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The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-04-14
MARINE NEWS
STEINER MOVEMENTS
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NORTHBOUND

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NORTHBOUND
. Princess Norah Import at 3 o.
clock this afternoon.
. Baranof due Monday. Should
have three days mail.
. Northland due Tuesday.
SCHEDULED SAILINGS
. Tongass scheduled to sail from
Seattle 9 tonight.
. Alaska scheduled to sail from
Seattle p am. tomorrow.
North Sea Scheduled to sail I
from Seattle April 81 at 10 I
a. M
SOUTHBOITND SAILINGs /.
Yukon scheduled southbound I
next Monday.
. LOCAL SAILfNGS I
. Estebeth scheduled to sell every I
. Wednesday at 6 pm. for Sit I
. ka and wayports.
. Dart leaves every Wednesday I
. at Z am for Petersburg. Port Z
. Alexander, Rake and way .
. ports. Z
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The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-04-14
FRIDAY Fish
SOLD, SEATTLE

: SEATTLE April l4.-Only hall
buffers from the local banks arrived
and sold as follows today:
Maddox 1000 pounds, Eleanora
5000 pounds, Alma $4,000 pounds,
all selling for 8ls and 6 cents a
pound; Reliance 5000 pounds, 7ai
and 6 cents; Garry Lee 10000
pounds, and cents, Unimak S.
GEO pounds. 8i3 and 81 cents; Gony
l2,00 pounds, 81 and cents.
Evening star., 1939-07-25
STAR WASHINGTON D. c. TUESDAY, JULY 25 1889

pend for their effect upon active
policing by Government agents. A
law thus framed is almost certain
to be a nullity because it is i'm
possible In country like this for
government ever to become so big
that 1t can watch all offenders,
apprehend and punish them.
Automatic I'm Application.
The successful law is one that is
automatic in its application, that
depends for results, not upon the
punishment 1t inflicts after the fact,
but In the degree of respect 1t in
spires in prospective violator when
the violation is contemplated. It
Is my firm conviction that one Of
the principal reasons for the steady
growth of government during the
last two generations is to be found
IN the fact that the antitrust laws
as they are now written require
policing. Their enforcement is meas
ured, first, by the energy and ability
OF the individual who for the time
being directs the Department Of
Justice and, second, by the amount
OF the appropriations granted by
Congress to enforce the law.
The great virtue of the civil-dam-
ages recommendation Of the Tenn
porary National Economic Commit
tee is that 1t would depend upon
neither congressional appropria-
tions nor administrative energy or
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discretion for Its success, but upon
the unwillingness of business execu-
tives to lay themselves personally
open to plain liability for the COM
mission Of an of1ense clearly under
stood.
I can foresee that with the adop-
ton of these simple recommends
tions and with the adjustment Of
existing tax and other Government
policies 1t would be easily possible
for American business to enter up
on the most prosperous era the
world has ever imagined. Govern
ment expenditures to prime the
pump, deficit financing, self
liquidating projects. supported by
Government drafts upon the future
earnings Of the people, all would be
unnecessary. Opportunity for the
expansion Of production, the de-
velopment Of new industries, the
gainful employment Of all of the
idle and the building up Of home
markets for all the produce Of the
farm are easily possible, II only We
make up our minds as a united peo-
pie to put an end to the restraints
of trade which the conscience Of
the Nation denounces and then
adopt a policy Of government taxa
ton designed to hold out rewards
to those who have the energy, the
brains and the capital to develop the
unmeasured resources Of America.
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In order to drive q particular COM
retitor out of business. Agreements
to pool earnings. to divide territory,
to control prices, to crush competi-
tors, are all not only clear violations
of the law, but obvious mohopohstic
devices which not only promote the
concentration OF economic power
and wealth, but also create unem-
ployment.
Shipping Act Cited.
When business executives wanted
to secure congressional exemption in
certain fields from the operation of
the antitrust laws, they were not
troubled by any belief that the laws
were vague. Back in 1915, when
the Shipping Act was passed and
shipping corporations desired to be
relieved of the prohibitions of the
antitrust laws, they had no diff
Guilty In helping Congress to write
law which in ocean-going for
eign commerce declared that agree
ments to fixed rates, apportion traf-
fic, pool earrings, allot ports and reg
ulate sailingS were exempt from the
antitrust laws.
In 1920, when it was desired to
allow combinations among the rail-
roads, the authors of the Transpor-
tation Act Of 1920 knew exactly what
they had to do in order to permit
competing railroad lines to conson-
date.
AS long ago as January 7. 1910,
President William Howard Taft, in
a special message to Congress, wrote
a succinct and clear definition Of
what is prohibited by the anti
trust laws. Said he:
1T is possible for the owners Of
business of manufacturing and
selling useful articles of merchan-
disc so to conduct their business as
not to violate the inhibitions of the
antitrust law and yet to secure to
themselves the benefit of the econo-
mics of management and of pro-
duction due to the concentration
under one control of large capital
and many plants. If they use no
other inducement than the constant
low price of their product and its
good quality to attract custom, and
their business is a profitable one,
they violate no law. If their actual
competitors are small in comparison
with the total capital invested, the
prospect Of new investments of cap
ital by others in such a profitable
business is sufficiently near and DO
tential to restrain them in the prices
at which they sell their product.
But If they attempt by a use Of
their reponderating capital and by
sale of their goods temporarily
at unduly low prices to drive out of
business their competitors, or If
they attempt, by exclusive con-
tracts with their patrons and
threats Of non-dealing except upon
such contracts, or by other methods
OF similar character, to use the
largeness Of their resources and
the extent of their output compared
with the total output as a means
Of compelling custom and frighten-
ing off competition, then they dis.
close a purpose to restrain trade
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and to establish a monopoly and
violate the act"

and to establish a monopoly and
violate the act"
Make no mistake about it, these
violations of business ethics; and Of
law, thus described by a former
Chief Justice, are the primary cause
OF our economic troubles. They
have not been and they cannot be
effectively prevented because, under
the law as 1t stands, the Govern
ment has only two remedies worth
mentioning-a suit for an injunc-
ton to prohibit threatened viola
tion of the law and a criminal In
dictment after an offense has been
committed.
It is obviously impossible for the
Federal Government to foresee viola
tions, so that this remedy has never
been effective. The criminal remedy
! has been no less futile and for an
equally plain reason. Offenses
against the antitrust law are, for
the most part. economic offenses.
They do not, like murder, highway
robbery and similar crimes, neces-
sarily involve moral turpitude. They
cannot be prevented by the criminal
remedy, they can only be prosecuted,
and the penalty provided in the
law is only a $1,000 fine which is
surely not a deterrent to predatory
executives who can hide behind the
artificial personality OF the corpor-
alton he directs.
The civil remedy proposed by the
Temporary National Economic Com
mittee and embodied in bill which
have introduced in the Senate
and which has been introduced in
the House of Representatives by
Congressman Sam Hobbs of Ala
bama, would authorize the United
States to bring suit for damages
against the offending corporations
and their responsible officers and
directors, damages which would not
exceed twice the total net income
received by the corporation while
it was violating the law or by the
offending officer or director. BY
this provision the penalty is auto
matically adjusted to the economic
Importance of the offender and the
offense. venture to say, however,
that it would seldom be necessary
for the Department of Justice to
bring such an action, because off,
GERS and directors who knew them
selves to be personally responsible
in money damages for a violation
of the economic law would be care
full not to commit such violations.
The great defect of the antitrust
laws. eXemplified during the 49 years
which have elapsed since the Sher-
man law was enacted in 1890, Is
that in their present form they de-
Evening star., 1939-07-25

signed to prevent patents from being
used for the purpose of suppressing
competition, controlling or restrict
Ing production and fixing prices. or
to sum it up in phrase, to make 1t
more difficult for any person to use
the public grant Of patent as de-
vice for restraining trade and there
by reducing the opportunity for
private profit and free employment.
Dead Letter rs Years.
Two more recommendations are
made. One, which was advanced
by the Federal Trade Commission,
has been urged in reports to Con-
gress every year since 1880. 1t is to
amend the so-called Clayton Anti
Trust Act so as to prohibit corpora
tions from acquiring the assets as
well as the stock of competing cor
porations. In 1914, when Congress
passed the Clayton Act, it intended
by that law to prohibit the merger of
competing corporations because it
believed that mergers and combina-
tionS have a baneful effect upon
free, private enterprise. The Ian
guage of the law prohibited the ac-
QUESTION by one corporation of the
capital stock of competing cor
poration. What Congress overlooked
was that a merger could be effected
without the purchase of the stock
by merely purchasing the assets in
stead, and so for almost Is years
that simple law against monopolies
has been dead letter.
Hand in hand with this suggestion
the Temporary National Economic
Committee has put forward another
recommendation: Namely, that for
the enforcement of the Sherman
antitrust law as we'll as of the Clay
ton Act, civil remedies should be
provided to supplement the criminal
remedies now authorized. Curiously
enough, this recommendation which
would provide certain and efficient
means OF preventing monopolistic
practices before they are put into
effect is the one recommendation OF
the committee that has not beer
received with approval on the part
OF business leaders and editorial
writer's. This failure, I am con-
vinced, proceeds from a complete
misunderstanding of the purpose
and effect of the suggestion.
The antitrust laws are too vague,
1t is said, and it would be too dras.
tic" to provide by law that the in.
dlviduals who devise the monopo.
Istlc practices of some corporations
should be held personally respons.
ible in money damages for the VIC.
lations of the law they have them
selves planned. The answer to tina,
argument is perfectly plain. Wher.
ever the antitrust laws are in fact
vague, it would be quite impossible
to induce any jury to bring in a
verdict against any defendant, if
indeed, any court should allow the
case to go to the jury.
The truth, however, is that in their
more serious aspects the antitrust
laws are clear and explicit. 1t is
for example, a plain violation o1
law for two competing corporations
to agree with one another to sell
their commodities at cut prices for
q time and in particular location
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0'Mahoney Sees Rise
In Business i u. :,
Curbs Monopo|ies
Head Of Committee
Reviews Progress Of
Investigation

Continued From Page B-5)
The Washington times., 1939-01-19
YOUR HOROSCOPE
For Friday, January ~
tcopyright. 1899. by King Features
Syndicate, Incl

SyuOlCASSa 4IS'J
MARCH 81 to APRIL 20
(Aries)-Ideal influences for
weekend activities, theater In
terests, church affairs, advanC-
ing private interests. FavorS
hobbies, seIf.expressiOns music.
APRIL 81 to May 20 (Taurus)
IS NIB S t q n iaI things, gains
through hard work, mechanical
devices, tools, farm implements,
building particularly favored.
You, Taurean, with your clever
hands and ingenious mind
should turn today to good &C
count.
MAY 2l to JUNE 81 (Gemini)
-Organize your various aides
The Washington times., 1939-01-19
So

that they may work cOOpera-
lively for your interests this
fairly good day. No matter your
program, let it be well done, en-
jOyed, and thus be fruitful.
JUNE 20 to JULY % (Cancer)
Don't think Of handiCapS.
Face challenges fearlessly, con.
fidently. You can meet them
and beat them, too! You are
really capable Of big things II
you wouldn't indulge seR.pity
or think that other folks get bet
ter breaks.
JULY 20 to AUGUST 22' LeO)
Hold everything under Sensl-
bic control! Misjudgment and
errors very likely unless you
think before you act-and then
act calmly, prudently. Guard
expenditures, avoid rash prom
iseR.
The Washington times., 1939-01-19
BY Ray Moore

USw Sc
AUGUST 23 TO SEPTEMBER
23 (VirgO)-Generally advanta-
geous but not for adventurous
schemes or snowy attainment.
From little things men 60 on
to great" Curb any inclination
to criticize sharply.
SEPTEMBER "a TO OC.
TOBER % Libra)-Quite
friendly for you born before
October 8, especially for personal
matters, plans, home affairs.
travel. Other Librans: keep your
eyes wide open for accessiOnS Of
Of good, half shut to others
shortcomings.
OCTOBER "a to NOVEMBER
~ (ScOrpiO)-MOre activatins
and favorable than yesterday
particularly for mOnetery and
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Many to Attend
73d Lunch

Over so guests are expected to
attend the regular monthly lunch
con Of the 73rd Club at the Ward
man Park Hotel tomorrow at
o'clock. Mrs. David D. Terry, wife
Of Representative Terry of Little
Rock, Ark, newly-elected president,
will preside, and Mrs. Roy M. North
will present musical program fol-
lowing the luncheon.
Mrs. James w. Mott, wife Of Rep
resentative Mott of Salem, Oreg., is
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pursuing. her musical career study
ing with Crist in America and in
Italy. She spent three summers in
study Of voice with Horatio Cornell.
In Washington she has been asso-
ciated with Ruby Stahl of the
A Cappella Choir. Mrs. Walter is
continuing her musical training with
Nine. Boulanger at the present time.
The selections Mrs. Walter will
sing are the aria from the "Prodigal
Son." by Debussy; "Nymphs and
Shepherds" and "Dido's Lament"
both by Purcell. In another group
she will present two Chinese songs
by John Alden Carpenter, ITO a
Young Gentleman and Highway
man." She will conclude her por-
ton Of the program with "Colored
Evening star., 1939-03-28
Women Democrats
Hear Talk by
Mr.. Savage

Neutrality developments Of recent
years were discussed by Carlton
Savage, assistant to the Counselor
OF the Department of State, at the
forum luncheon yesterday of the
Woman's National Democratic Club.
Mr.. Savage, whose statements were
for the most part off the record, pre-
sented an outline of the develop
ment of American neutrality policy
from the beginning OF our Govern
ment to the present.
The speaker was introduced by
Mrs. Meade Fletcher. Mrs. Claude
Pepper presided in the absence of
the president, Mrs. David Tucker
Brown. Among the guests of honor
at the speakers table were Mrs.
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Weddings
Continued From Page B-3)

their return Mr.. and Mrs. Collins
will live at 5000 New Hampshire
avenue.
Miss Mary Burr Married
To Mr.. Eugene Krewson.
The wedding of Miss Mary Vir-
ginia Burr, daughter of Mrs. Harry
Burr, to Mr.. Eugene Krewson, son
of Mr.. Eugene Earle Krewson, took
place Friday evening at o'clock in
the chapel at st. Adams and was
followed by a small reception at the
home of the brides uncle, Mr.. Albert
Howard, at 1880 Cathedral avenue
The Rev. Charles T. Warner oflci-
ated.
The bride wore gown of white
MORE made on princess lines, with
q veil of tulle which was held with
q cap of princess lace. She carried
q bridal bouquet of white roses,
sweet peas and lilies of the valley.
Miss Betsy Burr was the maid
Of honor. and Mrs. Ralph Shepard
the matron of honor. Miss Marie
Jorolemon, Miss Grace Carr, Miss
Lille James and Miss Katherine
Randall were the bridesmaids.
The maid Of honor was in yellow
net and the matron of honor in
rose. The bridesmaids wore blue
net. and the net wells matched Their
dresses. They carried dainty spring
flowers.
Mr.. John Handley was the best
man, and the ushers were Mr.
Josiah Flournoy, Mr.. Charles Proc
tor, Mr.. Edwin Duff I'd and Mr..
Ray Milliard.
Among the out-of-town guests
were Miss Lucille Buchanan of
Scarsdale, N. Y; Capt. and Mrs.
G. E. Smith, Mr.. and Mrs. Francis
Burr and Miss Mary Burr of Balti-
more. Mr. Earle Smith of Philadel..
phia and Mrs. L. H. Griffith of
San Francisco.
Mr.. and Mrs. Krewson left on a
wedding trip to Bermuda, and after
April they will be at home at 5425
Connecticut avenue.
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PatrOneSSeS
Forfeiture
Announced
Mrs. Roosevelt Aids
Plans of Frontier
Nursing Service

Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt heads
the list Of patronesses and box
holders for the lecture by John
Mason Brown April 8, sponsored by
the Washington Committee of the
Frontier Nursing Service of Ken
lucky. Mr.. Brown. dramatic critic
for the New York Evening Post
will talk on Broadway in Review
for 1899.
Mrs. Richard Wigglesworth, chair
man Of the Committee on Boxes,
and her committee, which includes
Mrs. Cary Grayson, Mrs. Philip o.
Coffin and Mrs. Nelson E. Perrin,
reports gratifyingly enthusiastic re-
sponse for box reservations.
Among those who have already
requested boxes are Mrs. Keith Mer-
rill, Mrs. John w. Davidge, Princess
Margaret Boncompagni, Mrs. Ran
dali Hagner, Mrs. Larz Anderson,
Mrs. Bryce Allan. Mrs. Warren
Barbour. Mrs. Warren Austin, Mrs.
John w. Haynes, Mrs. Lawrence
Houteling, Mrs. Lawrence Groner,
Mrs. Reginald Huidekoper. Mrs.
Charles Hofer. Mrs. Price Whit
aker and Mrs C. Mathews Dick.
Mrs. Harlan Fiske Stone has
Joined the patronesses for the bene-
fit, which, with Mrs. Charles Evans
Hughes and Mrs. Owen Roberts,
makes representation from the Su-
preme Court rank high. as Justice
and Mrs. Stanley Reed and former
Justice and Mrs. Louis Brandeis are
members of the Washington Com
mittee of the Frontier Nursing
Service.
Mrs. Cordell Hull. Mrs. Harry
Woodring, Mrs. Jay Pierrepont Moi
fat and Mrs. Ralph Close are ad-
ditional patronesses for the affair,
announced today by Mrs. John w.
Davidge, who is general chairman
for the lecture.
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James H. Hughes, wife Of the Sen
ator from Delaware; Mrs. Louis
Ludlow, Mrs. Cameron Morrison,
Mrs. Stanton G. Peele and Miss
Jennie Moore.
Mrs. Edward B. Meigs, chairman
OF the Hospitality Committee, well
coined the guests, assisted by the
members Of her committee, Mrs.
Ludlow. Mrs. Frank Sprigg Perry,
Mrs. John r. MCMILLAN, Mrs. Peele,
Mrs. c. c. Motz, Mrs. A. w. Greeley
and Mrs. A. F. Arnold.
Evening star., 1939-03-28
Program at League
OF Pen Women

Mrs. John E. Lawyer, assisted by
Mrs. William Badgley and Clara
Manderschied, will be hostess at the
Fellowship tea to be held in the
studio Of the District of Columbia
branch Of the National League of
american Pen Women tomorrow
from 3 until o'clock.
Appearing on the program, which
starts at AIS o'clock, will be Will
helmina Stanhoofd Walter, soprano,
wife of Capt. E. H. Walter, U. S. A.
Mrs. Walter is an accomplished art
list, having majored in music and
languages at Vassar College, later
Evening star., 1939-03-28

Stars" by Crist. Terra BARLEY Sells
will accompany Mrs. Walter at the
piano.
Also appearing on the program
will be Earl Hague, who has opened
q dramatic department with the
Washington Musical Institute. Mr..
Hague will read from 1.-THE Hardy
Perennial"
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Marriage Announced

Mr.. and Mrs. w. 8. Peek Of
Roanoke, Va. announce the mar
riage Of their daughter, Ida Belle,
to Mr.. Francis Seymour Lyles on
March 21.
Mrs. Norma Wannall, aunt OF the
bride, was matron of honor, and
Mr.. Michael Harrigan was the best
man.
Evening star., 1939-03-28
By the Way
Continued From Page B-3.)

to Washington with her ckey for Of his Easter
vacation will chance popular
whose coming redepce in New York matter
her friends here
News notes. Nancy Letter tomorrow Palm
and Nancy Louise Marsh will stay week
Lewis, who has house there
been in Palm Beach yacht he recently
leaves today for Florida vacation going
spending time with
Mrs William Wadswoh arrives Geneseo N " t
stay with Mr. and Mrs Moran McCone
is cousin OF Jerry and Reverdy Wadswort
frequently visited
BY
Benjamin
trip
Evening star., 1939-03-28
Parties Planned

Several luncheons and cocktail
parties are being planned by men,
bers of the Potomac Hunt Club for
Saturday, April 8, when the seventh
annual hunter trials of the Potomac
Hunt. which was formerly the Rid
ing and Hunt Club of Washington,
will be held.
Evening star., 1939-03-28

The Rev. and Mrs. T. Norton
Sterrett have sailed for British
India. where they will remain for
several years. The Rev. Sterrett Is
the son Of the Rev. and Mrs. Charles
G.. Sterrett Of Washington, Pa.
Evening star., 1939-03-28

secretary Of the club. and Mrs. Paul
Brown. vile of Representative
Brown Of Elberton, Ca, Ii in charge
Of arrangements for the luncheon.
Evening star., 1939-03-28
Birth Announced

Mr.. and Mrs. John M. Caffery. jr.,
announce the birth of a son. John
NJ Caffery, Sd. at Columbia Hos
pital Friday, March "a.
Mrs. Caffery was formerly Miss
Phoebe Soaper of Harrisonburg, KY.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-03-16
Gro,Ding With Your Child

have put into seeing that their leisure
time Is well employed
1t is all very well for parents to ex-
pect younger or school age children to
spend most of their spare time at home,
or with the family on its visits or jaunts
Much that is sound has been written as
to the ACCESSIBILITY of being a pal" to
ones children. There will be through
out life the basis for happy and con-
genial dealings with ones family If
there has been early enjoyment Of the
same kind of fun, jokes, reading, sports,
or similarity of interests, Of what
ever variety. There will never be a
lack of something to talk about be-
tween father and son who are both
ardent fishermen, or whose good times
together on camping trips mean fund
Of common enjoyable experience to draw
upon. But we must not for moment
suppose that we can go on being our
childrens greatest friends.
If we do not want our children to
find all their fun outside our home, we
can make it more interesting by in
viting their friends in to share our ac-
tivities. Family picnics, outings, or va
cation trips are often made trebly en-
joyable to the children, OF whatever
age, and certainly never trebly hard, BY
including friends of the boys and girls