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

PAGE FOUR Daily Alaska Empire Published every evening except Sunday by the EMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY Second and Main Strects, Juncau, Alaska. BELEN TROY MONSEN - - - - President DOROTHY TROY LINGO - - - Vice-President WILLIAM R. CARTER = = - Editor and Manager ELMER A. FRIEND - - = - Managing Editor Business Manager " THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU ALAS(A : HAPPY BIRTHDAY | 20 YEARS AGO I cupins ! MARCH 31, 1925 T Mrs. Tke P. Taylor Mrs. A. L. Hendrickson and daughter Ideal returned to Juneau to Mrs. G. E. Cleveland make their home. Miss Hendrickson had been in the States for the past Beverly Lane several years attending business college and was to become a member of el e the Alaska Road Commission staff. '10 the productivity of our economic system. Wartime savings, on the other hand, represent the huge waste which is the inevitable by-product of war. They re- {flect the fact that we have failed to pay as we go. They do not represent funds which will be diverted to the creation of capital with the beneficent effects savings devoted to that purpose have had in the past. This volume of current savings also has signi- ficance from another point of view. In some quarters it has been emphasized that when war production WY SATURDAY, MARCH 31, 1945. TRIPLETTE & KRUSE | BUILDING CONTRACTORS ‘EXPERT CABINET WORK OF ALL KINDS 20TH CENTURY MARKET BUILDING SHOP PHONE 9 Alter 5:00 P. M. PHONE 564 ALFRED ZENGER - - . & MOUNT JUNEAU LODGE NO, 147" SECOND and FOURTH ', Entered in the Post Office in Juneau as Second Class Matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATI 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 vear, in advance, $15.00; six months, in advance, $7.50; sne month, in advance, $1.50 Bubscribers will confer a favor if they will promptly notify Whe Business Office of any failure or irregularity in the de- | is cut back, total wage incomes will be reduced. This reduction, it is held, will mean that the demand for consumers’ goods will be similarly curtailed and that, therefore, higher wage rates are necessary to prevent | Mvery of their papers. | Telephones: News Office, 602; Business Office, 374. unemployment. Such an analysis overlooks the large | amount of slack offered by these record savings. Cur- The Assoclated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for g s v v irst in- «apoblicalipn of all news disbatehes credfted $0 it OF HOS Otlers Lal]m(‘l\(v& in income will be reflected in %hr,- first in-| Wise credited in this paper and also the local news published stance in lower taxes and smaller savings out of | current income rather than in lower purchases of | | goods and services. This is particularly true because of the large backlog of savings already accumulated : We are urgently in need of a reorientation in our attitude toward these savings. Proposals designed to offset reductions in purchasing power assime such savings are normal. The reverse is true. They rep- | resent a highly abnormal development and one which remains a potential threat to the stability of our economy. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS -— NATIONAL REPRESENTATIVES — Alaska @surth Avenue Bldg., Seattle, Wash spapers, 1411 | (Cincinnati Enquirer) | Bearsley Ruml, the New York businessman who is | | so widely known for his pay-as-you-go tax plan, held | out possibility of a postwar future interesting to con- | template when he spoke here recently. It was inter-| | esting because it was like sitting down to a K-ration | $300,000,000,000 national debt and then suddenly see- | ing appear a full-course dinner with filet mignon as | the piece de resistance. | The most dramatic and arresting part of Ruml’s | talk was that for the last 16 years the normal annual | increase of 2 to 3 per cent in the nation’s ability to WARTIME SAVINGS The Department of Commerce estimates the sav- ings of individuals in 1944 at about $40,000,000,000. This is an all-time record. The abnormality of this volume of savings is indicated when it is compared boom year of 1929. In fact, savings of individuals 1ast ¢ ctanqard of living. This creates the very pleasant year were equal to about half of the national income | situation that if the nation has full employment after of this country in 1929. This peak volume of savings ' reconversion it will have a 40 to 50 per cent increase |expansions. | has been created because the war has been financed ' in the standard of living, according to Ruml’s | mainly through borrowing rather than taxation. In analysis. 3 addition, the combination of price control and ra- | To Americans who have passed through a long 2 | tioning has made it difficult to spend these extra | depression followed by a long war this adds up a funds, and many persons have refrained patriotically | piotute - of i Glizselves . that, somewhat rese_mbles the‘ ‘meressmn most foreigners have_uf Americans. i from going on asspending spree. { i For management of the nation’s imposing debt, For the years 1941 to 1944 savings of individuals | pum] advocates a tax rate under which the national aggregated $117,000,000,000. This represents a tre- pudget would be balanced only when there is high | mendous backlog of spending power. It is sup- |employment and against which amortizing payments‘ plemented by corporate savings of about $19,000,000,- | would be made only when there is a boom. ,He finds 000 during the same period. The longer the war lasts, | it all a matter of keeping purchasing power in '_.he“ the greater will this volume of savings become. There hands of the people by not taxing them too heavily. | is no way of knowing the extent to which savings |Ruml a man who accepts precedents as proof of | will be spent in the post-war period. Because of their magnitude, however, obviously they can play an im- \soluble as, if nothing more, to give inspiration and portant role at that time. | courage to those who must find a way to get the Peacetime savings are invested largely in plant, | people of this country back to the prosperity which equipment and other capital goods, which in turn add | they demand and which they should have. Washington . out for himself, makes the whole problem sound so }you will find that he merely says|risen from lieutenant colonel to full | not say where, and he does not list | Staff, the right-hand man to Mar- | his father or mother. | shall. Probably his father never had Fact is that the General's|8 church which paid him over s |$1,200, but on that he raised four ‘.falher wasBev, 1. B Rands, o |boys and a girl, including one of itinerant Methodist preacher who | ) Altporp. P | the highest-ranking generals of the spent fifty years shepherding his:Mm3 mcuntains of South- - control. The attack has l?een leveled Szrr;nv::‘;mmc:nd Eastern Ten- ‘ . BT against the Stabilization Fund,\ o .ce0 pHis father sent young | CAPITAL CHAFF without which the International|gonq.' o college at Emory and | Although Representative Albert Bank would be largely futile. 'Henry, a church school near Carter, California, lost out last The committee majority Willlp o) pecause it made special con- |year to George P. Miller, Carter probably not vote against the €1 | cessions to preachers’ sons. is drawing $3,000 per year plus tire agreen_lent, voting instead to‘ But the General also fails to list overtime on the Congressional pay tag on various amendments Which y.i'y Who's Who, perhaps because |roll of Representative Al Elliott. will necessitate anu@er interna- |, . was asked to leave by the Carter is a Republican, but is being tional conference. Treasury andlg .o when a porfessor came by paid by a Democrat . , . Mary State Department officials are do"bt'?snd saw a freshman being mildly Ellen Smith draws $3,735 per year ful if, once we have rejected the ... Actually, Tom Handy was on the pay roll of her stepfather, Bretton Woods proposal, Another jo jooking on, but the professor [loud-mouthed Representative Paul agreement can be worked out. [suspected him of being the ring- | Stewart, Democrat of Antlers, Okla- & % ¢ {leader. |homa, but Miss Smith puts in the ROOSEVELT AND AL SMITH | “mpat was the turning point in |major part of her time as a student Tom andy's start toward be- at George Washington University. Tt was the lafe: Al Bmith '"23 comxng“‘l a full general. He went to|. The Senate Small Business one else persuads et more S any! 5 the Virginia Military Institute, was |Committee is preparing to investi- Franklin Roosevelt, then discour- | Benefic aspects rule today which {should be marked by good news 3 i z industrial Wik & pte-war Deak uf Jos EURH FHNFEDA: me‘pruduce has not been translated into a highel‘?some sort is indicated when Gov-| nothing and believes only that which he can reason |Neptune is in a place that en-| SUNDAY, APRIL 1, 1945 Dr. L. P. Dawes Mrs. R. C. Hurley Charles Rudy John H. Peterson Mrs. Selma Peterson George Martin Don Hungerford Mrs. W. L. Lovell Mrs. W. A. Blanck HOROSCOPE “The stars incline . but do not compel” | P e c e e e o ] SUNDAY, APRIL 1, 1945 ~ regarding the war and promise of important legislation. HEART AND HOME Although the Springtime may be| depressing to aged persons ‘there| will be much joy in many homes. This date is fortunate for religious | observances. | BUSINESS AFFAIRS Complex problems of trade and commerce will disturb bankers and | leaders. A scandal of | ernment investigators uncover far- | reaching plans for postwar cartel NATIONAL ISSUES Church members and other peace lovers will exert influence toward kindly treatment of German and | Japanese leaders. The stars seem | to warn that danger lies in meas- | ures that are typical of our high! ideals of human relationship. This| is a time when stern penalties| must be exacted, when punishment must fit the crime. INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS | Revolutionary influences will be strong among our German enemies. | {courages riots, chaos and despera- | tion. Underground forces will sur- |vive Nazi defeat for some time but icondmans should improve by Sep- |tember. Deadly treachery of some| |sort is forecast. Pesons whose birthdate it is |cess. Confidence should rule plans| (and their realization. ! " Children born on this day prob- ably will be mentally active and {extremely individual. They shouldy !be carefully guided, because they may have high tempers. MONDAY, APRIL 2, 1945 { Benefic aspects are strong Loday' but adverse influences are active. \There is a good sign for United ;Nations’ navies. HEART AND HOME this configuration. The stars prom- ise romance for the young and the middle-aged. Many widows will marry and brides who are older than bridegrooms will be numerous. BUSINESS AFFAIRS Astrologers again tell wage earn- ers to save for future emergencies. Although there is likely to be less. financial stress than looked for in the course of reconstruction, cer- tain difficulties are inevitable. Nels Anderson and Frank Bach had filed for Cuuncilmen at Douglas. Women are well directed under | Sam Guyot left for the Westward on the Yukon to call on the trade. Allen Fortney, with the Juneau Dairy for sometime as delivery man, left for the States on a vacation trip. R. E. Robertson filed in Juneau as a member of the school board. Repeal of the bounty on eagles failed in the House of the Legislature by a tie vote. The first Rothry Club in Alaska was organized at Ketchikan. The Alaska Presbytery was in session at Sitka. The seven-passenger Cadillac of M. D. Berry was destroyed by fire and the garage on Main Street was damaged. The first was caused by an explosion when an electric heater came in contact with oil and gas being drained by Berry. He was badly but not seriously burned. Senator Forest J. Hunt arrived for attendance at the Legislature. Weather report: High, 40; low, 34; cloudy. i Daily Lessons in English % 1. goroo PUS S WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “Page seventy is all the farther I have read.” Say, “is'AS FAR as I have read.” OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Kismet. not KIZ. OFTEN MISSPELLED: Niche. Observe the E. Pronounce first syllable KISS, SYNONYMS: Reverence, veneration, worship, homage, honor, awe, adoration. 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: EXULTATION; lively joy at success or victory; delight. swelled with exultation.”—Prescott. | MODERN ETIQUETTE Q. call be ignored? by “His bosom e ROBERTA LEE If one is positive that the acquaintance is undesirable may a first A. No. The first call must be returned, but the acquaintance need not be indulged. Q. Is it correct to wear corsage bouquets at a luncheon in a home? A. No, but they are sometimes presented to guests of hnoor at a luncheon given by some club. A. A restaurant or dinner frock. P e Q. What kind of dress should a girl wear to a late, informal supper | he was born in Tennessee. He does general and is now Deputy Chief ot‘hnve the augury of a year of suc- | party? ; e et e ). 1. How many leper colonies are there? 2. In the United States Navy, what is a pointer? 3. What Italian painter wrote from right to left, instead of from left to right? 4. What is the “addendum” of a book? 5. What was known as Clinton’s Ditch? ANSWERS: 1. Leper colonies are maintained by the United States in Louisiana, Canal Zone, Hawaii, Philippines, Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico. 2. One whose business it is to bring the gun to its proper elevation. 3. Leonardo de Vinci. 4. An apppendix. 5. The Erie Canal. There is no substitute for newspaper advertising! aged by his physical setback, to! run for Governor of New York in 1928. The race gave FDR his real start toward the Presidency. Later Smith was bitterly critical of Roosevelt’s domestic issues, but, with the war they became graduated, won a decoration in France, along with MacArthur and in the same operation. After the war he taught at VMI, the same school from which General Mar- shall was graduated. During the years of peace, when other officers were playing golf, bridge or polo, gate monopolistic control of the movies. Sparking the move is Com- mittee Counsel Dewey Anderson, who ripped the movies apart sev- eral years ago when on the tem- porary National Economic Council. 4 Movie producers—on short rations of raw film—were furious more | friendly. And when Al died last! October, Roosevelt paid him a[Handy was working night and day.‘,w learn last week that the Army great tribute in his Boston speech,-Q“m' shy, confident, he went has turned over for disposal as sur- Today a modern housing projcfl‘through all the advanced schools. 3 is being built near Oliver Street,! In the last three years he has unused movie film. the humble East Side districti j where Al Smith was reared. And to| commemorate the man who came| Crossword Puzzle out of the slums to be Governor | of New York, a committee is raising ACROSS 37. Fresh-water ~ money to build a plaza in the . From a porpoise center of the housing project. It .Ro':'.'&’,.'}fiuua 'C'::;: ?fr::o will contain a fountain and a| 9. Feline animal maple tree . Grow dim . Greek letter plaque to the memory of Alfred E.| 13 Ri0¥ 5r'fupber ) What? Smith. | 14 Seaweed Conclusion When the fund-raising commit-| 15 Scandinayian 5. County tn tee wrote President and Mrs."Roose- fiem} ina velt, asking for a contribution, a| 3% Mingle . 4 Tapesty b, check for $10 came back from| 20. Size of coal war-busy Franklin Roosevelt with no letter; another check for $10; from Eleanor Roosevelt with no letter. 33 Poems From Tom Dewey came a check _g{mau roots for $50 with a beautiful letter. t 36 | | What burns form . End supports of a bridge Blunder Learning . Defy 58. Epoch 59. City in Por- tugal alt 60. So may it be Organ of sight 61. Thing: law . Short-napped fabric il . Myself 27, Save esterday’s Puzzle DOWN . The southwest wind . Daily food and drink . Batrance . Happen again 5. Spinning €2. Serpentine fish 63. Require T dEEE JENE dE AEENJNEEE d UNRAA CONFIRMS This column recently told how | a British colonel, posing as an| UNRRA worker in Greece, had| been found with receipts showingf British payments to Greek right-| wing factions to encourage them to | fight the Greek left-wing. Simul-! taneously, the British Information Service issued a denial. | Lodiae | Later in the day, however, Reu- | R ters, the British news service, tele- | [% y - Edge ot phoned the UNRRA public rela- . Part played llonfh:r?:e and asked for comment ; ]fxfifio':::xg. on ory. “What comment?” UNRRA representative. “You're going to deny . / . W W 7 organ of a spider . French city 7. Aromatic pria- ciple of violet root . Strong taste . Ability . Sign of the nals . Two: prefix Intelligence Affirmative . Renegades . Legal claim asked the it, aren’t . Precious stone . Three-toed sloth . Kind of meat . Close: poetic . Woolen cloth you?” said Reuters // “No,” replied UNRRA, “the story’s g true.” . » - NEW GENERAL HANDY ’ Least-known of the newly pro-| moted full generals is Gen. Thomas | T. Handy, Deputy Chief of Staff. If | you look him up in Who's Who, | . Over . Of the country . Type of car . Century plant . Title 3. Large plant Dispatch !plus property 15 million feet of' NATIONAL ISSUES t Aquarian influences will impart to labor great power, political and industrial. Within the decade radi- cal thinkers and leaders will be accepted as messengers of the new world which is to emerge from the World War, the seers phophesy. INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS The stars are read as presaging a difficult struggle to vanquish Japan completely and there is a sign that seems to indicate a stubborn fight on the mainland of China, where political develop- {ments will have a strong influence that affects the date of victory. Persons whose birthdate it is have the augury of a year of pro- gress. Changes in old ideas are in- dicated. i Children born on this day prob- ably will be talented and ambitious, self-willed and high-strung. Suc- cess is promised- for those who are wisely disciplined. them up especially- is that the out- of date and much of it will] | probably be useless . . . Senator Glen Taylor, Idaho’s singing cow- cellent addition to the Senate. Be- sides being a forward-looking legis+ lator, Taylor is one of the few members whose voices can be heard |throughout the chamber and the galleries . . . Those who expected great things from Arkansas’ young J. William Fulbright now are not s0 sure . . . Yalta-hating Repre- sentative Alvin O'Konski of Wis- consin has already scheduled a two- hour speech in the House for May {3, Polish Constitution Day. He in- itends to analyze the San Francisco Conference then. (Copyright 1945, Bell Syndicate Ixe.) MRS. JACK SCHMITZ ‘ as a paid-up subscriver to THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE is invited to be our guest THIS EVENING. Present this coupon to the box office of the Army held the film until it was| boy, is turning out to be an exs|- CAPITOL THEATRE and receive TWO TICKETS to see “STARS ON PARADE" Federal Tax—11c¢ per Person PHONE 14— THE ROYAL BLUE 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! Howe DEPOSITS IN THIS BANK ARE INSURED g o L 6539 Women's Appane Baranof Hotel Building First Natingmql Bank of JUNEAU, DERAL DEPOSIT SURANCSE CORPORATION Silver Bow Lodge @ @ND.AZ.LO-O"- Monda, A y of each month ° Meets each Tues- in Scottish Rite Temple day at 8:00 P. M. 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