The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 6, 1946, Page 4

Daily Alaska Empire Published evers evening except Sunday by the EMPIRE PRINTING COMPAN Second and Main Streets, Juneau, Alaska HELEN TROY MONSEN - - - « DOROTHY TROY LINGO - - WILLIAM R. CARTER - - - ELMER A. FRIEND - . - o ALFRED ZENGER - - - - President - Vice-President Editor and Manager Managing Editor Business Manager Entered in the Post s Delivered by carrier in Juneau and Douglas for $1.50 per month; six months, $8.00; one year, $15.00 By mail, postage paid, at the following rates One year, in advance, $15,00; six months, in advance, $7.50; one month, in advance, $1.50. Subscribers will confer a favor if they will promptly notify the Business Office of any failure or irregularity in the delivery of their pepers i Telephones: News Office, 602; oftice, 374 MEMBER OF ASS ED PRI The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not other- wise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. NATIONAL REPRESENTATIVES — Alaska Newspapers, 1411 Fourth Avenue Blde., Seattle, Wash, Either the Budget Bureau has been guilty of gross extravagance (which is certainly not its wont) or the House Appropriations Committee has committed an act of sabotage. For a s of 50 per cent is no mere curtailment of operating expenses. It means the out- right abandonment of vital functions. The Grazing Service, for example, is left with just enough money Of the 23 and gross extravagance in certain agencies of the De- partment of the Interior” and by expressing the hope that “under the dynamic leadership of Secretary Krug the department will be placed on a more efficient basis.” But in point of fact he seems to have left the new Secretary with no basis at all for carrying out the department’s broad and varied responsibilities. | Mr. Krug would have to be very dynamic indeed to produce power or to irrigate arid land without funds for construction of dams. ‘L In our view there is no genuine economy in halting jor frustrating the development of the Nation’s natural ! to pay the terminal leave of its employees. ° JUNE 6 o - million dollars requested for the Southwestern Power| o Ken Alexander Administration, only 3 million dollars was allowed.! o Margaret Holbrook °! Nine million dollars was cut out of the 20 million| Mrs. J. J. Connors dollars sought for the Bureau of Mines. The' most| o Mrs. Zalmain Gross serious slash of all was in the estimate for the Bureaul o Paula Kay Cook of Reclamation — 95 million taken away from 167| 4 E. E. Engstrom P million. ° Hollis Triplette . The general justification offered for these reduc-|g .5 Katherine Karinen i tions is “the urgent need for retrenchment in Govern- | o ment expenditures.” Mr. Johnson managed to pay| PR N T Aba A e his respects to Mr. Ickes by referring to “inefficiency RIS SRS, HOROSCOPE “The stars incline i but do not compel” USSR FRIDAY, JUNE 7 HEART AND HOME | former Miss Brilliant Olds. 20 YEARS AGO frgry JUNE 6, 1926 EMPIRE Notwithstanding unsettled weather this forenoon with dark clouds, | showers and then sunshine an estimated 400 people attended the Mocse Lodge picnic at Salmon Creek. The Juneau City Band greatly enlivened ! the occasion, and there were plenty of hot dogs, buns, coffee and ice cream cones on hand. The picnic arrangements were made by Torkilson, Bussinger, Patullo, Pastl and Bodding. Dan A. Noonan, Mrs. Noonan and three children arrived here this .’da) on the steamer Queen of the Admiral Line, from Seattle. He was !to be the new manager of the Twin Glacier Camp on Taku River. Word had been received here of the birth of a baby girl to Mr. {and Mrs. Clarence Carpenter in Seattle yesterday. The mother was the At the same time the marriage of Harry i Olds to Miss Viola Wiggins of Seattle on May 22 was announced. B. M. Behrends Company Depatrtment Store was advertising stylish B. T. McBain of Portland, Ore., one of the leading pulp and paper | | silk dresses, worth $25, on special sale at $16, and women's silk hose at $1.50. 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 The Charles W. Carfer Mortuary Fourth and Franklin Sts. H PHONE 136 FOR TASTY FOODS and VARIETY TRY Gastineau Cafe Foremost in Friendliness VANITY BEAUTY Grocery and Meat Market SALON 478 — PHONES — 371 Cooper Building High Quality Foods at HILDRETH, Moderate Prices mmflv m: ‘P:‘"m:r one 318 resources, | tee’s reduction The effect of the Appropriations Commit- THE DEBT CEILING The Senate Finance Committee has the right idea in favoring a reduction of the national debt limit from $300,000,000,000 to $275,000,000,000. It may seem to be a moot question, changing the statutory limit on the Federal debt, but experience has shown that the debt has a way of rising to its ceilings, and the lower the ceiling the less temptation there will be to let it rise. Before the war, an obedient Congress raised the ceiling to accommodate ever-greater New Deal spend- ing, although the debt limitation offered an ideal opportunity to curb the increase of deficit spending. With the beginning of the national defense program, and then the advent of war spending, the Federal debt ceiling was raised several times, and was kept well above the actual level of debt—as befitted the fact that there should be no rein on government credit in wartime. Now, however, the public debt stands at $274,300,- 000,000 and the debt limit is $300,000,000,000—a figure fixed while war appropriations still were in full stride. President Truman has made a good beginning on a balanced budget and a reduction of the Federal debt. To lower the ceiling to within $700,000,000 of the present level of the debt would strengthen his hand, and act as a safeguard against any tendencies to resume where we left off with the mad career of spending beyond our Federal means. Interior Funds (Washington Post) It must have been a keen disappointment to Rep- resentative Jed Johnson of Oklahoma that his prun- ing of ##ie Interior Department appropriation bill for 1947 came at a time when Harold L. Ickes was no longer in office to feel the effects of the knife. He reported the other day for the House Committee on | made one requirement of the Presidency that an Appropriations a recommendation that the Budget Bureau estimate for the Interior Department be cut almost exactly in half. Out of a request for $346,765,- of the Interior Department budget | would be to nullify the public power policy laid down |by Congress and to slow down reclamation projects i which have been duly authorized. We hope that the | | House will not accept a report which would use the appropriation power to legislate—or rather to subvert legislation already enacted. Resource development ‘lis no less important in the postwar period than it was during the war itself. It prcmotes employment and at the same time contributes to the national wealth. The Senate, if not the House, should see to it that the Interior Department is given the means to move full speed ahead. A Use for Mondays (Cincinati Enquirer) The National Association of Monday Holidays was recently incorporated in New York State, with the avowed purpose of promoting the observance of all holidays on Monday—apparently with the exception of such holidays as Christmas, Easter and the Fourth of July, which couldn’t very well be moved on the calendar. A public opinion survey just announced, mean- while, finds that a bare majority of the people prefer the proposed arrangement. A little more than a third of the people interviewed opposed, and the rest were in the traditional “no opinion” class. Some significance was seen in the fact that sentiment was about evenly divided during the first test on the proposal in 1939 The idea, of course, is to provide an elongated | Washington's Birthday, Decoration Day or Lincoln’s| | Birthday. And we're not greatly surprised that longer weekends should be gaining in popularity, in keeping | with the general trend toward less work and more | leisure. We dare say that a public opinion sampler who cared to take the time and trouble would find | a considerable number of people in favor of week-long holidays. We already. have precedent for moving traditional holidays about on the calendar—remember the deluge of Thanksgivings?—but it seems a pity that the great | men honored by holidays on their birthdays should | have to move to the nearest Monday. Perhaps, with this idea in mind, Congress should pass a law specifying | that all great men hereafter shall be born on Mon- | day. oOr, if that is deemed impractical, it might be incumbent shall have been born on Monday, so as to take no chances in case he should become great | encugh to justify national remembrance of his birth- | weekend whenever permitted by an occasion such as | Under this configuration all wo- men should be fortunate in their domestic and social ventures. They | are warned, however, against un- wise concentration of time and ef- sion of other activities which are| needed to give balance and per-| spective to their lives. | BUSINESS AFFAIRS Many honest business men new | condoning black market operations as unavoidable under price restric- | tions may come to regret they did not have the courage to take a firm stand against such practices. | NATIONAL ISSUES { Fundamental weaknesses in the |legislative branch of the Govern- ment will be assailed by nonpartis- an groups in the near future in ithe hope oi strengthening the Gev- :ernment against the aggressive ac- tivities of disloyal and unfriendly |€lements. { INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS | Changes in U. N. for the pur- tpose of reinforcing its governing principles is indicated. There is no {more reason to argue that it is be- ‘yond improvement than to con- tend that the Constitution of the | United States should not have been |amended. Persons whose birthdate this is are promised by the stars: A year ‘of vigorous and enjoyable activity and some financial gain. Children born today will be ener- getic, determined, fearless and self- willed. (Copyright, 1946) ur general strikes, but it was decided to stage the dem- nstrations between shifts. . . .At long last, the State Department s halted the sale of all surplus property to Spain. . . . . Truman’s iend, Ambassador Ed Pauley, has cen getting rough treatment from the Senate. Pauley asked permis- sion to visit Soviet Korea for 15 days. The Russians countered with Alaska for pulp and paper interests which he represented. | engineers in the country, arrived here to investigate the possibilities of |12 hits off Shavey Koski. CREDITABLE means worthy of praise. work is creditable.” “Rs.v.p.” I The Elks defeated the Moose this day by a score of 10 to 5, getting ‘Weather: Highest, 54; lowest, 45; cloudy. c | Walter Andrews, the winning pitcher, hurled fort in one direction to the exclu- |, very good game, with only one earned run being scored off him. Daily Lessons in English % 1. corpon ; WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: CREDIBLE means worthy of belief. OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Entree. OFTEN MISSPELLED: Precede; EDE. Proceed; EED. SYNONYMS: Brevity, briefness, shortness, succinctness. WORD STUDY: “Use a word three times and it is yours.” increase our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Today’s word: HYMENAL; of or pertaining to marriage. (Pronounce hi-me-ne-al, I as in HIGH, first E as in MEN unstressed, second E as in ME, accent third syllable). “It was pleasant to her to be led to the hy’meneal'almr by a belted earl. { MODERN ETIQUETTE Eoserra Lum b —Mrs. Gaskell. ance? terseness, “His story is credible, and his Pronounce an-tra, first A as in AH, second Aas in TRAY, accent first syllable. conciseness, Let us e ——d Q. Are there any kinds of invitations that do not require an accept- A. Yes. Invitations to teas, those to large receptions, cards to “At home” days, do not require an acceptance, provided they do not bear | But when unable to attend a tea or recepticn, one should send a card to those hostess cn the appointed day. 'Q. " Please name six things that are included among the “finger” | foods? A. Olives, celery, radishes, corn on the cob, cookies, and bon bons. Q. A. No. Is it obligatory to send a wedding gift when one is invited only to the church? LOOK and LEARN I,);y_c, GORDON 830 to operate the various activities of the department | day. during the fiscal year ahead, the committee approved We're not entirely serious, of course, but come a three-day permit. When Ambas- sador “Beetle” Smith protested, the e e e e ettt ittt ) 1. Which two of our Presidents have had more cities, towns, and no more than $174,652,579. This is, of course, not so | to think of it, there should be some means of bright- And its effect must be | ening a day which has come to be traditionally dull much pruming as cleavage. virtually to decapitate the aggncy which Secretary | and gloomy, unrelieved except by work and family Krug lately inherited from Secretary Ickes. The Washington Meiry-Go-Round (Continued from Page One) not by Steelman, in whom the un- ions had lost faith. FRRING JOHN SNYDER At the cabinet meeting also, Sec- retary of the Treasury Fred Vin- son asked how much money separ- ated the railroad workers and the | cperators — in other words, how much would it take to satisfy la-| bor's unmet demands. Steelman,| who had been conducting xmgotin«J tions for more than a week, said he didn't know. So did Schwellen- bach. So did Byrnes. But John Snyder volunteered that they were | setween 300 and 500 million dollars apart. This very large estimate led | Vinson and Byrnes to the conclu-| sicn that there was no possibility of negotiated settlement, and they then cast their weight with the| Secretary of War in favor of let- ting the Army run the railroads. | After the Cabinet meeting Tru- man lunched with Snyder and Steeiman. They urged him to use| force to break the strike, also to/ go before Congress and ask for new legislation. After lunch, therefore,' Truman called a special meeting of certain cabinet members and advis- ers, including Secretary of State' Byrnes, Attorney General Clark, Becretary of Labor Schwellenbach, and the President. Truman inform- | ed them he had decided: (1) To go on the air that night, and (2) ad- dress Congress the next day. He then outlined the general nature of what he wanted to say—some of | it drastic. | At this point, Secretary Vinson,| realizing an important break with Roosevelt precedent was imminent, once again asked whether Snyder was sure of his figures regarding the distance between the railroad operators and the brotherhoods. Snyder then sheepishly admitted that only betwen 25 and 30 million | dollars separated the two. Steelman also confessed that the three important rules changes the union was really insisting on would only cost the railroads 18 million dollars. . VINSON-BYRNES EXPLOSION | At this, both Byrnes and Vinson' | washing. hit the ceiling. They claimed it was fantastic to let the whole country be tied up when both sides ! were so close to agreement. A set- tlement, they insisted, was both rossible and probable, and it was | unwise in the light of this infor-| mation for the President to take| the strong action he contemplated. John Snyder, however, insisted that it was too late. Word had al- ready gone out to the public that the President would address the nation and talk to Congress. He could not turn back. Truman agreed with Snyder .and asked | those present to return at 7 o'clock with drafts of the speech he was to deliver at 10 p.n.—a pitifully short time for any chief executive to prepare such a momentous pro- nouncement. Shortly after 7:30, the group re- convened at the White House. Sec- retary Byrnes stayed only a few minutes, lett to meet with union leaders Whitney and Johnston. Principal speech writer turned out to be slow-moving, good-natur- ed, Presidential Secretary Bill Has- sett, known as a fair editor but terrible speech writer. He was only | a second string man on the Roose- velt team. ° Snyder showed up for the meet- ing, feeling no pain. He interrupted the speech-writ- ing from time to time with inane cracks which served no useful pur- pose. Several times Vinson and Schwel- lenbach tried to balance the speech by pointing out that the railroad operators had refused to make con- cessions. Each time Snyder and Steelman vetoed the proposal. Each | time Truman sided with Snyder. TWENTY MINUTES TO SPARE Schwellenbach and Vinson both | oppose Truman’s personal denun- | ciation of Whitney and Johnston, | but Snyder shouted wildly that the | two union leaders were trying to destroy “The Chief,” and that they had to be named. Truman agreed. | Finally, the speech was complet- | ed only 20 minutes before the President went on the air. At the| time he made it, Truman didn't| even know what kind of lchsla-! tion he was going to request of | Congress the next day. It was in| this confused, uncertain atmos- | phere that the President of the United States made the most im- Kremlin compromised with five children named after them than all other Presidents put together? days, but barred Pauley from the 2. What States border on the Gulf of Mexico? war plants and military installa- 3. Which is the largest of the planets? tions whick the Russians have been | 4. Who discovered the X-ray? & . denuding. . . . . Undersecretary of | i P portant political decision of his Commerce, Al Schindler—one of 5. What animal makes no sound? career. the Missouri boys by adoption—| ANSWERS: will resign soon. Schindler hopes to | 1. George Washington and Andrew Jackson. CAPITAL CHAFF become Undersecretary of the 2. Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Floiida. Henry Morgenthau telephoned Navy. 3. Jupiter. Hefxry Wallace (much to t_he lat- (COPYRIGHT, BELL SYNDICATE, INC. 1946) 4. Wilhelm Konrad Roentgen, in 1895 ter's embarrassment) and discussed T i 5. Giraffe. his blast at the Truman Adminis- © ¢ © ¢ ® ¢ ¢ v o ® ¢ o o : g & tration before delivering it. Wallace ® Oi thought his old cabinet colleague ® TIDE TABLE L was being much too harsh. . .. . . JUNE 17 . BRONZE SHAFTING — STERN BEARINGS — PROPELLORS There is more unity in the Amer- e Low tide 2:23 am., 46 ft. @ ican labor movement right now e High tide 8:17 am, 125 ft. ® GRAY MAR[NE ENGINES tlhauucv:r beg»rv in x':_:cenv.dlmizt;)ry. e Low tide 14:37 pm., 28 ft. e SALES and SERVICE n Dayton, Cincinnati an ma, e High tide 21:14 pm., 140 ft. ® = . Ohio, AFL, CIO and Brotherhoods e . Juneau Welllmg and Machine Sllop Unions will all demonstrate togeth- e e o e & ® o o o er against the White House pro- -, L i3 e TR NS M gram. 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