The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 31, 1940, Page 4

>4 g T el i 4 D(uly Alaska Empire bliched every evening except Sunday by the EMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY Second and Main Streets, Juneau, Alaska, AELEN TROY BENDER - = President | R L BERNARD - - Vice- Y’rm!dent and Business Manager Entered 1n the Post Of SU disgrace But a few ond Class Matter. | ceivable o in Juncau a SCRIPTION PATES Delivered by carrler in Juncau and Douxlas for §1.25 per month | Public relief By mail, p we , at the following rates: existent. One year, in advance, $12.00; six months, in advance, $6.00; sne month, in advance, §1.25. 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Wellington, 1011 American Bank Bdflfl‘nk understanding ever before. i i.’ns a result of th come to look as f L | America’s n chall which, enge before it arain on the path of peace and progress, knowledge we have gained through our mis- and sorrows over the past two decades. takes There are s are r decades ago .l)f‘(’“ ashamed of the effects of depression thousands lost their homes and in distress that is incon- inadequate., non- mer business panics, families wandered about economic recession; Our people have not shown any that there are about 10,000,000 unemployed and hungry men and women amid potential plenty. have In for- we would not even Public relief now -is past depressions was almost We have at least established the concept of pub-; lic responsibility for the human suffering caused by, we have begun a system of social ty destined to have far-reaching effects upon‘ — of pain is indispensable to health. | Our democratic system is functioning better Lhan met the worst economic and nolm-‘ crisis in our history without a serious threat of | dictatorship from any direction. public discussion of public questions and the public of them probably goes deeper than sign of hysteria e shock of war in Europe, And now the British people, on whom we have b our allies in the defense of democ- racy, appear to have turned the tide of aggression, at least on one of the European bully nations. » 1941 may be the year in which England, with help, definitely strikes down the totalitar- to civilization. It may be a year is over, will see the world’s feet set based on igns pointing that way. If they ht, the year which begins at midnight tonight | —which has already begun in warring Europe and 940 194 What poy ahout war in Europe, war n Asia and a throbbingly nful w that we at| h nly war and the fear of war to look| (Ol ard to this year | Undoubtedly note as’ Asip—will be a Happy New Year indeed. Bridge and Bunk eveland Plain-Dealer) many persons reading about the‘ The pessimist can also pont to the trend lu“ard‘ national contract bridge tournament being played 200 years ago and continued |3t Philadelphia, the of the World|lke golf, tennis v points with the events of | democra began until it War and r 1910 in Europe Japan is imitating the worst of the West; Ger- many continues to slip down the road toward com-| devised by whicl plete barbarism; Russia, having added aggression of skill. to absolutism, sits back to pick the bones of war’s tensions unending fields Unfortunately for offers the opportunity for great skill and which pro- | vides persons interested in the possibilities of cards| catalog it as a test of skill much or handball tournament, the game of bridge, which for study, no way has ever been h a bridge tournament is a test The rules might about as well permit each en-| victims; France as a free nation has disappeared in trant to put his name in a hat and authorize a 1940; so have Denmark, Norway, gium; Great Britain still maintains forms and some substance, but these weaken fil("\dllv‘ as the war continues and becomes even more in- tense, And yet, democratic | Yes. the weakest | about being “na It would be large percentage is the whole picture so black, except skillful. and sometimes does. Holland and Bel- blindfolded check room girl to draw out the winners. pair in the tourfament can win— There is considerable bunk tional champion.” entirely migleading to imply that a of these tournament players are not There is the widest The THE DAILY ALASKA 1940 [DECEMBER 1540 TUE | WED | THUR| FRI DECEMBER 31 Effie Lindstrom Mrs. Carl Lundstrom Lee Smith® Jr. Margaret J. Griffin Mrs. Mabel Schmitz Albert L. Fisk George T. Dudley James T. Burnett Cary L. Tubbs i HOROSCOPE “The stars incline io mot ¢ /" ympet but " WLDNESDAY, JANUARY 1 Threatcning signs prevail on this 15t day of the year The stars may incline the mind toward dread | (and fear, but 1941 is to make his- mry more afazing than any re- coided in the past, and there is| promise of a new era most won- derful for the human race. Heart and Home: With the new year, families will be drawn closely together a3 members face the command for public service. This is a date for beginning unselfish| plans that extend helpfulness be- yond relatives and friends, It is a time for informal rather than for- mal entertainments. Hospitalities should be extended to those who need sustaining friendliness. Per- sons of all ages should resolve o serve the nation to the utmost cf their capabilities. | Business Affairs: Manufacturing| will reach a speed and volume that| will break all previous records Thc, stars seem to indicate great need| of haste in all that pertains to' The fact is that they are far more skillful| preparedness. The retail trade will to those who believed mankind had attained a high- |in bidding and play than the participants in almost be good and there will be demand er state of perfection than actually existed? |any group anywhere which meets around at homes, | for novel forms of merchandise. Perhaps we should have realized that if progress groups in which the members pride themselves on| Time-savers and labor-savers wx]l is limitless, then so is retrogression. many is the Kaiser’s Germany degraded still further by the effects of a long war and a crushing peace Almost any hurchill’s Britain is Lloyd George's, Britain weak- Play of rubber -bridge. best test of skill {but in common, bridge. However, ened by the effects of the World War and the strain of the post war decades The calamities of 1940 are not really new. are merely continuations of old defects in human organization and character. If Europe is a mess today, it can also be said that it has been a mess through most of recorded history. The Western| business and it Hemisphere is populated by peupl(‘ whose ancestors | for thought so and left it And what of this Western Hemisphere? much of it still lies in the shadow of poverty; but here there is more light than ade. There is peace| on this side of the world and a greater degree of] international cooperation than ever before In the most powerful country of the New World| They | headline. ' | tivities. —the United States—there is not only peace but| e progress. We are still falling short of the \lnndarl',‘r Ttadindid ave we have set, ever before. It continues to be a a practical man, national sorrow, even a colonies he wins, for business in trade journals for months, Ma Also there is strong evidence of erny- ck of vision or initiative or both £ making the best use of mass JS‘Rflund oduction facilities. The blame this goes right back to high < #d {rom Page Oue) defense quarters. The gigantic resources of the divisions, are at least ten iuto industry, for example, have rubber played for at least modest stakes. | do not care to lose heavily, the American Contract Bridge League has developed the bridge tournament the league that it is not a test of skill. I were, only a handful of players, instead of hundreds, Too! would assemble for the tournaments and the league would find the revenue too small to be worth enter- ing in the ledgers. | “Dynamite Gone pehind schedule, In fact, for them have just been A possible explanation for d is last-minute changes ign resulting from combat T abroad. plane production, which 1 cnse chies optimistically ould be up to around 1,000 5 per month by November,E ome 250 ships short of modest mark. Moreover, 1siderable part of this produc- s in training planes and un- ed bombers. They are nec- , of course, but the plane iuation is far from an armada 2f 50,000 fighting ships. (3) A serious bottleneck in range-| {inders and gun-sights is holding 2 output of light and heavy guns ‘or the Army and Navy. This situ-| aticn is expected to be eased soon,| when the Eastman XKodak Com-| pany gets into production on a| $12,000,000 order just signed for| this equipment, Many of the causes for delay are well known, such as the resistance of certain manufacturers to ac- _ept.ng war orders, also the oppo- sition to mushrooming plants purely emergency purposes, de- mands for tax concessions, and the constant changing of specifi- cations by the military experts. But there are other factors, less known but just as obstructive, in some instances far more so for 'n practically untouched for de- nse output. New plants have been rdered that will take months to uild, when by a coordination of he great auto factories, parts of anes, tanks, guns, etc., could be med out in carload lots daily nd assembled at central points. Willlam Reuther, young official the United Auto Workers, long ;0 proposed such a plan for a aily output of 500 all-metal pur- it planes of the most powerful /peé in the world, and at one-third ' present cost. But the matter 5 still “being discussed.” Other industries could be used .n the same way for similar short- cuts on other armament needs, but hey are not. Meanwhile, defense utput drags along, and precious weeks and months flit by. CAPITAL CHAFF After deliberating for several | weeks, Wendell Willkie finaily turned down a request by friends that he write an answer to Her- bert Hoover's recent article in a national weekly advocating the shipment of food to Nagi-occupied Europe Senator Fred Van Nuys is a bitter Administration- hater who has fought both its domestic and foreign policies, but t doesu't keep him from de- nding control of Indiana pa- tronage now that New Deal Sena- tor Sherman Minton has been de- i feated. Playing closely with Van NO MASS PRODUCTION One of the big complaints of defense chiefs is lack of machine-, “Two Percent Club” . ' Democratic' leaders, with Washing-| tool facilities. Yet there are Nuys are Prank McHale and Bow- man Eider, former bosses of the . Minnesota Hitler's Ger- being real “sharks.” of these tournament participants ! would wallop these home sharks over a few days of Another truth is that the lies not in duplicate tournaments, ordinary rough and tumble rubber bridge makes no sense unless Since most people is a big business, It is fortunate If it From Magazines,” says a A result, no doubt, of purity league ac- giving courses in colonial adminis- pbut our standards are higher than | tration to a number of visiting Nazis. Mussolini is and knows who will rule all the if anY cratic vote this year showed a gain of 146,492 over 1938, while Stassen’s majority was the lowest of the state GOP ticketl. BRITISH PURCHASING MISSION Intentionally or otherwise, the British Purchasing Mission to the United States has established i where it can “keep an eye on !l Capitol of the United States” liter ally as well as figuratively. It has taken over the ninth floor of the Willard Hotel, which overlgoks his- toric Pennsylvania Avenue. So strategically located are of the rooms, that one might « ly watch what is going on in i Capitol's west wing with a good, powerful telescope, although there is no indication or reason to be< lieve that the British are doing this. Actually the British have taken extreme precautions to guard their ‘own privacy. Heavy Venetian blinds cover the windows facing the nearby Nation- al Press Building. As a further pro- tection, each window contains a delicate framework, electrically con- nected so that any attempt to enter would set off a large alarm bell, like the general alarm aboard ship. In addition, a heavy wire screen has been set up at the end of the corridor leading to the offices, There is just one flaw in this otherwise perfect system of iso- lation—the stage entrance to the| ballroom on the tenth floor of the Willard originates in one of the rooms of the British suite. So it is necessary for performers in the Gridiron Club to pass througia to make their entrance. At suci times a stony-faced little guard, wearing a plain brass badge marked “British Purchasing Mission” stands watch, so that no one “peeps” into the office of Mr. om: Child or Mr. Norris or any other Commissioner. many small plants of this type around ton's blessing, are seeking a coali- FOOD STAMP INVESTIGATION, the country that have been liter-|tion with the once powerful ally begging for orders and mnot Farmer-Laborites to go after Gov- food stamp plan, the Department | WMWWMMMAHIPmIW n-orummenpm.ummmomr.uumwm . c n I Labor - Mo{nmmofmwm-m—wm’lm With the rapid extension of the | be introduced as men and women | work at high gear providing na- | tional and international needs. | National Issues: Although zhern~ should be wunified aspirations in | patriotic affairs, there will be con- | stant criticism of Washington | | policies in which well-meaning per- sons unwittingly aid subversive agencies. The threat of inflation| will be widely discussed, but the| wise should forget old political| prejudices. There is a sign of su- preme peril which may mean nc- tual entry into defensive: warfare in which the Navy will be first en- gaged. ! International Affairs: Russla is to gain in power in this new year. | While the Axis will extend its ter- rible campaign, the Russian bear | is to prove clever in knowing when to strike and how to make the greatest gains with least effort,| No treaty or contract with Ger- | many will be of lasting effect. Some defection affecting Great| Britain is to cause anxiely in the United States, Persons whose birthdate it is have the augury of a year of good fortune. Danger of estrangements from friends or relatives is fore- seen, i Children born on this day will be serious, thoughtful and studious, but high-tempered and strongly in-; ¥ dividual. rected. They must be wisely di-| viclations from various parts of the country, For instance: In a Southern city, a craps- playing colored man won a fist- ful of the blue stamps issued by Surplus Marketing Administration. He went to a grocery store and. tried to cash them in. In a Nebraska town, a reliefer saved up a lot of blue stamps, came to a grocer who had a whole live pig and bought the pig. Pork is one of the foods properly sold < wwipius 1D Neoraska, but the question troubling Washington of- ficials is whether a live pig is pork? They are inclined to think not. In San Francisco, an investiga- tor walked into a grocery store which had been cited for viola- tions, and posing as a reliefer, he presenbed blue stamps and askod for tobacco, which is forbidden. The grocer pulled a gun from un- |der the counter and drove the in- Jvamgnwr out of the store. In another West Coast city, armed bandits raided an office where blue stamps are dispensed, and stole $250 worth, { Cases like this are cropping up all over the country, with 150,000 to 200,000 stores now participaung in the stamp plan. To tighten up on investigation, a new chief of the Washington unit has been named—Frank J. Brechenser, form- erly an agent of FBI. & (Copyright, 1940, by United Fea-| | ture Syndicate, Inc.) | e (Copyright, 1940) | level?” ‘Social This Evening ai \Northern L|ghi Church == 1940. EMPIRE, TUESDAY, DEC. 31, from 20 YEARS AGO THE EMPIRE st oo b e s NN ey il The total estimat during the year 1920 wa that of 1900, according to advices r metals in Alaska 2,500,000 more than Old Man 1920 was to be given a rousing faréewell and Young 1921 the same reception this night at the annual s' High-Jinks. The fol- lowing day, Gov. and Mrs. Thomas Riggs were to be “at home” at the Governor's House, and a reception was also planned by the Masonic |lodges. | 1 Eugene Kirk, one of the messengers at the U. 8. Cable Office, re-!| signed and his position was to he filled by Roy Whitney James Dempsey, carpenter for the Al pany at Thane, was in the city for a few day a Gastineau Mining Com- visiting friends For a month’s trip visiting her father, the Rev. F. J. Forbes, in| Seattle, and friends in other Washington State towns, Mrs. Ethel Forbes Harding was to leave on the Princess Mary for the south C. F. Madison, the farmer with a homestead on Shelter Island, was in the city on business. { 1 | Henry Berry, Juneau’s well known dealer in curios, was to leave on| the Princess Mary for a trip to Los Angeles. He had not been outside for 15 years. | | | Weather: Highest, 37; lowest, 30; rain e o ]~ 1 7 T~ <1 ily Lessons in English % .. corpon || B e . 3 WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “Do you think he is on the Say, “Do you thing he is TRUTHFUL (or TRUSTWORTHY)?" OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Secretive. Pronounce se-kre-tiv, both E's as in SEE (first E unstressed), accent second syllable. OFTEN MISSPELLED: Adhere; ERE. Career; EER. SYNONYMS: Torment (noun), torture, distress, anguish, agony. 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: INFERENTIAL; deduced by a logical conclusion from given d; “Hi conclusions were inferential.” i L GRS RGO AT a - - - > - o 2~ S 2~ 4 { MODERN ETIQUETTE * omgrra e | Q. What is the order of recession at the conclusion of a church | wedding ceremony? A 15t the reverse of how it enters. The bride and groom should | Ieml fellowed by the bridesmaids and ushers. | Shouldn’'t one select Christmas gifts for friends that are not more rxp.x’:.w than one knows these friends can afford in return? A. Yes. This i ate thing to do. & Q. fChould the dessert i and fork be placed on the table at | the be, A by n on the dessert plate | et e < e A o e | ’n e - e ) o S < ) e 2 S ) 1. By called? 2. What metal, on account of its resonance, is the most used for | mnkmg bells? | How many feathers does a turkey have? i ‘What Scottish engineer gave his name to a kind of road? What is the capital of Indiana? ANSWERS: The Decalogue | Bronze. About 3,800, John, Loudon Macadam (1756-1836). Indianapolis. % | what other name are the Ten Commandments commonly @B w PR TES | until 11:30 c'cl at which time 1 half hour devotional service will be held. After 12 o'clock midnight, will be served. D | WHY SUFFER wiih your feet? An informmal social and devotional | Phone 648. 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