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

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, FRIDAY, AUG. 1, Daily Alaska Empi;'e Published every evening except Sunday by the EMPIRE G COMPANY Second and Mdin Streets, Juneau, Alaska. President . Vice-President and Business Manager tutered 1n the Post Office n_Juneau as Becond Class Matter. UBSORIPTION RATES: Jelivered by carrier |.n Juneau and Douglas l.r $1.25 per month. By mail, postage paid, at the following rates: One year, in advance, $12. ix months, in advanoce, $6.00; one month, in advance, $1.25. Subscribers will eonfer a favor if they will promptly notify he Business Office of any faflure or irregularity in the de- very of their papers. Telephones: News Office, 802; Business Office, 374. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS ted Press ia exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatthes credited to it or not other- wise credited in thl plut and also the local news published oerein. "ALASKA CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICA' GEORGE D. CLOSE, Inc, Natignal Newspaper Representa- Wves, With offices in_San Prancisto, Los Angeles, Portland, Beattly, Chicago, New Yerk and Boston. ENTATIVE Prank J, SEATTLE REPRESENT! Dunning, 1011 American Bank Building. IF IT DOES HAPPEN HERE — < Three years ago, or even two years ago, if . you had told the residents of London or Paris or Berlin that war would blast their cities td pieces, likely the | vast majority of them would have grinned and called you “balmy,” or tried to argue that such a thing, while possible, was highly improbable. But now they know. With sections of their cities now piles of ruins, with historic buildings nnd art treasures devastated by bombers from enemy} raiding planes, with thousands of dead and lmured[ on the casualty lists—they have learned that the savagery of modern, aerial warfare knows no favor- | ites, has no preferred list. It has been a case of “let the bombs fall where they may.” With the havoc shown in overseas cities as a horrible example, the United States is this summer beginning for the first time to drive hard toward | civilian defense—a drive which is headed by a “little flower” with a bulldog jaw. | The little flower, of course, is New York’s fight- ing mayor, Fiorello La Guardia. In taking the posi- tion of director of the Office of Civilian Defense, La Guardia has grabbed a hot potato which will quite probably take more of his time to handle than all his other three major jobs combined. For be- sides being mayor of New York, La Guardia is also president of the U. S. Conference of Mayors and chairman of the American section of the Joint Per- manent Defense- Board, set- up.to cooperate with Canada. War prophesies this month still were setting the chances against air raid on this continent at 95 per- cent, but La Guardia, busy in his preparations for home defense, pointed out that we can not take that five percent chance, So he was going ahead with his careful plan- ning and organizing of a home guard, to be made up of volunteers, under army-like discipline, nnd‘ with their duties parcelled out so there will be no overlapping of the vast amount of work which must be immediately and capably taken care of in event | of an air raid. Where organization of home guard units has (ter of street corner arguments these days. already progressed, crews have been formed and in- structions are begin given in spotting fire bombs on roof tops, clearing highways and streets of debris, restoring to operation of vital public utilities dam- aged, handling air raid shelters and distributing food in case of emergency. Women are being trained in work similar to that done by Britain’s famed Air-Raid Precautions Service, the care of injured and homeless children. Training will even deal with plans for evacuating cities where necessary, La Guardia has planned. Crews of men who volunteer for service will be taught to maintain public health under disorganized conditions and draft measures for the prevention of panics. In general, La Guardia plans a vast army of volunteer Americans, trained and ready to meet any emergency of war, while at the same time they pray such an emergency may never arise. But reports from the States indicate that La Guardia is running into snags in his organizing efforts. It is hard to make residents of mid-western, corn belt towns leap to the organizing of defense units. Bombing raids seem too far away to be a live threat. Here in Alaska, civillan defense plans, still in an embryo stage, are probably as far progressed as anywhere jn the nation. Returning this week from a two-week trip to the Westward, Governor Gruen- ing and James J. (Jimmy) Ryan, assistant director of civillan defense, announced that units had been organized in Fairbanks, Nome, Anchorage and Sew- ard. This means that now civilian defense organiza- tions have been formed in every major community of the Territory. Yesterday, Ryan’s plane left Juneau, bound for New York, on a two-week trip to confer with La Guardia. It is understood he will attempt to obtain uniforms and weapons for Alaskan home guard units, and will also investigate possibility of forming a civilian air force in the Territory. Which way the tide of war may turn is a mat- Some his- torical accident may touch off the powder keg of hostilities in the Pacific before many days. Then | Alaska will be lined up along the battle front and | there will be real need of alert civilian defense corps. | THE SOUR-PUSS There's always someone dunking a sour pickle in the ice cream of happiness. This month it seems to be that prominent financial analyst, Roger W.| Babson, who wrote the following cheery note for the Washington Post, leading newspaper in the | national capital: “While the newspapers are filled with war news, and it looks as if the world might go to smash, it is well to remember a few funda- mentals: God is still reigning in His heavens; the trees are budding as they have every year, and compound interest is going on just the same every day, including Sundays and holidays.” IT HAPPENED IN HOLLYWOOD | The wacky flm cupim, suburk’ of Los Angeles, must have something in its very atmosphere which urges all manner of living creatures into’ glamour. Even our furred and feathered cousins do not seem exempt from the temptation to show offiafter they have attained cinema prominence, as witness this recent dispatch from Hollywood: “Oscar, the Penguin, co-stur with Wallace Beery and Marjorie Main in ‘Barnacle Bill’ . .. now has a regular theatrical entourage. Although this is Oscar’s screen debut, and until now he has been an inmate of a public 200, he now has an estate of his own, com- plete with swimming pool, private fish pond, lackeys and a manager-lawyer-agent.” wasmnflhll y ‘on foreign policy. Merry- # Go-Round | vited to White House conferences RACIAL PROPAGANDA FRANKED SILENT SOCIALIST TREATMENT Norman Thomas found the Sen- ate Military Affairs Committee 8 poor sounding board for his iso- lationist views when he testified ‘;obstacles will retard plans for ‘im- 1941 AUGUST m | sun T mon | EL 4|8 1112 15 1819 223 25|26 2913 HAPPY BIRTHDAY{! B s ] AUGUST 1 Cliff Daigler Wellman Holbrook Joe Brown Helen Harrell Agnes Baroumes Lizzie Stevens Mrs. T. F. Hopkinson .. Mrs. Robert Jenkins Harriett Thompson F. M. Edgecomb PO AR NN s 7 ey HOROSCOPE | | “The stars incline but do not compel™ *—— | SATURDAY, AUGUST 2 Good and evil planetary aspects balance today. It is a time when there will be much mental disturb- ance and women may be obsessexll by many anxieties ' regarding the welfare of their sons. HEART AND HOME: Women are | under a rule of the stars which is| adverse. There may be expectancy of bad news and general depression while this configuration prevnus,j Although a degree of development | in character is indicated for the average girl, much will happen to; cause discontent and apprehension. The long-predicted changes in so- cial conditions may be apparent as the youth cf the land trains in camps and on warships. This is a time to begin preparations Inr‘ the autumn. Early shopping is en-| 1 Joined. | BUSINESS AFFAIRS: Thi should - be a profitable. day *fo heads of: great organizations, gov- | ernmental and commercial, buz;’ labor troubles are prognosticated. Yt | is not a favorable configuration for! merchants and manufacturers. Many mense productiveness in certain factories. There are evil omens af> fecting employers and employeés. Efforts to curb strikes may preciply tate grave reactions inspired by enemy agents. 4 NATIONAL ISSUES: Greed for gain will be evident in certain lines of commerce. Government machin- ery will work slowly in retardi trade that indirectly aids the arch enemy of the United States. The puhblic will make many protests re- garding existing inconsistencies in foreign policy. Secret agencies will prove that great advantage has been taken of the usual American happy-go-lucky attitude in public affairs. Sabotage will be widely practiced this month, despite safe~ guarding of factories and airplane centers. INTERNATIONAL AFPAIR.SA The lunation of July 24 found Sa- turn and Uranus in close conjunc- (Continued Trom Page One) of Wheeler-Lindbergh outeries that | he is trying to get the country into war. SLAPPED DOWN On the other hand, every time one of the President’s supporters speaks out for convoys or some other vigorous policy, Senator Lee complained, he is promptly slapped down by a White House spokesman. “I am sincerely trying to help the President,” said the Senator from Oklahoma, “but frankly, I am getting disheartened by his failure to back up those of us who stick our necks out for him. I delivered a speech on foreign policy not long ago which the President saw and approved beforehand. The next day I was called to task by the White House.” WALLACE DEPARTS Othere echoing similar com- plaints were Democratic. Senators Alben Barkley, Francis Maloney of Connecticut, and Abe Murdock pf Utah; also Republicans Styles Bridges of New Hampshire, Chan Gurney of South Dakota and Jo- sep H. Ball of Minnesota. Bark- ley particularly appeared to enjoy the panning session, but not Vice President Wallace. He said that the White House had been guilty of some inconsistency. Wken | the group really began to get rough | Wallace ner-| with the President, vously excused himself and de- parted. The only one present who spoke a word in defense of the President was Pepper, who specu- | “pressure of work”| lated that the might have something to do with the failure to back up supporters of the, foreign poligy. Republicans Bridges,~Gurney andK Ball got a big hand from Demo- cratic colleagues when they pro- tested that despite his talk about’ “national ‘unity,” the President’s GOP supporters were seldom in- little, except to agree; The Steuben Society of America, 369 Lexington Avenue, is sending out large quantities of propaganda in the franked (free mail) en- | velopes of Senator Gerald P, Nye, vociferous North Dakota foe of Roosevelt’s anti-Axis policy. The propaganda consists of a speech by Theodore H. Hoffman, national chairman of the Society, which Nye inserted in the Con- gressional Record (at public ex- | pense) as an “extension of his re- rmarks.” The only way the franked envelopes could be obtained is from Nye himself. The Society also is offering franked envelopes of Nye and Sen- ator Burt Wheeler, containing at- tacks on the Aid-Britain program, to its members for distribution. Announcement of this interesting U. S-financed propaganda cam- paign is contained in a bulletin issued by Unit No. 55 of the So- ciety calling a meeting to be ad- dressed by Hoffman. This was the message: “At this meeting copies of ad- dresses by Senators Nye and Wheel- er will be distributed to members so that they may send them to their friends. Come and get your share of leaflets for distribution. These excerpts can be used to pub- licize our Society to great advan- tage. They can be sent to those of our race and others to demonstrate in the first instance that our So- ciety is doing something, and in the second instance, that those of our race have been an impor- tant part in the building up of our country. “These excerpts are in franked envelopes and require no postage. We must keep up the fight to stay out of war, and this is one of the ways in which we can help.” NOTE—Henry Hoke, editor of the Reporter of Direct Mail Advertis- ing, also has charged that Wheel- er's frank was used by certain or- ganizations to distribute racial lit- | erature. Wheeler hotly denied this, bul when further challenged on the matter of Ulric Bell, executive secretary of the Fight for Preedom |Committee, made no- zesls against extending the one-year ser- vice of selectees. What he doesn’t know is that New - Deal Senators Josh Lee of Oklahoma and Lister Hill of Alabama planned it that way. The limelight - loving Socialist leader was panting for a clash with supporters of the President's de- fense policies. After reading a pre- pared statement, he leaned back and challengingly demanded: “Any questions, gentlemen?” Lee and Hill looked him over. “How do you think we ought to handle him?" whispered Lee. “He's just aching to have someone ques- tion him so he can sound off.” “Let’s give him the silent treat- ment,” advised Hill. “That’s the one thing that will stop him.” Lee nodded enthusiastically, and the word was flashed down the line, from Senator to Senator, Each in turn grinningly replied, “No ques- tions.” “Thank you very much, Mr. Thomas. We enjoyed hearing your views,” said Chairman Reynolds fin- ally, as the Socialist leader, his face the coler of a stop-light, gath- ered up his papers and sheepishly left the stand. BRITISH PLOT After nearly four weeks of hear- ings, the House Rivers and Har- bors Committee has at last got the inside lowdown on the Great Lakes- St. Lawrence waterway project. The whole scheme is a gigantic English plot. It originated 300 years ago, when English colonists began edging in on the French in the Great Lakes area, and Britain has pursued it doggedly ever since. Revealer of the plot was John H. Northrup, supervisor of the Ni- agara County (N. Y.) Board of Supervisors, who read a lengthy historical paper on the subject. This was his tale: England “ successfully edged out the Dutch and then the PFrench in years after me'ruuy ul Paris, British - trog 0-—hold] tion with the Midheaven, the minaries being in sextile aspéck the cusp of the twelfth. This®: other configurations were read as the old French fors on the Amer- ican side of the border, extending from Chicago to Ogdensburg. They didn’t evacuate until July 4; 1796. In this treaty they bamboozled the Founding Fathers out of control .of the St. Lawrence, {r tinued, was purely a struggle be- tween American and Canadian portage interests for control of in- terior trade. The British won ‘& diplomatic victory in the Rush- Baggott treaty provision that neither Canada nor the United States would fortify the border or maintain navies on the Great Lakes. Britain controlled the mouth of the St. Lawrence and thereby the trade route. This situation irked men like De Witt Clinton, and in 1817 New York State started digging the ErieCan- al to make an all-American water~ way. Its completion in 1825, North- rup orated, made the British lion writhe. In retaliation, England started the Welland Canal and in 1824 to bi-pass Niagara; finished it in 1833, and opened the Canadian series of St. Lawrence canals in 1848, completing an all-British route to the Atlantic. Now, once again, warned darkly, the United States 20 YEARS AGO % AUGUST Two hundred people attended the Gastineaux Lodge picnic given at | Taku Harbor the day before in spite of the rain. B. M. Behrends Bank, the first banking inetitution to be opened in | Alaska, was celebrating the 30th year J. F. Mullen was re-elected Vice-President. A ton of clams was to arrive from Hoonah for the big clam bake at the Elks picnic planned for the official clam baker. Ludwig Nelson, one of the partn and Nelson, temporarily retired from Weather: High, 58; low, 50; rain. e e e e e e S 5 - i e S S Daily Lessons in English % .. corpox e D - D - S ) ‘WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “They are badly in need of Say, “They are VERY MUCH (or EXCEEDINGLY) in need of | money."” money.” OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Vapi I as in ILL, accent on first syllable. OFTEN MISSPELLED: Glutinous (sticky. Gluttonous (greedy). SYNONYMS. Dilate, expand, distend, inflate. WORD STUDY: “Use a word thi increase our vocabulary by mastering 'CONVERSANT: intimately acquainted; familiar. sible for everyone to be conversant with current events.” ‘I MODERN ETIQUETTE * roperra LEE Q. If one is unable to use the obligatory to cancel the reservation? A. is free to assign the room to someone Q. cutting meat? A. No; the fingers should rest blade. Q. Should one underline words a letter? A. No; try to convey emphasis by the phrasing of the words, rather than by underlining. o o - 0 - G e e b S 0 LOOK and LEA e 2 e s S Which metal is unique in that it is liquid at ordinary tem- i peratures? 2. What is the Sargasso Sea? 3. Whose appointment as Secre Washington gained him the reputation of a great financier? ‘Who was known as “the faultless painter”? 4. 5.- How many bones are there in " ANSWERS: 1. Mercury. seaweed. 3. Alexander Hamilton. 4. Andrea del Sarto (1486-1531). ¢ 5. Thirty. It is not obligatory but it is customary. By doing this the hotel Is it proper to rest the fingers upon the blade of the knife when 1941. from THE EMPIRE 1, 1921 of the anniversary of its founding. following Sunday. Joe Snow was ers of the jewelry firm of Wright business for a trip south. id. Pronounce vap-id, A as in ADD, ree tites and it is yours.” Tet us one word each day. Today’s word: “Radio makes it pos- hotel room one has reserved, is it else. upon the handle, never upon the to emphasize them when writing RN A. C. GORDON tary of the Treasury by President the human arm? warning of the danger that Hitler would win in peace negotiations. The seers continue to warn that there can be no policy of appease- ment which assures liberty and jus- tice for the democracies. Desperate crises for Britain have been fore- cast, but there is always the proph- esy of final victory. Persons whose birthdate it is have the augury of a year of pro- gress. Prosperity of unusual scove is foretold, but extravagance should be avoided. Children born on this day prob- ably will be highly talented and exceedingly fortunate. They may be entirely too fond of luxury and should be trained in frugal habits. (Copyright, 1941) —————————— BUY DEFENSEK STAMPS HELP AN ALASKAN Telephone 713 or write ‘The Alaska Territorial Employment Service for this qualified worker. SALESCLERK—Woman, well-groomed, attractive, enced as demonstrator, salesclerk, hotel manager for many years. Wishes to locate Juneau as sales- clerk. Please call ES 341. SRR T age 50, experi- ‘The Dally Alaska Empire nas the iargest paid circulation of wuy au- aska newspaper. “Indispensab 7 The War of 1812, Northrup cons |, Northrup | is about to fall for another Brif-|’ ish conspiracy to enlarge t his waterway by removing the last ob- stacle to deep-draught navigation in the upper St. Lawrence. ' NOTE: Northrup had no explan= ation for the fact that other op; position witnesses, taking an- ex- act opposite tact, told the commify, tee that President Roosevelt had| “blackmailed” war-burdened Lure ar of the “indispensable” | b REER 2. A section of the North Atlantic Ocean covered by patches of Man? Hes Iy man? ngm’ny Prochaska, a privete at Fort Sheridag, leave becanse the oats are hoine folks _ripening aro re =zedea him to/r Director Drs. Kaser and Freeburger DENTISTS Blr ngren Building PHONE 56 Dr. A. W. Stewart . DENTIST Office Phone 450 " - Chiropractic Physio Electro Theropeutics DIETETICS-REDUCING Soap Lake Mineral and Steam Baths Dr. Doelker, D. C., Bernard Bldg. Dr. John H. Geyer DENTIST Room 9—Valentine Bldg. PHONE 1762 Hours: 9 am, to ROBERT SIMPSON, OPT. D. Helene W. Albrecht PHYSICAL THERAPEUTICS Phone 773 Valentine Building—Room 7 The Charles W. Carter Mortuary Pourth and Pranklin Sta. PHONE 136 Jones-Stevens Shop LADIES'—-MISSES’ READY-TO-WEAR JAMES C. 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