The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 25, 1946, Page 4

Jealous legislators who wanted the credit but not the work. H Earlier this year, Baker stated in an editorial he would vote for Communists rather than for Commis- President sioner of Labor Sharpe or for Territorial Treasurer = Vice-President g that is Editor and Manager Oscar G. Olson, both running for re-election. In his) Managing Bditor most recent blast he dismisses Sharpe as an’ in- Business Manager % — — - competent and a do-nothing, completely overlooking il o e (L gt the fact. that Sharpe fathered and fought for the new | wetivered by carrier in Juneau and Douglas for $1.50 per month; Jiheralized Alaska Workmen’s Compensation Act passed six months, $8.00; one year, $15.00 By mail, postage paid. at the following rates: at the recent session of the Legislatyre—also over- six months, in advance. $7.80 1oo)ing (he fact that labor groups, who after all are One vear. in advance. $15.00 with this post than others, have A 3 y A Daily Alaska Empire Published every evening except Sunday by the EMPIRE PRY Second nnd Main HELEN TROY MONSEN DOROTHY TROY LINGO . - TLLIAM R. CARTER . o o {ER A. FRIEND - - . . i COMPANY ets, Juneau, Alaska El ALFRED ZENGER - . ¢ entered s Matter. sne month. in advance. $150. Subscribers will confer a favor if they will promptly notify the Business Office of any failure or frregularity in the delivery uf their paper: res: News Office, 602 Business Offic more concerned endorsed Sharpe As for Treasurer Olson, Baker doesn’t seem to have any idea of why he opposed him, but he did. As | 4 Press is exclusively entitled to the use for ¥ Ay news dispatches credited to it or not other- far as we're concerned, both men are handling the s paper and also the local news published ,reqiyg of their office capably and will probably con- ' tinue in that capacity when the election is over. The last time Olson ran for office, four years ago, he received one of the largest Territorial votes ever received by a candidate, showing that a good many people are for him no matter what newcomer Baker says. | Baker said Sharpe wasn't capable of handling the new Warkmen's Compensation Law-—which shows more |lack of knowledge. Sharpe organized and drew up the | | regulations for the Unemployment Compensation Com- mission when it was formed and was the youngest | administrator in the nation. It is significant that | |after almost 10 years the regulations drawn up by ! Sharpe have not been changed. \ 74, EMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS ~ Alaska Newspapers, 1411 " NATIONAL REPRESENTATIVES Fourth Avenue Bidg.. Seattle, Wash Nature Humbles Man | (Cincinuati Enquirer) | POL AL S NE Even the learned gentlemen who developed the! POLITICAL SCE atomic bomb must stand in awe as they read ofi : F . | the gigaatic tidal waves which swept across the rritors . ry st five days ‘ i With the Territorial Primary election just five days | o, i ontern Pacific recently, working fantastic de- | struction 2,500 miles from the source off the Aleutian | |Islands. For their instrument of destruction, by all odds the greatest man has achieved, is puny beside the | power generated in undersea disturbances and trans- mitted by waves of incompressible water to the margins of the ocean. The' greatst known damage was at Hilo, on the| Island of Hawaii. But the most complete disasters | doubtless will be found, eventually, to have taken; i place on lesser islands of the Pacific. The Hawaiian | Islands are volcanic and rather rugged, lying saIr-ly| rabove the reach of tidal waves; and damage was the Ketchikan Chronicle and the Ketchikan Fishing | limited to harbors and beaches. Bat many of the coral News. Oldtimer Sid Charles is swinging away from the | islands and atolls of the Pacific lie close to sea level Fishing News corner, and William Baker, newcomer On many of them there is no single elevation greater editor of the Chronicle is dishing sage advice con- |than 10 or 15 feet. Sweeping across such islands, the cerning certain candidates for the Chronicle. tidal waves would leave no life, no habitation. | Disturbances such as these are vivid reminders of The Ketchikan free-for-all started when Baker the staggering power of nature. There is no predicting | published an editorial attacking certain candidates, | them. There is no defense against them. And they | including Commissioner of Labor Walter P. Sharpe,|are too infrequent to warrant man’s retrent from the ' Curtis Shattuck of Juneau, running for Senator; and coastal areas subject to inundation. | Dr. L. P. Dawes, candidate for Senator. When the whole grim score is tallied, however, it Baker called Dawes “an aging, ailing doctor,” is probable that the desruction to life and property e Fishi o thned will be but a minute fraction of that following either among other -things. The Fishing News countered| ,¢ yne gtomic bombs dropped on Japan. The power of by stating that the good doctor, who has a good | 4 nature is immensely greater than that of man. But! many years of service to the people of Alaska behind |jt js not airected by the diabolical cunning of man, | him, “has more ability in his little finger than is and wastes itself largely in vast spaces empty ol‘l contained in the brain of any ‘fly-by-night’ editor in|human life. The smaller disturbances which man | Alaska.” lhimself can achigve are so planned as to work the Baker, attacking Shattuck, said he didn’t amount | maximum damage to his fellowmen. | to much, hadn’t done much, etc. Charles countered by | Great as they have been, therefare, the digdsters | | of recorded history classified as acts of God run a pointing out:that Shattuck was born in Alaska, knows ] poor second to the disasters, chiefly wars, which men more about Alaska than Mr. Baker who is a new- |y, hejy stunidity and pettiness have inflicted on their comer, has made a clean and progressive record in |,y kind. Savage in its angry moments, nature has a the House snd was able to get the Alaska Workmen's | quality of tolerance, a freedom from purposeful cruelty, Compensation Bill through over the opposition of other | that man could well emulate. The Washington Merry-Go-Round (Continued from Page One) away, the political scene in Juneau is very quiet com- pared to former years and to fights being carried on in other cities. Up in Fairbanks some candidates are running dna plank to repeal the gross income tax now contained in the Alaska Veterans' Act, and the outcome will be interesting. A plank which has as its object the repeal of any tax is bound te be popular. Just how popuiar it will be with the veterans is yet to be seen. A real battle is being waged in Ketchikan between {a total of eighv monins after the & permanent peace, and we have | war. This peace conference is al- | been haggling over it ever since. | ready tweive months late, and may | NO FAUL) OF BYRNES I never start. B | The fault is not that of Jimmy | The trouble, in my opinion is! Byrnes. He picked up the ball late |that during a war allies are bound |and is doing the best he can. The § together in common danger. Then, | fault is in the delay, the procras- there is no relation between those the minute war is over, they start | tinating, the lack of vision in pre- two -events. To me, however, there forgetting those common ties. They |Paring for peace when the iron is. Upon what Jimmy Byrns does start haggling over the spoils of was hot. What so few people real- in Paris depends in large part' war. ize 15 that peacs 15 & harder job whether thaf daughter of yours and| That was what the late Secretary | than war. War's mistakes are gloss- young Lockwood and all the other of the Navy Frank Knox had in|ed over or forgiven in the passion sons and daughters being born in- | mind when he told some of us as of conflict. The mistakes of peace to this world must endure the suf- | early as the first year after Pear] Sometimes are not so apparerit. fering of another war. | Harbor tnat now was the time to!They do ot cost lives or lose bat- get an agreement from our Allies tles ——lmnndialely. But their price regarding air bases throughout the is heavier in the end. world. That was also what Harold | | Ickes had in mind when, even be- fore the war ended, he negotiated WHAT KIND OF WORLD TO GROW UP IN? It -has been )ust two years since The start of the war found us unprepaied and off guard at Pearl Lock was born. At that time I re- | » o o, Harber. That errcr has been the member writing you my fears for |20 Oil treaty aimed “tfei""m‘“l‘:: talk of the Nation ever since. the kind of world he might grow |l bickering over one of the world's| yronths of - Congressional debate 4 most troublesome materials. up.in. 1 safi: But the man who saw most “I am just a Lit fearful that! jearly tie need of arranging the Cordell Hull-thinks of peace @5 & peace while the war was on was/ personal peace—one which can wait;’mmwn out of the Administration until he gets round to negunatmgki“ the’ vi middle of the war with ! jand investigating have been spent ing to fix the blame. But we suffered another Pearl Harbor af, the end of the war. We were cavght off guard in regard to THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIR THURSDAY, APRIL 2 APRIL 25 Minnie Fields Mrs. Della Clark Gerald Cashen Kathleen Sturm Bernard L. Hansen Cataline Barrie Desney Calhoun Frank Morgan eceescco e ®Soceccccccce c v 0 e c e 000 - et e Sy v 00 et HOROSCOPE “The stars incline but do not compel” SO FRIDAY, APRIL 28 [2 HEART AND HOME The stars are friendly to infants and young childr Mothers of girls having their first romantic ex- periences should counsel their daughters agaist those careless ways that meke love no longer wonderful and/ beavtiful | BUSINESS AFFAIRS The time is propitious for start- ing new projects or changing from old methods to new. Expansion may be planned with impunity. a1 1UNAL ISSUES Rivalry betwesn old and new veterans' orgnizations will increase through the next year or two. Re-| gardless of their affiliations, vetor- ans will benefit as these group: champion their causes. INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS | Renewed interest in Portugal s indicated. The Azores also may become the center of attention Le- force the end of summer. Spain will remain in the spotlight for some time. Persons whose birthdate this is are promised by the stars: A year of moderate success in several en- terprises and a delightful exper- ience 'in the life of the family. Children born today will be ener- getic, industrious and dependable They will have almost unlimited op-! portunities for development and one day find a place among' this nation’s immortals. Their great- e assets will be spiritual faith, alert minds and strong characters. (Copyright, 1946) | 5 peace jus: as seriously as at PmrlI Harbor mn regard to war. And no one in Congress has raised his voice to ask why, or who was to blame for a disaster which may be even greater as' far as the ‘next generation is concerned. [ This, I realize, is not the kind of | a letter one should write the mo- ther of » new-born baby. But I feel strongly that the mothers of America would rather face these problems now. And I wonder also if it would not be better to admit our failure, frankly and openly, in- | stead of glossing it over and pre- tending that we have won some- | thing that we haven't. | I am certain that the mothers of | Russia—and their sons—are just as anxious to avoid war as we, and have little realization where their rulers are taking them. Our problem is to make them realize,’ to make them know that there are no basic differences between them and the great mass of the American people. When we can get to know the Russian people, then the power to make war will be taken out of the hands of a few men, and wars will be no more. That is our enly certain guaran- tee of peace. . I With much love to your fine family, Your brother, DREW. (COPYRIGHT, BELL SYNDICATE, 1nC. 1946) it, as a drink wa‘ils after a game | pjs job barely started. In my opin- . il S | of golf; not realizing, perhaps, that |jon this will go down in history as 3 s S ALAD Py | the boys who are fighting over one of Franklin Roosevelt's greatest | Cross Ol’d Puzzle NIERS | there, and their wives and child- mistakes—a mistake to be paig for i | ;fli\ "81_1'*1 g U}f'“ m “ht’h‘h“'h'o A1¢1 by your caildren and mine. ACROSS 35, Myseit 1/S[O|R] T i h:nw”lv 1»9":1 sons into t 11d, —_— 1. Roman bronze 36. Is very fond ot cllV[R| i gye a much | e in fu- 5 o ¥ h < 4 Audacity 35, Negative siT/0 M | el i ; A CCLLECT WHILE TEARS 9. Soft drink € ture peace than Mr. Hull—and may i gl 12 Ingredient of e Vs THwW ) z jos varnish . Trim S T | s 2 Steed 43, Decay OJLIA |7 i ) 73 distingwished | Sumner Welles, tne man Roose- Mnial 44, Capital o1 TIATIA ] 1 years to lock b;- k on. But they— velt fired as Under Secretary of st dndiag ey Aviieilie oy AIN[U[R|A) L | n and all the other mother's State, believed in the lawyer's adage: 16, The cream wrators [p E(E|P| E 1 scns- have 19 sears to look for-|“Collect your fee while your cli- 1T I3 able, HEING ! to. And they must not be ent's tears are hot." 20. Periods of 5P AR|M/AD L i G with the same heart- | He had begun, while the Russians pelime ¥4 Dantin 1oe et LEANA E | the elder states- | were panting for help at Stalin " Rockfish t 'O’DTD 8 D { men have nanded us. |grad and while the British were | 34 Lugubrious R 66 “This, I realize, is not the kind|still in their bomb-proof shelters, 31. Goddess of the 59, Brazili Solution or Yesterday's Puzzls ; v i : < gl i harvest money v of letter onc should write to the to prepare the peace treaties ‘which ' gy poieev®st | o0 Go Tropical black 62. Feminine 64, Kills mother of a new-born daughter. were to fcllow the war, Welles call- of Java bird nicknAmey . 65, Flrmament But I have a hunch that the mo- ed in experts, asked them to work 34 Halt 61. Considered 63. Affirmative DOWN thers of America would rather face these problems now, when they can be solved, than wait until it is too late.” That was written in March 1944;' with the war a long way from be- ing over, and with Mr. Hull at that out a feundation for the United Naticns. He had gone over Hull's head dircet to Roosevelt and got permission to iron out the contro- versies of peace while the war was still on. Then personal. jealousy—which so | { . Sinning time down in Palm Beach putting often turns the tide of history— | ' Bstena on jthe golf course. cut the ground from under Welles'| N B iauals A work. His chief, Mr. Hull, made ! Cupol PEACE CONFERENCE TWELVE him a prisonal issue, told Roose- e MONTHS LATE velt that either he or Welles must . Bathed Today, cne year after the end of go. Roosevelt chose to keep the R e the European war, we are just sit- ting down to try to prepare for the final peace conference. We do man with the greatest political pow- er in the Senate Immedictely the plug was pulled London . Places not .ever know yet whether that on all Welles' work, the months Election final peace conference actually can ' went by before Hull picked up the - eports be held. pieces. Those were crucial months. 4 :L:’:En:n- t I remember after the last war During them, Stalingrad was turn. . Moving wagon | how resentful some people were ed from a defeat into a victol BRI O 8 cver the siowness of the Paris Peace The British no longer were wor- Kind of soil Conference. In contrast, it was an ried abour attack. The client’s tears Mharpeuiog example of efficiency and speed. It had driea. The fee was now some- . vietin got started January 18, 1919, only thing to be haggled about. ! two months after the Armistice and| The only fee the great majority war was finished six months lnv,er.fol the American people wanted was | . Unintentional aperture Small Greek letter ————l 20 YEARS AGO 2% surrne i “The Prisoner’s Song,” the season’s sensdtional waltz song, and “Good Night, T'll See You in the Morning,” were.featured by the Alaskans at the dance in the A. B. Hall. Both new numbers made big hits with the crowd. Plans for a record breaking opening day for the City Baseball League season were being worked out, with the American Legion and Moose teams scheduled to clash in the first game May 2. %am Shucklin, Alaska salesman for the Oregon City Woolen Miils, returned on the steamer Queen after a short business trip to Seattle. The Admiral Line steamer Dorothy Alexander, operating over .the Southeast Alaska route during the peak of the tourist season, was to call northbound each trip at Victoria, B. C. last oasis in the great ocean desert between Seattle and Alaska. A. C. Stewart of Hawk Inlet was registered at the QGastineau Hotel. The Moose Lodge announced installation of officers was to be held the following night. S. Hellenthal returned on the steamer Queen yesterday from the south. . Weather: Highest, 55; lowest, 45; rain. ; Daily Lessons in English % 1. corpon 5 iD: NUMBER is singular or plural, accz‘xrd- ’ “A number of men WORDS OFTEN MISU; ing to usage. “The number WAS increased to fifty.” WERE present.” OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Romance. Pronounte the O as in OBEY, A as in MAN, and accent second syllable. OFTEN MISSPELLED: Negro (singular). Negroes (plural). SYNONYMS: Package, parcel, packet, bundle. WORD STUDY: “Use a word three times and it is yous Let us increase our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Today's word: SOPHISTRY :; deceptively subtle reasoning or augumentation. (Pronounce sofyis-tri, O as in ODD). “Her action is cowardly . . . and no amount of sophistry will make me thing differently.”—John Galsworthy. § MODERN ETIQUETTE % nprra Len ——d b v rrr Q. paper and envelopes? A. Yes, if she wishes, but it is not at all necessary. A woman in mourning is not required to advertise it any more than a divorced woman would think it necessary to place upon her stationery some symbol of her separation. Q. When one is visiting a friend and it is necessary to make a long-distance call, who should pay for it? A. The guest should immediately call the charges, then hand the amount to his hostess. Q. When giving a breakfast for some friends, may it be served in courses? "A. Yes. operator and ask the LOOK and LEARN ¥ C. GORDON -—— 1. Which is the longest State and which is the widest?, 2. How many roses does it take to produce one pound of attar of roses? 3. Four of the following have some characteristics in common. Select the one that differs: (a) Onyx, (b) snow, (¢) milk, (d) ivory, (e) flour. 4. In what opera is the famous “Anvil Chorus” sung? 5. What does synergetic mean? ANSWERS: California is the longest, and Texas the widest. About two tons. Onyx. “Il Trovatore,” by Giuseppe Verdi. Working together; cooperating. OII. BURNERS . PLUMBING HEATING Smith 0il Burner Service 214 SECOND STREET DAY PHONE 476 NIGHT CALLS—Fred C. 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