The Daily Alaska empire. [volume], January 27, 1931, Page 4, Image 4

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Doily Alaska Empire
JOHN W. TROY - - - EDITOR AND MANAGER
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ALASKA CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER
THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION.
SEE ALASKA AM) SEE IT BY AIR.
That is the advice given to readers of the
National Aeronautic Magazine by William Howard
Gannett, Governor for Maine of the National
Aeronautic Association, who did that himself last
Summer with entire satisfaction and who is handing
his own enjoyment down the line to anyone who
cares to follow him by reading the account of the
journey. Some of his figures are awry, as in the
wealth produced by Alaska since its purchase by the
United States. This he gave as about $600,000,000 (
when as a mater of fact it is more than two times j
that figure. But that does not make his article less
enjoyable reading. Some splendid pictures illustrate
the story, many of Southeast Alaska areas, furnished
by the Navy Department from the Navy’s Alaska
Mapping Expedition.
He depicts the service rendered to this northern !
land by planes and calls attention to our need for
an aerial mail service linking us to the States.
Prom the vantage point of a seat in "a sky pull
man’s snug cabin" he saw many of the Territory’s
greatest scenic wonders and graphically describes
them. In concluding his account of the trip, he
wrote:
A strange land—this last frontier of
our country. It was with a deep regret
that I turned southward toward tloe United
States. It is a land filled with contrast
and charm. From frozen seas the country
sweeps south to warm islands where breezes
from far away Japan fill the air. Busy
towns spring to life where restless hurAan
beings dig and scramble for gold. In many
sections the blast and din of noisy mills
shatter the night air. Strange ice rivers
are there, and quaint Indian villages are
tucked away in the coves. To all who
have not had the opportunity of visiting
Alaska I enthusiastically recommend its
varied beauties, and to gain a full appre
ciation of its many wonders, let me advise
that your trip be made by air.
Mr. Gannett, before air-viewing Alaska, had
flown from Maine to the equator and returned to
his home, 16,000 miles of voyaging. He was the
first American tourist to make the roundtrlp to South
America by air. He then flew from Maine across
the continent to California, thence to Seattle, north
past British Columbia to Alaska and to Fort Yukon
as his northernmost stopping point. The high light
of his journey was a flight around Mt. McKinley.
Of this he said: “I thought the Grand Canyon
furnished a spectacular region for an air trip, in
view of its superb coloring, unusual contours and
great extent of country visible by plane, but this
Mt. McKinley flight stands out in my mind as the
fitting climax to all my aviation activities.”
BENEFITS ARE DEBATABLE
In his resolution seeking to compel all excavation
on sites lor Federal public buildings to be done by
manpower. Congressman Hogg directs attention to
one of the most serious impediments to relief of
unemployment by the use of funds for construction.
This is true equally in the case of roads as of
buildings. In both types of construction man has
been very largely displaced by machinery. Dredges,
steamshovels. draglines, tractors, ditchers, graders,
excavators and other modern implements have
greatly simplified construction. One of them does
the work that formerly required an entire crew of
laborers. Their use has cut building costs and speed
ed up this type of work. Contractors who bid on
public works base their estimates on the savings
thus effected. They bid close since competition is
keen, but they figure on making profits through
labor-saving machinery.
Thus the many hundreds of millions of dollars
that national, State, County and Municipal authori
ties are making available for constuction to relieve
unemployment will not take up the slack that is
generally believed. Mr. Hogg would change this in
part by requiring site excavation for Federal Jobs
to be done by hand. This, of course, would result
in heavy increase in the costs of individual projects
necessitating larger appropriations. This would mean
heavier taxes, and whether in the end the benefits
achieved would offset the disadvantage of higher
tax rates is debatable.
LYNCHINGS INCREASE.
Judge Lynch last year carried out his decrees
in twenty-one instances, summarily executing 21
persons which exceeded by 11 the number of vic
tims of mob violence in 1929, according to sta
tistics compiled by the Tuskegee Institute, the col
lege maintained at Tuskegee. Ala., for Negroes. The
1929 list was the lowest on record, 1928 being next,
ten and eleven respectively. The 1930 record was
the highest since 1926, but was nine less than the
latter year.
Twenty out of the 21 last year were Negroes.
Eight involved rape, three murder and two killings
of officers of law, attempted rape two, robbery three,
being a witness one, bombing houses one, and one
charge was not reported. Fourteen of the victims
were forcibly taken from law officers by mobs and
seven were seized by mobs before arrest. Georgia
led with six lynching, Mississippi was second with
four. Texas third with three. South Carolina and
Indiana had two. and Alabama, North Carolina.
Florida and Oklahoma one each.
While this record constitutes a really shameful
j blotch upon those States in which the lynchings
| were perpetrated, the increase over 1929 does not
i necessarily mark any retrogression in the campaign
| to bring an end to mob violence. Public condemna
I tion of this relic of barbarism continues to become
I more pronounced, and officers of the law, who .'n
j many instances in the past have been more or less
. complaisant in the face of mobs, are more and
I more inclined to protect their prisoners with every
| means in their power. This is evidenced by the
record of last year. In 40 instances mobs were
cheated of their prey by courageous and vigilant
officers. And 35 of these were in Southern States
where Judge Lynch has been tolerated longer and
more widely than in any other section.
Some idea of the progress made toward outlaw
ing mobs is found in the comparison of last year’s
lynching bees with those of 40 years ago. In 1892
255 persons were executed by mobs. This is 11
times as many as in 1930. The great reduction
should offer encouragement to everyone to continue
to strive for a perfect record.
An epidemic of increased State gas taxes is
being experienced in those commonwealths in which
Legislatures are meeting this year. Although Alaska
has not yet been subjected to this form of taxation,
it might be remarked that its gasoline prices
are higher than those in the States after the taxes
are added.
“Dirty Business.”
(New York Herald-Tribune.)
In the House Committee on Expenditures in the
Executive Department iwe sometimes wish such
titles could be elided in the Russian manner) there
are twenty-one members, of whom seventeen are
listed as drys and only four as wets. Yet this com
mittee, by a majority said to be better than two-'
thirds, has voted to investigate the wiretapping
activities of Prohibition agents. Apparently what
Justice Holmes said of this particular method of
enforcing the Volstead law—namely, that it was
“dirty business"—has had a chance in the last two
years and a half to stir the consciences even of
avowed Prohibitionists.
It will be recalled that in June, 1928, the Supreme
Court handed down a decision upholding the right j
of Federal officers to tap telephone wires in pursuit!
of the bootlegger. The vote in the court was five!
to four in favor of this position, but as sometimes |
happens on occasions of this kind, it was not the j
reasoning of the majority but that of the minority |
that most impressed the country. The dissenters j
were Justices Brandeis, Holmes, Butler and Stone
and they spared no eloquence in denouncing an
attitude that would permit Government agents to j
invade the privacy of the individual on the plea!
that his telephone messages could not be classed i
with his "papers and effects” in the meaning of the !
Fourth Amendment. They invoked also the Fifth ■
Amendment, which insists that no person “shall be :
compelled in any criminal case to be a witness i
against himself."
Justice Brandeis summed up the arguments of
his dissenting colleagues in pointing out that “a i
sealed letter entrusted to the mail is protected by ’
the amendments.” “The mail,” he said, “is a public I
service furnished by the Government. The tele
phone is a public service furnished by its authority.
There is, in essence, no difference between the;
sealed letter and the private telephone message.”
To this should be added that sentence from Justice
Holme's opinion in which he says, “I think it a
less evil that some criminals should escape than
that the Government should play an ignoble part."
It is interesting to note that the Department of I
Justice itself seems to be divided on the subject of
wiretapping. Attorney General Mitchell, it is re-1
ported, has expressed to this same committee that
has now launched the inquiry his disapproval of
the practice and his intention to put an end to it.
J. Edward Hoover, Chief of the Department’s Bureau
of Investigation, is quoted against it. Colonel
Woodcock, Prohibition Commissioner, on the other
hand, has endorsed it.
We can only repeat what we said when the
Supreme Court's decision was made public, that the
enforcement of Prohibition can never be advanced
by the use of methods condemned by the laws of
many States and abhorred by honest men. It is
cause for gratifioation that an increasingly large
proportion of thoughtful drys are evidently of the
same opinion.
Silver and World Trade.
(New Yovk World.)
Never before in the history of the world has
silver been so cheap as '.t is at present. Within the
past week the price touched a new low point of
31H cents per ounce. The effects of this decline
on the world's trade are perhaps not fully appre
ciated in the United States, where silver coins for
a long time have served only as token money.
But since about one-half of the people of the world
still rely upon silver as their standard of value,
the consequences of this cheapening of the metal
on their buying power have been drastic and disturb
ing. Silver is now selling at about 40 per cent
less than its average price during 1929.
What has happened in China and India can be
best understood by imagining what would happen
in this country if the purchasing power of our gold
dollar shrank within a year to 60 cents. The ef
fects of such a change in the value of the mone
tary metal are not translated immediately into re
tail prices, but the readjustment comes in due
course, and in the silver-currency countries con
ditions for a time seem likely to become still worse.
The depression in some cases is intensified by the
world-wide decline in gold prices, so that producers
in the Orient must not only pay more, in silver,
for what they buy, but receive less, th gold, for
what they sell abroad. The situation offers a serious
obstacle to the recovery of world trade.
A number of remedies have been proposed, such
as the suspension of plans for establishment of
the gold standard in India and the use of larger
amounts of silver in the circulation of the Western
nations. These would be of help, but no quick or
complete rehabilitation of silver prices seems pos
sible. Whatever aids the afflicted countries will,
of course, help the others with whom they trade.
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Then there is the third-rate gangster who is so
poor and idle and no-account that he can’t get
jugged for vagrancy.—(Chicago News.)
Ninety economists have indorsed a $1,000,000,000
Federal loan to finance public work. What's a mere
billion dollars to an economist? — (Indianapolis
News.)
Hell is a place where you get a tax notice by
every mail.—(Ohio State Journal.)
9 VJ F P V
"Let's find a Chinese dragon like
you read about in books,”
Says Puffy; I am curious to see
Just how one looks.
We'll wrap it in a package and
we’ll tie it with a string
i And we'll .send it to the Herons!
| with our thanks 'n' everything." ^
canzonerTwins
HONORS BUT NOT
GIVEN DECISION
j NEW YORK. Jan. 27.—Tony Can- ;
zoneri, lightweight champion, won'
the honors but no decision in a j
ten round bout last night with i
j Johnny Farr, of Cleveland.
TOMMY FREEMAN
DEFEATS MURDOCK
OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla., Jan. ■
27.—Tommy Freeman, welterweight
champion, won a decision last night j
over Eddie Murdock, of Oklahoma.
Both were over the weight limit. !
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M. H. SIDES, Secretary.
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Regular meetings
\ second Friday
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WALTER B. HEISEL, Secretary
LOYAL ORDER
OF MOOSE
Juneau Lodge No. 700
Meets every Monday
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TOM SHEARER, Dictator.
W. T. VALE, Secy., P. O. Box 8^
MOUNT JUNEAU LODGE NO. 147
Second and fourth Mon- ^
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Seghers Council No. 1760,
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H. J. TURNER, Secretary.
DOUGLAS AERIE 117 F. O. E.
Meets first and third
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