The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 3, 1940, Page 2

THE DAILY ALASKA EMP]RE,I “TUESDAY, SEPT. 3, 1940 1 !the inheritance of American life. and wherever we them, whenever HOLST CONCERT ¢ WILL BE GIVEN SEPTEMBER 11 Juneau music-lovers are looking forward to hearing Miss Matilda Holst, talented young mezzo-so- prano, who will present her concert at the Northern Light Presbyterian People who are not watchful and|hear it? alert and proud to be, loyal patri- otic American citizens. We should feach and every one stop and count lour blessings and give thanks that we live in this wonderful land of |ours, Because in 150 years the PRINCESS BOAT | " BRINGS TEACHERS ‘AMERI(ANISM CONTINUES BACKFORSCHOOL ‘.‘PAR’AMOUNT LEGION AIM The Canadian Pacific Pincess| By RUTH P. MORGAN | living exemplary lives as American| pecome the envy of the rest of the Charlotte brought 12 teachers re-|Second Vice-President and Ameri- citizens who take the leadership world turning to open classes at the| canism Chairman, Department in our respective communities—all Juneau Public Schools today. | of Alaska, American Legion| these things are the practical fab- | Some had been attending sum-| Auxiliary ric of Americanism mer school in the south and others Constitution Great Monument | In San Prancisco a handsome monument has been erected to the | memory of Prances Scott Key, but the national anthem, which he | spontaneously gave to the Ameri-| can people early on that morn- ing in 1814, far surpasses any monu- ment in stone. So let us all at the first note of the anthem, s salute, retaining this position until the last note of BEST WISHES 10 THE LEGION May Your Stay Be Enjoyable’ Triplex Cleaners z Patriotism Needed “Today we need a type of real patriotism — a patriotism strong To the Legion, We Extend Greetings | BEST WISHES AND SUCCESS TO | had been visiting friends and rela- tives in various states. Those returning here included Miss Margaret Abrahamson, Miss Velma Bloom, Mrs. Marian: Ed- wards, Miss Helen Herrell, Miss Delma Hanson, Miss Alice Johnson, Miss Ruth McVay, Miss Merle Ja- nice Schroeder, Mrs. Iva Tilden, Miss Edoa Harpole and Miss Pau- 3 | The opening phrases of the two, great preambles, that of the Con- by James enough to withstand the propagan- In 1787 a group of men, guided da of all who do not have at heart Madison, drew up the| the welfare of our nation: a patrio- stitution of the United States and most envied and most famous docu- | tism powerful enough to carry us of The American Legion and Amer- ican Legion Auxiliary, express| can Constitution, Which has per-| eenfidence.” ment now in existence—the Ameri-| on and been ladder of faith Patriotism has up the Americanism in its ideal form. “We mitted a nation of 130 million peo- dignified as “that majestic emo- the People,” “For God and Coun-| ple to live in peace and security tion which makes you rise superior| try.” In these combined phrases you have the heart and soul of Ameri- canism, In the activities of Americanism: such as no other country has en-| to all obstacles support all weari- Jjoyed. Appreciation of our America|ness willingly, accept all discipline, as she was conceived and realized,| joyfully face all dangers.” Webster the anthem, The salute to the an- them is the same as the salute to the flag. Where there is no flag displayed, all should face toward| the music., Inside theatres and other public places, the SALUTE TO THE ANTHEM IS MADE BY' STANDING AT ATTENTION. Now our flag, let us not over- look at anytime the respect and love for our flag. Let us each one Church on the evening of Septem- ber 11. A program, to be sung for the most part in English, has been ar- ranged by Miss Holst and her ac- companist, Mrs, Carol Beery Davis. She will also sing in French and German and will present a group of modern Russian songs in English and a group of French songs in English. upon the constitution of the United defines “Patriotism” as “love of America which we are| country; devotion to the welfare of| NeIP our youth in learning to love, pledged to “uphold and defend,” one's country.” | reverence and re: rf(-ct it. Now take appreciation of the great principles the word F-L-A-G ’l_'a.ke each let- to us by this funda- | .o..0 ecstacy which Prances Sc nltm’ separately and think what each American form of life, teaching the mental law—the frecdom of 1ife, it fert when he. loohed ot ol (CUer can and does stand for. foreign-born and aiding them t{o the sanctity of home, the right FE '"by the dawn's, eaxly lighth F—for faith in our Cnu“m-' citizenship, exercising our right to to worship according to the die-|po o British gun‘s il nofyecu"mr loyalty to our country vote and thus having a voice in tates of our own conscience, the ‘A~4ror amo the Latin word mean- Well known here, Miss Holst was bern and reared in Juneau and Wwas graduated from the Juneau High School. She attended the Uni- versity of Washington and after graduation studied music at Ore- gon State College. She studied voice in New York and spent a year B Jack Roehm, Associate Mining | Engineer of the Territorial Depart- | ment of Mines, is due to return to | Juneau next Saturday. He is now at Anchorage after investigations gn Seward Peninsula and the Iditarod- | Flat district. Being @oad American citizens, States of knowing our fundamental law, lov- ing and respecting our flag, teach- ing and leading our youth in the guaranteed THE 1940 CONVENTION! i & J.B.Buriord & Co. It was tne very sentiment of pa- shot down the symbol that repre- Tiiree Cheers to the Legion Convention | We Are Ready to Serve You First-Class Meats Sanitary Meat Co G e e PSSR | e e e U WELCOME LEGION | MAY YOUR 1940 CONVENTION | BE A SUCCESS! Alaska Dock & Storage | e e L PP U, § We Wish Success and a Good Time to the Legion & Auxiliary i)nring Its 1940 Convention Alaska Laundry We Are Alwaeys Ready to Serve forrrrrrrra e g e reeod \GREETINGS to the AMERICAN LEGION and its AUXILIARY Enjoy Your Stay at the Convenient GASTINEAU HOTEL We Are All for the AMERICAN LEGION Because they help to uphold the prin- ciples of Democ- racy in our sweet land of JUSTICE and LIBERTY! - Gastineau Grocery Phons 37 WHERE SHOPPING AND PLEASURE MEETS e e et et 2 HAIL TO THE LEGION We offer our cordial Greetings to the Legionnzires attending the 1940 Convention. We are glad you are here and hope your sojourn in Juneau may prove a most happy and delightful occasion for you. S The B. M. Behrend s Bank B.M.Behrends Compan) o rrroe | | | with ehild welfare order agencies, promoting Lhe con- in ti L e e e the Government, teaching safety in oqur communities, cooperating and law and servation of natural resources for | the good of future generations and WE EXTEND SINCERE GREETINGS and SUCCESS to the 1940 LEGION CONVENTION & Rice & Ahlers HAIL TO THE LEGION! Youw’re Welcome to Juneau SUCCESS TO THE 1940 CONVENTION! BERT'S CASH GROCERY | S T AN B | | ) | freedom of speech, the freedom of cented the defiant spirit of his the press, the rights to trial byl gtive 1and, nor dismantied the jury and the safegyarding of all rory that defended our land. It was Fight o the purssit O WaD- | o egi§ Shet he wemt ohoard & piness. A great statesman once British man-of-war to secure re- said, “Our constitution to the joase of a friend from imprison- nation what self-control under rules| yon i which he succeeded. But of conduct is to a man.” both he and the priscner were Abraham Lincoln once held en board the vessel until “From what point, then, after the attack on Fort McHenry trouble come? If it come in the Baltimore Harbor. The poem it myst come from within, and if| o "yl CE O et atter] it come not from within, we the anxiel through the night IL‘ last a'thousand years as & nation.”| yo o written on an old envelope, It is the threat to America g, the embodiment of the senti- , and it comes not only from ments of all true Americans in the thought of those who have not 1814, and on all similar occasions had the opportunity to be rooted ooy gince The Flag itself inspires and grounded in Americanism but,| eonfigence in those who live under| it comes sometimes from our own it and respect from those who would people, people who have had the g, injury to any under its pro-| background and the training and tection. Since then this poem has | become our national anthem, and we all love it. Who can help but feel an emotional wave of patrio- tism and inspiration surge over is said, shall at all, shall frrrrrrrrrrrrr e erres { CHEERIO | g f | | | | to the Legionnaires e e | WELCOM LEGION We Serve Drinks That You'll Never FORGET! Alasan Bar PO i 5 SR | Hooray! z ! We Welcome the | LEGION and its | AUXILIARY to JUNEAU! SNOW WHITE LAUNDRY “Satisfaetion Guaranteed” PHONE 299 frrrrrrrrrcrrarrrrrrereeay { WELCOME LEGION We Are AtYour SERVICE WALL PAPER IDEAL PAINT STORE | TRY OUR ® CAKES ® BREADS ® PASTRIES Sully’s -3 R Commercial Radio Supply Co. Everything in Radio TRANSMITTERS - RECEIVERS SUPPLIES WIRE or WRITE FOR NEW 1941 CATALOG Corner 2nd and Seward Box 1297 To the Legion and Auxiliary We Extend GREETINGS CONNORS MOTOR CO. PHONE 41 SOV LEGION and AUXILIARY We Welcome You May Your 1940 Territorial Convention Bea Success! THRIFT co-op Juneau, Alaska —— 230 So, Franklin St .| tence, ing love)—for love of our coun- try. G—for glory of our country. Glorious History We must always remember the glorious history that has made our country “The Stars and Stripes,” it is the emblem of our nation. Your country and my country. Let me share with you a wverse, author unknown: “To serve my country day by day At any humble cost I may, To honor and respect her flag— To live the traits of which I brag; To he American indeed— As well as in my printed creed. To stand for truth and honest toil— To till my little patch of soil, And keep in mind the debt I owe— To them that died that I might know MY COUNTRY—prosperous free, And passed this heritage to me.” and studying voice and opera in Milan, Italy. During the past winter she has been doing theatre and radio work in the States and prior to coming here appeared in concert in the auditorium of the Hotel Figueroa at Los Angeles. GOULD TO INSTAL WEATHER STATION Weather Bureau Observer Don Gould went to Yakutat on the Coast Guard cutter Haida Monday to install weather equipment at the new Civil Aeronautics Board station. Later he will install a station at Craig. B e S NOTICE AIRMAIL ENVELOPES, showing air route from Seattle to Nome, on | sale at J. B. Burford & Co, adv, { MILITARY POWER JOGS “NATION INTO AWARENESS | | After all these years of comfor-' table life devoted to relatively easy living and the academic study of the progress of men and their con- flicts and struggles the old timer finds himself faced with an en-| tirely different kind of world. | Something has happened in the world seen only by people in past| | ages but never by any living per- |son because no such thing has happened since the day of Napol- eon. It is the development of mili- tary power and its successful use. This time there is no theory about it. It is not academic. It is real. |And the people of the United States must face actual realistic condi- tions with weapons and force and | determination, which means more than words and spending money— the very souls and blood of Ameri- cans must be laid upen the altar of service to country if our self-| governing institutions and liberties are to be saved. Military power is as old as re- corded history of man. It is the | weapon used by nations to protect and advance their own interests in the ever-present struggle for exis- World Dominaticn Its possessors always display the same characteristics and the same ambitions. Military power is ruth- less, cruel, savage, and insatiable. If it is successful its objectives in- variably become an effort at world domination. We have been witnessing the de- velopment of military power in Eu- rope during the past few years and since September 1939, we have been observing the successful application of that power to secure its imme- diate objectives. France, Belgium, Holland, Norway, Denmark, and Poland have already succumbed to that power. History customarily repeats itself and there is no reason to suppose that the successful military power of Europe will not adopt for its final objective the military domina- tion of the world as all other pos- sessors of successful military power have done in their time. Attila, the Hun—Alexander, the! Great—and Napoleon, can be named as outstanding examples of those who, with varying degrees of suc- cess, have used military power in an effort to dominate the world of their day. Power Rampant With successful military power rampant, giving an exhibition of speed of - operation, undreamed of combinations of various land, sea,! | airplanes, cgn bhe defeated only by superior military power. q Military power is economic re- sources of a nation converted into shape to be used for military pur- poses. The most important re- source is man power. Untrained, it is not military power, but a lia- bility. Trained, it is the most pow- crful element in military pow Weapons—tanks, machine g artillery, and all other types of weapons, are valuable only to the degree of the training of the men who use them Men Count Regardless of the weapons or machines used in air, or on land or water, the final acquisition and holding of land is still only to be done by the man on foot, the soldier with his rifle and bayonet, the infantryman. Pilots for planes, machinists for planes and tanks, specialists of any and all kinds of any and all branches of fighting forces are quickly trained comparad to the time needed to train the individual man to be an efficient soldier. It takes at least a year of hard work in a military organization to train a man to be an efficient sol- dier. He must be subjected not only to the technical training but must undergo a psychological pro- cess wherein he acquires complete self subordination to authority and is completely imbued with the con- viction that he has only one thing to do and that is to obey orders. - European man power for the past seven years has been undergoing such a rigid course of training and preparation as this. Every man, woman, and child is being subor- dinated so that the whole popula- tion—man, woman, and child has gradually been turned into a mili- tary asset—a component part of the military power, The United States is the only nation which has sufficient eco- nomic resources to develop military power equal to and superior to that of present day aggressor nations. Get Started It takes time measured in months and even years to convert eco- nomic resources into military power and the most immediately impor- tant thing that we can do is to get our man power started on the road to conversion from economic to military power. We should raise a standing army, with the Regular Army and Na- | tional Guard as principal parts, of | one million men and at the same time start military training of hoys of such age as will put another and air weapons under centralized million men into training for at command to overwhelm other forces|least one and better, a two-year is it any wonder that normal de- fensive armies and navies are ren- dered helpless? The big question is what are the people of the Unit- ed States going to do about it? Europe, with 1940 conceptions of how to make war and with 1940 weapons of most modern type, makes war against those with 1918/ conception of the conduct of the| war, with no weapons or ideas of| how to use them beyond those de-| veloped in World War I. What chance have any such nations to training period. If we will do this promptly we will have a force of at least par- tially trained men ready to take over the operation of the airplanes, tanks, armored cars, and mechan- ized units and the many new weap- ons now being built. There is no time to waste. Ag- gressor nations will act swiftly and unless we do these things in a forceful, determined way to de- velop the iron in the souls of our soldiers, the United States will be stop military power? Military power can be swppedi only by equal military power and, caught sleeping as have those coun- tries now overwhelmed and defeat- ed by military power.