The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 18, 1946, Page 4

PAGE FOUR D(ul y Alaska E mpire @ except Sunday by the ING COMPANY u Streets, Juneau, Alaska HELEN TROY MONSEN h s “ . DOROTHY TROY LINGO - - WILLIAM R. CARTER - $le ELMER A. FRIEND AR . ALFRED ZENGER - |be to get busy pro | talk of less work; President Vice-President “Editor and Manager Managing Editor L Manager necessities. Socialists we ve! v ; . people has neither things it would seem to us the agree to hold back our progress toward satisfy If ever we adopt the policy of ths they ruined thair c money ner credit. We need so many sensible thing would This is not a time to are willing to our | French | likely will repeat their experience— ountry. ducing them. that is, unless we Entered in the Post Office uneau s Matter. | X SUBSCRIPTION RATE T ST ° Delivered by carrier In Juneau and Doulas for $1.50 per month; | | slx months, $8.00; one year, $15.00 | Former Offlt‘er\ and Jobs L4 18 By mail. postage paid. at the following rates AR . One yoar. in adeance, £15.00; six months. in advance, $7.50; | . one month, in advance, $1.50 (Cincinnati Enquirer ) Bubscribers will confer a favor if they will promptly notify |- Mary C the Business Office of any failure or irregularity in the delivery Two young men have come to our office during| 4 Mrs, Harold R. Brown of their papers t % ¢ i A AR AN 0 thens OTHiOL N the last few days. Both were recently dmh,_arr,o(l from| o Velma MecDaniel ot i | the Army; both had been commissioned officers; both | o Waunales . Stilks ATED PRESS ! were casting around for civilian employment. We tell Etolin Mark The Assoc lusively entitled to the use for g |e Etolin Marks republication of &il news dispatches credited to it or not other- about them for theirs characteristic cases; | ¢ E. T. Tremper yise credited. in uhis paper and also the locsl news published | their problems are the problems of thousands of other| o Helen Shepard erein Sheps sl e I oo S |young men—and of the communities in which they| Aimee T. Kelly . NATIONAL REPRESENTATIVES — Alaska Newspapers, 1411 live. i - Pourth Avenue Bldg., Seattle, Wash. | s e » Ruiha: ¢ ShamRdt — One of the lads—he was not yet 25—hcd held the|l e o @ @ o o o o ¢ o o o Irank of Major. His responsibilities had been large - during his years | life. | by recent college | perience. while | Army, was not su | The other boy |too, had carried con: when he command | of thousands of do men. But he still | enlisted, almost fou |and to fight. But LESS WORK! | | their country and The French Socialists had fixed on a three days | of work a week as their aim. They wanted a week end | ana in a measure from Thursday through Sunday The collapse of yfln something of a France followed. Leisure is desirable. All work and | Oflcn risked their no play makes Jack a dull boy. Yet you can run a good | hor hope to step i thing into the ground. Certainly there is a tondencv‘ on the part of American labor of service { ordinarily entrusted to a young man of 25 in civilian | His pay, too, had been more than that commanded | excellent |in ordinary business life. in solving the problems of life which now he must face. Both these lads have heavily in their debt. much larger than those graduates. His background of ex-| from the standpoint of the ch as would impress an employer had been a First Lieutenant i siderable responsibility—particularly | ed Army bombers costing hundreds | llars, and crews of upward of eight | was a youngster in college when he ir years ago. He had learned to fly| he'd learned little else to assist him at are | good reasons for feeling t the people who stayed at home They to expect- par with the jobs in which they so |y lives. But they should not expect | immediately into such positions | se It may be unfortunate but it is true that wumrul' to try the policy of | former Army officers returning to civil life must learn | less work. Of course, the advocates of this policy | % take their places in businesses and professions |f ehismently oppose what would seem to be the matural] SXactly ss they learned to take thelr ;plages o the military establishment which brought victory corallary—Iless work, less pay. If you draw an analogy ‘A“]N between the farm and the factory, the less work idea | ¢ .i0q to fly and makes a poor showing. acres, he cannot expect the same crop he would get | opportunity. from more acres. The fewer acres, the smaller the|they produced in crop. | or responsibilities t At present America is hungering and thirsting fm s gy all kinds of things—silk stockings, refrigerators, new Reading H. G cars and new houses. Our needs are multitudinous. ‘Tcxhcr" makes us al And we have the money to pay for what we lack That is an unusual occurrence, for usually a needy |3,000 r.p.m. instance, the sys- tem whereby Pvt. Karl Von Esche The w aShlng ton s B R s ot o it Merry o GO 2 Round |to the Moore General Hospital in Savannah, N. C. His wife dies (Continued frcm Page One) Cut out, for mitted to the same hospital at ‘about the same time. Also cut out the system whereby Maj. Gen. William Ord Ryan uses an Army plane to fly a bale of hay all the way across the Pacific to ieed his captive kangaroo; where- by officers fly to football games while G.I’s ride day-coaches on the much more important mission lof seeing their wives; whereby Colonel Soriano, the friend of General MacArthur and personal representative of dictator Franco, ic able to fly three plane-loads of beer-bottle tops across the Pacific; and whereby the Pentagon-generals dispatch one plane to Florida for pompano, another to North Dakota for quail and a third to Texas for | Lieut. John Bamberger’s dog is ad- | morale is high. The conscripted French Army proved this in 1940. Therefore, whether drafted or vol-| untary, what both the American public apd the . War, Department pre basically interested in is an army of men not torn by a sense of injustice and resentment. Most people don't realize it, but during the war the American pub- lic was shielded from many things that took place inside the Army. But the men inside the Army knew what was going on, though they could not write home about it. So now, with censorship over, they are not only writing home, but to their service papers, and 5 % 2 : generally blowing off pent-up avocados and fresh tomalms for Ateam. | the sole purpose of staging a fancy dinner for a British air marshal. Also cut out the system whereby football players and baseball play- ers get discharged ahead of high- w]mm veterans merely because they | kave wire-pulling friends in the They have fought a war to SE\EJ the democratic system at home, | and now they would like to see a little more democracy right inside their own Army. If we did not Lave so intelligent an Army, there | & would not be this outburst. But the | :V:erre?;pg;:‘:r’:' ;:SA::';WS’;(:Z American Army today is the MOSt| \"opeoin) airplane ride 8,000 miles intelligent we have ever assembled; | 3 in fact, the most intelligent in the | home to the low-point son of Gen. worid—br none, Hanford McNider. Finally cut out the system make the best If the farmer plants fewer | opportunity to learn; owes them every possible training ;' But until they can produce in peace as | in a weak hammock over | left | wall space which does not bear the They must be trained to produce, as they were | T0 fight. America owes them every ‘war, they cannot earnings | o equal those the expect ' cs |and suspic |survive it mi Welles’s “Mind at the End of Its bout as jittery as if we were strapped He,| ¢ which should be nessmen. | partments may ties. ave good reason to hope— | der the benefic influences of Venu civilian jobs which are| There are signs that seem to presage ican wives and mother: ! his year. so recently left. | © HOROSCGPE | “The stars incline ) but do mot compel” J SATURDAY, JANUARY 19 dominate fortunate .for busi- Heads of Government de- have added Friendly stars AND HOMF it greatly un- HEART should bene Wome w political consciousness of Amer- Many will ek places in legislative bodies. BUSINESS AFFAIRS Crganizaticn of business and pro- essional men will extend greatly Campaigns in education to ,v\tn\xll be promoted with good effect. counterbalance labor unions, eat civil associations will expand pidly. NATIONAL ISSUES A threatening sign seems to warn f propaganda to emphasize politi- a1, racial and economic prejudices ns. t be a melting pot in the scers declare, as they ali a cut-off saw running af|f | t strong ons why men don't| want to stay in the Army. No- | body is stirring this up except cer-|Y tain officers themselves. Thase offi- | cers have it within their power tc| change this overnighi. They nee no legislation | They also have it within their| power to revamp our mmqunudlt best | system and build one of the armies in the world. But c tion or no conscription, th have a strong army unless won't avor- | Imitments add oresee future perils INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS Aspects of Uranus, Pluto and Nep- une indicate the explosive ' condi- ions of the Middle East where in- ernal difficulties will retard diplo- matic negotiations. Compromises are dimly indicated q(but it is foreseen that the urge to |independence can not be restrained Persons whose birthdate it is have he augury of a year of perplexities o which domestic or romantic com- difficulties. Children born on this day should have good brains and strong char- . |acters. Remarkable memories be- :‘h‘:‘“c'aQ’l’sri‘:‘:;‘:mp?‘:‘fil‘q d‘;“i :;;;(}‘lunq to many of these Capricorn f‘:‘:‘i;r:s certain types of pre-mcml (Copyright, 1946) Senator Owen Brewster, Mamn“ < Republican and a member of the g " Mead Committee, held cut to the| g TIDE TABLE g end for Hugh Fulton as Counsel of | o JANUARY 18 N the Pearl Harbor Investigating| g “ b b Committee. Senator Homer Fergu-| o i N = igh tid am., 16. . son, Michigan Republican who sits | 5 l:ni, ::d: S.gg ;2 1?; E: : with Brewster on both the Meadl‘. High tide 15:08 p.mv‘ “'3 "‘ ¥ Committee and the Pearl Harbor! o 7y o tide 91:38 pm _2'6 -h' Committee, did not back up Ful-| g 3 oy ton's candidacy, although he dx!.. 50 o e ered e e rot oppose it .. One common | impulse of Red Army soldiers and | American G.I’s is their fondness| for leaving carved names where- | ever they go. G.I's in Berlin have to hand it to the Russians for lhe‘ thorough job they did in what is of the Reichschancellory. There: is hardly a square inch of | rame and address of a Russian— lligent me: fl::::r:zbul als: the best gripers \ whereby enlisted men at times were up to the dome. The| Stin tiey think they have been Biven one helmet of water per day | Yank® can't figure out how the! wronged i for bathing, drinking and laundry, Russians managed to write their| Based‘ upon thowsands of GI but see the hose running all day names on the ceiling and dome. | letters and talking to many me‘n to water officers’ gardens. ‘ (Copyright, 1946, by The Bell| Bikoe ‘are sbitin ide:q which this col-. These are some of the very)Syndicate, Inc.) umnist believes might improve ' T o B s morale and efficiency inside the | e | Army. C d p l LA C|TOR i o™ rosswor uzzie eQlCH[1[ME \ REVISE WEST POINT { ARACIEES | 1. Abolish political appointments | ACROSS 33. Whole number MAD DERJILE | to West Point and base them en-/ é E:’f” 35. Perform A SIS E|N tirely on merit. There is no rea-| 9. Strike violently gf ?‘"”."" woot | © |PIEINICERRIAEE T Dl | son why we should still follow the: 1% Refihe e el AP AT E| ted idea that each Con- | \g: Dutch city i Sering oTIM | INVRE P T title anpol 15. In a Ii . Atmospheric man is entitled to appoint| g §niy'ana disturbance OIP AL RIOT T West Point as a means of weak 42. Sound of RE PORITED H aiding his own reelection. The| 1T Blace ' raves oo weR'SID Army shculd be above politics. In-| 19, Pillage 44, Desired s/cRIAPEROR N stead !t West Pointers be chosen| 30 HiEh wind N e HOoElll 1 IMAGIE| A from the ranks of enlisted men as| 23. Nuisances :Q ;ucxe";h o ORE O/NES P a reward for cfficiency and devo-| 3% Soortme b Notrihed eNoMERNESIRPOE| tion to duty. ! 27. Queen of the Tidings i B axien all commbiichy o] A Combustion Solution Of Yesterday's Puzzle g . Room alutation the ranks, except in the case of 30. '?he:'«dfl 7% §5 8::::""“! is. Amle_fofil DOWN specalists in wartime, Let every| °* TqGp™ ¢ g7 Kilin 5. (:u?\?x'f.'\é‘nnn LR RUEM LA man go in as a private and let 3 fi“"b_ sh :’;’"l the best men get promoted on the | i bl:’;; st basis of sheer ability, not personal | tkant ot drag { calyx 2. After an officer gets his com- | Dty torth | mission, let further promotions be | | based on competitive examinations, i not seniority. 4. Give both men and officers the same food, even though served in separate messes, and improve housing for enlisted men But above all, cut out the selfish favoritism and thoughtlessness | practiced by some officers, which make enlisted men hate all offi- cers, including even the great ma- | jority of conscientious officers who | look out for their me: ARMY CASTE SY M Cut out, for instance the system whereby the 1268th engineering | combat battalion has to move out of a healthy campsite near Manila | and live in a filthy buffalo wallow because the officers’ club wants to| expand its golf course. { l// Hl T ET Produce. Clearest Set the speed . Close . Fruit of the gourd family Salary | Desist . Footlike part Scent Standard . Builder of the Ark 1. Discover . Husks of threshed grain 2. Interlace . Steed . 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Smith tied for first, with 22 birds each, and among clos? runners-up* were Morris, M. Goldstein and Gucker. This was the big night of the Elks Frolic, with 10 big acts at the Palace Theatre to be presented by the Ketchikan Elks. To climax the | visitors’ stay in Juneau a big farewell dance was to be given the coming the Alaskans, according to an announcement Glen Oakes. | | With the arrival on the Admiral Rogers of 712 of the latest style, wide, air-cushioned seats, Manager W. D. Gross had started to make the | Coliseum the “beautiful theatre.” Many changes were being made in the theatre, the pitch of the floor being changed, new carpets laid, new elec- trical fixtures installed and the long entrance being remedeled and | night by it et © gt et . | painted ' Eggs had dropped to a record low in British Columbia, selling foir | 16 cents at Chilliwack, the trading center of the Fraser River Valley. Andrew Martin reported having picked a bunch of dandelions in her | yard today. lowest, 32; cloudy. Weather: Highest, 36; R e ( 4 Daily Lessons in English % . corbon | e AN, s “I am through eat‘mg.::;,‘ WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “I HAVE FINISHED eating.” OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Interlccutor. Pronounce in-ter-lok- u-ter, O as in LOCK, U as in USE, principal accent on third syllable. ~ OFTEN MISSPELLED: Mahogany. Observe the two A’s, one O. SYNONYMS: Vehement, violent, fiery, forcible, ardent, impetuous. 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: ABDICATE; to renounce, give up, or withdraw from. “The king was forced to abdicate his throne.” A by | MODERN: ETIQUETTE "% oprrra LEE Q. TIs it necessary to acknowledge receipt of birthday or anniversary cards? A. No; though when you meet the sender of the card, you should | | mention that it was received and appreciated. Q. What kind of voice is always the most attractive and pleasmg’ A. The voice with a low, gentle tone, never loud, harsh, ner boisterous. | Q. When attending a formal dinner, is it all right for a guest to leave before the last course is served? A. No; a guest should never leave before the dinner is finished, unless, of course, it is for some very urgent reason, such as illness. LOOK and LEARN .l? C. GORDON ¥ 1. What famous ship was sunk on her maiden voyage from England | to America? 2. What is meant by “altruism”? 3. Who wrote “Of Human Bondage”? 4. What is a pinafore? 5. What have the following in common: Socrates, Cleopatra? ANSWERS: The Titanic, April 14, 1912. Regard for and devotion to the interests of others. Somerset Maugham. An apron worn especially by children. They were all suicides. Tlle Erwin Feed Co. Office in Case Lot Grocery : PHONE 704 HAY, GRAIN, COAL and STORAGE Mark Antony, Hannibal, 1 2, 3. 4 5. | There is no suhsmute ior newspaper advarl.smq‘ J. 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