The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 18, 1945, Page 4

PAGE FOUR D(uly Alaska Emptre Published every evening except Sunday by the r EMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY ,nf the, in(‘runpptoncn and neglect which could be noted throughout' the facility. The case of one World War I veteran who died because of sheer neglect of his | condition was cited. Generally poor results from treat- Secoud and Muin Stresta Jzmas, Llasks. FELEN TROY MO uin Stresth I3 AlASke. resident [ment were noted, among them the fact that the DOROTHY TROY > - Vice-President | veterans' i Y s : WILLIAM R. CAF 2 3 - Rditor and Manager | veterans’ Administration hospitals discharged only ELMER A. FRI - @) o - Managing Editor | 2.3 per cent of tuberculosis sufferers as “arrested 2 -~ - < < Business Manag % S st i usiness Manager | ., ces,” whereas the tuberculosis hospitals of New Entered In the Post Office in Junean as Second Class Matter. ;Ym'k State have a discharge rate on the same basis BUBSCRIPTION RATES: n Juneau and Douslas for §1.50 per month; of 25.6 per cent. In other words, the patient in one Delivered by carc A of the tuberculosis hospitals of New York has about six months, $8.00; one vear, $15.00. By mall, ¢ id, at IhunIu]l?WmR R e $ii50; | 1L Himes the chance of being discharged with his one § 500, six months, in advance, $7.50; @ ene montt se quiescent or arrested as the veteran with Subscriber or if they will promptly notify sk ' it the Business ire or irregularity in the de- | tuberculosis who nl)e}. upon the treatment of the lvery of th 5 bl Bitte 418 | Veterans' Administration facilities. The moral, we Telepha Orfice, 602; Busin ce, 374. : % A . oot S |[think, is obvious. The traditional methods of the MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS medical profession promote competence, government The Associated Press in exclusively entited o the ust for republication of ull news dispatches credited to it or not other- wise credited fn this paper and also the local news published berein | control promotes ir ompetence, (.nm Harvest NATIO! Alaska Newspapers, 1411 | Fourth Avenue Bld (Cincinnati Enquirer) will be reaped for many and the oceans near the A grim harvest of war years to come in Europe | continent. Literally millions of mines of all types { were sowed on land and in the sea. Most have been | removed or neutralized, but for a long time in the | future innocent people will be killed or maimed by | these instruments of war Ihe beaches of Europe, mines hy the C {of stung Europa.” Then, as the great retreat began into the interior of the Reich, other mines were strewn in the pathway of the Allied armies by |the hundreds of thousands. They were buried in | fields, hedges, flower gardens, streets, pathways. The | forests were sprinkled with them. g Obviously, finding them all will be a tremendous |task. And a dangerous one. Every day this spring, |on the average, 10 Belgian people were blown to bits the phy y encountered the hidden menace of mines to socialize the l,,.“m”.jleu by the Germans . Volunteers are attempting .w jon to bureau- |Seek out and remove the mines, but the farmer, tt_)r instance, may not suspect the presence of mines in cratic argued that |} 2 el until he puts the plow to the ground. inevitably the public would | " A" prench army expert estimates that it will cost suffer from bureaucratic or political entanglement 30,000 lives to ferret out all of the mines and un- in the soil and | TWO METHODS More or less unanimously, cians of the nation have opposed schemes or to subject their prof They have to the of medicine control or influence, quality of service A good case for their argument is presented by |exploded shells and bombs which lie (he record of the Veterans' Administration. Despite | waters of Europe. According to him, more than 100,- the lavish support of the government for several 000,000 mines were planted in and around the Con- decades, the Veterans' Administration by and large | tinent. In addition, there are as many as 800,000 tons of unexploded bombs and shells in the war-torn | ground. offers a very mediocre standard of care to its patients and somietimes its ministrations have been notoriously ; / © it b e s B (} e ety g " ‘The French think that German prisoners of war bad. Every doctor associated with the Veterans' Ad-| e yen who sowed the mines originally—should be ministration over a period of years has not been | given ihe task of finding and removing them. There | any manner of means, but we think |are of course, no charts showing the precise location | incompetent by | of mine defense were mapped, | any disinterssted appraisal will yield A)u conclusion | of the mines. The ar that the general level of physicians and surgeons |but the smaller anti-| personnel and anti-tank mines | attached to the Veterans' hospitals does not compare | Were scattered more or l'M promiscuou: | They are fearfully ses, - The | Germans specialized on a small anti- personnal mine | with an intense, though limited vertical blast. They |were commonly known as castration mines, because The' quality of medical service in the Veterans'|,r yje nature of the wounds inflicted upon Allied Administration has been the subject of Congressional | {yoops. The smaller mines during the latter months inguiry, and as a result of the publicity and Ih(um‘ the war were made of plastic or other material zhange in direction of the administration (it now is | which could not be detected by the conventional | neaded by Gen. Omar Bradley) we may reasonably mine-detecting equipment. Then, too, there are the | expect & marked improvement in the Veterans' hos- |booby traps One Cincinnatian, a prisoner of war| pitals setup. But our point remains: Over a 1wnud“"‘ a year, was liberated by American troops. In a| : | German grocery store he attempted to open a can of yeard under bureaucratic management, the agency | o e Shter Rted SRR rar ittt ha 18 ¢ |of honey. It was a booby trap” which exploded, eteriorated to a standard of quality far below that of | oo hic face and eyes. the private practitioners, » Thif® $pring,” Cosmopolitan and Reader’s Digest publishéd accounts of a survey of the Veterans' Ad- | favorably with that of private and public hospitals | drawing from the unsalaried doctors of their com- munities, | « ) i Many an American who is proud of his right to y what he darned pleases wishes he had the courage ministration which was shocking in its revelation ! to do so. . support him The wash]_nglon great detail how the Democrats vicious of all labor practices— nm knifea FEPC. | stavery. Merr GO Round am sick and tired of this| “Yet some people would have you| Y q..muw boxing,” Keefe stormed. |believe that all social progress be- “You have 50 more votes in um gan on March 4, 1933.” House than have the Republicar Every Congressman present had he continued, “and any time the|to agree that Republicans like Ben- | (Continued ]wm Page One) fall, with very little off-season hog President of the United States|der and Keefe were in a position slaughtering wants this legislation passed you o challenge the Democrats. But It was announced that the Army !€lows will be whipped into line as|on the other hand, Republican had generously consented to re- YOU have in the past, and you will|jeadership in the House has been | duce its setaside of Federally-in. PASS it because you have the votes|just as evasive as the Democrats spected meats. But what was not 0 Pass it. Why kid anybody anyin dodging a showdown on Fair pointed out was that this decision longer? | Employment Practices. (The funds Was made last March, when the| The Wisconsin Republican then have now been given FEPC for secondoqgarter meat allocations challenged Cannon to bring FEPC! operating one more year.) | were dedided, This “gesture” by|OUt foi @ vole before the fulll s the Army may come back with re- | House. | SPANISH OUTCASTS newed bigh demands for meat in| “My good iriend, the gentleman| with the Army doing everything| Septembér. ;Irum Wisconsin . . " said ‘ e s gressman Cannon in reply. B“lh)euns to their homes, nothing is SURFL{S PROPERTY SECRET |Keefe interrupted. |yet being done for the first con- About ihe closest wall of secrecy “That is the way you addressed |tinental fighters against F.nsuam—- (with | the Spanish Loyalists still penned | in Washfhgton shrouds the Surplus' John Taber of New York fight),” up with their families in France War Property Board, the disposal whom Cannon had a fist of course, were filled with | sermans as an element of the defense | THL DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE-JUNEAU ALASKA B : WEDNESDAY JULY 18, I945 HAPPY BIRTHDAY JULY 18 Billy Pegues Mrs. Helen A. Young Clara Walther Duncan Robertson Mrs. Olaf Petersen Robert Moeller Ida Blair Robert Cresson Alma Carstens M. R. Livesly ® o 0o 0 0 0 0 0 — e D e ) !HOROSCOPE “The stars incline but do not compel” — THURSDAY, JULY 19 Benefic aspects rule today which should be favorable for labor unlans although much criticism of certain| policies is indicated HEART AND HOME While many homes are | happy by the and women, others are shadowed by extension of war anxieties. The;| seers warn against entertaining a sense of injustice or harboring envy. There are signs of for the Autumn. | BUSINESS AFFAIRS Small busine: speed with which made achieved. Before midautumn many shops and factories will turn ou', profitably, much needed civilian goods. NATIONAL ISSUES With the restoration of normal, living conditions, lessons taught by the sorrow of war will begin to fade. | Astrologers emphasize that living in the most remarkable period day with consciousness of its super- value in human experience. INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS While the American public looks upon foreign countries as sources of |machinery to maintain lasting peace, | organizations in the United States will work openly inst accom-| plishments in San Francisco, rol- Persons whose birthdate it is have | the augury of a year of progress in realizing high ambitions. Children born on this day probab- first and most active guer- in ed the rilla bauds Many wear the Croix de valiant leadership Maquis. Guerre for their | of these underground fighters. {now that the war in tion camps, close to starvation. At one camp they were even for- bidden to eat the grass because the | | authorities did not want the ap-! ;pmu'ancu of the camp spoiled. UNRRA could help these Span-| | iards, and Assistant | State Dean Acheson, Secretary of as a member of the top UNRRA Council, has been asked to recommend aid. However, he has refused to ac | Meanwhile, the half-starved Span- |iards cannot go back to Franco Spain on penalty of death. MAIL BAG Mrs. W. C., Richmond, Va.: The | Army has reneged on the proposal | | to let men over 38 out of the ser- |vice at once. However, the War ————Y—Y Con-| possible to return displaced Euro-|Department has assured Senatoh; A, H, KINGSBURY { who are threatening legislation to | force the brass hats to act, that men over 38 will be released later | —probably in the fall, R. L., Cleveland, Ohio: The State Department has a clever dodge for| | refusing to employ anti-Nazi Ger- | man-Americans in rebuilding Ger- agency for the richest war booty Keefe reminded him fou called| These freedom-loving Spaniards, in history. Now that public-mind- him ‘my good friend.'” many of whom hired out to French ed ex-Senator Guy Gillette has re-| “I would not put the gentleman| employers during the German oc- signed and his hard-hitting friend in the same class,” Cannon unuxul‘- - —— Sery — Wes Sturges has been fired, few | Keefe, amid lluyhlm i people really know what goes on | inside Syrplus Property ‘ BENDER UNBENDS ‘x Cl'OSSWOl‘d Puzzl Heve, Bowever, is one interesting| A moment later Cleveland’s Ben- inside development. The Surplus der took the floor again to point| ACROSS ' Property boys haven't published it out that it was the vote of Demo-| }- Euss 2 but they have just about decided cratic Representative Roger Slaugt Moccasin i to unload surpluses in England or|ter of Missouri in the Rules Com- | Gulded 18 in British-dominated areas in ex-|Mittee that prevented FEPC from change for local currencies rather getting to the floor for a full vote 1‘-. than dellars. This means that in|by the entire Ho Egypt, and the Near and Middle] “He (Slaughter) is from Presi- | }Z East, the United States will play|dent Truman's home district,” Ben- squarely into the hands of the Brit-|der climaxed. { Symbol for & ish ‘sterling bloc. | Bender has frequently voted with| =~ ruthenium 34 V In these British-dominated areas,| the Democrats and has been & con-| 33 Ancilont Greek . - organtom " all dolluis are collected by British|stant critic of Republican tacties! trike panks, vnder arrangements with and policies, but this time he laced | norm Near Eastern Governments, and'into the Democrats. The sins of | : | 81. Coustellation sent to London. This makes it ex-|the Republican Party are many,| 32 Large water- tremely difficult for U. S. firms to, he said, but long before the New Bl do business in Egypt and the Near Deal was ever heard of, Republi-| East, an¢ the British want to keep | can-confrolled Congresses had built it that way. U. S. fir can’t getup “a remarkably fine record for paid except in local currencies. It' social legislation.” is hard to get d in return.| “My father used to work seven Mean ¢ dor are days a week, 12 hours a d Under choked L the Republican Administrations his | But despite thi the Surplus/ hours were cut to 11 hours, then Property boys have decided to play ten hours, then nine hours. Time| along with the sterling bloc and again under Republican Legi: latures of States in the North, im- Solution Of Yesterday’s Puzzle DOWN 2. Send to an 1. City In Call- plddress forni oem b Lot . Bulblike stem 5. Lopsided . Hoarfrost Portuguese efty . Light open cot~ ton fabrie Dance step . Rind up . Western Indlan ponies Compass polnt California rockfishes Greek_letter Ingredlent of varnish Frighten were adopted. There REPUBLICANS SHOOT BACK provements Cloth stralner Weeds Obliterate Snread loosely ‘Representatives George Bender are many States in the Union not| of Cleveland, Ohio, and Frank dominated by Republicans now tha Keefe of Oshkosh, Wis, are the|do not have workmen's comper first RepubM:ans to challe the! tion laws.” 24. Ton X Sallqdnf olele The Republicans, Bender detailed, 1 Democrats on their al prog i @ long time. Bender got indig- were responsible for industrial | naut as he sat listening to Chair- safety laws, pure food and sanita- man Clarence Cannon of Missouri' tion laws, recognition of collective gomorously proclaim that his Ap-|bargaimng, the ruling out of in- propriations Committee had not Junctions for the breaking of| blocked the continuance of the Fair st the Railroad Labor Act, the | Employment Practices Committee. | Sherman Anti-Trust Act, the Child | Bender promptly called Democrat| Labor Amendment, and a number Cannon's bluff on this and GOP of other important landmarks in %grcwmuvo Keefe stepped in to]sccial lezislation. The party wa acl Green vegeta- tion . Feminine name Distant Buntinelike fabric . Took out And not Sedish meas- ures of ca- pacity Ttalian city Presently Crew Maregin Child’'s nankin . Heavy nail return of Servicemen great promise | is to benefit by the | reconversion is| we are; of all history and should use each| its fear of secret enemy sabotage of | ogers predict. | |1y will be clever and versatile. Many | What two men invented the robot heart? will have remarkable memories and| . Why is a nickel called “token money”? | varied ('“l"““_'~ i “ ““"4. The name of what nut is applied to a worn out story or joke? fUurcieht i) | 5. What is a maverick | ANSWERS: cupation as vonded servants, form- | 1. The elongated structure of the plane containing the motor and ‘occupied France.| Later they joined with the French| | But | Europe is Keefe recounted in!originally organized to end the most | ended, they are back in concentra-|yJhy and preventing world war IIL | 20 YEARS g N s ) JULY 18, 1925 Rain postponed the Moose-Miners game the previous night but with more favorable weather conditions, the game was to be played this night, | then the next day the Vets and Elks were scheduled to play at Douglas. The City Council passed an ordinance licensing itinerant merchants and al solicitors. i HE e | | Mis. William Blanck arrived from San Francisco to visit her mother, | Mrs. Anna Webster. | | i i | Miss Juanita Heddin, of Boise, Idaho, was the house guest of Mrs. | A. Van Mavern. | s Steamers Princess Alice and Admiral Rogers weére due in port. v\' ither report: Hign, 53; low, 51; drizzles. i Dally Lessons in English % ;. corbon WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not write, me and I shall refurn same promptly.” Say, | promptly OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Precedence. Pronounce pre-sed-ens, | first and second E's as in ME, accent second syllable. OFTEN MISSPELLED: Slight (unimportant). Sleight (skill). { SYNONYMS: Fortitude, courage, endurance, heroism, resolution. | WORD STUD se a word three times and it is yours.” Let us by mastering one word each day. Today's word: “He brought the country ‘Please send the paper to and I shall return IT { increase our vocabular CHAOTIC; resembling confusion, or disorder. this chaotic condition.” jout of | e | MODERN ETIQUETTE e by ROBERTA LEE e ) If there are several men members of a family, may one invitation | to a formal affair he addressed to include all of them? | A. No; each man, other than the husband, separate invitation. Q. When meeting an undesirable acquaintance in a public place, | what weuld be the best way to avoid recognizing him? ; A. The best way, and really the only way, is to keep the eyes | averted. Q. Should the soup plates be set on the tablecloth when serving? A. No; lhey should be set on the service platgs. I.OOK and I.EARNA C. GORDON { Q should be sent a What is the fuselage of an airplane? | accommodation for passengers, cargo, etc. ' 2. Alexis Carrel and Charles Lindbergh. 3. Because it does not contain five cents worth of metal. ‘} 4. A “chestnut.” 5. An unbranded animal, especially a motherless calf. Dulch Easl Ind|es Io el Be Given Freedom I d fil f the M bound files of the Merry-Go- Round‘ LONDON, July 18—Frof. H. A. Florence Ziner, Hartford, Conn.: Assistant Secretary of State Nelson | { Logemann, Dutch Minister of Col- Rockefeller may be replaced by cnies, today promised the Dutch American Ambassador to Chile East Indies their freedom under 1 the Royal House of Orange and Clals Tanese. Bowers nomitayd said that the Netherlands would { Al Smitn for President in 1928 and| foresake imperialism. is a Democrat with both a small and a latge “D.” He called for volunteers for the (Copyright, 1945, by Be Pacific war among members of the home guard in the Netherlands, in a broadcast over the Dutch radio. | The Department won't employ 'myl | German-American who hasn't bee a Emzen for 15 years. w! Ghester Somers, West Somerville, | ! Mass.: { ndicate, Inc.) ! BUY WAR BONDS as a paid-up subscriver to THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE is invited to be our guest THIS EVENING. 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