The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 23, 1941, Page 4

- . Daily Alaska Empire Plil'“;\’d every evening except Sunday by the i COMPANY Second and Main Streets, Juneau, Alaska. HELEN TROY BENDER - - - President R. L. BERNARD - Vice-President and Business Manager Entered in the Post Office in Juneau as Second Class Matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Delivered by carrier in Juneau and Douslas for §i e paid. at the following ra 00 months, in a per month One vear six ce, $6.00 one month, in Subserik the Busine: favor if they will promptly notify failure or.irregularity in the de- 602; Business Office, 3T4. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS iated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for ws dispatches credited to it or not other- republication of a paper and also the local news published wise credited herein TON GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER ANY OTHER PUBLICATION. ALASKA CT! THAN THAT OF ational Newspaper Representa- GEORGE D. CLOSE i Los Angeles, Portland, wska Newspapers, 1011 | contsists | fashion, | blades, each of which weighs 22 [a bomber THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, TUESDAY, SEPT. 23, 1941. (mdlu;, u- vdnnng vqnmz f on ‘sud; Brig- r'm ii Z xfick ]nm bt anmx much simpler to_predictions 'Fe stick- i-«iv, 1t would certainly dict the outcome of night, but we're looking fer gloryy ndt cinches. be to pre Putting Wind To Work =4 (Cincinnati Enquirer) Small whirling windvanes—an adaptation of the picturesque water-pumping windmills—have become | the " Xouls-Novi® tfghe™ vew Monday | - 1 mmmm 34 6 10|11{12|13 16 17|18]19|20| 232425 27 a familiar sight on American farms in recent wmu‘ Their blades turn generators, producing current to charge the batteries used in small farm light plants, a highly important chore in rural life. The popular science and mechanics magazines long have envisioned the day when giant evolutions of the small wind charges would straddle mountain- | tops, putting the wind to work to furnish light and power for entire cities. And it seems that their vision has at last materialized. Preliminary tests were made recently of a huge wind turbine erected atop Grandpa's Knob in the Green Mountains of Vermont. The contrivance of a 110-foot galvanized iron tower, sup- porting two stainless steel blades, mounted propeller with a total spread of 175 feet. These tons and resembles wing in design, are geared to a genera- | tor mounted on a platform at the top of the tower. The turbine is constructed so that it will face into| | the prevailing wind. minute can be main- | tained. WELCOME How's that barrel hard cider comin’ along, Si? ar o Today is officially the first day of fall. It'll be no time at all before the Hallowe'en witches will be | dusting off their 1941 model broomsticks for (h(‘lr‘ annual cruise through the sky. Makes us fell like | we'd like to get a barrel of cider and a dishpan full of homemade doughnuts and park our feet under the | kitchen stove and s some tall ghost stories. Maybe we're rushing the season a little with all | this premature Hallowe'en talk. After all, autumn only started at 2:33 a.m. today, according to the Weather Bureau and calendar publishers, who are supposed to know, \ But the trees calendars, got the ju fall by a few among the leaves of groves of trees along the Glacier Highway have been heralding the autumn season for | more than a week now. And the rainy, misty weather } which is typical of fall r travel | for the Journalisticall the Associated Press starts sending us feature mater- ial on fall styles and the sports writers in the States get excited about the World Series and foot- ball predictions | Exercising our editorial to me Styles and the rainclouds, who don't read mp on the official beginning of | s. Those beautiful reds and yellows | been delaying last week wre fall is here when | are is prerogative, we venture the following forecasts: The which has never bare-midriff dress for street wear, | experienced any great amount of popularity in Alaska, will not be a popular number | on Juneau streets during the coming fall season. World Series: With the boisterous Brooklyn Dodgers only a game and a half ahead of the St Louis Cardinals today, backing the Dodgers to win the National League pennant, then spank the Yanks in the most uproarous World Series ever staged. | Football: For purely sentimental reasons, are thumbing our editorial noses at the would-be | experts who say the Stanford Indians will be repre- senting the West in the Rose Bowl on New Year's Oay. We've been pulling for the University of Washington Huskies to again win the Pacific Coast ! conference since the last time those Pitt Panthers | rubbed soot the Smoky City on the purple | and gold jerseys, and, by gum, we're not going to | quit betting on Jimmy Phelan’s lads now. Basketball: Sight unseen, we're boosting for the Juneau High School hoopsters to walk off with the Southeast Alaska High School Basketball Championship. We hope the boys aren't going to, let us down Don't as we're we from , because we're puzzlod our wlves at { current | tinate, Engincers estimate that a slight breeze will be | sufficient to turn the turbine, but the production of from 18 to 60 miles an hour. A generating capacity of 1,000 kilowatts a day is expected of the test unit, which was erected at a cost of $500,000. The actual production of current is scheduled to begin this fall. The undertaking is a commercial venture, and is the first of its kind in the world. While it would be hopelessly impractical in many—if not most— sections of the nation, the wind turbine may prove a valuable adjunct to the current producing facilities (of certain places, such as Vermont, where there are mountains and more or less consistent wind, but | |a dearth of facilities for steam turbines and hydro: electric plants. If this experiment proves its wort |in an impressive fashion we may expect to see cer- the picturesqueness of Holland The Cord About His Neck (Seattle Times) The kind of individual who is forever quoting from the classics once was aptly satirized by Kai Lung, the Chinese teller of tall tales, in one of Ernest Bramah's incomparable yarns. “Hung about | his neck by a cord,” quoth Kai Lung, “was a variety of poems suitable to most of the contingencies of an ordinary person’s existence.” Without laying claim to any such distinction, one cannot help being reminded nowaday ring writings of the past which were inspired by | Just such events as are going on in the world today. Thus the announced banishment of the Germans who have dwelt for generations in the valley of the Volga to distant Siberian steppes recalls two famous narrative poems dealing with the tragic vicissitude | of exiles. One concerns. the story of .some 30,000 inhabi- tants of the Rhenish city of Salzburg, in the Pala- out other provinces of Germany, providing a back- ground for Goethe’s famous ‘epic poem, “Hermann and Dorothea.” The other, of course, was the exile of the Aca- | dian people from the lovely meadows of Nova Scotia | when they refused to take the oath of allegiance to Britain in 1755, and their later dispersion southward toward New Orleans, which suggested Longfellow’s “Evangeline.” The tragic occurrences of which we read in our | daily newspapers today unfold on stages of such vast magnitude that these earlier sagas, related in song and story, pale into insignificance. Their tation in literature will require the perspective of much time. The present age is providing magnifi- | cent material for future poets and dramatists. The much-discussed gasoline shortage in the East vanished when someone discovered some tank cars for the government. Secretary Ickes, it seems, { had always thought a railroad train was just some- thing you }.R\e little boys for Christmas. Washingfon Merry- Go-Round (Continued from Page One) 1 among themselves | | | nice. " 7 7 |But I guess T've g squirming in pained distress. When ‘ Tl have a job unt; they had finished the gauntlet of | his slow-spoken questions he had | drawn from these these embarrass- The other before they hired me.” Again when Chairman D. Worth | Clark of Idaho announced that the committee would enlarge its inve: tigation, Willkie remarked: They can keep this thing go- |ing to suit themselves indefinitely. MIDNIGHT SNACK for three weeks | priations Committee, vacated by the recent death of 83-year-old Repre- sentative Edward T. Taylor of Colo- rado. The rival claimants come from opposite wings of the Democratic Party. They are: REPRESENTATIVE CLIFTON A. WOODRUM, handsome, white-hair- “Th ot no complaint. il 1944.” The angle of incidence of the | wind blades is adjustable so that a constant speed | {of about 28 revolutions per is expected to take place with winds of | who left their beloved homes in 1731 because | | of religious persecutions and were scattered through- interpre- | ed Virginia conservative, a militant | foe of New Deal domestic spending, | but an equally militana advocate of | ing admissions: That they themselves had seen hardly any of the films they de- nounced as “war propaganda.” That they had based their at- tacks on statements made to them by others, whom they re- fused to identify. That they proposed no leg- islation, and that the probe, in effect was a “witch hunt” to smear the movies for producing anti-Nazi pictures. That Senator Nye disapproved Charlie Chaplin’s “The Dicta- tor” because it ridiculed a for- elgn country and ruler — Adolf Hitler. WENDELL WILLKIE Senator McFarland former county judge and expert on irriga- tion, was slow, frank and kindly. Hp: 1f immensely. seemed to enjoy him So did Wendell Willkie the movie industry, who the right to interrogate Nye, Clark and their hand-picked witnesses. This did not, however, keep the irrepressible Republican stancard- bearer from blurting out his views despite the frowns of the coramit- tee. When Nye accused the movies of being a monopoly, Willkie emitted a loud stage whisper, heard by ev- eryone: have seen the way they squabbled “Monopoly, huh! You shouw' day Senator Roger | Peace of South Carolina, who holds | the former seat of Justice Jimmie | Byrnes, dropped in to see Byrnes at his home in Spartanburg. It was late in the evening and the two men raided the icebox. It was jammed with food. “How do you happen to have so much food in the icebox today?” asked Peace. “Welll” grinned Byrnes, “after twenty years it feels so good to be able to walk down the street and | not have anyone stop and ask for a job that T just went downtown this afternoon and did some shop- ping.” NOTE: Ex-Senator Byrnes was one of the President’s most ef- ficient Congressional lieutenants | and commanded great influence when it came to patronage. CHAIRMANSHIP BATTLE The Ways and Means Committee, still groggy from the ordeal of drafting the $3,600,000,000 defense | | tax bill, will have another problem | on its hands. To some members, | this will be tougher than the tax bill Democratic members of the com- mittee must meet and choose the winner in the bitterest two-man bat- tle for a chairmanship Capitol Hill | has witnessed in many a moon. The battle is for the, chairman- ship of the powerful Hou.se Appro- spending for defense and aid to Britain, REPRESENTATIVE CLARENCE CANNON, Missouri New Dealer and the House's leading oracle on par- | liamentary law. Cannon has bat- tled loyally down the line for the President’s domestic program, but blows hot and cold on foreign policy. Complicating headache of the tug- of-war is the fact that both aspir- ants have equal seniority—which is the chief factor in choosing a com- mittee chairman. Both were elected in 1923 and named to the Appro- priations Committee the same day, December 12, 1929. However, Can- non’s backers loudly contend he is entitled to the chairmanship be- cause his name precedes Woodrum's on the committee roster. Woodrum supporters reply that | this is only “alphabetical preced- | ence.” They further maintain that if Congressional precedent is Iol-] lowed, Woodrum, who comes from cne of the 13 original States, has prior claim since in cases of equal| seniority the candidate whose State | was first admitted to the Union is usually appointed chairman. Mis- souri was admitted in 1821. NOTE: The White House and, Democratic leaders so far have kept out of the fight, but not the. isola- They are secretly trying to up support for Cannon-heeause and strong | about. SEPTEMBER. 23 Oroville Porter .. Mrs. J. Cy Splckett‘ Jim Nielson Carl Danielson Andrea Fleek H. E. Simmons Art Carlson Estyr Jackson Bob Duckworth e%)roscope “The slars incline but do not compel” WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24 | | Benefic aspects rule this second | day of autumn, There is a sign presaging good news regarding dl-l \tense activities, although there is | threatening portent affecting naval operations, | HEART AND HOME: Women ‘are under friendly planetary guid- |ance today. It is a fortunate da'u‘ for girl students and promises | happy romance. Whether marriage | |is chosen for a career or whether there may be a comfortable in-| Vcome girls must henceforth pre-| | tain sections of the nation acquiring something or,pare to be wage-earners. In post |war days it will be as unusual for the daughters of the family to b'.-; untrained for a vocation as it is| |now for the sons. i | BUSINESS AFFAIRS: False| istlarms regarding the scarcity of| | certain raw materials may be help- ‘inl to defense preparations despite | their uncorrectness, since they will |arouse individual effort to aid the nation. Although the gigantic ma- chine of American manufacturing is to function magnificently, con- cealment of real accomplishment and even misinformation will be more and more helpful in 'deceiv- ing the enemy. Again the seers warn of sabotage on a large scalc As our prosperity continues, novel Axis methods to discredit us and to destroy supplies sent to England will be tried. A’ sensational inci- dent will mark the end of the month. NATIONAL ISSUES: Selfishness will contend with patriotism among men who cannot be prevented from profiteering. Government watchful- ness will result in revelations that cause widespread resentment “next month. Nazi agents will be exposed as partners in organizations that possess defense contracts. Wash- |ington is to furnish many inci-| 1aems which provide material for ‘crmcism among former isolation- ists and others. INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS:| ‘Astrologers find that the period of 11929 to 1943 is subject to planetary |influences affecting the United States which are similar to those |of our revolutionary time, 1765 to |1779. Neptune’s first return to Virgo, the sign it occupies in our | national horoscope, is the clue by which they judge today when we fight again for liberty. There will be sudden daring diplomatic moves that must precipitate conflict, but {actual war developments will move | {slowly when compared to the steps {in Government procedure, Persons whose birthdate it is| have the augury of a lucky year in which there is much domestic happiness as well as anxiety re- garding sons or daughters in the |service of the nation. Children born on this day prob- |ably will have exceptional ability character. Successful careers are foretold for them. (Copyright, 1941) of his vote against the service ex- tension bill, MERRY-GO-ROUND Mat Adams, retiring head of the Young Democrats, is a political wiz- | lard from whom his elders could take some good lessons. Two years ago, Adams assumed office with the Young Democrats’ treasury in debt. | When he turned over the presidency recently to Joe Carr of Tennessee, all bills were paid up‘nd there was. money in the bank . . . The execu- tive offices of the w‘hite House are air-conditioned, but the President |has never used the cooling system in his private office this summer. ‘When the weather permits he keeps the doors and windows open . . . Before the late Representative Ed- ward Taylor, 89-year-old Colora~ doan, left Washington to visit his home, he recalled that the high Colorado altitude had been fatal to an elderly colleague who had been away from the State for several |vears. “I haven't been home for some time,” said Taylor, “but I don’t think I have anything to worry T feel fine” A week later he died of heart failure in hj (Copyright 1941, by United Syndieate, Inc.) | | Art Erickson 1 | | SEPTEMBER 23, 1921 The Chautauqua closed its season in Juneau with a program includ- ing numbers by “The Old Fashioned Girls” and a lecturc entitled “Let There Be Light.” The reception given for the members of the Chatauqua pm'ty by the Bones was largely attended. Gov. and Mrs. Bone, Miss Marguerite Bone and George Folta were in the receiving line. City Clerk L. W. Kilburn of Douglas was keeping his office opeft extra hours to accommodate taxpayers. Igloo No. 6, of the Pioncers of Alaska, was to meet soon for the purpose of reorganizing the local group. Many of the officers had left | the Territory, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Roden returned to Juneau on the City of Seattle from Hainés, where they had been spending the summer. Juneau High School elected James Barragar, Secretary and Manager. The Senior Student Body (g McNaughton, President, and Jai G. J. Dahl of Spuhn Island brought in a great collection of mammoth | vegetables which were on display at the Sanitary Grocery. Weather: High, 53; low, 48; rain. - e - D - D S S S04 Daily Lessons in English 3. .. corpon e e - - < D 0 -+ -+ ) WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “He done it without any assistance.” Say, “He DID it.” OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Dentifrice. Pronounce den-ti-fris, as in MEN, both Is as in IT, accent first syllable. OFTEN MISSPELLED: Petrify; RI, not RE. SYNONYMS: Adulterated, contaminated, defiled, polluted. WORD STUDY: “Use a word three times and it is yours.” Let us increase our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Today’s word: DILEMMA; a necessary choice between equally undesirable alternatires; a perplexing predicament. ,'T found myself in a dilemma, not knowing which invitation to accept. | MODERN ETIOUETTE ™ romprs s | L - - e e e e e ) Q. Is the meat always carved in the kitchen at a formal dinner? A. Yes, it is carved in the kitchen and passed on a platter, to each guest. Q. When one is a guest in a home and a serious situation arises before the visit is up, should the guest leave? A. Yes, uniess the guest can be of definite help by staying. sometimes wise to go, even though you are urged to stay. Q. How I talk on a streetcar or bus? A. If the c ersation can be heard by anyone except the person for whom it is d, it is toc loud. E It is idly shouid one inte LOOK and LEAR A C. GORDON What are carnivorous animals? Where is the famed Liberty Bell located? What is a calory? In Greek mythology, shoulders? 5. When were the first practical friction matches invented? ANSWERS: 1. Animals that feed on flesh. 2. Independence Hall, Philadelphia. 3. A unit of heat; it is the amount necessary to raise one gram of water one degree Centigrade. . DE F ENSE reikb WEIE 5. In 1827. What are the Nation’s retail stores doing to help National Defense? They are uniting in a huge program to sell Defense Savings Stamps, inaugurated last week at the beginning of Retailers-for-Defense Week—September 15 to 20—in most communities throughout the land. What is the object of Retailers-for-Defense Week? To set going the greatest sales drive ever put behind a. single | gm— product — the “product” being Defense Savings Stamps, ex- changeable for Defense Savings Bonds. what giant bore the universe upon his “V” by Spy Trlal Defendants w G Defendants in the espionage trial of 16 men in New York leave the courtroom and make the sign of “V” for the cameraman. What the “V” stands for, in their case, remains a matter of conjecture. Alex er-Hill, front left, m&dad guilty, Joseph A. Klein; front - | DR H.VANCE | Professional Fraternal Societies Gastineau Channel Directory” MOUNT JUNEAU LODGE NO. 147 Second and fourth Monday of each month in Scottish Rite Temple beginning at 7:30 p. m. VERGNE L. HOKE, Worshipful Master; JAMES W, LEIVERS, Secretary. Drs. Kaser and Freeburger D] Bl ngren' B PHONE 56 Juneau’s Own Store Dr. A. W. Stewart DENTIST 20TH CENTURY BUILDING Office Phone 468 "The Rexall Store” Your Reliable Pharmacists BUTLER-MAURO DRUG CO. 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