The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 29, 1940, Page 4

: Daily Alaska Published every evening EMPIRE PRINTIN Second and Main Streets. AELEN TROY BENDER R. L BERNARD - - Vice-President he Post Office in Juneau as Y SUBSCRIPTION RAT!I Delivered by earrier in Juneau By mail; postage paid One year, in advs one month, in advance. Bubscribers will confer a the Business Office of any fa livery of their papers. Telephones: New at the fol Office, 602 e EMBER OF A Pro of all news dispatche SOCIATED The As: republicatio; herein ALASKA CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION. o3 | - - drawn that if a columnist in his paper, the Time: avel Foms Toftices i an Francisco. Los. Anbeles. Portand, | Wrote something which offended his own august dig- | e et . S | nity, or perhaps a member of his own family, such| H 0 R 0 S c 0 P E SEATTLE REPRESENTATIVE- Gilbert A. Wellington, 1011 | offensive matter would never reach the readers of iyt Ao Yot e AN N | the Times. It might be noted, parenthetically,| | «p o g ol o that it pains us beyond words to print Pegler. We'd | b tdO f ‘" | like to choke him! He is the kind of guy who is U not compe. | willing to earn money by being purposely crasser | .. - HOW FREE THE PRESS IN 1940? Freedom of the pre America, is coming in fer its shar presidential 1940 of connection with the Most of the newspapers the solid South their right to suppert whomever are sure they support the because their editors in their honestly believe in Mr, Willkie. the We have no time for the argument that most fy] job of tightrope walking in the last 13 months.|will cause dire of the papers of the country are supporting Willkie It did not feel strong enough-to deal directly With | ers and those who have a con- because of pressure exerted by their Republican ad- Germany, and had no desire to fight in defense of| tempt for the importance of money | vertisers. has No such pressure The Empire by either Republicans or Democrats. With Germany, and for its own neutrality obtained|and demands for our exports will except Sunday by the COMPANY Juneau, Alaska. ; six months, in advance, $6.00, e or irregularity in the de- | Business Office, 374, s is exclusively entitled to the use for credited to it or not other- a perennial are supporting M Republican wisdom and majesty Empire Such disclosures pose It S - President and Business Manager things they are Mr. tender spot, if h the P.-1.: “We, who the sweat of the owing rates: | Blethen. PRESS It is refreshing | and stinkier thar | be. But enough | duration of this | “There is no free press. For Democrats, has been demonstrated over and over again this country that Americans can be told the trulh.} They can even be trusted to determine whether the| Boettiger's ! which must have stung the splenetic publisher in a| Wrote the publisher of have THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, TUESDAY, OCT. 29, 1940. i are made, told are the truth. reply to Col. Blethen is e has one. labored most of our life in > city room, far from the counting or if they will promptly notify | house of newspapering, gently remonstrate with Mr.| We think that the average newspaperman“ will easily understand why members of the Presi- | dent’'s own family will not suppress opinions with| which they happen to disagree wise credited in this paper and also the local news published | cyer, question Mr. Blethen's inability to understand. | We do not, how- and downright honest of him, | nevertheless, to permit the obvious inference to be | 1 any decent columnist could ever people have told me they want to | read him, and if they can stand it, we can, for the | planetary direction, campaign, anyway. mysterious reason behind our con- ‘hnumg to publish Pegler in The Post-Intelligencer. It's just because we believe in a free press, a real| the same reason we gave and still give Mr. Willkie and all the Republican cand)dates‘u We believe that our readers, and | Mr. Blethen's readers, too, have sense enough,|and given the undoctored, unrigged facts, to vote intel-|nized by busy mothers. This is a ligently on November 5. issue in A free press e of discussion in campaign out of | free. Willkie. It is! they please, We| candidate | free America. country, Rus The Soviet U been exerted on Britain or France, We are sure that if any advertiser sought to ap- half of Poland. proach a the editor be newspaper newspaper’s policies politely where he could go. An of the new: —does not sell its policies for money, for favor, or for anything Sometimes, however, meant by freedom of the newspaperman Seattle Times, marveling that his press. should print a syndicated column tory of President father-in-law. For reasons that are far too understood by the average newspaper man,” writes | “a savage attack upon Col. Blethen, and his family by peared in The Seattle day.” The reasons are not ngwspaperman we know. too more space to stories about Mr. stories about Mr. Roosevelt, because Mr. Willkie hap- pened to be making most of the speeches and most of the news. The reasons are those which lead us|in order to have German officers teach her army to to print unchanged a column such as today’s Waslh} fight for Gérmany, Washingfon Merry- Go-Round (Continued from Page One) tors, Thus while price is impor- tant, it is no longer all-important in making the awards. Procurement experts predict that the new system not only will speed up deliveries, but also will elimin- ale many bottlenecks by dispers ing production, build up local in- dustries and raise the general level of labor standards, since plants witn the best standards will be given preference. On the basis of orders already granted under the new system, ex- perts say costs will be no higher than under the old procedure, WINNING ISOLATIONISTS Very , quietly, the Administration waging a campaign to win over 3 L ser viost g feature of t distribution of peech given at Indeper in Philadelphia This distribution has the amazing was done by sional frank of certain Senat who wanted the speech circulated The printing was done the Gov- ernment Printing Office, but the bill was not paid by the Govern- ment. After his speech, Bullitt received no less than 9,000 letters and tele- grams, with unsclicited contribu- tions totaling more than $6,000. This paid for distribution of the speech. The inailing lists were made up largely of RFD names, a tactic with turned pleasing to the advertiser, he would be told not too the members of the news. paper profession, protected by this great democratic right -of freedom to say what they please, a right| which exists today only in the United States of|leaders may have to show their hand. America, are themselves the first to forget what is | German moves in Rumania are either a direct threat Thus we find a to Russia or else an indirect threat, by way of| like Col. Blethen, publisher of The, Turkey and Greece. | Roosevelt, who is Mr, Boettiger's Westbrook Pegler, published origi- nally in the New York World-Telegram, also ap-| Post-Intelligencer last Tues- mysterious The reasons are the same which have led The Empire in this campaign to give at Russia extended the Baltic. a demand th; into a channel and a little more. This i advertising, else. " | German attack but has benefited competitor, John | viciously deroga- The time may mysterious to be aid to Britain on the President | yis.q_vis German; | entailed in an ou | sion. for any to take a secondas Willkie than to|the other. The time is at hand, however, when the Soviet | the Soviet Union still acting strictly for Boettiger, publisher of the Seattle pust-xmvlligcncer,}Wellare to find the means of discouraging a Ger- man advance to the Dardanelles. | must choose between giving grudging and man aggrandizement as will place the Soviet Union | in a position of permanent and precarious weakness Turkey's vigorous policy of self-defense suggests | that Moscow is ready at long last to take the risks Even the explosive situation in French Indo-| | China, of such acute interest to Americans, is likely | now brewing in the Balkans is resolved one way or| Rumania avoided the risk of fighting Germany , one which will give publicity to friend and foe alike, is ‘one of the fouridations of |gotten. Cooking is an art now much) Long may the American pres | remain sia’s Hour of Decision (Cincinnati Enquirer) nion has done a remarkably skill- . Consequently, it made a bargain Capitalizing on every opportunity, its power around the periphery of Later, the Kremlin manufactured an| age an unusually large vote for the incident in the Balkans and recovered Bessarabia,| Republican candidate for the Presi- But, ; papers of the United States are honest | considering only the game played by Germany and| Congressmen who seek reelectior for | Russia, one must conclude that Moscow has done| Cabinet a shrewd job of strengthening its own security at| have an effect upon certain voters| | the expense of Germany, and against possible future|who fear close relations with the | Russia has not only avoided war,| greatly by her “neutrality.” The latest| It now becomes the task of | its own| also be at hand when the Kremlin indirect one hand, and accépting such Ger- y. | tright challenge to German aggres- | ry place in the news until the clash tary Hull. Three people saw the Bullitt| speech before it was delivered. One/| was Stanley Hornbeck, State De-| partment adviser on Far Eastern| affairs, who urged without success,| that Bullitt tone it down. Another was Archibald MacLeish, Librarian of Congress, who was elated with it. The third person was the Presi- dent, | NOTE—Highlight of the Bullitt speech was the warning: “The United States is in as great peril today as was France a year ago. . .. Unless we act now, decisively, to meet the threat, we shall be too late.” POLITICAL CHAFF Ohio’s genial Representative, Tom Jenkins, is quietly grooming him- self to run for Floor Leader Joe | Martin’s post in the event the Re-} publicans capture the House, when Martin would become Speaker. Overlooked in the surprise defeat of Arizona’s veteran Senator Henry Francis Townsend, old-age pension drews of Florida, who won by thumping majority. among the names listed on the a for Wendell Willkie is that of Her- bert Hoover, In Philadelphia, when GOP senatorial candidate Jay Cooke proposed to city leaders that Hoover be invited to make a local campaign speech, the response wus a loud and emphatic “No.” ON STRIKE Hefty Bill Hugcheson. veteran boss of the AFL carpenters union and for many years an influential | leader in Republican campaigns has quietly taken a walk on the Republican organization—but not on Wendell Willkie, Hutcheson is still strong. for Willkie personally. But~he is quits as acting chairman of the GOP labor” campaign committee. Cause of the blow-up was a clash with Governor Harold Stas- sen of Minnesota, close Willkie ad- viser, who had his own ideas on how to win labor votes for the GOP. Hutcheson was in complete charge of the. labor end of the Republican campaigns in 1932 and '36 and expected to occupy the same place this year. When he found he had to share authority with Willkie Clubs and other in- dividuals, not directly affiliated with labor unions, whom Stassen installed in the labor committee, Hutcheson “laid down his tools.” National Chairman Joe Martin| tried to placate Hutcheson, but he refused to be honeyed. “You'll have to get someone else.g way. Including in the report was| _ “I'm|a list. of C & S operating com- Ashurst was the fact that he was| through. I'm for Willkie as mUCh’,panles that have beaten despite the blessing of Dr.|as you are and I want to see him Joe,” he declared flatly, one ington Merry-Go-Round, which tells how the Ad- ministration has sent out in Government franked envelopes millions of copies of a speech by Am- bassador Bullitt lauding the Roosevelt foreign policy. not for partisan pur- but for the edification of the American people. in w0 OCTOBER w4l [r——— | HAPPY BIRTHDAY OCTOBER 29 Ed McIntyre Richard Aikens Gerry Godkins | Helen Smith Cass Laura P. Ordway | Martin Lavenik An aerial passenger and express ‘in port. | George A. Parks, Chief of the | Office, was to leave for the states :hound trip for a vacation of several winter months. Seattle. Mr of Seattle for Seattle. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 30 This is not an important day in but there is| an adverse sign indicating the thwarting of plans and the re-| tarding of preparedness accom-| plishments. Heart and Home: Women should find this a fairly fortunate day.| is promising for writing and| just as fair a break as we do Mr. Roosevelt and all| ospecially for contracts signed un- | the der this sway. The need of rest| relaxation should be recog- | day for shopping for necessary| | things, but luxuries should be for-| to be studied. The greatest amount of nutrition for the least money will be an aim of housekeepers uture months. Business Affairs: Radical politi- eians will attack capital with pe- | culiar resentment this week. The| New Moon of this date is read as presaging financial changes whi results for borrow | conservation. Trade will be good | greatly increase. National Issues: The stars pres- dency whose energetic campaign- not an admirable record, for it is one of | ing will have indirect influence in honest newspaper—and we believe 99 percent | waging cold-blooded war on weaker peoples. defeating a number of Democrati changes in London will| British in their gallant fight against | aggression: International Affairs: New' Zea-| land and Australia are to be large| purchasers of United States pro-j ducts, The air service which brings! the Antipodes into neighborly re-| lations with this country is to’con- tribute greatly to our prosperity. The death of a, leading stategman | in England is prognosticated. N ney | problems will confront Eul n| government heads as the winter approaches, Some drastic change | in international banking is prog- nosticated. & Persons whose birthdate is have the augury of a fairly pros- perous year if they continue in well-worn paths and avoid love af- fairs. ¢ Children born on this day. will be thoughtful and reserved, sensi- Iv.ive and reticent. They mayduve | remarkable talents in mlugmr | literature. 3 (Copyright, 1940) 5 & submitted by AFL President Bill’ Green, the document indirectly en- | dorsed Roosevelt by presentipg a very laudatory account of s la~ bor record and only quoting Some excerpts from Willkie’s spegches. | Published in this form, there ould have been no doubt in the mind | of the reader as to which side the | AFL favored. Hutcheson hotly objected. “The | AFL is supposed to be nan-pagti- |san,” he snapped. “I insist*that there also be inserted Willkie's labor record as head of Commonwealth and Southern.” 4 “But he hasn’t got a “abor record,” demurred Green. “The'most we can do is to quote from his speeches on his promises to ‘labor. We don't know to what extent he was responsible for the union con- tracts signed by subsidiaries of| | Commonwealth and Southern, be-| cause he had nothing fo do. with| their management.” ¥ i+ But Hutcheson was not fo be put off, and in the end he had his signed union elected. But the election ture the labor vote at this real labor leaders, movement—not Willkie Clubs.” PRO-WILLKIE Hutcheson really meant what he declaring hi lf strong xmfe’l'hls was shown* forcibly ‘at a closed-door session of the AFL executive coun- cil, of which he is a big-gun mem- said for in ‘Willkie personally. ber. The board met to pass on al flnbor‘ il lpamphbt presenting the records of the rival candidates, I is only czar, This is the second senatorial| three weeks off and I can't pos- trouncing for Townsend this year. sibly set up the kind of an or- He opposed Senator Charles An- ganization that is needed to cap-| late . . . Prominent date. I mean an organization of| men who are letterhead of the American Writers' known and respected in the labor| agreements, — BOUND FOR NEVADA Mr. and Mrs. C. F. aboard the Aleutian frem Faic- banks, bound for Virginia Ciuy, Nevada, where he will devote his attention to placer prope:ties duc- ing the wiater. > - OING TO ELENA Mrs. Harry P. Sheppard is aboard the Aleutian enroute to Helena, Mont., from the Hot Sorineg srea where she has been for the sume mer with her husbana. Mr. Snep- Shield are City of Seattle to his headquarters trip of road work at Hyder and Ketchikan. F. D. Labbe, after having made Alaska, was back in Juneau and at Weather: Highest, 45; lowest, 38; cloudy. e Daily Lessons in English % 1. corpox WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “I did no more than I Say, “I did no more than was NECESSARY.” OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Cassimere. could help.” in AT, I as in IT unstressed, E as OFTEN MISSPELLED: Buffalo falos, plural. SYNONYMS: Jealous, envious, suspicious, distrustful, resentful. : “Use a word three times and it is yours.” increase our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Today’s word: ALLUSION; an implie¢ or indirect reference; a hint. under this allusion to his unfitness for active sports.”—George Eliot. WORD STUD' | MODERN ETIQUETTE * ropprra re et . e S - ) S - ) 0 ) Q. V woman acqu A. He mg Q groom. should or he m: entar t his b intance it cus It is not custemary thouch s Is it correct to leave the Yes. iLOOK and LEA used? 2. At what city and on what Washington? 3. Who is considered the great G’A’fiS AGO é‘réI’-ImE'"E'M;PIRE' e OCTOBER 29, 1940 Valdez, Fairbanks, Ruby, Iditarod and Nome within a short time, ac- cording to a statement made by James J. Holman, of the Alaska Aircraft Transportation Company, who visited Juneau while the Northwestern was | William Garn, a mine blacksmith, and A. Hogberg, a miner. left on the Estebeth for Funter Bay where they were to be employed by the | Alaska Admiralty Mining Company. | Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Cartwright b William McIntyre, son of Edward McIntyre of the California Grocery, arrived on the City of Seattle, having spent the summer visiting at and Mrs. H. F. Dott, of Perseverance, were to.leave on the City Capt. C. S. Ward, of the Alaska Road Commission, returned on the man is in the elevator of an office building, and a omary for the bride to give a wedding gift to her bride- B e e————— 1. How many marriage licenses are issued weekly that are never 4. What is the largest serpent in America? 158 4 service was to be established between Alaska Field Division, General Land on the City of Seattle on its south- weeks, had taken the Kletzing house for the here, having been on an inspection a trip to various cities of Southeast the Zynda Hotel. O s ) Pronounce kas-i-mer, A as in HERE, accent first syllable. ; two F's, one L. Buffaloes or buf- Let us “Philip winced e s he remove his hat? ay remove it and hold it in his hand. he may do so if she wishes. n in a shallow soup plate? by A. C. GORDON ey R} date did Cornwallis surrender to est French novelist? Directory Drs. Kaser and - Freeburger D] Bl ngren PHONE 56 N U N Dr. A. W. Stewart DENTIST 20TH CENTURY BUILDING | Office Phone 469 B. P. 0. ELKS meet every Wednesday at 8 P. M. Visiting brothers welcome. H. E. SIM- MONS, Exalted Ruler; M. H. SIDES, Secretary. —_— MOUNT JUNRAU LODGE NO. 117 Second and fourth Monday of each month in Scottish Rite Templs beginning at 7:30 pm RALPH B. MARTIN Worshipful Master; JAMES W LEIVERS, Secretary, TS BTV TR s e S — Dr. Judson Whittier GUY SMITH ' CHIROPRACTOUR 1 Rooms '«;%-éh'li‘:rlsflngle Bldg. SoRth ki ! PRESCRIPTIONS CARE- | rULLY COMPOUNDED | Front Street Next Coliseum Dr. John H. Geyer DENTIST Room 9—Valentine Bldg. PHONE 762 Hours: 9 am. to 6 pm. e l | ROBERT SIMPSON, OPT. D. ! | Graduate Los Angges Coll~ge of Optometry” ana l ( | ‘Opthaltnology ! Glasses Fitted Lenses Ground The Charles W. Carter| Mortuary Fourth and Frankiin Sts. PHONE 136 Have Your Eyes Examined by Dr. Rae L. Carlson OPTOMETRIST Blomgren Bldg.———2nd Floer Front Street~—————Phone 636 L —— e ————— | — s JAMES C. COOPER C.P.A. Business Counselor | COOPER BUILDING | B R L. C. Smith and Corona TYPEWRITERS Sold and Serviced by J. B. Burford & Co. “Our Doorstep Is Worn by Satisfied Customers” REPORTED TO BE ENTITLED TO VOTE WASHINGTON, Oct. 28, — More than 80,000,000 American men and women — a record for this country {—will be old enough to vote next month, the Census Bureau estimated tonight. Officials predicted, however, that not more than 50,000,000 actually will go to the polls on November 5. Apathy, in addition to various dis- qualifications and state residence ye- quirements, will account for the re- | | | pard is going south later to spend the winter Outside. —————— Subscribe for The Empire, | HAS HOUSEWARMIN { by his “Come one, come all,” n C—1o guests, invited 5. What is the leading poultry state of the Union? TSR, o ANSWERS: DR. H. VANCE 1. The average is 1500 a week. OSTEOPATH 2. Yorktown, October 19, 1781, Congultation and examination 3. Victor Hugo. free. Hours 10 to 12; 1 to §5; 4. Anaconda. 7 to 8:00 by appoinment. 5. Iowa. Gastineau Hotel Annex South Franklin St. Phone 177 50 - -— — maining 30,000,000. In 1936 there| $—————— —————————§ EIGHIY M“_uou were 75,137,000 of eligible age but|| McNAMARA & WILDES only 45,646,817 votes were cast. A significant fact in the survey, the bureau said, is that the num- ber over 21 years old has increased more than 11,000,000 in the last ten | years while total population rose but an estimated 8,700,000. Decline in the birth rate and lengthening of the life span due to increased sani- tation and medical advance is the cause of this. - e ENROUTE TO STATES Mrs. Walter Griffin, wife of the proprietor of Griffin's Candy Shop in Fairbanks, is a passenger aboard the Aleutian for the States to spend the winter, going first to the Mayo Clinic, then returning west to California. Thaw (above)-played host in Philadelphia house. Thaw, now 69, was defendant in the Stanford White murder of 1008 Registered CIVIL ENGINEERS Designs, Surveys, Investigations VALENTINE BLDG. 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