The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 3, 1941, Page 4

Daily Alaska Empire Published every eventng excet Snass by the MPIRE PRINTING COMP seccnd and Main Streets, Juneau, lunn AELEN TROY BENDER K. L. BERNARD tntered in the Post SU RATES: Jelivered by earrler in Junewu and Douglas for $1.25 per month. By mall, postage paid, at the following rates: One year, in advance. 312.00; six months, in advance, $6.00; one month. tn advance, $1.25. Subscribers will confer s favor if they will promptly motity he Business Office of any faflure or irregularity in de- wery of their papers. Telephones: News Office, MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associgted Press e 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 602; Business Office, 374 ALASEA CTRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION. . National Newspaper Representa- 0, Los Angeles, Portland, GEORGE D. CLOSE, Inc Mves, with offices in San Francf Beattle, Chicago, New York and B SEATTLE REPRESENTATIVE American Bank Building. . Dufining, 1011 its takes toll of human life in the United States and posses- sions isn't quite the wave of destruction it once was. | Advancements in modern medical science plus more healthful living conditions in the modern city has fired a real volley into the heart of disease epi- | The tide of disease which annually demics. inspected for impurities come from animals that passed as disease free ting the habit of periodical physical examinations, giving physicians a chance to discover organic ail- ments while they are still in an embryonic condition and can be easily treated and cured Our meat and milk must have been inspected and Americans are gradually get- | {son from either measles or diphtheria during the | first seven months of the year. | Another death cause, which has little to do with medical science but a great deal to do with business conditions, caused - fewer deaths for Metropolitan this year than for the past 15 years. That cause was suicide. With business humming as never before, the suicide rate, which almost invariably follows | business cycles, is seven percent lower this year than in 1940. i Only complaint of the insurance oompany agents, in fact, was that accidental deaths, especially those resulting from automobile accidents, occurred at what they termed an “alarming rate.” Well, in Alaska, with the few cars per capita in the Territory, auto accident deaths are not the ' problem they are in the continental United States.| We don't want to make the insurance people sorry they publish these facts, but because we are a healthier people, doesn’t that mean we are a better | insurance risk? And if we're a better risk, couldn't the insurance premium rate be reduced, bringing insurance within reach of all classes of people and enabling those of us who have some now to buy| more? ‘We don't know, we're just asking! What Causes Inflation (The New York Times) The easy fatalism with which many Americans discuss the “inevitability” of inflation is something | which astonishes and appalls most European econo- | ‘mists and financial experts here who have experi- |enced its dreadful consequences at first hand. In-| flation, they recognize, is not a natural calamity, |like a hurricane or an earthquake, that falls upon | |a nation from without. It is a result caused by the actions and policies of the Government itself. It 15‘ ‘always in the power of government, by sound a.nd‘ !firm policies, to curb or prevent it. Yet today we ' have the strange spectacle of government omcials‘ talking of inflation coming upon the country, llkel‘ a great storm, in spite of everything that govem— ment policy can do. They talk as if inflation could' be brought about by a buyers' panic, while failing | to recognize that such a buyers' panic would itself | | The term inflation has come to be used so loosely (as a synonym for higher prices from whatever cause or even as a synonym for prosperity) as almost ! to have lost its original meaning. But a real general‘ inflation is hardly possible except when a govern-‘ ment’s budget is unbalanced and when the sums | that the government borrows to make up the dif-| |ference do not come out of real savings. The onl}‘ THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 3, 1941. 1941 SEP‘I’EMBER 194 mmmmmmmm == ‘ 10 ! 17 HAPPY BIRTHDAY B SEPTEMBER 3 Albert W. Goetz Mrs. J. G. Christensen W. E. Day Douglas Mead R. F. Harrison i Mrs. T. D. Wilshire Mrs. Harry Willets Carrie Mitchell Sally Burns HOROSCOPE “The stars incline but do not compel” —_ THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 4 Benefic aspects rule the eatly hours today, but afternoon . i§ ruled by adverse planetary influ- ences. Aviation is under an unfa- | vorable sign. HEART AND HOME: As women's field of activities widens this au- |tumn there will be a corresponding emphasis on American homes which | will be havens for soldiers and for war refugees. Labor-saving deviges | Our drinking water is now filtered and |be caused, or made possible, by governmental policy. |will be sought and food values| | studied. Seers warn that girls must be trained in vocations that will as- | sure them future economic inde-| pendence, for old ideas centering full responsibility for support of the family upon its men are nec- |essarily superseded. In the future there will be no leisure class, or at| Such improvements in our national health pic-| |kind of inflation that seriously threatens us today, least only a semblance of one, the | ture were mirrored this week in the summary of the Metropolitan Life Insurance company revealing the causes of death of Metropolitan policy holders during the first seven months of 1941. Undoubtedly, Metropolitan insurance customers are no more healthy as a group than any other section of citi- zenry of the same size. A similar survey by any other insurance company would probably reveal the same condition The death rate of Metropolitan policy holders during those first seven months of the year was the lowest ever recorded. This was in spite of the pro- tracted. heat wave which was partly responsible for the July rate of death reaching the highest point! for that month in four years. The pneumonia death rate during the seven months, for instance, fell to the unprecedented low level of 37.7 persons per 100,000 insured. This repre- sents a drop of 12 percent below the rate at which pneumonia killed policy holders for Metropolitan during 1940. Death rates from tuberculosis, diarrhea, enteritis and appendicitis were also lower the first seven months of this year than a year ago. And infectious diseases, which only a few decades ago were the chief cause of death, are now almost a minor factor in the health of the nation. Typhoid fever is prac- tically wiped off the death records and the so-called children's diseases, although still important causes of illness, are just about nil so far as death causes are concerned. Among more than a million policy holders on the Pacific Coast, Metropolitan lost not a single per- | certainly, is one that would be caused by a combined purchasing power at existing price levels of the Government and the civil population greater than the total volume of goods that can be turned out. The result of the bidding of the Government and its cltizens against each other—or of the citizens against each other for the goods and services that can be produced in excess of those the Governmont] has ordered for defense—is to force up the prices |of these goods and services without increasing pro- | duction. The effect is to threaten or reduce the | value of all savings and to bring widespread hard- | ship and often tragedy to those whose incomes can-! not increase fast enough to keep up with the price spiral. | i Inflation is the very worst method by which thP’ Government could finance the defense program. ItJ can avoid this method only if it has the courage to| tax away the excess purchasing power in the hands | of the great bulk of the population or to force it into loans to the Government, avoiding financing out of mere bank-created credit. If the Admin- istration fails to do this, then inflation does indeed | become “inevitable.” Its effects could be temporarily | postponed or disguised only by an authoritarian type of price-fixing and rationing dangerous to democ- racy and to economic freedom. It is for the Admin- istration to make its choice. | Ever watch the little balloons soar from the (toof of the Federal Building? One of them, wi',hr 'a radiosonde, the automatic radio high-altitude weather reporting station, attached to the balloon, has attained the height of 20 miles, a weather ob- server in the States reports. axe to grind and Washington Merry- who incidentally, slant their pictures. So now a lot of the producers, to“enm‘e room, walls and ceiling, were given two coats of white paint. But Howell Crim, who had charge of the job, is proudest of the new oak floor. “When we get a wax were trying pay Will Hays | nomic warfare will cause merchants far| § seers predict. BUSINESS AFFAIRS: Threats of | what Hitler can accomplish in eco-| and manufacturers to look ahead and to safeguard American interests. Astrologers foretell a peri- od of supreme difficulty after the | beginning of 1945 and perhaps be- | fore that time. Meanwhile the Unit- ed States will continue to prosper |and the country will be the world storehouse of food. Important trade |agreements with South Amerlmn nations will multiply. NATIONAL ISSUES: Differences; of opinion regarding the policing of the Atlantic and the defeat of | Hitler by the United States Navy | will cause intense feeling as all| thinkers realize the gravity of the World War situation. Withdrawa” of warships from the Pacific will alarm all who understand the am- | bitions of Japan which may cause| serious crises when used as sn‘ Axis catspaw. \ INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS % Astrologers stress as the first duty‘ of the United States the recovery of all land in the Western Hemis- | phere which is now under the rule | of any foreign government. The | same seers warn that the idea of | transfer of the British seat of gov- ernment to Canada is most imprac- tical in view of all that such a change would entail. promise great success in the future through the kindly cooperation'of the United States and Britain, but The stars | Go-Round (Continued from Page One) ation was tense over Poland, Bil- tain made the same query of the United States. The last query came when Roo- sevelt and Churchill were on the high seas off Newfoundland. Again Churchill wanted the United States to draw a line beyond which Ja- pan could not pass without a dec- laration of war from the United States. But once again Roosevelt refused to make a commitment without the consent of Congress. The Constitution is the Constitu-| tion. Nevertheless, it remains a fact that war sometimes can be averted by making it absolutely clear to a nation in advance what it faces in case of aggression. And our recent hesitancy over drawing a line beyond which Japan shall| not pass may be compared by his- | torians with Britain’s failure to| draw a lise in regard to Belgium SENATE PROBES HOLLYWOOD During the 19 long years since Will Hays resigned as Warren Harding’s Postmaster General tfo become president of the Picture Producers and Distributors, his sway over Hollywood never has been so shaky as today This is chiefly because Hays is given part of the blame for the current Senate investigation of the motion picture industry to ascer- tain whether Hollywood has been spreading warlike propaganda. Naturally this investigation is the last thing Hays wants. But he Motion | a salary of well over $100,000, are asking just whom he meant. And the Senate committee, completely dominated by isolationists, is pl:m-1 ning to put Hays on the griddle and ask him just which Hollywood producers are propagandizing in their pictures. NOTE—Last time Hays appeared before a Senate investigation was in 1927 when the late Senator Tom Walsh of Montana interrogated him about a certain bond deal connect- ed with the Teapot Dome oil scan- dal. WHITE HOUSE FLOOR After three months, the hammers have stopped pounding in the White House. The new parquet floor in the East Room is finished. When the social season begins, guests will walk or dance over one of the most delicately carpen- tered floors in the world It's white oak, 3200 square feet of it, laid in the same pattern of squares and triangles as before, but done so neatly and with such pre- cision that your finger can't feel where two boards meet. It's a job | few dancers will appreciate. In fact it takes a carpenter to realize how much work there is to bring four points of board together at a sin- gle point, with geometrical ness. The job cost as much as it would cost most of us to build a new house. It's quarter-inch oak, re- placing the old flooring of one- eighth inch, which had worn paper- thin in its 42 years of use. While the spacious East (40 by 80 feet) was torn up, work- men did a thorough job of over- exact- | Room | polish on that floor,” he says, “even a fly would slip on it and break a collar bone!” CAPITAL CHAFF The only thing people aboard the Prince of Wales with Roose- velt and Churchill will say is that at the final parting, as Churchill wrung Roosevelt's hand, “the Prime Minister’s eyes were full of great big tears” . The best press re- leases put out in official Washing- | T |ton come from the Soviet Embassy, cabled direct from Moscow. | Under Secretary of War Pntterson recently did a unique thing. Testi- fying before the House Appropria- tions Committee, he -paid great tri- bute to his predecessor, . Assistant Secretary of War Louis Johnson; said that lack of delays in placing war orders was due to Johnson's pioneering. Johnson is a Democrat, Patterson a Republican. . . . Sec-~ retary of the Navy Knox told Roo- sevelt the other day that he had a newspaper in Chicago which he would be glad to go back to. Knox didn’t say so, but the stockholders of that paper also would be glad to have him back. Chicago Daily News common stock three years |ago was selling for around $25, now it is $10. Five percent preferred stock was selling at $100, now is under $90. Knox is one of the largest stockholders, so his con- |tinued absence means a big per-| sonal sacrifice. MERRY-GO-ROUND One of the best things done by |the Rockefeller Committee for Latin American goodwill was to made the mistake of writing an article in which, referring to Hol- lywood producers, he said: “There are those who wotilld muse rather walls. Thé old than amuse.” This was immediately have been interpreted as meaning that cer- |elaborate glass tain Hollywood producers had an |been cleaned and hauling. There is dark red marble, the room, where the floar meets the |de Janeiro where his company is refinished, chandeliers & new base of send Walt Disney to South .Amer-| running around | jga. He has been .the rage of Rio mahogany the doors |now filming cartoons drawn by La- three tin American artists. He has also nawe\dpmz a cartoon of Brazilian polished, and the |dent Vargas. i o this nation is to be the most power- ful in the world after the close of the second World War and must retain absolute independence Ahd individuality. L Persons whose birthdate it; is have the augury of a year of aver- age :good fortune, but women of the family may cause domestic up- heavals. Children born on this day should be clever and energetic. They prob- ably will have eventrul and change- ful careers. (Copyrlght 1941) SEPT. GAS RATIONING UNCHANGED 15 Percent Mofor Fuel Cut for Pleasure Drivers Continues WASHINGTON, D. C. Sept. 3.— A 10 per cent over-all curtailment tail outlets in the east will mean fuel to “nonessential” motorists, it was announced today by Ralph Davies, acting petroleum coordina- tor of the rationing program. This month’s gas allowances will thus be substantially- the same as during the last two wcekfs in Augtist, Davies. explllned, - The 'Russian” city of Nikolaev, trade port on the Black-Sea,, navcl base lor nearly of September gas deliveries to re-, an estimated 15 per cent in motor | 20 YEARS AGO ¥ mmpirE | SEPTEMBER 3 Over 350 students were enrolled in the Juneau Public Schools at the {end of the first week of the new year Gus Lundell and family moved from Treadwell Pines and were living in Douglas. M. H. Truesdell, who had been visiting his claims on Chichagof Island, | returned on the Apex. i : i Miriam MecBride arrived in Juneau on the Alameda from Seattle, accompaniéd by her mother, Mrs. McBride Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Cann were registered at the Gastineau Hotel. . The Juneau Parent-Teachers’ Association to hold its opening session the following Tuesday. David Waggoner was Secretary of the group. Weather: High, 54; 52; O - - - - S - 4 Daily Lessons in English % 1. corbon -4 - - - D O S s S S WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “There weren't but three people present.” Say, “There WERE but three people present.” Were NOT BUT forms a double negative. OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Hauteur. OBEY, U as in FUR, accent last syllable OFTEN MISSPELLED: Cretonne; observe the NNE. low, rain. Pronounce ho-tur, O as in SYNONYMS: Repay, compensate, remunerate, reimburse. WORD STUDY: “Use a word three times and it is yours.” Let us increase ‘our vocabulary by mastering ene word each day. Today’s word: REFULGENT; radiant; resplendent “From brightening fields ether fair disclosed, child of the sun, refulgent summer comes.”—Thomson. - < - S e S i MODERN ETIQUETTE poperra Lee Q. Is a clergyman addressed as “Reverend Jackson™? A. No; address him as “Mr. Jackson,” unless he is a Doctor of Divinity, in which case he is addressed as “Doctor Jackson. Q. Is it proper to abbreviate the name of the month when writing the date in a letter? A. No. The name of the menth is written in full Q. To whom should friends of the bridegroom send their gifts if they are not acquainted with the bride? A. All wedding gifts must P——— LOOK and I.EARNA C. GORDON 1 2 be sent to the home of the bride. What thiee Amercans have won the Nobel Prize for literature? What race horse helds the world's all-time record as a money winner? 3. What is the name of the southern lizhts, Borealis of the north? 4. What steamship established reccrd time for crossing the Atlantic | Ocean? similar to the Aurora 5. What States border on the Gulf of Mexico? ANSWERS: 1. Sinclair Lewis, Eugene O'Neill, and Pearl Buck. 2. Seabiscuit. 3. Aurora Australis, 4. The Queen Mary; 3 days, 20 hours, and 42 minutes. 5. Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida. MAIDS OF MAIN E—_prettiest twins at the fourth annuol ' Maine twin club at Skowhegan were Helen and Vivian O'Jala, 17, of Rockport, but don’t ask which is which. More than 200 sets «f wins were at the meeting. DAYS—M’He. pet dachshund of British (above), proves as camera-wise as F: who attended recent sea trysts with 'C Directory Professional Fraternal Societies Gastineau Channel Drs. Kaser and Freeburger 5, DENTISTS ~ngren Buflding PHONE 56 Dr. A. W. Stewart DENTIST 20TH CENTURY BUILDING Office Phone 469 *Chiropractic” Physio Electro Theropeutics DIETETICS—REDUCING Soap Lake Mineral and Steam Baths Dr. Doelker, L. C., Bernard Bldg. Dr. John H. Geyer DENTIST ; Room 9—Valentine Bldg. PHONE 1762 Hours: 9 am. to 6 pm. | SRt e 00 oo i | ROBERT SIMPSON, OPT. D. Graduate Los Angeles College of Optometry and ‘Opthaimology Glasses Pitted Lenses Ground ( Helene W. Albrecht PHYSICAL THERAPEUTICS Phone 773 Valentine Building—Room 7 The Charles W. Carter! Mortuary PFourth and Pranklin Sts. 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