The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 16, 1941, Page 4

PAGE FOUR THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA First, the Japanese. aregcleamngetheipsdecks s femn {action, with many’ pfink!?.‘i“ctfilile‘w Gahinist " tng | United States Dail y Alaska Em})irc Published every evening except Sunday by the EMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY Becond and Main Stri Juneau, Alaska. HELEN TROY MONSEN R. L. BERNARD - Next, Nippon statesmen are making peace with this country and believe all the differ- ences of opinion and foreign “policy between the two nations can be ironed out. Then, the Tokyo newspapers begin again to throw journalistic shrap- Entered in the Post Office In Juneau as Second Class Matter. nel at Uncle Sam and ‘indicate that.a crisis is ap- | SUBSCRIPTION RATES: ., Delivered by carrier in Juneau and Douglas for $1.25 per month. | proaching between America and the land of the Caice, $6.00; | EmpeTOr. 3 - - President Vice-President and Business Aanager By mail, postage paid. at the following r One year, in advance, $12.00; six months, in “ one month, in advance, $1.25. pe ‘ Subscribers will confer & favor If they will promptly notify The first of these récent Japanese outbreaks, of course, occurred when the Nazi invasion of Russia 'seemed to be progressing quite satisfactorily . " MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS | Then the Hitler forces apparently bogged down The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for and the Japanese diplomdts séid’ 'a polite “’Scuse republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not other- o 2 wise credited in this paper and also the local mews published Please,” to this country. 15 b Now the Germans are movm’g close to Moscow |and the Japanese war lords .are once more ruf- fling their feathers. If their Axis partpers continue to gain ground, “|the Japanese may try to carry out their threats |against this nation. If they de, we' hope Senator | Norris is right in believing that the United States |Navy can handle the situation pretty well. Alaska is close enough to the islands Of the Geisha girls to | |cause us to keep a weather eye on the way the | [ Oriental wind blows. i Today, there is a new angle on the Nipponese | | picture with the resignation of the cabinet. Just |what this move may mean in Japanese-American | relations can not be known until the Japanese gov- ernment is reorganized. | the Business Office of any failure or irregularity in the de- livery of their papers. Telephones: News Office, 602; Business Office, 374. "ALASKA CTRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION. NATIONAL REPRESENTATIVES Alaska Newspapess, 1011 American Building, Seattle, i The Voice of Common Sense NO (Cincinnati Enquirer) The Brockings Institution is widely known and respected for its studies of national economic prob- | !lems, and its findings in respect to price contrel gard to much of the needed building material in “"’lshould be of the greatest value while legislation is | nation. 3 | being prepared. As was to be expected, Dr. Harold | And that’s not just a guess. One glarice at the |G. Moulton, head of the research organization, building materials on the priority list will prove lUlerong]y urges reduction of important agricultural| any observer that home construction will be a prac- | prices and the inclusion of wages along with prices | tical impossibility, unless the buildings are being|in any control measure. put up for defense workers and preference ratings | The utter inadequacy of the administration’s may be obtained to secure the material | price control bill is cogently demonstrated in the Here in Alaska shortages of building Brookings report. The prices of farm products are with a few exceptions, have not been felt yet among the most sensitive of all prices. They begin in California last week hardware dealers were at artificially high levels as a result of Federal porting that they were out of nails and screws and policy. The government’s bill would not set a limit could secure no more for some time. Jus ch a :’:El!lillesi l:;ricge:v:::;lle;k:eycg:l dto ;!;s‘:x;: ‘t‘:;i:tsbrfi; :3:’:::“"" WLApY hokp bo: e b e | without the slightest difficulty by releasing to the To list all.the bullding ‘materials affected by the | Barket portions of the crops now sfored ‘in govern- priorities ruling would more than fill these columns A lot of home building plans will be postponed as long as the present priorities rulings exist in re- material, But re- the ment warehouses. Although offered as a factual report, Dr. Moul- From reinfercing steel to insect screens, metal ton's study is in reality a direct challenge to the ad- braces, fixtures and other metallic su‘ppl)e,s are on, oinistration. It will require some political courage the restricted list. This, of course, includes most ¢ = geriate agricultural prices and to set limits' on electrical fixtures, plumbing and gas distribution sys- wage increases. Farmers and wage earners are the tems, water systems, heating plants and other es- jaroect voting blocs to be found. sentials i Nevertheless, the President has demanded unity To the rank and file of Americans, who can not ', 4" cacrifice of the country in a grave: emergency, | claim preference because of their industry in be- |gang it can fairly be expected that he and his col- | half of national defen: it looks like a matter of leagues will act in the same spirit by adopting ade- | making the old homestead do another few years, un- til the world is once more “safe for democracy” at least temporarily. one..of the first- examples of sacrifices which the Amzrfcsn people were warned they must quate price control, even though that entails the purely political hazard of antagonizing a certain | { number of wage earners and farmers. The adminis- tration will ~seriously .weaken its leadership, .and perhaps even endanger the unity ‘of the: country 1941 OCTOBER 1941 OCTOBER 16 . Walter P. Scott Dave Housel , John Winther, Ji Judge J. S. Truist . Rose Cohen < T. F. Thomsen Clara Matthews Mrs.'D] C. Staplef Mrs. JHoroscope. “The stars incline FRIDAY, OCTOBER 11" " Good and bad planetary ences are active today whieh. is not important in its major aspects. ever is in course of careful devel- opment. HEART AND HOME: Wormen, of all ages. should avoid late hours. This is a time to conserve physi- cal energy as well as financial e- sources. ‘The young should refrdin from spending ‘money foolishly. Night ‘clubs’ should ‘be avoidéd?and the quest of pleasure that is waste- ful should be frowned upon. While this configuration prevails: (girls employment. Applications for : po- {sitions under this direction of the |stars may be unavailing. BUSINESS AFFAIRS: Immense drains on the products and. re- sources of the nation will have an effect upon financial = centers. |Banks and bankers come under a planetary government which 'seems to promise added anxieties and perplexities. The Secretary of " the Treasury will urge more general buying of bonds and there wil clever methods of arousing enthusi- asm in helping the greatest de- fense money-spending project, 1 all history. : NATIONAL ISSUES: Old preju- dices against Communism naw. Wil be.revived by enemies: of -ouspa~ tion. The seers stress the desper- infTa-| There is good promise for what-| must take no risks when seeking| THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1941 D ¥ T R o R T E eI 20 YEARS AGO ' \ \ ! THE EMPIRE R — OCTOBER 16, 1921 The annual birthday celebration of the Loyal Order of Moose marked vy and speeches and musical numbers were on the | } | its ' tenth anniversa program. | “The Last of the Mohicans” was the big picture showing at the Palace Theatre, with Wallace Beery as the star. Stanford’s football hopes were high as the five coaches worked out a backfield made up almost entirely of varsity veterans and broke in 80 men on the squad. Alaska Day was to be celebrated by the Pioneers of Alaska with a | big dance in the Moose Hall, and tickets were on sale for the occasion. | A. E. Goetz of Treadwell, purchased one of the units of the Mills and Robertson transfer outfit, consisting of a horse, a wagon and a sled, ready to start his own business. | Weather: High, 50; low, 44; rain. oo | Daily Lessons in English % 1. corpox WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not write, “We have your order and | shall fill 'same today.” Write, “We have your order and shall fill IT | today.” OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Fortune. Pronounce for-tun, O as in | OR, U as in UNITE, accent .first syllable, and not for-chun. OFTEN MISSPELLED: Menagerie; observe the five vowels. SYNONYMS: Gift, endowment, faculty, aptitude. 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: IGNOMINY; public disgrace or dishonor. “Vice begins in mistake, and | ends in ignominy.”"—Rambler e et MODERN ETIQUETTE ** roperra Lew PSS § Q. Is it bad form to applaud loudly in a theatre? | A. Yes. Applause that is protracted or too loud is in very bad | taste. And if you happen to be the only one applauding, it is time to stop. Q. Where should table? A. This depends upon whether single candlesticks or candelabra |are used, An attfactive decoration is to place a single candlestick at | each of the four corners of the centerpiece of flowers. * | Q. Should a ho: s always extend her hand to a man, when being | introduced to him? B | A. Yes; it shows friendliness and cordiality. the candles be placed on the buffet supper R e s e LOOK and LEARN Y ¢ copo B e P 3 1. Who purchased New York from the Indians in 1626. [ 2. What is the essential difference between a sloop and a schooner? ( 3. Is dynamite detonated by ignition or percussion? 1 4. 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This despite the fact that bombers are considered the chief means of taking the aggressive and winning the war. By the end of 1942 also, the United States will only equal the British output of fighter planes. Most discouraging part of the re- pert, howeevr, is the production of artillery. The manufacture of big guns is lagging far behind the Brit- ish. Another discouraging factor is that the U. S. Army is still con- tinuing the purchase of medium bombers, thought the British have just about discarded this type of plane. They are concentrating only on heavy bombers for long-range of- fensives to Berlin and Italy plus light bombers for dive-bombing. The medium bomber is being weeded out. On the encourging side of the pie- ture is U. S. production of tanks, which is forging ahead of the Brit- ish. Furthermore, a study of Nazi production leads to the conclusion that, addding the airplane produc- tion of Canada, the United States and Great Britain together, this grand total is now equal to, if not somewhat ahead of the Germans, REASONS FOR U. S. DELAY Also on the more optimi-tic side OPM experts point out thar Amer- ican industry has three valid ex- cuses for its slow start. One is that we have shipped large quantities of up a good fight adequate defense n forces. CIDE They sure ha looking actresses be highly humor- ' ggitation for an morale :’ed4 while the U. 8. Army’s schedule | was slow in being set up. On the other hand, OPM experts |point to certain inexcusable errors |for which industry, the Army and ithe Roosevelt Administration must | take the blame. | ONE, was the delay and quibbling over taxes. Several business firms delayed weeks to see what their taxes would be before they would sign government contracts in the summer of 1940. I TWO, was the failure of Ordnance to plan and provide for a large ‘encugh army. The Army’s famous | M-day for the beginning of war did inot call for Congressional appro- ‘priations, incidentally, until after | war was declared, following which | | two years was to be required to build | lup an army. Fortunately, the ap- | | propriations have now come before |a declaration of war; but all the army’s plans were based upon a slow | get-away. | THREE, industry insisted on build- (lng new factories instead of re- | vamping the machinery in its exist- |ing plants. Thus, although Detroit motor factories could have been converted to the production of air- plane engines, new plants were built instead; and now the auto plants will have to slow down for lack of raw materials. If industry had been willing to curtail auto production at the very start, months of defense effort would have been saved. FOUR, no effort was made during | the early days of defense to expand facilities for raw materials — steel, aluminum, copper, zinc, etc. So now industry finds itself desperately short. This was due to the inex- cusably bad planning of certain | Dollar-A-Year-Men. But those who have studied this all-important report say there is no | use trying to go back for the purpose of fixing the blame; that it is far better instead to draw certain vital conclusions. Chief conclusion they draw is that at the present rate, the United States can drag along for about ten years and there still may be war in Europe. Therefore, they urge prodigious effort immdeiately, even an expedi- tionary force if necessary, so the war will not drag on interminably. parts to the British, which they have | assembled. This has speeded their production, but slowed down ours. Second, all during last year the United States was sending machine DECEPTIVE FIGURES Now let’s shift from the long- range view to the present. Highly publicized have been airplane pro- behind our present foreign policy, if it’ sets an ex- ample of catering to blocs of voters when the sta-|blurs vision of future dangersand | bility of our economic system is in the balances. ve got a nice crop of young good- in Hollywood now. Maybe a little army camp on the outskirts of Beverly Hills would go a long way toward helping phase of the armament program is making steady progress. It is true that aircraft output is improving and the monthly reports showing gains in total figures are impressive. Buf when these figures are examined closely, the picture is not so glittering. Inside scrutiny discloses that, while the total aircraft output is generaly advancing, this production |is chiefly in trainers, pursuit and | observation planes — all necessary for aerial warfare but not the im- mediate pressing need. The urgent requirement is bombers, particularly four-motor, long-range bombers. In this type of warplane, U. S. output is still not far beyond the starting-scratch stage. To date, we have never produced more than 20 “Flying. Fortress” type of bombers in any one month—and that figure was reached only in one month, some time ago. Of the July, August and Septem- ber plane totals, only about one- seventh were bombers. And of this number around 250 were light and | fudes for medium bombers and only a-small fraction were the desperately needed four-motor heavies, U. 8. heavy bombers are without peer in the world, and production measures are under way greatly to increase their output. But this in- crease will not begin to materialize until well into next year and, un- less plans are drastically stepped up, the 500 monthly bomber goal fixed last May by the President will not, be reached. until the spring of 1943, Sio NOTE: Of the four-motor bomb- ers so far sent to Britain only two have been lost on raiding flights. Both losses were due to:mechanical | trouble and aoé.enemy action. LATE_IN"STARTING There are a number of reasons. for the drag in getting big bomber production under way. Chief of them is that it wasn't until last spring that military masterminds awoke to the urgent tactical necessity for these planes. In the meanwhile we had been concentrating on developing our long-range bombers to a high de- gree of proficiency but had done very little about creating productive ca- numbers. Then in May the Presis ate need of forgetting whatever present perils. Deliverance of ithe world democracies from the power pose of our splendid preparations passed away and now a new ‘order is. in process of establishiment |through high service and supreme sacrifice. INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS: Discontent within many nations will be more apparent each wees. Even Britain will have cause. ..to soothe her people who are. weary under long strain, Among. :the countries taken over by Hitler there will be spreading rebellion which will be met by blood vengeance. Italy will experience further dom- ination by the Nazis. Violence 'and unrest will spread as Mussolini is forced to surrender most of the few powers that remain to him. King chtpr has the portent of illness. He will disagree with officials as revolution threatens. . Persons whose birthdate it] 1s have the augury of a year of ad- vancement and profit. Success through dealing with agents is in- dicated. Children born on this day prob- | ably will be mentally keen, tact- ful and resourceful. They should be good students with special apti- science or literature. - (Copyright, 1941) s machines. They can’t be produced overnight, or in every plant. Their manufacture requires great engin- eering skill, vast industrial organiza- tion and coordination, and huge quantities of strategic materials, | such as aluminum, magnesium and steel. Big strides have been made in putting all these cogs together. Some ' defense authorities contend that & lot more could have been done to speed up production capacity. Also, ithat the plans set in motion should have been on a far greater scale. But on the basis of what is under way this is the present production outlook: PRODUCTION GUTLOOK By spring the two huge govern~ 'ment assembly plants at Tulsa and Fort Worth should be turning out 100 four-motor bombers a month Soon thereafter the Boeing and | Consolidated plants on the West Coast, now undergoing large ‘ex- pansions, should have stepped. up their output to 50 bombers each & month, adding another 100 and making a grand total of 200. pacity to turn them out in large| Then, by mid-summer, if all goes well, the new $47,000,000 Ford of Nazism is the controlling pur-| to protect freedom. Old thingsRave | | trousers? ANSWERS: The Dutch. A sloop has but one mast, whi Percussion. Hamlet. o o ile a schooner has two or more. Chaparajos, commonly known as “chaps.” scheduled to be obtained from a so-' | called “production pool” to be cre- ated from the facilities of the Doug- las, Lockheed and Boeing plants. | This pool, however, is not scheduled |to come into operation until the first quarter of 1943. This means, as the set-up is now geared, that the President’s goal of 500 bombers |a month will not be'attained; until May, 1943, two years after he pro- claimed it. NOTE: One avoidable delay in big bomber production was due to bungling priority administration under the old OPM set-up. Boeing was held up several months last summer in getting started on a new bomber order because of inability, to get aluminum supplies, which had been allocated to less important industries. (Copyright, 1941, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) ——————— Subscribe to the Daily Alaska \Empire—the paper with the largest paid circulation. 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SAFE DEPOSIT BOXES it nt announced that -500-a-rgobth fap Ypsilanti, Mich., should be - ber goal and belatedly- OPM {ting into production turning | 18 tdrned to the job of big-scale pro- | four-motor Consolidated bombers at dyction. ’ the rate of 100 a month. This will Bo ibers, particularly four-motor |bring the total up to 300 munmb.i First National | T JUNEAT tools to England, which, of course, duction figures:—July 1460; Aug- also sltwed U. S. production. Final- | ust, 1,854, and September, 1,914, De- ly, the British have had a more fense chiefs cite them with gréat definite schedule of what they want- pride gs. evidence that this \v'im!j _ '“"'m s fg_fi‘;fi’fifiq 39, and left Charoite e E’a‘m‘iz'. plans. The batiered bridegroom - faain s flcxmwu ospital, and thie martiage. ny was performed.