The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 8, 1940, Page 4

Daily Alaska Empire Published every evening EMPIRE PRINTIN Second and Main Street HELEN TROY BENDER R. L. BERNARD - - Vice-P ered in the Post Office in Juneau ne Second Class Matter SUBSCRIPTION RATES Delivered by carrier in Juncau and Doulas for $1.25 per month. By mail, postage pa ¢ rates One year. advance, $6.00 one month, in Bubscribers Business Of! of their “Telephones: Ne favor if they will promptly notify tlure or irregularity in the de- e, 602; Business Office, 374 MEMBER OF (\\(lrl-\‘IFD PRESS The Assoclated Press is vely entitled to the use for republication of all news disp: redited to it or not other- wise credited in this paper and the local news published herein ALASKA CIRCULATION GUARA THAN THAT OF ANY OTE ED TO BE LARGER R PUBLICATION. GEORGE D. CLOSE. Inc., National Newspaper Representa- tives, with offices in Francisco, Los Angeles, Portland, Beattle, Chicago, New Y Boston. SEATTLE REPRESENTATIVE-Gilbert A. Wellington, 1011 American 3 8 WELCOME GRAND h\ ALTED RULER Juneau is deeply honored by the visit of Grand Exalted Ruler Joseph G. Buch of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks This is the first time in many years, and the second time in its his- tory, that Juneau has Leen host to the national leader of the Elks Lodge. The other Grand Exalted | Ruler to visit Juneau was the late Walter F. Meier of Seattle. The Elks Lodge is a fraternal organization which | all of us, whether members or not, have come to look on as a great force for constructive upbuilding of the nation. In recent years, particularly, the Americanism program of the Elks has had a definite | effect and a wholesome effect upon even our little community so far from the bustling world which Ruler Buch has left briefly for this visit to Alaska In Juneau the Elks Lodge has been the most active and most highly respected of fraternal or- ganizations for many years past. Its Wednesday night meetings are attended by real leaders of the community and have inspired them to be better citizens It is the wish of Juneau that the stay of Grand Exalted Ruler Buch and Col. William Kelly, Chair- man of the Lodge Activities Committee, as pleasant for them as their the people of the community. THE ERA OF RUTHLESSNESS If anything is clear in the war between Germany and England, it is that both sides will suffer frightful loss of civilian life and property before a decision is likely to be reached. ‘The blitzkrieg pattern is based upon uncontested air President dent and Business Manager should be| visit is gratifying to present trend of the| even weeks, but months. And if the record to date is any criterion, it is quite likely that the defeat of one or the other of the adversaries will come as the result of the destruction of its domestic organization before its air force is wiped out. iave not been beyond replacement capacity. Yet sh cities have been severely punished, while most Germany's larger cities, particularly the ports,| f and the Ruhr industrial section have been pounded o0 a degree which the German censors have un-i successfully sought to conceal. This is not the quick, stunning, “humane” warf that Hitler has boasted of. It is war more dreadful than any since the time of Christ—war in which civilian casualties exceed those of the fighting men| by ratios of ten to one. And it is pointed toward new peaks of fright- fulness. The German press, enraged that the Brit-| ish should take chances with civilian lives in the This is borne out in the fact that the Royal Air| Force, according to neutral observers, has not been appreciably - weakened by the furious air war to iate. German air losses, while numerically greater,| uready London is partly devastated and other Eng-: 0 OCTOBER 14| HAPPY BIRTHDAY OCTOBER 8 Gloria Gudbranson W. B. Kirk Mary O. H. Hatch Doris Irene Cahill Russell McGee T. R. Mason Mrs. F. D. Lord manner of the Nazi airmen, is demanding a “punitive expedition” against the British people. The form| which this may take is suggested by the incident during the Franco revolution in Spain when, in re- prisal for an alleged violation of German “neutrality” by the loyalist government, a pocket battleflhlp shelled the defenseless coast city of Almeria for sev- eral hours, inflicting hundreds of casualties. It is| not unlikely that a similar grisly fate at the hands of a Nazi bombing expedition is in store for the residents of some defenseless English town other| than London, where the results would be less awe- som ebecause of the aerial defenses and air-raid shelters. | The Archltertural Toll (New York Times) | One of the few cheering aspects of the ruin and| tragedy in London is the comparative immunity uf; |the city’s architectural glories. The bombs have | been dumped indiscriminately, yet St. Paul's, the Abbey, the Houses of Parliament, have had miracu- lous escapes, A great fire licked within a few yards| of Bow Church and its famous chimes, but the| church was saved. By the law of averages, or by the help of a protecting Providence, the brunt of | destruction so far has fallen upon buildings of whlch‘ London was never proud. The East End slums near the river, now ravaged. | by bombs, were an abomination of architecture and| town planning; they should have been emptied and condemned as unfit for human habitation long ago.| The dingy warehouses and loft buildings between St.| Paul's and the river, many of them now gutted by‘ flames, stood on ground where Sir Christopher Wren |had planned a riverside park. They marred the view of the cathedral and did not even conlrlbute] picturesqueness to the London scene. South Africa | House on Trafalgar Square, the most insipid of all| | London’s public buildings, has been damaged, but; | the beautiful St. Martin's Church, just across the| street from it, seems to have escaped. The dreary row of department stores along Oxford Street had| as little architectural quality as our own Fourteenth | Street; it has now been battered and burned, while the only architectural gem among London stores, in | | Sloans Square, seems to have been unscathed. It| is almost as if some secret device had directed the | bombs where not to fall. | | There have, of course, been losses to beautiful buildings, and there will be others as these senseless | |night raids go on. Many Wren churches in the old City have suffered; the tower of the Inner Temple Library has been seriously damaged; there is no telling, from the dispatches, how much harm has | been done to the quiet courts of Lincoln’s Inn, or | to the peaceful squares which were London’s greatest charm. Having been free of physical catastrophes since the Great Fire of 1666, the London of a fort- night ago was old and mellow, like no other metropo- | well directed today. power, and that is not the situation which exists today, with the Royal Air Force holding its own so valorously against the German Luftwaffe. Thus, out of the skies, the of dreadful attrition, Mermry- Go-Round (Qentinued from Page One) not over In Texas, the Farmers and Labor- ers Protective Association held a state convention, May 5, 1917, in which leaders denounced the Presi- dent, the Congress and the draft. They urged members to equip them- selves with rifles and ammunition for resistance to draft officers. Local officials who denounced them were marked for death. The organization was dL\b:l“d(‘d. however, when the Justice Depart- ment investigated. Other states where resistance was offered were North Carolina, Mon- tana, Oklahoma, Virginia, West Vir- ginia, Utah, and Arizona. TOURING WITH WILLKIE Willkie's campaign entourage was disconcerted by his mishaps at the start in Chicago, but they now feel it was all for the best because he learned valuable lessons which should stand him in good stead for the rest of the battle The experience forcibly impressed on the dynamjc GOP standard bearer the desirability of a slower and more dignified pace. He con- cluded his Western tour as a far more effective campaigner. But the training certainly was obtained the hard way — not only by Willkie but by members of his personal staff On the first days out on the trip, relations between Russell (“Mich”) Davenport, former Fortune editor and Willkie “discoverer,” and How- ard Gallagher, in charge of the train’s schedule, become so frigid that they stopped talking to each other. Most of the other members of the entourage also sputtered pri- vately about “Mich.” One reason for this was a $269 telephone bill which Davenport ran up in calls to Chicago. John Hol- lister, former Ohio Congressman and | law partner of Senator Bob Taft, mmwumnwmwm lis in the world. | the smoke and flame of bombardments, but London with the German Air Force seemingly has been amazingly incapable of an irresistible blow to knock the R.AF.| many of its architcctural treasures spared. At this battle in the air must be one|rate one can hope to see many, if not most of them, a period of days or|still standing when Lho nightmare ends. That mellowness may vanish in lucky until now in seeing so at the job, finally smoothed thlngs out. But it took some pointed talk- | ing—including one lecture to Willkie | himself. Hollister asked a barber shaving him what he thought of Willkie, and got the reply: “If T had been for him | T wouldn't be now. His cuss words are not the kind of language we like to hear from a President.” Hollister bluntly related the incident to Will- kie. NOTE: A transcript of Willkie's stockyard speech shows that he used the words “damned dumb” nine times in 25 minutes . Stockyard workers didn’t like to be talked dov«n to. HIGH SPOTS AND LOW SPOTS As on all campaign trips, there were high spots and low spots. Willkie drew excellent crowds, but in some places his enthusiastic | boosters were over-zealous in their | predictions. | IN LOS ANGELES, 60,000 turned {out to hear him—a superb showing. But it was below the 100,000 he was assured would be present. . Also, the movie colony in Hollywood was cool. with only around 3,000 in the Bowl, which can accommodate 35,000. ‘The only big screen figure present was Robert Montgomery, who intro- duced the candidate. This was a big | disappointment to the correspond- ents. They were all keyed up to see Dorothy Lamour, Hedy Lamarr and other glamour girls—but none show- ed up, and later ® developed they were all for Roosevelt. After the biz Los Angeles recep- tion Thursday, Willkie's staff didn’t have the heart that night to show him the latest Gallup pool figures. They let him have a peaceful night's !sleep and produced the report at breakfast next morning. AT BAKERSFIELD, where a “Frontier Days” rodeo was in prog- ress, the local morning paper prom- ised a crowd of 100,000 for Willkie’s appearance. Only 7,000 showed up for the 10 A. M. meeting. A taxi driver explained, “They like to sleep | guages. |1ate in this town.” The stop AT MODESTO provided a big laugh for everyone, including the candidate. A local GOP cele- torical flourish that concluded with this gem: “Not only is he the friend of the farmer and the laboring man, but also the great friend of the pub- lic utilities.” NOTE: Willkie has changed his mind about ghost writers. Several months ago he lambasted their use, but his farm speech is largely the work of Representative Cliff- Hope of Kansas, one of the chief authors of the GOP agricultural plank. Hope was assisted by Don Bery, able In- dianola, Ia., newsman, and other Midwestern leaders. HULL'S “DASTARDLY” WORD Following Cordell Hull’s press con- ference in which he characterized the sinking of the British refugee ship as “a most dastardly act,” newsmen asked permission to use direct quotes, usually not allowed in State Department practice. Hull was willing, and his press officer, Sheldon Thomas, brought the word to the press room, where the men were already dictating their stories. Thomas advised each man in turn, including the German DNB | correspondent, Kurt Sell. “O. K.” said Sell. “But I want to ask you something. What is the exact meaning of that word ‘das- | tardly'?” | Thomas drew himself up. “I'll have to refer you to the diction- | ary,” he said. MERRY-GO-ROUND | Someone remarked to “Cotton Ed” { Smith, unreconstructed Senator from South Carolina, that Roosevelt was his own worst enemy. “Not while I'm living,” replied Cotton Ed. .. .J. Edgar Hoover’s G-men have been worked' almost to death with esplonage and fifth column cases, plus normal activities, H. T. Erickson Py stz HOROSCOPE || “The stars incline THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, TUESDAY, OCT. 8 | winter in Juneau. 1940. 20 YEARS AGO #%% murins e . S OCTOBER 8, 1920 Between 600 and 800 passengers who were aboard the stranded steamers of the American Yukon Navigation Company on the Yukon River enroute to the States, were expected to mush out to Fairbanks if the boats were unable to preceed on account of ice in the river. Lucien S. Robe, mining engineer for the Admiralty Alaska Mining Company, while in the city reported that very good progress was being made on the tunnel work in the Funter Bay mines, although, because of the rather dry season, water, at times, was a little short to operate the compressor. Mrs. P. C. Beaudeh left on the Estebeth for Gypsum, where her husband went a week previous to work for the Pacific Coast Gypsum Company. Mrs. G. O. Childs, of Seattie, ter of Mrs. J. W. Bell, was a pas- senger on the Spokane for a short visit in Juneau. G. A. Liljestrom and John Hellstrom, of the Falcon Mining Com- pany at Falcom Arm, Chichagof Island, arrived here and were at the Gastineau Hotel. and Mrs. Charles Gamble, who had been spending tne summer arrived on the tender Excursion and were to spend the Mr. at Taku Harbor, but do not compel” Ll A e A e i WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 9 { Benefic aspects rule strongly to-| day which is most fortunate for commerce, manufacturing and mer-| cantile enterprises. All progressive! or constructive projects should be| pushed while this configuration prevails. Heart Women _are They are to| responsibilities be- | of the year when/ philanthropic enterprises will en-| gage attention as never before. While aid for foreign war sufferers| will be necessarily curtailed, home needs will be recognized in Wwise provision for the welfare of the| unfortunate. Relief is to take new| forms which carry scientific ideas honestly materialized. If a nation can mobilize for war and can con- | script men for death the seers de- clare it can be equally efficient in| | mobilizing for peace and in con-i scripting human beings for a life that is worth living. Business Affairs: The va;;ue of | public health to the nation Wil ! e/ realized in the coming winter wk there may be much iilness e to business. Epidemics that accofil-{ pany war conditions will be im- ported into the United Stams.! which should look after sanitation as never before. There is’a''slgn| and Home: assume heavy fore ‘the end |read as warning of contamination| to water supplies. Vocational diseas- | es also may increase. National Issue; Party leader-| ship will be assailed severely as the national campaign draws to an end. Bitter accusations regarding the use of money are forecast. Young Democrats and young Re- publicans will make mistakes which | their elders will criticize. The out~| put of words will be greater than| in previous national campaigns and‘ the radio is to furnish a major sen- sation. International Affairs: Victims of World War II are to present dif- ficulties to Hitler which will be more perilous to his power than enemy forces. As need of food and shelter for millions becomes more urgent, desperate measures will be advocated by those who have been| sowing the seeds of revolution. The| United States is to make a ges- ture that cannot be ignored, if the stars are rightly read. Persons whose birthdate it is have the augury of a year of suc- cess in business. There should be much happiness in the home. Ro- mance will flourish for the young. Children born on this day prob- ably will be generous and courage- ous. Ehergetic, industrious and far-| seeing, they should enjoy success in life, (Copyflght 1940) but Vogenitz, just turned 21 at the time, took them all in stride. He has had a prodigy’s interest in languages since the age of ten. He coat-tailed an older cousin into teaching him Spanish and went on from there, studying on the side through grammar and high school. Vogenitz has no explanation for his aptitude. “I guess it's just one of those things,” he says. Despite his linguistic abllity, Vogenitz never has been ab . In fact, his farthest trip from h was to Kansas. His ancestors on both sides date back to colonial days. His mother's people came to Amer- ica in 1670 and his father's settled | near Alllentown, Pa., in 1740. No foreign language is easy, but be able to have a language under “complete control” in three Years. He admits that he can't speak flu- ently any of the 19 he knows, but he doesn't consider that essential to know a language fully. He rates Spanish easiest to learn and Yugo- slav the toughest, because “it's one hundred languages rolled into one.” To assist him he has a library of over 1000 foreign grammars and lexicons. He also gets a number of foreign papers, and his best enter- | LINGUISTIC ACE Paul Vogenitz never went to col- lege and in high school only took a Latin course, which he never uses. But he is the Government's ace | linguist and can translate 19 lan- Vogenitz had to beat some crack Ph. D.’s from top-flight universities to land his job es linguist of the tainment is reading comic strips in them. (Copyright, 1940, by United | Feature Syndicate, Inc.) ! ————— ATTENTION REBEKAHS Regular business meeting ‘of Re- bekahs Wednesday evening ‘at 8. All members are asked 0 be in Vogenitz's opinion anyone should | H. I. Lucas, of the B. M. Behrends Bank, who left a short time previous on a business trip to Seattle, was a returning passenger on the Alaska. T. B. McGuire, Alaskan sourdough, was in the city and staying at the Zynda Hotel. Weather condition: Rain. e e . s . s by Dal!y Lessons in EnghSh W. . GORDON e - - S ) 1) 2t s A WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “Charles was the first of all to arrive.” Omit OF ALL. OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Decrepit. Pronounce as spelled, de- krep-it, second E as in BET, and not de-krep-id, sometimes heard. OFTEN MISSPELLED: Malaria; three A’s. SYNONYMS: Resistless, irresitible, invincible, overpowering. WORD STUDY: “Use a word three times and it is yours.” Let us increase our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Today's word: OBEISANCE; obedience; deference; homage. (Pronounce o-ba-sans, O as in OBEY, first A as in BAY, accent second syllable.) “The people showed great obeisance to their leader.” 7 o e s e T s e 0 e Q. Isn't it inconsiderate for a friend to telephone someone just at meal time, merely because he knows the person will be at home? A. Yes; and the person who is called is justified in asking that this friend call later. Q. When a young man is to be married, the matter of his ushers’ clothes to them? isn’t it all right to leave A. Tt is better for him to tell them what they should wear. Q. Is it permissible for a girl to refuse to dance with a man who has “cut in”? A. No. 4--».--«.-—.-._.-.-4” B LLOOK and LEARN ¥ A. C. GORDON — - - <) -1 < — -~ - 413 1. What is the more common name for the game of draughts? 2. Who is called “the poet laureate of democracy”? 3. Where does cork come from? 4. What is the prossiu-e of the atmosphere upon each square inch of the earth’s surface at sea level? 5. 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