The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 23, 1946, Page 4

L A Daily Alaska Empire Published every evening except Sunday by the EMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY Second and Main Streets, Juneau, Alaska HELEN TROY MONSEN - - - - DOROTHY TROY LINGO - - - Vice-President WILLIAM R. CARTER Editor ana Manager ELMER A. FRIEND WhE w4 - _Managing Ecitor ALFRED ZENGER - - - - Business Manager ®ntered in the Post Office in Juneau as Second Class Matter. SUBSCRIPTION RA’ welivered by carrier in Juneau and Dot six mdhnths, $8.00 By mail, postage paid year. in advance, $15.00; six months, in edvance, $7.50; ene month, in advance, $1.50. 5 Subscribers will confer a favor if they will promptly notify the Business Office of any fallure or Irregularity ic the delivery President $1.50 per month; their papers. Telephones: News Office, 602; Business Office, 374. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for sepublication of all news dispatches credited to 1t or not other- T redited 1 this paper and also the local news published erein. NATIONAL REPRESENTATIVES — Alaska Newspapers, 1411 Pourth /ivenue Bidg., Seattle, Wash, | wage advance has aiready served to raise doubts con- fcrmmg the impartiality and integrity of governmental | statistics, If the Administration yields to union | pressure in this case it will undermine public con- fidence in future BLS and other Government statistics to a very serious extent Lost Liberal (Washington Post) | Badly in need of a new name is that up-and- | coming forward-looking fellow who used to be known as a Liberal. There is now mo way to define hi slightly left-of-center faith. For his title has been sc widely appropriated and misused by his erstwhil | opponents that it has become meaningless. His aliases, “Progressive” and “Independent” likewise have been filched from him. A recent example of this was the Japanese election in which the three right-wing partie were known as Liberal, Progressive and Independent Even the Japanese Social Democrats were regarded as a little to the right. Long before this, “Liberal” had been used to denote all sorts of political faiths in Europe. Equally over- worked in the plethora of political parties in that | continent were “Democrat,” “Republican,” “Popular,” | “National,” “Social,” “Radical,” even “Christian.” Now | political nomenclature becomes more and more con- | fusing. Belgium has a Christian Social Party which {in foreign dispatches is frequently confused as Social- list. In the recent Greek election the winning Populist | Party was definitely royalist and right-wing. Yet in | this country the title suggests the workmen's and ;fzxmers‘ Populist (or People’s) Party of the 1890’s, which was yegarded as wild-eyed andsradical by many | Americans. Also, along comes Austria now with a | conservative People’s Party. France has a Popular POLITICAL STATISTICS! | Republican Party, which might seem a strange word combination in this country. Even stranger, it has a 1 Radical Socialist Party, which is moderate and right- Reports from Washington indicate that, in re- sponse to union pressure, A. Ford Hinrichs, Acting Commissioner of the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics since 1940, is to be forced out of that position | and Murray Latimer, former chairman of the Rallroad Retirement Board, appointed in his stead. Apparently the main if not the sole reason for making this change is that the labor unions do not like the cost-of-living index as compiled by the bureau under Mr. Hinrichs’ direction. There has been no charge that the figures were deliberately mani- pulated. The union heads simply do not like the results. At a time when the Bureau of Labor Statistic index showed a rise in the cost of living of only 23.4 per cent between January, 1941, to December, 1943, | of { labor union statisticlans, under the leadership George Meany and R. J. Thomas, argued that the | rise had been 435 per cent. As a result a special | Committee on the Cost of Living was appointed by President Roosevelt under the chairmanship of William H. Davis. This committee in turn appointed an Advisory Committee of statistical experts under the ! chairmanship of Dr. Wesley C. Mitchell. The Mitchell | committee reported on June 22, 1944, that their inves- tigation confirmed confidence in “the accuracy and | representativeness of the price changes shown by the | Bureau of Labor Statistics index,” while the Meany- | Thomas figures did not withstand “critical examina- | tion.” The Davis committee upheld these findings in a report on Nov. 18, 1944—though it suggested that | to the 255 per cent rise ifi the BLS cost-of-living index as of Sept. 15, 1944, 3 to 4 percentage points be | added for “hidden” increases. Prior to this the American Statistical Association ist. Italy has a wide assortment of Democrats— Christian Democrats, Italian Democrats and Demo- cratic Laborites. So far the Communists have not had their name stelen or their identity mistaken, though there is no telling who will be campaigning under their cognomen a generation hence. And the Conservatives have held rigidly to their label, as well as their faith. The fellow who is left out in the cold, homeless and nameless, is the onetime Liberal. True, there is not much of him left, since he has been ground between the mill- stones of the extreme Right and Left. But he should at least have some kind of an identity, not have to be | thrown to the wolves—meaning those in plug hats or | those on soap boxes. ! Bootlegging to Return? (Cincinnati Enquirer) The Chicago chief of the Treasury Department's Alcohol Tax Unit warned the other day that boot- leggers of the prohibition era will be back in business as the shortage of good whisky becomes more acute. A roundup by a press association indicated that his fear was widely shared, although to date there has been. no sizable increase as yet in illicit whisky making. The biggest bar to a widespread revival of boot- legging his sugar rationing. The tight controls on this essential commedity impose a difficulty on illegal whisky production that few bootleggers have found a way to circumvent. be short—the supply of sugar is even more so. widespread bootlegging no doubt will play a part in the Federal Government’s thinking on the subject of continuing sugar rationing. This would not be reason enough in itself to continue the rationing of sugar, f course, but so long as sugar dces remain relativel at the request of the BLS, had appointed a committee to “review and appraise” its cost-of-living index. This | committee reported on Oct. 19, 1943, that “within the | limitations established for it, the cost-of-living index | provides a trustworthy measure of changes in prices | paid by consumers for goods and services.” H S1n the face ‘of this record it is inconceivable that | #hé President or the Secretary of Labor should yield | to merely political union pressure in the appointment of the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The remarkable course of Secretary Wallace in first ap- proving and then disowning statistics purporting to ! show that the automobile industry:could pay a given‘ The Washington | “We've got serious problems and unless we can get an ear we may scarce it may be assumed that the government will not make it any easier for the bootleggers than it has to. And the government's interest in preventing the return of the bootlegger is not only social, but also financial. Federal taxes on whisky dre an im- portant source of income to the Federal Treasury. Even without an increase in illicit whisky manu- facture, however, the shortage of the alcoholic beverage does lead to other practices which are as baneful as the operation of private stills. Piracy, adulteration, hijacking, extreme profiteering and other lucrative abuses must be guarded against with increasing vigilance by the authorities and everyone else who dcesn't want to see the noisome conditions of the 1920s reinstated in the United States. his railreading on the Great North- ern. . . .Both Whitney and John- ston are roundly hated by the three Though the supply of whisky may | Indeed, the prospect of an immediate return of | Meny-Go-md (Continued from Page One) mapped out and Peron is prepared to put fationing into effect no la- ter than August 1. He was ser- jously considering the step in any case, for domestic conservation pur- poses. Now, he will simply make a virtue out of his necessity and time the publicity for Herbert Hoover’s trip. RR LABOR FUMES Truman’s able labor advi: John Steelman, may have forgotten, but he had a siznificant tal: with RR brotherhced leader: t.me ago, indicatiny that uni.n Jeaders were iikod ot Truman quite 8 Buile Lack These who Housc were: of thr Fircmen; the M ntcaa Ted.s o led at the White y Robertson, head Elmer Milliman of of-Way men; and ein, Vice-President ¢l the Sheet Metal Workers, a brotherhood affiliate. Long-time friends of Truman they desired an interview with the President but couldn't get it. So they took it out gn John Steelman as follo: “Look, John, we're behind Harry Truman 100 percent. We like him more than we liked President Rogcsevelt. Roosevelt was with us and we could depend on him, but Harry Truman is more our kind of a man. “Well, John, you've got to admit that things aren’t going right these days—certainly they're not right from the labor standpoint. Harry should sit*down and chat with us— he always used to listen to us “if he continues to shut us out, we're going to have to turn else- where. You know, we usually sup- port Democrats—only occasionally have we supported an outstandingly friendly Republican. * “But today we don't hear from the policy-makers - in the Demo- gratic Party. At the same time, however, the Republicans are con- stantly calling us for advice and conferences. They really try to make us feel were wanted—and that’s something no cne here does. | have to go over to the Republican side of the street.” Steelman threw up his hands in horror. “Don't ever think of doing that,” he said. “It's unfortunate the Pres- ident hasn't been able to see you— but you know he has been terribly other brotherhood leaders. . . The RR brotherhoods have proposed 44 rules regulating working conditions, though some seem to have a lot to do with pay. These rules are in ad- dition to the demanded 20-cent pay increase. . . Here are some of the rules: Extra night pay of 10 cents busy with international affairs and hasn’t had time to see half the people he'd like to see lately. You just sit tight and I'll arrange an appointment just as soon as pos- an hour for working between 6:30 pm. and 6:30 am. Time and a half for Sundays and holidays. . . Stop-over pay for travelling em- Lew M. Williams * Mrs. Lloyd Dryden Daisy Conright Ralph J. Rivers Jack Kurtz Estella Cummings Wayne Sinclair Dorothy Fleming Mae Brown R eeesccvccoce ittt et HOROSCOPE “The stars incline but do not compel” [ FRIDAY, MAY 24 ! HEART AND HOME This is a favorable day for home ind garden planning, also for com- ! munity garden projects. The need| of food conservation is greater to- | day than it was during the war. | BUSINESS AFFAIRS l Industrial foremen who are con-; sidered a part of management by organized labor, and as a part of the labor force by management, will censider the possible advantages of a foreman’s union to protect them- celves against both labor and management. NATIONAL ISSUES Repair and improvement of the nation’s highways will be stressed as a major necessity this sum- mer. Motor transport interests will be among the groups Lehind the campaign. INTERNATIUAL AFFAIRS The change in this country's for- eign policy from one of invertebrate semi-appeasement to one of bold, determined and even stubborn char- acter will be approved throughout the world except in Russia whose statesmen had hoped to gain many of their ends by bluff and brow- beating. Persons whose birthdate this is are promised by the stars: A year of rugged health, adequate income and a continuo flow of goods from all quarts Children born today will many gifts and with careful paren- tal guidance in their early years, should develop rapidly and achieve early success. They will be inelin- ed to try their hands at several | jobs but will learn to concenirate on one in time. (Copyright, 1946) ployees after 12 hours. . . .Chang- les in overtime pay rules for yard rvice employees. . . .Brotherhoods are by no means together on what} they want. They broke apart at Chicago mediation councils early this year when men and Johnston's Engineers re< /fused arbitration. The Switchmen,| Firemen and Conductors, on the other hand, agreed to have their wage dispute (not the rules dis- pute) go before an arbitration board. . . .The 16-cents-an-hour in- crease awarded by the board wasn't received with joy, however, by any of them. . Besides the five “operating” brotherhoods which ryn the trains, there are 15 non-operating broth- erhoods who don’t run trains and who also demand pay increases of 14 cents above the 16 cents al- ready awarded. A strike vote shows they mean business. .Some ‘Washington observers are wonder- ing if the upshot of all this won't mean Government ownership of the rails. Pushed between airplanes and motor trucks, the RRs can't increase their costs too much and stay in business. (COPYRIGHT, BELL SYNDICATE, INC. 1946) sible.” TRUMAN'S OLD FRIENDS Brotherhocd men say this inci- dent has been forgotten and the boys bear’no grudges. Nevertheless, the incident symbolizes the grow- ing coolness toward the Democratic Party on the part of some labor groups. Must people don't know it, buf the railrcad men had a great deal to do with re-electing Haryy Tru- man as Senator when some politi- coes considered him on the ropes in 1940. Even some of Harry's best friends, including John Snyder, feared he was a dead duck. But the railroad brotherhoods came to his rescue, ccllected $1 each from their membership and finally raised a campaign kitty of $16,000. It was partly their energy which finally sent Harry Truman back to the Senate—and, later on to the Presidency. Note—Truman paid off in the fall of 1943 when he braved Roose- velt wrath by introducing the s called “Truman Resolution” giving railroad labor an 8-cent-an-hour, increase, despite Roosevelt's deter- mination to hold the price-wage line. Roosevelt threatened to veto the Resolution if it passed. ACRCSS 1. Take up weapons Hold together closely Tree 2. Insect Horizontal . Beverage Poem 6. Goddess ot . Otherwise 5. Greedy 36. Direction . Ingredient of varnish . Split . Uperatic heroine . Edible sea- weed . Number 44. Resembling & pillar . Parcels ot ground 48. The holly 4 in addition 0 arried wo- man's title . Harvest . Note of the scale . Article Diplomacy . Aspect . Refuse assent to legislatior . Tell Crafty . Pronoun 3. ltalian city INSIDE THE ROUND HOUSE Real power behind the RR strike is the son of an Iowa preacher, A. F. Whitney. The other strike lead- er, Alvanley Johnston of the Loco- motive Engineers, is described by RR men as meiely the “whistle following the calliope”. He #is content to follow, though never quite sure where Whitney will lead him. , . . Johnston was born and educated in Canada, did most of | Crossword Puzzle 20 YEARS AGO 7%t emrire MAY 23, 1926 ‘ One of the biggest acts ever brought to Alaska, and the first of its | kind, was to open at the Coliseum for a week's engagement. It was . Homi troupe of trained animals, which included “Headlight,” a fine white horse and an unusual performer. s Owing to the absence of ball players from the four teams in the City League there was no baseball game this day. The absent players had gone to Whitehorse for the Victoria Day celebration and had not iyz‘( returned. | The Totem, Juneau High School’'s annual publication, had made !its appearance on the market, and was an especially attractive number. | Among staff members were Mildred Warwick, Evelyn Judson, Clarence Dunn, Ed Garnick, Natalia Kashevaroff, Hansena Campen, George |Larsson, Elizabeth Madsen, Gertrude Waltonen, Alma Weil, Grace | Naghel, Harold Brown, Gladys Naghel! Betty Olsen, Margaret Peterson DR.E. H. KASER DENTIST BLOMGREN BUILDING Phone 56 HOURS: 9 A. M. to 5 P. M. The Erwin Feed Co. Office in Case Lot Grocery PHONE 704 HAY, GRAIN, COAL and STORAGE CALIFORNIA ! Grocery and Meat Market 478 — PHONES — 871 High Quality Foods at Moderate Prices | and Robert Mize, and Miss Myhre, advisor. Jones-Stevens Shop LADIES’—MISSES" READY-TO-WEAR Seward Street Donie Taylor, of Lockney, Texas, arrived here on the steamer 1. Carnegie was also an incoming passenger on the M Queen last night. n2 ship. Near Third Mrs. Renee Stragier and two sons had left to spend the summer at Tenakee. | Don’s Radio Service Electrical and Radio Repair (We pick up and deliver) Phone 659 909 West 12th Weather: Highest, 51; lowest, loudy. - Daily Lessons in English %% 1. corpon i have Whitney’s Train= z I ) | WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: FORCEFUL means “full of force; effective.” “Charles had a forceful personality.” FORCIBLE means “ef- fected by force.” “The police made a forcible entry.” OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Disabille (state of being dressed in careless style). Pronounce dis-a-bel, E as in BE, accent last syllable. OFTEN MISSPELLED: Nuisance; NUI. Neutral; NEU. SYNONYMS: Partake, participate, share. WORD STUDY: “Use a word three times and it is yours.” Let us increase our vecabulary by mastering one word each day. Today's word: DISSOLUTE; locse in morals and conduct. “The end of a dissolute life is most commonly a desperate death.”—Bion. MODERN ETIQUETTE by ROBERTA LEE | SEEY —— Q. Is it proper for a bride to exchange wedding gifts? | A. Yes; if they have no particular sentiment. It is quite all right for the bride to return to the store from which it came an ‘article_ for which she has no possible use, getting in excnange something she really | needs. However, if the gift carries a definite significance, or is marked with her initials, it cannot be exchanged. Q. In co ticn, what does it indicate when a man is constantly talking abecut himself and his experiences? A. It is a sure indication of ill-breeding and such a man can never become popular. Q. Should a girl working in an office wear earrings? A. It is better not. D e | LOOK and LEARN ¢ garpox | 1. Where aid the Charge of the Light Brigade take place? 2. What single musical instrument can be made to sound like a 1 whole orchestra? . 3. For what is Noah Webster famous? 4. What is a malingerer? t 5. Who was the Roman goddess of love and beauty? i ANSWERS: . At Balaklava, on the Crimean Peninsula, Russia, in 1854. ! . Pipe organ. v . For his American dictionary, brought out in 1828. A faker. Venus. BRONZE SHAFTING — STERN BEARINGS — PROPELLORS GRAY MARINE ENGINES -~ | Alaska Music Supply Arthur M. Uggen, Manager Pianos—Musica) Instruments and Supplier Phone 206 Second and Seward ———— HEINKE GENERAL REPAIR SHOP Welding, Plumbing, Oil -Burner Blacksmith Work GENERAL REPAIR WORK Phone 204 929 W. 12th St. “The Store for Men” | SABIN’S Front St—Triangle Bldg. Warfield's Drug Store (Formerly Guy L. Smith Drugs) NYAL Family Remedies HORLUCK’S DANISH ICE CREAM HUTCHINGS ECONOMY MARKET Choice Meats At All Times Loca‘+d in George Bros. Store PHONES 553—92—95 B. P. 0. ELKS Meets every Wednesday at 8 p. m. Visiting brothers welcome. E. C. REYNOLDS, Exalted Ruler. W. H. BIGGS, Secretary. i | | MOUNT JUNEAU LODGE NO. 147 SECOND and FOURTH Monday of each month in Scottish Rite Temple beginning at 7:30 p. m. M. L. MacSPADDEN, JAMES W. | q i | Worshipful Master; | LEIVERS, Secretary. Silver Bow Lodge No. A 2, LO.OF., Meets each Tues- SALES and SERVICE Junean Welding and Machine Shop Visiting Brothers Welcome FLOYD HORTON, Noble Grand T H. V. CALLOW, Secretary THURSDAY, MAY 23, 1946 The CharlesW. Carfer . Mortuary Fourth and Franklin Sts. PHONE 136 FOR TASTY FOODS and VARIETY TRY ' Gaslineau Cafe Foremost in Friendliness VANITY BEAUTY SALON Cooper Building ELSIE HILDRETH, Manager Open’ Evenings Phone 318 METCALFE SHEET METAL Heating—Airconditioning—Boat Tanks and Stacks—Everything in SHEET METAL Phone 711 90 Willoughby Ave. "The Rexall Store” Your Rellable Pharmacists BUTLER-MAURO - _DRUG CO. HARRY RACE Druggist “The Squibb Store” Where Pharmacy Is a Profession " 20TH CENTURY MEAT MARKET Juneauw’s Most Popular “Meating” Place ONLY THE BEST OF MEA'TS PHONE 202 CARO TRANSFER HAULING and CRATING DIESEL, STOVE, CRUDE OIL Phone 344 Phone 344 Wallriiaper IDEAL PAINT SHOP Phone 549 Fred W. Wendt INSURANCE Shattuck Agency The Alaskan Hotel Newly Renovated Rooms at Reasonable Rates PHONE SINGLE O JUNEAU UPHOLSTERY CO. RE-UPHOLSTERING FURNITURE ALASKA ELECTRONICS| Sales and Service Expert radio repair withoat delay: P. O. Box 2165 217 Seward| PHONE Baranof Turkish Bath and Massage Hours 9 A. M. to 6 P. M.—Open Evenings by Appointment BARANOF HOTEL—Lower Level PHONE 753 = FA3E wmao» 2> o Ed m|o/>[v mirimo> ,Ii_ >Em > L{ [o[F z/olo| P >-m40 MORBEEDE [ (2[>[S llmvclo| E R| R E P S A B (-] M OD VM ADIrme Z|- -v:!ro - <0n2Z->6 D GE[SID Solution of Yesterday's Puzzie 64. Rubber tree 66. 65. Rope for 67, hoisting a ship’s yard jo/wjilivmv/zc/-wllir oo z Horse . God for whom Tuesday is named DOWN . Large serpent 1 | ‘ortification . Recompense- . Regional weather eonditions . Gaelic sea god Ward off 7. Numbered: Biblical . Gratify . Luzon native ). Extremely reticent . Detest . Devoured . Hairy . Neckplece Ship's cranes Boat . Remember . Paradise Beholds Heslitatingly Hang down . Stories Poorly . Kind of shrub —— ~ Something Different IN THE WAY OF FISH NOW ON SALE AT OUR FISH MARKET—the following assortment of EASTERN FISH FILLETS SMOKED MACKEREL FILLETS FINNAN HADDIES HAKE FILLETTS HAKE FILLETTS COD FILLETS POLLOCK FILLETS WHITING FILLETS KIPPERS BAY CHUBS Louisiana Shrimps Frog Legs [ HERBERT WAUGH as a paia-up subscriber to THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE is invited to be our guest THIS EVENING. Present this coupon to the box office of the CAPITOL THEATRE - and receive TWO TICKETS to see: "THAT'S THE SPIRIT” Federal Tax—11c per Person PHONE 14—THE ROYAL BLUE CAB CO. . Aperture in a needle . Go: Scotch and an insured cab WILL CALL FOR YOU and RETURN YOU to your home with our compliments. WATCH THIS SPACE—Your Name May Appear! i ] | M. S. LEOTA Haines and Skagway LEAVING FERRY FLOAT AT 8 A. M. EVERY WEDNESDAY M. S. LEOTA. For Charter—$80.00 per day and up M. S. DONJAC— For Chartep—345.00 per day and up . Both Vessels U. S. Government Inspected PHONE 79 or BLUE 449 DOUGLAS BOAT SHOP | New Construction and Repairs Jobs Free Estimate Phone Douglas 192 (FEsEzsswesstiisssossiserscoscecreisesssssieesssssesiiag > Juneau Cold Storage Company, .I.‘.lf:.. 1 VULCANIZING—Tires and Tubes PROMPT SERVICE—WORK GUARANTEED | JUNEAU MOTOR C0. — PHONE 30 ] There is no substitute tor newsnaper advertising! 1891—Over Half aCentury of Banking-—194 ;’i) The B.M. Behrends | Bank QOldest Bank in Alaska COMMERCIAL SAVINGS