The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 18, 1943, Page 4

Daily Alaska Empire HELEN TROY MONSEN President ..Lm 'Immutlndmm ek S -um in the Post Office in .Yllll‘l ll wd Class Matter. SUBSCRIPTION Delivered by esrrier in Juneau and DM! lw $1.50 .nl' th. Br Illlln paid, at the followins postage One year, in sdvance, $18. sne month, in advance, $1.35. Subscribers will confer a favor if they will promptly notify Sbe Business Office of any fallure or irregularity im the de- livery of their papers. Telephones: News Office, 602; Business Office, 374. o Associated Press is exclusively entitied to the use for l.\lhllfltbl of all news dispatches credited to It or mot other- | m"lu in this paper and also the local news published ALASEA CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION. NATIONAL REPRESENTATIVES — Alasks Newspapers, 1011 Wmerican Building, Seattle, Wash. THE FACTS In the boom year of 1929, the national income of the United States—the consumer income—hit the | amazing high of $81 billion. This year, Economic Director James F. Byrnes predicts it will rise to something over $115 béllion, next year it may exceed $125 billion. He estimates that $15 billion of amount will be taken away by Federal, state and local taxes, $25 billion will go into savings. We will then have about $85 billion left to spend for civilian goods. But owing to curtailment of civilian production for home consumption, goods and services, available to meet consumer demand will not exceed the $70 billion mark. This means that if measures now being taken to restrict our purchasing power and our purchasing habits are not successful, we will find ourselves in a position of attempting to buy $70 billion worth of goods and services with $85 billion. It means that if these measures are not successful, if prices are not kept under control, we will be paying $85 billion for $70 billion worth of goods and services. . In addition, it could also mean that the usual $25 billion which has been earmarked as savings might also be thrown into any frantic efforts to out- hid and outsmart each other for this $70 billion worth of goods and services. It would simply mean t all would be plainly gypped. Those with enough money to get a part of the this latter L available' supply would be paying many times the value. Those without enough money would get "x -fllfill‘ = ld'lnu. $7.80; |nothing. It would be inflation | It is indeed a remarkable thing that in the Ter- Iritory of Alaska, and a creditable thing for Alaskaus, |that inflationary tendencies have net been especially | noticeable. | In the States, however, selfish persons have blindly invited inflation in by disregarding any and all attempts by the government to keep this unde- |sirable and disastrous condition chained. X Government officials, themselves, have been re- sponsible for some of this blind buying, racketeecs for some, selfish civilians for all, in the final analysis. | War Production Board Donald Nelson inexpertly | blatted out the other day that clothing might have ‘zo be rationed at some future date. Result? Where wholesalers once took retailers to dinner, vice versa, “and retail clothing shops were all but stripped in |some cities. A whispering. campaign about shoes worked |nround Alaska. We know of one mother who now |has 15 pairs for one daughter, of many persons who |have stocked up with several extra pair. | These things happen and rationing is forced | Then comes the black market, the illegal trade that has accounted for 40 percent of the meat supply m Cleveland, given racketeers $2,500,000 weekly in New York, taken 20 percent of the livestock slaughtered lin the whole United States. | And this “meatlegged” flesh sold for from 10 per- cent to 200 percent above normal prices. If it keeps up, horsemeat will be selling for that. . 1 We have an enormous increase in our national income, and we can't take it. | High wages is not the main reason for the in- {crease. The answer is that many more people are employed than ever before in our history. The “one- third of a nation” is no longer ill-clothed, ill-housed land ill-fed, at least not in comparison to 1933. The United States is fighting a war. It hasn't |the time and ability to throw manpower and re- sources into production for civilian consumption to | balance that which war is tipping along with the aid of the selfish. Americans acting like normal human beings can still remain the best fed, best clothed and best shel- |tered individuals on earth. But Americans acting anti-socially, without regard for their neighbors, ;can change all this in time. ! For Less Wish-’l‘hinking | 1 The Berlin radio has broadcast a dispatch say- |ing that Japanese shipyards are planning construc- | tion of a large number of Chinese junks for use in| Asiatic waters. Optimistic “observers” in New York said this indicated Japan is beginning to feel the pinch of a | shipping shortage and that Japan lacks shipbuilding facilities. We don't think it indicates anything of the kind It indicates that Japan is using every resource she has and doesn't insist on using steel freighters for a job sailing boats can do. Sailing vessels—and junks are sail boats running up to 1,000 tons—always carried a large part of Japan’s coastal traffic.c The Japs used schooners and small launches in their advance on the small islands north of Australia last summer. Let's make sure we are using every seaworthy hoat we have before we sneer at the Japs for build- ing junks. ‘ 1 Committee. | Washinglon ito a friend: | ministration A ;or abuse in the newspapers on la- “(Continued from Page One) |bor bills. But thi ccmed > story. But Lodge. said Army-Navy | offl were afraid the Educatlml; and Labor Committee . would , re- port the bill favorably, then it| FRANK KN Later Senator Thomas confided | “I've been an ‘ad- wheelhorse |vears, and have had to take a lot |xs the payoff as far as I ‘am convE Around the Navy, back from a 22,000-mile = flight through Pacific areas .and . an- nounced that we were supreme in that ocean, the Navy admitted that a serious sea and air battle was launched by the Japs to rétake the Solomons. It looks as if the Japs almost |'waited to,synchronize their attacks | with Frank's statements. for 10| is double-dealing 0X’S JINX they figure | MERRY-GO-ROUND would reach the Senate and might | pass. ____THOMAS BLOWS UP Hearing this, mild - mannered Senawr Elbert Thomas of Utah| interrupted angrily. Thomas 15; ranking member of the MmmrylY~ Affajrs Committee, also chairman | of the Education and Labor Com- mittee. “In other words” he said to Ladge, “they told you that the bill must be transferred to this com- | mittee, and taken out of my hands, | ,hnm when it comes to public rela- 1tlons. Though the Secretary of the that Frank Knox has the jinx on When Col. Melvin E. Gillette of the Army Signal Corps asked Hol- |Navy has spent his life as. a news- [lywood producers to cooperate in ! paperman, and should be an expert | making more training films, Harry |told by foreign seers. Warner of Warner' Brothers held back until the Army apologized for investigating the training films pro- | duced by Col. Darryl Zanuck and | 20th Century-Fox. Real fact is jon public relations, it is his luck |to say the wrong thing at the worst It isn't his fault. It's the jinx. Who would have foreseen, for| of producing all training films, not merely those of one company . . Assistant Secretary of State Adolf Berle, who studied Greek and La- tin at Harvard when he was still came out on' the streets with an | |article by Frank Knox, “We Can Win on Both. Oceans,” the Japs iwould put eight battleships out of |commission at Pearl Harbor and instance, that just as a magazine | that the Army investigated the cost | 50 it can be crushed?” in knee breeches, recently was the _Lodge made no attempt to deny | hen, this, Senator “Happy” Chandler of | _ o Just 85 fpracucally paralyze us in one ocear, Frank Knox got subject of a series of caustic pro- Kentucky broke in to say that Eco-| 3 nomic Stabilizer James Byrnes, was mapipulating against the Bill back- stage, and had telephoned Chand- | Ter. { There was so much commotion in the next few minutes that those presént; can’t remember all the de- talls. But for the first time in his 10-year career in the Senate, placid Senhtor Thomas blew up. He began with some sulphurous comments on the executive branch of govern- metit - “dictating” to Congress and | eided with a scorching philippic on | the hlunders of Army and Navy | proturement officials in providing equipment for the armed forces. “I have always been faithful to .Army and Navy and have car-| riad ‘the ball for them on impor- tapt war measures, including the dépendents’ alloment bill,” the Utah | Senator “stormed. | ACROSS 1. Finish 4. Backs 8. College dance 12. Female deer 13. 8kip 14, Talk enthu- siastically 18, Serpent 16. Morbid res- pira £0! lfiIn‘q Death notice 18. Highest point 20. Hop stem Smooth 3. 11. Horse of a ce: taih galt . Luzon tribe STAR LOBBYIST BYRNES hat especially irked him was that he wasn't even consulted about | administration plans, but had to| be jnformed- by Republican Lodge. “Somebody at least could have| chiled me up and told me what was going; on,” he exploded. “After all, T’ chairman of the committee that has been handling the bill.” Lodge was disturbed by the out- burt, later phoned Byrnes, urged | him to placate Thomas. Byrnes called Thomas’ office several times, but couldn’t reach him. The Sta- bilization Boss also was on the phone most of the morning of the day the Senate voted on the “transfer” resoluticn, whipping Democrat Senators into line to smother the “New Deal” Bill in the anti-New Deal Military Affairs | 3 [HIAIMINSIPIRIAIGINAR M) E]RIANREIRIO|SIE BESIUIE | flll’i _.J’Wll_illl S| 1IN Yl ‘unmmm l& Marine fllh 32, smnn round 1, llur‘ cnnlln 34. Making or fitnllnl: suf- 3 sge ted The southwest wind ibllant sound o E 1B/l PME O TN CIA/CHNTIA ORI TE| AINTINEPlODE NI T 1o WAl SE WIE DI IO Solution Of Yesterday's Puzzle 54, Pinch DOWN 65. Baholds Kind of cheese Organ of scent Express. dia- approval of - Comio or b With lull (nm- 1rlbu103? m perforated designs Perplexing qQuestion . Fanatical . Sheeplike Measure of 6. Poverty Distress signal tron saint at On ‘fl-‘ highest 3 )lvl’ch‘ndlu Beat Gushing utter- atices . Bound #Ind measure et . . Edged tools . Fish sauce Eeca, b; subterfuge Goud::nu of 48, Barks shrilly FEBRUARY 18 Violet . Johnson Mrs. Carl Wilson Mrs, William Maier Martin Munson Paul F. Schnee G. H. Skinner Irving Lange Dorothy Tomlinson — e HOROSCOPE “The stars incline but do not com Friday, February 19 Good and adverse aspects are active today, but their influences are mild. It is a favorable date for making plans regarding exports. HEART AND HOME: Severe food rationing will be accepted with cheerful patriotism which prevents all faultfinding, astrologers fore- cast. Pioneer dishes will be revived and, like the English, we shall de- pend a great deal upon potatoes, long neglected by women desirous of avoiding unnecessary weight. Meat will be more plentiful next month, it is predicted, but sales may be surprisingly small owing to recent vegetarian diets. This should {be a fairly fortunate sway for mar- I keting. BUSINESS AFFAIRS: Although/| clothiers and dealers in women’s wear may find less demand for at- tire that is fairly costly, barbers and beauty operators will profit. The |stars are read as stimulating the| desire in men and women to keep well-groo and physically fit. | Contrast between living conditions | | necessary for war workers and men‘ |in uniform with their former luxur- | |ious environments will emphasize! the value of care of the body. Ex- | | posure to weather of all vmeues\ ;and extreme fatigue will cause: {many changes in the faces of young |men and women. | | NATIONAL ISSUES: Again in-| equalities in the war service given by men and women of the nation| will arouse criticism. Lists of the |kiled and wounded in the war will| |emphasize the safety and security! of Government employes and others | who have been fortunate in obtain- Iing protection from dangers in the jworld conflict. Nurses, soldiers and sailors who perform deeds of splen-{ did heroism represent the best spirit | {of the nation which should have| |little patience with slackers, the| |seers emphasize. Events in the Spring are to arouse citizens of the | United States to supreme effort and | the meaning of being in an all- out- conflict will be before. | INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS: President Roosevelt is subject to {aspects that presage problems of | extreme . importance and his de-| {cisions will arouse criticism, it is| | forecast. Because of censorship the’ | public will form erroneous opin- ions and Congress will be antagon- istic. Evil portents for next month are, discerned. Desperate crises will be met by the Axis forces and they | will bring about barbaric methods | of warfare. The use of gas is fore- | Persons whose birthdate it is have |the augury of a year of average |good fortune, Writing, travel and cangemal associates will be enjoyed |by many young men. Children born on this day pro-| bably will be interested in science. Inventors as well as artists belong {to this sign. (Copyright, 1943) |files in the New Yorker. State Department associates say: “We're having it translated into Latin so he can read it.” (Copyright, 1943 by United Fea- ture Syndicate, .Inec.). iMen War Workers Spruce Up for Girls MCcKEESPORT, Pa.—The urge of | var workers, who now find them- women in many plants, to spruce up is having a complicating erlect on the family budget. The Public Health. Nursing As- sociation, in reporting on the ef- fect of wartime employment in mill town homes, says the men are dressing more neatly. Wives tell visiting nurses their husbands are taking more time to clean their grime-stained hands, and that takes more soap. Instead of two clean shirts a week, now they want three or four. They | don’t like to wear torn or patched clothing on the job, either. ® And so the wives have to spend more money on the husband upw keep division of the budget. - realized as never |’ selyes working side by side with |, 20 YEARS AGO oy EMPIRE FEBRUARY 18, 1923 First of a series of four dances to be given by the Southeast Alaska Shrine Club was to take place in the Elks' Club Ballroom on February 22, Washington's Birthday. The affair was to be informal but all Shriners were requested to wear the fez. Dancing was to begin at 9:30 o'clock with music furnished by the Coliseum Orchestra. Tests of various kinds of Alaska timber had been started by the U. S. Forest Service laboratories at Madison, Wisconsin, according to word received by the local Forest Service office, Varieties of timber to be tested included Sitka spruce, white fir, Alaska cedar, western red cedar, cottonwood and hemlock. James P. Daly, Representative from the Second Division, member of former Territorial Legislatures and Clerk of the previous House of Rep- resentatives, arrived in Juneau from Seattle where he had been since early in the fall. Proposed construction of a pulp plant at Seward had been blocked by an intimation of a refusal by the Federal Power Commission to grant a license for the water power project on Kenai River, according to word received. The undertaking was being promoted by Frank L. Ballaine, of Seward, who had been notified by the commission that, on account of a protest entered by the Bureau of Fisheries, no license was to be granted. The Moose members planned to get back at their wives and sweet- hearts February 23, by giving them an entertainment, complete with refreshments, to make up for the many parties arranged and given by the women in the past. Chorus girls, musical comedy stars, “ham” actors, n' everything were to be seen for two consecutive nights on the stage of the Coliseum Theatre when “A Night Off” was presented under the auspices of the American Legion. Chief funmakers in “A Night Off" were to be P. W. M. Colburn, George E. Mann, Donald Haley, Charles Westlake, Legia Kashe- varoff, Rose McLaughlin, Mrs. Frances Beaudin, Mrs. C. Westlake, Claude Helgesen, Leroy Nolan and Mrs. Lois Cleveland. Two former Juneau girls, Madolyne and Maxine Roselle, received mention in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer for dancing features they had presenteg at an entertainment put on by the Young Ladies’ Institute at Knights of Columbus Hall in Seattle. Weather was snowy with a maximum temperature of 38 and a mini- mum of 36. Daily Lessons in English % 1. corpon B e e WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “He is stopping at the Slade Hotel.” Say, “He is STAYING at the Slade Hotel.” OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Address. Accent second syllable, the first. OFTEN MISSPELLED: Breath (noun). SYNONYMS: Arbitration, adjustment, tlement. 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: REQUISITE (adjective); required by the nature of things; necessary. “Every work of art should contain within itself all that is requisite for its own comprehension.”—Poe. MODERN ETIQUETTE * opgrra Lee Q. not Breathe (verb). agreement, compromise, set- Isn't it poor taste for the friends of a newly-married couple to | make them conspicuous in public by attaching placards to their car and performing such so-called jokes? A. Yes. This is not only very bad taste, but often vulgar. Mar- riage is too sacred to be made a public jest by self-appointed clowns. Q. . Shouldn't a maid, when serving at the table, serve at the left of the guest and remove at the right? A. Noj; both serving and removing should be done from the left. . Q. When a young man takes two' girls to the theatre, is it all right for him to sit between them? i A. Yes, unless there is an aisle seat. next to the aisle. LOOK and LEARN Then he should of course sit C. GORDON : b fective? 2. What United States city has a ten-lettered name which contains only three different ietters of the alphabet? 3. What poet’s works are generally conceded to be the most widely read in the world? In what year did Prohibition in the United States become ef- 4. Who became ruler of England after the execution of Charles I? 5. Why are some trees called deciduous? ANSWERS: 1. 1920. 2. Walla Walla, Wash. 3. Omar Khayyam's “The Rubaiyat.” 4. Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658). 5. Because their leaves fall off at maturity or at certain seasons. Mud vSl'oyws Guadalcanal Moves CARD OF THANKS We wish to thank the many thoughtful - friends and neighbors for their kindness and words aof, sympathy shown us in the loss of brother, Isaac Niemi, also for the beautiful floral offerings. OSCAR NIEMI AND FAMILY adv. e ek The growing of fiver flax, io meet wartime needs, is a rapidly expanding industry in Oregon. 3 flfll}ll lN IOVING supplies toward uu nmt )tna ml Gludd canal, these "Army trucks encounter mud and Plenty of .it, slowing their progress. Army units have relieved the Marine garrison, i THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1943 DIRECTOR Frotraa] Socto Gastineau Chcmml Drs. Kaser and Freeburger DENTISTS Dr. A. W. Stewart DENTIST, 20TH CENTURY BUILDING Office Phone 469 Dr. John H. Geyer DENTIST Room 9—Valentine Bldg PHONE 762 ROBERT SIMPSON,Opt.D. Graduate Los Angeles College of Optometry and Opthalmology QGlasses Fitted Lenses Ground The Charles W. Carter Mortuary * Pourth and Frankiin Sts. PHONE 136 FIRST AID HEADQUARTERS FOR ABUSED HAIR Parker Herbex Treatments Will Correct Halr Problems Sigrid’s Jones-Stevens Shop LADIES’—MISSES’ READY-TO-WEAR Beward Street Near Third JAMES C. COOPER C.P.A. Business Counselor COOPER BUILDING L. C. Smith and Corona TYPEWRITERS Bold and Serviced by J. B. Burford & Co. “Our Doorstep Is Worn by Batisfied Customers” DR. H. VANCE OBTEOPATH Consultation and examination tree. Hours 10 to 13; 1 to 5; 7 to 8:00 by appointment. Gastineau Hotel Anmex South Franklin St. Phone 177 “Say It With Flowers” but “SAY IT WITH OURSI” Juneau Florists | Phone 311 Rice & Ahlers Co. Plumbing—0il Burners Heating Phone 34 Sheet Metal JUNEAU - YOUNG Hardware Company PAINTS—OIL—GLASS Shelf and Heavy Hardware Guns and Ammunition Gy 5o T CALL AN OWL Phone 63 Stand Opposite Coliseum ‘Fheatre MOUNT JUNEAU LODGE NO. 147 SECOND and FOURTH Monday of each month in Scottish Rite Temple beginning at 7:30 p. m. JOHN J. FARGHER, Blomgren Building Phone 56 Worshipful Master; JAMES W, L.EIVERS Secretary. 4 B. P. 0. ELKS Meets every Wednesday at 8 P. M, Visiting Brothers wel- come. ARTHUR ADAMS, Ex- alted Ruler, M. H. SIDES, Sec- retary. PIGELY WIGGLY For BETTER Groceries Phome 18—3 *The Rexall Store” Your Reliable Pharmacists BUTLER-MAURO DRUG CO. HARRY RACE Druggist “The Squibb Store” “The Store for Men” SABIN’S Front St.—Triangle Bldg. You'll Find Food Finer and Bervice More Complete at THE BARANOF COFFEE SHOP FINE Watch and Jewelry Repairing at very reasonable rates Paul Bloedhorn S. FRANKLIN STREET RCA Victor Radios and RECORDS JUNEAU MELODY HOUSE Next to Juneau Drug Co. Beward Street Phone & INSURANCE Shattuck Agency CALIFORNIA Grocery and Meat Market 478—PHONES—371 High Quality Foods at Moderate Prices H. S. GRAVES “The Clothing Man” HOME OF HART SCHAFFNER & MARX CLOTHING SYSTEM CLEANING Phone 15 Alaska Laundry ZORIC I I E.E. 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