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SOMETHING OUT OF BALANCE
Secretary Hoover of the Department of Commerce
announces in his survey of prospective conditions for 1927
that there is every reason to believe they will be equal to
the year 1926 in point of industrial prosperity through
out the nation. Yet his department fails to show that
this condition may be applied to the basic industries of
the nation—products of the soil, which include farming
and mining. Both of these industries fail to share in the
past or prospective prosperity, possibly due to the fact
that, unlike other industries they are not subject to arti
ficial stimilus such as the tariff with respect to merchan
dise, and international demands with respect to finance.
Labor has shares in a paradoxical way in the general
prosperity, but this is due in no wise to any influence the
government might exert in the premises. Labor has se
cured its share through concerted mass-movement, com
batting at once antagonistic opinion of governmental
authorities and employers.
With everything entering into farming and mining
carrying the peak of cost and these industries unable by
the various devices available to the manufacturer and
banker to “write off” under various headings and there
by escape a tax burden unequally applied, a condition has
arisen which shows that something is out of balance.
The only immediate remedy appears to loom in tax
reduction, yet we are told by the Treasury Department
that the income tax for the first six months of 1927 prom
ises to far exceed all previous years, and the same depart
ment announces a surplus of more than two hundred mil
lions in the treasury that might have been applied to tax
reduction, but which was held up “until it could be as
certained what would be the best method of applying this
sum.
Swollen treasuries are sore temptations to the poli
tician, and with bureaucracy enlarging with each succeed
ing administration, the civil list is approaching top-heavy
dimensions.
If prosperity for the industries that are the out
growth of the basic industries with the latter languishing
for the lack of the same element is the gauge of a nation's
well-being, then there is little wonder that the farmer has
deserted his acres to accept a job in an industrial plant
and the miner taken the same course in an effort to share
in a prosperity created by artificiality rather than by the
natural laws of supply and demand.
If this condition continues, it is but a question of a
few years when the nation will be importing its fodstuffs
and metals while those hitherto engaged in their produc
tion will be turning to the manufactories for a livelihood.
If it is necessary to provide a bonus in the form of a
tax to protect American manufacturing industries from
competition of foreign-made goods, it is as reasonable to
employ the same system with respect to mining and farm
ing. Neither farming or mining should carry the same
proportion of taxation as applies to industries having
available expediences such as affect ordinary trade. Es
pecially does the soundness of this principle apply to min
ing because of the almost negligible fluctuation in the
price of precious metals, such as gold and silver, whose
prices are fixed by governmental standard rather than
by the law of supply and demand.
The ogvemment declares that a manufacturer is en
titled to a profit and guarantees it through a tariff. The
miner is also entitled to a profit. As a tariff cannot be
aplied for the causes set forth, the same effect may be
secured by wiping off the various tax burdens which now
weigh heavily on the industry and switch it to those who
may secure its equalization by charging more for their
goods.
According to instructions presented in the Gateway
today regarding the making of Swiss cheese, it is not ar
industry, but an art.
We don't know how good “Peaches'' was before mar
riage, but there's no denying that she had a good batting
eye when she landed old Browning for a4 home run.
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RISING COSTS LEAD TO PROJECT
- OF REFORESTATION FOR FU
TURE NEEDS
WASHINGTON, Jan. 28. (£>)—'The
Bureau of Mines of the Department of
Commerce, in a statement just made
public, discusses the Question of a
future timber supply for coal mines |
and outlines what one coal company is
doing to insure its timber supply.
The text of the statement follows:
One of the problems which the coal
mining industry must solve in the
next few years is the reduction of its
ever-increasing timber bill. This in
cludes pit posts, mine ties, timber sets
and brattice boards.
There are several reasons for this
increased cost: Scarcity of raw mate
rial, higher freight rates and increas
ed labor costs.
Present conditions seem to indicate
the continued upward trend of the
cost of mine timber, although the re
grettable calamity that has visited
the chestnut timber in Pennsylvania
may temporarily hold the price of
some types of mine timber on a level
basis in that State. On account of the
chestnut blight, many farmers will
undoubtedly begin to convert their
chestnut trees into timber before They
become a total loss. This may pro
vide, for the time being, a sufficient
supply of mine timber to check the
steadily rising prices.
The supply of coal in Western and
Central Pennsylvania will last for a
long period and it is for the possible
future demand for timber that the coal
companies must provide. While
steel, concrete, and other materials
may, in many cases, prove an ac
ceptable substitute, there is no doubt
that timber will always be in demand
on account of its relative cheapness.
With these points of view, one of
the large bituminous coal companies
in the Central Pennsylvania district
has for several years been carrying
on a systematic program of reforesta
tion which is intended to provide for
the needs of the company in the far
future. The company is a pioneer 'in
the State in this work and now con
trols about 24,000 acres of surfaces
which is either in forest at the pres
ent time or is available for future re
forestation.
NOMINEE FOR ATTORNEY
JOB KNOWN IN JUNEMI
Justin W. Harding, ■who has been
nominated to United States Attorney
,for the First Division, is not entirely
a stranger to Alaska it was revealed
in Juneau. He visited Juneau for
about two months in the summer of
1919.
Mr. Harding, his wife and little
daughter, his mother and an aunt
made up a party of five who spent
some time there, it was recalled by
George W. Folta, Court Reporter in
the Federal District Court, who ac
companied Mr. Harding on a few
trips during his visit. Since that
time the two men have corresponded
intermittently.
Mr. Harding is said to be about 40
years of age. He is an ex-service
man and had just retired from the
Army with rank as major a short
time prior to his Alaska visit in 1919.
He, at that time and since, expressed
a warm liking for the Territory but
did not intimate any intention of
coming here to make his home.
Coleman’s Gas Lamps and Lan
terns. J. L. Graef.
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An unusually good two-reel comedy
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NEW GOVERNOR ISLANDS
WASHINGTON, Jan. 28. (£>)—Capt.
Waldo Evans, retired navy officer,
■was appointed Governor of the Virgin
Islands to succeed Gapt. Martin E.
Trench, who died early this month.
Captain Evans served as governor of
Samoa in 1920 and 1921.
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BEET INDUSTRY INCREASES
NEW YORK, Jan. 28. (JP)—Beet
sugar production in establishments
engaged primarily in that industry,
increased 11.9 per cent \ in 1925, as
compared with 1923, according to the ,
data gathered by the Bureau of the
Census in the biennial census of
manufactures and made public by the
Department of Commerce.
Monopole cigars sold exclusively at
The Northern.