The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 30, 1935, Page 4

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, MONDAY, DEC. 30, 1935 Daily Alaska Empire MOBERT W. BENDER - - Editor and Manager Published every y evening except Sunday by the EMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY at Second and Main Streets, Juneau, Alaska. Entered in the Post Office in Juneau as Second Class matter SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Delivered by carrier In Juneau and- Douglas for $1.25 per month, By mail, postage paid, at the following ra‘e: One year, in advance, $12.00; six months, in advance, $6.00; one month, in advanoe, $1.25 Subscribers will confer a favor if they will promptly notify the Business Office of any failure or irregularity in the delivery of their papers. Telephones: News Office, 602; Business Cffice, 374 MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news di ches credited to it or mot otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published her ALASKA ‘CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER| THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION BORAH, THE REPUBLICAN THORN Reports from the East indicate that Senator Borah added further complications for the Republi- can high command when he stepped out as a Presidential nominee possibility, and gave added weight to the theory of some that a compromise candidate at the Cleveland ultimate result. The Senator from Idaho, long a progressive Republican, and Mr. Hoover, titular head of the party, it appears, have their own personal differences which seem rather difficult to iron out. Mr. Hoover is out and out against the New Deal and declares it a menace to the country while Borah has supported some of the New Deal measures and is personally very friendly to President Roose- velt. That they can get together on their theories of the present Administration appears to be seriously doubted in most political sources. Frank R. Kent, widely known political observer, commenting on the differences between the two men has this to say: It is agreed that getting them in a room together is not the way. They too sincerely dislike each other for that. Nor it is likely it could be done by second-hand negotia- tions by mutual friends. The fact is there is no way unless both are sufficiently con- cerned about the New Deal defeat to rise above every small feeling, sacrifice and desire to dominate and shelve pet ideas, preferences and prejudices. That Mr. Hoover is capable of doing this is the belief of his friends. There is more doubt about Mr: Borah. Mr. Kent admits, as do most observers, that Senator Borah has real power to harm or help the Republican Party, pointing out that the Idahoan’s support counts second only to that of Mr. Hoover. “If Mr. Borah is vigorously for the ticket he can be of great help,” Mr. Kent writes. “If he sulks, as in 1932, or takes to the woods, as in 1912, or finds some point to use as an alibi for dissent, he can do a lot of harm. It is possible to win without him, but it would help the Re- publicans very much in the West to have him on the stump.” In other words, Senator Borah is right now very much the fly in the Republican ointment, and his record over the years does not indicate he will be one to bow to Mr. Hoover or any one else in the party. It would appear that the Republican high command is confronted with defeating Mr. Borah for the nomination at Cleveland or supplying a compromise candidate that Borah favors if the present party leadership is to occupy the driver's seat in the actual campaign. METHODISTS MERGE Reports from the East indicate the merger of Methodism in this cotntry after a split of more than 100 years. Originally, it was a single faith but in 1830 the Methodist Protestants broke away on the question of lay representation in church administration. The question of slavery divided the Methodist Episecopal Church, South, from the Methodist' Episcopal in 1844. In the years that fol- lowed these major groups granted laymen a voice in annual conferences, and the Civil War settled the slavery problem. A movement has been under- way for years to unify Methodism again and recently a merger plan was agreed upon by a joint commis- sion of the three churches. A report of the plan, published in the New York Times, explains it as follows: The government and administration of the the union will be episcopal; its ranking executive body will be a general conference held every four years, composed half ol ministers, half of laymen; below this will be a series of lesser conferences for districts and localities. It will take five years, it was said, before the plan is approved by the three groups and their local churches. When thisi is accomplished, the Methodist Church — the name agréed upon—will have a membership of 7,200,000. This will place it third among the religious units of the country. The Roman Catholit population, according to the Official Catholic Directory, numbers 20,- 400,000; Baptists are placed at 8,246,266 by the latest Federal Census. There are those who feel at times that we are drifting in religious thought, but there is greater reason to believe that religion is gaining strength constantly through tolerance and just such unity as the Methodists are now achieving. INFLUENCE The Townsend old age pension plan which took rather a drubbing at the last session of Congress, mustering a bare 60 votes in the House, appears to have gained new life, partly, perhaps, as the result of the election of a Republican Congressman, in a traditionally Republican district in Michigan, who convention will be thev is friendly to the plan. At least, the Townsendites point to the Michigan victory as the example of | what {hey propose to do throughout the country. | Dr. F. E. Townsend, father of the scheme which | proposes to pay every person 60 or more years old $200 a month through a two per cent tax on all transactions, claims now to have some 5,000 clubs | organized throughout the various Congressional dis- | tricts. The members are pledged to support those candidates for Congress who declare themselves explicitly for the plan. Talk of a third. party headed by the Townsend bloc seems to have been cast aside, at least for the time being, for the doctor has been frank in pointing out that he proposes to put his plan over by electing men to Congress who favor it. Thus at this stage, the ias the Anti-Saloon League was during the days leading up to Prohibition. In fact, the Townsend- ites point to the old Prohibition movement as an example of how they expect to become a potent political force. Just how strong a political power the movement | will become is, of course, a matter for conjecture, |but that it will have an influence in the coming elections appears certain, judging from reports about the country. Dr. Townsend himself, in information given out from his headquarters recently, declared the full strength of his scheme would not be felt | until 1937 when he believes a $200-a-month pension law will be within the range of possibility. If that belief holds, then it will be the Congressmen elected this coming fall who will pass on the legislation, which would make it appear the doctor is pointing his hopes fairly high. Higher, most observers feel, than is possible of attainment. Mr. Hoover Redoubles. (New York World-Telegram.) Herbert Hoover still suffers - from the thing which so afflicted the economics of his Presidential administration—overexpansion—except now it is over- expansion of the argument. Not content to confine himself to the weak spots in the New Deal defense, he blithely doubles and redoubles, as they say in bridge. He spreads him- |self out to convince the nation that the bank ipnnic was all Franklin’s fault; to convince the | nation which still remembers that the heart of | finance had stopped, that the New York banks were closed on the day Hoover and Roosevelt rode |up Pennsylvania Avenue together in what still strik- \ingly appears as the last round-up as far as Hoover |is concerned. | The panic, he declares in a St. Louis speech, was caused by the scared depositors and investors | “frightened at the incoming New Deal.” “It was the most political and most unnecessary bank panic in our history,” he asserts. | He says that the real bank panic started with |his defeat. Let's look at the record: | It shows that in the whole of the Hoover Ad- |ministration a total of 6,083 banks were forced to |close, not counting the grand rush in the last few |days of the Hoover regime, which brought on the nationwide banking holiday and the later bank reopening under the Roosevelt Administration. | Of the 6,083 only 703 occurred after the date of Roosevelt’s election and up to the general holiday. {Making a score of 5380 before election day, 703 after. In the twelve years of Republican rule which in¢ludes Harding, Coolidge and Hoover there were {10504 bank suspensions, and these failures, plus |mergers, reduced the total number of operating !banks in the United States from a peak of 30,560 |in 1921 to a low of 14,500 in 1933. By contrast, in the Roosevelt Administration only 1179 of the banks licensed to reopen after the Eholiday were closed in 1933. In the whole of 1934 (only 57 banks were closed. And in 1935, up to the |present, only 20. To sum up, only 265 banks have been closed in the Roosevelt Administration to date, less than the number closed in any one of the twelve Republican years. The closing average under Mr. Hoover showed that many every sixty days. In view of what that record shows, it now only remains for Mr. Hoover to charge the New Deal with being responsible for the Galveston floods, the Santa Barbara earthquake, the Tulsa race riots, |the flu epidemic of 1917, Ivar Kreuger, the fire in the Reichstag, the kidnaping of Aimee McPherson, the Credit Anstalt and the murder of cock robin. War from Fascism (Cincinnati Enquirer) It is generally assumed that Fascism leads to war, a view which finds a good deal of support in the fact that both Italy and Germany are present- ing by their policies new threats of conflict. But there is some ground for reversing the order, and discovering in war the roots of Fascism. Without the social and economic disintegration of the World War, Italy probably would not have welcomed the appearance of Fascism in 1922, Certainly Adolf Hitler was sired by the Treaty of Versailles, and | catapulted into power by the postwar currency | troubles. It is hopeless to try to put the twin evils of war and Fascism into a simple and clear relation- ship. But the accumulating evidence suggests that the chaos of the World War was fundamentally responsible for the rise of Fascism. And innumer- | able signs in Italy and Germany confirm the belief that in its turn Fascist dictatorship augments the danger of new war. | In “Peace With Honor,” his brilliant satire of |war, Mr. A. A. Milne sums up well the warlike | tendency of the Fascist system: | Fascism is simply autocracy up to date. Being an autocracy, it is based on force. It | follows that the force must always be there; a standing army of adherents in suitably colored shirts, devoted either to the auto- crat himself or to the State through the autocrat. To keep the devotion of this army at its height all the picturesqueness of real war must be invoked. That such an army should have occasional longings to bring its human energies to a higher tension is natural. Of necessity it was nourished on the sentimentalities of war; inevitably its thoughts will turn to war. Mussolini’s years of saber rattling eventually brought him to the point where he was compelled |to wage a war of aggression, even though it might | mean national suicide in the long run. Hitler's | preparations for “defense” are coupled with unre- | mitting propaganda for the rectification of Ger- |many’s “bleeding frontiers,” creating the threat of la far greater war than Italy could wage. But in tracing the primary danger of war to these Fascist | regions, we should not forget that they themselves were born of an earlier war. Thus does the stupidity of war perpetuate itself, with each *“peuce settlement” creating new injustices that furnish ;plauslble pretexts for revenge. | | | | | | | | A man of 40 blots up a quart of the new process |rye, which is aged four years in four hours: How old is the man?—(Atlanta Constitution.) Townsend plan is a movement to be promoted much || HAPPY— —BIRTHDAY The Empire extends congratula- tions and best wishes today, their birthday anniversary, to the folloi- ing: DECEMBER 30 L. F. Morris Margaret Pimperton Tom Fukuyama oo P e 20 YEARS AGO e od DECEMEER 30, 1915 At a luncheon given by Mrs. I Sowerby, the engagement of her daughter, Alma, to Mr. Kenneth C. White was announced, the wedding to take place in the spring. Work started on the foundation for The Empire Building on Main Street and Second Avenue. Work had been held up on account of cold weather. Furniture for the new Arctic Brotherhood Hall has arrived and is being instailed for the grand open- ing January 1. Charles Skuse, high school boy of Mendenhall, wrote the best essay on “The Modern Application of Electricity in the Home,” and was awarded the $20 cash prize by the Alaska Electric Light and Power Company. The Treadwell Club was making big preparations for a New Year's Eve ball. The Seward Chamber of Com- merce was agitating for steamers bound from Seattle to the Orient to call there. The weather—Maximum, 34; min- imum, 27; cloudy, snow; precipi- tation 43 inch. Modern Etiquette By Roberta Lee [N e Q. When a woman is going to | observe an “at home” day, at what | hour should she be ready to receive | her callers? I A. She should be prepared short- | ly before 3 p.m. It is far better to | be ready a half hour before time | than to be compelled to hurry at | the last minute. Q. Should one use a high cen- | terpiece on the dining table? A. No; the centerpiece should never be high enough to obstruct the view of the guests who are op- posite one another. Q. What is the French expres- sion for a love letter? A. Billet doux, or billet d'amour. Daily iessons in English By W. L. Gordon ‘Words Often Misused: Do not say, “I am going to go to New York next week.” Omit to go. Often Mispronounced: Drollery. Pronounce the o as in roll, not as in doll. Often Misspelled: Mississippi; four i's, four s’s, two p's. Synonyms: Dream, vision, reverie, fancy, phantasy. Word Study: “Use a word three s times and it is yours.” Let us in- crease our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Today’s word Seduction; means of leading astray; allurement. “His soul was steeled against the seductions of wealth.” ING WORK IS DONE AT AUK LAKE Twenty-five additional men today were put to work in the Auk Lake recreation area, thinning out under- brush and clearing the section, ac- cording to Administrative Assistant Harry Sperling of the Forest Service. Ten FERA workers were already engaged on the project, under Foreman John Kinghorn. It is anticipated that 20 more men will be taken from relief rolls next. week to augment the force. SCHOOL REOPENS, WITH ALL PRESENT A normal attendance marked the pre-New Year opening of school to- day, with all students reporting back to both grade and high schools. There will be two days of school, followed by the observance of New Year's Day as a holiday. School will resume its normal trend on Thursday. This is the first time in Juneau history that schools have opened|vivors of the sport which once at- before New Year's, the change be- ing necessitated by the school schedule. The Parochial School will not open until Thursday. ] Horoscope “The stars 7acline but do not compel” TUESDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1935 Benefic aspects rule strongly on this last day of the year. The plane- tary influences are stimulating and encouraging to both physical and mental effort. Women should be especially for- tunate today and will do well to push all their plans for the coming year for they are to perform many deeds of important public service. This is a lucky wedding day that brings promise of success and long life. It is a fortunate date for the plighting of troth for the young and especially for those who contact sec- ond marriages. Impetus ‘for activities in 1936 is given by the planetary influences tod which encourage planning and signing of contracts. For those who watch the old year jout tonight there is promise of fair fortune through the coming months | !which contain surprising events. The planetary government favors amusements of many sorts and thea- tres and restaurants should enjoy extraordinary patronage. | With the new year what foreign astrologers call one of the “Amer-| ican boom cycles” will begin, and" the seers warn against reckless spec- | ulation. Horse-racing will tempt }mnny to hope for easy money. ¢ Again astrologers minimize the| chances of another World War, for |they declare that discoveries of sci- | ence will destroy the possibilities of | long conflict. | | Persons whose birthdate it is have i the augury of a year of much gain | |through their own efforts. Much that is pleasant, including new ifriends, may be expected. ; Children born on this day prob- ably will be bright of mind, affec- tionate in nature and exceedingly conscientious. Subjects of this sign usually have eventful careers. | James T. Fields, writer and pub- |lisher, was born on this day 1817, |Others who have celebrated it as a ibirthday include Peter John De- | Smet, Jesuit missionary to the In- |dns, 1801; Lord Cornwallis, British |general, 1738. (Copyright, ST o 1935) OFFICE AGAIN SHOWS “FAIR SURPLUS Annual Re;EMade Pub- lic by Postmaster General Farley ; WASHINGTON, Dec. 30— The |first increase in Postal revenues |since 1930 helped Postmaster Gen- |eral James A. Farley claim a second annual surplus in Government op- eration of mails, according to a statement made today. | Postmaster General Farley's re- iport for the fiscal year which ended jon June 30, listed Post Office ex- !penses at $696,600,000, compared to revenues of $630,795,000. He explain- ed that ship and aviation subsidies, | free mail, and other non-postal and | adjusted items totaled $70,772,000 | for the twelve months, and that sub- ' traction of that amount left a “net | surplus” of $4,964,000, compared to | a_ $12,161,000 surplus claimed last | year. Postmaster General Farley said, in explaining the controverted | bookkeeping methods which caused | a furore last year, that no business could be expected to provide money | nécessary to maintain gratuitous | service and pay subsidies from nor- | 1 business income, so the Post | Office department drew on a general fund in the Treasury to maintain | those items. ‘W. L. Slattery, Post Office Comp- troller, denied that the surplus was a “bookkeeping job,” explaining “we inherited a formula which Congress had set up. When we applied it we | got a surplus; when our predeces- | sors applied the same formula to the same operations they got a deficit.” - e MINING MAN OF NORTHLAND PASSES AWAY Herman Bloom, Once Fa- mous Tug-of-War Contest- ant, Dies in Seattle SEATTLE, Dec. 30.—Last rites are planned for late today for Her- man Bloom, aged 69, anchorman on the famous Swedish tug-of-war team which won championships in California and made history in that sport in Alaska in the nineties. Mr. Bloom came here two months ago from Fairbanks, Alaska, after 35 years mining in the Northland. His death leaves Hans Damm, re- tired Seattle Police Captain, one of the few remaining Northwest sur- | time. major proportions along the Coast. IR There are about 40 species of juni- pers. PROFESSIONAL Look and Learn T By A. C. Gordon | | | i = | 1. How many known chemical elements are there? Helene W. L. Albrecht PHYSIOTHERAPY Massage, Electricity, Infra Red Ray, Medical Gymnastics 207 GOLDSTEIN BLDG. 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