The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 28, 1945, Page 4

PAGE FOUR Daily Alaska Empire Published every evening except St EMPINE PRINTING COMPANY Becond and Maln Streets, Junes HELEN TROY MONSEN ! DOROTHY TROY LINGO WILLIAM R. CARTER ELMER A. FRIEND - ALFRED ZENGER - - THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—]JUNEAU, ALASKA FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1945 I step from such justifiable wage increases to the 30 | per cent increases now being demanded. Such an (increase on top of the 36 per cent rise in average | straight-time hourly earnings during the war will present industry with a sharp increase in costs which inevitably will require sharp increase These price increases in turn will decrease the buying power |of the wages received and in turn will become the unday by the au, Alasks. - - President - Vice-President Editor and Manager - _Managing Editor Business Manager in price. Mntered in the Post Office in Juneau A SUBSCRIPTION RATES Delivered by carrier in Juneau and Dougla: six months. §5.00; one yea 00, By mail, postage pai One vear, in advance, §15.00; ene month, in advance, $1.50. Subscribers will confer a favor if the “the foll six mon the Business Office of any faflure or irregularity in the de- fivery of their papers. Telephones: News Office, 602; Business Office, 374. Second Class basis for new demands for wage increases | In time a sharp increase in the standard of living | of the wage-earners as well as other groups is inevit- able. But to attempt to force in a relatively short | period changes which may be justified at some future | date is to erect a barrier against the attainment of |the high level of employment which will be so s for $1.50 per month; lowing rates: ths, in advance, $7.50; y will promptly notity MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED The Assoclated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not other- wise credited In this paper and also the berein. | urgently required during the transition period and after. local news published NATIONAL REPRESENTATIVES — Alaska Newspapers, 1411 Pourth Avenuc Bldg., Seattle, Wash. | Reconversion: A Good Start (New York Times) | John W. Snyder, Director of Reconversion, is to be congratulated on the promptness with which he has | presented to the American people the Government's | economic program for reconversion to peace. He has | written a clear and vigorous and for the most part a | well-reasoned report. He has made public an aston- | ishingly large number of quick decisions. The Administration is especially to be con- gratulated on not fearing to act promptly and boldly on some of the most crucial decisions that it had to make. Mr. Snyder tells us, for example, that “we | will not keep a single soldier or sailor in uniform |longer than he is needed by the Army or Navy, in lorder to hold down the totals of temporary unem- ployment.” As he himself remarks, “This policy may increase somewhat, the immediate dimensions of the Most of the large unions have already announced | a1y contracts, “all” of which are being “terminated their demands for higher wage rates. In general, the | immediately, except those required for experimental increases demanded are designed to tion in wartime earnings attending number of hours worked, the elimination of premium {of aircraft, artillery, ammunition and other weapons overtime pay and related factors. workers demand a wage increase of the steel workers 25 cents an hour, and auto and |perhaps months to analyze the implications of all of clothing workers an increase of 30 per cent. Increases |them. But among many good decisions there are also of these magnitudes would in most instances enable | a number of very dubious ones. workers to retain their wartime take-home pay and Portant of the latter is the program announced for are apparently designed to accomplish that objective. | Wages and prices. In effect, the labor unions are abnormal wartime wages represent mediate aspiration of their members that the increase in workers' incomes resulting from | collective bargaining [on wages] will be restored.” the extra work required by our war effort must be ' Proposals are also put forward raising so-called “sub- retained in the pay envelope, even effort is no longer expended. The; |task. But it is the shortest and most efficient road back.” The same policy is to be followed regarding mili- offset the reduc- land development purposes and for the maintenance !and supply of the armed forces.” The War Depart- the decline in the | ment 5 taking immediate action to cut its procurement Thus the rubber | DY 94 to 100 per cent. | Mr. Snyder has announced so many governmental 30 cents an hour, | gecisions or intentions that it will require weeks and One-of the most im- We are told, for example, that “as long as some materials and products remain seriously a legitimate im short, price ceilings on those materials and products | must be maintained as a barrier against inflation.” | They are saying { But “wherever price ceilings will not be endangered. insisting that th HAPPY BIRTHDAY ® o September 28, 1945 ® o . . . . . . . Olga Dapcevich . Mamie Sparling . Mrs. M. M. Merrill . Gazil E. Rhode . Mrs. Leroy West . CIliff Snodgrass . Clarice Evans . Ray Adams ° M. M. Delancy ° Mrs. J. B, Barragar, Jr. . . c e e 00 00 e et @ i ) | HOROSCGPE i “The stars incline % but do not compel” SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 29 Adverse aspects dominate today which may be a time for anxiety. Public opinion may be muddled in regard to paramount issues. Heart And Home After the early morning there may be a sense of weariness or depres- sion. Recreation is important this| week end which will be followed by ! stirring events affecting the nation. Girls should beware of misunder-| standings with fiances. { Business Affairs The financial history of the nation should be carefully studied as certain perils of the past must be avoided. Congress is to accept unusual re- sponsibility in preventing a monetary crisis. National Issues Race consciousness may be reveal- ed next month in the apportion-| tionment of jobs to veterans. The| seers warn that as long as there is discussion of views regarding equality | for all citizens there will be trouble. | Old prejudices now must be for-, gotten. International Affairs There is a sign that seems to indi-| cate that Britain must depend upon | her allies in planning economic sur-‘ though that extra |standard” pay scales. y are saying that ' In practice, prices and wages cannot be separated | vival through postwar emergencies. Persons whose birthdate it is have productivity has increased so significantly during the |in the way that Mr. Snyder implies. If wages are |the augury of a busy year that will war that these wage increases can requiring price increases. The, are in effect saying that a wartime level of earnings, which included huge be made withou 3 s | a corresponding increase in prices, If wages are; | raised and prices held down, the elimination of| | marginal profits caused by such policies will be cer- | men will be especially fortunate. | Children born on this day probably | will be bright and energetic. They: and Bbl:lOl'H"lfll savings, must be cnn(ix.luon’lu prevent | tain to bring unemployment and a shrinkage in may be careless regarding their pos- | workers’ living standards from being impaired. They | production below what would otherwise be possible. |sessions and too generous in bestow=" are in effect saying that because large profits were | The decision we make on this matter must be pri- |ing them on friends. earned as a result of the abnormally large volume of | marily economic; war business, those past profits indicate the ability m}firuundh- If we wish to keep price control, we must |——m-———————— pay future wage increases. Undoubtedly wage adjustments are desirable in | many cases and are justified on expected postwar earnings position, costs and changes in productivity. it cannot be made on political | keep wage control. If we wish to take the controls | off wages and allow them to be decided by collective | the basis of the | DArRainIng and the forces of supply and demand, we | " | must allow a similar freedom for prices if we| the rise igliving eriously expect to get maximum production and full | But it is a big | employment. The Wasfiington Merry - Go-Round (Continued from Page One) | man tips his mit to the fact that| he does have political enemies. One such occasion came the! other day when Truman received genial, politically astute Willkie- Republican Milt Polland of Wiscon- sin. “Mr. President,” Polland opened | up, “you've seen Dewey, Hoover and Landon, but I guess I'm the first ‘Willkie-Republican to drop in and pay my respects.” Truman said he was delighted to see Polland and confided that he| had a lot of respect for the late Wendell Willkie. } “I remember just how Willkie| used to refer to Tom Dewey,” Pol- land continued. “He used to sall| him that little mustached son of a| Well, that about describes him,” | replied Truman Polland told Truman how he and | a few other Willkie-Republicans are determined to make a fight for liberalism in GOP ranks. “We're especially anxious to see that men like Nye and Ham Fish never get back into Congress,” Polland said. “We're also after guys | like Shipstead’'s scalps.” ! “That's swell,” replied Truman, | “I hope you continue to fight them. | They dese: to be licked again and again | (Note—Polland didn't discu: it with Truman, but he hopes to con- vene some of Willkie’s former close grinning broadly.| _ Boards. Without warning, Snyder|there is no authority to prevent a| announced that the WPB controls| builder or any seller of a home| on: construction, contained in WPB | from taking advantage of the | Order L-41, would end Oct. 15. |shortage and pushing his price up| This abolished the WPB provision | t0_double or triple its fair value.| that new houses may not cost more | Nor 1s there any protection for| than $8,000 and means not only|the thousands of families living in | that prices for houses now on the | 8overnment housing projects which market will shoot up, but that|are to be sold. Unless they pay builders will use the small supply More rent or buy new homes, they of building materials now available | ¢an be turned out on the street for more expensive houses. Already | the minute the government sells a houses in southern Florida formerly | BOUsINg project to a private oper- priced at $5,600 last week have shot | 8tor. up to $6500—even though WPB Order L-41 does not expire until next month. (Note—The Departmient of Agri- culture is worried because farm | prices are now 57 per cent above 11937-39 averages and still going In spite of the fact that the OPA f F s L] Rent Control Division has done a * good job as possible under difficult conditions, it is probable that the number of homes for rent talroady; The entire California Delegation 30 per cent smaller than before|in Congress will go to the White the war) will become so tight that|House this week to demand that thousands of returning servicemen | President Truman intercede with will have to postpone their plans| the RFC on behalf of the Western to marry and have families be- Steel Industry. They feel Jesse cause they will have no place to|Jones’ old friends in the RFC are live. | prejudiced in favor of eastern steel In the midst of this shortage,!and want to close down wartime * W MERRY-GO-ROUND Crossword Puzzle ACROSS Egg dish 1. Except 8. Age 4. Cierical collar emons 9. Place for stor- 40. Exclamation ing hay 41. Location 12. 13, > £ Mmoo ® /> dnIiZIm<m i3 =|r] > o|w] m|2/C| V) Ol-o/>Mimr o> mrir > Unity 42, Russian sea . One of the . Before Muses . Touching at 14. Finlal 15, Term of respect 16. Heathen 17. Oriental dwelling LEEE RO A R A ) O Bl A B the boundary Steeple Former Portuguese gold coin \ Humor Singing bira Do wrong Beverage Dogma AT {C »m>D <> z> 41. 49. o/rjo/» vjam <00 o/rmiivo/o/z < vwlamzm T rir|m O Am Zio/owiil-+0r| e« riowv <|>| 2| o> Zm 4> rmojim v im0 vuign o - dmo Z|=] m| Al |6 () 59, 0. Head covering omaz I3E] 3 m| ) > (2 a4 Baseball team associates including Russell Daven- | port, Lem Jones, Senator Ball and | Bart Crum in order to set up a program which the Willkie people can follow. They particularly anxious to unseat the old guard in Congress, hope to rally around them GOP Senators Aiken of Ver- mont, Morse of Oregon and Tobey of New Hampshire.) * * % HOUSING INLATION Despite warnings by top-flight economists and historians, the Truman Administration is failing to take sufficient steps to prevent disastrous post-war inflation. Swift relexation of production controls, with no provisions for the manufacture of low-cost merchan- dise, and the rapid weakening of price controls are already starting the nation into a higher-price era., Last week, in the face of re- peated warnings from OPA, John S8nyder, Chief of the Office of War Reconversion, took the “Back to Normalcy” advice of his special construction consultant, Hugh Potter, ex-President of the Na- tiopal Association of Real Estate 29, Pertaining to grandparents Pronoun Discovery 61. Affirmative 62. P 63. Solution Of Yesterday's Puzzle 2. Single thing 5. 3. Cylindrical - Dl Brazillan 35. Figured linen 1. P macaw . Sack 8. 1 Pagliacel” . Pertaining to the Middle Ages . Jewel rough . What? . Wading birds . Skating arena Conclude . Symbol for tron . Walts for | Day's march | Close: poetie | . River of forgetfulness . Agent invoive Biblical nation Perslan poet . Anger . Paid publie notice . Herons 5. Musical characters Negative . Lominion . Heap . Spoken . Dranch of the service . Chop Tropical bird | Chess pleces |is trying to swing a big financial | (Copyright, 1945) western steel plants. . . . President | Truman may go to New York on| Columbus Day to make a mamr[ address. While the British delegation in Washington is nego- | tiating for a loan or gift, London | deal with our political enemies in | Argentina. Implication is that un-| less the British get what they want | from us they will cement closer re- | lations with Fascist Argentina. . . . Army and Navy brass hats have taken another step which won't | endear them to civilians. They have reserved every room in every hotel in Philadelphia for the weekend of | the Army-Navy football game. No| civilian car reserve a hotel room' in Philadelphia during that week»; end—without Army-Navy consent.' . . . Watch ex-Governor Bricker of | Ohio as a dark horse Republican | candidate for the 1948 Presidential race. Harcld Burton's promotion from the Senate to the Supreme Court leaves the way open for him. 4 Secretary of State Byrnes, who has already gobbled up OWI and the Office of Strategic Ser- vices, is now inheriting the Foreign Economic Administration and Lend- Lease. This will make his State! Department one of the biggest of | all government bureaus. (Copyright, 1945, by Bell Syndicate, Inc.) ELKS’ LADIES’ NIGHT Saturday, Sept. 29.—Dancing and refreshments. (10,074-t5) 1GHT COUGHS ICKS PO wuy at home equal to those served at world-famous bars. {us! add your favorite rand of liquor to “Holland House Cock- tail Mix"...and serve. 8 PERFECT MIXES For Sale at Food, Drug and Dept. Stores HOLLAND HOUSE SALES co. 126 West 22nd St., New York 11, N. Y, izo YEARS AGO 7™ purpire e et et S e ey SEPTEMBER 28, 1925 Mrs. Samuel Guyot and Mrs. J. Latimer Gray entertained at a charming bridge party in the first of a series of three parties at the home of Mrs. Guyot., Winners of prizes at bridge included Mrs. John A. Davis, Mrs. M. W. Wilson and Mrs. J. F. Mullen. Sante Degan was a guest at the Hotel Juneau, and Harry Hansen was registered at the Zynda Hotel. - The members of the Douglas Island Women's Club and several other ladies from the island, were guests of Mrs. George Getchell at her home in Juneau. 3 The steamer Admiral Rogers had arrived in port from the south, with 100 tons of freight, five days mail and 23 passengers for Juneau. Among incoming passengers were Mrs. Kittie Carter, Mrs. R. R. Hurley, land George W. Folta. A small cargo.of freight was also put off at Douglast on the outgoing trip, as the steamer left for the triangle run. Capt. George Ash, expert rifleman and with the lariat, a former Texas Ranger and general bandit capturer, had arrived in Juneau this morning, and was to give exhibitions of his proficiency at the Palace for the next three nights. During an interesting career, he had served with the British Secret Service in Jerusalem and with the U. S. Marines in Santa Domingo, where he captured, single-handed, many bandits want- ed by the government. Weather: Highest, 57; lowest, 35; clear. e et et et i et P ! Daily Lessons in English %. 1. corbon BRSSP BRI I0 1 o R TS S B e o WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “He returned back home.” Omit BACK. OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Doctor Jekyll. The English family pro- nounce it je-kil, E as in HE, I as in ILL. OFTEN MISSPELLED: Tranquil; one L. Tranquillity; two L's. SYNONYMS: Fastidious, squeamish, critical, overnice, difficult to | please. 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: MALEVOLENT; wishing evil; disposed to injure others. “He went about it with a malevolent ingenuity.” ~ MODERN ETIQUETTE Q. Doss it make any difference who speaks first when a married woman and a single woman meet on the street? A. According to strict etiquette, if the acquaintance is slight, the by ROBERTA LEE ¢ | raised at any point, market forces will tend to bring |bring many pleasant surprises. Wo- | married woman should speak first, but among friends this is disregarded. Q. What does it indicate when a person affects friendship with prominent people, with whom he has but slight acquaintance? A. TIll-breeding. Q. Is it good form for a husband or a wife to relate a funny story concerning the other? A. No; this kind of story is often embarrassing to everyone present. s < et e e LOOK and LEARN What was the “shot that was heard around the world"? Is Andalusia in Spain or in South America? If one of the points of a starfish is cut off will another grow? 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