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roKDQVA, ALASKA, THURSDAY^ JANUARY 3L 1918.
AS OTHERS SEE THEM
SELVES
In the intimacy of the senate com
mittee hearings on the war tax meas
ures, where the Solons recently camt
face to face with the fellows who havr
to pay the freight, a rare opportunity
was afforded for determining what the
automobile manufacturer, the movie
magnate and a host of other repre
sentatives of their own particular line
of business think of themselves, and
what the? all think of each other. Here
are a few samples of the sidelights af
forded the committee at a recent sit
ting:
F\ I. Barrows testified that the auto
mobile manufacturers were more hurt
in their feelings than in their pockets
because of the company they were
compelled to keep in the tax measure.
“1 think the public is making a mis
take,” said Mr. Barrows, “and I think
the committee is making a mistake to
put the automobile into a class along
with things that are of no utility at
all—for instance, with chewing gum
and moving pictures. If there is an
accident of any kind to a train, you.
get your automobile down there, and
if there is a wreck you bring the in
jured people home and take care of
ihem. If somebody is sick in your(
family you call for your physician, and
he has an automobile and is able to |
come quickly So with urban and in
terurban transportation * * * It'
'is unfair to the industry for people to1
say T guess the government does not
want us to use automobiles because it
is not patriotic to use them.’ I do not'
believe that congress will tell the peo
ple that this necessity for health and j
for business is in the same class with
whisky. I do not know' but what I like'
whisky—I would not say—but I will
say this, that I do not think that wej
are on a par with that. * * * But1
„ if the senate wants us to do something
■else besides make automobiles, and let j
them ride in wheelbarrow's, just let us|
know We do not wihs to stand back
on any proposition of that kind.”
William A. Brady, representing the
movie magnates, spoke next, and took^
strong exceptions to Mr. Barrow'’s
statement, he said: “As patriots,
we are willing to be taxed as much
as any other industry in the country
But we do not want to be looked uponi
as we apparently are by a gentleman j
who spoke for an industry a moment
ago, when he said ‘Don’t tax us; tax
-motion pictures and chew'ing gum.’ We
resent that. We are a respectable in
dustry. We have artists and we have
authors. * , * By what right does
the gentleman say ‘Tax chewing gum
and moving pictures.” The motion pic
ture is just as respectable as the auto
mobile business. It has had fewer fail
ures.”
Then Mr. Brady proceeded to di
vulge some of the dark secrets of the
movie industry in the following fash
ion: “If it is thue that Mary Pick
ford is getting $1,000,000 a year, then
Mary Pickford is going to pay $’00,
O00 this year to the government.
’ * * That comes directly from the
-moving picture business if you get it,
from the actors; and we hope you do,
because the actors are getting it all.
* * * * You say, and rightly say,
‘Oentlemen, you must be making an
awful lot of money, because we read
so much about it in the newspapers.’
Showman’s brag and bluster! The nat
ural inclination of the showman is to
exaggerate about 1000 per cent. We
have a great national figure who in
dulges in that same practice—a nat
ural-born showman. Why don’t you
tax him?”
Everybody laughed, and then E. B.
Bartlett, representing the piano manu
facturing industry, was heard. “If
there ever was a time in the history of
the nation,” said Mr. Bartlett, “when
we need to keep up the spirits of our
people, when they must have suitable
entertainment and recreation, it is
now. I know nothing that contributes
more to the peace oT mind and to the
happiness of the people than music.
It is considered essential in the hos
pitals for the wounded. They are even
using it in the insane hospitals. Let
us not burden the industry any more
than we are obliged to.”
Then the circus man was called
upon the carpet. John M. Kelly, rep
resenting Itingling Bros, and others
raised this rather pointed question:
"What are we going to do with th<
horses and elephants and other ani
mals? They eat their heads off if thej
are retired. So the show must gi
on, and these men will strive to havt
the show go on and bear its burdens
and collect for the government its rev
enues, so long as a camel bears a hump
or a zebra wears a stripe. And a pa
triotic effort will be made to collect
for the government any tax you may
impose.”
Whatever these gentlemen who are
engaged in the amusement enterprises
may think of each other, it is apparent
that they have strong faith in them
selves and are willing to do their bit
for the government. In more than
one respect many of the men at the
helm of the so-called legitimate indus
tries would do well to emulate their pa
triotic example. Certain it is that if
those who are engaged in providing
amusement for the people choose to
consider their business as both digni
fied and serious, no one should dispute
their claims. At that, Harry Lauder
fairly expressed the situation when, in
justification of his melancholy task of
merry-making, he said: "If my son
can die for his country, surely I can
sing for it.”
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MINDS, NOT BLOOD, ARE
WRONG
Otto H. Kahn, New York banker of
German birth, is right when he says
that German blood is not a taint.
It neither mars a man in this coun
try nor in Germany'.
German blood is not at fault. It is
the German mind—the German way of
thinking. And that damns, no matter
where it appears.
This country has nothing against cit
izens of German extraction because
they are German. But it does condemn
all citizens, whether of German blood
or not, who think after the German
manner.
Germans need no change in their
blood, but the world realizes that there
is a lot of fixing to be done to their
“domes of thought.”
PERHAPS NO ROOM FOR
ARGUMENT
The New York newspapers have
waxed sarcastic because the Missis
sippi legislature ratified the prohibi
tion amendment to the national con
stitution after only fifteen minutes’ de
liberation.
They say that such an important act
should receive weighty consideration.
But has it not had that consideration
and more? The members of the legis
lature have doubtless given the liquor
question much study. Mississippi is
dry, and the legislators have had the
opportunity to see prohibition in ac
tion. Doubtless, as in most prohibi
tion states, the effects of the dry law
were so apparent that there was no
room for argument. A state that is
wet can argue about the merits of pro
hibition, but one that is dry has had
the demonstration that convinces.
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MORE ON ORIGIN OF HUNS
Commenting on German dislike of
the word "Hun,” newspapers have
called attention to the fact that the
kaiser himself branded his people with
the term. A statemefit from the kaiser
was given to prove it.
The committee on public informa
tion in Washington recently issued a
pamphlet in which the first Hun
speech of the kaiser is quoted. The
Huns seem to have long been the ideal
warriors of the kaiser’s imagination.
In 1900 he made his first Hun speech
and in it he said to his soldiers going
to China to put down the Boxers:
“As soon as you come to blows with
the enemy he will be beaten. No
mercy will be shewn. No prisoners
will be taken! As the Huns, under
King Attilla, made a name for them
selves, which is still mighty in tradi
tions and legends today, may the name
of Germans be so fixed in China by
your deeds that no Chinese shall ever
dare even to look at a German ask
ance. * * * Open the way for Kul
ture once for all.”
The enemies of the kaiser canno
take credit for the happy inspiratior
of labeling the Germans Huns. }i<
did that himself long ago.
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Paul Kegel, well known miner anr
popular musician filed a petition it
bankruptcy before the Juneau districi
court. Several years ago Kegel en
gaged in the raising of mushrooms
and made a failure of it. Now hs
places his liabilities as six hundred
and thirty-five dollars and his assets
mainly consisting of music and instru
ments, at one hundred and ten dollars.
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