The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 31, 1946, Page 4

PAGEFOLR ~ Daily Alaska E m plrc evening except Sunday by the £ PRINTING COMPANY Second and Main Streets, Juneau, Alaska P\.mmmc ever: EMPI HELEN TROY MONSEN - - - - Mr. Truman'’s DOROTHY TROY LINGO - - - Vice- SibTH Avoe BOTaAM R CARTER _ = = = ‘ditor and Manager |SiDIE exception. of ELMER A. FRIEND - . - Manasing Editor | Despite in ed ALFRED ZENGER - - - - Business Manager Entered in the Post Office in Janeau as Second Class Matter, SUBSCRIPTION RATES: jer 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 3 their papers. Telephones Delivered by ca President. hop | may be no deficit | will feel the effect holder, nis optimis Oftice, 374. News Office, 602; Busines MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not other- vise credited in this paper and also the local news published terein stressing strict eco! and warning agais is on the right tra Alaska Newspapers, that budgets shou in good times. I pression. And if tk boom will approval to the Pr |a reduction in the claim made on the This means a NATIONAL REPRESENTATIVES s, 1411 fourth Avenue Bldz, Seattle, Wash a months under on price the President advo public works which are not imm | The necessity home to the ! them the most opel dollars. Under inflation FREE I | were sacrificed to count their to pay needless: | especially if this m Ecuador out for new The Department of Public Lands The Republic of is going settlers in a big way for that South American nation has issued and dis- tributed an appealing announcement, 000 | acres of rich and productive but uncleared land to North American British Each may secure 50 hectares (100 acres) free except a offering 125, the allocation of | —almost $4,000,000, of the year’ figure represents if veterans' benefil | haif of This is a fact and settlers. settler for a modest commission-transfer charge. Settlers will be allowed to bring in personal effects | and agricultural implements free of customs charges. |BI€sS and the tax Elevation of the land is 600 feet. Average temperature | eriously. 5 72 to 88 degrees F. The location is 125 miles from ' DUt such Quito, capital cm with road connections. A good Ithese day With many other enticing facts are noted. | the regular While we don't expect a rush for the land in |ductions in Social Ecuador, we point out that the land is being thrown open to development with little réd tape in evidence and the announcement is inviting. Compare this with | the trouble one has in securing land in Alaska. |other expenditures | the Treasury, there One the gradual lighter PL \‘\'V G COMMISSION The Government’s Plan for Spending (St pay and other war a deficit of $1,900,000,000 at the end of the fis |instead of $4,500,000,000 that continue policy which will pay ahead sinc upplied market and thus help to keep a chec programs generals and admirals. the | defeat into actual victory, normal businesslike methods The Army and Navy must again learn dollars. the shadow of obsol The outstanding fact expenditures for It is well and good to talk about economy talk cannot clear understanding of where the. tax dollar departments, and Saving | Louis Star-Times) budget estimates are—with the pos- the military items satisfactory expenditures—largely for termi -connected expenses—they indi 1 ye: s expected in January. The in view of rising revenues, therc at all. However, since governmer of rising prices just like any house m on this score had better be t with crossed fingers. In providing for a reduction of the national debt nomy in all government operations t premature tax cuts, the President ck. Even the most ardent devotees of compensatory Federal spending in bad times agree ld be balanced and debts reduced n prosperity one prepares for de- rere are any who believe the present indefinitely, they too must esidential program, if only because debt will mean a reduction in the national income by interest charges continuation of present tax rate an added dividends in th will drain off money from an give e it In line with this general policy ates the postponement of Fede and all other expenditures nediately necessary for economy also must be brought The war made n-handed spenders of the taxpayers’ pressure of turning threatened The country cannot afford ly extravagant price for defense eans investment in equipment under lecence. in the itemized budget $18,500,000,000 for national defense 000 more than the January estimate this purpose. This half of the total budget included, it runs well above almost ts are all Federal outlays which the administration, the Con payers must contemplate long and be effective unless there is is going | little chance for further cuts in and even less hope for re- 1 Security payments, international |finance charges, agricultural benefits, tax refunds and to which Congress has committed | e really are only two major oppor- tunities for economies. | s in the Teduction of the national debt and burden; the other 1ng of its inte: is in a careful reappraisal of our unprecedented peace- time military expenditures. It will be a long, lonz We hope the City Council will see fit to adopt the | time before these can be cut back to prewar levels. resolution offered by the Juneau Chamber of Com- |Indeed, that may be too much to hope for. Never- theless, $18,500,000,000 is an enormous lot of money. merce, calling for a planning commission to be estab- lished. It will mean a continuity in carrying out long range programs in spite of changing administrations although such a commission would act as an advisory body. At any rate, the City Fathers can do no harm by trying it out. the next Congress out scrutiny, such make a mackery the United States will get for this expenditure economy, budget-balancing and debt It would be a good idea for the administration and | to find out in more detail just what With- national defense expenditures could had to have steel. And it has steel. | Fontana is operating tod: still | bearing the tremendous burden of | wartime evaluation. It is producing | at as low an operating cost as any plant in the nation. It will continue | to produce steel, because steel| should be made in the west. I can’t tell you how all its problems are going to be met. I only know that| they will be met as they arise, and that the destiny of the West isn't to be sold short because there's trouble. Fontana cannot make its full contribution to the West when!| it is competitively throttled by the! Great Steel Corporation buying the; Government-owned Geneva steel plant at twenty cents on the dol- The Washingfon Merry-Go-Round (Continued from Pfl(/c One) to take over. Tomorrow there will be no church because we have turned our faces from Christianity.( And worst of all—tomorrow there will be war.” I do not believe a word of it. It is like saying we've suddenly decid- ed to become sheep, not men. If I were to believe what I hear, there would be no people in this world any more. There would be only labels—an endless, insulting . 3 array of labels. In the last few|lar ant Fontana being forced to years, my friends, the men with|Pa¥y the Government one-hundred Whom I work, my competitors, mhcms on the dollar of its war cost the millions of our country and the |Fontana now is a gateway releasing world have supposedly sacrificed | Some of the great potential econ- their identity and become liberals| OMmic strength of our western Luun-‘ i try. It couldn't be done but it's or reactionaries, Communists or Fascists, labor or management, Dewb““" done. | mocrats or Republicans, dark-skin-{ I have never had so much fun| ned or white, and I do not like it.! with anything as I have been hav-| —_— |ing with the automobile business. CONFUSED THINKING | They said we couldnt do it. But 1 wonder if were not guilty U[‘shuv\ windows all over the country | the most confused thinking the;are giving the answer to those who world has ever seen. It is high time ' said we couldnt do it. The most, we were realizing that we are still | friendly of critics said it would take | men, not labels, capable of setting|Us @ year to turn our first cars; goals and achieving them; willing | off the assembly line. We did it in| to fight for the things in which we Seven months. They said we| believe—not with treatherous wea- | couldn’t get any steel to make the pons, but with the vitality of our|C¢ars. We got some. Not enough, own beliefs and the strength of our it’s true. They said we couldn't get| purpose a staff together. But we did. Th(‘y! Not long ago we contacted the said the cars wouldn't run. The‘ steel industrialists of the East in a!cars run. They said the car would search for sheet steel. In the pro- be a crackpot job. They now know | cess we got irritated and we think that it's the most practical and| they did, too. We wanted sheet| medern car being made anywhere. steel to build automobiles. They = | said they couldn’t give it to us.. NEW CARS COMING We thought we knew why. We Naturally, you readers of the didn't like the reasons. But they Merry-Go-Round like to get the! didn't call us Anarchists and we pe and get it first. There is an| didn't call them Fascists. Maybe ample precedent for this made we thought they believed in Prin-|through the years by the conductor ces of Privilege. They didn't give of this pillar of information. So us the sheet steel we wanted; we I'll let you know that our Willow get it another way. Our production Run assembly line is moving; cars is continuing on its way Without are now being shipped to our deal- the world falling about our ears. ers. From hundreds each month to! Trouble is only opportunity in thousands. Next year by the tens work clothes. Take an example of thousands from our own experience. The West| Of course, it's going to be tough. has always needed a steel industry. It always has been tough. It was In 1942 we built Fontana Steel tough in those critical days of the Mill, in the face of obstacles which, war, but we made it. And now our in terms of tomorrow, couldn't be goals are not the goals of death overcome. But it was bullt for war and destruction, but production for production with the money we were a world in which we can all have forced to borrow because no one our proper share of responsibility else would build it. When the war and reward. ended, the West needed the con-| If there has been an tinued operation of that mill. We ishness in certain quarters in our were told Fontana was hopeless— nation, that must come out and a steel industry in California would 'the people must know. If there has be a “dead duck.” Competitively it been a callous disregard for the couldn't be done. We couldn’t con- good of all our people, we must tinue to operate. Our fixed charges search it out. But those are things| would eat us up. which no man of integrity need fear. Those are the steps of a great WEST NEEDS STEEL people—clearing the path for an Close down? Hardly. The West|unlimited future. Those are the | evil self- diy of the most strenuous efforts for reduction things it is good to talk to you about in Drew Pearson's column while he is on vacation. Those are | things which help us remember | Drew’s slogan: To work, fight, give, to make Democracy live. (CGP\RI(A{T, BELL SYNDICATE, INC. l946) S .- ALASKA POTTERS TO HAVE| DEMONSTRATION HERE ON| 'MOLD MAKING TUESDAY The regular monthly mee :ng of the Alaska Potters will be held on Tuesday evening in their club- rocms in the basement of the A-B Hall. . Mrs. Katherine Hagmeier will give demonstration in making and using plaster of paris molds which should be of interest to every jmember. All members are urged to be pres- ent and to take any pieces of their work ready for biscuit firing o Gardner, detc practiced law for tive Erle ‘*L\nl(‘ story writer, | vears. ACROSS 35. Pretentious 1. Medieval 37, Thoroughfare: playing abbr, cards 39. Simple. 7. Not involvine Periods of tim morality . Son of Isaac (3. Chemical vessel 14. Dog (5. Table linen “Uwitehing 6" diountain 62. Preposition s 3. Nothing 12. Exist . Symbol for 18. Reject samarium disdalnfully §5. Football team 20. Manuscript: 58, Small bird abbr. 61. Become less 21. Obtained severe 23. Uncanny 62. Large tropical 24, Female deer lizard 5. Kind of cheese 3. Commences 27. Bir‘l‘hbli\c‘! of . 64 Pattern cethoven 28, Declamatory Dowh ‘musical 1 Brilliantly Dassage colored bird 14 Plural ending 2. Stylish THE DAILY ALASKA l-_MPIRh«~ JUNEAU, ALASKA AUGUST 31 Raymond Hegsted % 0000500 c00000000000e00 e FALL INTO WATER! LOOK OUT FOR THAT WATCHHERE'S DOPE interior 20 YEARS AGO 7ifg EMPIRE ——————d AUGUST 31, veteran Seattle 1926 Thomas H. Burman, fur buyer, returning of Alaska, the Yukon Valley than during the past 20 years. Weather report: High, 58; low, 58. o e e e i Daily Lessons in English % 1. corpon %. L e WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not “I never from the reported that the fox and mink were more plentiful Eileen MacSpadden 7 D(V:mi P;:.“S“'m Harry B. Wilkinson, now in the office of the United States En- suglas Wa Jos. Hetels cers, in Washington, D, C., and for several years connected with the | Alaska Railroad, arrived in Juneau returning south on the Prince: SEPTEMBER 1 Louise chmidt . b Glenward Kirkham e From June 1 to August 31, a total of 5435 visitors registered in the Pegues Alaska Museum, an increase of 510 over the same three months in 1925 Dean R. Johnson ® | announced the Rev. A. P. Kashevaroff, Curator. Harry J, Hansen o : bR 2| Hamy L Lucas returned on the Alaska after a business trip tc Curtis Redney Bach i} Petersbury Jefferson Taylor o) Mrs. Jessie McCormick . Mrs. R. J. Sommers, who has been spending the summer in the East Alice Spaulding o | returned to Juneau on the Alaska Mrs. Rae Hitchcock . g Aimie Ferguson . Mrs. W. J. Leivers and Mrs. Nina McConnell, sisters of Miss Tecla | Madge Leslie ® ' jergensen, who will be married tomorrow evening to Leslie White, | N cd on the Alaska to attend the wedding. saw him yester- | day.” Say, “I DID NOT SEE him yesterday. It seems strange, but when the] OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Horrid. Pronounce the O as in OF, nice weather comes our way, many | not as in OR people fall into the bay! | OFTEN MISSPELLED: Opulence; one P. Opponent; two P’s. That may not make asnee ‘o “11]- SYNONYMS: Warden, watchman, guardian, gatekeeper, custodian. but to Ludwig Nelson; local Jewsl: WORD STUDY: “Use a word three times and it is yours” Let us| er, it does. 1Its very simply ex- i : | plained by the fact that nice increase our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Today's word weather keeps the sportsmen busy; and when people are busy with out- {pairs are impossible in most cz Because of this fact, Mr. Nelson has provided some rules on “What To Do Until the Jeweler Comes.”, In all events, the watch should never be allowsd to dry with the salt water in it, as that make: saving the watch almost impossible the he | 1f the owner is unable to get watch to a jeweler immediate should first open it. Next the watch should be rinsed in some fresh water. Upon removing it from |the fresh water, it is desirable to iplace it in a can of kerosene Ithat is available. However, the im- portant item is to keep the air from the watch. Nelson is hoping that the above instructions will prevent additional grief for both watch owners and | watch u’pdnmvn JUNEAU WOMAN’S REMOTENESS country was comforting.” L e e e distance; seclusion. “The remoteness of and the Q. guest is not interested in family if invited? A When visiting a family that attends church regularly, any church, Yes; Is it permissible to do. stretch it is the courteous thing to yawn or while in the presence of ; it is very impolite to do so, 1. How fast do some of the cirrus clouds travel across the 2. Which bird is the greatest enemy of the mouse? 3. Which is the largest city in Ohic? 4. For what purpose is a pulmotor used? 5. What is a newspaper’s chief source of revenue? ANSWERS 2; miles an hour. 2. The owl 3. Cleveland 4. To restore respiration artificially. 5. The sale of their advertising space. this lonely ings, more accidents occur in_which watches are ruined by water. The most common of those accidents MODERN E'”OUE'” seems to be falling into th2 ocean ROBFRTA LEE |with the timepiece on while fish- ing, boating lv‘{ otherwise lM""”’N”,—N"""' SRR 2 7P R g During the summer months, Q. What should a girl take into consideration when selecting a Jeweler Nelson has been wringing gift for a man? + his hands in despair because of A. The principal thing to consider when selecting a gift for anyone the numerous watches brought in'js to choose something that this one likes, and not something that you for repair on this account. Since jjke The man may prefer a $5 pipe to a $50 watch salt water is fatal to watches, re- should this guest attend with the | CLUB MEETING 1S WEDNESDAY NOON Th2 Juneau Woman's Club will hold the first meeting of the com- ing season at 12 o'clock noon next| > | Wednesday, September 4, at the Baranof Hotel, and all members are requested to attend. It is urged that reservations for members and their guests be made inot later than Tuesday evening b; phoning either 299 or Red 483. DU age of 41 tons of steel construction of one two-lane con- An aver is used in the mile of standard crete highway. Solution or Yevterday's Puzzle 3. Rupert: abbr. 7. So. American i Poem monkey shutse 8. French river ng 9. Numbe cathedrul 10. Slowin passage musical abbr Windfl Dimini. Plece of armor for the thigh Perform Measures of distance Feminine name, Hindu eymbals Form Anger Moving wagon Direction Lifting n peninsula 3. Article Concerning Colors Exclamation i Bright Funeral oration . Old musical note . Old word for the season of spring Genus of the ,house mouse SMITH HEATING and APPLIANCE CO. FORMERLY SMITH OIL BURNER SERVICE 0il Burners — Plumbing — Heating DAY PHONE-—476 NIGHT PHONE—BLACK 791 SATU DR.E. H.KASER ||| The CharlesW. Carter RDAY, AUGUST 31, 1946 DENTIST BLOMGREN BUILDING Mor'uary Phone 56 PFourth and Franklin Sts. HOURS: 9 A. M. to 5 P. M. PHONE 136 The Erwin Feed Co. Office in Case Lot Grocery PHONE 704 HAY, GRAIN, COAL and STORAGE CALIFORNIA Grocery and Meat Market 478 -— PHONES — 371 High Quality Foods at Moderate Prices Card Beverage Co. Wholesale 805 10th St PHONE 216—DAY or NIGHT for MIXERS or SODA POP y VANITY BEAUTY SALON Cooper Building I ELSIE HILDRETH, Manager Open Evenings Phone 318 METCALFE SHEET METAL Heating—Airconditioning—Boat Tanks and Stacks—Everything |- | in SHEET METAL { i Phone 711 90 Willoughby Ave. | © | "The Rexall Store” Your Reliable Pharmacists BUTLER-MAURO || DRUG CO. Jones-Stevens Shop LADIES’—MISSES' READY-TO-WEAR Seward Street Near Third Femmer Transfer Prompt Courteous Service BONDED WAREHOUSE Oil—General Hauling Phone 114 Triangle Square Alaska Music Supply HARRY BACE .|} ° Arihur M. Uggen, Manager Druggisi “The Squibb Store” Where Pharmacy Is a Profession Pianos—Musica) Instruments and Supplicr Phone 206 Second and Seward — HEINKE GENERAL REPAIR SHOP Welding, Plumbing, Oil Burner Blacksmith Work GENERAL REPAIR WORK Phone 204 929 W. 12th St. 20TH CENTURY MEAT MARKET 1 Juneau's Most Popular “Meating” Place ONLY THE BEST OF MEATS | . PHONE 202 . “The Store for Men" ABIN°S Front St—Triangle Bldg. F YOUR 107 Cherry St. AT M Seattle 4, Wash Warfield's Drug Store (Formerly Guy L. Smith Drugs) NYAL Family Remedies HORLUCK’S DANISH ICE CREAM WallF;;aper IDEAL PAINT SHOP Phone 549 Fred W. Wendt GLACIER ICE CO. Regular Ilome Deliveries MONTHLY RATES Phone 114 The Alaskan Hotel Newly Renovated Rooms at Reasonable Rates PHONE SINGLE O HUTCHINGS ECONOMY MARKET Choice Meats At All Times Located in George Bros. Store PHONES 553—92—85 €) B.P.0.ELKS Meets every second and fourth Wedndscay at 8 pm. Visiting brothers welcome. E. C. REY- NOLDS, Exalted Ruler. W. H, BIGGS, Secretary. JUNEAU UPHOLSTERY CO. RE-UPHOLSTERING NEW FURNITURE 122 2nd St. 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, Worshipful Master; JAMES W. LEIVERS, Secretary. Phene 36 ALASKA ELECTRONICS| CONCRETE For Every Purpose JUST PHONE 182~ or —033-2 long, 2 short AND DELIVERY WILL BEGIN WITHIN A FEW MINUTES * Juneau Ready-Mix Conerete, Inc. Sales and Service Expert radio repair withoat delay: Silver Bow Lodge No. A 2, LO.OF,, Meets each Tues- day at 8:00 P. M,, 1. O, O. F. HALL.| | o 217'Bewardl & Visiting Brothers Welcome ke P::ON'E 8 i ] FLOYD HORTON, Noble Grand H. V. CALLOW, Secretary % i Everything ) Sporting Goods SPORT CENTER ELLIS AIR LINES DAILY TRIPS JUNEAU T0 KETCHIKAN | via Petersburg and Wrangell With connections to Craig, Klawock, Hydaburg and steamers for Prince Rupert. Vancouver, and Seattle FOR RESERVATIONS PHONE 612 — A COMPLETE JANITORIAL SERVICE WINDOW AND RUG CLEAN Floors of all types cleaned, waxed and polished by electnc machine DAILY SERVICE ON ALL TYPES OF JANITOR WORK CALL 50—Lew Schaffert and leave your number HARRY SCOTT as a paid-up subscriber to THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE is invited to be our guest THIS EVENING. 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