The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 13, 1940, Page 4

speech shows that this mostly has Daily Alaska Empi Published evers evening except Sunday by the EMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY Second and Main Streets, Juneau, Als HELEN TROY BENDER - - - - = President R I D - Vice-President and Business Manager cumstance, Russia still is bound to Berlin This breathes new realism into the nightmare of e Post Office in Juneau as Second Class Matter. apparition of a world-wide combine of dictatorships. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: have none of these; “they” have become only the 5 Dourlas for §1. onth. bt At Rt o K A Bl embattled British commonwealth of nations, faced One year, in advance, $12.00; six months, in advance, $6.08; | with ever more enemies on the Continent of Europe one month, in advance, $1.25 Bubscribers will confer a favor if they will promptly notity | and with a growing antagonism by Japan. e ettt it £l The British people, even Adolf Hitler admits, Office, 602; Business Office, 374. are a dauntless race. Their determination has sur- EMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS vived worse blows than the one dealt them in Mos- The Assoctated Press Is exclusively entitled to the use for | o, s P My repubtication of all new dispatches credited 10 1t or Dot other. | OV But they fight on now with rudely dispelled wise credited In is paper and ulso the local news published | hopes that the natural clash of interests between esb i T MR ¥ £ % 5 Germany, TItaly, and Russia might preoccupy the ALASKA CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER Vst oL THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION Nazi aggresors. € - Anyone with eyes to see knows now that the SEORGE D. CT 1., Mational Newspaper Representa- g : pre T B T e e ovsincs, | United States indeed faces awful isolation in a world Acattle, Chicaro, New York and Boston ruled by bandits' covenant at the moment British SEATTLE REPRESENTATIVE- Gilbert A. Wellington, 1011 | resistance is overcome. WSCINn Ak WoRMDNg. Josef Stalin, we suspect, is a practical man seen the United States tional indignation an He with Congress furious attempt to sell over er in the world. He has heard our public speak- lers declare that we have no interest in the war; heard us say, “Let God save the King.” He has| heard inexpert, civilian voices cry down the defense| recommendations of our Army heads. He has seen| partisan politics obfuscate our reason. Would any practical man want in on “our side"? | Training Auto Drivers (Cincinnati Enquirer) Before anyone is permitted to pilot an airplane, the government requires long and careful trainir Engineers take the throttle of the locomotive only WHERE CREDIT IS DUE Appropriations for defeuse works in Alaska in|after years of apprenticeship. Yet only the most the past two years have been as follows: | casual instruction usually precedes the introduction B vy air Tass $ 2,900,000 of an automobile driver to the wheel. s By oo e daas 8750,000 This, of course, is because ‘“everybody” drives| cars, and the commonness of the operation leads us |to attach no particular importance to the need for {skill in driving. But that doesn't alter the fact that 2,012,000 2,963,000 Kodiak Navy air base Unalaska Navy air base Fairbanks Army air station 4,000,000 |an automobile is a machine capable of causing both Anchorage Army air base 12,104,060 death and great damage in the hands of the un- Anchorage military post 9,225 | skilled, At average speed, it packs the momentum Alaska gas and bomb |of a pile driver; at high speed, it amasses a colossal | storage ' constiction 630,000 total of Zcotpounds of energy; it can Kkill, even at Rl s low speed. i purchase, Anchorage 5,0 95,000 If it was making its first appearance in the crowded streets of a city, it is a safe bet that the| $39,823 5 | modern automobile would be treated with due respect. | This large sum, more than five times what the| The city government would regard it as a potentially United States paid for Alaska in 1867, is only the| dangerous vehicle. It would be permitied to use beginning, The amount expended, besides building|the streets—if at all—only when operated by an the vital northern defenses of the nation, is also|expert driver, and the city probably would go to some | pains to make certain that the driver was expert. giving employment to countless Alaskans and is bringing business to Alaskan businessmen | '1]" ';“’ past Ihre(; decades dhunnla wh;(‘:tlhe txut;)» | mobile has Vi vehicular by e In watching the Territory's defenses being|moPle has grown from a vehicular oddity fo the 3 s point where on the average every family owns one, strengthened, in helping to strengthen them, let us there has been insufficient attention paid to driving| to the one man responsible | instruction, chiefly because so many people were | for this activity He ha in | learning every year. But now that automobile own- | Washington for eight years to call the attention of |ership is about stabilized, the problem is mostly con- the nation to Alaska’'s vulnerability. He has succeed- | fined to instructing each year's crop of young drivers. ed as no one else could have. And this can and should lead to a persistent effort The Army and Navy installations in Alaska are|to raise the general level of driving skill. There & monument, and will always be a monument, to|Should be an increased emphasis on skill and know- Delegate Anthony J. Dimond | ledge pr safety rules and traffic laws in the llcensl_ng |of drivers. We are paying far too great a price lin deaths and injuries for dangerous driving habits, | incompetence and ignorance—the products of casual, haphazard or incomplete driving instruction, not forget to give credit labored unceasingly AWFUL ISOLATION Premier Molotoff's statement of Russian foreign | policy before the Supreme Soviet last week was of profound importance, not only to the embattled Brit- ish Empire, but also to the United States. The speech, emphasizing Russian compatibility with the powers, dashed hopes for an early| 5 S D e SRR reestablishment of a balance of power on the Conti- ! If all the speakers who assure us that Hitler nent. It contained grave tidings for Great Britain | has no designs upon this hemisphere would join the But in almost equal measure it was bad news for|Marines so as to protect us in the event they prove the United States, ‘LO be wrong, we'd feel a trifle safer. Much as the British no coubt have been doing, | : in recent weeks we have attempted to glean from{ fowers we saw blooming hereabouts just four short the news about Russian maneuv: in the Balkans| years ago? and the Baltic some proof that Russo-German rela-| tions have deteriorated—that in any final reckoning | In the Mediterranean theatre Mussolini is talk- of world power the Soviet could be counted upon to|ing a good war anyhow. Progress Nots War Edition—The Egyptian Gov- ernment is reburying the mummy of King Tut-ankh- amen, the famous boy Pharaoh, to protect it from the perils of the war. axis What ever became of that bumper crop of sun- scare of their lives. The incident arose out of a chance remark during a ship-to-| shore broadcast from the bridge| what gives weight to this under- when the vessel was well out to| B, 3 s Ol cover feeling is that some of the sea. Captain Giles Stedman Was| sharpest critics are New Deal big- | glving the position of the ship. | | wigs wifS have been Hopkins' clos- “We are exactly 95 miles due)est friends and were his staunchest east of Atlantic City,” he said. defenders when he was under fire orado vacation spot, which is near| “Holy smoke” broke in someone, during his WPA days. McCook. News dispatches declared| ‘What a sweet spot for a German| pyg Jike the regulars, they now that the GOP standard bearer in- Submarine! Better be careful, cap-|hold that his residence in the White tended to beard the father of TVA|tain.” 2 House and constant ready access right in his own home town. But Stedman smiled and no one| Roosevelt's ear is very harmful. the idea did not thrill Nebraska Re-| thought any more about it untl| gpecifically, it is being charged publican leaders. later when the big liner suddenly| that Hopkins is preventing the They have a wholesome respect besan to zigzag crazily. In the| president from obtaining realistic view that Hopkins is a trouble- making influence around the Presi- dent, Waiuir;glon Merry- Go-Round (Continued from rage One) THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, TUESDAY, AUG. I3 Iapnnsc the Rome-Berlin-Tokyo combine, Molotoff's been wishful thinking, and that actually, either by design or cir- last August, when we first were confronted with the It was frightening enough then; but it is more torical Association, Mrs. Thomas Riggs informally opened the museum to 'vc!"&“‘u " frightening now. At that time the Allies had the member: of the association. The public opening was to be within a few ;i “impregnable” Maginot Line and France's “finest s R army in the world.” They had friends in the Bal- 1 ,,,,,, kans and Asia Minor. They had friendly neutrals|— | The Alaska Juneau Gold Mining Company began using the new In Scandinavia and the Low Countries. Today they dump tram which carried the waste rock from its separation plant at two | ;zen motor torpedo boats to the last great friendly | for Norris’ vote-swinging powers, re- winking of an eye the rumor was‘ skyrocketing among the passengers| call vividly how four years ago in that a U-boat was stalking the| | & three-cornered race which he en- vessel tered at the last moment he polled ¥ 63 percent of the vote, | Near pandemontum broks ouf. : i | Some guests, including at least one week a delegation made| sopator and several Congressmen, | 2 to Willkle. In the|rysheq to their staterooms and)| group were Kenneth Wherry, State| qoined life preservers, After sev- Chairman; George Carpenter, Na-|owu) minutes of panicky confusion| Committeeman; Hu But- andidate for Senator, and Dwight Griswold, candidate for Governor. They received a cordial welcome discussed a number| (he explanation. “There is no dan-| of subjects, prominent among which| ger of any kind. Go back to your was a strong argument as to Why| qrinks." Willkie should NOT make a speech| in McCook. | It was pointed out that Norris| There was one piece of advice is not up for reelection this year,| the Democratic Natibnal Commit- that he is busy in Washington and!tee group gave the President when not likely to take an active part|they conferred with him last Thurs-| in the Nebraska campaign unless day. It was short and snappy. “Keep | baited into it. And they vigorously Hopkins out of the campaign!” counselled that this be avoided if| This was not the first time Roo-| possible. | sevelt had been told this since the| “There is no need stirring up| neise-some Chicago convention,| Norris if we don't have to,” ad-|where the idealistic but politically| vised State Chairman Wherry. “He inept Secretary of Commerce held | can cause a lot of trouble.” forth as White House generalissimo| amid a continuous roar of resound- | ing blunders. Others have voiced the same pointed counsel. In fact, one of the most signifi- cant recent inner-Administration the alarm was dispelled by word| from the bridge that the ship was| not trying to cscape a sub. “Only testing the engines” was HARRY HOPKINS SUB SCARE ipload of congressional and guests had a gala time on maiden trip of the new USS. EE% information on important situations, is giving him unsound and timid advice, and is keeping hard-hitting fighters from his councils. One of the most serious accusa- tions against Hopkins is that he won, and is keeping, his behind- the-throne place by the policy ur[ never standing up against Roose-| velt on issues. It is one of the President's weak- nesses that he doesn't like tough- willed advisers, He will listen to suggestions and argument, but once he has made up his mind he is irritated by continued resistance. Unlike other inner-circlers who stubbornly hold to their conten- tions, Hopkins never goes beyond a certain point. 1940. w0 AUGUST 1940 SUN | 20 YEARS AGO 73 THE EMPIRE AUGUST 13, 1920 Turning the key at the entrance of the Museum of the Alaska His- MON the mill to Gastineau Channel below the company’s dock. T HAPPY BIRTHDAY | AUGUST 13 Mrs. M. J. Whittier Daniel Morris Samuel Fein From its location in the Valentine Building on Seward Street, the down town office of the United States Naval Radio was to be moved to the lobby in the Gastineau Hotel within a short time. Mrs. R. H. Stevens returned to Juneau on the Nothwestern after a Kathryn Cheney two months’ visit through the Interior and central Alaska, visiting all the Mary Schnamen 1\'ukun and Tanana river towns, Mrs. K. A. Hahn ( Rudolph Tencich | Malcoim Wilson, who made the trip to the Westward for J. B. Caro | 4 and Company, returned here on the Northwestern. [ | | | HOROSCOPE “The stars incline but do not compel” | + C. F. Lane, Juneau agent for the Ingersoll-Rand Machine Company accompanied by R. Campbhell, representative of the drill sharpening m chine of the company, left on the Estebeth for Funter Bay where several of the machines were being used in tunnel work on the Admiralty-Alaska | Mining Company property left | e Territorial Fish Commission, WEDNE: of the C. D. Garfield, Secretary SDAY, AUGUST 14 on the Santa Rita on an inspection trip to Kake Conflicting planetary aspects rule today. The early hours are under Weather: Highest, 51; lowest, 49; rain ‘ adverse INFIUENCES, DUL TALET LNC oy g oo e s s . s s e e 0l | rule of the stars is promising to 1! dwellers on the Earth. Women i Dal|y I.eSSOHS in EngllSh w L. GORDON should be cautious while this con- figuration prevails. Heart and Home: This is not a propitious date for women to seek any public position or to ask favors of any sort, It is a time for watch- ful waiting, Calm and careful think- ing should emphasize the blessings| in ASK, s¢ and minimize the fears that assail OFTEN MISSPELLED: Straight (not curved) even the people of the United|sage of water) States. The stars warn, however, SYNONYMS: Healthy, hale, hearty, well, robust, vigorous. that the utmost thrift and foresight| WORD STUDY e a word three times and it is Let us should be guides in administering jncrease our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Today's word: | domestio ‘maney. mALArs. CREDIBLE; worthy of belief; trustworthy “A very diligent and observ- Business Affairs: ~Although ing person, and likewise very sober and credible.”—Dampier trology gives those who study the| | { WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “This book I value' above any other.” Say, “This book I value MORE THAN any other.” | OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Frappe. Pronounce fra-pa, first A as | econd A as in PAY, accent second syllable. 1 Strait (a narrow pas- | | as- SEATS TEASON 10 PrOPNESY CHATIZEU | om0 | conditions that effect the whole ‘ | world, the United States is to be MODERN ET'OUETTE by fortunate in wise adjustments of ’ ROBERTA LEE | trade and finance which are lucky (B et ) s ) 2 ) . s ) 264 for business. Inevitably this na- tion must reflect what war has Q. €hould a man remove his hat in the clevator of stores and office | accomplished in other countries, |y idings when women are present? | but there is promise of slow pro- ed States who belong to enemy |m~; b tions is enjoined, True patriotism LOOK a nd I.EAR Ay & Bl avoids injustice. International Affairs: Canada continues under a sway that ,w'ms\ to presage a great future. Rapid development of its political and commercial importance, after se- vere test, is prognosticated. The Do- 1. Does the Bible give any description of the physique of Jesus, such as his height, weight, color of ey complexion, etc.? 2. How many bones are there in each arm? ; b 3. Which is the most man-like of the apes? minion will attract many distin- 4. What is the meaning of the Stock Exchange term “short selling”? guished refugees who will contri- B. ‘What 15 the chief clty of New Mexico? bute to its future prosperity. Close by WNATR e GRICE Ol Ol NON eT00s relations with the United States ANSWERS: will be fortunate. 1. No. Persons whose birthdate it is 2. Thirty. have the augury of a year that 3. The gorilla brings excellent opportunities. Both 4. The selling of stocks in excess of the number actually held at men and women should benefit. |{ho time, with the intention of acquiring the balance subsequently at a Children born on this day prob- | .. =0 ably will be highly intellectual, prac-| " lA]b. ; tical and philosophical, Character| ° APuduerauc. as well as talents insure success. (Copyright, 1940) ' Latest of Bulgarian Rulers kins, head of the Federal Surplus Commodities Corporation was there too. He was not on the official list, put he worked behind the scenes laying groundwork for dis- posal of hemisphere surpluses, Per- kins was so busy he had to cancel a side trip to the Virgin Islands. ... Mrs. Nellie Tayloe Ross, Di- rector of the Mint, has just made a country-wide tour of the eight establishments under her control —mints, assay offices, and deposi= tories—including the gold deposi- tory at Fort Knox, now bristling with machine guns as new arrives from New York. . The State Department is assisting in transmission of funds to individual — Freeburger DENTISTS Blr ngren Building PHONE 56 Dr. A. W. Sfewart DENTIST Hours 9 a.m. to 6 pm. SEWARD BUILDING Office Phone 469 Dr. Judson Whittier CHIROPRACTOR Drugless Physician Office hours: 10-12; 1-5, 7-9 Rooms 2-3-4, Triangle Bldg. ! PHONE 667 [Ee—— ; | Dr. John H. 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Would it be all right for a new employee to ask cther employees JAMES C COOPER greatest good for the greatest num-| how much salary they get? | C.P.A ber must be the aim as the na- A. Never. The matter of salary is confidential, and this would be | . tion proves its power to defend| , yory presumptuous question | B‘uaineu Cortimplor itself against all aggressors, Kind- | COOPER BUILDING 1iness LOWArd Tesidents Of the UTit- | <o oem s o mme oo o oo mm oo o o mm oo m e om0 a-o el | g 2 oy Americans in France. Checks are made out here to the Secretary. of State, and transmitted through dip- lomatic channels. . . Hull came back from Havana to find a fresh: ly painted ceiling and new over- head lights in his office. . . White House photographers are now re- quired to wear badges for identi- fication. (Copyright, 1940, by United Fea- ture Syndicate, Inc.) BOY SHOOTS HiS LITTLE PLAYMATE SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Aug. 13— He will lay proposals before Roo- sevelt, but if the President draws| back and manifests disapproval,| Hopkins backs down and runs for| cover. NOTE—Hopkins most difficult men to see in Wash-| ington. It is far harder to get to| him than to the President. Even| ‘officials of the Commerce Depart-| ment have trouble getting to him directly. | is one of the/ MERRY-GO-ROUND Few people at the Havana Con- America, but . they also got the|developments is the unanimity of ference were aware that Milo Per- Ten-year-old Rafael Cidanos yester- day fatally shot his playmate, Ron- ald Beck, when he picked up a pistol off his father’s work bench The youth said that he had just started to shoot Beck with the pistol when it suddenly went off. - -+ SANITARY PLUMBING and HEATING COMPANY W. J. 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