The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 1, 1937, Page 4

THE DAILY: ALASKA EMPIRE; MONDAY, MARCH 1, 1937. | dent Hoover. - Born in Gléng Falls, N. Y, April 11, | 1862, Harlan F. Stone, 64, appointed in 1925 by Presi- g dent Coolidge. Born in Chesterfield, N. H., October nday by the EMPIRE 11, 1872 e Mk ot James Clark McReynolds, 74, appointed in 1914 - by President Wilson. Born in Elkton, Ky, February 3, 1862. Owen J. Roberts, 61, appointed by President ver month. | Hoover in 1930. Born in Philadelphia, Pa., May 2, 1875.) th, s havioe $8:001 Louis Dembitz Brandeis, 80, appointed in 1916 by President Wilson, Born in Louisville, Ky, No- r if they will promptly notify irregularity in the delivery | vember 13, 1856, | Pierce Butler, 70, appointed in 1922 by President Harding. Born in Waterford, Minn., March 17, 1866 George Sutherland, 74, appointed in 1922 by Born in Buckinghamshire, Eng- Daily Alaska Em pire ROBERT W. BENDER Published every evening except PRINTING COMPANY an Alaska. Editor and Manager Entered In the Post Office in Juneau as Secon matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Delivered in carrier in Junean and Douglas for §1 ma. I lowirz bers will confer s Office of any { of their papers. Telephones Business Office, 374, vews Office, 602 “.LMIH‘,R OF ASSOCIATED PRESS. The Associnied P s 1y ‘(ny'.nlnd to tue ase for | . . heretn. land, March 25, 1862 Willis Van Devanter, 77, appointed in 1910 by President Taft. Born in Marion, Ind. April 17, 1859. | Benjamin N. Cardozo, 66, appointed in 1932 by | President Hoover. Born in New York City, May 24, | 1870. | Those are the nine men who make up the Su- preme Court. It is enlightening to note that only two of the nine were appointed by a Democratic President McReynolds, both named by the late President Wil- son. That is not to imply that the Court majority ll\ made up of deserving Republicans. But it is ob-' | vious that it is not made up of deserving Democrats or any other kinds of Democrats for that matter. ALASKA CIRCULATION GUAIIANTEED TO BE LARGER THAN THAT OF 4NY OTHER PUBLICATION is the new French Ambassador They are Justice Brandeis and Justice | HAPPY BIRTHDAY The Empire extends congratulg- birthday anniversary, to the follow- ing: MARCH 1 Jane Williams Raymond F. Dickson A. O. Elstad Allan Carlson Jack Lund Marko Dapcevich ETIQUETTE By Roberta Lee Q. How does one really discrim- inite between the people to whom wedding invitations are to mailed, and those A. ‘Invitations are sent to the close friends whom one really wish- es to attend the wedding. An- nouncements are mailed only to those not considered sufficiently close to be invited to the wedding. tions and best wishes today, their| to whom an-| {nouncements are sent? — 20 YEARS AGO PFrom The Empire MARCH 1, 1917 A Berlin correspondent of the New York Times said that the crisis between Germany and the United States would become ser- jous at once if the United States armed its merchant ships. Major P. W. Davison, disbursing officer ‘'of the Alaska Road Com+ Imission, (was on his way to Ju- neau from Valdez to confer with Supt. J. C. Hayes about road work | during the coming year. Senator Charles A. Sulzer and {Mrs. Sulzer with their son Bill ar- Irived on the Watson and had ta- apartments at the Gastineau the legislative session. | ken for paul Kegel, shift boss at the 300 Mill, had not lost faith in his mush- room farm. With the price of| foodstuff on the ascent, it looked as lif he would make a success of fur- {nishing mushrooms locally. [ Horoscope “The stars inclire but do not compel” TUESDAY, MARCH 2, 1937 Astrologers read this as a day more fortunate for those who exer- cise authority than for those who take orders. There may be serious conflict affecting industry. Airplane manufacturing is sub- ject to a planetary government which presages many complications in which the United States may suffer losses or disappointments. Warning has been given repeat- edly that many accidents in the skies would cause anxiety and ef- fect air travel. The stars seem to fdown upon flyers. More concentration of power may be noticeable in government affairs. Leadership this year will prove ex- acting as a result of certain influ- eénces compelling drastic policies. Measure of national well-being must be taken by study of condi- tions among those who require pub- lic aid. The seers forecast that the relief problem will never be | Your ll ncome Tax Bad Debts, Year in Which Deductible from An- nual Statement To be allowed as a deduction from Jgross income, a bad debt must have been determined by the tax- payer to be worthless within the taxable year for which it is claimed, and, where books are kept, it also must haye been charged off within the same year. The necessity for this provision ‘is’ obvious. If a debt ,could be deducted without the re- !quiremem that it be charged nfl" the taxpayer's books, the certainty of its worthlessness would be open to question. Neither the taxpayer nor the Government could be cer- tain that a debt would not be claimed more than once. If a bad debt were allowed as a deduction, without regard to the, year when it became worthless, such |charges could be accumulated to be | deducted in a year when there was | Ladies of the Altar Society met entirely eliminated. a large income. | partial worthlessness occurs. If it can be shown that upon maturity of a bond, mortgage, or note evidenc- ing a debt it will not be paid in full, the partial loss is deductible. TWO FIRE ALARMS SOUNDED, WEEKEND Juneau Fire Department was called into action twice over the week-end. The first alarm on Sat- urday night ‘at 10:55 o'clock took the fire fighter's to Front and Franklin Streets and the chimney fire in Bailey's Cafe was quickly ex- tinguished. The next call for the Fire Depart~ ment came at 12:30 o'clock Sunday afternoon when Olive Henry, notic~ ing a heavy odor of burning cellu- loid filling his tailor shop turned in the alarm, believing it was from burning beverage syrups and other chemicals stored in Bert Caro’s Bot- tling Plant. When the alarm went in for the same building as on Friday morn- ing the Fire Department rushed to the scene with full equipment, only fo find that Henry had left a cellu- loid handled knife on a hot plate. — ——— ————— ,l e Winter Rates | TKA HOT SPRINGS | | Mineral Hot Baths Georges Bonnet But never send an invitation and |with Mrs. Rebert Semple. There is a sign read as presag-; The burden is upon the taxpayer ling continued dissensions in 1abor!to show what a debt claimed as a Q. What is the preferable way, Miss Iloe Slade had as her guests organinzations and numerous splits deduction ‘was without value dur- for a business man or woman to al her fifteenth birthday party: in various unions. ing the taxable year. A statement dispose of an unwelgome or. tire-|Anita Garnick, Venetia Pugh, Irene, Changes among directors of work-|should be attached to the return some caller? elson, Lena Korhonen, Lucile Ba- ers’ associations may be sudden and 'showing the propriety of any de- A, One of the most effective|the, Helmi Janiksela, Genevieve more or less sensational. In high-|ductions for bad debts. If in the | ways is to rise from the chair. |Jonas, Howard Case, James MC'fest places new persons will attain exercise of sound business judgment Q. What is the usual dinner Naughton, Edward Peltret, Donald contrél. i a taxpayer concludes, after making hour in American cities? |Haley, Billy = Biggs, Clarence| Persons whose birthdate it is have every reasonable effort to determine A. Seven o'clock. ., |Knight, Samuel Kiegman and Miss the augury of a year of business. Whether there is likelihood of re- (|Brenneman. Employees probably will be pro-|covery, that the debt is of no value, | |moted. Journeys will be fortunate deduction for such debt is allow- | Ifor many. |able. Court action as proof that the Children born on this day will debt is worthless is not essential. | be positive and well-balanced. Sub-| It is optional with the taxpayer, | jects of Pisces usually are clever|il a year prior to that in which a | executives. debt becomes wholly worthless, to Pope Leo XIIT was born on ‘ms;take a deduction for partial loss if ! day, 1810. Others who have cele brated it is a birthday include Sam- uel Houston, Texas pioneer, 1793; Every Effort Made for the Comfort of the Guests! Carl Schurz, statesman, 1829; De- GASTINEAU CAFE Witt Clinton, statesman, 1769. in connecticn (Copyright, 1937) AIR SERVICE INFORMATION to the United States. France denies it is again at- o the hat.” announcement to the same person.| EQUALIZING GOLD AND FISH TAXATION ‘Accommodluom to suit every | taste. Reservations Alaska Air —— I — tempting to Transport. In the final analy the question seems to be,’ |shall we gaff another pink salmon or take a dollar On the gold tax bills now before the Legislature, off the fine ounce? hinges virtually the entire accomplishments of the| S it raised and fish, the big taxpayer over the years, is It develops that Senator Thomas saw something | present session. Revenue, is - evident, must be 1 ¥ |in Alaska he approves—the reindeer. is Money Earned EARN AT now carrying the bulk of the load. It is paying on A Liberal Victory For Labor (Philadelphia Record) Labor’s victory in the General Motors strike settlement surpasses the expectations of most liberal Therefore, it is to gold that the Legislature must|opservers. It is a victory which marks a great turn-! look for further revenue. All mining, of course, is|ing point in the status of labor in the United States: considered, but it is gold which is the great producer | The immediate victor, of course, is John L. Lewis. | and it is gold that will pay the bill in any mining The immediate successful conciliator 'is Governor | Murphy, of Michigan. To them, and to William S.‘ Knudsen, vice president of General Motors, and his The impasse in the present Legislature is """”cu]lengues. who have made such broad and public- the method of raising the tax on minerals, primarily spirited concessions, are due the congratulations and | gold, and platinum. is included in the same category. plaudits of our people. | A measure to place a three per cent tax on the gross | But to President Franklin D. Roosevelt is due the production of gold and platinum mines has passed |lasting honor and rt‘pr_ct of vall parties. the Senate. It provides for a net tax on incomes of It was Roosevelt's liberalism which brought labor | | other mines. Another measure to raise the present | = Roosevelt who gave laber strength through graduated net income tax on mining also has been offirial recognition of the principle of collective bar- introduced but has been held in abeyance pending gaining. And in this particular strike, it was Roose= Suard, &% ted by Mr. Shi action on the gross tax bill. velt who applied pressure remote, but none the less ‘(’."]‘” a';dsufges et b ol In the House the gross tax bill has run into dif-|effective for the present settlement. ANSWERS pigdie: s ) et i ficulties. Those who see merit in the net tax plan| To General Motors' credit let it be said that des- i 1. From the ftails of, Siberiggy, 0 O /@ 80 (0 V1 0 B0 are attempting to incorporate such features into the Pite an early oll:stimacy,1 i’? officials showed increasing sq;nrn;;s. A & i s ol 5 5 . | disposition to be conciliatory. { 3 ore than 2 gross fax bill and thus eliminate the very thing the, "Fr; Ton e thing they withheld demand for forcible| 3. 39 degrees below zero, Feh- gross levy measure proposes to do. | an average of $334,000 annually into the Territorial e Thus in the plan of equalizing taxation, the fishing industry. can. hardly be expected to pay more. |/ 8o great had become the vol-| ume of business at the cable office| 'that another messenger had been ! | LOOK anid LEARN rhadded to the force. Paul Abrams By A. C. Gordon £ ‘was the new night messenger, and ~————————2 Warren Geddes remained the hurry are camel hair up boy for the day work. coffers. 1 brushes made? | 2 How many uordries in the| Changing positions, Frank Bach, United States did Andrew Carnegie |deputy marshal at Douglas, be- found? ) jcame jailer in the U. S. Marshal's 3. At what will office, and Harry F. Morton, for-| mercury freeze? Imerly jailer, was made deputy on! 4. What metal can best be drawn tie island. i into wire? | 5. What* state’s namé comes With war talk in the air, H. R.| from an Indian name meaning: Shepard advanced the idea that “Father of Waters"? Juneau is for 2 Home Guard. The| From what measure that is adopted temperature JARMAN'S Custom Built $6.50 FRIENDLY FIVE $5 Men's FORTUNE Shoes $4.00 Nationally Advertised Straight Prices out of the paralysis it suffered in the days of Hoover. 230 Sonth Franklin ‘ferephone 1) CONNORS MOTOR 0., Inc Distributore PONTIAC LUMBER Juneou Lumber Mills, Inc. | Weather: Highest, 35; lowest, 28 wished to do their share in serving eviction of the sit-down strikers, and thus prevented renheit. | | cloudy. their country at home. It is a knotty problem and one with sound argu-|pjgodshed. For another thing, they retreated from! 4. Gold. ents on both sides. But it would appear that op- their earlier position in which they demanded eviction | 5. Mississippi. ponents of the gross tax on gold production are of the G. M. plants as'a ‘condition precedent to any e overlooking two major conditions. Those are, name- negotiation. 1y, that the paystreak of gold mining has been broad- Now, they recognize the principle of collective | DAILY LESSONS IN ENGLISH ened through the increase of gold from $20.67 per bargaining—the first great mass-production indus- try to do so—and thus set the seal of Big Business By W. L. Gordow i 4 GENERAL MOTORS and MAYTAG PRODUCTS W. P. JOHNSON [ | | { | | | | i i EE BIG VAN *- Dress $2.95 CHEVROLFT BUICK fine ounce to $35 with an established government market while the fishing industry is now paying on """y ger the terms of the settlement, John L. Lewis 1 its ‘gross, has had mo increase in its paystreak and yirtyally has six months to unionize ‘the General | 1 must constantly fight for a market against world |Motors plants. | = competition, i If he cannot do it in that time, the nation may well | 1t is being contended that a gross tax on mining be surprised. This master labor strategist would | WOrds Often Misused: Do not say, is unfair, but if such is the case it is equally unIairlSC”“g have ma‘;"e mifi bargain ;"“‘0‘" 30"“"9"‘:5 ’;esgde:; .',“"éaf;’ ;":::nfi;fygg'l ecs i i vhi .. that, by August, he will command majorities in .al . » ). ?:g ':;; ::5: 'l';i d":::::gl] ';: ;C?P:r ai‘:’;i:::fmze“;y 20 plants involved in the agreement, if not in the| Often Mispronounced: Fenwick means of national advertlsing, the Territory of Alalska other A7 3aueny Molats | plants agiEL- i Bneilah. A iniaeg.r: Mooy e Was W But if he fails, under the Wagner Act he can nounce fen-ik, e as in' men, It would be utter folly to assess an impossible sarcely demand that the U. A. W. A. be the sole bar- |in it, and not fen-wick. tax on gold and general mining and thus retard de- gaining agency in those plants. | Often Misspelled: Chimney, velopment, but the fact remains that the three per Meanwhile, workers in all General Motors plants ney, not ny. cent le is not excessive as compared to the tax enjoy a 5-cent-an-hour wage increase, which amounts ~ Synonyms: Deportment, de- paid by the fishing industry and it carries an exq:"’ $2 adm;\m;al fotr a 40-hourr w;ee?, producnonmwélel;meanor, behavior, bearing, man- i 2 _|be resumed, the interruption of buying power wi ner. fon;:l::owmzf‘;? tn? Frcspeclp(s. m.)d spall: opgre: at an end—and the settlement may be the basis 6% [ Word Study: “Use a word thf 2 5 ostered if mining is to develop as| = .° . ey, ee, S Rlonid, ‘3 lasting era of not only. peace, but deepe-r_ under- | times and it is yours.” Let us in. Tty fhe, Leglslature iropasss -to Dropiath. thatides s, 300 T A R Sl p 14 e pur vocaTullary. biyiemasterin o | In short, this victory may well mean the end of jone word each day. Today's word & approval on collective bargaining. velopttient through roads, trails and airfields and at | opposition to collective bargaining and its establish- the same time take advantage of the natiemal Social|{ment-not only as law, but as the accepted method of Becurity program it must raise revenue. That revenue maintaining the balance between CEP“?B} and labor. !Ffllsity: that which is false; a lie, | (Pronounce the as in all). “Me often swallow falsity for truths.’¥ Takit should be raised by equalizing the burden’on fishing and minin}. which means putting gold on. the same basis as fish, which pays on the Bross production; until such time when the gold mining, fishing ' and other possible major ihdustries in the Terrftory reach 2 volume where they can' afford to bear the additional cost of a Territorial administrative setup which can efficiently and fairly investigate, check and audit! these enterprises to insure a fair and equitable net tax return to the Territory. ! Under present conditions it is quite obvious that the expense of efficiently collecting net taxes would “cost too much, which in turn would eventually lead to further increase in taxation. . The volume of taxable business, in other words, in the Territory does not at this time warrant the elaborate machinery that the Federal Government has found necessary to set up to collect the national income taxes. Consequently, bearing in mind at all’ times the increased price of gold, it appears that.ghis year an equitable gross, fax is the only certain method ofrais- ing the revenue hecessary for the desired road, trail and airport de\-elopm‘ent‘ program_as well as the fenactment of the Sooial Security Act. = uf WHO’S WHO ON THE'SUPRE-ME BENCH Kot since Maine and Vermont decided to stay Puriegn'w;ilh?nr Been’such a), furore rhised i high and low. places’ over the state of the Unien as that caused by the President’s recommendation for speed- ing up the judiciary by appointment of additional judges. “Packing the Court” has become the slogan of the opposition with the result that the nation’s eyes have been turned on the Supreme Court, al- though Mr. Roosevelt very plainly covered the entire judicial branch of government and not particularly : the high tribunal. However, in view of the apparent fact that the! fight is to ensue about the Supreme Court, it is in- teresting to refer to the record on that body and refresh the memory on just who makes up the nation's | highest hench. Here is the brief history: Charles Evans Hughes, 74 years old, appointed Associated Justice in' 1910 by President Taft, resign- ing. tb become the Republican Presidential nominee | in 1916 and appointed Chief Justice in 1930 by Presi- The Sound of Hammers . (New York World-Telegram Home building has been slowed up by many things which no one seemed to know how to deal with. Just now its trouble is a simple one, easy to remedy. Government guarantee of debentures issued by the Federal Housing Administration on construction | loans expires July 1. Some bankers are refusin to make loans because there is little time rethaining to complete buildings before expiration daté.” Appar- | ently Congress will extend the guarantee, but it should act promptly so that building, favored by unusual weather conditions in a large portion of the country, may continue without a break. Insured mortgages promise important permanent gains toward solution of the housing problem’as well as temporary ones. They are part of the adminis- tration effort to establish a broad, nation-wide market for mortgages such as exists now for bonds of munici= palities in any part of the United States. In the past home financing has been difficult and expensive beganse of the fact that mortgages, with all kinds of different terms-and conditions, were 'salable only to investors close enough to the property involved to familiarize themselves with their worth. Government., insurance has eliminated second mortgages and has required standardized: terms, with long-time amortization provisions...It should.be con- tinued until the reserves are built up in the mutual mortgage insurance-fund and the heed of the goverti- ment. guaranty removed. i We are willing to grant that Tennesseeans did not descend from apes, as their state law says, but they sometimes make a monkey business out of marriage.— Cleveland Plain Dealer. Another worry is prompted by the thought that hardly any of the flood water can be impounded and used next summer to relieve the drought conditions. —Indianapolis News. Another difference between Mussolini and Hitler is that Mussolini hasn't tried to reform the Bible and teach theology to the Pope.—Dallas News. Americanism: “Providing a pension to care for the old; turning odt enough fool drivers to keep you {rom needing it.—Akron Beacon-Journal. 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