The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 17, 1941, Page 4

£ Daily Alaska Empi Published every evening except Sunday by the EMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY Second and Main Streets, Juneau, Alasl HELEN TROY BENDER R.L BERNARD - - President Vice-President and Business Manager Entered in the Post Office in Juneau as Second Class Matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Delivered by carrier in Juneau and Doulas for $1.25 per By mail, postage paid, at the following rates: One year, in advance, $12.00; six months, in advance, $6.00; h, in advance, $1.25. bers 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 Assoclated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not other- wise credited in this paper and also the local news published hereln. 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, Beattle, Chicago, New York and Boston SEATTLE REPRESENTATIVE — Frank J. Dunning, 1011 American Bank Building YOUR MAILBOX We wonder if all citizens of this great land were as thrilled as we were in looking through the little bocklet which came to us from the Treasury De- partment this week to offer United States savings bonds. The booklet, titled “The Land of the Free,” re- minds us of something all of us forget too often. It reminds us of the wonderful patriotic traditions of our nation and calls on us, if we wish, to help our Government finance its unparalleled defense effort. On the cover a battleship steams proudly past the Btatue of Liberty. On the back cover three Navy torpedo bombing planes fly a vigil out from the coast of the fairest land on earth. The message of the booklet of course is that we have a nation worth defending, that the defense is expensive and that the Treasury would like those of us who can afford it to buy savings bonds to help underwrite the cost Inside are colored pictures illustrating several verses of “The Star Spangled Banner” and showing the Jefferson Memorial at Washington and the Eternal Light Peace Memorial at Gettysburg. The savings bonds are only one of four types of Treasury obligations included in the plan for financ- ing national defense. The bonds are offered on a discount basis to yield slightly better than two and one-half percent. They are registered in the name of the purchaser and are non-negotiable. The obvious purpose of this feature is to discourage the sale and cashing in of the defense obligations, and thus to avoid the market disturbance certain to follow a large offering of Treasury obligations on a substan- tially higher basis, than isisfforded by most of the debt now outstanding. The whole purpose of the new offering would be defeated if purchasers liqui- dated other Govérnment bond investments in order to take on the defense issues. Another objective of the new offerings would be defeated if investors were encouraged to borrow at the banks to buy as they did on such & large scale in the last year of the World War, Time only will tell how accurately the Treasury's experts have appraised money market and invest- ment conditions. It is significant that Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau refuses even to guess how many of the various type of defense bonds may be sold and how much revenue they will pro- duce. The issues should be helpful in several directions, the amount of money they produce entirely aside. They will afford millions who have wanted to do nth, | Pede their sale. | winds and rains, | (if none of the neighbors is looking). the!r bit an opportunity to: mlke thelir savings avail- {able for'defense. They promise to encourage thrift. They are likely to be useful at the same time in | promoting unity and in creating a favorable defense | psychology. Time only will tell to what extent the non- negotiable feature of the new offerings will im- It is relatively unimportant to the | small individual buyer as the sale of more than a billion of similar savings bonds in 1940 attests. It | is likely to be more of an obstacle to large investors, both individual and institutional. In any event, it is a hopeful sign that the Treas- [ ury recognizes the importance of reducing its de- pendence on the commercial banks and of turning directly to individual and institutional savers. If | the new issues are successful in encouraging thrift they will be doubly advantageous. On the one hand they will provide funds for the Government in the best possible way, save taxation, and, in the second, will discourage luxury consumption and production, and thus increase the proportion of our productive energies available for defense production, WE WANT SPRING! The winter now offl.cinny past was a mild one as winters go. But like most winters, it has worn out its welcome. We have had quite enough of cold We are ready for the hounds of spring to begin to bark on the trees. We want to wiggle our bare toes in the grass We want to get out in a boat with a strip fishing outfit. We want to hear the call “Batter up!” at Firemen’s Field. Why Not Go to Alaska? (Seattle Times) Governor Gruening of Alaska has what seems to be a good idea. He is very much interested in the proposed highway from “the states” through Canada and on into Alaska. It is a natural interest, shared by all Alaskans, since the highway is intend- ed primarily to serve the Territory and expedite development. It is an interest lately intensified Hy the aspect of the highway as a military necessity. Governor Gruening suggests that it may be well for the American and Canadian Alaska Highway Commission to go to Alaska and have a look. The Commission has held meetings in Washington, D. C., Ottawa and Victoria. Some of the Commissioners have conferred in Seattle. A meeting in Alaska should afford opportunity for more first-hand information than is likely to be gathered at the distances. The Governor also suggests a Commission flight over the tentative route. That, too, would be”helpful. Hearing no ob- Jjection, let us hope it will be so ordered. Accidents and Defense (Cincinnati Enquirer) The extent to which production, and consequent- ly the defense effort, is being hampered by indus- trial accidents is revealed in figures just released by the National Safety Council. These figures show that 26,800,000 man-days were lost in 1940 due to disabling industrial injuries of a temporary nature alone. The nation is deeply concerned over industrial time loss due to strikes, and rightfully so. As an indication of a basic problem in both production and morale, the defense industry strike situation has merited all the attention it has received. But tem- porary accidents last year caused a time loss four times as great as the time loss due to strikes. And this takes no account of industrial accident fatalities and of permanent disabilities which, the National Safety Council estimates, caused an addi- tional loss of man power more than 20 times the extent of the strike loss. All accidents—temporary, permanent, and those which caused death—were re- sponsible in 1940 for the staggering total of 169,- 300,000 lost days. For the all-out effort which success of the de- fense program requires we need maximum produc- tive man power from every citizen. This means that we cannot permit the energies of one man or woman to be lost through a preventable accident. It is necessary to put new vigor into accident prevention programs, and to do this without delay. Otherwise, expanding production may be expected to take an ever increasing toll in life and usefulness. NAZI BOUNCER car and was accompanied by his T‘HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE THURSDAY, APRIL 17, 194! frou 20 YEARS AGO %77 wupine e e o) APRIL 7, 1921 Samples of the first wood pulp manufactured by the Alaska Pulp and Paper Company at Speel River were sent out as souvenir posteards | by Glen Bartlett of the Gastineau Hotel and were creating much atten- | tion and interest wherever exhibited. The pulp postcards were printed by The Empire. | That a scholarship in the Fountainbleau School of Music in France | was available to one resident of Alaska was the word received here at the Governor’s office. HAPPY BIRTHDAY | APRIL 17 | Mrs. Katherine Hooker H Mrs. Alice Sey Mrs. John P. Monagle Cecelia Thibodeau | Angus Cameron | T. F. Stafford | Hiram F. Gillman R. E. Cowden of the U. S. Naval Radio force of Juneau, who had ibeen on a trip to the south, was to return here on the Jefferson. Mr. and Mrs. George F. Forrest left on the City of Seattle on a busi- ness trip to Wrangell. Mrs. J. F. M¢Donald left on the City of Seattle for a visit with her |daughter Mrs, Harry F. Morton, at Sitka. S. H. Velvelstadt, interested in a cannery at Sitka, left on the City H 0 R 0 S c 0 P E o Seattle for that town. ) < 5 | M. and Mrs. I. J. Sharick were to leave on the Princess Mary to The stars incline |spend a month’s vacation at Salem, Oregon. During their absence the but do not compel" Sharick Jewelry Store was to be in charge of S. I. Oliver. —_— s " : Mrs. L. M. Powers with three sons, left on the City of Seattle to join FRIDAY, APRIL 18 her husband at Fort Travis, Texas. Benefic aspects rule the first part of this day and should stimu- late business. The morning is for- tunate for merchandising and there is a promising sign for commerce. Heart and Home: Women may be restless and discontented under| this configuration which. will en-| courage realization that the old order is passing away, bringing new i " hom you mean.” Omit “as to. ifices| WHOM ¥ k s :Z'(‘ldi_‘e‘::jsug:x;;”;:::imfi“:cg; OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Eugenics. Pronounced u-jen-iks, U as responsible for lgrge returns jn| in UNITE, E as in MEN, I as in IT, accent second syllable. certain lines of business that bene-| OFTEN MISSPELLED: Extravagance; three A’s. fit the nation. As war needs ab- SYNONYMS: Happen, bechance, befall, occur. sorb many products formerly WORD STUDY: “Use a word three times and it is yours.” Let us thought necessary to a woman’s|increase our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Today’s word: wardrobe, cotton will be substi-| DUPLICITY; deception by pretending to entertain one set of feelings wuted for silk, calico for chiffon. |ang acting under the influence of another. “He felt that to match her, Buslness Affairs: As the spring- he had need of all his duplicity.” ! MODERN ETIQUETTE * roprrra LEE Zreat quantities or foog ‘will con- e e e - 0 € - - 2+ e S ) Weather: Highest, 51. lowest, 42; partly cloudy. remeameememmomme. Daily Lessons in English % 1. corpon e - e - e S WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “I haven't any idea as to tinue to be sent abroad.for starv- ing war victims. The stars sm*m to presage abundant hérvests to| which women will contribute their labor. Prosperity will present in creased opportunities for North Am-| Q. How long should guests remain after an informal dinner? ericans to aid the Red Cross and| A. They may stay from an hour and a half to two hours after other war relief agencigs. Trade leaving the table. It is rude to “eat and run,” but the guest who stays on and commerce will find” new chan-| and on is equally inconsiderate. nels and new methods in coming' Q1. the employer of a girl secretary should drop a handful of months. Synthetic fabrics are to . papers. should she help him pick them up? gah;_ aclccplancer ‘";d. "!" % 211"115‘ A. Certainly. Business etiquette does not extend all the little court- g;sul)t‘s suobsg‘tz?:s alco;u:irll; wlllgam‘ esies a girl has a right to expect in the social world. She should even popularity. { bring him a glass of water if he requests it National Issues: Defense popula- Q. What may be served in the way of refreshments at a musicale? tion changes in manufagturing A. The refreshments may vary from punch and little cakes, or tea to| served by the hostess, to an elaborate buffet meal. LOOK and '.EARNA C. GORDON e e < D - 0 e - 1. Why do cowboys wear high-heeled boots? 2. Which is the largest of the bat family? 3. What is an epitome? International Affairs: Astrologers! 4. In what State is the most famous Natural Bridge? read evil portents for Japan which! 5. Who was President of the United States from March 4, 1913, to may become the cat's-paw for the March 4, 19212 Axis in a plan to harass the Unit-| ANSWERS: centers will present problems public school authorities_ iri districts. Teachers will be } mand in many small Lowna Dns- cussion of the contents of certain| textbooks will be led by persons in-| terested in the proper presentation of United States history. Sensa- tional charges are foretold regard- ing the radical views of many col- lege professors. 5 ed States, so that aid to Britain is| 1. The heels prevent their feet from slipping through the stirrups. hampered. Conflicting ideas are| 2. The flying fox, with a wing-spread of nearly five feet. indicated in Japan, where economic | 3. A concise summary. conditions will affect the [civilian 4. Virginia. attitude toward expansion bf war 5. Woodrow Wilson. activities. There is a sign that, bodes ill this spring for relations, between Tokyo and Washington. Persons whose birthdate it is '_-'—*_— '| The Charles W. Carter Wathingfon Merry- 6o-Round al KOondnued from Page Oroe) Republican Secretary of War. Mr. Stimson, he said, had never lost | faith. In 1931, when the world was | first beginning to plant the seeds of | the present war, (when Japan in- vaded Manchuria), it was Stimson ! who registered the first protest against an aggressor nauon. History, the President said, would vote Stim- son an everlasting debt for keeping faith and working for the principles of peace. STIMSON—APOSTLE OF PEACE In this connection, it is interest- ing to note that The Washington Merry-Go-Round of June 29, 1941, explained Stimson’s appointment. to the Roosevelt Cabinet as follows: “The reason Roosevelt rose above personalities to bring a critic into his Cabinet was that Stimson repre- sents those who were trying to build a new system of peace out of the ashes of the World War “Stimson believes there is some- thing basically good in peoples—all peoples—if it only had a chance to{ develop. And as Secretary of State in the Hoover Cabinet he struggled to give that development a chance . .. He bullt toward a ‘Good Neigh- bor’ policy. - It was far from perfect, but it was a start. And the destruc- tion of this start probably is the most serious blow Hitler has struck at civilization. Roosevelt feels this keenly, so does Stimson. . . . “He is an old man now, and as Secretary of War, this will be his last try. It may be the last try also for the United States. Stimson be- longs to an age which struggled toward the goal of loving thy neigh- bor as thyself—an age which will be dead unless, like Stimson and Roose- velt, we are willing to sacrifice for it” U. S. Maritime Commissioner Jack Dempsey dealt with many cases of un-Americanism while a member of the Dies Committee, but none more brazen than a recent incident in a | Washington theatre. | Dempsey and his wife were view- | ing a newsreel of Nazi troops on the ‘malch when a youth in the next ‘soal began applauding. Dempsey | was startled but let it pass. How- |ever, when a shot of American |marines was flashed on the screen {and the youth hissed, Dempsey flew { into action. “You get out of here!” he ordered the hisser, who, after a hasty glance at the heavy-set ex-Congressman |from New Mexico, complied on the double-quick. ZAPP IN HAVANA r Dies Committee investigators have uncovered the interesting fact that Dr. Manfred Zapp, head of the Nazi Trans-Ocean News Service, was 50~ cially active during the Pan-Amer- ican Conference in Havana last year It was at this parley that the principle of Western Hemisphere de- fense was established. Zapp, recently indicted with his assistant on charges of being unregistered Nazi agents wrote a letter on August 10, 1940, after he returned from Cuba. As translated by the Dies Commit- tee, it follows in part: “I had a room in a Havana hotel directly next to the apartment of Secretary of State Hull. The atmo- sphere in Havana towards Germans was in the beginning exceptionally cool and the treatment we received rather disagreeable, but when the conference looked like little success for the Americans, they (apparently the Cubans) believed they would no longer have to fear the Germans and from ths human standpoint we were treated almost civilly. “I was particularly fortunate be- cause, due to my good personal con- tacts, I was very well received in Cuba. The owner of the most im- portant Cuban newspaper immed- iately invited me for dinner with some . friends at a country estate. bodyguard. His house was surround- ed by a high wall. “Immediately we approached, the door opened and we drove through the door immediately closed again. Three huge bloodhounds were then locked in a kennel where they re- mained until we left the house, “I was invited again another time to the same man’s home, high in the hills above Havana. For this dinner he also had invited the Ger- man Charge d’Affaires and the Ital- ian Minister, as well as an importani representative of mine in the Trans- Ocean (news service) in Havana. “I also had intimate personal con- tacts with the chief of the press section of the Cuban government, who 1s now press agent for the Pan- | American Conference, because the latter for years had been Cuban Minister to the Vatican.” MERRY-GO-ROUND The Gridiron Club first asked Her~ bert Hoover to deliver the customary opposition speech to Roosevelt. For reasons known to himself, he de- clined. Later the Gridironers select- ed young Senator Lodge of Massa- chusetts. A Republican, he closed with a great tribute to Roosevelt. . . At the Army Day parade, it so happened that a tremendous con- glomeration of horses was stationed outside the office window of Con- gressman Ross Collins of Mississippi, the man who pioneered for mechan:- zation of the army. . . . Largest re- ceipts reaped at any Jackson Day Dinner, save one, was at Atlanta, where ex-Governor Max Gardner of North Carolina was selected with White House blessing as the speak- er. The dinner which edged out Georgia’s $27,000 receipts was Texas, with around $40,000. . . . One reason the Italian fleet has been more ex- posed to the British recently is the fear of mutiny. Mussolini, an old rebel himself, recalls what the Rus- sian fleet did to the Czar and how the first German revolt in the World War oceurred in naval forces sta- tioned at Wilhelmshaven and Brem- erhaven. So he wanted to keep the He called for me in'a’ bullet-proof fleet busy have the augury of financial gains and general good fortune. Love af- fairs will flourish among the young. Children born on this day prob- ably will be highly gifted and en- dowed with fine characteristics.' They may be lovers of beauty and successful in any one of the ar- tistic careers. (Copyright, 1941) F A N—Neainess of spring can’t keep this modish ski enthusiast, Mrs. Allison Stout of Easton, Mad., from ski fun at North Con- way, N. H. Note her jaunty Al pine hat, belt pouch. — Try a classiffed ‘ad 1o The Emplre. CIBSON TWOSOM E_Banker Harvey Dow Gibson and Mrs. Deen taking the snows for the spring N, H. Mrs, Gibson is the former Helen Whitney-! There is no substitute for Newspaper Adé'e‘rfi‘;ing:_ Gibson of New York, nattily garbed for the occasion, hava ski season at Nofll'c.(;:‘m- Directory Professional Fraternal Societies Gastineau Channel Drs. Kaser and Freeburger DENTISTS Bir agren Building PHONE 56 Dr. A. W. Stewart P. 0. ELKS meet every Wednesday at 8 P. M. Visiting brothers welcome. ER, Exalted Ruler: E. L. HUNT- 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. 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