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

z E § 4 i 3 P SR ———— " Dail, ¥y Alaska Em ptrc Published every evening except Sunday by the EMPIRE PRINTING 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 Jureau as Becond Class Matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Delivered by carrler in Juneau and Douslas for §1. per month. By mail, pos aid, at the following One vear, in advance, $12.00; six months, in advance, $6.00; one month, in advance, §1.25 Subscribers will confar a favor if they will promptly notify the Business. Office of any failure or irregularity in the de- livery of -their papers ( ephones: News Office, 602; Business Office, 374. | MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associsted Press is exclusively entitled to the nse for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not other- wise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. TALASKA CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION. NATIONAL REPRESENTATIVES — Alaska Newspapers, 1011 n B le, Wash SOLDIERS F()LL()W SOLDIERS Just this week, Juneau's young men who a year ago joined the Alaska were inducted into active service' as the National Guard of the United States about two weeks ago, left home for their training center at Chilkoot Barracks. Hardly will these men have a chance to move in and get accustomed to their quarters than they will. be joined by 158 new members, the advance ! guard of Alaska’s future army of draftees In all, 683 young Alaska men are slated to be inducted into active throughout the Terri- tory on October 15, according to word received yes- terday from the War Department. Of these, 158 will be attached to Juneau's Com- pany A at Chilkoot Barracks, and another 154 will join Ketchikan’s Company B, quartered at the same fraining center. The remainder of this first group of draftees will be inducted into Anchorage | and Fairbanks units and into the medical and head- | | quarters detachments at Fort Richardson. | service When we consider that somewhat less than 50 officers and men left Juneau Tuesday for Clulkool‘ Barracks, it's plain ‘to see the members of the par-| | ent Company A organization will really have their | work cut out for them training the draftees, wlo will outnumber them more than three to one. In pointing out the advantages of joining the National Guard units before the induction date, | officers prédicted that practically all the men in “the ‘originai - company ~would ‘beconre officers - onee the draftees began to arrive at training centers. Certainly, it appears these predictions were not ungrounded: This first contingent of draftees is but a down payment on Alaska defense forces. They | will continue to arrive in installments at training | camps as they are mustered out of civilian life and the men who have:received the most advance train- ing will certainly e the best opportunity to ad- vance into positions of command. But certainly, mere service in the original Na- tional Guard units will not insure men that they will be advanced to officers’ mungs Some of the <nlp(~ieoc will be college trained men who hnve bééh | holdéng 'down important jobs in civilian life. They \um be men who learn quickly, have a good grasp |of the necessities of army command and will be excellent timbre for army officerships, As has been demonstrated in the States, army is not discriminating against men who are drafted into service in favor of men who enlisted. If the draftees can meet the enlisted men on a common ground and prove themselves better quali- fied for advancements, the drafted men will be given those advancements. Just as the original National Guard members had a better chance of earning advancements be- cause of their months of training before actual induction, so. this first group of draftees has a better chance of catching up with their enlisted fellow soldiers than will the men sent out by draft | boards in future mstallments. It's been almost a year since the fixst draftees were drawn from cities jn the States. Some of those men have already been discharged “from sert vice, due to age and other reasons. But just be- cause our boys are a year hehind the States boys in going to camp- doesn't mean they won't catch up | with the units in the south, so far as proficiency in | operations is concerned. We predict that a year from now the Alaska defense army, made up of Alaska men, will be a crack bunch of outfits, second to none in the coun- try, especially when it comes to Alaska maneuvers. And we hope that practice maneuvers will be the most warlike duties this embryo army has to per- form | A Reasonable Censorship (Cincinnati Enquirer) According to James B. Forrestal, Acting Secre- ational Guard, and who tary of the Navy, the armed services are ;)meng|bum? on the high seas is forecast. a rigid military censorship of nutgomg information | in the event of actual war, but not a general cen- ' sorship of the newspaper press within the country. This is thoroughly sound, and it*cannot be em- phasized too much that any other censorship policy would be a blunder. The one valid object of censor- ship in wartime is to withhold from the enemy in- formation of military value to him. This can best | | be accomplished by stringent control of outgoing mail, cable services, and radio communictions. sorship of the daily requirements. A democracy, if it is obliged to go to war, needs abundant information, for morale in a free nation depends on keeping the whole people thoroughly in- formed. One of the many reasons for the collapse. of France last year was the blundering censorship policy at. Paris, which denied the French people virtually any information whatever: about the -con- duct of the war. Unable to get the facts, the French people believed whatever rumors they heard, and press goes far beyond these ‘Germany provided the rumors, deliberately created Ito develop the hysteria Germany's war plans called The American newspaper press has shown its |ability and its willingness to maintain a voluntary censorship, such as the present agreement not to |disclose the movements of naval vessels or the pres- ence of foreign vessels in our harbors. Even this self-censorship has been carried farther than com- mon-sense requires. A sound precedent in this re- gard has been given. by Great Britain, where there is not the slightest restriction on ‘the printing of news or comment, even acid comment, save if it involves military secrets, If we are lucky, of course, we shall not be for- mally engaged in war. But if actual war does come, we shall have a stronger morale, a more unified people, and still an adequate protection of military | information if censcrship is confined to international communications exclusively. The sale of matches in Japan is under strict; government control, reports. the Department of Commerce Washmglon Merry- Go-Round (Cuntlnucd tfrom Page One) | Not only were the; |set up its own c | money advanced by | tion includes: E. also asked John Hancock of Lehman | Brothers to help raise’some money. |Admiral Emory La So with Roosevelt’s encourage- | ime Commission, ment, plus the cooperation of Red- | OUsly opposed. the mond and Hancock who helped raise | _Thus those who the money, plus CI ler who help- ed make the motors, and Weaver As- | sociates, naval architects, the first model was constructed. Then th Navy tried it out on a testing basin | and finally admitted the plan was | feasible. By this time Secretary Knox and the Admirals began to see that Brayan and Burgess had something ‘Whereupon they proceeded to take over the idea, lock, stock and barrel Joseph W. Powell, an old Chicago friend cf Frank Knox, who is now | one of his assistants barged into | the picture. Powell was once vice- president of the Bethlehem Ship-| building Company, and he brought in another ex-vice-president of Bethlehem, E. B. Germain, now head of the Dunlop Tire and Rubber Company. Meanwhile Commander Bryan, the man who had originated this sub- marine-proof ship, suddenly found himself euchred out of the Navy. First he was retired, and then de- tailed to the office of the Secretary of the Navy, where he could help with the plans of his m y ship. This meant that the Navy could get his services at retired pay instead of full pay. Since then, Commander Bryan though almost ignored by Navy brasshats, has been working faith- fully at Orange, Texas, to consiruct ROOSEVELT Washington new. ing Roosevelt twice years, have only Jack Moffitt, porter, who saw U other day for the “There was charn Moffit said. tumes well banker. pish, Roosevelt ly to the public hiwmself. questions. He w: of the interview. “I was struck by smirk I've seen in toons. "If T were a looking for an act the first trans-Atlantic scow. At one time, just as the vessel was|ing hard under gre; about to be launched, he and Bur- o gess were even told to stay away UNDER WAR from the shipyard. ANKS TO INVENTORS Mxan | War Department Shortly alter the vess el was| launched the Navy issued a ‘ew‘flred Questions at heayily larded press release, part of\ which read: “The ship was concéiv- ed by DARING MINDS and’ 'was carried to completioh with the ‘ac- | tive, insistent ‘help of President Roosevelt.” Newsmen sat th head of the table. Whit's thé T-6 Are M-3 tanks a maneuvers? reference was the only piece of Vaval credit to Bray and Burgess. he Navy’s publicity, but the Navy |over their invention. The corpora- | president and general manager; J. W. Powell, assistant to Knox; and than the inventors who fought to | get the “Sea Otter” constructed, will |be in charge of constructing this ital bridge across the Atlantic. CONFERENCE when they walk into a press confer- ence. A fresh impression comes from ace Hollywood re- “The mementoes on his | desk indicate a man of imagination | who can extract pleasant memories from past experiencgs . . Hoover’s choker collar became a symbol of Tory America. Coolidge dressed like a small town but hits a certain suburban ease in his dress which sells quick= “He was impressive in handling There was ease and frank- ness, and a quickness in response to at all time master lines in his face contradicting the I'd cast him as a man who is work- 14 long polished table in the a sun-tanned face sitting at fer Secretary of War. - Did the French|still bem!r, where he This veiled and highly remote find the 75 mm, tank gun effec- lmemhet of 50 many- tive? . . What is the altitude range of the 90 mm. anti-aircraft gun? What do you think about the Russian resistance? He ducked the last two questions, but answered all the technical questions with the assurance of a soldier trained all his life in ord- nance. But he isn't a life-long soldier. He is a lawyer, and ex-circuit court judge, who scarcely a year ago was concerned with such non- military subjects as the reorgani- zation of the New York subway. This was a press conference with the Under Secretary of War, Ro- bert P. Patterson. A judge in 1940, he is a soldier in 1941, with & . complete grasp of the technical information of his job. y excluded from orporation, with the RFC, to take B. Germain, as nd of the Mari- who had vigor- boat. opposed, rather AT PRESS smen, after see- a week for eight dull impressions MERRY-GO-ROUND The President is wearing a black four-in-hand tie these days, as well as the black armband . . . Latest addition to Roosevelt' trinket-laden desk is a white por- celain figure of Churchill with a cigar in his mouth With instructions about the aluminum campaign, a letter went out from the OPM over the signature of Thornton R. Smith, which referred to “The Conversation Department of the OPM” . . . . The priority jam in OPM has led distressed businessmen to call the office “Oh | Promise Me” . During the next. three months, 3000 horses and 140 he President the first - time, m in the setting,” . He cos- avoids the fop+ up to $100 for light riding horses, $165 for heavier hotses, and $175 for mules, the War Department. will spend a total of half a million dollars for the animals. his paleness and a thousand car- casting director, or for this part, Thirty-four years ago, Sidney Weinberg quit a $2.50-a-week job |as Jjanitor’s assistant to work as a ;.stand-m. in the lines before one Y , |of the New York banks. It was the SECRETARY | panic of '07, and depositors were ree deep mmmd;puymx as high as $10 for a place new | well up in the line, near the tell- They | er's cage. Young Sidney used to with | get up early to snag a good spot. L:lm;bo"l;oday, Sidney Weinberg, no- n- ly's stand-in, 1 hol wn the ‘)mporunt iv pors go X In the n.l'l &Ut at strain.” building, the man He was the tank like? . , vailable for | the Cen- | _|will be recognized in ‘a |ten years ago Weinberg, of Gold~ mules will join the Army. Pay)ng‘ El " | sun Tmon T vue T wep [vwur] [ Sar | OCTOBER 3 Mrs. Rex Early Edward Rennie | Mrs. Svén Thorpe Hazel Thompson R. D. Cuddey Dennis Gallagher ' Mrs. J. Paul Johnsow Helen Z. Hawkes " !/' | T. F. Stafford 1 %roscop’e %lallncfinn | | SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4 : Benefic aspects rule today, but | there is an evil sign governing | |naval operations and commerce. A This should be a favorable day for developing domestic plans and for directing | young folk in ‘educational or other | | programs, Training of aviators is| well directed under this configu- ration. Grandmothers should be {happy in many lines of work andl in usefulness extended by -wartime | |needs. The counsel of the aged| should be sought, since vision as well as experience will affect their conclusions regarding wise proced- ure. The young will chafe at need- | HEART AND HOME: THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, FRIDAY, OCT. 3, 1941. YEARS AGO 2% pueine e e e OCTOBER 3, 1921 A meeting of the Alaska Bar Association was ealled by President John R. Winn to make arrangements for @ reception to be given by the association for Judge Thomas M. Reed. 20 Windows of many Juneau residences were broken by a high wind the night before which blew in heavy gusts reaching 33 miles an hour for several hours. After one of the closest races in the history of the Pacific Coast League, Los Angeles ended as the pennant witmer. Seattle was fourth. Mrs. B. Borlick and Mrs, E. Jacobscn returned to their homes here jon the Estebeth after a visit to Tenakee. Willis E. Nowell, agent of the Alaska Steamship Company, arrived on the Estebeth from a short trip to Funter Bay to visit his interests in the Alaska Dano Mjnes. The Giants and the Yankees were to fight it out for the baseball championship of the world at the Polo Grounds in New York. Weather: High, 45; low, 42; rain. e s Daily Lessons in English % 1. corpon WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: “We accepted of their hospitality.” Omit OF OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Palsy. Pronounce pol-zi, O as in OR. OFTEN MISSPELLED: Accede; EDE, not EED. SYNONYMS: Discernment, perception, penetration, insight, Do not say, 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: FORMATIVE; giving, or tending to give, form; plastic. “These experiences date back to the formative period of my life.” ottt sttt =2 s MODERN ETIQUETTE * ROBERTA LEE e | Q. What are two things to avoid when beginning a social letter? A. Beginning with the word “I” and a word ending in “ing,” such as “Having just returned to town, T am » Q. Is it ever permissible when asked to pass food at the table to help one’s self first? A. No. ed restrictions in dress and amusements. BUSINESS AFFAIRS: Under this direction of the stars confllcl} between patriotic and commercial | aims will be evident as rise in| prices of American products temptsi many to speculation and even | profiteering. Enemy propaganda | will be subtly employed to' éause | envy of the prosperous and eriti-| cism of Government officials; War | unevntably brings about lnjmnces, |that under this configudationi are |resented. It is remembéredi/ tha | Libra, the sign of The Scaies; n()wi exerts influence. 1 NATIONAL - AFFAIRS»h1@8hsci- | entious objectors, who' will Meetl with kindly treatment '.thhough special provisions made for: !heml, in Army camps, will cause’wide- | spread comment and will furnish | material for peace advocates who‘ |are subtly influenced by fift# col- | ‘umn propagandas. © Churchiés” and other organizations opposed té the horrors of war now will demon- |strate their real patriotism by fstresslng the need of conforming to all demands required in the de- fense program. INTERNATIONAL ' AF 8:| India will contribute loy: ice | to the British forces snd‘hque of | great consequence. é.oroscope of Mahatma Gnndhi revenls; wise include surprising coups of.. philo- sophical resourcefulness. I | the next eight weeks events of ,grave possibilities are forecast. Persons whose birthdate - it is have the augury of a year of bene- fits through relatives, friends and legacies. Engineers and Army. offi- cers will be especially lucky. Children born on this day:prob- ably will be exceedingly intelligent and successful, All through life they will be most thoughtful of the comfort of their parents. | 3 g T R\ tions that he can't recite th.m all himself. %) Chiefly he is senior partner ‘and | director of Goldman su:lu ‘and Company; but there was ‘hothing “senior” about his first job wltn that company. He was assisf to the negro porter, and his workiwas to shine the directors’ high ! silk hats before they left, the directors’ cuspidors after they left. : Goldman Sachs does the mioney business for Sears Roebuck, ' and man Sachs, got to know Bdnaid Nelson 0f Sears. They became close friends, .and they are still ¢lose, both -working in. top jobs. in OPM. | In 1932, after helping to" eléct Ropsevelt, Weinberg was aflercdi | thé ambassadorship to Russia, but didi’t take it. He remains a strong 'Roosevelt ‘man, but’ also a champ- allowed him, the son of Pincus and Sophie Weinberg, to co far after starting in life' selling news- papers at the ent.rnnce to. ~the Brooklyn ferry. (Copyright, 1941, by Un‘le&m ture Syndicate, Inc.) L FA 5 ALASKA GIRL IN (,lllw Virginia Wilhelm, Junenl-horn dauger of Mr, and Mrs. Victos Wil- helm, former Alaska reside R California, leadership which is, however, to 2 ioh of the capitalist system, which]| Q. Should an applicant for a position extend his hand in greeting the prospective employer who is interviewing him? A. No; wait for the employer to offer to shake hands. o e LOOK and LEARN ¥ ¢. gorbon - 1. Which State in the Union has the shortest coastline? ‘What great French actr appeared on the American stage after | one oI her legs had been amputated? 3. Do animals grow during hibernation? 4. What does the German word “meerschaum” literally mean? 5. Who was the “March King”? ANSWERS: New Hampshire. Sarah Bernhardt (1844-1923). No. “Sea-foam.” John Philip Sousa (1854-1932). DEFENSE BOND ow e auiz ‘Why is the national income going up and how much has it risen? Government spending for defense is the reason. Currently this scheduled spending is at the ra.te of more than a billion dollars a month, bringing wide employment and higher wages in many industries. - The national income is well over $10,000,000,000 higher this year than it was last year. ‘What'is a Defense Stamp Bank? / It is a-sales outlet for Defense . Stamps established by a company with 8 large personnel for the convenience of employees, making it easy for them to buy Savings Stamps. AT KIEV CITADEL Mn-qrflle umhtnktthoeltyulfv &flm according to’ the German caption;’ tand hefore Mnmmmmmwuuxm MOUNT JUNEAU LODGE NO. 147 Becond 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. Dr. A. W. 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