The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 7, 1944, Page 4

PAGE FOURr ; Daily Alaska Published every evening exc EMPIRE PRINTING Second and Main Stree HELEN TROY M DOROTHY TRQY LINGO WILLIAM R. CARTER - ELMER A. FRIEND ALFRED ZENGER - C. Entered in the Bost Office in Junea Delivered by carrier in Junc: six months, $8.00; on 00. B one month. in adva Subscribers will ¢ the Business Off livery of their pi Telephones: News Office, 602 BER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS ely entitled to the use for es credited to it or not other- wise credited in this paper and also the local mews published republication o ews dispatc herein NATIONAL REPRESENTATI Fourth Avenue Bldg., & MEDICINE AT THE Had this war been fought under the medical con- ditions that prevailed in 1918, good as they were for | phase which calls for far-reaching plans. 60,000 wounded soldiers would not 9,000 men who would have been crippled have been restored to complete the Army's death rate from disease would be and the incidence of malaria in mosquito-infested regions would not have This good news was their period alive today for life would not health twenty times higher than it is, been reduced by Washinglon Merry- Go-Round (Continued from Page Ome) 75 per cent. of things that made his blueblood friends in Phila- delphia writhe in anguish—prose- cuting the insurance companies, seizing Ward more anti-trust cases than any other Attorney General in history. But there one thing about which not many of them know with which they probably would agree. Though little publicized, Biddle's greatest achievement has been in preserving civil liberties in wartime. In the last war, the Justice partment prosecuted 1956 for seditious utterances newspapers were shut down. All sorts of people were th n into jail. In the Cijvil War, Abraham Lincoln threw 200,000 people into jail without trial or hearing. But done a lot is De- cases Some « OMPANY 1 as Second Class Matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES and Douglas for $1.50 per month; at the follawing months, in advance, $7.50; Business Office, 374. ‘Aluska Newspapers, 1411 Gen. Norman T. Kirk, Surgeon General of the Army, at the recent meeting of the Association of Military Surgeons. No message could be mcre heartening to the men in the armed services and to the families they have left behind them. | presented by Maj Empire v by the 1, Alaska, President the remarkable progress made in the last twenty years in surgery and in the treatment of injuries and cillin we all know. Equally important but less appar- ent is the organization which has: been created to rates: succor those who have will promptly notify epulatity in the de- tured cities threatened by epidemics. In no war of | histery could a belligerent rt that 12,000 mmlmy patients are discharged week—the equivalent of fifty-two divisions in a year. That such a record should have been established when the wounded and the sick had to be transported hundreds and even thousands of miles by steamer and by air from remote battlefields testifies to the smooth working of a which without parallel in in a system is medicine and surg Rear Admiral Luther S. McIntire Jr. completed the picture by his account of what the Navy has done. Two hours after men were landed in Normandy the first men to fall were on their way to hospitals in England. A generation ago they would have lain helpless for a day. As in the Army, the record of lives saved is striking. Only 2.3 per cent of the wounded in the Navy and the Marine Corps now die. Contrast this with 8 per cent in the last war and again we see what progress in science and brilliant organization can accomplish This war is undoubtedly the most destructive and bloodiest in history. But it is also a war fought with | an unprecedented economy in lives. It now remains | to be seen how far the men who have suffered perma- | nent injuries and whose minds have been affected FRONT That this triumph must be attributed in part to disease with blood plasma, the sulfa drugs and peni-‘ allen in battle 6r who have | been laid low by disease in jungles, deserts and cap- | large-scale | THE DAILY ALASKA FJVfl’IRE——JUNEAU ALASKA HAPPY BIRTHDAY DECEMBER 7 \ \ \ Il ) ¢ Caroline McAlister Mrs. A. R. Edwards Patri Nelson Pat Davis Kenneth Sheeper Mrs. William Cuthbert Mrs. Katherine H. Berray Frank A. Olson Robert Arnold Hildre | Rudolph A. Shinnberg - HOROSCOPE “The stars incline but do not compel” ! FRIDAY, DECEMBER 8§ After the early morning hours benefic planetary aspects rule to- day. Much educating of the people regarding national affairs will be required as postwar programs are outlined | HEART AND HOME: Women are | warned against an urge to seek "pleqs\ups War weariness and lone- |liness as the holidays near may incline many toward careless flirta- tions that may lead to disloyalty Ito absent fiances or husbands. BUSINESS AFFAIRS: The out- ook for coming months in the \ in this war, bringing ° ‘can Brig. Gen. Franl be ! ficult phase, ill. If the will gain Biddle has )nosuuted only 18 cases for sedition. And no cne has been held in jail without trial or hearing. A lct of people at the beginning |of the war demanded that Biddle prosecute Father Coughlin. But Biddle refused, contending it would | arouse religious prejudice and ap- pear to be religious persecution. Instead, Coughlin. Even at one time predded Biddle be- cause he did not crack down on the radio priest The War and Navy Departments at one time wanted Congress to pass a “Dora’ or Defense of the Realm Act similar to England’s, under which two members of Par- liament have been jailed without trial. But Biddle has blocked such an act here. He also bucked the Army re- garding martial law in Hawaii. And there that his young General, Norman quarreling with him so bitterly, did exactly the same thing. In fact, Littell took the lead in the fight for civil law in Hawaii, Biddle's support. Assistant Attorney Littell, now | | > m S“Lm | CLASH OF PERSONALITIES by Experts WE SPECIALIZE Cold Waving Permanents Styling Shaping Hours 9 A. M. to 6 P. M. Baranof Beauty Salon OPEN EVENINGS BY N APPOINTMENT PHONE 538 e The inside of this violent clash of personalities is that both men| stand for the same things, but Biddle is slower, more cautious, believes in winning over his fellow Cabinet members in the War and Navy Departments by persuasion if possible. But Littell, brilliant, impatient, belligerent, scorns per- suasion, is never happier than when publicly rowing with the Army or Na For instance, the late Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox, as honest as the day is long, nearly fainted when Littell told Congressmen that the y had perpetrated another Teapot Dome scandal in leasing Elk Hills to Standard Oil of Cali- fornia. Littell was right about the lease not being good policy but it was an honest lease, and there was no “little black bag” connected with it, as in Harding's day. Frank Knox never got over this mflect\on on his honesty. i Again, Littell wanted to condemn |the Savannah Shipyards and claims ‘lhal “Tommy the Cork” Corcoran |lobbied with Biddle against con- demnation. But the real fact is that Littell lost money for the | Government in that case. Corcoran had proposed a semement whereby FOSTER & MARS]IALL Members EW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE NEW YORK CURB EXCHANGE (Associate) Underwriters of Municipal and Corporation Bonds We Invite Your Inquiries Statistical Service Available Upon Request DIRECT PRIVATE WIRE TO NEW YORK 1411 FOURTH AVENUE BUILDING—SEATTLF 1 be rehabilitated. permanently disabled have not received anything like | the the attention that is paid to the injured or the acutely | their employment in the work they task of rehabilitation is performed as|most desire. skillfully as the Army and Navy have performed that | presented by the wounded, the country as a whole he let the Church silence ! the White House | ou run up against the fact| with | On this phase of medicine | 14 of trade and commerce is k T. Hines spoke hopefully. It 15 a6t promising. The stars presage It is a dif- |continued prosperity in the new because the chronically ill and lllewem Gradual #please of men from armed forces will facilitate NATIONAL ISSUES: Increase in transportation difficulties may be ‘expecu'd in the early part of the inew year. Railroads come under the |signs that seem to presage severe ms due to bad weather and the Government would pay | shipyard owners $1,000,000 for their | Proble ‘moxwm Littell opposed. And in a|Worn out rolling stock. Holiday joint conference, Biddle sided uun‘"“fl should be reduced to a | Littell, as he nearly always did. He | minimum. told him to go ahead and try the| INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS: Al- | case. Whereupon Littell lost. A |lied military control over liberated Savannah jury made the Govern- |Axis territory is to cause trouble ‘mer\t pay not $1,000,000 but $1,.-|for the United Nations. Patriotic | 378,368.36. 'The Government was| nationals in various countries will out over $378,000. ;,onpcsc plans for establishment of Those are some of the facts gcvernments that do not adhere which Littell, brilliant to traditional patterns. The seers but emo- ‘uunal did not make clear in his warn of omens that seem to indi- revolutionary tendencies. | public blasts at ‘his chief, the At-cate whose birthdate mmov General. | Persons it is o T have tie augury of a year of tests BIDDLE'S BIG MISTAKE in\at require faith and courage. | After the first three months all! Littell is God's gift to newspaper- | men. He loves to try his cases in|Will be fortunate i the papers. The shy and retiring | Children born on this day prob- | | Biddle doesn't. Neither did the 8bly Wwill be talented and trust-| | worthy. With their lofty concep- | Cabinet members on whose toes Littell stepped. Unfortunately, in tions of moral cbligations as they | Washington it is sometimes neces- reach maturity, they should be| ary to try cases in the newspapers protected against deception :mdl and step on toes. Sometimes that | treachery. is the only way you can blast | (Copyright, 1944) |slow-moving red tape. Undoubtedly, Littell did a great service to his |country on many things. But he He also fancies made the mistake of talking about good automobile driver, | his Cabinet chief behind his back.{he is not. sometimes in words that were| One day he backed his car off fighting terms. |the road into the sand and got Biddle waited patiently until |stuck, causing his young nephew after the elections, then aaked[to remark: | Littenl to resign. Thas was his big “If Uncle Francis smart | mistake. He should have used the |enough to be Attorney General, | Roosevelt . technique of getting |you'd think he’d have learned not | Littell another job. |to back into that sand.” Down in South Jersey, Francis| Today Uncle Francis is wishing |Biddle has built himself a summer lhe had not backed ino Normap beach cottage where he likes to |Littell. fish and lounge in old clothes. He | (Copyright, 1944, by United fancies himself a great surf fish- Feature Syndicate, Inc.) TRIPLETTE & KRUSE BUILDING CONTRACTORS EXPERT CABINET WORK OF ALL KINDS 20TH CENTURY MARKET BUILDING SHOP PHONE 96 After 5:00 P. M. PHONE 564 s extremely bad. imself quite a although erman, though he is AUDITS SYSTEMS TAXES NEILL, CLARK and COMPANY Public Accountents—Auditors—Tax Counselors 208 Franklin Street — Telephone 757 Falrbanks Office: 201-2 Lavery Building KINLOCH N. NEILL 2 JOHN W. 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Mike Pusich was a guest at the Alaskan. | Helen Rundquist entertained a group of five girl friends at a slumber ‘p’lh at her home in Douglas the previous sleepless night. \ | low, 30; snow. Weather report: High, 34; et et i e 8 Dally leSSOHS IN ENGHSN w. 1. GORDON PEERE T B MR SR T sl s g8 WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “He walked right into the room” Say, “He walked STRAIGHT into the room.” OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Gratuitous. Pronounce gra-tu-i-tus, A as in ASK, first U as in UNIT, I as in IT, accent second syllable. OFTEN MISSPELLED: Overreach; two R’s. - SYNONYMS: Immense, huge, vast, enormous. WORD STUDY: “Use a word three times and it is yours.” Let us increase our vocabul: by mastering one word each day. Today’s word: DENIZEN; mhabntnnt “Consider the freedom of these denizens of the forest.” } MODERN ETIQUETTE Q. When a woman is entertaining both men and women, how can she pay the restaurant bill unostentatiously? A. The very best way is to order the dinner and pay for it in advance. Q. Should one take along a gift, when invited to a party where one knows an engagement is to be announced? A. No; an announcement of this kind is usually a surprise. Q. What may be called the fundamental of good manners in public? A. Thoughtful consideration of others, and respect for one’s self. [SSUSCUSTISRSSS LOOK and I.EARNA C. GORDON by ROBERTA LEE - Before it became a State, what was the political status of Texas? How many eggs, per person, are daily consumed in the U. S.? What was the real name of John Paul Jones? What is a cachalot? What is the meaning of the phrase ANSWERS: An independent republic. Three-fourths of an egg John Paul. He took the name of Jones at the request of his foster William Jones. A sperm-whale. Out of the combat; disabled from fighting. DECORATING should not be confused with the ordinary run of painting. 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