The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 11, 1944, Page 4

PAGE FOUR Daily Alaska Empire Published every evening except Sunday by the EMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY Second and Main Btreets, Junesu, Alasks. CELEN TROY MONSEN - closed gradually. If this could have been done, the men could probably have been placed in an orderly manner without any mass unemployment.” Again the word “mass.” Now this statement is opinion. In our release no person or group was quoted. It would have appeared, therefore, that this was The Empire’s opinion to our readers. And it did not add to the purpose and intent of the story as we saw it. To put it plain, it was “crying over milk that already has been spilt.” This statement only would have added to any bitterness that should be avoided right now. It was another slap at a firm and not at all germane to the intent. Here was a splendid example of “coloring” news. Our critic says in one breath this is a time to avoid disunity. Then this statement is used to create this very thing. We are puzzzled. President Entered in the Post Office in Juneau as Second Class Matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Tates: One year, in advance, $1i six months, in sdvance, $7.80; one month. in advance, $1.50 Subscribers will confer a favor if they will promptly notity the Business Office of any faflure or irregularity in the de- livery of their papers. Telephones: News Office, 603; Business Office, 374. MEMBER OF ASSGCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of ail news dispatches credited to it or not other- :Iu credited In this paper and also the local news published erein. NATIONAL REPRESENTATIVES — Alaska Newspapers, 1411 Fourth Avenue Bldg., Seattle, Wash, While we are on the subject we wish to state that we believe it was unfortunate that before the mine closed, the Governor's office did not try to do some- thing to keep thé mine in operation. Harry Lucas, as far as we know, was the only person who turned a hand. After all this mine was authorized to continue operations only because it was deemed essential to the war effort. The company stated time after time that it was going to close. Short notice be damned! The Empire carried President Philip Bradley's remarks to this effect more than a week ago. The company stated in hearings here and in Washington it would have to close if the War Labor Board ordered the company to pay more in wages. Yet few people in Juneau could get excited about it or believe it. Few tried to do anything about it. That’s why we had a Pearl Harbor. The Governor threatened us over the phone yes- terday if we did not print the release verbatim. We we damaged the intent of the article HERE WE GO AGAIN, FOLKS The Daily Alaska Empire has been attacked and accused of a long list of things in its time. We can't | see where a newspaper is much good if it isn't blasted | don't see how once-in-a-while. We wish all of critics could be an- | by our editing. : swered as easily as yesterday's. i But he made some other very serious charges in Before proceeding we want to make one point|Nis talk on the radio. clear. Radin station KINY and The Empire are stil on the best of terms. We realize the difficulties under | which the station operates. As its manager stated in | a Chamber of Commerce meeting a few months ago, | and then we do refrain from publishing certain truths, because of the system of licensing radio stations, a‘(mths, however, that will hurt some person, persons radio station is not as free as a newspaper. | or firm and do not one bit of good if published. Because | of this stranglehold, quite often a station must give| YOu've all heard about letting “sleeping dogs lie.” time to various government officials even though the | Well let's wake one up. talks may have political inference, outright political | Most people in Alaska know it, and it isn’t pleasant attack. Stations operate under licenses which may be | to talk about, but Claude M. Hirst, former General revoked for any of a thousand reasons. Radio prob- | Superintendent of the Alaska Office of Indian Affairs, ably would be as free as the newspaper if the radio had | Ohe of the greatest men in any Federal office in been in use when the constitution was written. How- | Alaska, was removed at a time when he was most ever, there has been a degeneration of free institutions | heeded directly as a result of the Governor of Alaska’s since that time. doings. Well, we haven’t printed that until now. The President of the United States and the gov- | What good would it have done? What good does it ernors of states and possessions, apparently, can de- |40 now? mand time on the air, but supposedly only in emergency | Neither did we print that one of the statements for the purpose of calling out troops to repeal a sudden | it the record against him in Washington, put in by attack or other such important things. The talk last | Dis ouster or ousters, was that he had taken out a night was a flagrant violation of this privilege. | commercial fishing license. This was pure false- | hood. 1 The Hirst “deal” was jlfst about the most dis- graceful thing we have seen yet. A few weeks ago we received a communication | from another Alaskan official, operating under Fed- | eral regulations. It was in very poor taste, would | have done no good, would have been damaging to the writer. We filed it—didn't use it. | Later he asked for it back and upon being in- the | formed that all letters to the editor become the apparent purpose of reassuring the workers recently | Property of the addressee, this official sent word that dismissed and also to show these men how they could | Unless the communication was returned The Empire secure new jobs. | would get no more of the agency’s printing. Next to this story was our own which stated that | ~ HOW'S that for political pressure? between 225 and 275 men were out of work, also that We don't want that kingd of business, in spite of the total crew was listed at 275. We also told of | the fect that the agency is required by law to give all when the notices were posted and this was a good | of its work to the lowest bidder. This man’s name is enough indication of how short the notice was. |not being used because we believe it would be in So in the first paragraph of the release we elim- | POOr taste at this time. inated from the sentence starting . . . “The object of the meeting was to set machinery in metion im- | mediately to secure employment at the earliest possible | 0ushly disgusting. moment for the men released ... " which was ap- parently a fact, the following which we deleted: The Daily Alaska Empire 1s proud of the support 5 in mass from employment on a few hours’ | of its readers, new ones and those who have stayed notice | with us for many, many years. This did not contribute to the purpose of the ! We do have a public trust to fulfill, and that is article, it was a slap at the company, and in addition, | Why last fall, we did not sell out to a man by the it was not a statement of fact. It would have caused | name of E. L. Bartlet? who wanted to buy, and who misunderstanding and confusion, something which |also offered his “services” as general manager. There apparently was to be avoided at this time. | were several attempts made to purchase The Empire Apparently “in mass” was to be taken as meaning | last fall when the base for the present political scene “en masse,” which carries the implication that all of | was laid, the men were dismissed on a few hours' notice. That | However, we felt then, and still do, that the pro- news, if not in actual words, by inference, We are ready to admit to anyone that every now We received the release in question at about 2:15 p. m. yesterday from the Governor's office. In order to have it in the newspaper and meet deadline re- quirements, it had to be rushed, should have been shortened We started out to eliminate the parts we thought would not detract from the purpose and intent of the article, but gave up with the linotype operator shout- ing for copy. As we saw the article it was written for We have many other choice items, each as thor- wasn't so. There were at least 50 men working yes- | pesed purchase would have been to silence one of the | terday. That is a fact. | free institutions still left in Alaska. # On the air, our critic qualified his statement to We were glad of this opportunity to express mean “practically all” of the men, changing the term | ourselves. We are glad that the Governor, this one to suit his purpose. time, was forced to come out in the open. We do feel, Secondly, we eliminated sentences which stated: however, that he should have paid KINY for the “It is unfortunate that the mine could not have | political use of the station’s time. _‘:_ b2 Nashingles Morry- bo-Rouwnd (Continuea 1rom Page One) | | Meanwhile, the lift to morale in- certain voting groups. It is reports< |side Italy has been lost, the Ital-{ed that much of this is coming {ian people have become apathetic,|from Tom Girdler of Republic |don't care much whether they arslsteel. the Pews of the Sun Oil luxlder the Allies or the Germans. Company, and from some of the Wierton Steel executives. Also, when Nye goes to Chfeago, he usually visits General Robert Wood, former head of America First; also Colonel McCormick of RE-ELECTION | Senators who have voted against and was Dbills favored by labor are heaving| decorated by Mussolini For one thing we were accused of suppressing | considered pro-Fascist. Instead, Taft proposed that Win- throp Aldrich, of the Chase Na- tional Bank, and Thomas Lamont, a big sigh of relief over develop- | ments in North Dakota. There, in | his campaign for re-election, Sena- |tor Gerald Nye, who voted against the Chicago Tribune, so it is he- lieved that some of his campaign expenses come from this direction. | Despite all this support, Nye is | fighting for his pelitical life. The battle promises to be one of the !most interesting of the year. WILL ROGERS, JE. When Will Rogers, Jr., decided to leave Congress for the service, his supporters in the movie capital were irate. Rogers came to Con- gress from Cap Hood, Texas, where he was a lieutenant in an anti- tank school. Now he will go back to the Army. Rogers’ decision not to run again drew an angry letter from some of those who elected him, declaring that the important thing was to support his Commander-in-Chief. It's not difficult for a young man to | various pro-labor measures, has now | nevertheless received the endorse- ment of AFL leader Bill Green. | | Furthermore, Nye's close friend, Senator Wheeler of Montana, 1s of J. P. Morgan & Company, serve to help raise funds. Then, much to Taft's embarrassment, he discovered that Aldrich and Lamont also had been decorated by Mussolini. | bringing all sorts of pressure to bear Finally, it leak out that the o g4 Keating, editor of Labor, real fight was between the Sidney ,ng thay paper also is expected to Hillman and David Dubinsky Wings|engorse Nye for re-election S of the American Labor Party. Both| gince Nye voted against the have a great many Italian "'?"“""325,000 salary ceiling, against the in their two unions—the Interna-|president’s tax veto, for the Ruml tional Ladies’ Garment workerSiplan and against various other (Dubinsky) and the Amalgamated|pro jabor measures, Nye's colleagues | Clothing Workers (Hillman). Taft!ae gleefully figuring they won't had been atforney for Hilman's nave to worry about labor opposi- union, a fact which caused Italian ¢io, ejther. leaders in the Dubinsky camp 10| Meanwhile, it is a paradoxical hurl charges of bias against him. |gact that big business is pouring Taft tried to be fair, but he was money into North Dakota to help not firm. Instead of cracking heads Nye, the alleged friend of labor. In become a soldier, they said, but it together and getting unity through almost no previous election has so'is difficult to become a Congress- tough tactics, he has let the dispute much money been spent on news- man. The President has support drag on for months I paper advertising, or to swing over'from his fighting men, but he bad- IRE— HAPPY BIRTHDAY | APRIL 11 Mrs. Dolly Stewart Eunice Wanamaker Frances Tucker Mrs. Dexter Conover Ferris Colman Mrs. Jesse Cook ¢ Betle Lauge | But two changes were made in the personnel of appointive City DUy WasHgtomm Eu[fwhls by the City Council the previous night when it elected officers for | the coming year, John Reck being elected City Treasurer and J. E. ; | Kearney, temporary Assistant City Wharfinger, with Waino Hendrickson H 0 R 0 S c 0 P E : 1being the other Assistant Wharfinger. The officials elected in addition “The stars incline but do not compel” | THE DAILY ALASKA EMP 20 YEARS AGO %% surins | | [ APRIL 11, 1924 i About $250,000 was to be spent by the Government in improving and ;maimammg roads and trails, rivers and harbors in Alaska during thc sear, Ool. James G. Steese, of Juneau, declared here on his return from | Washington. Col. Steese said activities were to be increased in the work : bout 30 per cent. |to the above named were: V. L. Tibbetts, Chief of Police; A. H. Mack, | Night Patrolman; Frank Garnick, Street Commissioner; J. M. Davis, ‘Wharnnger. re-elected; Dr. H. C. DeVighne, Health Officer, re-elected | The Chamber of Commerce, at their meeting this day, was urged WEDNESDAY, APRIL 12 ’u; F. A. Metcalf, Chairman of a Special Camp Site Committee, to request Benefic aspects rule strongly to- ; five sites to be reserved along the Glacier Highway by the Federal Forest day which should be more favorabl | Service, the sites to be. utilized for outing and pienic grounds by the to the Navy than to the Air Forces |general public, rather than allowed to enter private ownership. Dr. R. HEART AND HOME: Faith, Simpson, reporting for the Golf Course Committee, said progress was courage and fortitude will be re- being made and that a tract of land had been examined, surveyed and quired in American families through | estimates were being made on the cost of the undertaking. coming weeks which are to be marked by tremendous events. The price of victory will be great and {will be paid in costly installments. BUSINESS AFFAIRS: While the world is shaken by each day's news | from battlefronts the stock mar-| {kets will fluctuate sharply but fore- sight will overcome panicky influ-| ences. 1| NATIONAL ISSUES: Legislative D 'I l_ H E I' h by |muddles, resulting from politics, a'y essons 'n ng ls W. L. GORDON |will arquse the country fo. demand) e bt et BB b B o e S S GAY |for the future statesmen who are “7 ; | [ WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “I wish I was gOhylg to be ;qualmed for public service. Con-| % |gress will be the center of unfor-| there.” Say, I wish I WERE going to be there. Pronounce the EU as EW in tunate procrastinations. | OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Neuter. INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS:| FEW, not as OO in NOON. OFTEN MISPELLED: Decent; CE. Descent; SCE. heaven indicates terrible economic SYNONYMS: Wisdom, knowledge, judgment, sagacity, profundity. fdistress. Loot from occupied terri- | WORD STUDY: “Use a word three times and it is yours.” Let us |tories will be inadequate to meet | j,crease our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Today's word: ‘the needs of the German people EQUANIMITY; evenness of mind or temper: patience; composure. “He iirxl::::s Wilie provelstt aulieN dv'“bore his misfortunes with equanimity.” | Persons whose birthdate it is have | peewee—eeeoeceoeeee |the augury of a year of unusual| !activity. Unexpeeted separations ln‘ji MODERN ETIOUEHE‘ bfl ROBERTA LEE 13 1 J. J. Hillard, Deputy U. S. Collector of Customs with headquarters at Eagle, and well known Alaskan, arrived on the Admiral Rogers from Ketchikan. He was to remain here a few days before going to Skagway on his way to Eagle. Weather report: High, 42; low, 36; cloudy. | Saturn in square to Berlin’s mid- | families will be numerous. | Children born on this day prob- 4 |ably will be sensitive, intuitive and |~ extraordinarily clever. Much travel Q. If a neighbor extends an invitation to tea or luncheon to a new \is forecast. neighbor, does this take the place of a first call? (Copyright, A. No; the call should be made first, before issuing any kind of | e duiViTALION. ily needs support from his Cougress. | Q. TIs it proper for a man to drop the | Quitting Congress at this time ,s|death of his father? |“the path of least resistance,” they | ~ A. Yes; it is no longer required. wrote. ) Q Isn't it proper to introduce two men by saying, “Mr. Allen, Unmoved, Will, Jr., still plans to| meet Mr. Jones”? g0 back to the Army. A. No. Do not use an imperative form, but merely say, “Mr. Allen, (Copyright, 1944 by United Fea- | this is Mr. Jones.” ture Syndicate, Inc.) | i —ee—— 1944) “Jr.” after his name after the o i i ! Charles B. Haegele, of the Wea- |ther Bureau Staff, is the father of | | oo rrcrrrr s r e s s r e o) a baby boy born to Mrs. Haegele 1. Who was the TItalian navigator who claimed to have discovered 'at St. Paul, Minnesota, on March 29. The mother is the former Elise MacManigal, teacher in the Juneau Public Grade, School, ; 3 America prior to Columbus? 2. What is meant by a “bull operator” on the stock exchange? . At the time of the Revolutionary War, what was the largest city in the United States? | 4. What is the meaning of hidalgo? 5. Is it true that American Indians are flat-footed? ANSWERS: NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN: That Lempi Edwards, administra- trix of the estate of Albert: R. Ed- wards, deceased, has filed her pe- 1. Amerigo Vespucci. tition in the hereinafter. described 2. One who plays for a rising market. | court for judgment setting aside and 3. Philadelphia. {awarding to Lempi Edwards, sur-| 4. A title denoting a Spanish nobleman of the lower class. | viving widow of the decedent, the| 5. No. {entire estate of the decedent, the | same being less than- $4,000.00. All | persons concerned are notified to bef iand appear in the U. S. Commis~ ! sioner’s Court for Juneau Precinet; at Juneau, Alaska, at 10 o'clock A, M. on the 5th day of May, 1944, |and show cause, if any they have, | why judgment should not be so { rendered. Dated: Junean, Alaska, thfs 3rd day of April, 1944. | LEMPI EDWARDS, Administratrix. { First publication, April 4, 1944, Last publication, April 25, 1944, i ;s I KINY PROGRAM 343 SCHEDULE Wednesday 12:00-—Personal Album. 12:15--Song Parade. 12:30-Bert's-Alaska Federal News. 12:46-—Musical Bon Bons. 1:00—Spotlight Bands. 1t15—Melody Roundup. 1:30—Sound Off. . C. L. SKUSE as a paid-up subcriber to THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE is invited to present this coupon this evening at the box office of the——— CAPITOL THEATRE and redeive TWO TICKETS to see: “THEY GOT ME COVERED Federal Tax—11c per Person WATCH THIS SPACE—Your Name May Appear! 2:30—California- Melodies. 2:45—California Melodies. :00—G. I. Journal. 15—-G, 1. 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