The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 7, 1933, Page 4

v vl a ‘stfadenness ‘that 18 almost too rapid to realize; we are still ' rubbing our eyes and wondering whether all this really has hap- pened in the short space of six months. All this has sprung from the energy, the lead- ership and the courage of one man, who, Daily Alaska Em pire GENERAL MANAGER ROBERT W. BENDER - - axcept Sunday by the Published _every evening « | KMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY at Second and Main without overturning the social system, has Streets, Juneau, Alaska. accomplished as much as any dictator has ever done in a similar space of time. There were, to begin with, many people in the country at large and a few in the Administration who took it for granted that all the new measures would turn out to be what they ostensibly were—temporary ex- pedients to relieve a temporary crisis—and that when the emergency passed the old system would once more go jogging along in- very much the same old way. These people have had to disabuse themselves, and the process is painful We must expect to hear their cries 'of protest and mis- ' | giving dn increasing volume. | Entered in the Post Office in Juneau as Second Class matter. ’ SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Dellvered by carrier In Juneau and Douglas for $1.2% per month. By mall, postage paid, at the following rates: One year, In advance, $12.00; nlx months, In advance, 00; one month, in advance, $1.2 | Subscribers will confer a favor u they will promptly wtify the Business Office of any failure or irregularity | the delivery of their papers. i .e\une for Editorial and Business Offices, 374. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS. The Assoclated Press 1s exclusively entitled to the | use for republication of all news dispatches credited to | it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. As difficulties fincrease, the thought of the Administrators is getting bolder, not weaker. Let any one who doubts this read the article by A. A. Berle, Jr., in The New York Times of October 29. Further, it may be said that the closer acquaintance with | industry brought about by code procedure, | combined with the revelations of the Sena- 4 | torial investigators in the world of high finance, have not encouraged either the | President or his advisers to believe in a return of the “good old times.” The good old times were good for far too few of the { people. ALASKA CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO ‘BE LARGER THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION. | Maybe in barring liquor advertisements from the ! mails coming into dry States, and Territories such as Alaska is, the Post Office Department believed it wouldn’t be really nice to tease the voluntarily good "people who vote dry or the ones required by law, like Alaskans, to be good LIPPMANN ANSWERS CRITIC MONETARY POLICIES. Of all the replies to the critics of the monetary pelicies of President Roosevelt, and there have been Maybe Mr. Farley on his trip across the Atlantic @ great many, Walter Lippmann, in his Today and Ocean got some: tips from M. Litvinoff on how to Tomorrow column in The,Empire last Monday came divide one job between every 200 office-seekers and nearer exposing the weakness of the opposition’s satisfy all of them.. Seems as if we can’t recall case than any one else. He points out the facts any trouble ahout patronage in Russia in recent plainly, in words that need no interpretation and years. | with a logic that ought to bring conviction to anyone seeking to know just what it is all about. & Changing the price of gold, or decreasing the gold content of the dollar, is not, as he pointed out, any- thing new in financial history. With but two_minor, NRA, Or— (New York World-Telegram.) In his Savannah speech the President answered exceptions, every country in the world has boosted the -modern Tories who object to experiment in| the price of gold since the World War. As he government today just as the Tories of 1776 at-} listed them: Japan, 165 per cent; Australia, 94 per tacked the changes out of which our nation grew. cent: Denmark, 91 per cent; New Zealand, 90 per He proudly pleaded guilty to the charge of the cent; Norway, 70 per cent; Argentine, 67 per cent; doubting Thomases that “he is an experimenter Sweden, 66 per cent; Canada, 57 per cent; England, Who has faith in the pioneering spirit. 55 per cent; South Africa, 5¢ per cent. Admitting that there are no easy and quick remedies for our économic ills, he added: Italy ‘and Belgium, pointed .Ln as the golfl bloc “My friends, Wé are on the. way” £ recovery. nations, gold is worth several hundred per cent 1t is understabdable that the business'man who more than it was prior to the war. The United 'oontinyes to believe in “rugged individualism” finds States had raised gold 56 per cent at the time M. it hard to adjust himself to the new philosophy Lippman wrote, about 30 days ago. It has been embodied in NRA, for instance, Permit us to sug- | increased slightly since that time in all of the gest, however, that before he devotes himself to countries, the United States included. It seems that the task of wrecking the President’s program, he | the objections to this policy are confined to our own consider these facts: The electorate smashed the powerful Vare ma- In France, country. It has worked well enough in all of the others so that there is no agitation for a return to chine in Philadelphia the other day. It beat the, it will ‘Mellon-Coyne machine in Pittsburgh. It cracked | the old basis. Maybe, if it is given time. do the same thing here. Tammany in New York. i S And while this was gomg on, Prohlbmon starleu Only the deceitful or the densely “igggrant will 15 Tineral maven. 1 > 0e contend that the President has started on a policy Al of this iedsdesthat e spu’l! of change is of currency inflation. The money of the United [gpr0ad in this country. | States today is based as solidly upon gold as it Was| Franklin D. Roosevelt is a keen politician and | when gold was selling for $2067 a fine ounce. js particularly apt in reading the public mind. It.' Charges that the President has violated a platform 'is altogether likely that if he swerves from the pledge of his party to keep the country’s money path he now is treading, his course will be to the “sound” must, therefore, fall to the ground, at least left. for the time being. He has steadfastly adhered to SO it seems to us that the “rugged individualist” that pledge ever since he took office. There has IS called upon to decide whether he will accept been no lack of pressure used in an effort to have NRA, 8 thing which' he does not lke, or whether him start the Government’s printing presses run- he prefers to accept something which he likes less. ning off billions of dollars in greenbacks, fiat money,‘ ! which would be inflation in the truest sense. He, Time for.a Gold Stampede. has resisted this courageously, refusing to do the! TR | very things that some of his most violent critics THbastntn. days ofihigh. adverine W d v i . 4 3 ays of ucc;[se ):‘m AT d“g‘ h th 1’98, the days when the boys swung a poke of gold, | r. Lippmann summed up the case against the e, teq Jadies of doubtful repute and when one | opposition tersely, and yet completely, when he could drape himself over the bar and drink to his | i (Seward Gateway.) declared: “To denounce ‘inflation’ is & very good heart's content, are perhaps pages from the rosy thing but it is not relevant to this crucial 'past, but there is just as much gold “in them thar | question.” hills” as ever. | It has been a quarter of a century now since a real strike has been made but that is because 'the big scrap across the pond took away so many | q ©f the boys who never came back. NO MORE “GOOD OLD TIMES.” The Roosevelt Administration is moving forwar We long for' a strike again; not: entirely. on ‘f;“‘k b)_ “"‘Qk to new positions .from Which &', .. ot"the gold, the ladies, or the bouze?’ but simple retreat is absolutely out of the question, p. ... somehow, we seemed to live in mose! declares William A. Orton, histcrian and economist, days, where today we just exist; if you get what | in Current History for the present month. He holds e mean. that the now fabled “good old times” will never return any more to this country, because they Were , another laugh will be the efforts—successful or good for only a small proportion of the population otherwise—of Federal agents to, protect moonshine- and that proportion decreased as the population drenched North Carolina from an invasion of aged increased. land bonded liquor.—(Chicago News.) Mr. Orton wrote in part: - Radical, even revolutionary, projects of | Messrs. John . Curry, William S. Vare and the | economic reform that have been under Mellons of Pittsburgh might get together some day to tnlk over the good old days—«noston Globe.) | perimentation,” |set up banks and loan agencies, ACROSS 1. Public vehicle Daily Cross-wbrd Puzzle Solution of Yesterday's Puzzle 8. Abstract belnj 9. More rational 0. Poultry . While 30. Pig . Seat of the affections . Des: T[] EEE [mm Tt pe measure Thick 35. Gentle breeze 36. Part of a . Unity shoe . Danger | 37. Skill Age & 38. Thin leveling . Marry wedge Feminine 40. Issued forth name 45. Likening 53. Roguish Money Battles that Have Made History (Continuea 1rom Page One.) about the same time. Agrarian Districts Hcard From Unrest with the rise and fall of the value of the monetary unit has been a feature of almost every serious financial stringency usually most vocal in agrarian dis-| tricts. And now President Roosev»lt has declared for a policy of ‘“ex- with the “sound money” group warning that prev- iqus experiments always have end- ed in disaster and that fie go‘ld" standard is the best system yet to| be found. On the other hand, Prof. George F. Warren says the dollar must be rubber in weight or rubber in value, and urges the compensated, or commodity dollar that would be wariable in weight. President’s Program Sweeping In successive steps the Presi- dent has gone off the international gold standard, acted against gold) hoarders, cancelled the gold clause in the public and private securi- ties, rejected the pleas of the European “gold bloc” for stabili- zation, moved toward an national“silver agreement, and in- mated his gold purchase policy to depreciate the dollar and lift commodity prices. ing their monetary difficulties as. soon ' as they reached shore. Havs ing brought little money and al- most as Tiitle credit with them, they used wampum and heads to| trade with tHe Indians, and insti~ tuted barter for commerce among themselves. They declared some commodi~ ties, such as tobacco, colonies had storehouses to accept payment of taxes in this ‘‘mon-! ey Colonies Issued Paper Money As time went on many colon-j ies began issuing paper money, and to issue bills of credit. What sil-| discussion for years have materialized with Kozy Comfort House Slippers | 1.95 Up {| CHRISTMAS SEALS All Colors . . . . All Styles | NOVELTY PAPERS All Sizes | Butler Mauro FAMILY SHOE STORE . || Drug Co. Seward Street f'| “Express Money Orders” Make your gifts so fascinat- ing that it will be a real effort “Not to Open Until Christmas.” GREETING CARDS 100 assorted designs ver there was usually disappeared because it was over-valued by law. i The paper currencies soon de- preciated. “In 1740 Massachusetts currency had depreciated to three- fourths its value. Finally, in 1751, the parllament forbade fulthor issue | Happy Now — Rheumahc Agony All Gone Father On His Job Again Mother sings as she works—her heart is filled with joy—and no wonder. It was she who learned of the wenderful swift-working pre- scription known to pharmacists as ALLENRU — the prescription that put father in such fine shape that _his weekly pay envelope is coming | {home regularly again So if you, Dear Reader, suffer from Rheumatism, Neuritis, Back- |ache or Seiatica please bear in| |mind that within 2¢ hours after | 'you begin taking this safe yet: ‘powerful medicine excess uric acid |starts to leave the body — in 48 !hours pain, agony and swelling' are gone. An eight ounce bottle costs cents and is guaran ay Butler Mauro Drug [ So. and first class drug ',tores everywhere, i —adv. L] Lyanm fll./flflll inter- - American colonists b:sgan hav- j' corn and| &. furs, legal tender, and some of the i English ! 3 E IH%flflfllfl/q | 7" | III of paper money in the New Eng- a restriction that was extended to all the colonies land colonies, 4. Little girl who products visited . Expense Wonderland Spoken 9. Dry - Gnit of work 2. . Corrode 12. Lubricate Gy 13. Kind of meat . Electrified 14. Past particle 15, Room In a . Offered harem " Short-napped 16. Afternoon fabric Atmosphere Ocearn 31. Fowl Wrath . Military Kind of fruit gaiters . Carol . Moist . Legal hearing 5. Southern constella- . Mada verses 37. Fish . Large flat- bottomed boat Sharpe stone . Deep mud . Indigo plant Nobleman . Heavy wagon . South Amer- ican river ing in 1764. Benjamin Franklin i sentment at * the money Had much to do with fo-|Bldg., December 18. menting American Revolu- tion, said ban on pap: the re- 20 YEARS AGO Prom The Empire DECEMBER 7, 1913. Memorial exercises, held in the large auditorium of the Elks' Hall attracted a crowd that even filled the balcony. The impressive cere- {mony began promptly at 8:30 and was completed about 10 o'clock. It was all very beautiful and held jthe attention of all who were present throughout. i 3 Emery Valentine and John Rustgard, who were fighting the tax levy of the (City of Juneau, appeared in court during the morn- ing, the former represented by J.! H. Cobb and the latter repre- senting himself. The hearing was postponed. Mr. and Mrs. James Whipple entertained at dinner attheir home on Gastineau Heights. Among the guests seated at the large table which was decorated with a baskat and Mrs. Shattuck No work. no eat, was the edict of Capt. Martin of the local po- lice force when three prisoners in the City Hall refused to per- form the task of cleaning the gut- | ters on down-town streets. There the matter rested and the prison- ers were reclining safely in their cells looking forward to a - stricted diet of bread and water. Mrs. Hazel G. Kirmse planned to leave for the south on the steamer Dolphin. Plans were enthusiastically go- | ing forward for the New Year's! Eve ball to be given by the ladies of Trinity Church in the Eks’ Hall. Decorations were to be elaborate and in keeping with the Yuletide sehson. Everyone was Tooking forward to it with pleas- urable anticipation, ———.——— CHRISTMAS TREES Pick your own. Old Museum —adv. ST PV SR Daily Empire waur Ads Pay. A simple twist and its open! A simple twist and its closed! label to cut! No 1id to pry loose! Costs you less! 7 Schilling > Juneau Cash Grocery CASH AND CARRY Corner Second and Seward Free Delivery { EERLL 7777227722 \\m\\\muifilfl'm/hfl Mining and Fishing dominates the business life of the Juneau district, employing men than any other industry. 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. Behrends Bank. The complete facilities and seasoned serv- ice of Alaska’s oldest and largest bank will prove their worth to you. The B. M. Behrends Phone 58 more capital and more | PROFESSIONAL Helene W. L. Albrecht PHYSIOTHERAPY Massage, Electricity, Infra Red Ray, Medical Gymnastics. | 307 Goldstein Bullding i Phone Office, 216 ey e DRS. KASER & FREEBURGER DENTISTS Blomgren Building PHONE 56 Hours 9 am. to 9 pm. ! Dr. C. P. Jenne l / DENTIST | | Rooms 8 and 9 Valentine | Building | | Telephone 176 | ——————A 1 1 | Dr. J. W. Bayne DENTIST Rooms 5-6 Triangle Bldg. Ofice nours, 9 am. to 5 pm. of pink carnations, were Judge v and Mrs. R. W. Jennings, U. S.{" mmng;);};:g};t{lmmmt | Marshal and Mrs. H. L. Faulk- F’ > ner, Judge and Mrs. J. F. Malony | —— and Mr. and Mrs. Henry Shattuck. -_._.__..—————l Following dinner, bridge was indulg- Dr. A. W. Stewart ed in and prizes were won by Mr.' ‘DENTIST Hovss 9 am. to 6 pm. SEWARD BUILDING Office Phone 4¢9, Res. Phone 276 | DENTIST OFFICE AND DESIDENCE — — —— Robert Simpson t. D. Greduate Angeles Col- lege of Optometry and Opthalmology Glasses Fitted, Lenses Ground T A, DR. R. E. SOUTHWELL Optometrist—Optician Eyes Examined—Glasses Fitted Room 7. Valentine Bldg. Office Pnone 484; Residence Phone 238. Office Hours: 9:30 to 12; 1:00 to 5:30 = T Rose A. Andrews ! Graduate Nurse Electric Cabinet Baths—Mas- sage, Colonic Irrigations Office hours 11 am. to 5 pm. Evenings by Aprointment Second and Main Phone 250 E. B. WILSON | Chiropodist—Foot Specialist 401 Goldstein Building PHONE 496 Jones-Stevens Shop LADIES'—CHILDREN'S READY-TO-WEAR Beward Street Near Third ALLAMAE SCOTT Expert Beauty Specialist PERMANENT WAVING Phone 218 for Appointment JUNEAU SAMPLE SHOP The Little Store with the BIG VALUES C. L. FENTON CHIROPRACTOR South ¥ront St., next to Brownie's Barber Shop orfice Hours: 10-12; 3-8 Evenings by Appointment (R Juneau Coffee Shop Opposite MacKinnon Axm Bank Arctic Pabst Famous ~ Draught Beer On Tap J | | Dr. Richard Williams Gastineau Building, Phone 481 | l I 1 i i | | | | \ 1 | B. P. 0. ELKS meets every Wednesday at 8 p. m. Visiting brothers welcome. N L. ‘W. Turoff, Exalt- ed Ruler. M. H. Sides, Secretary. KN!GHT! OF COLUMBUS Seghers Council No. 1760. Meetings second and 1ast Monday at 7:30 p. m. Tranpsient brothers urg- ed to attend. Councll Chambers, Fifth Strecl. JOHN F. MULLEN, G. K. H. J. TURNER, Secretary Our irucks go sny place any | time." A tank for Diesel Oll j and'a tank for crude oil save ' PHONE 149, NIGHT 148 RELIABLE TRANSYER E oot it i) ——3 Wise to Call 48 Juneau Transfer Co. when in need ' of MOVING or STORAGE Fuel Oi Ceal } Transfer ; Konnerup’s | MARE for LESS i | JUNEAU-YOUNG | Tfuneral Parlors Licensed Funeral Directors and Embalmers [ Night Phone 1851 Day Phone 12 | — = —_ — SABIN’S | Everything in Furnishings for Men THE JuNEAU LAunDRY ' Franklin Street betweea Front an” Second Streets | PHONE 359 H S MR e v el Pl [ aeaameaaas s RS S . JUNEAU FROCK ; SHOPPE “Exclusive but not Expensive” i ELEVATOR SERVICE 8. ZYNDA, Prop. I"GARBAGE HAULED l |~ Reasomable Monthly Rates | E. 0. 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