The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 30, 1940, Page 4

Dmly Alaska Empire | Published everv evening except Sunday by me EMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY Second and Main Streets. Junesu, Alasks. HELEN TROY BENDER R.L BERNARD - - Vice-President and Busine Office fn_Juneau as Second Class Matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Delivered by r-rrm in Juneau and Douglas for §1.25 per month ing rate in ady Entered in the Post ce, $6.00 | promptly notify ty in the de- vof their pape “Telephones: News MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclusively d to the use for sepublication, of all news dispatches credited to it or hot other wise credited In this paper and also the local news published herein. ALASKA CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION. nal Newspaper Representa- GEORGE D. CLOSE, Inc., Nat tives, with offices San Francisco, Los Angeles, Portland, Beattle, Chicago, New York and Boston SEATTLE REPRESENTATIVE-Gilbert A. Wellington, 1011 American Bank Building BLITZKRIEG OFF SCHEDULE 1t is the judgment of promment military experts among them Maj. George Fielding F t and J. W Mason, that the battle of Britain has not gone ac- cording to German schedule, Eliot expresses the opinion that as the first year of war passes into gurance when the last boat pushed off we shall not| i\ vaction extravagances. history and winter approaches, the German outlook is less favorable than at any time since Poland was invaded Germany’s turning to Japan for aid, and her whispered threat of ing to Moscow in search of active military assistance, are proof that England has been a good deal harder to crack than Hitler planned. Needless to say, he would have preferred to defeat England with the German military machine and German resiur alone. Every ally he brings within the German orbit saps glory and the promise of ultimate pa ent from the Reich, The war against Britain in the last month has| taken the form of intensive air bombings, combined with an effort on the part of the Nazis so to tic up British shipping as to cut off important sources of supply, and thus to defeat England with the weapons of blockade upon which the London gov- ernment itself has placed the heaviest reliance from the beginning. As regards the blitzkrieg of the air, it has ad- mittedly caused the British serius inconvenience Buty such information- as is available: in this country indicates that it has not seriously disrupted British preduction and transportation. If the Churchill speech in Parliament today reflects the spirit of the people, it has failed to break their will to st. Admittedly, the lands has not been successful. have declined in the last month or attributable not to the war but to the action of the British government in r stricting imports of all but essential war mater for obvious reasons, of sharply limiting and convoy services. blockade against the is- While British imports s0 the drop is of On the other hand, the blockade against Ger- many has been tightened. Whereas imports from neutrals were maintained at a fairly high figure before the occupation of Scandinavia and the Low | Countries, they have now virtually disappeared. Likewise the closing of the Mediterranean, following the declaration of war by Italy, has cut off an im- portant source of supply. By pretty general agree- ment Germany's econimic situation has not been much alleviated by her military victories since the occupied areas are not important producers of the materials which Hitler most needs to hold out against | the British blockade. Since Hitler'’s strategy almost is based upon surprise, it would be premature the thought of invading the islands has been abandoned. It seems well within the facts, however, to say Ihal without a greater air supremacy than has px(‘\all(’(l in the last two weeks and with the British fleet LOVE LAUG| invariably to say President Manager gainst British smppim;‘ shipping invasion seems at the moment remote, ‘ One fact well demonstrated in the last month or §~o is that Italy’s assistance has not apprccisblv strengthened the ‘German cause or alleviated the| difficulties of suc week that passes without successful jnvasion renders increasingly questionable the judgment of Mussolini into the war. The kill obviously was not s close at hand as Hitler's representative had led him to believe, or the booty which he hoped to share so0 certain, | ]ln(a«‘t and in full control of the channel, successful{ in going The War on Sleep (New York Times) Of late London and now Berlin have been per-| istently bombed at dead of night. After trying| | hours in shelters London crawls out red-eyed and according to the dispatches, because it cannnt| 3 Will England crack under the strain? NOL‘ if the Spanish civil war is any guide, In Madrid Loyalists learned to sleep underground while death rained from the skies, Moreover, there are the ex- periments made in laboratories. Dr. N. Kleitman of the University of Chicago deliberately kept him- | self awake for one hundred consecutive hours and| found himself little the worse for his experience.| Students have passed examinations with —credit| though experimental psychologists prevented 'them| | from sleeping for a whole night. Fatigue from sleeplessness rather than loss of| morale is to be feared when the sirens drive a city to the shelters. New rules on alarms seek to avoid useless loss of rest and stoppage of factory produc- (tion even at the expense of some risk of safety, The classic studies of British munition workers made during the last war leave no doubt of the effect of| fatigue. To be sure, bombings were few then and there was no marked loss of sleep. Long hours at | the bench, it found, ended in waste and bad work, as it does when fatigue follows lack of sleep. If London itself could not sleep, what of the fliers who are its chief guardians? There are not encugh of them. For lack of sleep they may suffer from fatigue marked by a loss of attention, a slow- |ing of the mind, which may spell death in combat. ! Yet it is doubtful whether the pilots who are now Britain’s mainstay will be subjected again to prolonged and grueling a test as they withstood for days on end during the famous evacuation of Dun-| kerque, when they were ordered to attack again and again, Whether they had reached the limit of en-| was s0| know until the chronicle of this war is written, Well of the danger of fatigue, the British now give| fliers adequate periods of recuperation. Britain's notorious thick autumnal and winter weather will be a boon. Once regarded as an in-| dustrial and domestic disgrace, London will now bless an occasional pea-soup “particular” asa guaran- | tor of sleep. All of which makes one wonder| whether the naval technique of producing smoke- screens—and smoke is a good breeder of fogs—may | not yet be invoked to shield the factories that must grind out munitions and planes if Britain is to win | the war. Grime is preferable to death. ‘ Schrecklichkeit by Bug. i (Cincinnati Enquirer) | With characteristic indignation over unconven- tional methods of warfare not of their own invention, the German authorities have protested the alleged bombing of Nazi-held potato fields with bags of | | Colorado potato bugs. It is, the German radio as- aerts, a “new and abominable means of fighting.” Admittedly, this method of attack does raise| serious questions of international law, in which| America as well as the belligerents have legitimate interests. If these Colorado potato bugs are citizens| of the United States, what effect does their use by| the British have upon our neutrality? If potato bugs| are citizens, do they thereby lose their American citizenship? | Do the British require the potato bugs to take an oath of allegiance to the King before they are turned loose upon German potato fields? Do they explain to the insects that they are committing an| act of war when they munch upon potatoes intended to be used in feeding the German Army? Those are the gquestions which interest us as a| nation, but there are others. For instance, are po- tato bugs in the same category as parachute troops,| or are they regarded as spies, to be executed \vnhouhi trial? This interests u: humanitarians. Do the| potato bugs wear a distinctive uniform, like the German parachute troops, or are they dropped in disguise as nurses and nuns? Indeed, are they| equipped with parachutes—potato chips, perhaps? Both belligerents, we trust, will issue white books upon this phase of the war as soon as the facts are | assembled. The British deny resorting to this form of schrecklichkeit, or frightfulness, but surely they | must be or the Berlin radio wouldn't say so, Jimmy Walker has been made czar of labor re- lations in the garment y, probably on the |ground that he is the industry’s best customer. Italians should not forget, as they prepare to invade Egypt, that the inhabitants of that country | have a reputation as cmbnlmcr HS ATWAR ssful attack upon England, Every| | tions | neighbors will brifig t6 Washini tm‘:1 | successful. | military THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE MONDAY SEPT. 30 l940 140 SEPTEMBER 1940 ] | 11234 (5 6] leleion1z1314 15/16/17/18/10/2012]] 2/23/24/25/26/27]28] [ HAPPY BIRTHDAY SEPTEMBER 30 Mrs. W, M. Whitehead Willlam E. Poole Henry A. Benson Merle George Elvird Berggren Stella Mason F. T. Buchanan Elsie Leslie | RN e HOROSCOPE “The stars incline but do not compel” —_— — TUESDAY, OCTOBER:1 & This is an uncertain ddy" in planetary direction. Good and evil aspects interfere, causing ups, and downs for many men and woin Women today | anxieties and| Heart and Home: may be assailed by apprehensions. They should pur- sue routine paths ~and praetice caution in all of the things most| important for them. The young may be impatient because of limi- tations that affect college. Wlans| and disrupt pleasant social relaxa- Thrift recommended ' to persons of all ages after indulgence Business ~Affairs: Adjustments| and readjustments in business de- pendent upon commercial affawrs | o oo e e e | increase our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. from THE EMPIRE d “ oo amommo e SEPTEMBER 30, 1920 Curfew, that thorn in the side of the younger generation, was to ring one hour earlier starting October 1, according to Chief of Police T E. 20 YEARS AGO Keegan. Substantial progress in subdividing the Cold Bay oil district was to be made in the fall, according to J. P. Walker, Assistant Supervisor of Survéys, General Land Office, who returned from the region on the steamer Alaska. John W. Frame, veteran newspaper man, who owned and edited news- papers in Juneau in former years, was in the city gathering news for the “Pathfinder,” official publication of the Pioneers of Alaska. Mr. and Mrs. Grant Baldwin were passengers to Seattle on the Princess Alice. They shipped their car south and planned to tour several of the Pacific Coast States. 5 Stopping over a day on first trip from Western Alaska, arriving from there on the steamer Alaska, F. R. Coudert, with his son, F. R. Coudert, Jr., and his nephew, B. T. Coudert, left on the Princess Alice for the south. Three oil men who had been prospecting in the Cold Bay district, arrived on the Alaska. They were W. W. French, Harry Lahr and J. H. Lee. Dan A. Sutherland returned to his home here on the Alaska after an | absence of several months in the Interior. Weather condition: Cloudy. Daily Lessons in English %. 1. corpon B WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “Their criticisms could not disturb his equanimity of mind.” Omit OF MIND. EQUANIMITY means - < ) - | “evenness of mind.” OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Debris. Pronounce de-bre, first E as in DEBT, second E as in ME, accent last syllable. OFTEN MISSPELLED: Advertise; preferred to ADVERTIZE. SYNONYMS: Fair, impartial, unbiased, unprejudiced, just. WORD STUDY: “Use a word three times and it is yours.” Let us Today's word: “The sense of INAPPREHENSIVE; deficient in power of discerning. death is most inapprehensive."—Shakespeare. will mark the next few months. In | the United States the keenness of| | Americans will prove fortunate in| marking time as election day draws nearer. Eccnomic problems will multiply as the question of feeding millions - is ever present with the generous citizens of this country. National Issues: Bitter criticisms; will be prevalent among political | leaders, The national campaign will ¥ be of great educational value to | the people who will learn mugh| about financial matters aff the whole world. Third term | porters are to encounter un to be friendly. Europe will supply | | reasons for not disrupting the ma chinery of the United States Gov- ernment. International Affairs: Isl puzzling social conundrums | W which British traditions will be in-} volved, Royal usages will be ob- served at a time when the British Empire surrenders many of its his- toric rights and possessions. Ameri- can snobbery will develop as a| contrast to the democracy of the nation which pours out its wc?uh to aid the victims of wars. Persons whose birthdate it is have the augury of a year that is Men will engage in training. Children born on this day prob- ably will be just, generous and ex- ceedingly lovable. Many musicians and writers belong to this sign, (Copyright, 1940) Amsterdam Secion Bombed,NaziCharge AMSTERDAM, Sept, 30.—German sources charge today that a British bombing attack on an Amsterdam residential district killed four civil- ians and injured many others. The Nazis claimed that the bombs were dropped in the ancient seetion of Amsterdam, inhabited by working class families. No military objectives were said to be there. — ATTENTION MASONS There will be a Stated Communi- cation of Gastineaux Lodge 124, F. & AM, on Tuesday, October 1, at 7:30 p.n., Masonic Temple. Ail members requested to attend. Visit- ing members welcome. liaster SAM DEVON, By order of Worshipful | o <) e . | MODERN ETIQUETTE ™ roerra 1EE e Q. 1Is there any way possible to stop a person who is always gossip- ing and peaking cvil of others? A. Perhaps Hare this question by saying, “When will evil refrain from When listeners refrain from evil ¢--mw.mw.. answers evil talking? What is the correct distance from the dinner table that a per- should be, not to be too far or tco close? Ly Q. son’s waist A. About eight inches. Q. Would it be all right for a debutante to wear a pink gown at her 1| ed obstacles, but the stars appe: r| coming-out party? A. White is the most appropriate color. LOOK and LEARN ¥ . convon than water is 1. How much heavier osmium, the heaviest known material? 2. 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