The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 14, 1945, Page 4

Duily 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 - d ELMER A. FRIEND - « . ALFRED ZENGER - " President Vice-President Editor and Manager Managing Editor Business Manager Entered in the Post Office in Juneau as Second Cl UBSCRIPTION RATES: Delivered by carrier in Juneau and Douglas for $1.50 per month; six months, $8.00; one year, $15.00. By mail, postage paid, at the following rates: One year, in advance, $15.00; six months, in advance, $7.50; Sae month, in advance, $1.50 Bubscribers will confer a favor if they will promptly notify the Business Office of any failure or irregularity in the de- Mvary of their papers. Telephones: News Office, 602; Business Office, 374. T MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for | epublication of all news dispatches credited to it or not other- wise credited (n this paper and also the local news published NAL REPRESENTATIVES — Alaska Newspapers, 1411 Zsuith Avenue Bidg., Seattle, Wash BONUS BILL This has probably been one of the greatest Legislatures for paving the way for votes that the Territory has seen in a long time. Few dissenting votes have been cast against such “hot” measures as increasing allowances for pension- ers, payments for unemployment compensation and measures which profess to help the returning veteran. Few have been the voices raised in the defense of business this session. One of the few who dared to object to something that labor wanted was Senator N. R. (Doc) Walker of Ketchikan who had the nerve | to attempt hopelessly to carry the ball for the small business man early in the session. No attempt has been made toward figuring out what might be done to help put the bogged-down gold mining industry back on its feet. Yes, this is a forward thinking Legislature— thinking forward to the votes in the next election. Few also have been the voices raised against Rep. Stanley McCutcheon's House Bill No. 66 which would provide for cash payments to returning vet- erans from Territorial funds of $100, plus $20 for each month of service. The Senate now has the bill before it for consideration. The House passed the bill along with only eight dissentng votes, those of Reps. Gill, Hoopes, Link, Peterson, Porter, Shattuck, Vukovich ' and Walsh. It has been said that Alaska will have probably 5,000 returning veterans. If these men averaged only two years of service their payments under the pro- posed bill would amount to approximately $600 each or a total of $3,000,000. Yet the appropriation called for is half that figure, and if the appropriation was $3,000,000 it would | come close to what the entire Territorial biennial budget was a few years ago. Obviously there is a serious question as to whether the Territory could afford to pay these benefits and also maintain the expanded regular functions as ap- proved by the same House which approved this bill. And even so, what would this mean to the veterans? A payment of $600 for services rendered. This is - an easier way of saying the boys will be put on the ! dole at#$60 a month for 10 months. The Anchorage Post of The American Legion has come up with one of the first comments on the bill: “. . . opposes bonus House Bill No. 66 as being | untimely, incomplete, unstudied, ill-advised and dan- gerous to economy of the Territory . . .” The Post seems to think that such legislation should contain some benefits besides cash payments, that funds should be made available by the Territory for loans under the GI Bill of Rights. Probably what is most desired by the men who ‘| governmental function, or at least only temporarily, will be coming back is not cash payments or loans but jobs and the favored American way of making and paying their own way in the world. It might be well at this time to take a look into the future and see if we can figure out who is going to have the problem of supplying jobs in the post-war period. 2 Certainly the Territory can’t do the job as a and it is equally certain that labor unions can't supply the jobs. It seems to us that after all of the flag-waving and smoke has cleared away, the bulk of this employ- ment problem will be where it always has been—in the hands of business and industry. ture would be to do everything possible to make this great task a little easier. But contrary to this, just about everything has | been done, or attempted this session to hamstring business and industry, to hang more milestones around | the businessman’s neck, let alone trying to do some- ones. Yes, business and industry have certainly been | the whipping boys of this session. Labor has been speaking in a loud and effective voice, (in spite of the fact that several opportunities have been lost through the wanderings of several of | the laborite members). Educational groups probably will have everything they need; pensioners and other of the recipients of social security-minded measures | have been well taken care of, and if the boys and girls can get together we may even have a legalized health department and more money along this line. | But we hope that the Legislature hasn't been | too socially forward in its decisions and too short-: sighted in the probably effect of their actions upon the economic conditions of the Territory. It is too easy for the business men, who will have the real job of making a go of the post-war| world, to take their marbles and play in someone else’s yard. Alternating Blows (Cincinnati Enquirer) Students of military history for decades to come may find it interesting to speculate on the timing| of the great Allied winter offensives of 1945, first | the Russian and then the Anglo-American. At first’blush, it might have seemed more op-\ portune to have the drives from the east and west | come .simultaneously, and such may or may not have | been the intention. There are obvious explanations for a delay in the offensive which General Eisenhower is now conducting into the heart of the Rhineland, among them the fearful supply problems, compllcated by one of the worst winters that Central Europe| has experienced in many generations and the Von Rundstedt surprise counteroffensive. | However, tremendous military undertakings of this character require elaborate scheduling. Their timing cannot be shifted whimsically. Thus, had the | Russian offensives from the east come a few weeks sooner they might have deflated Von Rundstedt’s drive' through the Ardennes sector, but had they‘ developed prematurely the Soviet's drive might not have accomplished the dramatic results it achieved. And, conversely, had the present offensive from the west come a few weeks sooner it might have so | | distracted the Germans that the Russian drive would I have carried into Berlin. However, there is every | | reason to believe that General Eisenhower knew when | i the Russian offensives were timed to explode and | | Moscow was informed of the date of the current| operations dgainst the Siegfried Line. | The absence of a simultaneous offensive from the ! west did permit the Germans to shift great masses of | troops from the Siegfried Line to Eastern Germany in ! time to blunt the Russian spearhead short of Berlin. | | But in the long-range war strategy this may prove advantageous because it is essential to the defeat of‘ 1 Germany that the Anglo-American side of the great pincers penetrate the heavily fortified Rhineland in order to squeeze against the interior of the Reich. And had these elaborate fortifications not been drained of first line troops to the extent they have been, the task of penetrating them might have been fright- | fully difficult. The Germans are in a spot. They can't move | their reinforcements back now, lest the Russians re- new their offensive in maximum strength. Our strategy {of hitting the Reich first on one side and then the other, whether accidental or designed, works pretty well. Washington deluged with mail conscription. Most of the isecms to be against it. | CAPITAL Note—The White House i being :remarked: “We’ll have to leave now, against post-war |Mr. Secretary, it's time to stand in public 'line for cigarettes at the Press |Club.” y s s CHAFF | UNDER THE DOME It would follow, then, that the job of the Legisla- | |thing to attract new industry and expand present THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU ALASKA WEDNESDAY, MARCH 14,1945 HAPPY BIRTHDAY TUESDAY, MARCH 14, 1945 Martin Lynch George W. Folta Mrs. Herman Weiss Dan Mahoney Judson Brown Mrs. N. A. McEachren Mrs. Della Dull Mrs. Oscar Mangsol Mrs. Harry Olds Charles Lineham Wallace DeBoff Mary Lod Fagerson Allison Swanson Lars Sorenson - e et {HOROSCOPE “The stars incline but do not compel” SRORER D D TE LS Benefic aspects rule today which should be more favorable to the | Navy than the Air Forces. Heart And Home | Through membership in women's clubs many workers have gained ef- !ficiency and broader views. In the postwar world housewives no longer | will represent the majority of wives !and mothers. Marriage is to be an ship., Business Affairs Home buying is to be a chief in-| terest this Spring when the stars| encourage ownership of, real prop- erty. The urge to acquire small| |farms will be strong. Safe anchor- age for families will be sought with a new concern for the future. National Issues Religious or ethical instruetion in schools will be advocated by persons| of many faiths. In combating ju- venile delinquency the public will recognize the necessity of appealing to the spiritual as well as the men- tal qualities of youth. International Affairs As the youngest of the great na- | tions, the United States again will be !subject to severe growing pains, the seers prophesy. In association with European diplomats America’s rep- resentatives are to suffer from the disillusionment that belongs to youthful idealism, it is Xorecfiz_. Persons whose birthdate it isthave the augury of a year of progre: though there will be minoi | stacles. Children born on this day have lucky stars to guide them but they may be inclined to overdo in pur-| suing promising careers. (Copyright, 1945) al- . ob- Hurley wasn't back in Washiffgton three hours when he showed up at Gen. Sir, Henry Maitland although he hadn’t even |for Wilson, shaven. Chicago's Mayor Ed Kelly “still runs the most impressive service- men’s center in the . world, has taken care of more than 15,000,000 |GI visitors and served them more than 3,000,000 meals, almost as much as multi-billion -dollar UNRRA has doled out in the last year. Mrs. Kelly has furnished wedding rings for several soldiers, has even shipped juke boxes over- |seas to boys on lonely Pacific islands. Col. “Tony” Biddle. former U. S. Ambassador to the Allied Governments, now attached to Gen. Eisenhower, is doing one of the best diplomatic jobs in Europe, especially in improving liaison be- tween Eisenhower’s command and the Red Army. The California Veterans of For- eign Wars have requested Roosevelt to drop deportation proceedings against West Coast labor leader Harry Bridges. | economic as well as a social partrer- | a British Embassy cocktail party | (Continued m Page One) niversary “of the annexation of the! United States by the Republic of | Texas, as all Texans in their in- nate modesty would have us be-| lieve.” | He varied the usual staid and| solorless topical headings in the| Congressional Record by titling his| remarks “Hurrah for Texas.” It wasn’t until near the close of the House session that day that someone mentioned Plumley's speech to Representative Albert| Thomas of Texas. Thomas and veteran Fritz Lanham then put their heads together and Lanham delivered a tribute to the State from a real Texan POSTWAR CONSCRIPTION Although no final decision been made by F.DR. personall Undersecretary of War Bob Pat- terson and several other White House advisers are urging him to press for immedi Congressional action on. a postwar compulsory military training law covering all men 18 to 26. Patterson and some of the Army brass hats want Roosevelt to jam the Conscription Bill through Con- gress before the war is over. They are using the line with F.D.R. that passage of a peacetime Conscription Bill by Congress now will be fur- ther evidence to the United tions that this country will main- tain a sizeable military force to help keep the peace. Congressional leaders so far against immediate consideration, feel they’ll have their hands full in the next few months getting more urgent postwar measures through Capitol Hill, such as jobs, without starting up a terrific con+ troversy over conscription, h Na- | are ‘Isolationist Representative Harold (Copyright 1945, Bell Syndicate Inc.) i‘ U. S. Ambassador, to China Pat Knutson of Minnesota is using his | mailing pivilege to flood Ham Fish’s | Congressional District with copies | of Fish’s vitriolic anti-administra- | tion “farewell address” to Con- | ACROSS gress . . . One reason Gen. Eisen- | . Winglike hower and his staff have been so| O Infant jupset about Congressmen vnsmng‘ ‘Br,';’,,“cl:: {the battle zones is that when the . Plucky |Germans counter-attacked last De-‘ . Sacred Image {cember, the Nazis sent a puwerful' 'i:‘:’:h |paratroop force to take the little | q |town of Cernay. Had they landed | Th.');kfn':lef et |one week earlier tosthe hour, they‘ !would have captured the entire| |House Military Affairs Committee | Delegation then in France. Representative Charles La Fol- |lette, liberal Indiana Republican land a close friend of Wendell L. | Willkie, never had met his son,! |Philip Willkie, until his recent trip | lto London where Lt. Willkie is| tationed. A few days later La | |Follette bumped .into Philip acci- | |dentally in New York, and a Iew days after that Willkie arrived in| | Washington and was a guest at |La Follette’s ome. | Boosters of the Federal Anti-| Poll Tax Bill have set March 23 as the deadline to get half of Con-| gress to sign a petition to get the | bill out of the Judiciary Committee for a vote. If they don’t hurry,| {however, the South will beat them | to it. The Georgia Legislature votéd | last month to drop the poll tax, while the South Carolina Legisla- ture followed last week. i 37. Auction 38. Having a smooth flecting surface Malign Harden Indian mul- berry 44. Corrode . Salamander 47. Parts of a harness Finial of & spire ! . Hum 55. Small explo- re- 40. 41, 42. oofs | Troubles | 23 Dance stej . You and | 27. Knack Dismounted Havin | Brought back . Soft drink . Part of & curve fensive odor Amsl‘lunn humoris 69. Demolish el MORGENTHAU AND PRESS Secretary of the Treasury Mor- genthau was holding a press con- ference the other day and ran out of news. However, he did not want to end the conference in a per- jemptory manner and waited for | more questions, Finally a newsman Crossword Puzzle slon . Russian inland sea. an of- 0. NN | T e i - [s] = () (%) 7! |E] R IR] [ T A T IE] Solution Of Yesterday's Puzzle Had on = DOWN . Biblical kf . Rarrow road So be it Guided Vehicle for . Remarry . Consisting of snow travel . Witnessed two legisla- + tive 61, 62, branches Keen . Drills . Purposes . Chief beam . O:‘ the country . Chasm Propel with oa 3 y . Lopsided . Struck a glane~ B ing blow y . Orchestral dl- rection for silence . Age . Manner of serving eggs Lamb's pen | e . Pamper: Scotch . 01d musical note . Hawailan wreath . Kingflom In India Aftersong Qbstructs A (‘,‘emury nlnt 5 Pl\rnlxu 20 YEARS AGO 7'z exrire MARCH 14, 1925 Carrying an appropriation of $15,000 a bill was introduced in the Senate by Dunn and Brown creating the oifice of Territorial Mining Engineer whose purpose was stated as being that of aiding prospectors. Many alarms of fire had been sounded and Chief Dolly Gray issued a warning that boys starting brush fires on the hills just to see the department make a run, would be arrested and prosecuted. | Steamer Admiral Rogers was due the next morning, the first steamer in port for five days from the South. | The Junior Class fo Lhe Douglas High School presented two plays | at the Liberty Theatre and among those taking part were Helen Lind- strom, Edwina Martinson, Mary Africh, Beth Anderson, Lucile Fox, Daisy Vesoja, Elizabeth Fraser, Gordon Gray and Alli Kromquist. ' L. O. Gore resigned as Assistant U. S. Attorney and gnnounced he | would enter private practice at Ketchikan. Gore had held the position for four years. The Elks announced they would give their annual St. Patrick's Day dance as usual, on March 17. Admission was to be $1.50, with favors. “Love’s Whirlpool” with James Kirkwood, Lila Lee and Madge Bel- lamy was the feature billed for Spickett's Palce, and “The Little Church Around the Corner” with Claire Windsor was the feature advertised ‘at the Coliseum. | Weather report: High, 35; low, 28; snow. | e Daily Lessons in English % 1. corbon R e e ] WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “The arm of the coat is torn.” Say, “The SLEEVE of the coat.” The boy put his ARM into the SLEEVE of the coat.” OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Cambric. CAME, I as in BRICK. OFTEN MISSPELLED: Alias; two A's. . SYNONYMS: Arrest, apprehend, catch, capture, hold, seize. WORD STUDY: “Use a yord three times and it is yours.” Let us increase our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Today’s word: INDELICACY; that which is offensive to good manners; coarseness. "rhe indelicacy of his remarks embarrassed her.” MODERN ETIQUETTE *% ROBERTA LEE Q. When a girl is standing talking to a man, and drops some article she is holding, shouldn’t she make an attempt to pick it up? A. No; she should wait for the man to pick it up. Q. When playing golf and there is a foursome just ahead of you, how long should you wait before driving? A. Wait until all four of the players ahead of you are too far away for your drive to interfere. Q Is it proper to serve cream with demi-tasse? A. No. e s e I.OOK and ‘.EAR A C. GORDON BE IO R S TSP PRIt Distinguish between evolution and revolution? Who was the first to manufacture rubber overshoes? How did bayonets get their name? Are there any volcanoes in Alaska? 1 ‘What is meant by the littoral of a country? { ANSWERS: 1. Evolution is a general orderly development. Revolution is the sudden overthrow of one authority and its replacement by another. 2. Charles Goodyear. 3. They were first made in Bayonne, France, and named for that city. 4. Yes, several. 5. 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