The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 21, 1942, Page 4

PACE FOUR Daziv Alaska Emplre Fub!hhed every evenine excent Sunday by the: , EMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY Becond and Matn Streets, Juneau, Alaska. HELEN TROY MONSEN R. L. BERNARD Entered in the Post Otfioe in Juneau as Second Class Mattar. SUBSCRIPTION .RATES: President Vlcbhel-l“li ‘M Business l-lnulr Douglas fo the following ix months, 1n st the Business Office of any fallure or C\llrl livery of their papers, usiness Office, 374, Delivered by earrier in Junesu By mall, postage paid. One year, in advance, $12.00; one month, in advance, $1.25. Subscribers will confer a favor if lh por month. | notify de- Telephones: News omu 002; MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PREAS The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the tse for reputlication of all news dispatches credited to it or mot other- wise credited in this paper and also the local news published berein. ALASEA CTRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARCER THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION. " NATIONAL REPRESFNTATIVES — Alaska Newspapers, 1011 n Building, Seattle, Wash, | ginning to install, and which saves even more of the| The House defeated 2 bill mlm(luc('d} by Representative Howard Smith to repeal the 40-| hour week law. We believe that in some instances, | the 40-hour law may be hampering the war effort. i But a blanket repeal of the law in all industries, | which the bill would have brought about as drafted, | certainly is something we don't agree with. We think the House acted in good sense recently Tt is* true that we are carrying on a tremendous | amount of war production in America today. But the | greater portion of American industries still are en- gaged in non-defense work. . Thus to bring in the argument “that win a war on.a 40-hour week” seems a little irrelevant when you consider that | the bill would have affected industry as a whole. you can't | ventive genius, it seems, has opened the door for a It seems to us that the work hours, even in War|of the nation's biggest packs, however, will go on un- industries should be based on two things: the number | of men available for various jobs, and the number ori THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE— JUNEAU, ALASkA SAVE THE CAN OPENER Don't throw away your ¢an opener. It looks very much as if the recent War Produc- tion ‘Board order designed to save 40 percenl of the| (tin used by canmakers last year doesn't necessarily | mean that there will be 40 percent fewer cans. In-| tinless “tin can.” A tin can never did contain much actual tin, for that matter. Estimates place the actual amount at about 125 percent of the entire can. Now processes already in use reduce the tin content still further, and in some instances, eliminate it altogether.. Indications are that the 15 sizes and shapes of cans will be reduced to about 10, most of them cylin- drical. The average can may be twice as large as it‘ now js. The dainty one-person containers will prob- ably disappear altogether. Some foods and many 6ther products probably | will continue to come in cans—but tinless. Since the last war “tin cans” have been made of black plate steel, lined with a thin coating of tin to protect food from the steel, and sealed at the seam with solder coptaining tin The tin content has been steadily reduced until, it unprofitable to reclaim the metal from scrap cans. i New processes now under way which use still less tin, or nofie at all, include: Refinement of the common “hot dip” method of coating the black plate which saves up to 15 percent of the tin Electrolytic plating, which the steel mills are be- | even now, is now precious metal “Freezing” the surface of the black plate so that only a coating of lacquer is needed to protect the food. A Midwestern producer is already turning out tinless cans of this type Substituting a lead base alloy for tin in solder. Canning motor oil and certain chemical products in black plate containers without tin Properly, the Government order does not restrict can production at the source, but specifies the kinds and quantities of food and other products that may be canned with tin. This should save waste at both ends. Neither, the Government emphasized, does the order mean that the supply of preserved foods will be curtailed.. Quantities of basic foods will be main- tained or increased, but the variety of foods in cans will be reduced. | Canning of “primary” foods, which include most | of foods for t pmduc- | restricted. This list, composed largely which the Department of Agriculture has sel | Through MARCH 21 Lieut. Jack Roberts william W. (Bil) Friepnd George Alexander Mrs, J. P. Finlay Robert Forrest Oren W. Hatch Lee H. Smith Bill Kiloh Charles E. York MARCH 22 Mrs. A. N. Monsen Alex Sey Clifford Mason Billy Evans Jerry Cole Robert White Mrs. F. R. Campbell Janis M. Peterson | Hilda_ Helgesen } | lto ROSCOPE| “The stars ‘incline’ ! but do not compel" 20 YEARS AGO %% empire MARCH 21, 1922 Drastic reductions in the Navy Department estimates of the next fiscal year were made by the House §uhcomm'1ttee on Appropriations It was the bill that provided funds for an enlisted personnel of 65,000 instead of 90,000 as urged by Secretary of the Navy Denby and commis- | sioning 135 of 541 members of the June graduating class of the naval academy. The bill carried an approximate appropriation of $200,000,000. Secretary Denby wanted $350,000,000. Mrs. Harriet S. Pullen, prominent woman of Skagway, returned to her home on the Queen after a three months' vacation in Seattle. She was accompanied by her two grandchildren, Mary and Buster. She said her two engineer sons, Royal and Dan were doing well. The former was at Leeds, South Dakota, with his family and was construction engineer with a large company, while Dan was in engineering construction work for the government at Panama. Deputy Collector of Customs J. J. Hillard, who had been spending a vacation in California, visiting his mother and other relatives, was to return to Juneau on the next trip of the Princess Mary The main feature for the Shotgun and Rifle Club entertainment to be given the following week at the Coliseum Theatre had been announced by the executive committee. The big act of the evening was to he solo and group dancing by pupils of Mrs. B. A. Rosselle, Mrs. Charles Goldstein and her daughter, Marie, were to arrive in {the evening on the Princess Mary. Mrs. Goldstein had been in Seattle for several weeks with Marie who had ‘undergone a major operation SUNDAY, MARCH 22 i Good and evil planetary, influ-! ences balance in the horoscope for | | today. The morning hours are for-} tunate, especially for the Navy. HEART AND HOME: This is an| auspicious date for informal enter-) taining. Homes should be made at- tractive in every possible way.| | There is no sign promising romance 1t is a fortunate day for meeting persons who wield influence social contacls benefits | may be accorded. Unexpected new | may be alarming but there appear little danger of bombing even though the date appears propitious| to the enemy. BUSINESS AFFAIRS: Rumors of shortages in sugar and other com- modities will be quieted by the dis- covery that the United States has vast stores of foodstuffs, despite generous relief contribution to for- rlgn peaples. The great resources of | the country will prove adequate to hours that will give the maximum production pPer|iion goals, or Which would spoil if not packed rxe\h..nnmmm heeds although there will man. It is probably a fact in many instances that| to work a man more than 400 hours a week would | hinder production instead of helping it Soon after the 40-hour law went into effect, most employers admitted that workmen were much | more efficient than they had been when they were | working longz hours. . We certainly do not want to| throw éfficiency out the window now.. l Some skilled workers, perhaps, canfand are work- ing as much as 72 hours a week because they have! to. The present law doesi't forbid this, Tt simply | states that the men must be paid time-and-a-half for| overtime { There is a wide variation in modern industry of | the number of hours which can be worked in a week | without loss of production. Early in the war, the British took the ceiling off of hours. Many mduqmes‘ went up pto 72 hours immediately only to find that| production went down, ! What it amounts to is ‘this: The 40-hour week | i not long enough for some jobs, while in o_mers]‘ production would be lowered by boosting the hours: | This is a problem that must be worked out for par- | ticular industries and jobs. It can’t be solved by any blankét repeal of the 40-hour week law. | Let's not have any deStruction of a basic labor standard unless it can be proven that war pmductlon‘ will benefit by it iy | includes: ' ‘Tomatoes, tomato juice, tomato products, fresh beans, peas, corn (off the cob), fruit cocktail and1 salad, peaches and pears (cut fo save space), grape- | fruit, lemon, lime and orange concentrates, asparagus, | baby foods, salmon, sardines, tuna and tuna-like fish, | mackerel, fish flakes, crabmeat, evaporated milk, spe- | cial dietary products and dehydrated vegetables. Next year’s auto license plates probably will be | limited to black and white and domestic earth colors, such as red oxides, ocher, umber, siénna, and a small | amount of iron blue, the protective coatings industry advisory committee has beéen told. With the rubber shortage becoming acute, ‘we wonder if there’ll be | any cars that neéd licenses by next year. The inventors seem to be progressing. A knife has been invented which cuts a piece of toast into four pieces. Now for ¢rie that will perform the same opernuon nnd scrape off the burred part in one | ma\emem | Sales of 10-cent Defense Savings Stamps during | January increased nearly 500 percent over the pre~‘ | Vious high mark established in December 1941, ac- cording to the Treasuty Department. January sales | for the five denominations of stamps aggregated $41,005,736.80 as compared with the December total of $25,650,562.80. ' finance this rush | order the firm |regardless of whether the trip is | post-war |ton of the lessons learned through| i T aq in TT, seconid T as in BITE, accent first syllable. asked the RFC for a $3,000,000 loan. After weeks of time-marking the RFC linally offered to lend $1,000,- 000 provided the company put up | more than $2,000,000 in assets, its % valuable patent rights, and notes (Continuec from Page One) | signed personally by its executives. — - ‘ In other words, despite the fact | made or not. Further, Congress voted that it be paid this juicy tidbit in advance. So every January, at the beginn- ing of a session, the boys go down, to the cashier’s window and draw in advance Lheir year's travel grab at the rate of 20 cents a mile to and' from their homes. |ate in their family connections. around” given little business by the | that the company had a $23,000,000 Navy ‘ordnance order, which the Navy was clamoring for, Jesse Jones’ RFC wiuld not lend the con- cern more than $1,000000 to fill this contract—and even' then only if the company signed away fits eye-teeth. When the company executives proteSted this tight-fistedness, they were snapped off with, tunning .a bank, not" RFC. “Under the present wtup' Hughes said, “small business has | to get a contract from the War ory Navy Department before it can get| a loan from you, and you will not grant the loan until it gets the contract.” “That's right,” chimed in Barkley hotly, “And that's exactly why we need legislation like this bill for the little fellow. The RFC already is taking care of the big fellow. If! a cmall business man tries to get a contract from the War Depart-' ment and needs finances to carry out the contact, they tell him. ‘We wm let you have the contract if you cnn get an RFC loan’ Then he 0es to the RFC and is told ‘We will et you have the money if you can get the contract. “There ought to be some where the two things meet. Maybe this legislation, which sets up a Special division for small business under the War Production Board,| with power to make loans and as- sist the little fellow in geiting con- tracts, is the answer. The record shows that small business is get- fing little, if any, help from the RFC. place MORE RFC STALLING Latest case of RFC penny-pinch- ing stalling of a vital defense con- tract that has come to the com- mittee’s attention and aroused hot indignation is that of the Northern Pump Co., Minneapolis, Minn. The largest maker of Nhvy ord- nance in the country, the concern has an excellent financial and busi- ness record. In the last few years it has grown from 1,000 to 6000 employes and now has over $100,- 000,000 in Navy orders. Last year the company was given 2 $23,000000 Navy contract for some urg'nfi(}y Hieéded ordnance. To Two of the loudest denouncers of the travel fund itém in the Agri- cultural - bill ‘were Representative Everett Dirksen, bushy-haired Ill- indlan, and Representative Mike | Monroney, gangling Oklahoman. | Dirksen's travel ‘“take” this year| was $396 and ‘Monrdfiey's $h71. Neithier has safd ‘a word or lifted | “We nreu finger to pub an ‘end to their| a defense own travel-| Ing. agency.” Certain members of Conigress are Finally, despairing of getting any |very hot for econumy—e;(cept when RFO help, the concern through the|it hits their own pockets. intervention of another government| (Copyright, 1942, by Unlited Fea-| agency, got it from the Minneéapolis |ture Syndicate, Ine.) Federal Réserve Bank. Within ' 24| PP 0 Y hours after applying for a 1oan the, bank gave the company unlimitéd! credit. But in the metnwhile thréey - months of priceléss time had heen) lost because of the RFC's money- | grubbing obstructionism. : 1 i 1 Can't Dodge Vlives | Byfieflingintrmy | PBILADELPHIA,, Mnrch 21 |Un¢le Shm wants it distihctly un- .derst,ood that his army is not n| refuge for estranged husbands. | i, ot B were hurley| ey .are givirig us heddaches,”| at a travel allowance item. It was|cOmPldined Colonel Frederick Seho- charged that extravagance , and| enfield, chief of the Philadelfhia waste were rife in |;overl‘lmex'nlnzcmmng office. . “A man will have travél expenditures. 4 ‘qudrrel With his wife a4 M That is absolutely trie. And what |(ry to enlist to spité Her,” explalhie is equally true—though no menuonythe colonel. “And son'\ e ‘of i of it“was'made In the House—is thdt give us false statements which h the worst -travel-hoodling offender makes them liable to lgss of citi- in the entire government is Con- | ¥ R 'l n. iefi.;;mp if ‘they accépted. The country rase in arms over mo\ § PR 3 h attempted congressional pensio n‘ 'mm ’HMNB grab, which would have cost thé! Stated llnl@ of Mt. taxpayers around $100,000 a year. tJuneau todge 9 Q‘l’uhy eve- But what is not realized is that (m]gfl:fig ork 'ln the F. C. = p TRAVEL-HOGS During the nmay battle over the riculture Department appropri- years Congress has been tapping twice that amount, $171,000 a year, in the form of a travel allowance. Under this neat till - raiding scheme, every member of Congress 23, W/ LEIVERS, . Secretary, ,m_h W cotiitships ‘ahd marriages is fare- be unavoidable increase in prices ror certain necessary articlgs of | commerce. Experts will prove the' value of their knowledge which has | been requisitioned by the Govem- {ment. NATIONAL ISSUES: Far-: scemz citizens will stimulate interest in| condilions. Wise applica- the world conflict will be strongly | urged. Because a new order will |emerge from the terrible chaos | causing the death and dcsnuctlon ‘gr persons and property, it s im- | increase our vocabulary by mastering cne word each day. | perative that it shoudd bq ymde after the truest democratic p,m.ern Miss Goldstein had been attending the University of Washington. Roy Rutherford, manager of the Juneau Lumber Mills, was to arrive on the steamship Princess Mary. He had spent the winter in the States in the interest of his business. F. A. Aldrich, organizer-at-large for the Pioneers of Alaska Lodge, |left on the Queen for Ketchikan where he was to attend the Pioneers srand Igloo to be held the following week. The 1922 dollar was being circulated in Juneau and a number of the coins were on display in the windows of the Nugget Shop. The dollar vas said to be artistic in design with the word “Liberty” prominently lisplayed. n was a returning passenger on (he visit to Chicago and California. Chief of Police T. E. P. Keeg Princess Mary. He had been on a Mrs. Cornelia ‘fl’mploton Thatcher left on the Queen for Skagway in the interest of the W. C. T. U, and expected to return on the first available boat. Weather was to be fair and little change in témperature was pre- dicted. Maximum temperature was 34 and minimum 29. in]y Lessons in English B & senbon WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Avoid saying, “I have a gentleman friend.” This is an expression used only in the lower social levels. OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Alibi. Pronounce al-i-bi, A as in AT, OFTEN MISSPELLED: Divinity; three I's, and not DE. | SYNONYMS: Signify, suggest, symbolize, indicate, denote. WORD STUDY: “Use a word three times and it is yours.” Let us Today'’s word: PERVERT; to turn from truth, rectitude, or propriety; to lead astray “He, in the serpent, had perverted Eve."—Milton. | The long struggle for liberty | Jand | justice should be rewarded by the application of the highest ideals 91‘ human relntlonshxpa. the seers de- clare. INTERNATIONAL |The solar eclipse of the month' took | place with Venus culminating " at Tokyo, a good aspect encouraging | to peace, but rising malefics Indi- |cated widespread economic distre: \and continued demands for fresh | troops to replace heavy losses in Russia. Japan still has resources that will enable continued fighting | which will assure, when final defeat manpower. Persons whose birthdate it is have the augury of a year of progress \that has been well earned. Good- Iwill of associations is indicated. | |Women will be especially fortun- ' Children born on this day prob- ably will be quick-tempered, . tal- ented and intuitive. Many may be high-strung and’ inclined to quick! Iemper,. e MONDAY;, MARCH 23 | Benefic aspects rule today, but Saturn is adVerae. The stars stimu- ! late merchand]sing .and manufac- | turihg. LaBor is under unrflvorflifle Egnetar‘ influences AND HOME: Womefl are squect to fortunate aspecu which seem 'to promise domestit hdppiness and prosperity. Romance for the young should prevail over all, obstaclés ‘and increase of hasty cast. This is a Tucky date for be- gihflw of every sort, especiaily for l.ny;‘:v; venitures in new posi- cféins arid actors should behefii at.thi§ time when their ‘tal- | coufse ents will “Be helpfil o the public, Mahtiy girls will succéed as enter-|al tainers for there Will "be deinahi +for recredtion. s Inchis s of production for n Wil Be speedled to ektraor- volume. ‘Factory workers _over Mmer mechanical 1 i hhb ‘nfi\“mflc merce o emef!ae1 plentjful m {t délars flows I:“ payrolls. o s Qe gd iow fortus L.i5 m its nblmy t ada comes, the absolute depletion of fits| MODERN ETIQUETTE ** ronerra vEe Q. s it all right for a man to rest his arm on the back of a woman’s chair in the theatre, or in a public conveyance? ! A. No; the hands should be kept in the lap. Q. Where should the napkins be placed when serving a buffet meal? A. Place small luncheon napkins in a neat pile at each of the four corners of the table. Q. Is it all right for a daughter to act as hostess in her father’s home after the death of her mother? A. Yes; but she should include his name in all the invitations she u‘mms | LOOK and LEARN ¥ Who is Secretary of the United States Treasury? . C.. GORDON Who were the fabled one-eyed giants of Greek mythology? § AFFAIRS: 1n cenitéts | ohs. 'Qume the heroes of many #|the What is the freezing point of mercury? In what State did the Custer massacre occur? Which is the “Palmetto State”? ANSWERS: Henry Morgenthau. The Cyclops 379 degrees Fahrenheit below zero. In what is now the State of Montana. South Caroliria. inereasing eéndurafice. among Am- eticans top long scmutomeu w driv- ing cars wherever even the ;ll‘h - est distarices wete, to’ be , travi INTERNATIONAL ¢ A Astrologers who. wamed of war, and the Uhited St Have. forerold ‘th migst “;?M ex- lnu ‘conditiohs ‘e :Sore thé ~Allles g ? l?i tfi of defet tor the AXIS. Will be ‘won ab a_great it ‘will prove the npefluhcy of At this ume M the armies add will show {o advantage. Personis whose birtlidate it is have | Augury of a year of geod for- gne despite ‘war hdzards. Friends ugflbempt them to waste time atia ren bom on thu day pmb-’ iLl; will be ‘exdeptional in artistic Qllenu flkely to be fa- WSWEEK ,MAGAZINE ,_,Jner.eqq Wum mert orre?om " en for its circulation mbsmpuon states bicye ate Bewfin popular lohg ‘eold wéather cohditions, pe! gets a check for one round trip a| Subscribe to-the Lally Alaskn year from his home to Washingtlon | Empire—the paper with the largest at the rate of 20 cents a mile—!pald “‘circulation. mittéa genefal se of wheels. Walk: ing and bicycling are to prove in- valuable in restoring health’ and sales StAff. EXcellerit - opportunity for uni W m commission ard bonus @rr * Please, writé to 58 Verndale St. 8 ‘Theré are eléven towns in Am- erica nnnbd Moscow. Mud is the name of a West Vir- ginin town.” | T T — Drs. 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