The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 22, 1940, Page 4

e et or THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, MONDAY, JAN. 22 in the year 1880 the persons of 60 years and over D("l)r AI“S’I“ Fmplre onstituted about six percent of the population. he census of 1930 they were about nine percent P"h"wuflu'x':{-‘. “prr CoMPANY In next year's census they may well be over ten Second and Main ¢ Maska P EN TROY BENDER R. L. BERNALD ¥ d Equally familiar is the fact that the proportion d Class Matte of voung life has been falling. Sixty years ago, n the old people were six percent, the young 20 years were about 48 percent of the people under ARRIVE population. Ten years ago they were down to 38 SR } Next year will undoubtedly register a t ne 3ut when it comes to translating these age ___—-—:m;‘—_""v”“;;;"’\_ changes into voting power, the great decline in Delivered by carrler In Juncau and Douklas for §1.25 per month. | young people under 20 does not interest us. Persons B e s un: 0 do not vote, The thing to compare is the 1ce, $6.01 One ¥ r one month. in Subscrib ot voters over 60 at the expense of the rest population of voting age. gine the population of the country to consist Then we find grow of the Ima only of persons of 20 years and over. arity Office, 374 MBER OF ASS0CIATED S o the use for | that back in 1880 the persons over 60 years would republicat; credi o it or not have CC ituted perhaps 12 percent of this adult Ll ¥ lso the local mews | jation, Fifty years later, in 1930, the persons — . : DARGER, over 60 years would have been something like 13 TON percent. In view of the fact that the voters over Fos T e 60 still outnumbered voters over 60 something like Mves, with of'lcus in Angeles, Pc six to one, there would seem to be.no imminent (o it Lo danger of the clderly Townsendite armies swamping 1011 llington, the rest of the voting population. This leaves wholly out of account the fact that with successive ham-and-egg elections the pension idea in its fantastic forms has been voted down with growing emphasis. This whole “class war” idea does injustice to the great majority of elderly Amercians taking it for granted that. they are eager to the rest of the community. by prey on Nothing Startling (Cleveland Plain Dealer) The final report of the Dies committee, marizing its two-year study of un-American activi- near so startling as the sensational its chairman during the course sum- nowhere s emitted by ties, i COUNCIL OF ELDERS Bt e LRGeS b iaiiintions s objective and temperate tone, hitherto so Bo: 74 \d dean of the Senate but he conspicuously absent in Dies proceedings, may be was far ! 1e ol man in that body due to a sharp division in the committee’s member of old men, [ was 82 last week. Norris ship which had threatened to explode in a critical of Nebraska King of Utah and “Cotton Ed” minority report. Or it may be simply the result of Smith of South Carolina are 75. Capper is the g, ural sobering piocess when rash and un- same age as Borah. Hiram Johnson is 73. sup statement is reduced from verbal heat to These are all n: that red prominently in the relafive coolness of the written word. the big issues of 1 ee years—the Supreme Whatever the case, the consequence is desirable Court, the ‘“purge anc e other day the In effect committee takes back several of it Neutralily Act. Key Pit A Nevada is 67 and wilder implications. Thus it omits from the lis McNary of Oregor ee Senators under 60 of organizatio: classified as units of the “Com- ‘whise:nainas Bave o the fore are Burke munist front” several legitimate and long-established ka, Pat Harrison Burton K. Wheeler, liberal groups to which committee members and A or two under the line. pliant witn had sought to apply a Red label o ! during the hearings. This is hardly full justice to gL, Si¢ nowin v outside the Sen- g, o oanizations, since retraction never wholly | 1A Vice, Erenganl Garny uy of State ouertakes calumny. But at least it suggests that Hull, both around 170, are loned.” Read- the committee engaged in some sober and saving ers must not hasten to are mentioned gecond thought. by reactionaries who ‘are of wicked old men. The report declares “it is unmistakbly clear Most of the old men in our & ite list above are in that the overwhelming majority of the members of the anti-reactionary camp. the CIO and its president are not Communists or Senator s thinks thet at the age of 81, Communist sympathizers, but sincere American work- which he will be at the e f his present term in €rs seeking to improve their lot in perfectly legiti-| 1043, it is time to call it a career. He will not stand mate American fashion.” I}L is encouraging to read for sesleviiohs~thoughs Skepties hilve -Hiastensd tolthise testimony by \the Dies.. sompiithes: members int out that in this business of choosing to run S0M€ of whom are wont to call almost ahyone who | ol ou : does not agree with them a Red. Perhaps the hear- and not choosing to run a man who looks two years ings have been educational, after all. The com- ahead is looking almost into infinity mittee asserts, and there is considerable good ev Che Senator from Nebraska at the hale old ag¢ gence to support its belief, that the Communist in- | of 78 is a reminder that the te today lives up fluence has been powerful in some CIO unions, but iing of its name. It is an quite fairly gives credit to the CIO leadership for efforts to thwart such influence. to the etymological me assembly of elder statesmen. This we are sometimes tempted to forget in the face of mere £ atorial The committee is hardly convincing in taking pbabes like Rush Holt of West Virginia at 34 and credit to itself for the prosecution of Fritz Kuhn Henry Cabot Lodge of Massach ts at 37T, and the indictmeny ot Earl Browder. Kuhn con- Old men and young men figure in a new “class Victed himself. Larceny is larceny, whatever Lhr war” fore: by & speaker before economists and political label*of the till tapper. Useful work has i & T been accomplished, however, in deflating several so- sociologists assembled recently in Philadelphia. It . i A A iy Aina called patriotic organizations which were chiefly is a war between the elderly American population \ooo oicine" o okets plying on the gullible. clamoring for Townsend pensions and the rest of o the nation defend! itself against the old people’s The Junior College of Connecticut, in Bridge- | outrageous demands. The speaker said that We port, has decided to abandon a proposed course | wage-earners stand- the politicians at may actually see tng shoulder to she employers dealing with marriage, “due to lack of interest.” In leap year, too. the head of ar of elderly voters. | - 21,008 The speaker thought tl 1se in showing up A man asked a Detroit Judge last week to the fallacies of Townsendism With our growing change his name, to “make it easier.” His name elderly population the politicians will soon have the was Antoni Przybysz. He changed it to Clinton votes. Przybysz. There is something about wars that ap~\ e e o T 3 parenty holds -a dread fascina f v people. Archduke Fel bvlle\_ s the sburgs will be K11 ahoubous we se » delightful fruits of the Marx- returned to power some time. H-m-m-m. The Ma- i hapsburgs, eh? ian class war, alo wi in general. Yet people . must ¢! playing the thought of & Finnish observers say the Russian artillery WIRsendlA. ciaae . war shelled its own men, mistakenly. Just a touch of In these nervous predictions of & new class War the old army game. let loose by selfish old men and women, there recurs o A SERAy & curious statistical oversight. It is quite true that! Communist Leader Earl Browder blames the the American population rowing older, and as Allies for the current European war. At least he time goes on we shall hav steadily increasing per- didn't include spots on the sun and the cooling of Stream, the Gulf Edison Urges Naval Increase centage of people over the age of 60. For example, Gets First Papers Mrs. Erwin Piscator Maria Ley, Austrian wife of Erwin Piscator, famed European stage| producer, and niece of the late Otlo, Kahn, smiles triumphantly as she| gets her first papers in New York, 1. 1. N. Phonephoto of the Navy Charles Edison testifies before the House naval mgmmnm in Washington. He indicated he may abandon a bill giving President Roosevelt peacetime power to commandeer !hlpyl!rda factori Edllau passage of a bill for a 25 per cent increase dancing. aud ) w.t a cost of $1,300,000,000. The course was dropped | where she is teaching dramatic ’ %roscope The stars incline but do mot compel” TUESDAY, JANUARY 23 Adverse aspects are discerned in the horoscope for today. It is not a fortunate date for signing legal papers nor is it promising for initiative. Heart and “ome: Under this sway the head of the family may be difficult to manage. The stars presage a period of extreme con- sciousness of financial problems From small wage-earners to the nation’s highest Treasury officials there is likely to be concern r garding debts and how to meet them. Business Affairs: The stock mar- ket fluctuations today may, bring profit, owing to an unexpected. de- mand for certain commodities, bu there will be headaches for spec: lators before the end of the mont Trade should continue brisk. Syn- thetic foods will gain in popular- ity. New inventions wil be profit- able. National Issues: Women's or- ganizations will gain in influenc: as they strive earnestly to, advocate peace. The stars appear to pres- age little political recognition of women, although they may be ef- fective in securing reforms ip gov- ernmental policies. International Affairs: The Unit-| ed States should be able fo wield supreme influence this year in international conferences, While the President will exercise only such authority as belongs to a neutral government, his pelicies will be courageous and will com- mand respect. Our governmems\ offers to serve in peace Degota- | | tions may bring a delay in the general conflict. | Persons whose birthdate it is have the augury of a year of. good | fortune, Many pleasures await bom‘ men and women. } Children born on this day pmb— | ably will be talented in music and the arts. They should be suctess- o i“” in procuring recognition. 1 (Copyright, 1940) -re | S 'HULL'S BOOM MAY | 'BE TIED UP WITH ... - TRADE PACT PLA (Continued from Page ©ne) ‘the White House but Dowm‘v is Jm the Senate, the only Democrat- ic member, and that counts Wwhen ,appolmmcnt,s are to be confirmed. | Downey at present is in virtual | rebellion over patronage. His worst enemies are being appointed to office and none of his friends get the nod unless they are indorsed \by McAdoo also. | Just before Congress took up, ‘Presldcnt Roosevelt appointed Paul R Leake as Customs Collector at |San Francisco. In the last cam- paign Leake opposed both Downey | |and his gubernatorial running | mate, Culbert L. Olson. He was | indorsed, however, by McAdoo, Downey is expected to hold up his confirmation on the grounds that he is “personally obnoxious” to him. In the Senate that gounts, as witness the episode when Sena- {tors Glass and Byrd made the | President recall a Virginia judi- |clary nomination a year ago. | | Only last year Downey had to | withdraw Plerson M. Hall as a | candidate for a Southern Califor- nia district judgeship, because |Hall was “personally obnoxious” (to ex-Senator McAdoo. Downey {had to compromise on Campbell E. Beaumont, who was satisfac- |tory to both of them. Downey labored through the ap- pointment of Martin Welsh as | Federal Judge at Sacramento only, as he sees it, because Welsh also was acceptable to McAdoo. | — e, | Only three American colleges | —Willlam and Mary, Harvard, | Yale—are older than the Univer- ‘slw of Havana. e Based on production levels dur- ing the first nine months of 1939, Canadian officials estimated their country’s gold output would be worth $180,000,000. ] CALL FOR BIDS Sealed bids will be received in the office of the Commissioner of | Education, Territory of Alaska, Ju- neau, Alaska, at 10:00 a.m., March 6, 1940, and will then be opened and read, for the furnishing of all E {labor, materials, transportation, and _equipment necessary for the com- | plete construction of the Snag, ¥ | Point School Building, with Teach- |ers’ Living Quarters, Snag Podnt, Alaska. Plans may be obtained from An- |thony E. Karnes, Commissioner of Education, Territory of Alaska, or {from the H. B. Foss Company, Architects, Juneau, Alaska { A deposit of $10.00 will be re-! | quired for each set of plans and specifications, to insure their safe | return. A bid bond of 5% of the con- tract price will be required to ac- company the proposal. i | ANTHONY E. KARNE! Commissioner of Edu i Territory of Alaska. ' LPubhcauon dates: January 15-22, 1940. adv. YEARS AGO l Prom THE EMPIRE 20 JANUARY 22, 1920 c71/c’zpby rthday The old stamp mill at Jufllln‘ was destroyed by fire, caused, ap-| parently by an over-heated sw\e in the clean-up room. There was, no damage to any of the other|, buildings. There was no insurance and the loss was estimated at $10,-| 000. The mill was built in 1896. | This morning the tempemturel registered a minimum of three degrees above zero. It was the coldest registered since December 26, 1917, when the temperature reached zero. | Albert Burch, a well known San Francisco mining engineer, ar- rived in Juneau on the Jefferson from Atlin, where he examined the Engineer mine for San Fran-| cisco people who were said to have | an option on the property. | John Barrett, for several years representing the New York Life Insurance Company in Alaska, ar- rived here on the Admiral Wat- son from Petersburg. He was at the Gastineau, J. C. Murphy, Attorney General for Alaska, left on the Admiral Watson for Seward on a business trip. A. Shoucair, manager of the Leader store, left on the Princess Mary for New York and other eastern cities. He was to purchase for his Juneau business, and was expected to be away two months. | R. H. Stevens of the First Na- | tional Bank, left on the Princess Mary to vacation in Seattle. | | Mrs. M. Waugh and her son, Bruce, were passengers on the| Princess for Prince Rupert, I Weather: highest 4, lowest 3, .- | ! LOOK and LEARN | By A C. Gordon For what does the abbrevia- “i.e.” stand? 2. Who is Scotland’s best-loved poet? 3. What kind of acid is tained in lemons? 4. How many muscles does one use when speaking? 5. Which is the second largest city in the U. 8.2 ANSWERS 1. The Latin words id est, mean- ing “that is.” 2. Robert Burns. | 3. Citric | 4. Approximately 44 muscles. ‘ 5. Chicago. | C.D. A. Sodal Meet Tuesday There will be a business meeting followed by a social tomorrow night starting at 8 o'clock in the Parish Hall for members of the Catholic Daughters of America. In charge of arrangements for the affair will be Miss Mary Van- derLeest, Mrs. J. Thibodeau and Mrs. Delia Dull. lmn con- The. Empice extends congratula- | tions and best wishes '~day, their bicthday anpiver:Z. to the roi- wi 4 i JANUARY 22 Mrs, Mamie Sutton George Thomas R. A. Wold Mrs. Roy Rutherford Elspeth Douglas Homer Hudon Helen Wilcox DAILY LESSONS IN E NGLISH By W. L. Gordon . J Words Often Mi say, “From my viewpoint, this is the thing to do.” While not incor- rect, “from my point of view” is preferred. Often Mispronounced: Mischie- vous. Pronounce mis-chi-vus, both i's as in it (second i unstressed), u unstressed, accent first syllable. Often Misspelled: Axis (singl- lar); axes (plural). Synonyms: Radiant, brilliant, beaming, glowing, lambent. Word Study: “Use a word three times and it is yours.” Let us in- crease our vocabulary by master- ing one word each day. Today's word: Vicissitude; change of for- tune. (Pronounce all i's as in it, accent second syllable). "A.fber| many vicissitudes he enjoyed a; prosperous old age.” o e OO e M ODERN ETIQUETTE * By Roberta Les Q. When a hostess is giving a small dinner party, and has no maid, is it all right for her to clean off the table and the soiled dishes after dinner, before rejoin- ing her friends? A. It is better to leave the dishes on the table and enjoy the evening with her guests. Of course she can quickly put away any per- ishable food. Q. If a friend should ask you how much salary you are getting, what should you say? A. If such a tactless question should be asked, you can reply, ‘I am sorry, but that is one question I should not care to answer.” Q. Should a house guest appear at the breakfast table in lounging pajamas, or a dressing gown? A. Not unless the hostess has auggested it. HELP AN | ALASKAN l Telephone 713 or write (- The Alaska Territorial Employment Service HOUSEWORK - TEACHER —Married, age 40. Experienced in housework and care of children. Formerly was grade school teacher. Needs part time work. all for ES 36. Daily Crossword Puzzle 1. Headplece 10. 8 4. Fanatical 1 Foriiike pare o PRt 16. Medicinal 12. Anger e 1 13. Uneven 1 Sone 14. Rubber tree A . ett 1. Places for 220 Valley on the 17. Sailing vessels 28. Frofie” 190 mguu. of the 24 Interprets 0. 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