The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 16, 1946, Page 4

(FESa - P\u FOUR Daul y - ll(:§lu(t Emptre . PRINTING CO! PANY | run, it is to the interest of producers and consumiers ! alike to hold prkcos down Soap l’rwe and Supply ay by the i, Alaska President Pk (Cincinmat Enquirer) Editor For several years we've talked of nothing but con- ADREET | tro]l of prices. There is, however, such a thing as ¥ Oifice. in Juneais 4% B Matter. | control by price. And, unless we miss our guess, there’ll | ® SUBSCRIPTION RATES be a demonstration of it the soap market in com- | ® Delivered by carrier in Juneau and Douglas for £1.50 per month; % * . . T Tmonthe. S0 ooy +1 8 ing weeks or months. § Dovdthy Tirkest . mail post -4 f"-:\t;:”"‘ o5 It was nct the intent of the big soap manufacture s i e Friend " s to relieve the shortage of bar and packaged soap S 2 ! p Uz 1, tuey v "{Kfilfie',’l“fe':; increasing the price some 50 per cent after the com- | ® "_‘" 5 iy ; : modity was decontrolled by the OPA {toolE i | 8. DURRIC 20 AR 5 Teles News ot Busiess Office, 374 step fairly reluctantly, because th ness is | © TROROIY SR 5 T MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS etitive field, but saw course | ® Maricn “”'_“‘“’ . o exclusi \o the use for 'in the face of the big jump in soav ingredient costs. 9 08, 9 SN ONA omestic ai. red result was traffic Jnited it seems probabl figure volume of will show even percer ‘The largest inc noted in offi saved b, mail over than in tern between major ces like San il, in a few ances in excess What is tru to many other lines of ec the price, th times that increased omies i f air olume of mits reater the v as to ju suicidal. In seems economies of large-scale ope In o few like telephone ente c st now, businessmen ar that the know of them also will remember that th: success in An n busine volume of demand s t s, price increases , and prices have to go uv, too. age increas might be isco, r mail is more significant { the country, with shorter population centers. possible that air mail will vir vears, of 500 miles. mail will be found to apply nomic activi s are likely s has be at a small margin of profit. Ir e inevitable r not other- > > - published However, the companies w neither will we, if a sligt sistance to the price increase e of consumer n't helpful i viating re- Gi TALENT GETS 1411 k4 Newspapers, the shortage of soap. It may work this way: Many a S8 —— 'householder has been buying soap w it could pEAl A&ED”IION be found, often far in excess of actual Because v it has been scarce, and is a durable product which can be stored indefinitely, soap has been a convenient hoarder’s item. And even housewives with no con- scious intent to hoard have been unable to resist the = opportunity to buy every bar or package of soap she By JEAN MEEGAN !could put her hands on AP Newsfeatures Writer per cent higher vrices, this tendency will be NEW YORK —In an old red! curbed—perhaps not by as much a ) per cent, but | school house cn the fringe of Broadway an unorthodox gradu- ation exercise was held recently when the nerican Theater Wing | scheol for GI-theater veterans had its first commencement without speeches, sheepskins, patient rela- tives, or any pedantic palaver. The graduation was, in the par- lance of the entertainment busi- ness, a “show cas wo afternoon fand evening per scenes from succ | Jack,” “Waiting for Service,” “Golden Boy,’ of Hunting” ple f professional pe or new ino doubt to a householders and others siderable degree. A great many will sniff at the higher price tag, and resolve to use what soap they have saved up on their closet shelves. T will be a goed thing, because it will put into use a scarce commodity which | hasn't been benefiting anyone on a closet shelf. And, the same time, it will makz the limited supplies go farther, among the people who have no reserve stock of soap and must buy for immediate need. The industry does not expect the higher soaps to remain indefinitely. Even though circumstan demand higher prices at the moment, when a decreas: of ingredients or production costs permits the prices A will ebb again because of the competitive nature of 1 rate from the trade. In recent months soap has been unusually expensive to manufacture because it has been necessary to keep big plants and labor forces at work on a ————at inessman—and experience A Sound 1 to an audience ople in the market 1t: Broadway produc- rates on air mail tal limits. The mere trickle of production, the bottleneck being the | Hollywood talent scouts, stars, air mail shortage of fats. Incidentally, wise housewives Will| .gents, and publ people. SAthin the (m\m\u(:‘m n\l f’us '\)f‘c that's a shortage that | Short Cut in Casting vet available b ”‘“"flff‘i"‘; o SRR | In a catch-as-catch-can business e where employment depends on air mail overseas “. .. More Deadly than the Male wom you know, rabbit foot luck, R ! ind being in the right place at (Cincinnati Enquirer) Uncle Sam is peddling face powder these days. | © That's not so strange, for the government seems to have gotten into almost every sort of business. Buf it | is strange that cosmetics and toilet articles should | be listed as surplus war supplies. But that's the case. A few generations ago you'd never have found lipsticks & rouge on any War Department purchase the Theater Wing 1as sct up a tem of double ex- osure that may make theatrical asting more sensible and selective. Young te which hitherto has cocled its heels in the theater’s waiting rcoms, has besn given the were the right time, pected where the tin oppor ity 1 only of periorming 1o list. Neither would you have found ladies’ h pportunity not only of perf ; panties o girdles, But all those things were purchased | [°F_the powers-that-be on gracu- ; ation day, but of working with rious of our military units during The facts point to women’s new in quantities by the recent conflict. them daily during the eight weeks courses of The lower heir choice. Teache! business. Some- | place in a brand-new world i Ruuess; ;bome- i at the school are the big shots such great econ- Gone are the days when the ladies were set high Agnes DeMille, ‘Alfre a price cut that 'On pinnacles, far a om the rough and rowdy rgaret Webster, people 8t other lines. the |World of men. Gone are the davs when man—and i e L bt | man alone—was the breadwinner. Since the turn of g . i are insignifi il ? 2 i Wonders in Radio the century women have played an increasingly im- by ce, the larger the radio circle, for instance, portant part in affairs of state and industry. In the L about h tically seal L ast five years they made a great record in affairs e Wi L“,\(.‘q il e tempted to boost prices, | military. i%fll;‘m!l o quujl? 3 ) 1 ~!hp 5 But the wise! Considering the record of the WAC, the WAVES | cracked by 40 per cent o 1 erans taking radio courses and the gal Mari: seems reasonable to suppose -if other wars come—the female of the species will live up to her reputation. Leng ago she was called | more deadly than the male. In our fighting forces she proved that there was more than a grain of truth in the old epigram usual reason en doing a through personal contact of teach- er-employer and pupil Retur from the -other theatri- cal ircnts are not in yet but the show case was judged a success professionals in the front of the Costs hav in the But, long The Washington Merry-Go-Round (Continued Page One) jrom Griffit wdded that his proposal Wyatt's office was nation-wide survey of housing conditions by a| seven-man board of Legion World War II vets. This survey showed conclusively, the Legion boss con tended, that V program to | get roofs over the heads of home- | for abol based on veterans' t's less vets had been a dismal fail- ure (1nmnml Griffith, however, to point out that the cf his own organization! large share of the blame t housing conditions. Had naire Griffith and his co- their iniluence to ex- ge of the Patman Bill, anding on the side- lines while the measure languished for men n Congress, and had th rox encouraged by their trike of building ma- against price con- housing p: rthe gram advanced CAPITAL CHAFF The man who first urged Presi- Truman to be mass strip of coal to k John L. Lewis was Trur i friend and critic, Ha s point \d out th uld sup ply enou n- could when rendered E Ci State Sumner soon make his first Euro he talked to Hitler in 1940 etic to call off gratulati to tin for his confidential & the Republican N tee last week. “We have a job to do,” he said, “and the American people will judge us by how well we do it. That job is bigger the any political pa NEXT GOP Although the Convention is citie are GOP moguls for helping ncminate sigure will be the of the Rep. CONVENTION Republican Nation- two years off, already pressing the privilege of the man they next President George Bender, Ohio Con- gressman-At-Large and head of the i house. Maurice Evans sent for six the performers imimediately af- Cleveland Republican appeared befcre the when State Committee, National Com- he pointed out that the Ohio Republican Committee wa mittee here last week to propose | behind in its assessment to the Na- terward to read parts for him. Cleveland as the convention site. |tional Committee. Bender prom-| Marjorie Morrow, casting direcs When he walked into the room, ised to try to get them tc pay up.|tor for Celumbia Broadcastir GOP Chairman Carroll Reece greet- P | System, commented as she left: ed him with: “Hi, cousin!” This caused cne member to remark that if Bender and Reece were cousins, is the most painless and in- sting way of listening to audi- tions yet devised.” MERRY-GO-KOUND Secretary Byrnes held a secrei showdown conference the other day Reece's vote for Cleveland was cer- - tain. over Argentina, at which Assistant byt AR Secretary Spruille Braden demand- LOGGLRS o f;";“‘“ "j‘“”'l‘ ‘jll‘"l » "lf’“A;‘ 'ed that American Ambassador to ATTEN.ION LOGGERS with logs etorted, “are related through Ad- prgentina George Messersmith be' for sale contact Juncau Lumber am, By the same token, you are fired. Byrnes reserved decision un-' Mills, Will buy from 100,000 ft. all my co\fnm.s;' (Actually, a dis- ) ohristmas. Hard-working | to 10,000,000 feet. For further tant cousin of Bender recently p wijjam Leiserson, who dropped particulars see Juneau Lumber married a distant cousin of Reece. gu¢ of sight after leaving the La- Mills. 433-tf As soon as Bender proposed yor Relgtions Board, has been BEW L5 ol Cleveland for the convention site, yracped down to a book-filled| Sugar and sweets in the diet can Cemmitteeman Werner Schroeder caneiym in Washington where he cause dental decay. Bacteria, norm- of Illincis asked, “Isn't it true that Ohio has a couple of candidates for the nomination? Don’t you think it might be better to meet on neu- tral _territory?” “Is thy a state that doesn't have candidate?” asked Bender. “Ii ycu going to rule out states with candidates, about the only place we could hold the 1948 Re- publican convention is Miami, Florida.” : “Well, Iowa doesn't have a can- 9. didate that T know of,” said former ;3 Chairman Harrison Spangler of Towa 14 “Then I suppose we can have 12 A the convention in a cornfield,” said er. “Has Towa got a conven- tien hall and can it accommodate the ccnvention crowd?” is toiling on a three-year study of American labor for Johns Hopkins University (COPYRIGHT, BELL SYNDICATE, ally present in the mouth, changes sugars to acids Thaese acids at- tack the enamel of teeth, resulting NC 1946) in dv_mal decay. .Crosst‘r:d: “Ptvx"z"zle'i ACROSS urloined 45 Empire state: abbr. i GOP SHUNS PARK BENCIZ andinavian Frustrate Solution of Saturday's Puzzle The Committce wanted assurance oy Sweet blécut 60 ten #5254 ool erdie ity 1 Bikde téip 4y ). Staff Institute suit 06 Devour core in m Bender that Cleveland could s {natitut it B Raohls provide 6,000 rooms for the con- o pronouncing 2. Region Aliow 3. Rubbish Mineral :Drlnl on period, with one lady mer ung that Republicans don't like on k benche Jehovah's Witne park benches, needed a lot more than 6, tor their convention in replied the Ohio Con “Furthermore,” he adde you that you'll have newspapers and convention hall leries which will leave the job of picking candidates and drawing tform to the de ates.” One member compla i that delegates to a previous Cleveland convention had to sleep on boats. “That replied Bender, “was a matter of cheice. We brought sev- “Well, sleep ses didn't and they man ‘we courteous can tell eral beats into the dock and people liked sleeping on them. Also, the docks are just a few steps irom stand cord 4l pictur tndian the a long trip asuditorium, so you don't have from your living quar- ters to the convention hall Werner Schroeder of Illinois threw one monkey wrench into Cleveland’s machinery however THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE. —JUNEAU, ALASKA IN UNIGUE WAY 0 { Daily Lessons in English % 1. corpon i3 WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “He is the man whom I | think stole the money.” €ay, “He is the man WHO I think stole the, {20 YEARS AGO T¥': empire DECEMBEER 16, 1926 can Legicn Post had launched or & flag for Alasks George A. Parks left for Denver to spend Christmas Gov Willlams was elected Worthy Worthy Patron; Alice Matren Eastern Erown, of the Secretary Mae Wallis S. George, ! Adsit, Treasurer. The Elks, planning "l‘f‘\l‘“! Jackie Coogan in “Old Clothes™ theme across the street for gifts and a Punch a Christmas program fer the kiddies, were and Judy show. ——— a drive to secure, by cun-l Star; and Agnes | at Spickett's Palace, then tnkev MONDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1946 BARBER Burnie's Sior BARANOF HOTEL Lower Lobby | MOUNT JUNEAU LODGE NO. 147 SECOND and FOURTH | Monday of each month | in Scottish Rite Temple 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. or Phone 800 beginning at 7:30 p. m, for appointment M. L. MacSPADDEN, > vy Worshipful Master; James c. cooper' cPA LEIVERS, Secretary. BUSINESS COUNSELOR Silver Bow Lodge @Nn. A 2, LO.OF, ‘Meets each Tues- Jay at 8:00 P. M., I. O. O. F. HALI, Visiting Brothers Welcome GEORGE JORGENSON, Noble Srand; H. V. CALLOW, Secretary James W. Specializing in Corporation—Maunicipal and Trust Accounts o The Erwin Feed Co. Office in Case Lot Grocery A P SN, ey A John Nowicka was a passenger south on the Alameda. 5 “,m“‘ ?“ 4 (i B P 0 ELKS HAY, GRAIN, COAL Mects every Wednesday at 8 p. Mrs. Walter B. King and baby left for the south on the Princess and STORAGE in. Vistting brothers welcome. Mary. E. C. REYNOLDS, Exalted r B S money."” OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Porte-cochere. Pronounce port-ki both O's as in NO, A as in SHARE, accent first and last syllables. OFTEN MISSPELLED: Cold chisel. Observe the COAL nor COLE SYNONYMS: Grow, enlarge, expand, extend, augment. WORD STUDY: “Use a word three times and it is yours.” increase our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. IMPERVIOUS; permitting no passage into or through. pervicus to water.” “Glass is 0-sher, first word; not Let us| Today's word: | m-| |Alaska Music Supply CALIFORNIA | | | | | { { Grocery and Meat Market Ruler, W. H. BIGGS, Secretary E 7hlhq.f_;"vr_}?‘;r_6’ffibc CHARLES R GRIFFIN I:u 1005 SECOND AVE - SEAITLE 4 - EL ! 478 — PHONES — 371 High Quality Foods at Moderate Prices &rwhyé'/aréa&t/ynbe/y( Jones-Stevens Shop LADIES'—MISSES' o . " 1 e L The Rexall Store | Your Reliable Pharmacists Seward Street Near Third | BUTLER-MAURO DRUG CO. ! Arthur M. Uggen, Manager HARRY RACE E’ T AN {| | Planos—Musical Instruments | and Supplier . ! MODERN ET | 0 U ETT E r_OBER'] A LEE | | Phone 206 Second and Seward Drugglst | ” “ R e e ST e | “The Squibb Store Q. If a person has accepted the invitation of one hostess, is it | HE&‘;#XZIRES}{:‘O'%\L w""epf:“" Is a permissible to recall the acceptance in order to accept a later invitation | p g ¥ etiop dEoWHERE? Welding, Plumbing, Oil Burner| elsewhere? Blacksmith Work 20TH CENTURY MEAT A. Never; it is rude to do so. If such a thing were done and the ! MARKET first hostess t is a sure road to unpopularity. Q. Please name six or seven things that a persen may eat with | the fin A. Bread, crackers, cookies, candy, salted nuts, clives, celery. Q. What color stationery is in best taste for a man? A. White, always. &;z,oox and LEARN. W8 aisoid hould become aware of it, her resentment would be justifiable. — GENERAL REPAIR WORXK Phone 204 929 W. 12th St. Juneau’s Most Pepular “Meating” Place ONLY THE BEST OF MEATS PHONE 202 i | “The Store for Men"” | SABINS * Front St. Wall Paper Ideal Paint Shop —Triangle Bldg. (Warlield's Drug Store i 1 | (Formerly Guy L. Smith Drugs' Phone 549 Fred W. Wendt 1 st lake on the North American continent? NYAL Family Remedies 5 of ribs does a man have? ¥ g 15 first on Declaraticn ¢f Independence? | HOR{%{,C%;;FDG\?ISH n l B . been called the “Sunriss Portal” of the | |- i CREA ouglas Boat Shop United 75 NEW CONSTRUCTION and 5. Which is generally co.ceced to be the cleanest animal? | -\-HINGF; ECONOMY REPAIR JOBS RIEWES s i % it i FREE ESTIMATE 1. ‘Lake Superior; 400 miis long; ares, 31810 square milss, Il Choice Meats At All Times Probat Ddihsahe 2. Twelve. | | Located in George Bros. Store 3. John Hancock { PHONES 553—92—95 4. Maine. 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