The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 25, 1944, Page 4

PAGE FOUR y Alaska Empire Dail Published every evening except Sunday by the EMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY Second and Main Streets, Juneau, Alaska. CELEN TROY MONSEN - = - - - Presidenmt Entered in the Post Office in Juneau as Second Class Matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATE| Dou for $1.50 per month. Jelivered by earrier in Junesu and By mi id, st the following rates: six months, in advance, $7.80; , POStAGS DAl One year, in advance, $15.00; one month. in advance, $1.50. Bubscribers 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 ASSGCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not other- wise credited in this paper and also the local news published berein. NATIONAL REPRESENTATIVES — Alaska Newspapers, 1411 Fourth Avenue Bldg., Seattle, Wash. THE GERMANS ARE LICKED In a military sense the war with Germany already has been won. At sea, on land, in the air—the Nazis are defeated. No possibility remains of a recapture of the initiative, so that the defensive which they are maintaining can be nothing but wasteful. In the air the Nazi condition is worst. Bombers are thinning out rapidly, and if in fighters the Germans are still strong, these machines cannot do more than retard | the pitiless rain of destruction which is pouring through the roof of Hitler's fortress. At the present | rate of bombing the time will come in a matter of | months when urban Germany will be reduced to the status of swamp-men which in Hitler’s vocabulary | belongs to the Russians. The prospect is inescapable. And the Nazi hierarchy must be aware of it. They are | too logical to be victims of the hallucination with which Goering charged the British after Dunkirk. The British, he said, were beaten, and didn’t know it. Nor can the militarists be under any illusions. For it was their teacher, Clausevitz, who said that the fact that a combatant has to go on the defensive is in itself a demonstration that his forces will be inade- | quate for defense. The Germans are licked, and well they know it. Why, then, do they not throw up their hands? History shows that the German commander loses stomach for the sword.when defeat is inevitable. He is anxious only to live and plan to fight another day, when a new crganization has been built up. As Tacitus puts it; “The Princes fight for victory; for the Prince his followers fight” Thus the maintenance | of the will-to-war on the part of the nation as a whole flouts the German tradition. It used to be a theory, in accounting for this phenomenon, that the German command is sustained by the hope of an accident. An accident from its standpoint would be a breakup from some personal or political cause of the Big Three. But it is our guess that at least the Nazis have arrived at a state of irresponsibility Kashington "e'". ’ MEN OF P Here is the lineup: Harry Delton, chief of the rayon | branch, is Vice President of Viscose. T. Rhodes, o-Round (Conunuea irom Page One) | Oliver the high-tenacity (separate from th had been charging blimps for nearly |is an official of Viscose. two-thirds more food than they re-| §l-a-year man, re ceived. In other words, two-thirds | of the food leaving the galley fox" the blimps got ‘lost” before n"rmm Du Pont. a reached the blimps. ,high-uznacny One healthy Lakehurst to this column’s expose came from| WPB in Washing the enlisted men. been sore about the waste of food,| William Garris War Production Board. rayon They had all|Pont offices in Wilmington. They are no longer interested in the fate of Germany, but are thinking only of their own skins. In other words, so long as they retain any power, they will keep on fighting in the hills and in the forests, even though Germany in the meantime may have disappeared as a habitable, let alone as an organized, state. It was Goebbels who said “We will either conquer the world, or, if we have to go out, we will slam the door so hard the universe will collapse.” What Is Discrimination? (Alaska Weekly) On December 24 we ran an editorial entitled “Rank Discrimination” in which we discussed the travel control regulations and mail censorship im- posed upon Alaska which we then considered, and still consider, to be just that —Rank Discrimination. We receive a letter from General S. B. Buckner, Jr., commenting on that editorial in which we were informed, among other things, of his regret that our paper was being used to stir up ill feeling between Alaskang and their defenders and that enemy pro- pagandists were doing everything possible to encourage such publications as ours We are also indebted to General Buckner for the information that the editorial did not represent the | feelings of the patriotic Alaskans among whom he lives. If the general is correct in that statement it is obvious that in our daily contact with traveling Alaskans whe have been meeting a lot of the wrong sort of people who have gravely misled us as to their feelings. The editorial under discussion closed with the following : ; “If General Buckner can offer anything other than such generalities as are applicable to the entire Pacific Coast in justification for stringent travel con- | slight effect upon the stock markef Economy in the maintenance of | Government will be of general con-i trol and for censorship of Alaska mail, Alaskans would like to have, and are entitled to have the benefit of his knowledge. “Insofar as any informed Alaskan knows, no part of the Territory this side of the Aleutians ranks as a combat area in any larger measure than do the States of the Pacific Coast, and the treatment accorded, therefore, constitutes rank discrimination.” The United States has expended some $22,000,000 at the British Columbia port of Prince Rupert in the building of a supply depot from which the bulk of the army supplies for Alaska are shipped. Travel to Prince Rupert is unrestricted except for the ordinary re-f quirements of immigration laws. Fifty miles farther north at Ketchikan, where no such installation exists, one stands in line while the husky lads with the big MP on the sleeve, decide whether or not one is a fit person to be allowed ashore. { There is one small misstatement in the above, for | it applies only to Americans. Canadian citizens en- route to Skagway, for example, may go ashore at Ketchikan or Juneau at will, while Americans cool | their heels and await the examination of their papers | and the whim of the officer in charge of the Port.| If that does not come under the heading of dis- crimination we shall have to appeal to the General| for a new definition of the word. | | The Alaskan War Council was apopinted by the | | Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces of the | United States for the purpose of coperating with the Alaska Defense Command in the defense of the | Territory and more particularly in the handling of | matters involving public acceptance and cooperation.i So far as we have been able to ascertain, this body |good communications, | but THE FEBRUARY 25 Mrs. Clara Ludwig W. R. Sprague Harry Simms Mrs. Carl Floridan Jirdes Winther sigurd Walidtedt George T. Matheson M. F. Cook P e ) ) { HOROSCOPE | “The stars incline but do not compel” b ottt i SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 26 Benefic and malefic aspects con- flict today. The morning hours are gun at other times. HEART AND HOME: Women planetary influences. These should oe auspicious for 2 learned professions. The day is lucky for weddings and presages vorce. BUSINESS AFFAIRS: and war issues will be widely dis- cussed in Congress but will bave cern but will be preached rather! than practiced. ! NATIONAL ISSUES: Increase of | major crimes in American cities is foretold and reforms in munici management will be emphatically | advocated | INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS:| Switzerland has preserved her neu-| trality through two world wars but | postwar difficulties are As the depository of much Nazi| wealth the country will be a place| Grave diplomatic problems of ex-| tradition may thus be created. Persons whose birthdate it is have| the augury of a year of varied ex-| periences. 1In spite of some un- pleasantness good fortune will dom-| inate. | Children born on this day will| probably undergo many vicissitudes | their careers hold unusual} promises. | (Copyright, 1944) MERRY-GO-ROUND | Ed Stetinius says the Soviet| forces have been able’ to maintain, partly be- fayorable for completing work be-‘ DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE— | are under stimulating and inspiring | presaged. | in of refuge for defeated Axis flihters.inon, FEBRUARY 25, 1924 It was generally believed by well-posted observers in Washington | that little legislation other than departmental supply and the tax revision 'By the present Congress, according to George A. Parks, head of the Alaska Field Division, U. S. General Land !omce. who had just returned from a 30-day stay in the national measure were to be acted on capital. Recent telegraphic dispatches received by The Empire from ‘Wash- ington said that Senator LaFollette had introduced a resolution inquir- ing into the handling of naval coal reserves in Alaska by the Department of the Interior. N. F. Gilkey, former store manager for the Treadwell Company, who had been here on business for three weeks, left for Seattle. W. W. Batcheller, local merchandise broker, left on the Alaska for Ketchikan on a business trip. Mrs. Peter Carlson and daughter Winifred, who had been absent from Juneau for nearly a year, returned the previous day. Mr. and Mrs. B. L. Holbrook, of Thane, returned here after an ] engaged in the [absence of a few weeks in Seattle. The Junior Prom was planned to be held at the Elks' Hall soon long partnership unbroken by di-|.nq members of the Junior Class included Raymond Bell, President; Jackson Rice, Vice-President: Elsie Pademeister, Secretary; John Halm, mmwli‘rances Harland, Ruth Krugness, Della Lundstrom, Dora Lundstrom, Virginia Metzgar, Albert Orsen, Arthur Peterson, Clayton Polley, John +.| Rundall, Dorothy Stearns, George White and Etolin Campen. Weather report: High, 35; low, 33; cloudy. P Daily Lessons in English % ., corpon et e e et e et i i} WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “Jane’s living room is different than yours.” Say, “is different FROM yours.” OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Fugitive. Pronounse fu-ji-tiv, U as UNIT, both I's as in IT, accent first syllable. OFTEN MISSPELLED: Valid; one L., Pallid; two L's. SYNONYMS: Oration, address, speech, sermon, discourse, disserta- WORD STUDY: “Use a word three times and it is your Let us increase our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. “Today's word: EXPEDIENT; fit or proper under the circumstances. “It is expedient for you that I go away.’—John, 16:7. | MODERN ETIQUETTE ** qomerra Lem c— P et it e et e} Q. In what way can one overcome the embarrassing habit of | saying the wrong thing or saying something at the wrong time? A. Try to remember not to “talk until you think.” If you can get into this habit you will not be placed in embarrassing situations. Q. Is it all right to word a wedding invitation so that it reads is unanimous in its condemnation of continuing either | cause we have sent them 189,000| “Request the pleasure of your company”? travel control or censorship other than as concerns the Aleutian chain. One more comment on General Buckner's letter: The General said, “If the attitude of the Russian people in backing military measures had been similar to that reflected in your editorial, T fear that our war | would, by this time, have been lost.” Our only thought iin that connection, aside from the obvious unfairness of the statement, is that if the American attitude concerning the exercise of dictatorial power was that of the Russians we would be fools to be fighting a war. “ There is no question that these |two companies lead the field in RAYON |6t & { | production of synthetic textiles, and no question that the men they have lent to the Government are high- class experts. But there is a big question whether these men can act in the interest of the nation while still in the hire of companies which consultant of rayon branch e rayon branch) He is a ceiving his prin- cipal income from Viscose. | present and post-war position in Theodore R. Milne, $1-a-year man the industry. ctually runs the| Inventor Kohorn claims branch, ton and the Du £8t merely a pilot plant to test his theories. It yow looks, after eighty nominal | trips to Washington, as though he on is man-hours and otlier materials, but | head of the branch but, as a former might get one couldn’t do much about it until their Rutgers officers led the way tion. WPB'S RAYON WOES | s University lofficer, he is less versed In the bloc is beginning to revive its clamor|ducting gardening schools in each technical problems of rayon produc- 0 us¢ cotton instead of rayon in Of the cities in this area. administrative| NOTE — Meanwhile, the cotton tires. i A hot row has been smouldering inside the War Production Boara over high-tenacity rayon, which Rubber Director Bradley Dewey | says is holding up production of | synthetic tires. | The rayon being produced under | the WPB program is inadequate | both in quality and quantity. The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. com- | plains it is not even usable, and is| rejecting much of it for subsequent ACROSS 1. Public notices 5. Unclose: poetle Evergreen tree ed container Prosperity use in ladies’ handbags. . Exact likeness Leading a crusade against the) % l'hs’“‘.ll',f'é'c g A ot is' 23 Froma WPB's faltering rayon program is R ioe a Czech-born U. S. citizen named Oscar Kohorn, the man who tirsli brought rayon to America. It was Kohorn who taught the German I.| G. Farben Company to make rayon | twenty years ago, and he- has also set up rayon planis all over the| world ! As, of last week, Kohorn had“ made the trip from New York to Washington eighty times, trying to| give , WPB's high-tenacity rayon branch the benefit of his experience. However, most of the $l-a-year men inside WPB’s rayon division come from the rayon industry, and it is charged by some that they do not want new processes or new companies to take the war-boom business which they have allocated to their own companies. . Entrance . Dappled . Tardy . Tally’ . Behold 2 Salutation 2 §fifi- Crossword Puzzle ‘Throng Uncooked el o< o eI e . 38, Shrill cries . Irrigate 41. Weapons Wise Men from the East . Scale Third man In the ring Owns 9. Old-womanish . Masculine name . Tropical bird Itpeter . Brownie Number College songs Dow Figure out: . Merry 1. In a line slang Star-shaped Stop progress by lack of wind . Watchful . Ore deposit . Mineral spring Gaseous . Leave Excited Portend Combustion 21. Companion . Toward the left side of » . Soelal unt . Propels oneself G V 5| W Government rayon contracts call for production at the rate of 200 million pounds annually by the end of this year. Most of this rush| business has been passed around to a few big firms, more than half going to Viscose Company of Am-| erica, and another large chunk to| E. 1. du Pont de Nemours Co. Of-| ficials of these two companies are among the key rayon men in the Bk R in water . Violently and noisily . Modest . General fight . Informal con. versation arrow road ‘eremony Tkworm . Not hard Nothing are concerned about theirDemocratic candidate for the Ter-| there |from the ballot in order to devote and are new processes for high-tenacity|full time to dutfes entailed in his reaction | shuttles back and forth between the Yayon and has been clamoring to!Rew position as Assistant in Food Production with the University of | field telephones and over 670,000 the world 27 times * Equally | | impressive is the quantity of ba wire lend-leased to the Sovie 1216000 miles of it. “It is signific- |ant,” says Stettinius, “that after the |fall of 1942, the Soviet Army stop- |ped asking for barbed wire in large |quantitieés. It’s the Nazis who need |barbed wire now.” | (Copyright, 1944, by United | . Feature Syndicate, Inc.) 1= ' WITHDRAWN NAME ' FROM ELECTION | W. R. “Ted” Carter of Sitka, ritorial House of Representatives,| {announced today he has withdrawn |Alaska Extension Service. { Carter was appointed to the post |by the University last week and will {work in Southeastern Alaska, con- | He wili leave Juneau for Ketchi- kan next week to begin lecture tours inhat will take him to Wrangell, Petersburg, Juneau and Douglas, Skagway, Haines and Sitka. - - PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPHY | Have a portrait artist take your i picture. Hamersley Studio. Opposite Federal Building. Phone 294. ady. i KINY PROGRAM SCHEDULE e - . . Saturday 12:00 - Personal Album. 12:15—Song Parade. 12:30—Bert’s-Alaska Federal News. 12:45—Musical Bon Bons. 1:00—Spotlight Bands. 1:15—Melody Roundup. 1:30—All Time Hit Parade. f 1:45—G. 1. Jive. 2:00—News Rebroadcast 2:15—Harry James. 2:30—Boston Symphony. 3:30—Alaska Evangelization 3:45—Marching Along. 4:00—News Rebroadcast 4:15—Sports Interview. 4:30—Program Resume. 4:45—Vesper Service. 5:00—News Rebroadcast. 5:15—Pre-Sabbath Program 5:30—Afternoon Musicale 5:45—Behind the Headlines, 6:30—Easy Listening. : 'lOOK and LEARN ¥ ¢ corpon 6:45-—Coca Cola Show 7:00—Talking Drums. 7:15 -Standard Oil News. 7:30—Fibber McGee and Molly 8:00--Hits of Today. 8:15--Fred Waring. 8:30—Hit Parade, 9:00—National Barn Dance 9:15—National Barn Dance.s 9:30—Capitol Three. 9:45—Alaska Line News 10:00—Sigu Off, A. No; the correct phrasing 1s “request the honor of your pres- | miles of wire—enough to go around | ence.” Is it necessary to thank a servant each time a dish is passed when Q. jhone is a dinner guest? A." No; it’is not expected nor neecssary. e e PUSEESHUS ST A 4 S aaand _ 1. How much sooner can an aviator who is 10,000 feet in the air, see a sunrise than a man on the ground? 2. Is a pearl a stone? 3 3. What are the two State capitals on the Mississippi River? 4. Which bird is the most affectionate? 5. What is the seaport that is at the Mediterranean end of the Suez Canal? ANSWERS: 1. About ten minutes. 2. No; it is a dense, shelly, lustrous concretion. 3. St. Paul, Minn., and Baton Rogue, La. 4. The male cardinal which cannot be separated from its mate only by death or captivity. 5. Port Said. A. V. ROFF as a paid-up subscriber to THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE is invited to present this coupon this evening at the box office of the— CAPITOL THEATRE and receive TWO TICKETS to see: “JUNIOR ARMY" edgn;l Tax—6¢ per Person . S WATCH THIS SPACE—Your Name May Appea: DEPOSITS IN THIS BANK ARE INSURED DR.E. H. KASER DENTIST BLOMGREN BUILDING Phone 56 HOURS: 9 A. M. to 5 P. M. 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. 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