The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 15, 1945, Page 4

PAGE FOUR {l'vquirpd three bottles, Government authorities real- : R Daily Alaska Empire i v e oo {anteed a large market and provided capital for mass production. History will record the splendid results Published every evening except Sunday by the EMPIKE PRINTING COMPANY Second and Main Streets, Juneau, Alaska, Sl 5 " AFLEN TRO3 smiUNosh T T president With the government’s purchase of this successful DOROTHY TROY LINGO - - fe-President | 4 ' Sl i (E WILLIAM R. CARTER % L . ‘Baitor and Mansger | 16T volume production started. Now there are 20 tor ' factories. The largest cost more than $3,500,000, but v e i 2l penicillin is costing less than $1 a bottle, $3 a treat- Office in Juneau ns Second Class Matter. ent. Many lives have been saved and more will be SUBSCRYPTION RATES: ! 4 g Delivered by carrier in Juneau and Douglas for $1.50 per month: Mankind will be healthier and happier. Government | encouragement of this business proved wise and bene- ELMER A. FRIE 5 ALFRED ZENGER - - - - #ntered in the Pos efx months, $8.00; one vear, $15.00. By mall, postage paid, at the following rates: $15.00; six months, in advance, $7.50; | ficiq] $1.50 i fer a favor 1f they will promptly notify How different was the Canol oil venture. The of any fatl the de- Srdbte ol e Army drilled wells on the Mackenzie River, built s Office, 502; Business Office, 3. MEMBZR OF ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to 1t of not other- wise credited in this paper and also the local news published berein $27,000,000 refinery at Whitehorse and tied into Fair. banks, Alaska, with 1,000 miles of pipeline. Nothing was gained, Gasoline from the white elephant plant at Whitehorse costs 26 cents a gallon. Oil companies can ship a better product there from the States for 18 cents. The venture has been abanddned The Canol experiment failed. Very apparent ob- tacles made the operation too costly. ‘Known sources { supply are better and $300,000,000 of taxpayers' money Government’s support of one beneficial drug |can’t justify its management of big business. What officia), spending public money, is cautious and thor- ‘lr\lp.ll like a private investor with his own money? Never |has government management achieved the efficiency of | American private management. NATIONAL REPRESENTATIVES — Alaska Newspapers, 1411 Pourth Avenue Bldg., Beattle, Wash, is gone Impatient Workers (Cincinnati Enguirer) industries workers have been accustomed | to relatively high weekly wages, bacause of the longer hours worked in industr They resent the {lowering of their take-home pay as a normal working | week is resumed, and are demanding large increases in hourly pay rates to offset the shortened work we This attitude is understandable in those cases where can do daily pay were frozen throughout the war- while liv s have risen In many & SUCCESS AND FAILURE Apostles of business agree sometimes that better with little things of government ownership private management When it comes to filling €0 prescriptions, mending shoes or making clothespir This not the whole stol of course. In many they admit private operators may be more efficient. |industries there have been considerable increases in Not so with the big stuff, they argue; coal, iron, oil, | hourly wage rates, or changes in classification of railroads are different. These just beg for bureaucratic | workers which had the effect of wage increases. There bossing. Of course big industries are more interesting | is no justification for new wage demands at present { the workers who have enjoyed such wage to politicians because they employ large numbers of people and affect the daily lives of millions more, The | increases during the war. | Even in those industries where there is a sound fact remains, however, that government can and does ] i A . 7% |case for wage increases—and there are such—this 1s in the operation of big industries. ;¢ yhe time for strikes to enforce union demands. Moreover, appropriate encouragement from governmen | our survival of the postwar crisis without a costly in relatively small enterprises has been known to result ‘,,mh,djuh“,,um depends on a swift resumption of in much good. | production, especially in durable consumer goods and Since government enterprises tend ultimately to ;““‘ building industry. become moncpolistic, mistakes in them can be far more | If we are to avert a ruinous inflation, we must fateful than private blunders. | have a prompt and large flow of goods to consumers. Our government made two important decisions in “And if we are to absorb the millions made !vll\E({r:Ax'l:y 5, obviously 3 ¥ & : s ] unemployed by the closing of war industri 1942 which illustrate the case perfectly. One, to take yo g hagten the reconversion of our key industrie a speculative flyer in Arctic ofl, has cost American | _j, this case, automobiles, household appliances and taxpayers 300,000,000 “good-by” dollars already. The | puilding construction other decision had to do with penicillin. Wage demands which it might be feasible and Penicillin is a drug, a mold extract that most peo- | desirable to meet in three or six months can be a ple know less about than they do about gasoline. Some | national danger at present, before goods in volume perfectly astounding cures are being worked with it, |have reached consumer channels to absorb accumulated including cure of meningitis. It was discovered by an | Purchasing power. Impatience among workers thus English scientist, Alexander Fleming, | becomes a real menace to our national economy. For 1929 but | i | this the blame must be placed on the leaders of labor production was tedious, slow and costly and conse- quently few sufferers were helped by it for 13 | After all, it is they who should be able to understand By 1942, our first war year, some American capital- the folly of widespread large wage incr ists bad taken a hang with marked success, The product | before consumer goods in adequate quantity are avail- make mistakes gigantic task of reconversion gets well started, and Assistant War [gave the Russians a powerful po- ses before the | /e @ @ @ October 15, 1945 © o ® o . Olav Eikland . . Gladys Blaine . Evelyn Hartman . . Edward Atkinson . Mrs. Alex Sturrock . R. M. Wallace . . . . . . Mr. and Mrs. Tony Wukich Mary Ellen Farrell H.J. Leonard - ] I HOROSCOPE “The stars incline i E but do not compel” After the early aspects rule strongly b ed TUESDAY, OCTOBER 16 uplifting to the spirit. HEART AND HOME Returning Service men and wo- men require the utmost cooperation | and understanding from their fam- ilies. While many will have serious difficulties in transitional readjus ments’ the great benefits of and supreme dangers will be val- uable to the majority who will con- tribute much to the future of the nation BUSINES AFFAIRS | As the number of unemployed in- creases there will be rapid absorp- tion of workers in speedy reconve: sion. Portents of inevitable idlene. for many who have not profited wartime training seem to indicate that wise Government policies will prevent serious need NATIONAL ISSUES At a time when there is greatest| reason for pride in United States citizenship subversive efforts will be extensive. Despite victory from United Nations' brilliant cooperation the desire to undermine friendly re- lations among the Allies will be evi- dent in organizations of misleading | titles. INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS Through trial and many errors the defeated Axis countries will be grad- ually brought back to self-govern- ment and economic independence, {the seers prophesy. Persons whose birthdate it is have the augury of a year of numerous (trials of patience but it should be fortunate on the whole. | { Children born on thisday probab- ly will be talented but sensitive and | hot-tempered They are prone to {dare and must be watched | morning Itis a s 1 . | front of the Navy, The washlngton;,’:}rcrrlm‘y McCloy suggested to his|litical excuse for getting island (Copyright, 1945) i colleggues that the entire question |bases in the Atlantic. - > { M G R dior the islands be thrown in the| It isn't being advertised, but al-| NOTICE MEMBERS i erl’Y- 0- OllIl lap of a combined State, War and ' ready the Russians have asked for| Women of the Moose meetings | SO T Navy Department committee. To bases at Spitzbergen, Bear Island|will be the first and third Thurs-/ this end he had a memo mimeo- | and Iceland, supposedly for weathe: | graphed and started circulating it, observations. However, such I | when Admiral Edwards heard whatare near the Great Circle short-cut | was brewing. {to New York and London and Edwards nearly had a fit. His could become secret rocket-launch- neat footwork with the White ing or atom-launching bases. House in August was being com- | Byrnes agreed to discuss the whole (Continued from Page One) wards’ surprise, came back one day later, marked ‘“approved.” Below was President Truman's signature. It was initialed also by Truman’s l\],?lr:lm::?\'\:}:‘:“:(;i?;;?:’ i;‘:‘:? pletely undermined | matter cfmmfully with the Navy 0% v * * * and President Truman upon his MORE HAIR-PULLING return to Washington. The Navy was amazed that — piay - Under Naval Secretary, (Note—Meanwhile, the Interior g g ade such g rt-| Truman had made such an Import-| Gates, former New York banker, | Department, hitherto entrusted ant decision effecting vital U. S.lou)eq Assistant War Secretary |with governing U. S. islands and policy in the Pacific without con-{nrecioy and tried to pick up some | territories, has been kept com- | days, beginning Oct. 18. Initiation | and Sccial Oct. 18. i LEONA McKINNON, | (10,091-t3) Recorder. | pHGEC i T s : | - Relief At Last | i For Your Cough Creomulsion relieves promptly be- cause it goes right to the seat of the | trouble to help loosen and expel sulting the State, War or INterior o ype pieces. He suggested that it [pletely in the dark by the Army| germ laden phlegm, and aid nature | Departments. But it was also de-| o 14 pe better if the Army ¢ d'and Nav soothe and heal raw, tender, in- lghted WORIC S gk Tkt ATy Ay y. flamed bronchial mucous mem= & i . |Navy worked things out between| (Copyrisht.1945. by Bell Syndicate, Inc.) | branes. Tell your drugeist to sell you | A few days Iu““_' Acting Secre- themselves without consulting the | TRt nbottleo( Creomulsion with the“‘n-‘ tary of the Interior Abe Fortas,|g,. A 3 ; e | RUMMAGE SALE derstanding you must like the way it | | State Department. Then they could | quickly allays the cough or you are knowing nothing about the Presi-| .. ... ¢ — | surprise the other government ‘ .+ | to have your money back. | dent's action, dropped over to| 3 Odd Fellows Hall, Tuesday, Oct. A g agencies with an accomplished fact | g (10,08,9-t3) CRE MU leoN confer with Assistant Secretary m‘univh couldn't be upset Bl ,08, the Navy Sullivan and a group of B i 5 S for Coughs, Chest Colds, Bronchitis | DRINK KING BLACK LABI g ¢ admirals, and outlined the Interior| Simultaneously, Secretary of the 0 Department’s views of how to Navy Forrestal sent the White| TR By A — - handle Pacific islands. He pro-| House a memo (Sept. 11) asking posed that the Navy and the In- Truman whether he had approved Grossword Puzzle terior Department set up a joint|a “permanent” policy of putting| M committee to study the subject the islands under the Navy, as| ACROSS 34. African worm stated in his August memo to the| 35. Type measure Bullivan 3 s o 1. Viper Sullivan and the admirals lis-/nayy op 4 mere “interim” policy| & Exhausted i6 Necktles tened politely ;m(‘l T«ulr pulu; m;{:\l as stated in Truman’s Sept. 10 K;. 'i;[e"plccus:i'ufiam. 3. ‘“n%l':l!.- kind: They knew that Truman had OK'd| /o5 "ine Army. i (i 40 salt their memo making the Navy su- P tal" 2 O i mountain :j li;nu:plr!led X 1 Pcrrestal's memo came back from | peaks 3. Boun preme over Pacific islands, but they 4 18. Landed estate 4. The pick never uttered a peep. Fortas left|the ~White Hous immediately | of a lord 47. Missions X ¥ hing marked “approved as an interim 14. Epoch 49. Extinct New nowing nothing haat ding the findings of | 10~ Masculine Zealaud Meanwhile, Assistant Secretary of Proposition pending the lndings o o goame ST - State-War-Nav, Ppar . Sun-drl . Canvas shelter War Jack McCloy had been tipped the State-War-Navy Departments | 1 huufln&ea A L»Ev:““s_l:‘ off regarding the Navy’s quiet ma-| Meanwhile admiral Edwards shot| 17. Bcgu;lnl base- 5b. 'l‘uk:nun one's | a o neuver, as also were the “Empire a quickie radiogram to Fleet Ad-| g more rational 8. Unclose: Builders” of the Air Forces. The miral Nimitz, containing a com-| ,:llu‘;:«l =5 1 mffi)&”lc Ve | akes lace g latter were especially furious at|plete blueprint of the Na L= mall case 61. Al present Truman’s actions. For the air boys war Pacific plan. Edwards e- | Iy hiupl )op\:;n 1 2 mDOWN 4. Stings 2 G NVar e h consider these islands vital to B-29 liberately made one concession to| s Clm“nr"l . « . _M{ I;:[I“(m' !; 5“.?15: o > rang bho S erat o ¢l 1 agencies P ; . Swiss capltal (5. 2 8. Soi Se and long rang bomber operations.|the civillan agencles by eliminating | Bwise ch) . 2 Rl bird A And if the Navy gets control, the Okinawa from the islands to be| golt course 61 Lair plantation 8. Extended Army is hamstrung in exactly the ruled by the Navy, on the s:muud‘ V;ursl]l‘llul ex- same way the vy would not let|that Okinawa has too large a| nm'-u.nmfil the Army planes patrol the waters civillan population (over 100,000 | Ly around Pearl Harbor before Peml for a naval government { fever Harbor. Nimitz has now OK'd the Navy's| - l\“‘"\“i: ¢ 5 | Acquire; « 5 ¥ blueprint and the admirals have| 1§lm.s ¥ ARMY STEPS IN again rushed it to the White 21. Hard-shelled So, on Sept. 10, McCloy drafted House, hoping they can get snap Br‘l“ljl"‘; a one-page memo which his chief, judgment out of Truman, making Ijul;vuhn[ Secretary Stimson, signed and sent the Navy permanent boss of the to the White House. Stimson | Pacific islands | HH " Coat Wi an pointed out that security is “inter- o T | and lead meshed” regarding Pacific and RUSSIA STEPS IN 29. bases and is a joint problem for| However, what both the Army | ! both Army and Navy and Navy may not know is that T\x:uglmm \ In conclusion, Stimson said he the whole question of Pacific naval | . - Turn lnside assumed Truman had approved the|bases came up at the London B uxi‘ff .[m| Navy as an “interim authority” “Big Five” Conferen During . Al over the islands, not a permanent private side-talks }mm en Secre- ! / % 5:(»';‘):;‘1‘:‘ authority tary Byrnes and Foreign Min- ! Much to the Army's surprise, this|ister Bevin, the latter told Byrnes ont memo came back from the White that he was worried over perma- ¥. Elocutionist House one day later, also marked nent U. S. Navy-controlled hu\(“,’ ':3256 “approved” and signed Harry S. all over the Pacific | . Fencing Truman. It was obvious that the' Bevin told Byrnes that nn*‘ l’ui'\l\(‘”u new President believed in speed,| Navy’s plan looked like a sword | Study not consultation | pointed at Russia, and that if llu-; ‘L’tfh‘fiu, S0, to put unother road bl in islands were to be Navy-ruled it! i | | benefic | | Daily Lessons in English % 1. corpon Meets each Tues- day at 8:00 P. M. 1. O. O. F. HALL. Visiting Brothers Welcome BEN O. HAVDAHL, Noble Grand OCTOBER 15, 1925 The World Series was over, with the Pittsburgh Pirates taking the seventh game from the Washington Senators by a score of 9 to 7. . ' § Warfields' Drug Stoze (Formerly Guy L. Smith Drugs) NYAL Family Remedies HORLUCK’S DANISH ICE CREAM i i The first new Ford coupe in Alaska was delivered to John Frem- [mmg of the Juneau Postoffice staff, sold through the Juneau Motor Company. Delivery of a new Ford chassis to L. F. Morris was also made !by the company. “In the new Ford cars there is distinctive beauty, mak- | | ing Ford ownership one of genuine pride as well as complete satisfac- tion,’ H. I. Lucas of the Jumeau Motor Company was quoted as saying. Gen. W. P. Richardson, after his return to Washington, D. C., from |a trip through Alaska, strongly urged the use of air transportation | service as the effective military defense system in the Territory, thereby the suggestion of Gen. William Mitchell The Sewing Baskel BABY HEADQUARTERS ! Infant and Children’s Wear 139 8. Franklin Juneau, Alaska approving the | The most desirable foreign womer United States for Japanese | to marry were Mexicans, according to the publisher of a Japanese daily in {in’Seattle. German and Scandinavian marriage also had proved suc- DB. E H KA’_'SER | cessful with the Japanese, but women of those nationalities were not o &do . too plentiful. American women did not care to marry Japanese, he said, DENTIST | and even if they did marry them; happiness resulted in very few case BLOMGREN BUILDING | divorce was prevalent even among the Americans themselves. Phone 56 HOURS: 9 A. M. to 5 P. M. ': ‘Highest, 52; lowest, 49; rain e f Dr. A. W. Stewart ENTI! 20TH CENTURY BUILDING Office Phone 469 SO USSR PSS SISO WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not | very well.” Say, “I think the child DID very well.” OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Amelioration. Pronounce a-mel-yo-ra- shun, first A as in ASK unstressed, E as in ME, O as in NO, second A as in RAY, accent fourth syllable OFTEN MISSPELLED: Weird; EI, not IE. SYNONYMS: Call, cry out, exclaim, ejaculate. 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: TRANSCEND 'T; superior or supreme; surpassing. “The hills and wind- ing river presented a view of transcendent beauty.’ L e MODERN ETIQUETTE think the child done Dr. John H. Geyer VENTIST Room 8$—Valentine Bldg. PHONE 1762 ROBERT SIMPSON, Opt. D. Uraduate Los Angeies College of Optometry and Optiialmology Glasses Pitted Lenses Ground by ROBERTA LEE ) Q. Should a guest at a wedding reception congratulate the bride as well as the groom? A. No. Do not congratulate the bride. Extend congratulations to the bridegroom, but extend your best wishes to the bride. Q. Should the guests at a dinner always be introduced before they are seated at the table? 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