The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 17, 1936, Page 4

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, TUESDAY; NOV. 17, 1936. ditions bring new opportunities to Alaska. Her scenic appeal is an inexhaustible resource — one worthy of development to the fullest as rapidly as possible. Daily Alaska Empire | BOBERT W. BENDER - - Editor and Manager — Published every evening except Sunday by tne EMFikt G COMPANY at Second and Main bireeis, Jubeau, Said the wise old Indian: two shot, maybe deer; three shot, sure no deer. i-an toward the three-shot business. One shot, one deer; We Botered in the Post Office in Juncau &3 Swwuid Cias | SRR SIS VAl TS L5 - Our idea of a handicap is meeting an ill-tempered ear in a patch of devil club with a deer on your kack. SUBSCE™TION RATES. Welivered in carrier in juneau and Pouklas for §1.25 per month. By mall, postage paid, at the following rates: Ome year, in advance, $12.00; six months, in advance, $6.00; month, in advance, §1.25. o, ibers will confer a favor if they Wil promptly notify the Business Office of any failure or irregularity in the delivery of their papers. Telephones: News Office, 602; Business Office, 374, Having read the headline about the “violet battle” around Madrid, we can understand why the city hasn't fallen MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRE The Associated Press s exclusively entitled to the use for sepublication of all news dispatches credited to it or not o‘her- Who Pays Taxes? wise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein ¥ ALASKA CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION (New York Times) The question of the percentage of indirect Federal and local taxes were actively debated in the campaign, with the usual result of generating more heat and confusion than light. But obviously the question of how taxes fall on various economic classes of the population deserves the most careful study. Arnold W. Lahee, in an article in The Annalist, estimates that no less than 35 per cent of the total tax burden of the nation in 1935, including Federal, tate and local taxes, was borne by the 22,000,000 families with incomes of less than $2,000. He places taxes that enter into the general cost of living for the nation as a whole at 16 per cent of the cost of living, He arrives at this result by first taking the total of Federal, State and local taxes in 1935—nearly +10,000.000,000, of which $3,600,000,000 were Federal and $6,400,000,000 State and local—and deducts from this total the Federal personal income, capital stock, cividend, estate and gift taxes; State and local per- conal income, personal property and inheritance taxes, and all estimated taxes on pleasure automobile users. These deductions represent taxes “exclusively on the High on the mountain top we have stalked the |y i qo" He then assumes that the ratio of other mighty roebuck to his lair and sent a bullet between |{4xes to expenditures is approximately the same for his horns, low enough, luckily, that he lost further interest in this existence. We have slashed his throat |Lrackets as for the nation. He makes the further and seen the red gore gush out into the snow patch. [assumption that indirect taxes, in which he includes |taxes on business profits, are, in effect, an element P8 £ robbed and exulted, even as Long- i 3 ?‘]‘]’ i ‘: “““n“""b | |in cost of production and, like other costs of produc- ellow’s jawatha, STALK HAPPY. BIRTHDAY The Empire extends congratula- tions and best wishes today, their birthday anniversary, {o the follow {ing: i NOVEMBER 17. Mrs. Robert R. Brown Everett Judson Adelaide Holbrook Henry Pigg Henry L. Satre Edward Jahnke John E..Foote Walter P. Scott Leroy Huntington Z At LOOK and LEARN By A. C. Gordon & 1. What percentage of the eart! is land, and what percentage is wa ter? 2. Who was the oldest signer c the Decla ion of Independence? 3. What is the natural color « the goldfish? 4. What city in the U. S. has th narrowest street? 5. What flower is November? symbolie ¢ ANSWERS 1. 28 per cent land, 72 per cen water 2. Benjamin Franklin. 3. Greenish; golden yellow i mens. 4 Augustine, Florida; Treas- ury Str at one end, is only 7 feet wide. The main business street i (R T 20 YEARS AGO From The Empire \ warnings to look out for Ger- man submarines were being flashed 1 over the Pacific Ocean to Brit- n and Japanese trans-Pacific lin Word was received in Vic- toria that two and probably more German submarines were off the st of British Columbia in the paths of the liners from Japan tol Australia | Four Alaska steamship freighters,| Horoscope “The stars incline i but do not compel” * WEDNESDAY, NOV. 18, 1936 Benefic aspects rule strongly to- day, according to astrology. It is a time to push sgorously is of first importance either in pub- lic or private life. Something favorable to industry is forecast by the stars which presage a victory for workers. Union or- whatever ALL’S NOT GOLD STCRAMENTO, Cal., Nov. California’s multi-million-dollar na- | developments in scientifie agricu i(ural research. | 17— vel orange crop starts moving to! market in November, moves a warning to perons of small and with it| means not to mistake the gold of| oranges for the gold at the end of the rainbow. Each year when it gets chilly back east, Californians get inquiries from friends who think it would be nice to put their small savings in “a few acres of oranges” and lounge around in the sunshine for the rest of their lives. the Redondo, the Eureka, the La- | ganizations, however, still are under touche and the Valdez were sched<;"hl'(‘u[ep‘ng portents to call in Juneau during the! There is a sign read as indicating next month, |government demand for lands in uled Quick to caution the 1936 hnp(‘-} fuls, the Pacific Coast Rural P sa) “The record of the last fiv years shows an orange grower needs | eities, Emmet J. McKanna, broker of Juneau and member of the City Council, returned to Juneau from California and was at the Alas.kan." G. E. Krause arrived in Juneau| on the Admiral Watson ofter a trip to Seattle. l Mrs. M. J. O'Connor, wife of| Mayor O'Connor of Douglas, was, recovering from a brief illness. ncer, left for the south on the rthwestern. Livingston Wernecke and family moved into a new house at Treadwell. | M. M. McCaul and W. H. Colvin the two-thirds of the population in the lower income {found only in domesticated speci- of Thane, who had been to Florida Many marriags on the Alaska team competing in the National Rifle matches, return- cd qn the City of Seattle. Leo J. Higley, Treadwell team member, Profits may be realized es- pecially in seacoast places. While this configuration contin-|gene ues contracts should be signed and agreements should be great projects are involved. building is presaged. The stars today encourage logic: Ship- thinking and are believed to import clear visicn regarding future events. Decisions under this rule shoula be fortunate. Surgeons are subject to a plane- reached where | O 20 acres to make a living of from 00 to $3,000 net per year. As a al thing, the 5 to 10 acre ranch is not enough to keep a man busy furnish a good living.” - e Aid to Deaf Farmers RALEIGH, N. C.—Through inter- preters, afficials of the North Caro- lina Agricultural extension service are endeavoring to supply the state’s tary government that seems to en-'300 deaf farmers' information on Fred E. Buck, former city en-icourage many young men to prepare' g for a wide field of usefulness. Hos- pitals should be enlarged and im- proved at this time. For the young a period of sane love affairs is foreshadowed, and courtships will be of short duration. are indicated. Astrologers warn Japan that peril threatens unless attention is divert- ed from military affairs and con- centrated upon intes problems. ,_———.———; In cans trade-marked KEGUNED America's finest slow mellowed beer since 1855 — for flavor — for quality. < FOR SALE AT YOUR FAVORITE DEALER Alaska Distributor W. J. LAKE & COMPANY, Inc.)} Seattlé, Washington LUMBER Juneau Lumber Mills, Ine. In the heroscope of the Emperor L | three major enemies are discerned. | = Persons whose birthdate it is have | a9 o i 30 South Frankli —————— % Front and Ferry Way, occupied by the augury of a year of new oppor- th Fr: n | the California Fruit Company, was' tuni Progress and success are MODERN | old to the cccupants by Mrs. James for en, and for the young, ardent Hogan wooing. ETIQUETTE & — { Children born on this day prob- John A. Davis, wife and child, of By Roberta Lee Pt kg " Just as big as Boulder Dam. The boulder was In @ |yrong to deduct all automobile taxes as taxes on the s :,’,‘,"[1‘::.’,‘,.':“} ::"S'L',um;'f(,x:u;'c":.';‘,),if creek and through the seat of our pants and into |ell-to-do, because probably 45 per cent of the 22.- R o our boots swept the mountain torrent. 450,000 cars of the country in 1935 were owned by | Q Should one push back hi Long we pondered on the wisdom of shooting roe- |families with incomes under $2,000. But, on the other plate when he is through eating? bucks on the mountain top. We struggled out of the {hand, other indirect taxes would tend to bear in | /\I XN;H“‘- X;W' ]1 ‘Dlflcr'lll;vlkryn tangle, retrieved our gun and sallied downward. By 1(‘;’““" ieso on tie Wil Bwdo because 5. SNy of -I’"( ‘”l ‘:" the .”‘Q“ f.”f by side 2 % B size from a mere | €M are on luxuries or semi-luxuries. . but do not move the plate. this time our deer had grown in size | What is greatly needed, if this country is to have | Q |tion, must be entirely covered in the price to the jonly 17 feet wide. But then, we bore the red deer homeward. | : No. | consumer. 5. The chrysanthemum. that isn’t entirely correct, for in steep places on the | 1y s clear that some of these assumptions will be - - mountain side, the buck bore us. In other words, We |questioned. To treat the corporate income tax as an L slide head first on our tummy, the once wary roebuck 'element in cost of production is economically unortho- wrapping himself around our ears, a horn pru(ldm-:‘du\« though Mr. Lahee contends that profits are itself into our ribs. Our gun went in one direction, |feally a compensation, even though highly irregular, d the roebuck in another, to land with a dull for definite services rendered and cannot be reduced e 1 " ."_ 1466t bm;ld<-r which appeared i\vuhmn affecting prices. Errors in two of his assump- o o e - el : [tions, he believes, tend to cancel each other. It is was also aboard the boat. Telephone 411 CONNORS MOTOR €0, Inc Distributors PONTIAC The well-known Flatiron Building, ably will be serious and studious by nature, Subjects of t; igl. usu- ally have energy and ambition. Asa Gray, botanist, was born on this day 1810. Others who have celebrated it as a birthday include Franz Sigel, soldier, 1824; Sir David Wilkie, genre painter, 1785; Amelia Galli-Curei, coloratura soprano, CHEVROLET BUICK ) J. W. Tind: California to join b countant of the Alaska Electric Light and Power Company, and 1 arrived from 'r husband, ac- ALASKA MEAT CO. If one cannot accept an invi- 125 pounds to at least 350. He grew pound by pound with each step. Finally, we struck upon what we thought would be a bright idea. buck in such position that we thought we could drag him downward through the forest. It worked success- fully for as much as 100 yards, then, not being as sure-footed as our once agile roebuck, our starboard foot went in one direction, the rest of us and the deer in another, winding up emphatically in a nice patch of devil club, the roebuck, as ever it seemed, on top. | sharp | What a jockey, that How those devil club briars? ornery roebuck? | Like a Christian soldler, we struggled on, though | the darkness came upon us. Louder, louder groaned our muscles, and our knées were as of putty; finally, they collapsed beneath us. Not even the boys who rode with Sheridian had a better ride than us and that roebuck. Exhausted, we lay there in the forest. We had our roebuck, but we also had a good hail mile to the beach. So we pulled off our belt and lashed our prized deer in o tree, probably as much as four feet off the ground, the creature having grown by this time to weigh at least 900 pounds, including the horn which had played the Stars and Stripes Forever on our ribs. Our heart ached as we left that roebuck, but we struggled on to the beach where boon companions aweited to help lift our bedraggled corpse aboard ship. Then in the morning, with those same boon com- panions, we went back and got our roebuck. Today we beliéve we could write an excellent ad- vertisement for almost any old kind of linament, but we also have been wondering why Longfellow didn't call his poetic hero, What-A-Man Hiawatha. Further- more, we don't care if they have closed the deer sea- son. We want no more roebucks—at least till next November. “ALASKA’S SHARE OF AMERIC TOURIST TRADE” Despite the fact that the strike is on it is certa it will not last forever, and right after the holid: the 1937 tourist season will be upon us. It isn't a bit too early to give a little thought to how we may bolster it a little more from the Alaska end. The Fairbanks News-Miner commenting on “Alaska’s Share of Am- erica’s Tourist Trade” makes an interesting point when it says: In this final period of the year when cast- ing up of budgets for the coming year and planning of campaigns for the 1937 better busi- ness drive is being started by everyone who scouts the prospects of the immediate future, it is well that Alaskans keep a weather eye peeled to get a bigger shar: of the American tourist business. Americans spend six billion dollars annu- ally touring the world or seeing their won country. Here is a line of business from which Alaska should annually carve a greater share. The State of Washington already does a thirty-million dollgr tourist business. The chambers of commerce of that state already are formulating plans to materially increase the business this year. Of the tourist travel into the Pacific Northwest, Alaska gets a share, but nothing compared to what she eventually will get and what she may derive in the near future if she goes carefully about the task. Facilities for handling tourists, both on transportation lines and in cities, are problems which confront Alaskans. It cannot be ex- pected that Alaskans can immediately take care of hordes of tourists such as go to Eu- rope, but she can gradually develop along these lines. The money tourists bring into a country is found money. It is estimated each tourist spends ten to fifteen dollars daily on a trip. The funds percolate into all channels of trade. Hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of Americans who have gone to Europe annually are going to avoid that strife-ridden and war- torn realm next summer. More of them will turn to American wonderland attractions—and of these Alaska, with her rare northern charms * issure to-take'on a greater lure. The con- We lashed our roe- | a sound tax system, is a clear understanding among | the voters of the actual incidence of direct and indirect taxes, a clear knowledge of just how much taxes \various income clas: among our people are r (paying. This knowledge could be obtained best through an unbiased and careful official study. One make and publish such a study. A Suggestion for Worried Executives (Business Week) executive will suddenly say to himself: the election is over, an I'm still worried. I'm trying to make up my mind about its significance. I'm worry- ing in a slightly different way than I was in the middle of October, and my worrying then wasn't quite the same as in September. About the middle of December ‘and of January and of February I'll still be worrying, but in a different way each time. What for? Business is better and will keep on getting better. Why don’t I snap out of it? What's the matter with me?” And then, perhaps, it will occur to him that he is unconsciously continuing his depression habits in a recovery period, and that it is. time he got back to normal. And he may then highly resolve to do a little more relaxing and a little less worrying; take a little | more time for his family and for rest and play; and even to renew the pleasurable, healthful, and econo- | mical habit of a winter vacation. Nine Days Away “Well, now, | (New York World-Telegram) After more than a year of exploring one of the strangest, most inaccessible, least-known spots on earth, the jungle of Borneo, Mr. and Mrs. Martin John- son have returned with strange new stories. It took them a couple of months for the trip by local steamer to Singapore, then skirting the Malabar coast to Cape Town and across the Atlantic., Only a week before they arrived, on last Monday, October 19, H. R. Ekins got in by air from his record- setting trip around the globe for the World-Telegram. Instead of two months from Borneo he had made it in nine days, hopping off from there October 10. Just nine days from Broadway! And there, ac- cording io the Johnsons you may find dry-land fish, oysters that grow in trees like apples, lizards that sing like canaries and snakes that glide through the air. Tall tales indeed from Borneo, but films are here to confound the doubters. When it comes to incredible tales by travelers the English hias been reversed since Marco Polo. It isn't the bearer of strange testimony from the East who is disbelieved. It is the one who goes back to the East with tales of younger lands. The Marco Polo of the | Johnson expedition, we suspect, is the.native Borneo | boy, Sodan, now visiting New York with the explorers. When he gets back among his family and neighbors who indeed will believe him? Especially who would believe him if he should tell of going back home by air, across the ocean and half way around the world in nine days? Factually speaking, the boy will be going back 10,000 years. | The British public believes that King Edward ought to be allowed to enjoy the pleasures of a private life, and a lot of folks over here tried to fix it so that Mr. Roosevelt could, too.—Boston Herald. All the King needs to marry a commoner is his own consent. Dear, dear. Hasn't a girl any indepen- dence nowadays?—Detroit News. A Communist is a person opposed to the capitalist state . .. the capitalist state is the one in which peopie {of the early tasks of this administration should be to; Q | | 5 Along about the middle of November, many an |Mmother, | | | crease our vocabulary by mastering | tion, is it permissible merely to write “Regrets” on one’s visiting card and send it? A. No; this would be rude. On should always write a brief note of regrets. Following a church wedding {in what order should the cars leave |the church? A. The car of the bride and bride- groom leaves first, then the brides- maids, next the bride’s father gng then the groom’s fath&f and mother, then the nearest rela- tives, followed by other friends. - > . * - - DAILY LESSONS || IN ENGLISH | By W. L. Gorden * - Words Often Misused: Do not say, ! “Then we shall be free of any obli- | gation.” Say, “free from any obli-| gation.” | Often Mispronounced: Debut. | Pronounce de-boo, a as in day, 00| as in boot, principal accent on last syllable. Often Misspelled: Breath (noun.) | Breathe, (verb). | Synonyms: Happiness, felicity, | beatitude, bliss, ectasy, joyfulness. | Word Study: “Use a word three times and it is yours.” Let us in- one word each day. Today's word: Controvert; to dispute or oppose by! reasoning. “I shall not attempt to! controvert your theory — e - ‘Today’s News Today--Empire, | | make her home here. 1889. Weather: Maximum, 43; Mini- - mum, 43; rain - D ) Cop: Lode and placer location noiices for sale at The Empire office. 7 10O AI For Every Purpose || Pacific Coast Coal Co. Lode and placer location mnotices for sale at The Empire office. —mm— ‘ HOTEL ZYNDA ELEVATOR SERVICE S. ZYNDA, Prop. TAP BEER IN TOWN! 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