The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 26, 1940, Page 4

_ dential recommendation of the De- FIRST AGAIN Daily Alaska Empire Published every evening except Sunday by the A tabulation of 1940 election predictions shows EMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY that the Washington Merry-Go-Round, published Second and Main Strects, Juneau, Alasks. e | AELEN TROY BENDER - - prestdent | daily in The Empire, topped all the polls and fore- F. L. BERNARD Vice-President and Business Manager | oo 1 correctly assigning the States to Roosevelt and Willkie. Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen, the Merry- Go-Round authors, in 42 States. An economics professor’s tabulation of the vari- ous predictions is as follows: Forecaster picked the winning cnndm.m-J Juncau as Becond Class Matter, States Correct! Post_Office ntered in the o SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Pearson and Allen 42 vered by carrier in Juncau and Douglas for $1.25 per month SRAleE Deltvered B mail, postage pald, following rates: Crossley Poll = One year, in advance, $1 x months, in advance, $6.00 Gallup Poll 40 one month, in advance SRCH Bubscribers will co; a favor if they wx!lx promptly notif. Lawrence, Washington Star 36 the Business Office of any failure or irregularity in the de- ; livery of their papers. Lincoln, Washington Star 35 ‘Telephones: News Office, 602; Business Office, 374, Krock, New York Times 34 ¥ MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS Ernest Lindley, Washington Post 31 | The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for - shroR's Weokly ¥l republication of all news dispatches credited to 1t or not other- Crum, Barron’s Weekly 3 | 1 paper and also the local news published Hurja, Pathfinder 29 Henning, Chicago Tribune 28 | ALASKA CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER Consensus 2 | Y OTHER PUBLICATION. THAN THAT OF Hurja and Henning gave the election to Willkie There was complete agreement on 24 States (17 for National Newspaper Representa- GEORGE D. CLOSE. Inc tives, : offices in Franclsco, Los Angeles, Portland, Beattle, icago, New York and Boston FDR, seven for WW), while all pickers were wrong‘ SBEATTLE REPRE! on three States (Illinois, New Hampshire and Wis- e consin). Only Pearson and Allen gave Penns "\ma to Roosevelt The Fortune Poll is not included because it did not venture ate-by-State predictions. This poll was closest in forecasting the popular vote, coming within one percentage point of the result. Pearson and Allen, however, were closest in predicting the electoral vote, giving Roosevelt 363—or 23 better than the President guessed himself. Fine testimony this to the accuracy analysis of the Merry-Go-Round and careful Only a Start (Cleveland Plain Dealer) Americans should bear in mind that the draw- TRAILERS, BUT NOT TERRITORIES ing of the selective service numbers marks only the beginning, not the end, of adequate national People who live in trailers are still citizens and | defense. Some persons be inclined to think| he raiht to vote as well as the man who lives | € job s done and that this nation has nothing more to worry about, As a matter of fact the task > hill, a U. S. Circuit Court of pag not actually been started. 1. A test case was brought before Not until next month will the first few called iilerite who had been denied the by the lottery report for service, The complete to reg quota will not be filled until next June and it wiil x . o be a year from then before all these men can be This decision just. People should not be| RS e ; A Aigie bR S 2 Soaithrs said to be properly trained g franchise because of the type of dwelling On top of that there is a lag in material of all in which they reside varieties, Adequate arms and full complements of But A ns know that many citizens of the mechanized equipment will not be ready for months United States are being denied the right to vote —much of it may not be ready by the time this first beca they live where they do, They are the|army is disbanded to form the nucleus of a reserve! people of Uncle Sam's Territories force that will grow from year to year. They pay exactly the same Federal taxes as Iho:»«-' facts should be kept in mind by all Amer- 4 3 . icans. The lay citizen should remember that virtu- residents of the States. They are governed by the = 4 i i biitty umon them | @11Y everything remains to be done. There should o QRIB1 AW e TESPORBINLSY. ‘1“ be no false sense of security. What everyone hopes Wiisarves the, . N b on, Gln (peaces or . Wak, is that the start has not been made too late exactly what it upon all other citizens of i L R M T R the United Stat But they are not allowed to| vote for their President. They are not allowed even Press Mends Its Ways to vote for their Governor. They must be satisfied e with electing a Delegate to Congress who has no (New York Times) vote in that body and the members of a Territorial One morning the citizen found in his mornin Leg ture whose powers, in most of the things that| paper two front-page stories about Secretary Ickes. ma are very small indeed In one column Mr. Ickes submitted his resignation Perh here s ne logic in denying the full| 28 Secretary of the Interior. In another column Mr 5 : by Ickes told the reporters that we had no free press right of franchise to residents of United States Ter- S n S, ¥ B B o bt it thars is’ it haa ) riever ‘beant potited in America The newspaper support for President EHOEien; My 4 i 8 I Roosevelt in three elections was ridiculously below the | out to us. In the days of westward expansion of | ohular vote | the nation, wk a frontier condition prevailed, when That night the citizen dreamed that every news- the Territories were peopled by men and women who | paper in the country issued a special edition with | were six months behind in their news from the a front-page editorial in big type. The Edltonals‘ States and who cared little what happened in Wash-| unanimously warned President Roosevelt not to per- | ington might hav€ been some logic in the mit Mr, Ickes' departure from the Cabinet. The| editorials went on to say that the country could bear | up under nearly any imaginable handicap, such as/ a doubling of the national debt or of unemployment 1z Territories the vote. Today Alas- by press and radio, practice of den; kans are fully as well informed as the people of the rest of the Nation. They are . v d e 45 h 1 entitled to: elect their officials jor the threat of an armed invasion, but the loss of i ¥ Mr. Ickes at Washington would be a catastrophe. Some day we hope Alaska will be a State, We Next morning Secretary Ickes called in the re- | hope the day is not too far away. But in the mean- porters and said he glad to see a new desire on time, let's demand the right to vote, a right for (h(- part of the American press to live up to its duty which in ot days men shed precious blood 'and our cmzen woke up with a start | Bank of New York reports that 101\ leading industrial corporations earned 10.8 percent profits in the first nine months of 1940 as com-! pared to 7.8 percent last year. The| firms represent half the mdustual‘ wealth of the country, and profited | $819,053,000 for the first scrap to Japan will be extended i0 include iron and steel of all kinds At present no variety of scrap | (there are 78 .different categories) |can be exported to Japan. But | finished and. semi-finished steeis | are not embargoed and the Japa- nese have been quietly going into Washingfon Merry- 50-Round (Continued from Page One) this market. The cost, of course, months. For the whole of 1939 it Sien of the Archer are anced by the Nazi government is higher, but Japan needs mefal was $575581,000. . The British| €asily discouraged and pessimistic. hrough the German Library head-| urgently and apparently is willing Government plans to spend $40,) ‘Com':ig,m_’ ik ed by Schmitz. No records were tO DPay 000,000 in ‘the U&. next year build- e e found of any funds coming from Certain steel companies would ing small rreigl?ters to offset heavy Subscrive to The Daily Alfiskai Ttaly, but the Library received like to get this juicy business and losses from Axis subs, bombs and Empire—the paper with the largest $189394 in the last five months secretly were elated when the all- mines. . . . The post-election edi-| pajq cireulation. fiom ‘Berlin inclusive scrap ban was imposed.|tion of the Townsend Weekly, or- One item of expenditure They saw it forcing the Japs to|gan of the czar of the old-age pen-| 3 ORIy e (labrad ed steel at a much| sion movement, was a strange con- Kansas Governor Viereck, German lecturer and higher e—with a big profit to| trast to the preceding issues. Town-| rg writer, who was on close terms with sellers | el ignoun v bronted the Willkig the late Senator Ernest Lundeen But the Defense Commission,| McNary ticket during the cam- | of Minnesota. The committee has closely scanning steel capacity !on,Dfl‘E“v but his latest edition is a photostat of a contract showing CUr own mounting defense needs,! devoid of politics. This is the sec- that Viereck is paid $500 a month Wants né production sent to Ja-| ond national election in which he by the Library pan. In fact, the Commission has|Dhas been on the losing side. NOTE—The Dies Committee aiso Plans for an early expansion of| R ! has evidence that Axis agents have| U.S. steel making capacity. So it|® + been at work obtaining information has advised Roosevelt to bar steel { abor production and| €xports, and it's a good bet that| HELP AN transports ies to and from | he will do so. arms plant NOTE — Defense ~Commissioner 4LASK 4N Leon Henderson submitted a mem-| | < 4 b TORTOISE AND HARE orandum urging a total scrap ban' [ Telephone 713 or write | enator Sherman Minton, nar- 2s early as last May. 1 The Alaska Territorial | rowly defeat na \, w Dealer = | | Employment Service | broi to Washington a GEN, JOHNSON'S BET | for this qualified worker. ) story that is getting J, David Stern, crusading ])ubllhh-‘ STENOGRAPHER - OFFICE ! from Republicans and er of the New Deal Philadelphia| CLERK—Woman, married, age 26, l)«‘nwk\'lx«l. is i y tale Record, bet General Hugh John-| high school education and one year A Democratic worker an son $50 that Roosevelt would win.|of business college. Competent sec- mer were driving tow The day after election, Johnson| retary with several years’ experi- ihr}' passed a turtle sur wired Stern inquiring whether their: ence in responsible positions. Cail self along the roadside ed wager was $50 or $100. | for ES 216, the farmer, “That Telegraphed back Stern, . “Un- iy me of those WPA pec ocrats foisted on us taxpay A mile down the highway bit suddenly leaped out a couple of soaring jumps fortunately it was $50. Please pay| by check so I can endorse it over to the Anti-Defamation League.” | DIES AT HOME Mrs. Ella V. Laughlin, 68, was recently found dead on a sofa in | her home at Fairbanks. Death was and was ¢ MERRY-GO-ROUND of sight. Observed the Democra After a decade of partisan fusil- caused by a sudden attack of the “That rabbit reminds me of vou lading, Charles Michelson, | Deart. farmers heading for town to col- ————.—— — acid-penned Democratic lect your government crop benefit c! jused as a cats-paw by DAILY AL/ s HAPPY BIRTHDAY NOVEMBER 26 Walter B. Heisel Simon Russell Lew M. Williams Jr. Robert J. Schoettler Zaida Carlson Ben Maloney Effie Negstad F. T. Hampton 4 e, o HOROSCOPE | | “The stars incline but do not compel” o+ 3 SDAY, NOVEMBER 27 planetary aspects rule today. Caution should be the guide. for there are many sinister por- tents. Labor comes u a plane- tary direction conducive to serious internal troubie in the unions, Heart and Home: Until in the evening influences that a disturbing to relations active. There may be rebellion against authority in the home well as in organizations. Quarreis may be easily started in do- mestic circle. Parents may many anxieties. Accidents will crease under this confi ion, it is forecast. Divorces will be precipi- tated, even though there will less tolerance regarding t among social arbiters, SBusiness Affairs: Inventors simplify machinery including gines for automobiles The trend to what is unne marvelous ideas !hul contribute human comfort. New corporati will promote labor-saving gadgets large and small. Wemen will benc- fit through household conveniences even m helpful than the many now in general use. National Issues will arouse gr coming winter. Th sanitary precautions forced in cities where epidemics will be serious. American success in athletics, physical defq discovered mination of young men called for WEDN! Ady late human are the have en- and airplane Public concern most extre will be danger of; Despite the health the in national defense will awaken the public to derelictions in diet and exercise. The automobile will be blamed for lack of interest in walk- |ing, but the modern tendency to ease in all forms will bhe largely at fault. Internaticnal Affairs by diplomacy will prove effective in settling serious differences with for- eign powers. The access of impo:- tance for the United States will b recognized by dictators who will hesitate to encroach upon the ‘Western Hemisphere. Japan will be Nazi and Soviet leaders, who covet colonial possessions in the Pacific, in gesture of grave possibilities. Persons whose birthdate it should be careful in important mat- ters in the coming year, for may be litigation that nate. Fairly good luck is forecast. SKA EMPIRE, TUESDAY, NOV. 26, 1940 | | | | from NOVEMBER 26, 1920 It was announced that the Chichagoff Mining Company had agreed to pay royalties hereafter and $300.000 in two installments to.John Tuppela for his share of the profits on two of his claims operated by the gompany. In an official publication by R. J. Sommers, Secretary of Alaska, in- """ | MODERN ETIQUETTE ** poperra 1mm in exs is there is unfortu-, Children born on this day will be talented, thoughtful and ambitious.' Will H. Burke Banker and rancher, Wil H. Burke, 61, of Little River, Kan,, ef, is signing off, will shortly| VALDEZ RESIDENT DIES retire for good. Tn his day, Miche!-| Mrs, Beulah Fogg Smith, pioneer son was one of the top Washing-|resident of Valdez, born Septem- ton correspondents, for many years ber 19, 1891, died at Valdez re- checks.” JAP STEEL BAN If the President follows a confi- bureau fense Commission, the embargo on nomic survey of the National cny‘s“m(‘ for cremation, was head of the New York World| cently after an illness of only 12| Srst The monthly eco-| hours. The remains were taken to llpu is the new governor of Kansas, having defeated the ircumbent, Gov. Payne Ratner, Republican, in & see-saw race. Burke is the mocrat ever to cefeat & can governor seeking re= election. nine Many of these natives under the‘ nsitive, Drs. Kaser and Freeburger DENTISTS Blrngren Building B. P. 0. ELKS meet every Wednesday at 8 P. M. Visiting brothers welcome. H. E. SIM- MONS, Exalted Ruler; M. H. SIDES, Secretary the Juneau Steamship Company was declared dissolved. PHONE 56 pass o £ S U G 7777777 MOUNT JUN®AU LODGE No. 101 California and Ohio State were announced as the contenders for the | . % Second and fourth Rose Bowl game to be played on New Year's Day at Pasadena. i ])r A w st l Mognny_ol’ each monthr ST A LA, i ewar A G in Scottish Rite Temble Glen Oakes, Treadwell wharfinger, was to leave on the Spokane fm! | DENTIST \ :z"m"‘l at 7:30 pm {he south for a vacation in Vancouver, B. C. A A S MLI:I{ B. MARTIN i || 20TH CENTURY BUILDING f:w’;*‘és ] e JAMES W The United States Coast Guard cutter Algonquin was scheduled to | Office Phone 469 s i g vt arrive in Juneau after an absence during the summer on Bering Sea | . - patrol -, | — A successful dancing party at the Parish Hall was reported with a t Dr. Judson Whittier G"Y SMITH large attendance. The affair was given by the Young Ladies’ Sodality. CHIROPRACTUR | Drugless Ph: | Associated Press reports stated that Lieut. C. C. Mosley won the ] St T 1o Lk DRUGS ‘ Pulitzer Air Trophy for flying an “American-made plane” 174 miles|| Rooms 2-3-4, Triangle Bldg. | RsieBiour | PHONE 667 PUROLA REMEDIES | PRESCRIPTIONS CARE- Col. James G. Steese, President of the Alaska Road Commission, left rULLY COMPOUNDED Juneau for a brief trip to Haines e SR et ext Coliseum .-...._.......«_.,..._...‘-__.........._.._.m Dr. John H. Geyer PRoie S | Daily Lessons in English % st y W. L. GORDON Room 9—Valentine Bldg. : i ' say, “I can do it better than WORDE OFTEN MISUSED: Do not her.” Say, “I can do it better than SE an do it).” OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Padre (a monk or priest). Pronounce pa-dri, A as in AH, I as in IT, accent first syllable. Italian pronuncia- tion is second A as in ATE unstressed. MISSPELLED; Benjamin: IN, not INE. SYNONYMS: Admire, esteem, honor, revere, adore, idolize. WORD STUDY: “Use a word three times and it is yours.” Let us increase our vecabulary by mastering one word each day DERELICTION; failure in duty. (Pronounce der-e-lik-shun syllable) “A total dereliction of military duties.”—Sir W. accent third Scott i s - 0 - R S ) - ) Q. Would five cents be sufficient tip for a fifty-cent meal? A. No. Ten per cent is all right when the amount is more than a dollar, but ten cents is considered the minimum tip for a meal. Other- wise hetter not to give any. Q. What should a hostess do when a caller brings her a box of flowers? A. The?l should arrange the flowers immediately in a vase of water and ¢ y th prominently Q /hen sitting in a theatre next to a man who annoys her 1le 1 usher She has this privilege, but the casiest way is to change her seat. en- .:.-_l__-____ s | LOOK and LEARN Y ¢ corvox | e s <0 ) 2 2 < < o . 21 o A | 1. What relation is a child to its mother who is not son? 2. What does Monongahela mean? 3. Who is the author of the phrs “Hitch your wagon to a star”? 4. What musical instrument “skirls”? 5. What is the most mountainous country in the world? ANSWERS: 1. Her daughter 2. Tt is derived from the Indian words meaning banks Ralph Waldo Emerson. The bagpipe. 4 5. Sw and | | screen and radio, Ethel Merman, torch singer, is pic- William B. Smith, actors’ agent, whom she honeymooning in New Yor} | Star of stage, tured with her husband, married at Elkton, Md. The two are now | | Vit i The Navy has adopted electri-| TO VISIT MOTHER | cally-heated diving suits as stand-| nirs, Emil Goulet 15 a passenger | ard equipment. | south from Fairbanks on her way Missionaries have translated parts| to Wyoming to visit her mother of the Bible into at least &0 who is ill tongues. e | Subscrive (or 'z'hehnmn Empire Classifieds Payr There is no substitute for Newspaper Advertising Today’s word | A its mother’s “river with sliding Hours: 9 am. to 6 pm, | RTINS S o o5 G (S TN, | ROBERT SIMPSON, OPT. D. Graduate Los Angeles Coll~ge of Optometry ana 7 Opthaimology Glasses Fitted “T-morrow's Sivles | Today” WU Lenses Ground [ {|The Charles W. Carter Mortuary | Fourth and Prankiin Sts. PHONE 136 Juneau's Own Store "“The Rexall Store” Your Relisble Pharmacists — Have Your Eyes Examined by | Dr. Rae L. Carlson OPTOMETRIST Blomgren Bldg.———2nd Floor Front Street————-Phone 636 y Drug Co. , PRESCRIPTIONS. —— Post Office Substation| i { Butler-Maurc : I { L. C. 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