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COMMUNISTIC SCARES
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We see by the papers that a
Congressional Committee headed
by Representative Hamilton Fish,
Jr. of New York, has made some
‘ourteen recommendations for
dealing with communism in the
United States. Besides outlawry
of the party, the committee re
commends strengthening of the
immigration laws to prevent ad
mission of communists; enlarg
ing of the authority of the De
partment of Justice to investi
gate activities; forbidding of
naturalization to communists
and the providing of additional
funds for their deportation; and
the keeping out of students of
communism although born in
the U. S. A. There have been
communists in the world ever
since Christ and his little band
of disciples carried a community
purse, probably much longer
than that. Not many people in
this country have felt any in
clination to experiment along
that line—perhaps they have'n’t
sufficient confidence in their
neighbors. Why, then, should
Congress become exercised over
tins or any other “ism?” An idea
must be reasonably sane and
practicable in order to gain as
followers any considerable per
centage of our one hundred
f.wenty millions of Americans. If
it does not appeal to the majori
ty of thinking people, why fear
it? On the other hand, if the
people want it, why fear it?
Whose country is this? We would
like to think of the U. S. A. as a
free country; a country where
freedom of thought, freedom of
speech and freedom of the press
\s not merely a joke; with a gov
ernment fashioned in the image
of its creators, the people them
selves, whatever their peculiar
shade of political opinion. But
when they talk of deporting A
merican born citizens for daring
to consider any proposition, old
or new, cr for being “students
of this or that idea, we want to
stand on our long hind legs and
howl. How else may the philoso
phy of government progress?
Our form of government was
born when older forms no longer
met our needs, and when this
goverment fails to keep pace
with the progress of the people
it, too, will be discarded.
And while we are on the sub
ject, we would like the privilege
of asking Mr. Fish and his com
mittee what makes communists,
anyhow. Why is it that com
munism and other “isms” flour
ish in times like these and all
out disappear as soon as the
earning power of their followers
catches up with their physical
appetites? And. if that is another
way of saying that the philoso
phy of government progress in
lean times and stagnates in
times of surfeit, we will abide
even that, for it is in times of
tribulation that the efficacy or
weakness of any government is
proven.
Better then, that servants with
the abilities and talents of a
Fish devote themselves not
merely to swatting the isms but
to correcting the insanitary
.conditions which breeds them.
FORESTS AND AMERICA’S
FUTURE
From Reader’s Digest
Conservation is something
more than planting a few trees
and protecting a few fish. It is
something more than turning
cur geographically fortunate
states into profitable playgrounds
for tourists. These things are
important but they are only in
cidental aspects of a statesman
like conservation vision. Conser
vation has a wider, a social, sig
nificance.
The American pioneer left us,
not only the physical heritage of
denuded and disorderly land
scapes, but, what is still more
serious, the phychologieal heri
tage of a lazy willingness to tol
erate them. As a people, we still
think with the mind of the pio
neer in terms of cash returns of
a year instead of the civilization
of a century. We must substitute
stable and scientific agriculture
for an unintelligent raping of
the soil. We must substitute ra
tional forestry for reckless tim
ber-slashing. We must learn to
dress the land we have deflower
ed. To date, we have been little
more than high-pressue sales
r ien of our resources.
There is, I think, a fairly full
: greement on the fundamentals
rf an intelligent forestry policy,
first, we should develop public
forests—national, state and mu
i icipal. At the gates of nearly
every city and town on the Con
tinent of Europe we find delight
ful woodlands. These little for
ests are not for beauty alone, but
constitute a permanent source
of wood and lumber free of large
transportation charges. Two
hundred years of maintenance
has paid in hard cash. There are
towns on the Continent where
citizens have not paid one cent
in taxes for years—or at least
had not up to a few years ago—
because of the revenues from
these small communal forests.
In France, in Germany, in Swit
zerland, in Norway, in Sweden,
private corporations have long
maintained forests at a material
profit. These nations, at any rate
irnow that they must foot the
bill of reforestation or fail to get
its benefits. We need that sense]
I of must throughout the United
States.
Second, we should everywhere
maintain a working co-operation
between the government and the
private owners of timber lands
i that will make reforestation eco
nomically feasible. This involves
at least two things—state co
operation in fire protection and a
system of equitable taxation that
will stimulate private enterprise
in the growth of forests. Timber
crowing must be taken out of the
situation it has all too often had
to face—a situation in which a
timber crop has been taxed over
and over again during its grow
ing period.
Third, we should maintain a
■'•onstant and comprehensive re
search and information service
from state or federal laboratories
to the private owners of forest
lands.
Fourth, we should exercise
some degree of public oversight
of forest lands, even when pri
vately owned, to insure a con
tinuing productivity. I do not
mean a paternalistic interference
in private enterprise, but simply
some public method of insisting
that in return for state or federal
assistance the forest lands in
question be kept productive.
There are, I think, four im
portant contributions that a suc
cessful venture in reforestation
can make to the life of the Unit
ed States: First, it will train a
state in co-operation as no other
single venture I know can quite
do. These states of ours must
learn to harness all their forces
in a single sweeping collabora
tion.
Second, a successful venture in
reforestation will stabilize and
diversify the economic life of a
ptate. We already know a hun
dred ways, and shall doubtless
find a bewildering number of
new ways, to utilize the by-pro
ducts of the forest; and the stat
es that succeed in reforestation
programs will find that they have
I not only a great lumber industry
! assured, but many new industries
arising out of the use of by-pro
ducts.
Third, a successful venture in
reforestation will add to the
health of many states. Before
pine forests were planted in
southern France, it was an un
healthy region; today it is a
health resort. And great forests
safeguard our pure water sup
plies.
Fourth, reforestation will bring
to a state the priceless boon of
beauty. A people will not tolerate
the absence of beauty from its
common life forever. For a na-'
tion that forgets beauty will an'
ALASKA INSANE PATIENTS
For a number of years the
Alaska Fisherman and The Alas
kan have been objecting most
strenuously to the contract sys
tem of caring for Alaska insane
patients in the Morningside
Sanitarium, Portland, Oregon
Some very appalling . pictures
have been drawn and it is al
most unbelieveable that politi
cians will use such poor unfor
tunates to make a profit off of.
It is unbelieveable that miser
able as such can be that our
government would tolerate any
politician to make those unfor
tunates more miserable.
The picture of conditions
drawn by Jack Talbot of Ket
chikan is mild as compared to
the actual fact which is and has
been suppressed. There is only
jone remedy for this condition
I and that is the institution by the
I Territorial Legislature of an
j asylum in Alaska for the care of
jits insane patients and other
j unfortunate half-wits. Every
organization should make it
I their first order of business to
give this idea their full support.
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CRIME REDUCER
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The City of Seattle has found
out that its “Sunshine Club”
which has been furnishing food
to thousands of hungry, jobless
men and women has been the
means of reducing the city’s
crime total to an amazing ex
tent. Says the Seattle Chief of
Police:
“A hungry man will steal be
fore he will starve but will glad
ly accept any chance to stay
honest if he can be assured of
food for his family and himself.”
It does not take a college de
gree or a post graduate course
in a university to enable one to
j understand that the brains and
•'onscience of the average man
is in his stomach. If you don’t
believe it, just study up labor
conditions and the eras of low
wage and financial depression.
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TO BE EXPECTED
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Considering the policy ot
Coolidge during- his administrg
as President of the United Stat
es it is rot surprising that he
new says: “For the United States
to go into the electrical business
(Muscle Shoals) would be a
cross misuse of its powers and
1 involve it in all kinds of political
a hires. The thing to do with
Muscle Shoals is to dispose of it
to private interests with suit
able restrictions.”
Give it away for instance or
give its electrical energy away
jto private interests for two
l tenths of a cent per kilowatt in
order that they might sell it at
! eight cents per killowatt and
i when it is worn out and in bad
irepair return it to the govern
ment as proof adequate that
government ownership is a fail
ure.
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AGIN HOOVER
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A contemporary, the Pike
County Democrat, published in
jPetersburg, Indiana, says: “All
jour exchanges are filled with de
linquent tax sales announce
ments—indicating that a large
number of people are on “that
side” of the “Hoover prosperity”
line with very little promise of
recovering. And still, the leaders
I of the administration are actual
ly having the effrontery to want
to run Hoover again. Do they
want to “finish” the rest of us?
! Surely the worm will turn some
time. The nerve of some people.”
And again: It will soon be
time to start to raising chickens
with which to pay taxes—as it
.can’t be done with wheat at
the present prices. Howl with
Hoover! Where’s the man who
time find even the foundations
of its technical and economic
achievements crumbling. , I sug
gest that beauty is better and
cheaper than the big stick as an
instrument for maintaining law
and oicier and contentment and
satisfaction. That a reforesta
tion policy can make possible
vast areas of beauty in which the
soul of this people can continu
ally renew itself is by no means
its smallest contribution to the
social welfare of the nation.
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said—“Hoover and Prosperity?”
It is more like Hoover and H—1!
And the press of the north
accuse us of being anti-Hoover.
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JOBLESS MEN MARCH INTO
SPOKANE
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General James E. Drain, head
of the Spokane relief bureau, did
rot want to see the marching
' war vets when they arrived from
Seattle recently enroute to
Washington, D. C.
“Would you like to talk to the
hoys?” he was asked.
“Not a bit,” the general replied.
!‘Tm not a bit interested in bums
like that. What are they march
ing to Washington for?” A dif
ferent greeting from a few
years ago.
U. S. CAN T STAND MANY
MORE SHOCKS, LABOR
CHIEF SAYS
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America cannot go on facing
' such crises as the one occasioned
at present by the millions of
jobless workers thrucut the
country, the American Federa
of Labor declared in a statement
recently demanding aid for the
idle.
“We feel justified in warning
the nation and industry that the
nation cannot continue to stand
these economic shocks,” said
the statement, signed by Presi
dent William Green. “It is the
duty of every patriotic citizen to
master and control the forces
which make for unemployment
and stabilize industry to prevent
recurrences of unemployment.”
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FARM PRICES
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A recent report by the De
partment of Agriculture covering
prices of farm products shows
’hat the farmers during the
month of December received
the lowest prices in fifteen years
for their products. When will
they pass the dividend along to
the consumer?
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OUR PART OF THE JOB
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Justice Louis Brandeis of the
United States Supreme Court
• as said: “We can have children
who think first of the public
welfare if we are willing to take
'he trouble to train them to do
it.” In other words that is part
ef our job as fathers and moth
ers that we give no thought to
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PAGE THE EMPIRE
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Oscar DePriest, Negro repre
sentative to Congress from Illi
nois and Mrs. DePriest attended
President Hoover’s annual re
ception to members of Congress,
on the 30th of January. This
ought to make a raise of about
three sticks full from the South
ern editors of Juneau.
Albert Jedlicka was brot to
Petersburg from Port Alexander
suffering from a broken leg re
ceived in a fall.
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