The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 13, 1937, Page 2

Pt e i ) BUY NOW! SPECIAL Men’s Ties 1 impressive showing Brought to you weeks in ad- thus enabling buy immediate of quality van you to for wear:. THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, WEDNESDAY, JAN. 13, Do Britons Like Americans As a OUR BRITISH COUSINS: They're Not Particu larly Fond Of Whole? DEWITT MACKENZIE By AP Feature Service Writer) W YORK, Jan. 13.—A gentle- man of Nebraska has written to ask if, from long experience as a correspondence in England and in ot parts of the British empire, I can answer two questions: “Do Englishmen really like us,” and “Did the Simpson affair make them sore at us?” It is indeed a much appreciated compliment to be asked to deal with such searching inquiries, but one is grateful that the gentleman of Ne- braska did not venture onto any- | thing more delicate, such as “What do you think of mothers-in-law generally?” The Simpson Case The Simpson query—to deal with that first—is inspired by the fact that Mrs. Wallis Simpson, for love of whom King Edward abandoned his throne and went into virtual ex- | ile, is American born. The answer is “no”"—the matter of nationality did not enter into the case. A scattering of anti-American Britons have mutterpd that the trouble was due to “another of those dashed Yankees,” but that does not | represent the sentiment in England. | Many English people are going out | of their way to say that Mrs. Simp- | son’s American birth was in no way | involved. | NA IUNAL GUAKD FLIERSFIND IDAHO PLANE WRECKAGE Here are the two national guard fliers who spotted the wreckage of the missing Northwest Airlines trans- port plane on lonely Cemetery Ridge near Wallace, Idaho, after it had been hunted for four days. Lieut. Byron S. Cooper (left) and Sergt. A. G. Hylent are pictured after they returned to their home base at 8pokane, Wash. They said there was no chance that the transport’s pilots, Joe Livermore and A. A. Haid, were alive. (Associated Press Phots) U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, WEATHKR BUREAU THE WEATHER (By the U. 8. Weather Bureau, Forecast for Juneau and vicinity, b ;inuing at 4 p.m., Jan. 13: Fair and colder tonight, Thur:Czy increasing cloudiness; moder- ate to fresh easterly windy. LOCAL DATA ‘Time meter Temp. Humidity Wind Velocity Weather {4 pm. yest'y 9.67 23 58 NW 8 Cldy 4 am. today 30.0% 23 7 w 6 Clear Noon today 30.02 21 30 NE 12 Cldy CABLE AND RADIO REPORTS YESTERDAY FODAY Highest 4o.m. Lowest4am. 4am. Praclp. 4am. Station temp, temp. | temp. temp. velocitv 24hrs. Weather Atka 42 42 3¢ 36 4 12 Cldy | Anchorage 2t o 100 — A 0 L | Barrow -28 -34 -34 -26 12 0 Cle | Nome 4 4 0418 [ 04 { Bethel 38 20 | 32 [ 20 Fairbanks 5 6 0 6 0 Dawson 30 4 -24 4 0 St. Paul 40 38 38 16 0 Dutch Harbor ... 46 46 | 40 4 02 Clear | Rodiak 2 40 3 0 0 cidly Cordova 3 32 28 4 0 Cldy Juneau 38 38 2% 6 0 Clear | sitke 40 — — — 0 Ketchikan 40 34 4 18 Prince Rupert 40 32 4 48 | Edmonton 18 -10 12 04 34 | 36 12 Trace 32 | 36 14 Trace o8 | 46 | 38 4 Trace Pt. | New York 48 38 8 [ 54 3 8 Trace ‘ Washington WEATHER CONDITION AT 8§ A. M. TODAY | Seattle, cloudy, temperature, 37; Blaine, snowing, 30; Victoria, raining, 33; Alert Bay, raining, 34; Bull Haarbor, showers, 37; Lan- gara Island, clear, 37; Prince Rupert, clear, 33; Ketchikan, clear, 32; | Craig, clear, 31; Wrangeil, clear, ? Petersburg, clear, 22; Sitka, | clear, ; Soapstone Point, clear, 29; Juneau, partly cloudy, 23; Skagway, clear, 16; Cape St. Elias, partly cloudy, 34; Cordova, {113 ing, 4; Chagamute, | cinity of Dixon Fairbank: The storm area noted yesterday cloudy, 32; cloudy, 27; McCarthy, foggy, 4; Chitina, cloudy, 8; Anchorage, cle: snowing, zero; Nenana, snowing, 8; Hot Springs, snow- Tanana, snowing, -4; Ruby, snowing, Flat, snowing, 23. WEATHER Dawson moved southward. Last night Entrance, and this | the coast of Washington, the lowest reported pressure being 29.46 |inches at Tatoosh Island. | the Seward Peninsula, with a slight | ward to Southeast Alaska. | MacKenzie Valley, the crest being 30.70 inches at Fort Norman. High | pressure also prevailed from Dutch Harbor and Atka soutaward to Ithe Hawaiian Island, the crest being Ocean at latitude 42 degrees and longitude was reported last night along the coastal | southward to Orgeon, also over th: Bering Sea {cinity of Bethel to Nome. The p The air pressure wi Nulato, snowing, t; SYNOPSIS morning being centered near is was centered in the vi- morning it was centered off below normal over ending southeast- high throughout the trough ure e was 30.78 inches over the Pacific 150 derees. Precipitation regions from Ketchikan ion from the vi Clear weather prevailed this morning over Southeast Alaska, the upper Yukon Valley, and throughout the Mac- Kenzie Valley. It was much warmer last nigh® over Washington and Oregon and | western Alaska and mich colder from Fairbanks eastward to the Mac- Kenzie Valley. Edward’s subjects would have felt | the same about her had she been 4 | native of the British Isles. Britain | would not want as Queen even 4| Princess who had divorced many years ago, I applied for and was granted an interview with a prominent member of the Cabinet. B. M. Behrends Co., Inc. Juneau"s Leading Department Store { ) | { PR EERSEEESSI S S S SIS SIS C USSR Y Royal < velty U two husbands and who had been | That SOrt O thing Was & BOVEIE 0 courted by the King while she was of my English colleagues, who also still married to her second. |wrote on government affairs but CLINIGS HELD, COMING WEEK Thiee Days Are Set Aside for Diagnosis of Cases in Two Hospitals The Territorial Health w! conduct Department of their regula e at Ann’s Hospital for the nosis of diseases of the lungs, especially tuberculosis. e who plan to attend the clin- d to obtain a consent from his or her family Those who do not have a physician are requested to a consent card for examina- imissioner of eports of examinations ent to the physicians, no in- 1 being given out direct to an A clinic will be held at St. Ann’s pital Monday, January 18, be- tween the hours of 1 and 3 p. m. and ¢ the Government Hospital on Seven Escap]a Tuesdays and Thursdays between 1 and 3 p. m. until further notice. Dr. J. A. Carswell, Director of the Di- vision of Communicable Disease Con- trol, will be in charge of the clin- ics. —— GOLLECT MOSS, IT PAYS THEM LTBERTY, Tex., Jan. 13.—Rolling stones gather no moss here—but the farmers do. They gather it from low hanging trees along the Trinity River bot- toms with long forked poles, load- ing it into trucks. Farmers receive 50 cents a hundred pounds for the moss, which is later dried ginned, baled and sold to furniture manufacturers They use it for stuffing sofas. - The first rodeo, colorful cowboy sport, was held at Pecos, Tex., fifty years ago. R The national flag of Japan, the Rising Sun, has 16 rays. “Do Englishmen really like us?” I have lived with, fought with and played with British peoples for 18 years. Let it be said here that| I like and admire them; many of my best friends are British. | Individually, Yes From a thousand and one discus- | sions about likes and dislikes, comes the following: The British like the individual American who is likeable. They do not have any great fondness for Americans as a whole. There are many things the Eng- lishman dislikes about us as a whole. For one thing he is extreme- ly conservative and is intensely an- noyed by any excess of aggressive- ness—American or otherwise—which results in loud-mouthed ostentation, or intrusion. He resents the band- shaking, T come from God’s coun- fry, glad to have you know me type of thing, The American method of proceed- ing to a man’'s office to do business without an appointment is another bugabear to the Englishman. He may admire American iniative at a | distance, but doesn’t want our sales- manship applied to him personally. Here is an illustration of the gen- eral feeling The American Way ! When I first went to England ‘Death as Plane Wrecks Roof The wreckage of an Army observation plane is shown draped on the roof of this Bellmore L. 1. home where seven occupants narrowly escaped serious injuries. The pilot, Lt. T. F. Moorman, started in the plane’s cockpit. bailed out when a ‘firg who never tried for an interview, was highly indignant with me “That’s the sort of thing an American would do,” he snapped “I realize that in Washington a re- porter can walk into the private office of the Secretary of State with- |out being announced, put his feet on the Secretary’s desk, and spit tobacco juice on the carpet. But it isn’t done here.” The average Englishman dislikes our language—particularly the ex- wreme slang—and our nasal accent drives him to distraction. One thing | that irks him greatly is the effort ! made by many Americans to speak with an English accent. There isn one American in 10,000 who ey achieves a “correct” English accen | Attempts to imitate the English arc pretty appalling. Dree< Too Loud The penchant of some Americ men for extremes in dress cau much unfavorable comment, espec- nally among Englishmen who wear monocles. Let an American follow our cus- tom of shifting the fork from the left to the right hand every time a mouthful of food is taken; and he will find the whole dining-room in England watching him in dis- dain. To sum the thing up, the Briton thinks Americans (as a whole). are crude, loud-mouthed, too aggressive, and extremists in most ways. dividual American lady o: gentle- man, of conservative persuasions, {will find 8 warm welcome in Eng- land. Political Friends Moreover, most Britons feel that the peace and progress of the world depend on close friendship between America and the British Common- | wealth of Nations. Many of them say they would like to see an Anglo- American offensive and defensive al- liapce, The relations between the two governiments are, of course, of the best. Underlying some of the feeling about our ways and customs is an outspoken resentment because America has taken a lot of the limelight from mighty England in both trade and world affairs. Also, because of our strong Brit- ish ancestry we are expected to be like the English, and any deviation causes a turning up of noses. Just as my New York City friends look with scorn on my Vermont liking |for pie at breakfast, so the Eng- lishman views all our “idiosyncras- ies.” Now I am going to think up one |to ask the gentleman of Nebraska | Try The Emplre classifieds for quick results. ——————— Today's News Today—Emplre. As already stated, however, the in- | Frank Delfino towered ail of three inches over his four-foot tride as || he led her to the altar at Minneapolis. The bride's father, J. C. Wil- | Juneau | White. 643, c Franklin | da | filed in its path. SECOND SLIDE Juneau Boy Shows Stuff in Snow SUIT AGAINST 4 Vi S SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Jan. 13. -—Caught in last Monday night'’s A J.IS FILED snow and wind storm when they missed the last train to Contra Costa County, James G. Butler, of Guam, and Pete Barrows, of Junean, !George Lee Asks Damages | of $11,648 for Death of Wife, Loss of Property students at St. Mary Moroga, walked 13 miles the snow and icy winds back lege. Second suit against the Alaska | Gold Mining mage. Suit of similar nature was filed yesterday by Gust Erickson, whose wife also was killed in the avaalan- |che. Company a result of the Noovember slide was Federal District Court to- day by George J. Lee, through his jattorneys Henry Roden and Albert Lee asks damages of $11,- harging the mining company with negligence in caring for the nillside which slid down on Lower Street taking buildings and a toll of 14 lives in He asks $10,000 for the death of his wife, Callie Lee, and |the balance on personal R Today’s News Today—Empire. NEW TELEP; as To be issued abount March or new Douglas Telephone Co. several Especially de: roperty il upper throat, College al thro to cc JNE DIRECTORY 1, and forms clese February 20. For space listings call Juneau cad —adv. HELPS PREVENT MANY CoLDs signed aid for nese and where most colds start. b Regular Size..30¢ Double Quaniity 50¢ Vicks VATRO-NOL liams, holds up the happy couple in his arms. The pair met at the World’s Fair in Chicago A WASTERN STAR, AND MASONS INSTai OFFICERS, JC A joint installation wus held on December 28 at Cordova for the Order of Eastern Star and the Ma- sonic lodges. Nan Hazelet ana George L. Smith acted as installing officers for their respective lo The occasion was made unusua colorful by the presence of 21 Ra bow girls all Wearing dresses of var- jous shades, which formed a bril- liant contrast to the white simplic- ity of the women’s attire. The elected officers for the East- ern Star are: Cecil Burgan, Wor- thy Matron; Calvin C. Hazelet, Wor- thy Matron; Agnes Thomas, Asso- ciate Matron; Roy Storey, Associate patron; Ella Smith, Condustre: Lillian Reed, Associate Condustress. Elected officers for the Masonic Lodge for the year are: Dr. A. W. cutts, Worshipful Master; H. B. Wolking, Senior Warden; Walter H. Hodge, Junior Warden; William Neilson, Senior Deacon, William Burgan, Junior Deacon. — - —— Juplaska” by Lester D. Henderson.‘ ¢ and engineer, ss Photo) FRESH TENAKEE CRABS EVERY MONDAY California Grocery THE PURE FCODS STORE Telephone 476 Prompt Delivery FLI®ES TO KETCHIKAN |~ Nelson I. Beers, Juneau attorney member of the firm Stratton and Beers, flew o Ket- chikan this afternoon in the Ellis Air Transport plane. Mr. Beers expects to remain in Ketchikan only a few days. He went to Ketchikan in connection with the WPA p s there, for which his | firm is acting as engineers for the -es NORAH IN AND SOUTH Canadian Pacific steamer :ss Norah arrived in port from cagway ‘shortly after midnight with 40 through passengers aboard from the Lynn Canal port. After loading mail and a large number | of passengers here, the Norah sail- for ed again the South at 3:30 o’'clock. K H. R. Shepard returned to Juneau by plane today from Ketchikan, where he recently went to attend the Grand Igloo of the Pioneers’ of | Alaska. Mr. Shepard reported that | the session was very harmonious, though the representation was small. | He was re-elected Grand Secretary. ] and receive tickets for yourself and a friend or E. P. 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