The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 27, 1940, Page 2

4 THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, TUESDAY, FEB. 27, 1940. MYLLABLE SIX-UPS QUITE COMMON, HOW STATES WILL CHOSE DELEGATES TO NATIONAL POLITICAL (ONVENTIONS‘ WasH; ' (p) 5 (R) ) May 21 R ) / WY Mov 1y 6D ,,erlrr‘" &) May 13 6 () delegates in white siztes. will not. The political parties MONT JND. 8m) g R 8 (D) 8 (R) D Viay, 46 (D) — 26 (R) May 28 e~ \sllfl 14t (R ,‘ 67R1| yi'l be held on the dates shown in black states. Conventions or comimittees will choose Wlere a‘stateis black-and-white, Demoorats will held-a. primary, Republicans Arkansas and Georgia have not decided what they will de. FIGURES show the number of delegates each s'ate has to each national convention. - New.York has eight dele fes-at-Targe, named by the state committees, in addition to the 90-odd in each party to be voted upon in the or'mavies. . of i SO FAR ONLY 1.0 stat. -Ilnois and Wiscoisin—have primaries scheduled that will be clear-cut tests. The names ol ke et Y Garner have been entered in each state’s Democratiic primary. By 3§0m‘.‘\\_ M_ Bl ‘_r_TY | »'most spontaneously, as a rem- who sent them: to the national con- A Melcre i Renries Nytas «dy for the evils in the conven- vention, | tion system. Under the primary . on top of all that, the profes- WASHINGTON, Feb. 27—Signifi- system, the idea was to control gional party leaders have adopted \“f\]fi't‘.‘x"n‘:&“;fi.lx‘:a:?”mf_‘flzs":‘i political parties under state 1aWs, the practice of using the primary | By JACK STINNETT AP Feature Service Writer ‘When Toastmaster Col. John J Magnan recently introduced Gov- ernor: Lehman of New York to ra- dic audiénces: in 42 states with “Now, ladies and gentlemen, may I introduce the Governor of the great State of New York, Herbert H. Hoover"-—he was merelv tread- ing in the missteps of radio’s great- est broadcasters. There's hardly #1 announcer alive who hasn’t fallen victim at some time to those slips or quips of the tongue that turn a perfectly harmless phrase into one of life's | most emParrassing moments. Chains and local stations even | maintain schools forsannouncers in which much practice time is de- voted tc teaching the tongue to wrap around the twi/:rs and toss -| them off with ease. The name of former President Hoover, it seems, has tripped more than one. M. ry fans still remem- ber when veteran broastcaster Harry | Von Zell stepped up to the mike and with all humility said: “And now may I present the President of the United States, Hoobert Hee- ver.” i True Story |~ Ben Brauer was present at the microphone one night when a well- known actor concluded his program with: “Next week, I stink we have a story—er, I mean I stink . . and then wilted with: “Oh, folks you know what I mean.” Radlo veterans say no device and n. oamount of rehearsal can keep these' occasional jewels from es- YOU GOT SAYS MORTIFIED RADIO ANNOUNCERS GHY ':55'«& G il N e al revenue) Y ur ln(om s paid by teachers to pro- o e fessional societies, the price of their subscriptions to educational jeurnals connecitd with their pro- Iax Re'urn foiat i anll Lo e . cluding railroad fares and meals lodging, incurred in attending conventions in the United } are not reimbursed such expenses, are deductible and ac Definition Given on Com- 5 | and make them quasi-public or- g5 o testing.ground for candidates caping‘ the tongue. Psychologists shing Page One in mid-winter— | yopi70tions, and i&suu,gl.uuy aware that they consulted by National Broadcasting nnd in competition with war news. | —_— are not bound by any such tests. Cn. officlals, say it results from front-page _pwl‘“’"" of | PRIMARY ™ | That testing practice has given a befuddled mental maze, a queer nes like “Dewey Enters 1l- | A i i ERasrve (oRA rise to the belief that the primary distortion and unbalancing of words o s e, o - wes cevised as a. special tool for and logic which the average pro- it husetts, m4y‘=vm-.m that | But from the very start, the pri- the professional politician Such is fessor may explain but cannot cure. i-file voters will have‘ A | mary movement was doomed to not the case. Progressive clements The veteran Krauer, for exam- chanc play an active, practical | failure as a nationwide institution. ii Lot paities put over the pri- ple, knows all the pitfalls but he ‘ sclecting nominees for | In the first place, each state has ...v jdea The professional poli- still blushes over his most embar- President. 1 right to do as it pleases about .0 pag merely adapted it to TAssing momerg when he called t age voters” do, it | political parties, and in the second Eah “the north comnass station”—the e tirst time that John | jlice, professional politicians usu- BT nerth comfort station.” d Muy Jane Citizen have | .lly distrust gusts of popular opin- a<oned announcer Milton Cross, | 2 participated in the pr They fought the primary id2a 4 ; WILL IGNORED who has broadcast for NBC for Yirioat v L 2 p In 1912, the primaries go. o. ;-A 48 3 fl; :::eu,:fi:m: in 1 tl the popular voice % ‘_‘\:‘]:, '1 g v, . VERS ,{ep:bhcan Lpau P s to BNy day ol ob with Republican pri- primaries. In o iy A'(_duy“md*_ n en in the remote re- a wve Teddy Roosevelt's i sas. Gieo: 5 i 1":’“‘ A\m.s ¥t f 18 has bacier wrage o set up 4 X e ; ave. the Republl. | NI against the operetta or the their candidate as an independent 4 ! \;,; Cfi; Cu; 'is;uel be. NCW Jersey colleze T ol AT ot m and piogressi- . Yades Rrior : VOTER'S INFLUENCE VAGI : i 3 B T R L Before 1d since, the in- s . Il i yo indicated . Uhey ..., yofore the microphone and ! " ¢ k and file ‘1‘)"1,"“; R ik g i progiessive WIms, 1 o pis Jisteners how! with laugh- A peen indirect, P s v ut ihese signs were ignored WIth 4. y5t would be the envy of such £ Ve e 15 results at the polls, - |ioke-Tirdened roar - provokers as ™ S50 weir dthportence I i s 1y in 1940, tha high pitch J8ck Benny or Charlie McCarthy. can hunting phase ¢ in‘erest in the spiing primaries| A blonde cutie in one of NBC's politics lies in the New Jerse Ore- ‘ed in the prominence of|ferial dramas, riding a ship in a the democr; vay of ¥ ylvania, South Dakota, leadiines and the keen dis-| {08 one sunny afternoon, announced 1 1z and elecling is unsuited Virginla, and Wisconsin, Wil oo everywhere by, votess, is|t* the world that the fog was “as to smoking out candidates for of- clect theit fluan\fixd»ale: M.the BA= an indication that the prlmanesi'hf‘rk a5, Sea. boap. ' 4 | fice. conventions. However, eight uay agamn furnish high-powered| Abominal” has several times be- It works smoothly only after the Illinois and New York dele- ° % eous combustion within both COMe “abdominal’, with resultant candidates have been picied and are picked by party commii- parties. the final race is on. For instance, The District. of < Columbia wou can't actually draft a man mocrats also elect their dele- Despite 7 dogsn't want, to be drafted es, but the Republicans do not. g;ngjdates in the field are travel- s¢, in so doing, you deprive T'ho e 15 states will have a total ing under lieral banners, most the liberty to run or not to run, a liberty guaranteed by the democratic form of government. { 492 delegates at the 1940 Demo- ratic convention out of 1,100 and 160 delegates to the Republican ol them have been in public life long enough for the voters to have made up their minds about That automatic.lly leaves the convention out of 1000—less in e5ch candidaie's particular shade seleciion of candidates to political each case than a majority. of liberalism; i ‘e, whether. he's parties, and, move especially, to All except three of the 15— g qiohi-away, left-wing, conserva- the people who make a profussion of running parties. CAUCASES. USED. FIRST Alabama, Florida, and New York —also give their voters a chance to directly -express a preference for President, in addition to elect- tive, or what-not. If the voting in both parties in the spring primaries should estab- Party leaders tirst adonted the ing delegates of known prefer- lish the fact that voters in pri- secret. caucus. system Lecause il ence. But the :-delegates aren't mary-holding states are all think- was. already in practical use as very seriously bound by that ing either in conservative or liberal a town-council method of pick- preference. directions, -then the primary vote ing candidates, Out of the na- - Furthermore, most of the pri- will have an important effect on * tional party caucuse® in Was, mary systems in operation are the national conventions, For party ington cdndidates suddenly cud compromises - between the pro- leaders .these days. _don't: ignore mysteriously appeared. Voic s had gressive . elements in the two po- popular signs as they did in 1912, no choice but to 'n the cau- litical parties, and professional Likewise, the fact that the pri- cus selections of boti. pa: .es. political leaders. This means that maries are developing into free- About 1825, the caucus died the the delegates elected to vote for for-all races gives: them the at- death of a poelitical viliain ena certain candidates in the national mosphere of a political testing the convertior system supnlanted conventions, may not do so be- ground. In short,..more, than a it. In the convenion, the parti~s yond a few ballots. It also means crop of favorite sons may appeaxr, were supposed to sl heir e« - that the expression by the votersof And, even though some of . the didates openly. But soun the 5 of the cancus appeared i ¢ form of the “smoke-filled back room and cligues were chaiged wi h manipulating couventions like Punch and Judy .shows. Around the turn of the century presidential preference, where 1t required . under state laws, Is not a mandatory' preference. other words, the delegates who are elected may not fecl hound to stay with any one can- didate who happens to have the ia the political primary idea evolved, approval of the voters in his party more prominent candidates won't enter some of the primaries, .the voting may show which .candi- dates the. voters do not wani. And that'’s a very important item, > ATTENTION REBEEKAHS Regular meeting ‘Wednesday, Feb. 28 ,at 8 p.m. Initiation and}, ':'m'mm o . social. ! ’ ; CATHERINE HALM, ! 28 e 4 & ¥ adv. Secregary - B S A 0'dest Ba”'e i” NEW TELEPHONE DIRECTORY Commercial Juneau, 1 Alaska ‘ Savings Safe Deposit Banking by Mail Department M. Behrends Bank Blaska To be issued March 1 and forms lose Mar¢h 1. For spdce, listings call . Juneau ind changes please nd Douglas Telephone. Co., hone 420. tele- adv, COLESEUM— ) Starts lelly-baffs. | If you are a collector of this | ber of radio programs which have | a legitimate comedy device. | Jane Act, star of the Easy Aces,! in a “baffle of wits” with her hus- | band. Jane's malaprops are leg- | endary among her followers Re- | cently. she told of “the fly in the oatmedl” . . . and of “looking for @ neetle in a smokestack” and once told a certain swain: “In words of one cylinder, you're just acting hard ‘to take.” “Roly Home" | About all that the psychologists | have agreed upon, say the radio people, is that there is a high per- ceritage of these typographical er- rors of the tongue among left-hand- ed pzple who try to become right But if you ask Clyde Kittell, who once solemnly announced: “We will 20w take you ¢> Rome to hear | His Holiness, Pipe Poes” or any| of the other dozen veterans who! have been broadcasting for years, | they'll“tell you. it' doésn't make any ‘difference, - heft-latied or hight- randed, youre bound to get sixed up mumtime. r ———————— IPERSHING S~ | TUCSON,. Ariz, Feb. 27.—Gen. John J. Pershing said in an inter- view -that -had the Allied Powers heeded. . his.. reccmmendation - for Germany’s unconditional surrender lin 1918, Europe would now be ai peace. Paromount presents Cecil B. DeMille’s "UNION PACIFIC = INTERVIEWED pensation Officers and Employees For all taxable years beginning after December 31, 1938, all offi- B or employ hei % 3 als who pre- vicusly have not been required t file such returns Retired officers and employees of States, and political subdivisions thereof, or any agency or instru- mentality of any one or more o the foregoing, who received in 1939 pensions or retirement based on the services rendered by them while in active service as such officers or employecs, are re- quired to include or annuities in gross income for the fact that all ihe!!rivia, dont be misled by the num- |Federal income-tax purposes. If the pension or annuity is paid seived on the unconscious quip as|in whole or in part from a fund' didate derived from amounts deducted from the compensation of such service, the amounts so contributed are considered the “consideration paid” for the pension or annuity. The amount received by the re- tired officer or employee shall be .{included in gross income each year to the extent of three percent of the “consideration paid,” the bal- ance of the annuity payments being excluded in determining gross in- come for that year. When the ag- gregate of the amounts thus ex- cluded from gross income equals the “consideration paid,” the en- tire amount thereafter received as a pension or annuity must be in- cluded in gross .income. These taxpayers are entitled to the same deductions and credits as are other taxpayers (explained in the instructions which accom- pany. the income-tax returns, Forms 1040A and 1040, distributed through the offices of the collectors of in- | £ office in the presence of his chief, i annuities, | such pensiens| Comipton Takes the Oath awis Compton (right), new assistant secrenry ‘of the Navy, takes oath , Secretary Charles Edison (center). ~ft, administering the oath, is William D, Bergman, assistant and chief clerk of the Navy department. frem the compensation received by them as teachers in determining net ing e for Feder: income- tax purposes. Records of such ex- penditures should be kept to sub- stantiate tae deductions claimed Camp: s and contribu- ma itical parties or rganizations At any time are no iciible from th compensalion ich an individua from any income ction received prior sived fice to b for incor purpeses. D {ORMAN THOMAS . TALKS POLITICS; | VIEW EXPRESSED | NEW YORK, Feb. 27.—Norman | Thomas, Socialist leader said that vhile he would not support either | 2 Republican or a Democratic can- for President, “I would rather see a good President in of- fice for a third term than a bad| Ihas, for example, forever engaged officér or employee while in active one for a first term.” R S BRE L Ralph Moreau Will Speak Tonight at | | FARM BLOC mi U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, WEATHER BUREAU THE WEATHER (By the U. S. Weather Bureau) o9, Forecast for Juneau and vicinity, beginning at 3:30 p.m., Feb. Partly cloudy tonight, cloud yand slightly warmer Wednesday; 1 est temperature tonight about 15 degrees; moderate northeasterly wind Forecast for Southeast Alaska: Nerthern portion—Fair, continued cold tcnight, Wednes: cloudy, slightly warmer; moderate north- winds, except fresh to streng northerly over Lynn Canal. Southern portion—Cloudy with occisicnal light snow tonight, chang- ing to rain Wednesday. Warmer tonight and Wednesday; moderate easterly wind. Forecast of winas along the coast of the Gulf of Alaska. Moderate to fresh east to northeasterly wind from Dixon Entrance to Kodiak, but increasing in the vicinity of Dixon Entrance Wed- nesday. LOCAL DATA Time Barometer 71emp. Humidity Wind Velocity =~ Weather 3:30 pm. yest'y .. 29.61 17 36 NE 28 Clear 3:30 a.m. today 29.60 14 23 NE 17 Clear Noon today 29.73 14 33 NE 8 Clear RADIO REPORTS TODAY Max. tempt. Lowest 3:30a.m. Precip. 3:30a.m. Station last 24 hours temp. temp. 24hours Weather Anchorage 30 8 11 0 Barrow -5 -12 -12 0 Nome 33 20 22 0 Bethel 13 | 6 7 [ Fairbanks 17 2 3 0 St. Paul 31 | 23 23 03 Dutch Harbor 40 35 35 01 Kodiak 38 26 27 09 Cloudy Cordova 34 20 21 0 Clear Juneau 17 12 14 0 Clear Sitka 25 15 0 Ketchikan 21 16 16 0 Seattle 53 38 43 39 Portland 57 2 44 42 San Francisco .. 61 59 61 1.86 Rain WEATHER SYNOPSIS Pressure was low over the North Pacific Ocean this morning with the lowest pressure 29.05 inches reported in latitude 46 de- grees north 146 degrees west. A wek disturbance was located off the coast of Oregon. Although pressure continued high over Al- aska, there has been considerable weakening in the steep baro- metric gradient that has existed Southeast Alaska, and which has been respensible for the loca strong gusty winds of the past two days. The weather was cleir to nu. ly cloudy ~ver most of Alaska, while moderate rain fell over «n area exteiuing from Vancouver Island to southen Califonia. Juneau, Feb. 28.—Sunrise 7:00 a.m., sunset 5:26 p.m like amount in next farm bill. Secretary Wallace said the two- year overall total would be un- chang year’s regular - Susannah Wesleys To Meet Tomorrow A 1:30 o'clock dessert-luncheon will ke served tomorrow afternoon at the residence of Mrs, Roy Mur- in the Lesher Apartments on hby Avenue for members of annah Wesley Circel ENCOURAGED HINCTON, Feb. 27. — Farm ¢ farm benefit paymen: million dollars 1 fo; F dess n meas- b 15in; on of a ' afterncon. CLOTHES that are CLEANED OFTEN—Wear Longer! \ Send YOUR GARMENTS to TRIANGELE Thorougch Workmanship ana Modern Methods Produce Work_that fs Sure to Please You. 4 PHONE 01/ ki Club Meeting! The Juneau Ski Club will meet this evening at the High School‘ Auditorium at 8 o'clock. Ralph | Moreau will report on the Anchor- age Fur Rendezvous Ski Tourna- ment and Fred Ball will speak on the activities of the Seattle Moun- taineers, one of the largest skiing and mountaineering groups in the United States, which has a mem- bership of nearly one thousand, The public is invited to attend. - Try an Empire ad. administrative MODES of the MOMENT by Adelaide Kerr Lots of gay gadgets are geing to be worn as lapel and eoliarbone accents this spring. Here you see—c all things—a little black enamel savage, whose shield blazes with brilliants, set on the lapel of a demure soft gray wool suit. White pique sailor tops it. «