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Evening star., 1937-08-05
'Snow-Ball" Laws
Tendency to Self-Expansion Is Inherent in Some
Kinds of LEGISLATION

was reduced, farmers planted their
idle acres In potatoes-and then came
potato control.
Controlled II Crops by 1896.
BY 1886, when the Supreme Court
declared Triple-A unconstitutional, the
number OF crops it controlled, one way
or another, was II. And Senator King
of Utah, just before the law was inval-
idated, had said: I'VE may expect at
the next session of Congress to find
measures offered to bring other COM
modities, perhaps carrots and cab
bages and lettuce and tomatoes, under
similar control"
Not only did Triple-A expand as to
the number Of crops it controlled It
expanded also from voluntary to COM
pulsory BY two and half years
after Triple-A was enacted, three crops
were limited by criminal statutes. A
farmer raising and selling more than
the Government said he should plant
OF cotton, tobacco or potatoes found
himself faced by threat OF Jail. The
last crop added by Triple-A to its
growing list was potatoes And it was
made crime not only for a farmer
to sell bootleg potatoes but for con-
sumner to buy them.
That is where Triple-A had arrived
when the Supreme Court declared it
unconstitutional. Unless now the wage
the greatest possible simplicity, and
rigidly kept that way, we shall see the
same natural law of expansion begin
to operate there. And we shall be on
a course of which the natural end
would be fixing of all wages, and
after that fixing Of all prices of goods.
Planned Economy Still Aim.
This is the more likely because
fundamentally this is what the New
Dealers want. The New Dealers are
still intent on planned economy"
President Roosevelt has not abandoned
it at all. To his newspaper con-
ference this week he stated plainly
and emphatically that there must
be control Of farm crops, that Triple
A must be brought back. It is be-
cause he wants TripIe-A back, and
similar control in other fields be-
sides agriculture, that Mr.. Roosevelt
wants changed Supreme Court. II
he is to get Triple-A back and make
it stick, either he must have
Supreme Court diluted by six ad-
ditional justices, as he at first pro-
posed. or he must harass some of
the older justices into resigning or
he must be able to intimidate the
existing court into giving him what
he wants. While the courts decision
against the old Triple-A was to 3,
that decision was on collateral
aspect Of Triple-A Probably the exist
ing court, if it were deciding directly
on Triple-A, would have rejected it
with the same unanimity with which
1t rejected N. r. A.
If Mr. Roosevelt is to get Triple-A
back, or to get N. r. A. back con-
cealed as complex and sweeping
wage and hour law, he will have to
do something about the court.
(Cooyright, 1879
Evening star., 1937-08-05

| The most practicable minimum wage
law would be one passed by each State
for itself, with Federal law to
supplement the State ones.
If the pending act at Washington,
when enacted, goes beyond one simple
standard, then we're off If the law
gives discretion to presidential board
to make one standard for one section,
with different ones for other sections,
and one standard for one industry,
with a different one for another
then most aSsuredly we're off on our
way to destination that will surprise
the Nation when it gets there. Within
year or two We shall be in a course
which today We would reject con-
temptuously, a course toward fixing
wages generally and fixing prices of
goods generally.
Quality of Self-Expansion.
What few understand is the snow
ball quality, the tendency toward self
expansion. which is inherent in certain
kinds OF legislation. 1t is practically
as inevitable AS a law of physics. 1t
has been put in words by Prof. Lionel
Robbins Of the University Of London:
There is a sort of SNOWFALL ten
dency about this kind of interven-
tlonism which has no limit but COM
plete control of all trade and industry
once governments start to control
important branches Of industry, if they
are not willing at some point definitely
to reverse their whole line of policy,
there is no stop to this process short
of complete socialism"
How this natural law works. how the
first step forces the second and the
second forces the third was illustrated
by A. A. A. Observe what happened
there:
Triple-A, in its original conception,
contemplated control of four crops:
and 1t contemplated voluntary control
only The plan in the beginning was
merely for the Government to offer
the farmer cash for restricting his
crop-the farmer could take it or leave
it. 1t did not intend compulsory con-
troll.
But hardly was Triple-A put on the
statute books in March, 1888, when
the natural law Of expansion began.
Because cotton farmers, with their
cotton limited, put their idle acres into
peanuts, peanuts must be controlled,
On February II, 1884, Secretary O.
Agriculture Wallace was saying: In
view Of the reduction in cotton acre
age it will be necessary to take
definite steps to discourage undue ex-
panslon in peanut acreage" And
when acreage of cotton and peanuts
Evening star., 1937-08-05
Seat Used as Life Belt.

The giant four-engined flying boats
of Britain's leading aviation COM
pany are being fitted with new kind
Of cushion that may be used as a Life
belt. At London headquarters it is
claimed that for simplicity, lightness
and efficiency these seat cushions have
no equal. Within 10 seconds Of an
alarm they can be converted into
life preservers to keep any one afloat
for hours.
Evening star., 1937-08-05

soud be defeated
should abuse their position which could
compel them to take a position
There Of asserting that he can
90 no wrong That
uhfepresenaVe
OF legislative assembly? Constitution but 50 is the
et the Electoral College Of
We
our Senators in advance ~ lo
Evening star., 1937-08-05
Drink Drives Many Mad.

In an effort to stamp out a tranlc
IN Illicit liquor which is sending the
natives Of Natal and Zululand ravine
mad. the South African Sugar Associ-
alton has placed close guard owe,
all treacle supplies. A Pietermaritz-
burg report says the liquor made from
treacle, popularity known as gavin
is so strong that it can easily be ig-
nited by a match.
Evening star., 1937-08-05

getting Shipping
days wouldn't talk
millions for ships which Mr.
Kennedys thought entitled details Of
lines financing This applies asking for
subsidy
The examination by the commission of the financial structure and
reorganization
settled to the satisfaction before subsidy
The other l6 lines able their bill Of health by
/, when their temporary sixmonh subsidies
Dollar delayed everything Chair
Kenned okay written and
within day the Dollar liners be line.
On Thursday members of Congress will letter which most
OF them will toss in the waste basket few shed
The letter reveals that another months the
the Federal
nUestgaoy body that Investigating
be dead.
The division has the Of big bad the anathema
OF most
group that believes that in order the public you have to let the
Government wash dirty linen in public occasionally.
Counted investigations OF packing
making public
and
The division will the the
decided that
there would be nothing
On July 1887 the
1t has been running
Evening star., 1937-08-05

OF Congress.
II the act were
in the simplest
form possible, it
would merely say
that no one any
where shall work
for a SIN a ! ! e r
wage than 40
cents an hour, or
more than 40
hours a week.
That might pos
sibly work-so far
as any one Ma
tion-wide stand
ard for all sec
tlOnS can work
Evening star., 1937-08-05

"racket" whereby
the Federal cor
rupt practices act
was violated in
the sale Of the
Democratic cam
align book to
c. or p o r a I i ons,
there now has
arisen a n o ther
enterprise for the
purpose of paying
t h e Remocra tic
party's bills in
the fol thcoming
con q r e S S iOnal
cleo ion. The
generations of
Evening star., 1937-08-05

organization August at Hagerstown,
it was announced today.
In charge Of the group, which is
scheduled to leave by bus from the
Continental Hotel at 5 pm, are
Ferdinand G. Fraser, grand commits
saire intendant, and r. Jess Chaillet,
grand chef de gare of the local chap
ter. Fraser is also candidate for
the national Office of chef de chemin
de fer.
Evening star., 1937-08-05
An American
You Should
Know
Basil Manly 1nstigated
First National Power
Survey.
BY DELLA PYNCHON-

IN 1888 the President appointed
Basil Manly a member OF the
Federal Power Commission for
five years. Vice chairman for a
term, Manly instigated national
power survey, the first engineering in
vestigation Of the electric light and
Evening star., 1937-08-05

So far as concerns the judi
ciary reform bill of 1887, what JUS
tification is there for a legislative
boay which devotes six months of
the time for which we hire them
to furious effort to avoid voting
on major measure submitted for
its consideration? To any one but
a Fascist or Communist, it is far
less serious that judicial reform
Evening star., 1937-08-05

D o W e + industry
ever attempted in
the United States.
Rates for cleo
tricity in som Q
10000 communi.
ties were COM
piled. Reductions
in power rates to
consumers, as a
C o n S e q u e n ce,
h a v e tumbled
pleasantly about
the Nations me-
ters.
Manly has had
a record of COM
MT ann a@ni
Evening star., 1937-08-05

HE opinions OF the 1rters this page are their o1Dn not
necessarty The Stars Such opinions presented
1he Stars eDort TO all sides OF questions
readers although such opinions be contradictory
themselves and directly opposed to The Stars
Evening star., 1937-08-05
BY MARK SULLIVAN.

w YHAT form the wage and
\A/ hour bill will be in when
w enacted, no one can tell
yet. Whether it will be
enacted at all is not completely GER
tain, though it is likely some form OF
measure will be enacted at this session
Evening star., 1937-08-05
NeWDernocrat
Appeal for
Funds
Corporation Heads Are
Circularized for
Register"
BY DAVID LAWRENCE

b1 DHVID LH"NLNVL'
THEY may be economic
royalists' when President
Roosevelt needs campaign am
a munition for speeches, but
they apparently are economic angels
when money is needed to pay cam
paign bills.
Undeterred by the criticism of the
Evening star., 1937-08-05

for it on the plate In other words just who gets how much for
dollar
The for help Congress
logically the
Consumer Council
Gated to euing the public a square
While the point
leaders his opinion still commands
The eleven court" BILL still all dressed
the this
compromise" which
Washington
after
Evening star., 1937-08-05

The Supreme court, after Is
years battle in the lower courts,
decided the divisions investigators
could investigate legally.
Those who lament the threat
ened demise of this once energetic
organ declare that it is the one
body which could, for instance,
find the answer to such pertinent
questions as why there is a diff
ference between what the farmer
gets for potato and what you pay
lust who gets how much for Ynllr
Evening star., 1937-08-05

eIelBlIy WAS III eASllnR 1acC. Ihe
independent colonies had set up
customs houses on their borders,
were printing their own money and
squabbling about the lands OF the
West, much like the members of
the present League of Nations in
Europe. So long as State sov-
ereignty was reality, the Senate
was sort of council of ambassa-
dors. whose duties were largely con-
Evening star., 1937-08-05
Hall for Foreigners

Buenos Aires, Argentina, has opened
a hall for foreigners with six inter-
prefers, each master of at least four
languages, in constant attendance.
Evening star., 1937-08-05
40 AND 8" MEETS AUG, 6
D. c. Membe to Attend Marv.
land Sessions at HaRerstown.

District OF Columbia members Of
the Forty and Eight division OF the
American Legion will attend the
MARYLAND State convention of their
Evening star., 1937-08-05
What's Back of It All
Dollar Line Ready to Sign Mail Contract-Achieve-
ment for Kennedy.

BY H. r. BAUKHAGE
CK1PPER KENNEDY Just to
- bring another big fleet
only matter OF days until he will be able to
that powerful Dollar
the Orient has signed
muster eligible for
Government
Capturing the Dollar Line is somewhat achueuement
For Dhen Stanley Dollar Shipping
Board under President Hoover Ualked
spectors he made
Mr.. Kennedys IN thouta
to its name wouldn't be such great shakes
At the end Of 6D
nedy reported: >~RC7
The OF the --7[SnS>
lar steamship claims have been wnsro~C
layed pending Of 4, IE,MT
sential information nm
INZEa0Tu
tons and the completion of e s45t4&19sasass8s7
arrangements by the (SN%-26sss
providing additional NIX Z
This is the polite o ~ Mp
Evening star., 1937-08-05
We, the People
Reasons for Senate's Existence Held to Have Dis.
appeared Long Ago.

BY JAY FRANKLIN.
GENTLEMAN writes from the Philadelphia
you consider Is the duty Of the Senate everything
the President without
words the doctrine wrong Then
why have Senate?"
Why have senate? question
one please tell me on what theory
institution be
Evening star., 1937-08-05
organization August at Hagerstovn

(CopyriRht, 1872
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1937-06-23
SIMMONS, BARR
KEPT BUSY ON
ROUTINE HOPS
Charter Flight to Ketchi-
kan by Continental
Company

A charter flight by the Continen-
tai Can Company, leaving Juneau
today at 10 a. m. with Alaska Air
Transport Pilot Sheldon Simmons
at the controls of the Bellanca, pro-
vided the longest hop for that COM
pany
Oscar Olson and Carl Canady, Of
ficials of the Continental Company
were scheduled to stop at the fol-
lowing points: Hoonah, Tenakee
Hood Bay, Tyee, Petersburg, Wran-
gell, Burnett Inlet, and Ketchikan
On the same trip Hector Mclean
flew to Tenakee. Pilot Simmons
is scheduled to return to Juneau
tonight.
Earlier today, at $50 a. M, Pilot
L. F.. Barr in the AAT Stinson flew
S. B. Sigurdson to Chichagof Lake
E. C. Meives to Hirst-Chichagof
and Bert Elstad to Chichagof. Tues
day at p IN. Pilot Barr returned
from Sitka with Jim Boyle anc
Paul Breeze, officials of the Union
Oil Company. Tuesday at 7 p. m
Pilot Barr flew a round trip char
ter flight to Frederick Sound. Nc
passenger list was furnished.
Tuesday at l p. m. Pilot Sim
mons arrived from Chichagof with
c. F.. Lane and Emil Rundich, both
from Chichagof, and with Bert
Stedman, Ed Wilson and Jacl
Parks, from Kimshan Cove A
1870 p. m. Tuesday he made char
ter scenic flight over the ice caI
in the Bellanca with Mr.. and Mrs
H. j. Royack. Mrs. Royack is the
sister of Mrs. Paul Sorenson, wife
wife of the Hirst- Chichagof mins
superintendent. At 4 p. m. Pilo
Simmons took the Bellanca up fol
another charter glacier hop witt
Mr. and Mrs. j. p. Benedict anC
children. His concluding flight
Tuesday included Mrs. T. A. Morgan
on a round trip to Sitka, and Dali
Nolan to Sitka, returning at 7:3l
p. m. with H. B. F'oss, r. D. Pet
erman and Mrs. Morgan.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1937-06-23
..MATTERN Will
Fly OVER POLE
Famed Pilot Plans Refuel-
ing Hop Over Route Blaz-
ed by Soviet Birdmen

OAKLAND, Cal, June 23.-James
Mattern famed pilot, announced
plans today for a nonstop refueline
flight from Oakland to Moscow over
the route flown by the Soviet filters
"A new 100000 monoplane is nov
being completed at Burbank for the
hazardous flight, Mattern revealed
after lunching with the Soviet filters
and Ambassador Troyanovsky.
Because the plane will only have
a cruising range of 5000 miles ii
will be necessary to refuel, Mattern
said, and the refueling probably
will be done over Fairbanks.
Mattern said his plane would have
a robot pilot but he was undecided
whether to take a navigator on the
6,000-mile journey.
~ will make the flight to demon
strate United States development OF
aircraft and in appreciation of the
Soviet filters who saved me when !
crashed in Siberia in 1888" Mattern
said. 4. s
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1937-06-23
Naval R.i0,'I!!.,C c.
High-[Iight|efs

Varsity football players, editors,
class presidents and crew men are
included in the roster lists Of Uni
vefsity of California and University
Of Washington Naval R.OT.C. stu
dents who arrived in Juneau aboard
the USsS. Fox and the U.S.S. Brooks
last night. rAe hIa 1ssS
Among prominent Californians
who are making the Alaska cruise
from Berkeley are: 3f"iS - s"i'z
Chester c. Carlisle, captain of the
University of California basketball
team.
James Boyd III, varsity football
man. 1855 ssaif
william H. East, member of the
varsity rifle team. ftw ata
Roger " Bell, Rush S. CLARK and
Iohn H. Hoefer, crew men.
Horace M. Karr intrainural man
ager OF the R.OT.c. unit.
Robert S. Knowles, president of
VIC SctIfUt Ctdoo.
Richard @. Lynch, editor of the
Blue and Gold, University of Cali
fofnia annual. eaTsi8a
Josiah H. RUSSELL Jr., editor of
the unit paper, Capstan.
Gail j.. Shadinges senior inter-
mural manager for U. c.
James g. Shields, Jr., champion
900 swimmer.
Ward A. Stockton, varsity foot
ball guard
Richard E. warner, varsity foot
ball center. Fn en ~
sd From u. Of w.
Campus leaders from the Univer-
sity of Washington are:
j. K. Carpenter. member of the
varsity swimming team.
w. A. Doolittle, member of the
Board of Control for the Associated
Students Of the University of Wash
ington.
X. A. GRAIN, member of the var
sity rifle team.
Pat Green, varsitl baseball team
/ F. P. Hoskins, Northwestern swim
ming champion.
c. F. Palmer, president of the
Naval Honor Society, Compass and
Chart z4
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1937-06-23
CALIFORNIA,
WASHINGTON
RACING HERE
Little Poughkeepsiie" Is
Staged on Channel
u. c. Winners

A Little Poughkeepsie" was stag
ed on Gastineau Channel at / pm
today when members of the Uni
versity OF California and Univer-
sity of Washington Naval r. o
| T. c., crews stroked it over a mile
course starting off the rock dump
and ending at the Government
Dock, with California an estimated
6 lengths, and a timed rs seconds
ahead at the finish.
Regulation navy whale boats were
used with six men pulling on navy
oars.
The Californians made the mile
course in II minutes and Is sec
onds, which was considered good
time by the Judges. fp
The personnel Of the destroyer
Brooks on which the Californians
are cruising were backing their
favorites with cheers and bets and
the Washington lads were getting
similar support from the person.
mel of the destroyer Fox, their
cruise ship.
In the winning California boat
were: Rush c. CLARK, coxswain;
John H. Hoefer, stroke, Chester G..
Carlisle, who is also captain and
center of next years California
basketball team; James G. Shields,
Jr., Roger v. Bell, and Robert S.
Knowles. a
In the washington boat were:
Charles F.. Palmer, coxswain; DON
aid W. Deits, stroke; Patrick E.
Gren, Claude j. Carlson, Jim K
Carpenter, and Harold r. Warner.
Most of the members of both
crews are active in other sports,
and campus activities in the two
universities.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1937-06-23
Cross Of COIOrs
VIII! Be Awarded
By Rainbow Girls
Affair to Be Preceded by
Dinner Given by East
ern Star Members

Close to 200 will be present for
the dinner this evening at which
the Eastern Star is entertaining in
the Scottish Rite Temple in honor
of visiting delegates Of the Order
of Rainbow Girls.
Opening event of the evening, the
dinner will be followed by presenta-
ton of the Grand Cross of ColorS
awards to. outstanding Rainbow
leaders. The visiting girls are tc
take charge of the presentation
ceremony which begins at o'clock
in the Scottish Rite Temple and is
open to the public.
For the dinner Mrs. o. S. Sullivan
is the Eastern Star chairman, as
sisted by Mrs. Alfred zenger, Mrs
E. E. Robertson and Mrs. Howard
Stabler.
Last evening following the Ma
jority Service, the following Rain
bow Girls left for Lena Beach ano
spent the night at the Walter Scott
and Gunnar Blomgren cabins: Miss
Keleen Haubner, Miss Marlea Dodge
Miss Margaret Fleet, Miss Evelyn
Yost, Miss Betty Armstrong, Mis-
Jane Talbot, Miss Pollyanna Dan
iels, Miss Constance Holtorp, Miss
Helen Woodward, Miss Pat Har-
land and Miss Mildred Webster
Also spending the evening at Lena
Beach were Mrs. N. Lester Troast
Mrs. Dora Sweeney, Mrs. S. M
Sim, and Mrs. Ernest Ebert.
Tomorrow evening will be the oc-
casion of the dance at which the
local chapter of the Rainbow Girl,
and the Order of DeMolay will en-
terrain the visitors.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1937-06-23
FRANCES, VIVIAN
THURMAN ARRIVE,
PRINCESS LOUISE

Arriving TOR a brief visit with
friends in Juneau while the Prin-
cess Louise was in port yesterday
Miss Frances thurman and Miss
Vivian T,lrman of willows, Califor-
mia, attended the Majority Service
with friends in the Rainbow Girls
lodge last evening.
Miss Frances thurman is a stu
dent of the University of Califor-
mia where she is member Of Sig
ma Kappa sorority. She and her sis
ter have both been active In Rain
bow Girl activities, and were greet
ed by large group Of friends al
the boat last evening.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1937-06-23
DAUGHTER Is BORN
TO WALTER SHARPES

A daughter was born to Mr.. and
Mrs Walter Sharpe this morning
lat 1905 o'clock at st. AIMS Hos
pital.
The baby weighing seven pounds
and six ounces, is the sister OF
four year-old Sharon Sharpe, and
many congratulations have been
extended to the parents during the
day. Mr.. Sharpe, director of the
Territorial Unemployment Compen-
sation Commission returned here
recently from an official trip to the
South and East.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1937-06-23
MRS. MCDONALD,
PATRICIA GAY In
JUNEAU FOR VISIT

Mrs. K. A. Macdonald and her
granddaughter, Miss Patricia Gay
of Belle Fourche, South Dakota
are stopping at the Gastineau Ho-
tel. and will be visitors in Juneau
for few days.
The two arrived here aboard the
Dorothy Alexander from the south
Mrs. Macdonald who formerly lived
on Portland Island at the southern
end of Stephens Passage, will take
her granddaughter to visit the E
E. Weschenfelder at Spuhn Island
shortly.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1937-06-23
D 0 U ClAS
N { " S
TOWN MAY NOW VOTE ON
SALE OF L. U. HALL" ISSUE,
SCHOOL PLANS UNSETTLED

Final action on special ordinance
to place before the voters OF Doug
las on July %. the question of
whether the City Council shall or
snail not sell the Labor Union Hall
TO the Eagles Lodge, was the prin-
cipal business accomplished at the
weekly meeting Of the Council last
evening. Passage OF the ordinance
followed its third and last reading
by unanimous vote of the five mem
bers present.
An ordinance designed to govern
tie licensing Of, and regulate the
sale, Of intoxicating beverages, and
providing penalties for the viola
lions thereof was given its second
reading and passed to the third
With all members Of the School
Board sitting in conclave the Coun-
Gil then took up the matter OF
plans for the proposed new school
building. In the discussion which
ensued it developed that SIS 00G
was the total sum the city would
have to e1pend for the building
An eight-room frame building with
stucco exterior appeared to be about
the best the city could get for thai
amount, according to the opinion
of the architects. Main issue con-
sidered in connection with the
school was whether 70 retain Mr.
Troast and As c'ates. who drew
the plans for the new fire hall. a;
architects for the school. OF put tht
designing of the stIucttu on com
petitive basis Final = IN wa
laid o. the table until ne ION
day evening.
Both Mr.. Foss l Mr. Tross
we're present 81 the meeting in Tia