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PANDORA WAS A PIKER
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REMEDY FOR DECLINES IN BUSINESS
In a recent address, Herbert Hoover found no
reason to fear or anticipate another major depression.
He described the destructive economic forces and
weaknesses that resulted in the collapse of the 30’s
and said there is no parallel condition now.
Then he made this important statement: “I believe
that due to scientific discovery, invention and improve
ment of production methods, our present industrial
plants can support the present standard of living of
our people and, beyond that, can produce some sur
pluses. It is these surpluses, plus some dehydrated
optimism, that are worrying the situation today.
“And like everybody else, I have a remedy. My
remedy follows the proposal of President Eisenhower
—that if necessary we should reduce taxes in such a
fashion as to increase the buying power of all the
people, so that they can absorb the surplus and thus
lift the whole level of the standard of living another
stage. The surest route to that end is to reduce
government expenses and thus reduce taxes.”
In other words, the key to good times is consump
tion. And the way to maintain and increase consump
tion is to let the people keep more of their earnings
to buy things with.
Alaska Airlines Reports
Good Business in 1933;
Better Yet Expected in ’r4
SEATTLE, <#!—Alaska Airlines,
Inc., had a net income of $200,
092 before special items and, in
cluding special itenps, the profit
for 1953 was more than $546,000,
r ports president Nelson David.
Operating costs were less than in
• either of the two preceding years
while revenues exceeded those
in any previous year.
“We look for greater gains in
1954,” said David. “Travel to and
from the territory will increase
in proportion to greater defense
spending, particularly in the Fair
ly nks area, and also because
there is a continuing advance in
tor rist interest in Alaska. A fa
vorable trend in traffic over our
ro. tes within Alaska may also be
expected.”
CAB To Investigate
Proposed Fare Reductions
Of Alaska-States Lines
WASHINGTON, UPl—’The Civil
Aeronautics Board has ordered an
investigation to determine whe
ther fare reductions proposed by
several airlines serving Alaska
may be unjust or unlawful or
“lower than can be justified by
the costs of providing the ser
vice.”
Meanwhile, the proposed new
fares have been suspended, the
board said. They included reduced
local fares filed by Pacific North
ern Airlines, and reduced joint
fare with Alaska Airlines, Cor
dova Airlines, Northern Consoli
dated, United, Western and West
Coast Airlines, for passenger
transportation between the United
States and Alaska.
Bartlett Protests
Drastic Cuts In
Appropriation Bill
WASHINGTON, UP) — Delegate
Bartlett Monday complained of
“very drastic cuts” in Alaska de
velopment items in the Interior
Department appropriation bill.
Bartlett said the bill normally
provides the fuel for the develop
ment of Alaska.
“But it seems the fuel line has
become clogged,” he said in de
bate on the appropriation bill in
the house.
Bartlett said the overall budget
of the Interior Department was
reduced 12V2 per cent by the
House Interior Appropriation sub
committee.
In contrast, he said money for
the Alaska ro'ad program was cut
29 per cent below the budget esti
mate and 61 per cent below ex
penditures during the current fis
cal year.
Public work items for Alaska
were reduced another 58 per cent,
he said.
Bartlett drew from Chairman
Jensen (R-Iowa) of the appropria
tions subcommittee the assurance
that the committee intends that
the rehabilitation program for
the Alaska Railroad be carried
to completion in another year.
Jensen said the committee re
duced the nine million dollar bud
get request because it knew the
money could not be spent in one
year. Instead, he said, the com
mittee decided to spread the com
pletion of the railroad project
over two years.
Bartlett commended the com
mitee for providing $91,250 to
provide for the treatment of 20
more tuberculosis patients at
Seward.
Fall of Southeast Asia
To Reds Would Be Great
Set-Back to Free World
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application pf the H - bomb to
peaceful purposes.
The President’s remarks about
the situation in Indochina and
southeast Asia generally were
prompted by a question seeking
his view on the strategic import
ance of that region to- the free
world.
He replied that, in the first
place, the area is important be
cause of the strategic materials,
such as tin and tungsten, which
it produces.
Secondly, 450 million people
already have fallen under Com
munist dictatorship.
He spoke of the importance to
the free world of such countries
as Burma, Thailand and Indo
nesia. Then he went on to say
that Communist conquest in the
area would threaten the defensive
chain of which Japan, Formosa
and the Philippines are a part.
Then he summed up by saying
the possible consequences of the
loss of Indochina and the rest of
southeast China are incalculable
to the free world.
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Eisenhower Says Russia Unlikely
To Risk War As Long As U.S. Is
Ready With All Its Atomic Might
WASHINGTON, UP) — President
Eisenhower told the nation and
the free world last night Russia
is unlikely to risk war so long
as this country stands ready to
strike back swiftly with all its
atomic might.
The President declared, how
ever, that America must prepare
“very coldly and very carefully”
against the danger that power
loving men in the Kremlin might
“in a fit of madness or through
miscalculation” plunge the world
into a hydrogen-bomb-age holo
caust.
Eisenhower went on all radio
and television networks in a re
lated, lialf-hour plea for a sober
facing of the atomic era facts of
life — and a fervent warning
against the perils of “jitters” and
hysteria over Communism, in
vestigations of Communism or the
threat of depression.
“We don’t have to fear!”'said
the chief executive.
He said the FBI—rather than
congressional investigations — is
the nation’s “great bulwark” ag
ainst Communist infiltration, and
he put in a strong plug for the
radio-TV report which Atty Gen.
Brownell will deliver on that sub
ject Friday night.
He said “very grave offenses”
can be committed against inno
cent persons by “someone having
the ijnmunity of congressional
membership”—though he voiced
confidence that in the long run
public opinion “will straighten
this matter out wherever and
whenever there is real violence
done to our people.”
And he said that while Com
munists in this country are dan
gerous and must be pinpointed,
their number is “minute” and is
often exaggerated.
Actually, said the President,
there aren’t more than 25,000 doc
trinated or dyed-in-the-wool Com
munists among 160 million Am
ericans, and “the great mass” of
government workers and other
Americans are “just as dedicated
as you and I.”
On another home front topic,
Eisenhower said unemployment
“happily shows every sign now
of leveling off.” The government
is ready to undertake anything
necessary to prevent a depression,
he said, but “does not intend to
go into any slambang emergency
program unless it is necessary.”
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