The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 14, 1941, Page 4

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, :IHURSDAY AUG 14; 1941 Daily Alaska Empire Published every eventng excent iy A the EMPIRI INTING (0! Becond and i Streets, Junun. Alaska, HELEN TROY BENDER R. LABERNARD - = ¥ntered in the Post Office in Juneau as sccond Class Matter, SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Jelivered by carrier ln uncau and Douelay for $1.25 ver month. By mail, postage paid, at the following One year, f advance, $12.00; six months, in sdvance, $6.00; one month, in advance, $1.25. Subscribers will confer a favor if they will promptly notity the Business Office of any fallure or irregularity in the de- wery of their papers. Telephones: News Office, 602; Business Oftice, 374. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associgted Press is exclusively entitied to the use for republication of all news dispatthes credited to it or mot other- wise credited in this paper and also the local news published nerein. ALASEA CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARG! THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER Ptmum'non GEORGE D. CLOSE, Inc, President Vice-President and Business Ma National Newspaper Representa- Mves, with offices in_San Prancisco, Los Angeles, Portland, | Beattle, Chicago, New York and Boston. SEATTLE REPRESENTATIVE — Frank J. Dunbing, 1011 American Bank Building. CUSHIONING THE FALL What is the nation going to do with the millions of men and women who will cease working in de- fense industries or serving in military forces when the present emergency is passed? In particular, what is Alaska going to do with the host of unemployed which a sudden stop in de- fense work would dump in the lap of the Territory? Those questions, which probably worry all of us a little when we pause long enough to ponder on them, seem to be the official worries of the Na- tional Resources Planning Board, which recently opened an office in Juneau. Just how serious the situation is likely to be was pointed out yesterday by J. C. Rettie, acting counselor in the planning board office here, when he talked to a luncheon meeting of federal employees. According to the rate at which defense work is expected to build up, by 1944 there will be a total of 27,000,000 persons in this country either in uni- form or in active defense industry work. There are approximately 6,600,000 in military or defense work this year. It is expected that this number will be swelled to 14,200,000 by 1941 and to 18,500,000 by 1943. Charts also show that the national income this year will be about $84,000,000,000, and that by 1944 there should be the equivalent of $105,000,000,000 in national income, granted the purchasing power of the dollar should not change between now and then, In planning to weather the post-defense period without suffering the almost inevitable resultant era of unemployment and economic depression, the Na- tional Resources Planning Board feels that we Amer- icans must have the following high objectives in view: “l. We must plan for full employment, for maintaining the national income at $100,000,000,000 a year at least, a point we shall reach by 1944, rather than to let it slip back to 80, or 70, or 60 billion dollars again. In other words, we shall plan te balance our national production-consumption budget at a high level with full employment, not at a low level with mass unemployment. “2. We must plan to do this without re- quiring work from youth who should be in school, the aged who should be relieved if they wish it, and women who choose to make their contribution in the home, and without asking anyone to work regularly in mines, factories, transportation or offices more than 40 hours a week or 50 weeks a year, or to sacrifice the wage standards which have been set. “3. We must plan to decentralize post- defense emergency activities as far as pos- sible; to use to the utmost our system of modified free enterprise with its voluntary employment, its special reward for effort, imagination and improvement, its elasticity and competition; and to advance cooperative- ly under national and governmental leader- ship. “4, We must plan to enable every human being within our boundaries to realize pro- gressively the promise of American hfe in ‘ dy v.heltu, wlothing, medical care,seducay - )n,‘ x\.rkq pést, home life, oppomrnuy‘ ta %, wdvande, adventure, and the basic freédoms. . “5. We must plan to make Up-Building America the keynote of the post-defense program, including both construction activi- ties which will add to the National Estate and service activities which will end malnu- trition, and increase the vitality, health, skill, productivity knowledge and happiness of the American people, and thus add to our wealth and well-being.” Of course, some of the men who will be out of work when the defense period comes to a close will go right to work in the mighty effort which Ameri- cans will undoubtedly be called upon to put forth| to rebuild a war-ruined Europe. Food—thousands of tons of it—must be shipped, immediately the fall of Hitler is accomplished, to the thousands of Europeans who will be in a starving | condition. Then there will be the long, slow process of restocking European countries with the equipment for peace-time production, which has been 'destroyed by the bombs of war. Hundreds of herds ‘of cattle, flocks of chickens and other livestock must be sent to the Old Coun- tries, so farmers there can get a new start 'at feed- ing their fellow citizens. Bags of seed must be sent them, too, so they will be able to grow feed crops and once more carry on the job of supporting their fellow countrymen, But this help in Europe’s reconstruction problem is not calculated to take care of all the men who would be thrown into unemployment by the end of defense work. It is with this in mind that em- ployees of the National Resources Planning Board have been busy planning works projects which will be of benefit in the development of the nation’s re- sources, and at the same time will serve as a buffer period for workmen between the time they are layed off their defense jobs and the time they find steady jobs in peace-time pursuits. The possibilities for these works projects are almost endless. There is so much that needs being done along lines of construction a®d development ini almost any field we can think of that the planners may be faced with choosing the most feasible pro- jects and those which would be most worthwhile, rather than having to scratch their heads to find things to do. Distasteful as many of us find the idea of public works, if a year of accent on public works can keep the hands of workmen busy while industry is re- tooling its factories, retraining workmen, and get- ting the plants back into the production of peace- time materials, America will probably be several years and many billions of dollars ahead. If there is one thing the last depression taught | us, it is that idle hands mean lost income for every- one. Censorship (New York Times) In a democratic country still technically at peace it is impossible to keep the lid on all military secrets. - Any one can see ships coming and going in | the harbor, and people have a tendency to talk in- discreetly in public places. The air is full of infor- mation useful to Great Britain's enemies and poten- tial enemies of ours, and there are plenty of “little pitchers” all around. At present any one who has the price of a cable can transmit vita] information to Berlin or Tokyo as simply as sending birthday greetings to Aunt Emma. That is why the Navy Department is seeking legislation to permit the cen- soring of outgoing cable and wireless messages. The idea of censorship is abhorrent to Ameri- cans, but so is war itself. If one comes, the other follows logically. The question is whether under present circumstances steps shouldn't be taken at| once to prevent Axis agents from nullifying, to some extent, our help to Britain by cabling precise information about the movement of convoys and warships. The British, who share our own feelings about free speech and freedom of the press, have managed through two years of war to prevent leak- ages of military information without curbing the rights of their press or their people. Strictly limited to outgoing cable and wireless messages, it is difficult to see how censorship of military information would impinge upon any one's rights of free speech, except possibly those of agents for totalitarian Powers, who have a very low regard for such manifestations of democracy. In granting !powers of censorship to the Navy, however, Congress | should take care to define and limit them so that they cannot be stretched to cover anything more than is intended. The letter V has become the victory slogan of | all Hitler foes in Europe. The big question on the | continent has become: “To V or not to V?” Alf Landon says he finds F.D.R.s course is baf- fling: Must we go over that 1936 campaign again? l HAPPY BIRTHDAY:: AUGUST 14 in Seward waiting to secure passage Mrs. Howard D. Stabler ' .~ Mrs. M. H. Sides E & JZ:;:;OHM|C;J:§B y :x-:ived ixn‘fiuwxz_ dHc had been overseeing mining work on claims in which - Shirley Erwin & “' e was interested. 20TH CENTUR' gm‘.,pm Joe R. Werner & AR Oftice Pk Bill Brown Weather: High, 64; low, 54; cloudy. Roy Smith i — - " : . i Chiropractic” The Rexall Store | B sy v 4 e v e, to Skagway. 20 VEARS KGO on the next steamer south. Mrs. H. I. Lucas was a passenger on the Jefferson for a vacation trip Charles Otteson, of the Alaska-Dano Mining Company of Funter Bay, Daily Lessons in English % 1. corpon from THE EMPIRE { [PUSUISUNUUIIUSEUUDSEUSESE DR GRS 4444 4 AUGUST 14, 1921 Bishop J. R. Crimont returned to Juneau on the Northwestern after a trip to the Westward as far as Anchorage. Drs. Kaser and Dr. A. W. Stewart DENTIST Physio Electro Theropeutics d P | g i G-tmeiu Channel MOUNT JUNEAU LODGE NO. 147 Second and fourth Monday of each month Capt. and Mrs, C. S. Ward returned on the City of Seattle from Freeburger in Scottish Rite Temple Haines, where he was investigating road work. DI beginning at 7:30 p. m. WA Bl~ugren Buflding VERGNE L. HOKE, Because the passenger travel was so heavy, 175 persons were stranded PHONE 56 Worshipful Master; JAMES W. LEIVERS, Secretary. Juneau’s Own Store Your Reliable Pharmacists HOROSEOPN!. it cop ke M . B *DRUG Co. WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “We shall spend no more Dr. Doelker, D. C., Bernard Bldg. “The stars incline " ” ] 3 than we can help.” Say, “We shall spend no more than we MUST (or & TR but do not compel” || THAN IS NECESSARY).” Post Office Slbsla!m OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Neuralgia. Pronounce nu-ral-ja, U as D J H NOW LOCATED AT ! in UNITE, first A as in AT, second A as in ASK unstressed, accent sec- T. JO . Geyer HARRY RAC FRIDAY, AUGUST 15 ond syllable. DENTIST E This should be a fortunate day, OFTEN MISSPELLED: Right (correct). Rite (a ceremony). Write Room 9—Valentine Bldg. DRUGGIST for benefic aspects X’l'lle. It 18 B ) inscribe). ITEON! 762 “The Squibb Stores of Alaska™ time when men and women awak-| = gyNONYMS: Holiness, sanctity, righteousness. Hours: 9 a.m. to 6 pm. St ek en to their highest duties and| (. pp STUDY: “Use a word three times and it is yours” Let us gain true mental vision. Heart and Home: Women are| DIFFUSE (verb); | increase our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Today’s word: to pour out so as to spread in all directions. “How “The Stere for Men” splendidly directed by the st | | ROBERT SIMPSON, OPT. t.hpis dawy whirech stim’ulat: ;:‘;T).easy it is for one benevolent being to diffuse pleasure around him."—| | ROI A . D. SAB'N’S unselfish work and to high achieve- | Washington Irving. :wox:u'netryu:m Bldg, ment for the public good. Goverp- Opthaimology Front St—Triangle i ment policies which have strohg influence in molding their oplnlum‘ regarding war responsibilities wm undergo certain changes which le be beneficial to the husbands and sons enlisted in defense forces.| This should be fortunate for cer- MODERN ETIQUETTE ** roperTa LEE Q. Are there any other showers besides the one for the bride-to-be? A. Yes; there are going-away showers, birthday showers, showers tain boys serving in the Navy which | for the new mother, and for couples who are celebrating their golden is to gain fame for its exploits. | Business Affairs: There is an| evil portent for Labor and a sign| is read as most unfortunate fot the air service. Sabotage will cause increased through generous crops. Manufacturing will achieve mar- vels in production and mvmwr'\‘ will contribute magical designs that| improve our airplanes and sub-| marines. Housing problems will take: on new angles as preparations mr LADIES'—MISSES’ Juneau Melody House the winter must be made. On graduation, what rank docs an Annapolis Midshipman assume READY-TO-WEAR Next to Truesdell Gun Shop National Issues: As the mm\h in me Navy? Qeward Street Near Thua | Second Street Phone 65 ends the habit of putting off um<| pleasant tasks and forgetting sug:' gested dangers will bring to' the, American people abundant oause | for regret. Spies who have had! abundant opportunity to learn Govw | ernment plans and secrets will make weddings. Q. Is it all right for a man to bring home dinner guests without notifying his wife beforehand? A. No; he shouldn't, for this often embarrasses both his family and his guests. the curb, =0 that her escort is not forced to pass in front of her. LOOK and '.EARNA C. GORDON l-_...-_--,-..--._.m 2. What city has a downtown business section known as “The Loop™? 3. What is a “ghost writer”? 4. Did Alexander the Great live before or after the birth of Christ? 5. What bird has been estimated to cover between six and seven hundred miles every day? Glasses Pitted Lenses Ground Helene W. Albrech! PHYSICAL THERAPEUTICS Phone 778 Valentine Building—Room 7 R R The Charles W. Carter Fourth and Pranklin Sts. PHONE 136 Jones-Stevens Shop JAMES C. COOPER C.P.A. | ANSWERS: use of thelr knowledge gained| ; o, Business Counselor | through treachery. Perils from withe| ' P OCOOPER BUILDING i in will develop as perils from the | outside multiply. Warning again.is given that the President and other | leaders will suffer ill health bew cause of long mental strain and | heavy tasks. International Affairs: In the early autumn strong influences from the planet Pluto may cause the Axis powers to consolidate their forces and unify their conquered peoples. All possible benefits will be provid- ed for the German people who are loyal Nazis while dangers will at- 3. A person emloyed to write an article, story, or book, but whose name does not appear as author. won some distinction either in the |line of endeavor. 4. More than 300 years before. 5. The chimney swift. The ostensibile author is one who has field of literature or in some other ding was Mrs. Pearl Everitt. man was Craig Richmire. * Before her marriage, Mrs. Bloom was Miss Mary Ann Perich of Mount Vernon Wash. She arrives in Juneau on the North Coast last Best : Vernon, Wash, and his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Bloom, now reside there. He is employed by the 4 | Alaska “Juneau. A reception at the home of Mr. ' DR H.VANCE | You'll Find Food Finer and Becvice More Complete at THE BARANOF COFFEE SHOP — FINE fionech iough . novel - RN, Q. Where should a woman, escorted by a man, sit when riding in a Watch and Jeweiry Repairing more or less indirect. Prosperity taxi? M at very reasonable rates will attend our trade and tom- X z P a erce o e e o A. When entering the taxi she should take the seat farthest from orfuary PAUL BLOEDHORN 8. FRANKLIN STREET 1 RCA Victor Radios and RECORDS T INSURANCE | Shaflufigency CALIFORNIA | Grocery and Meat Market 478—PHONES—371 High Quality Foods at Moderate Prices swer WHITE rowee TRUCKS and BUSSES NASH CARS tend those who are lukewarm or|Saturday afternoon. and Mrs. John Halm honored the o OSTEOPATH Christensen Bros. Garage silently antagonistic. The world| Mr. Bloom is also from Mflum.newlyweds following the ceremony. 1 to! Ill“ mitation %09 WEST 12TH STREET will then enter a new phase of the AT Sy T MGANGREA S P P R O, free. Hours ;1 to 6; far-flung war. The United States 1"”5"‘”"”‘"0& B e comes under a planetary sway read as presaging at least two years of antagonism on the part of the Axis powers. Persons whose birthdate it is have the augury of a year of good fortune. Changes in the way of living and unusual experiences are Top Hitter Makes a Top Catch Bouth Pranklin St. Phone 177 — - s e Archie B. Belis PUBLIC ACCOUNTANT Taxes “HORLUCK’S DANISH” Ice Cream Flavors Peppermint Candy, Fudge Rippie, Rum Royal, Cocoanut Grove, Lemon Custard, Black Cherry, Garamel Pecan, Black Walnut, Raspberry Ripple, New York, Washinglon Merry- Go-Round (Continued from Page One) arrested when they dared oppose Nazi collaboration | Louisiana Kingfish, to protest but by shat time ancther Senator had the floor. H NOTE: In addressing the Senate on his first appearance, O'Daniel was emulating the late Huey Long, who pulled the same stunt. Like the O'Daniel har- bors secret presidential ambitions. LEWIS ON THE MOVE News copy was flowing fast over And behind the recent murder of ‘the desks of telegraph editors last Marx Dormoy, the Blum Secialist government, was the fact that he had tried to eprse these terrorist groups The State Department failed to gauge the strength of this movement and get its money--and gasoline—on the nice but impotent old men of Vichy. SLAPPING DOWN PAPPY Senator “Pass the biscuits Pappy"” O'Daniel lost no time in sounding off in the Senate, and the Senate lost mo time in slapping him down. The- day after he took his seat, the Texas crooner, breaking the hal- lowed tradition that rookies should be seen and not heard, lectured the Senate at length on numerous mat- ters. The chamber took it in silel But next day, when he offered an irrelevant amendment {o the se- lectees retention bill, the Senate nailed “Pappy” hard. As soon as he sat down, without a further word the Senate threw the amendent into the waste basket The slap-down. bappened 5o fast | that for a minute O'Daniel didn't know what hit him. When he real- ized what had occurred, he started cabinet member in | week. But in the space of a few { hours came three stories connected with John L. Lawis. On the surface, therells no rela- tion. between them. But whef: put side by side they revealed the tell- tale trail of the bush-browed lajbor- ite’s maneuvers to restore himself as a political povler and master of 1he CIO. Story No. 1:bore a Joplin, Mo, dateline. It reported a speech by Reid Robinson, head of the CIO Mining and Smelter Workers, at- tacking OPM Associate Director Sid- ney Hillman by name. Robinson is a Lewis henchman and thereby retains his job. He was one of the few top-run CIO leaders who followed Lewis in his bolt to .| Willkie, and his direct attack on Hillman is the first made by any important CIO executive, Inside CIO word is that the hand of Lewis was behind the blast; also that other blasts will be coming from key-placed Lewis henchmen as part of his fenoe-building to recap- ture the CIO presidency at the an- nual convention this fall. Story No. 2, frém Washington, re- ‘ported that Lewis had deposed’ cer- tain officials of the United Mine Workers' Gas, Coke and Chemical Division, replacing them with Ora | Gassaway, another of his henchmen, |and Kathryn Lewls, his daughter and confidential secretary. The men replaced are able, experienced but independent labor leaders. They did not bolt to Willkle and have co- operated with Hillman on defense problems. 'y MUNITIONS BQSS The Gas, Coke and Chemical Di- vision covers all workers in the munitions industry, which of course is rapidly expanding, and the union is keeping step with this growth. So by installing Gassaway and his daughter at the head of this union, Lewis ~quietly made himself labor, | boss of one of the most strategic defense industries. He put himself in key position where the Govern- ment must deal with him to obtain gun pewder for the Army, Navy and Air Corps. Also, he ensured that the union will vote as he orders at the CIO convention. Story No. 3, the only one that attracted attention, was the Lowden- Hoover-Landon attack on Roosevelt's aid-Russia policy. Lewis was one of the fifteen signers of the blast, and thus disclosed the circuitous political game he is playing. To the rank and file of the CIO |John L. is parading as an ardent defender of their interests. ‘“Labor | {has no real repicsentation in the defense setup” is his battle cry and his henchmen'’s. But simultaneously | he is lining up with Old Guard Re- prophesled. Systems Bookkeeping Sk Rowd, Chorolate, SCawberry Children born on this day will Rm. 8, Valentine Bldg. Phone 676 snd h"‘m'— e — probably ‘have a successful time | at the GUY SMITH DRUG all through life which will be dif- NOTICR : ferent from all that the parents have known. They will benefit, de- spite changes in customs. AIRMAIL ENVELOPES, showing air route from Seattle to Nome, on sale at J. R Burford & Co. FOR BEAUTY'S SAKE SIGRID’S PHONE 318 publican isolationists who have o posed the defense program. This juxtaposition charts Le strategy. As President of the CI ¢ the ally of the GOP Old Guard, and an isolationist leader, he would be at the top of the political heap. In next. year’s congressional elections and 1944, he could write the ticket, pos- sibly even put himself on it. - This ambition is Lews’ consuming passion — second perhaps to his hatred of Franklin Roosevelt, NOTE: Lewis’ next public manéu- ver will be a nationwide radio speech he is quietly planning to make on Labor Day. In this address he will attack Roosevelt’s foreign policies and the administration of the ;&; fense program. (Copyright, 1941, by United Feature USED CARS SeeUs 'I'odai for Models Many Kinds and Types to Choose From! CONNORS MOTOR CO. Syndicate, Inc.) “nd CAPITAL—SM;MO SURPLUS—$150,00 Recently Married - . COMMERCIAL AND SAVINGS ACCOUNTS SAFE DEPOSIT BOXES First National Bank JUNEAU-—ALASKA ° Couple Now lemq AtHome in Ju Mr. and Mrs. Melvin A. B who were married last Saturday night, are now residing in their home here. The wedding took plue in the Catholic Church of the tivity, with the Rev. 'W. G, ] Vasseur reading the vows. ‘Atianding. the bride: a the wadel! - e Tsd Williams, Red Sox-outfielder who s hitting over .400 and leading league, is shown’ with the 374-pound tuna he caught off: Plum - l, Newburyport, Mass. We don’t kniow why Daris Souhle of Boston in the picture, but she does make it more attractive, 2 v »)