The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 22, 1945, Page 4

PAGE POURV % » " Daily Alaska Empire Published evers evening except Sunday by the EMPIFE PRINTING COMPANY Second and Main Strects, Juneau, Alaska. HELEN TROY MONSEN DOROTHY TROY LINGO WILLIAM R. CARTE! ELMER A. FRI ALFRED ZENG! Iplr(od high school training. Educational programs, which have been geared to war for the last ‘four years, now are being revamped to meet the needs of | the post-war world. Ruling Germany (New York Times) The political and economic framework within which Germany will have to exist for the foreseeable By mail. postage pald. at the following rates: | future has been laid down in the Potsdam progra_m vear, in advance, $15.00; six months, in advance, $7.50; | Its execution has been entrusted to the Allied mili- h. in advance, $1.80. tary commanders, acting jointly as a control council Subscribers will confer a favor if they will promptly notify A the Business Office of any fatlure or irregularity in the de- |in matters affecting Germany as a whole, but indi- Raey G Tl BN kBt Bdatiias Gitices; 194, | vidually within their own respective occupation zones — This means that the four men designated for that MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS | purpose— General Eisenhower for the United States sepubiicasion of Al news el e 1+ or ot other: | Field Marshal Montgomery for Great Britain, Marshal e tredited In this paper and also the local news published | Zhukoff for Russia and General Koenig for France— herein. _________ |have become the joint governors of what is in effect 1411 |for the present at least, the biggest and most complex | colony in the world | These governors are charged with a task that is las difficult as it is unique. For not only will they ihu\(’ to achieve what few nations have achieved in ‘thc past, and wherein the Germans themselves were the most conspicuous failures—namely, rule a defeated people without converting them into a festering sore in the victor's own side. They must also at one and the same time restore a wrecked economy to enable the people to subsist, lay the groundwork for demo- cratic self-government for later political restoration and transform a highly integrated, urbanized and |industrialized trading nation into a predominantly | agricultural people with only light consumer indus- | tries for domestic needs. Finally, they face the problem | of finding room, food and work for an additional 12,- 1000,000 people now being driven out of eastern Ger- __ {many, Poland and Czechoslovakia and crowding pell- |mell into a devastated rump-Germany the size of | Montana, which already contains 58,000,000 people and was al s dependent on food imports. During the last four years the pressure of war | That obviously is a task which will demand high work and the scraping of the bottom of the labor |statesmanship able to pair firmness with wisdom, reservoir have pushed high school enrollments down pecially since both the United States and Great and child labor employment up. In Alaska, as all |Britain are likely to remain averse to the “social over the United States, more and more boys who have |€ngineering” that is becoming a familiar pattern in not, completed thelr high school program have left |°esten Europe. But General Eisenhower and Field s BLics 1 taks obs Whitlh agesmrathigh dnd wark | hanal BRCuHEouiery itays proceeded to tackle it. |In proclamations issued simultaneously and attuned Is plentiful. [to each other, they mince no words in telling the Now that the war is over and we are back on the | Germans that if they suffer hardships, and are bound road toward a normal way of life, attempts are being:|to suffer more, it is merely the consequence of their made on the part of educators and government own war of aggression and that the only way to agencies to reverse this trend. ameliorate these hardships is to get busy and help The U. S. Office of Education and Children’s |themsel For that purpose the two Allied com- Bureau of the Department of Labor are sponsoring ‘22325,1; “::’; ;‘f)tl;?fimr;m:cs“ : :anz;?:: nrx:a ‘zutglng a national “Back-to-School” drive and this movement |jicheq German civil authorities to direct the work also has the backing of the Office of War Mobiliza- | of self-help; and they promise to match self-help tion and Reconversion. Main purpose is to get back ‘vmh Allied aid in so far as is possible to school and keep in school teen-age boys and girls | As General Eisenhower says, the Germans need | who have not completed their high school education 'not face the future without hope if they are willing in order to make them more fit to compete with those to redeem themselves and work their passage home they will vie with for jobs in the labor market in into the family of nations. And Field Marshal Mont- times of lower employment | gomery directly invites their cooperation. But both of It is recognized that the men and women who them put it up to the Germans themselves, who, have been serving in the armed forces will have first indeed, have only two alternatives. It's work or starve. | may ex.pect hat u i S S | 1 vaarihcbe) hany ot whioh have bean Held:| 1t Y. be esbee e that under tiiees; Glrouiigiatices during the wartime emergency by younger people. the Germans will work. This will still leave it up to| So all youths under 18 years of age are being the Allied governors to direct that work in such a| asked to return to school if they have not yet com- fashion that it will produce enough to meet all re- - X The Washingto President | Vice-President | Editor and Manager Managing Editor Business Manager R - - Entered in the Post Office In Juneau as SUBSCRIPTION RAT! Delivered by carrier in Juneau and Douglas for $1.50 per month; six months, $8.00; one year, §15.00. Second Class Matter. { - Alaska Newspapers, NATIONAL REPRESENTATIVES Pourth Avenue Bldg., Beattle, Wash, BACK TO SCHOOL MOVEMENT s, quirements. ! turn. Treasury policy even permits | the wilful evader to escape prose- | Treasury is enlarging its investi- n gating forces, as I have noted, to handle a tremendous backlog of cution if he repents in time. The| Merr _GO_Round | fraud cases, accumulated during | Commissioner of Internal Revenue, Y recent years and the cases now does not recommend criminal prose- —_— piling in. My predecessor, Secretary cution in the case of any taxpayer‘\ THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—]JUNEAU, ALASKA WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 22, 1945 HAPPY BIRTHDAY ] 29 ® o August 1945 o o Sonja Gross Mrs. T. M. Black Edna Stender Mrs. Everett Schaffer R. M. Rothwell Harold Bloomquist Lena Swanson Edmund Strafford Mildred Lister e o o 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 — > e+ e i e { HOROSCOPE } “The stars incline but do not compel” — THURSDAY, AUGUST 23 Adverse aspects rule today which may be marked by disappointing news. Not an auspicious date to| seek employment. HEART AND HOME High government officials and advisers may be severely criticized by families who have made great sacri-| fices in the war. The seers warng against hasty judgment for astonish- ! 1 70 YEARS AGO /7 sueire e e et D AUGUST 22, 1925 The Alaskan Hotel was undergoing renovation on both the interior and exterior, with furnishings and equipment being repaired and the exterior getting new paint. Mrs. Olaf Bodding and her three children were returning to Juneau on the steamer Yukon after a visit in the States. T. L. Allen, buyer for Goldstein’s Emporium, who had been in Seattle and Portland on business, accompanied by his little daughter, Ruth, was returning on the Yukon. A farewell party was given in Douglas for Chester Zimmerman, who was going to the States to complete his education. The first in a series of games to decide the baseball championship of Southeast Alaska was to be played this afternoon, between the un- defeated, to date, Ketchikan team and a local team. Manning, star pitcher for the American’ Legion, was to start off for the local boys. Headed by N. R. “Doc” Walker, the, Ketchikan team stopped off on their way to Juneau, to defeat Petersburg 17 to 3. The Juneau City Band planned to give a concert between games Ithe following day, to give the necessary pep and atmosphere a cham- They were to assemble at Jack Fargher's rk. The City Council at their meeting the preceding night authorized purchase of a baritone horn for the Juneau City Band. pionship series should have. tailor shop and march to the ball p ing revelations are forecast which will explain certain policies. BUSINESS AFFAIRS i Government safeguards for the | protection of American business | should be in ased, according to astrology. Tariff issues are to be! heatedly fought when Congress con-} venes. # | INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS | ‘Wartime juvenile delinquency has! proved the laxity of home discipline.l There is a sign presaging a nanon-' wide movement to begin careful! training at the cradle. Schools for| mothers will be established in the: new era and fathers will be re-| quired to be worthy of their respon-| sibilities. ‘ NATIONAL ISSUES i Certain astrological aspects are read as indicating that the lessons, who have the power to shape recon-| struction. The economic wars of peace are likely to be as bitter and stubborn as blood conflicts. E Persons whose birthdate it is have | the augury of a year of surprising| experiences which should prove for= l tunate. Many widows will become | brides. ; Children born on this day pro: bably will be talented in the arts® and brilliant in their general stud- ies. They should have distinguish-| ed careers. (Copyright 1945) ericans file such delinquent and | amended returns as they discover| their own lapses. But I venture to predict that the $3,000,000 added who makes a voluntary disclosure of omission or other misstatement | in his tax return or of failure to; make a tax return. Monetary pen-v‘ alties may be imposed for delin- quency, for negligence and for| Morgenthau, who set the machinery in motion for this tax-evasion get along without enlarging its law campaign, estimated that a mini- enforcement groups. mum of one billion dollars in addi- That is why the Treasury is| tional taxes now being evaded| building up its investigative forces. would be collected when Treasury (Continued from Page One) revenue that the Treasury now! receives each week, as a result of | these delinquent and amended re- turns, will grow as our tax evasion! agents get their campaign into full | of war have not been learned by all| r= Frank B. Heintzleman, Assistant U. S. District Forester, had left for Wrangell on an official business trip. Weather: Highest, 68; lowest, 56; partly cloudy. et e et e et e et Daily Lessons in English % 1. corbon < WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “She was overly anxious to hear from him.” Say, “She was OVERANXIOUS.” OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Mikado. Pronounce mi-ka-do, I as in IT, A as in AH, O as in NO, accent second syllable. OFTEN MISSPELLED: Hydrailic. Observe the Y and the AU. SYNONYMS: Embarrass, perplex, discompose, disconcert, perturb. 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: ROTATIVE; turning, as a wheel. “This high, rotative velocity of the sun must cause an equatorial rise of the solar atmosphere.”—Siemens. MODERN ETIQUETTE 1 E by ROBERTA LE Q. May a woman who is wearing an expensive coat and is dining in a public place, retain the coat instead of checking it? A. Yes; she may slip the coat over the back of her chair, or place 24 it on another chair at the table. Q. Is it ever permissible to leave the spoon in the cup while drinking coffee or tea? A. No. As soon as the coffee or tea is stirred, the spoon should be {iplaced in the saucer and remain there. In what way, and at what time, should a bride mail her “at Q. | home” cards? A. These cards can be enclosed with the wedding invitations. e e LOOK and LEARN fsf C. GORDON 1. How did the wedding ring come into use? 2. What two bodies of water are connected by the Erie Canal? S LETTE & KRUSE BUILDING CONTRACTORS TRIP EXPERT CABINET WORK OF ALL KINDS 20TH CENTURY MARKET BUILDING After 5:00 P. M. PHONE 564 3 L} itfi " 3] SHOP PHONE 96 Silver Bow Lodge | MOUNT JUNEAU LODGE NO. 147 No.A2LO.O.F. SECOND and FOURTH @Meeu each Tues- Monday of each month day at 8:00 P. M. L O. O. F. HALL. T Visiting Brothers Welcome B O SOl e GEORGE CLARK, Noble Grand | gnipful Master; JAMES W. LEIV: ERS, Secretary. SR T T GEORGE BROS. Widest Selection of LIQUORS PHONE 92 or 95 R J— T i § Warfields’ Drug Store (Formerly Guy L. Smith Drugs) NYAL Family Remedies HORLUCK’S DANISH ICE CREAM 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. | SR ey g g FLOWERLAND The Sewing Basket BABY HEADQUARTERS Infant and Children’s Wear 139'S. Franklin Juneau, Alaska [ DR.E.H.KASER | e e CUT FLOWERS—POTTED BLOMGREN BUILDING Phone 56 PLANTS--CORSAGES Funeral Sprays and Wreaths HOURS: 9 A. M. to 5 P. M. Phone 557 2nd and Frankim ASHENBRENNER’S NEW AND USED FURNITURE Phone 788—306 Willoughby Ave. Dr. A. W. Stewart DENTIST 20TH CENTURY BUILDING Office Phone 469 ey TRESGRER W Dr. John H. Geyer Jones-Stevens Shop : VENTIST ® . LADIES’—MISSES’ S Room 9—Valentine Bldg. READY-TO-WEAR PHONE 762 Seward Street Near Thira | ™ — ROBERT SIMPSON, Opt. D. wraduate Los Angeies College of Optometry and Optialmology “The Store for Men” SABIN’S Front St.—Triangle Bldg. Glasses Fitted Lenses Ground _— "The Rexall Store” H. S. GRAVES Our objective is to recruit and forces could be expanded, and new fraud, but the man who makes a swing. Certainly any tax evader| disclosure before an investigation is! Who has not yet seen the light|freezing and wind called? 3. What is the wearing away of the earth’s surface by rains, floods, Your Rellable Pharmaciste “The Clothing Man". ; UTLER-MAURO : i DRUG CoO, EOH: OF HART !CBAP;H- g _——m— [} 1 ' [ 4 HARRY RACE CALIFORNIA | . Grocery and Meat Marke! # Druggist 478 — PHONES — 31 i “The Squibb Store” i ol S £ b e { § The Charles W. Carter train 5,000 men. workers could be trained and get " on the job. PROTECTING More we nave streng-| HONEST TAXPAYERS thened the drive by intensifying! This will be no Gestapo. It will| cooperation with other Government be a taxpayers’ law enforcement departments and agencies inter- group protecting the Government's ested in stamping out black mar- interest in taxes, and at the same kets, rackets and tax evasion. An time protecting the honest Lax.sxmnr-depanmemal committee, with black market | representatives from the Treasury | PIGGLY WIGGLY For BETTER Groceries Phene I 16—24 JUNEAU - YOUNG | ‘;mdt‘lr v;ay prlr;]tect.lsb himse;t an;dl his | :A;O\:}d be :ell ad;x.:ed ltho zak: ccr;i 4 Who organized the Girls Scouts in America? amily from the stigma of a felony |rective action while there is yel # 3 R > 0 e conviction. And there is nothing|time to square himself with his @ Ss.eccls:tammermg and stuttering always a result of an organic defect complicated about going to a col-|conscience and his Government g lector or other revenue officer and | Without suffering the further in-| ANSWERS: simply saying, “There is something |dignity of public indictment, trial 1. In the olden days men shackled and enslaved their women. wrong with my return and I want | and punishment | ding rings were used as a symbol of this shackling. to straighten it out.” I do not want to see the peni- | 2. The Hudson River and Lake Erie. 3. Soil erosion. A great many people are taking tentiaries filled with tax evaders. | ) Mortuary PFourth and Franklin Sts. PHONE 136 recer Wed- WINDOW WASHING RUG CLEANING SWEEPING COMPOUND payer against the " operator, the racketeer and rwr_v“ Department, the Department of|aqyantage of this opportunity v.o1 DA D Do dalr it (e nonest L. Mo itChe Tow 100, 2 FOR SALE other kind of tax evader. And it|Justice, the Office of Price Ad- b s 2 man the Government must deal 5. Noj; it is sometimes a defense psychological reaction. H will be good business, too. We ex- |ministration and the Department get right with their Government.|sternly with the dishonest one. 5 DAVE MILNER HardwareCompany | | Phone 247 PAINTS—OIL—GLASS During the past two months an|and, to quote the final phrase of g pect to collect $20 for every one of Agriculture, has gone to work | BUSINESS COUNSELOR 9. Knock et |to coordinate information and ac- E\'frazflgof 1-}"?')' D_erlmrls ;l} r‘lhs‘Presidem Truman’s statement, in ' . HL HCD““AL“ Shelf and Heavy Hardware | When taxes are evaded the! tivities. We intend to be in a po- nited Siates have voluntarly fHe fannouncing his' indorsement of the | A Guns and Ammunitien ! honest taxpayer loses, since every sition to hit hard. "f"“f:fl;‘{‘[mllxu(f);‘sl»h:vd“ rsno';}g ;‘m“ Treasury’s tax-evasion drive: as a pald-up susscriver to THl: DAILY ALASKA i Bl ovifan inoteaséa’iby that * * % e o SN «-(vau?;« a8, ?h; “That is just what we are going EMPIRE is invited to be our guest THIS EVENING. FOR TASTY FOODS i much the burden borne by other| BLACK MARKET OPERATORS |, ima) course of events many A {9.ne, ) Present this coupon to the box office of the d VARIETY i taxpayers. In many cases, the| Take, for example, the black| o o oo R DA ] (O, Lk Bl Braite, i) = Tl‘; 5 : honest taxpayer has especial reason|market operator. He uses currency | - — ( CAPITOL mmm G sr ca! i T to welcome the tax-evasion cam-!in an effort to avoid making a| . asiineau ': paign. A reputable furrier or|record of his violations of the d P l and receive TWO TICKETS to see: roremonlnrflenduns- : jeweler, for instance, could not con- Price Control Act, and because he | Cl’OSSWOr uzzie ¥ "A noAn Tn ” § tinue in business if a next-door thinks his profits cannot be traced | © > | B WI Two YA"KS | ; competitor should be permitted to|he does not report them on his| ACROSS 31. Domestio . Z i} sell furs or jewelry without col-|income tax return or understates| I Away 22, B::::l;' Federal Tax—11c per Person 00 ! lecting excise taxes. Any business| them. The Treasury and the OPA! Ac Hire 34, Proceed INSURANCE JAMES C.C PER, C.P.A. ool PHONE 14 — THE ROYAL BLUE CAB CO. :z“mr v;l'mchlch('ats l‘h(' (;m‘rmmt'nl hfl\;c an equal interest in pro- | 13 Detace 2. Deyour S y failing to pay for the services ceeding against this ntry, a b/ ACOUNLONLE - . e B it moritos 1 so- | foun mow G wo Wil pevoess moee| 1, PSS . Ak IR ek and an insured cab*WILL CALL FOR YOU and Sh by does sl § gaged in dishonest competition, effectively than ever before. 15, wosne 2. s RETURN YOU to your home with our compliments. a,thCk Agency i just as much as if it cheated the! Only a novice boxer telegraphs| 16. Become ex- 40. Prima donna WATCH THIS SPACE—Your Name May Appear! landlord out of his rent or workers his blows. We are not going 'to| 17, corioaeeh e g { T 43. Lowers in out of their pay. Taxes are high, tell the black market operators and | ture of but they must be collected fairly. other tax evaders, in advance, what l 1 . . 18, HeS Sver- 45, Is Indebted Metcalfe Sheet Metal Remington Typewriters And so long as any substantial por- we are going to do or how or ng 47. Ceremony | ¥ tion of the taxes due remains un-|when or where we are going to| " ThOe.Tiom i s | Heating—Airconditioning—Boat Sold and Serviced by i collected, it operates to defer the do it. But a moment’s reflection| ,, @mbush 4. Rodent Solution Of Yesterday's Puzzie | Tanks and Stacks — Everything " 3 reducu;])n of lm; rates. . i |should convince anyone who has = “fi:;i:n 253 ;r\’fl{asolt ;1‘ {R!ar{vm' 3 Occ;xxrrinl 1 - in SHEET METAL J o Bll’hl'll & cfl Much more than expediency di- engaged in tax evasion that there| 2& Weed 68. Plece out 5. S oy ", apian | X Ph ughby “ rects this tax-evasion campaign. is no future in it. What can a mea:.x % Tu({?r‘;ldy i " E’;?figc:fl 5 mel:rc))wu f-' Boviind s S i Our oonmdep. 1o Wan by -t Fundamentally morality is involved. do with illegal profits? He can buy | 2% Tibetan 60, Jillay 1 Leave out b l Bafatipd. Qustomare = -] The man who evades taxes picks land or jewels, but he cannot avoid | Prigps e, b st Engit I P o e————— * i 5 . English river | § his neighbor’s pocket. And in these leaving one or many traces that | In install- ! z 0 R . C ! times, when we are asking so can be discovered and followed up | ,,?';',’,‘;:. | SYSTEM 1 8 much from the men in uniform, whenever the Treasury and other . Declare CLEANING “SAY IT WITH OURS!” any pocket picking at their ex-|agencies have enough men to do ‘2;’,”:",?::,,““ ?hne ls pense becomes unthinkable. As the job. | B | ; Jnneall Horisis President Truman has said: We in the Treasury are getting E;—;Yi“ Alaskfl La“ndry : “We are not fighting this war to the men and training them. We 5. Food staple M o—_——— e L LR S Phone 311 make millionaires, and certainly we will have invaluable help from| 52',’,?::’,’3' | bank ‘ v are not going to allow the black-|other departments of government ‘Conyury plant * dve operstion. The mfery N\ market operators or any other in meeting our problems and we, ;?y{:;?,r,:," s of deposisact funds o owt D Pos'Ts ",fkewf,rs to be mha :avorzd class, n]n turn, will help them in meeting . On:h;‘rtg':lr:’lf pramary ‘fi:‘- = lssl v “ “ '" 'B k' when the men in the armed forces, theirs. And we are constantly ex- e sddicion, 4 S —o ( g— s and our citizens generally, are sac- | panding the sources from S . Lin dividing | or of Fodersl Depesic lnsur- IN THIS BANK er Hall a tealury of Dankin 1“ rificing so heavily.” will obtain information that will| ,‘,Z‘,,,'”J.',‘; | snce Corporstion which id- My readers may say, “All right.'trap the tax evader. He may think | ciaual parts ARE Tli ! = Tax evasion is indefensible. How he can escape by shoving his con-| :X‘n‘!r’}::nanon e B. M‘ Behrends bad is it? What are you doing cealed profits in a safe-deposit box | Pillaged o INSURED % about it?” or by burying them in the ground.| 3 5"«’,'1“:;";1' 2 * x * But whenever such currency re- . Answer the Bank 1 ONE BILLION EVADED appears, it begins to leave & tell- uin'who f The answers to the two questions tale trail. 2 go together. The Treasury is gath- L Oldest Bank m Alaska ering, from many sources, informa- HONEST TAX MISTAKES cular » tion that will give the entire pic- No honest American need fear indicator ture of tax evasion. That same in-[this drive against tax evaders. No &~ nd { COMMEBCIAL SAVINGS formation will serve as evidence to one is going to jail for an honest 8. Av;;l;il:'t";" bring tax evaders to justice. 'x‘he“mlstake in filling out his tax re-,