The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 4, 1945, Page 4

! “day. PAGE FOUR / X Daily Alaska Empire Published every evening exeept Sunday by the EMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY Second and Maln Streets, Juneau, Alaska. BeLel TROY MO - - - DOROTHY TROY 1 o - - - V! WILLIAM R. CARTER = = - Editor & ®LMER A. FRIENI - S - Editor ALFRED ZENGER - - - - Business ger Entered in the Post Office In Juneau as Second Class Matter. SUBSCRIPTION RAT) Delivered by carrier in Junean and Douglas for $1.50 per menth; “ix months, $8.00; one year, 0. at the following rates: six months, in advance, $7.50; ce, $1.50. confer a favor 1f they will promptly notity ahy fallure or irregularity in the Ge- Bubscribers wi e Business Office Felephiones: News Office, 602; Bustness Office, 374 MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associeted Press is exclusively entitied to the use for ~epublication of all news dispatches credited to 1t or not other- Wise credited u this paper and also the local news published erein. ENTATIVES — Alaska Newspapers, le, Wask 1411 #eurth Avenuc Bid TRUMAN ECONOMY MOVES Some who read Wednesday's announcement of President Truman's first steps toward a program for réducing unnecessary Federal expenditures see the be- ginning of a fulfillment of political promises made way back in 1932 before the election that swung the New Deal into power The first two planks of the Democratic Party plat- form in 1932 read as follo “We advocate: “l. An immediate ernmental expenditures sions and offices, consclidating departments and bu-~ reaus and eliminating extravagance, to accomplish a saving of not less than 25 percent in the cost of the Federal government . . . Maintenance eral budget and drastic reduction of gov- by abolishing useless commis- of a national credit by a Fed- ann! balanced In other words, the people at that they were voting for less government, riot more; an end of deficit spending by the government, not deficit spending raised to the plane of social principle President Truman this week urged Congress to slash off a*total of $7,445369,000 from war program } funds already appropriated or rejected. The bulk of this would come off the shipbuilding program, but some 80 millions from various agencies and $369,000 from the Office of Civilian Defense which the Presi- dent abolished President Truman could take as a guide the words of the late President Roosevelt, who, although he did not follow them, said during his first campaign: “Bureaus and bureaucrats have been retained at the expense of the taxpayer. We are spending nlto- time gether too much money for government services which ? In addition to Wuum practical nor necessary. thIS we are ‘attempting too ‘many funetions and we ‘wxnl bureaucratic control of the Alaska Legmlav,uxe,, need a simplification of what the Federal govenment | is giving to the pu\ple Meanwhile, thought | enator Connally has FRIDAY, MAY 4, 1945 “A Message to the People of Alaska” Alaska We! nd wide distribution this message to the people of | (The y) | publication he terms ‘¢ With the month of wha Alaska” Governor Gruening took the almost unpre- | cedented course of analyzing for the people of a| commonwealth the performance of its elected repre- | embly s s to a legislative a the eyes of an appointive bureaucrat iver since Governor Gruening passed through 511 attle en route to Juneau to take over the duties of the sentativ office to which he had been appointed The Alaska | Weekly has been earicng for itself the criticism of | countle Alaskans by its support of various of his | statements and policies which ran counter to the convictions of the majority of A We lm\r\ teadfastly maintained our hone as to (;(.\—} ernor Gruenir Ability as \dministrator, as to his | incerity of purpose with regard to Alaska, and as to the sound nature of nis judgment concerning many matters of vital interest to the future of the Territory. We have at times found ourselves in disagreement | with him and have not hesitated to so express our- elves but we have never hitherto found occasion to | question Lis motives The “Message to the People of Alaska,” a report | on the 17th Territorial Legislature, is not only in | extremely bad taste but it lays the Governor open to | more than the suspicious of attempting to build a | machine emenables to his every demand and a willing- | ness by open statement and by innuendo to discredit | e with him. | 1e representative | who chances to be and impugnn the motives of all who di It is mio part of the func of the Department of the Interi named o the governorship of Alaska to dictate legi lation. Certainly it is not within the scope of his official duty to submit “MUST" legislation, lobby for it by every pressure method at his command, and then, | failing to achieve the full program, to attempt a purge | {of all those members of the legislature who did not | dance to the crack of the gubernatorial lash. | Reading between the lines of this piece of official propaganda one gets the feeling that, if it were fash- | ionable in this country, certain of those members who | opposed the governor's program would be liquidated | 1)\ the Stalin mann | A considerable space is given over 4o acrimonious | sarcasm directed at the salmon canning indust to berating certain members of the Senate for failure | | to impose excessive rates of taxation on that industry. | | This legislature, including the Senate of which the governor speaks in such disparaging terms, passed a | bill creating an Alaska Development Board, the prime i objective of which is to bring capital into the Terr 1 | tory for the establishment of a more diversified in- | | dustrial economy. This bill has been widely acclaimed ‘}..\ a constructive measure and had the full and | enthusiastic support of the governor. | It is somewhat difficult for the ordinary person | to square the objectives of this measures with the | tirades against the chief capital investment now in | field and with the constant attacks on “absentee | In one breath we seek capital, in the | attack it viciously and seek to tax it out of | | the | ownershi next we the field | And while on the subject, sentee ownership? Does a canneryman dealer, a mining man or a merchant who spends a | large portion of each year within the Territory, con- tributes heavily to its industrial and business life, pays int othe Territorial treasury by far the largest porti of its revenue ana works constructively toward Terri- torial development qualify as strictly an “absentee”? Do we want that kind of money the Territory, or do we want what constitutes ab a machine: neonle in ceeliuy become so soicitous? We believe that we not only want these people and their capital but that we must encourage thtm and we are muan\ convinced that we do not the one crumb of democracy allowed Alaskans by a paternalistic government. London Poles would be bmu;,ht into | afternoon hos! | pecially on the w ‘Pmmc | ishness and that kind of | to save it | strictly for the Native population for whom we have | SATURDAY, Good and bad the horoscope fo an adverse sign thority HEART AND HOME Increase in the birthrate w | to the cares of young homekeepe! |and gradually affect the sociui cus toms of many families. Ther- will e less recourss tc eyening recrea-| tions and more interesh in inform alities. BUSINESS AFFAIES MAY ects o for | 5 nd in e is i oni Ther sons in This is favorable date for sign- ing leases or contracts. Government m'(’d will continue to exact. inten-| > production from shops and fac- tories. Prosperity will be great stern coast, NATIONAL ISSUES Minority groups of American citi- | zens will cause many natignal prob- | Resentment regarding . re- I strictions existing in certain resi- dence districts of cities may lead to difficulties. | INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS | As the month advanc brilliant. records will be added to the stupen- dous achievements of the United Na- | but warning given of al piece of treachery in the| Peace gestures may pre- act of supreme despera- es-) is super | cede tion. Persons whose birthdate it is have | the augury of a year in which fin-| ancial judgment is put to the test.| | Good fortune is indicated but it is| wise to watch one's purse. Children born on this | bably stubborn ey be wisely directed as ers develop lest self- appear dominant an day pro- but clever. | will be should (Copyright, 1945) / lasted only about 20 d was largely a state- with Mol minutes ment by the Russian Foreign Min- | ister that he had been unable to reach an agreement with Stet- | tinius and the State Department, | the only thing he could do was | refer the matter back to Stalin. The necessity of having the con- versation translated into English |and Russian took more time than the brief subj matter ordinarily would have anted. waihmmon aid little, sawed wood. But the the Lublin Cabinet in order to| (Copyricht, 1945 by Bell Syndicate, Inc.) M other day when news reached the make it a (Iv;nm;rn(n- government. | b, erry- o ir it ¥ Trman” aid “ihat sinos SAIG| o VT R L o Himmler had approached Churchill this pledge not only had been Go-Round requrdinig 4 suftener, it was too |gmored, but thay Russin tad medB( S, (® SRS 8 L 2R S ¢ 2 much for Long Tom. He got even | the Lublin Government as now con- TIDES .TO.M(.)RROW . (Continued 1"7’" Page One) for all the news tips Vandenberg |stituted an accomplished fact by |l /o u "0 og ot 6y = ;1]1\ oxu-:[ quota «(,I ‘Wagner, Bmx-l.wme\,, the story. 1LI v : . Ldl‘ Low Tide 14:11p.m.: 231t e oven, Strauss, etc b Truman said that the nited | o 921 - 4 The White House has had indi- l“f‘f‘."‘ 1}“)‘"‘;“‘;"5“"“‘_’“""““'_ be- | States will keep its own pledges and | o }:").' 1:“ .“.” el 1.”‘.‘ o cations that the Russians also will |tWeen the U. 8. and Great Britain | herefore expects its Allies to do on one hand, and Russia on the | go for a hard peace. Big remaining thor ot SanhAdtns s the the same. | DANCIN question mark is the British. Many | “',N'm“ A’”‘M, '1‘|1ilud4- (n\\w‘l‘ This was told to Molotov in CLASSES NOW ENROLLING of their banks and business firms | 4 B ard | Tryman’s quiet but direct manner, | g collaborated closely with the Nazis punishing war ‘criminals. coupled with many expressions of | Baton twirlmg, tap, acrobatic, before the war, and after this war | It may get squeezed out in the)admiration for Russia and the de-fme, ballet, moderne, eccentric, toe- they will control the most highly discussione between Stettinius,|sire for closer cooperation. After- |tap, character, chorus specialties, sections of Germany. Eden and Molotov, but the Rus-|ward, he suggested that Molotov social dancing for beginners. Body industrial What they will do with these areas remains to be seen. way in which the sians took an alarmist view of the talk with Secretary of State Stet- State Department | tinjus and officials of the State Note—Up until the middle of last | SAuce: d out Pell as head of the | Department to see if an AL,X‘L‘(‘H](‘HL week, Postmaster General Frank American delegation to the War|could not be worked out. Walker was scheduled to be the Crimes Commission in London. This| Trumans second - conversation U. S. member of the Reparations commission is charged with work- | y Commission. But at the last min- ing up dossiers against Axis war ute he walked into the White criminals and seeing that they are House and asked to be excused. brought to trial instead of organi Prank has had several deaths in|ing World War III During the past | ACROSE 10 his family, was deeply moved by year, sincere, graying Herbert Pell y pusciancity ~ §2 fibbed cloth the death of his old friend FDR., maneuvered hims where he was scheduled to be head elf into a position | 7. Kind of grape grand- . Outcome parents toning and tap classes for stenog- |1aphzrs Studio 411 7th. Phone Red 575. Dorothy Stearns Roff. (Adv). o> — ire Want-ags bring ruflts! Empi would like to retire to pri- G : b it Pauley, who will fake of the whole Allied War Crimes iy & Loty his place on the Commission, says Commission. Instead he was thrown 16. Came p»z‘clher 48, Pinn uz-l ot he will let the State Department out. BRI T 50. a) o Bandle his trdnsportation but' Th real inside story of Pell's’ 18 Touandl = . . henomena otherwise will not listen to their ouster has never before been told. R or Soth: ° " receptatle soft peace ideas on reparations. What actually happened was that .Lu’:’xt:;xx‘\; frag- £4. Toward Friends of handsome Senator at one of his last commission 24 . Item ot prop- “Long Tom” Connally attribute Meetings in London, Pell proposed ' o g publicity rivalry between him and that every German holding Nazi . Mystic~ Hindu Senator Vandenburg of Michigan Purul; membership cards from | £} e Solution Of Yesterday's Puzzle as the reason for the leak about humber 1 to 100,000 (the men Constellation s £ For years the genial Texan has Movement) be put to death with- | 25. Baseball 67. Afternoon nab » par down x helped battle Roosevelt’s foreign Ot trial. A e el policies through the Senate. But This proposal so wfuriated ap- | *% Pineh last fall Roosevelt began playing peasement-minded British members up to Vandenberg as one of the of the commission that they tipped leading ex-isolationist Republicans off State Department pals in with considerable influence in the Washington, who went to work on Senate, and at one me of Pell and caused his early removal R Senate leaders it was especially Although several months have heating noticeable that Roosevelt went out passed since Pell's ouster, nothing _,\,‘J;L“SL‘" of his way to defer to the Michi- has been done to give America ! gan Senator. real representation on the War It was: “What do you think of imes Commission, despite the re- this, Van? And what do you think cent hideous Nazi atrocities. of that?” Umtil the ected Sen- Here is the general conversation ator from Texa obviously which took place between President ] piqued. Truman, one-time Missouri farm -‘~","”,‘; Bagse: At San Francisco, Vandenberg, boy accidentally hurtled into the 6. Groove - also has been grabbu ball and Presidency, and Foreign Minister ’\”;‘:r" yunning with it. By all odds he has Molotov, who before 1939 had never lindu_goddess been the dominating member of the been outside of his own country. s American delegation. Stettl The first 15 minutes of their i. Leaye out sat somewhat in his sh 40-minute conversation dealt with R g denberg is the man most egrets over President Roosevelt’s Detest out by newsmen. He is i ith and Truman'’s delight that Ungiieed: delegate who had advi other lotov had come to the United Toagh charac. American delegates that their itions Conference. Then the con- Axnblan gar- strategy should be to put out jon turned to Poland, and 2. SalG nak good story to the newsmen cvery Truman reminded Molotov of the .h:’(‘\mn mul- Yalta pledge that some of thei berry | increase our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. . . - uarry sirtunAY *ff 20 YEARS AGO from | . . . THE EMPIRE ® o o MAY 4, 1945 © © . £ oanie, . . Mrs. W. B. Kirk . MAY 4, 1025 . Mrs. B. M. Chapma: . Natalie Kashevaroff suffered severe bruises when she fell from her . Mary Chandler . le and was confined to her home. . s. Ray Dearle o Pl v Ethel Gary ® | J. G. Morrison, court bailiff, left for a brief trip to Haines . Olive Scott . s $ \“f\\f"’(,‘,lr’]""gx‘,‘:’;‘w ol A roof five on the building occupied by Jack the Tailor, on Front . i 2% 3 o | Street, called out the fire department. -Damage was slight. e o o ¢ 0 06 0 o o o ]‘ erTay O e e e 2 Traveling man J. W, Gucker arrived from Seattle. i RIS B H 0 R 0 S c 0 P E | Advices were received that James Sey was recovering from a ¢ | operation in Seattle and would soon return to his home in Douglas. “The stars incline ! - - but do not comp o Weather report: High, 48; low, 39; clear. i Daily Lessons in English %. 1. corbon WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: (appears to be, but may be false). to go” (plain to the mind; obvious) OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Viscount principal accent on first syllable. OFTEN MISSPELLED: G: SYNONYMS: Satisfy, N WORD STUDY: “Use a word three “His sincerity is APPARENT” “It is EVIDENT that he means Say, ay, Pronounce vi-count, I as in LIE. , surfeit, content. times and it . S Let us Today'’s word: was a PITEOUS; fitted to excite or sympathy; miserable piteous case of poverty.” ) pity MODERN ETIQUETTE Q. If a dinner guest is late, a half hour? A. No: the maximum length of time is fifteen minutes, and if she wishes she need not wait any longer than five minutes. It is ill-bred and rude for a dinner guest to be late. by ROBERTA LEE B e e e e ] at least shouldn't a hostess wait for Q. Isn't it proper for the bridegroom and his best man to be dressed alike? A. Yes, with the exception of the bridegrooi’s boutonniere, which | shouid be different. Q. Should a boy or girl rise when addressed by his teacher, even though he is outside the classroom? A. Yes; it would be courteous to do so. (e 2t e ot et e LOOK and LEARN % ¢ corpox - e 1. When flocks of geese migrate is there always one leader? 2. If you bought a pound of gold and a pound of feathers, which would weigh more? { 3. What King of England was called “Coeur de Lion"? 4. What onion was named for a popular resort? i 5. What is the literal translation of “ad libitum"”? i ANSWERS: 1. Scientists report that there is no one leader who always flies at the head of the fleck, but that leadership rotates among the geese. 2. The feathers, as there are 16 ounces to the pound. 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