The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 8, 1936, Page 4

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, WEDNESDAY, JAN. 8, 1936 Daily Alaska Empirer MOBERT W. BENDER Editor and Manager | Sunday by the at Second and Main Pubnnml every aevening _except IMPIRL PRINTING COMPANY eets, June Alaska. | Entered in the Post Office in Juncau as Second Class | matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Delivered by carrier In Juneau and Douglas for $1.25 per month, By mall, postage paid, at the following ra‘es: One year, in advance, 312.00; six months, in advance, $6.00; one month, in advance, 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 Cffic MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited tc it or Dot otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news. published her ALASKA CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION, RESULTS OF AAA LIVE ON The Agricultural Adjustment Act, directly ing some three million farmers and indirectly ing the millions who make up the consuming has been declared invalid by It is, say the venerable gentlemen of the highest tribunal, in violation of State rights. No one, of course, questions the knowledge nor the wisdom of the learned jurists, though the puzzle might naturally present itself in the baffled mind of the average layman, how a Congress, composed ninety- six per cent of lawyers, can pass a law for the common good, only to have it declared unconstitu- tional by six men, three holding in its favor. But aside from the legal aspects, the AAA decision has great bearing. The farmers of this nation have been benefited, hundreds of thousands of them saved from bankruptcy and ruin as the result of the Government action in spending more than a billion dollars in aiding them toward rehabilitation. They have seen their produce bring in hard cash; they have seen wheat shoot from 25 cents a bushel at the height of the Hoover debacle to near the dollar mark, cotton, livestock and other farm products soar on similar scale. They have known actual recovery, and they like it. They will not slide back fnto the slough of despondency without a struggle That is the crux of the AAA decision. The voice of three million farmers and affected consumers will be heard. Already Congress, Democrats and Repub- licans alike, is considering substitute legislation. Neither the Congress nor the people of this country have any idea of sliding backward now that recovery #8 under way. The court may rule but the voice of the people will be heard. The political advantage, of course, lies with the party who gets there first| with the best substitute. effect- effect- public, Court. the Supreme ALASKANS MOURN A FINE MA ‘The death in California Sunday of Capt. George| H. Whitney takes from life a true Alaskan, a stalwart and able mariner and a gentleman. His passing, recorded in yesterday's Empire, comes as a shock to hosts of friends in the North for Capt. Whitney had so lived that his place in life is hard to fill. An Alaskan of the first water, coming with the first in his official capacity as steamboat inspector, he was one of the Territory’s outstanding men. Aside from his official duties, he took a keen and active interest in community and Alaskan affairs. Especially, did he further the cause of education, though he carried it on solely as a personally felt duty. He was interested in industrial ventures in the North and did his best to further such activity in hopes of greater development for the whole Territory. A follower of the sea from boyhood, Capt. Whit- ney emanated the color and romance of the seven seas, the lanes of which he had sailed before the mast and later on the bridge as captain. A natural- ized citizen, being a native of New Brunswick, he typified the first class American and always lived wholeheartedly up to the ideals of his adopted land. Though in advancing years and retired from active life, the death of Capt. Whitney is a distinct loss to Alaska. We of the North mourn, in the words of Gov. Troy, the passing of a “fine man.” JAPANESE EXPANSION Emil Hurja, former Alaska newspaper man and now assistant to James A. Farley, Chairman of the Democratic National Com- mittee, was one of those making the recent interesting trip to the Philippines for the inaugural ceremonies of the new Philip- pine Commonwealth. On the journey, Mr. Hurja, an able writer, prepared exclusively for The Empire a series of articles covering the voyage, the ceremonies and the inter- esting places enroute. They give an insight to the whole history-making event which was not available in the daily news dis- patches. The third of thé interesting arti- cles is presented herewith: By EMIL HURJA ABOARD AMERICAN MAIL LINER PRESIDENT GRANT, ENROUTE SHANGHAI—The day we were in Tokyo an inconspicuous item appeared in the! Osaka Mainichi, a well-edited and well-printed Eng- | lish edition of a popular Japanese paper. The head- line read: JAPANESE POPULATION INCREASES AT RATE OF 15 PER MINUTE, NEW FIGURES COMPILED FOR 1934, SHOW | But behind this item is perhaps the greabesl single reason for the urge behind the Japanese nation today, the urge for more territory, for ex-| pansion and increase of production facilities. With | a population of 68,000,000 for Japan proper, in a| country no bigger than the State of California; in fact, some 8000 square miles smaller, yet 12 times| the people, Japan has to reach out for places to colonize, for raw materials with which to engage the time for her people, for trade areas to absorb the manufactures. The deadly earnestness of her people impresed the membership of our party more perhaps than any other characteristic. And deadly earnest she is, as for example, her approach to the problem of ‘ ‘foreign trade. Japan was the first nation of any size to tackle the problem of devaluing her domestic currency, with the result that despite high tariff walls, she has been able to enter other countries and undersell their own merchants and manu- wefl. increase her production by some thirty-five per cent, and to maintain her people in comparative comfort without any marked problems of unemployment to vex and trouble, such as we have had in the United States. It is not the purpose of this brief survey to search out a detailed analysis of Japan’s indus- trial problem, but looking over the figures, we see that of the 30,000,000 people engaged in work; rough- ly half are engaged in agriculture. A glance at the figures for the past ten years shows that the agri- cultural has shown a tendency the total population. the population of the rural districts, because of absorption by the rice and silk industries of all the labor they can possibly absorb, is steadily declining. Prof. Uyeda, an authority, says the population of the rural districts has not only reached a satura- tion point, but that a state of actual over-popula- tion exists. To this observation we are inclined to agree as a result of a drive through the farming districts near Yokohama, Kamakura and later on, in the area around Kyoto. We saw every available piece of ground being cultivated, even to the strips of spare land along the roads. That the Japanese are attaining a high state of industrial efficiency, we are told on every hand. The Japanese are reluctant to show foreigners through their factories. In an industrial town like Osaka, with a population of something over two and a half million, American commercial attaches told me there are less than forty foreigners, and scarcely a one of these has ever been within the walls of the huge factories that seem going night/| and day throughout this territory. When you consider that in the entire kingdom of Japan there are but 2,043 Americans resident, you can realize how closely to themselves they keep their business. We know but little concernigg many of her industries, but we have seen her increasing exports to our shores, but when the figures really are broken down, as a British economist recentiy has done, the mass figures do not seem to indicate that the threat of Japanese domination of world markets is a serious one. Whereas, in 1929, Japan's export trade was 293 per cent of the total world trade, it increased, in 1933, to 3.13 per cent. At the same time, its im- ports had increased from 2.80 per cent of the total world imports, to 3.04 per cent of the total by 1933. The outery that has been made against Japanese encroachments in world trade by a country that has only three or four per cent of the total trade of the world seems out of place, but when the figures are broken down to manufactured articles alone, Japan's proportion of the world trade in factured goods rises to ten per cent. Sixty-one per cent of Japan's imports in 1934 were raw materials, such as cotton, rubber, wool, ore, oil and metals. And a glance at the exports shows that Japan’s export trade was 62 per cent of | manufactured articles, and 23 per cent semi-manu-| factured articles. In short, Japan takes the raw materials of other countries, works them into prod- ucts that will sell; undersells others because of lower production costs and concentrates her trade activities so systematically and carefully that she can sell and to diminish in its ratio to deliver at a minimum cost. a cry goes up from centers of trade and industr; from Manchester in England and from the ind trial East in our own country. heard from the producing sections which sell raw materials to Japan’s hungry industrial machine— nothing from California where the product of oil| wells is sold, nor from the deep South, where a good percentage of American cotton goes to keep Japan's spindles turning. Perhaps in all this is a lesson for our own industries, a lesson in the problem of organization,! manufacture and distribution. Japan has a national interest in the success of her foreign trade, as even a cursory examination of her budget will show. In the year 1934, Japan's Government tendered in, aid to industries as subsidies some 33 million yen, or roughly ten million dollars. Of this, roughly a third went to aid in shipping and merchant marine. Twelve and a half per cent went as miscellaneous grants for industrial research and organization, which includes such items as “silk research,” “pot- tery research,” “encouragement of inventions, ance and control of small-scale industries,” “elec- trical research,” ‘“encouragement of trade—exhibi- tions” and also “contributions to expenses of co- operative export.” Here are examples of the thor- oughness with which Japan seeks out ways of help- ing her industries go ahead. Exemptions from taxa- tion are also given for small industries which the Government desires to help for a limited time. Commercial missions are being sent ‘o all likely countries, where foreign Even while we were in Tokyo, announcement was made of a new commercial mission to China. Japan’s recent conquest of Manchukuo is show- ing one effect in the trade balance sheet already. Textile shipments have jumped sharply, and Japan’s | mills will have a long-term contract, without doubt, to supply the future needs of the population of this conquered Chinese Province. The same thing shows in the export of steel materials. From 1931 to 1934, steel tonnage exports to Manchuria has gone from| 23,000 metric tons to over 271,000 metric tons. That's why Japan wants territory—for her people to live, for her factories to keep busy, for her ships, to ply the seas and her trade to prosper. When we look back into our own American history | of the period of territorial expansion, in the late 1830's and middle 1840's, we can almgst see a counter- | part of Japan's present problem, although by no | stretch of the imagination could our population problem in those days have been as acute as is| Japan's But, today. California, Texas, Oregon and the Pacific States of today. Just so is Japan today in the throes of an intense nationalistic hunger—hunger for growth “of territory, of room for her expanding people, of Troom for her diligent genius to stretch its arms and say, | I am Japan. And as Japan eyes the Far East—the Provinces| of helpless and hapless China, of the Russian | domains of farther north, perchance; of perhaps the Philippines in a generation to come—it is not difficult to find among us those who assert, right have we to say to Japan: this.’?2” Japan, turned westward is growing, growing relentlessly and inexorably. And with its growth as a nation is also growing a real, man-sized popfflation has remained stationary and| Japanese authorities say that| To all of which activity, ‘ But not a word is| “guid- | trade may be expanded.| nevertheless, the urge of expansion was in| our blood, an American nation was being born, and| we had our eyes set to the hills to the West, beyond | which lay our fabled Eldorados that were to become| “What | ‘You shall not do industrious and tireless, with its eyes: international | HAPPY BIRTHDAY The Empire extends congrctula- tions and best wishes today, their birthday anniversary, to the folio:j-| |ing: | i JANUARY 8 | Richard McCormick | Roy H. Osborne Chester Johnson | Willard Robbins Donald W. Skuse Fred Barragar Albert Uberti Lazzette Shearer .t L e e IS | | i From The Empire ‘ 20 YEARS AGO 044 JANUARY 8, 1915 Edward Krause, alleged slayer of five men in Southeast Alaska, posed |as Miller, Moe and Hartman in ad= dition to the name by which he is most generally known here, judging |from reports which are constantly being received by Federal authori- ties. Krause is said to have referred to his many names in a spirit of jocularity, when in conversation with his friends, but assumed a serious at- titude when he passed as someone other than “Krause” among strang- ers. A local man said that he recalled an incident that took place in a lo- | }cal saloon four years-ago, when | Krause, Dr. Martin Damourette, and | himself were having a drink. Damou- rette introduced Krause, the Junean man says, and declared: “He's got a bunch of names; that fellow doesnt even know his own name, he uses so many others.” The local man said Krause laughed at Damourette's | comment. | Outside papers said Krause's case | was without parallel since the Wil- | liam Gohl murder case in Seattle. | Like Krause, Gohl was a physically | perfect man of great strength, and | i manu- |of pleasing personality. He used what | ler, later became known as “the murder | [launch” in his depredations in which ‘,)ossibly a dozen men were killed. Krause was again identified as the |t who took William Christie from | Treadwell on a fake subpoena, by ! |Mrs. Ben Schramm of Douglas. |ter of Mrs. Christie, yesterday after- | noon at the U. 8. jail. Mrs. Schramm | peeped through one of the many es- pionage chinks cut into the outer | wall of the steel-tank, and declared | Krause to be the man she saw wnthf Christie. “I met Billy and that man | \n("u the baseball grounds,” she said. Billie told me he was going to Ju- neau as a witness in a lawsuit. Billi. pointed to Krause and said, ‘This |man has just served a subpoena on me.” Although Krause admits he took Christie from Treadwell, he has steadfastly insisted he did so at the | instigation of another man. A swimming carnival was held in | the A. B. swimming tank with prizes | awarded for plain and fancy diving. ' Ed P. Kendell was on the program for a stunt entertainment. The offi- cials were L. V. Winter, L. D. Hen- |derson, M. 8. Perkins, Dr. William | Pallister, Pat Scott. | Weather: Maximum, 22; minimum, 10; clear. R REBEKAHS 70 MEZT 1 There will be a meeting of the Rebekahs Wednesday evening at 8 o'clock. Initiation and refreshmets. —adv. P i, SPECIALIZING Rt g na | in French Gastineau Short Orders at All Hours | l | B i ik GARLAND BOGGAN Hardwood Floors Waxing Polishing Sandix:g : PHONE | giving orders than for executing im- (guidance of the §ase and fortune, astrologers warn. ! |eultural problems will be subjects of ] Horoscope “The stars “acline but do not compel” — THURSDAY, JANUARY 9, 1936 Conflicting planetary aspects have power today, according to astrology. The morning hours are better for portant tasks. ‘Women are subject to unfavorable stars. There may be a tendency to follow impulses and to take chances in love and finance. The signs are promising for con- ferences or for assemblies of men and women. Formal entertaining is under lucky guidance. Theatres now should benefit and national enterprises that may re- sult ina center for drama in Wash- | Jington are to develop favorably. The mind should be protected against foolish ideas that promise| i Many new organizations of politicei trencc are prognosticated. ‘Deceptions and misrepresentations now may be broadcast in private as well as public affairs. Slander wili be prevalent and even the appear-! ance of evil should be shunned. Turbulent conditions will affeci Congress. Wheat, cotton and agri- fierce debate. Theories that have| proved costly will be discredited. Women should benefit through {mass agitation for national reforms. | | uncustomary, rare, extraordinary. ‘Warning is given that they may le:\ emotions guide them where cold logic | should point the way. Persons whose birthdate it is have | the augury of a year of vexation due | to treachery on the part of friends: or business associates. Children born on this day probabiy will be exceedingly intelligent and too well balanced to be hailed as | !geniuses. Subjects of this sign usu- (ally are retiring and thoughtful; the gain fame through mental powers. Carrie Chapman Catt, reformer #nd feminist, was born on this day 1859. Others who have celebrated it as a birthday include Henry B. Ful- American novelist, 1857. { (Copyright, 1936) - Modern Etiquette 23y Roberta Lee 1 | | — Q a tuxedo to a party on Sunday eve- ning? A. That depends entirely on whether the party is to be formal or informal. Ask the host or hostess. It 18 very embarrassing to be the only one in a party wearing formal attire. Q. Is it necessary to send a gift to a girl when notiried that she is engaged to be marriea? A. No, it is not necessary. Q. Where should the napkins be Iplaced when giving a formal din- ner? A. The napkins should be in the place plates. SHOP IN JUNEAU. FIRST! BEITY MAC BEAUTY SHOP 12 lnd B Stree PHONE 547 S j times and it is yours.” Look and Learn By A. C. Gordon 1. Why cannot coins, rings, or other articles be made of pure gold? 2. Who served as U. S. Senator from three different states? 3. Of which organ cf the body is astigmatism a defect? 4. Who are called antipodes? 5. Where was the first perma- nent English settlement in Atnerica ’ ANSWERS 1. Pure gold is too soft. 2. James Shields, from Illinois, Minnesota, and Missouri. 3. The eye. 4. Those who live on the diamet- rically opposite side of the globe. 5. Jamestown, Va. e - Daily Lessons in English By W. L. Gordon ‘Words Often Misused: Do not say, “I shall need about five foot of wire.” Say, “five feet of wire.” Often Midpronounced: Aperture. Pronounce the a as in at, tu as in picture, accent first syllable. Often Misspelled: Connecticu®; i‘l ree c's, two n's. Synonyms: uvuusual, uncommon, Word Study: “Use a word three | Let us increase our vocabulary by mastering one | word each day. Today’s word: Indig- | nation; anger with contempt, dis- | gust, or abhorrence. “Hide thyself ! until the indignation is overpast.” —The Bible. BIRGE", 28 o I i SPEND WHERE YOU MAKE IT! TYXPEWRITERS RENTED $5.00 per month | J. B. Burford & Co. “Our doorstep is worn by eatisfied customers” l] | | Fraternal Societies OF —— — Gastineau Channel PROFESSIONAL llflf | " Helene W. L. Albrecht | PHYSIOTHERAPY \ Massage, Electricity, Infra R=d Ray, Medical Gymnastics 207 GOLDSTEIN BLDG. Phone Office, 216 B. P. 0. ELKS meets every Wednesday at 8 P, M. Visiting brothers weis come M. E. MONAGLE, Exalted Ruler. M. R SIDES, Secretary. KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS Seghers Council No. 1760. Meetings second and last Monday at 7:30 p. m. Transient brothers urged to at- tend. Council Cham- bers, Fifth St. JOHN F. MULL®N, G. K., H. J. TURNER, Secretarv, DRS. KASER & FREEBURGER DENTISTS Blomgren Building PHONE 56 | I Hours 9 am to 3 pm. | S N ——— -} Rooms 8 and 9 Valentine Building Telephone 176 .IOUNT JUNEAU LODGE NO. 147 {jecond and fourth Mon- e day of each month in HOWARD D. STABLER, Worshipful Master; JAMES W, Scottish Rite Temple, beginning at 7:30 p. m, LEIVERS, Secretary. 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