time to come the Federal gov- ernment will have to do what it can to stop all liquor from en- tering territory containing from one sixth to one-half the popu- lation of the country. Nor is that all. In each state where liquor is legalized, the Federal govern- {ment is bound to do what it can to prevent any one in another state from violating the local law across the state boundary. It is evident, then, that the li- quor law did not last Tuesday, cease to be a Federal problem. Each state becomes the judge as to whether and how liquor shal be made and sold within its boun- daries. But whaeever law any state decides upon the Federal government is bound to support at the state boundaries. ok, R The Federal problem would be relatively simple if all the dry states were in one well defined re- gion, all the strict control states in another, all the loosecontrolin a third. That will not be the situation. The different kinds of state laws will be distributed hel- ter skelter. Consequently Federal enforcement might be confronted with four different duties on the, four sides of any one state. Ob- viously, the attempt will have to be made to simplify this business by attempting to persuade states to adopt at least some kind of regional uniformity. But as long as we ad- here to the principle of the Twen- ty-first Amendment, which is that | that the Federal government must | help each state, the Federal prob- {lem will take a lot of untangling. | . - . - 1t we ask ourselves what is the essence of this Federal problem, this much at least is plain. The reason why liquor will be illegally imported into states is that some people within the state will want the illegal liquor and liquor deal- ers outside the state will see a profit in supplying them. In oth- er words. the motive of profit will be the force behind violation of | the Twenty-first Amendment. If lnobody could make a profit by selling liuor there would be no effective incentive to violate the Jaw. The thirsty man in a dry state would have to get his liquor by appealing to the charity of a friend in a wet state. Nobody would have any other reason to help him. Now, of course, this way of put- ting it simply serves to illusrate | a principle. In real life nothing is so logically pure. But it does for example, eleven states, contain- By WALTER LIPPMANN oo | Under the Twenty-first Amendment (Ll Copyright, 1933, New York Tribune Inc. lers for profit. Though it gives pain to those who look forwurd to boom times in the liquor business, | it has to be said that the only | conclusive way to end that war is ito kill the profit e motive, i P those who would like to dea! theroughly with the liquor problem st give their attention to pro- based on the princifle that profit motive, rather than the 4 onal habits cf drinkers, is what ineeds to be dealt with, I realize well enough that there are many practical difficulties in the pro- posals to converi the manufacture and sale of liquor into a non-prof- it-making enterprise. But are the difficulties as great as the at- tempt to police a private profit- making industry at the state boundaries, and to control it with- in states by licenses? The question is worth serious consideration. Even if we should conclude that we are not ready to take the radical course of deal- ing with the profit motive, we shall know better what we are trying to do if we keep it in mind that the liquor problem, as a pub- lic matter, is how to regulate A private industry which naturally secks to increase ‘its profits by increasing its sales. D So much is this the natural problem that one may fairly de- finé the task of promoting tem- perance, in so far as laws have any part of it, as seeing to it that nobody has anything to gain by inducing people to drink more than they really want, or to drink the kind of liquor that it would be better they did not drink. For the less interest the liquor indus- try has in increasing its sales, the easier it will be to regulate it, and the less necessary it will be to regulate it. If you look, for example, at the infinitely complex and very irritating regulations set up in New York you are bound to wonder whether such regulations can be made to work, and then; to begin asking yourself whether this tremendous complexity is not| caused by the attempt to lasso| and harness a widely competitive! collection of businesses fighting for | profit. Because there is this pow- | erful incentive to break the la the law itself has been made enor-| mously complicated. The question is Whether it would not be better; to deal with the incentive. I Therefore, it seems to me that ( Simply dAdd to Oil and Gas) Added to gas, oil, grease, reduces friction, seals compression, in- creases power in all gas and diesel engines. ' ‘Alaska Dairy Truck, 4100 Per Cent PYROILIZED, consumes one third less gas, 50 per cent less oil, per mile. All new cars and trucks sold by all loeal dealers, in bring out a fundamental truth in this whole problem, which is that in so far as you really wish to regulate liquor you must deal with the profit incentive to break the law. Ideally, therefore, the man- ufacture and sale of liquor should be carried on without profit. No- body should be any richer be- cause he sold more liquor. There would then be no temptation to supply liquor in violation of any regulation which any community chose to set up. For my own part T am con- vinced that a permanent solution of the liquor problem is impossi- ble except by taking the path which leads to the eradication of the motive of private profit. The liquor industry differs from other industries in that its commercial expansion is mot in the public in- terest. Generally speaking, al- though there are importa ex- ceptions, the continual increase of production of all kinds of goods means a continually higher stand-! ard of life. But the increased production of reach a point where it was a sance rather than a benefit, and the effort to sell the increase to the people would be distinctly un- desirable. That was the essential evil of the old saloon. Senator Mastick of New York is surely right when he says that the evil was not that.men stood up at a bar instead of sitting down at a table but “that the liquor busi- ness was trying at every turn to extend its sales and increase its profits and to protect itself against regulation.” The effect of any liquor regu- lation is to reduce profits. The purpose of any regulation must naturally be to diminish consump- nui- liquor would soon} Douglas and Juneau are Pyroil Treated. Ask Your Dealer for a “TRIAL TEST TREATMENT” {Miss Crystal Snow and the Elks’ | ing of ducks each day at noon in afterncon in display room of Al- aska Electric Light and Power Co. — { ' 20 YEARS AGO Prom The Empire B e e DECEMBER 6, 1913. An impressive program had be:n prepared for the Elks' memorial | exercises, to be held the following { evening in the Elks' Hall on whichlfl-—-m———fl G. F. Forrest was to give William Cullen Bryant’s ‘Thanatopsis.” Other nvmbers in addition to the lodge ceremuiics were, vocal sel- ections by Mrs. Angus Mackay, Quartette and' selected overtures by the Treadwell Cluk Orchestra. Juneau had been milled by a “wooley” during the day, which picked up a brand new cottage, just built on a piling foundation on the waterfront below Court House Hill, and turning it roof down, set it gently in the Channel. The owner had not yet moved in. The first Scottish Rite re- union ever held in Juneau was brought to a successful close with a banquet in the Odd Fellows building the previous night. Sixty- nine Scottish Rite Masons were seated at the attractively deco- rated table and Ernest B. Hussey. Sovereign Grand Inspector Gen-' eral for Washington and Alaska, presided. - Addresses were made by many prominent Seottish Rite members. At the Douglas rink the Lyric 8-piece orchestra was planning to give a grand Christmas Eve Rall to which many people on both sides of the Channel were planning to go. Pupils of St. Ann's Parochial School in Douglas, were hard at work on their Christmas concert which was to be held on Decem- ber 30. MORNING SHOOTING BRUNSWICK, Mo, Dec. 6.— Fritz Gottschalk, veteran sport man, favors stopping the shoot- regions like Missouri, so that the birds will not fly on through so rapidly. — - — Wesley Guild Toy Sale Saturday Make your gifts so fascinat- ing that it will be a real effort “Not to Open Until Christmas.” GREETING CARDS 100 assorted designs CHRISTMAS SEALS NOVELTY PAPERS Butler Mauro Drug Co.. “Express Money Orders” dominates the busine: men than any other ice of Alaska’s oldest NI I ez "JUNEAU tion, that is to reduce sales and therefore profits. Consequently, as long as the liquor industry is conducted for profit there is bound to be a perpetual war be- tween the regulators and the sel- ' Mining and Fishing district, employing more capital and more Both management and employees of these great interests demand the best in banking service, and for forty-two years they have found it in The B. M. d The complete facilities and seasoned serv- . prove their worth to you. TheB. M. Bank \\\\\mp ss life of the Juneau industry. erCIRECAAALARL AR LN Behrends Bank. and largest bank will Behrends L/ IR yery, ALASKA PROFESSIONAL Helene W. L. Albrecht PHYSIOTHERAPY Electriclty, Infra Red Ray, Medical Gymnastics. 307 Goldsteln Bulding Phone Office, 216 l ‘ DRS. KASER & FREEBURGER ! DENTISTS Blomgren Building l PHONE 56 Hours 9 am. to 9 pm. Dr. C. P. Jenne DENTIST Rooms 8 and 9 Valentine Building Telephone 176 Dr. J. W. Bayne DENTIST Rooms 5-6 Triangle Bldg. OfZice nours, 9 am. to 5 pm. «venings by appointment, ¢ Phone 321 I Dr. A. W. Stewart DENTIST Hovss 9 am. to 6 p.m. SEWARD BUILDING ©Office Phone 4C9, Res. Phone 276 —_ \ B. P. O. ELKS meets every Wednesday at 8 p.m Visiting 5 brothers welcome. L. W.'Turoff, Exalt- ed Ruler. M. H. Sides, Secretary. e e ey KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS Seghers Council No. 1760. Meetings second and last Monday at 7:30 p. m. | | Transtent brothers urg- =led to attcnd. Councit Chambers, Fifth Strecd. JOHN F. MULLEN, G. K. H. J. TURNER, Secretary OF | Gastineau Channel OGO LI M e ———————— - | Our irucks go sny place any | time. A tank for Diesel Oil | and a tank for crude of} save burner trpuble. ¢ PHONE 149, NIGHT 148 | RELMUBLE TRANSYER | | l Wise to Call 48 ! Juneau Transfer Co. when in need Dr. DENTIST OFFICE AND RESIDENCE | Gastineau Building, Phone 481 R A e Robert Simpson t. D. Greduate Angeles Col- lege of Optometry and Opthalmology Glasses Fitted, Lenses Ground e A. Andrews Graduate Nurse Electric Oabinet Baths—Mas- sage, Colonic Irrigations Office hours 11 am. to 5 p.m. Evenings by Appointment Second and Main Phone 259 Ros: Jones-Stevens Shop LADIES'—CHILDREN'S READY-TO-WEAR Beward Street Near Third Phone 218 for Appointment | Entrance Pioneer Barber Shop JUNEAU SAMPLE SHOP The Little Store with the orfice Hours: 10-12; 2-8 Richard Williams of MOVING or STORAGE Fuel Oii Coal Transfer L) Konneru p’s MORE for LESS | JUNEAU-YOUNG ! | Funeral Parlors | | [Licensed Funeral Directors | | and Embalmers [ Night Phone 1851 Day Phone 12 (bl R S | s4Biws | TeE JuneEAu Launpry ' Franklin’' Street betweem | Front an? Second Streets | PHONE 359 H e T e JUNEAU FROCK SHOPPE Large Sample Rooms l ELEVATOR SERVICE 8. ZYNDA, Prop. ARBAGE HAULED Reasonable Monthly Rates E. 0. DAVIS TELEPHONE 584 Phone 371 MAYTAG W. P.fJOHNSON P McCAUL MOTOR COMPANY | Dodge and Plymouth Dealers R R R R TRNEN CalR L SRR RS Y RS SN SR L W ST RERTRSITEN RRESSRASE e SO WG e e SER e s