The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 8, 1942, Page 4

PAGE FOUR Dmly Alaska Emptre Published every evening except Sunday by the EMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY Second and Main Streets, Juneau, Alasks. HELEN TROY MONSEN - - - - President R. L. BERNARD - ce-President and Business Man: Entered In the Post Of UBSCRIPTION RATES: Delivered by carrier in Juneau and Douglas for §1.50 per month: By mall, postage paid, at the following rates: One vear, in advance, $15.00; six months, in advance, $7.50; one month, in advance, $1.25. Subscribers will confer a favor if they will promptly notify the Bustness Office of any failure 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 republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not other- wise credited In this paper and also the local news published herein. ALASKA CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION. NATIONAL REPRESENTATIVES — Alaska Newspapers, 1011 American Building, Seattle, Wash. ABOUT A SECOND FRONT There has been plenty of talk about the prospect of a second front to relieve Russia. Here is what a few well-known commentators and analysts have to say on the subject: DEWITT MACKENZIE, Wide World war analyst: It cannot be emphasized too strongly that only the allied high command is in position to judge whether the establishment of a second front in Europe feasible at this juncture. If such an operation is practicable we undoubtedly shall get it, since it obvious that any action which would compel a di- version of Nazi strength from the Soviet theatre in the near future might well mean the difference be- tween victory and defeat for the hard-pressed Rus- sians in the crucial battle for the Caucasus. is is RAYMOND GRAM SWING, MBS: It is doubtful if a second front could be opened now on a scale affecting the war in a permanent strategic way. But it may be imperative to open one at a sacrifice, so as to maintain unity with Russia and to keep the possibility of truly effective two-front war next year. a MAJOR GEORGE FIELDING ELLIOTT, N. Y Herald Tribune and CBS: We must use every avail- able means of diverting German forces from the Russian front. That is the real meaning of “sec- ond front.” We should effect the maximum diver- sion possible whether by bombings, by commando raids or by actual invasion of the European continent Our methods must be in accordance with our means, especially shipping. UPTON CLOSE, NBC Far-East expert: In my opinion the place to start a second front now to help Russia and not run into almost impossible risk is in Siberia, beginning on Russan Kamchatka with a thousand transport, fighter and bomber planes. Otherwise, Soviet Russia will be compelled to com- promise with or suffer invasion with Japan . = ; | n Juneau as Second Class Matter. | Sz»p(nmber 6 when the weather in Russia begins to interfere and the supply problem grows acute. I think the term “second front” too vague for ade- quate calculation, but suggest supply lines to Russla the most important second front possible. HANSON W. BALDWIN, N. ¥, Times: Operations that are strategically desirable are not always stra- | tegically possible. There can be no doubt that now lor within the next few weeks the opening of a sec- \ond front on the continent of Europe would be very | desirable strategically. But the shipping shortage, | supply difficulties, inadequately trained troops in mxrfmem numbers; the great strength of the Ger- man fortifications along the coast of Europe, and tho great size of the Axis armies which permit large| | garrisons in western Europe despite the heavy mn- | centrations in Russia would make the eslablisllment in the near future another permanent land very hazardous--indeed, more than a practical military [now or [front in Europe, very, jof a desperate gamble operation. | This situation will change with time, but there is [1ittle time; Russia’s need for a diversion is great. "Therefore increasingly intensive bombing operations coupled with large-scale commando raids by forces | of a division or more are indicated immediately with the objective the eventual seizure of a beachhead and the extension of that beachhad into a second | front next spring or if the opportunity permits— sooner. The Country Comes First (Cincinnati Enquirer) | In a striking (and highly commendable) change\ of front, Secretary of Agriculture Claude Wickard | now favors a relinquishment of the loophole pro- vided for farm prices in the Price Control Act. 'nns‘, loophole prohibits a ceiling on farm prices at less than 110 per cent of parity. In effect, it has threat- | ened with collapse the entire effort to control the retail price of food, by squeezing grocers and process- | ors in between retail price ceilings and the vu'tunlly untontrolled upward thrust of farm products prices. Secretary Wickard was a prime mover in the cam- | paign which resulted in the virtual exemption of farm prices under the Price Control Act. Said he, in announcing his change of mind: “A year ago when I testified before a House committee in sup- .)mz of the price control bill I approved the 110 cent limitation. At that time many prices were mr below parity, It seemed to me that they could never average parity unless there was an opportuniy for some of them to be slightly above parity at | least part of the time. Now the situation is dif- ferent. Farm prices have reached a parity on an average. We are in war. [Every day makes it clearer that weé must put everything weve got into wnning the war. Also, every day makes it clearer that we must take drastic steps to curb inflation.” Secretary Wickard’s announcement thus relieves an utterly incongruous situation. A member of the administration, he had persisted in an attitude which was nullifying, to an important degree, the efforts of the administration to curb inflation by controlling‘ the price of the essentials of life. We believe that the vast majority of American farmers (who in any event are much less greedy than their self-asserted spokesmen would make them appear) will appreciate the reasonableness of Secre- tary Wickard's change of view, and will go along with him on it. There will of course be—and indeed there are al- ready—some professional farm bloc members of Congress who will oppose the relinquishment of the 110 per cent parity concession for any reason, the country and inflation be damned. But we trust that patriotic American farmers who appreciate the situ- ation will repudiate any such opposition. Secretary Wickard’s change of front should be the THE DAILY ALASKA, EMPIRE— EAU ALASKA HAPPY BIRTHDAY | SEPTEMBER. 8 Joseph J. Stocker Mrs. R. H. Williams J. B. Burford, Jr. Mary Tubbs Capt. George Baggen Mrs. F. W. Armstrong Hazel Tregoning Addie Anderson H’ORO‘SCOPE “The stars incline { but do not compel” TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8 This is' not an impertant day in planetary government, but benefic | aspects rule. The stars aid initiative | today. HEART AND HOME: Women are | subject to the best possible direction of the stars. It is a date most| | auspicious for girls and may bring | about marriage engagements. There is a happy sign for weddings. The ! middle-aged as well as the young will seek the bonds of matrimony since desire to avoid’ loneliness will | be prevalent. There is a promising | slgn for girls who begain careers, especially as nurses or actresse: It is a lucky time to look for em- ployment. In the colleges young seiences and to obtain technical sciences and to obtani technical | | knowledge. In postwar days home will be a haven, not an abiding | place. BUSINESS AFFAIRS: Stimula- |tion of purchase of Government bonds will be due to an untoward incident that,proves how lacking in | perfection even the best system of * | watchfulness can be in time of war. ! be | Initiative and leadership will {gained through the services of the | |head of a great business organiza- | tion. Many puzzling problems will be | 20 YEARS AGO #on SEPTEMBER 8, 1922 Enrollment was completed at Juneau Public Schools and showed a totat of 317 the first day of school in all departments. On the same day the previous year the attendance was 348. A number of students had not yet returned from their summer vacations and work. HE EMPIRE Miss Florence Gasey left for Seattle on the Spokane on her way to Moscow, Idaho, where she was to. enter her second year at the University of Idaho. R. E. Robertson and -S. Hellenthal, local attorneys, returned to Juneau on the Estebeth from Skagway where they had Jeen on legal business. Mrs. Katherine Hooker and her daughter, Mildred, returned to Juneau on the Spokane after making a round trip on the steamer to Sitka. | — Mrs. W. Chaffee and Mrs. M. Warner, mother and aunt of Mrs. A. | Leduc, were to leave on the Princess Alice for their homes in Seattle after visiting in Juneau for two weeks. Martin Gallwas, of Douglas, was to leave on the Princess Alice for Walla Walla, Washington, where he was to enter Whitman College. | Donald L. MacKinnon, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lockie MacKinnon, | larrived on the Estebeth from Haines. He had spent the summer there |in the employ of the Alaska Road Commission. He was to leave on the next southbound steamer for Seattle to attend the University of Wash- | ington. Mrs. Constance Haller, daughter of Judge T. M. Reed, returned to | Juneau on the Spokane after making the round trip to Skagway and Sitka. She was a guest at the Zynda Hotel. | o T. A. Aalto, only son of Mr. and Mrs. August Aalto, pioneer residents | of Douglas, was in town for a short visit with his parents. He was graduated a short time before from the University of Washington, ‘»\here he majored in mechanical engineering. Weather was fair with a maximum temperature of 54 and a mini- | mum of 49. Daily Lessons in English W. 1. GORDON presented to Washington as infl.i-‘ tion dangers multiply. NATIONAL ISSUES: Semipatriots 'who avoid sacrifices while they pro- | test their loyalty to the United States will prove to be obstructions in civilian war work plans. Their lack of enthusiasm will have a serious influence on persons of lim- ited intelligence or uncertain prin- | ciples. There is a sign read as pre- saging a sensational case that re- veals a saboteur in high place underminnig loyalty. INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS: !Results of failure of the United | States early to recognize the pos-| sibility of war affecting the greatest of democracies will prove alarmingly coslty. Perils will multipy as the United Nations show gathering pow- | WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “The man is void in wis- dom.” Say, “void OF wisdom.” OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Impeccable. Pronounce im-pek-a-b'l, E as in PECK, A as in ASK unstressed, accent second syllable. OFTEN MISSPELLED: Equable; QUA, not QUL SYNONYMS: Economy, saving, thrift, frugality, mcmy, stinginess. WORD STUDY: “Use a word three times and it ‘is your: Let us increase our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Today’s word: | PLAINTIVE; expressive of sorrow or melancholy. “The melody was sweet and plaintive.” MODERN ETIQUETTE * zoperTa LEE Q. When you have been introduced to a person, and upon leaving miserliness, parsi- lendid aid. Lack of | ifixfi;fn? Za‘?msrfie: Will be eritical | this Derson says, “T hope I shall see you again before but there is a sign presaging sudden YOur response be? increase of transportation facilities. A. “Thank you.” Momentum in our war power, slow Q. Should a person insist upon giving a tip in in starting, now will gain immensely. ' observes a “no tipping” rule? Persons whose birthdnte it is have the augury of a year of out~ |y, it i jnconsiderate to the management for one to standing achievement. Progress in I hope I shall see YOU again, long,” what should too.” a restaurant that A. No. In this instance it is not only unnecessary to give a tip, insist upon break- military and professional activities MORGAN BEATTY, BLU netw ork: Time for an| beginning of a move to make price control really in- allied counter attack is after the Nazi summer of-|clusive of all elements of the cost of living—wages fensive has reached its peak, whicl h should be about |and farm produc! ts included. | Yy contributor to the Lib- With the war, how- t partisanship. But s never forgotten the book- keeping mentality of a banker. Des- pite all the terrible urgencies of war, he seems always to have in the | back of his mind the idea of pre- | senting a profitable balance sheet of loans made by the RFC. BLONDE HAIR FOR TOKYO Colleagues of New Hampshire's Sen. Styles Bridges says that when it comes to handling women consti- | stituents, he is too honest. The | other day he received from a Wew Hampshire lady several beautiful | lccks of blonde hair. opened the box there was so much hair in it that at first Senator Bridges almost thought it was a woman’s head. With it was a letter saying that | of the most vituperative letters in | she wanted the hair used for that |and felt that the Senator was def- | wood instead of steel. 1125,000,000 shells for 76 mm. field When he | In the next mail, he received one his long career. The lady said she had cut off her hair for the pur- pose of helping bomb Tokyo and purpose. She was very indignant, initely responsible for the loss of er hair So Bridges’ friends tell. him he should never have sent the hair | back, even if the Army didn't want it. He was too honest. WOODEN ARMY TRUCKS How vitally the nation needs steel is illustrated by a move the Army has been quietly preparing. Begin- ning in about a week, all bodies for army trucks will be made out of From Septemeber 1 to January 1, 1943, the Army will thus save 1,337,- 000 tons of steel—enough to make artillery. In addition, all Army cots l'rom now on will be made of wood, thiis diverting 78,100 tons of steel to other purposes. In contrast here are some things which the Navy and the Maritime the owner had heard that blonde hair was being used in bombsights | and she was contributing her hair to help bomb Tokyo. Delighted to help the cause, Sen- ator Bridges, a leading member of the Senate Military Affairs Com- mittee, took the hair to the War Department. But he was rebuffed. The Army does use blonde hair in bombsights, he was told, but one lock of hair is enough for hundreds of bombsights, and they didn’t need any more. So Senator Bfidges, thinking the lady might want her hair, returned it to his constituent. | Commission might be doing — but aren't: First, the Navy requires practically | all steel and other critical materials |to be on hand before it begins building a warship. A battl=ship can’t be finished for at least two, | perhaps three years. But during the interim, essential materials stand [last a few months to a year, rather than 30 years. The trouble with thorough-going Admiral Land is that he is building up a merchant marine for the fu- ture, whereas we need to win the war TODAY. Therefore, some nav- al architects figure that by scaling down the size of steel plate, and | other steel used in the ships, nothing | is lost in the strength of the ship, | and it will be just as good 20 years | from now. For instance, by scaling down the | scantlings 20 per cent, it would be | possible to save a million tons of steel on the present Liberty ship program. This, in turn, would build 4,000 vitally needed sub-chasers. NOTE: Even though the Higgings Shipbuilding Company had not fin- ished building its shipyards, the Maritime Commission had sent it great quantities of anchors, anchor chains, and even porcelain toilet bowls to remain stacked up in piles waiting till the ships were com- pleted, CAPITAL CHAFF Before the American Labor Party finally selected its candidate for the governorship of New York, it offered the nomination to Mayor LaGuardia, who, after some hesita- tion, [declined . . . The Labor Party also offered the nomination to Wen- cept if he had the official backing of the White House House made no reply and Willkie went ahead with plans for his trip to Russia . . . Roosevelt henchmen ‘ waiting to be used when they might go into other more immediate uses. Meanwhile the Maritime Commis- sion is building merchant ships of the finest type, ships which will be good—if not sunk—30 years from | now. However, at the present rate /of sinking, they are more likely to at the Brooklyn convention com- plained that it was impossible to get to the President by telephone. He gave his orders regarding Mead, and after that he was inaccessible. (Copyright, 1942, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) —— . Don’t forget to vote. The polll [ |do not close until 7 o’clock tonight. CARL ASCHENBRENNER ad a paid-up subscriber to THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE ig invited to. present this coupon this evening at the box office of the«— CAPITOL and receive TWO THEATRE TICKETS to see: "“TWO FACED WOMAN" Federal Tax—5¢ per Person WATCH THIS SPACE—Your Name May Appear! ———-———— EASTERN STAR TONIGHT Regular meeting of Juneau Chap- ter, No. 7, tonight (Tuesday) at 8 o'clock. TIDES TOMORROW High tide ... Low tide High tide Low tide .0:56 an., 16.2 feet 112 am., -03 feet 1:32 pam., 159 feet ..17:28 pm., 1.7 feet ———eee— BUY DEFENSE STAMPS dell Willkie, who said he would ac- | The White | is foretgld. Children born on this day prob- ably will be industrious as well as | talented. Success and popularity are indicated all through happy lives. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9 Good and evil balance in the planetary influences today. is a threatening sign for aviators who may be victims of saboteurs. HEART AND HOME: Women are under the best aspects today and' | should: use their energies tirelessly. It is a-sway that imparts clear men- | | tal vision and encourages wise de- cisions. Girls who enter colleges | should concentrate on | for careers. Social butterflies will become practically extinct after the | | war, which will cause economical | independence of wives and mothers |to be necessay for the majority of | Americans. BUSINESS AFFAIRS: Despite national war perils greed will persist among many persons who manage to reap, profits from Government business. The creation of new mil- | 1ionaires will be discovered this Aut- umn when election issues bring out many facts. General prosperity will jcontinue for wage earners of every class. Merchants and manufactur~ ers will benefit as they demonstrate their ability to meet the exigencies of a changing world. NATIONAL ISSUES: Again in- | equalities in the sacrifices and re- sponsibiities sustained. by citizens of the United States will be widely discussed. While patriotic men and women concentrate upon aid to the Government many indifferent per- sons will profit. Although we have been in the war nine months, cér- | tain groups in widely separated {districts apparently will be unmind- ful of the greatest crisis in our history. A campaign of rebuke that is educational is forecast. INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS: | American heroes will multiply this |Autumn when men in all branches of the United States service will |demonstrate the effects of democ- racy upon the characters of the | fighters for freedom. Courage in the |face of almost insuperable obstacles yand appalling dangers to prove in- |vineible. Rifts in the war clouds |overshadowing the United Nations will reveal the light of coming vie- tory. Persons whose birthdnte it° 18 have the augury of a year of hap- piness anl good luck. Financial matters should be satisfactory. Children born on this day prob- ably will be independent and intelli- gent. Many will be clever in scien~ tific pursuits. Success is promised through energy and industry. (Copyright, 1942) ‘There | Pl’wm' ing their rule. Q. May one ever refuse to be a godparent? | A. No. LOOK and LEARNY What does the polttical term “log rolling” mean? What is the name of the insect so called because of its horn? Which is the longest book in the Bible? What famous Greek philosopher lived in a tub? What are the Latin words for “Peace be with you?” ANSWERS: When, congressmen get other members to vote for something beneficial to their own districts, in exchange for similar courtesies. 2. Hornet. Psalms, with 150 divisions. ! Diogenes. “Pax vobiscum.” C. GORDON | L ACROSS L Siamese colns 4. Manufactured 8. Holds back 12, Also ity Chl-l Norse It MM out 16, g?ounro jaunt 17. Valley Marked with ulmub:ua characters , R G . I TIAMIRE [PIAICTT] ISIHIAIDERSICIUIRIS R IGIREIP] | [T1C0 ICIRLLIMEISERSIPIAIR] HIEIN] \[BRS! ! M BRER NAEE [SIAITINAIL | EIARN ETTIOIN] [EIYTEREC [EN| TRERI]! ), Top Deprive of sen- sation . Proceeds 44, Winj . Trained men- tally 18.. Flemish B 49, l\?v‘l'[' %re;x b sgeographer o acol 2. l“‘llfind Vine 2 &, Isfortunes. 52. So be it * ‘alked idly: . First name of Benjamii H :feeo or 27, Malarial fever 28, Risked 3. Beverage 33. Portals 34. Uncl : postic 67. n Harrison's DOWN 1. Particle £ Pulled apart 3. 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