The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 7, 1946, Page 4

PAGE FOUR Duily Alaska Empire - Editor - Business Manager \eau as Second Class N RATES the Post Office in Ju Matter. SUBSCRIPT ® retes in advance, $7.50; or if they will v failure or irregularit promptly notify v in the delivery 602, Business Office, 374. ASSOCIATED PRESS ely entitled to the use for credited to it or not other- o the local news published ATIONAL T Alaska Newspapers, 1411 h Ave TOUGH TIMES AHEAD Alaska Miners As cther that mix e Al Anderso! cretary of the told a & being made ciation attle group the day “only plan: for the ¢ vear il there will be no operations After gold mines were clos during the War Production be Alaska war by order of hoped that they would of the war as condi Board, with ‘normal.” the was end What e-opened the d to rosy plans these we: Alaska’s mining is indeed in terrible t only have wages and other operating costs ctations, but the transpor- t impessible for those mines 1 operate to resume work lustry shape increased beycnd all exy tation muddle has made that cc I while operat- the of is going to The main trouble, of course, is that sed tremer ap, time ously arently ing gold rem: COB; have incre price remains tl and for some Alaska 5€asons. 1 the Meanwhile its poorest Thus the two largest sources of tax revenue have taken a dive, while the Territory faces a 1947-49 biennium which will demand the operating budget in the history of the Members of the Legislature, month, will be seeking But the bad thing is that industries low activities It i are asking for next two Ve same has just gone through one of fishing largest meeting next means of Al practically here W curing taxes when s two basic are at a ebb other re likewise affected tood that governmental departments 000,000 to run the Territory for the Where this amount will be secured remains to be seen. It seems an impossible task. What it all is shaping towards is a legislative session that will be one of the most hard-boiled in a long time, und What International Law? (St. Louis Star-Times sant to learn that the Ame Bai Association is seeking to have a code of international law drawn to cover the rights and duties of the nations of the world, That makes the Association one with all these millions of pecple all over the globe who, even though they have no special legal knowledge, have been longing for the same thing So many of those little people have not been able to figure why they in their little villages or cities should be able to live in a kind of respectable peace, obeying the law and res: ing the cop on the corner le nations frolic along to mass murder in a state of wild anarchy For the time, however, the American Bar Assoc id all those little people are docmed o i There can be no real international law with- slature, nternational ex- judiciary. is, there I to be a town m or a board of aldermen to-agree that such and such rul o going to be effective in the world; there has to be mayor or a governor to see to it that the rules are administered; there has to be a court to judge wt the rules ve been broken or obs ed and to nd out punishment with the hand of justis The world has none of those The American Bar Association should realize that It should know that wher rs speak about a “ of international law” in t terms they r talking cnly about a man; ions t y (drawn in high hope—and fractured at will whenever national inter seem to demand it ‘The United | Nations repr s an effort to reach a slightly highe , but under the Charter as it is, the effort y is not spectacularly sful. As E. B. W had said some place—and much better--so-called inter- al law just now is nething but a of Queens- there happens to be no referee as y tion tration it an inter ecutive, an an ha set bury rules to enforce them “Real” Wages Today (New York Times) Labor leaders who are ta existing contracts with industry and w provisions for higher w f justification for their action costs. And in presenting the pay they invariably take as a starting point the peak level of wartime “real wag or e-home i This, of course, is an utterly misleading bs compariscn. The weekly earnings cf manufacturin: workers 1ose during the war by ¢0 ver cent. This was accounted for only in part by higher basig > rates, which advanced by 35 pe ent. The remai of the increase was the result of premium paymen OV time, longer working hours and the shift to the higher paid munitions and durable geods industries The swolien pay envelopes Gays W 1ed on the theory t included compensaticn for the physical toll taken of the workers and for the neces- sarily temperary nature of their employment. We have two standing reminders of the totally abnormal character of the payrolls of the period. One of these the huge current volume of iiquid savings, a volume three times 2s great as that reached after the First World War. The other is the enormous Federal debt, a major share of which is accounted for by wartime outpaymer by the Government which went ulti- mately to the nation’s wag arners, What do we find when we com the of lahor today with those of 1839, the year ihat ¥ broke cut? A study just completed by the National Industrial Conference Board sheds e intere: light on this questi Wage-earners in the U ¢ States almost without exception, the Board finds, can purchase more goods and services than in 1933. In June and July of this year, it finds, the standard of living of the average manufacturing werker (quite apart from the improvement in his financial position as a result of the unusual level of wartime earnings) | was approximately one-third higher than befere th I and large, worki in the ncn-manufacturing industries haven't fared as well as factory em y theugh it is difficult to generalize here because of the wide range of experience among the num groups. But with recent developments on the front in mind, the temptation to cite the case one non-manufacturing indu y is irresistable refer to the coal miners. It seems that the anthracite miners have increased their real weekly take-home pay since 1939 by 65 per cent, the bituminous miners by almost 100. lking of opening up into them alleg > in living arguments for higher real wages of would go for prices are out of that it ALBERT WHITES BACK FROM TRIP and his wife Mar- to Juneau on the after six weeks ab- city Prefabricated Albert White garet, returned Princess Louise sence from the White says that travel condi- tions are nearly the same as during the war pericd and unless one has urgent busin below, it 1s not worth the cffort of keing pushed around Tkzre are Cost of living tions The up $3 price of a bottle S Pr are other 30 percent then level off in Poliucaily, publicans feel winning s 16,000 applications file in Los Angeles for houses apartments with none available Hotels will allow one to remain onl five days at a time. Hous are icd. Senate selling for $14,000. which years agosidering on or Crossword Puzzle 0 promive t wine only is practically get anyplace to 1i houses for $8,200 without a lot Angeles, higher than in other s of California, prices are also high. State Liquor Control statement. expected said White, confident the Presidency in remaining in office for a long per- Roepublicans question Democratic they have the voters $5,000. The to confirm all reason, but at appointments, Leen in 14 years want a change. any more feeling and L pos: w are selling The present shipping strike is go- ing to set the development of Alas- ka back for another year, declared White Los s0e Seattle is high in ATTENTION and - STERN STARS whiskey ha according gone the Election Chapter No. 10, at 8 o'clock. Bring for Christmas Baskets. JICE BROWN, Secretary 445-2t Juneau December donations of to to rise an- on foodstuffs and 1947 Re- easily '48 and the of - o WATCH FOR Big Pre-Holiday Clearance Sale at Channel Apparel Shop Dec. 10th are con- of refusing THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA \\\‘ | Iy DECEMBER 17 Mrs. Katherine H. Berray Mrs. Thomas Hall, Jr. Patte Davis Mrs. Alex Demos Patricia Nelson Peggy Forward Southall Stone Mrs, A. R. Edw s Frank A. Olsen Mary Loken Robert Sarovich Robert A. Hildre DECEMBER 8 Richard Treffers Lauren Miller Mary Margaret Grisham Mrs. H. L. Arnold Natalia Savonich John G. Johnson ther J Edna F: urger Mike Ugrin Sidney J. Thompson “ e 0 o o e 3 0 0 0 e Bus iéem Fairbanks Rolis Into Seatile; Trip Cver Highway SEATTLE, Dec. 7—A bus carry- ing the placard “F: swung Fairbanks” down Fifth Avenue yesterday aiter 0-mile south over the Highw pr bly the first over the route 1er of a Fair- and co-driver said they en- weather and held up two days at White- e ool ) AR trouble. ¢ highway was frozen and pro- t 10 trip ach Greiman, bus company Walter Burr, d 45-below ba with count were e down to get other equipment for apartmer I manage,” Grei- man said. “T also wanted to deter- mine whether or not Fairbanks- Seattle is feasible. I've decided it is Five passengers came along anc were charged abc $80 each o the ncn-profit venture. Two w dropped off at Grea Is, two at Spokane and Ed Grotecloss, New York City, came here. Buir's wife and daughter met him here and he and G an will return north in about a week - - HEAVY MAIL SHIPMENT OH PRINCESS LOUISE One of the largest consignments of mail received in Juneau in months arrived on the steamer Princt Louise night. There the 2 cks bus service taken off to Walter McKinnon, of the Reliable Tr fer Co., and he ought to kn much he hauled, as he h: The greater part of the consign- ment was second class and parc post mail Of course not all of the mail is for Juneau delivery, as the local office o redistributes it for out- lying sections. Further more, don’t expeci all of the local mail to be boxed within the next 24 hours either, because it won't be, as it takes time, even with the P. O. attaches working overtime, to do the districution job. E! 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Quink PEN-PROTECTING SOLV-X! 952-E 1 s T 081 SATURDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1946 from THE 0 YEARS AGO EMPI IBER 7, 1926 he the Juneau Public Schools furr Jur am for the Par r Orchestra of Teacher Association meeting this evening. RE S e | nishd the In- ided in the orchestra were Helen Torkelson, Lillian Peterson, Jeannette vart, Olavi Kukol icson, Martin Lynch, Vilas Burgess a, Rosena Me rschmidt, Mary Schramen, Lucille , Marie Meade, Alice Merritt, Johr Meggett, Charles Femmer, Barbara Winn, George White and Billy Friend The Junior Orchestra was composed entirely of students from the fift} | e T Colise Lo of Mi Superintendent of Public Schools W. K. Keller had announced games Moy be to be night. Weather: High Cr et through the eigh he musical um Theatr cem by n Legion he backetball squad of the Alaska Agricultural College nes weuld arrive in Juneau December 22 and remain scheduled for their stay here g pictur 1 at the Parent-T¢ The pictures were taken by Winte 44: lo shoy Dcug and Pond cf Juneau rain was being presented tonight at:the! 1d Sch ere a week Many s of the Douglas fire which occurred October 19 were | cher Associaticn .meeting .his | | Daily Lessons in English % 1. corpon ettt e s e e WORDS OFTEN MIS SED: Do not was DETERMINED to go.” OFTEN M TOO, () SYNONYME progn W NDILOQU was ture | MODERN ETIQUETTE Hoperaa cen Q. ILL preferred, Otserve the prophesy, presage PRONOUN 2 as in ME unstressed, I ¢ FTEN MISSPELLED: Cr Foretell, R NNE predict, osticate VORD a word three time . our vocs 3 use of lofty language; bombastic speech. marred by grandiloguence If the bridegroom’s ; be invited to stay at the home of the bride’s parents? A Q A trac the t This would be the courteous thing to do Is colored or white linen correct for the luncheon table Either is correct What do loud talk Rudeness and well-bred person t attention as bound to go.” d it is yours.” ing one word each day. Teday's word: | never tries S 3§ -nil, 00 a accent first syllable portend, | Let us “His lec- ) wrents live in a distant civy, should they .9 o | LO0K snd LEARN 2 ¢ convon wny days did it take oyage? — Celumbus to cross the Atlantic Ocean 1d before he took hrene What does cor Who laid the fcund ANSWERS: Seventy days. St. John the Divine Duke of York. Blood relationship. Confucius. san Delivered to your job in required quantities Ready for your men to pour—at $18.50 per cu. yd., f.o.b. plant. Hauling charge 15¢ per truck mile. Other concrete products will be available soon— Get acquainted with terature and ethics? T D T T e L ey e | MOTORSHIP ESTEBETH L HAINES *** SKAGWAY "~ MONDAY 10 P.M. 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