The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 28, 1944, Page 4

'AGEEOUR ‘7 : 7 Daily Alaska Empire Publishiéd every evening except Sunday by the EMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY Second and Main Streets, Juneau, Alaska, HELEN TROY MONSEN DOROTHY TROY LINGO VILLIAM R. CARTER FRIEND SER President Vice: Prestient 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: One year, in advance, $15.00; six months, in advance, $7.50; ene month, in advance. $1.50. Subscribers will confer a favor if they will promptly notify the Business Office of any failure or irregularity in the de- livery of their papers. Telephones: News Office, 602; Business Office, 374. ~ MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclusively entifled 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 herein. ALASKA, CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION. NATIONAL REPRESENTATIVES Newspapers, e Bldg., Seattle, ¥ Alas | American economig aid in liberated Sicily. CIVIL SERVICE adverse decision by his administrative superior. The commission cannot actually compel his reinstate- ment if, after investigation, it finds the charges ‘against, him unfounded; but its recommendations are pretty likely to be followed if only because of the publicity which will attend them These safeguards established for veterans by the Starnes-Scrugham law seem to us eminently reason- able. But we see no reason why they should apply to veterans exclusively, Others in the civil service are equally entitled to protection. against arbitrary dismissal by their administrative superiors . Congress would do well, we think, to bring the whole roster of Government employees within these provisions. It would add to the burden of the Civil Service Com- mission and would call for additional funds and staff. But it would be well worth it in the lift it would give the morale of Federal workers by assuring them security of tenure on a’ merit basis It would also give Civil Service political freedgm. Voting the “wrong way’ wonldn't be a valid excuse for dismissal. workers more apparently Hunger and War's Ideals (New York Times) We are fighting this war for certain ideals, among them the right of all people to choose their own forms of government and to be protected in them against external aggression. These are good ideals, especially when we hear them expounded after a good lunch or good dinner. Hungry people as well as well-fed people agree to them. There will be less hunger in the future if they are made effective. But what a | hungry person wants first is food. If he doesn't get| it his ideals will not be of much use. This is a point made by Prof. Wesley A. Sturges of Yale, who directed In his| 1 recent radio speech Professor Sturges said: I believe that the economic problems of the post-liberation period are first in the order of importance; that these economic problems must be solved before the form, structure or THE DAILY . i JULY 28 Helen Webtser Peter Gruening Harold McKinley i Harry Doyle Virgil- Bohlke Stanley McPherson Mrs. Dirothy Gregg f e LS SN HOROSCOPE “The stars incline but do not compel” i SATURDAY, JULY 20 Adverse planetary aspects are ac- tive today but there is a sign of promise for merchants and hotel men. HEART AND HOME: Gossip l‘e-l garding men and women in - the limelight will be prevalent. Cer-| tain stars are believed to encour- age disloyalty and inharmony'! While Uranus is in' Gemini dis- | ruptive and revolutionary ideas are pervasive. | BUSINESS AFFAIRS: Since the future of the United States will be largely dependent upon what is planned or accomplished this the utmost caution should be used in all branches of trade and com- merce. Victory for the Allies will| year, ALASKA' EMPIRE— JUNEAU, ALASKA Despite a prevalent notion that members of the persormel of lopen great opportunities but they any new civil zovernment can Imust be used with wisdom and JULY 28, 1924 Charles E. Naghel, Secretary, had issued a’ call for a stated com- munieation of Mt. Juneau Lodge, No. 147, F. and A. M. Z. M. Bradford was to continue in office as Postmaster until August 1, and then turn the functions over to Charles W. Carter. The jazz orchestra of the Princess Louise was to give a dance at the A. B. Hall in conjunction with the Novelty Four. Frank Bach, Jr., returned to Douglas after employment in Peters- | burg for several months. The woods. on the hills of Douglas were full of pickers were returning to town with full buckets. blueberries and H. F. Preston and George Burford, traveling men, left on the Alameda for Sitka. J. W. Kehoe was in town from Sitka, arriving on the Estebeth. The Victaria was in port southbound from Nome loaded with pas- sengers and many tourists. Weather report: high, 60; low, 55; clear. Daily Lessons in English % 1. corpox WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “I think we can engineer the transaction successfully.” Say, “can MANAGE the transaction.” OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Egg. Pronounce the E as in LEG, not as A'in VAGUE. OFTEN MISSPELLED: Siege; IE. Receipt, EI. \ | L classified civil service are immovable fixtures in the Government, the fact i1s that they may be discharged summarily at the will of any agency chief. The law provides only that they must be notified in advance of the charges against them and afforded an oppor- tunity to reply to them, in writing. But the law does not entitle them to any personal hearing or to an | appeal to the Civil Service Commission. This is to be | changed, however, in the near future—changed, thaj | is, so far as war veterans and their dependents who | receive preference eligibility ar concerned. The rest of the will remain as defenseless as before. The recently enacted Starnes-Scrugham law sets up a protective procedure for any “permanent or in- definite prefernce eligible who has completed a pro- bationary or trial period employed in the civil service.” Before any such person can be discharged, suspended, furloughed without pay or reduced in rank, he must be given 30 days written notice, stating “all reasons, specifically and in detail, for any such proposed action.” Then the person is to be given reasonable time to answet the charges personally as well as in writing and to furnish affidavits in support of his answer. And finally, he is to have the right of appeal to the Civil Service Commission from an civil service ifash‘inglon Merry- Go-Round cently scored a vi officer prisoners. JOHNSTON A Eric Johnston is the Army to abandon an order re- quiring U. S. soldiers to salute Nazi have any lasting significance: that only by resolving these economic problems will any new or lasting political organization be assured in Italy. I hazard the opinion, moreover, that Sicily’s experiences * may fairly at- | tend most of the future liberated countries. The idea is not new. Hiram Motherwell expressed it in his book, “The Peace We Fight For,” published | a year ago, in which he said that in liberated Europe | “the question, what kind of government shall we have, i will present itself to 95 per cent of the population as, | what kind of government will give us food.” The United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administra- |understanding will be speeded or| tion is based on this conviction. The value of Mr. Sturges’ testimony is that it comes out of direct ex- perience. The professor in his case is no impractical theorist but a man who has been there and knows | what he is talking about. Food, clothing, shelter, medicine, doctors, nurses, all these are weapons just as truly as gunhs and planes are weaporis. There do not seem to have been enough of them for civillans in Sicily or in southern Italy, at least during the early days of our occupation. Yet the | Ttalian pattern, if it can be worked out successfully by men as far-seéeing and, we judge, as able as Pro- sor Sturges, could ease our military task in the rest of Italy, in France and the Low Countries and possibly in the Balkans. It could help us win the war and it could help us keep it won. 1 | loudly. NOTE—Johnston reports that the | Russians, now in a siege of intense | patriotism, are glorifying their old ND STALIN national heroes, telling this story |iets have changed “Ivan the Ter- ctory by getting He says the Sov-| SYNONYMS: Tremble, shake, shiver, quiver, quaver. 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: foresight ot NATIONAL ISSUES: New phases | of the liquor problem are forecast. ‘Px-evemmn of excessive drinking | INDISPOSED; disordered as to health; sick. “It was at a time when will become a serious concern, but|Mr. Wilson was indisposed.” no form of prohibition will be ac-| ceptable, the seers declare. | INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS MODERN X ETIOUE”E b’ Closer relationship between the| % South American people and our-| : ROBERTA LEE selves is forecast. Progress toward| B R o ot ——— : Q. Where should the waitress begin to serve at dinner, and should she then proceed to the. right or the left? A. She should first serve from the left side, the woman zuest of honor, who is seated to the right of the host, then proceed to the left. Q. When a girl is introducing a man to her mother, what would be retarded by our deeds. Astrologers | warn against favoritism in dealings| with our neighbors. Persons whose birthdate it is| {have the augury of a year of good| fortune to which friends contribute. | the best phrase for her to use? Children will add' to the family| A. “Mother, this is James Gray." happiness. | ten’ years older than the girl, she may say, “Mr. Gra ‘ Children born on this day prob- | Q. Is it in good form to send engraved invitations to a christening? ably will be intense in their emo-| A. ‘Tt is done occasionally, but usually these invitations are ex+ (tions, brilliant in mind and able| tended by informal notes and telephone. to make much-of their lives. e et e e ) N MARES || LOOK and LEARRY o compon ——————— 1. What city in the United States runs from the Atlantic Ocean to | uG s m“ the Gulf of Mexico? BE"ER m“EAu 2. From what country do the most of the world's diamonds come? 3. About how many miles of thread can be spun from one pound The letter written by E. Parsons If the man should be probably FRIDAY, JULY 28, 1944 DIRECTORY -..oa%e. Gastineau Channel MOUNT JUNEAU LODGE NO. 147 \ SECOND and FOURTH Monday of each month in Scottish Rite Temple beginning at 7:30 p. m. WALLIS S. GEORGE ‘| Worshipful - Master; JAMES W, LEIVERS, Secretary. DR.E. H. KASER DENTIST BLOMGREN BUILDING HOURS: 9 A M:to5 P. M: L “ [ B.P.O.ELKS | Meets 2nd and 4th Wednesday at 8 P. M. Visiting Brothers welcome. A, B. HAYES, Exalted Ruler; H. L. McDONALD, Secy. Dr. A. W Stewart DENTIST 20TH CENTURY BUILDING Office Phone 469 Dr. John H. Geyer DENTIST Room 9—Valentine Bldg. PHONE 762 . fi Silver Bow Lodgi No.A2,LO.O.F Meets each Tues- day at 8:00 P, M. I. O. O. F. HALY Visiting Brothers Welcome Forest D. Fennessy .....Noble Grand .|H. V. Callow ... ...Secretary ROBERT SIMPSON; Opt. D. Graduate Los Angeles College 4 of Optometry and - - Opthalmology ASHENBRENNER'S Glasses Fitted Lense{ Gfounn:! Nzw An mn FURNITURE Phione 788—306 Willoughby Ave. DR. H. VANCE TH b Jones-Stevens Shop LADIES'—MISSES® READY-TO-WEAR Gastinean Hotel Annex S. Pranklin PHONE 171 e ieetesem— Seward Street Near Third ———y ""The Rexall Store” Your Reliable Pharmacists BUTLER-MAURO DRUG CO. “The Store for Men" SABIN’S HARRY RACE Druggist “The Squibb Store™ H. S. GRAVES “The Clothing Man™ HOME OF HART SCHAFFNER & MARX CLOTHING " el Guy Smith-Drugs (Careful Prescriptionists) NYAL Family Remedies HORLUCK'S DANISH ICE CREAM CALIFORNIA Grocery and Meat Market 478 — PHONES — 37] High Quality Foods a¢ Moderate Prices Front St—Triangle Bldg. » B about his visit with Stalin in the!iible’s” name to “Ivan the Good."; 4. How many. sides has a pentagon? (Continued trom rage Omne) MERRY-GO-ROUND Kremlin. Johnston says he had trouble In addition, the Polish Embassy getting Soviet offi has been sending out elaborate brochures about Poland, printed in many colors, outlining Poland's po- sition in the current border dis- pute with Russia. These are in- scribed to Cabinet members and sympathetic diplomats. The Justice Department investi- gation shows that registered and on my trip into Si unregistered Polish agents have also| “No” been writing anti-Soviet speechesifl“’"”" for Congressmen and that Polish| Stalin after being the Russian “Marshal Stalin, rectly of the man |“do you have any Foreign replied. Stalin, cials to let him| The State Department has put take American newspapermen into!in a shiny new pressroom for news- received honorable mention. Siberia, so he finally appealed to|men, but no increased information |letter is as follows: turned down' by on foreign policy * * * Disabled Office. war veterans and physically han- he asked di-|dicapped persons are having their who runs Russia, | problems investigated by a special objection to my House committee under ‘Represen- taking four newspapermen with me |tative Augustine Kelley of Pennsyl- beria?” vania * * ¢ Kelley has five sons, none what- |all holding union cards, all in ser vice * * * Gov. Dewey's “economy” “Do you think Foreign Commis- administration in Albany has spent | “hit or miss” of cotton? ;nmking suggestions to the Chamber |of Commerce as to what could be !done for improvement of Juneau, The | This is my suggestion for the bet- terment of Juneau. We will all admit that in many respects Juneau is more backward than other Alaskan cities in the] matter of civic affairs. This is ap- | parently due to the general lack of interest by our citizens and is a con~ dition of long standing. Conse- | quently, Juneau has grown in a way with no consistent refugee groups have been attempt- |sar Molotov will agree with this|$600,000 more than any Democratic | plan for municipal development. the Polish-American decision? ing to turn |me down vote against Roosevelt in November thi on s request said | the last twelve years * * * The He has already turned group which has run the State in The proposéd city manager plan: \will do a great deal to correct this All this has infuriated the State Johns(on‘, st?ring at Molotov, who Berlin radio beamed to America |fault through a long range, post- Department and the Russians; has|Was sitting in the room with the tried a' néw propaganda trick the | war planning program. We are be- the Polish exile government Soviet chief. much in the dog-house. put ver Reports from the Russian front|Stalin. indicate an unusual degree of team-, Molotov “Molotov never disagrees with my ducing a RUSSIAN ARMY NEWSPAPERS | decisions, do you, Vyacheslav?” said views of this commentator do not ‘ nd Stalin laughed other night. An announcer newscaster, said intro- “The lecessarily refléct the views of this station.” work between men and officers, | and between the men themselves. | Military observers attribute this in part to the unique method used| i by the Russians of publishing sol- ACROSS diers' newspapers behind the lines| 1. Mexican shawl and letting the men write to these| T i b g papers to suggest strategy for new | campaigns and comment on errors| of the past Front-line newspapers are issued | daily for each army, with papers| every other day for each army corps or division. The printing as-| signment is - terrific, since editions are' published in all the various | languages spoken by the members | Exclamation of the Soviet armed forces. In-| Spread to. dry stead of being printed in cities be- | s hind the 'lines, ‘these papers are | D".fi:g{e‘n?‘ written and printed close to the! _ ___Jewish law frent line, wnl:] headquarters mov- B e ing * forward constantly with the armies. Even aften the heaviest fighting, Russian privates take time off to| write on military matters. During | a recent offensive push, with the| entire sector in constant activity, one front-line paper received from 40 to 100 letters daily over several weeks. They were from enlisted men and- non-commissioned offi- | cers, who wrote from their own exXperience on how best to attack an enemy fort, how to destroy an enémy tank, how to conduct one- self in hand-to-hand fighting in the enemy trenches. NOTE—Col. Egbert White recent- Iy resigned as Mediterranean di- rector of the Stars and Stripes be-“ cause he was not permitted by | Becretary of War Stimson to pub-‘ lish more extensive political news| of the coming Presidential cam- Glaze Bind agaln with narrow fabric 15. Article . Anger Germ cells At home Greek letter 20. Soothsayer Symbol * for nickel . Takes on cargo Fruit stone 35. Worn away 36. Iterate 37. Long sticks 35, Inns 39, Playing cards 40. Cudgel 4L Note of the scale 42, Staft 43. Small ples 45. Goddess of awn 48. Public an- nouncement . Subsequent sellings {2 : abbr, . Paar ity 3. Constellation . The herb eve ireate degree 66. Starchlike substance In the gum of the olive tres Contradict Solution Of Yesterday's Puzzle 60. Take offense at 2, 61, Dealer In foods s":,{’",‘f,’;‘ DOWN ' . Among 1. Lines of ~Junetion s . Lofty . Smoothed Glacial snow fields r Chief actor Symbol for tantalum Celebrating victory . Contrite sinners Roman -dats . Released on onor . Saucerlike ornaments 2. Conceals . Part of a cost 8L Device for Temoving: credm trom m . Large aquatie reptile . Egyptian deft . Book of the | granulatea starch . Exists paign. The Army magazine Yank rv-J i ginning to realize otir sad state and appréciate the necessity of such a program. We realize too the neces- |sity of radical changes which must |be madé in order that such a plan | may be accomplistied. | Among the many necessary proj- | ects needed we find a new city hall, 'a new fire statiofi, a library and possibly 4 civic center. Oufi present | propérties niust have attention; our schools needs remodeling, our boat harbor and docks need extensive re- | post-war projects will be necessary |to give employment to' returning- |service men' as well as to provide local payrolls. ! All these things will require more money than can be raised by the | presént taxX rate. Even a new ap- praisal and increased’ tax rates will not suffice without increéased bohd- ed’ indébtedness’ under our preseént system. Past experience with bord- ed indebtedness in Juneau has ‘not been too satisfactory. We all know of the past sthodl financing, and’ ithat it is only cdue to the efforts of Mayor Licas that we are not still paying on interest in excess of the principal borrowed. Some new source of income must: be found if Juneau is to continue to grow and have the essentials of a' healthy community. Public dwnership of utilities is the dnswer to our problem. Tt is na new thing and is working most sués cwssmlly in hundreds of American dommunities. There 5 no reasén why Juneau should not purchasé our utilities and pay for thém with the earnings from the properties. Money now diverted through ‘ali~ sentee ownership of utilities can be' used for the development of the projects listed without increasing the' present rates and without de- preeiating the present tax income. As stated, public ownership of! working for the betterment of prac- tically every other Alaskan com- fmunity of any size I propose that a therough inves- pairs, our streets need paving. Such’ 2 utilities is no new thing and' is] 5. What is phlebitis? ANSWERS: Duval Street, Key West, Florida. South Africa. About 5,000 miles. Five. Inflammation of a vein. EINAR J. as a paid-up subscriber to THE DAILY ALASKA EM':’IRE is invited to present this coupon this evening at the box office of the——— CAPITOL THEATRE and receive TWO TICKETS to see: "Mexican Spitfire’s Blessed Event” Federal Tax—11c per Person \ WATCH THIS SPACE—Your Name May Appesr! | tigation of the proposition be made | DIVORCE ACTION and our City Council be flppmachedf A suit for divorce has been filed on the matter of obtaining an ap- by Norman Prince, charging Mar- praisal of the properties by some garet Prince with desertion. qualified firm. bt b s S 5 0 NOTICE PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPHY T will not be responsible for any Have a portrait artist take your debts contracted by anyone but. ofcture. Hamersley Studio. Opposite| myself. #ederal’ Building, Phone 294. adv.) RUBEN RAMBERG, IN THIS BANK ARE INSURED - First N%ioagl Bank ERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATI The Charles W. Carter Mortuary Fourth and Franklin Sts. 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