The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 31, 1945, Page 4

Daily Alaska Empire EMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY s, Juneau, Alaska, Secons MELEN TROY MONSEN DOROTHY TROY LINGO WILLIAM R. CARTER SUBSCRIPTION RATES: d Doustas for $1.50 por month; Delivered by carrier in Juneau six months, $8.00; one vear, §17 By mail, postage paid. One vear, in a one month. in advance. $1.50. Subscribers will confer a favor if they will promptly notify the Business Office of any fallure or irregularity in the de- livery of their papers. Telephone: News Office, 602; Bustness Office, 374. which would att | discrimination tion, would only | tion. That is ticed in ¢ allow Editor and Manager | * ¢ anaging Editor | will be **f | who practice r " | these other w this is a wise bi. Alaskans w many years wil was the in President 0 man; an Indiar we belie )t the tollowing ratest ce, $15.00; six months, in advance, $7.50; ago it Indian: practice onl has bee any rate, we MEMBER OF ASSOCIATEM PRESS The Assoclated Press is exclusively e republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not other- paper and also the wise credited in - thi ONAL REPRESEN 2 Avenue Bldg was not time and {fact that ed to the use for accompl a grad all of local news published | who pay, re |, Many now open mc ed to ago. Not becaus | disease of the m. | The plucking off of passage of 'roots raeial more law will not and becanse acial discrimination believe £nergy to s THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE— UNEAU ALASKA WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 31, 1945 empt to force an elimination of racial such as this measure now in ques- serve.to heighten racial discrimina- racial discrimination is prac- y other ways than simply refusing to a place of business. The effect to bring about on the part of those a greater use of For that reason we do not believe 1 in ve, 1. ho have lived in the Territory for 1 remember that not so many years practice of many theatres to allow e n sections of the theatres. n done away, in the First Division at Thig lessening of discrimination lished by law but by the passage of ual recognition and acceptance of the the seats of a theatre ardless of race » places of public accommodation are Indians than was the case 20 years e laws were passed, but because this ind is being cured gradually. of this bill would simply be the a few leaves of the tr while the « rimination are left to put forth cannot touch. We do not question the motives of the legislators | who urge the adc above repro |racial discriming |are | Constitution of the United States also has that aim. | with poys The question they must decide is whether their | DISC Rl\ll\' It Representative racial diserimination did divisions of Alaska were not very ‘observant does exist in Alaska as it seem. not. out the world Discrimination exists mitted by all. In connection with this Anderson has introduced in the House and equal facilities and privileges to all citizens in places of accommodation within the jurisdiction of the penalties for would “provide for full public Territol tions . . . y of Alaska, to provide Yesterday the House indicated that it would pas this bill by a large majority. We repeat—discrimination c 'l I()\ RACIAL Racial discrimination certainly exists not State and Territory of the United States but through- One ‘does not have Alaska to discover many instances of discrimination against the Indians, Aleuts and Eskimos. That much should be ad- situation, rtainly does exist. ‘The question in our minds is t! Wwill ination? Can ination? Can it aid in the wbi the accommodations of a saloon, beauty parlor. These things discrimination. ba of discrimination. force @ member of one against his will. street. No law can forc to be of another race. We know of a playfield for children—a fine play- The white children use this fine playfield for Indian children use field. themselves. The that is not as good Yet there is nothing there if they fish. children refuse to play with them. . Indign children unhappy, and it is only fun to play when you are happy. #o'1aw can remedy this.situation, ly believe that a law Ofl the (oml.n'y, we ' hone: Waslunqion Merry- Go-Round - (Continued from Page Ome), in addition, war business and ac- companying wealth were concen- trated as never before in the hands of Roosevelt’s old enemies — Big Business. Six companies got more than 60 per cent of all the war orders. (General Motors, Du Ponts, Newport News Shipbuilding, Beth- lehem Shipbuilding, Curtiss-Wright, The Aluminum Corporation.) addition, 100 companies got 80 per cent of the war orders dispersing business, the exactly. the opposite, war Today the biggest question in the minds of busine and of the conservative Senators who so con- scientiously represent them in the fight against Wallace is; Who will get these war plants after the war? Jesse Jones up until January 20 was in general charge of their dis- position—subject to certain counter- checks by the War Surplus Prop- vy Board. He also was completely in charge of new loans to these and other companies. Economically, he was the most powerful man in the world, and the amazing thing about it was that, thanks to a powerful Jobby of friends in the Senate, he was able to maintain that power despite the fact that his record for shortsightedness in ordering vital war supplies is almost unbe- lievable. For instance, Jesse waited March 5, three months after Harbor, the day before capital of the Dutch East until Pearl Batavia, Indies, the passage of this bill eliminate discrim- elimination of racial di diserimination be erased by law? Raeial discrimination exists in many other ways than in denying to members of a certain color or race a theatre, are of minor importance It is the attitude which prompts such actions of denial of privileges which constitutes the i It is the attitude of one race which believes itself to be the chosen race, the superior race, in looking down upon another race as inferior that is the root of racial discrimination. No law will change this attitude. race to take duopher race into his home or into his social activities, No law can force a member of one race to speak to a member of another race on the a business man, race, to deal pleasantly with a customer who happens —usually the streets or alleyways. to keep the from playing on the fine playground. They can play | But they don’t because the white | 1 |had war ‘nl this bill the various | ' After only in every military and pol attack Delegates Ba Hawaii have ma to go very far in | resulting. the only daily to progressive and Representative a bhill which accomodations, First. legislate If Th viola- larg (1 fact | the ‘ln get appointed from it all. But kan, experienced red tape of bures New Yor! long study of the Alaskans presently enjoy has now come for us to grab the ball and run with it. meat situation that Mayor La Guardia is tr option of this measure. Their motives They wish to rid Alaska of ation and that is a noble aim. The pach | purpose will be accomplished—or aided—by the )):\sknp(‘{lrudv will continue good, there will} to us that speakers in the House of | Bartlett Amd l' lrrm].,tnn Should Now Grab ay afternoon who argued that | exist in very much mistaken or else | ‘ the Ball i { Ketchikan Chronicle) communiques from the | litical fronts, we have come to the decision that now is the time for Alaska to counter | artlett of Alaska and Farrington of | de an excellent stand against a New York Congressman’s plan to turn over the two Terri- | tories to the Nawy Department with colonial status ‘The CI ‘hronicle was the first and we believe 0 oppose the measute as being anti- | dangerous to what few civil rights | But we believe the time | eron Cole of New York is qualified to | for Alaska, then Bartlett of Juneau is cer- tainly qualified to legislate for New York. The world's st city should be just as good a subject for such action as the nation’s largest Territory. As a matter k has gotten into such a m over ying | to an army job in Italy to get away who better than a meat eating Alas by years of doing it, could cut the auc ? Citizens of vutt-lest ‘Washington, D. C. periodically ciy out that'they have no city government and no job of remedyir hotel or life. Columbia and of of publicity on Thus big rugged D. C. Bartlett is alread ;& first-hand travel ! things are studie No law can |of flying Congr o member ofdem The Présid Alaska, said he know) to settle handling this m: bureaus. agenc ably realizes tha will end up behir | up homesteads ir therefore for hin in raclal who is of one | a playground Indian children | job for him, trained through This makes. the | 8™ the facts is to the nation vlot of publicity Linvar of 19: Ifell to the Japs, before trying to order all the quinine remaining in that area. This was the only re-| maining source of quinine. And weeks before, the State Department ed Jones that the Dutch | | East Indies were in danger and he |must buy quinine. In: Instead of | did In regard to tin, Jones was asked by the State Department and the National Defense Council as early as two years before Pearl Harbor to grant a loan to build a | tin smelter in the United States. They were afraid our normal tin would be cut off from Smgaporc But Jesse refused to budge. And : a result, housewives today are bllll salvaging their tin cans. 72-YEAR-OLD BANKER Part of the trouble was Je has spent most of his 72 years as a banker, not as a planner. | He almost seemed more interested | in saving pennies rather than sav- ing the nation. For instance when the War Department {finally de- manded that rubber be rushed from the Dutch East Indies in summer of 1941, the Navy wanted | to unload rubber-laden ®ships at San Francisco, instead of taking them all the way through the| Panama Canal to New York. This meant a more expensive rail haul over the Rockies, but it also meant saving about a month in getting the ships back to Singapore. Lack of shipping was the big bottleneck But Banker Jones wouldn't pay the extra rall charge from San Francisco to New York. He insisted that the ships go all the way through the canal. He had the loan to buy the rubber, 50 he was boss. As a result, he saved six cents a pound on the rubber. But he cost the American people thousands of tires one year and Alaskan who has to rise and stand on its own feet. that Alas GI's home from the war. But Mr. s and bureaus grow in Washington, D. C., prob- study of Washington needs, and housing outlook. Since the other lawmakers are doing the Delegate’s all posing as experts, there certainly is no harm in Bartlett reciprocating. He is an able man, that | made | vaice ‘in their own affairs, being governed by a Con- gressional ccmmittee. Who could do a more thorough ng this hapless situation than an had this same kind of worry all his He might well link the causes of the District of Alaska together to levy the spotlight both unfortunate political districts. Alaska could help little Washington, Since Mr. iy in the Capital City he could make inspection without long and arduous ‘This is a distinct improvement over the way ed in Alaska, men t, back from a fast trip through was convinced (how we don't yet ska would make an excellent place He seems to be atter through his own agencies and Bartlett, aware of the way that by prolonged caravans t a lot more World War II veterans | 1d desks in the capital than will take ) Alaska. It would only be prudent, 1 to get about $3,000,000 and make a its potential desk space years of journalistic experience to | quickly. He is an official of the Federal Government, not of Alaska, therefore his duty at large. We fancy he could gain a and shake some of the experts on Alaska out of. his hair by becoming the young Loch- (hence. And only a few months later he was paying at a rate of more than $1 a pound to get 1ubber from Brazil. Again in Mexico, Banker oJnes ‘xefuaed to pay more than $100 a flask for mercury. Japan was pay- ing as high as $230 a flask, nndl mercury was vitally needed for making shells. But Jesse wouldn't go a cent higher. Furthermore, Jesse wouldn't buy the mercury excébt through the banks in Mexico City, who took a commis- sion from the natives, with the result that the natives preferred to sell direct to the Japs. So until | Mexico declared war, the Japs got more of Mexico’s mercury. | JONES AND BIG BUSINESS Because he always ‘plays ball | with banking and big business |eircles, Jesse is considered safe by | the Georges, the Baileys, and the Vandenburgs who rushed frantically | m his support in the Senate. He| s alw cooperated with their |rmnd That is also one reason the fyhy there has been such a con- | centration of wealth in the hands |of a few companies during the war. {This has been true of aluminum, | rubber, water power, magnesium, and tin. Take for instance, were two re so tragically slow in producing syn- thetic rubber. First reason that he bucked the frantic, istent recommendations of Ed Stettinius and the National De- fense Council who nagged him for 18 months prior to Pearl Harbor to start building rubber factories. Jones now alibis that no one could foresee that the Japs would attack.| rubber. There per- But the National Defense Council| Iuresuw it and warned him re- That | are open to all | ; i jut many more leaves which the land will inject fears where foresight | | combat. | overcome mad ideas. { | Overgenerosity should be avoided. | |and unwisely ambitious. sons why Jones 1" o |\ HAPPY BIRTHDAY P JANUARY 31 David K. Eiteman J. E. Fowler Cecile Cashen Mrs. Elvina Marrow Eulalie Rockmore R. M.' Mattson Elizabeth Jacobs A. R. Averill e o g HOROSCOPE | “The stars incline | but do not compel” ! 2] THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 1 Mixed planetary aspects are ac-j tive today which should be favor- able for many lines ‘of constructive { work. HEART AND HOME: The world | conflict between conservative and {liberal ideas will be reflected in homes. The younger generation will be restive under control. Par- | ents will have reason to seek wisdom P and to exercise patience in dealing and girls. BUSINESS AFFAIRS: While | |be a growing anxiety about postwar | | developments in the world of com- merce. Sacrifice of individual plans will be demanded by coming ‘events. | NATIONAL 1SSUES: Reaction- ary elements will retard war ellorl.s‘w and courage are necessary. This month and next will see the nation aroused to its supreme strength in INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS: New personalities will supplant many German leaders and pleas of innocence will meet accusations of horrible guilt in which all rules of war have been ignored. = Although the United Nations defeat the Axis armies, their greatest task is to is | of ss. birthdate a year whose augury of Persons have the much encouragement and pros it Children born on this day pro- bably will be talented and succ®s- ful, but they may be self-centered 1C(1pyx ight, 1945) HOSPITAL NOTES John W. Flyxm, has been admitted Hospital. | me:dxcul patient, | to St. Ann's Mrs, Vera Bayeys has been admit- ted to St. Ann’s Hospital for medi- cal- attention. surgical | to, St. Mrs, Leslie Iverson, a patient; has been admitted Ann’s Hospital. Dawson Muggy has been dis- charged from St. Ann’s Hospital af- ter receiving surgical attention. : Mary Pineda, a medical patient, has been 'admitted to the Govern- ment Hospital. OH Sollge WARNING TO AUTOISTS! Auto owners are warned now is the time to purchase 1945 auto slates, and* are cautioned not only ©0 purchase them, but to place them on their cars. JOHN MONAGLE, Chief of Police. e Get right for the Spring and Summer Season. The Mineral Baths at Warm Springs Bay will put you in Tip-Top Shape. Clean, Furnished Cabins, Groceries, Liquors and To- baccos. O'NEILL & FENTON, Baranof, Alaska. UZZa" peatedly. The second'reason for the delay was that even after Jesse started the synthetic rubber factories, he {put all his eggs in one basket—that of the big companies. He put all his | rubber production in the hands of the Standard Oil of New Jersey | patent pool, headed by his old! Texas friend, the late Willlam Farish, And despite. the fact that the 31 rubber factories to be built by the Standard group were not to be even completed until 1944, Jesse stuck to them until blasted loose by the Baruch report on rubber. The Baruch report, incidentally, severely criticized Jones for putting {all his eggs in one basket and for not accepting the Russian offéer to lend us their rubber patents. Jones, however, was playing with 'his old friends, And big companies had their eyes on the postwar |world. After the war they knew that aviation would be a booming industry, would demand high oc- tane gasoline, which is a by-pro- iduct- of synthetic rubber. They would have the high octane re- fineries. Also they knew that the |postwar automobile will feature a small engine using high octane. So the Standard of New Jersey group |and others favored by Jesse with lush rubber contracts will be all set for the postwar world. That is what the Senate fight is all about. That is why you can understand how the big firms now |operating government - built and government-owned war plants don't |want anyone like Henry Wallace | { Juneau-Cape Fanshaw and Petersburg run. 20 YEARS AGO ¥i's surire e et e e e ittt JANUARY 31, 1925 The Coast Guard had been ordered to patrol Canadian and Alaskan wate: s it was alleged fishing for halibut was being made in the closed season. The local Customs Office had received no such reports and could not understand the orders from Washington, D. C. Leonhard Seppala and his dog team was reported out 300 miles from Nome awaiting arrival of another dog team with diphtheria | serum for the epidemic suffers. There were 22 cases at Nome, 30 suspects and 50 contacts, with five deaths to date. Dog team musher Bill Kallan, carrying antitoxin on the relay to | Nome was reported to have frozen his hands in the bitter cold but was | continuing to dash toward Kaltag. Mrs. E. L. Hunter was soon to leave for the South to visit her son attending the Oregon Agricultural College at Corvallis. was one week overdue on the The gasboat was reported as having left Petersburg one week previously and was believed to have holed-up during the present gale. Mail and passenger boat George, Jr., Steamer Admiral Rogers was scheduled to arrive in Juneau this night from Seattle. Lester O. Gore was a passenger for Juneau. Byron Olson was this night to take over the management of the Zynda Hotel from Lockie MacKinnon. Weather report: High, 10; low, 5 above zero. [ e it Daily Lessons in English % 1. corbon WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do, not sqy, *We infend| td visit with our rclatives.” Omit WITH. OFTEN MISPRONODNCE ‘arphulin, |Prohduncé tar-po-lin, A as in AH, O as in OR, I as in IT, neéefit dn'second kyllable. OFTEN MISSPELLED: Choir (organized compzmy of singers). 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How did Clegpatra die? ; ’ & ANSWERS: 4 1.* Descendants of ¢hose who came to Virginia previous to 1620. (First Families of Virginia). 2. The Savannah, in 1819. 3. In Arabia. 4. Talking above your head, or talkmg foolishly. 5. As a result of the bite of an asp. A C. GORDON — WINDOW PLATE GLASS IDEAL GLASS Co. Glass Work of All Descriptions 121 MAIN STREET PHONES 633—549 F.W. WENDT DON ABLE ED JAHODA as a paid-up subscriber to THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE is invited to be our guest THIS EVENING. Present this coupon to the box‘office of the CAPITOL THEATRE and receive TWO TICKETS t6 see: "LOST mgl by Federal Tax—i1c per Person PHONE 14— THE ROYAL BI.IE CAB C0. and an insured cab WILL CALL FOR YOU and RETURN YOU to your home with our compliments. WATCH THIS SPACE—Your Name May Appear! DEPOSITS IN THIS BANK ARE INSURED |Who believes in the common man |interfering with their plans for the future. (Copyright, 1945, by the Bell Syndicate, Inc.) 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