The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 17, 1946, Page 4

PAGEFOUR i Daily Alaska Empire Published every evening except Sunday by the EMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY Second and Main Streets, Juneau, Alaska EELEN TROY MON: DOROTHY TROY LINGO - - WILLIAM R. CARTER - - = ELMER A. FRIEND ALFRED ZENGER - - - = Editor and Manager Business Manager Bntered in the Post Office in Juneau as Second Class Matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: = i ivered by carrier in Juneau and Douglas for $1.50 per month; ” six months, $8.00; one year, §15.00 Br mall, postage paid. at the following rates: One year. in advance, $15.00; six months, in advance, $7.60; | month, in advance, $1.50 e Bubacribers will confer @ favor if they will promptly notity the Business Office of any fallure or Irregularity in the delivery Office, 602; Business Office, 374. The Assoc ly entitled to the use for rapublication of all news dispatches credited to it or not other- #1se credited in this paper and also the local news published terein Fipes NATIONAL REPRESENTATIVES — Alaska Newspapers, 1411 fourth Avenue Bldg, Seattle, Wash GOVERNMENT SPENDING Government economists, raising their sights along with the price level and the wartime habit of lavish outlay, are roughing out a program for public eX-ip.,uhlican opposition. They don't even care too much | ment Board in working out mutual- | penditure to smooth out the fluctuations of the busi- ness cycle. On paper, their program of public works is something to make New Deal spending look distinctly second-rate. They are talking of a $400,000,000,000 program | This, however, should not frighten anyone, be- cause that would be spread over almost a generation. Their plan calls for an average annual outlay of - Prosident | ment to inefficient Vice-President | Maneging Editor & |should be brought out of the drafting room, and construction begun Some advance planning, however, is necessary Otherwise, we shall be driven in periods of unemploy- 'made work” which humiliates the o recruit and cheats the taxpa; Bob Hannegan (St. Louis Star-Times) There probably su will be an end to chit-chat gestions of the impending resignation of Bob Hannegan s Chairman of the Demoratic National Committee at | least until after the November elections—and perhaps. just for politness’ until after the Christmas | holidays. Not only has Mr. Hannegan himself said that he has no intention of quitting, but his tormentor in the Solid South have decided to stop their snipin: at least for this year. They have no hope of * forming” him, they admit, but for the time being they are putting the tomahawk on the shelf. However, they have no intention of leaving it there for more {than a few months. | Since Mr. Hannegan is the hardest working chair- yman to preside over the National Committee since | Jim Farley went into the soft drink busin it would scem that the Democrats ought to be only too glad to I have him arcund are all worked up about his liberal line. They have the notion that the way to beat the Republicans is to be even more conservative than Senator Taft and Governor Bricker. As a practical politician, Mr. Han- | negan does not see it that way. He feels that unless ! the Demuc can hold on to the liberal and labor votes which four times elected Franklin D. Roosevelt to the presidency, they have no chance in 1948 in 1946. Mr. Hannegan hasn't turned ideological; he's | Just looking around for the winning votes and he can't | find them any place except where Franklin D. Rocse- velt found them. | Of course, it's a little difficult for the Southerners to understand this. Below the Mason-Dixon Line they operate a ore-party system which is just about as sure- {fire as that of the Communists in Russia. The Bilbos, The trouble is that the Southerners | or even | THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE— JUNEAU, ALASKA * ’ = = | | = s (NAM VL | APPY IRMON N | . SEPTEMBER 17 . i Clara Beth Chason . . Lillian Uggen ° Steve Vukovich . Aleda Lee Warner . e Noreen P. Andrews . Louis Sorenson Ruth Johnson . May Nardell . Clifford Myers COMMERCE DEPT. WILL ESTABLISH ALASKAN OFFICE A field office of the Department | of Commerce will be established in | Alaska “at an early date” the| Alaska Development Board was no- tified tod by Secretary of Com- merce Henry A. Wallace. | “It is my feeling,” Secretary Wal-! lace wrote, “that the opening of a| field office of the Department of | Commerce would contribute much | toward the development of the Territory.” ! Carlton Field Operations Hayward, for the Depart-| 20 YEARS AGO Ti's empire 1926 SEPTEMBER 17, This was Channel Night at the Southeast Alaska Fair and residents of Douglas and Thane were to attend in large numbers. Fire destroyed the town of Kake, 21 dwellings were destroyed and many residents were left homeless. George A. Parks left for Ketchikan on official business. Gov Miss western. R. J. Sommers was Ketcnikan bound on the Northwestern Col. James G. Steese returned from the westward after an inspection { trip of several months to the interior and westward for the Alaska Road | Commission (e Daily Lessons in English %% 1. corbon L e S S G LU s L s e R WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “I see her every once ifi awhile.” Omit EVERY, or better still, say, “I sece her OCCASIONALLY (or NOW AND THEN)."” | OFT! MISPRONOUNCED: Swastika. Pronounce swas-ti-ka, first A as in AT, I as in IT, second A as in ASK unstressed, accent first | syllable. OFTEN MISSPELLED: Gov Observe the ER SYNONYMS: Expansion, tension, growth, WORD STUDY: “Use a word three times and it is yours.” increase our vocabulary by mastering one word each day rnor. and the OR. bad ones provident.”—Proverb. make men prodigal, | the Rankins and the Gossetts have never worried about |ment, is to Work With the Develop- | feeeooee s lif the Republicans win the Presidency and gain control |of the Congress. That would cost them a few chair- ‘nmn.shu)s. but in the Harding-Coolidge- Hoover days they got their postmasterships as usual and they prob- |ably would again | But it is different farther North where the demo- cratic two-party system really works. In almost all IUI the primaries held so far, the Republicans showed definite signs of new strength. In Missouri, for | ly satisfactory arrangements. | The Governor of Alaska and | Henry Clark, General Manager of the Alaska Development Board,| urged Commerce officials last spring | i{to open an Alaska office which would furnish advice and Depart- {ment services to small business.; Several weeks ago, George Sund-| $20,000,000,000. This is approximately 14 per cent of |example, they polled about 25000 votes more than|DO'g who has been appointed to the national income at current levels. Actually, there is nothing really new about this proposal. It sought to do in combating economic depression, and what the Roosevelt Administration adopted as its main weapon against unemployment and sagging prices. employment bill. Wisely planned, and intelligently applied, a pro- gram for large public works expenditure can be a wholesome stabilizing factor in our economy. We need more highways, more hospitals, more school buildings, more navigation and flood control works, more airports. These are all public enterprises. To them might be added subways in larger citie: eliminations. Most of them are projects which can be undertaken this year or next year, or five years from HOW. To plan ahead, and schedule such outlays in rela- tion to the trend of employment and prices is common sense. But the main point right now is that 1946 is pot the time for launching any such public works. Employment at a high level, prices are high, materials are scarce, and the trend is inflationary. In two years, or three or five, the picture may be different. We have extensive unemployment, an over- abundance of raw materials, and a falling price level. is is substantially what Herbert Hoover | It is the essence of the recently-enacted full | and grade crossing | jthey did in the last off-year primary. This means that while Senator Briggs polled 80,000 more votes | 1s not likely to have a walk-aw. On the basis of his | record and his speeches, he towers above his opponent, yet there is no assurance that this will be reflected |in the election returns. He will need—and should get all the support that the national organization can | muster In some other States, Democratic hopes are even | more precarious. If the Democrats want to win, they { wiil have to get down to grass-roots organizing and | campaigning. There is no getting away from it: Mr. Truman'’s natty double-breasted models simply do not have the kind of coat-tails which are good for a free | ride. Mr. Hannegan seems to be well aware of this, and japparently he has offended his boss by pointing out | to him that he can't possibly hope for a supporting Congress—let alone re-election—by driving away the | voters on whom his distinguished predecessor counted so heavily. It could be that this is not very gratifying to Mr. Truman's ego, but he had better not take out his disappointment on Mr. Hannegan, After all, the party chairman can't change facts. enough that the voters should expect the Democrats | to offer something other than conservative doctrine. If the people really want conservatism, they will take it from its old masters, the Republicans, instead of And, if one stops to think about it, it is natural | At that point, these accumulated public works projects The Washingfon 1 Merry-Go-Round (Continued from Page One) flung steel milz. Arbed operated | from Argentina to Brazil, but has headquarters in Luxembourg. Thus when Hitler came into power, Arbed | was all set for his munitions pro- gram. It went to town in a big vay | Arbed's head, appointed by the! Nazis, was Aloyse Meyer. He re- mains head to The American | charge d'atfaires, in Luxembourg, | George P. Waller, has sent a re-| port, top secret No. 279, to the| ry urging the unfreezing of Arbed’s funds and claiming Meyer! is not a Nazi Reai fact, however is that Meyer | was a district fuehrer for the entire steel industry in Luxembourg. Inj April 1945, one month before V-E| Day Meyer even refused an allied fnvestigalion team access to the| [tles of the international steel car-| tel. In January 1945, when everyone | knew Germany would be defeated | he pretended to exile himself irom | Germany. That is why Waller sup-| perts him. But here is the payoff: During his brief exile, the Nazis| continued to send him funds, so he| covldn't have been much of a Nazi enemy. In other words, it looks as if Meyer were one of the many plants the Nazis arranged in foreign coun- tries to ke in a position to recap-| ture their industry after the war was lost. It also looks as if certain naive gentlemen in high, unac- customed places in Washington' were all set to let them recapture it. STEELMAN “SWEET-TALK" Before announcing the new wage. increase lor maritime strikers, Sta- bilization Director John Steelman | called in the Wage Stabilization Board and told them what he plan- ned to do. He made it not sweet “I didn't ask you over here to argue about the issues of this dis- pute,” he said, even before the WSB officials had settled in their chairs. “If 1. wanted advice, we'd have to go all over this thing again, and we'd wind up where we started. “This maritime strike is costing the country millions of dollars a Jay. What is more, 1 have informa- tion that many other unions are ready to begin walkouts unless ;fiomebod_\ takes action, and that short but! w you. semebody is me, as Stabilization Di-! s pocket was picked of $200 the rector. o*her night near the Mayflower Ho- Steelman explained that AFL te), .Leguineche, lawyer-son carpenters were ready to announce of Basque sheepherders in the| a strike the following day unless the maritime dispute was ended; also Idaho hills, had a lengthy conver- sation in Spanish with Secretary of shipyard workers on the west coast. Commerce Henry Wallace, during In addition, Steelman said, 80,000 which Wallace surprised him by Iumber workers were prepared t0 showing some knowledge of the begin a walkout. | Basque language—considered one “Well, the case is in your hands,” ' c¢f the most difficult in the world replied WSB Chairman W. Willard | . political protege of Idaho's Wirtz. “We have taken the position'surprising young Senator Glen *ve thought best. If you disagree with us, it's up to you to change; it Taylor, the Basque Democratic can- didate was here to try to hypo the Agriculture Department into send- Steelman replied that the “only | ing more fertilizer to Idaho farm- course” left open to him was to!ers If TVA Chajrman David erse the WSB ruling and agreclhlhmnhal is finally appointed to with the maritime commission,; the Atomic which was ready to grant higher vnges. He explained that under the — ict language of a Truman exe cative order issued last February, higher pay could be approved with- out conflicting with the govern- ment's stabilization policies, pro-| viding the government operated! ACROSS 35. Pronoun less than half of the nation’s ship-| 1 Distant 22 Statite and providing also a majority| = & Astoynd 38. Firearm ping, and providing a a a)! y 9. Pronoun 39. Light bed of private ship operators agreed 0| 15 Rupber tree 40. Restrains pay the wage increases without si- 13. Drawing room 43. Note of the multaneously i o 14. Brightest star scale multaneously boosting rates. INio EonD. 44 Vertine | 15. Huge mythical ineral SN X bird 48. Throw iightly ADMIRAL ASKS FOR HELP [ ;¢ g iis o 50. Seed container Steelman said he had contacted peace 51. Ascended i s .. 11. Embrace 53. Masculine private ship opérators and the mar- 8. Helical curve name jme commission, and had been as-! Live coals 56. River: Spanish : Deep hole 57. Garments ured that both were willing to ab- Asiatic country 59. Ventilate . itions r . Hermit 60. Massachusetts orb the addmon:al labor costs. 38 Heather Ty What he didn't tell his visitors ' 31, Perform 61. Characteristic . e 4 32. Climbs 62. Old card was that he had just haq a long 8¢ &nd not game telephone conversation with Vice Admiral W. W. Smith, Chairman ot the Maritime Commission, in vhich Smith urged that Steelman the Stabilization Board. | accepting a Democratic “just as good” variety, thank | Energy Commission, a Washington | | succeed Clark, met in Department’s | |with the Commerce |matter further. ’ Several Commerce Department agencies, including the Civil Aero- nautics Administration, Weather Bureau, and the Bureau of the| Census and Coast and Geodetic “Sur\'ev. have been operating in Alas for many years, but num- lerous services of the Department ‘have never been extended to the [Territory before, owing to lack of | |a general field office here 1good bet for his TVA job is lame- | duck Senator Bob LaFollette—un-| | less Wisconsin Democrats e too | much fuss. Washington is still ; vaiting for Treasury Secretary John | Snyder to break down and say something real about the stock | market collapse. He refused to ans- {wer half a dozen questions on it at his press conference last week. ! Henry Morgenthau was criticized for hanging around FDR, but Treasury officials estimate Snyder averages four trips a day from 3‘15 e office across the street to | "Vhite House. . . .The Department «f Agriculture, which last sprifig started sending cotton to German textile mills, is planning to wool over soon. Payment is through exports of cloth from the German | mills to other countries, usually European. | (COPYRIGHT, BELL SYNDICATE, INC. 1946) | PSSR o o @ e v v o o @ . . ® TIDE TABLE . . . . SEPTEMBER 18 ° ® Low tide 0:57 am.,’ 1.0 ft. e ® High tide 7:17 am., 125 ft. o ® Low tide 12:55 pm. 52 ft. e ® High tide 19:06 p.m., ft. o e o © e 0 o 0 o Baby Beautiful. > bl | & <Imz|-{ggm > zimEmo> v rmopg®muozZ Ajum - >EnmIc umD 9| M 3 N 3 [ T R 3 (3 \ P E| Solution of Yesterday's Puzzie Ap[=r > A malvmr> o ERE DROEERD CRE m[x— vl v/oZMvm-[> 0> ZOmZEE™ Z > 0 > m [0} DOWN . Articles of apparel Lopsided teccipt Oriental . Kind of fertilizer . Malt beverage vpjlan deity aning 1. Pigpen overrule . Regions “Since the government is in the . Foes rity i o g v . Plotting | minority in this case, it is only . Period of time ‘air that private operators shouid; - RIRBIES of wog be allowed o fix toelr own vey) (N Y Obstruct scales,” Admiral Smith contended. /// 7 % ) Decrea “There’s no violation of the sta- 4 bilization program involved here, in my opinion. That's just a lot of . Wild buffalo noppycock.” e L However, Steelman didn't need . Posts Abandons any reassurances either from Smith | or from the private operators. He . Quick return thri bad decided that the seamen should | be awarded raises above the $17.50 approved by the WSB, and hel made no bones about asserting his feelings. o CAPITAL CHAFF Pete Leguineche, impressive young candidate for Congress from Boise, Idaho, still wants to come to Wash- | ington, despite the fact that his person Kind of lettuce Standards of perfection . Heavy breathe ng . Spirited horse Rus:! hemp . Brazilian moneys Tumultuous disorder . City in New York state Forbid s MODERN ETIQUETTE ¥operra LEk [EON Q. How should a servant bring in to the dinner is served in bulk? A. By holding the dish on the palm of the right hand, with folded napkin under the dish. slightly with the left hand Q. How should invitations to a christening be sent? A. Usually by informal notes or by telephone. that the winner in the Republican senatorial race, he | Alaska Committee to discuss the |invitations are used. Q. When giving a small luncheon or dinner, is it necessary to intro- duce all the guests? A. Yes, by all means do so. - [y | LOOK and TTOTE 1. What is the most important product of petroleum? 2. Of what organ are the cornea and retina parts? 3. In what industry is ambergris used? 4. What movie actress was once known America’s Sweetheart"? 5. What is an anthem? ANSWERS: 1. Gasoline. 2. The eye. 3. Perfume industry. 4. Mary Pickford. 5. 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