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that In the seven years before the
New Deal there were $500, 900 900
every year saved ard put into new
capital issues, enough to put SOC 900
more men to work every year. In the
seven years Of the New Deal the new
capital issues have only averaged
$629 900 900, hardly enough to make
up for the plant and machinery that
becomes obsolete. Too much red tape
and Government regulation had .
lot to do with this condition.
Yes, we have the National Labor
Relations Board, supposed to protect
the right Of collective bargaining.
It could have done q great job, but
instead Of that it stirred up strife,
decided cases without fair hearings,
and even Disseminated between the
unions 1t liked and those 1t didn't
like. The result Is that where
strikes before the New Deal averaged
300 a year for seven years, since
the New Deal started they have
averaged $500 year in the United
States, three times as many.
OF course, there are a lot of public
works, the only permanent BENEFITS
this New Deal administration Is
likely to leave behind. They are
useful-if we can afford them; but
you have to remember that $22,-
900 ,000, 900 is a good deal to pay
for them. Most of you are going
to have a large deduction from your
income to help pay the tax, while the
benefit you get from the public
works is hard to translate into any
equal advantage.
Teaches Leaning on Government.
Above all, the New Deal has taught
everybody in the United States how
to lean on the Government, and
created condition where a great
many have no way to keep from
leaning on the Government. At
the same time it has so discouraged
people from putting time or money
into any new business enterprise
that we have stopped the whole
process by which America has al
ways grown before. No one will
take a chance when the Govern
ment is going to interfere with
every step of the business process,
regulating prices and wages and
hours and bookkeeping, and every
other practice. No one is going to
take a risk Of losing when he knows
that II he happens to make a sue
cess the Government will take most
Of it away in taxes.
In short. seven years of the New
Deal not only leave us a lot worse
on than we were before, but have
created a condition where appar-
emily we can never move forward
again unless we 60 back to business
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have had a good many depressions
in this country, and most OF them
have followed the same course.
There Is always a steady spiral
downward for several years until
the bottom is reached, and then the
natural economic forces bring a re-
covery. Heretofore we have always
come out Of depressions to a higher
income and standard of living than
we had before, and we have always
come back to point where every
man who wanted job could get a
job, without any New Deal or new
Government bureaus. If you want
to make comparison you ought to
compare 1899 with some year seven
years after a previous depression.
For instance, after the depression
of 1893, we had reached by 1900 the
highest level of prosperity this coun-
try had ever seen. In 1928, seven
years after the depression of 1921,
every man who wanted to work had
that opportunity.
But with all the New Deal pan
aceas, we proceeded to have a Sec
ond depression in 1887, long before
we had reached our former pros
perity, and today we are still far be-
low where we were in 1928. We came
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list Of II, only Belgium being COM
parativeiy lower. This certainly does
not speak very we'll for the policies
the New Deal has pursued in the
United States. Apparently We would
have been better on today II We had
helped along natural recovery in
stead Of regulating everything and
everybody.
There is another thing about the
low point On March 4, 1888. The
bottom Of the depression was
reached in most places in the sum-
mer of 1882, and we also started on
recovery until the election Of No.
vember, 1882. After that there isn't
any doubt. according to present his
tory, that the failure of President
elect Roosevelt and the Democratic
Congress to cooperate in any way
with President Hoover started us
on the downward road again, when
all other countries were improving
There is no doubt that the plans
to depreciate the dollar shook the
confidence of the people in the
banks, and precipitated the bank
crisis OF February. So when the
New Dealers use the figures of
March 4, 1888, they are looking at
q condition which they had very
large share in creating.
The New Deal promised to help
the poor man. With 5000, 900
families on relief, it can hardly
claim that 1t has kept that prom
ise. For seven years before the New
Deal, the average annual wages and
salaries paid amounted to $46, ,700,-
1000. In seven years Of the New
Deal it has averaged $37 800 ,000, 900,
20 per cent less, and more people
among whom it has to be divided.
Relief just gives man enough to
live on, If that much.
Ohio Began Security In 1881.
The New Deal claims credit for
social security, but all the old-age
pensions paid up to the first Of jan
uary, 1910, were paid under State
laws, the State contributing half
the money. We passed our State
law in Ohio in 1881, before the New
Deal began. The elaborate reserve
plan of the New Deal has hardly
begun to work, but we have been
paying 81 500 900 900 a year In pay
roll taxes, which come right out of
the average workman, either from
his pay envelope or in the increased
price of everything he has to buy.
Now we have the s. E. c.. one OF
the boasts of the New Deal. Ger
tainly we ought to prevent fraud
in the sale of securities. But our
big interest today Is to get people
to put more money into business,
particularly new business, so that
We can build up production and
make more jobs. The figures show
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methods, balance the budget, con-
fine the Governments activity to
keeping the channels Of trade free
and open, and helping men to start
new businesses and build up old
businesses a$ It always used to do
That is the only way you can put
more men to work, and ultimately
get rid Of the necessity OF relief
and emergency benefits and guar
antees to the farmer.
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Pittmun to Address
Siqmo AIphu Epsilon

Chairman Key Pittman of the
Senate Foreign Relations Commit
tee will discuss world affairs at the
annual Founders Day banquet Of
Sigma Alpha Epsilon at Z pm.
Saturday at the Carlton Hotel.
Paul A. Walker, president of the
Washington Alumni Association,
which is sponsoring the affair
jointly with Rho Chapter of the
social fraternity, will preside. Sena-
tor Pittman's talk will be broad
cast over a coast-to-coast network
Of the National Broadcasting Co.
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being replaced by Capt. Albert g.
Read. whose orders were announced
Last Thursday.
A native Of Michigan, Capt. Fitch
served with the Asiatic Fleet and
prior to the World War saw duty on
destroyers. During the war he COM
manded the Yankton and served as
athletic oficer OF the Atlantic Fleet.
He has commanded the aircraft
carriers Wright, Langley and Lex
ington as we'll as the naval air sta
tions at Norfolk, Va, and Pensacola.
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Copt. Fitch Shifted
To Pearl Hurbor

Capt. Aubrey w. Fitch, COM
mandant of the Naval Air Station
at Pensacola. Fla, has been ordered
transferred to duty as commander
Of Patrol Wing 2, Pearl Harbor,
T. H.. the Navy Department an
nounced yesterday. Capt. Fitch is
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SchweIIenbuch and Taft Aruue
Effects of New Deal
> Democrat and Republican, in Forum,
Interpret Years Under Roosevelt

The New Deal debated night
senators the National Radio Forum The Evening
Star and broadcast network
Broadcasng Co. The debate heard
versary of the Inauguration of President
Speaking for the affirmative Schwellen-
bach Democrat of Washington and the negative
Senator Robert A. Taft, Republican Ohio
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you or me anything, and the only
time 1t becomes dangerous Is when
the banks and others get reckless
and make bad loans.
Taxes Raise Money.
But Government debt almost
never pays for itself. Almost the
only way the Government can pay
interest and principal on its debt is
to tax all of us to raise the money
for that purpose. If Government
debt gets too heavy, there is tre-
mendous pressure for the Govern
ment to print more paper money
with which to pay its debts. Once
that is done, the Nation is on the
road to bankruptcy. So it doesn't
help the New Deal any to bring in
a discussion of private debt. The
fact is that we owe $21 900 ,000, 900
more than we owed in 1882, which
we and our children and our grand
children are going to have to pay
off, through higher taxes and higher
prices, as far as we can see in the
future.
Nearly all the New Deal argu-
ment regarding an improvement in
conditions is based on a comparison
between March 4, 1888, and today.
OF course, the country is better OF
than it was on that particular date.
That happened to be the very bot
tom Of the economic depression. We
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-09-03
TAkU LODGE E
 MECCA FOR BIG
 JUNEAU CROWD

Juneauites went out over twenty strong to Mary Joyce's Taku River Lodge over the Labor Day holiday, and enjoyed cards, hikes, fishing and hunting.
 Going out aboard the motorShip Triton to connect with lodge lunch Sunday were MT. and Mrs. J. J. Meherin, Mrs. w. s George and daughter Maydelle, Max Num- ford, and Mir and Mrs. Alex Holden and Sandy Holden.
 Mary Joyce took out, aboard the Mary J., Dr. and Mrs. w. P. Bian- ton, MT. and Mrs Buford Jenkins, MT. and Mrs. Don Abel, Carol Frs skine and Neil Blant0n. Dr. Blan- ton, Abel and Jenkins went moose hunting, but failed to connect.
 Flying into the Polaris-Taku mine Sunday morning, mine superintend- ent Frank McPherson and his wife stopped over the two day holiday. With them was Polaris engineer George Griswold and A. Neff.
 Wild Life Service men Jack Jeff frey and Lance Hendrickson were also at the lodge, stopping there on patrol.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-09-03
19o4-41 SCHOOL
 YEAR UNDERWAY

The 1940-41 school years is under way Juneau Public School, Parochial School and Government School stu dents today turned off alarm clocks in time to don their new fall slacks and school frocks, hurry with a morning snack and dash away to 10 o'clock classes.
 The morning was spent getting associated and renewing acquain- tances from previous years. This afternoon textbooks and lockers were assigned and students were cautioned not to forget that to- morrow's classes would be resumed at the usual hour of 8:45 o'clock instead of the 10 o'clock first day teaser.
 Prior to the opening of classes this morning, a two-hour teachers meeting was held and plans for the winter schedule were discussed in part.
 At the Juneau Public School, first day enrolment was below that of last year, according to Supt A. B. Phillips. In the Grade School 512 students registered, with last years total for the first day at 551. Only 240 pupils registered in the High School this year against 253 last year.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-09-03
US. Secures Air, Naual Bases From Britain
25 DEAD IN
 PLANE CRASH
Senator Lundeen Among Vietims-AlI Passengers
 and Grew Are Killed

WASHINGTON, Sept. 3.-Twenty- five persons, all 21 passengers and crew of four, were killed late last Saturday afternoon in the crash of a Pennsylvania Central Airlines Transport, near Lowettvilles, Va. 42 miles northwest of here.
 The passenger list included Sena- tor Ernest A. Lundeen, Farmer La- borite of Minnesota, well known in Alaska, where he has visited, as a member of the Territories and h. sular Affairs Committee.
 A State Trooper said the bodies were strewn over an area of sev- eral hundred yards.
 The plane did not burn.
 Residents in the vicinity, who saw the crash, said the plane "collided with ridge"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-09-03
PAN RAsSI0k E FIRST HONORARY
 RO1ARIAN HERE

Chief of Police Dan Ralston today became the first honorary member of the Juneau Rotary Club. Ap- pointive officials are not eligible to regular membership in Rotary, so Ralston was voted in under the honorary status.
 Visitors at today's luncheon in- cluded Dick Harris of Seattle, Herb Carbray of Seattle, A h ony E. Karnes and Milton Campbell.
 Campbell, Assistant Director of Child Welfare for the American Legion, spoke on the work of his organization. He was charter mem Der of the Cincinnati Rotary Club. Campbell returned here by Electra yesterday to attend the Legion con- ventiOn.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-09-03
LABOR AppEALED
 TO BY ROCKWELL TO HELP DEFENSE
Union Leaders Hedge Loy- al Support-Consuip-
 lion Is Attacked
(By Associated PreSs)

It was LabOr'S Day yesterday.
 Labor's vital role in the task of National Defense gave the day it's keynote holiday message as Presi- dent Roosevelt issued an appeal to the nations workers for cooperation by all to strengthen and defend the American way of life.
 Labor leaders, great and small pledged loyal efforts of their unions in furthering the preparedness pro- gram and expressed readiness to shoulder whatever responsibilities that might come.
 Conscription Attacked
 These expressions however were frequently coupled with attacks on the pending conscription legislation, opposed by both AFL and .CIO.
 Wendell L. Willkie added another note to the days statements charg- ing there is present trend to- ward placing labor unions under Government control"
 President Roosevelt told the workers they will lose nothing by helping to build a stout National Defense.
 Greens Statement
 William Green, President of the AFL, in his annual Labor Day ad- dress made in Denver, said the American Federation of Labor realizing that time like this would make industrial conflict dan gerous and stupid" would be ready to do it's full part. He attacked the conscription bill however.
 John L. Lewis, in a statement said his organization stood second to none in it's determination for work for defense of this nation in it's democratic way of life"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-09-03
RAF Bombers Making Raids
 Axis (enters
SaIvos of Bombs Dropped from Home Bases
 Records Made
tBy ASSOCIATED PREss)

The Italian High Command ac- knowledges that iong range Brit ish Royal Air Force planes, flying 1,60O miles on round trip from their bases, raided Northern Italy, kill ing two and injuring Is persons at Genoa.
 Other RAF bombers pounded German bases near Boulogne, Nazi held French Territory, dropping salvos of bombs.
 Explosion reververbated like thunder clear across the English channel from France
 Still other RAF bombing squad rons. carrying on and strafing Axis territory, did good work.
 The British Air Ministry an- nounces that raids of RAP bombers have taken them 17,0OO00O miles from home bases, or 700 times around the world in the years struggle.
 Military objectives in West and Southwest Germany were raided early today by British bombers.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-09-03
Alaska R.R. Fire Loss Is
 5et$32,000

ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Sept. B. Col. Otto F. Ohlson. General Mana ger of the Alaska Railroad, says the fire that swept the Healy Sta tion shops last Friday night. caused more than a $32.000 loss.
 The roundhouse was valued at $20,00O and a snow blow at $12,O00
 A switch engine that had value only as scrap iron was not affected by the fire. Other items lost were of nominal values because obsolete.
 Col Ohlson said a new round- house will be built at once, the soonest possible.
 The fire started between the ceiling and smoke jacket of the roundhouse.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-09-03
LIEUT.. W. B. ELLIS ARRIVES TO RELIEVE
 LIEUT.. R. D. DEAN

Lieut.. w. B. Ellis, accompanied by Mrs. Ellis and their two chill dren, arrived on the steamer Bar anof Lieut. Ellis joins the Coast Guard cutter Haida to relieve Leiut Ralph Dean, recently transferred to the Florida district.
 Formerly stationed at Cape May, New Jersey, Lieut.. Ellis has spent the past three months observing naval gunnery in the Hawaiian Is- lands. He joined his family at San Diego enroute to Juneau.
 Lieut.. and Mrs Dean, who have been stationed here for the past three years, plan to sail for the south the latter part of the week.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-09-03
Waves of German Planes Unable 10 Penetrate
 Great Defense
HIGH TIDES MAY BE
 AID, HITLER'S INVASION
British Bombers Spread EaQIe Over Paris of
 Germany, Italy
(By ASSOCIATED PREss)

Waves of German LuftWaffe rald- CTS, 300 in single onslaught, twice sought to bomb London today but fell back under the fast Royal Air Force fighters and wall of flames of the defense anti-aircraft guns.
 By midafternoon, the British Air Ministry reported that g Nazi planes had been shot down and Is RAF planes were missing. In con- trast, Berlin said 54 British planes had been destroyed and 12 Ger man planes failed to return to their bases.
 Two Air Raid Alarms
 The British Capital underwent two air raid alarms in the forenoon and one early this afternoon. The last alarm lasted for 142 minutes as the war entered the second year.
 Hard fighting RAF airmen cut victory rolr' capers in the skies after scattering the Nazi first mass attack and scattering the raiders in an hour long battle over Do- yer "Hells Corner" region.
 The German aerial armada jet tisoned bombs into the channel and raced homeward with RAF bomberS in pursuit. Shortly afterwards, how ever, the Nazi raiders roared back to renew the assault in the same southeast coast vicinity, attempt ing to streak it to London, but again were beaten back.
 AXIS FOES FOUNDER
 British RAF bombers pounded both Axis foes Monday. renewed in- tensity on bombing German long
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-09-03
Big Dam Is
 Dedi(ated

CHATTANOOGA, Sept. 3.-Amid thunderous applause of thousands of Southerners, President Roosevelt yesterday dedicated the mammoth Chickamauga Dam.
 The $3000O,000 dam stretches one mile across this Tennessee Valley River.
 The President also dedicated the great lake behind the dam one of the great lakes of the south" cre- ated by the vast system of IVA dams which have assumed increas- ing importance in supplying power for defense works.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-09-03
NAzlSMAkE
 THREAT ON
 RUMANIAN5
Must Stop Nationwide Agi- dtion or Nation Will
 Be Occupied
CBy ASSOCIATED PREss)

Fierce counter attacks in South east Europe, riotous anti-German and anti-Italian demonstrations throughout Rumania, exploded a serious new crisis arising out o1 the Axis slicing of the northern Pennsylvania Province of .Rumania to meet the Hungarian demands.
 Semi-official German sources in Bucharest asserted that Nazl troops will march into Rumania and occupy the entire kingdom if na- tiNrwide aoitation is not immed- lately checked.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-09-03

 Agency Geis
 Dies Study

NEW YORK, Sept. 3.-Dies com- mittee agents today studied books, financial and payroll records and correspondence of the German L- brary of Information which were seized yesterday in their offices ad- joining the German consulate here and included a mailing list of 10000 names and copies of Facts in Re- view" weekly tabloid paper which carries Hitler's speeches and Ger man versions of disputed events in Europe.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-09-03
50REN50N5 TO
 FLY, CLIPPER

Paul Sorenson, Superintendent of the Hirst- Chichagof, flew to Juneau with his wife and daughter, and brother Allen, Sunday evening.
 The entire family is. scheduled to fly south on the Alaska Clipper.
 Sorenson will be south about a month on business. While in the 5tates he will attend the American Institute of Mining Engineers Con- vention at Salt Lake City and will go from there to Colorado Springs for the Mining Congress.
 Mrs Sorenson and daughter will remain in the States for an ex- tended visit.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-09-03
Strategic Points Are Ex. changed for 0verdge
 U. 5. Desfroyers
R005EVElT MAKES
 ANNOUNCEMENT TODAY
Agreement Redched-M Important Since Louis
 idnd Purchase

WASHINGTON, Sept. 3.-Presi- dent Roosevelt today notified Con- gress of an agreement between the United States and Great Britain under which the United States will lease naval and air bases in British possessions in the North and South Atlantic and transfer 50 average destroyers to Great Britain.
 The United States will acquire naval bases in Newfoundland and the islands of Bermuda, Bahamas Jamaica, St. Lucia, Trinidad, An tigua and British Guiana.
 Gift Bases
 President Roosevelt, in his special message to Congress, said the bases ill Newfoundland and the Bermudas are gifts generously given and gladly received. The other bases mentioned were given in exchange for 50 of oul average destroyers."
 The President enclosed with his message an opinion of Attorney Gen. eral Robert Jackson, dated August 27, regarding my authority to con- summate the arrangement"
 Officials said no action of Con- gress is necessary to put the agree ment into effect.
 The Senate was not in session SC the message went only to the House which is meeting and debating the Senate-approved conscription legis- lation.
 Notes Exchanged
 President Roosevelt said the agree ment with Great Britain was effect ed through an exchange of notes be- tween the British Ambassador, Lord Lothian, and Secretary of State Cor dell Hull and signed September 2 (yesterday) and the Chief Executive declared the agreement lis not in consistent in any sense with our status of peace and still less is 1t a threat against any nation
 Agreement Epochal
 The President further said: "The agreement is epochal and a far reaching act in preparation for the continental defense in the face o1 grave danger; preparation for de- fense of a inalienable prerogative sovereign state and under the pres ent circumstances this exercise o1 a sovereign state is right and es- sential to the maintenance of our peace and safety. This is the most important action for reinforcement of our national defense taken since the Louisiana purchase. Then, as now, consideration of safety from overseas attack was fundamental The outposts are essential for pro- lection of the Panama Canal, Gen. tral America, the northern portions of South America, Antilles, Canada and Mexico and our eastern sea- board"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-09-03
BALL PLAYERS TO BE GUESTS
 OF FIRE CLUB

At ' o'clock this evening, baseball players and league officials of the Gastineau Channel Baseball League will be guests at annual banquet in Percy's Cafe.
 The dinner, sponsored every year by the Juneau Fire Department, is the occasion on which the long list of prizes for baseball ability or the lack of such are given to ball players.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-09-03
IvERS0N COMES
 AGAIN 10 MAKE
 S0UIHEASI HUNT

Big game hunter Lorenz Iverson, steel magnate, flew in to Juneau on the Alaska Clipper with Mrs. Iver- son, planning a month of leisurely hunting and fishing in this district aboard the yacht Caroline.
 Iverson, who had his big Lockheed l4 private plane flown here from his Pittsburgh home last year. will do some bear and goat hunting with Ed Jahnke as guide. leaving here Thursday.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-09-03
MRS. ELSIE KNIGHT
 PASSES AWAY HERE

Mrs. Elsie M. Knight. colored woman, passed away Saturday night at St. Ann's Hospital after brief illness.
 Mrs. Knight was born March 12, l9O5, at Philadelphia. She was well known here and for some time has been manager of the Clark Rooms.
 The remains are at the Charles w. Carter Mortuary pending funeral arrangements.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-09-03
STOCK QUOTATIONS

NEW YORK, Sept. 3. = Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock at today's session, the first one of the month, is AZ, American Can 959s, Anaconda 215s, Bethle- hem Steel g 3/4, Commonwealth and Southern 1A, Curtiss Wright 8h, General Motors 48hs Interna- tional Harvester 45h, Kennecott 2SH, New York Central 13; North ern Pacific 2; United States Steel 549s, Pound $403ls.