The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 6, 1941, Page 4

I)aul) Alaska Emplre Published every evening except Sunday by the 3 AN’ President FLEN TROY - -President and Business Manager K. L. BERNAR e Post Office in Juneau ns Second Class Matter SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Delivered by carrier in Juneau and Douglas for $1.25 per month By mail, postage paid, at the following rates: ance, $12.00; six months, in advance, $6.00; Entered Ir , $1.25 coufer a favor if they will promptly notsd, of any failure or iUrregularity ‘m e de livery of r papecs Telephones: News UIfice, 603, Bastaess Office, 374, MEMBER OF ASS\/CIATED PRESS ted Press is exclusively entitled to the use for ajl news dispatches credited to it or not other- fhis paper and also the local news published The Asse republicatio wise credite herein ALASKA CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION. GEORGE D. CLOSE, Inc, National Newspaper Representa- tives, with offices in_San Francisco, Los Angeles, Portland, Beatile, Chicago, New York and Boston. SEATTLE REPRESENTATIVE—Gilbert A. Wellington, 1011 American Bank Buflding. HALIBUT AND DEMOCRACY This week Juneau has been host to the Halibut stry Curtailment Board, which has been work- ing out a voluntary program for regulating the sea- son’s catch, Delegates are here from six ports and two nations, for fishermen and vessel owners from Prince Rupert and Vancouver are among the mem- bers of the Board That is a fine word “voluntary.” It is one which has application today only in the Western Hemi- sphere. In Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia, war has deleted the word from the dictionary. Nothing is done voluntarily in warring countries or countries where totalitarianism is the ruling force. Every- ! thing, even the smallest detail of daily civilian life, is a matter of compulsion, So when halibut fishermen from two nations can get together amicably and work out their prob- lems—and they are many and difficult—around a conference table where good fellowship and amity reign, we have a fine example of democracy in action. These men prove that democracy can be effective, where compulsion fails. Free peoples meet, say exactly what they please, work out their own prob- lems to their own satisfaction and have no fear of a Gestapo or other vengeful secret police hover- ing over them to punish disaffection, Last night at the banquet which local fisher- men and vessel owners held to honor their visitors, 50 men stood and sang first one verse of “America” and then one of “God Save the King.” For some of us it was the first time we had ever sung the Jatter. But we found it easy to cross an ocean and two centuries and slip from one verse into the other. It is symbolic of the unity of free peoples | everywhere that even their songs are identical. The Canadians here for the Board meeting would be indistinguishable from Alaskans. They are no more Englishmen than we are, having names like Anderson, Dyphavn and Giske, and the rich Scandinavian brogue of halibut fishermen every- where. It is only by accident that these men are citizens of a country now at war, while we remain THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, THURSDAY, MARCH 6, 1941. We are all immigrants to this new ‘free They happened to come to The Canadians Catching at peace. world of the Americas. Canada and we to the United States. are deeply engrossed in their war effort. halibut is part of it. The importance of the halibut industry to Alaska and particularly Juneau is not generally appreciated. More than a quarter of a million dollars is brought .0 this port each year by the sturdy boats and hard working men of the halibut fishery. They are a great community asset. There is one trouble which the halibut INAUSITY | @uesemms o cemeemsem oo does not have and that is trouble between employer and employee. By meeting and understanding one another the vessel owner and the fisherman avoid misunderstanding. and suspicion, instead working cogether in cooperation. Airplane Production (New York Times) The fact is allowed to become public (this is he way one must state the matter, since no official sublicly sponsors the announcement) that production of military planes in the United States rose to a .otal of 1,002 in January. As this compares with production of 799 military planes in December, an- nounced by Mr. Biggers of the Defense Commission, .he result is on'the surface gratifying. But as these figures draw no distinction between trainers and combat planes, or one type of combat plane and another, it is difficult to know how to interpret them. It is close to meaningless to present a total which lumps together a 4,000-pound train- ing plane with a bomber which,may weigh 44,000 pounds and may cost as much as 20 or 40 trainers. It has also been allowed to become public, how- ever—though again without official public sponsor- ship for the statement—that “60 percent” of this January production was combat planes of various types and the rest trainers. If this means what it seems to mean—60 percent by number—then it is very easy to figure that there must have been about 600 combat planes turned out and some 400 trainers. If this is what is meant, what harm would have been done by publishing the figures directly? If, on the other hand, tfle “60 percent” applies to .ome other type of measurement, such as dollar value, tonnage or horsepower, then it would be mis- leading the American people to make it public at all without stating this fact The Administration has still to follow some con- sistent plan of publicity with regard to the state of our defenses, Nothing is gained merely by allowing a few cryptic figures to leak out through a back door. While certain details and analyses may prop- erly be withheld on grounds of military secrecy, the public is entitled to know how the defense program is progressing in its main outlines. Reports of pro- gress should be officially sponsored, and at least full enough to be reasonably meaningful Year for Western Travel | e (Seattle Times) | There is no question the coming summer will {be another big year for travel in the West. In fact, with income turning up and more cash to spend, it is distinctly possible it may be the biggest year this section of the country ever has known. .Tourist business has become a standard item of business all over the country. No transportation agency that does not profit from it; no section that does not reap benefits, Restless, the tides sweep to the west and to the east, to the riorth and to the south: }Evervwhere, people seek something new and jaunt along to find it. Needless to say, Seattle and Wash- ington will be in the forefront this year seeking this trade. Every summer, it brings millions in the Pa- cific Northwest. This year, it will assure this sec- | tion more visitors and more cash than they ever had enjoyed before. | | Italian students are demonstrating against de- mocracy. They apparently feel that it is just some- thing to run away from. { demonstrations in | Wathinglon Merry- Go-Round all visitors lined floor, and admit ‘ time. U. 8. TURKI leries last week, Capitol police keep ing to do with starting them. They were begun as regular pro- up on the lower| Jjects by the U. S. Housing Author- only a few at a|ity and were shifted to defense purposes when USHA saw they were urgently needed. There are 1683 units in these projects located at the Senate gal- SH EXPERT (Continued from Page Oue) Cordell Hull has just elevated to Assistant Secretary of State the t‘ man who comes closer to being a that they could not possibly resis monk than anyone in the State De- Hitler unless the Turks would partment. fand wis ithem. | G. Howland Shaw is a bachelor Meantwhile, however, Nazi diplo-|,r 47 Born a Protestant, he was| macy had been at work in Turkey | conyerted to Cathoiicism as a young —this time under the astute direc-| nan anq even after he had en- tion of Ambassador Franz von Pa-|joraq the foreign service, he con- pen, who got his first real experi- sidered leaving diplomacy to study ence in diplomacy in the United o tne priesthood. States. He served as military at- ‘ Before tackling the worldly bus- tache of the German Embassy|inecs of statecraft each morning, during World War I, and was ac- gphaq goes to mass. He never goes tive in plots to blow up the Wel-| 5t socially in the evening, but land Canal, the International stays at home to study. Bridge and various munitions| ghaw has dealt with young peo- paniy !ple” all his life, and he combines Since then von Papen has risen the worldliness of a diplomat with high, has served as Chancellor of tfe tenderness of a priest. He uses Germany, and is now the man who his holidays to visit prisons and has been trying to persuade Turkey homes for delinquent boys. He is to remain neutral. |a director of the Children’s Vil- The bait which von Papen used lage (for juvenile delinquents) in to get Turkey on the hook was the Dobbs ¥erry, N. Y, and of the promise of the restoration of the National Training School for Boys Turkish Empire — French Syria, in Washington. British Palestine, and everything| Shaw's interest in prison reform se right down to Iraq, Thiswould began when he was serving as a include some of the richest oil, foreign service officer in Turkey, fields in the Near East. | and he became so identified with Meanwhile the British are pulling| the problem there that the Turk-| vigorously in the opposite direcion. jlsh Government named its island iprison “Shaw Island.” CAPITAL CHAFF State Department has hired a new officer for liaison work with; Typical of the failure of the de- War and Navy Departments —‘ fense Thousing program is tiny Kenneth Anderson, the man whom Charlestown, Ind., where the Gov- Congressman Andrew May of Ken-| ernment is completing a giant tucky fired after longtime service| powder plant and preparing to as clerk of House Military Amnrs‘\erect a rubber-bag plant. Formerly Ex-Senator King of Utah vis- a hamlet of . less than 1,000, med the Senate the other day, sat|Charlestown now has over. 12,000 in his old seat, and itched with construction workers living in the impulse to rise and address| trailers and other makeshift dwell- the chamber Blind ex-Senator ings, or commuting from 40 miles Gore of Oklahoma came into the| away over icy roads. chamber on the arm of a page and| Congress appropriated several listened with uplifted face and rapt expression to the debate . . . The new statue of Huey Long still wears a shroud, awaiting formal presentation to Statuary Hall in DEFENSE HOUSING provide emergency housing, Palmer was Housing Coordinator at $9,000 a year for the express purpose of and hundred millions last summer to| appointed Defense | Montgomery, Ala., Pensacola, Fla. Corpus Christi, Tex., Portsmouth, Va., Columbus, Ga., and Fort Mo- line, 111, Defense Homes Corporation, a $10,000,000 RFC agency created last August, has been little more ef- | fectual than Palmer. Sam Husband, a banker friend whom Commerce Secretary Jesse Jones installed as head of the Defense Housing Cor- poration, had no previous housing experfence and has run his agency like a counting house, Although working at the job nearly six months, Husband has just started his first project, at Jacksonville, Fla, and even this wasn't on his own initiative. The undertaking was organized locally | before he took hold of it. l NOTE—In one of his grandilo- quent press releases the other day, Palmer declared, “One of the many problems bearing upon the effici- ency of defense production is ade- quate housing for defense and re- lated workers and their dependents. If satisfactory dwelling places are not available within reasonable commuting distances of employ- ment, production efficiency will be materially reduced.” (Copyright, 1941, by Uhited Fea- | ture Syndicate, Inc.) Sculptor Borglum Passes On (Continued from Page One) | to complete the work. In connection with his dismissal, Mr. Borglum and his superintendent | were charged in warrants with mal- icious intent in models the Capitol . . . The Sergeant-at- Arms of the House offers Congress- men the assistance of two experts in preparing their income tax statements , . . Following isolation ‘been completed—and he_had noth-| seeing that the job was done. To orial, date, he has a large staff of hmh-‘mt:;:::; He d ::Cemt.\:l:‘; salaried assistants, but so far only| | destroyed his #haccurate workin six defense housing projects have‘model of the pfofect because of his| belief in “the hu.nensble rights of ml MARCH mmmmmm L. 12 19 26 HAPPY BlRTHDAY } MARCH 6 Linda Lavold Martha S. Roach William Ralph Young Jr. Bert A. Lybeck Walter W. Sands Gustaf H. Lundell Douglas J. Oliver Barbara MacSpadden Russell McConnell -— 4 HOROSCOPE “The stars incline but do not compel” -— ¢ FRIDAY, MARCH 17 Good and evil are presaged in; the horoscope for today. In the morning the judgment should not be trusted. It is not a favorable | date for starting any project. The| evening is lucky for discussing con- tracts or partnerships. Heart and Home: Women should | pursue routine tasks under this| configuration which stimulates in-| terest in practical matters. Girls should be taught all the domestic arts and should be trained in wage- earning vocations, for the seers prophesy in a changed world the need for all members of a family to be self-supporting. Since the World War there has been too general an indulgence in luxuries. Emphasis upon physical beauty has had bad effects upon many vain women who are to suffer extremc mutations of fortune. Business Affairs: Defense work is to put an intense strain upnn industry as the spring advances Government direction will be ef-} ficient and will inspire whole- hearted cooperation on the part of capital and labor. There js a sign presaging differences of opin- ion regarding policies which may cause changes in the personnel of| certain new government agenciés, Fear of inflation will disturh| bankers and financiers as prices begin to rise for many commodi- ties. | weddings. 20 YEARS AGO é‘r%lmE EMPIRE District Superintendent for the Alaska Road Commis- al Watson for Seattle on an official busi- Dan Jones, | sion, left on the steamer Admir: ness trip. Robert Shonwald, proprietor of the American Bakery, was preparing for a busy season and carpenters and others were at work making many changes in his establishment on Front Street. Eiler Hansen, of Sitka, made application before United States District Judge Robert W. Jennings for admission to the bar. | After an unusually successful year at their gold quartz mine at Pearl | Harbor, about twenty miles north of Juneau, Mrs. J. G. Peterson and two daughters, Misses Irma and Margaret, arrived in the city and were to spend a month here. | Walter W. Lukens, with the Alaska Road Commission, left on the Alameda for Seward. Atorney A. J. Dimond, of Valdez, who had been in Juneau for several days on professional business, left on the Admiral Watson for Seattle W. T. Lopp, Chief of the Alaska Division of the Bureau of Educa- tion, was to arrive here on the steamer City of Seattle for a conference on educational matters with Commissioner of Education L. D. Henderson and Gov. Thomas Riggs. Weather: 43; lowest Highest, st, 37; partly cloudy. e . e - O e 0 Daily Lessons in English %, 1. corpon WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “T shall return directly” if \uu mean “T shall return SOON.” OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Secondhand. Accent first and last syl- lables, and do not say “second-handED.” OFTEN MISSPELLED: Domineering. Observe the EE. SYNONYMS: Orgy, debauchery, carousal, drunken revelry. WORD STUDY: “Use a word three times and it is your Let us increase our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Today’s word: TURPITUDE; inherent baseness; depravity. “It was occasioned by direct moral turpitude.” e e o | MODERN ETIQUETTE ** poperra vim Q. May a bride wear a white dre: in a magistrate’s office? A. No. The traditional white is reserved for She should wear her going-away dress, Is it necessary that a guest say goodnight to his hostess at a and a veil when being married church and home Q large dance? A. The guests often leaves without saying goodnight, but it is far better manners to seek out the hostess and thank her for the pleasure she has given. Q. What is the French phrase for man? A. MON CHER. “My dear” ..-_...,.._..._...__.__._...._..-. —— s s o National Issves: Strikes will he much discussed in their relation to preparedness programs. Retard- ing of work on government con-| tracts will be made a serious of- | fense, as the necessity for extreme | speed in the building of airplones| and the expansicn of effort on all| wartime producis are er phnsxzed‘} by an international incident. The stars are read as presaging acluali entrance of the United States into| the war by a sudden move of the! Axis powers which cannot be ig-|i nored. International . Affairs: Feeding of | starving war victims is to cause an unexpected reaction on the part of Germany and may bring about| a curious situation, it is forecast. Need will be so great that ade-| quate relief cannot be delivered rapidly enough to prevent faumine and disease. It may be impos to transport sufficient supplies to meet the grave conditions in Eu- rope and China. Persons whose birthdate it is have the augury of a year of pros- perity and good fortune, Happi- ness in the home and pleasant journeys are foreseen. Children born on this day prob- ably will be lucky in love as well as in material possessions. They will be talented and kindly. (Copyright, 1941) an artist:in his own creation.” Great Contract Another of Mr. Borglum's great undertakings was a contract to carve large figures of Washington Jeeffer- son, Lincoln and Roosevelt in the |Black Hills of South Dakota. This monument. was dedicated to Amer- ica as a pioneer nation. Two notable works of Mr. Borg- \lum are the war memorial “Wars of America” and the statue of Lincoln both at Newark, N. J. The former was said to be the largest bronze completion and one of the largest m the world. The Lincoln statue is one of his most popular and perhaps the most photographed statue of the Great Emanipator. The design makes it possible for a number of people to, gather about the statue in such a manner that a picture of the group gives the appearance of them listen- ing to a serious talk by Lincoln. Born In Idaho Borglum was born in Idaho March 25, 1867, the son of Dr. James de la Mothe Borglum and Cristne Mich- elson Borglum. The sculptor, whose full name was John Gutzon de la Mnthe Borglum, had been called a citizen of the world because he had lived in several states of the union as well as England, France and Spain. He was educated at Jullan Academy and Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris, and St. Mary's College in Kansas. In May, 1919, he mawiea Maty Williams Montgomery of New ‘ork. He was a brother of Solonu | ‘Hannibal ‘Borglum who also was @ noted sculptor. group in America at the time of-its | LOOK and LEARNA C. GORDON e e S D s o) What precious stone ranks next to the diamond in hardness? ‘What is peat? What is “embonpoint”? What is the meaning of the Spanish word “manana”? What is a dory? ANSWERS: SappHire. Partially decayed and compacted remains of mosses and other | i’narsh plants, and which is used chiefly for fuel. 3. Plumpness, 4. Tomorrow. 5. A flat-bottomed rowboat used by fishermen. CAL.DEMOS IN FOR IT California’s Democratic Party is suffering from “growing pains” fol- Jowing decades of G. O. P. ascendancy in the state, according to Ed- ward J. Flynn, Democratic National Committee Chairman. National Democratic heads are preparing to subject warring elements of the state party to a mild spanking, he hinted. Flynn is pictured, left, with W. M. M.llone, State Committee Chlflllll. ll the ; swing: There is no subsliiu!e for Newspaper Adveflxmg L e e e | when addressing a 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. 147 Second and fourth Monday of each month £ in Scottish Rite Temple X\ beginning at 7:30 p. m. VERGNE L. 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