The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 8, 1943, Page 4

PAGEFOR 1 » Daily Alaska Empire Published every evening except Sunday by the EMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY Becond and Main Streets, Juneau, Alaska, HELEN TROY MONSEN President R. L. BERNARD Vice-President and Business Manager Emerea in the Post Otfice 1 Juneht &b Becond Class Muttér, SOPSCRIPTION BATES: % Delivered by carrier in Juneau and Douglas for 150 per month. By mail, postage paid. at the following rates: One year, in advance, $15.00; six months, in sdvanice, $7.00 oné month, In advance, $1.25. Bubscribers will confer & fayor if they will promptly notify the Businmess Office of any falluré or irregularity in the de- lvery of their papers. W Telephones: News Office, 803; Business Office, 374 MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the um for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not other- :m credited in this paper and slso the local news published ereln. ALASKA CTRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARG! THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION. NATIONAL REPRESENTATIVES — Alaska Newspapers, 1011 American Buliding, Seattle, Wash. porerkevmtl e G S AR e WISE PRECAUTION Although many of the physical standards ongl-? nally established have been lowered, the *United | States Army still is rather cautious about the men- | tal health of the men it inducts. This is in line with | a desire to reduce if possible the high proportion of | shell shock and similar cases of mental incapacitation which resulted from Army service in World War I. | Such cases cost the American pretty penny in hospitalization costs, pensions, disability payments, ! and other expenses arising from .srn'xce-connectpd; mental or nervous breakdowns. Much of this ex- pense might have been saved had the inductees of the first World War been passed through a screen- ing examination by qualified psychiatrists. But vir- tually no attention was paid, back in 1917 and 1918, to the mental and nervous stamina of the men ac- cepted for Army service The Army not making this mistake again Each of the United States Army Examining and In- | ducting Boards includes at lea one Army omc(-r] who is a competent psychiatrist, with several civilian assistants. It is their job to cull from the line of inductees and recruits those men not sufficienty stable in their mental and nervous make-up to with- | stand the strains and stresses which the average soldier must be expected to undergo. This class by no consists only of men who are *“cr: i or “near-crazy.” In greater part it is composed of men who are quite stable enough in their nervous and mental temperament for most civijian callings but who are as the the life of a soldier a is An: not, saying goes, “cut out for Some men who are rejected on this supposition nation. But for each such case there would be a' (British, the Finns where they started Diplomatic dispatches reveal that tussia has now the following peace terms: { A border between countries similar to that established 1 (Continued from Page One) by the treaty of His wife, Lee Auciincloss, gets $3.- 200 a _year. + Representative Henderson Carson, Republican, of Ohio—His wife, Ella | Cagson, is on the payroll, at $1,700 & year. Representative Norris Republican, of California—Pays h'lfi‘l)(‘)'. dayghter, Erna, a clerk, $1370 a year. counter suggestion, Representative John P. Newsome, | terms somewhat, Democrat, of Alabama—His wife, |more palatable to Lulu H. Newsome, is on the pa) roll, at $1,100 a year. . Represenfative James Gallagher, Republican, of Pennsylvania—Pays | his son, James Gallagher, Jr, a clexk, 81,250 a year. .:Representative Thomas Gordon, 5 certain land, particularly | Russia of which vital have been | different from both. after the Russo-Finnish war, from which Russia emerged victorious. The Russians political changes {ment of a government friendly to | This would definitely ex- Poulson, clude both Mannerheim and Tan- American observers may make a | The suggestion is that two points importance to the since the 1940 settlement, should be returned to Finland. inumbel’ of others in which a useful citizen would be 'ruined by being turned into a valueless soldier and a probable ward of the veterans’ administration for the rest of his life. Where an incipient mental dis- |order exists in an individual, of course, Army service (wowd tend to accelerate its development. ‘\ The statistics on such rejections, | secret. But, according to an article in the current ilssuc of the Psychiatry Journal, they vary with age |groups from a low of about 49 per thousand among ‘;(he 18-19-year-olds to as high as 635 per thHousand |among the men of 44 and 45. This is one thing the {Army meant when it said that it needed the younger men rather than the older. The older ones show the effect of life's mental stresses just as they show physical wear and tear COMPARISON | The following item might well be a 1943 criti- ielsm of the overstuffed bureaus which the Federal government has sowed far and wide: “He has erected a multitude of New Offices and sent thither swarms of Officers to harass our Peo- ple, and eat out their substance.” This isn't an Alaskan's criticism of the OPA. It was contained in a document drawn up in 1776, |ate today. The early hours are fa-! referring to the King of Britain. The document listed on Declaration of Independence. is books the as the (New York Times) Philadelphia’s sociation of merchant tailors has been discussing a subject of public concern. OPA has forbidden double-breasted suits to be accom- panied with a vest. Let the prohibition be removed, the merchant tailors say. In the woids of their chairman, “a gentleman needs a vest.” And he has | needed and worn it for centuries. Originally it was | a loose coat or robe. Pepys speaks of the vest of Charles II as “a long casso It has became the short, sleeveless garment we know. Not so long ago | dainty-lipped Americans insisted on calling it “waist- coat The short word for the short thing won. There have been regiments of vests, figured ('m-; broidered, striped, flowered, plaited, buttoned to the chin, left open, collared, collarless, doubt-breasted, single-breasted, of silk, of satin, lapeled and un- | lapeled, matching the coat, matching the trousers, Our great-grandfathers used | to get married in peach-colored, in plum-colc.ed coats. In old daguerreotypes you can still tcace the ! faded splendor of their vests. The vest is good old | American wear. Those four vest-pockets are handy for many | uses. If the left wrist has abstracted the watch, | these safe-deposit boxes are good to hold currency, | cigars, cigarettes, tickets and, as the Philadelphia merchant tailors suggest, the growing crop of ration cards. value to the vest this winter. It is needed to keep the wearer warm 1 his own house or flat. He may not have, he probably hasn't, the support of electric heaters, gas grates, gas stoves. Now more than ever he depends friend Our. heart goes out without puzzlement. to Philadelphia, yet Is the company of vests for- not bidden to double-breasted suits alone? Is a single- | Methods of evading obligations and | friendliness, association. breasted suit entitled to a vest? Surely OPA can be no friend of such discrimination. Why then do |C2reful surveys are made, astrol- | increase our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Today’s word: might, it is true, be among the best soldiers of the | {he Philadelphia tailors especially bewail the orphan- |ogers predict. Hoarding will luke}ACUTE: having nice discernment; penetrating; clever. “He alone is age of the double-breasted suit? are right back | These are: (1) Viborg, a city northwest of Leningrad, now shot | | to pieces, of no earthly use to the offered Finland | Russians, mental attachments to the Finns. (2) Hango, an island in the en- | trance to the Gulf of Finland, de- | scribed as ‘“the cork to Helsinki,” and which, if held by any foreign power, would bottle up the Capital of Finland U. S. officials believe the Finns will have to retreat from their al- most fantastic belief that they are emerging victorious from this war. If much move time passes without a settlement, the Russians will be free to resume the war with PFin- land, and to take what they want. So a settlement is better now. This is the theory being pressed upon the Finns by the U. S. Gov- ernment, which has offered its “good offices” for peace. (Copyright, 1943, by United Fea- ture Syndicate, Inc.) the two | 1940. This was also demand in Fin- the establish- modifying these to make them Finland Finns, held by Ru Democrat, of Illinois—Has a daugh- ter, Romona, on the payroll, at| $1000 a year. 1 NOTE: Other stories giving the score in the game of nepotism will follow. ACROSS . Deep track . Long handle . Soft drink . Metal-bearing compound . Four-base hit . Finial Tease . Transgression . One indefi- nitely . Declare . Smooth and glossy Lubricated Logatfon . Compound ether Southiern state Playing cards SPANISH DAGGER AT U. S. BACK Here is the lowdown on the visit of Franco’s special representative, ex-Spanish Foreign Minister Beig- beder, to this country. Franco's regular representative, Ambassador Juan Cardenas, has been sending him what he wanted to hear, rather than the truth about the way the American peo- ple have put their hearts into the war.” Cardenas had emphasized the elash of personalities and ineffici- ency of war production which get into the headlines but is not the| general rule | When U. S officials learned of this, they conceived the idea of bringing a special Franco envoy to the US.A. to get the real picture Actuglly it was the War Depart ment, not the State Department which hatched the inspiration and which is taking him on a tour of | war plants and Army posts to drink in the real spirit of the war effort. | NOTE: Many high-up official bere believe Franco is an oppor- tunist who, regardless of pledg will jump which ever way he sees the war going in the spring. He eould, if he wished, plunge a dagge into the back of U. S. forces in North Africa. Beigbeder has a bac ground of friendship for the U cd States 7/ 2 ] i FINLAND'S DEFEAT After some two years of dreary fighting against the Russians and N7/4dn NEEEN/ d fl= W/ddn " | aEm HER/ <40 /ddlN il i JENEN NNk [C]ATR] [8) PLHNIE] IDis ”mammn ntral part Family of kings ged imple- ment . Salamanders 2. Retinue of wive Horse of a cer- tain gait Fruit of the gourd family . And: French Ignited Lack-of power Mountain in Alaska Lioved weakly £ [R] INISTUIRE] [CIR[E[T[=ge S| TINE]S[S] Solution Of Saturday’s Puzzle DOWN . List . Observation of the heavens . Number il add N N 7 . Little tyke x .\lavia 4 sue- césstul putt Mohammedan: noble: variant Héad covering ntrude Spanish eoln . English painter . Garden flower Stories Lower part of the ear 7/l . Iustrument for making minute measure- ments . Flower 30. Young horses Sit straddle 34. See p ecure Oug . Sweet drink Place’ where the currént runs fast . English poet and’ hymn writer . Plani of & town site 4] | i T PIT] e Operatic heroine Top t:il the o4 4 English river Present time African hemp' AP Feature like those con- | {cerning rejections for physical reasons, are a military | MARCH 8 Estella Draper Stanley Nowicka Lola LaPaugh F. W. Matheson Henry G. Johnson Mrs. S. F. Freeman Phillip Levinson Hazel T. Martin Lol "HOROSCOPE [} “The stars incline . | but do not compel” i g | Tuesday, March 9 | Benefic aspects strongly domin- | vorable to executives in civil and | military affairs. It is an auspicious date for signing contracts or agree- |ments of any sort. | HEART AND HOME: Women are under a most fortunate config- luration which seems to - presage| public recognition and honors for many. It is a lucky day for wives and mothers who await letters fmm'1 those whom they love. Girls should seek employment or promotions un- ider this direction of the stars which is also encouraging for love affairs | Where romance is concerned the seers warn that ill omens anend‘ persons who do not adhere to long| established social laws. After the| war strong. reactionary influences will be prevalent and again mar-’ riage will be held as a sacred in-| stitution, although divorces will b!‘; numerous. | BUSINESS AFFAIRS: Agricul-| ture is to focus even more atten-| tion *than usual, it is forecast.| Shortage of manpower will be less; serious. than in 1842, because Gov- ernment agencies will find means of providing farm hands. Food ra-| tioning will add interest in plans| for the season in which the United States must provide great stores of produce to feed starving Euro- peans and Asiatics as well as th‘-{ millions of the nation. Again the| There is aipther and a more momentous |seers prophesy that in the future| © !great tracts of land will be culti- 'vated as in Russia. | NATIONAL ISSUES: While this| is the people’s war, so far as the upon the help ‘of his trusty boscmiumted States is concerned, there | 1, ples), and not a-tak-ted will be evidence that a privileged |class has evolved, despite all efforts | to' equalize sacrifice and service | responsibilities will be discovered as| (on novel aspects. Black markets| |will operate although it will be| |impossible for them to flourish for| any length of time. | INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS:| China which has been harassed ! but with strong . senti- | frough the Winter should benefit| lin' June when permanent aid is indicated. The first of this year |should be most encouraging in war effort, but political or diplomatic | negotiations may continue unsatis- |factory until midsummer. In the | Spring of 1944, when Jupiter will be i nation will be rewarded for its long, | terrible struggle under almost in- | superable obstacles. Persons whose birthdate it is have the augury of a year of novel iexperiences which include unusual |employment. Love affairs will pros- { per. Children born on this day prob- |ably will be independent and re- |sourceful. They should be exceed- ingly intelligent and able to win | great success. ; (Copyright, | i3 o 1943 % ) s FOR '43 GARDENS | “Not only are those residents of |the Gastineau Channel area who have ground to lease or donate to others for the raising of Victory Gardens this summer, asked to register with the Juneau Garden Club,” Mrs. Wellman, Holbrook said today, “but, also all those who have ground which they intend to util- ize themselves.” . Such registration will be of bene- fit to the gardeners themselves; Mrs. Holbrook stressed, - since it , is planned . that the University of Al- aska . Extension Division will fur- nish helpful directive bulletins to all those registering. In addition the Federal govern- ment has asked that the survey be made of all available garden plots |m every te and territory for the purpose of determining the appro- ximate yield to be expected from 1943 Victory Gardens, and t6 en- sure that every available bit of ground be put to use. > $25 REWARD For information leading to the ar- rest and conviction of the party or parties_who broke into my cabin at the end of Eagle River Road and stole tools and other articles. adv. FRED JACOBSON. H —— e | NOTICE ’ | That T will not be responsible for any debts—only those contracted lby myself. ady OSCAR TILSON. sextile to the radical Sun, the brave | | 120 YEARS AGO from THE EMPIRE MARCH 8, 1923 In honor of the Alaska Legislature, Governor and Mrs. Scott C. Bone | were to hold a public reception from 9 until 12 o'clock at the Governor's |House the following night. Following the reception there was to be dancing until midnight. Legislators and their wives were to be in the | receiving line and Mrs. Bone was to be assisted by the wives of Federal |and Territorial officials and a number of young ladies. } The freighter Cordova was due in Juneau the following day with six days’ mail from the States. W. O. Marx, United Sttaes Commissioner at Teller, had been frozen to death on an unmarked trail between Teller and Ear Mountain, 25 miles :Irom Teller .according to word received. He was returning from a pros- | petcing trip with John Reed when they became separated in a blizzard. |Reed narrowly escaped death, falling over a 400-foot precipice. He | managed to continue to Teller where he organized a search party for | Marx. An invitation to President Harding to visit Alaska during the coming ar was passed as a resolution by the House of Representatives. The solution was introduced by H. R. Shepard and passed unanimously. i L Committees appointed to have charge of the cabaret dance to be |given by the Juneau Fire Department as a benefit for the Playground and Baseball Park were: Decorations, Metcalf, Chairman; Schombel, Lav- :enik‘ W. Beaudin, Parmakof, Brown, Healas, Hughes and McKinnon. Publicity and Entertainment, Gary, Chairman; Sides, King, Colburn, |Adams and George. Floor, Fry, Chairman; Lucas, Casey, Helgesen, Fremming, Sweeney, E. Beaudin, Melsnes, Cleveland and Woodard. Dr. Robert Simpson, who was taken ill while on a business trip to | Portighd, Oregon, had recovered and expected to leave for Juneau in about ten days, word received from him stated H. L. Faulkner was to be toastmaster at a banquet to be given in honor of Col. James G. Steese in the Arcade Cafe in the evening. Hosts were a group of local business men and other guests included Gov. Scott C. Bone and Capt. P. A. Agnew, Disbursing Officer of the Alaska Road Commission. Col. Steese, Gov. Bone, M. L. Merritt and B. D. Stewart were scheduled to give talks. Attending the banquet, in addition to the guests and speakers named were to be E. J. White, W. G. Johnson, Gunnar Blomgren, L. H. Metzgar, I. Goldstein, Charles Goldstein, J. J. Connors, W. E. Britt, W. S. Pullen, C. G. Warner, J. C. McBride, E. E. Smith, H. J. Fisher, Henry Roden, Allen Shattuck, W. E. Nowell, J. F. Mullen, C. W. Cheatam, A. J. Ficken, S. Hellenthal, L. D. Henderson, H. R. VanderLeest, Roy Rutherford, M. B. Summers and John W. Troy. i | | Weather was increasingly cloudy and warmer. was.33 and minimum was 30. Maximum temperature ; Daily Lessons in English 2 W. L. GORDON WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “The men approached the governor for clemenc, Say, “APPEALED TO (or, PETITIONED) the governor for clemency.” OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Attacked. Pronounce a-takt (two syl- OFTEN MISSPELLED: Conspiracy; Cy, not SY. SYNONYMS: Fellowship, companionship, comradeship, friendship, WORD STUDY: “Use a word three times and it is yours.” Let us an acute observer who can observe minutely without being observed.”— Lavater. s o MODERN ETIQUETTE * roprrra LEE Q. What are the chief requisites of a good conversationalist? A. Tt has been said, “The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit. Q. Ts “Yours very truly” an appropriate close for a friendly letter? A. No. “Yours very truly” is a formal close, used in business. Q. When you have been dining avith a friend, and your hostess has no maid, is it all right for you to help her clean off the table, stack dishes, gather crumbs, and the like? A. It is not well to do this unless the hostess has asked you, or |you happen to be a very intimate friend. o e e e e i LOOK and LEARN ¥ ¢ wornox —— e 1. What is the average height of the American soldier? 2. Who control most of the wealth in the United States, men or women? & 3. Who was the youngest man ever appointed to the Supreme Court? 4. Which State in the Union is named for its founder? 5. Whose portrait appears on the new United States $25 War Bond? ANSWERS: 5 feet, 8 inches. Women. Joseph Story, appointed in 1811 at the age of 32. Pennsylvania. George Washington’s. .. Respite From Jap-Slapping IT'S NOT all fighting on Guadalcanal, although it is a very ncti\:e battle area. Here is a movie being shown in front of the chaplain’s tent and it was an event. The movie was “All Through the Night,” with Peter Lorre and Humphrey Bogart in the leading roles MONDAY, MARCH 8, 1943 DIRECTORY i Sociotes Gastineau Channel 1 s MOUNT JUNEAU LODGE NO. 147 SECOND and FOURTH Monday of each month in Scottish Rite Temple F reeburger beginning at 7:30 p. m. DENTISTS JOHN J. FARGHER, Blomgren Building Phone Worshipful Master; JAMES W. e LEIVERS, Secretary. 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. Drs. Kaser and Dr. A. W. Stewart PIGGLY WIGGLY For BETTER Groceries Dr. John H. Geyer DENTIST Room $—Valentine Bidg PHONE 762 ROBERT SIMPSON,Opt.D. Graduate Los Angeles College of Optometry and Opthalmology Glasses Fitted Lenses Ground "The Rexall Store” Your Reliable Pharmacists BUTLER-MAURO DRUG CO. The Charles W. Carter Mortuary Fourth and Frankiin Sts. PHONE 138 B oy HARRY RACE Druggist Marlin Singledge Razor Blades 18 for 25¢ FIRST AID HEADQUARTERS FOR ABUSED HAIR Parker Herbex Treatments Will Correct Hair Problems Sigrid’s “The Store for Men” | SABIN’S Front St.—Triangle Bldg. You'll Find Food Finer and Service More Complete at THE BARANOF COFFEE SHOP FINE Watch and Jewelry Repalring at very reasonable rates Paul Bloedhorn 8. FRANKLIN STREET RCA Victor Radios and RECORDS JUNEAU MELODY HOUSE Next to Juneau Drug: Co. Beward Street Phone 6 INSURANCE Shattuck Agency Jones-Sievens Shop LADIES’—MISSES’ READY-TO-WEAR Seward Street Near Third 1 B — JAMES C. COOPER C.P.A. Business Counselor COOPER BUILDING — L. C. Bmith and Corona TYPEWRITERS Bold and Serviced by J. B. Burford & Co. “Our Doorstep Is Worn by Batisfied Customers” DR. H. VANCE OSTEOPATH Consultation and examination free. Hours 10 to 13; 1 to 5; 7 to 8:00 by appointment. Gastineau Hotel Anmex South Franklin St. Phone 177 CALIFORNIA Grobery and Meat Market | 478—PHONES—371 High Quality Foods at , Moderate Prices “Say It With Flowers” but “SAY IT WITH OURS|” Juneau Florists Phone 311 H. S. GRAVES “The Clothing Man” HOME OF HART SCHAFFNER & MARX CLOTHING [ ZORIC | SYSTEM CLEANING Phone 15 Alaska Laundry Rice & Ahlers Co. Plumbing—Oil Burners Heating Phone 34 Sheet Metal JUNEAU - YOUNG Hardware Company PAINTS—OIL—GLASS Bheif and Heavy Hardware Guns and Ammunition E.E.STENDER For Expert Radio Service TELEPHONE BLUE 429 ® Perfect comfort ® Centrally located ® Splendid food and service ® Large Rooms— all with Bath ALASKANS LIKE THE 7 WASHINGTON CALL AN OWL Phone 63 Stand Opposite Coliseum Theatre 1891—O0ver Half a Centfury of Banking—1943 The B.M.Behrends Bank Oldest Bank in Alaska COMMERCIAL SAVINGS