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

PAGE FOUR Daily Alaska Empire Published every evening except Sunday by the EMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY Becond and Main Streets, Junesu, Alasks. HELEN TROY MONSEN R. L. BERNARD President Yice-President and Business Manager Entered in the Post Office in Juneau as Second Class Matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Delivered by carrier in Juneau and Douglas for §1.50 per month. By mail, postage paid, at the following rates: One year, in advance, $15.00; six months, in advance, $7.50; one month, in advance, $1.35. Subscribers will confer a favor if they will promptly notify the Business Office of any failure or irregularity in the de- Uvery 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- {ise credited In this pever and also the local news published erein. ALASKA CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION. NATIONAL REPRESENTATIV] \merican Bullding, Seattle, Wash. — Alaska Newspapers, 1011 e 21 S SRS PRI COMMENDABLE MOVE Juneau’s City Council last week autherized Harry 1. Lucas and the Finance Committee to take immediate steps for the purchase of $20,000 worth of War Savings Bonds, adopting a proposal that has been in the minds of the Mayor and som members of the Council for some time Primary incentive for the action is the Cit sincere desire to further the war effort, and i secondary spur is the hope that this first deposit a sinking fund will some day materialize into a aew City Hall, a project that surely should have place on the books after the war It is a credit to the present City Administration that such an amount is available for investment Only an excellent economy program could have mad such a move possible True, there are many things about the city which need improvement But the City still has enough money left in the bank to take care of usual expenses and to make all emergency repairs and to carry on all maintenance work for which materials be obtained The Council could not have found a better plac> for the surplus. Tt is the hope of the present Admin- istration that future councils will add to this fund, at least at the rate of $10,000 a year, until the in- vestment and accumulated interest:will be enough to build badly needed City Hall without burdening the taxpayers by issuing bonds for this purpose. may a anpower Hoarding (Philadelphia Record) Senator Byrd, of Virginia, charges the Federal Government with being the chief offender in “hoard- ing manpower.” War Manpower Commissioner McNutt admits Byrd is right to do it Washinglon Merry- . Go-Round (Continued from Page One) have sufficient workers in war step in this and I'm all for Jeffers said he hoped (o keep | ing questions about Henderson, hop- the nation “on rubber,” transportation industries. Nation- |wide gas rationing is an-essential|initiated the nationwide gas direction it.” The rubber boss was Guestioned of Defense Byrd declares that as of August 31 2,606,000 civilian Federal employees, with being added at the rate of 100,000 a month McNutt admits that our civilian jobholder army will be over 3,000,000 by Christmas This 3,000,000 compares with only 917,760 Federal | employees at the end of the last war. The War De- | partment alone has’ 1,200,000 civilian employees, the | Navy half a million. Where there were 30 Federal | agencies in 1918, there are 81 now. | were ones there new HAPPY BIRTHDAY DECEMBER 8 Mrs. H. L. Arnold Sidney J. Thompson PRGE Figures show 100 civilian employees for every Mike Ugrin 175 men in the armed services | Mrs. George F.. Freeburger We need a mighty force of civilian help in war- Esther Jackson time. Nobody denies that. Many new wartime bu- | reaus are perfornfing important and vital services. | But that much of this vast manpower is wasted not merely the charge of Senator Byrrd, but| something everybody knows. | Every businessman understands how such waste accumulates. In a private concern, a situation will| arise calling, say, for a special report and checkup. Somebody is hired to make the report and, long after the original emergency has passed, that man is still Mrs. John G. Johnson Mary Margaret Grisham Natalie Savovich is D e { HOROSCOPE “The stars incline but do not compel” making reports, still has them typed, filed away— all ot which costs money | Ve Finally, payroll pressure brings this waste to| = light—in private business. | WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 9 In Washington there is no such pressure. AxL\" i extra cost is just added to the budget We're reminded of the job which the Empress| Catherine of Russia created: Caretaker of her special | Adverse planetary conditions rule ! today. Neptune is in threatening sway and Mars is in forbidding as- THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA | 20 YEARS AGO 7 puierne .DECEMBER 38, 1922 Miss Esther Cashen ,of Douglas, took passage for the South on the Princess Mary to spend the holidays with her sister, Miss May, who was in training as a nurse in Victoria Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Cahill, of Douglas, left for the South on the Princess Mary to spend the next few months visiting Mrs. Cahill's family in California. E. B. Bell, Assistant Agent for the U. S. Bureau of Fisheries in Alaska, left on the Princess Mary for Seattle on his way to Washington, D. C., on his annual trip for official business. The halibut boat Washington, reported long overdue at Ketchikan, was safe according to reports received Secretary of War Weeks stated that the authorized regular army strength of 12,000 officers and 125,000 men was inadequate for national safety and that further reductions would be inexcusable, in his annual report to Congress. “We should seize the first opportunity to bring the regular army back to the proportions that are required. We cannot ever again make the mistake of expecting good soldiers to rise overnight and good officers to be turned out in quantities in a three months’ period,” he stated. In his annual report, Gov. Scott C. Bone recommended that the government should either spend millions of dollars in a paternalistic spirit or admit private capital upon terms conducive to investment. The pre- liminary of this eventuation must be a simplified and centralized system of administration, he stated Arthur Nelson and William Shirran, of Douglas, left for Seattle to spend the winter months, rosebush. pect. That job still remained on the Russian )m\rol]1 HEART AND HOME: As our first for a hundred years after the Empress was dead. |year of war comes to a close as- Another factor is the “new agency.” Even though |trologers suggest that we shuu]dv a new Federal agency may duplicate the work of |take stock of the many changes in one or more other Federal agencie wce it is start- |the twelve months and so prepare | ed, it runs on, like the babbling brc ever. And |for even greater domestic upheav- every new agency has the same proliferating pro- i“]” in 1943. The speed with which clivities as a rabbit. each change takes place is es- We are willing to bet any official in Washington | pecially noteworthy, they empha- that a committee of half a dozen d office mana- |size, and forecas more sudden gers could wade through the Federal setup and clean | dislocations in American families. out 20 to 35 percent i1t is necessary to expect what is| And not only save labor and money—but vastly |best and to forbid apprchomions# {to increase governmental efficier enter the mind. Back of loss, Congress can do the job | waste and sacrifice there is a law | So cumbersome is the present mass of hoard d |at work which will bring right, | Federal labor it is notoriol that some agencies | peace and justice to humanity, they spend more time fighting over isdiction than they | declare cdnfidently Among ju do in helping win the BUSINESS AFFAIRS: war tors to such agencies have noted that many empl em to spénd much | Americans the independence and of their time inquiring where the others are. |enterprise which have brought | The situation is such that people nothing | wealth and contentment must be | unusual in the story told by Time Magazine | surrendered for the duration. This | Vice president of a Manhatt bank heard about | means severe discipline and great a vacancy in the Board of ¥ c Warfare. He sacrifice to all the people who must applied for the job. While he waiting to hear | practi self-denial and economy. from his application- Taxpayers of every class must now An official ‘of the Board of Econogic Warfare | support in the Army and in civil visited the president of the New Y bank, ed |service a number of citizens of the if he could recommend a ‘good man for the vacant|Unijed States greater than they | job. The president of the bar nowing his vice themselves represent, astrologers president had applied, recommended him vice president was hired, on the Days later, when the bar So the |foretell. This means plenty of hard |work for the man in the street and | the |the women of his family. pot r Was w rkir Board of Economic Warf: in Washington, he re-| NATIONAL ISSUES: With the ceived a letter, on BEW stationer Tt had been |new year will come repeated de- mailed to New York, forwarded to his new office. |mands for economy in all branch- | The letter informed the banker that he could|€s of government — city, county, not have the BEW job for which he had applied |state. There is an aspect read as (and which he was holding)—because he lacked the |Presaging thorough overhauling of qualifications. \many of the bureaus in Washing- Looking closer, the banker found that he had ton. The need of modern commer- signed the letter himself cial methods in conducting public |offices will be set torth. Politics {is the business of all the people and it is time that business be istreamlined and made absolutely \clflcient. the seers declare. | INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS Like the sudden bursting of Boul- |dér Dam; the great power of the committee continued to fire lead- ' United Nations will sweep over the | Nazi forces with devastating effect so we will [ing Jeffers would take a poke atlin the new year. People of the for | the OPA They pointed Ollt{occupied countries will rise against that it was Henderson who had their oppressors with the desperate A ra- ceurage imparted by the stars tioning program and that the Rub- which long have sent vibrations ber Administration. and the Office that incite to revolution all who ransportation were suifer from injustice. This year’s | The outlook gen: boys who look out ally is much brighter for the s on the Polynesian islands habitually take Inse boss. he added, given a lift to a soldier who proved closely on whether Leon Henderson forced to go along, whether they|autumnal equinox aspects presaged | to be an American “He said the strangest thing to|plied that it me,” remarked the Queen, in relat- the Price Admini ing the incident to Mrs. Roosevelt.|handle rationing “When I dropped him, I said, “Do|things are contradictory. As prlce}Hfltton Sumners of Texas. And he re-)chief, Henderson was supposed to you know who I am? | was cooperating with him. He re- | approved of the program or not. as difficult to be| official and administrative progress ! “I guess you were the victim of toward a tremendous offensive that rator and also @ clgar that was too big to be will reach gigantic proportions in | since the twoichewvd. commented Representative the spring. Persons whose birthdate it is “What ao you mean?” shot back have the augury of a year of good plied, ‘You've got me there’ Now|protect the public, while as ration- | Jeffers. “I can chew a pretty big fortune and comfort, despite war | what on earth does that mean, ing director he is depriviig the | one.” 9 handicaps. | Mrs. Roosevelt? :puh)ic of something, Jeffers ex-| “You misunderstood Mr. Sum-| Children born on this day pro- | Mrs. Roosevelt translated. plained |ners,” broke in L. D. Tompkins, bably will be intelligent and ori- The First Lady tells friends that| Several memvers o: the sub-|Jeffers’ assistant, “By cigar he ginal, artistic and industrious. They | seeing how Queen Mary adapted | herself to wartorn England made | her understand better- than ever | the resolute determination of the| British people, and also why they | adored the Queen Mother. JOHN L. LEWIS SLOWS DOWN Ex-Newsman Edward Hebert, now | Congressman from Louisiana, is a stickler for the 35-mile-an-hour | war speed limit, believes everybody should be the same. Driving to the Capitol from his home in Virginia, another machine whizzed by He- bert, ' “Wonder if that fellow has heard about the rubber shortage?” mused Hébert, Stepping on the gas, he pujled. alongside the speeder. Tt was none other than labor tycoon John L’ Lewis, ‘Léwis, who lifes in Alexandria, Va., stared back at Hebert briefly, sensed the situation, and took his So foot off the accelerator. The rest Cocstubseiom s everyone, if the USO is to be ®f- , officlel loboratary of Na- of the way to Washington, Mine e aet Doy Qouds Association. fective in carrying out the con- Worker Lewis kept within the speed structive program for which it is limit, Congressman Hebert hugging bis rear. be beautiful? TWO-FISTED JEFFE :}:}; Rubber Czar Bill Jeffers lived up to' his two-fisted reputation when'-testifying at a closed’ meeting 4 with Proper care of the House Interstate Commerce subcommittee which was probing Sheers, Service Sheers and Service operflcmn‘thh th‘e Red Shield Ser- the' need of nationwide gas ra- delightful ses ight ek vice Men's mending unit llo;)i;;g B in delig tul seaton-righ colors C 552 vl Jeffers bluntly told the subcom-' i X £ mittee, headed by Representative 31.00-$1-15 3 NOTICE Clinton P. Anderson of New Mexico, | After Dec. 10, no telephone that Congressional efforts to block the’ rationing program would :;m‘w nowhere. 1 “T understand the position bf you | gentlemen, but I want you also| to ‘understand mine,” said the/ Rubber Administrator. “My job 1s} to carry out the recommendations| of the Baruch report and I intend i in sheer, ;Ioc_l}r i 1 : | HOLEPROOF § LUXSHEER RAYONS || Who said rayon stockings' wouldn't i These by Holeproof are decidedly new and . Surprisingly smart, sheer and As glamorous in appearance as any stocking ‘could be and for wear they’ll give excellent service Family Shoe Store Seward Street Remember Pearl Harbor . . . and Victory Week . . . Buy a Bond. will be sensitive and will suffer! . | from misjudgments i « Copyright, 1942) | i The rub- | made no| meant Leon Henderson.” ber boss laughed but comment. (Copyright, 1942, by United Fea- | ture Syndicate, Inc. | | ———e 7 SEEK WORKERS FOR " USO ORGANIZATION As President of the Juneau chap- jter of the USO Patronesses Or- ganization, Mrs. Harold Smith ex- }wnds an urgent invitation to any jwoman on Gastineau Channel to sign up for work in that organi- zation. “There ted and ap- is plenty of work tor brics Testing planned,” Mr: Women may sign up for the type of work most suitable to their tastes and experience, on any of the Tfollowing' committees: Girl Service Organization, House (guar- ters maintenance), Home Hospital- ity, Cookie Jar, Social Affairs, or Batton Committee—working' in co- Smith said. . . differ- rentals for the month of De- dember will, be accepted at a discount: Al remittances must bear postmark of not later than discount dny. Please be 3 JUNEAU AND DOUGLAS TELEPHONE CO. - - BUY DEFENSE BONDS adv. Display rooms of the Alaska Electric Light and Power Company were crowded with guests at noon when the White Lunch and Utility Sale of tha Martha Society of the Presbyterian Church opened. The luncheon and sale was to be continued the following day Former Mayor Hugh M. Caldwell was chosen President of the Arctic Club at the annual election held in Seattle. Other officers elected were T. F. Ryan, Geolge B. Smith, Claude A. Philbrick, George E. Harden- bergh. Caldwell had been in Juneau a short time previously in connec- tion with the Shriners' ceremonial. Weather was fair with a maximum temperature of 41 and a mini- mum of 32. —— Daily Lessons in English % ;. corbon WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “Ruth is nowhere near as| old as her husband.” Say, “Ruth is NOT NEARLY so old as her hus- | band.” OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Bambino. Pronounce bam-be-no, A as in AH, E as ni BE, O as in NO, accent secongd syllable. OFTEN MISSPELLED: Currant (a raisin). Current (prevalent; also, following) . | SYNONYMS: Rebel (verb), resist, revolt, strike, mutiny. 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: COMPREHENSION; the mental grasping of ideas, facts, etc. “The prob- lem confronting us requires a great amount of comprehension.” MODERN ETIQUETTE ™ wopgrra re Q. Is it ever permissible to write a social letter with a lead pencil? A. Only if the writer is ill and in bed, or very old. Otherwise, no. Q. When a man stops to check his coat at the entrance of a dining room, should his girl companion go on to the table or wait for him? A. She should stand aside and wait for him. Q. When you wish to tell a business associate that someone phoned | and left a message for him to call, how should you express it? A. “Mr. White phoned and left this number.” ) 2 What per cent of the retail buying in the United States is done by women? 2. What is a vertebrate? 3. 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