The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 8, 1937, Page 4

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COURT FIGHT TO GO ON Congress has gone home but there is every indi- Daily Alaska Empire l Editor and Manager | been solved EMPIRE | EMPIRE, WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 8, 1937. g in ingenuity ed new and better ma- he constantly faced the danger of having the machine destroy his job. This problem has never but has grown more complicated as society, and the machines it demands for its services, has likewise grown more intricate. But if this problem has never been solved, it is comforting to reflect that the disaster which it seem- ingly forecasts never quite arrives with all its press- agented intensity. For example: Way back in the shades of an- t'quity, some smart chap made the first wheel. Soon a good many of his fellows who had been carrying burdens on their backs or driving pack animals, may Fave lost their jobs. Thus technological unemploy- rient was born. No doubt the man with the wheel was called a dangerous innovator. He may have had head bashed by neighbors who predicted dire re- sults from this unwarranted and impious disturbance of the status quo, all the while bewailing the passing of the “good old days.” Yet wheels are still. being used Bring the example down to date. Four years ago the Technocrats were predicting the Grand Ultimate grow chines, iCrash in eighteen months as a result of the inability to re-hire more than 45 percent of the That didn’t happen, either, although cof industry vnemployed. cerning current progress in re-employment Hence the importance of the 450,000-word report which the President’s National Resources Committee submits under the imposing title “Technological Trends and National Policy, Including the Social Im- plications of New Inventions,” It is not an excursion in alarms, after the model of the Technocrats or those pre-historic Tories who viewed the cart wheel with suspicion. It is, rather a sober recognition that the recent |eccelations of the processes of mechanization present cation that the court fight which was mainly respon-' sible for late adjournment will go on. In signing the modified judiciary reform bill the other day, the President stated that a “thoroughgoing reformation of our judicial proce ses” still is needed, and talking further on the court plan said “All of these objectives are of necessity a part of any complete and rounded plan for the reform of ju- dicial processes. We have wanted to bring to an end a trying period during which it has seemed that a veritable cons} existed on the part of many of the most gifted members of the legal profession to take advantage of the technicalities of the law and the conservatism of the courts to render measures of social and economic reform sterile and abortive.” This statement from Mr. Roosevelt has caused many to believe that the Chief Executive will carry his court fight to the people this fall in a series of fireside talks. Felix Belair, Jr., commenting on it in the New York Times, points out that the President is in a commanding position if he chooses to go to the country for further support. He says: Political observers regard President Roose- velt's remarks on signing the modified judici- ary reform bill this week at the political key- note the country may expect to hear for the immediate future. His evident dissatisfac- tion with the measure and his public branding of it as a very short step along a far-reaching road lead them to interpret his statement as a rallying cry to the “liberal” elements of the electorate that, again, “we have just begun to fight.” If this should be the terrain on which Mr. Rcosevelt elects to start whatever long battle he may have in mind to make further gains for “the more abundant life,” he has condi- tions in his favor at the present time. Con- gress has adjourned and the 435 Representa- tives and the 96 Senators tend to become once again just individuals in their home com- munities This band of representatives of the people, when functioning at the Capitol, is a formi- dable array, as Mr. Roosevelt found during the past seven and a half months. The old fable had it that a bunch of faggots, bound together, could not be broken, but that the individual sticks could be easily fractured, taken one at a time. The Democratic members of Congress who have opposed Mr. Roosevelt on such issues as the court and the wages bills and other pro- posed remedies for what he sees as existing evils which he has a mandate to correct, fear that the fable is only too true. They are now no longer a bundle of fakgots, but individual twigs, standing on their own, and vulnerable to the break strength of State and county chairmen “PRESTIGE” IN THE ORIENT Regardless of the much-discussed neutrality act, when the dogs of war howl as they are howling now on two fronts—in the Orient and over Europe—the question of keeping out of troubleé simmers down to just how much a nation can take without losing face before the world. Already the cry has sounded in the Orient that if the United States does not protect its nationals in China it will lose prestige. "Naturally, the plea comes from those Americans caught in the present China-Japanese conflict and those at home whom they represent. No one can blame them much. If any of the rest of us were spending our days with shrapnel flying around our ears we, too, probably would be crying for help. But it can not be overlooked that the big majority of the American people, and the rank and file of the peoples of other countries for that matter, oppose another war and are willing to go to decent lengths 15 avoid open conflict. Thus the problem of pro- tecting Americans in China or in any other foreign country time of trouble becomes a delicate one Warring factions always know that, and take advan- tage of it. In other words, they don't necessarily hold their triggers because an American happens to bob up in the line of fire There will be shouts galore about American pres4 ntil the less than 8,000 Americans now in China cuated. But it probably is a fairly safe guess at the majority of the American people do not 1 to rush into open con: nation’s power just bec do not use good at the earliest possible in the Orient to show t sprinkling of our peoj the jud it to get out of China moment, One of the most remarkab igns around this neck of the woods is the one at foot of the Doug- Jas Island Ski trail which is sign the U, S. Forest Fervice and informs the world ki cabin on government property is for the 1se of the Juneau Ski Club Man Versus Machine (Cleveland Plain Dealer) The problem of mar old as the first man and almost as As man | a social challenge which has not yet adequately been met. It calls attention once more to the sobering f |that the physical sciences, mainly devoted to the ad- vancement of the machine, constantly tend to out- strip the development of the social sciences. It is a forecast, not of disaster, but of the possibilities of bet- ter and least a round or two in the age-old battle of man versus | machine Obviously these rounds must be won if man is to continue to be master of the machine. dent is the fact that such victories are not so easy today as they were when the social and economic structure was less complex. Thus the comfortable idea that the worker who lost his job because of technological improvements in one industry would speedily find another was ten- able when America still had many frontiers. The temporarily surplus worker would move on. take up a farm on free or cheap land, or open a shop where shops were lacking. Now the geographical frontiers are gone and the industrial ones are more difficult to find 4 This is why the unemployment problem created by the depression which began in 1929 far exceeded that of any previous period of hard times, and why many of the old remedies failed to meet it. Laissez faire theories cannot keep in suspended animation the millions cast loose by a maladjusted national _economy. President Roosevelt stresses this point in his com- ment on the committee’s report: i “While it is certain that much of the unemploy- ment caused by the technical advance is absorbed by | new occupations born of new industries, it is equally true that in the meantime labor may pay a very heavy price and employers are likewise affected by swift technological changes producing obsolescence and dis- placement of capital investment.” ) So both worker and employer have a stake in this 'effort to make the future more secure by profiting from the mistakes of the past cease, nor should any sane person want it to. The Jong record of human progress is in large measure the story of successful improvement of the machine. Sometimes the consequences are unexpected. Frank- lin, toying with his kite, never visioned the day when electricity would be the universal chore boy. Whitney could not dream of a Civil War as a consequence of the cotton gin ' Human progress is sometimes best described as “steady by jerks,” but still it is progress. Men find new wants and new machines enable more persons to satisfy them. In America, particularly, is there grow- ing recognition that in mass purchasing power lies stability for prosperity. In the long run the worker is the best customer of his employer, whatever the preduct. The machine will continue to be man’s best servant so long as man is an intelligent master. [ KB | Where No One Has a Friend ! (New York Times) | The current quip about Stalin, bumped off all his friends he is now at work on mere acquaintances, contains too much sardonic truth to be amusing. The Soviet purge goes on with a dread- that having ful rhythm, a muffled drum-beat of peculiar horror | under all the brazen savagery of our time. As the net widens to trap more spies in the Red Army, more sabo- teurs in the transportation services, in the State industries, more traitors everywhere, fin- ally it strikes the State Planning Board, the supreme econemic body in the Soviet Union and therefore only less vital to the system than the Politbureau or the General Staff. News that the vice president of this all-important board and the heads of ten key depari- ments are the latest to be removed as enemies of the people deepens the impression that something like civil war of a type without precedefit in history. It is as new and strange as totalitarian States, systems of government so absolute that sabotage, as in the past, is the only form of opposition, but so much more all-inclusive than the despotisms of the past that they are open to sabotage on a thousand fronts, In the early stages of this purge Mr. Denny re- ported that it was so largely directed against the “higher-ups” that the tension did not spread among the masses of the people. That can no longer be true. en if the liquidations had not since spread farther and deeper, involving now she remote republics on the Asiatic borders, the instructions issued to Soviet citizens to spy upon their neighbors must envelop every village and urban tenement in an atmosphere lof fear and suspicion. No one can escape the terror more wreckers blanketing a land where the patriot is required to| | report any unusual behavior on the part of friends fand members of his family, to inform on people appearing to live beyvond their income, to have & pass |to enter an office building, to clear through a com- S lmittee before visiting acquaintances in an apartment Ihouse. In a socity where every man is urged to be a |spy it would not be surprising if espionagé became a habit and a danger to the regime itself. Even before the present inquisition, the effects of the surveillance under which the Russians h always lived, in varying degree under Czar and Soviet, were { painfully evident in the curious isolation of the indi- vidual. Every one walked the crowded streets as if he walked alone, self-enclosed and watchful. It was a young artist in a State enterprise who summed it up two or three years ago to a foreign visitor as they con- versed out of earshot on a frozen road. “The worst thing about life here,” he said, “is not communism but the lack of it. The worst thing is that no one has a friend. Nobody trusts his neighbor, his fellow-worker. Nobody knows who is 5% there is certainly no reason to feel complacent con- | rer controls which will help man to win at | Equally evi- | Invention will not ! — 20 Years Ago | From The Empire HAPPY BIRTHDAY The Empire extends congratula- tions and best wishes today, their| birthday anniversary, to the follow- s SEPTEMBER 8, 1917 i ‘[‘I“‘" e’ | THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 0, 1037 e sum- to be; Horoscope “Tha stars incline but do net compel” The Juneau Woman's to resume meetings after mer vacation and plans were made to raise Red Cross funds. Construction was underway of a {new parsonage for the Methodist |minister on the lot adjoining the church at Fourth and Seward. Mrs. R. H. Williams Joseph J. Stocker Henry Miller Mrs, Sadie Perkins W. T. Littleton Gladys Sayre Conflicting planetary aspects are active today according to astrology. It is especially trying to persons who owe money or seek loans. Women should make the best of all opportunities. under this sway which is believed - to openh ‘many doors in the professions for those al-—.—_;—.; DAILY LESSONS All preparations had been made for the opening of the Juneaujo 5 0 ihece degrees. IN ENGLISH |schools on September 10. ?eis:s( B e e iand other equipment were being| .. - ooicove will engage many girls. By W. L. Gordon {placed in the new school building. [yt H€ A Dhysiclans will I s " L o+ " by Jfl'\a T i be in demand to aid families that v | U. 8. Marshal J. } anner Was| g erer from epidemics when cold Words Often Misused :Do 1ot 5ay. 'y, Jeave for Skagway in an effort| (& " Cro - iz tom.iiflsd.u-,[ th? Worth 45 capture Verne Bawif, who had} “rpae may be an urge towards and choice of frlends.” Say, “Hap-|escaped from the Skagway jail after| . o0 under this: planetary gov- il “0“\‘5‘“1‘“ the worth and paying been arrested by Canadian g'o ong the young will be choice of friends.” A A Py ; . A ; ¢ G police in Atlin. Bawif had escaped |y, .optiple, but girls may be fickle | Often Mispronounced: Ere. Pro-ifrom the Walla Walla, Wash. state o il ket ¢ {nounce ar, a as in care. i i v ' penitentiary. Tanner was to search e a5 vl wn | Often Misspelled: Always (&t 0. Bawff unarmed. ;m“‘l‘llb‘::;flml&i):n 1“(0 ?;i “:“Ae all times). All ways (in every man- > Lt al detern s | ner) y en - man wild rumors may be g % | J. Meherin was to leave for circulated. Vague reports may mul- tiply regarding the spread of wars, civil as ®vell as international Housekeeping should be the chief concern of women who have fore- sight at this time. Daily menus may be of supreme interest and may test the resources of the fam- ily budget. Rise in the cost of living will pro- vide anxieties in many quarters, but nonyms: Delineate, describe, sgagway and then proceed to the y, outline, depict Westward on the first steamer. “Use 3 | | port Word Study word three Vi 1 |times and it is your: Let us in-| Roy Noland and Grafton Coleman | jcrease our vocathlary by mastering returned from their homesteads near one word each day. Today’s word: gtrawberry Point and were to re- | Eminent; distinguished as being main until the robins nest again. |above others. “It is folly for an They had nailed up their cabin |°"““(‘m man to think of escaping qoors and windows, killed the cats b Addison. and were to spend the winter and - D | e (U AU S [the social world is to be gay end * S sl e ~4 ciravagant in the coming winter. | Mrs. Robert Semple and MisS| i women will conserve their || LOOK and LEARN | erancis Meisenihal were o teave Yoot ¥omer, Wil Someerie e By A. C. Gordon on the Spokane for Seattle (0 5014 spending of the family income. Sew- X bt ing clubs now will multiply and of- e R i % forts which are not devoted to fancy | 1. What is the largest denomina- OVer-ruling the veto of Mayor o win engage: attention tion of paper monoy circulated Valentine, the City Council decided " popiong whose birthdate it is have ? to acquire waterfront pr y for in the United States? floats. Duliditiss snd equipment f68 the augury of a year of odd exper- 2. How many bascballs are used oo o 1 "R s icnees and unexpected diversions by the major leagues during one R For the young courtship and jeal- season? SR O T . o OUSy are foreseen. 3. What famous author and hu- report—High 65, low 52.. " chigren born on this day prob- morist was a silver prospector in oG ably will be light-hearteed and am- Nevada during and after the Civil « by Lester D. Henderson, bitious. 'Many subjects of this sign War? appear irrespo: ble, but they are 4 Which state of the Union e usually practical and dependable. has the most water in it, not in- Eleazar Lord, financier, was born cluding water surface of on this day 1788. Thomas Hutch- SITKA HOT SPRINGS | Mineral Hot Baths Gulf of Mexico or Great Laks inson, American colonial governor, 5. How many illegit:mate births . . | also celebrated it as a birthday, are there in the United.States an- | Accommodations to sult eyery | yq; ki taste. Reservations Alaska Mrl (Consrant 1981 5 | Transport, LR R b i - ANSWERS :>: - e — __.i;; . s 1. $10,000 SIGRID’S 2. Approximately 105,000 > 4. Minnesota PHONE 5 R e sy A OUR RESPONSIBILITY PR . 6 7 3 Shattuck Bldg. Phone 318 | 0 b | — >oo— o - i MODERN PANHANDLE | ETIQUETT, BEER PARLOR BEST BEERS and WINES ‘ By Roberta Lee L P. BRENNAN : Opposite Coliseum Theatre Q. When iniroducing a group of three women and three men, what AT e RS is the order of procedure? s 2 MODISTE TO WOME A. First introduce the women to ¢ - a5 OF BETTER TASTE plwtamn s e woemien 4o e o | MRS. STERLING ! men, and last the men to the men. HARRY RACE, Druggist “The Squibb Stores of Alaska” SCUSUSOULUITR Q. Bhould sil (grestd eave &b the TIONS | Room 300—Goldstein Bldg. same time, following a luncheon? rompounded \ HROHE 50 o A. They usually do, unless one| | exactly as > - - has been invited by the hostess to written remain for some specifi purpose.| by your The long lingering type of guest is doctor. never popular, and is often not in-| vited the second time . 4 Q. Should a man sign a holcl': register, H. J. Adams and wife? | A. No; the proper form is Mr. o end Mrs. H. J. Adams. E Pay’n Takit PHONES 92 or % Free Delivery £ Fresh Meats, Groceries, Liquors, Wines and Beer We Sell for LESS Because We sell for CASH George Brothers S S RPB N | o ‘%fl Juneau Drug Col. 300 Roums . 300 Bati:s Joom *2.50 Sfecial Weekly Kutes ALASKANS LIKE THE Channel Apparel Shop | { Martha Bracken—Jean Graham | Front and Main Streets | “Satisfaction with Every | Transaction” | i 51 When ip Neew ¢ DIESEL OIL—-UTAH COAL GENERAL HAULING STORAGE and CRATING CALL US JUNEAU TRANSFER Phone 48—Night Phone 696 || THE MINERS' || Recreation Parlors BILL DOUGLAS ki “lzoRrIC| The B. M. Behrends Bank , Juneau, Alaska { COMMERCIAL ‘ and SA’VINGS nesources Over Two and One-Half Millior: Dollars = =% 'I American Is Buddhist B.M. for spruce sawtimber, $1.00 per M feet BM. for hemlock sawtimber, land 1c per linear foot for piling up KYOTO, Japan.—The Nichi Hon- |, gnq including 95 feet in length gan temple here has admitted t0 .14 13,0 per linear foot for piling the Buddhist priesthood Kenneth . .. g5 feet in length will be con- Brother, 25, of Burlingame, Cal. He gereq, $500.00 must be deposited expects to work as a Buddhist mis-| i) anch bid to be applied on the sionary among the Americans and |,urchase price, refunded, or re- Japanese in California. | tained in part as liquidated damages, |according to the conditions of sale. |The right is reserved to reject any jand all bids, including bids the ac- UNITED STATES |ceptance of which would involve the DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR manufacture of the timber outside GENERAL LAND OFFICE of the Territory of Alaska. Before District Land Office |bids are submitted, full information Anchorage, Alaska. concerning the timber,, 'the condi- ¢ May 28, 1937. |tions of sale, and the submission of Charles Holden Switzer, Entry- pids should be obtaffied from the man, together with his wiLnESSES‘Regional Forester, Juneau, Alaska. Fred Orme and James E. Sparks, First publication, August 25, 1937. all of Juneau, Alaska, has submit-|Last publication September 8, 1937. ted final proof on his homestead adv. entry, Anchorage 06459, for a tract o~ v of land- embraced in U. S. Survey UNITSD STATES No. 2121, si Hlaci 0. 2121, situated along the Glacler pppsRTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Highway about 7 miles northwest of Juheau, containing 14258 acres, GEP;)EB‘::?‘ Ii::dDO?:SICE and it is now in the files of the' znck 1 U. S. Land Office, Anchorage, Al- Ry g;i;;: e aska, and if no protest is fil the local land office. withir the! Notice is hereby given that Jus- period of publication or thirty days ¥in Holiner, Traver, SQUVIOE0, 60~ thereafter, sald final proof will be,8cther With his witnesses Jack J. accepted and final certificate is- Letrovich and John: Skan, all of sued. | Klawock, Alaska, has submitted final proof on his homestead, An- ichorage 08149, for a tract of land situated on the east shore of Kla- wock 1Inlet on Prince of Wales __ Island, embraced in U. 8. Survey No. 2216, containing 5.14 acres, lati- tude 55 degrees 33' 40” N. longitude 133 degrees 05’ W. and it is now in | Sealed bids will be received by the the files of the U. . Land Office, |Regional Forester, Juneau, Alaska,Anchorage, Alaska, and if no pro- 'up to and ingluding September @5 test is filed in the local land office [for all the merchantable dead tif-, Within the period of ' publication |ber, standing or down, and all the and thirty days thereafter, said llive timber marked or designated final proof will be accepted and for cuiting, on an area totaling final certificate issued. jeleven acres on Chichagof Island GEORGE A. LINGO, Jabout west of Halibut Island, Port Register. {Frederick, Tongass National Foresi, First publication, July 28, 1937. | Alaska, estimated to be 32,900 feet Last publication, Sept. 22, 1937. B.M., more or less, of Sitka spruce ~ and hemlock sawtimber, and 59,092 |linear feet, more or less, of piling. No bid of less than $1.50 per M feet Today’s News Today. GEORGE A. LINGO, Registrar. First publication, August 11, 1937. Last publication, October 6, 1927. 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