The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 27, 1945, Page 4

PAGE FOUR Dail Published e E) Alaska Empire evening except Sunday by the PRINTING COMPANY Becond and Maln Streets, Juneau, Alaska, HELEN TROY MONSEN - - - - President DOROTHY TROY LINGO - - - Vice-President WILLIAM R. CARTER - - - Editor and Manager ELMER A. FRIEND « - - - Managing Editor ALFRED ZENGER - - - - Business Manager "grealnnss in part, at least, because of the national | spirit engendered through the love of millions of :indivlduals far their own houses. It is a principle | which this country never should Iorgs‘l No Back Pay (Washington Evening Star) The matter of Major James P. S. Devereux’s back pay provides material for an interesting study in the |extent to which common sense can be tortured by rpgulalmm and red tape. Imprisoned by the Japanese¢ after his heroic de- Butered 1n the Post Office in Juneau Second Class Matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATE: Delivered by carrier in Juncau and Douslas for $150 per month; six months, $8.00; one year, $15.00. By matl, postage paid, at the following rates: One vear, in advance, $15.00; six months, in advance, $7.50; ene month, n advence, $1.50 i Subscribers will confer & favor if they will promptly notify | the Business Office of any faflure or irregularity in the de- |fense of Wake Island, Major Devereux, on May 16, livery of their papers " ” atite Telephones: News Office, 602; Business Office, 374. 1942, was “promoted” to the rank of lieutenant | colonel. Presumably this was intended to serve as MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS ec o rende! "Piko. Asseiotad Srems 15 exINMVMT SRHIN S0 tho it e | r(mgmrmn of m_e great service he had rendered and to compensate him in small degree for the personal republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not other- wise credited in this paper and also the local news published | sacrifice that national unpreparedness had imposed herein. 4 h o TN on him. But now it seems that the promotion may NATIONAL REPRESENTATIVES — Alaska Newspapers, 1411 | have been more apparent than real since Major Pourth Avenue Bldg., Seattle, Wash, 590 4 : Devereux, under Marine Corps regulations, is not THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—-JUNEAU AIASKA THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1945 ' i1 HAPPY BIRTHDAY SEPTEMBER 27 Phyllis Grant Yvonne Swanson Albert B. Clark Harry V. Larsen Mrs. John Newmarker Donald Hayes Mrs. Gerald McLaughlin Olie Johanson Clifford Meyers secescccccseccccs | © © 000 00 0 0 0 e e @ i e 4 | HOROSCOPE | “The stars incline | entitled to any back pay at the higher rank and may {not receive the rank itself unless he can pass a | physical examination. If he had been released by the | Japanese more than three years ago, he would have |received both the higher pay and the higher rank. |But because he has had to endure the ordeal of imprisonment he loses the back pay and, if his health has been sufficiently impaired, he may also lose the rank. It is regulations of this sort plus routine adher- | ence to them which one associates with the term “‘bras: (hat” in its most unflattering connotation. Fortun- |ately, Chairman Vinson of the House Naval Affairs {Committee has promised that Congress will see to it | that the regulation is not applied to the prejudice of !Marines who have been prisoners of war, and the | sooner steps to this end are taken the better it will be. Boon to the Wounded A MAN’S OWN HOME In the current discussion of housing problems, so important now in virtually every section of the United (Cincinnati Enquirer) States, we must not forget that private ownership of | The individual—or individuals—who designed and homes should continue to be the goal toward which a Tperlncwd the microfilm projection machine for hos- majority of Americans strive. ‘pna] use already has received the thanks of hundreds lof helpless patients. He deserves the thanks of the GRRAtta s oy oo RiSncept.the, Iallacy fbat | American public as well. The invention is simple government housing is an answer to our wishes. It | |enough. Tt is, in fact, nothing more than a stereop- is true that this is a national problem and that as |tjcan machine which will handle microfilm, plus an such deserves assistance and consideration by certain | electric mechanism for changing the tiny plates to Federal agencies. But private ownership is one of the | suit the whim of the user. bulwarks of the American system. That we never | The machine is used primarily in hospital wards should be allowed to forget. where patients are entirely immobile. If a wounded The family which owns its own house and lot 1ad can move a finger or a toe he can operate it. has attachments for and interests in the community {4 small board is placed under his good hand, or The board holds three buttons. | below his good foot. which never can be duplicated by other devices. N"‘;By pushln: the first the patient turns the projector tenant in a government housing project could achieve {on or off and a beam of light is thrown on the the close feeling of attachment which comes naturally ceiling above his bed. By pushing the second button to those who have labored, saved and planned—and |He throws on his ceiling screen the first page of a come finally to acquire their own tiny empires. | book, or the first picture in a series of comic cartoons. Such a home has much more than financial value. Each push of the button will advance another page. Every tree that has been planted and grown to |The third button will turn the pages—or the pictures maturity is a tie binding that family to that bit of ;:b:fxi::;di);or;::t L DTeE (Eateler Rty earth. Every year the garden blooms; every spring ¢ A when the grass comes green again—all these are among | The device comes as a boon to soldiers who have been unable to do anything for themselves for weeks. B L o doms onlyto Shogs iRt It is entertaining, of course—and that’s important, for have bought their own dwellings. there aren’t many things a helpless patient can enjoy. There are other values too—reflecting as much | gyt it contributes much more. It gives the sufferer upon the community perhaps as on the individuals | an opportunity to do something for himself. He need who live here. Home ownership gives stability to a|call no nurse or orderly if he wishes to read. He family and to each individual in it. The very fact of | can take care of that single want as he chooses, with- property ownership makes each person a better citi- [out bothering anyone. The ability gives him a new zen; enlarges his contribution to society. sense of confidence—something he'd been missing ever We hope sincerely that America never will tend since the enemy bullet cut him down. to swerve from the path of individual home owner- Thus, by a very simple variation of a machine already in use, hundreds—and perhaps thousands—of ship; that the time never will come when any great . number of our people will fail to appreciate all the soldiers are given opportunities not only for educa- tional and amusing mental relaxation, but to rebuild advantages which come with such acquisitions. Cer- tainly this nation has been built and has grown to their badly shattered self-confidence as well. it comes as a blessing to all who can use it. The Washmgton Merry - Go-Round (Continued from Page One) velt Memorial Library at Hyde |said. “If you could see the pitiful | Park have doubled since the Ia',eHetters on my desk, you would have President’s death. Mrs. Roosevelt no doubt about it. Hundreds and gave each of Henry Morgenthnus,lhousands of mothers, whose hus- children a trinket from the former|bands are still in the Army, are Chief Executive’s desk as memento. | desperate at the thought that the | The former First Lady is now so|child centers will close down. They busy she may open an office in can't live on soldiers’ pay, and they Manhattan to handle her mail and |want to know how they are going business affairs. The new to keep their jobs if they have to First Lady, Mrs. Truman, may try stay home and take care of their to improve her own press relations | children.” Palestine was given to the Jews.|this fall. She’s been tipped off by| General Fleming, who personal- Meanwhile, the British were giving |intimates that the ladies of the‘ly wants to keep the centers open, Ibn Saud rifles with which he|Fourth Estate don't love her. |said he was aware of these pmb-‘ o jstin up. Bluodshied.) | Lieut. Comdr. Joel Fisher of the|lems, but it was clearly understood President Truman, however,| Coast Guard who won the title of [at the time Congress voted the maintained that Palestine should | “Task-Force Fisher” for ferretting | money that centers were to be op- be governed by all religions, Mo-|out hidden Nazi gold in Germany | erated only as & war measure. hammedans and Christians as well |is now working for Henry Wallace | for Roosevelt to see Ibn Saud so that Ibn Saud could warn Roosevelt that there would be bloodshed if as Jews. \aL the Commerce Department. . .| Freshman Representative George B | The conference of American smal | Miller of San Francisco then ask- What We Fought For |business organizations is bom- ed Fleming if it were not true that — Truly, { but do not compel” — FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 28 Adverse planetary influences rule today. Caution should be employed where matters of future importance are involved. Heart And Home Women should benefit under this| configuration for Venus ‘smiles up- on them. The date is fortunate for love affairs and for domestic har- mony. | Business Affairs Financiers come under signs of | grace portent that seem to presage | heavy international responsibilities. | Thee who are shortsighted will | oppose reforms in banking systems. Stabilization of exchange will be| on an aim that should be success-| ful. ! National Issues The vast and complex machinery of government must now be reduced. | Reformers will demand elimination | of overlapping agencies and super- flous employees. Economy will be seen as absolutely necessary. International Affairs United States naval bases will be maintained in all parts of the world, | it is predicted. Maintenance of peaoe will be thus safeguarded. Full re- alization of our power is imperative. | ‘This means that stern tenacity must be a trait most valuable to the na- tion. Persons whose birthdate it is have, the augury of rather an uncertain' year but it will be a period of prep-| aration for good fortune. | 20 YEARS A?G*O"-%"’EE SaAes SEPTEMBER 27, 1925 Reports from Fairbanks said that the cleanup of Farmer McGrath's side-hill potato farm, from which came the best potatoes in the interior of Alaska, showed a crop of 11 tons, or 424 bushels to the acre, with a cash value of $1,100 per acre, at the farm sale price of 5 cents a pound. of scrapping all the battleships. Well, cruisers are good enough if other nations have nothing better.” J. J. Meherin arrived the previous day on the steamer Queen after a business trip to points on the triangle route, Skagway, Haines and Sitka. Mike Koskey, Albert Wile and Tom Dobson were registered at the Alaskan Hotel. M. D. Williams, in charge of the Bureau of Public Roads work in Alaska, had left for Sitka to make a final inspection of the Sitka Power Station road, surfacing of which was almost completed. Mrs. W. E. Nowell, wife of the local agent for the Alaska Steamship Company, was expected to return to Juneau on the steamer Alaska, sailing this day from Seattle. She had recently accompanied their son Everett to Seattle, where he was to attend the University of Washington. Weather: Highest, 56; lowest, 38; partly cloudy. o 5 Daily Lessons in English ¥, 1. corpo ; e e e e e et} WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not confuse LUXURIOUS, pertain- ing to luxury, with LUXURIANT, exceedingly fertile, or abundant. OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Plague. Pronounce plag,«A as in PLAY. OFTEN MISSPELLED: Baptism; S. Baptize; Z. SYNONYMS: Want (noun), deficiency, lack, scareity,” scarceness, need, destitution, poverty. 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: SANCTIMONIOUS; making a show of sanctity. “He was a sanctimonious hypocrite.” MODERN ETIQUETTE *; Q. If a bride is going on a honeymoon trip that is to last several ROBFRTA LEE ( weeks, how soon should she write notes of acknowledgment for her gifts? A. She should do so before she leaves, or within a week after she ' leaves. Q. If the coffee or tea is extremely hot, and one is a hurry, isn't it permissible to pour it into the saucer to cool? A. No. Merely use a litle patience, and it will soon be cool enough. Children born on this day will bfil Q. Is it correct to use lightly tinted paper for one’s social correspond- attuned to the finer things of life.! epce? They are likely to seek artistic/ A. White paper is preferable. careers. ' (Copyright, 1945) the FWA has legal authority to| keep operating these centers as; long as the funds are available. Fleming replied that that is true. “But,” he added, “we have an un- derstanding with :z the war ends we are to liquida the program.” the Appropria- @ tions Committee that as soon » LOOK and LEARN % 1. Is it possible for an airplane to fly lower than a submarine can dive? 2. What is the “Sooner State"? 3. Who was Cleopatra’s husband? . 4. What is the largest city in C. GORDON Canada; Montreal, Toronto or Liberal Representative John Cof- Quebec? " fee of Tacoma, Wash., who is a 5. What is an ephemeral insect? member of the Appropriations! ANSWERS: ‘Commm.ee remarked that he knew of no such argument. Note — Western Congressmen do not maintain that child care should be a permanent Federal project, but that more time must be given for states and cities to take it over. (Copyright, 1943, by Bell Syndicate, Inc.) - BACK FROM VACATION Miss Ida Hofstad, of the office staff of the Fish and Wildlife Ser- vice, has returned from a week’s vacation spent visiting her father and friends in Petersburg. She was accompanied on the trip by Mrs. {John Grove, daughter of Mr. and {Mrs. George Gullufson, who was formerly with the Alaska Road Commission. 1. Yes, in certain parts of the world, because the land is far below sea level. 2. Oklahoma. 3. Her brother, from an old Egyptian custom. 4. Montreal. 5. A short-lived insect. M. S. PATRICIA LEAVING FOR SKAGWAY AND HAINES TUESDAY—7A. M. Sailing Date Subject to Change e Empire Want-ads bring results! Truman was 100 per cent behind parding congressmen with inflam- the plan to permit Jewish refugees| matory propaganda to block sny‘ to go to Palestine, went even fur-|permanent fair employment prac- | Cl"OS Old PuZZle ther than the visiting Senators ex-|tices committee. . Suggestion to pected. They had been concerned | paul McNutt—oheck on why Gen-| ACROSS 31. Watch secretly regarding the fate of approximately, eral MacArthur and Philippine| 1. Playing cara 33. Glaclal ridges 100,000 to 150,000 Jews—some of President Osmena permitted so| 4 Peeled e 1 S them from Poland; some from many Jap collaborationists to keep| * Nomwestan, exile Germany—who are living in ref‘l"hjgh office in Manila since libera- } division SECAiDec Siaat gee camps under the protection of tjon of the Philippines. 113 P"ggfi: with 37. Large fish the American Army and cannot re- | } 13. Color 39. High: musical turn home. Earl Harrison, former| Children’s Lobby 14. Equality 40. Well-behaved U. §. Commissioner of Immigration,| Economy-minded members of the 15 Wonder ana 42 l"‘a’.“v‘l"c:““' recently went to Europe to study|House Appropriations Committee | 15 gonen-going 43 Golf peg their fate, arfd reported that their | are not letting any grass grow un- | " " passenger 44. Of greatest age return to Poland and Germany|der their feet. Chairman Clarence o P bripd o 46. Drill would be extremely difficult. Cannon of Missouri, parsimonious | " “mentor e mgg:&:; This situation aroused President|john Taber of New York, and| 33 Gutwin . Spanish dance Solution Of Yesterday's Puzzie Truman. He promised to send or-| tight-fisted Richard Wigglesworth | scissors Roman weight gy Coagulate DOWN ders to General Eisenhower not|of Massachusetts, ranking Republi-| 55 Consiction Harays armived g3, Sea eagles 1. Tilled land only to transport to Palestine the cans are cutting expenditures to( 24, Mythical . Execute un- 64 American }gf,’"fi‘ refugees who wish to go, but to!the bone. ! B mon T I aad 6. P,:,::f:: € One versea 1 billet other refugees with German| But they're under plenty of pres-| 28 Auction . Racket 66. Fixed charges fpany families if they wished to remain|sure from their colleagues to per-| 2 Graio 6L. Corroded 67. Skin 5 T|£,"‘D‘;"" in Germany. |mit continued operation of the 7 ohamrned “These people have n right to| Ohild-Care Centers which the Fed: .HH/ e e “ YR KO L8 moe ikt live in their own country,” Tru-|eral agency has been . operating ../. . .. L. Ridleuls man said emphatically, “and I am | These centers, which make it pos- Capam); of going to instruct General Eisen- sible for working mothers to leave' H ;ine‘l:_iegdh::n- hower to billet them right in with | their children in competent hands rolled thin German families if they want to live in Germany.” “This is one of the zhmg< for which we fought the war/ Tru- | man added. “If we have failed in/ this, the war has been vain.” Capital Chaff President Truman still keeps up | his rapid-fire early morning ap-} pointment race, sees as many as 15 visitors before lunch. Greek pub-| lisher Basil Vlavianos visited Tru- man the other day, caught him sneaking a yawn and long stretch between callers. . . A new breath of fresh air in the Post Office De- partment: Gael E. Sullivan of Chi- cago, Assistant Postmaster-General .. Visitors to the Franklin Roose- fought in ,while they are on the job, are | scheduled to be closed next month. | | The protest against closing them ' | has been extremely strong. Espec- ially in the west. A score of Pacific Coast con- | gressmen met Wednesday morning | with Federal Works Administrator | General Philip Fleming to reach a solution to this problem. Fleming told them child care was never| !contemplated as a permanent Fed- eral project, and would have to be taken over by the States. \ Representative Richard Welch of !San Francisco insisted, however, that Federal operation until the | States were ready to take over is imperative—at least until G.I. fa- thers are back on the scene. “It is still a war problem,” ol /vl el Welch | 7 P il NN N NN . Set of three Large serpent Unadulterated Outcome . Make publie . Church coun- clls . 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