The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 12, 1945, Page 4

PAGE FOUR : : Ao Daily Alaska Empire Published every evening ept Sunday by the EMPIRE PRINTE COMPANY and Main Stree Juneau, Alaska. . . - President pel 'HY TROY LINGO - - Vice-President WILLIAM R. CARTER - - Editor and Manager ELMER A. FR! D Managing Editor ALFRED ZENGER - - Business Manager Office in L SCRIPTION RATE Delivered by carrier in Juneau and Douklas for S1.50 per month; six months, $8.00; one year, $15.00. By I, postage paid. at the following rates: One ¥ 1 dvance, $15.00; six months, in advance, $7.50; Bubscribers will confer a favor if they will promptly notity the Business Office of any failure or irregularity in the de- Mivery of their papers. Telephones: News Office, 602; Business Office, 374. Entered in the Post uneau as Second Class Matter. B MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for Jepublication of all news dispatches credited to it or not other- w edited in this paper and also the local news published AL REPRESENTATIVES — Alaska Newspapers, 1411 ldg., Seattle, LABOR IN POWER The labor, or pro-labor element in the Territorial House of Representatives seems to be in a position to push just about any measure it so desires through that body. Two years ago that wasn't the case. Last week a bill which would have revised the Terri- tory’'s Workmen's Compensation Law, along lines sug- gested by labor, itself, and the U. S. Department of Labor, was tossed out the window by indefinite post- ponement. Laborite Rep. Chris Hennings made the motion which led to the bill's downfall, and voting along with him were such labor, or pro-labor men as Reps. A. B. | Cain, Joe Krause, Fred Hanford, Frank Peratrovich | and others. The reason the bill was fought apparently was not because the labor group didn't think the bill was a good bill, but because it was introduced by someone not from their own ranks. | The bill was drawn up, following suggestions from the U. 8. Department of Labor, by Commissioner of Labor Walter Sharpe. A proposed draft was sent | around some time before the Legislature convened | and received endorsements from a large number of unions. It was also endorsed by the Alaska Terri- torial Federation of Labor at its recent convention here. A good many amendments probably were needed. a great need to keep workers wérking steadily, And wages are high. seems doubtful that when things return to normal that this power will be retained. The last issue of Time magazine reported a num- ber of new strikes. “Industrial Detroit seethed with bitter squabbles. | ‘Work stoppages’ constantly interrupted production of | direly needed war goods: “Test drivers at the Chrysler tank arsenal threat- ened to strike because the proving grounds were dusty. When the company sprinkled them, the drivers threatened to strike because they were too wet. “At another plant, where a man was suspended three days for sleeping on the job, fellow workmen walked out, stayed away until the suspension expired. At still another, workers left the job because a tele- phone close to their machines was taken out, in the interest of better production. Workers at another plant stopped work for a meeting on grievances, |found they had none to mention, went back to work | again.” etc. | Such things as these do not stand well with the Imen now at the fighting fronts and who, when they | return, probably will form into the most powerful political group this nation has seen. These men, most |of them from labor groups, would have good reason | to feel that they are being stabbed in the backs. { Tree Farming (New York Times) The recent Washington State Forestry Confer- ence points a lesson that can be profitably considered ion a nation-wide scale. | which, as an organized crusade, got under way about ! four years ago. Great credit for furthering the cause | of conservation and putting the lumber business on & iratlonal basis goes to Hugo Winkenwerder, dean of the College of Forestry, University of Washington, who founded the conference & quarter center ago and The tree-farming movement is a logical outgrowth of the ups and downs of the lumber industry in the Northwest. In past decades operators considered lumbering a cut-and-get-out process. Gradually pri- vate owners learned that this method was short- sighted business. The great majority of the acreage was suitable only for tree growing. In 1931, largely through the persistent work of Dean Winkenwerder, the Washington Legislature passed a law which allowed the operator to pay taxes at the time of harvest. This yield tax removed the burden of an- nual payments on nonproductive land and encouraged owners to plant trees for another crop on harvested areas. The definition of a tree farm, as given by the West Coast Lumberman's Association, is: “An area of land devoted primarily to the continuous growth of merchantable forest products under consciously applied forestry practices.’ At present, some two mil- lions acres of privately owned land is certified for tree farming; about a million and a half additional acres are in process of certification. This represents ap- proximately half of the cut-over land of the North- west. The West Coast Association has established a co- operative nursery which can produce six million iDouglas fir seedlings annually at cost. Oregon and Washington have established tree farms on State- However, because this power is being abused, it The conference was called to | |evaluate the progress of the tree-farming movement who served as president until his recent resignation. | Yet the House has passed very few bills this session | gyned land, 314,500 acres in the former; 875,000 acres | without a string of amendments, and this bill was | in the latter. Last year Congress enacted a bill which actually the first one in the hopper when the session | enables the United States Forest Service to cooperate | opened. | with owners of private woodlands in approved tree- | Labor certainly gained nothing by the move, and | farming practices. Tree farming in the Northwest has it seems to us therefor that the power was not wisely | proved economically sound. Millions of acres in other | used. It may be that when the Legislature meets areas of the nation are primarily suited to grow trees.; DY & & 2 In decades past, we have squandered this resource | two years from now, the House will be looking out"reckle&sly: at present the war emergency is causing | for other things beside labot. us to use wood faster than it is being grown. The | THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU ALASKA HAPPY BIRTHDAY MONDAY, MARCH 12, 1945 H. L. Arnold Severin: Swanson Anthony E. Karnes Beverly D. Edwards R. M. Lucavish Ellen Jones Christine Bailey R. F. Wells e HOROSCOPE “The stars incline but do not compel” e e ] TUESDAY; MARCH 13, 1945 ; Benefic aspects dominate = today, |which should bring good news from lwar fronts. In Congress, reason should oversome prejudices. Heart And Home This is the time for elimination jof all superfluous articles in the {home. Astrologers advise disposal of whatever is not in use, for many/ |needs are to be supplied in homes |of every type. Second-hand articles ;are now as desirable as new were in prewar days. Business Affairs Imarkets will be widely advocated | las illicit merchandise extends. The stars presage greater scarcities of 20 YEARS AGO !r"fimn EMPIRE MARCH 12, 1925 Not one bill had been introduced in the Senate during the eleven-day period of the Legislature. Mrs. George Baggen and three children arrived from Petersburg. L. D. Henderson, Territorial Commissioner of Education, was to be toastmaster at the banquet to be given by the Chamber of Commerce { this night to the members of the Legislature. “The Eskimo,” film made in Alaska,drew packed houses at the ! Coliseum Theatre. v Representative Grier of Anchorage had introduced a bill for literacy test in ‘voting. Weather report: High, 37; low, 35; trace of snow, *; Daily Lessons in English % L. corbon | ottt e ) WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not confuse LATER (comparative of LATE) with LATTER (of two things, being the one mentioned second). A OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Quiescent. Pronounce kwi-es-ent, as in LIE, both E's as in SET, accent second syllable. OFTEN MISSPELLED: Cordial; no J, nor G, though pronounced I | cor-jal. SYNONYMS: Inquisitive, inquiring, intrusive, curious, meddlesome, Punishment of buyers in black | meddling, prying. 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: AGGREGAAE (adjective) ; combined in one sum. “The aggregate number manufactured wares and increased jdemand for shoes and cotton goods. | | National Issues As if in rebuke of Nazi purges, the outcome of world war is to be marked by such a blending of blood | among the peoples of the world as| never has been previously possible. |The seers declare that race preju-| |dice must be blotted out by Am- erican consciousness. | International Affairs | According to the stars, the Nazis' | desperate fighting will cause the United Nations serious delays and {losses in their drive on Berlin until |final victory is attained. Persons whose birthdate it is !have the augury of a year of ad- | justments to changing financial |conditions. It is wise to watch ex- | penditures on luxuries or pleasures. | Children born on this day prob- lably will be avid for the good Ithings of life and desirous of at- taining success. They will be tal- ;emed and energetic. o i (Copyright, 3945) . ———— — e o o006 00 0 0 0 . TIDES TOMORROW e e o o High Tide Low Tide High .Tide 13:30 p. m.:19. Low Tide 19:48p.m,; 3.1 ft. TAX CONSULTANTS ALBERT WHITE, former U. S. Deputy Collector, with associates, is Labor, of course, is in the driver’s seat all over | restoration of woodland resources is a matter of the nation today. There is a scarcity of labor and | national concern. washin Ion {again quit early. The guard had no|[the Geneva Convention by shoot- n control over them and didn't really jing, mutilating and half starving M o |try to exercise any.”When I asked |American prisoners in Germany, e"' | him to get the names of those who‘then I fail to see why we should Go.nound |had spent part of the afternoon adopt a silk-glove attitude toward |sitting in the shade, he tried, but arrogant Nazis in American camps. they refused to give their names. |The least we can do is to separate | I wrote a report to the Provost the good Germans from the bad, 2 L {Marshal's office at Camp Meade, and put the latter on bread and thing. At night the Serbian wlduws!and they investigated the matter, water instead of feeding them on ccilected the prisoners’ shoes a“djbu', in the end they acted as if it the fat of the land. slept on them. Few ran away and|yere my fault. They white-washed| The present silk -glove policy thes,ere;alweys caught. the prisoners, did not even put doesn't seem to have influenced At noon the 10 German prisoners | ... on bread and water. Berlin. Perhaps the threat of re- sat under a tree, ate their lunches| |taliation will. and sang songs. The guard did not| Maryland farmers around me ! . % 2l 5t < go near them. After one hour they ‘auggcs{ed that I not do nnything/cofiyngm 19s0, Besé dyndioats Inc,) went back {o work. At the end of more about the matter for fear the | 5 ¥ % the day I paid the Government 30 Army would take the prisoners 0. E §, MEETING cents an hour for each prisoner, away from the country where they| Tuesday, March 13, at 8 p. m, or $3 an hour for the 10. The were badly needed. In view of the Rainbow Girls to exemplify their prisoners in turn received 80 cents manpower shortage on all the farms WOrk by Lynna Holland, W. M. a day, the amount set by thelT said nothing. . Helen Webster, Secretary. (Continued from Page Omne) |located at Room No.- 2, First Na-, {tional Bank Building, Junedu, Al- aska. We will gladly assist you with iyour INCOME TAX problems and |save you time and money. Out-of- town business solicited. FIRST Na- |TIONAL BANK BLDG. (Adv.) Relief At Last - ForYour Cough | _Creomulsion relieves promptly be- | cause it goes right to the seat of the trouble to help loosen .and expel germ laden phlegm, and aid nature to soothe and heal raw, tender, in- flamed bronchial mucous mem= branés. Tell your druggist tv sell you 8 bottle of Creomulsion with the un- derstanding you must like the way it | quickly allays the cough or you are 0 have your money back. CREOMULSION for Coughs. Chest Colds. P:ronchitis Geneva Convention. The Govern—! But today as I near eye-witness ment kept the rest to pay for haul- |accounts of the manner in which | ing, feeding and handling prisoners.|the Nazis have shot down ccm-' The whole thing worked out panies of American prisoners ln‘ well, so well that a week later when |cold blood, and how American | the Farm Bureau could spare addi- |prisoners have been woefully under-‘r tional prisoners I had 10 more. |nourished and mistreated, I con-| But this time it was different. fess that my blood boils. I wonder | The first lot had been captured in|if there isn't something radically | Normandy, the second lot had been|wrong with the Provost Marshal! taken in North Africa. They were |and his whole handling of German a part of Rommels Afrika Korps. prisoners. I don’t know what the difference is | between Nazi prisoners taken in| NAZI NON-COMS Africa and those taken in France,| From my own brief experience | money 50. Objects unless it was that Rommel's troops land from talking to officials in the | iy oo toea "™ were more Nazified, but I do know |Provosts Marshal's office, I gamcr‘ Hth that the second goup was insolent,|that German prisoners are left | 57. E)V.xcguuu lazy, impossible to manage and |largely under the command of their | At OMmA more trouble then they were worth.|own non- " e | : Botounaly re- y | hon-commissioned officers. The | . Profoundly re. They were given exactly the same second batch of prisoners I had | Prfl:fi'iml Jjob as the other prisoners, but they |were under a full-blooded Nazi, al did about half as much work. Two |non-com, and in addition, the rest| or three insisted on sitting in thelof them seemed Nazified as shade whenever they felt like it.|Hitler himself. When I called this to the attention| There may be some good un- of the guard he seemed helpless.|Nazified non-coms in the German ! He said that if he ordered them|Army, but in view of what we around it would be worse |know of the German Army, the' The guard, incidentally had hung odds probably are against it. On his rifle on the truck which my the face of it, therefore, I should wife was driving between the corn- [think the Provost Marshal would field and the silo, and eventually it try to break up the Nazi ‘non- bounced off and fell on the ground.|commissioned officer system instead A prisoner picked it up, looked to'of continuing it in our own prison see if it were loaded (it wasn't) lcamps. and threw it back on the truck. I should think also that there At noon hour they quit early must be some way of weeding out | and wouldn't go back to work she good prisoners from the bad, until they felt like it, which was 10/ for obviously the first batch of minutes late. They complained that prisoners I had was reasonably some apples we gave them 8 were good. But if they are thrown with % 7 wormy. The Geneva Convention, men like the second batch, they E.%//H- m_gy said, paid them 80 cents a are not going to remain that way 1 V/ day, and they were going to give us long. “-“.%nfl MEEE ACROSS Nonclrcular rotating viece . Greek letter . So . Metal-bearing rock 3 Cltny in Okla- oma 14. Early alpha- betic charac- Resound Norse mytholo- logical giant . Relatives Formerlys. prefix . Style 40. Negative . South Ameri- can river Period of time es 31, 83, I8! 6. Cross stroke ter Sent payment on a letter . East Indian . Lasso ¥ o 22. Type measure t . Ren . Inquiry for. lost “goods . General fight 29. Seek labori- ously as 80 cents worth of work. International treaties are import- | / i and and I am not one to advocate A T U. S. GUARD hastily tearing them up. But when Toward the end of the day they{the Germans have already torn up| " Crossword Puzle [SICIAMEIPTAWTS] Solution Of Saturday's Puzzie 69. Make a} mistake 65 6. 67. 68, Short jacket Female deer Epochs Part of a shos Aol . Mountain ridge . Hebrew letter . Serpent . Hypnotic state andal . Weakening ."Line of junce~ could not be ascertained.” ¢ e MODERN. ETIQUETT Q. When extending a telephone invitation to dinner, what should one say? A. “Is this Mrs. Smith? This is Mrs. Wilson speaking. Will you and your husband dine with us Wednesday, at seven o'clock”? Q. When is the proper time for a bride-to-be to acknowledge a wed- ding gift? A. The preferred time is to mail a note of thanks on the very day the gift is received. Q. Where should the individual butter knife be placed? A. The only proper place is on the butter plate. P e I.OOK and LEARN f‘f{ C. GORDON I e e Tt ] 1. Does the weight of the human brain have anything to do with the amount of man’s intelligence? 5 2. What is the soft stone that is usually used in scrubbing decks of ships? ‘What is the area of Texas in square miles? Is food rationed in Australia? ‘What is ornithology? ANSWERS: No. Holystone. 265,896 square miles. 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