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

PAGE FOUR T m— : ; Daily Alaska Empire Published every evening except Sunday by the EMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY Second and Main Streets, June RELEN TROY MONSEN - - - . DOROTHY TROY LINGO - WILLIAM R. CARTER ELMER A_FRIEND i (WY T ALFRED ZENGER - - | lists. au, Alaska Praosident Vice-President ;01 to the benefit Editor + Managing na Business Mai Bntered in the Post Office in J sU Delivered by carrier in six months, $8.00; one year, By mail, postage paid. at.the foll One year, in advance, $15.00; six months, in advance, $7.50; ®me month, in advance, $1.50 Subscribers will confer a favor if they Ahe Business Office of any failure or irregularity in the delivery RIPTION RATES: ean and Douglas for $1.50 per month; | ond Class Matier. | gotjon as well $15.00 of course. | But the essential. owing rates: will promptly notify But the majority of Americans pay the bills—realize that many of the services of | government now can be reduced or dispensed with | In many instances such reductions will be | only of the national Treasury— they will give our lives greater freedom of thought and many i 7 ( government, to keep their boys and girls on the salary i those whose taxes | Essential government services must be maintained, Some of them even should be strengthened. | of which have grown with the New Deal and many of which are hangovers up af their papers. from war—those can be drastically trimmed. The e O A e o TR sooner this is done, the better for all of us. ! — - s otk T S MBER OF AS ATED PRESS | el - = | The Assoclated Press s exclusively entitled to the use for . E o | Fapublication of all news dispatches credited to it or not other- Who Holds the Purse Strings? ®se credited in this paper and also the local news published e in. | P TPTSET s E;J}XTT\;‘fl it Nevisabai Al "- (Cincinnati Enquirer) TIONAL REPRESEN VES — Alaska Newspapers, 1411 : h\u’NL: Avenue Bidg., Seattle, Wash The present financial status of a revived OPA | e T Ponrn should remind us all of a fact that often is overlooked: | The fact that under our system of government the Treasury An National sentatives of $75,000,000 of $142,000,000. | forthcoming | The only have been spent on their home gr citizens—from Ma ! Miami CUTTING THE PAY recently issued by t determining just ROLL operations will--as Congress, the millions, nerica’s remainder of if the OPA doe: between now and February, when th rounds, ine to California they should—pl: how much addit price control agency will receive. Such a he U. S. Budget system is a good one, leg has mc s a from 1y a ional of lative r allowed ney will pleasing big part money people, in the last analysis, handle the keys to the but an estimated OPA operating budget of the be job $75,000,000 will | | In the meanwhile members of Congress are back There many |remain for weeks—until after elections are over. |ing that period they will sample the feeling of the Seattle to The reactions of the voters to the new OPA in the them will Dur- | and deserves to be The order perpetuated. During the last 15 years we have for- Director—an order which will remove 104,400 workers | gotten too often that expenditures of government, as from the Federal executive department—will be wel- expenditures of homes or busin , should be con-! sidered carefully and from every possible point of p ¥ 2 ally by e .Ia and file of the » comed enthusiastically by the rank and file view. In the “emergency” of depression and in the American people. It is high time that the swollen war- |emergency of war, the rank and file of American time government pay rolls are drastically cut While 100,000 seems a high figure, comparatively it isn’'t as great as it might appear. tion has been completed, Uncle Sa 2,262,300 individuals on his employment sheets. forthcoming cut will remove but one out of each 25 now | drawing Federal salaries. Government employment figures the first Roosevelt administration. As New Deal plans and programs were rushed through Congress, more and more names were added to the already bloated pay- roll lists. When the war came, th persons entered government work. Easy as it has been to expand pay rolls, it is not easy to reduce then operate to block such economies. political connections “back home,” a tions bring all sorts of pressures to bear on Congress- men, Senators, and higher-ups in The Washington Merry-Go-Round (Continued from Page One) say the least, about taking out na- turalization papers. Many of the men and women holding Federal jobs have some sort of call the time. After this reduc- m still will have The necessary skyrocketed with support. But the ousands of addi- the primary the Washington m. Several forces | S i people nd these connec- departments of the tooth and the abscess but it is quite constructive to the patient. DEMOCRATS DISINTEGRATING That the present Democrat Ad-' ministration is an abscess on the body politic is proved by many evidences of its disintegration and decay There is the case of Represenia- land Average American actually wants econon their wants known to their legislative representatives only if Mr. Perhaps in perioas of great stress such action Certainly during the war it ‘been impractical—and dangerous—to have hampered | military programs by delaying or withholding financial slowly returning to normal. And with the change we should witness a desire on |the part of the public to again accept responsibility | | for the national exchequer tional jobs were opened—and thousands of nrldmonall would But it wi and Mr: | citizens have been willing to let official Washington We have, for the most part, indicated to our Congressional representatives approval of huge Federal expenditures; a willingness to place responsi-| bility for the spending of such appropriations almost entirely in the hands of a few officials, But we cannot place | responsibility for extravagance on their As we said at the beginning of this editorial, | to our National Treasury é If the people demand economy and sensible spending, such a program can be enforced be effected—it can be effected re held by the 11 | have | talk as we please about the extravagance | or Federal officials. out soon after the new Republican Congress assembl 1947, es in (COPYRIGHT, BELL SYNDICATE, INC. 1946) - John F. Pyle llI Is Celebrating and make | January, | The foregoing observations are based upon information acquired tve May of Kentucky, chm(’”‘“ by and thrust upon today's guest| Chairman of the powerful House E 2 O conductor of this column during a Committee on Military Affairs, in-| J"’l“;“" ]p-“ll‘a ”‘“‘-* “1;‘1’“““& tdn i shi volving indications of the misuse of IS Iifth birthday this afternoon series of trips which have taken after Kindergarten class at the him into almost every corner of the United States during the past four months. A concise summary of these observations is that the people of the United States have determined to get the present gov- ernment of the United States out of their collective hair. On the basis of that appraisal ol’ the determined objective of thej people, here, in the language of| the normal proprietor of this col-| umn, is a “prediction of things to come,” namely: | REPUBLICANS The American people, for two political influence in the award of war contracts and misuse of public funds—plus evidence that ammuni- tion supplied to American forces abroad was defective and caused needless sacrifices of American lives during the Battle of the Bulge. There is the case of Democrat Representative Coffee of Washing- ton State who admits receipt of $2,500 from a successful bidder for| a war contract and who insists the $2,500 was a campaign contribution | and not a payment for services rendered although it was reported | nor as income. home of his parents, Dr. and Mrs. J. F. Pyle Fumes young will be ter, Roge vick, Karen pla guests which include: Meek, Katherine Orme, Billy Car- Grummett, Werner, jed by Ann Stevie Ake say and Margaret Ann Pyle. FISH LANDINGS Only sizable 1ish landing today at| B.. kipper Axel|George CONSTRUCTIVE heither as a campaign contribution | Neilson, from Taku River with 22,-) | 000 pounds of gill net salmon for| the No. Cold Storage 6 Power Scc wa oW, s the the | Judy | |in Ram- | | | boat, | Bill | Berg, | . . . SEPTEMBER 6 . . William Geddes ° ° Dareen Heinke . ° Billy Orme . . Mrs, Clyde White ° L Rollie Whallie . . Rose Snyder . . Mrs. Etta Post . D. McGibbon . Jennie Jenner . John F. Pyle, III . e e e e o ve e o0 0o B B. E. “Bill erro, of Juneau Plumbing and Heating Company, is the new owner of a 1947 Chris Craft. The Super Deluxe 27 foot cruiser arrived on the Square Sin- net this week for Cowling Motor Company. It is powered by a 115 herse Chrysler, and should do about 20 knots. Ed Gilkey, business agent of the Hotel and Restaurant employe and night chef the Hotel Bar- anof for two years, has been fish- ing this summer on his troller Etta, No. 31-C-288. Gilkey has put in a new Chrysler engine, and the boat is ready to go at float Number 4 in the small boat harbor. It's a deep water craft, and he has been fishing at outside grounds all summer. John Penttila's troller 31-D-154 has been on the small boat harbor grid recently having a new Ker- mith 95 horse Sea Prince engine installed. Penttila bought it from Cowling Motor Company. Also in- alled was a new screw, and other repairs have been made. rom Carl Westby's sunk and raised again last week being given a complete overhaul at the Juneau Welding and Machine shop The engine which W is Juneau Welding has been making repairs on the carburator of the engine in the Phyllis H. She be- to the Benedicts of Sitka. Chris Berkland’s boat, the 31-A- 699 has been undergoing a motor check this week as well, at the same shop. TWO SECTIONS ARE FLOWN WEST BY PNA Pacific Nerthern Airlines arriv- ed here yesterday with two sections from Anchorage. Returning to Anchorage on the section flown by Captain Maury Keating, First Officer Joe Burns and Stewardess Mickey We Kenneth Jones, Marvin Stov- er, Don Shote, A. C. Kuehl, Don Foster, George Dale, O. O. Torry, Mrs. O. O. Torry, Gov. E. Gruen- Louise Davis, William E. Dodd, M William E. Dodd, Howard Strehe, Jack Leppenberg, James Robbinett. From Anchorage: Dolphin, Jim Charles Wilson, Del Van Curler, auch, Matty Springer, John A. Ny- man, C. M. McDonald, James Lott, Walton, Gilbert Powers, Laudy Selle Powers. Returning to the Westward with were M. Kazineroff, Davis, Peter Arnold Da- Mary Weir- principal reasons, will elect a Re-| There is the case of Democrat|ScPastian-Stuart. |Captain Claude Ferguson, —First publican Congress in November. | Representative Curley of Massa-! 7 = %, R Officer John McCracken, and 1. Because they have come to chusetts under conviction by a Fed-| M LANE ROFF Stewardess Helen Roth were: . B. realize that the Republican Party eral court but nevertheless elected| TEACHER OF PIANO Livengood, Inez Thompson, Grace | Beginners preferred. Phone Red Kanouse, Hulva Nelson, and Joan offers a constructive and practical program for getting the govern-| ment out of the people’s hair and)| Mayor of Boston by the politi machine of which he is the bos: } There are the formal and public! 57 (adv.) Nelson. Republican members of Congress assertions of Comptroller General by their recorded votes as well as Warren, a lifelong Democrat and by their public declarations during former Democrat member of the the past two years have proved! House, to the effect that billions, that this program will be written|of dcllars of public funds were; ACROSS 30. Svm':lnl units into law as soon as a Republican| wasted during the war because of § Nourished oS majority takes control of Congress.!the Administration’s slipshod mcm-‘. 9. Decompose Factory 2. Because the present Democrat!ods of handling war contracts. e e Administration (which is anything 13. Habitat but Democratic) has proved its PEOPLE ROBBED | 14 Preceding Mix cireul utter inability unwillingness to| | 15. Eccentric word maintain an orderly, prosperous and| And finally there is the public i 40. Small free economy at home or a respect- announcement of the Pendergast 16. ed position of the United States PAC Machine alliance formed un-| ;g ppy sbroad i der the public sponsorship of Pre: 18. Causing . Common= The Republican program for the ident Truman himself to “Purge” sy amoiiveness ¢5. Tells tales restoration of an American system Democrat Representative Roger 22. Musical 48. Feline animal of representative republican govern- | Slaughter of Missouri who had re-' o5 it o " ment in the United States has been fused to follow the Truman-PAC 24 (‘nrd’x described adequately by public de-' party line in Congres: 3. Jungied hes- clarations of Republican spokes-| By lending the prestige of his 29 Ascend men and implemented by Republi- can votes in Congress. All citizens -PAC Mr, high office to the Penderg alliance against Mr. Slaughter, who are sincerely interested in'Truman confirmed asserti re- knowing the details of that pro- peatedly made by Republican gram have had ample opportunity spokesmen to the effect that the to learn them—and they will have additional opportunities as the cam- paign progresses toward a decision choice presented to the voters this year is a Republican Congress on the cne hand and a Congress con- in. November. | trolled by the PAC on the other. In this connection, mention For that clarification of the issue should be made of the Administra- the nation owes thanks to Mr. Tru- tion propaganda line to the effect man. that the Republican program is ne-| Meanwhile it may be taken for gative and destructive rather than granted that the evidences of in- positive and constructive. (Accord- | efficiency, extravagance and pos- Solution of Yesterday's Puzzle Winged ireek island Black liquid t . Channel from shore inland DOWN ountenance ind of cheese or Surfeited with enjoyment ing to latest official figures there sitle corruption revealed so far in Belonging to are more than 40,000 Administra-' the cases listed constitute only nn e Il”;?‘; ages tion press agents on the Federal 2 peephole view of what will be Se ],‘m"'l at payroll and some of them are skill- exposed to the pitiless light of day ed craftsmen and, probably, they when Republicans take control of have been able to deceive some the investigating committees of gullible citizens who do not realize Congress that their own taxes are being spent to deceive them). It should The people are entitled to know who robbed them, how and of how . Loc Improve ew loosely be remarked, however, that when | much, and they should know before a dentist pulls an abscessed tooth|the Statute of Limitations expires the operation may be destructive to,in any more cases. They will find THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE— JUNEAU, ALASKA 20 YEARS AGO %% emrire R e | SEPTEMBER 6, 1926 Lester D. Henderson, Territorial Commissioner of Education, returned ! from Ketchikan where he had been attending the Teachers’ Institute. | - Joe Reidi returned with a hunting party he had taken out aboard his City of Rome and three deer were aboard. The hunters were Ray McCormick, Arne Shudshift, H. Bartolini and Lawrence Carlson., Teachers of Douglas were given a public reception this night. welcoming talk was made by School Board Clerk L. W. Kilburn, Dan Nconan, who had managed Twin Glacier Camp during the sum- mer, left for the south Caroline Todd was to open her piano studio in the Zynda Hotel vere making the round trip | | £ ; Mrs. Frank Metcalf and daughter Mary to Sitka on the Admiral Rogers. clear Weather report: High, 69; low, 6 ; Daily Lessons in English % 1. | { GORDON i | WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, | | Say, “Be SURE TO take > of yourself.” { OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Caffeine (stimulant found in coffee) kaf-e-in, A as in CALF, E as in HE, I as in IN, accent first “Be sure and take care of yourself.” { Pronounce yllable. OFTEN MISSPELLED: Lean (thin). Lien (a legal claim) | | SYNONYMS: Scion, heir, offspring, descendant | WORD STUDY: “Use a word three times a it is yours.” Let us { increase our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. 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Under which President was Alexander Hamilton the Secretary of the Treasury? | 4. What bird is the largest and most numerous ¢f American thrushes? 5. What famous English navigator discovered the Hawiian Islands? ANSWERS: 1. More than 1,000. 2. Copper. 3. George Washington. 4. Robin. 5. Captain James Cook (1728-79). SMITH HEATING and APPLIANCE CO. : FORMERLY SMITH OIL BURNER SERVICE 0il Burners — Plumbing — Heating NIGHT PHONE—BLACK 791 DAY PHONE-—476 CONCRETE For Every Purpose JUST PHONE 182— or —939-2 long, 2 short AND DELIVERY WILL BEGIN WITHIN A FEW MINUTES * : Juneau Ready-Mix Concrete, Ine. e e . S. J. TONER | as a paid-up subscriber 0o 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: | “MAMA LOVES PAPA" Feaeral Tax—12c per Persos PHONE 14—THE ROYAL BLUE CAB C0. and an insured cab WILL CALL FOR YOU and RETURN YOU to yeur home with our compliments. 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