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PAGE FOUR THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA FRIDAY, AUGUST 17, 1945 {.,nsmi him as an incident of the Reformation about|e° @ @ o o ¢ ¢ o o ¢ o o MWW.—W Daily Alas a mptre (1581 . : ; o 1 | But no royal ukase tould bunish Saint Swithin | ¢ HAPPY BIRTHDAY 20 YEA RS A GO Sy E 2 MPIRE EMPIRE nm ING COMPANY | trom the folklore of Britain. Thousands of people all ugusi 17, 1945 . . Second and eets, Juneau, Alaska, % e C. J. Davis . DT MO ¥ over the world who never heard of Bluff King Hal, ,",m'," s Mo ek IR e G . Mrs. Fred Schindler . e e e emened WILLIAM R. CAR s v Rt B Tiniars g, 1A RA b, [e City of Juneau . AUGUST 17, 1925 % o ']" s it (‘ 5 ill e 4 & Patricia Virginia Martin . 1t was announced by Mrs. Marie Drake, Secretary to Commissioner o 'ty VS V. P B kes + Ratered in the Post Office in Junem b ]l'”q’“ thi \.‘] dm_ ::":m ba' fatr ® Jack Hawkes ® | of Education L. D. Henderson, that the fourth annual Alaska Teachers ; SUBSCRIPTION : e o st i iy b Mrs. Julia A. Costigan ® | Institute would convene in Juneau September 5, with about 100 teachers Delivered by carrier in Juneau and Dousias for $1.50 per month for forty days ‘twill rain nae mair. . Satnils Tatsen ¥ inonths, $8.00; onc year, $15.00. o] shide expected to attend, o IR v el the Tollowing ratés So, if you want a real good excuse for the rain in | e Mrs. Elsie MacLean & &L o x months, in advance, $7.50; | Juneau durin as st remember that i ; Jone: | i 5 1 E L | Juneau durix the last month just remember that it i l)(ll(l!ll\ lun‘u o The steamer Alaska was in port, westbound, with a ‘total of 150 will ptly notity | rained here on July 17 and we can’t do anything about | ® Mrs. Ruth M. Farrell .| it e et or irregularity in the de- |, oo 40 g Gte Wy lo Fred Peterson o | passengers, 35 of them for Juneau. Business Office, 374 - - . . L T — Revoluti in F P e 6060606060600 00 o Ray McCormick returned on the Estebeth from Berners Bay to his SOCIATED PRESS evolution in Farm Power | 1, o | ¢ A l\l‘l\l‘]\ 1y entitled to the use (vl'/ “ oy home in Douglas. r dispatches credited to it or not other- | AL TR | oo e e sl i S pieiabionie. the ToMnigl uRlGH ool wa e el | | Articles of incorporation the Latouche Packing Company, rep- - 1 ’]’,”“ & ”", "h”:'\‘:”'(}“”""“ Xfi:"“;f“';“:i “'\’",’,‘;"I H 0 R 0 S C 0 P E I resented by Frank Foster, of Cordova, as resident agent, had been filed NATIONAL REPRESENTATIVES aska Newspapers, 1411 | metal alloys, war has spurred the agricultural revotu- s Gt TaitTtoral Searels th Avenue Bl ’ Wazh [tion. This revolution—the change from animal power [{ «mp o otame incline in the office of Territorial Secretary. - - | to mechanized farming—was gaining rapid momentum | € 8 e - = {when the war began. While manufacture of many | but do not compel’ The U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey ship Explorer, which had been | farm implements has been curtailed or even eliminated i) $ in port over the weekend, had left for the vicinity of Cape Decision to |in some instances, the shortage of manpower on the jeontinue survey work. | tarms has necessitated the making of such machin SATURDAY, AUGUST 18 | Pl b |as corn pickers, combines, milking machines and trac- | ; AR to domi.| From New York came the report that only 19 hits were made in it |"“ "i‘]‘"l“'] s o g ”““":“”-‘ i = nfl?; N s I"'l’,’,’m"m PR mmm shots with anti-aircraft machine guns at Port Tilden batteries, farm has enabled the American farmer to perform a b i 4 e y i i miracle of food production comparable to the indus- | fluences active. Accidents may hc‘“‘ ability of the Coast Defense to protect the port from an air trial production of the nation’s factories. The dem- | numerou |attack. onstrated pawer of labor-saving machines caused She! HEART AND HOME | — : m E. Johnson, head of the division of farm Women are subject to a tavorable | From Berlin came the report that uniformed interpreters for the management of t y that agriculture has a production revo: it is unlikely to ¢ to declare recently \e Bureau of Agriculture Economics, |direction of the stars today, most gone (hruuuh'pmmmng for all sorts of home en-| tertaining. Conversation should deal|: with the futur Summer ouldoor‘ |theatres are under a fortunate sw: ay, | lution in the midst of war and that 70 back to the comparative “handi- [ eraft” basis of the pre-war period | W American farmers are now using about two million | presaging beginnings of brilliant | o | Jors. 124 per ce . than were in use in 1941 |carcers for tHose who play in them.| 3 RAIN SAINT tractors, 124 per cent more : . > . Ll and double the 1929 number. Surveys prove that | BUSINESS AFFAIRS ] S sel CCOT 4 rtain signs, Mexico 2 g ¢ B 5 s tractor purchascs represent approximately 50 per cent According to cer 5 | P Swihin U ‘\;3"’"”,"_"”;; B aboul | " ihe money $pent for farm_cquipment. Experts and this country are to be closely was a real person Llpplfuuil" iographical Dictionary | /ot T Within a few years the number of [linked in profitable business enter-| says that he was an English prelate who served as tractors will double. The revoltion in farm power is|prises, m(:]uqinu oil projects und‘! chaplain to King Egbert and preceptor to his som, |revealed in the increased use of corn pickers, which railroad building 1 Prince Bthelwolf. More important, however, is the | have increased 29 per cent in number since 1942, With | NATIONAL 1SSUES i fact that he was tutor to Alfred the Great, “one of |a machine one man can do the work formerly done| Education that prepares Ameri- | the most perfect characters to be found on the pages |by twelve. The 50 per cent increase in lnllkhl‘,'.“’il:llhnlffn »;!:;lldbx‘nl:‘xl«-;;;ll;;l‘id”:::::‘d‘ of hist 1 ade s o) 52 . | machines in the past three years has catly reduced ‘At vities e 0l ot ) history.” Made Bishop of Winchester in 852, he S e e ] died years later and was buried, as in the open churchyard, where upon him. But mira visitors to his grave. The monks of tles Peter and Paul therefore tk his bones to a magnificent Legend tells that 15, 971, but on 1 apo: remov athedral walls. July planned for downfall of canceled. It happened, likew 16 and 17 and every were on July forty calendar dates of rain had passed monks had learned their le Jupiter Pluvius stay where he Spread over Europe, the patron of Winchester in place ined until Henry VIII, 50 the So he remn The Washmglon Merry - Go-Round (Continued lrom Paaz One) “Mikado 15 “awful-place.” In the old days, priest worship at the “awful place, they never saw the Emperor whose other name even today is meaning “Son of Heaven.” The Emperor synomymous with the sun and from this comes the Japa- is nese flag, with sixteen spreading rays symbolic of the rising sun and the Emperor. In those d the Mikado was the theoretical owner of all the land and all the people and their po: ions. He was their god and protector. His lance and shield came from Ama, “The Ancestral Region.” Thus arose the cult of| Shintoism which actually me “Rule of the Superic or “Way of the Gods." Even the word for government in Japan, “Matusuri- goto” means “shrine visiting” or “religion.” MODERNIZING Thus during most THE EMPEROR of uistory; in fact, up until jus the arrival of Commander Perry in 1852, the Mikado was an ethereal spiritual being, not a ruler; and it shock to many Emperor-to-be came as a definite Japanese that their should sail off to England and France to absorb western culture. In fact, some of the more in- tense patriots actually threw them- selves on the railroad tracks in front of the train carrying Hiro- hito to Yokohama in protest against his departure Naturally, Hirohito may have changed a lot during the years since his trip. Naturally, also, my friend Sawada was prejudiced in his favor. However, the story of that voyage was one of man anxious to 1 fellowmen, astounded m. Emperor- worshippers by wrestling on the deck with his ai get a bloody nose, and dance democratically with the servants of the Du of Atholl in the Scotland, which same barbaric according i foam creation of ti Japan Hirohito even manged to de liver & public speech to the Lord Mayor of London; and no Emperor ir the history of Japan had ever de- Mvered a public speech before. In all Japanese history, furthermore, no Emperor had purchased an ar- gicle of any shape, size or form In Paris, however, Hirohito in- sisted on going out alone and buy- ing a necktie, and later a pearl for his mother. Yo HIROHITO UNDERGROUND ambition, however the Paris subway leaving GOE His greatest wias to tide on Before S metgo.” polies Dictator P Hirohito's staff h'A_d ))yt‘k{l ?mu‘iy gentina waited until t forbidden to let the heir to the),poohed with the r: les of healing were reported by rain occurred and the rites day was. and he formally was to Tokyo, he had requested, | n would fall T In The revolu {to all of us industrial, and fibers for he 'C! f the the church o e 13 hought it proper to | 2N REE s watioo < i et Rttt e | OUF AlliSs ena the Atierated nod oy e that will engender ill feeling in the . for the latter will drop sharply as soon as their s, > the ceremony Was | gericulture o e ion we. are far {United States. Undercover eforts LICMLUES, a5a0us o8 % are fart, - waken sympathy for the guilty | hat day a mighty necessarily | citizens in norm: that ginning to re: until a rained total of 1 By that time | revolution in farr . | will be sharply ac They let their e His ) . ‘_‘.( | tion that the nat is reputation | e, - sociologists declared slow to see the of Paul and Peter. nation does not li “the many wived,” | first concern of s ise, it n throne ride on any subway; but despite this, the Crown Prince | bolted most of his staff and ven- | tured underground. He insisted on buying the tickets himself and handed them to the fat lady guard- | But he handed them to her in' a bunch, instead of spreading them out fan-shape, so that she could not punch them quickly. Al of which brought forth a storm of abuse in Metro French, heaped on the head of the future ruler of Japan “Kimi,” he appealed to one of his aides, “the grandmother is| talking to me. I didn't expect so She seemed to So to this large whomsoever she | went the privilege much conversation have her back up.” and _irate lady, may have been, of scolding the “Son of Heaven” for the first time in more than a thousand years driving torough Paris in an official parade, Hirohito ex- | changed coats with one of his| aides, told him to look stiff and uncomfortable, and: slipped out of the car to explore Paris. The pro- cession went on, the crowd ap- uding the uniformed figure whu< t bolt upright, an effective sub- j titute for the Prince Regent of Japan. | These are Once while some of the things which had led many missionaries and State Department officials to| the conclusion that Hirohito is liberal and moderate. Unquestion- | ably, he is more moderate than the military men around him; perhaps also it is true that he was | opposed to the war. | However, Hirohito has now be-| come so much the tool of the mili- | tarists, indelibly stamped with! the mark of Fascist conquest, that | it will be extremely difficult to! build a new and democratic Japan | with him in the saddle. Some of the factors on the other side of the balance sheet will be discussed in a future column 50 * | ROUND been called in to and whence this published the S. Army for Apparently the MERRY-G( FBI ate last I'he how week U Germany blueprint the rning “ powers that be don’t think that the Amer people, who fought this entitled to know the com- plete plan for governing Germany. The resignation of John Win= ant as A wdor to Great Brit- ca expected within 60 He wa taken to Pots- signation Messer as U. 8 0 Mexic the works Marri ‘ resignation as head of Federal Rese desk Assistant Sec Clayton is prepari ground work for his Inter al Trade Conference place in London som: O tober. The to combat world cartel conference v Japanese to clap one thousand patriotic Ar- man-hours needed for this essential our six million farms must produce food from sufficiently supplied with nutritious foods for all n major degree upon the health of the people. The | they [ready to launch a big offensive. | off that Japan was weakening came {after Russia declared war, ask in dairying. | ages will be imperative for ambitious | young people, the seers declare. | INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS | Punishment of war criminals will | | be discussed with differing opinions ) in farm power is of vital concern | nation 80 per cent urban and a 8 million, plus a large amount of will be effective in many quarters. Persons whose birthdate it is have the augury of a year of steady ad- |vancement. Doniestic as well as | financial matters should be most times that the National leaders ars be- | general welfare depends now going on, and which | is an indica- n power celerated after victory, satistactory. jill have ample food. States- o l::];:;I_w‘]"‘]"”y:m‘;‘\“"h.“j’. ates- | Children born on this day probably | o e g | will be endowed with good brains. point. But when four-fifths of a ve on farms, food production is the ociety. ant voices and general good | belong to the Leo subjects. (Copyright, 1945) gentines in jail. Peron always waits . until the eyes of the world are popular government in Japan; :ll.\()“ diverted hefore doing an under-|t0 defeat religious freedom. cover knife job on democracy. Army is due to cut-back nn\ i | almost everything except hospitals. | Several new ones will be muild in- CAPITAL CHAFF |cluding a $20,000,000 Army hos- If Gen. MacArthur and Admiral | pital in Puerta Rico by the,L. WE Nimitz enter Tokyo simultaneously,' Robert firm of Atlanta it will be the first time they have | Secretary the Democratic’ Na- spoken or conferred since President tional Committee. 1 Roosevelt called them to Pearl| (Copyrisht. 1945, |.\ Bel II\»m]ualr Inc.) Harbor one year ago. The two men have not been good friends.! . During the earlier part of lhc way, MacArthur, then in Australia, | told Nimitz and Navy leaders that PARTY FOR MISS would have to come to Aus- tralia if they wanted to talk to| him . Inside fact is that Russia‘ MARY ANN BEA[I_ and Jd]ls\ll had been fighting for | about two weeks before war was officially declared—but the shoot- ing was labelled border skirmishes. Tokyo didn't want any declaration of war while Stalin wasn't quite | A shower of lovely gifts, ‘accom- | friends, made her first birthday a joyous occasion yesterday for little | Mary Ann Beall, the daughter of | Mr. and Mrs. James M. Beall. Truman was kept informed regard-!|" yitt1e guests present at Mary Ann’s| ing all these incidents. . Tip- party were Dawn Chamberlain, {Joann Erbland, Donna Lee Gould, | Bruce Gould, Tony Steel, Roger! iCarnes and George Goss. Mothe: turn. . . . Gaylord Marsh, former|anqd friends of the younger set pr | S. Consul General in Korea,|ent were Mesdames Millard W. Car- | who knows the Japanese intimately, Ines, Stanley B. Hillman, Harry| s that if Hirohito abdicates in | Chamberlain, David 1. Wise, L. E.| favor of his \un——v»md\ he thinks | Evans, Donnell Gould, Robert Gu\s and the in re- Japs did not declare war is |)|<Jb.lbh - will be to defeat and Miss Martha White. ACROSS 32 Opentng 1n & 1. Stake 4 Muse of lyrle ** “’“’,‘,'m‘" Foay, and amatory g5 Aediterranean poetry sailing 9. Light bed vessels 12, Early Engish 37. Capable of being utilized ixclamation 39, Type measure bricate 0. Peengage nrich by 42. Spike of corn painting over 43. Portal a grained 45, Before surface 46. Exceedingly 18. Cooking 47. Out of date formulas 49 Scotch 20. Afreraft: 50 collog. 52. ment: I 6 :m.m loosey 3. Soft mineral il 64. Untidy 4. Abscond 60. Wrath boww 6. Language bacteriology 1. Potato masher 1. Rude person of the 31. Part of a curve 62 Sea bird 2. Great Lake Zorpastrian nr"lplu!‘e: ARCEE 7/4 Tler e / o trument / . Composed of i@ //'J large — — particles 7 . |le Buckeye state 7 1 /8 ] Demon Tolerate , ZAPT] Demolished 2 aparys % comb. form 24 [25 |26 art of a play Desires Of the sua . Abrasive material Very small Tlmuxlil . Wedge-shaped plece . Atmospheric disturbance Fac | her wrap? He was| " panied by the best wishes of many |~ ! convenience of tourists had been stationed at the three principal railroad terminals in that city, meeting all trains and giving their services { without charge to the traveling public. Weather: Highest, 68; lowest, 59; cloudy. é e e et e e 8 e Daily Lessons in English % 1. corbon WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “We had an awfully good {time.” Say, “We had a very pleasant time.” OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Luxury. Pronounce luk-shoo-ri, U as in UP, OO as in LOOK, I as in IT, accent first syllable. OFTEN MISSPELLED: Gnarl, though pronounced NARL. SYNONYMS: Armor, arm. accounterments, weapons. 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: INDESCRIBABLE; incapable of being described. *“The beauty of the mountains is indescribable.” MODERN ETIQUETTE by ROBERTA LEE Q. Isn't is all right for a man to offer his hand when being intro- duced to a girl? A. Not unless the girl offers her quick to respond. Q. When a woman is dinner-dancing hand first; then he should be at a hotel, should she check A. She may leave it on the back of her chair if she wishes. Q. What gifts are-appropriate for the fiftieth wedding anniversary? A. Gold. LOOK and lEARNA C. GORDON What artist realized that Columbus had not reached India after scovered America? 2. What is the best stroke for long distance swimming? 3. What was “La Libre Belgique™”? 4. What is the chief immigration station of the United States? 5. What color is nauve? " "" ANSWERS: 1. Leonardo da Vinci. 2. The crawl. 3. The newspaper published secretly in Belgium throughout Ger- man occupancy in World War I. 4. Ellis Island. 5. A delicate purple, violet or lilac. * ThereIsNo Substitutefor | Newspaper Advertising! JOHN MONAGLE as a pald-up susscriver to THI: 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: "S0’'S YOUR UNCLE" 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! INWAR <=, AS IN PEACE DEPOSITS IN THIS BANK ARE INSURED 0. Owner's mark on sheep: Scotch Weed Individuals Mass of bread ihfu Symbol of hondage 58, Falsehood ~First National Bank . of JUNEAU, ALASKA FEOERAL NSURA TRIPLETTE & KRUSE BUILDING CONTRACTORS EXPERT CABINET WORK OF ALL KINDS 20TH CENTURY MARKET BUILDING SHOP PHONE 96 After 5:00 P. M. 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