The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 2, 1946, Page 4

PAGF. FOUR D(ul Y . ilaska E m plre ne except Sunday by the MPIRE PRINTING COMPAN in Streets, Juneau, Alaska | the gifts presented to more than 5000 women who |launched Maritime Commission ships during the war suggests at least one reason for the reluctance of some Published information of the Senate War mittee. The bottle-smashing ceremony a new vessel down the ways comes under the headix of public relations, which means not only the busines President Vice-President “Editor and Manager Managing Editor Business Manager i i of getting good publicity but spreading good will for | Entered in the \"*h:“‘l‘r‘;h;;‘\ ;‘;\Lffm"‘ Class Matter. | the company. Publication of the fact that certain fav-! Detivered by carricr in Juneau and Douglas for SL50 per month; | ored wives, daughters or other fair reldtives of highly . A “;"-J‘:;;n”:{;w‘";_m placed officials received “tokens” in the way of $2,000 ome v T O 0. 5ix monthe, an sdvance, $7.50; | diamond bracelets while other sponsors were presented spe month, in ad e e < | with lesser baubles, ranging down to silver pins, is the Buatness Office e T bt aelivery | Positively not conducive to the better varieties of good of their pape { will traditionally sought to be spread by the average Telephones: News Office, 602; Business Office, 3. | pyplic-relations man. This is not the Kind of publicity MEMBER OF & ('\TUHIH S | which pleases either the less fertunate sponsors or wise credited paper and also mc 1um. news publuhed] The list shows that some shipbuilders were far - more lavish than others in their gifts, that the cost NATIONAL REPR NT S — Alaska Newspapers, 1411 'of gifts seemed in most instances to be scaled acord- Fourth Aven: '~ Bidg., Beattle, W "‘» ey Hoaid ling to the prominence of the sponsor or her husband G i (many of the good ladies no doubt will take excep- 'tion to the rating apparently implied—another head- | lache for the public-relations boys). that size of shi seemed to have no bearing on gift outlay and th while Rosie the Riveter and Winnie the Welder oc- | sionally won the right to crash a bottle of cham | pagne against the bow of a shiv, no record can be found of diamond bracelets being placed on their | sturdy wrists after the ceremonies. | The christening of ships and the feting of sponsors iare hallowed by tradition. The public undoubtedly | accepts the practice as a colorful ritual symbolizing pride of craftsmanship and stimulating production | The taxpayers have a right to know, however, whether |the cost of the diamond bracelets, silver tea sets and |other inordinately expensive gifts to a select class of sponsors was charged--directly or indirectly—against the public treasury or came out of the profits of the | | shipbuilders. This is a point which has not yet been made clear in every case and which is worth further delving by the Senate committee. The taxpayers are willing to pay the reasonable costs of building wartime ships, but they will not relish footing the bill for extravagant “good will” expenses run up by uninhibited public-relations experts. OTHI'.R\ HAVE 'll{()l BLES, TOO Mulling over the housing shortage, and reading the estimates of how many new dwellings are needed Americans are likely to feel very sor And it is a staggering problem. But it that our position is very other major in this country for themselves. would be well to remember much more favorable than that of any belligerent of World War II Britain and France and Russia, nations of Europe involved in the problem, but in addition, they have the added shortages resulting from their longer participation in war, which means a longer period of prohibitions on home con- COSTS OF PLAYING WITH FIRE and all the lesser — have our Not long after man began using fire to warm himself and make his food more palatable he realized that he was dealing with an unruly servant. Playing with fire became synonymous with folly. It is still War struction. And on top of that, they lost vast numbers | just that as anybody may see from statistics prepared of dwellings by air bombardment or other military | by the Actuarial Bureau of the National Board of Fire operations | Underwriters. On the basis of cases involving payment In Great Britain, for example, 460,000 dwellings | of claims over a ten-year period, the bureau has con- were destroyed or seriously damaged during the war. | cluded that 64.58 per cent of fires in the United St Fully 1500,000 families are living doubled up. Not |can be attributed directly to carclessness. It says th: less than 750,000 new dwellings are needed, just to |20.44 per cent of all fires are due to lack of care in | give each family a home, without tackling the problem | the use of matches and in smoking; that 23.65 per cent of slums not really fit for habitation. Yet in the last | result from improperly cleaned or tended heating and year and a half, only 72,000 new homes have bvenf cooking installations and from ‘carelessness in their built, two-thirds of them temporary shelters. 1 use; that 11.49 per cent result from carelessness in using kerosene lamps, candles and other open lights and in handling inflammable fluids, There are other causes of fires in which care- lessness may be a factor—it certainly shows lack (vi care not to replace promptly a worn electrical cord ! or repair a socket known to be functioning improperly. But application of the percentage of more direct care- lessness to fire losses in 1946 shows that the bill for Against this record, we can take some comfort in the fact that 350,000 new houses have been completed in the United States in the first eight months of 1946. Materials are scarce here. But they are much more scarce in any country of Europe And what are we to say of the Soviet Union, where it is estimated that 2,000,000 houses were either de- stroyed or so damaged as to need major repairs in the Ukraine alone. There is complaint in the United | the first eight months of this year $244,111,400 States that we are taking such “drastic measures” tc | This, of ccurse, is only a beginning. To it must be get more housing under way, such as diverting | idded time lost from work when a home or business materials for nonhousing construction. But again it | jroperty is destroyed, medical expense to those who is worth while to make comparisons. In Czecho- | nay have been injured. It is impossible to place any slovakia, citizens are going to be obliged to pay 20 | dollars and cents value on the contribution that might per cent of their incomes for rent. If their actua’ | have been made to the nation’s economy by those killed or crippled in fires. Lack of proper spect with fire is an extremely costly business. in dealing | rents aré less, as in most es they are, the difference goes into a fund to subsidize new dwdllings built at present high costs. In housing, as in food and clothing and nearly everything else, we are much better off than either our recent Allies or our enemies overseas. “There is a lot of trouble in this world, which is caused by women."—Daniel Francis Take off those wraps, Clancy, and say what you mean. some of Those Gifts to \punsors when a boxer at least, as Marty Servo appears to It is losses championship by a ncse, a novelty, a (Washington Star) A perusal of the range of values represented by |have done. The Washington Merry-Go-Round $5,000 to one political group. But of Representatives, in which Con- vviolaucn of ic law was avoided, gressman Mundt sits. As ‘:Jlx'\;lle b::nzelzll:zgngixxlstu?ml‘l:z i&'\‘s:viously reported in this column, | these files show that in 1942 the pre- Ponts to contribute; second, by 3 e 2 (Comtinuea prom Payu One) L'omrlbulu.)g to different amte'é‘;fi:)‘(‘i' x‘l:fi?s'cifri‘:“ C;Ilf‘bx;, ¥ - B . e S ITra Copley of the Copley Press,| ey Danner said they did, or were The powerful Pennsylvania Pew|Max E. Jarman of the General| they just “cover-ups.” family, which operates Sun Oil, the , Shoe Company, contributed a to- Note—Personally, this columnist' Sun Ship Company, the Path-ital of $53,700 to Senator Bush- has nothing against Mr. Danner, finder, The Farm Journal and f“-]ds re-election in South Da- merely reports the above as an various other trade publications, | kota donated the huge total of $108,525; | (COPYRIGHT, BELL SYNDICATE, INC. 1946) illustration of how Congressional the Alfred P. Sloan family of Gen- ! candidates need to be scrutinized in every district—before Election Day,| €ral Motors put up $36,000; the | not afterward. If this column Wealthy Widener family of Phila-! had the time to investigate each|delPhia gave $24750; the Queeny candidate and state, it would glad- | family of St. Louis, which _oper-| ly do so. Unfortunateiy, it can’t. ‘ales Monsanto Chemical, dug up High pointed Unfortunately also, some local| $42375; while the Pitcairn family hill 2 of Pennsylvania which manufac- | SirasteMcEin which could dig out the Akron newspapers don't tures auto-giros, sweetened the Re- publican kitty with $29,114.71. All in all, about ten powerful! Republican families tossed in about ' $1,000,000. And you can take your | pick as to whether it's healthier | to have ten families dominate one party or to have $1 contributions from about 20,000,000 families in organized labor dominate the oth-| er Note—Donations by PAC enly recorded, not der a maze facts particularly ir WEALTH Some people have focused large amounts of to clection districts by Joe Pew, the big Pennsylvania ‘man. Isn't the mol spent PAC, they ask, just as bad? The answer is 1. It was tre- mendous \ts of cash spent by Mellons, the Pews, the Rocke- VS. LABOR have asked why I attention on the cash thrown in- GOP lead- | bositive White poplar dummy’ Affirmative Worthless P by are op- | amouflaged un- relatives and in-| of shipbuilders to disclose all the glittering details for the | Investigating Com- | which sends | NOVEMBER 2 Virginia Njelsen Daily Alaska Empire Joe Thibodeau Mrs. Theodore Mack G. Erwin Hachmeister Arne Kronquist S. B. Simmons William Paul, Jr A. T. Sprague NOVEMBER 3 Clarice Green John Clauson Elvina Chase Evelyn Claire Mrs. R. E. Greenus Abe Levy Mary Paulson o o o Mrs UN BUDGET PLAN iS ATTACKED BY SEN. VANDENBERG By HARRY HAUCK 2 LAKE SUCCESS, N. Y., Nov. 2| Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg (R-Mich.) today sharply attacked the proposed United Nations bud- | setary plans with the flat asser- tion that the United States was not ready to pay 50 percent of the administrative costs as suggested Vandenberg, United States Delegate to the UN, leveled his broadside at the whole financial setup as the General Assembly split up into 5l-nation committees to begin the talk of debating than 50 items on a crowded agenda Coupling his stand with a strong appeal for economy, Vandenberg told the Financial Committee that the United ates felt that the stick advanced sole basis for “inadequate and a capacity-to-pay ye by a sments to be unreliable.” the UN States is unable to concept that “The United accept the flattering mic system is so good ives five percent of the people of the world control of 50 percent of the earning capacity o the world,” he said. “If our econ- omic system is that good we might | suggest that the other United Na- tions adopt it.” > 2 CAL, TEEN-AGE BOYS ARE GUILTY, MURDER CHARGES YUBA CITY. C.lllf Nov A jury of five women and seven men today convicted Billy Anderson, 16 and Nathern James, 15, on 4iwo counts of murder in the first degree in the Sentember 8 slayings of And- erson’s father and step-mother The jury was out for exactly one hour and took but two ballots. On the first, two jurors held out for murder in the second degree, but changed their decisicn on the sec- ond ballot. The verdict was that each was “guilty of murder in the first degree and was found to be under 18 years of age.’ Judge Arthur Coats, hearing the case in the Sutter County Superior Court, had instructed the jury enter the age reference in the ver- | dict so as to determine whether the | boy would go to San Quentin or to the youth authority. - THE WHITE TRANSFER 0 Also known as Behrend's Mer- chant Delivery is still operating junder the same phone, 789. Ancient lrish fort Fiber plant et al, which finally inspired | laws labor unions to get into political campaigns themselves. Labor tellers | ! BIG MONEY IN 50UTH DAKOTA | Congressman Karl Mundt, South | 2 Frepared for te: O1d-w nish Sheitered inlet Wondering fear didn't originate the idea Whil¢ large amounts of money in any campaign are bad, it's only to how what both sides are In regard to this, few have the time and money Dakota Republican, was speaking | before an AVC group in Huron,| S. D, which quizzed him about' GOP money sent into South Da-' kota all the way from Pennsyl- Lair doing people to check Monkeylike animal Representative \homa on ge personal campaign con- tributions. To go over the long vania and Delaware by the Pew and duPont families. Mundt was Diminish Chiet executive list of names filed in various state asked specifically about references | campaigns and with the Clerk of to Pew and duPont contributions previously reported in this column. “Sometimes Drew Pearson tells the truth,” the Congressman told the House of Repr ntatives takes days of stenographic work. It’s al- 50 a difficult job to trace the rela- tives and in-laws of all the fam- ilies who contribute. The individual the veterans, “and sometimes he' doesn’t tell the truth. President voter simply cannot do it The last time this column did Roosevelt called him a chronic liar, Edged tool but I don't think he is quite llmL bad.” Regardless of this column’s ver-! aclty, however, the iecords of South Dakota contributions are not subject to debate. They are a matter of oificial record in the! files of the Speaker of the House| it, however (1940), the results were amazing. The duPont family was shown te be contributing the grand total of $186,780 to the Republi- can party The Hatch Act, of course, makes it illegal for one individual to contribute more than Worried Containers S. Convex molding THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE— JUNEAU, ALASKA more | boy | SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1946 20 YEARS AGO ,flgn}'_‘. EMPIRE This was election day in Alaska. In the First Division there were two tickets, the Independent and Republican-—Tom Marquam for Dele- % gate to Congress heading the Independent and Dan Sutherland, incumbent Delegate, heading the Republican ticket. The Moose Lodge was giving a dance this night and election returns were to be bulletined and megaphoned. Returns were to be received by The Empire as the U. S. Cable System was to be maintained throughout { the night for special returns from all parts of Alaska. rank Metcalf returned from Skagway on the Margnita. to the Lynn Canal metropclis He had been George Anderson, of the Ande: on the Margnita from Skagway | | on Music Shoppe, was a passenger i | The Alaska was due from the south with three days mail. | | 1 The hoopsters of the Eagles of Douglas were to start practice. creaming his Douglas schoolmates at his home The Juneau Parent-Teacher Association announced a gcody sale fon November 6 to be held at the Sanitary Grocery High, 50; 6; Weather report: low, cloudy. Daily Lessons in English % 1. corbon i | WORDS OFTEN MISUSED he arrived,” and, “He discussed detail) .” OFTEN 1 as in HIGH syllable. OFTEN MISSPELLED: Scissors; four 5 SYNONYMS: Bombastic, pompous, grandiloguent, tumid. \VORD STUDY: “Use a word three times and it is your Let us | increase our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Today’s word: FOYER; a lobby, especially in a theatre. (Pronounce fwa-ya, first A as in AH, second A as in DAY, zccent second syllable). “At LAST (in tne course of time) the conditions AT LENGTH (in Iull MISPRONOUNCED: Hygienic. Pronource hi-ji-en-ik, first and third I's as in IT, E as MEN, accent ihird , secorid [ S, MODERN ETIQUETTE serra Lee Q. How should a girl invite a young man to call? A. Merel; , I should be glad to have you call at home some evenir may leave the definite date for the Or, she may invite him to dinner in her home on som: e our man to suggest particular night Q. Is it permissible to eat the lettuce when a salad is served on a lettuce leaf? * | & Yes. Q. TIs it correct to say, “Miss Smith, this is Mr. Brown"? | A, Yes. | & . LOOK and LEARN GORDON 1. What States are also known as (a) The Old Dominion; (b Empire State; (¢) Buckeye State; (d) Keystone State; and (e) Lone Star State? 2. Who is the chief executive of all the Federal prison? 3. What daily newspaper has the largest circulation in America? 4. What, in railroad parlance, is a roundhouse? 5. What are the four musical parts usually sung in a mixed quar- ette? ANSWERS: . (a) Virginia, (b) New York, (¢) Ohio, (d) Pennsylvania, (e) ‘Texas. 2. The Attorney General. 3. The New York Daily News. 4. A building for the housing of lecomotive engines? 5. Soprano, contralto, tenor, and bass. surveying for the Home Power Company. Jimmie Doogan was 12 yeasr old and celebrated the event by ice- | DR. E. H. 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