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

PAGE FOUR Dail Pub 1 every ev EMPIRE PRI Second ar RELEN TROY MON DOROTHY TROY LINGU WILLIAM R. CARTER A It is so in respect to old-age benefits. The self- supporting common man is paying, as his employer also | is paying, to maintain a social security program. In the main, it is a much-needed and desirable program. But President : the benefits eventually pe Y remaens | an of moderate income are sinz Editor | proportionately, than those ss Manager | c - , 4 — ; individual. e B S ol Cluss ST In our effort after Dielivered by carrier in Juneau and Douklas for $1.50 per month; | gssistance of the State we should be careful—more six months, §8.00; one year, $15.00 By mail, posiage paid, at the following rates: careful than we have been—not to put too much of the advance, $15.00; six monthis, in advance, $780; hyrden on the upstanding shoulders of the common his own way all his life. y Alaska Empire Street ka a bit very quite the “Editor of Bu to look 1 a -favor if they will promptly notify , man—the man who pa v fallure or frregularity in the delivery | ness Office, 374 n : Abolish the IATID PRESS | Sk tled to the use for | to it or not other- Just about the first clear-headed, practical proposal e . | to meet the threat of the atomic bomb in the field of Alaska Newspapers, 1411 | i\, ernational politics has now besn put forward by Ina with sug- Anthony Eden, former British Foreign Secretary. peculiarly unanimous “debate” on foreign polic Prime Minister At in Commons, Mr. Eden : the United Nations charter be repealed. Careful students of the charter have been disturbe about this provision from the very beginning. To a very considerable extent, it nullified all the good work done at San Francisco. Actually the veto means that China, France, Ri Great Britain and the United dispute from being handled by the UNO. This sweeping ast spring that agtually the UNO would to prevent a small war between two It is tied hand and foot in the fact igns on the part of any of the great powers or even a small country which has a good friend | among the great powers. This provision, of course, was the result of the unwillingness of the powers actually to trust the future of the world to the democratic process. In effeet, it was a stipulation that international democracy was all right for the little fellow but that it could be ignored by a nation with big bdttalions, The atomic bomb has made the threat of war so much more terrible—as Mr. Attlee eloquently pointed lands to say be able only small nations. of warlike d THE “COMMON MAN" So much has been heard of the “common. man” in purely political context in these recent years that the phrase has adquired a new and not v logical mean- | ing. Asking at random, you doubtless would find most persons define the common man as an underprivilged, undernourished, neglected chap with a neglected fam- | 1y, all of them depsnding on society for some help. | Actually this is not the common man. For the | out recently t the elimination of the absolute veto cammonest man-of &ll {s the average; and, believe it or | POWer becomes virtually mandatory.” It is now in- not, he supports himself, pays taxes, owns an automo- 1(12:;1‘(‘1‘ "ll’n“'m‘)“fl’“m‘"fi'nr;‘i“"ii“ (’}‘;“:f;'y “;;":p:’:d;":"::z bile, and as often as not owns a home. He Works-at a4 epqotive steps for the prevention of war. The veto trade or profession, makes up his own mind about his | ;,wer was a mistaken conce: wn problems and public questions, pays his own bills | (hinking in the first pla nd respects himself. | weuld be a virtual confs The common man, in fact, is a solid citizen. he is being taxed more and more heavily to support the ommon man--the man who decesn’'t pay his way. it is one of the sad results of a number of Well-| """y gy with stakes in every corner of the 1ded reform measures for the alleviation of hard- | globe, probably have more to gain from the cxercise p among the less common men ot very small or of the veto than any other nation. They realize, how- ARCERE | ever, that any gain which might come from it i The projected scheme for socializing medical and | obliterated by its terrible disadvantage. They realize It is proposed by | that atomic warfare must be prevented at all costs, hospital care costs is an example. B . President Truman to tax the common man 4 per cent |.8nd it is to their very great credit that they have taken the initiative in proposing the removal of this of his salary or wages to pay for his hospital care and baruiar £ ha srtactiveness of tha UN medical service . Obviously the common man is not‘ After-all, the only defense ag st the bomb is the :0ing to get his money’s worth, because there are many | outlawing of war and the United Nations must be made uch smaller income who will get the same medical | sirong enough to stop the slightest gesture in the srvice afid not contribute. direction of aggression. but now its continuance on that the great powers perhaps, nosdesire to avoid a titanic struggle in which our civilization might go down in a single moment of mic destruction. though given the title of Surplus I‘he. w ash -1 ng 10n ‘ :ropfl'!y Administrator, actually Merl,y E GO u Round So Symington, fed up with getting little to do with its disposal. the blame for the surplus property snarl, finally went to Reconversion (Continued from Page One) land near Naval ba in order to open up retail stors Dallas, me: over the Federal Government still occupying 49 per cent of the good office space in Dallas. This means that more than 200 physi- cians and lawyers recently dis- charged from the armed forces are unable to find space. * ® % Boss John Snyder and asked that !he be given full responsibility by ing over the RFC, himself. Sym- ington didn’t say so in those words, but he is tired of having the secret hand of Jesse Jones running surplus property and the loan agencies while gets -all the headaches. Snyder, as usus*, was noncom- lmmal Being an old pal of Jesse's, ! he isn’'t anxious to make a change. However, the final decision is not up to him—but Truman. If the latter does not clean house, you get them split up into small groups they couldn't function as a unit. The 10 nations on the ad- visory commission, therefore, took cver a ship which they will use as weadquarters anchored in Tokyo Bay. | ® ¥ % H MERRY-GO-ROUND Jesse Jones is reported looking around to find a big banking job for John Snyder, the reconversion boss, who so many Truman ad- copn write it down that his old visers hope will .sfmn leave Wash- friend Symington will not tarry in ;’;’i‘”;):i‘fir dont care where 1| the headache-ridden job of Sur- eI Bleckt sk 3% Mt fambling [T eopenty- Adminiskator. hands are taken off the delicate| ARMY-NAVY DEATH BATTLE job of reconversion. . . . President| The Navy'is leaving no stone Truman may not remember, but!Unturned in its battle to the death one important rumpus in the early | With the Army. Watchful Navy days of the New Deal was when’sleuths recently noted an item in Chester Davis, then boss of the the New York papers reporting Agricultural Adjustment Agenc ,ithat Gen. “Toughy” Spaatz, hard- purged Jerome Frank, now _yudgg‘rlwaded Army ace, had entertained of the Second Circuit Court of | & dinner of 656 to 70 editors and he NO FOREIGN VISITORS IN DOUGLAS PLANTS UNLESS REQUESTED BY 2 DEPTS. The Japanese general mentioned by Drew Pearson, and all other foreign visitors, were admitted to the Douglas plant only after re- quest of the State and War De- partments. Under Army regula- tions, the company cannot permit non-citizens to visit any Douglas plant except through special per- mission, the mechanics of which are as follows: The foreign government makes partment naming the person and the desired date of visit. If ap- those who need the | { gested that the veto power granted to the Big Five in | States have the unquestioned power to prevent any | But ( have no faith in their ability to prevent war and | ble to the substantial work- | smaller, ! low-paid | authority caused the Foreign Minister of the Nether- |, | | | The | Texas, Chamber of Com- | ce finds that even with the War {anq should be successful executives. | ceec0 000 e b Wil 1945 @ o o . e e December 27, Belle Harrison R. M. Eggleston Dorothy Roff Mrs. Jack West Mrs. Stanley Eggert Thelma Thorpe Abe Weinberg eeceececescoe e e 00 00 0000 e — { HOROSCOPE “The stars incline but do not compel” ! t FRIDAY, DECEMBER 28 aspects dominate strong »day which should be fortunate for planning. The stars seam to smile upon leaders in business and politics Benefic HEART AND HOME ‘Women are most fortunate in their planetary direction teday. It is a date especially fortunate for home entertaining. Under this conligura- tion it is possible to appear at cne's best, and a time to make new friend- ships. BUSINESS AFFAIRS Promising signs attend the United States in helping to rebuild world trade and commerce. Great demands will be made on the nation's finan- cial resources. The Seers repeat- edly warn of dangers from ereed and selfishness of American busi- ion to outmoded political | nessmen NATIONAL ISSUES Astrologers advise Uncie Sam to put his house in order. Vice and crime flourish, they point out. The waste in riotous living will be even greater in 1946 than it has been in the past year, they prophes INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS Although certain portents have indicated inevitable mistakes in our ehabilitation of devastated cities of Jurope, there will be remarkable re- where our occupation forces ve served. The seeds of democ- acy which have been widely sown will slowly germinate, it is prophe- sied. Persons whose birthdate it is have the augury of a y of unexpected tasks that prove fortunate. Women will be especially happy in domes- bag. They had quietly purchased io changes. ven born on this day prob= ly will be proud and sensitive. »y should manifest unusual talents (Copyright, 1945) Department, which either approves or disapproves the request. If ap- proved, the War Department then notifies its Army representative at the plant to permit the visit under " restrictions prescribed by the air i forces and only on th edate speci- | fied. The company plays no part ! and has no authority in granting permission and is merely advised by the Army’s representative of the time of visit. All foreign visitors are escorted through the plant by jme Army Air Forces’ representa- , tives who prescribe the route of plant tour and exclude from the visit any production considered confidential or of military value. We are confident this procedure was employed in the visit under discussion by Mr. Pearson and that if he will take the trouble formal request to our State De- { to check War Department records 4 he will discover that this visitor and others of his type had re- proved, the State Department ceived permission to visit many transmits the request to the War other plants in the United States. Appeals, for proposing that the | Publishers at- the Waldorf, with big meat packers :open their books | the guest of honor Hugh Baillie, to the public in order to ascertain | head of United Press. how much government subsidies| Navy men, knowing the they needed Today, Truman | cul which any general or ad- is proposing a far more - |miral has in meeting even the tionary step—opening the bLooks of | family payroll on a government automobile com G other | salary, wondered how Spaatz was big indu: u- | able to finance such a big shindig. has g ¢r Davis | They investigated, found that the from St serve on ; dinner cost a thousand bucks, but n board, | it didn’t come out of Gen. Spaatz’ he may step into Pocket. It was paid for by the all-important reconver- | United Press, whose chief was . . While the American | guest of honor. / is bogged down, the Naturally, the dinner was a good French have bLuilt 40,000 trucks | sounding board for air force propa- since Jan. 1 The French have | ¢anda. The airmen, although stay- alse increased their coal produc- |iug in the background, have been tion 1 per cent compared with i the leading motivator of the Army- pre-war days. Their present fuel | Navy merger. In any such merger, shortage is due to the fact thar |the air forces figure they will get before the war they imported two- |two votes (theirs and the Army’s) fifths of their consumption. That | against the Navy’s one. jmportation, largely from Germany, o R is. now cut off. i CAPITAL CHAFF B 1 “I've been reading the platforms JESSE JONES' HIDDEN HAND [of the two major political parties Only time President Roosevelt ' for the past 40 years,” remarked really got at anyone waus | Congressman Carter Manasco of when he fired Jesse Jones Alabama, who did so much to sabo- Secretary of Commerce and tage the Full Employment Bill, Loan Administr Ever “Well, if everything called for in Truman came into office p those platforms had been carried Harry has shut cne eye to the out, the country would have been that Jesse Jones, unofficial s | ruined now.” . “Most significant mubning the powerful Federal Loan thing about the Republican’s Chi- Administration by remote control. cago convention to me,” remarked Jones sits in Room 450 of the “Cap” Harding, Secretary of the diffi- ACROSS L At u distance b, Actors in & play 9. Killer whale Italian coins Edible seaweed . Pastry 45. . Aunoys 46 s 38. American_ ln- dian 40 Quthit . Commotion 3. Made a mis- take 4 4 Thus Drinking ves- . Greek letter L) . Uncle Tom's pet . Exist Toward Land measures . Medieval fab- ric . Discuss . Subterranean workers Groove Pronoun Pulpy frult Hindustan hill dweller in addition recon Related suce cession Mechanism Steering lever . Placed in the ground Babylonian deily Negalive Strike gently Vice Goodbd Untruth Glacial snow field Always and Snyder’s sion job. auto ind sore ator Crossword Puzzle 00000 coo e WINDOW AUTO "20 YEARS AGO ™ cwrirs B e | DECEMBER 21, 1925 ‘ Fire of an unknown origin had destroyed the Davis-Phillips Grocery ';nnd Dimond Nickolof{'s general merchandise store in Cordova, according to word received here. Fstimated damage was $40,000. Nearly the entire ! population of Cordova turned out to combat the flames which were in one of | the principal business bl in the heart of Cordova’s trade center. About 20 volunteer fire fighters were overcome by gas but were revived, and two recelved minor injuries. DON ABEL DR.E.H. KASER || DENTIST BLOMGREN BUILDING Phone 56 HOURS: 9 A. M. to 5 P. M. Dr. A. W. Stewart DENTIST 20TH CENTTJRY BUILDING Office Phone 469 | % Marcel Stragier returned to Juneau on the steamer Admiral Watson, |after graduating from Gonzaga, Wash., High School | : Almest a Christmas baby, but not quite, was the boy born December 126 to Mr. and Mrs. Ketzel Leonhart. Mr. Leonhart was theé ewner of the y Barber Shop here. ROBERT SIMPSON, Opt. D. Graduate Los Angeles College of Optometry and Opthalmology Glasses Fitted | Forest Rangers Gearge Peterson and Harold Smith arrived on the sx-'or(stry boat Ranger V, after an absence of about a month, during which time they cruised parts of both Juneau and Sitka districts. One of Juneau's oldest landmarks, the 30-year-old Presbyterian Church on the corner of Fourth and Franklin streets, was virtually | troyed by fire caused by an overheated flue, this morning. shortly The organ, piano, pulpit and d, and most of the choir! Len. Ground de befcre the hour set for special scrvices. | chairs in the rostrum were removed unda music and Sunday School equipment were Alaska Music Supply Arthur M. Uggen, Manager Pianos—Musical Instruments and Supplier Phone 206 Second and Seward Weather: Highest, 44; lowest, 37: cloudy | pomomimo e Dally Lessons in Engllsh %S, L. GORDON \ \ + 4 METCALFE SHEET METAL Heating—Airconditioning—Boat Tanks and Stacks—Everything in SHEET METAL 90 Willoughby Ave, WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not & “I shall s‘end whomever is there.” Say, “I shall send WHOEVER is there.” OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Gratis. Pronounce the A as in ATE, or | Phone 711 as in AT. OFTEN MISSPELLED: Mesmerize; MES, though pronounced MEZ. | SYNONYMS: Ramble, range, roam, rove, stray, stroll, wander. i 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: IMPEND; to hang or be suspended over; be imminent. “Destruction sure | o'er all your heads impends."v—Pop2. by | MODERN ETIQUETTE "ommmra Lok s o — )\ “The Store for Men" SARBIN’S Front St—Triangle Bldg. ! { { Q. Isit all right for a husband and wife to use their individual cards? to enclose with a wedding gift, and for formal social affairs? | A. Yes; but the joint card is preferable. : | Q. Should the father or the mother of a debutante stand nearest | the door when receiving guests? | A. The mother. Q. Is it proy A. No; say, ¥ ; LOOK and LEARN % ¢ cornon 2% H v Warfield's Drug Store (Formerly Guy L. Smith Drugs) , “Mrs. Smith called Tuesday to see me?" nith called ON Tuesday to see me.” r t0 s NYAL Family Remedies HORLUCK’S DANISH ICE CREAM HUTCHINGS ECONOMY MARKET 1. What is the difference between a coiffeur and coiffure? Choice Meats At All Times 2. Who suggested to his friend and teacher, Seneca, that he kill Located in George Bros. Store himself? T PHONES 553—92--95 3. What is the literal meaniug of sympathy? What advice did Pilate’s wife give to Pilate concerning Jesus? | What is fratricide? | c A L l l" 0 n N l A AI‘{SV‘{ERS: | Grocery and Meat Market ANSWERS: || 478 — PHONES — 571" High Quality Foods at Moderate Prices 1. A coiffeur is a male hairdresser. A coiffure is an arrangement of the hair, or a headdress. . 2. Nero. i 3. Suffering with; from the Greek “aym” with, and “pathos” | suifering. | 4. To have nothing to do with his conviction 5. One who kills his brother. Jones-Stevens Shop LADIES’—MISSES’ READY-TO-WEAR Near Third Seward Street LET US ESTIMATE YOUR JOB OUR STAFF TAKES CARE of INSTALLATION and REPAIRS OF OIL BURNERS—ALSO BUILDING CONTRACTING NO JOB TOO SMALL OR TOQ LARGE FOR US! . PHONE Blue 475 from 8 A. M. 1o 6 P. M. BLACK 447 EVENINGS The Alaskan Holel Newly Renovated Rooms .at Reasonable Rates PHONE SINGLE O 2000000000000 THE BARANOF ALASKA’S FINEST HOTEL EAT IN THE BUBBLE ROOM GREEN 559 BOX 2315 FRED R. WOLF ELECTRICAL CONTRACTOR “HOUSE WIRING OUR SPECIALTY” rici» v A e Y S M A L L m/ 2] -{wll<[r[o]w] > 1 S P - - ] Special Dinner 5to 8 P. M. $1.65 Silver Bow Lodge No.A2, L O.O.F. Meets each Tues- _BRONZE SHAFTING — STERN BEARINGS — PROPELLORS GRAY MARINE ENGINES SALES and SERVICE Junean Welding and Machine Shop > ZIC Solution Of Yesterday's Puzzie DOWN 1. Assumed name 2. Sky . Noah's boat Reposing . Public vehlcle . O1a . Glutted Inquiry for lost goods Telephone girt Metal fastener . Stop County in Col- orado 22. Border . 1001 5. Rub out . Boxes Possesses 2. Heron . One who dis- agrees 35. Gone by Commands 67. German ety 68. Large plant . 69. Orlental dwell- tngs Statler Hotel, keeping two phones se busy his wife complains she can’t talk to him. And since no one has been appointed to replace him, Jesse can do almost anything he wishes with the headless loan agencies. This also means that he has a lot to say about surplus property since it is largely handled by the RFC. Mcanwhile, Stuart Symingten, Democratic Congressional Commii- tee, “is the excellent planning by the Palmer House management. The other convention in the hotel at the time was of morticians and undertakers. Very appropriate.” . . . The Navy has cancelled plans to close up all ship-service stores by spring. Several officers who had known the plan was to be an- nounced will be left holding \he‘ . Uncanny 2. Destroy . Eolarged 1. Powerful . Aerial rail- At Hetlows Feunge into water Shelter Topaz hum- ming bird day at 8:00 P. M. I. O. O. F. HALL. 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