The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 19, 1946, Page 4

PAGE FOUR More Noise than Sense (New York Sun) In attacking Secretary of Agriculture as a “mouthpiece for profiteers,” because he into account the incentive motive in fixing meat on the hoof, the Cost of Living Committee of the CIO is making nc not maki Unless it is worth scmebody's while to raise beef and hogs O RIPTION RATES, it will not be before there will be no ste Delivered by carrier in Junean and Douglas fo :0 per month: | chops on the tables of any of us. If the official price six months, $580; en ¥eal, S is so low, it does not vield to the producer a reason- L B b o atne. i advance, $7.50: | able profit, he will take an unreasonable profit {rom & : some black marketeer who will pass the meat alor at a price only the privileged few will be abel to pa CIO representatives must know as well as Secre- - * tary Ander: and the rest of us that the livestock ceilings of June 30 were nct bringing animals into the stockyards. Prices then did not yield sufficient margin over farm costs almost all of which, those for feed, for labor, for equipment, have shot upward not by any t of Providence but by government edict imr . |primarily to meet demands for higher wages. farmers feel that they owe much to organized labor CIO might also consider that criticism of the inccntive motive comes rather poorly from those who work persistently to increasc incentives held out to their own followers : A ; g Daily Alaska Empire shed every eve g except Sunday by the EMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY eets, Juneau, Alaska Anderson has taken President - Vice-President Editor and Manager Managing Editor - Business Manaker HELEN TRC DOROTHY TROY is 3 sense he Post Office i au as Second Class Matter. long ks { they wTl promptly notify rresularity in the delivers the Business Office of any fail of their papers Telephones: News O ffice, 602; Business Office, 374 SOCIATED PRES: entitled to the use for dited to it or not other- the local news published 1411 Few T1IONAL REPRESENTATIVE Alaska Newspapers, en ds Bl tle, Wash Value of the Dollar (New York Times Secretary of the Treasury Snyder has informed the International Monetary Fund that we do not intend to change the current gold value cf the dollar. This statement, combined with the assurance of the British that the pound sterling will be tied to the dollar at the current rate, means that a new wave of currency depreciation on a werld-wide scale will be averted for the time being Almost three-fourths of the world’s trade is con- | ducted in' dollars or pound sterling, and this action should prove beneficial, since currency stability is important prerequisite for world trade. However, THIN( being whispered around that when the Leg- meets next Spring members will be handed a | ial budget request for more than $8;000,000, about ver the biennium now endir Looking at is indicated that difficulty in islat bien $2,000,00 of Governmentis. Basically they can cnly be continued in the proper economic environment. Thus the ability the British to maintain the present value of the sound sterling will depend upon the success of their export drive, the effects of efforts to nationalize in- dustries and how they offset the loss of income from investments liquidated during the war and the reduced the recent election it going to have Its of some departments are ask for. of Public Welfi Iready been forced to curtail allotments by 60 per cent because of a shortage of funds. The Department of Education | importance of income from shivving and othe; already is cutting corners to stretch out its money to | Our own ability to mai | tional value of the dollar will depend upon how soor keep the schools open Other necessary departments | & 5y 00y fiscal affairs in order and our ability to will be in need of more money during the next bien- |, ooq. hroduction by attaining more orderly relations nium than they received in the current {on the labor front. As for most other countries in addition to being asked to supply funds for |impossible now to determine at what level their cur existing departments, many new suggestions are in !rencies ultimately will be stabilized. Internal condi- the offing. It expected that the battle for a|tions in most European countries are so chaotic that University of Southeast Alaska which was begun in | there is no sound basis for currency stability at this the special session early this year will be :-mu-wndi“"“jn . on the part of First Division members of the Leg-| “n"‘bmk ipor 10 iakE ity islature | rencies under the most favorable circumstances. Suc- We believe that by the time the next Legislature | cess will attend its efforts to the degree that econcmic meets, the péople of Alaska will not be in the mood |conditions within cach country become more stable for any new The inflationary The balancing of national budgets, the re-establish- beginning to pinch in a number of places ment of favorable cost-price relationshivs, the levelin 6 ook ‘o dbe ddsastib: cuFtaimentiof:all of the!| SEADAITEEES lo trade wiih “obhghii qpin e, diie 1€ | Sstablishment of production and transportation facili- unnecessary governmental functions attempted with ties, the repair of war damages e Moena the hope that expenditures be cut enough t0|rypgamental prerequisites for international currency eliminate the necessity of imposing new taxes. The Washingion Merry-Go-Round (Continuea prom Page One) securing what they The Department wre has | is International Monetary Fund, therefore, does aintaining stable cur- shoe is already taxes. can tion with the New Haven Railroad, and at the last session of Congress Jinally achieved succe: The last session was a lobbyists’ heyday. Reactionary Republicans and old-line Democrats held almost open house for big business. And t back to the aprons St. George, inate for his old seat Some of the folks in Fish's strict are so upset over the idea he might go back to Washing- Washington probably on rings of Mrs. Katherine whom he helped nom- in Congres: prices for | stable currencies depend uvon more than assurances in the present interna- | ports. Naturally these leaked back to the Russians, did not lead to Russo-American harmony Note 2—Just a few weeks after Wallace was ousted for making statements on US-USSR policy, his successor made some dynamite-la- den statements on exactly the same question—though from a different angle the National War Col- lege. Harriman later issued a semi- denial, but his remarks sounded very similar to what he told a meeting of the Senate Foreign Re- lations Committee last winter at LOBBYING CHICKENS COME HOME It's fu ) old lobbyists, like chickens, @ come home to roost. One them, Robert E. Smith by name, has just turned up in the nation's Capital, armed with high-sounding titles and plenty of colx defeat Mr. Truman and friends, just as he tried to defeat Mr. Roosevelt. It's the old under a different name Most how ways of same people have all about Mr. Smith forgotten But back in the aeyday of FDR's most important economic reforms, Mr. Smith came; to Washin 1 i a swan home in Rock Creek Park and pro- ceeded to try to defeat Holding | Corporatiox Congressmen were | invited to lavist ties at his or-j nate mansion re sweet words| were whispered on behali of the| big utilities | ¥ v, Smith’s lobbying nest| posed, and he slipped suiet the limelight But not for a’ little later with another sounding name and another of lobbying. This time it was call- ed the Natic Conference of In- vestors, under whose aegis he form- ed a preferred stockholders commit- tee allegedly protect the rights of the stockholders of the New Ha-| ven Railroad, then in bankruptcy.| However, a Federal judge finally punctured things for Mr. Smith. | The facts leave little doubt ruled U. S. Judge Carroll €. Hincks, Connecticut, in 1942, “that dominant motive underlying formation of this committee the desire to obtain a retainer Then after Smith paid a back| high- | ame | out of long. He came to [ was gainful exposing the alary to himself his son-in-law as office manager and even to his daughter, Judge Hincks continued It will noticed that none of his (Smith’s) work affected in the slightest degree the course of re- organization. way be TRUMAN VETOES SMITH The undaunted Mr. Smith, how- ever, continued lobbying in connec- { Republic completely blind to the issues, they passed a railroad reorganization oill which would have thrown the New Haven Road into the hands of Kuhn, Loeb and Co., to say nothing of lining the pockets of Mr. Smith. Thanks to alert Congressman Francis Walters, Dem. of Easton, Pa., however, the bill never became law. Walters rushed down to the White House and persuaded Presi- dent Truman to veto it. | Only a handful of Congressmen | had ever taken time to figure out; what the bill's intricate language meant. | So now Mr. Smith is back to| wreak vengeance on Mr. Truman. He has a new game, and a new | very high-sounding name—the Life | Insurance Policyholders Protective | Association. He is raising $163,500. Purpose: To defeat pro-Truman | Congressmen because he alraid they may undermine insurance pol-| icies | Funny how lobbyists, despite their clothing, seldom change. Note—Worse underminer of i surance policies may be runaway inflation now feared as a result of runaway price controls. It was Mr. Smith's pals in Congress who start- | ed that ball rolling. MERRY-GO-ROUND | John L. Lewis has been much sicker than his family admitted. A crisis followed his operation for appendicitis. .All the nurses, doc- tors and hospital aides taking care of Lewis liked him, said he was human and considerate, not a bit thy had expected. Some | people relish reports they're in the big money, but not Henry Wallace. A report that he was to get 5,000 from The New Republic rew a quick denial. He's getting a little less than his Cabinet sal- ary, which $15,000 Wal- will remain in Washington this winter, then move to New York to take active charge of The New He has bought a farm up along the Hudson not far from his old friend, Henry Morgenthau. Wallace aides didn’t want him become an editor, thought it put him on the spot once a it harder to stage a al comeback Not content | h quick removal of most price rols Calvin Zimmerman, a Carolina Republican, wants to refund all fines violaters. He even gove: to pay a as that was lace to OPA the iment for ng them CAPITAL CHAFF redoubtable Ham Fish, de-| feated Congressman from FDR's old New York District, has been | haunting the Capital lately, figur-| ling on ways a s of getting The ton in a petticoat, that they have persuaded Col. James K. Welsh, a veteran and a dairy farmer, to run on a veteran-farmer ticket. Welsh also has Democratic endorsement. Robert Barker, investigator for the House Campaign Expendi- tures Committee, has been trying to persuade Senator McKellar of Tennessee to probe the income taxes of Washington columnists. . . The OPA will probably lift all ceil- ings on newsprint shortly, thereby permitting American newspapers to buy higher priced Canadian paper. At present, Canadian paper mills are tempted by Argentine and other foreign markets which are unre- stricted by OPA ceilings. . . .George Killion, Democratic National Trea- surer, has done one of the best money-raising jobs in history—two millicn dollars to help the Demo-| crats win in November. - - — Fur modeling ciecaning, Repairing and re- Victor's Fur Factory. Crossword Puzzle ACROSS . Literary frag- ments 3. Feminine name Mysterious Bib-41" County in lical word North Caro- a Heir Part of a dress H. B. Stowe character Restrain 3 Mint drinks Lawmaking Become less body . White vaste ment . Put with |steamed Yukon, \Tanana for the winter. " SATURDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1946 1 ‘20 YEARS AGO 7%'c emeire OCTOBER 19, 1926 arrived from San fire sufferers. Red Crcss representati Francisco cf the Dougla OCTOBER 19 J. C. Ryan Albert Peterson Amy Gail Morrison David E. Simonson Gustave Peterson Eva Hance, 1to study losses and need B. F. Heinztleman, Assistant District Forester, left for Seattle and Portland, thence to Washington, D. C., working on securing or interesting firms in the pulp industry in Alaska P6ec0eo0emecosceccsesone OCTOBER 20 o Lois Fossum Beverly Leivers Mrs. Arnold Hildre Jackie W. McDonald Larry Fitzpatrick her Metz Mrs. Glenn Cupp George Goodin H. J. Neff Harold Hanson sam Serge R. E. Robertson, wife, two sons and daughter, left on the Alaskal [for the south J. W. Gucker and H. E. Rupert, traveling men, left for the westward Forty-three [ rolled in the Douglas High School, the |largest in history. Weather: High, 52; low, 48; cloudy, r o e | Daily Lessons in English % 1. corpox | e o o 0o o o - o “It was the happiest family | | ' WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not s I ever saw.” Say, “It was the happiest family I have ever seen.” | OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Sagacious. Proonounce sa-ga-shus, first A as in ASK unstressed, second syliable as GAY, accent second | syllable OFTEN MISSPELLED: Eqilibrium; three I's. REGENTS VETO UABRANCHIN | | S. £ ALASKA Rev. W. Robert Webb, who SYNONYMS: Friction, attrition, abrasion, rubbing, massage. ! WORD STUDY: “Use a word three times and it is yours.” Let us represented the City of Juneau and|increase our v abulary by mastering one word each day. Today’s word the Juneau Chamber of Commerce HYPOGEOUS; growing or ripening underground, as the peanut. (Pro- | at hearings t week in Fairbanks, ' nounce hi-po-je-us, I as in HIGH, O as in NO, E as in ME, accent third | mbers of the Univ ¢llable). | Board Rege: e e e ing a branch of the University in Southeast Alaska, has returned here with disappointing news | The Rev. Webb said L e T e had voted n recc Q. Is it permissible when eating to cut the bread with the knife, | establishment of a Southeest or to lift it to the mbuth with the fork? | Foash /ey A A. No; neither is correct. The bread should be broken, one bite at | The Chamber Secretary 3 , a that in discussions with Sen, An- ® time, and lifted to the mouth with the fingers | i Q. When a toastmaster calls for an impromptu speech from some | guest, how long should the guest ialk? ! A. Not more than three minutes | Q. When introduced to a person and that person is the first to a:\)‘,} The the board imend the Alaska reported Board Nerland, President of the of Regents, it was learned “How do ycu do,” what should the reply be? A. The other person may also say, “How do you do?” The same felt that any money ap- priated at this time should go phrase can be used by both. ~ . toward construction to build up and improve the University at Fair- banks. Recemmend Appropriation The Board went on record s commending a $50,000 appropria- LO 0 K d L EA R N by tion for deyelopment of fisheries. a n ATC. GORDON One of the Rev. Wel main peints in his report to the Board was that a Southeast Alaska brahch 1. What six St could establish strong Tisheries and 2. Which is the forest schools. He pointed out that 3. What country fishing is Alaske’s main industry and there is need for a program of education and training concern- ing it. He also carried to the board ofticial word that the City Council of Juneau last Fall went on rec- crd agreeing to provide a suitable location for a Southeast Alaska’ Branch of the University. Webb's report was followed b statements from William Baker, Ketchikan Chronicle publisher, who spoke in that city’s behalf Not Too Surprising Chamber-City representative said that the Board's decision “was not too surprising” in view of sevs cral obvious considerations. He added that all members the Board, with the exception Walter Stuart of Ketchikan, residents of Interior Alaska. While in Fairbanks, the Rev. Webb saw and talked with almost all the 17 students from Gastineau Channel who are attending the University. He said 60 percent of the enroll- ment this ar is from the “out- gide.” The Rev detailed —3 tes were carved out of ti gest family of plants n the Western Hem! » Northwest Territory? ! | | here wos named aiter a tree? 4. What is a person called who walks in his sleep? 5. What is the nautical term for the right side of a vessel facing forward? ANSWERS: Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota The thistle family. § . Brazil. A somnambulist Starboard JUNEAU PLUMBING & HEATING CO. PLUMBING—HEATING—OIL BURNERS—SHEET METAL PHONE 787 Third and Franklin S ——— The of of MOTOR REBUILD and MARINE SERVICE Machine Work — Welding ENGINE REBUILDING—HARDWARE 1012 West 10th Street PHONE 863 Rz CONCRETE For Every Purpose JUST PHONE Yy 182 or & 039-2 Long, 2 Short AND —DELIVERY WILL BEGIN WITHIN A FEW MINUTES / * . Juneau Ready-Mix - Conerete, Ine. 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