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

] PAGE FOUR . lin this country those who want to see aggressive Daiiy Al“s’ia Empirc [ fascism wiped out consider that the members of the “junior Axis” are Franco and Peron. Salazar doesn't Ibelong to it. It is the friends of our enemies, the | governments that were in overt or covert relations with those enemies, and who still hope to be haven: for their sustenance and recuperation, that shoulc concern us. These are Franco's Spain and Peron’ Argentina Published every evening except Sunday by the EMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY Second and Main Streets, Juneau, Alaska. MELEN TROY MON o 5 DOROTHY TROY WILLIAM R. CARTI ELMER A. FRIEND - SN vk ALFRED ZENGER President 0 - - - Vice-President Editor and Manager Managing Editor Business Manager Entered in the Post Office in Juncau as Second Class Matter. v y o ¢ PO UBSCRIPTION RATES: | Why is Mr. Laski silent about the -Argentine Delivered by carrier in Juneau and Douslas for SL50 per month; | situation? In Buenos Aires all the trappings o 00. at the following rates 0; &ix months, in advance, $7.50; six months, $8.00; one vear, By mall, postage pa One vear, in advance, $15 one month. in advance. $1.50 Subscribers will confer a favor if they will promptly notify the Business Office of any faflure of irregularity in the de- lvery of their papers. Telephones: News Office, 602; Business Office, 374, il MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS The Assocint Press is exclusively entitled to the use for rcws dispatches credited to it or not other- aggression exist, and they are made the more noxiou because they coexist with a virulent anti-Americanism Arnaldo Corte report on conditions in Buen Aires has been underwritten by every reputable news’ paper reporter in Argentina. And he said that ex - | cesses are being committed in Buenos Aires whicl “‘exceed anything that this correspondent can remem ber in his 17 years’ experience in Fascist Italy.” Intc republication of wise credited in this paper and also the local news published | peyoys concentration camps are thrown men whos herein s 4 s a 5 b it = o only crime is that they believe in Argentine-Americal NATIONAL REPRE! Alaska Newspapers, 1411 s 4 2% srinls 5 Poairtty Avétios BIaS, Seattle, friendship. In m\‘mzlm{., up suspects Peron's polic are more and more “trigger-happy,” as Joseph Newmai Yet Mr. Laski pointedly ignores Argentina zar, who, so far as we know, ha. puts it. |and picks on Sa itself something that should provokt American intervention. In point of fact, this hemi. spheer has many such regimes. Of course, the soone they grow into democracies, the more we shall b | pleased, but the inner structure of foreign govern | ments is a domestic affair, and should be no concer | of our diplomacy. Franco's Spain and Peron’s Argen tine, however, have been and are aggressive, and ar | accounting is due from them. Accordingly ‘the hard- ening of British sentiment against Franco is welcome == |It will fortify the inceasing body of opinion in thi country which thinks of Franco's Spain, in Fortune': phrase, as “Unfinished Business.” Mr. Churchill’c hot-and-cold attitude caused this group a good deal o. uneasiness. As Senator Ball put it, in a broadcast recently, “Total victory in this war will not bt achieved until the Fascist governments in Spain anc men who recently visited Alask on onic of the annual | Argentina have been replaced by democratic govern- pleasure trips. ments. They are as much a part of the Axis as was Congressmen Jed Johnson and John Rooney say Mussolini's government, despite last-minute attempt. Alaskans are too ignortant to know how to govern | to get their face lifted.” Senator Magnuson, speaking we should learn a little more about |on the same program, called the duo the “bush- can be league Axis.” It is an aptappellation, and it is tc |be hoped that the new British government will sec it in that light, as we feel convinced our new Ad ministration does. |is—is not of IGNORA T ALASKANS Just why Alaskans should be any more ignorant than the average voter in the States remains a puzzle to us—but that's the opinion of two of the congress- themselves—th.f “economics and fair government” before we allowed the prerogatives of self-government. Just what these two gentlemen base their extra- ordinary decision on we are at a loss to state. They certainly knew nothing about Alaska when they came up here, and by all accounts they know less now than they did then | Rooney says Alaskans aren't ready for statehood | when “they allow the fishing industry to take $60,000,- 000 a year from the Territory and returns only $1- | was to0 Tory, too conservative by far. Roosevelt may 000,000.” have been an egotist; it might have besn impossiblc We venture to say that these figures are a little | for any but an egotist to do the job he ha dto do— far-fetched. (and it killed him. Few doubt that he wanted power The opinions expressed have a familar ring. They | Many doubt that he ever intended to yield it, had were heard during the last session of the Legislature | death not come along. more than once and their reappearance at this time They were a pair, Churchill and Roosevelt. A leads us to wonder if the same good friends of |Strong pair when the world nceded them most. Ar- V] r Anly i : | ranging the destroyer-Caribbean base deal. Arrang- [RRERE 1o aTo, pubjicly Cl“monfm " .«mtchgod ond ing lend-lease, getting the United States tooled for more home rule for Alaska aren’t secretly whispering | oo\ ywo years before it otherwise would have been into the ears of the visiting congressmen statements possible. Roosevelt pushing through the draft six designed to bring about the opposite effect months before Pearl Harbor. Churchill with his However, that aside, it seems to us a sad com- | “blood, sweat and tears,” keeping the British fighting mentary upon the type of men serving in the Con- | Churchill, never showing fear. Churchill, patting the gress of the United States that any congrassman | Royal Air Force's few, immortalizing them with “Never should, publicly state that any group of Americans | did 80 many owe so much to so few.” are unfit to govern themselves. Churchill and Roosevelt, keeping Sp:un»nab‘utral Churchill and Roosevelt, seeing the possibilities in what Churchill called Germany’s “soft underbelly”— | North Africa. Helping plan the North African cam- | paign that, much as any other campaign, brought (Washington Post) | down the Axis. : A new and becoming harshr toward Franco's | Churchill may have been Tory, ultra-conservative,; Spain is the first sign of change in Brtain's foreign | he also was 100 per cent British and 100 per cent policy. Mr. Harold Laski, who seems to be destined | fighters. He did a job so big it is doubtful if any for the role of Danton in the new Britain, says “We | other man, ever, could have done it better. He went seek . to make it plain that we regard the gov- | down fihting in this election. ernments of men like Franco and Salazar as threa But he’s not dead. Let the Labor party slip and of a dangerous kind to peace.” Salazar, who runséChurcmH, the word wizard, will sting the Laborites Portugal, is a new name to attach to Franco’s, Here hard. Two of a Kind (Cineinnati Enquirer) Churchill had his critics, Roosevelt had his. For the current trend in England, Churchill undoubtedly Junior Axis | peacetime conscription, never be- fore adopted in the U.S.A. In other words, our top planners | country were the first to practice The Washington i o s Merry - Go- Round | express purpose of destroying the were largely ignoring the hopes and | ability of the South to support its' ideals for which this war was R i armies, he was carrying out exactly | fought. Already, they were plung- By DRFW PEARSON ‘tho same principle as the atomic|ing ahead toward the abyss of the Lt. Col. Robert S. Allen uow on “um\ service with the Ariny.) bomb. It took him longer to root|next world war, blindly oblivious out the agriculture, the industry,|to the awful state in store for never had any affiliations with either Nazis or thc Falagne. | An authoritarian regime—as Salazars undoubtedl, | tr ic s | GATT! BORG, MZ. — In n‘smlhoc:))noml’n struc(ufe or‘ ‘the Shvm.-They were plunging ahead Nk oA writer . vieldea | ot the, oblective was Just (JUs aa If AQOIMEE WRK.Were B0re: y { the sine, gone conclusion—until August 5, to the importuning of the wife,; _ and after five straight years of| Then, in World War I, and now pounding out’a column every day,|in World War II, we went on to Sunday, Fourth of July, Christmas, | i#€€T, better, and more fiendish and St. Swithin’s Day, decided to instruments for spreading destruc- take a vacation. tion, until today the civilian popu- and the atom bomb over Hiro- shima. Now a cold chill has crept over the world, even the hard-boiled war planners, thougn not over all of them. The day after the results of Bt it bR 16 take & ivaas lation suffers most of all. tion! ! Out of all the days in the year, President Truman chose the first day of this alleged vacation to an- nounce the dropping of the first atomic bomb on Japan Then Joe Stalin, after keeping the world waiting three years, chose the exact moment when this ex- typewriter-pounder was wielding a pitchfork in a Maryland hayfield to unleash 1,000,000 troops along the Siberian border. Next came the recond atumnic bomb, the Japanese .urrender, and 80 on—until I have concluded that I was right after all, and I never should have tascn a vacation. But being only 15 miles from Washi ton, I am going back to work: at least intermittently However, there is one advantage to being out in the aryland Countryside where the telephone doesn't ring every five minutes and i other things President in ¥ folks are intere besides what Truman will m next Cabinet. You can get a clearer p spective of today’s remendo events and wha me t future mankind HISTORY OF WARFARE I have been tt stance, about the In the old days, 50 many people. Knigh had their tilting jousts ladies applauded. Those who could afford it sailed off to the Crusades. Wars were more localized, affected fewer people, and that was one reason they dragged on for years without people rising up and revoiting Then, gradually, wars got so they affected almost every man, woman ) urt in armor and child. Actually, we in lhl.’»}had been spurring a campaign for|down to education, to the churches, | |their charts and their telephones, ' them. No longer, as in days of old when | atomic bombing became known, the knights were bold, do the men who New York News came out with an | make war go out and fight the editorial urging that unless Can- wars which they create. They stay|ada share with us her uranium | behind in bomb-proof shelters with | deposits, we should forcibly take while vast conseript armies of men a8 2 who have no choice in the matter,| GOOD NEIGHBORLINESS PAYS plus their women and children, vho starve and are bombed out This is the xna of jingoism on which war feeds. And, if there is :’;Z"fm::m' do the fighting and ope thing we have learned in this | ey | country, it is that being a good | S0 now, as of August 5, the day neighbor pays-dividends. We have | | mous for its apples. ® 0 0 00 00 0 0 0 0 HAPPY BIRTHDAY e August 14, 1945 o o Shirley Erwin Howard Stabler Roy Smith Mrs. M. H. Sides Vernon Swap Bill Brown Joe R. Werner Jackie Michaels Mrs. “The stars incline but do not compel” ‘Wednesday, August 15 Benefic aspects rule today which is fortunate alike for employers and smployees. The President of the United States continues under stimulating and promising plane- tary influences. Heart And Home This is a rarely fortunate sway for women. Girls will find it me- Under this morable for Tomance. configuration ~summer _flirtations| will become serious. Stage and! screen offer unusual opportunities for talent. The stars promise fame {or Leo actresses. Business Affairs THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA 20 YEARS AGO %% empire AUGUST 14, 1925 Most of Alaska’s troubles faced today grow out of the fact that radicalism has secured the ear of the powers that be and the further | fact that the conservativ: and responsible elements of Alaska have not had the representation to which it is entitled,” was the view expressed by U. S. Representative Arthur Free of California. Commi: ner of Fisheries Henry O'Malley told those worryhuz‘ about | the poor fishing season “there is no need for any panic, spotted runs, poor seasons and other discouraging features do not mean the fisheries are exhausted.” resource Council to discuss the water situation. The Douglas Fire Department was giving a dance on the Island and had issued an invitation to all Channel residents. Mr. and Mrs. Ray Day left for the South on the Princess Louise. The Prince George was in with a full list of pas: ngers from the | South Weather: Maximum, 58, minuimum, 54; rain. e Daily Lessons in English % ;. corpon B e e e e e ] WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “I have no hopes of going.” Say, “T have no HOPE of going.” OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Raspberry. Pronounce raz-ber-i, E as Greed for easy money will pre-| sail in the autumn when many | speculative and gambling devices will lure the public. Making chei world safe for democracy should segin at home. | National Issues | Care of children now will be-} come of great importance to our| nation, which properly appralses‘ the value of wise education and! juidance of rising generations. War babies are believed to be endowed | with unusual talents and strong characters, so the United States should spend generously in the; scientific training of hearts as well as minds, the seers declare. International Affairs The tremendous price paid in| lives and dollars for victory obli- gates United States to provide the most progressive and enlightened aome government. According to as- trology, a period of amazing achievement is to last for at least two score years. Persons whose birthdate it is have the augury of a year of new| environment and new friends. Sue- cess in work and happiness in the! home are indicated. Children born on this day prob- ably will be studious and qualified to specialize in science or the arts. Successful careers are forecast. (Copyright, 1945) | and to carrying out the basic rules | of Christ’s Sermon on the Mount. How we can do it, I don’t know.| But we must do it, or see.clviliza- ' tion vanish from the earth. (Copyright, 1915, by Bell Syndicate, Inc.) el ks 2 MR., MRS. NNIS GO SOUTH Young Elroy Ninnis, Jr., who was taken to St. Ann’s Hospital last week | for treatment of an eye injury,’ which he suffered when a spike on which another was hammering, flew up and cut the eye, has gone to Seattle with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Elroy Ninnis, checkup. The attending physician reported the eye was healing satisfactorily, and that there would be no serious results. Mr. and Mrs. Ninnis had left for Anchorage on a vacation trip, but returned to Juneau im- mediately upon being notified of the accident to their son. — .- — Cape York is the point of Australia. The island of Tasmania is fa- Leslie A. Stevens Public Accountant—Auditor Accounting—Audits—Tax Service First National Bank Building TELEPHONE 36 W dropped our first atomic bomb | only to look at our vast borders on Japan, we have reached the|with Canada and Mexico, minus a‘ point in warfare which was abso-|single armec. guarG, or at the| lutely inevitable, the point at which | thousands of people commuting either we stop going to war or every day across the Rio Grande mankind reaches its own end. or the Niagara or the Detroit River, * |to see that we of North America | BR HATS PLAN WAR | have led the world in neighborli- Already scientific planners for ness. And when you remember that the next war had been working se- | our ade with Canada, Cuba and in cretly on such weird things as|Mex:o is greater than with any| bases on the moon from which other three countries, obviously‘ they could launch huge rocket|good neighborliness pays. | Cold bombs on any nation; plans which| Except for off intervals, wheni| Wavin would seem ludicrous and laughable , we landed Marines in Nicaragua or g were it not for the deadly achieve- Haiti, we have not tried to lord it | { Permanents ments of science in other direc-' over other people. We have tried ions lon the whole to respect the rights Styling Already, Gen. William Donovan | of others. We did not dam off all | " his Office of Strategic Ser-!the water in the Colorado River | Shaping s has been planning a world- | from Mexico, but divided it peace- wide espionage network to operate | ably by We have made in peacetime by which we could spy | plenty of mistakes, but perhaps we on other countries. Already Adm. Ernest King had drawn plans for 73 warships not to be completed until three or four years after the war, which peace- aspiring Jimmy Byrnes knocked out of the budget because they were not needed and obviously were aimed at future use against only one country—Russia. Already the War treaty. | tianity to work on an international basis than other major powers. But even so, we have not kept out of war. So the problem of preventing future wars is very deep and very difficult. It goes much deeper than | the United Nations, which, though |a start in the right direction, has Department| very severe limitations. It gets have come nearer putting Chris- HAIR STYLED by Experts WE SPECIALIZE for a further|. northernmost l in BET, and not rasp-ber-i. OFTEN MISSPELLED: Protege (masculine). Protegee (feminine). SYNONYMS: Statement, record, report, account, description 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: INDIGNANT; wrathful because of unjust treatment. “I was very in- dignant that the should accuse me.” ~ e e e it i MODERN ETIQUETTE “Ropmrra LeE Q. What is the correct way to eat apples, peaches and similar fruits at the table? A. Peel the fruit with @ small silver fruit knife, quarters, and then convey it to the mouth with the fingers. Q. Instead of sending engraved invitations, it is all right for one to write wedding invitations to close friends? A. Yes, simple informal notes, written on one’s personal stationery, are all right. Q. Should a short, stout woman wear a hat with a wide brim? A. No; the wideness of the brim will accentuate her short stature. e o e e cut it into 1. If an automobile is traveling 50 miles at 50 miles an hour, will it consume more gasoline than one traveling the same distance at 30 miles an hour? . 2. What body of water bounds the Philippine Islands onthe west? fi'fl. What is germanium? s z" 4. 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