The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 7, 1941, Page 4

— . < Daily A had not developed to théir present state of efficiency. . 3 laska Empire eve except Sunday by the Juneau, Alaska, - - - President Vice-President and Business Manager EMPIRE IN WONDERLAND About a generation and a half ago Japan began to take territory away from her weaker neighbors. She took Korea; then, after an interval, Manchuria; then, after another interval, the northeastern pro- vinces of China. She is now in the fourth year of an attempt to take the rest of eastern China. The rincipal reason for this activity, as it is explained »y the Japanese, is that the population of the Jap- Entered in the Post SUBSH s carrier in J v mail, postag for §1.25 per month. ng rates: in advance, $6.00; Delivered b: B r a favor if they will promptly notifs the Business Office of any fallure or irregularity in the de livery of th papers. Telephones: News Office, 602; Business Office, 374, MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS % P | < exclusively entitled to the use for | Dese islands was beginning ‘to exceed the capacity cep ted to 1t or not guher . dlaids 2 wise Pever and ‘lso the lookl fibws pabliuned |(°1 ‘e dslandk to BSUHGLG LieHE herein. N GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER ANY OTHER PUBLICATION. ALASKA CIRCULATIC THAN THAT OF 5 27 a thousand—or just a little more than the \merican birthrate of a quarter of a century ago. plan has therefore been set on foot in Tokyo ) persuade Japanese women to have five children dsicce instead of ‘“enjoying their own lives only.” he reason for this proposal, as explained by the Japanese, is that more Japanese are needed in order to occupy and administer the new congues! r Perhaps one of these explanations is valid. And { perhaps the author of “Alice in Wonderland,” if he, | were still alive, would be able to get the Mad Hatter | | National Newspaper Representa Los Angeles, Portlanc GEORGE D. CLOSE. Inc. ew York and Boston, SEATTLE RE Gilbert A. Wellington, 101 American Bank Bu to fit them together, The Great Miscalculation | CEdea i | (New York Times) The strange lull in the bombardment of Britain makes Londoners more uneasy than the accustomed hail of fire and brimstone. Since time now runs | against Hitler, they figure that any rest must be a | prologue to the long-expected and long-deferred | knockout blow he must deliver soon or not at all This breathing space may be merely ominous, a igmlmmg of forces for the fateful lunge, But if a ' Job s | this is the explanation, why the simultaneous pause on an Army or Navy defense base project in Alaska.| i, the Axis drive on every front? It cannot be co- Not so the citizen who was born in this country.!jncidence alone that Hitler's answer to Marshal All the naturalized citizen has to do to establish|Petain’s terms of “collaboration” is so long overdue, he is a citizen and therefore eligible for vmplo,\'-hmn nothing happens in Spain, that all moves in A LAW FOR ALASKANS A naturalized citizen finds it easy to get ment is to ww his naturalization papers, which|the Balkans are suspended, that the British Army every naturalized citizen keeps at hand. The citizen |cf the Nile continues to chase and round up the Ital- born in America, on the other hand, is not allowed|lan armies in Libya and Eritrea while the Luftwaffe to work on one of these projects unless he can pro- |2ased on Sicily withholds further aid to its tottering duce | certificate, and in many cases this is| &Y Why? Only one thing is clear in the rout of impos - | the Italians in Africa. That the armies did not re-| Those born in Alaska, our own people, are par-|treat but waited at point after point to be captured | ticularly handicapped by this requirement, for births by thousands is a mystery that suggests widespread were not recorded systematically on this raw fron- disaffection not only in the troops but in the com-! tier until com recently. Most native-born mand. But it is abundantly clear now that Italy Alaskans are unable to prove they are citizens of the|Wwas in no condition to fight when she entered the . they can, they are not allowed | War. Material, oil, supplies of all kinds are as lack- U ing as fighting spirit, and this means that Mussolini U ited Stales to work on the Army or Navy construction jobs in|™ s declared war only when he thought the war was P -~ over. The miscalculation for which he is yet to pay| To make it possible for these men-without-a- |the full price was the same fatal error France made country to establish their rights as U. S. citizens, | when she surrendered. The French and the Italians| Territorial Auditor Frank A. Boyle has sponsored and |believed that Britain was done for; both made lhexr! Rep. Harvey J. Smith of Ancherage has introduced own decisions on the assumption that the British in the Legislature a bill providing for the issuance would never fight on alone. of delayed birth certificates to Alaskans. The bill Undoubtedly Hitler based all his strategy on the provides that such certificates may be obtained upon Same mistake. If he had expected the British to affidavits sworn to before a qualified officer. Suf- Dold out, he would have struck at the islands when; they seemed to be at his mercy, after the French| Army collapsed and the unequipped and disorgan- 1,‘“““‘5 De _N"u] “? i “?"'. Tw" ' jzed British forces were stag;rif):e under the :low., fact, native-born Alaskans he affidavits must 1t pe has not moved in all the months since then| @plain fully the relationship, if any, of the person|with the force he let loose in Poland and France, it executing the certificate to the child, the source of must be because he, too, was unprepared for a war| the information upon which the affidavit is based lwith England. Had he been ready he would not and, whereved possible, corroboration by two witnesses have waited; and the longer he waits the greater who know facts United States Commissioners| must be his striking force to meet the mounting risk are charged with examining carefully such delayed'of failure. they sufficient ficient safeguards are provided to prevent such cer- are the certificates to see in form and substance are N R Our own private sources about the meeting be- The bill is & good one and there Is great mwx‘m:f"mH:::’llagicgrf:;mm?i:i ?{rslhhih::pllg ::::fl for its passage at this time. Alaskans should not be ' yonthc This came when Hitler slapped Musso“n’;; deprived of the chance to work on projects in their on the shoulder and assured him that the Germans own Territory just because they born in & thought Italy a nice place to visit but they would country and at a time in which systematic pro- never want to live there. were agreed that Wallace will be every- MERRY-GO-ROUND It has now been dicovered that since 1920 the! apanese birthrate has dropped from 36 a thousand | | attire will | HAPPY BIRTHBAY FEBRUARY 17 M. H. Sides Arthur L. Riendeau Ed- Jones Doris Ann Bartlett Richard L. Schultz Wilbur B. Converse Mrs. A. B. Rogers Mrs. T. L. Robbins ¢ E. L. Hicks P BT SRR, 7L (RS “The stars incline but do not compel” | i i b b b o | SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 8 Benefic aspects slightly dominate | in the horoscope for today, which should be fortunate for cohferences | with bankers or men who exercise authority in high positions. It is also auspicious for consultations | with heads of government work. Heart and Home: Women should | concern themselves in the service| of others under this configutration,| which is not promising for their| personal ambitions. This is a favor-| able date for entertaining, lucky for extending informal hospitali- ties. Girls should concentrate ‘upon practical matters in thé ' home which should be more and more appreciated as the blessings of| our precarious peace are colnted.| The stars presage heartaches in love affairs for the young as de-| fense training absorbs eligible young men, Business Affairs: Trade and com- merce continue to expand as mar- kets for American products multi- ly and needs increase with the progress of winter. Heavy storms, and severe weather may delay transportation. Blizzards will cause loss of stock on western rapches.| Merchants and manufacturers will continue to reap profits. Growth, of American influence in fashion designing and the making of .smart bring large profits to, New York and Hollywood. National Issues: Agitation for full equal rights with meu,(wxl]' cause opposition as well as com-| mendation for leaders of a femin- ist movement. This will be signifi- cant in view of the defense and postwar demands for women in many vocations. Since women have had the franchise it has been taken for granted that their status is the, same as that of men voters,, but many laws still restrict the wives| and daughters of the United States. | International Affairs: Stalin as-| sumes the shape of fear and con- tinues to annoy Hitler by main-| taining an inscrutable attitude to- | HE EMPIRE 20 YEARS AGO 73 FEBRUARY 7, 1921 Mayor R. E. Robertson, accompanied by Mrs. Robertson, was to arrive on the Princess Mary after an absence from the city of several weeks. Walter Schaffner, appointed by United States Attorney James A. Smiser as his assistant to take the place of James L. Backstrom, resigned, | was due to arrive on the Princess Mary from his home in Seattle, | Mrs. Arvid Franzen, acompanied by two of her daughters, left on |the Spokane for Seattle where Mr. Franzen and several other of the children had been for several weeks. ¢ E Charles H. Flory, Superintendent for Alaska for the Forest Service, left for his headquarters at Ketchikan on the Spokane. i P. J. Casey, limekeeper for the Perseverance Mine, left on the Spokane {on his vacation to Washington and California. Capt. C. S. Ward, Disbursing Officer for the Alaska Road Commis- |sion, accompanied by Mrs. Ward, was to arrive on the Princess Mary from Seattle, | HOROSCOPE | Edward Patzold, a miner, who had been taking a vacation in Cali- fornia, returned to Juneau on the Spokane. James Joyce, a mining man of this section, was to arrive on the Princess Mary after a short visit in the south. ‘Weather: Highest, 38; lowest, 37; rain. e .2 S - Daily Lessons in English % 1. corpox e e - - o) ‘WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “They have scarcely none.” Say, “They have scarcely ANY.” OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Familiar. fa-mil-i-ar. OFTEN MISSPELLED: Pharaoh. Observe the AOH, pronounced O. SYNONYMS: Repeal, recall, rescind, revoke, abolish, cancel. 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: DISCURSIVE; passing irom one subject to another; ranging over a wide Pronounce fa-mil-yer, not field. “The power he (Shakespeare) delights to show is not intense, but discursive."—Hazlitt. | | MODERN ETIQUETTE *” poperra 1em < Q. Should a girl apologize, when dancing, and she seems unable to follow her partner properly? A. No. It is the man’s place to accept all responsibility for any missteps or mishaps while daneing. Q. chould the typewriter he used for all business letters? A. Yes, because a hand-written letter, unless very legible, will prove irksome to a busy man.. Q. When a person you dislike wishes to do you a favor, what should you do? A. Thank the person graciously and say that it isn't necessary. o e e A > - R gk o e e i j LOOK and LEAR K’ c. GORDON - s - s e e e o) 1. From which side is it customary to mount a horse? 2. Who asked, “Am I my brother's keeper?” 3. Which star is nearer the earth, Venus or Mars? 4. What is an agio? 5. What islands are known as the “Crossroads of the Pacific”? ANSWERS: 1. Left side. | 2. Cain. 3. Venus. 4. A premium or percentage paid for the exchange of one currency for another. (Pronounce aj-i-0). 5. Hawaiian Islands. Washinqlon thing that Garner wasn’t. Garner used to make his appearance for the The question of whether Prime|ward the changing events in Eu-| Minister Churchill ever made a|rope. Russia will continue to be| Merry- Go-Round opening at noon, stay for ten min- utes, then disappear. Wallace will start at noon and stay on the job, statement blaming the United States for the rise of Nazism has been| thrashed out in Congress, and the —_— really running the Senate in a repeated and emphatic denials of «Continued from Page Oue) conscientious manner. Churchill have been made a part 9 DA E L) But what Garner did after he of the Congressional Record. . . . tor, Reed was Solicitor General, left the chamber, Wallace will fail The Continental Congress came to do. Garner was a mixer, a mixer of men and a wmixer of drinks. His backstage work was enough to, put any bill across—or to kill it within one vote of making Ger-| man, rather than English the of- ficial language of the colonies . . Frankfurter a law professor, Doug las a law professor and SEC Ad- ministrator; while Murphy, a Gov- \are prognosticated for 1942. an enigma. The Russian pact with| Germany was made under an ad-| verse planetary rule which presaged | discord between the two totalitar- jian rulers. Within this year a dramatic change of policy is fore- cast for the Soviet government which will be especially powerrul\ in May, but trouble and bloodshed | Persons whose birthdate it s The words used by TVA Director Lilienthal ernor and Attorney General, also had served as a recorder’s court| As one Senator put it, “Garner’s in warning Wisconsin u in Detroit, | office was the only place in the against soil depletion were: "The[ ,,,,, | Senate wing where we could al- same process of depletion of min- 3 : ¢ | ways count on getting 'a drink. We erals in the soil that has brought OLD FISH STORY know we can’'t count on Wallace the South to its present unhappy Life Magazine recently published what it called “the prize fish story about the President which has never been made public.” ! “Roosevelt hooked a sailfish,” Life for that.” ‘economlc status is at work steadily | and inexorably in Wisconsin and | the Middle West.” . . . A horoscope | reading on John L. Lewis which was sent to us was to the effect INCOME TAX CONSCIENCES With the arrival of open season continued, “which, in fighting, had for income taxes the public con- i i worked the line into a noose. A science begins to hurt. People send ?qu:: afirij&;dgcfi? :i:l l?trec?:;: second sailfish came along, swamn money to the Treasury, with no tween January and June, 1941 into the noose and tightened this name attached, to square old debts.' After that, however, there are somé around its bill. The hooked fish From San Francisco came a let- very sudden changés with the re- then got a but Roosevelt puiled ter containing $193 and the words, (yry of old comactsl and associa- in the second fish which he had “A mistake in 1935. Penalty and tions, and very definite financial finally lassoed by its bill.” Just two years and a half earlier, on August 23, 1938, Life's hitherto unpublished story appeared in The ‘Washington Merry-Go-Round as follows: One of the fish's leaps developed a big loop in the line. At that moment another giant sailfish zoomed out of water and was; lassoed by the Joop. The furious thrashing of the hooked fish tight- d the loop, caught under the fin, The! strain on the line was too much and the hooked fish broke away leaving the lassoed fish still firm- ly lassoed. the er other fish’s dorsal | interest at 6 percent.” |4 4 " | From Norwich, Conn, an anony- m?:;?::‘ W L 5 yright, 1941, by United Fea- mous taxpayer sent in $15. From yre Syndicate, Inc.) Morris, Ill, a blind contribution it 7 ) of $8. From Phoenix, Arizona, $1.80 -this coming from a regular and tequent canrionior. .+ MISSING MAN FOUND A woman in New York sent $100 ’ with a note saying, “I am divorced | BY MARSHAI‘ S OFFICE from my husband and have not e kept track of income. So I am| The United States Marshal's of sending you more than I would|fice this morning announced that have to.” they had found George Johnson, All such money goes to the rn.eas_‘missln;.{ man who was asked yes- urys “conscience fund.” Total re-|!erday to communicate with his ceipts, since the time of President family in Seattle regarding the seri- Madison, $647,563.98. ous illness of his mother. Johnson is an employee of the Al- ' el ‘ aska-Juneau mine, and informed the NDSOME SSE NES Marshal's offic is wi X THE NEW VICE PRESIDENT | Doris Fleeson, winsome woman of | this morning. ;0;::5 (:;::e;eo:t‘:'l: Senator Vandenberg of Michigan | the press, encountered Secretary of | received today stated that Johnson's dropped into the Vice President’s. Commerce Jesse Jones in the cor-| mother had died late yesterday from private office ju before ' Henry | ridors of the State Department. |pneumonia. Wallace girdi; himself to Looking up into the big man‘s‘ st make his debut us President of the big face, Miss Fleeson said, “Mr.| HOONAH SCHOOLS CLOSE Senate. He found Wallace it certainly is refreshing! According to word received today Senate chaplain, Rev, some pulchritude in the|by the Office of Indian Affairs, the Phiilips, | Cabinet at last!” | Bureau Sch oonal 1 Vandenberg looked at the two! Jones looked blank. Then he! closed beca'fii’l zérflmnu:n;u l?‘xetetl; men, apparently trying to decide cleared his throat and said, “Pul- percent of the population m};uug,. which was the more devout, Josh- chritude? What's that?” ing Rev. Phillips, he said We “Why,” said Doris, “that means| e won't need you any more. Henry good looks.” Wallace can offer the prayer” In Senate circles it is generally fully |80y Alaska newspaper. | g from a mild type of the disease { head the U, S, Maritime Com: The Lauy Alasks Empire guaran. |rine. His job: To @versee Jesse blushed, deep and beauti- tees the largest dally circulation of | tion of the expanded_ have the augury of a year of much MEN WHO ARM AMERICA: 10 ADM. EMORY S. LAND Man behind U. S. shop expansion is Admiral Emory 8. Land, ship- building director of the U. S. De- fense Commission. He has had a storybook career. Born in the semi-arid Colofado- Wyoming cow country, Land be- came an outstanding seadog. Pre- cocious, he won a master'’s degree at 18, was the only MA. =ver to enroll at Annapolis, The “brain boy” also was a star athlete, scor- ing the touchdown that beat Army | treme good fortune. exci"v.en;ent. Much gain and éven wealth are foreseen. Upheavals and attempts at fraud may attend ex- Army Food Belfer “Than U. §. Average NEW YORK, Feb. 7.—The Unit- ed States Army now eais better than the great majority of this country’s population, Dr. Mary Garmo Bryan, director of institu- tional management at the Columbia University, told the Associated Gro- cery Manufacturers of America in convention at the Waldorf-Astoria | Hotel. “It is safe to assume that hundreds of thousands of American young men are now about to in- Children born on this day will be popular and fairly fortunate. They should be extremely talent- ed wud energetic. Girls will be mag- neuc and charming with power to rule men. (Copyright, 1941) R S G. L. WILDES IS BACK FROM SITKA Gordon L. Wildes, Senior Planning Technician for the National Re- sources Planning Board, returned |crease their present food consump- here on the Motorship Northland.|tion to a remarkable extent,” she Wildes had been on a short trip to | continued. Sitka in connection with local city P i PR planning. Empire Classifieds Pay! PHONE 374 GLACIER HIGHWAY DELIVERY DAILY TRIPS COAL——WOO0D LUMBER —— GROCERIES in 1900, despite his small stature. He became the Navy's top author- ity on ship design. Doubly decorat- ed after war service on Admiral Sims' staff for improving Sub-| marine design. Picked by FDR. to sion, rejuvenate the merchant] fleet. PHONE 374 . “SHORTY" * . WHITFIELD 1A e Directory Professienal Fraternal Soslesles | Drs. Kaser and Freeburger ENTISTS Blr agren Bullding PHONE 56 — % Dr. A. W. Stewart DENTIST 20TH CENTURY BUILDING Office Phone 469 —_ 4 | Dr. Judson Whittier Drugless Physician Office hours: 10-12; 1-5, 7-9 Rooms 2- Triangle Bldag. Dr. John H. 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