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vening except Sunday by the EMPINE PRINTING COMPANY Second and Main Streets, Juneau, Al HELEN TROY MONSEN - - Pre: DOROTHY TF - - - Vice-President WILLIAM R. - - - and Manager ELMER A. FRIE e Manngihg Editor ALFRED ZENGE! - - - Business Manager Entered In the Po e paid, at the following rates: 00; six months, in advance, $7.50; fice, 602 ness Office, 374, “OF ASSOCIATED PRESS ews dispatches credited to it or not other- wise herein NATIONAL REPRESENTATIVES - Alaska Newspapers, 1411 Pourth Ave Bldy tle, Wash. TAKING OVER THE BANK Prof. Harold J. Laski, chairman of the British Labor Party’s National Executive Committee, de- clares that public ownership of the Bank of England is the key to the party’s nationalization program and that legislation will be proposed at once to take it Only after that will the party proceed with over the socialization of coal mines, all forms of inland transportation and of the iron and steel industry “You can’t plan economically without contral of the central bank,” declares Professor Laski. “A Govern- ment which is operation of credit is not master of its own house. not responsible for the 's to the the Il promptly notify arity in the de- xclusively entitled to the use for paper and also the local news published - |world had learned so many | short-lived joys of inflation end in disaster. | It may be—and his words seem to imply this— | that Government control of the Bank of England is ived by Professor Laski only as the first step lin Government control of British banking generally That, at least, is the only way in which the Gov- srnment could really make sure of controlling “the operations of credit.” But this means that the Gov- ernment, by its monopolistic power to grant or refuse ans on the basis of its own policy rather than on conc the basis of the individual credit standing of the pplicants, would hold life-and-death power over every industry and every individual firm that ever This might make the Government would mean the needed to borrow own house,” but it private enterprise “master in its end of free The Demon Rum in Washington (New York Times) | Last Sunday people in Washington, D. C., were thinking of just one subject, on which there was little or no news. Dr. Michael M. Miller, psychiatrist at St. Elizabeth Mental Hospital, made some of them | think of something else. Dr. Miller said, as quoted |in a United Press interview, that alcohol “is a major factor in Congre and that the State De- partment and diplomatic corps are “stuffy with drunks. He said, in effect, that liquor makes mem- bers of Con vulgar, rude, belligerent, forgetful, and a prey to lobbyists Senators, Downey, McCarran Representative S kman of Alabama immediately |came to the re e of their colleagues. Mr. Sparkman said 50 per cent of the members of Congress are, like himself, testotalers. Senator Downey said that “our physicians advi. us to have a cocktail or two to | relieve the stress and strain of the tremendous burden | we carry.” Senator Capper, a veteran dry, deplored i(hlnklng but didn’t think it interfered with the leg- islative function. Senator McCarran has seen “no signs of over-indulgence in the Senate,” though he |regarded alcoholism in general as a problem. The | State Department was apparently too busy to be quoted, but if one or two subordinate members of the | department had taken one or two little drinks on Sunday the public might have understood and for- given. Sunday, like Monday, was a trying day. Alcoholism, as Dr. Miller indicated in his inter- | view, is generally looked upon as an “escape.” A cer- tain kind of legislator or a certain kind of diplomat {might drink out of a sense of guilt or inadequacy. Drinking relieves such feelings, but, alas, not perma- and Capper and The “house” referred to here appe: nently. Not drinking does not cure them. The only British economy. Mr. Laski's remark implies that [cure is not to be guilty or inadequate, which is that economy is owned by the new Government sometimes difficult. The public can, of course, im- rather than by the millions of individual owners of | prove the quality of Congress by not electing can- property, goods or money Professor Laski ning that be has in mind. It is wish to manipulate interest credit without the restraints standard rT.he V;ashiflgion Merry - Go-Round (Continued from Page One) most obliging manner. It was one of those invitations that either ought to be declined vigorously or accepted with ostensible good grace. | I did not want to find myself in the situation of the man who was invited by an eager hostess to come to dinner on a Monday. | “No,” was the reply, “I have an engagement for Monday evening.” “Let’s make it Tuesday “I am sorry, but I must be out of town on Tuesday.” “How about Wednesday?” “Wednesday is out, too; to attend a meeting of a of directors.” “That is too bad; can you come on Thursday?” \ The ‘answer was (with apologies to Will Hays, Presbyterian elder of Sullivan, Ind, and movie 2 ,"“Oh, hell; T'll come on Monda I thought that I could run a column for Drew Pearson both hands tied behind my I did not flatter myself that I could improve upon Pearson but, ' after all, since it is no trouble to read him, it was fair to conclude that it would be no effort to re-! I have board off with back produce him. It might have been different with certain other col- | umnists whose names are distaste- ful to me. I am not often wrong or at least I won't admit it—but I was this time CABINET MUZZLED There . are some subjects upon which I could be spontaneously | fluent - but which would require asbestos paper for their safe ren- dering. I simply forgot once again that to a member of the Cabinet, a discussion of almost any current topic is “verboten.” 1 am supposed to live in an in- tellectual vacuum. And so the thrusting facts and opinions that teem within my mind on such sub- jects as Hirohito, Franco and cer- tain members of Congress and col- leagues of mine in the government must be kept in their place without benefit of midwife For years I have wanted to have my say about Generalissimo Franco of Spain. But it wasn't until my surprised eyes ranged the column of the Portland, Maine, SUNDAY TELEGRAM of Aug. 5, that at last I became aware that I could speak a piece about Franco. The be- fore, according to the Associated Press, “the State Department took another crack & eralissimo Franco Sec ies Dean chibald MacLeish said Neutrality Act of 1936 popular” in Americ conclusion of the spokesmen was that been realized “until strongly American opinion E was opposed to Franco and to the role played in Spain by Hitler and « Mussolini.” I had been Spain A and Achison the that was ne The ¢ er outstandin it had recently is waiting to say this i is right, howe that credit control is necessary to the kind of plan- rates imposed by But this only leads to inflation should have learned after the last war, what the | Miller has overstated his case ‘had a | didates who need to drink too much in order to feel | normal. Looking back a generation or two, one is |tempted to believe that the public has already done | so. As for the State Department, people who want | passports in a hurry may regard it as stuffy, but certainly not with liquor. In such emergencies it | shows no * of the alcoholic impulse to give and | give and give. On the whole, one concludes that Dr. ver, in assuming necessary if you and to expand the gold Europe sort of thing for a good many a publisher and editor, I venture| years. to say that if he were a con-| If T were really Drew Pearson temporary instead of an ancient| instead of a poor imitation, I he would be able to hold his own} would g at least half a brass tod with the best of them all. ring to Acheson and MacLeish. It I will not be regarded as in- would have been a good thing for dulging what anyone might| the & e Department and for the properly regard as a ‘‘controversy” in dipping briefly into the life of a man who was a great American during his lifetime and an incre: ingly great American since death. According to James Parton,| one of Franklin’s biographers, “It| :“'ilh his boast that his own news- paper, the Pennsylvania Gazette, during an existence of nearly 60 years under his own management nd that of his successors had never assailed the gharacter of a| private individual, nar indecently criticized the conduct of a public | man . country if these two straight-think- ing young gentlemen had been re- sponsible offic of the Depart- ment long before they became such Then what they said about Franco would not have been so tardy. * ¥ % ICKES' COAL “CONTROVE People in the fedetal service are prohibited from engaging in ‘“con- troversies.” But what is a “contro- versy?” If I should say that more oranges are produced in Maine than in any state in the Union, as I understand the rules and regulations under which we operate, not even the Secretary of Agricul- ture could tell the world that I nutty flavor. A denial of even an obvious misstatement be- his SY” LIBERTY OF PRESS How Franklin would scream, as living today and occupying an edi- torial sanctum in any of certain comes a “controver: and there- fore is forbidden. Smart is the 'Dewspapers that do not even need man who, anticipating an issue, | 0 be called by name. On one occasion Franklin wrote and published “An Account of the Supremest Court of Judicature in vania, viz: The Court of the ." The date was Sept. 12, 1789. Franklin’s approach to his subject takes a public position with respect | to it, thus putting a chip on his shoulder that no one else may knock off. For instance, take the subject of coal. I have said, and it has not with ants in his pants, if he were | THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA AUGUST 3 1, 1945 { FRIDAY, {imes before, that the[® © 8 6 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 B (et e et HAPPY BIRTHDAY o o August 31, 1945 o e W. E. Feero Myrtle Woods Douglas Wahto Vera Delano Raymond Hegstad Ben A. Bellamy Joe Petrie Eileen MacSpadden Art Hedman Mrs. R. M. Crawford [ | gl L e { HOROSCOPE { “The stars incline but do not compel” | | { SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 1 | Conflicting planetary aspects are active as this month begins. Ad- verse aspects affect certain branch-| es of our wa ice. Delays and | obstacles prevent early fulfillment| of war plans. HEART AND HOME | Routine matters should engage' women under this configuration. Do- ' mestic arts will have special appeal for many who have given up work in! shops and factories, The stars favor | love interests but warn against too| much demonstration of feeling. | BUSINESS AFFAIRS | Reconversion of industries will| proceed with remarkable rapidity | this month when there will be much | to stimulate commerce and trade. Buying will be generous and shop~‘ pers careless regarding values, NATIONAL ISSUES | ‘Wage readjustments, which will be; of paramount concern in the next; on young workers. Boys and girls who have been receiving high pay for unskilled labor will be dissatis- | fied when offered what they really | earn. 1 Persons whose birthdate it is have | the augury of a year of progress| toward long-delayed goals. Success | in love is indicated. Children born on this day pro- bably will be bright and Iuvublc.‘ Both boys and girls may be exceed- ingly fastidious. (Copyright 1945) | Press, a liberty which every Penn- | sylvanian would fight and die for,” | is founded on an article of the Constitution of the State, he wrote: | “It seems, indeed, somewhat Jikes the Liberty of the Press that felons® have, by the common law of Eng-} land, before the conviction, that is{ to be pressed to death or hanged.y If by the Liberty of the Press were | understood merely the the liberty | of discussing the propriety of public measures and political opinions, let | us have as much of it as you| please; but if it means the liberty . of affronting, calminating, 1 defaming one another, I, for my| part, own myself willing to part| with my share of it when our| legislators shall please so to alter | the law, and shall cheerfully con- | sent to exchange my Liberty of abusing others for the privilege of not being abused myself.” ‘t It would take less than 10 minv’ utes to read this gem of Franklin’s. | It is worth it. (Copyright, 1915, by Bell Syndicate, Inc.) i ® 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 00 . ol . . f4 TIDES TOMORROW i® © ® September 1, 1945 o o been denied, that many people, not savored of sardonic humor. After e Low 3:37a.m, 17 ft." |e High 10:16 a. m., 12.4 ft. e Low 15:47p.m., 5.7 ft. e High .22:02p.m., 14.7 ft. only in Europe but here, will be Témarking. that “Liberty of the chilly, if not cold, next winter. It| ™ is not that there is not enough {coal in the world. The trouble is that it is not being produced in large enough quantities. This much ACROSS (T can say without getting into 1. Flow back B et trouble. But when I go further and | i cAlong 41. Give declare that there are enough coal! ¥ temporarily miners to produce the required 12, 42. Hindu womau's amount of coal, T am stepping on | 1% Young =~ -, il thin ice. If T tell where those men bird ', 41 Dynamo are a & p - 14, Vin 47. Dot e and du_nund that they be put g (,'mlxflgealed 49. Burning to the digging of coal, then I ¢ vater ) B , then I am water 53, French “used of engaging in public “con- ' 16. General fight " revolutionist Moving wagon . Inexpensive troversy.” : * % % Nimble " Put BEN FRANKLIN . Arlificlal E language Therefore, in order to write $1-BERin something that eve: > p, . s organ. 62. Choppe omething that even the most sen- N b, 63. Becently sitive contemporary cannot even . Discover acquired imagine to be “controversial,” Light boat DOWN oversial,” 1| 3 Airm whistles 1. Poem will thumb back through the pag [S[T]Y] Solution Of Yesterday's Puzzle 2. Classical 4. Taking part In musical a contest composer 6. Be under obligation Tinot 3. City fp Wincls o o tirely 6. 7. Golf peg 8. of American history until I come % ' 7 Water vapor to the engaging subject of Benjs "” i B, ;: € .ngm:, subject of Benja- % / . Perceiving min Franklin. He ought to be safe -. / g-shaped enough and, so far as I know, he 2 Unit of force has no direct descendents. Or has ‘ .- 41 he? 27 - Automobile = E . storing place B. Franklin of Pennsylvania wa - . Sen eagles at least a three-dimensional man— | or even four could be claimed for him if one cares to give any credit to his alleged amorous accomplish- ments. Here was a man who was @ living refutation of the bright ophorism, which had not even been coined in his day, that “the | female of the species is more deadly than the male.” F lin, as a statesman, has od head and shoulders above most Americans in that category. am confident that as such, he !l continue down the long stretch . Disencumber . Thus S ands) 20 YEARS AGO 7% empire e AUGUST 31, 1925 Miss R. Messerschmidt, who had been in Seattle for the past year, was returning to Juneau on the Alameda. M Rogers. H. E. Biggs, accompanied by his son, William, was returning to Juneau aften an absence of two years, spent in Seattle. Spickett's Palace was featuring the daring drama, “The Marriage Cheat,” with Leatrice Joy and Adolphe Menjou in the cast, .while at the Coliseum “Lawful Larceny” with Hgpe Hampton, Nita Naldi, Lew Cody |and Conrad Nagel was the feature attrattion. George B. Grigsby, former Delegate to Congress and former Attorney- General had arrived in Juneau from Ketchikan, on a short business trip. Internal Revenue collectors had made public the amount of taxes paid —m———— for the year 1924, revealing that President Coolidge paid $14,091 for the year, as against $6,643 the previous year. Henry Ford had paid $2,608,- 808; his son Edsel paid $2,158,055 and the Ford Motor Company paid $16,493,160. Mr. and “Mrs. Fleek, of Douglas, became the proud parents of a baby boy, born this evening. The new arrival was the eighth boy for the Fleeks, in addition to one daughter. 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