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The Washington times., 1933-10-11
CUTS.
OPPOSED
BY LABOR
BODY
A. F. l. Supports 5-Day, 80
Hour Week in Private Indus
try; Vote Is Unanimous
BY DUNCAN FORSYTH

By unanimous vote, the
convention of the American
Federation Of Labor today
adopted a resolution urging
the 3O-hour week for Govern
ment employees.
The resolution also called for
the same scale of pay. that was
in effect before the successive re-
ductions under the economy act.
A similar resolution calling for
the five-day six-hour week was
adopted for workers in private
industry. The attitude Of the
Federation was made clear that
it favors a 30-hour week general
ly without reduction in pay.
Program Comes Later
Both resolutions were reported
by the shorter work-week commit
tee. Other committee reports are
being heard today, but the out
look was that the report of the
legislative committee, containing
general program for Govern
ment workers, would not be
reached until late.
Meanwhile, it was thought
probable that a resolution con-
corning the question of jurisdic-
ton as it affects unions of Gov
ernment employees might be pre-
sented fairly soon, and E. Claude
Babcock, president of the Amer.
ican Federation of Government
Employees, affiliated with the A.
F.. of L., said that his organiza-
ton favored it.
The resolution is interpreted,
he said, as declaring the principle
of jurisdiction and with that
principle the A. F. G. E. Is in
complete accord.
Offers No Opposition
It was indicated that the A.
F. G.. E. would not oppose organ1-
zation of carpenters in the Fed.
eral service by the Carpenters
Union, or of other tradesmen by
the unions in their field. The
A. F. C. E., it was intimated,
had ample scope for it's activities
without invading those of other
unions affiliated with the A. r.
Of L.
The matter is of considerable
Importance, inasmuch as it was
largely on this question Of juris-
diction that the original break
between the A. F. Of L. and the
National Federation of Federal
Employees, now an independent
organization, came about.
Various schemes of compromise
have been proposed, the most
commonly suggested Of these be-
ing a plan whereby employees in
the classified service would be or
ganized as Federal employees and
those whose pay was fixed by wage
boards under craft unions
Hears from Parks
It was also learned today that
a delegation from the A. F. G. E.
had obtained information that in
the merger of the Public Build
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The Washington times., 1933-10-11
Prince EdUard Isle
Premier Dead at SO

CHARLOTTETOWN, Prince Ed
ward Island, Oct. II QN.SO.
Official circles today mourned the
Hon. j. D. Stewart, K. c., pre-
mier of the province, who died
last night at the age of SO. The
end came after a protracted illness
resulting from heart trouble and
overwork. He left a widow and
seven children.
The Washington times., 1933-10-11
PWA AIOWs Texas
S2,67O,OOO Fund

Public Works Administration
today announced grant to Texas
of $2,670.0OO to be expended in an
$8,9OO,OOO drought relief highway
program. The remainder of the
amount, $6,230,00O, will be placed
at the disposal of Texas by the
Federal Emergency Relief Admin
istration.
The Washington times., 1933-10-11
Belgium to Build
Forts on Frontier

BRUSSELS, Oct. II I.N.S)-A
project to construct a chain Of
Notifications along the German
frontier similar to the ring Of steel
France has thrown up along the
Rhine, was unanimously approved
by the Belgian cabinet today.
The Washington times., 1933-10-11
$3,6OO,OOO Granted
For Channel Project

Allotment of $3,6OO,OOO to the
War Department for channel
sterilization on the lower Mis-
souri, River, between Kansas City
and the mouth of the river above
st. Louis, was announced today
by the public works administra-
tion.
The Washington times., 1933-10-11
c. H. Sabin, Banker,
Dies in SOUTHAMPTON

NEW YORK, Oct. II G.N.SO.-
Charles H. Sabin, chairman of the
board of the Guaranty Trust Com
pany and husband of the militant
anti-prohibition leader, Pauline
Morton Sabin, died today at his
home in Southampton, L. I.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-10-24

l have spent nice vacation,
 thank you, reading industrial codes,
 General Johnson's speeches, statis-
 tics about banks and piggy sows,
 and sufficient mixture of threats,
 promises, predictions, and warnings
 to make man purr with content
 ment while his hair stands on end. Nature did her best: the sea, the sky and the woods of Maine could not have been less concerned with our fretfulness, or more convincing that human destiny is not determ- ined finally by the news of the front page. But in vain does a man imagine that a man can go anywhere these days and shut him. self away from the clamor of the front page. Even when the news paper does not come. he is trying to imagine what is in the news paper he has not seen There IS too much at stake to put public affairs long out of mind, the se- curity and well being of us all, the peace of the world. the liberties of man. Thus a genuine holiday is impossible: the best one can do, l find, is to fret quietly for a few
The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-10-24
POLITICALLY BACKWARD.

The New York Sun celebrating it's l00th ann versary this year, in it's centenary number reveiwef the changes that have taken place in our natlona life in it's century of existence It chronicled tn giant strides made in science and invention surger. and medicine, but declared with regret that oul political government had retrogressed rather thar advanced.
 Commenting upon the political aspects ot tn' century the Sun asserted:
 We have seen democracy stretched into a paternalistic socialism which weakened those it attempted to benefit
 We have socialism, put in force with machine guns, become the rule of a tyrannical oligarchy than of a benevolent Marxsm
 The pretended desire of bureaucracy to do something for the people has more often softened the object of pity and left him easier prey than for the taxeater
 The dole has put the spirit of beggary in
The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-10-24
Today and Tomorro,o
- By WALTER LIPPMANN -
 The Double Mandate No. The Presidents Task
Copyright, 1883, New York Tribune Inc.

weeks instead of openly in public print.
 There is, however, much to be said for a little silence now ana then, especially for those who act on or write currently about pubic matters. For a large part of the mischief and folly of the world comes from rushing in, taking a position, and then not knowing how to retreat. There is something about making a speech or writing an article which perverts the hu- man mind. When the utterance IS published the Rubfcon has been crossed and the bridges have been burned. It seems to end the in quiry, and after that we almost cease to be interested in the truth, being so preoccupied to prove that we already possess it. What be- tween the demand of the audience for an infallible preceptor, the van ity of the speaker, and the terror ism of those who lie in ambush ready to quote what he said last year against what he may believe this year, the impulse is almost ir- resistible. once man has published his opinion, to say. That's my story
The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-10-24

some who took it and hardened the hearts of some who had to pay
 Government, which ought to be one of the least things in the life of men, has been allowed to grow into a bureaucratic giant, fed on every variety of tax that politics and paternalism can devise and, like the daughters of the horseleech, forever cry ing, Give, give!
 The Constitution of the United States was untouched from 1904 until after the Civil War, when the Thirteenth and Eff teenth Amendment were adopted for the protection of the Negro and the Fourteenth was planned, it would appear, for the benefit of lawyers practicing in Federal courts. The Sixteenth Amendment was ac- cepted by the States on the solemn assurance of its proponents that incomes would not be taxed except to provide moneys in emer- gency, but the ink of the proclamation declaring it in force was scarcely dry before the new freedom to tax was exercised for the benefit of paternalism and bureaucracy The State Legislatures in ratifying the Sev- enteenth Amendment confessed their inability to choose good Senators and left the choosing to the people, whereupon in the Eighteenth Amendment the people found the Legislatures passing upon the far more important matter of personal habits The Nineteenth Amendment, besides increasing the vote and the cost of elections, was sup posed to insure forever the life of the Eighteenth Amendment a supposition now being refuted in the vote on the repeal question The Twentieth Amendment is useful in that it advances the sitting of a newly elected Congress from December to the preceding January, The Sixteenth Amendment ought to be changed so that income tax revenue could be used to reduce war debts The Seventeenth might well be repealed for it has made it difficult for a poor man to run for the Senate, that process entailing two campaigns.
 Never was there a hundred-year period of greater contradictions, Plenty has turned to find Hunger by it's side. Men have preached peace-except in the intervals in which they fought the most terrible of wars. Democracy, triumphantly displacing mon- archy, has sometimes wound up cheering for absolute dictatorship.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-10-24

Father Vanderpol was south- bound passenger on the Alameda on his way to the States. He was greeted by many friends in Ju- neau.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-10-24

and stick to it. In private inter course any one who sticks to his story regardless is set down by his
 friends as slightly batty In pub
 lie life he passes for very strong fellow.
 The Roosevelt Administration has, it seems to me, been singularly
 skillful in not making itself the prisoner of it's own pronounce
 ments. Here and there it has stumbled as, for example, in the promise that the N R. A. would put I forget how may million men to work by Labor Day, in the threat of boycott which the good sense of the contry so sensibly rejected, in the grimaces at Henry Ford, in the pledge to the farmers not merely to help them but to give them the exact quota of pros perity which they had just before the war. These have been slips. They have been exceptions to the rule. For in the main the Presi- dent has made it his practice not to paint pictures and make prom ises, but to contrive expedients and decide practical issues.
 In this habit of his mind he has shown himself to be an amaz- ingly successful leader in a period of crisis. He has known better than to imagine that great na- ton of free men could be indoc- trined with any consistent set of principles. So, like the wisest of the English speaking statesmen, he has preferred to find his political and economic principles in the ne cessities of each particular situa- tion, limiting his output of high
The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-10-24

wholly new kind of currency. or open up vistas of drastic taxa ion on profits and of stringent ;ontrol of public utilities. Obviously hese things retard recovery. But 10 less obviously they, or things ike them, have had to be under aken if the pledges of a New Deal gere sincere. For the New Deal
 nmistakably implied a different iistribution of income and financial lower than that which prevailed )efore the crash, a much Stricter ,olicing of private enterprise, and | far-reaching attempt to reduce ,he competitive and enhance the cooperative motives in American fife.
 At almost every juncture, there ore, decisions have had to be talk
 n whether to advance the New Deal at the risk of slowing up enterprise for recovery, or whether 0 promote enterprise and slow up he installation of the New Deal. 3ometimes the Administration has .ct seemed to be quite clear in it's iEn mind as to which of it's two srojects it was working on. This vas especially evident in the earlier ;tages of the Blue Eagle campaign where the nasty stampede into codes was proclaimed as a major measure of recovery, when as a natter of fact the N. R. As con- ribution to recovery is modest and mixed in result, whereas it contri- 1ution to Reconstruction may well prove to be epoch-making.
 It is only by keeping constantly n mind the two-fold character of the Presidents task that one can fairly interpret the complexity of his decisions, or understand why one days newspapers tell us that his conservation" advisers G., e.. those primarily interested in Re- covery are winning and the next that the radicals" G. e. those in- 6erested in Reconstruction are dominant. The fact is that the President has to achieve what both groups desire, he has to give eoch It's head and then rein it in, and somehow drive them both abreast This attempt to make the best of 10th worlds is not the easy way to success, and only a daring man would take it. But for MT. Roose- yelt there was no other way open, given the situation as he found t and the expectations of the peo- pie who raised him to power.
 He has taken it thus far with undaunted courage, and with a practical judgment as to how to advance now toward the one ob- jective, and now toward the other, which one must admire increasing ly,r the more one appreciates the great difficulty of the task.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-10-24
THE NEXT 100 YEARS.

casual student having in mind the tremendous advance in the science of medicine during the past century might well wonder if any such gains will be made in the same lines in the next 10O-year period Not so the medical profession however It sees vast domain to be conquered the threshold of which has just been crossed The skirmish lines on todays battlefield of sciences warfare against disease will at the end of the next century be far in the rear.
 That is the picture drawn at Chicago recently by Dr. George Grille Cleveland medco attending the Congress of the American College Of Surgeons He visions superior peopling the world in which most present-day to health have disappeared He predicted the elimination of plague, diphtheria, typhoid fever smallpox, typhus and malaria; mastery of tuberculosis diabetes and most diseases of the heart and kidneys; sharp reduction goitre gallstones stomach ulcer venerea diseases and cancer. He sees childbirth made absolutely safe, and curtailment of the production of unfit
 Nor will the role of the physician of 2033 be identical with that of 1883 Tt will be changed to such extent that his profession will seem an entirely one" Dr Grille prophesied. With this great advance he fears will increasing menaces to the human from the development of tech noogy. Sharp increases of disorders of the mind will result despite bettered technique of the doctor.
 Exact knowledge of the laws of biology, medicine and heredty will the physician of the future in his fight against disease, and physicians will have as definite understanding of human be- havior and reactions the chemist now has of the elements with which he works day by day.
 In the light of the truly remarkable achieve ments in the medical science since 1833 and of the aggressive and persistent method of attack pursued by men and in the field in their investiga- tions of baffng and mysterious diseases, it is not difficult to believe that everything predicted by Dr. Grille will come to pass even before century has elapsed
The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-10-24

The Empire VIII snow you the best way to save and invest what cash you have Read the advertise ments of the local merchants in The Empire.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-10-24
HALLOWEEN CARD PARTY

Ladies Altar Society will hold a Card Party Friday, Oct. 27, at Parish Hall. Auction and contract bridge, whist and pinochle. Admis- sion, 50 cents. -adv.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-10-24
2n YEARS AGO
Prem The Empire
OCTOBER 24, 1913.

OCTOBER A, 1913.
 Charles D. Garfield, Special Deputy Collector of Customs, in Juneau, was returning passenger on the Mariposa from a trip to the States.
 Willis E. Howell, agent in Ju- neau for the Alaska Steamship Company, took passage on the Ala meda for Seattle and expected to return to Juneau on the next trip of the same ship.
 General Manager B. L. Thane, of the Alaska -Gastineau Mining Company, who had been confined to his room with an attack Of as- thma, was sufficiently recovered to get down to his office for a short time.
 Father Vanderpol was south bound passenger on the Alameda on his way to the States. He was greeted by many friends in Ju- neau.
 The ferry boat Amy was in collision with the launch Lulu ana as a consequence sustained the crushing of two blanks about two feet above the water line. Both boats were travelling in the same direction.
 Miss Lenor G. Hyde, of Fair banks, arrived in Juneau on the Mariposa having come out from Fairbanks by way of the upper Yukon River. She had taken position in the office of Surveyor General Charles E. Davidson and had the clerkship relating to Ter ritorial affairs.
 The Smoker given by Igloo NO. 6, Pioneers of Alaska, in Odd Eel lows Hall was a great success. It was the first social affair to be undertaken by the organization. The Pioneers of Alaska was an organization which was spreading all over the Territory and the Ju- neau local branch Had been or ganized less than a year previous ly but had an active membership of over 200.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-10-24

The historical record shows that, after serious depression prosperity has never returned in day, or a month, year. Too much should not be expected of the Blue Eagle Indianapolis News.)
The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-10-24

Nothing has been heard from the Ken tuckian whose voice carries eight miles, and all in all it is perhaps as well.-(Detroit NeWs)
The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-10-24
Labor and Imitation.
(NeW York TimeS.)


 The remarks of President Green and their recep- tion by the national convention of the American Federation of Labor a significant expression of opinion the question of currency manipulation Unless he and his colleagues be assured that wages paid in cheaper dollars would keep pace with higher prices and rising costs of living MT. Green asserted his belief that labor will stand flinchingly against inflation." At this point the applauded him. He added:
 When the worker dollar he wants
 to be sure that that dollar is a real dollar
 and that it does not represent to him re-
 duction in buying power.
 Such a reduction has traditionaly been the fate of labor under regime of extensive currency de- preciation Experience in Germany offers a case in point It is not necessary to consider the disorderly period when the mark fell so wildly that it depre- terms of foreign exchange An earlier period more nearly approximating the conditions of controlled shows the inevitable trend. As the mark declined in 1922, wholesale prices and the cost of living consistently. Wages to organized labor were paid on the basis of index of prices which had prevailed one month before But as Professor Angel points out in his history of this period in Germany, the interval of month was large enough to rob the workers of much of the real value of their wages" Readjustment of pay at the end of January, the basis of increase of 20 per cent in the cost of living that month, found labor re- ceivng during February January wage, while prices were rising by an additional Is per cent This experience was repeated from month to another with variations in the extent of depreciation of real wages In consequence workers "chonic- ally underpaid."
 MT. Green was addressing his own constituency when he indicated that American labor would stand unfnchingly against inflation." But his views certain to interest members of Congress who now seeking to gauge American opinion.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-10-24

merchandising sins so we can set the kids a good example sending the kids to the movies to see rotten examples-(Akron Beacon Journal)
Evening star., 1933-08-19
Is YEARS AGO
Local Real Estate

THE south of-the-avenue project"
says an item in the real estate sec
tion Of The Star of August %, 1908,
"is by no means q new one. The
purchase by the Government OF the
land lying on that side of the thor
oughfare from the Treasury to the
Capitol has been talked of for years
past. At the same time it appeared
to be one of those ideals which was
not likely to be realized-very beauti-
full and desirable, no doubt, but hardly
tangible.
THAT has, perhaps, been the atti-
tude of the average mind toward this
scheme Of civic improvement. The
terially owing to the enactment at the
last session of Congress of a lew pro-
viding for the purchase Of the tier
of squares fronting on the east side
OF Fifteenth street and stretching
south from Pennsylvania avenue to
B street, or the Mall Already the
preliminary steps have been taken to-
ward starting the necessary legal ma
chinery for gaining possession Of the
property through nndemnation pro-
This Is . very practical aspect Of
the matter. It is no longer rs remote
as once seemed to be the case. It
is now recognized that this is the be-
ginning Of q series Of acquisitions Of
land by the Government IN the same
general locality which, 1t t believed,
will inevitably end with the public
ownership Of the entire strip on the
south side of Pennsylvania avenue
from Third to Fifteenth streets. What
is being done Is an object lesson to
large number Of skeptical and I'M
certain citizens that the dreamers
dream is coming true"
The property on the south side Of
Pennsylvania avenue finally was ac-
quired in 1929, and the gigantic triangle
building program is today rapidly
nearing completion.
Evening star., 1933-08-19
1A,672,000 FEET
OF LUMBER ORDERED
Production Increases and Ship
ments Decline for Week
Ended August IL.

Lumber orders for the week ended
August IL, 1888, were 144.672 900 feet,
against 151,145, 900 feet for the pre-
ceding week. according to telegraphic
reports received today by the Ma
tional Lumber Manufacturers Associ-
alton here from regional associations
including 648 Of the principal hardwood
and softwood mills Production in
creased from 1875, 8,815, 900 to 200, ,983, 900
feet Shipments declined from 207,-
1896. 900 to 194 ,949, 900 feet.
Softwood orders were 10 per cent OF
production and hardwood orders were
9 per cent below production. Southern
pine. Douglas fir, Western pine and
Northern pine regions showed orders
greatly below output, the fir region re-
porting 66125 900 feet, or 80 per cent
below production. Western pine orders
were IS per cent and Northern pine
orders were Al per cent below their out
put. Southern pine orders were 81 per
cent below production.
Unified orders declined to the equiva-
lent Of 20 days average production of
reporting mills, compared with IS days
average output Of a month before and
II days year ago. Softwood stocks
increased slightly, but were "a per cent
below those Of corresponding date of
1892.
All three factors Of the lumber
movement we're above those of CORE
spending week Of 1892. total production
being 30 per cent above, total ship
ments so per cent above and total
orders 7 per cent above the record of
year ago. For the first 80 weeks of
1888 production was 10 per cent above,
shipments is per cent above and orders
% per cent above those reported for
the corresponding period of 1882.
Forest products carloadings at 1896
cars during the week ended August S.
1888, were 13,143 cars above those of
same week in 1892 and 80 cars above
similar week Of 1881.
Evening star., 1933-08-19
THREE DWELLINGS SOLD
IN TEWKESBURY PLACE

Three dwellings on Tewkesbury place
were sold this week through the ONCE
Of L. T.. Gravatte, realtor
The house at GIT Tewkesbury place
was sold to Allen w. and Eason H
Bryan, and No. 621 of the same street
was purchased by Marion H. and
Florence w. Bradford, from the Ma
tional Permanent Building Association
The homes are of bungalow type, con
tanning 6 rooms and bath.
The new owner of 625 Tewkesbury
place Is Miss Grace Brownstein. The
home, a semi-detached corner brick
dwelling containing six rooms and bath
also was purchased from the National
Permanent Building Association.