The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 13, 1940, Page 4

r"! : . . Daily Alaska Empire Publishedguery evening except Sunday by the EMPI PRINTING COMPANY Second and Maln Streets, Juneau, Alaska, AFLEN TROY BENDER - - - - - F. L. BERNARD = - Vice-President and Business President Manager Entered in the Post Office in Juneau as Second Class Matter. R SUBSCRIPTION RATES: o Delivered by carrier in Juneau and Douxlas for $1.25 per month. By mall, postage paid, at the following rates: One year, in advance, $12.00; six months, in advance, $6.00; one month, in advance, £1.25 Bubscribers will confer a favor 4f they will promptly notify the Business Office of any faflure or jrregularity in the. de-. lvery of their papers Telephones: News Office, 602; Business Office, 374. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclusively éntitled to the use for republication of all niews dispatches credited to it of not 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. National Newspaper Representa- Los Angeles, Portland, GEORGE D. CLOSE, Inc tives, with offices in_San Francisco Beattle, Chicago, New York and Boston SEATTLE REPRESENTATIVE—Gilbert A. Wellington, 1011 American Bank Building SERVING ALASKA Members of the now Unemployment Compensation Commission, meeting here in their annual ses- sion, represent the very highest type of citizenship breasts, smiling complacently, and awaiting similar weecks of this year. Familles must Much has been said about certain big manna from the Great White Father in Washington, be courageous in making the best| in Alaska businessmen of the nation volunteering their serv- ices as dollar-a-year men in the present national defense erhergency. The Territory's” Unemployment Compensation Commissioners make a similar sacri- fice, and make it not on an emergency basis but as a plain responsibility of good citizenship R. E. Hardcastle of Ketehikan, Chairman of the is an insurance man Commission his community, Dr. Noble Dick of Fairbanks, who is unable to attend the current sessio ear, nose and throat specialist. Each of these men makes a real sacrifice in time and money when he travels to a meeting of the Commission. The work the Commissioners shoulder is hardest kind of work, and it is practically thankless Hearing and deciding an appeal from a Special Referee’s decision on an unemployment compensa- the tion case, a task which will require days of read- the vast salmon fisheries of the Copper River flats upon county and state funds for ing briefs and reviewing circumstances, is only one area and the Prince William Sound area against|relief, but the spirit of universal of many important problems facing the Commission the ravages of politics, and thus assure perpetuation| brotherhood will encourage this week Results prove the Commission’s work in the past has been well done. The unemployment compensa- tion law, complex as it is, is more generally under- stood throughout the Territory, even .in the remotest villages, than anyone would have a right to hope, according to Internal Revenue Collectors, This is due to the efforts of the Commission and its Execu- tive Director, Walter Sharpe, in distributing infor- mation. The offices of the Alaska Territorial Em- ployment Service, coming under the jurisdiction of the Commission, are performing a real service for Washingfon Merry- Go-Round (Continued from Page One) did not mean have been on the needed In ways dent, sometimes sometimes Betsy, | of Jimmy Nary, defeated for Vice President, times his as Secretary of Agriculture, McNary' Boettiger. and Roosevelt have been excellent personal friends for many years, and Roosevelt frequently has called in the Republican Senate leader for ‘This so no ladies were Mrs. is a busy eye,! that previous campaign years one lady from the Roosevelt family al- has accompanied the Presi- Rogsevelt, daughter, trips were supposed to be for de- fense inspection, until near the end, Roosevelt continued with 1nm_ people of Alaska, bringing men and jobs to- gether. All in all, the work of the Unemployment Com- pensation Commission Has been good work, - Con- | gratulations are due its Members along with Direc- Sharpe and his busy staff. YOUR INDEPENDENT MERCHANT | tor Although modern big business methods are popu- arly supposed to have driven the independent mer- chant to virtual hiding, Government statistics show that last year 66 percent of the nation’s food bill vas paid to the 40,000 independent merchants and only half as much to the chain stores. If you believe a small chance against the competition of’ big, corporate business, have a talk with Mr. Jones, the grocery- man around the corner. ess situation. Yet he manages to pay his bills and ceep - going. While he undoubtedly has some ition ‘from his mammoth adversaries, he has a lot »f advantages as well. His being a “home town" man is a great his flexibility to meet chang- ing local conditions and his ownership and its in- fluence on his own efforts are all in his favor. The most successful grocers don’t have any special grudge against their big-business competi- tors. Some even consider it an advantage to have| a chain store them, because the chain store| ! draws transient customers. For example, one grocer in a good-sized New England town reports that when the chain store next door to him closed be- cause a big supermarket opened two blocks away, | his sales dropped off $10 a day | We have some dandy independent grocery stores in“Juneau. They deserve your patronage, tough compe- near Do We, Or Don’t We (Cordova Times) | Cordovans, seeing the bountiful Federal largess that has been laid at the doorsteps of Kodiak, An- | chorage and Fairbanks from national defense appro- priations the last few months, have doffed their caps and are blissfully crossing their hands on their meanwhile doing little or nothing constructive o force development of idle resources already here, or to fortify those that are now nurturing the com- munity. Fedeal pap is too ephemeral a thing upon which to build a permanent community. It takes a down- right. lasting, inexhaustible natural:resouree to make a city live and grow. Cordova has just' that in her Robert Bragaw fisheries, in her nearby mining, in tourist attrac-|of purpose when of Anchorage is manager of the light company in tions, and in a strategic location as a transporta- is aroused. tion center. | Do we want to sit here and wait for Uncle Sam to come along and buy our pencils? Or, do we want to rally about the advantages with which kind | Mother Nature has endowed this locale, and publi-| cize and develop them to a point where they will| make the Cordova area the cynosure of all eyes? | Let us again seek to gain a cold storage plant this port, a project that the war knocked in the! Let us do our best to entrench| for head this season. |of that resource. Let us, by ourselves alone, if nec-| essary, build a road of some sort up,the line at least| as far as McKinley Lake. Let us petition the Con-| gress of the United States to set aside the Miles and| Childs glacier area and Abercrombie Canyon as a National Monument or National Park, thereby draw-| ing attention to them as the supreme tourist attrac- ions of the world, But above all, don't let us adopt this watchful waiting attitude of marking time, which has been so apparent of late, until the milkers of the Federal Treasury turn and squirt some our way. Let's stand on our own feet and take care of what we have! would not be renominated. It will be recalled that Mrs. Farley wenl out to Chicago at the start of the| convention, and it was about this time that Jim's opposition to the President stiffenea. In the recent campaign, it got around that Bess Farley was wearing | a Willkie button. This was incor- rect. However, she made no effort | at dinner parties to conceal her | views, and if'Jim had followed them he never would have pitched in to carry New York State for Roose- velt in the energetic way he did. she would not job had she been i Mrs. Roosevelt, the divorced wife and somé- Mrs. Anna year Roosevelt's present. businessman hasn't a| His seems a pretty hope- Mrs. Elliott Blythe. | power advice. McNary also has been a | leader of the farm bloc and was an author of the famous McNary-Hau- gen farm bill her own busy life and kept out of sight as much as possible. She had no effect whatever upon the elec- tion. But Mrs. Willkie was a tre- mendous asset to her husband, un- Also discussed within the inner circle has been whether Roosevelt|dcubtedly won votes for him. should offer an Administration post With her husband bidding for to Wendell Willkie—possibly the job|the biggest job of his life, Mrs. Will- of Coordinator of National Defense.|kie valiantly came to his support. However, close advisers warn Mr. Her demure charm, and the un- Roosevelt that Willkie is tempera- | flinching manner in which she faced mental, difficult to work with, and |barrages of eggs and vegetables, has never experienced the political| helped increase the large popular give and take of public office. There- | vote rolled up by her husband. fore it seems more likely that Sena- | - tor McNary rather than Willkie| would be invited into the official| S FARLEY | family if any Republican is to bo| Apother lady who played a be- included. At any rate, Roosevelt is|Dind-the-scenes role in this election almost certain to invite Republi-| WS Mrs. James A, Farley. Her in- cans in for series of conferences of}”””f"' was felt more in the pre- {nomination days, but at all times it some kind aiming toward greater| political cooperatior | was potent. § Jim Farley is one of the greatest {family men in the United States. CAMPAIGN WIVES /He adores his three children, and Wives played a unique role in the | there isn't anything in the world he | campaign just concluded -—— Mrs. | weuldn't do for Bess, his wife. She Willkie, Mrs. Roosevelt, and several was one of the chief reasons why | other important political ladies,!Jim got out of the Cabinet and! among them Mrs. Farley jturned his extraordinary genius to Mrs. Willkie, of course. con-a business career. | stantly at her husband's side. Mrs.| It was on March fourth, at the| Roosevelt was not. | Cabinet dinner, that Bess Farley | Probably one reason for this was really boiled over against Franklin the fact that privately Mrs. Roose-|Rocsevelt. Just a few days before, | | velt never wanted her husband to Ernest Lindley had published his| run for a third term. She felt article stating that Roosevell op-| that a third term would be full of |posed Jim Farley as his successor | headaches, :that no President could because of thé political hnndicapsi weather the next four years with- in the path of any Catholic candi-! out a terrific toll upon his health, date. So to her partner at the din-| ROOSEVELT CHILDREN Among the Roosevelt children, Betsy Cushing Roosevelt, ex-wife of Jimmy, was a staunch supporter of the President, who has always been extremely fond of her. However, El- liott's ex-wife, now Mrs. Winsor, contributing $5,000 to defeat her former fatier-in-law. Probably the best campaigning among the Roosevelt children was done by Franklin Jr., whose wife is Ethel duPont, daughter of Eugene duPont. The far flung duPont family contributed around $50,000 to the Willkie campaign, but Ethel remained loyal to her in-laws. Franklin's speeches were of a rather naive, amatuerish nature, but they endeared him tremendous- ly to his father. Franklin would start, his speeches in most formal vein, carefully referring to his. fa- ther as “the President.” But when heckled from the side, he usually forgot his dignity and sometimes shouted, “my old man’s a great guy.” Young Philip Willkie, on the other hand, kept strictly out of politics, and stuck to his knitting as a grad- uate student at Harvard. Ths may have ‘been because the elder Willkie focussed some unfortunate atten- ton upon his son last June when he called up Princeton authorities on the long distance telephone and berated them for 40 minutes be- cause Philip had failed to graduate from the University. This was just about the time of and that her hustband would be ner, Bess Farmley let off steam sure to step out of office at the end 2gainst Roosevelt to such an extem% of 12 years a far less popular man that efforts were immediately taken | than he is today. |by various Cabinet members to ‘Before the Chicago Convention, patch up a peace between Roosevelt e she did not lift a finger and the Postmaster General. for the President’s renomination, What Mrs. Farley said at that but tried the 100 per cent for her husband, and contrel the econvention, 3 Kwhose secretary took down Willkie's to discourage if. After time was that if Jim could not get|conversation on an extension tele- nomination, pajugally she was|the nomination; he would at least phone. The transcript still is in the . and ‘helfiles at Princeton. where professors thepolitical arena would ‘see’ to ‘it that 'Roosevelt| who have read ‘it describe it as a|and thus provide generous mar=|l. Willkie’s nomination, and he insin- uated that Princeton had flunked his son in order to embarrass him politically. Willkie's complaint was made to Professor Raymond J. Son- tag, head of the history department, Curtin| Children born on this day will THE DAILY' ALASKA' EMPIRE, WEDNESDAY, NOV. 13,1940 10 NOVEMBER 1940 17|18| 24]25[26/27]28(29 HAPPY BIRTHDAY' [UECSUUEIUIUUSPESHS————" VI 130 b NOVEMBER 13/ 1/t Jerry Gucker ‘ Dan Livie Dean C. E. Rice, | Mrs. Fred Barragar Mrs. May Crowell Rosellen Monagle Jeanette Shepard i Mickey Crowell | | Oscar Johnson | Chuck Porter | Sandra Lee Shirk Gloria Saari HOROSCOPE “The stars incline 1 but do not compel” | > - i | o+ o+ THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 14 | rule | Adverse planetary ' aspects | today. Labor troubles will ‘interfere with more than one industry. Ju-|f piter, however, seems to promise| success through arbitration or gov-| ernment interference. Heart and Home: Many readjust- ments are forecast for the last of separations due to preparedness programs for training. In the col-| leges youths and girls will. prove ability to aid in many linés of technical work later to be needed by Uncle Sam. Deceit and subter- fuges may be prevalent 'in certain| groups, but the stars promise unity true patriotism Business Affairs: Early Christ- mas shopping will be most en- couraging to merchants. Prosperity will encourage much buying, but practical gifts are recommengleg by the scers. Contributions for’ the Red Cross and other organizations devoted to welfare will set new records of generosity. The coming| winter will cause heavy demands| er- ful giving and kindly helpfy 8., Manufacturers of uniforms and footwear will profit, but there will be little effort toward large mar- gins of cost. a0 b National Issues: Possible con- scription of wealth and drafting of| industry will be a subject used by| subversive agencies to increase Glass consciousness and to retard Coop- eration in preparedness programs.| The stars presage such growth of | and responsibility fordthe nation that democratic idedls ’lellv gain new reverence, and unity of purpose will be evident in all wakks of life. International Affairs: Thepe are signs that seem to indicate’ & p longation of conflict in the world. British courage is to win in the end, but there will be variations in the course of the long ‘drwh- out war. Young men who have made brilliant records in aviation will “of encourage tie replscing‘ {old statesmen, naval commartders and army generals as the new or- der becomes apparent in human re- lations. Mexico is to suffer from turmoil and revolutionary tenden- cies until external influences as- sure good government. Persons whose birthdate it is have the augury of good fortune in the coming year. Slight loss or a deception is indicated for women.| be strong in body and self-willed.| They should have brilliant minds and large ambitions, (Copyright, 1940) “colorful document.” NOTE — Young Willkie actually made an ‘excellent record at Prince- | ton, but his final thesis on “Com- monwealth and Southern” was rat- ed poor by three different readers who marked it. At that time, how- ever, Philip was running the Daily Princetonian with eminent success, having made more money for the| paper than ever before. " (Copyright, 1940, by United Fea- ture Syndicate, Inc.) CHRYSLER BODIES BUILT ALL-STEEL, SAY LOCAL AGENTS To provide safety at all times ' and under all operating condiions has been the aim of Chrysler Cor- poration engineers in improving| and refining the all-steel bodies) that feature the current Chrysler models, says the Cowling, Davlin| agency officials in Juneau. The Chrysler all-gteel body ‘is literally “built like a bridge.” Braces, cross-braces and added sup- ports have been placed sciendflnl-’l ly ‘'so as to give every part.and e e . e . 3 113 from 10 E 20 YEARS AGO o7 NOVEMBER 13, 1920 According to precedent for holdover appointments, to tender their resignations to a new administration, Gov. Thomas Riggs announced that his resignation’ as Governor of Alaska would soon be in the hands of President Harding. PIRE" F. B. Labbe, for the previous four years representing the Marshall, Wells Hardware Company in Alaska, was to leave on the Admiral Watson on. his last commercial trip for the.company in the Territory. He had received a transfer to headquarters in Reno. Newark L. Burton,:United Statesi Commissioner for the Juneau precinet, handed in his‘resignation to Judge Robert W. Jennings. He and Mrs. Burton were planning to leave soon for the East. Roy Reubens, tm’YHlb}g salesman who had been making the Alaska territory; was leaving o' the Admiral Watson, accompanied by Mrs. Reubens. They were going to Seattle. William Fisher, Supervising Inspector of the United States Steamship Inspection Service, was to leave for Ketchikan on the Admiral Watson. A. Van Mavern, commercial traveler with Juneau as his headquarters, | was to leave on the Watson for Petersburg. George Finley was to-leave on the Alameda to visit at Toppenish, Wash. He was to be away for two weeks. Weather: Highest, 43; lowest, 25; clear. v - . B - i - - - D j Dally Lessons in EnghSh %3 L. GORDON e - D Tl 0 o) WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do 'not say, “He passed so quickly that it made his identify difficult.” Say, “it made his IDENTICATION dif- jcult.”” The IDENTITY of a person is his individuality, or personality. OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Nuptial. Pronounce nup-shal (not nup- chal), U as in UP, A as in SHALL unstressed. OFTEN MISSPELLED: Burlesque. Observe the QUE. SYNONYMS: Question (verb), doubt, dispute, challenge. 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: AMBIDEXTROUS; using both hands with equal ease. (Pronounce am- bi-dek-strus, A as in AM, I as in IT, E as in DECK, U as in US un- stressed, accent third syllable). '| MODERN ETIQUETTE * woerra s el Direc Drs. Kaser and Freeburger D] Bl ngren PHONE 56 AR L V. 3 T A Dr. A. W. Stewart DENTIST 20TH CENTURY BUILDING | Office Phone 469 | Dr. Judson Whittier CHIROPRACTUR Drugless Physiclan . Office hours: 10-12; 1-5, 799 Rooms 2-3-4, Triangle Bldg. PHONE 667 Dr. John H. Geyer DENTIST Room 9—Valentine Bldg. PHONE 1762 Hours: 9 am. to 6 pm. ————— ROBERT SIMPSON, OPT. D. Graduate Los Angeles Collge of Optometry and ‘ ‘Opthaimology I Glasses Fitted Lenses Ground | (The Charles W. Carter| Mortuary PFourth and Pranklin Sts. PHONE 136 Q. Should one replace a dish that he breaks while visiting, when it was purely an accident? A. Yes; he should make every effort to replace it as soon as possible. Q. When dessert plates are brought to the table for the hostess to .| serve, where should they be placed? A. They should be placed in front of the hostess, slightly to the left. Q. Should a bride, at her second wedding, wear a veil? A. No; neither a veil nor a white gown. LOOK and LEAR If\y C. GORDON e e s el 1. What is the meaning of the Latin phrase “Pax Vobiscum"? 2. Who was King Solomon’s father? 3. How long is the Lincoln Highway? 4. What English lady, proclaimed queen, was beheaded at the age of sixteen? 5. What is the capital of Rhode Island? ANSWERS: Peace be with you. David. Approximately 3,140 miles. Lady Jane Grey. Providence. ERERECE gins of safety in case of an emer-| efficient manufacturing and sea- gency. Arches similar to those en-| soned engmeering planning is a countered in bridge construction body that is strongly and scien- have been employed” to give added| ... % 4 tifically braced and that can stand strength and to minimize stresses terrific punishment. [HELP AN | ALASK AN pendable, the Chrysler all-steel‘ Telephone 713 or write body is at the same time compara- | tively light in weight. Although the metal used in the body is henvler‘ than usual the skill and experience | of Chyrysler Corporation engineers | have enabled them to use this metal in such a way as to secure| strength and lightness at the same| time, Modern manufacturing methods | also contribute importantly to the | | | The Alaska Territorial | | Employment Service | | for this qualified worker. | CAMP COOK—Woman, age 35, the body as-a whole great strmh" \isingle, high school graduate. Ex- | perienced in cooking for small camps, has also done bookkeeping and payroll clerk. Call ES 210. B safety of the Chrysler all - steel body. Use of the latest and most efficient type of hydraulic welding equipment practically eliminates the possibility of weakness developing in a weld through faulty workman-! 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