The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 2, 1936, Page 4

P Daily Alaska Empire ROBERT W. BENDER - - Editor and Mamager Published ¢ uaday by the EMPIRE PRINTING COM and M Streets, Juneau, | Alaska Entered in the Post Office in Junewu as Second Clas: matter SCRIPTION RATE! Douglas for §1.25 per month. 1, postage paid, at the following rates advance, $12.00; Delivered in car B One ye x months, in advance, $6.00 one month. in advance, $1.25 Bubscribers will confer a favor 1f they will promptly notify the Business Office of any failure or ‘rrecularity in the delivery of their rs Telephones: News Office, 60: Business Office, 374, MEMBER OF ASSOCI PRESS. ciated Press is exc ititled to the use for repu of all news dispatches c: ed o it or not other- wise credited in this paper and also local news published hereln ALASKA CIRCULATION GUARANTEED T9 BE LARGER HAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION AIR BASES IN THE OFFING he Congressman Harlan the gigantic here yeslerday, denied plans for a naval air base in Alaska and a colonization program for the Territory with which he was credited in Seattle. But it's all: right.| Associated Press news dispatches confirm the . fact than an air base is in the offing, as long anticipated, and the Army already has plans underway for es- tablishing one probably in the Fairbanks area. It is gratifying but not startling news to Alaskans that an air base is forthceming.. The plan has been on the fire for months, just as the naval base proposal is getting the consideration of the Navy Department at this time. Defense of the Pacific from Alaska is an admitted fact by all our military experts. High Naval officials have openly stated it was advisable and now the Army reveals its program is actually under way. For Alaska it means another step in her advance- ment and a closer link with the States. Army and| Navy air bases in the north will tend to breed air service between the States and the Territory. Sup- plies will be necessary in large quantities and Alaska | will share in producing those supplies. had It is illogical | to suppose that air bases will be tucked away in the outposts of Alaska with their only source of supplies| in the States in the event of war. The base of sup- plies naturally will be where it will be available in the face of any eventuality. It is fairly sure to mean further colonization with the aim of enlarging local production. It cannot be overlooked that an undeveloped oil supply is now under to the Navy in the Col- ville Tivér €otmtry’ Soth of Point Barrow duce from Alaska farms to feed the men and oil from Alaska oil fields to feed the motors, the strength of Army and Navy air bases in the Territory can be easily visioned. lease THE UNION PARTY Now that Representative William Lemke of North Dakota has agreed to accept the toga of the “Union Party,” fostered and nourished by the impassioned words df Father Coughlin, who apparently has de- serted his religious teachings to become warped in the maelstrom of political intrigue, it will be interesting| to note how many will be deluded by the doctrine, of the easy road to ruin. The so-called Union Party is nothing more than Father Coughlin’s National Union for Social Justice [ cost of insurance policy holders the country over, With pro- | |pense of those who are without work at all. can be worked. It is no compliment to the ¢hurch in America that a man of the cloth should be one to such fallacious doctrine among those who have not had the same opportunity. for | learning as the strong-lunged Detroit clergyman Mr. Lemke, Father Coughlin’s proxy, proposes to win the farmers by cancelling their debts—at the He would deliver the vote of urban discontent, by con-| demning the high prices of the farmers' products. | By stealing from everybody to pay many, this party would restore American well-being. It is a spectacle this capitalizing of prejudice at the expense of gullible women whose disillusionment leads them the banners of economic and social error. The effect of the Coughlin-Lemke party in the Presidential campaign is uncertain. Doubless, it will| draw votes from both major parties; taking from the Republicans in the agrarian states and from the Democrats in the cities. But that is only secondary The actual unfortunate role of the Union Party will be to draw from the ranks of American voters those | who are most easily deceived, to build up in their | minds hopes that cannot be fulfilled, and to drop them, some day, more disheartened and discouraged than ever, promote perhaps sorry | men and to follow If the rain will follow the same course as it did in June, falling between 4 p. m. and 4 a. m, it will be a grand and glorious Fourth of July. | Labor as a Commodity (New York Times) In his speech at Dallas the President declared that “if labor is to be a commodity in the United States * ¢ * it means that we shall become a nation of board- ing houses instead of a nation of homes.” The state- ment that labor is not or should not be a commodity has been familiar for many years. It will help con- siderably to clarify thought if we ask ourselves pre-| cisely what the statement means, and in just what | sense it may be true and in what sense false. | The statement is surely justified as the declara- tion of a moral attitude. Laber is-not simply an item in the cost of production; it is what a man has to | offer for his living and his welfare. The worker, as| a human being, is an end, not a means. He cannot be treated as & chattel. He should never be con- sidered solely in his role as worker, but always, at the same time, as a citizen and a man. But the statement that labor is not a commodity s false if it is taken to mean that labor is not subject to the laws of supply and demand, or that it can be considered apart from ordinary economic forces. Even the people who sometimes talk as if this were true do not really believe it. They recognize that the price of labor is fixed by supply and demand just as that of a commodity Many of their policies are | built on that assumption. When sellers wish to raise the price of a commodity they agree among themselves | not to underbid each other, to hold, instead, for a | fixed price, and perhaps to deal with buyers collec- | tively instead of separately. When labor unions wish to raise wages they follow the same policies. Another device of sellers for raising the price of their com- | modity is to reduce the supply of it. Certain unions | do this for wages in their particular line by restricting 1 admission into the union. Some union leaders, think- ing of the supply of labor not in terms of men but of man-hours, would like to create an artificial shortage of labor through the thirty-hour week. The true | supply of labor, however, is neither men nor man- | | hours, considered alorie, but man-hour-productivity In all the policies just described labor is qu:al(-d‘ as if it were subject to the same type of forces as affect commodities. Where this attitude is usually abandoned is in discussions of wage rates. We know | | what happens to a commodity under governmental { or monopolistic price-fixing. The price is usually | | pegged too high. Part of the commodity then remains unsold. We have seen that occur under the old Farm Board market operations and with cotton more re-’ cently under the twelve-cent loan policy, The same sort of result appears when certain wage levels are placed too high, thereby either creating or prolonging | unemployment. In such cases, those who have jobs at the higher wages sold them, in effect, at the ex- This surplus labor thus arbitrarily created must then be taken care of by relief payments much lower than could be obtained through wages, while it does not create the wealth that employed labor does. | That labor is not a commodity, in short, is true if we talk of ends, but misleading if we talk of means. with a few trimmings. And the later was noted for x(siour end is to achieve the highest welfare for labor conglomeration of disgruntled and confused of all parties and classes. It purported to offer something for nothing and so long as the sun stays in the heav- ens there will always be those who believe that trick Thomas Ha A ON THE SECI Department RALPH UPHOLSTERING DEPARTMENT UPHOLSTERED FURNITURE MADE TO ORDER Also Guaranteed Recovering of Overstuffed Furniture Phone 555 | possible, the largest total income most equitably dis- | tributed. But we can do this best by recognizing that |labor is an integral part of the whole economic or- ganism and subject to the same laws that control other parts of that organism. rdware Co. NNOUNCES the Opening of the OND FLOOR in Charge of RIECK HAPPY BIRTHDA Y The Empire extenas congratwia- tions and best wishes today, their birthday anniversary, to the follow- ing JULY2. T. A. Hellenthal N. T. Keaton Eric Walsh Jean Stewart Sadie Minzgohr LOOK and LEARN | By A. C. Gordon 1. What three ex-presidents of the U. S. died on July4? 2. What instrument do whalers use in killing whales? 3. How many miles of highways are there in the world? 4. What is an agave americana? 5. What was the name of the Confederate prison in Richmond Va., during the Civil War? ANSWERS 1. John Adams, Thomas Jeffer- |son and James Monroe. Harpoon. Approximately 9,000,000 miles A century plant. Libby Prison. - -~ o ewn MOLERN ETIQUETTE By Roberta Lee | \ | | Q. When a man who is a strang- er has rendered a service to a wo- man, should she ask for his name and address? A. Not unless the service has been very exceptional and she wish- es to send him a reward. . Q. When a man is leaving a toom. and saying good-bye to a group of f girls, should he avoid turning his back towards them? A. Yes; this can be avoided very gracefully with a little practice. Q. Is it correct to say, “I shall be glad to accept of your hospital- ity”? A. No; of is redundant. “to accept your hospitality - SHOP IN JUNEAU FIRST Bay oo rte: ottt ) ;. { “Tomorrow’s Styles ! Today” Juneau’s Own Store D S P l Peter an Beauty Shoppe PHONE 221 MARGARET LINDSAY, Prop. HELVI PAULSON, Operator the BEST! If you're out to please the man of the family . . . let us help you! A grand selection of gedd food . . . vegetables and all the $hings that men like best. Sanitary Grocery PHONE 83 or 85 “The Store That Pleases” THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, THURSDAY, JULY 2, 1936. 20 YEARS AGO From The Emmpire SE— JULY 2, 1916. The day was Sunday, and there was no issue of The Empire. Weather: Maximum, 59; mini- mum, 50; Cloudy. MINNESOTANS ARE COMING ON VISIT Mrs. Nina Cheney and Miss Cath- erine Cheney of Minneapolis are enroute to Juneau aboard the Bar- anof for a visit with Mrs. Cheney’s daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. George Leveque and her son, John Cheney. Mrs. Cheney will have the pleas- ure when she arrives hers of the first sight of her first grandchild who is ten-month-old Jim Leveyue. - - SHARPSTONE FLIES TO MINE PROPERTY ON PAA FAIRCHILD D. C. Sharpstone, consulting geol- ogist and engineer for the White- water Taku mine, and Mrs. Sharp- stone, who arrived from Vancouver Tuesday on the Princess Alice, were passengers to Tulsequah this morn- ing aboard the PAA Fairchild sea- plane piloted by Murray Stuart. ¥ s i LINGO BUILDS APARTM Construction is under way in An- chorage of a two and a half story dwelling belonging to George A. Lingo. Johnson and Jensen are the contractors. The structure will house three apartments with Philippine mahogany floors and built-in book- cases. The third floor is to be com- pleted later. i SR T e SUES CITY For injuries received in a iall on an Anchorage sidewalk, Mrs. Ann McMahill, of that city, is suing the city for $10,000 damages. — .. GOES TO OAKLAND Chuck Sullivan, president of the ’gr;ulu,mng-c]ass of 1936 of the An- chorage High School, left recently {for Oakland, California, where he 'has a job. Young Sullivan will en- fter the University of California next New York Life | INSURANCE | KEITH G. WILDES ' Phone 2701 } C. W. “Red” WRIGHT | PLASTERING | STUCCO | Telephone 316 | Pay’n Takit OPEN ALL NIGHT—24 Hour Service Fresh Meats, Groceries, Liquors, Wines and Beer We Sell for LESS Because We Sell for CASH Leader Dept. Store George Brothers HARRY RACE, Drugg:st “The Squibb Stores of Alaska” FINE Watch and Jewelry Repairing PAUL BLOEDHORN at very reasonable rates FRONT STREETS TYPEWRITERS RENTED $5.00 per month J. B. Burford & Co. “Our doorstep is worn by satisfied customers” The B. M. —4 Behrends Bank C()MM|§RCIAL and SAVINCS Resources Over Two und One Half Million Dollars | apartment house owner - | Word Study: —_— Ifl Horoscope | “The stars incline but do not compel” FRIDAY, JULY 3, 1936. Adverse planetary aspects rule un- til late today, according to astrology. Under this sway misrepresentation may affect political candidates and 1eads of corporations. There is a sign believed to be dis- turbing to bankin® interests. Wide- spread agitation regarding federal finarices may arise from some un- usual foreign incident. Again both agriculture and in- dustry may be affected unfavorably. Weather conditions are likely to de- stroy certain crops. Labor unrest will retard manufacturing. This is a configuration under which many accidents are likely to happen. Fires and explosions may be numerous. should be evtraordinarily careful. In the evening women are under stimulating planetary influences that encourage entertaining and gaie-| ties of many sorts. The sway is be- lieved to increase the charms of the| average girl. Great increase of travel is fore- cast for this week-end when much money will be spent. Betting will | reach a high level in certain places. | Interest in sports of many kinds will be keener than in previous | years. Sensativnal international in- | icident is foretold. tion and suspicion will be forcused | in naval maneuvers in the Pacific Ocean and the Mediterranean | Persons whose birthdate it-is have the augury of a year of many small perplexities. Intrigue may be un-! fortunate in certain monetary mat~| ters. i Children born on this day prob- | (ably will be clever in expressing | their feelings and opinions. Many ' (have gifts as mimics or actors. Us-| |ually the subjects of this sign are highly intelligent. | Frank A. Root, publisher and au- tho, was born on this day 1837. Oth- ers who have celebrated it as a birthday include ‘John Singleton Copley, portrait painter, 1737: Jos- |eph S Ames physicist, 1864; Hu- bert Work, onetime Secretary of the Interior, 1860. | T (Copyright, 1936) 5 a1 u'l || DAILY LESSONS IN ENGLISH By W. L. Gerdon | Woerds Often Misused: Do not say, | {“I want to seé you badly” Say,| 1“I want to see you very much.” | Often Mispronounced: Muskmel- on. Pronounce first syllable musk, never mush. Often Misspelled: Prize; ze. Sur- prise, se. Synonyms: Calm, peaceful, piacid, {tranquil, still, quiet. “Use a word three |times and it is yours.” Let us in- icrease our vocabulary by mastering ione word each day. Today's word: Devoid; not possessing; destitute. “His nature was devoid of kind- ness.” ———ee—— SEE FEMMER For nice, fresh, dressed chickens. ——udv.} | — | Automobile drivers| Sea mysteries will engage atten-| | PROFESSIONAL { Fraternal Societies | 21l of Gastineau | o | Helene W. L. Albrecht || | Channel i | PHYSIOTHERAPY - . Massage, Ele~tricity, I~fra Red B. P. 0. ELKS meets Bay,- Medioal Gymuastics H every 2nd, 4th Wed. at 307 GOLDSTEIN BLDG. 8 p. m. Visiting brothers Baone Office, 216 welcome. WALTER P. b 41 SCOTT, Exalted Ruler. o - I 11. H. SIDES, Secretary. | DRS.KASER & FREEBURGER | o, KENIGHTS OF COLUMBUS DEN JISTS Segh2rs Council No. Blomgren Building 1760. Meetings second i PHONE 56 and last Monday at Hours 9 am. to 9 pm. 7:30 p. m. Transleat 3| brothers urged to at- DENTIST Rooms 8 and 9 Valetine Building TELEPHONE 176 DENTIST OFFICE AND LESIDENCE Guastineau Building Phone 431 —_—_——a Dr. C. P. Jenne —4 ¥ Fi g S N et N . Dr. Richard Williams tend. Council Cham- ‘bers, Fifth St. JOHN F. MULLEN, | G. K, H. J. TURNER Secretary, MOUNT JUXEAU LODGE NO. 147 Fecond and fourth Mon= day of each month in Scottish Rite Temple, : beginning at 7:30 p. m | MARTIN S. JORGEN- SEN, Worshinful Master; JAMES W. LEIVERS, Secretary, The Juneau i;'mdry L Franklin Street between ; | T TR %1 | Front and Second Street; Dr. A. W. Stewart | Prone s ( DENTIST L5 £ Hours 9 wm. to § nm. ’[. o . SEWARD BUILDING | 1 Office Phone 469 ! 11 WAR R‘A CK B 41| Construction Co. i 1 s s T o e TELEPHONE 563 o 1 Office Hours—9-12; 1-6 l Dr. W. A. Rystrom | '} e A DENTIST ‘ &‘\\ '\'\T' v ] Over First National Bank . | | x ’ X-RAY t E% =4 e il B e P — | == [ | DR. 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