The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 27, 1944, Page 4

Daily Alaska Empi Published every evening except Sunday by the EMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY Second and Main Streets, Juneau, Alaska. HELEN TROY MONSEN - - - - DOROTHY TROY LINGO WILLIAM R. CARTER ELMER A FRIEND ALFRED ZENGER President - - . VicePresident Editor and Manager Managing Editor Business Manager Entered in the Post Office in Juneau as Second Class Matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Delivered by carrier in Juneau and Douglas for $1.50 per month; six months, $8.00; one vear, §15.00, By mail, postage paid, at the following rates: gue year. in advance, $15.00; six months, in advance, $7.50; ane Tonth. in advance, §1.50 Subscribers will confer a favor if they will promptly notify the Business Office of any failure or frregularity in the de- livery of their papers. Telephones: News Office, 602; Business Office, 374. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS The Assoclated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not other- Y credited in this paper and also the local news published erein. ALASKA CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION. NATIONAL REPRESENTATIVES — Alaska Newspapers, 1411 Fourth Avenue Bldg., Seattle, Wash, NOT OVER YET According to 4 recent issue of Time magazine, the attitude expressed by many people in the States in recent weeks is that the war in Europe will be over | very shortly and Japan will fall soon after, so they're beginning to live somewhat along the lines they lived before the war. A sudden German collapse is not at all impossible. But certainly the quickest way we can prolong the struggle in Europe is by making ourselves believe that a sudden collapse is probable. Better to heed the sober warning of Gen. Eisen- hower who cautions that much bitter fighting must yet be expected in Europe. Even in defeat the German Army is capable of inflicting great injury—and what is true in Europe certainly is even more true in the Pacific. We are winning great victories in the Pacific theatre, too. Our advances in the Marianas, made at great cost, have been rapid and the victories decisive. But the fanatical fury with which the remnants of the once powerful Japanese force on Saipan fought on after all hope had been lost is a grim reminder of the thorough job that is still ahead. Alaska’'s part in the furtherance of victory in the Pacific is far from over. Only this week comes word of a gigantic labor recruiting program in which thousands of civilian workers are to be sought through- THE DALLY ALASKA out the nation for defense work in Alaska. As the victory nears ih Europe thé présstire will mourit for the Pacific—both on the fighting fronts and outposts and on the home front They Can’t Be Wrong (Washington Post) Popular demands for modernization of Congress must be haywire, according to Representative Clarence Cannon, because they have never been approved by the men and women who serve in Congress. From the First Congress down to the present session, he says, 9743 legislators have considered proposals for stream- lining Congress and rejected them. Of course 9743 Congressmen, he concluded, can't be wrong. News- paper men and members of Congress assembled to discuss reform of that body’s procedure the other night laughed at this statement. It had the ring of an ironic joke. But the speaker left no doubt he was in dead earnest. His fantastic statement must be at- tributed to recklessness rather than jest. In flat contradiction of this pretense that Congress is unanimously opposed to modernization of its machinery, four of the eight legislators on the discus- sion panel came out positively in favor of reform proposals. A fifth was for limited changes. Only three assumed that Congress can meet its obligations in the postwar era with the present duplication of committe. work, the lack of expert assistance and paucity of leadership. Mr. Cannon neglected also to inform his listeners when members of the House have ever had a real opportunity to pass judgment upon that body’s obsolete rules, It is true, of course, that many pro- posals to bring the rules into line with modern leg- islative practice have been introduced. But they have been bottled up in the Rules Committee and the rank | and file have had no opportunity to vote for or against them. It should be obvious to the reactionary chair- |man of the House Appropriations Committee that denial of the right to vote on proposed reforms is scarcely equivalent to their unanimous rejection. The most cogent argument against modernizing Congress came from Senator O'Mahoney. He fears that the movement to reduce the number of com- mittees and to strengthen congressional leadership “is part and parcel of the' modern passion for centralized management.” The best way to fight this centraliza- | tion mania, he says, is to preserve decentralization in Congress. It seems to us that the reverse is true. One reason why power is now transferred so freely to the executive branch is because Congress functions so clumsily. National policy-making powers tend to slip through its fingers because policy can be formulated so. much more readily by executive action. In our opinion Congress must put aside the trivialities in which it now becomes entangled and enhance its ability to legislate promptly and effectively if our representative system is to survive as anything more than an empty symbol of democracy. Not even Con- gress can control centralized strength in the executive branch by decentralized weakness in its own. On the whole, we surmise that the majority of | the editors and legislators left this unique discussion with renewed determination to work for a more ef- ficlent Congress. The significant fact is that the movement now has powerful support in the ranks of Congress itself. In the end, the persuasive arguments of men like Senators Maloney and LaFollette, Con- gressmen Monroney, Dirksen, Kefauver and others may be expected to make a deep impression on their colleagues who are alert to the problems of twen- tieth-century democracy. Washingfon ¢ Merry- Go-Round (Continued from rage oOne) plans. The State the U.S.A. is to toward peace that ate but inescapable fact that peace plans haven't kept up with war war peace machinery. Events have been moving so fast Congressman Henry M. Jackson of Washington, who did a brief stretch in the Army before Presi- dent Roosevelt ordered him back to the House, hasn’'t forgotten the |G.Ls. Jackson, like all members of the confer on post- it’s an unfortun- Department was HAPPY BIRTHDAY JULY 27 Mrs. Ray H. Stevens Guy Gaudet Willlam Kerr Arlene Hatch John Clausen Svend Christinsen Hazel Peterson Mrs. T. M. Clemmens Florence Boyle HOROSCOPE “The stars incline: { . but do not compel” { B ] FRIDAY, JULY 28 Good and evil planetary influ- ences appear in balance today. The morning is promising for initiative of many sorts. 2 HEART AND HOME: This mid- summer in thousands of American homes is a -period of sorrow due to the war. those who turn to spiritual sources development of rare powers to serve the nation. Through suffering many will reach unselfish devotion to freedom and justice. BUSINESS AFFAIRS: We are 'now in a period that occurs every [eighty-tcur years, according to as- trology, when the problems of the nation becomes most perplexing {Bankers and businessmen must plan {with extreme caution. The vast- Iness of our financial responsibili- iues has not been half discerned, |the seers warn. Today’'s prosperity |should become a shield against to- { morrow’s needs. | NATIONAL ISSUES: Require- 'ments in training for the new order |will result in sweeping changes in Ischool and college courses. P |cents of danger from trends toward |practical and utilitarian standards are discerned. Return to academic learning will be accomplished grad- {ually, with limitations, it is fore- ‘C(ISL 1 INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS: | Astrologers declare that Russia will have decisive power in regard to |European plans and policies. The {stars indicate that the help of that Ination will henceforth be necessary in keeping world peace. | Persons whose birthdate it is have the augury of a year of ma- terial success. Concentration upon financial affairs will be necessary. | Children born on this day prob- ably will attain their hearts’ de- . Richard Law, son of former Bl‘iL-?l)OUGll’BOYS TO WEST POINT ... easily, for they will be talent- ish Prime Minister Bonar Law, to ed and ambitious. (Copyright, 1944) Great _imporlantek 0f Firepower Given; The stars promise, for ! Por- | made several months after Stalin- grad, during the early winter of 1943. The peace proposal was made by the Japanese Ambassador in Moscow, who, being neutral, was in a position to lay the matter be- fore TForeign Minister Molotoff. Just what was in the Nazi olive branch is not definitely known,| though Hitler was reported ready to give back to the Russians all of their pre-1939 territory except the Ukraine. roused out of its rut last summer by the B2 H2 Senators, but ac- tually little has been done to work out comprehensive post-war peace machinery with Great Britain and Russia. Official reason for Richard Law’s visit is to discuss post-war petrol- eum arrangements between the United States and Great Britain. This in itself is important. Oil is a great breeder of war, and so, if the two biggest oil-producing, oil- House and Senate, is constantly; 2 F plagued with requests for West ls Rea' K“m End Point appointments. - However, this| - R year he has a néw wrinkle in, appolitients iihe B, Afag- | days of fighting the Amerfcans burs by il P ?:san:rtmcf Jetter 10/ied 1474 of thelr owh dead, but & '?“'f ;]“ T ars, c{“"" buriéd 4,951 Japanese. This does mander of the Fifth Army, offer-| not count a lot of dead the Japanese ing to appoint any enlisted man pyuried themselves to conceal their from the Fifth Army whom Clarks jogses, selects as the outstanding member| o z 7 SR Subsequently in Washington, the of this powerful American fighting Navy announced that at ‘t‘he Cldse force—but he must be an enlisled;of all organized opposition on Sai- man, (Continued from Page One) |pan, American dead totalled 2359 Molotoff is reported to have tOrn| ging countries can work together Jackson has asked Clark to se- jand the Japanese 11,498—a ratio of up the offer and thrown it into , o' team regarding world oil, a lect that man who best exemplifies|almost 5 to 1. the waste-basket. made in the summer of 1943 in aoi] talks, he will villa on the outskirts of Stockholm.|about peace machinery and will | It was made by Hans Thomsen, he joined by Lord Beaverbrook. also selects some of his West Point Gérman ambassador to Sweden and Diplomatic gossip is that Churchill'appointments from the ranks of considers Law too liberal and is enlisted men. |sending Beaverbrook to keep him from giving the Empire away. E former charge de'affaires in Wash- ington. Thomsen, who speaks per- fect English, was born of a Nor- wegian father, and married a Hun-| . . |lot of headaches will be alleviated. in character and in performance Nazi peace offer number 2 wusE Aftér Richard Law finishes his | the American doughboy in World stay on to talk | War IL / (Copyright, 1944, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) garian, - who was openly Dbitter against Hitler and constantly| damned him at Washington dinner parties. Washington hostesses| never knew whether Frau Thom- | !:bix:': sen really hated Hitler or was; derived trom putting on an act to show that OC:::;’ ;‘;‘;‘l" there could be freedom of expres- Dress fabric sion among Germans. H . Harvester At any rate, Hitler later gave her| 5 Slib: bt husband a position of great trust| 1§ APESTEl as his own personal interpreter,| then sent him to Sweden, where Thomsen handled the peace dis- cussion with the Russians. The Stockholm olive branch also was rebuffed by the Russians, | though they didn't hesitate to let the Allies know that something like this was being talked about— even intimated that, if the second front wasn't opened before long, the next olive branch might be more acceptable. Churchill never took any stock i these intimations, claimed the Russiahs were bluffing and would never make a separate peace with| the Nazis. His thesls wds that| Stalin would be thrown out of Rus- | sia if he did. This was one rea- son why Churchill kept pulling back from starting a second front: Roosevelt, however, felt that (1) it was only fair to the Russians to carry out what we had prom- ised them and the world as early as 1942; that (2) a second front| was the one way to keep Germany | busy on two fronts and end the war in a hurry. ers Inclinatiol 22. Luzon native . Irish exclamation Self In bed . 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Type m Ne{r easure Military - thinkers traditionally { have figured that an attacking force, | striking’a well-dug-in enemy, would NOTE — Vice Président Wallace |Suffer three times as many casual- ties as the defending force. On ;Snipan. American firepower was so |great that the defending Japanese | paid approximately 5 to 1 in casual- ties against the attacking and more | exposed Americans. Captives Lose Spirit Soldiers have no doubts about what firepower means and recognize its implications instantly. Germans surrendering oh the Norrhandy bat- tlefields may be cocky when they give up, but by the time théy have marched to the rear through the acres of heavy stuff the Americans are bringing up, they often are desponderit, They reailze that Allied armies there have such firepower {superiority that the German battle is hopeless. This reaction by sur- rendering Geérmans has been re- ported many times. From Normandy, AP correspond- ent Don Whitehead reported that during 2 minute of the drive on St. Lo he tried to count the de- tonations of American heavy guns firing from his positions. He said he gave up when the count reach 70, and the explosions were coming so fast they mingled. Firepower includes everything that goes bang — rifles, grenades, mortars, big and 'little artillery, rockets and aerial bombs. The more you send the enemy the less he can hit back and the sooner he'll quit. Big Guns Hub to Hub But the blg stuff is increasirigly important in this war, as exampli- fied by the Russians who mass their- artillery dlmost hub to hub for miles when they start a hig drive. This is why the War Department has ordered an increase of several hundred per cent in the production of heavy shells. The announced purpose is to provide unprecedenteds firepower for Americéy forces in combat zones. Another reason is that you can replace the tons and tons of shells, fired on the enemy. You can't re- place the men, IRE~J UNI_E'.AU ALASKA -~ 20 YEARS AGO #%% suprre JULY 27, 1924 | The Deep Sea Salmon Company at Port Althorp was leading all the salmon packers in this district in the season's pack, according to J. W. Kehoe, Territorial Tax Collector. The plant had packed a total of 59,000 cases and had a good supply of fish on hand or enroute to the plant. Southeast Alaska and Juneau in' particular, received some excellent advertising at the annual convention of the National Educational Society held in Washington, D. C., according to word received by Secretary M. S. Whittier of the Juneau Chamber of Commerce from W. K. Keller, Principal of the Juneau Public Schools, who was at this time in New York City. Fred Henning's bachelor aggregation took the married men's team into camp by a score of 8 to 2. While not a spectacular game of ball it was said to have been one of the most interesting of the season for the fans. “Dolly” Gray’s proteges couldn’t get started. Curzon was too much for them and the bachelors won under wraps. HMenry Moses, fur buyer, returned from a trip to the Stdtes on the Lu’nmex' Queen. Dr. L. P. Dawes returned on the Alameda from Petersburg where he had been summoned on a professional call. R. G. Cooper arrived on the Queen and was to be attached to the local cable office force. He was rom the Seattle office Mrs. R. G. Plank and Mrs. Jessie L. Boring, guests of Mrs. W. S, Pullen, returned on the Victoria from the South. Weather report: High, 60; low, 55; clear. Daily Lessons in English % 1. corbon WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “Don’t be peeved at what I am going to tell you” Say, “Don’t be ANNOYED at what I am going to tell you.” OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Dimension. DIM, not as in DIME. OFTEN MISSPELLED: Employ (verb and noun). Employee (noun.) SYNONYMS: Oratory, eloquence, elocution. 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: DISSOLUTE; loose in morals and conduct. “His dissolute life had left s marks.” Pronounce first I as in | MODERN ETIQUETTE W s ik Q. Is it all right when a group of friends, of both sexes, are at | a table in a nightclub, for one of the men to dance with a girl who is | at another table? | A. Not if he leaves a girl of his group alone at the table. Q. Is it permissible to use office or business stationery for social correspondence? | A. No; the person of good taste will not do so. Q. How full should the wineglass be when serving wine? A. Half full. L e !.OOK and LEARN f\' C. GORDON PRSTTITCESSSTSESUSIETES S ST SIS SRS 1. At what time and on what date was the Armistice signed that ended the World War I? Before the war, what was the average life of an automobile? Of all the Presidents of the United States, how many have been Is the pardchute a recent invention? ‘Where is the city of Yankton? ANSWERS: November 11, 1918 at 5 A. M. Seven and one-half years. 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