The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 27, 1946, Page 4

PAGE FOUR D(ul y Alaska E mpire shed every evening except Sunda COMPANY Juneau, Al employees of U. S. Steel financial re- Similarly, two yeats for compromise offer not, land 10 per cent. Corporation will require covery from their refusal of a Whether the these | men and their families will have to postpone buying Managing Editor | new necessities, and new Business Manager luxuries. They are strike winners. What about the losers? General Motors lost $36,100,000 in the first quarte: During the same period last year they of $50,200,000. To the 425000 common (which means many of v by the EMPIRE PRIN Second and Main HELEN TROY MONSE! DOROTHY TROY LIN * WILLIAM R. CARTER - = . ELMER A. FRIEND - - « " goods are available or “Editor and Manag: cars, new clothes, new Entered In the Post Office in Juneau as Second Class Matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Delivered by carrier in Juneau and Bouglas for S$1.50 per month; six months, $8.00; one year, $15.00 By mail, postage pald. at the following rates One year, in advance, $15.00; of this year. had a profit stockholders six months, in advance, $7.50; or if they will promptly notify e or irregularity in the delivery us, herein have been paid as corporation tax. And we all know what the Government does when it can't collect from it can always push the citizen's TIV 1411 Wash. ATIONAL REPRES Alaska Newspapers Avenue Bldg., Sea companies ment a little higher to make up for any loss. We all lose. Strikes don't p ‘Plenty™ Two Sorts of ¢ (Cincinnati Enquirer) In these days of economic upsets, lose sight of the fact that the word ‘“plenty,” when applied to general living commedities, can have two meanings. We have seen this demonstrated times in the last generation. We have seen periods when there was a great plenty of goods in the markets land we scarce. Our economy—strange as this may seem cften stands in greater danger when there is an over- supply of goods on the shelves than when shelves are swept clean by eager buyers. X Pl In months of full employment, such as those Would you like a new car—or new tires for your through which we have, been /Gassltls, thelhverage dld one? Would you like to have your wife start ., .n4q woman has money with which to purchase wearing stockings and stop talking about them? Want | p,h necessities and luxuries. These, for millions of a new house? a new refrigerator? a lawnmower? or | Americans, are periods of comparative plenty, even a thousand other things? if ceytain of the items they’d like to buy aren’t avail- Something has happened to that postwar worl Id | able; even if dealers’ stocks are low. These are perio of plenty, too, for merchants and manufacturers, for sales are fast and profits generally good. But when employment lags, sales decline and | prices tumble—then comes another type of “plenty.” agement, and the helpless bystanders. | These are periods ,of plenty for people fortunate Who would try to start a new business One | enough to have money, for they can buy anything they regulations-weary veteran reenlisted for three more |gesire at sharply reduced tariffs. The number of years because he said he didn't want to get a job only |individuals competing for individual articles is eom- to have to go on strike immediately. | paratively small—and shelves are loaded with slow- It's a matter of record that strikers are “winning.” |moving merchandise. In such times a few of our people have everything they want. But a far greater EVERYBODY LOSES | of security and comfort toward which we all looked with such hope. That “something” is strikes. We are all victims of their paralysis of industry—labor, man- now? Likewise, it is a matter of record that they are losing along with the rest of us—a lesson, unfortunately, |number do not. Merchants, consumers, manufacturers ? | —all suffer. There may be meat a-plenty in the that the “about-to-strike” workers are not learning. | y p g ! butcher’s shop, but John Q. Public can only look at It will take the “winners” of the spectacular | through the butcher’s window. General Motors strike until early in 1948 to be as well | pytcher can enjoy its benefits. off as they would have been if they had not struck America’s problem today is to strike a h\ppv and had worked steadily without any wage increase. | pedium between the “plenty” which spells shortages | In 1953 they will finally achieve being as well off as|and the “plenty” which results from depression. Full they would have been had they accepted the cumpanys employment, at reasonable wages, is the solution.| offer of 131 cents. | Such employment cannot come with uprealistic price: These figures were pointed out by a Harvard with runaway inflation. It will come if we keep cool | protessor, Sumner H. Slichter, in an article in Atlantic | 209 see to it—in one way or another—that our| he employees Dflemnumlc forces are kept under strict control. The @cnthly.. He, wenb.on; th sAViaS b law of supply and demand is a great and beneficial General Electric will need two and a half years before | jn¢tryment, properly controlled and balanced. But it they are as well off as they would have been had they | must be made to serve the best interests of humanity. The Washingfon Merry-Go-Round (Continued from Page One) * Neither he nor the I flour, corn meal and dairy products | | for several months. with the short- | age so acute that miners are now a(,n " Kilgre reminded Truman, | talking about a hunger strike. “and they'd like to know why you | Kilgore | couldn’t take over the farms and focd processing plants to insure th(»-‘ distribution of food where it is needed.” The President dodged this ques- | tion, but assured Kilgore steps will be taken to channel food to the “The miners know, Harry, that you took over the mines not long “But at the same ume,” told the President, “hotels and res- ! taurants through West Virginia have been able to buy reasonable | been in Buenos Aires for several weeks, put out a feeler on a swap S g A amounts of meat. fnvolving the railroads. The Eng- ¢ 4§ lish proposal would have absorbed Major reason for the miner food f shortage, he explained, is that be- the Argentine credit in London ® X g 5 nd leg“ Peron’s administration | f0¢ the war, miner stores were ac- coal fields. He said he would con- owing a few millions besides, in re- | Customed to buying direct from the | r;" o }? Tct".em}.'v fif]dersfi" "‘;’ou‘; furn for the sprawling rail system,|Pi§ meat packers rather than the phasibility (OF \bBLIE G {00 { through wholesalers. The big pack- | to the West Virginia miners. Argentina replied flatly that she ers are in short supply, however, would not consider taking back the|and have had to take care of their | lines unless Britain first did a com- | wholesaler customers first. In one plete rehabilitation job on them.|case, Kilgore told Truman, he| This was duly communicated to|found a meat supplier had only fl\e‘ London by the Board of Trade carcasses to supply the meat needs | people, who then received insnuc-‘oi miners in four counties for a tions to hold everything until a whole week. Treasury Mission, due in Buenos Aires shortly, could take up negotiations. However, soon after Peron’s pub-| licized decision to seek return of the Falklands through the United Nations, the Board of Trade Mis- sion suddenly approached the Ar- gentine government with an offer to purchase the Falklands. As bait, they offered to release the $75,000,- 000 credit without restrictions, thus JOCKEYING WITH ARGENTINA! Latest State Department move to keep the heat turned on Presi- dent Peron of Argentina is a pro- posal that the Rio de Janeiro Con- ference be postponed until after next Pan American Conference in Bogota early in 1947. Kilgore also pointed out that the each miner now has a larger family| The Guatemalan Government| to feed than before the war. opened the way for this when it} “The average age of the miner |recently issued a &tat(’mt‘nt urging has risen during the war years'\lhat the “rights of man” resolution | from about 27 to about 47,” he told | adopted by the American republics | the President. “The result is not,at Mexico City last year be brought | only that the miner must be as-|up soon for formal consideration. sured of the food necessary to do State Department officials |his tough job but he must also|promptly followed this by sounding have enough food for his family. |out the other A:eiican Govern- accepted the company’s compromise offer of 10 cents along with | the “tycoons”) this meant a loss of 87 cants a share Business Office, 374 compared to the net profit of $1.09 a share in th IBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS same quarter last year B I ot ey There was another loser, too—that fall guy, thel edited in this paper and wlso the local news published | taxpayer, Our Government lost millions that would | tax pay- | none of us should | have seen times when available goods were | | . JULY 27 .I Winning by score of 2 to 1 the Miners clinched first place in the . Mrs. Ray H. Stevens o‘spu \d half of the City League by defeating the Elks and will meet the . Guy Gaudett ® | Elks, winners of the first half, in the final series, The Spaudling Trophy, John Clausen ® | which goes to the winner of the post-season series, was on display in the [ Mamie Stewart ® | Juneau-Young Hardware Company window. . . e e {® JULY 28 . The Douglas City Council fixed a tax rate or 20 mills on a property e Harold McKinley ° Helen Webster o | Yaluation of $300,000, | Peter Gruening . o I Virgil Bohlke s A. H. Ziegler, Ketchikan attorney, was at the Gastineau. ° Harry Doyle . \; ° Mrs. M. T. Erickson . A small blaze on the Femmer Dock, caused by dumping live coals . Hannah L ® fr pile driver on the floor, was quickly extinguighed by lhv} . Delia T. Ha ® ' Juneau Volunteer Fire Department 4 b Weather report: High, 60; low, 57; clear o e e covoo 0000 -, — B HOROSCOPE “The stars incline but do not compel” ! SO SUNDAY, JULY 28 HEART AND HOME | This is the day for that last de- termined effort necessary to com- plete a long-delayed project. It is |a day for accomplishment in any jendeavor worthwhile to the indivi- dual or family. To try, today, |succeed BUSINESS AFFAIRS Communal housing may be the answer to the present shortage of living quarters in some U. S. cities. many Many houses could be remodeled to Q laccommodate as many families as should he s: they a now accommodating in- A dividuals. It would be a temporary Q lexpedient and far from ideal, but would at least provide shelter. A NATIONAL ISSUES L It is within the power of the housewives of this country to de- the selfish purposes of those responsible for excessively price: A willingness to do with! less, or without, for a protracted period would be more effective than any amount of government xeguld- tmn INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS of Canada border on In the final adjustments essen- States? tial to world harmony, the Medi- | 2. In a deck of playing cards, how many eyes has (a) the Jack of terranean will present a major dif-| Spades and (b) the Jack of Clubs? ficulty. Self-interest will be the 3. Which of the metals is -most expensive? dominant motive of all concerned. 4. What is the seat, or pavilion, on the back of an elephant called”\ Persons whose birthdate this is 5. In what book by what author appears the are promised by the stars: A year Prynne? of opportunities to share in work 2 ANSWERS: designed to help the underprivi- N * leged and the physically handicap- 1. British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, |ped. Personal satisfaction will be Quebec, and New Brunswick. 'their principal reward. ¥ 2. (a) One; (b) two. Children born today will have 3. Radium. strong characters and orderly |} 4. A howdah. minds. They should enjoy 1“”5“ 5. “The Scarlet Letter,’ hy Hawthorne. happy lives. ¢ L e =3 i b £ ,,,,,, ._.»-.-.,- s e e 5y | MONDAY, JULY 29 gA Complete Janitorial Service! This is an ideal day for the re- newal of old friendships. Letters e e A is being started in Juneau by a Veteran and answered. Scme will use the| ~ = = telephone. The response in every wlndow cleanlng-nug cleanlng intance will be hearty and genuine.! ;‘ BUSINESS AFFAIRS { Whatever lies ahead for business in general, the country’s farme almost certainly will enjoy a pro-| tracted pericd of prosperity, ac- |cording to present indications. All |farm products will be in great de-| mand for some time to come and it will be a long while before the |supply s equal to the demand. | NATIONAL ISSUES | Several new super-highways now under consideration will solve many | of our current transportation mob- lems. Necessarily, some portions of these modern roads will be financ- |ed by tolls. | INTERNATIONAL Al'FAIRb | | There are clear signs that the Arctic regions will be the scene of a series of interesting experiments allowing Peron to buy the British T C|A) Al Ffl in the next few years. The United} oods he wants. Although terms C d P i 1 Al State will have an inportant stake l"mve not been settled, pafmem for ros or uzz e : J 3 EE in the proceedings. ¥ i the Islands presumably would be in ACHCRS 5% Malaven dheksr I oS O[N] | Persons whose birthdate this is) the form of additional gold or' 1. Surety for ap- Iniquity Y L N are promised by the stars: A year sterling credits pearance in : l'::rioed ot EIN T ,ol.memal _and ..mlual growth and! The price also has not vet been| ok time S S oln |fair material gain os_ 680 has Bt Des 6. Monkeys d Hj i : mentioned. Actually, the Falklands 9. Pronoun Sodking xopmls ° Wi OlE| | (Copyright, 1946) ; . o rta 12. Cover the ck are not emnnn’ucall)y ; m\p\umx.\vl,‘ A . Frz‘:&‘s L IS S|E i % Guano for fertilizer h"fs been Bri- };‘; (I:‘olrlxcnd 44. Upright E N|C ments on putting off the Rio con- tain’s chief export during the 115 +iGollaction of e ;{{:’71;{1 E[R L|F| |clave which is supposed to draft years she has occupied them. Nev- ;5, f\m‘;— whale s sharpener P Al AlL| |a mutual defense treaty. The State‘ ¢ 16. Employer . Auricle ertheless, this tiny archipelago off = 1o RO haorad ) 3 ioR an E oP D|Eg| | Department suggested that it be, Argentina’s southern coast is a W fabric crackling A L|E E|E| | postponed until after Bogota, since| a orel . Insects sound H “ri ” i ssmbal and a perennial point in | jg. fREECES apart- 66, In £ood health s E[R NT Ithe rights of man” matter is al- British-Argentine relations. The ment house §9. Operate |ready on the agenda of the Mu- Yact that London, hitherto consid-| 2L Fen =~ 6. English Solution of Yesterday's Puzzle | ;3] Defense Conference. ering Argentina almost as part| zq Automotive ¢l Small wild ox 64. Sacred image DOWN The idea behind this is that Ar- gf the Empire, now takes Peron’s| ,. . fuel: collod. 82 ixist o 65. Cut down 1 Srr:iullglmmh or | gentina would thereby be forced threats seriously has particular sig- | 30. Turkish officer mouselike 66 Epic poem . f‘l:‘h A | to put its domestic house in order, unificance. It reflects British uneasi- | 81 Game of chance marsupial 67. Look after nEUR rlveel Ul it ol 3. Continual ness over that nation’s continued Min i second-place standing to the United Border States in Argentine trade. . Attitude —_— | . Paradise MINERS ED MEAT .gfigferull i ; West Virginia’s able Senator Smy"“ wivay Harley Kilgore recently held an S oty it | emergency conference with Presi- Di:;fills» dent Truman on a subject close to :Luffi:;;=' everyone's stomach—meat. In West Virginia, however, it is especially serious because the meat shortage ' has decreased coal miner efficiency. - Labor for br L Sthall West In- dian fish Senator Kilgore, who has been :\l}n‘:’tll;n orking on the problem for some WRnerating ime, even acted as a purchasing g:-:;la ‘ agent, and dug up two carloads of 8. Princely | Italian house . Store 5. otle . Leave immedl- | ately: slang . English canned salmon on the West Coast for sale to the miners, Kilgore told President Truman that he had already taken up the problem with Secretary of Agri- :-Tlxyneum culture Clinton Anderson and Re- . Resume . Be In store for . Snare . River mussel 85. Places 57, Aquatic bird conversion Director John Steelman, but neither had eny solution. The groceries in the coal areas simply democratic principles, before Peron could sign a military pact with the other twenty republics. Uru- guay and Venezuela have already indicated their gcceptance “in prin- ciple” of the State Department's; delay suggestion. (COPYRIGHT, BELL SYNDICATE, INC. 1946) - Listen KINY 7 p.m. Monday, Anita Garnick, Speaker. (332-t3) SEND YOUR ELGIN WATCH To a factory trained Elgin Specialist for repair. AIR MAIL SERVICE Reasonable—Reliable Since 1906 CHAS. R. OAKES 802 Joshua Green Bldg. Shore bhave not been able to get meat, i 20 YEARS AGO #%'s empire e e et et i} ALASKA JULY 27, 1926 et e e e e o bt r e WORDS OFTEN MISUSED ¥e GRAVITY; 0 Daily Lessons in English % 1. corpon i —— e co OF SY WORD STUDY: * increase our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. ffee?” Say, “Do you WANT (CARE FOR, or DESIRE) cream in ffee? ‘TEN MISPRONOUNCED: Vagrant. Pronounce t as in RAG NONYM seric SN MISSPELLED: Cantaloupe; Do not say, or cantaloup. Noise, clamor, cket din, uproar, pusness; importance; enormity. “The iation calls for action.” is to | feeeeee—— i MODERN ETIQUETTE e voe b A. When or No; !h]\ Should a “Dear Doctor”, or Neither is correct. { proper form being “Dear Dr Q. Where does one put salted nuts? On the t B e e is W cuse my glove"? phrase has long been oboslete. doctor be addressed in the “Dear Doctor Brown”? The word “doctor” Brown”. ablecloth. Jse a word three times and it is yours. Today’s word: 8! saluation of should be abbreviated, “Do you wish cream in S Femmer Transfer || Prompt Courteous Service | BONDED WAREHOUSE it “\‘ 0il-—General Hauling ravity of thy ring gloves and shakes hands with a person, | a letter LOOK and LEARN & - C. GORDO L Which seven Frovinces Floor Waxing Manitoba, the United | character, Hester | Floors of All Types Cleaned, Waxed and Polished by Electric Machine Daily Service On All Types of Janitor Work The Most Complete Janitor Service in Alaska Call 50... for LEW SCHAFFERT and leave your number 1 ) ) ) s i 3 as, s | |_Phone 204 920 W. 12th st. “The Store for Men" [ 9 | saBINS | | Front St—Triangle Bldg. ———d Ontario DR. E. H. KASER DENTIST BELOMGREN BUILDING Phone 56 HOURS: 9 A. M. to 5 P. M. The Erwin Feed Co. 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