The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 25, 1941, Page 4

Daily Alaska Empi Published every evening except Sunday by the EMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY Second and Main Streets, Juneau, Alaska, i e T nt Vice-President and Business Manager ¥ntered In the Post Office in Juneau as Second Class Matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Jelivered by carrier in Juneau and Douclas for $1.35 per month. By mail, postage paid, at the following rates: One year, in advance, $12.00; six months, in advance, $8.00, one month, in advance, $1.25. Bubscribers will confer a favor if they will promptly notify the Business Office of any faflure or irregularity in the de- wery of their papers. Telephones: News Office, 602; Business Office, 374. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRE The Associgted Press is exclusively -nml-d lo the use for republication of all news dispatthes credited to it or not other- wise nndlm in this paper and also the local news published ALASKA CTRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION. GEORGE D. CLOSE, Inc., National Newspaper Representa- Angeles, Portland, VITAMINS UNDER THE DOCK i Alaskan salmon canneries are dumping in the | sea enough Vitamin A to furnish a tenth of the nation’s requirements and enough Vitamin D to| supply a twentieth of the nation’s needs. At least, that was the substance of a report | made recently by Francis Joseph Weiss, a scientist of the national economic and social planning asso- | ciation, who is on speaking terms with all the| alphabetical vitamins and believes in finding ways | of feeding plenty of them to the American public in the interests of national defense. The vitamins the salmon canners are thrawing in the bays are contained in salmon oils, said Dr. Weiss. He estimated that of the approximately 500 million pounds of salmon caught in the United States and possessions during each year, about 30 percent of the tonnage is waste and will yield be- tween 15 and 20 gallons of salmon oil per ton. He said salmon oil can be produced with a Vitamin A content equal to good grades of cod liver ofl, and with twice as much Vitamin D as the| cod ofl. At present, he pointed out, only about 300,000 gallons of oil are being produced commer- cially a year, but with the use of oil which is lost with the tossing aside of fish entrails from can- neries, he estimated a production of 1,000,000 gal- lons of oil a year is possible, To canners, he pointed out that the supplying of vitamins in concentrated forms for American consumption is no small business. In 1925, the vitamin ‘Industry amounted to only $343000; but in 1939, there were $41,645,000 worth of vitamins mar- keted in the country, or an increase of 121 times in| 14 years. ‘While canners to whom Dr. Weiss talked agreed | that it was a waste to toss billions of Vitamin A and D units into the sea each year, they told him it would not pay canneries to process the salmon oil separately or collect it in central processing plants. Just the same, Dr. Weiss suggested that a| pilot plant be put in at some cannery, to cost be- tween $20,000 and $30,000, just to test the practica- bility of processing the oil. Other uses of salmon ofl are for animal and poultry feeds, for frying purposes (when hardened it is without odor or taste), combined with metals for the manufacture of industrial soaps, as an in- gredient in paints and varnishes, for tanning, as a lubricating agent in the cutting and cooling of | metals, anid as an agent in the manufacture of lino- leum and oil cloth. Of course, all the vitamins are not dumped in| the bay underneath cannery docks,when salmon are canned, The U. 8. governmem has 1ohg Yecognized the value of canned fish products to ‘préserve the health of its army. During the first World War, 50,000,000 cans of salmon were consumed by the AEF. and 750,000 cans of sardines, Alaska Awaits Rediscovery (Seattle Post-Intelligencer) Today marks the two hundredth anniversary of the discovery of Alaska, It was on the sunny. morning of July 16, 1741, that Capt. Vitus Bering, a Dane in the service of Peter the Great, dropped anchor in what is now known as Kayak Bay, and a member of the crew was so impressed that he wrote in his diary: “The boat found itself in a wonder world that beggared romance. The great peak which they named St. Elias hung above a snowy row of lesser ridges in a dome of alabaster. Icebergs, like float- ing palaces, came washing down from the long line of precipitous shore.” It was a peculiar circumstance that Chirikov, Bering's second in command, was making his own discovery, in the vicinity of the Alexander Archi- pelago, at almost the same time. separated, in a storm, over a month previously, as they set sail from Siberia to spy out new lands for their czar. It was actually on the moonlit night of July 15 that Chirikov first saw Alaska—but heavy surf made it impossible for his men to land the following day and two days of pea soup fog sub- sequently shut out the view of the Russian navigator. For more than a century thereafter Alaska re- mained Russian. It was not until the far-sighted Seward negotiated the purchase, for $7,200,000 (of which the major share was in fact a repayment of the Russian navy for services rendered during the Civil War), that the North American continent cut its ties to Asia and Alaska became our outpost to the north. The fact is that it has only been within the last few years that most Americans have recognized | the vital importance of Alaska. struction work upon air bases and military facilities of all types, determined that Alaska shall remain this country’s bastion and shall never become the outpost of an Asiatic enemy, Yet the defense angle, essential though it now is, probably is the smallest part of the ultimate value of Alaska to the United States. Every year Alaska yields to the United States many times its purchase price. But the gold and the yearly harvest of salmon represent no more than the first exploitation of a land that is still in the infancy of development. After nearly 80 years under the Stars and Stripes, Alaska today has a white population little more than that of a city such as Everett or Belling- ham. | In contrast, Norway, Sweden and Finland, simi- larly situated, support vigorous populations of many millions. It was 200 years ago that a Dane and a Russian discovered Alaska. Most Americans have not discovered Alaska yet. It is high time that they should. WAR AT HOME While taxation and new taxes to pay the na- tions’ defense bill are holding ‘the headlines, there has been a lot of comment on the proposal to re- quire all married couples to file a joint income tax return. The joint return law would fall heavily, women pointed out, on couples where the wife as well as the husband has a fair sized pay check coming in every month. It would penalize working women for | getting married, they declare. Indeed, an indictment on the morals of the pro- posal was voiced by Arthur Graham, noted Glasgow gas technologist, who wrote the New York Times that the joint return law is “immoral as well as | unmoral, for it allots a premium to living in sin.” Congress is certainly wrapping the congressional pay checks in patriotic envelopes. We understand there are still a few Representatives and Senators who have not taken their oath that they do not ad- vocate violent overthrow of the government. But if they don’t take the oath by payday, August 1, they will get no money. Washinglon Merry- Go-Round (Continued from Page One) through diploma ]gulp, Gasaway changed the subject. NOTE. CIO President Phil Mur- ray was born in Scotland. |as a House messenger in 1881. The population of the country was a .sturdy 52 million. ' The automobile [was a figment in the brain of C. E. Duryea, its inventor. Alexander Gra- U. S. BASES IN SOUTH AMERICA { It hssn't 1esked out yet, | ham- Bell and his newfangled tele but | K. negotiations phone were still a laughing stoc ] Congressmen had no secretaries or with Latin America, the way is being offices, and the Capitol was lit by paved for our possible entrance into | gas. But the thing Page likes most The vessels of Bering and Chirikov had been | Today an awakened government is rushing con-!sumulnnng to thelr -energies fnd | Such remarks stir up unrest, and there’s alreay too much agitation in the country.” “Il say what I please,” screamed Downey, blazing with fury, “and I'll have you know that I have the in- terests of this country at heart as much as you.” “You haven't when you make statements like that” retorted Changdler. For a moment the stocky, square- fawed Kentuckian and the mop-hair- ed Californian glared fighting mad at each other. Then Downey sat down and the committee voted out the compromise bill favored by Chandler. NOTE: Senator Downey is the Senate's chief advocate of the Town- send old age pension plan and was elected with considerable Ham-and- Egg support, a movement charged with the indirect conscription of property. 1 | BOOMING LEWIS Evidence continues to pile up that John L. Lewis has his cap set for a | comeback as CIO President. Latest incident to set CIO insid- ers buzzing occurred at the state convention of the Indiana CIO at Muncie. Ora Gasaway, former presi- dent of District 8, (Indiana) United Mine Workers, and now a Lewis henchman at the UMW headquart- ers in Washington, was making a speech. Suddenly he startled zhe gathering with this crack: “The time has come for us to have a native-born American for pre.sl- dent of the CIO.” For a moment you could have heard a pin drop. Then almost to a man the 700 delegates broke into a roar of angry boos. With a hasty the war as a belligerent. In an earlier day we were thinking only of neutrality, and together with the other American nations we laid down rules to prevent the belliger- ents from using the facilities of our ports more than a certain time. But now, if the U. S. becomes a belligerent, we would be barred, by our own Inter-American regulations, from using the ports or landing fields of Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina, including the very ones which we are building at great cost, as an- nounced by General Marshall last week. These fields, of course, re- main the integral territory of the country where they lie, and we have no claim to them. Uruguay has already taken the initiative to solve this odd situation by yielding rights to the U. 8. Asa matter of fact, the United States | foresaw the difficulty and discussed | the matter with the Uruguayan Gov- ernment. In reality Uruguay was selected for this first move because in such matters, It is hoped that the Uruguayan ' example will be followed by other | countries. If it is not followed, the United States will be shut out of the southern continent. UNIQUE ANNIVERSARY December will mark a unique milestone in the life of stately William Tyler Page, clerk to the Re- publican membership of the House. It will mark his 60th anniversary as a congressional employee—the sec- ond longest continuous service on record. Many changes have come over the nation and the Capitol since Page first went to work at the age of 13, i to talk about in comparing the Am- erica of today ‘with the era in'which he made his debut on Capitol Hill is the change that has come over government finances. “The ‘burning question in Con- gress when I first went to work,” he recalls with a grin, “was what to do with a $250,000,000 surplus in the Treasury. The government was mak- ing more money than it knew how to spend, but there was a terrific fur- ore when some Congressmen Sug- gested that the surplus be used for public works, | “The revenue of the government * then wouldn't amount to a good ex- | cise tax now. It was about $300,000,- 1000 a year, but that was still too much, as Congress was spending at the rate of only $250,000,000 a year. So it voted to reduce taxes.” MERRY-GO-ROUND Price Defense Administrator Leon Henderson is planing to go to Eng- I'of her traditional liberal posivion 1and for a first-hand study of war- | time price regulation—after Con- | gress has enacted his control bill. . Incidentally, certain Administration cme(mm could learn a good lesson from Henderson on how to broach i legislation. Instead of peremptorily throwing a bill at Congress, he has astutely conferred with Senate and House leaders on what should go into his measuyre. . . . Here is a graphic example of hcw overcrowded Washington is.toeday. When the ornate Justice Department building was complete ln mx, it housed a total of 900 of! who rattled structure like tically everybody: from messengers up, had a private office. Today, the W | iand commerce for a decade, astrol- | THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, FRIDAY, JULY 25, 1941 1941 JUI.Y oY SRTIORY ] e e et JULY 26) John L. McCormick R. B. Martin Cyril Seeds Fred G. Endres Charles Miller John Bavard Lewis Taylor Eddie Hughes Vienita Talintsuff Paul Smaltz HOROSCOPE | “The stars incline but do not compel” L 20 YEARS AGO JULY 25, 1921 The Alaskan mineral production in 1920 was $23,303,000, an advance from THE EMPIRE | of $3,500,000 over the previous year. A new device enabling men to drop from the skies was being tried out by army aviators. The simple apparatus was called a parachute. Mrs. Ike Taylor, wiie of the disbursing agent for the Fairbanks district of the Alaska Road Commssion, was a passenger aboard the Admiral Watson for Cordova. Lockie MacKinnon was to leave with another man for a prospecting trip in the vicinity of Tillicum. They were looking for coal. The Libby, McNeill and Libby cannery at Kenai was entire destroyed by fire. It was one of the largest in Southwestern Alaska. ‘Weather: High, 57; low, 53; rain. O - - - S - - e & Dally Lessons in NglisN w. .. GORDON e e - e s S i S 0 o s S WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “He was completely sur- rounded by an angry mob.” Omit COMPLETELY, as SURROUND means to encircle. OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Prestige. pres-tezh, first E as in SET, second E as in ME, accent second syllable. OFTEN MISSPELLED: Eligible (fitted to be chosen). SATURDAY, JULY 26 Conflicting aspects rule today. The stars should bring good news at home and abroad. It is a for-| tunate sway for military plans and | promising for ambitious projects 011 great scope. and Home: encouraging for their private and public interests. It is a lucky figuration for constructive and pro-‘ gressive activities, promising much for massed effort in aiding defense work. It is auspicious for love af-| fairs, especially for romances in| which military men are concerned. | Girls should be safeguarded rmmw hasty courtships and ill-advued‘ marriages. This summer is to be| most eventful to the women of the | nation who must learn lessons of sacrifice, | Business Affairs: Trade and com- merce continue under a configura- tion which presages increased vol-; ume of exchange. The lunation of this month shows many encourag- ing signs, but Mars is in sinister prominence. There is an aspect favorable to business relations with | South American countries. Although | the world war will disturb finance | ogers forecast continued prosper- ity for the United States if wise precautions are taken to prevent panic or made speculation, National Issues: Need for distri- bution of authority in the vast work for national defense will be recog- nized next month when able execy-‘, tives will apply experience as well as administrative ability to na- tional problems. Political consider- ations now must be subordinated to the general good as obstacles of every sort are removed from the ship of state which must sail | for overwhelming victory. Laber | obstructions will be overcome :4s united effort assures tremendous | results in production and distribu- tion of necessary war machinery. International Affairs: Jupiter in' sextile aspect to Mercury and Mars | in the tenth will be culminating at Berlin, The seers warn of dan- ger that Germany may seek a ne- gotiated peace after a reverse and thus may add new perils to those already confronted by Britain and | the United States. Dissenting opin- fon among Goering, Goebbels #nid von Ribbentrop now will fore- shadow the future downfall® of the men close to Hitler who is to meet disaster by the end of this year. A new democratic party may form secretly in Germany. As the.@gfars presage the awakening of the of universal brotherhood after the war ends there is hope for the peo- | ple now under Nazi rule. Persons whose birthdate it is have the augury of a year of fair fortunes. Care to preserve har- mony with friends is enjoined. Children born on this day prob- ably will be fortunate in financial affairs, They may be emotional may make mistakes when choose life partners. (Copyright, 1941) ment is over 7,500 and office space is so scarce that many of the cor- ridors are being used for offices. (Copyright, 1941, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) HOSPITAL NOTES Mrs. George Peterson, a medical patient, was dismissed from = 8t. Ann’s Hospital this noon. Donald DeCaster was dismissed from St. Ann's Hospital this fore- noon after receiving medical atten- tion. Dorothy Lund left St. Ann's Hos- pital late this afternoon. She un- derwent an appendectomy. Adeline Clark was admitted to the Government Hospital wday to undergo surgey. ernment Hospital this afternoon}. pérsonnel of the depart- ! receive medical treatment, | can not be read). SYNONYMS: Patience, forbearance, resignation. WORD STUDY: “Use a word three times and it is yours.” increase our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Today’s word: EGREGIOUS; conspicuous for bad quality. E's as in ME, U as in UP, accent second sylable). | fool would have made such a remark.” MODERN ETIQUETTE * rorrra LEE e 0 - - ) Q. restaurant in order to speak to a man? A. No; ask the bell boy or the waiter to tell the men to come over at his convenience, Q. If the wedding reception is to be an informal affternoon affair, what refresments should be served? A. Sandwiches, a salad, followed by ice cream, cake, and coffee. Q. On what occasion should a man wear full dress? A. At an opera, a ball, an evening wedding, a dinner where formal invitations have been issued, and at certain State functions. L e —— LOOK and LEAR A C. GORDON s e e e e ) et - 0T What is the meaning of the phrase, “Crossing the Rubicon”? From what two plants does most of our sugar come? What is the difference between a turtle and a tortoise? What is a fiduciary relationship? Who was the greatest Negro leader of modern times? ANSWERS: 1. To take an irretrievable Italy from Cisalpine Gaul, to a declaration of war against Pompey. 2. Sugar cane and sugar beets, 3. Strictly speaking, the tortoise is of the land species and the turtle the aquatic species. 4. One of trust or trustee-ship. 5. Booker T. Washington (1858-1915), step. The Rubicon River £ i i b BEHIND AN ‘8 BALL’—_in the recent P. G. A. tourna- Preferred pronunciation is Tllegible (that Let us <P’ron0unce e-gre-jus, both “Only an egregious Is it all right for a woman to cross the lobby of a hotel or separated and its crossing by Caesar was equivalent Professional Fraternal Societies Gastineau Channel Drs. Kaser and Freeburger Dr. A. W. Stewart DENTIST 20TH CENTURY BUILDING Oftice Phone 489 " | Chiropractic” Physio Electro Theropeutics DIETET[CS~—REDUCING Soap Lake Mineral and Steam Baths Dr. Doelker, D. C., Bernard Bldg. _Dr. John H. Geyer DENTIST Room 9—Valentine Bldg. PHONE 762 Hours: 8 a.m. to 6 pm, — ROBERT SIMPSON, OPT. D. 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