The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 18, 1943, Page 2

—_— PAGE TWO re making money out of war in- er” A war worker dustries threatens the success of |teined a draft deferment can be the 1043 “Food for Victory” cam- |transferred to farm work and not | FARM - BUYING RUSH TO HURT [ | country, | [] ¥ Uncle Sam is calling for maxi- | FooD VICIORY {mum - production of food to help in some sections of the {win the war. A city man buying | a. farm frequently doesn't produce PerilSeen by Uncle Sam as i i o2 maey ot 3, 48,0 cny Dwe“ers MOVe *ltee owners acquire farms for long- to Open Spaces’ term investment, or‘with the in- tention of living on a plot df land bl where they can grow part of their own food needs. Production for the market often becomes a sideline. Agricultural agents in counties where land purchases are heavier ALEXANDER R. GEORGE | AP Features Writer By V. NGTON, Feb. 17 p 16 :\;@HN( e ”1_‘ o _1{;““ who | than usual are worried about the o ¥ ' number of Chicagoans, Detroiters, |Clevelanders and dwellers of industrial centers who are buying farms. Many of these are “security seekers,” persons who they “want to have something eft after the post-war depression.” Experienced Men Retiring The agents say these purchases mean that some of the most ex- | perienced farmers are retiring | | from farming. They fear that the | production on these farms may Ibe sharply reduced. Even in cases {where the new owners would like | {to keep up production, there is the} ‘H)l‘()l)](‘m of finding managers m‘ irun the farms, not to mention the | hortage of farm labor. | | The farm-buying movement by | city people is most pronounced in other Some day youll thank a GE Sunlamp for your fine strong legs BE SURE the north. central states. .Reports YOURBABY |to the Department of Agriculture 1S GETTING ENOUGH | show that in Illinois, during the ULTRA-VIOLET | period from July 1 to November 1 last, only 51 percent of the. buyers were farmers. In the North Cen-| tral region the proportions of far- mers buying with intention to op-| erate was 59 percent. | So far, however, the increase |in the number of amateur farmers is not on a scale to imperil seri- ously the national goals of food | production. Agriculture . authorities | here point out that in the country: as a whole there was a decrease in farm sales activity in the July 1| | to November. 1 period. Volume al! land transfers was running about 10 to 15 percent below the 1941 From the time your baby is | born, be sure she gets her daily sunbath—Summer and | Winter. The ultfa-violet " in sunshine ‘will help to grow sturdy, straight bones. In these months, when Summer sun is_lacking, it's wise to use a G-E Sunlamp. A Gener- al Ele:th;ic Sunlamp is hgody —a rt exposure, every day, is all you need, THIS HANDSOME MODEL Actually G-E Sunlamps are priced at almost half what they cost a few years ago. The new, popular LM-4 lamp, | levels. illustrated, is only | Draft Boards Help $37.50 Furthermore, on a nationwide basis, farmers have been buying Come in and see tne latest modéls and we will explain |Much more land than they have to you how simple and easy they are | been selling. In the northern plains to use. See them today. Give your |region farmers have been buying | baby the daily ultra-violet she needs. | about 10 times as much land as| they have been selling, and even in the North Central region the ! ratio of buying to selling by far-! mers has been more than 2 to 1| A good deal of this has heen buy- | ing from Farm Security Adminis- tration holding companies, On. the bright side of the food production picture also is the new cooperation between Selective Ser- vice boards and county war boards | which fix crop quotas. An “cssen—l The GENERAL ELECTRIC Sunlamp aflords u lec in abundance and has & r beneficial effect to the ultra-violet: sadiation in the Summer sun. GENERAL §2 ELIECTRIC SUNLAMPS i Alaska Electric Light {to perform the civilian and war-| Inavy departments; .and during the and Power Co. Phone 6 tial farmer” now is as much en- titled to deferment from military service as an ‘“essential war work- CHANNEL MONTHLY TICKET— Juneau—Douglas 30-RIDE TICKET— Jueanu—Douglas increase his liability to draft into the Army. Rising farm incomes have been stimulating food production. Farm | prices also have been increasing | “moderately.” Average values. of! land per acre rose from an index figure of 91 last March to 95 on November 1. This compares with 8% in 1940 and a low of 73 in 1933.3 Although the value last November | was 27 percent higher than at the low point of 1933, it was 7 percent below the 1912-1914 index base and 45 percent under the 1920 peak. ——— New Economy Biotr In Congress Said | To Be Oniy Chatter| (Continued from Page One) | und of these, 1612257 were em- ployed exclusively in producing and carrying on for the war effort. That | leaves a few more than a million contingent activities of the govern-| ment. i To whittle that down to any ap-| preciable extent would be a po-, litical bull's-eye if anyone could! come near the target, hut it's al question whether anyone will seri-| ously try. In the first place, the tremen-| dous amount of government hiring about which there has been so much talk is mostly replacement. For example, Harry B. Mitchell, president of the Civil Service Cam- | mission, in outlining the increased work of his department, said: “Dur- ing the six months ending January, | 1941, the commission found about 200,000 persons for. the war .and last six months of 1942, we made slightly over a million replace- ments in- these departments. That does not mean a million mew jobs as the turnover in these days is very? large.” i In the second place, civil service employes have given such an ac- count of themselves in .all major| crises that any criticism of them would be snowed under. To cite one instance, James E. Burns, president of the American| Federation of Government Em-| ployes, recently put on the record quotes from a lately published book, “Public Plunder,” by David Loth. According to Mr. Leth, in- come tax figures showed that World War I produced 18,000 new millionaires, but not one of them was a permanent (or civil service) employe of the government. Sum it up for yourself. Anyone who has been around Washington will tell you that there are seat- warmers and brass-hats . whose heads are too big for their haloes. They're right, but until a better system is devised than civil ser- vice, it will have to do. And a good 'many members of Congress think it's so good that they are trying to lextend it—not curtail it nor find something new. size dress, even though you are a here 15, a navy blue wool shert-jac jabot. 3 By DOROTHY ROE AP Fashion Editor What is a junior miss? Strictly speaking, she’s a teen-age young- ster too old for the pinafore frocks sophisticated styles. So, in most stores throughout the land, she has inherited her own department, with | fashions designed especially to fit, her figure and her highly definite specifications. More and more, however, styl- ists have noted that mothers as well as daughters have been haunt- ing the junior miss department, finding dresses there that seemed to require fewer alterations than the standard adult sizes. Recent government revelations re- “mean woman” show that the av- erage American woman is inclined to. be short and—well—plump. In that case junior miss sizes are right lup her alley. Since they are cut islightly wider and shorter than re=- simple, sophisticated adult styles as well as the campus fashions de- ARE YOUR MEASUREMENTS HER! garding the measurements of the | | | | 4 184112 4214 If s0, you should wear a junior grandmother. The outfit pictured } ket suit with eyelet frill cuffs and | | HosprmaL NoTEs as born in St. Ann’s| morning at 11:40 i A girl baby Hospital yester of the pigtail set and too young for c'clock to Mr. and Mrs. Earl Miller. MoDowsil; dorner. of . Seventh and | The babe weighed six pounds and 11 ounces. | Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Lloyd are |the parents of a girl baby, born in |St. “Ann's Hospital on Tuesday. | i | Mrs. Tom Taylor has entered St.| | Ann’s Hospital for a surgical oper-! lation. i+, Col. Frederic H. Nichols has en- tered St. Ann’s Hospital for sur-| gEery. The following have entered St. Ann’s Hospital for medical atten- tfon: Arthur Pinkerton, George| | Mitehell, Percy Reynolds, George strength to a point where | likely. |Sitka were made today by DECISIVE DEFEATTO U. S. UNIT Refteat Is Made Across Al- gerian Border-Rom- mel Wins Victory (Continued from Page One) | | | Lab i e | the German attack succeeded in destroying the American armoped any 4 vance by a successful counter tack in -the near future IS To 'the south, Rommel's forces| are threatened by the Montgomery | forces who in a two-day dash went 45 miles and reached the| |Mareth line in the north and at| Medenine in the south. il —— ALASKA COASTAL FLIES TO SITKA | | | Two round trips from Juneau to: Alaska | Coastal Airlines, carrying passen- | gers, mail and express. Passengers | to Sitka were Jack Gucker, Leo M. Jones, Mrs. 14 M: Jones, 'Nick ‘Pet-| ers, Willlam Davis, Sr, and Roy | Swanson, | Among thbsé returhing to Ju-! neau from Sitka were Wes Barrett, | Nick Skoff, G. A. Fredriksen, and Pat_Sweeney. | | | | Past Noble Grand Club fo Meet on’ Friday Evening The Past Noble Grand Club will meet at the home of Mrs. Bert Main, on Friday evening. Club activities will be resumed after two months’ vacation. All members are urged tend. to at- Legioh ;A’u’x}liary | To Entertain with Card Party Feb. 20 | On ‘Satufday evening, February | 20, members of the American Le-| gion Auxiliary are entertaining | gular misses’ sizes, and now come in/ with a card party to which the | public is invited. The affair will be given at the I.O.O.F. Hall at 8 o'-| ¢.|clock in the evening and prizes| jand refreshments will be features. | Angel, Mrs. Ida Ojoniemi and Nor- ‘man Nelsjon. |//Mrs. John Hendrickson is in S Schedule Effective February 22 JUNEAU-DOUGLAS Juneau-Douglas Bus Fares Juneau—2-Mile Post Juneau—Lawson Creek ................. 'J. 1. PETRICH HOME " WITH INJURED WRIST © FROM FALL ON ICE BUS LINES age, and suggests that women who|ment Hospital Wi sday. LEAVE JUNEAU LEAVE DOUGLAS | find their alteration bills high try; 4 b -:d:mdfli | 6:50 a.m. 7:05, a.m. | 3. T. petrich, Deputy U. 8. Col-|their luck with junior sizes. ! CARD PARTY ‘ 7:25 a.m. 7:40 a.m. lector of Customs, has been con-| This does not mean that teen-igy t American Legion Auxiliary, 8:15 a.m. 8:40 a.m. fined to his home for several days :!g“el 3;”5 “t‘: ‘to be "eg]ef“;d"'rhcy Sat., Feb. 20, 8 pm., in Odd Fellows 10:15 am. 10:40 a.m. with an injured right wrist as the| ave their own special, youth-|pa)) Everybody welcome. Prizes| 11:48 am 11:40 am result of a fall on the ice on Sew-|{l date dresses and school clothes.|aq yefreshments. Adm. 56c, in- | ; i # ard Street last Saturday noon. But the junior miss department| . jes tax : : " ad 1:15 p.m. 1:40 p.m. Though the injury eonsists of a/has been enlarged to include also| o 2:30 p.m. 3:10 p.m. broken. bone_ and m ligaments, |styles suitable to mothers and even, S | 4:15 p.m. :40 p.m. Mr, Petrich_expects to be back in|Srandmothers who happen to have (ame S Join j 5:15 p.m. :40 p.m. the Customs’ office next Monday. “junior” size figures. | eeps 6: p.m. i | R o o One important characteristic of | i o |junior dresses is that they are In Dese" wa"are 10+ In 327 B. C, the armies of Alex- |shorter in the measurement from 4 ander the Great found great num-|neck to ewaist than regular misses P bers: of bananas being raised in \India. CLEANERS {#nn’s Hospital for surgery. manded by teensters. 1 | Miss Dorothy Anderson, execu-| Mrs. Nevo Varner is a surglcali tive director of the New York |patient at St. Ann's Hospital. | Dress Institute, reveals that today| | Kthe dress industry .regards a “jun-| |ior” dress as a size rather than an { Mrs. Mary Dick and her infant | {were discharged from the Govern- | or women’s sizes. Women who al-| WASHINGTON — Camels are ways have to have the waistline o(:i:lz:c’lg tme;{‘: pla;e Aalong _withogxgh] 8 ready-made dress raised may find | SPe€d UUcks and jeeps In modern) la perfect fit in the junioll{ de__‘desert warfare. If properly cared| | partment. |'for, says a report to the Office of This budgeted spring it is more War Information, they outlast mo- important than ever to avoid ex-|!Or vehicles b ymany years, their pensive alterations wheneve: _|average life being 18 years. Most sible, so stylists urge wome; glo:‘)“aritish camels come from the Pun- lare “hard to fit” in regular Shmunb,_lndia, and are put into actlve\. 11"0 have a whirl at the junior de_}scrvme, after special training, at the Juneau—2-Mile Post Juneau—Lawson Creek ONE WAY— Juneau—Douglas .. 25 City Limits ... 15 Juneau—2-Mile Post 20 CHILDREN—Juneau-Douglas and Way Points—10 cents partment. age of six. TIDES TOMORROW High tide—1:51 a.m. 152 feet. Low tide—T7:38 am. 23 feet. High tide—1:42 p.m., 16.8 feet. Low. tide—8:02 p.m., -12 feet. e, — All of Chile’s 24 provinces, ex- cept three, extend from the Pa- cific Ocean to the Andean boun- | “A camel can do the work of four ‘army mules, and four of the ani- | ‘'mals have the pulling strength of a' tfuck. They are far less liable to injury than a horse, a mule or even a motor truck, and can take to a lot of places no motor | could go. e Cascade Tunnel in the Cas- e Mountains in Chelan and King | cggifities, Washineton, is 7.7 miles | il length, the longest railway tun- the western hemisphere. e S ; Russian scientists have identified | more than 8,000 varieties of corn.: Relief At Last For Your Cough| Creomulsion relieves promptly be- cause it goes right to the seat of the trouble to help loosen and expel germ laden phlegm, and aid nature to soothe and heal raw, tender, in- d bronchial mucous mem= branes. Tell your druggist to sell you a bottle of Creomulsion with the un- derstanding you must like the way it quickly allays the cough or you are té have Eyour mmfi bm:§ for gulbs , Chest Colds, Fronchitis Thursdays, 10 to 10:15 P. M. 1460 K. C. We Make a Specialty v of CHOP SUEY ALSO THE BEST IN AMERICAN DISHES ' The Royal Cafe | These Prices Effective Feb. 16 BRINGING UP FATHER . 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