The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 24, 1946, Page 4

Daily Alaska Empire Publisied every even EMPIRE PRI - Vice-President Editcr ana sfanager Managing ECitor Business Manager DOROTHY TROY - WILLIAM R. CARTEF - ELMER A._FRIEND - ALFRED ZENGER - ®ntered in the Post Office in Juneau as Second Class Matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Welivered by carrier in Juneau and Douglas for S1.50 per month; six months, $8.00; one year, §15.00 By mail, postage paid. at the following rates: One vear. in advance, $15.00; six months, in rdvance, $7.50; sne month, in adval §1.50. Bubscribers will confer a favor If they will promptly netify the Business Office of any failure or frregularity ic the delivery ¢ their papers. Telephones: News Office, 602; Business Office, 374. ATED PRESS ly entitled to the use for s dispatches credited to it or not other- paper and also the local news published ka Newspapers, 1411 STRAWBERRY PRICES An incident which illustrates in miniature some of the basic principles of prices in a free market comes from Tucson. The facts, as reported in The Arizona Daily Star, published in that city, were as follows: On April 12 the OPA ceiling of 34 cents was re- moved from strawberries. A plentiful crop was just coming onto the counters. On April 13 strawberries were selling for 60 cents a box in Tucson On April 16 strawberries were being offered there for 49 cents That afternoon the price was down to 45 cents in most downtown stores. On April 17 the downtown price dropped to 39 cents and on April 20, just six days after the removal of the controls, strawberries were 29 cénts a box, 5 cents below the former ceiling price. The Arizona Daily Star correctly believes that this is a capsule-sized picture of what would probably happen to many commodities where the supply is plen- tiful if the controls were removed and the ordinary 1aws of supply, demand and competition were allowed t0 ‘'operate. “There will be an initial splurge of high prices. ® * * But most buyers will not pay those prices, and_the buying public, by waiting it out, will profic’ as gompetition steps in and forces prices down.” This is part of the answer to those who ask what would happen to commodity prices if OPA controls are not extended, What happened in strawberries in Tucson 15.alsp. an, illustration of the principle that, The Washington in a free market, as Prof. Harley Lutz has put it, “the most effective remedy for high prices is high prices.” When the price of a given commodity rises, the profits 'in producing it rise; this leads existing producers to increase their output and new producers to enter the field, and the increased supply brings prices down again. This does not mean that a removal of all price controls now would be followed by a mere flurry of higher prices and that prices would then fall below the existing ceilings. This might happen in some com- modities, as it did In strawberries, but the majority of prices would be kept up partly by continued short- ages and mainly the increased monetary purchasing power brought into being by the Government’s budget and fiscal policies. But does the OPA exist primarily to try to protect the country from the consequences of the Treasury’s fiscal and monetary policies? Wouldn't the whole thing be simplier if the Treasury just dis- continued those policies? Discouraging Building (Cincinnati Enquirer) It costs today from $7,000 to $7,500 to build a | house that would have cost $5,000 at the beginning |of the war. And those in greatest need of homes, for | the mest part veterans, simply haven't the money or the income to warrant building the sort of houses they | want and deserve. The primary object of any govern- | ment housing legislation, therefore, ought to be to | keep down the cost of home construction and to keep | |down the cost of money borrowed for financing home | construction. Of the two, the cost of houses is more important than the cost of borrowing money, because interest rates generally are low. Construction costs are anything but low. And what is the Senate’s contribution to housing costs? By vote of 51 to 20, our Senators amended the principal housing bill to require that the “pre- vailing wage or fees” be paid on any homes financed |}. through the FHA. In other words, what began as a housing bill comes out of the Senate as a subsidy | to labor organizations. In most of our larger cities this amendment will have no importance, because the building trades are quite fully organized and the “prevailing wage” is, in fact, the union scale. But in smaller towns, where incomes and living costs are lower, construction cos have been materially lower. In such cities the “pre- vailing wage” will usually be interpreted as the union scale, although that is not the prevailing wage, in fact, but the maximum wage. This amendment is an interesting example of how strong lobbies can cut the heart out of well-meant legislation. The CIO and the AFL demanded the “prevailing wage” amendment and got it. The men and women who want homes and can hardly afford them at present costs are not organized. They are not a lobby. The veterans who are desperately search- ing for houses are not organized. True, there are many small organizations of World War II veterans, but most returned servicemen do not belong to them. And, in any event, the veteran groups have nothing like | the power of labor groups to punish offending members | of Congress. Housing today is our largest domestic problem in | the United States. The unduly high cost of house construction is the biggest difficulty. Yet such is the power of lobbies inat a veteran who has fought for his country and come back will not be entitled to borrow for a house under FHA unless he toes the mark set by AFL and CIO. been known to reverse itself), and 000 pounds of grain to UNRRA in-' it seems to me that when any large | stead of using union ties up the entire country it | whiskey. it for beer and .The world may be Merry-Go-Round (Continued from Page One) the right of small businessmen to compete with the big. Except for a féw brass hats in the Army and Navy and a few big-wigs on Wall Street, the country has been with you every inch of the way. Today, however, we are faced with a new threat to free competi- tion—the ability of certain labor unions to shut down every coal mine and every railroad in the country, and, with them, business is a clear monopoly and is ham- pering free competition just as! much as the Aluminum Corpora- tion or International Nickel or other big corporations you have prosecutec. | If, for instance, Jchn L. Lewis calls a strike in part of the indus-| try, as the United Auto Workers did against General Motors, while allowing Ford and Chrysler to op- erate, there can be no charge of monepcly. But when he uses the power voted the miners by the Am- erican people to bring a monopolis- tic strike against all the American bl::: b:gefl:dh:;:am;;ixhz? 'Ah:e:;::"] pecple then, in my opinion, he 3 shculd be prosecuted under the free enterprise goes up in smuke.lshflma" Anti-Trust Act. | COAL MINERS’ MONOPOLY ; And if you, as Attorney General, | There was a Gay when John L. don't feel you have enough legis-| Lewis struck one group of coal}]““"“ to support you in such a| miners and let the others Dpemw.;prosecutiun, you should ask Con- This was something nobody could | 67€ss for it. : complain about. Furthermore it en- | For if you or someone in the Ad- hanced the principle of cm,“pefi_\mimstmuc\n does not act first to tion. The mine operators who were |meet this .situation, a hog-wild struck didn’t like to see their com- | Coneress will pass a haywire labor short of wheat, but the American potato crop this year will be one of the biggest in history. “Spuds instead of bread” will be the mot- to for patriotic American house- Lieut. Gen. Edmund T. Gregory, head of the War Assets Corporation, has sent his resigna- tion to the White House. The head- ache of selling surplus property to veterans was too painful. . . .Fio- rello LaGuardia is hopping mad over the fact that UNRRA needs 800,000 tons of fats and oils but it was allocated only 85,000 tons for the first six months. Mean- while we are shipping fats fo Fas- cist Spain. DINGELL—DEMOCRAT Representative John Dingell of Detroit, staunch = Administration Democrat, was welcomed into the Republican party during the Sen- ate debate on the Case Anti-La- bor Bill. Dingell was erroneously called a Republican by Senator Claude Pepper, Forida Democrat, petitors, who were not struck, rake | But in the last 12 years we have fet John L. Lewis build up an air- tight labor monopoly in the coal fields. This did not use to be the case. When Lewis called nis la.c big strike after the last war, only about 50 perce f tae nation's ccal precuction stopped. But in this la.est strnice, prubably 100 was shut = mpcrt nt thing is'that Lew- is %o ncpoly through the clesed shop and the Guffey Coal e Wagner Act. 1't begrudge him On the contrary. muners were at an all-time economic low in 1933, They had to have relief Furthermore they should alsp have better mine safety and a reasonable welfare fund— though not dominated by one man. So I say I do not begrudge the miners their new and powerful or- ganization—provided they don’t let an insatiable, ruthless leader mi use this power against the inter- ests of the American people who gave it to him. PFor it is important to remember that when John L. Lewis and the miners were voted the closed shop and the Wagner Act and the Guffey Coal Act and the means of building a powerful menopoly, the vcte came from the American pecple who did not ex- pect their humanitarianism to be “thrown back into their faces. And what the American people voted, they can later vote to modify or take away. Righ here, in my opinion, is where the Sherman Anti-Trust Act comes in. ‘Tre s ARE UNIONS MONOPOLIES? I know that the Supreme Court has ruled against you in scme cas- | €5 Ceurt has (but the Supreme 1law which won't work and which in the profits—while they didn’t. /Wl wipe out all the hard-won ‘interwoven to have any monopoly, j pariment’s and it might have passed unnotic- ed had not Pepper himself realized his error. “While many Members of Con- gains of other labor groups which don’t deserve to be penalized be-: cause of John L. Lewis or certain =~ f: rail labor leaders. The American public is fast com- ing to the conclusion that our mo- dern economy is too intricate and ACROSS High Soft drinks Disease of schickens Acquired 13. Dentine 14. Old French coin 15. Negative 16. Cu 17. Male child 18. Appendage at the base of a leaf Fragrant N 3 whether it be miners, rail workers § or telephone operators, tie up the entire country; any more than they were willing to have Standard Oil of New Jersey conspire with Ger- many to keep synthetic rubber pa- tents from the American people. That pre-war conspiracy set the nation back in “its manufacture of rubber for three years. And the public hes been grateful to Thur- man Arncld and the Justice De- Anti-Trust Divisicn for 12 District in Greece Feigned . Kind of wood e tooth Charge Burst forth . Metal Distant Titles exposing i Dried grass Madeline Sturm Charles Sabin Eleanor Warren Richard DeBoff Joe Abel Emma Ness Elsie Maki R. M. Edwards F. M. Rymer Mrs. Annabelle Emerson Commission. HOROSCOPE | “The stars incline but do not compel” BRRAES MAY 25 SATURDAY, HEART AND HOME This is an auspici day for arting renovations, repairs and additions to the home. Outdoor | activities, in vegetable or flower| garden or in sports, promise re-| leasz from many ncedless worries. A} little work with the soil can bring elusive irritations to the surface where they can be recognized, in as trivia which should out of con- BUSINESS AFFAIRS A seller's market awaits manu- facture and retailers of almost every variety of small boats. There are indications that the nation’s in- land lakes this summer will sce the greatest display of small craft in history, incuding everything from canoes and outboards to cabin | cruisers. NATIONAL ISSUES 1 the fight against racial pre- judice, progress will depend very {largely on the conduct of those |discriminated against. Arrogance, | counter-discrimination and a gen- erally aggressive attitude will not help to overcome the unwholesome influences which would grade the human race according to color or| ancestry. 1 INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS | Attention will be turned toward, Australia again in the near future., Relative isolation and the fears growing out of it are responsible. for many of Australia’s problems. Persons whose birthdate this is are promised by the stars: A year of constructive and profitable - tivity. 1 Children born today will be emo- In ways obedient. As adults, they will ke admired and respected and gen- erally loved. (Copyright, 1346} gress bear the name Republican with honor and distinction, such as my friends on the other side who! are now present,” Pepper told the Senate, “Representative Dingell be- ing a good Democrat might not like | the designation. | “Therefore I ask that the Record} be corrected in that respect, so| that it may not indicate that Re-| presentative Dingell is one who!| walks in the outer darkness of Re-} publicanism when he really walks in the bright light of Democracy.” Republican Senator Bourke Hick- enlooper of Iowa took issue with_| Pepper, assuring him that “those, who walk in the true path of Re-; publicanism are also walking ing the true path of democracy.” : And, always anxious to get a word in, Republican Whip Kenneth. ' 20 YEARS AGO &2 mupine | | by H tional and affectionate, but not al-# et et e et e i) MAY 24, 1926 The Juneau Fire Department's baseball team which entered the Whitehorse Tournament made a clean sweep of its games and brought home the $100 prize. Excur: sts returning from the Victoria Day celebration at White- horse reported a delightful trip, and something interesting doing all {the time. ; Ralph W. Mize was to be entered in the engineers’ exhibition of the fourteenth annual military tournament at Oregon State College, ! according to an announcement from Corvallis, Ore. | Fur shipments from Alaska for 1925 amounted to $2,907328.94, ex- | clusive of fur seal, according to figures compiled by the Alaska Game Princess Louise late this Oscar Olson and the steamer Southbound 3 George Shumway, levening includéd Mr. Miss Aili Kronquist. ngers on and Mrs. ' The purchase of the stock and equipment of the H. C. Hanna Motor Ccmpany by the Juneau Motor Company was announced this morning I. Lucas, President of the latter firm. Pete Michelson came in from Jacoby Island on the motorship Vir- ginia IV. Weather: Highest, 51; lowest, 42; cloudy. f e e i Daily Lessons in English % 1. corpon § — . e ) WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “They were in a hurry to | open up the package.” | UP is redundant and should be omitted. OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED! Valuable. Pronounce val-u-a-b’l. with FOUR syllables, and not val-u-b'l. OFTEN MISSPELLED: Foliage. Observe the IA. SYNONYMS: Adversity, misfortune, hardship, disaster, ill luck. WORD STUDY: “Use a word three times and it is yours.” increase our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Today’s word: RETROSPECT (noun); a review of the past. “He turned his pen to 2 retrospect of the Colonial period.” Heses Bl Q. When a girl introduces a young man to another girl, isn't it tactless for this second girl to say, “I am glad to know you. Jane has talked so much about you"? A. Yes; nothing could be more tactless. Q. When invitations are sent for a garden party, one do if it rain. A. One shouid always have the house prepared for the party, to meet this emergency. Q. Should a man ever tuck his napkin in the top of his vest or his collar? A. Never. not do this. T R R e Bt 9 LOOK and LEARN % 1. What States border on the Great Lakes? ) 2. What modern game originated among the North American Indians? 3. Who was known as the last of the great American scouts? 4. Of what kingdom was Frederick the Great the ruler? 5. In what Shakespearean play is Cassius a character? ANSWERS: 1. Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Penn- sylvania and New York. 2. Lacrosse. William F. Cody, popularly known as “Buffalo Bill.” Prussia. “Julius Caesar.” ——d Any man with the least knowledge of propriety will A. C. GORDON — 3. 4. 5. BRONZE SHAFTING — STERN BEARINGS — PROPELLORS GRAY MARINE ENGINES SALES and SERVICE Juneau Welding and Machine Shop Wherry of Nebraska expressed the’ appreciation by Senate Republical for “the loan by the Senator from, Florida of Representative Dingell,: though he did so for only a short time.” (COPYRIGHT, BELL SYNDICATE, INC. 1946) 4 Solulh.m of Yesterday's Puzzi- 2. Sea duck . Quite . Heavy and DOWN 1. Beards of grain Likewise monopol; the current wave of strikes is setting back post-war reconversion and heading tcward disastrous inflation. The country will be equally grateful if you check labor monopoly, at the same time protecting the great mass of American labor which has not abused its privileges. Hoping you will forgive these curbstone opinions from one whese only legal knowledge is the law of libel, I am, Sincerely yours, DREW PEARSON CAPITAL CHAFF President Truman will postpone | raming a new Chief Justice until after the 30-day period of mourn- ing for Chief Justice Stone. One carload of food was recently loaded at Springdale, the “Main; Street” of Arkansas, and donated | to the starving Main Streets of the world. . . . The American dis- | tilling incustry is donating 50,000,- | . Seed . Round roof . Exist . Outline Spanish_coln cred imaze ck a football City of the leaning tower . Buddhist piliars . Alarm whistle | . Turkish gov- | ernor i External \ | | { l sweet | ropical fruits Plants of a 33. Those w 34, Any larg animal Fleshy fruit Injure . Burrowing rodent “ard game orm Heavy tron hook . On the ocean ho sell co arly Eng| money Baranof Turkish Bath and Massage Hours 9 A. M. to 6 P. M.—Open Evenings by Appointment BARANOF HOTEL—Lower Level PHONE 753 .S;“mething 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 Frog Legs { Juneau Cold Storage Company, Inc. Louisiana Shrimps WILLA SVENDSEN as a paida-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: “IT'S A PLEASURE" Federal Tax—11¢ per Person PHONE 14—THE ROYAL BLUE CAB CO. and an insured cab WILL CALL FOR YOU and . RETURN YOU to your home with our compliments. WATCH THIS SPACE—Your Name May Appear! Let us| MODERN ETIQUETTE Yomerra tom | what should | DR. E. H. KASER DENTIST BLOMGREN BUILDING Phone 56 HOURS: 9 A. M. to 5 P. M. The Erwin Feed Co. Qffice in Case Lot Grocery PHONE 704 HAY, GRAIN, COAL and STORAGE CALIFORNIA Grocery and Meat Market 478 — PHONES — 3871 High Quality Foods at Moderate Prices Jones-Stevens Shop LADIES'—MISSES’ READY-TO-WEAR Seward Street Near Third ’ . . Don’s Radio Service Electrical and Radio Repair (We pick up and deliver) Phone 659 909 West 12th —_— Aiaska Music Supply Arthur M. 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ALASKA ELECTRON Silver Bow Lodge No. A 2, LO.OF,, 'Meets each Tues- day at 8:00 P. M., I. O. O. F. HALL. Visiting Brothers Welcome FLCYD HORTON, Noble Grand H. V. CALLOW, Secretary 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 Charter—$45.00 per day and up Both Vessels U. S. Government Inspected PHONE 79 or BLUE 449 PRIEROOTE D DOUGLAS BOAT SHOP New Construction and Repairs Jobs Free Estimate Phone Douglas 192 B P | VULCANIZING—Tires and Tubes YROMPT SERVICE—WORK GUARANTEED {__JUNEAU MOTOR C0. — PHONE 30 ErsTsssssysEsessEsssEsEssaseEaTl) seetsedes et There is no substitute for newspaper advertising 1891—0ver Half a Cenlury of Banking—1946 The B. M. Behrends Bank Oldest Bank in Alaska ; COMMERCIAL SAVINGS R R TR B T T T P H0L 200900240 vren