The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 12, 1942, Page 4

.S. Army flying over Canada, hut - Daily Ala mpire y Alaska Emp Published every evening except Sunday by the EMPIRE PRINTING OOMPANY Second and Malg Streets, Juneau, Alasks. HELEN TROY MONSEN R. L. BERNARD Eatered 1n the Post Office in Juneau as Second Class Matter. SUBSCRIPTION BATES: President Manager = = Vice-President and Businest Delivered by eatrier in Junesn By mafl, postage baid. Ing i $12.00; six months, in ates: ld‘:‘ln“. $6.00 1. % will a favor if they will promptly notity Office of any faflure or irregularity in the de- livery of their papers. Telephones: News Office, 602; Business Office, 374. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for reputiication of all news dispatches credited to it or not other- :m‘ credited in this paper and also the local news published eretn. ALASEA CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO ER LARGER THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION. NATIONAL REPRESENTATTVES — Alasks Newspapers, 1013 American Bullding, Beattle, Wash, bl << . v e SR SRS CONFIDENTIALLY Recent dispatches which have reached Alaska | Baranof Hotel has become known throughout the | ypder from the States indicate that an ill-informed public | United States as “the best hotel in any town this|stage, screen and radio should bene- is going to be more ill-informed, if that is possible, if the “War Secrets Bill” introduced recently by Attorney gress. Under the guise that the new act would prevent military secrets from reaching the enemy, the bill's backers have taken one of the most iniquitous stabs at freedom of the press that has ever been brought ! before an American Legislature Proposed is a law imposing a two years’ imprisonment for revealing by publica- tion either the contents or, meaning of any record which any administrative officer of the Government has seen fit to mark “confidential.” By the terms of this proposed law, any scheming minor executive in Washington, and there are many of them, could cover his incompetence by simply rubber-stamping all papers pertaining to his ad- ministration as “confidential” What the bill would establish would be arbitrary censorship. It is obvious that the bill's very language is sweeping enough to cover many other things than genuine military secrets. It creates dangers much more real than those it purportedly seeks to pre- vent. One of the easiest ways to lose this war would be to clamp down the lid on that freedom of dis- cussion and of criticism without which mistakes of Jjudgment and of policy cannot bé corrected promptly. The bill is so sweeping in its powers that it would sanction the release of information “to par- ticular persohs or certain classes of persons,” These classes are not defined and this could mean for instance that it could be proclaimed that all data shall be given to only redheaded persons and not others. The bill is that poorly drafted. If there has been any great spreading of mili- information by the press, information that would aid the enemy, we have failed to see any evidences of it. We can readily see how loose talk on the part of the civilian population, loose talk en- couraged by the fact that the civilian population now is greatly restricted in obtaining any kind of news through censorship regulation and administration, we can see how some of this word of mouth babbling may have helped the enemy Pifth Columnists. . _The past few months have proved to us that Tewspapers and newspapermen of America can be Washinglon Merry- Go-Round (Cantinued from Page Ome) | tary fin the Office of J | ures posed speech by migrated to Canada and applied his New England shrewdness to building grain elevators and pulp mills. Today he and Premier Mac- kenzie King are the two strong men of Canada. Howe has no objection to the U. margin. It happens, Berle is quite a s has assisted the like 4 good many U. S.-British busi- nessmen he is looking beyond the war. And he seems adament against a U. S, commercial alrline getting a foothold over any part of Canadian territory — especially a route which after the war will bc the short-cut over Alaska to Asia And he haggled for several weeks while precious time passed, vital to the strengthening of Alaska. On the other hand, the Army finds that a commercial airline, partment set up Note: is Good Grammar. to suspend the take a long time General Francis Biddle is passed by Con- | fine of $5,000 and | 5 1 | especially seems to offend the boys day, however, tary of State Adolf Berle the nther‘ day, they returned it with a couple | were |of split infinitives noted on the|which probably did not reflect the however, taught for many years &t Columbia, | has written two or three books, and many of his speeches. now suggesting that the State De- rect the punctuation and grammar of Mr. MacLeish's poetry. New nickname for the OFF Office of Facts, 40-HOUR FIGHT The furifous battle over the bill| war plants caused a personal rift between two House ledders that may : - ” | trusted to keep from the enemy any news which might be useftl to him. We have groaned and sweat- ed under arbitrary limitations that seem to be sense- less to us, and we think a great deal of them are, no matter how important they might have apppeared | to the officials who made them The newspapers have played ball at the price of sacrificing much that was guestionabie. Given wtelligent cooperation by responsible’ officlals, the newspapers can take care of whatever comes along. The hewspapers have been taking a great deal to | date with very little cooperation on the part of the \rensorihg news-sirainers. ’ | The need for free journalism in the United States has never been gréater than it is now. The urge to muzzle that freedom always is present among the | incompetents who can never be completely eliminated ‘from the Government and who are especially likely to be on hand in the greatly expanded activities of war times. Newspapers |ond in the face of any legislation that seeks to seal | ofticial lips of hide the ordinary processes of govern- | defense.” The consequence would be disastrous. HAPPY BIRTHDAY Juneaw’s Baranof Hotel was just three years old |last Tuesday. By now, there has been ample time | for the Alaskans who were skeptics in 1939 to realize | that this huge $600,000 business venture, “1,000 miles from nowhere,” is no white elephant. | Three years ago, the building of such a large | hotel anywhére in Alaska was thought to be an | extremely ambitious business veniure. Today, the | size.” Tts excellent success has fully justified the | optimism of the men who projected it. | The Baranof Hotel's value to Juneau cannot be | measured. It has become a social center for many local activities and has helped to “put the town on the map.” Alaskans should be well proud of it Hist, And All That (New York Times) The two New Jersey men who paid more than |$4,000 to a thoughtful stranger who promised to | teach them how to be detectives and get jobs with | the Federal Bureau of Investigation made a mistake. They have indeed got in touch with the FBI after two years of conscientious work and semi-starvation, but their introduction was not happy. They are held as material witnesses against their teacher. There is next to no chance that FBI Director J. Edgar | Hoover will caré to employ them. One prays that no one will ever follow their example. A country full of amateur detectives pre- tending to be G-mén would be unpleasant. But one has a kind of sneaking sympathy with them. They {had a good time while it fasted. They had a three- ring code. They shadowed people. They lived on |20 cents a day in order to get “hard”. A sardonic smile lingered faintly on their lips as they toved with their doughnuts and coffee and watched other | persons wolfing down stedks. They were often cold and hungry, but they félt mysterious and superiof. They dreamed of a day when the headlines would carry their names in connection with a frustrated plot to blow up the Rocky Mountains or let the water out of New York Harbor. Tom Sawyer didn't have any more fun than they did. We hope Mr, Hoover dcesn't think we approve of what they did. . Béing a G-man today is a stern, laughless task. We don't approve. Neither do the;«'. |now that theéy knbw all. . But they had their mo- | ment. Nobedy can take that away from them. According to reliable réports, Germany is system- atically starving the people of the ‘cmquered lands {of Europe in oraet to keep her own food supplies bounteous, and sotnie people over here don’t seem to feel very outrdgéd over it. But if, after the defeat of the Nazis, Hérmdn Goering's supper is half an hour late some night, we'll start hearing howls of | “Versailles Tréaty persecution.” | under McCormack's | leadership, the bill was defeated |226 to 62—a tally which left fo Facts and Fig- | "So when they went over a pro-|doubts about who spoke for the Kis Assistant Secra- | “majority.” Note: Two undercover responsible for this factors vote, | general sentiment of the country. that Mr. One was tylist himself. He{drlve by the AFL and CIO in tl\w district of each Congressman. This was particularly effective with Re- Président with | publicans, who, with their eyes on So Berle is|next fall's congressional |are very political-minded. Second, was the failure of the farm bloc to support the bill because it feardd labor reprisals against the parity and othér boodle grabs which the farm bloc is after. The bloc has | beent counted on to kill the 40-hcur week, bt the laborites served blunt notice that if the bill was passed, labor would ax the farmers. Re- sult, the farmi bloc ran for cover and the bill went into the ashcan. MERRY-GO-ROUND a board to cor-| Pigures and 40-hour week in | to heal. cannot be stand-offish for one sec-| | ment behind the all-inclusive screen of “national | | a tremendous pressuré| elections, " accustomed to flying under winter conditions, can develop air routes quickly and efficiently, permitting | the Army to concentrate on other | things, That is why Northwest Air- | lines finally will do the job for the | Army. Note: On the American side of the negotiations, the Air Corps got only the most dignified and cir- cumspect help from General Stan- When Representative John Mc- Cormack, Massachusetts liberal, was elected Democratic Floor Leader, one of his strongest stpporters was a colleague who had nothing fh common with, McCormack except friendship—anti-New Deal, anti-La- bor Representative Gene Cox of Georgia It was with hushed astonishment, | therefore, that the House Hstened ley Embick, a coast arulleryman,i to Cox’s bitter attack against Me- who feels toward the Army's ground | Cormack during the stormy debate forces as the Admirals do toward |over the anti-40 hour proposal. His the battleship “OFFICE OF GOOD GRAMMAR” Archibald MatLeish, noted poet, Librarian of Congress and Chief of | the Office of Facts and Figures, now has the job of censoring all speeches of Roosevelt cabinet mem- bers et al. Since MacLeish has several mous writers on his staff, they have not been able to resist cor- recting a bit of bad grammar in the speeches of cabinet members. The question of split infinitives i fa- | voice strident in anger, Cox de- nounced McCormack on the ground that his opposition to abolishing the 40-hour week was “not good gportsmanship, and I wonder if it is good leadership.” “I have hoped,” the Georgian thundered, “that at some time the gentleman from Massachusetts would come to a realization that he is supposed to speak for the majority of this House rather than for somebody else.” Friends rushed to McCormack's defense, but he made no reply. Next The congressional pension act created a furor, but cne banker i publicly on fetord for it. He i J. H. Nakdimen, president of thé City National Bank of Fort Smith, Ark, who defended pensions for congressmen on the ground such a system would do much to élimin: ate “cortuption”. The next time beefy isolationist Representa- tive Frank Keefe of Wisconsin triss fense and foreign policy bifls, it’s a good bet he won't tangle with | C. E. Broughton, scrappy editor of | the Sheboygan Press. Broughton |went to the trouble of digging up |a detafled record of Keefe's votes |and the result didn’t make good ! | reading—for Keefe, who faces a | tough re-election fight this year (Copyright,, 1942, hy United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) - BROKEN LENSES Are promptly replacea in our owi. ‘ahnp. Dr. Rae Lilllan Carlson Blomgren Building. ndy iy . to defend his voting record on de-| Harty L. Atnold i Beverly Diane “Edwards LeRoy Vestal Severin Swanson Anthony E. Karnes E. A. Markham Mrs. G. H .Holloway Bertha Wittman Jerry Woltman —— 'HOROQSCOPE “The stars incline but do nat compel” | | FRIDAY, MARCH 13 | thirteenth day of the month. De- spite superstition it should be a fortunate date. The early hours |are promising for constructive ef- fort and favorable to army man- euvers. HEART AND HOME: Women are unde# an auspicious rule while this | {configuration prevails. It is most | | promising for domestic ties and | |seems to foreshadow romance for | the young. Whatever contributes | to amusement of the finer sort Is good sway. Players on | | |fit. This should be a happy wed- !ding day and one that will prove | | how silly are many oldtime adages. | BUSINESS AFFAIRS: This is a | lucky day for signing contracts and | i for launching new ventures in busi- | ness. Chemists and inventors wil | Benefic aspects dominate on this | 20 YEARS AGO £i% smpire MARCH 12, 1942 “Every citizen of the United States is subject to' the provisions of the income tax law #f he is single and his net income was $1,000 or more or his gross income was ss,ofoo or more, or it married and his net income was $2,000 or mdte or his gross ihcome $5,000 or more,” it/ was- stated by Burns Poe, Collector of Interna] Revenue for Wlshlnnon'and Alaska. W. J. Manahan, cashier for the Pacific Steamship Company here, was to legve Seattle March 26 on the steamer Queefr for Juneau, according to advices received by J. H. Kline, local agent for tie comipany. Mr. and Mrs. A. Gearson, who had been visiting| with Mrs. H. P. Hansen, Mrs. Gearson’s mother, left on the steamship Victoria for their home in Everett, Wash. Arrivals on the motorship Estebeth from Sitka and .way ports were Sam Shucklin, G. Shull, Nick Trieschild, A. Murray, G. Smith, Mrs. H. iDurham. C. Kressman, Mrs. L. Smith, N. Grondsma, F. A. Gehring, Mrs. F. A. Gehring, Romey Sullivan. Warren Geddes had been employed as manager of the stockroom at the Libby, MeNeill and Libby cannery at Taku Hatbor and left for: that place on the cannery tender John L. C. R. E. Cowden was commander of the local radio station succeeding L. J. Wilhelm, who left for the south. Mr. Cowden had been stationed here since 1917 when he came from his home in Sari Pranvisco as an cperator with the Marconi wireless telegtaph station. ' He enlisted in the Naval Heserves on April 10, after the United States entered the World War and had been here since. A. E. Ahlquist and O. E. Iverson had recently arrived here as operators. The Rev. A. J. Rocatti, who had been serfously ill in Seattle and following an attack of influenza had undergone an operation, returned to Juneau on the Princess Mary greatly improved in health. Mrs. W. C. Wright, of Wright's Jewelry Store, left Juncau on the Princess Mary for a buying trip to the States. Dorothy Gish in “Flying Pat” was scheduled to appear on the pro- gram of the Coliseum Theatre while Monte Blue was coming to the Palace lin “A Perfect Crime.” | be responsible for novelties that be- |come the foundation for pioneer ventures in manufacturing. Substi- | tutes will multiply as long-used ma- | I'terials are withdrawn from the| ]‘n\arkl’l& many of which will gain lasting popularity, Retail shops | should profit this month when! ]mrm_v women lay in stores of clothing and food for future use. | NATIONAL ISSUES: Old ideas will’ vanish as Negroes prove their ability to compete with men of | any race. The stars presage the recognition of heroes and civilians | |who contribute brilliantly to Ameri- can achievements in the war. EX-! traordinary talents will be discov- | \ered among the colored folk of thc: | United States. Writefs, musicians and painters will receive recogni- tion. Architects will win fame in| post-war building which will as-, sume novel characteristics. | INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS: \Air éngagements of ' the United jthe superiority of American fight- | States will prove in, coming weeks {ers as well as American airships of iall varieties. Since domination of | |the air is necessary in'gaining vic- !cory concentration upen production | |of late models of bombers and other | splenidid mechanisms Wil ‘focus na- tional attention. tted unhder- |estimation of Japanese air power | will continue to inspire supreme ef- | fort to supply the utmost needs t: |the Allfes. | |have the augury of 4 year of so- cidl ‘and financial success. Much {happiness is foreseen for a mem- |orable twelve monhths. Children born on this day prob- |ably will be exceptionally talerited |in sclence and the arts. Great en- |gineers and musicfaris belong to 4 lf:&yri‘hl, .lDfl‘) 2 ————————— HAS 2 A former Juneau resident is do- {ing her bit in the present war, ;gemng her three sons, who atf |éd the public schools here, into |the Navy and when this is doue, |she is goihg to apply for enlist- ment. |dent is Mrs. Grace S.. Neiderhaus- er. The Seattle Post-Intelligénter, lowing article: A mother who had already given one son’in the navy escorted an- lother into the Seattle navy t- ing station yesterday, then madé |plans t6 $oin the navy héerself. She i$ Mrs. Grace S. Neldérhaus* er of Aldetwood Manor, a reg:- tered nurse in the employ of a Bé- iattle physician for the past elevéh | yeats. " Ohne son, Ted, nineteen, joined the |navy last October and is a seaman | Sécond-class at the Sand Point air |station. William; twenty, enlisted |yesterday, dnd a third, Tom, eighte een, is takihg an ROTC course at the University of WasHington. Mrs. Niedeérhauser told Command- er H.'J. MeNulty, officer in charge of the Sedttlé havy recruiting; af§- trict, thdt as soon ds Tom |“squaretl away”, as they say iii the |navy, shé is going to apply for en- |listment in the' navy nursing cofps. REGISTER NOW : Regardléss of previous registra- vote in the 7, election must | register at the City Hall before noon, April 4. The office will be open during the noon hour each day. ROBFRT G. RICE. City Clérk. ~adv, : not the second. ! increase our vocabulary by mastefing one word each day. Today's word: Persons whose birthdate it s | SONS FOR NAVY. The former Juheau resi-! of date Febrtary 21, had the fol- Chief of Police T. E. P. Keegan was on his way to Juneau, having reached Los Ahgeles the previous week from Chicago, according to word received in the last mail. Dr. S. Hall Young left Juneau the previous night on the Estebeth for Haines on his first trip of inspection as Supérintendent of the Presby- terian Board of Home Missions. Upon his atrival he was to leave for Ketchikan to attend the convention of the Pioneers of Alaska. Weather was fair and colder in Juneau. Maximum®temperature was 38 and minimum was 32. - e aily Lessons in English % 1. corbon e e i} WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “They were married over twenty years ago.” Say, “MORE THAN twenty years ago.” OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Fragmentary. Pronounce frag-men- ter-i, A as in RAG, both E's'as in MEN, I as in IT, accent first syllable, ——— OFTEN MISSPELLED: Cast (to throw). Caste (class of society). SYNONYMS: Trim (adjective), tidy, neat, smart, chic (French). WORD STUDY: “Use a word three times and it is yours.” Let us IDIOMATIC; pertaining to the language peculiar to a people. “It was an idiomatic phrase.” ! g engraved Q. Does a man’s social calling card have the title “Mr.” on it? A. Yes, always. And if the card is to be faultlessly correct, a given name, and not just the ifitials, must be engraved on it—as, “Mr. Robert Leé Huntér,” or, “Mr. R. Leé Hunter.” @. Is it all right to givé a bride-to-be wearing apparel as a wedding gift? A. Not unless she is an intimate friehd: Linens, odd pieces of furniture, books, chinaware, silver are all ifi better taste as wedding ! gifts. Q. When a man i8 dining in some public place with a woman, and ia friend of this woman stops at the table to talk, what stould the { man do? | A. The man should rise and stand as 16ng as the person remains. { LOOK and LEARN ¥ ¢. comvon | 1. Who received the first license to run an aufomobile, and in what year? 2. What is the most popular flower in the United States? 3. In what literary masterplece occurs the line: “What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet"? 4. What is the lightést substance known? 5. What is thé popular himc applied 'to ‘a defeated office holder whosé term has riot expired? ANSWERS: 1. Elwood Haynes, of Kokomo, Ind., in 1893. 2. The wild rose. 3. “Romeo ‘nd Jullet,” by Shakespeare. 4. Hydrogen: -+ 50 “Lante'dek.” © 4 IS{ gifh | the tion, all Juneau residents wishing to | EXTENSiONS ASK Legislation whichi would prevent workers entering the armed fortes from losing their federal insurance protection was asked of Congress last week in a report from the So- cial Security Board by Federal Se: curity Administrator Paul V. Mc= \Nutt. i " Considerationn was also asked for the sateguarding of insurance righits of persons taking civil ‘defefise johs 1 Pederal Govérnmenit, Which are not covered by the Fed- eral old-age and survivors insurance system. ‘The Board also believes that old- age and Survivors insurance protect Itioh 'should now be extended to farm laborers, domestic servants and all otMer excluded’ groups of workers, In the field of unemployment in- surance, the Board's report sug- gested more extensive coverage; paymeént of more ltberal benefits Gver’ loriger' periods; and a reduc- tton of the time tnemployed per- sons must wait before théy begih to receive _!'nsgt;l‘?ce _payments. i ifiélv&h onie 616 MOUNT JUNEAU LODGE NO. 147 Monday of each month in Scottish Rite Temple beginning at 7:30 p. m. R. W COWLING, Wor- shipful Master; JAMES W. LEIV« ERS, Secretary. PIGGLY WIGGLY Dr. A. W. 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