The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 14, 1940, Page 4

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, MONDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1940. President nager Post Office in Juneau us Second Class Ma Entered in the POst GLCCRIPTION RATES, R Delivered by carrier in Juneau and Douslas for $1.25 per month. at the following rates: < months, {n advance, $6.00 One year, in one month, in advan Subscribers will er a favor if they will promptly notify the Business Office of any failure or irregularity in the de- livery of their papers. Telephones: News Office, 602; Business Office, 374. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not other- wise credited in this paper also the local news published herein ALASKA CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION. al Newspaper Representa- 0, Los Angeles, Portland, on. GEORGE D. CLOSE, Inc., tives, with offices in_Ban Frax Seattle, Chicago, New York and Bo SEATTLE REPRESENTATIVE--Gilbert A. Wellington, 1011 American Bank Building. MATANUSKA Last Thursday's spontaneous discussion of the Matanuska colony at the Juneau Chamber of Com- merce meeting was the kind of thing that ought to take place more often in this Territory and nation Remarks by one man bring half a dozen to their feet with rebuttal or amplification. We would bet- ter understand the issues of the day if all public topics were given a thorough airing in public. The Matanuska colonization ceived but so poorly executed that it got a bad name which it has not yet lived down, is probably proving its worth aiready, a very few years, as such ventures go, after inception Colonization is a risky business. It should never be undertaken with- out careful planning; probably undertaken on a large scale, colonization attempts in the Western Hemisphere were considered failures at the time. Jamestown, which had a population of 490 in 1609, had only 183 in 1623. The village was constantly - by troub! W estroyed three times and what had project, well con- All of the European beset pid decay 1 was to Williamsburg. The ) pany was nized three years after he (founding .of the colony, the system of land- holding was changed several times, When new authorities arrived at Jamestown four years after |*1OWIr dire the founding they found things in such deplorahle\ state that all agreed to giv a colony in Virginia and set sail for Newfoundland. The colony did not become self-supporting until 13| years after its founding. These were all marks of failure. The hard-headed and home ,to England to jeer at the attempt. Jamestown was the beginning of the United States of today. No one today, not even those most criti- cal of Matanuska, would call Jamestown a failure. ‘This month the colonists at Palmer were given a contract to supply 25,000 pounds of potatoes to the soldiers at Elmendorf Field during October, They are so well established, they have learned so much ' about agriculture in the North that they were able to compete with Seattle prices on potatoes, as they | had to under the Army specifications. Expansion of production to meet the new demands of the Alaskn\ Army posts has been the first aim at Matanuska for some time now. Every month the Army post at Anchorage alone is going to want 12,000 pounds of beef, 3,000 pounds of bacon, 1,680 pounds of butter, | 3,750 dozen eggs, 1,500 pounds of ham, 100 pounds of | liver, 3,300 pounds of pork and 1,300 pounds of pork | sausage, 1,800 pounds turkey, 25,000 pounds of of it should never be|” when the state|w in e up the effort to found fits 32 .,qu.ue miles of territory and its population faint-hearted sailed | ( And yet, an army of 950 men and 30 officers, San Marino now| ¢f power will arouse interest. disadvantages of bureaucracies will| potatoes and vast quantities of other produce which can be grown as well in Alaska as anywhere else in the world. In filiing this bill, the Matanuska Alaska. At the same time, they are building an ag- ricultural industry which will benefit the entire Ter- ritory. Is Matanuska a success? us again 20 years from now. sure until then. Today we are so busy canning fish thinking about the Alaska the history books of a century hence will be telling about . The answer to, the Matanuska controversy should be given in those history books. Bombs on the Little Red Schoolhouse (Philadelphia Record) Those who use the English language as a native tongue—and they are 180,000,000—cannot view the bombing of London with the detachment felt in the cases of Shanghai, or Madrid, or Warsaw, or Berlin, or even Manchester. This is true whether we ever lived in London or not, or whether we had known the other cities as well as London. It is not because we are callous to the fate of the other cities. It is because every one of us went to school in London in a very real sense. Our edu- cation is built around English literature, and Eng- lish literature centers around London. As children we sang “London Bridge Is Falling; Down” (not Warsaw Bridge, not Shanghai Bridge). A little later we met Lamb's “Tales From Shake- speare,” then Shakespeare himself. We read “Alice in Wonderland” and “Plgrim’s Progress” (a book| almost as common as the Bible under the kerosene lamps of the nation’s farms) and Thackeray, and| Dickens. Our reading outside school, too, was largely centered in London. There were the Henty books| (“With Clive in India,” “Richard the Lion-Hearted™, which we read as much as our own Alger. Later| came the long series of English detective stories Edgar Wallace’s numerous books, Sherlock Holmes | and Fu Manchu. Even our own writers felt the charm of London, and Mark Twain laid the scene of “The Prince and the Pauper,” one of his best books, in London. So when we cheer for the fight that London| is putting up we feel that we are rooting for a home-town team, not for outsiders whom we may| admire but do not know and love. We are proud that Londoners are still fighting, although the city is reported by military experts to have suffered more than Warsaw, Madrid, Barcelona or even Rot- terdam, We feel that we are watching fellow schoolmates | fight off an invader. We know that what is “im-| perishable of England” will live on in her literatuce no matter what happens to London; but we hope| that we will always be able to think of London's| treets filled with the free peoplé we have met in Ler books, New Axis Partner | (New York Times) San Marino, smallest and oldest republic in the orld, ended its twenty-five-year war with Germany last Tuesday. This war was declared in 1915 and| can be said to be the longest hostilities in European history that made no news, Few knew about it until it ended so suddenly, to flare up again in ction the same day. The “Governmeng of the tiny rept gainst Germany and dec Englar simuwitaneously, hoped to exiricate all of of| most embarrassing” situation oI; with the Axis partner of Italy whose| surrounds San Marino completely. Wit | 14,900 tk becomes the third Axis partner. Every one of the few remaining neutral European countries dreads the thought of being involved in the present war. San Marino, however, got so used to being in a state\ of war that it seemingly must have an enemy, So| it chose England. The Nazi Government freely admits the exis- tence of one serious shortage in Germany. This is patience. Nazi patience is all the time being ex- hausted. Of retaliation, on the other hand, there is a vast supply in Germany which always threatens to repay a thousand-fold. “Willkie promises to take business out of ‘dog- | house.’ "—Headline in the New York Times. “Busi- ness so good that mint can’t make enough coins.”— Headline same day in the Wall Street Journal. Get together, boys. Get together. Leslie Stone, finally got the $18 owed played out. One of the last of the farmers are contributing vitally to the defense of We think so; but ask| Nobody will know for | and mining gold that we don't give much time to| ' TAPPY BIRTHDAY OCTOBER 14 Mrs. Harry 1. Lucas Mrs. H. V. Colburn Olive Feldon Ernest Parsons Biil Alexander Mrs. Hans Berg Leonard A. Johnson Clarence Foster Harold Pederson Hans Arp J. A. Kendler Harold Swanson i Louis J. Israelson SO S e DA SR e N HOROSCOPE “The stars incline but do not compel” ,— o TUESDAY, OCTOBER 15 This is an unimportant day in planetary direction. In the morn- ing hours the mind may be un- | settled. It is wise to pursue’ accus- tomed tasks and to delay initiar tive along new lines. Heart and Home: There is a mildly active sign governing labor. Women employees may be unusu- ally helpful at this time when kindly consideration should rule the household. Older persons are | subject to favorable signs which seem to indicate that grandmothers will enjoy a period when their counsel will be heeded. The young probably will find this a blank date for romance. College girls should concentrate upon their books. Business Affairs: Continued ac- tivity and prosperity are prognos- ticated. Farmers will profit, but they will be hampered in the spring by lack of hands to till the soil The American habit of waste now | will be sterniy rebuked by business engineers and commercial seers who | forecast an ebbtide of good fop-~ tune next year when there will fe | | even heavier taxes and more seri- ous economic problems. Our fame as the most fortunate of all world powers is to have its handicaps., Nationa) Issues: Our foreign pol- icies will be discussed with differ- ence of opinion. Isolationists —will find out that the world network { human interests cannot be Lm- lied by simplifying the government ma- chinery in Washington and es~ tablishing wise decentralization The a be demonstrated in the election next month. International Affairs: A foreign seer prophesies that Mussolini -is to meet with sad experiences which will prevent him from enjoying coveted fruits of victory. He enh~ picious date which encourages ag- gression but does not indicate ‘cofir~ ageous support of it. The alliance with Hitler will not be satisfactory, for the stars seem to show the Ger- man dictator likely to become ar- rogant—and even despotic—in his attitude toward allies. Persons whose birthdate it is have the augury of a year of extraordinary events. Every step forward should be made with great care, Children born on this day will two oceans. The need of tered the World War II at an aus-| 20 YEARS AGO from THE EMPIRE '\ OCTOBER 14, 1920 ‘ The Union Steamship Compan she had taken off the crew of the fr | the message it was believed that the | her way to Seattle from Varcouver. waters with copper ore from Western A party of Eastern people were | matter of establishing a cold stora steamer Chelohsin wirelessed that ght steamer Redondo. In view of freighter was sinking while making She was southbound from Alaskan Alaska and lumber from Juneau. expected here soon to look into the ge plant in this city, according to | w. George Johnson, Chairman of the Local Industries Committee, in a Marking the end of 25 years acti Episcopal Bishop of Alaska. Plans “Bishop Rowe Foundation Fund” of which the Bishop had established. Mr. and Mrs. | resume the position of electrician at | office, assumed the duties of Deputy ‘Weather: Highest, 46; lowest, 38. BIT, OO as in BOOK, A as in AT, OFTEN MISSPELLED: Aquariul SYNONYMS: Defend, guard, pre ‘WORD STUDY: increase our vocabulary by mastering MODERN ETIQUETTE suit? Q. Is it all right for a hostess to she has served them on a former oc “Use a word three times and it is yours.” report made to the Juneau Commercial Association. ive missionary service in the North, on November 30, a unique honor was to be paid to the Rev. P. T. Rowe, were being made to establish the $100,000, the income of which was to go annually to some special object in the missionary work in Alaska H.E. Fournier, who had arrived here a few days previous from Boston, went to Perseverance where Mr Fournier was to the mine. Effective this day, U. S. Deputy Marshal E. E. Lucy of the local Marshal at Douglas. 1; cloudy. Daily Lessons in English % .. corpon 4 < - Dl - o WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, weeks back.” Say, “We saw them several weeks ago.” OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Bivouac. “We saw them several Pronounce biv-oo-ak, I as in accent first syllable. m; AQ. Acquaintance; otect, preserve. ACQ. Let us one word each day. Today’s word: DIGRESSION; departure from a subject or its main course of treatment. “Digressions incontestibly are the . . . life, the soul of reading.”—Sterne. by ROBERTA LEE Q. On what social occasions is a man privileged to wear a business A. He may wear a business suit to any informal occasion before 6 p.m., an informal luncheon, breakfast, etc. serve her guests with the same dish casion? A. Yes, and particularly if she knows they enjoyed it. | Q. Ts a man permitted to “cut been introduced to the girl? A. No. e LOOK and LEA e e - e in” at a dance when he has never R A C. GORDON S the longest tidal shore line? meaning “for example.” 1. What is the meaning of the abbreviation e. g.? 2. What is the name of Japan's emperor? 3. How is sandpaper made? 4. How many quarts are there in one barrel? 5. Which state in the Union has ANSWERS: 1. EXEMPLI GRATIA (Latin), 2. Hirohito. 3. By coating stout paper with glue, then sifting fine sand over its surface before the glue sets. 4. 126 quarts. 5. Florida. | to the Far East is a part of the entire Roosevelt policy of strength- ening the American stand in regard to Japan, since the deal on British island bases leaves the Atlantic coast in a far better condition of defense. So far that policy has taken the form of: 1. A $25,000,000 loan to China. 2. The prospect of selling private U. S. manufactured airplanes to French Indo-China. 3. An embargo on scrap iron to Japan, together with an expected embargo on oil to Japan in the near future. AGGRESSIVE NAVAL GROUP him when he told harassed Mayor | local plants is having its own slump, G. M. Bonham he had joined the [ too. The Monticello Manufacturing be quick-witted, ambitious, ~ener- The school inside the Navy which Merry- Go-Round (Continued from Page One) Navy and needed the money before he left home, Ray Snipes, an unemployed WPA worker with five children in school, hasn’t been so lucky. He still is waiting for the $8 he claims is due him. Snipes wrote Willkie in Rush- ville, but hasn’t received an answer yet. Louis Moschell, 62-year-old job- less, estimates the loss of himself and his brother-in-law at $500. They were left with 350 pounds of ham- burger, 9,000 buns, 200 pounds of Coney Island sandwich supplies, and 1,500 bottles of milk. Moschell paid his bills by borrowing $120 on a 90- day note from the local bank. He feels that Capehart or the Re- publican organization ought to re- imburse Elwoodians for their losses, and there is talk of getting up a vetition to demand this. The Braun Bottling Company es- timates its losses from $800 to $1,000 The firm emptied 1,000 cases of a specially-prepared “Willkie Day"” souvenir drink into the sewers. The owners of the Willkie birthplace painted the house and placed a tar- paulin on the floor so visitors could be shown through at 20 cents a head. They took in approximately $12.50. pies, melons, soft drinks and ice cream were ordered by the mountain | load. There were enough edibles for | a half dozen armies, The armies came but they didn't eat. What happened was that the visitors who traveled by train ate on the train, and those who drove to Elwood either brought their lunches or ate somewhere else. The Republican National Committee had a contract with the Robertson Cater~ ing Company to supply all persons coming on the special trains of the Pennsylvania Railroad with one meal on the train and a box lunch in Elwood. BILLS, BILLS, BILLS Capehart left town after the noti- fication, and Elwood was left hold- ing the bag. With thousands of dol- » lars of unpaid bills, the Elwood Notification Committee has only $13 in the treasury. Glenn Hills, wealthy Kokomo attorney and GOP nominee for Governor, contributed $5,000 to pay the most pressing bills. Largest unpaid accounts are owed to an Indianapolis decorating firm, which has placed its bill in the hands of an attorney; to an Elwood . electric company, which is talking of Jegal action if its bill isn’t paid soon; to an Elwood restaurant; tc an El- five-and-ten-cent store; and to 0 a balloon company in northern In- fln louflost camplainers special po- BRIGHT SPOTS Before Willkie left Rushville, a committee from the Elks Lodge in- terviewed the nominee and told him of his home town's economic plight He was very sympathetic and prom- ed that if elected he would locate some defense industries there of the most prosperous in Indiana inoved away when the natural gas The city needs them. The indus- | tries which years ago made it one | Co., which produces the Willkie “Hope of our Nation” auto tags, is laying off men, Several of the laid-off workers dropped into the Democratic head- quarters the other day to see if they couldn’t stir up some orders for Roosevelt tags. The Democrats shook their heads sadly. “We'd like to,” they said, “but we haven't got any money.” NOTE: For Tony Shaffer, alert farmer near Elwood, the doleful hangover was a ten-strike. He haul- ed surplus bread and buns from Cal- loway Park for two weeks to feed his stogk. Shaffer paid 20 cents a thou- and—until he found he could take them for nothing.” . NAVY BOUND WASHINGTON — U. S. Coast Guardsmen may soon be singing, “We're in the Navy now .. .” The Coast Guard was incorporated nto the Navy during the World Var, but after the Armistice was eturned to its independent status as a Treasury agency. During the overnment reorganization in 1939, the Navy made undercover efforts to absorb the Coast Guard, but the potent influence of Secretary Mor- genthau and Rear Admiral Russell R. Waesche, popular CG Command- ant, stood in the way. With the Army and Navy being expanded, the plan has been revived and the inside word is that the transfer will be ordered shortly. Meanwhile, Coast Guard facilities already are being drafted for Navy | use. Nothing has been said about it publicly, but A wo destroyers that were recal Lisbon, be- cause of their similarity to the fifty | turned over to the British, ure being getic and artistic. They are likely to be magnetic in personality and able to succeed in their hearf’s desires. (Copyrignt, 1v2v) replaced by Coast Guard cutters. These ships, painted white instead of the Navy’s battle-gray, are equip- ped with larger guns than the over- age destroyers . Also, Coast Guard cutters are par- ticipating in the Navy patrol off the coast of Greenland, and the CG de- pot at Curtis Bay, Md., recently was pressed into service for the over- hauling of two Navy destroyers. Eight more are scheduled to be sent there for repairs, NOTE: The Coast Guard is older than the Navy, having been founded in 1790. It has its own Academy at New London, Conn. U. S. WARSHIPS TO FAR EAST Most important question now under discussion inside the Navy Department is whether to make use of the giant British naval base at Singapore by accepting a British of- fer to station part of the U. S. fleet there. : Opinion inside the Navy is divid- ed, but it looks certain that a com- promise will be worked out whereby by a squadron of cruisers and de- stroyers would make a tour of Aus- tralia, New Zealand, Singapore, possibly even the Dutch East Indies. | Officially this would be a good-will | tour, though its real purpose would be a “stop, look and listen” wai to Japanese militarists now i to grab the rich colonial o! Franee, Holland and Engla: the Pacific. The plan of sending U. S. warships believes in taking a firm hand 'in the Far East and perhaps using Singapore includes Admiral James O. Richardson, Commander of the United States Fleet; Admiral Ed- ward C. Kalbfus; Admiral William Leahy, now Governor of Puerto Rico, who still plays a very active part) in the councils of the Navy; plus many other important officers. This school, and it is probably dominating the Navy, believes that the United States cannot afford to get Maginot-minded. In other words, if the defenses in the Pacific are based upon Hawaii alone, and the Navy stands behind Pearl Harbor as the French did behind their Maginot Line, then eventually it will face real trouble from a strong Japan which has. increased her strength at the expense of French Indo-China and the Dutch East Indies. In other words, this naval group is inclined to the view that the col- onial possessions of Britain, France and Holland are to the United States what Norway, Holland and Belgium were to France. Once Ger- many occupied these countries it had no difficulty in circumventing the Maginot Line. Similarly it is believed that if Jap- an once takes the Dutch East Indies with its wealth of oil and rubber, plus the Malays with their wealth of tin, plus Indo-China with its pow- erful naval bases, then with these raw materials it can not only cut these supplies off from the United States but build up an empire which ,in time would threaten the United | States. SQUEEZE ON U. S, g mould, be especially true in | ! x“German victory in Europe, lndmuse(}ermnnylnd.hmn, plus Italy and Russia, decided to put the squeeze on the United States and South America simultaneously. Never before, naval strategists point out, has the United States had an opportunity to secure a real base in the Far East. For hitherto Singa- pore was viewed as a potential enemy base, and without a base where naval vessels can get into dry-dock for repairs, an American fleet would have been helpless in the Far East. That is one reason why the State and Navy departments are so con- cerned over Japanese encroachment |, upon French IndqQ-China, for the French have developed two power- ful ‘bases at Saigon and Cap St. Jacques which, should they fall into the hands of the Japanese, would make it possible for them to strike into a much wider radius of the Pacific. NOTE: The Australian and New Zealand governments are eager to have American warships visit their waters and have been urging the tour for several months. The cruise also would be calculated to affect the native population where “face” is all-important, (Copyright, 1940, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) | HELP AN ALASKAN | Telephone 713 or write |I The Alaska Territorial | Employment Service for this qualified worker. WATCHMAN—EIlderly man, age 64, single, old time Alaskan. Good on watchman or caretaker’s job, ac- tive, mentally alert, reliable. Call for ES 192, Housewife Tops Students af Law SILVER SPRING Md., Oct. 14— Mrs. Trop L. 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