The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 12, 1943, Page 4

- PAGE FOUR Daily Alaska Empire Published every evening except Sunday by the EMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY Becond and Main Streets, Juneau, Alasks. HELEN TROY MONSEN - - = = R L. BERNARD - - Vice-President and Business Imos'. a generation, perfecting her equipment,. perfect- ing her battle plan A | We're not going to wait that long; we dont have |to. But we must hew to the line, carefully and craftily, if our attacks against the mainland of Japan |are to be successful. President | Entered in the Post Office in Juneau as Second Class Matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Dalivered by earrler in Juu- and Douglas for §1.68 per month. y mail, postage pa the following ra Orie year. in advance 3151507 ex month, 1n advance, $1.0; | While the United States is engaged in a fight oné month, In advance, $1.28. Bubscribers will confer a favor if they will promptly potity | for its life, and the Government becomes more and the Business Office of way failure or irregularity, i the de- | more concerned about a shortage of manpower— uu?fl:‘pntonr::l: p):e‘:n Oftice, nz Business Office, 374 | —Painters* unions in various cities impose re- strictions on the use of sprayguns, in order to slow MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS = A {down jobs The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to use. for i 4 b Blon retires: Sint republication of all news dispatches credited to. 1t of Bot others | A local of the teamsters' union requ wise credited in this paper and also the local news published | every truck entering the New York metropolitan |area have a local driver in addition to 'the driver Berein, already employed, —~Engineers on many fast passenger trains work lonl\ ten calendar days a month, for which they re- NATIONAL REPRESENTATIVES — Alaska Newspapers, 1011 ‘wm’ 48 “basic days’ American Bullding, Seattle, Wash. -In various cities the electrical union requires that if any temporary light or power is to be used on a construction job there must be a full-time maintenance electrician who shall not be permitted to do any construction work. ~In some cases plumbing unions install pre- fabricated piping only if the thread is cut off at one end of the pipe and new thread is cut at the job site. «—In Chicago employers cannot bring in truek | cement mixers unless they hire extra men to stand jaround and watch —In many theatres a | must be employed even in plays where there is no {change of scenery. ! These are typical “featherbed” restrictions ‘Thcxc are many thousands like them. In the pres- |ent search for manpower nobody is doing anything | about them. PLANS | P fer RS | | | (New York Times) et ALASKA CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION. “full crew” of scene shifters | MAKING Demands continue to pile up in many sections Farmers’ Fine Record for a quick and decisive move against Japan. The VT A appearance of Madame Chiang Kai-shek in Wash- | o (Cincinnati Enquirer) : gt r >, More ington has pointed many of those demands, particu»‘m Al_llo ‘flelr‘: ;::’?:f;%flcl; q;z l’l‘::‘ h‘rlv). l::f&:b‘lim com- larly those from the Western States. v R < : | panies' records, are paid up to date, both as to in- It now is apparent that the United States, China, | terest ‘and principal. | and possibly Russia have in operation a battle plan against Japan. The Japanese themselves have|gone with the money borrowed by the farmers. A warned their nationals against it. Mr. Roosevelt, in capeful study. shows that probably most of this money his conference with Madame Chiang, referred to it.|went to buy more land. Some of it was borrowed It calls for attacks from the Chinese mainland; for |to clean up an accumulation of old debts; some for | a.short supply route to Central China. new houses and barns; some. to send children through i..Buch attacks cannot be launched too quickly; |college—it went for all kinds of purposes, most. of | they must not begin beforg everything is in readiness. | them eminently sound and praiseworthy. Apparently Economists find it interesting to know what was Toeo much haste would serve the enemy as well 2‘dnot even, a minor fraction of it was lost in Wall’ too. much delay. There was much unrest and ,,m,w[sueet speculation. That portion which was spent demands for action before the start of the African campaign, but few observers now think it could have been .started in advance of the date set. Much preparation must be made before we . can successfully attack, Tokyo from whatever point we choose. During the months we are preparing, Japan too can prepare. She can consolidate her tremen- dous South Pacific gains; she can strengthen her | home defenses and ber outposts in Manchuria and | dlong the Chinese coasts. i tageous rounding .out of property by an ambitiots |and' successtul man: that which was spent in im- provements was not wasted, for the new houses, spent to clean up old debts, ‘there may have been the question—if the borrower ran in debt before, may not the same causes operate to produce new debts? The farm mortgage situation is at this time in vastly better shape than it was years ago. A better | method of handling the mortgages in default has .. These are among the dangers we face. But to ['been worked out. The delinquent borrower no longer rush in before our own plans are complete—before |is forced to the wall. And if one compares the we bave been able to establish bases better than | Fecord of 70 percent of farm mortgages in perfectly filo&e of the Jap; before we perfect our lines: of.;sup- | §00d shape with the record of the New York Stock Pl)’ and. get men, materials, and equipment in tre _Exc'hnnge ;n&us[;‘lal Securé“:':' h‘:: ggnl:::(::z"o;s :]E - in favor o he former. ertal y Em;::‘;fll]mms 950 QU Ritacilcly DDV HEgE, ol securities of the exchange did not come through with- #3 Critics of our delay point to the fact {)]fll e e & There has been such a hullabaloo raised over Brise was an important feature of the Japanese at- | ine plight of the farmer that it is not amiss to study facks. against the United States. That’s true; the attack came swiftly. and without warning. But it | didn't come before Japan was ready for it; it came btfore we were ready. Nippon had labored for al- his troubles, yet for the greater part he has been able to make, in the most trying circumstances, a | highly commendahle showing. |the cheering prediction that about eighteen months—or by June, |only one month before Batavia, the 1943-—there would be enough rub- |capital, fell. ber to provide new automobile tires | Also on February 3, 1942, Jesse {15 the_ public. stated: that 90,000 tons:of synthetic | ‘We rate now within only a few |rubber would be produced by ‘monlhs of June, 1943, and Mr;, Jef- |end of 1942, In:contrast, Mr. Jef- fers’ bas just warned the nation f€rs has now announced that not v mm not until March, 1944, would & Pound of synthetic rubber came Pearl. Harbor, though, it referred | !'we begin to see daylight on rubber. |{rom a government plant through 0, ‘action . allegedly taken before | Again on. February 3, 1942, Jones ‘Janunry. 1943. Rearl Harbor, And the. reason 1t ouimictically. informed. the - house | e ajpazed . Jones' cabinet colleagues, banking. -committee that . we would | REASON FOR THE FAILURE Whectbab.actually in May, 1941, he'be getting “all the rubbc: we need- Reason for this failure was. first hads authorized capacity nol {Or|eq grom the Dutch. East-Indies by [the fact that.the rubber factories o060 tos, buk for the mere drib- | ng end of 1943 despite the present |urged by Stettinius and Schram 1ebs0l20,000 tons. {threat to that area.” This. was at & nearly two years before, were not <Fhe :four .copolymer plants = he iy ot authorized . before - Pearl Harbor | | e 'mm Jags Blready g had built. Makigg synthetic rubber | is mn Planned with the uudustand- ing. that each would design a 10, i 000=ton.. plant; but that actually | eguipment :for; a capacity of only ! 2500 tons would be installed in each plant. In. other words, the' 5 four plants, operating at 2,500 tons| . gagh, would net the nation the meagre total of 10,000 tons—against | g peed in 1941 which had already risen 1o .over: 700,000 tons and which { Berpie: Baruch -estimated should be | lmm tons in. 1044. i Pearl Harhor. approached -and | dapangse menace. which ;Secre- Hull, and President Roosevelt ‘had ‘mentioned: in .cab- ' wupqms icreased -in ‘tension, Jojes, gradually -began. to. wake up. | ehed the .four -rubber,, come | 10« dlsmurd their previous | , 012500 tonis capacity and go- up Yo _oon each. } (Continued from Page One) T [T ANOE] 1ol IACIO[PE] EITUITITEIRED| AlSTTT IMETRIA NERIDIMAN wn;qm [PIAIR] JAINIU] ACHOSS Chart Grates Away . . American 34. Newi fing state: al br . Failure to buy oft or remove an obligation TRatan Con?aumc . Ofie,of an early 29 Spapping beetle 1-rag 40. Institute suit - Break ‘witheut warning Right time Qrvaeason: T 0. Réli hl ons 4& gt mietial 22 Wi q ,I\u(?umem. Ao . On'ifie: surimit Siitatioh . Flextle paim stem: variaht . Sangaric tree . 6. Compassion- ately. Soft food Hasty lunch Mountain nymphs Flowerless plant Me J AF‘I’ER PEARL HARBOR But all these things, plus the genial Jesse’s complacency, de- | layed the program so that ground ' for only three rubber factories! was. broken , before . Pearl Harbor | and one afterwards. Even after Pearl Harbor, Mr. ng Worthless dog- Inmost part W flflll. i1 1 7 eets of glass | | i HEART AND HOME:Women to- | |ance of the stars. They should be |uable war service. It is a time for | which there is opportunity to prove |ington dictates in buying more land usually resulted in the advan- | | barns and .drains are still there; as for the money ! the record which shows, though . the farmer has had | in ;landed in: part of the islands, and/| THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU ALASKA B MARCH 12 H. L. Arnold Severin Swanson LeRoy Vestal Beverly Diane Edwards | R. M. Stevenson Mrs. L. R. Phillips Mrs. Irene Delanue Mrs, P. E. Anderson | H. F. Bassett | - HOROSCOPE | “The stars incline [ but do not compel” MARCH 12, 1923 | Educational matters were taken up at a meeting of, the Teumoual Board of Education which convened in the office of Gov. Scott C. Bone at 2 o'clock, when estimates for the Territorial school system, the ap- pointment of the Commissioner of Education for a two-year term and | the Alaska Agricultural College and School of Mines were included in the | subjects to be discussed. - Everything was to be green, except the hostS, guests and musicians {at Moose Hall at the St. Patrick’s Day dance to be given at Moose Hall by the Mooseheart Legion the following night. Elaborate decorations and a particularly attractive arrangement of small tables in the banquet room { were to add to the novelty of the affair. C. A. Townsend, inspector of the Bureau of Fisheries, with head- quarters at Fairbanks, was a Juneau visitor, returning to the Interior from a trip to the East Coast. Saturday, March 13 { This is not an important day In planetary government. Lajcr is un-| der a threatening sign which <Aems‘ to presage some form of drastic leg- islation. | | | cay are most fortunate ir the guid- stimulated to many forms of val- informal hospitalities in home that real enjoyment dovs not de-| pend upon costly emerminmem.} Accompanying simpler social cus- toms will be a retnrn to old-time dignities in which modern famil- iarities are discarded. Whatever is| artifjcial will be replaced with na- tural courtesy, it is foretold. Again respect and reverence among rela- tives and friends will become prev-| alent. | BUSINESS AFFAIRS: Merchan-! dising and manufacturing will| reach new volumes. Retail shops will acquire alluring stocks of goods and fair profits will be general.. Women will spend more than Wash- | for spring ward-; robes which wéll be marked by picturesque and extremely = fem-, inine modes in sharp contrast lo‘ the many uniforms worn in war, work. Banks and bankers will ben-| {efit by certain international agree- | ments. NATIONAL ISSUES: Congres-| sional criticism and investigation |will give comfort to the enemy alll through the Spring, but they will | clarify. many understandings. Un- jder this configuration the President may resent unjust interpretations; of his official acts. The stars seem | to presage confusion and perplex- |ities in Washington. Mastory of the | submarine menace will bring com- fort to our nation which sends| cargoes this month to Europe andl Asia. i INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS Mars. rising may intensify poh-:’ tical feuds in India, which is des-| tined to play a decisive part in com- | ing .war policies. Jupiter in the fourth house favors agriculture and the mining industry will be suc- cessful through the Summer when | shortages will be relieved. Religious differences among the people will reach unusual expression. IIl omens are many for coming months. Persons whose birthdate it fortune in domestic affairs but busi- iness troubles may be disturbing. Changes are indicated. Children born on this day prob- |sess outstanding. literary or ar- tistic talents. (Copyright, 1943) a difficult prooess It requires trlal Stettinius urged that the plants be built early. «Second reason. was continued pro- erastination. Despite pptimistic statements immediately after Pearl ment’s butadiene plants was begun by June 1, 1942 Roughly _ three- fourths of the program was mh begun until after June, six months | after Pearl Harbor. This was also true of Jesse's n 5] ditional copolymer plants. Threl- fourths of them were begun after June, 1942. .Mfest; of them actually did " not. -get. started .untll around Septemhu\' nine.months 'after Pearl tia‘rbor—uy whith, time. the Baruch ture. Symflufie “Inc.) GUILD SPONSORS 8 PATRICK TEA | to proceed. j woman rise? is! | have the augury of a year of good; the | lably will he exceedingly clever in! the use of the hands and may pos- | and experimentation. That was whyl Harbor, actual - construction work | on' only: one-fourth of the Govern- | Jones continued his easy optimism Zmbellish On. January 13, when our military seaders had reported to the Cabinet | shat the Philippines and the Dutch East Indies probably could not be | held, Jesse estimated that with sate And prudenge the nation could | get along on_ about 450,000 tons of | rubber, a year for both war and | civilian purposes. | Reminded that the 1941 con-| gumption had-been 750,000 tons, he pointed -out that the pr fig- ure was only 600,000 tons.and that the halt ‘on manufacturing auto- | mobiles would reduce the civilian demand for tires. He also mad« 7 ;n. JEEE, JENE Sober . Highly satisfied or pleased Mathematical functions al wunit Month: abbr. 5. Drive away Introductory About, Be. victoripus Shoulders of & road Faiher of Davia . Shor piece Ancignt Irish capital Boblin Couch , iglish states- wan 6. At odds AP Features The, public is cordially invited to the annual St. Patrick Tea, to be beld temorrow afternoon from 2 to 6 o'clock in Trinity Hall under the sponsorship of the Junior Guild. | . Members of the Guild who have n asked to pour are Mesdames E. Rice, M. O. Johnson, W. W. Council, James C. Ryan, Floyd Fa-| gerion, Robert: Rice, Victor Py and Helen Smith Cass., X Guild members will assist in serv- ing: during the afternoon under. the H. W. Irvine, former Douglas cable operator, left early in the morn- ing on the Admiral Rogers for Sitka where he had been transferred !for duty. His family was to join him as soon as a daughter, Inie, had | recovered from tonsilitis. Little Miss George, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wallis George, arrived in the world at 11:45 the night of March 10. The little girl weighed mg,ht pounds according to Dr. H. C. DeVighne, attending physician. “Everybody out,” was the call of Fire Chief J. L. Gray for the meet- ing to be held the following night at 7:30 o'clock in the Council Cham- bers, City Hall. Purpose of the meeting was to organize a baseball league for the coming season. The local firemen were sponsoring the sport and making every effort to get the city baseball park and playgrounds in shape for summer. They wanted everyone in Juneau interested in the work and in baseball to attend the meeting. Work of completion of+the Auk Bay road, Glacier Highway, was to commence as soon as the snow melted sufficiently to allow operations Weather was fair with a maximum temperature of 37 and a mini- mum of 34. Daily Lessons in English % 1. corpon WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, Say, “He came but once.’ OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Gum arabic. Pronounce second word ar-a-bik, first A as in AT, second A as in ASK unstressed, not as in ATE, and accent first syllable, not the second. OFTEN MISSPELLED: Petticoat. Observe the I, not PETTYCOAT. SYNONYMS: Kindred, kinship, relatives, relationship, ancestors, | ancestry. 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: FALSITY; that which is false; a lie. (Pronounce the A as in ALL). “Men often swallow falsities for truth."—Sir T. Browne. MODERN ETIQUETTE * ¢osprra i Q. Isn't it wrong for a person to thrust words of condolence upon you when this person knows that you would prefer not to discuss your sorrow? A. Yes. As Rosseau says, “Consolation indiscreetly pressed upon us, when we are suffering from affliction, only serves to increase our pain, and to fender our grief more poignant.” Q. When a young woman is seated at a table of a public dining room and another woman stops to chat for a minute, should the young “He didn't come but once.” Not unless the woman who stops is elderly. How long should a bride remain at her wedding reception? Not longer than two hours. | & 1 | world? 2. What is the difference between common law and statutory law? | 3. What famous aviator was piloting the plane in which Will Rogers was killed? 4. } 5. What are the three most thickly populated sections of the In what city is the famous Smithsonian Institute? In English money, what is a “bob”? ANSWERS: 1. Eastern United States, Western Europe, and China. 2. Common law is unwritten law, while statutory law depends upon statutes. 3. Wiley Post. 4. Washington, D. C. 5. A slnng term for “shilling.” EDUCATION 'ROBERT §, SANFORD, U. 5. BUREAU MINES mi L ENGINEER, ON TRIP Robert S. Sanford, District En- 1943 SESSION ‘gmeer for the United States Bureau ‘Members of the Territorial Board | of Mines for the Alaska District, of . Education. passed . a ruolut.ion'left yesterday for the south on his of appreciation to Dr. James C. way to Rolla, Missouri, Central Re- Ryan, Commissioner of Education, |gional office for the U. S. Bureau at the final session of the Board of Mines, where he will' attend®a yesterday- afternoon. They further | conference. . resolved _that it be recommended Matters to be djscussed include to the legislature that the salury the wurk already done in Alaska by of the Commissioner of Educnuon‘the Bureau and plans for comtinu- be $6,000. |ing the present projects as well as' The Board met yesterday at 3: 30| detalls for work during the cummg' o'clock at which time all unfin-| season. | ished business was concluded, the| Mr. Sanford will be away for minutes had their final reading|several weeks and may continue to and the resolution regarding the Washington, D. C. during his ab- Commissioner’s conduct of office sence. and - proposed increase —of salary = A. W. Erickson, Field Engineer nual meeting was adjourned. fol- | the Juneay headquarters from Ka- lowing the passage of a resolution saan Peninsula where he has been was passed. At 4:30 p. m, the an- for the Bureau of Mines is now in|— that the time and place of the next meeting be set by the Presi- dent of the Board and the Commis- sioner of Education. The resolution of appreciation to Dr.:Ryan follows: “The Board is highly appreciative of the efficient and competent man- r|mer in which the present Commis- n.oner of Education, Dr. James C. Ryan, has administered the affairs direction of Mrs. Lucretia Dnts- ford, zemrnl chAh'xmn > - BUY WAR BONDS solved, that the Territorial Board of Education recommend to the Legislature that the salary of the Commissioner of Education be in- creased Lo $6,000.” of his office and be it further re- | engaged in work for some time. 1 In the Juneau office during Mr./ Sanford's absence is Marvin L. Nel- son, Clerk in Charge. - e NOTICE TO SCOTTISH RITE MASONS: Regular meeting Friday evening, 7:30. Installation, balloting and re- freshments. Visiting members cordi- ally invited. WALTER, B. HEISEL, v -, .Secretary. —————————— .One out of every five persons in the world lives in India. adv. 20 YEARS AGO P Empire i DIRECTORY Fratoraal Sociaie wennunmu Phone 56 Dr. A. W. Stewart DENTIST 20TH CENTURY BUILDING Office Phone 469 Dr. John H. Geyer DENTIST Room 9—Valentine Bidg PHONE 762 ROBERT SIMPSON,0pt.D. Graduate Los Angeles College of Optometry and Opthalmology Glasses Pitted Lenses Ground The Charles W. Carter Mortuary Fourth and Franklin 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 Seward 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 Satisfled Customers” DR. H. VANCE OSTEOPATH Consultation and examination free. Hours 10 to 13; 1 to &; 7 to 8:00 by appointment. Gastinesu Hotel Anmex South Pranklin St. Phone 177 “Say It With Flowers” but “SAY IT WITH OURSI” Juneau Florists Phone 311 Rice & Ahlers Co. Plumbing—Oil Burners Heating Phone 34 Sheet Metal JUNEAU - YOUNG Hardware Company Shelf and Heavy Hardware Guns and Ammunition "Guy Smuh—Drugs 18 CRERM CALL AN OWL Phone 63 Stand Opposite Coliseum Theatre FRIDAY MARCH IZ 1943 Professional 1 Gastineau Channel 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, Worshipful Master; JAMES w. LEIVERS, Secretary. B. P. 0. ELKS PIGGLY WIGGLY For BETTER Groceries Pheme 18—34 "The Rexall Store” Your Relisble Pharmacists BUTLER-MAURO DRUG CO. S ———— HARRY RACE Druggist Marlin Singledge Razor Blades 18 for 25¢ “The Store for Men” SABIN’S Front St.—Triangle Bidg. | You'll Find Food Finer gnd Bervice More Complete at THE BARANOF COFFEE SHOP FINE Watch and Jewelry Repairing at very reasonable rates Paul Bloedhorn S. 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