The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 28, 1945, Page 4

PAGE FOUR il ~7 1 * | Federal laws guaranteeing*basic labor rights. We trusf Daiiy Alaska Empire |5 pisiniTine o sighte 90 411 that Judge Schwellenbach will speedily send his re- | organization plan to the President and that Congress | will hasten to give Mr. Truman power+to make this President |and similar reorganization projects effective. Vice-President | tor and Manager 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 - - “ ELMER A. FRIEND - - ALFRED ZENGER - - - For Want of a Nail (Washington Post) | The familiar jingle about the missing nail for a otithe 2eilowing tiee: ihor.x.c's shoe that resulted in the loss of a battle and six months, in advance, $7.50; |a kingdom is a reminder that for want of a few | basic statistics the reconversion battles may be lost, | with dire consequences to the country. For many ! months proposals to fill in certain strategic gaps in the Government’s statistical reporting services in preparatien for looming reconversion tasks have been hanging fire because Congress has failed to vote | necessary appropriations. Last August, following in- structions from President Roosevelt, an interdepart- Alaska Newspapers, 1411 | mental committee presented a program to Congress _ |that failed to survive House scrutiny. Last January La revised plan was again submitted to Congress. Ex- |tended hearings were held, but nothing was done, i despite the need for haste to assure the availability | of the data when wanted. 1 Following an appeal from War Mobilizer Vinson |late in April hearings were resumed, with the result | that on May 8 a bill was reported from the Committee | on Appropriations requesting approximatesly 18 million dollars for statistical purposes. A few days later the | House debated the bill, with critics sharply attacking the proposed legislation a waste of manpower and | money, despite expert testimony, official and un- | official, to the contrary. No action was taken. Part of the sum in question was designed to finance studies | cf consumer expenditur savings and income as well —las the regular biennial census of manufacturers for [ 1945, which is provided for by law, and a sample |census of business for the same year. This appro- | priation also covered expenses of a sample survey | for estimating the size and distribution of the Nation’s labor force and population and various com- En! Delivered by carriel six months. $8.00 er @ favor if they will promptly notify y failure or irregularity in the de- ice, 602; Business Office, 374 MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS o Press s exclusively entitled to the use for news dispatches credited to it or not other- paper and also the local news published NATIONAL REPRESENTATIVES Fourth Avenue BICg., Seattle, Wash LABOR AGENCIES Judge Schwellenbach's approach to his new re- sponsibilities as Secretary of Labor augurs well for more effective Government intervention in the tangled | Pilation expens A : sphere of industrial relations. He recognizes that his | The fact that Government agencies have had to i R | devote their efforts almost entirely in recent years to first job must be to reorganize the Labor Depart-|y,. ' mediate problems of wartime control makes it | ment; and he means by this, of course, a general [a)) the more necessary to fill in gaps in statistical | reorganization of all the scattered agencies which | reporting services. For, as Judge Vinson stated when | have operated, sometimes competitively and too often |appealing for action upon this essential statistical | at cross-purposes, in the handling of various kinds of | program, “decisions taken in ignorance would tend to labor problems. Integration, as we have repeatedly [produce the kind of confusion and cross-purposes that urged, is the primary need. The new Secretary of | We are trying our utmost to avoid.” We do not wonder | Labor has brought with him half a dozen skilled | that Judge Vinson is moved by a sense of urgency hislatts to help {n ffecting this integration. No|finceit'is impossible o plan intelligendy-for ki |ing industry to a peacetime basis in the absence of doubt he- means it to be thoroughgoing. pertinent information about far-reaching changes in| our economy resulting from the war. Specifically, Judge Vinson points to the need information concerning the number and location of manufacturing establishments, and the number of | workers employed. No such information has been as- | sembled since 1939. Yet we talk glibly about planning or full postwar employment in the absence of es-| When he took office Judge Schwellenbach said he hoped labor unions “will let me be their advocate and adviser.” We think this approach will aid in | realization of his hope. He is identified with neither of the major factions in the labor movement’s un- fortunate cleavage, and he entertains no romantic notions about accomplishing a merger which neither | o 101 qata of this sort. Similarly, information is | faction at present seems ready to embrace. He can be | needed “about the impact of the war upon wholesale counted upon, however, to deal with both impartially | and retail trade,” about which likewise no information | and to work patiently toward a gradual healing of | has been assembled since 1939. It is also necessary | the breach. to know more about the volume of consumer income | and its distribution, facts about consumer expendi- | tures, and the amount and distribution of consumer | savings, so that producers and manufacturers can be of | To serve as “advocate and adviser” is the precise | function of a Secretary of Labor. He is charged | THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA 0] o e e f‘zo YEARS AGO 7™ cupirs HAPPY BIRTHDAY e o July 28, 1945 o e s H. P. Boyle JULY 28, 1925 Helen Webster Andrews had the best of a pitchers’ duel with Oneel the previous Harold McKinley night and the Elks won over the American Legion 2 to 0. Peter Gruening —_— Virgil Bohlke I'he annual baseball game between the “bashful bachelors” and the “hei -pecked” husbands of the Juneau Volunteer Fire Department was T to be played August 2, according to preliminary arrangements. e o July 29,1945 e e EER Y The Moose announced a dance would be held by that fraternal organ- Eileen Hellan ization on Labor Day. Mrs. Edward Dull Horace Adams Mrs. Norman Bucy Stanley Heisel Hazel Thomas Grace Stanley G. M. Norwood Many attended the picnic of the Methodist Church Sunday School at Salmon Creek. . L3 . . . . . . . 3 . . ° . . . . . . ' I L. Allen, head of the dry goods department of Goldstein's Em- ¢ porium, left on the Princess Charlotte for the south and east on a buying v trip. Little Ruth Allen accompanied her dad and was to visit relatives : while he was in the east. e o 0o 0 0 0 0 0 o -, — ‘ Dr. A. W. Stewart left for the south on the Princess Charlotte. e @ e { HOROSCGPE “The stars incline but do not compel” Miss Henrietta Sully arrived on the Virginia IV from Tenakee where had been taking a vacation. C. D. Jacklin, prominent mining man, was aboard the Alaska enroute to Cordova to inspect property. she [—— Jack Davis and A. H. Hendrickson returned to Juneau after attend- ing the Elks convention at Portland. SUNDAY, JULY 29 After early moring, benefic aspects! rule strongly today. It is a favor- able day for the churches and the| clergy. Roy Rutherford of the Juneau Lumber Mills returned on the Alaska after a business trip to the States. i Weather report: High, 74; low, 65; cloudy. e B e Daily Lessons in English % 1. corpon HEART AND HOME Revival movements among young | filks will spread amazingly through the next few months and later will | exercise a strong influence over re- turning service men and womer., BUSINESS AFFAIRS | Midsummer in the marts of trade! will see continued extraordinary ac- | tivity. Stock exchanges will improve their market machinery and increas- ed interest in floor trading is fore- | cast. § NATIONAL ISSUES Since Germany has demonstrated the results of government which does not recognize religion or ethics, na- WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “He got up a company of his own.” Say, “He ORGANIZED a company of his own.” OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Acclimate. Pronounce a-kli-mat, first A as in AT unstressed, I as in LIE, second A as in ATE, and accent second syllable. OFTEN MISSPELLED: Savannah, Observe the two N's. SYNONYMS: Comfort (noun), consolation, solace. 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: tions will build on firmer founda-|PERUSAL; act of reading carefully. “Me ‘made a perusal of many tions of faith in God. Astrology | biographies.” foretells development of spiritual | peeeererereermrere oo e — s e - ———— consciousness. INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS This should be a favorable day for United Nations armed forces. Both the air fighters and the infantry are under stimulating planetary in- fluences, but seasonal hazards will | be unfavorable to health. Persons whose birthdate it is have the augury of a year of steady ad- vancement in career activities. Wo- | g MODERN ETIQUETTE % onprra Les b e Q. Is one under financial obligation when a friend offers to lend one his apartment while he is on an extended trip? A. Yes; all running household expenses must be paid during this 3 should be paid. Q. In what way can a child be trained to become orderly? specifically with “the duty of fostering, promoting and developing the welfare of the wage earners of | the United States, improving their working conditions, | and advancing their opportunities for profitable em- | ployment.” Obviously, this duty can effectively be | discharged only if the Secretary of Labor exercises control over all Federal activities in the labor field— | over such bodies, for example, as the United States‘v Employment Service, the several conciliation and | g pmontal plans in the days ahead, we run serious mediation agencies concerned with the settlement of | yjsks” In face of the evidence showing the need employer-employee disputes and the enforcement of | for haste, congressional inaction is utterly indefensible. aided in planning for reconversion. Cutbacks resulting from the end of the European | war will noticeably speed the pace of reconversion | in the next few months. The appeals for prompt | action made by the Director of War Mobilization and | Reconversion have been emphasized by supporting | recommendations from President Truman, accom-| panied by a warning that, lacking “adequate and1 accurate facts on which to base business and BOV- | R i R . { The Washington i Stumped at this flat edict from |American officers a couple of weeks‘\ Merry b Go bt Round two Cabinet members with a repu-|ago. The Americans were newly ‘latwn for meaning what they say,fiarrived in Berlin, and curious about | | the other bank directors decided to!tales of Russian plans for the| | skip the vote on the LT.&T. loan.| Germans. One of them decided to! They postponed action. But, in the | ask the Russian officer just what| interim, here is what they did: !was what. Leo Crowley, fast-working effi-, “Tell me about what you people | cient head of the Foreign Economic |plan for the Germans,” he in- P | Administration and also Chairman | quired. “The stories we hear are} LT.&T. GETS GRAVY |of the Export-Import Bank, imme- |that you plan Communism for all} The Charter of the Export-|diately rushed a bill through Con- of Germany that you control.” Import Bank provides that not |ETeSS providing for 250,000,000 mo:'ei The answer was simple and to| protest to the President of the COMMUNIST GERMANY? | United States and the President of A big, deep-voiced Russian major | Mexico. |cn duty in Berlin set down two (Continued from Page One) ‘Treasury Morgenthau (until he re- signed) raising cain with some of their Cabinet colleagues on the Bank’s directorate. more than 10 per cent shall be,dullars to be loaned abroad. In|the point. {of the intellectual. Leo adriotly left the| “Communism?” The Russian loaned to any one company. De- 90ing so, I spite this fact, howeyer, 10 per Dames of both the Secretary orlblurled out. “For those swine?” | cent of all the bank's loans have|Commerce (Wallace) and the Sec-| S gone to the Aluminum Corporation|'etary of the Treasury (Morgen- CAPITAL CHAFY | of America, and 14 per cent to|thaw off the bank’s du'eclornmp_f All members of the OWI Foreign IT.&T. and its subsidiaries. |be disbanded, have been {opposed the IT.&T. loan. offered | These were issued under the . presidency of Warren Lee Pierson,| (NOW that Morgenthau has re-|jobs by New York's big shot pub- who retired this spring to work signed, Crowley has let it be known|licist Eddie Bernays. . . . Former that he would be delighted to have Senator Guy Gillette, recently re- Secretary Fred Vinson on the Bank signed from the Surplus Property las a director.) | Board, turned down an o b s ment as Food Administrator for rmany. He was offered a rank Major General, but wasn't in- terested . Representative Sam Dickstein of New York State wants to know why Mississippi's ranting John Rankin is worried about' a Red plot in Hollywood. “Does he think Shirley Temple is a tool of the Communists?” Dickstein asked. |“Does he feel that Shirley’s for the company his bank had be- friended. Just as he retired, a new loan to LT.&T. was proposed to buy out the Erickson Telephone Lines in Mexico. Wallace, Morgen- thau and Biddle all opposed largely on the ground that IT.&T. The excuse for expanding the already owned 35 per cent of E-I Bank was to permit Truman to Swedish Erickson and dictated its loan $1,000,000,000 to Stalin at Pots- financial policy; that it didn't|dam. But no excuse was given for need U. S. Government money to | dropping Wallace and Morgenthau. float the deal; and that the merger And if a credit to Russia were the meant higher telophone rates for!only object, it would not have been Mexico necessary to revamp the bank'’s The final showdown came in a|directorship. However, the two men G | of STALIN NEEDED DOLLARS ' —— | Benefic aspects are strong in their | K d I- E A R N influence today but adverse stars ex- | a n | shops and factories. I'nese were the only two men who! News Division, which is about m}Umted Nations ruthlessly work for| appoint- | |growing up has resulted in her| men should be particularly success=/ ful. Children born on this day will be; endowed with wit, courage and en- ergy. They should be fortunate all through life. A. By insisting that he put away. his clothes and his toys in a neat, orderly way. This is the very best training, and he is never too young to be taught. Q. Is it all right to take children to a totvn or country club? A..: No, it is better not todo so. MONDAY, JULY 30 b Y A. C. GORDON ercise power. It is a lucky date for | aviators. | HEART AND HOME H i Under this configuration the mind | should be clear-and decisions logi-| cal. It is a favorable day for be-| ginnings of many sorts, and for con-| structive work. Girls will be happier if they concentrate on their jobs and forget romance. 5. What outling possession was the first to be acquired by the United States? 2. What is meteorology? . 3. What is a dealer or a collector of medicinal herbs called? 4. Who was the author of the Star-Splangled Banner, and where is he buried? In area, what is the largest county in the United States? BUSINESS AFFAIRS 1 ANSWERS: From Washington the “G" sign| Alaska. will continue to affect the business : - b (b vabirs o TeshAl e Attiinall ih::senrc‘:alt;;aung of the atmosphere and its phenomena. Economy will be the watchword in 7 2 Francis Scott Key, buried at Frederick, Md. San Bernandino County, California. ERESCRES NATIONAL ISSUES There will be a strong reaction in public acceptance of books and plays that emphasize the physical instead Again the poetic and philosophical attributes will be stressed in art and literature. INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS Miracles in transportation will be |4 performed in the Orient as the| REX SUNDERLAND as a pald-up subscriver to THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE is invited to be our guest THIS EVENING. Present this coupon to the box office of the - CAPITOL THEATRE and receive TWO TICKETS to see: "SONG OF NEVADA" 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! | victory. Defeat of the Japanese will | |be followed by amazing expansion! of commerce which will assure long | prosperity. Persons whose birthdate it is have |the augury of a year that tests pat- ience but the stars promise success| in financial affairs. Children born on this day probab- 1]3’ will be intensely emotional and kind-hearted. Hhese Leo folk should | be extremely talented. | (Copyright 1935) o o o TIDES TOMORROW secret session of the Export-Import, who opposed IT.&T. were neatly | becoming a stronger Communist Bank directors at which Henry axed, so it looks as if the IT.&T.|: - - The shipping bottleneck in| Wallace proposed that the bank ask |loan would go through with flying) Naples will delay the return of Chairman Paul Porter of the colors. thousands of GI's for several Federal Communications Commis- yecks. ‘State Departmant repre: sion o examine the whole question,| HOWever, the next Export- sentatives in Italy seem happy The directors. Kknew that Porier | IMport Bank Bill has several other|about this. They want to keep a frowned on the deal. So the vote hidden jokers. It carries no pro-large American force in Italy vision for standard auditing such (Copyright, 1945, by Bell Syndicate, Inc.) -ee ® o July 29, 1945 e e | High 4:31a.m., 169 ft. | Low 10:57a.m., -1.4ft. High 17:17p.m,, 16.7 1t Low 23:26p.m.,, 19ft. ® o 0 0 0 0 0 0 o went 9 to 2 against Wallace. as Senator Byrd has been fighting | for. The new directors of the bank yps ROMIG PASSES THROUGH are practically a law unto them- bk Then, as the bank directors were selves. Alsb there is no provision about to cast the final vote on the whereby the taxpayers can see how $23,000,000 loan to I.T.&T. Wallace their money is being loaned out. issued this almost savage ning All in all, the E-I Bank has now “I want it noted for the record established a system far worse than that I reserve the right to take that under the Harding-Coclidge this up with President Truman Administrations after the last and also with my friend the Presi- when U. S. banks poured money WALLACE RAISES CAIN Mrs. Louis Romig arrived on a Pan Am an Clipper from Seattle vesterday, and left immediately on an Alaska Airlines transport plane for her home at Anchorage. She is returning from a six-month stay at Rochester, Minnesota, where she has been under medical attention. dent of Mexico as a steal not only into Europe and South America., Mrs. Romig was formerly in against the American taxpayers, but|In that case, private capital was charge of te OPA at Anchorage. against the telephone users of being ventured. This time it is the! - - — Mexico. 1 want it further noted public’s money, and, unlike the ZIEBELL, WALKER HERE that I consider this a damned out- Coolidge-Harding days, the public’ O. C. Ziebeld and John M. has no way of knowing how its Walker, representatives of Libby Morgenthau was not present per- money is being spent McNeill and Libby Company, from sonally, but was represented by his/ Note—Someday if another in- 0, are guests at the Gasti- assistant, V. Frank Coe, who, know- | quisitive Senator from Missouri sets ing his chief’s views, said: “up a “Truman Investigating Com- b “I want it also noted that the mittee,” he may have a field day POWELSON HERE Secretary of ‘the Treasury makes probing the operations of the new| J. M. Powelson, of Trail, B. C, the same reservation that he will| Export-Import Bank. jis a guest at the Baranof Hotel. ¥ neau Hotel. - > - TIDES MONDAY | ot RIER0 1B, .0 Tz cunsgemene of m ‘ : bank s pledged to conserve- High ... 5:23a.m, 1571, . oy Low 11:42a.m, 001t :"‘..___.' ML J vl Posrrs High 18:02p.m., 16.4 ft considerstion. Ia . ° . . . - . . . . ° . ° . . ° . . . ° . . ©®eecsecceeevsccccccnoe IN THIS BANK ARE e eo0 000000 e, — MRS. SIMPSON SOUTH Mrs. Robert Simpson went south |by plane yesterday, enroute to | Bremerton, Washington, where she l N S U RE D will meet her son, Lt. Robert ‘Simpsun. Medical Corps, U. S. N. Lt. Simpson expects to be trans- |ferred soon, and will no doubt return to the South Pacific theatre of operations. - - OLIVER HERE O. E. Oliver, of Seattle, guest at the Hotel Juneau. First National Bank of JUNEAU, ALASEA 0317 INSURANCE CO 7108 is a period, broken articles replaced, and if there are any servants they | BUILDING C EXPERT CABINET Wi 20TH CENTURY MARKET BUILDING SHOP PHONE 96 Silver Bow Lodge @m A2LO.O.F. Meets each Tues- day at 8:00 P. M. I O. O. F. HALL, Visiting Brothers Welcome GEORGE CLARK, Noble Grand . ’ | Warfields' Drug Store (Formerly Guy L. Smith Drugs) NYAL Family Remedies HORLUCK’S DANISH ICE CREAM The Sewing Basket BABY HEADQUARTERS Infant and Children’s Wear 139 8. Pranklin Juneau, Alaska [ DR.E.H.KASER | DENTIST BLOMGREN BUILDING Phone 56 HOURS: 9 A. M. to 5 P. M. Dr. A. W. Stewart DENTIST 20TH CENTURY BUILDING Office Phone 469 Dr. John H. Geyer VENTIST Room 9—Valentine Bldg. PHONE 762 ROBERT -SIMPSON, Opt. D. Uraduate Los Angeles College of Optometry and Optialmology Glasses Fitted Lenses Ground —_—m "The Rexall Store” Your Reliable Pharmacists DRUG CO. BUTLER-MAURO | HARRY BACE Druggist “The Squibb Store” The Charles W. Carter Mortuary Pourth and Pranklin Sts, PHONE 136 WINDOW WASHING RUG CLEANING SWEEPING COMPOUND FOR SALE DAVE MILNER Phone 247 FOR TASTY FOODS and V&l;IETY Gastineau Cafe Foremost in Friendliness TRIPLETTE & 'ONTRACTORS ORK OF ALL KINDS After 5:00 P. M. PHONE 564 MOUNT JUNEAU LODGE NO. 141 SECOND and FOURTH Monday of each month in Scottish Rite Temple beginning at 7:30 p. m. E. F. CLEMENTS, Wors shipful Master; JAMES W. LEIV- ERS, Secretary. ru&nm oiz'rsss B. P. 0. ELKS Meets every second and fourth Wednesday, 8 p. m. Visiting brothers welcome. L. J. HOLM- QUIST, Exalted Ruler; H. L. McDONALD, Secretary. FLOWERLAND CUT FLOWERS—POTTED PLANTS—CORSAGES Funeral Sprays and Wi 2nd and Frplnkynnn Lo Phone 587 ASHENBRENNER’S NEW AND USED FUBRNITURE Phone 783—306 Willoughby Ave, Jones-Stevens Shop LADIES—MISSES’ READY-TO-WEAR Beward Street Near Third r— —— “The Store for Men" SABIN’S Front St.—Triangle Bldg. H.S. GRAVES | “The Clothing Man" HOME OF HART SCHAFFNER & MARX CLOTHING CALIFORNIA Grocery and Meat Market 478 — PHONES — 37} High Quality Foods at Moderate Prices PIGGLY WIGGLY For BETTER Groceries Phone 16—24 JUNEAU - YOUNG | Hardware Company ‘ PAINTS—OIL—GLASS Shelf and Heavy Hardware Guns and Ammunitien You'll Find Food Finer and Bervice More Complete at THE BARANOF COFFEE SHOP INSURANCE Shattuck Agency Metcalfe Sheet Metal Heating—Airconditioning—Boat Tanks and Stacks — Everything in SHEET METAL Phone 711 90 Willoughby Ave. Alaska Laundry JAMES,C. COOPER, C.P.A BUSINESS COUNSELOR Authorized fo Practice Before the Treasury Department and Tax Court COOPER BUILDING Remington Typewriters Sold and Serviced by J. B. Burford & Co. : “Our Doorstep Is Worn by Satisfied Customers’ “Say It With Flowers” but “SAY IT WITH OURSI” Juneau Florists Phone 311 1891—0ver Half a Centfury of Banking—1945 The B. M. Behren’ds' Bank Oldest Bank in Alaska COMMERCIAL SAVINGS DRSNS HPRIP———————————— e 2 » s A PR — 3% N oy g o Ji P A P 3 e e T . Y Y e ) I oo