The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 27, 1935, Page 7

THAT'S ALL S LIEE N 1935 INVESTIGATING . Year’s Economic Record Proves Real Puzzle HIGH FOOD COST % This ig ghe first i a cesies of | q T W 4:tcries. dhowing how the events | b < | “cf 1935 have afferted the man | in the street. Dr. Walton H. Hamilton, One of “Brain Trust,” Protects Consumers IRBERT YAHRAES (A ed Pre:s Staff Writer) 4 The “average cilizen,” looking cver e family budget, had a hard time fheiding how 1935 had affected his [*: onal fartunes and what the yvear's ccenomic developments portend. n §mith heard the farmer was better, industry was producing >, the stock market trend was up- ward, the movies were shoving mil- lions into productions, the world | ew a big gate, the Baer-Louis ave Broadway its first golden evening in years, football attendance was up 10 percent Mzny Uncmployed | o depression really behind? d also that an army of un- | numberinz millions re- the ycar-end, that the lief was running into bil- attack on major ‘‘new ation continued e trouble ahead? John Smith could get any answer he wantsd, depending upen t asked, what stati WASHINGTON, Dec. 7 Dr. Walten H. Hamilton, the President adviser on consumer problems, is Wazhington's new “mystery man.” | He has been a special presidential | adv ince June 30, but only since | the arrival on Washington desks of | a pamphiet called “The Con .um"r."! | | | edited in his division, has the fickle Washington spotlight turned to him. It just as rumbles of dis- |content over the rising price of | bread reach the capital Commentators examine two facts and wonder: the rising cost of liv- ing, and the direct entre to the| White Hous» granted Hnmiltsn‘ whese particular worry is the rising i cost of livinz. | tives into pri “t-ouble spot:" keep the product out | ol the consumers’ reach; education of the public to use quality stand- 18 co-operative jadvice of consumers ly; anc ! councils { For come time Hamilton's staff of | six eccnomists has been gathering facts about key industries; women's dresses, es, tires, autos, ice and| paper. When the surveys are done jthe facts will be made available to des of the ledger jammed with confusing statictics, | manufacturers and the people who ge citizen” finds much to eonfuse-him-as-he tries *ibuy frem them Hamilton believes in making facts . | pub He wonders, for instance, 1. that federal direct relief was|n ; men who start factor ion numbered 20,669,647 over, that henceforth state and men's dresses know the 11-time high, In S governments would be onsibl s of such a plant is only bout 16,006,000, but a new the f ed as well | three years d during the win- y not then| He grins over the industry'dod , however, has not, dering along with machines w: 3 Record Relief bed anything like 3,500,000.] 555 30 ye: old on the average. He Industries Gain The record relief population, in- From October to October the increase | thinks they # | But John Smith was told the ear- | cluding about one out of every seven IR private payrolls Stimiveod A4 f they kept up-to-date. & lier introduction of new automobile | persons, may not have startled John Cnly about §00,000 persons. ! “Juct An Adviser” this year accounted for some ' Smith, used to big figures these years Ancwers In 1936 But, he peints cut, he has no October gain. But the sum to provide work, an- (o0 oe 0060 000 joblass rezis- | POWer to g0 in and say, “You're gat} was told that in the firsp gight ths of 1935, the total income of the Cn November 5 1 food costs country as a whole were 6.5 >nt higher than on that date a ~03ts were up slight- With both nt of labor, but the nation’s “a or no change in the o balance the books for 1935. tart of the year the ars, and the factor: M(fSL important .valA cmp.qymm’u nounced by President Roosevelt and tered with the United States employ= | “TiNZ MOss. Junk it.” He is just an #ains were in these industries; auto- | appropriated later, may well have | oow ' covie i November ever get |24Viser. But he believes in advice mobile, blast furnace, steel, rolling | taken his breath away. It was $4,880,- work ;'“ private industry? “NRA, goodness knows, made| mills, machine tool shops, furniture | 600,000 = i jenough mistakes,” he says, “but it | Would the government continue and knit, woolen and worsted good The new program was designed t i 2 sines: i in| 2 5! goods. P > nalbares for Falst? did make business men think in Employment, figures remained low in provide work for 3,500,000. Indust: {larger terms; about whole indus- brick, tile, marble, granite, slate and it was figured, would absorb another ~ Would a large part of the admin- | ¢jo5 instead of single plants.” ¢ement industries, in railroad repair | 3500,000. Part of the appropriation istration’s recovery and reform pro=| p, giing at the cynical suggestion Shops, in locomotive building, in|would be used for tapering off the gram be set back on constitutionally, v ta0ts may mot foree the ineffi- its hug There were more jobs, but still| In December officials announced For the answers to such questions, | routine, !s\r from enough to go around. | the job-creaiing goal had been at- John Smith had to look ahead. “Yowd be surprised how many | e 4 i g e . business men are intellectually curi- | ST DE RUSSETTE BETTER cus enough to give us help,” he says. | prrr e LUNDBN FABMS DO UGLAS 3 Eugene De Russette, designer and|"This week two of the largest organ- j = Ann's Hospital today after a short the free use of their books. We will ¢ Grain Flourish in } i i Huge City | | | F. 0. E. AUXILIARY TO | L | LONDON, Dec. 27.—The mctmpou-' BE HOST TO DOUGLAS | Vil an area of London, the largest city CHILDREN AT FREE SHOW | NOW' at the ;\ the world, includes 73,867 acres —_ | e devoted to agriculture. | Sponsored by the Ladies Auxiliary, | | Of this aréa, 694 acres regularly | p, O, E, the Eagles' Christmas tree 4re under the plow, producing 0ats, | pary this year will consist of a free | . ¥heat. potatoes and garden u-uck_, | show at the Douglas Coliseum to be . | The London County Couneil which | given af 1:30 o'clock Saturday after- has compiled this and other figures|poon for all the children of the | in a book called “'London Statistics,” | i-jand. Charles Whyte, manager of ¥ authority for the statement. | the theatre, will provide candy for . Other revelations of the book are | ine children to top off the free en- that Lonon numbers 273 agricultural | tertainment. workers in its population and has | i B 82 L5 = | et },379 pigs and 822 mileh cows within FROLIC IN JUNEAU its borders. The children of the Catholic Sun- *’ ¢ % day $School went to au on the ¢ okhho’. Protecis Fox' =~ goon bus to gelebrafe their annual | J{ “ " Birds ‘Bufstmas exercises. i . | and “Graveyard” Birds| — Eos " & g ¢ AL e W | {okLaHoMA crTy, pec. 27—l | The Juneau Laundry 5 ‘ ¢ animal that may be chased all § | Franklin Street between ke Vi, ) ht to the music of baying hiounds, | | Front and Second Streets | o prnes ) '3 HAROLD KNOX and dircumstances—that’s the legal status | | PHONE 358 | ,'gn of the fox in Oklahoma. | ¢ & 52, .t A fox, which is found loitering |s _ i 3 e R W Bear a henhouse, however, may be | | | ms PRSI i A e rovae e | IDEAL PAINT SHOP | delivered to the clerk of the school ; e ol R i3 sy Board of the school distriet wherein | | ? | LAl D g g <31 fox is kiled, and may be sokd || pHONE S | IN AMERICAN AND SCANDINAVIAN MUSIC y. the clerk of such school district d and the proceeds of the sale be | peeerees— @1 deposited to the credit of the gen- iral fund of such district.” 0 S S 4% | Another odd statute sets up a $5 4 fme for wouniog vics g cene- || CONSTRUCTION (CO. B R e Phone 107 Juneau Come and Enio'fy Real Music 'ND WHERE YOU MAKE IT! HILL-BILLY DAME'S |ards and to ask for grade labeling; | - IR ould sell more at lower | hardware, in lumber i dole, TOUIS "8S. Was the NRLA jcient manufacturer to change hm! decorator, was -discharged from St.!izations in the country offered us| ™ t’ ’ o Plgs COWS and NE WS stay for medical treatment. study one set to find out the average ota » 3 == e T ey ey — Bv Bl Dusen, 18, of Salt Le judged the most str beauty in Utah. | Dorothy In competition with es ob | other redheads from throug .:ut | the state, Miss D Van | 's credit and how he uzes it." ‘ Son Builds Boats Hamilton can’t remember when he ‘ d being an economist, but h«‘ 5 studied the subject in four col- | e and taught it in six. He is on | leavé from Yale University now, and | the -smell of autumn on the air| makes him a little homesick for New | Haven where his wife still main-| tains ‘their home. | The Hamiltons have three 1- dreny but it's Edward they grin aboist. ' He turned up his nose at the g@ettion of college; and all th face of his father's degrees ward ‘wants to build boats, so he's | building boats. Presidential Advisor Ve | | ' | s ) - | | INING 1} i a ‘ | | | MACHINERY e and INDUSTRIAL e EQUIPMENT Large variety carefully se- SRR lected—modern, efficiens CEENEE machinery fo save you sy meney in first cost and Jull imformation. LM‘L o turplus squipmens wish ws. WASHINGTON: MACHINERY & STORAGE €a. ! Lower Front LR LLIE DE 77 WT'S 'BEYAND ME- T TUCK TER TH' SHOP IN JUNEAU! LEGION PARTY BOXERS, WITHOUT IS TOMORRCW CREDENTIALS, TO BE BARRED, BRIT. BECK Memt FOR TONIGHT:- e WORK LIKE A PIG and Auxiliary are reminded of Ul | |y oynoN. Dec. 27, — No forelen BE 'ROUND EARLY HEAVY-EIGHT TER CARROTS AN' at oiaht oclock, when | fighter #ho is wi i1ie credentials TOMORROW - THET'S TH THANKS 5 ‘:[. ;{., :{,TA :H‘. X the boxing aut y of his own allowed to appear in eat Britain. ng of the British to prevent one- tmas party, in gifts wil refreshments enjoyed Allen E. Johnstone, Enter- tainment Committee Chairman, asks ing to bring out- nicate with her 2 ex vers2as boxers have ind billed as con- e may know how They have I alarms,” and B30 SR ruling body is, in ! the opinion t ics, belated e Goats Clear Pasture but escential TRENTON, Okla. — Two hundred pe goats have cleared 100 o Game Asylum Considered wooadland pasture in three years for — . L |MrsJ.B. Berryman near here. 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