The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 28, 1936, Page 4

| L a—— Daily Alaska Empire ROBERT W. BENDER - - Editor and Manager —_— A Published every evening cxcept Sunday by the EMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY at Second and Main Streets, Juneau, Alaska. Bntered In the Post Office in Juneau as Second Class matter. SUBSCRPTION RATES. elivered in carrier In Junean and Douglas for $1.25 per month. By mail. postage paid, at the following rates One year, in advance, §12.00; six months, in advance, $6.00; eme month, in advance, §1.25 Subscribers will confer a favor if they will promptly notify he Business Office of any failure or irfegularity in the delivery of their papers Telephones 602; Business Office, 374 News Office. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS. The Assoclated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not other- wise credited in this pa n herein. ALASKA CIRCULA 3 THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER Pl THE BONUS IN JU UNEAU $100,400! That is the amount of money that has flowed into the avenues of trade in Juneau during the past few months. Postmaster Albert Wile reports that he has con- verted veterans' bonds totaling that figure into cash since the bonus bonds arrived here in June. Legion officials estimate, judging from applications handled | through the local Legion post, that there is from $50.000 to $100,000 worth of bonds which have not been cashed. Bonds are being converted almost daily at the Postoffice, which indicates much more cash will come into the Juneau marts of trade between | now and the first of the year with the pressure of |cpposed to the practice of it, holiday buying. In virtually all instances, the bonus money been spending money. has Some of it went into settling old accounts, some of it went into homes and business | But the | and some of it, of course, was just spent, fact remains that $100,400 is a lot of money to pour into a community of this size. ‘There may have been a great many good reasons why the bonus should not have been ‘paid, but mer- chants and Veterans in Juneau probably would have 2 hard time of remembering what they were right now. WHAT HAPPENS D} ‘\T TI ESDAY A great many things are going to happen next | Tuesday when the voters of the Uniteg States ge sto the polls. Aside from choosing electors to elect the | next President of the United States, the voters will | elect 33 Governors, 35 Senators and 435 members of the House of Representatives. & Hundreds of disputes over whether state consti- tutions should be amended face a showdown. Social | security, liquor, tax laws, and a broad field of other subjects are embraced. The Louisiana voter, for example, according to the Associated Press, is asked to rule on 35 proposed amendments to the state charter. Nationally, the results will be watched for indication of realignments. and Republicans are divided. split former political allies. any Both Democrats The New Deal has Organized labor leaders hope to lay the groundwork for a labor party in 1940. |growers when the Smoot-Hawley tariff was bein ¢ | The new Union party struggles for a national foot- hold, and other independent groups are at work in individual Congressional districts. Of the 48 state governments, 37 now are Demo- cratic, nine Republican, one Farmer-Labor and one Progressive. Of the states to elect Governors, 26 are Democratic, five Republican, one Farmer-Labor and one Progressive. Maine returned to a Republican administration in September, In the present Senate, where 49 is a majority, Democrats hold 70 seats, Republicans, 23, Farmer- Laborites two, and the Progressives one. Ordinarily a third of the Senate is up for election each two | years, Three deaths brought the contests this year | to 35. These places are now listed: Democratic 23, Republican 11, Farmer-Labor one. Due to the num- ber of terms expiring in the Solid South, the Demo- crats already appear assured of at least 57 seats. A number of Senatorships at issue outside of the South also are Democratic at present. The full House membership will be elected, as is required every two years. The party standings now are: Democrats 308, Republicans 100, Progressives 7, Farmer-Labor 3, vacancies 17. Eighty per cent of the incumbents won renomination. Both major parties claim confidence that a majority, or 218, will| be theirs. Most _states will have long lists of the electors’ names on the ballot, some only the names of the candidates themselves. Such is the 1936 method for fulfilling the stipulation laid ‘down by the Congress in 1787: “Each state shall appoint * * * a number of electors equal to the whole number of genators and Representatives to which'the state mu be entitled in Congress.” No man holding public office can be an elector. The original idea was to leave them frée to name him they thought best fitted for Chief Executive. Technically, they are still free agents. But in actu- ality, as it became even in those early years, each elector is honor bound to mark Lis ballot for the ticket of the party that named him. As a body, they are referred to as “The Electoral College,” an un- official term that came into use in 1821, The law enacted to bring the election machinery into gear with the “lame duck” amendment sets their “ | Mexico (two Senators), .|fecting the welfare of the nation are going to happen a good thing but wants to stop trading, disbelieves ! country into the reality of it. { for decision. counted. If no candidate gets a majority, or 266, it devolves tpon the House to elect the President. Charles E. Coughlin, supporting the Union ticket, has predicted this would happen this year. Others have questioned the possibility. Meanwhile, disputed votes are not Tiouse vote “shall be taken by states, the representa- tion from each state having one vote; a quorum for this purpose shall consist of a member or members from two-thirds of the states, and a majority of all the states shall be necessary to a choice.” Twenty-two states will elect both Governor and £enator, as follows: Arkansas, Colorado, Delaware, Tlorida (two Senators), Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Towa wo Senators), Kansas, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New North Carolina, Rhode Island, Couth Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, and West Virginia. Other states electing Governors: Arizona, Connec- ticut, Indiana, Missouri, New York, North Dakom.l Ohio, Ugah, Vermont, Washington, and Wisconsin. Other states electing Senators: Alabama, Ken- tucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Jersey, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Carolina, Virginia, and Wyoming. Thus it is evident that a great many things ef- next Tuesday aside from deciding who is going to live in the White House for the next four years. Alaskans can hope that men will be elected to the Congress who have the vision to see Alaska's prob- lems as presented to them by Delegate Dimond. A Republican wag remarks that the report that President and Mrs. Roosevelt have given space in front of the White House to a peanut vendor indicates that they might be expecting an elephant as the | next occupant Now that the Canadian stork derby is over how ( about a derby to see that all those youngsters get a break in life after the publicity has died out. Now John Davis is'a Democrat. Aw, sound so good now. he’s an American before he | Al said it first. It does: John, Landon On Reciprocity (New York World-Telegram) Governor Landon, we deduce from his Minneapolis peech, is in favor of the principle of reciprocity but thinks foreign trade is in the theory of isolation but is willing to lead the Summed up and reduced to its simplest terms st night’s speech reveals that the Governor sub- bes to the historic Republican delusion that trade n be made to travel on a one-way street. He's in favor of exports, but dead set against imports. He lets it be known that he is quite willing, even | eager, to sit down®and strike a trade bargain with any country—provided, of course, that country will| Should it materialize, the Constitution says I.ht-l HAPPY [——e——— BIRTHDAY\ 20 YEARS AGO The Empire extends conyratuluv tions and best wishes today, tluw‘ birthday anniversary, to the follow- mg: From The Empire —_— D OCTOBER 217, 1916 | | OCTOBER 28. | Col. W. P. Richardson, president Grace E. Naghel jof the Alaska Board of Road Com- Eddie Nelson . missioners, who had arrived in Ju- neau from the Westward, said that the Commission had recommended o the War Department that the Gastineau Channel bridge be con- structed at once and the plans for he construction and estimate of cost had been submitted. Beverly Junge ] Maurice Walsworth | John Kearney, Jr. ‘ Mattie A. Baldwin i Burford R. Glass | Mrs. Henry Roden |t Albert F. Garn | th William Fullerton | Helene M. Poole | Roland C. Ingram A. H. Hendrickson Femmer and Ritter, the enterpris- g coal men, recently purchased ne of the largest draught teams in Ithe city from the A. H. Humpheries 4 | Transfer Company. The heavy team l || L2 will be used in making deliveries of 11 orders and will take the place the team which was broken by the death of one of the horses re- |cently =3 book of the Bible is LOOK and LEARN By A. C. Gordon | | . orm of the sea- The first snow 1. In what n occurred at the Perseverence SEhcLoray. Bregec fopn ne with a fall of two inches. Snow | 2. Who was considered the hard- |5 Pt 1o T ML, est fighter among the OConfeder- |\ . =" o' e town. ates? sl 3. What is known as the “Bport| p ; tyhite addressed the stu- o Seeey ents of the Douglas high school on 4. Is hunting permitted in the|y. cupject of “Journalism” at as- national parks? ¢ bl 5. Which is the largest state in : Sav South Ameri J. T. Hillard, deputy collector of ustoms at Eagle, was in Juneau on ANSWERS his annual trip outside. Mr. Hil- L lard had been stationed at Eagle 2. General James Longstreet. |¢ number of years and had many 3. Horse racing. friends in Alaska and especially 4 the travelers down the Yu- gty S Pl & ins for the Bazaar of the Ladies MODERN League of the Congregational church to be given soon in Dougla: E'T‘IQUETTE were made and the following an- unced as committee members: By Roberta Lee s, Stody, Mrs. Haigle Wallace, Mrs. Livie, agree to buy from us everythmg we want to sell. but won't try to sell us any of the things we don’t want to buy. The things we wouldn’t want to buy, Landon formula, would be those we produce o selves and also those which by some stretch of t imagination might come into competition with what we produce ourselves. For example, not only is it bad business to let Canada sell us any butter wnen our own farmers produce butter, but it is also outrageous to permit Brazil to sell us that “new jungle product, babassi nuts and oils,” whick, so he says, also competes with our dairy produc Similarly, our corn and potato growers not only are entitled to tariffs on corn a potatoes and tariffs on cornstarch and potato starch, but also tariffs on tapioca and sago, which we don’t produce, but which can be made into starches, and are, therefore, competitive. Carried to its logical extreme this exclusionist policy could lead to banning imports ot coffee becauss it competes with American-made cortee substitutes, and keeping out bananas on the theory that Ameri- can consumers would thereby be forced to eat more apples. Don't accuse us of originating this absurdity. The argument was seriously made in behalf of appl? under the framed. The only conclusion that can be drawn from the Landon speech is that if he is elected and a Republi- can House with him the country will be in for a resumption of the Congressional log-rolling and back- scratching which gave us the Fordney-McCumber and Smoot-Hawley tariffs. The excuse would be the same old one—to protect the American farmer in the Ameri- can market. And the result would also be the same—- the destruction of the farmer’s market, both abroad | and at home. Somehow we can't see the farmers buying that ! gold brick again. They can hardly forget that the year preceding passage of the Smoot-Hawley tariff smerica’s for- eign trade totaled $9,641,000,000, and that four years later, the last year under Republican rule, it falleéh to $2934,000,000. Nor that three years later, when the Roosevelt reciprocal policy had begun to show beneficial results, it had risen to $4,329,000,000. Bulldlng Still Lags (Cincinnat1 Enquirer) In recent months economic recovery has become spectacular in its proportions. A study of the net profits of 253 leading industrial and mercantile com- panies for the second quarter of the year shows a 73 per cent gain over the same period of la Em- pleyment in durable goods industries sen 15 per cent in a yee In general, profits, pay rolls, and production are rising above the levels of 1930, when the depression was just beginning to take hold, out- side the security markets. Such recovery, however, while the building industr; 1630, the building indus! cannot be satisfactory is not sharing in it. In employed directly 2,500,000 individyals, and indirectly gave employment to an- other 3,500,000. - This industry is still in depression— partly because large construction goes with a boom, not a recovery; partly because long-term investmeng is hindered by political uncertainties; partly because wages and other costs have been too rigid in the build- ing industry. And there are other reasons, Residential building undoubtedly is the principal hope of a broad, enduring recovery. It has increased tremendously, especially in the last year. More than 200,000 dwellings will be built in 1936, compared with 75,000 in 1935. Compared with the low point in 1933, residential construction is now up 700 per cent. But the “low point” was so unbelievably low in 1933 that the contrast is misleading. For even now we are building less than half as many houses as in 1926. The trend is encouraging. But there is a long voting day on “the first Monday after the second Wednesday in December next following their ap-|American recovery that it has played in England's re- pointment.” Six sets of their votes are called for. ‘The first is to be mailed at once to the Vice Presi- dent’s office in Washington, two to the State De- partmenfy and ghe othér three remain’in the state. t. the sedsion of Congress January 6 for tabulation of the electoral vote, any objections to receiving a particular vm mmust be made in writing | Headline. way still to go if construction is to play the part in markable performance. A photographer, who visited her ranch, has caught Mae West in denim overalls, but it's no use. She [Small Women | Is Claim Made " |cording to the Right Reverend Mr. | ito |lives,” * 4 Wright and Mrs. Richardson. Q. Who should say the grace : before meals, in the home? Cempeting for a silver medal to A. This duty should be per- be awarded by the Congregational formed by e father, but if he is church, Douglas, for the best reci- reluctant, then the mother should tation were Ernest Smith, Eno do so. Lightlaw, Stanton Martin, Alber Q. Is it proper for a man to take White, Peter Carlson and Alfred a gitl's arm when they are cross- Hewitt. On the program following e BMBE - siranta) the contest were Miss Etta Brown A. It is better for him to offer nd Miss Elva Kirkus, Miss Eliza- ik e beth Hopper, Miss Harriet Sey and Q. Are long engagements fash- Mrs. L. B. Wright. ionable? — A. No. Meather: maximum, 41; mini- 7 s 2 mum, 36; rain. P g ——.— British Songwriters Are in Organization I I e | : LONDON, Oct. 28—British song | By W. L. Gorden writers have formed a “protective * — % association” to meet American com- RO _petition. They call the attention e A ed: Db Dot 4% lof the British Broadcasting Cor- ~ou n:‘n\s(m (X;( Lo :"f‘ mt poration to the wide use of Am-| N neLa R 1"‘ Villaomy, |erican dance music, and ask that Often Mispronounced iainy, Kb cqramish & guotd under which Pronounce 'vil-inti, all i's as in'fit. least 40 per cent of the music Often Mispelled: Pumpkin; broadcast would be “British made. commonly pronounced pung-kin Synony, Ability, capability, = . capacity, efficiency. '| Alaska Music Supply | Word Study: “Use a word three| | Arthur M. Uggen, Manager times and it is yours.” Let us in- “ Pianos—Musical Instruments | crease our vocabulary by master- | and Supplies | ing one word every day. Today's|| phone 206 122 W. Second | word: Indomitable; not to be sub- Efi dued. “His indomitable spirit won 3 the victory.’ * .- - | Make Best Wives £ ABERDEEN, Oct. 28. women make the best Small | wives, ac- ; Frederic L. Deane, Protestant Bishop | of Aberdeen. He advised Shetland Islands| | school boys that if they wished' | “live good, useful and long they should chose a bride | of about five feet in height “It generally is better when @& TAP BEER IN TOWN! THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, WEDNESDAY, OCT. 28, 1936 Horoscope “The stars incline but do not compel” + THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1936 Conflicting pianetary aspects are active today, according to astrology. The general prognostication for !business is good; the stock market Imay be exceedingly interesting | within a fortnight, For attorneys this is an auspic- ious rule. Much litigation is indi- cated for commercial organizations; criminal trials, too, will gain in number n: month, Merchants and n do well in what started this time, the seers promise. This is a good day to launch any new ven- ture. | The stars incline |ward loyalty. {hands now will litical candidates. Astrologers foretell |and third party movements severe disappointments, but there will be !at least one surprising election re- nufacturers will favor leadership and women to- arts as well as ect choice of po- both men and Hi for reform | |sult which will favor future | alignments. | This is a sway that warns against! the danger of writing anything that s uncomplimentary or al re-! garding prominent men wo- men. ,There is a sign t fore- | ts slander, libel and hostilities that may ca future difficul- ties Persons who occupy positions in| the Sun are fortunate today. They should feel stimulated and en- couraged king out their am- bitious pl This is a lucky dg for bestowing benefits or rewards of any sort. It is an auspicious date for securing promises of future aid or employ- ment Health should be mll'"lmxtl(‘d atigue may Sudden deaths are * in number. sons whose birthdate it is have the augury of a year of rather exciting bus experiences. Pub- licity will increase tially. ness born on this day prob- will be intellectual and fond study. Many subjects of this sign reach supreme success in life. Robert Hoe, inventor, on this day 1784. Ot celebrated it as a birthday James Boswell, Dr. grapher, 1740; John Keat 1795 (Copyright -+ of of incly Johnson’s bio- s. English poet, 1936) Tk danc is said to have been ced to the universal desire of expressing emotion by ac- tion. .4 — HARRY RACK, Druggist “The Squibb Stores of Alaska” $ 4.00 Men’s Dress Oxfords BIG VAN South Franklin St l "GENERAL MOTORS | and | MAYTAG PRODUCTS | W.P. JOHNSON |wife is ‘top dog' in the home,” | = | Bishop Deane declared “Small | 4 | wives can ‘bully’ their husbands, | THE MINERS Compounaed | | but big wives are nearly always| Recreation Parlors exactly |bullied, even by small husbands.”| Gnd i e i X as written | | HERE IT IS! Liquor Store | i i by your | The sixth annuai Educ:lt‘iona\l Ball [ ] doctor. will be given by the Business and | % 8 Professional Women's Club Satur- | BILL DOUGLAS Juneau Drug Co day, October 31. Admission $1.00.| % | Plan now to be there, —adv. | B = A L i i 7T TN PIGGLY WIGGLY QUALITY AND ECONOMY - [ S —— e e *Tomorrow'’s Styles| | Gl Today"” Half Milli still loeks like a woman.—San Francisco Chronicle. Striking Ohio Pupils Quelled With Tear Gas— A hickory switch might have been used and submitted separately to the Senate and House |effectively.—Indianapolis News. The B. M. Bank i Juneau, Alaska and SAVINGS Resources Over Two and One- Behrends ERCIAL on Dollars profits substan- | ude - STOCK UP NOW BELFORE THE COLD WEATHER A COAL FOR EVERY PURSE ... AND EVERY PURPOSE Per Ton Per Sack . F.0.B. F.0.B. Bunkers Bunkers Indian Lump Carbonado Briquets Nanaimo Lump Utah Lump ... Utah Nut (boat) . + Blacksmith Coal Steam Cocl No. 1 Steam Coal No. 2 $12.50 13.50 13.50 14.30 15.40 17.50 27.00 11.00: 8.00 $.70 75 75 .80 .80 .90 1.75 .60 45 A Half Century of Satisfactory Service PACIFIC COAST COAL CO. WHOLESALE AND RETAIL PHONE 412 FRESH- LOCAL GROWN GREEN ONIONS, RADISHES FROM OUR OWN FARM | ? California Grocery [ THE PURE FOODS STORE ‘ Telephcne 476 Prompt Delivery ALASKA MEAT CO. | FEATURING CARSTEN’'S BABY BEEF—DIAMOND TC HAMS AND BACON—U. S. 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