The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 1, 1941, Page 4

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, WEDNESDAY, JAN. 20 YEARS AGO 4 1941. Ucul y Alaska Empire B i ished eve ing except Sunday by the EMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY nd and Ma Juneau, Alasks, LEN TROY BENDER . . BERNARD months until’ winter fell in autumn and , in midsummer. 19 JANUARY 1941 SO TN T_rue T wap Tt e | s | [ ] ) 6|7 13|14 820(21 27|28 e e e - HAPPY BIRTHDAY A — s < e . et JANUARY 1 Maximilian Younger Mrs. Pearl Burford from THE EMPIRE had to be done about it and Julius With the help of Sosi- genes he made a pretty good job of it. He discarded entirely the lunar year, which the Greeks had worked | | out into the very ingenious Metonic Cycle, one of the triumphs of ancient astronomy He ordered adoption forthwith of the solar year of 365% allowin the adoption of extra day fo His division of the months into beginning with January, was better than any have had since, with the first, third, fifth, sev- ninth and eleventh month each having 31 and the rest, except February, having 30. But pontiffs blundered in and began adding a leap year every three years instead four. And when Augustus came along he demanded that the month named after him should have just as many s the month named after his illustrious uncle. Something | Caesar proceeded to do it. Streets 4 11 JANUARY 1, 1921 TRy 10 = = 17|18 Young 1921 was given a i and noisy greeting and 1920, aged 4lpg| and stooped vitn e weigit of tvee months of the cares and troubles DI’S Kaser and of the world, shuffled across the threshold of time the previous night. 31 | In Juneau a crowd of dancers at the Elks' High Jinks welcomed the New Freeburger , Year, as did a throng at the Shriners’ Ball. DENTT! Bl agren Building PHONE 56 President Vice-President and Business Manager Post_Office SUBSC Becond Class Matter. S 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 JUNEAU LODGE NO. 141 Second and fourth Mondcay of each month in Scottish Rite Temple beginning at 7:30 pm RALPH B. MARTIN Worshipful Master; JAMES W < tor $1.25 wing rates in advance, $6.00 + month the for rs 1l promptly notit: | 42 ot o ot reqularity 1o the_ds. | svery jvery of their papers 8 Telephones: News Office, lays, MEMBER OF Assoclated epublication of all ne wise credited in this paper & nerein X ALAS W. B. Gilbert, one of the popular and efficient members of Uncle Sam’s local cable office force, was to leave Juneau on the steamer Spokane for San Antonio, Texas. tness Office, 374 ASSOCIATED PRESS A ; ed to the use fo or not other The nt to 1t R R o T TR Dr. A. W. Stewart DENTIST 20TH CENTURY BUILDING Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Mulvihill, of the White Pass and Yukon Railway at Skagway, accompanied by their two children, were on board the Prin- cess Mary enroute south A CTRCULATION GU of THAN THAT OF ANY PUBLICATI T Represent GEORGE D. CLOSE. I E les, Portland, tves, with offices in Beattle, Ch New ¥ National Newspa o 1ays cago, ey S SEATTLE REPRE: American Bank Bulldi . 1011 which isn't entitled to it, still has 31‘ Jack Pasquan William B. Cline Lu Liston Jr. | Mrs. W. A. Purdue and daughter Ethel, took an apartment at the LEIVERS, Secretary. Office Phone 469 Gross Apartments over the Coliseum Theatre * | Dr. Judson Whittier Francis L. Newman Cesar Sebenico William Alexander Joseph M. Sunick Louis C. Lemieux S e - But solar ound the seconds | calendar what Julius Caesar overlooked is that the| isn't 365% days long. The earth revolves| sun in 365 days 5 hours 48 minutes and This lag has given history and the makers a continuous headache. ! The early church, proceeding on Caesar's error = regarding the length of the solar year and the®y__ R | additional error that 235 lunations exactly equal 19| | solar years, succeeded in getting the equinox com-| {1 q p F pletely out of place and precipitating many bitter| 0 P 0 S c ‘ | “The stars incline | but do not compel” | gear , were GUY SMITH | DRUGS HORLUCK'S DANISH ICE CREAM PRESCRIPTIONS CARE- FULLY COMPOUNDED Front Street Next Coliseum PHONE Mr and Mrs Allen Shattuck, accompanied by their son Allen, Jr to go south on the Princess Mary. CHIROPRACTUR Drugiess Physician Office hours: 10-12: 1-§ 7-8 Rooms 2-3-4, Triangle Bldg. PHONE 667 Mayor R. E. Robertson and Mrs. Robertson, left on the Princ(‘ssl Mary enroute to Washington, D. C., where he was to attend to business; matters. Edith C. Crangle, of the Juneau Music House, the Princess for a vacation in the south. was a passenger on quarrels over the dates of the movable festivals, One of the great works of the Council of Nicea in 325 | was to minimize these schisms by fixing the varia- tion of the orthodox celebration of Easter. But the calendar went right on getting itself tangled up * |until the time of Pope Gregory XIII. It was Pope Gregory and his scientific collaborators who put the equinox back in its place and adopted many other reforms in 1582. This started us on the Gregorian New Style calendar. The present calendar is by no means perfect. No one has ever succeeded in working out a perfect one, though more convenient arrangements of the mo s and weeks have been suggested. The hard fact is that the ar isn't what we say it is, and ¢ the circle, it simply can't be squared. The solar ar 1941, whatever else happens to it, is going to 1 ike all the other rs. The only way we seem able to make up the difference is to put time out at interest to be compounded every four But if any one feels this irregularity too he should consult the Mohammedan calen- in m the Hegira are based sult, these Mohammedan to retrograde right through about 32 years before they catch d to be confusing, but they like it in East. Perhaps time moves more slowly Dr. John H. Geyer DENTIST Room 9--Valentine Bldg. PHONE 1762 | Hours: 8 am. to 6 pm. e — : : J by 3 Daily Lessons in English % 1. corpon || ——— | | ROBERT SIMPSON, OPT. D. | | QGraduate Los Angeles Collge said that T may | [ of Optometry and “SAID that I | | Opthalmology | Glasses Fitted Lenses Ground Dave Evans, of the Juneau Hardware Company, 97—Free Delivery left on the Princess | to spenc. some time visiting on Puget Sound | THURSDAY, JANUARY 2 rain. Benefic aspects rule strongly all this day. The morning is for- tunate for both business and pro- fessional activities. Good news may be expected where labor issuesare| involved. Heart and Home: Happiness G through letters or the printed page WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not s / be expected under this sway.|come.” Say, “My mother SAYS that I MAY come,” Young and old are uplifted and MIGHT come.” encouraged under this configura-; OFTEN MISPRONCUNCED: Requital. Pronounce re-kwit-al, tion which promotes harmony|in QUITE, not as in QUIT; accent second syllable. ng persons of every kind. This OFTEN MISSPELLED: Choir (an organized company of singers). | is a lucky day for meeting persons Quire (24, sometin sheets of paper) ; ot Influence;Casunl AR et o SYNONYMS: Stealthy, secret, furtive, sly. el becoms eipiul (RS oL WORD STUDY: “Use a word three times and it is your Let us this direction of the stars. Women . g s ; o e 1l benefit most through the ex- If rease our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Today's word: e of their social gifts. GRANDILCQUENT; characterized by a pompous or bombastic style. (Ac- Business Affairs: There should the L). “Many are ambitious of saying grand things; that Le special interest in the first-of- is, being grandiloquent.”—Hare. | —— 1 the-year bargain sales. Purchases e R Sl Ll of woolen and leather goods are ™<= = "= === H recommended, for prices are to rise !\/‘EC}LERN E-”OUETTE by ROBERTA LEE ! | n this new year. Fashion is to as THE . o e s e ot e e e ) e 6 Weather: Highest, 38; lowest, 37 T-morrow’s Styles | Today” Jolwnen Juneau’s Own Store e e e 2 i < 0 » - - a nice ssume this and nights era. As af fragments on of days oL Christ'an Quite a few ed by the way during sion of a number of ten days or so in an un. Even now our civil o vpre. I as lThe Charles W. Carter | Mortuary Fourth and Franklin Sts. PHONE 136 “The Rexall Store” Your Relisble Pharmacists i Butler-Maurc | Drug Co cent follow: 4 a r sing invented. in that ve a tenden seasens for It i Jones-Stevens Shop LADIES'—MISSES’ READY-TO-WEAR “eward Street Near Thirm cause both profits and losses radical changes are forecast need of warm clothing and prac- g tical attire is to be urgent as thel & T winter advances, There will be Ciiice 1 plenty of for A and old. obligations, National Issues: Warning is given| Q. When a youug that there must be less pursuit cf for him to sit between them? pleasure as the United States citi- A. Yes, unless there is an are to undergo tremendouStinext to the aisle. tests of patriotism. The danger of| war being precipitated through an act of supreme treachery is prog-| icated, while the peril from| r-column activities will ke reatly enlarged. Increase of taxes|g., will be necessary and should be d Sold id Serviced b; seomaa pracwonicae. AL 1 00K and LEARN % ¢ coroon || J. B, Berfeed & Ca. " trologers agree in foretelling the ul- ! = who can understand their spoken language. NONE|yiiore victory of Great Britain in @ e eeomstemmmomsomomooms: oo oo oo oo eemn ) | ng;'%ersmg ufia :g::" by of these is German. When the Germans heard the| ;. myropean war, they warn that 1 Indians talking on the Western Front they natwrally {pore are many great difficulties i assumed, after exhausting all their foreign languagze|;.sicated for the new year. he experts, that code was being used. Their code €X-|pealth of Winston Churchill, the D’B.. H. VANCE perts were called in and worked hard on the pro""idynflmic Prime Minister, is men- OSTEOPATH lem but these too gave up in despair. They never Consultation and examination free. Hours 10 to 12; 1 to 5; 7 o 8:00 by appoinment. Gastineau Hotel Annex 2 | aced. Overwork may cause his re- did discover what the Comanches were chatting about South Franklin St. .Phone 177 —_— Ides"” the Calends.” Not mt their days, not for- Thus the Ides of ) tragic for Julius Caesar March, say, and ran thr inted bac from the 30 e the Post Office Substation NOW LOCATED AT HARRY RACE DRUGGIST “The Squibb Stom of Alaska”™ The Indian Sign (New York Times) An item frem Oklahoma City informs us that A. C. Monahan, director of the Indian Service, has received a War Department request to recommend 30 Comanche Indians to work in the Signal Corps. hey would be sent to Atlanta, Ga. for training as; Army telephone operators. Our Comanches serving with the AEF. in France ng the World War caused the Germans quite a of confusion, though none of the enemy was} d Headquarters discovered that the Ger- ans had tapped our telephone wires from advanced sts at the front, Instead of laying new lines the Signal Corps merely sent Comanches to mun the instruments. The Comanches have no written | language and there are not more than 30 white men | as presents to one'’s equals in an d begun, it puts everyone under y spirit is it all right employment young | e I —Y JAMES C. COOPER C.P.A. Businees Counselor COOPER BUILDING ard i € being before the Ca R much never y method track of the e for the aisle should a woman wear gloves Q. When wearing an evehing gown during the entire evening? A. This is optional. her coat if she prefers | 'hen he should of course sit | | “The Stere for Men” SARIN’S Front St.—Triangle Bldg. ——— —— She may remove them and check them with | — 1 a muddle | f Republic 1 foundation of the city ut they got into diffi- year instead of an extra fort- most L. C. Smith and Corona TYPEWRITERS counted You'll Find Food Finer and Service More Complete at THE BARANOF COFFEE SHGP FINE Watch and Jewelry Repairing i th to use up with onth certain dis- which they By length- o o Which state has monumenis nhonoring two of its native sons who | served simultaneously as President? ‘What three properties has color? How many men form a squad in the army? In weaving, what threads run against the woof? What is South America’s largest city? ANSWERS: Kentucky, honoring Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis. Hue, purity, and brightness. Eight. The warp. Buenos Aires, Argentina; 2,168,000. ed cretic at once b ening menth, term of a As a result dar for political ends Mercedinus, the horities were to annual anaged to push the year n to abuse able prolor gistrate fina on t} 1 . tirement before the end of the war. istén the ele Evidently the War Department thinks Comanche A political crisis in London s would prove a nice line of talk for Lhe next War. | forecast National unity and strength {will be increased each month. | Persons whose birthdate it have the augury of a year of gel eral success. It will be eventful| and will demand hard work. Children born on this day, be talented and magnetic, '\mbl!:- they at very reasonable rates ' PAUL BLOEDHORN S FRANKLIN STREET H.S. GRAVES “The Clothing Man” | HOME OF HART SCHAFFNER | & MARX CLOTHING ‘ | : i + McNAMARA & WILDES | | Registered CIVIL ENGINEERS || ' that the | William Bruce Arnold, now in his investi- | first year in West Point, but who has not was then on the listening end of | One was an assurance President would personally Washingfon why North Dakota Me"Y' ceive 1y of the new defense|the original stories, Go.kaund blants. Moses argued that his state| By an odd twist of fate, the fic- was so far inland that it was id titious Bill Bruce once came to the for defense industries Roosevelt | help of the real Bill Bruce. The boy womised to I into the matter | had to undergo a major operation, mmediately. for which the hospital charges were The other reason was an anec |substantial. On the same day that' {dote the President told Mose |the hospital bill was presented, a B o | 1te ' —3 o ders in dircet response to the pulls strains put on bones by Lhc! muscles. If the strains stop for a long period of years, the girders;* become very thin. Moreover, these| of solid bone which lace to and fro cus and industrious. They should through the somewhat porous struc- have brilliant careers. |ture of whole bone. ‘The porosity (Copyright, 1941) is nature’s way of lightening the it weight of bones, x The Designs, Surveys, Investigations VALENTINE BLDG. Phone 672 and Continued from Page Oue) Room 3 -+ are weaker and less desirable than forgings. X-ray pictures, covering WHO'S TO BLAME Who is to blame for this grave | about a famous namesake of yours It happened when Rocsevelt wa Assistant Secretary of the Navy i check came from the publisher for he “Bill Bruce” books. Without depositing the check in he bank, Arnold endorsed it and| Whether or not this explanation | is correct, there is no question that the British navy has cut the L,,p-1 tion expeditionary force of General| years of activity—or of the plete from being bedridden show lack of activity that comes|eral lin inner gir- bene girders run m the same gun-i an engineer would use in that | reinforcing concrete or other struc-| tures. ! com- Archie B. Betis | PUBLIC ACCOUNTANT — When in Need of situation is a matter of bitter dis- |the Wilson Administraiion. raziuni off from his overseas the benes develop thei Tax Service 2 | Bookkeeping Room 8, Valentine Building Phone 676 ent it to the hospital to pay for| o i he boy's illness. | supplies. Graziani, with the repu-| | tation of being one of Italy’s most | brilliant desert strategists, has been | CAPITAL CHarF marooned in the desert of north- Some American WO;:?Q" have west Egypt for over two months. H vitched to cotton stockings as &| pDespite the irate demands of Il otest against Japan, yet in the pyce that Graziana advance on elene w' Alhrech’ rst nine months of this year, the guez his army simply lacked suf- 4 | PHYSICAL THERAPEUTICS e yhersonnel ol United States imported 66 million ficient, water and other supplies to Phone 773 i King | qollars worth of silk from Japan move. And eventually the British Valentine Building—Room 7 of personnel, another | = giate Department is getting a|toox the offensive themselves. 'ml entered with another personnel heavy volume of mail from all parts| (Copyright 1940, by United Fea- for a ver named “Moses.” | of the country urging strong U. 8. ture Syndicate, Inc.) nee struck me as|ggsistance to Greece . . . Josephus e " Roosevelt related, “and | panicls, Ambassador to Mexico, is Y back and laughed. The the only Ambassador appointed by d perturb- | Roosevelt in 1933 who still remains Y] i ITALIAN FLEET {4 .éas wn‘ those the (gt the same post . . . Experts of ships—Moses | the House migrant investigating then I laughed | committee estimate that at least se heading | four million job hunters are cor The Italians' confidential expla-| nation for the poor showinz of th vavy compared with the British is nteresting. the names of | stantly on the move in the cour try. They point out that their na PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 1.—Man's 15 built with the idea that it|ckeleton is the same from birth to would oppose the French, never Lhe, death, except for the chanze in size | British., Therefore most of the guns with «vmmh | were concentrated in the forward 3ut ide his rt of their battleships and cruis-|cecond & . | on the assumption that the amount of strain his bones have to that read |speedier Italian vessels would take c<tand n comes from car- 1 bear such | the offensive against the older and rying man’s weight and from his nd the Pion- |siower French fleet. work or exercise. | Bill Bruce Becomes| But in combat with the modern | The inner skeleton changes, showx: | “Bill Bruce on Bor- British navy, the Italian vessels! {by X-rays, are explained to (‘i!l have had to fight while steami nx' Amer: n Philosophical Society in a toward their home bases, therefore!report by Dr. Charles B. Davenport must fire from the rear. And this|of the Carnegie Institution ot Wach- “Bill | part of their vessels lacks adequate|ingten. He reports this inner skels son, ' armament, eton is made of plates and girdenti | He was asked to select from ¢ list of American naval hers tt e of a new destroyer. He pick Isra in henor of a U. 8. Cay who distinguished himself i wa ainst the Barbary Coa, pirates in 1851 Some time later, 0 iapnove DIESEL OIL—STOVE OIL YOUR COAL CHOICE GENERAL HAULING STORAGE and CRATING CALL UB Juneau Transfer Phone 48—Night Phone 481 pute. All hands are agreed that there minum ignots, luminum Corporation is 1e principal p ucer. The short- is in the giant hammers and equired to k plane in October, the demand, Alcoa inst Postman, Barmaid, Blacksmith ain the th Roosevelt we led the personnel ot a this d » tool over the way ram unde this profitabl irately th who are n- they BUY PROTECTION for Your Valuables SEE THE SHATTUCK AGENCY Office—New York Life at Def | 'Juneau Melody House Music and Electrie Appliances Next to Truesdell Gun Shop Phone 6§ | | TELEPHONE—:BI PREMRMG PP oo, s e RS 0 000 #1385 COMMERCIAL AND SAVINGS AOOOUN'PS CAP]TAL—SSO 000 SURPLUS—SI 25,000 2% PAID ON SAVINGS * at from is the country— 1 | | : 5 | Assorciated Press Scienc th: ll in hi man who stands at expanding Army the A yan¢ plen ¥ d W 1 b V 1 Harold H. Thus the buck ! { the Air an author “ bone SAFE DEPOSIT BOXES output tailspir rol.” father of tl l.llsl IC. u, DEST! m)\ ERS Connie Wills, 18, is doing her bit to help England win the war by swing- | Ing a ten-pound hammer as a blacksmith’s striker in Mealsgate, after serving as an early-morning postman. After her smithy work 1s done (and she swings with the best of them, according to veteran Tom Johne son, right) she tends bar in her father’s inn. ee boys, Genera) » aviation stories as a fireside hobby was drown after his First National Bank JUNEAU—ALASEA r John Mose: House d ueed to them Bruce