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

Daily Alaska Empi o Published every evening except Sundag by the EMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY Second and Main Streets, Juneau, Alaska. MELEN TROY BENDER R. L. BERNARD Entered in the Pnsl Office in Juneau as Second Class Matter. UBSCRIPTION RATES: Delivered by carrier “in Janosn and Douglas for £1.25 per month. | By postage paid, at the following rates: One year, in advance, §12.00; six months, in advance, $6.00; one month, in advance, $1.25 Subscribers will confer a favor if they will promptly notify | the Business Office of any faflure or irregularity in the de- Uvery of their papers. Telephones: News Office, 602; Business Office, 374. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all uews dispatches credited to it or not other- wise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein " ALASKA CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION. President Vice-President and Business Manager | GEORGE D. CLOSE, Inc, National Newspaper Representa- tives, with offices in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Portland, Beattle, Chicaso, New York and Boston. SEATTLE REPRESENTATIVE — Frank J. Dunning, 1011 American Bank Building. SHUTTERS FOR THE LAMPS OF LEARNING Even through the censorship, we have heard a great deal about hunger, repression and brutality in the nations which have been overrun by Nazi con- querors. But we have heard very little—though we have feared the worst—about what has happened to the great institutions of learning in Europe, the lights of the spirit and of science. We find abundant, and very sad, testimony on this point in the annual report of the Rockefeller Foundation, which over many years has tried to carry on its work regardless of flags or boundary lines. The Foundation has seen education on the continent wither under subjection, uncertainty and fear. “To sit by and watch the disappearance or decadence or, worse, the perversion of institutions of learning which in earlier and better years we were privileged to assist is not an easy assignment,” reports the Foundation. In the decade that followed the war these free institutions of Europe gave high promise in public health, in medicine, and in the natural and social sciences. The Institute of Hygiene at Warsaw, the Institute of Public Health at Prague, the Kaiser Wilhelm Gesellschaft in Berlin, the Institute of Psy-| chiatry at Munich, the Institute of Inorganic Chem- istry at Gottingen—these were a few of many or- ganizations, in a world where thought was free, to which the Foundation gave needed assistance. Even more difficult is it to see brilliant men driven from the posts for which they were trained, debarred fromi their laboratories, some of them fusi-! tives, some in concentration camps, many of them separated from their families or lost in foreign countries where they sought haven. The development of the war has had the further effect of driving back several of the Foundation’s outposts established in connection with its own operating program around the world. office has been closed and the S8hanghai office trans- ferred to Manila. A temporary office has been opened in Lishon. Personnel has had to be recalled from Egypt where work was being carried on in malaria and schistosomiasis; ing; from Rumania where scarlet fever studies were being conducted; and from Hungary, which was a station for influenza research. However, Pbundauoni personnel is still operating on the Burma Road, in India, in South China, in the Belgian Congo, in Uganda (Central Africa), in Spain and Portugal, and of course in Latin America. Says Dr. Raymond B. Fosdick, President of the WPA foreman Mexico Reyes Sena Jr. clerk in General ing Office (Ooudnued from Page Oue) the fact that the Serbian people chose war, remembering 1914 and kzowing that exactly the same fate nwaited them -again. Work clerk John A. Werner, postmaster at que, N. M. Total yearly NEPOTISM CHAMPION Senator Dennis Chavez was hit-| ting closer to home than most peo- ple realized when during the lend- lease debate, he asserted that pas-| sage of the aid-Britain measure |8 sibility has vanished. The Paris| from Turkey where Foundation men were engaged in sanitary engineer- | rigation and drainage pro- Ject financed largely with Federal (RFC) funds . Reyes Sena, brother-in-law, Juan Nuanes, cousin, Pul Administration cluding Chavez's $10,000 LABOR SABOTAGE Most tragic thing about the pres- Foundation, in a statément accompanying his an- nual report: “In the shadows that are deepening over Europe the lights of learning are fading one by one. The conception of knowledge as an international respon- The free flow of ideas across !'boundary lines between laboratories and universities has dried up. Everywhere the exigencies of the war | have erased the possibility of intellectual and cul- | tural life as that term was understood a few years | ago.” | On the Continent, as distinguished from Great | gremeemcmmcencancascascascmoancass ‘Brltain the situation during the last year has rapid- ly deteriorated. The year 1941 finds a large number of universities and institutes closed, and many others | working under conditions scarcely tolerable. As }German forces have moved into one country after | another a definite pattern has’ been followed in re- |lation to the universities and other schools. Allowed )nt first to continue with their work, their teaching and student activities were closely supervised by the | German authorities. The supervision involved an attempt to enforce a “cultural program” similar to that already imposed by the Nazis on German insti- tutions. Where this attempt was resisted, as it fre- quently was, the measures of r’eprcss\an adopted by the occupying authorities included the closing of the institutions, sending faculties to concentration camps and even breaking up student demonstrations with machine guns and tanks. In two Czechoslovak universities during the win- ter of 1939-40 hundreds of students were imprisoned and many were shot.: Finally the universities were closed and most of the student body was deported for forced labor in Germany. In Holland in 1940, as in Poland in 1939, there were many arrests and de- portations of students and professors. Similarly in the Norwegian universities the German. attempts to enforce the Nazi cultural pattern have been marked by the frequent arrests and disappearances of pro- fessors and students alike. Belgium's four univer- sities were all permitted to reopen in October, but severe restrictions were imposed upon the University of Brussels and upon the Catholic University of Louvain, whose library was completely and appar- ently deliberately destroyed by the Germans. In Paris, following the Armistice Day demonstrations in which a number of students were machine-gunned, the University was closed for a period and the Rector dismissed. The condition of university life and standards on the Continent is now little short of appalling. Due to flight, imprisonment or disappearance the number of professors in institutions has been re- duced by at Jeast 50 percent. Jewish professors | in France were discharged as a result of the Sep- tember decrees issued from Vichy, and similar action has been taken in other countries under German domination with the exception of Denmark. Pro- | fessors residing in German-occupied territory who were known to be anti-Nazi have been taken to con- centration camps or have disappeared. The same is | true of German refugee scholars who have found | haven in countries subsequently invaded by German‘ troops. Similarly in the three Baltic smtes—mthu-i ania, Latvia and Estonia—which were absorbed by Russia in June 1940, the process of converting the | universities into Soviet institutions has proceeded | rapidly. More than half the professors have been | removed from their positions and many of them have been imprisoned or have disappeared. Even neutral countries are under pressure to permit a totalitarian interpretation in the teaching !of such subjects as economics, political science and sociology; ‘and scholars—to quote a recent guarded letter—“exercise a certain tact and circumspection in our treatment of the most up-to-date problems.” In such surroundings scholarship withers and only through heroic struggle keeps itself alive. When the German Minister of Justice tells the Association of University Professors that the old ideal of objec- tivity was nonsense and that “today the German University Professor must ask himself one question: does my scientific work serve the welfare of Na- | tional Socialism?” he is voicing a doctrine which if broadly applied spells the end of Western scien- tific thought. When relativity becomes “an example | of characteristically perverse Jewish thinking,” and genetics is a battleground for the “Aryan theory,” }then the end of the day has come in which Claude ‘Bemard could say: “I give small thought to where the truth will lead me, provided that I find it.” | slow-up strategy is the effect upon the new draft army. When the men in the camps hear of civilian work- | men getting shake-down wages for slow-up tactics, compared with their meager army pay, it doesn't make nephew, -| for good morale. i 1 Account- | 1,020‘ EMPLOYER OBSTRUCTION While labor has been hitting the headlines for defense obstruction,| less publicized but equally obstruc-! tive has been the attitude of oer- | tain business elements, among them the shipbuilders, who dickered endlessly with the U. S. Maritime Commission regarding the con- struction of 200 desperately needed cargo vessels. This program was adopted in 4,000 in New 1,500 c 1,800 god(nher. Albuquer- - 2,500 - $44,420 ‘of great moment are prognosticat- | will possess the power of winning THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, TUESDAY, APRIL 1, THAPPY BIRTHDAY | P ] APRIL 1 Dr. L. P. Dawes John H. Peterson George Martin Charles Rudy Mrs. W. L. Lovell Mrs. R. C. Hurley Mrs. W. A. Blanck Mrs. Selma Peterson SRR S S ' HOROSCOPE “The stars incline ‘ but do not compel” — 4 WEDNESDAY, APRIL 2 Conflicting planetary aspects are| active today. While the morning is| auspicious for constructive work,! there is later an ill omen for cer-| tain agreements or contracts. House and Home: As spring re-| pairs and spring shopping engage the attention of women,: there will be a distinct trend toward sim- plicity in home decorations and fur- nishings, as well as in feminine at- tire. Months ago the seers foretold the wearing of uniforms by many young women, and again they prophesy such patriotic service. Young college girls will answer the urgent call for nurses. After the brilliancy of winter social affairs there will be less entertaining, due to an undertone of dread. Business Affairs: Widely scat- tered small factories will partake of great government production plans which will greatly benefit interior towns. A general awaken- ing to the actual responsibility of the United States toward the pro-| tection of democracy will stimulate | industry. Individuals will likewise be inspired to do their part in preparations for aid to Brimm\ Prosperity will extend to all parts of the country, but the inclination to profit greatly will not be mani-| fested generally. National Issues: tion Secret, informa- | in Washington will justify! | most strenuous efforts to speed up airplane and shipbuilding. Misjudg- ment of certain government policies will be caused by the need for con-| cealing matters of supreme impor- tance, lest hostile powers profit by knowledge of our plans. Spies will multiply and thefts of valuable papers will be numerous, despite uf- most caution. Japan will benefit through years of careful and min-| ute gathering of facts and photo- graphs in the United States. Interational Affairs: The culmin- ation of Uranus at Washington with trine Mars in the sixth, is read as presaging for the nation a tremendous provocation toward military intervention to aid . the British forces. A naval engagement or loss in the Pacific is forecast. Differences of opinion regarding our foreign policies will prove most un- fortunate in retarding plans for| aiding the British. Again surprises 'ed as part of the Axis spring cam~ paigns. i Persons whose birthdate it is| have the augury of a happy, for- tunate year. There may be minor perplexities. Children born on this day prob- ably will be extremely gifted and| success as well as friends. (Copyright, 1941) early in January, on the 200 W is as follows: Oregon Shipbuilding Co., ships; California shl'pbuuduqhi 31 ships; Houston Shipbuilding Co.,] 25 ships. Like Bethlehem-: 4, all these firms signed on o | North Carolina Shipbuilding Co. 25 ships, contract signed March! 1941. from 20 YEARS AGO FH%: rmpirEe e -t APRIL 1, 1921 Safe in the winter quarters at Nizhni, near the mouth of the Kolyma River, Siberia, after an adventurous trading voyage on the Arctic coast, the trading schooner Polar Bear, which left Nome June 27, 1920, in command of Capt. S. K. Gudmundson, was awaiting breaking up of the Arctic Ocean and Bering Sea ice to return to Nome with a rich cargo of furs and ivory, according to a letter, written six months previously, but just received in Juneau by Henry Berry, local curio dealer. Sunniest. coldest, wettest March in five years was the strange record of Juneau weather conditions, according to the meteorological summary |for the month. i il Al Forsythe, who had been patrolman for four years, resigned his position and was to go blacksmithing on Willoughby Avenue. That timber wolves were getting more daring each day in this vicinity was proven when a pack of seven big gray animals spent most of the afternoon on the slopes of Mount Roberts, running about in the snow slides between Juneau and Thane and less than a quarter of a mile above the Juneau-Thane road. Mrs. Minerva Greenbaum, former owner of a dry goods store in Juneau, and Royal Douglas, Superintendent of the Northwestern Fish- eries cannery at Bellingham, were married at Seattle. M. F. McDonnell, Alaska representative of the American Paper Company, was returning to his headquarters here after a trip to Seattle. Weather: Highest, 39; lowest, 38; snow. e . - D - - 0 O | Daily Lessons in English % 1. corpon || L e s e e —— WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “He blamed me.” OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Clothes (noun). not KLOZ. OFTEN MISSPELLED: Collectible, or collectable. SYNONYMS: Discuss, argue, debate, dispute. WORD STUDY: “Use a word three times and it is yours.” Let us fncrease our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Today's word: GRATUITOUS; given freely; voluntary. “We mistake the gratuitous blessings of heaven for the fruits of our own industry.”—L’Estrange. MODERN ETIQUETTE * roprrTa LEE Q. When a young man meets a girl on the street and stops to talk, shouldn't he remove his hat and hold it in his hand as long as he talks? A. 1t isn't necessary for him to hold his hat longer than a minute and not at all if the weather is disagreeable. - He shoufid of course lift it when meeting the girl, and again when leaving. It would be pre- sumptuous for a girl to expect a man to stand bareheaded in a snow storm or rain. % Q. When giving a fomal dinner table? A. No; it should be done in the carving may be’'done at the table. Q. Shouldn’t a call of condolence be returned? A. No; it is not required and certainly should not be expected. LOOK and LEARN ¥ ¢ corpon e e < D 0 s e o WHo first used the title “Emperor”? What is an impresario? ‘What bird lays the largest gggs? ‘Where is the highest active volcano in the world? Which is the shortest of Shakespeare’s plays? ANSWERS: Julius Caesar. The projector, manager, or conductor of an opera or concert com- “He blamed it on me.” Say, Pronounce KLOTHZ, should the carving be done at the kitchen. At an informal dinner the ) 1Y 2. pany. 3. 4. 5. The ostrich. Cotopaxi, in Ecuador; 19,613 feet above sea level. Macbeth. WYLLERS MOVE The three states reporting larg- Chris Wyller, wife and children, est annual consumption of sugar have moved from their residence| in food manufactures, Census re- on Sixth and Gold to the house|cords show, are New York, 1757,427,- of Mrs. Harry Brown on Auk Bay|292 pounds; Illinois, 607,901,373 Directory iz Drs. Kaser and Freeburger DENTISTS Bl~ agren Building PHONE 56 Dr. A. W. Stewart DENTIST | 20TH CENTURY BUILDING Office Phone 469 | Dr. Judson Whittier | CHIROPRACTUR Office hours: 10-12; 1-5. 7-8 | Rooms 2-3-4, Triangle Bldg. PHONE 667 Dr. John H. Geyer Room 9—Valentine Bldg. PHONE 1762 Hours: 9 am. to 6 pm, e—————————————————————————— r——— ) | ROBERT SIMPSON, OPT. D. Graduate Los Angeles Coll~ge of Optometry and Opthsimology | Glasses Fitted Lenses Ground R R TS| Helene W. Albrech? PHYSICAL THERAPEUTICS Phone 773 Valentine Building—Room 7 The Charles W. Carter Mortuary Pourth and Pranklin Sts. PHONE 136 Jones-Stevens Shop LADIES'—MISSES’ READY-TO-WEAR Seward Street Near Thma -— e JAMES C. COOPER C.P. A, Business Counselor COOPER BUILDING L. C. Smith and Corons TYPEWRITERS Sold and Serviced by 3. B. Burlord & G & Co. 3 " DR H. VANCE | OSTEOPATH Consultation and examination free. Hours 10 to 13; 1 to 5; where they will spend the spring|Pounds; and summer. 170,604 pounds. 3 Try a classified ad in The Empire.| Try a classified ad in The Emnir+ DR NN ALE Mexicans in Anti-U, S. Riot and Pennsylvania, 469,-| | would bankrupt the Treasury. If anyone has reason to grow ex-’ cited about the possibility of a de- pleted Treasury, it is the junior Benator from New Mexico, who has more relatives on the public pay- roll than any man in Congress. This is saying a lot because there are several mighty effective nepo- tists there. It would take a corps of census tabulators to enumerate all the members of the Chavez clan who have public jobs in Washington and New Mexico, but here’s a bird's- eye view of the most important: Dennis Chavez Jr., son, sec- retary to his father . § 3,900 Dave Chavez, brother, New Mexico district judge Barbara Sena, sister, teacher in a State school in New Mexico Raymond Eepinosa. broLher- in-lav, chief of a new alien investigating unit in the Justice Department . Gilberto Espinosa, brother of Raymond, also on the Jus- tice Department payroll as Assistant U. 8. Attor- ney for New Mexico . Stanley Miller, mn-!n-law, attorney for the Rio Grande Conservaney Dis- trict, o State-operated v 1,800 6,000 ; plans, most tragic result of ent chaotic labor situation is the black eyé which a minority of la- bor is giving to their co-workers all over the. country. In the major- ity of plants and shipyards, men are working without interruption. But in certain key plarts. so ital to the national defense that taey could not have been picked y accident, a small minority have sogged down production. Some- .mes this happens through strikes, ometimes through slowing-up and abotage so deliberate that behind L must lurk a definite attempt by mmunists to hold back national £nse. The Navy, for mstance, has re- v, repairing war- ularly in €ts, Utien coll evl. a full day’s pay. Navy yards have had especial trouble with welders. At the Boeing airplane plant in Seattle, a slow-up system is now under Federal investigation. For months the War Department has been at a loss to understand why more planes were not delivered from the Boeing plant. It finally has turned its sabotage suspicions over to the eagle eye of J. Edgar Hoover. Nexi to hurting vital delense this January, but to date the Commis- 13; Alabama Drydock and 8hip- | sion has not been able to complete building Co., 13 ships, and Loui-| negotiations for quite all the 200 siana 'Shipbuilding Co., 25 ships, ships. contracts not closed. The Bethlehem-Fairfield Ship-| Note—Through Hoboken city of- yard, Inc, of Baltimore, for in- ficials, Bethlehem Shipbuilding Go. stance, battled the Commission for of New York, has been vigorously two months over a fat fee. | pressuring the Maritime Commis< The Commission proposed a sion to lease its highly valuable $110,000 base fee per ship, to be terminal docks for much less than reduced to $60,000 if not delivered the Commission is now getting:for by a certain deadline or increased them, Present rentals received by to $140000 if produced ahead of the Commission are around $100,000 time. But Bethlehem rejected the a year; under the terms offered by penalty clause, vigorously insist- Hoboken the government would get ing on a fixed fee regardless of $20,000. Bethlehem wants the ter- when the ships were produced. minal to convert it into a repair the A For weeks, while the shipping crisis daily grew more critical, the « ersy raged. Finally, on Tarcn 18, the company backed | Ld accepted the Com.m.s sion’s terms. Under them Bethlehem-i‘aufleld stands to collect a total fee of $5,-! 500,000 on the 50 ships assigned it. In agddition, it also garnered a $7,838,000 government contract for 13 ways and other construction paraphernalia. Meanwhile, two precigus montns went by and not a lick mum»d on these frantically w vessels, 1lie box score on ‘mons dragging negotia said Rep. H. 8. Rainwater, basin, (Copyright, 1941, by United Fea- ture Syndicate, Inc.) - IT'"S A BUSINESS JEFFERSON CITY, Mo.—There was a motion under discussion in| the state legislature to cut the state bounty on wolves from $5 al head to $250. “This won’t do,” “You can’t break even feeding & of wolf‘hounds on “’um hvumv » South Franklin St. Phone 177 — Archie B. Beiis PUBLIC ACCOUNTANT 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 ‘ beginning at 7:30 p. m. VERGNE L. HOKE, Worshipful Master; JAMES W. LEIVERS, Secretary. 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