The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 30, 1947, Page 4

PAGE LS - Dail ) Alaska Empire ry evening Juneay, Alaska - - - President - Vice-President Editor and Manager - _Managing Editor - Business Manager the Post Office (n Juneau as Second Class Matter SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Aelivered by carrier in Juneau and Douglas for S1.50 per month; ix months, $8.00; one year, §15.00 postage paid. at the following ra dvance. $15.00; six months, in a s: ance, $7.50 ivance, $1.50. will confer a f Office of any fa apers y will promptly notify ularity in the delivery ne Busine e or & 5 th 602; News Office Business Office, 374. MEMBER OF ASSOC/ATED PRESS entitled to the use for ited to it or not other- so the local news published Alaska Newspapers, 1411 herein NATIONAL ¥ Avenu REPORT THE AUDITOR Perusal of the Biennial Repert of the Auditor of compiled fcr submission to the Eighteenth it 1 Legislature, discloses scveral eye-opening ¥ s mcet ccmmentable is a two-year incrcase 220 employees on the Territory's payroll Territorial J uring the biennium 1943-44 totalled 553. of employees working for and paid by the rerritory, including heads of office, during the period 047-46 totalled 778. The increase is attributable miin- the creation of four new departments of govern- Department of Taxation, Alaska Development Beard, Department of Agriculture and the World War 71 Veterans Board—plus a substantial increase in the number of teachers in the Territorial School System, »oth within and without incorporated cities, and addi- e numb sity personnel increase of 11, the proportion of funds expended upon education declined during the past biennium from 38 per cent of the Territory's total expenditures to 20 per cent. Over the same period, the proportion devoted to public welfare increased from 48 per cent to 56 per cent. Expenditures for Development of the Territory increased from five to seven per cent; for Industrial Development declined from four per cent to three per cent and General | Administration remained statfonary at five per cent. Grouped under the heading of Public Welfare are: Administration of the Department of Public Welfare; | Child Welfare Service (Federal fundsi; Relief of Destitution; Allowances to Mothers (Fedgral and Territorial funds); Juvenile Code; Old Age Assistanc (Territorial and Federal funds); Dependents of Enemy Aliens (Federal funds); Department of Health wF:-;l“ sral and Territorial funds); various special health | iwccounts; Ploneers’ Home; Rescue and Relief of Lost | Persons; the Department of Labor; Liquor Llce'nsr Refunds to cities; Unemployment Ccmpensation C;m-l‘ mission; Veteran Housing; Territorial Boards; the World War II Veterans' Revolving Fund and miscel- | laneous expenses. | Interesting, though not subject to legislative con-{ | ! trol, are the comparative tables of vital statistics. They show: A slight increase in births during the past year (2,233 in 1945, 2,237 in 1946); a considerable decline in | deaths (1,339 in 1945, 1,190 in 1946); an upswing in| marriages (1,306 in 1945, 1,519 in 1946) and 10 more!| adoptions (77 in 1945, 87 in 1946). Another Set of Heirs ! (New York Sun) ! Disputes over legacies, volitical as well as material, | are not new, so it is not surprising, considering the | many ramifications of the New Deal, that there should be rival claimants for what has been left by its demize | Henry Wallace gct the jumn when he and his follower organized the Progressive Citizens ¢f America desizned to make a little less obvious the pink haze which has surrounded the Political Action Committee, where Henry's following Ywas largest. Now their right to the Rooseveltian legacy is disputed by Americans for Demc- cratic Action, who differ chiefly from the Wallaceites in their determination to prevent €ommunists from horning in. Both groups want to carry the New Deal banner not only at home but in fcreign fields, but the A. D. A. proposes to be more varticular than the P. C. A. about' who may join their proc n. They want only followers who favcr apvlication of th four freedoms on both sides of the iron curtain and have inserted a plank in their platform which declares { First icns to the four new Commissicn. System from two to one employed. Since the Health Department, by legislative action, been transformed virtually into a new agency with added responsibilities and has been armored fcr a tuberculosis, decisive campaign against increases was to be expected there. the undermanned school staffs during the war years, swelling of the teaching ranks is to be applauded rather than criticized Yet, despite addition of 73 teachers and a Univer- faculty of the University of Alaska departments among them had 27 employed. Other major employee increases are found within the Department of Health — nearly doubled neers’ Hcme and the Unemployment Compensati n The Treasurer's Office lists a staff de- crease from 11 to nine employed and the Alaska M The L We reject any association with Communists or sympathizers with Communism in the United States as completely as we rejoct any iation with Fascists .md their sympathi- Both are hostile to principles cof ich this Republic - the (ch‘ m and demseracy on w has grown great. As standard bearers, the Americans for Democratic Action have such New Deal stalwarts as Leon Hende’ son, Wilson Wyatt, David Dubinsky and Elmer Davi And right up front, to substantiate their claims’ o the Rocseveltian heritage, are Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt and Franklin D. Jr. It is typical of probate actions that the mere claimants there are to an estat the more fun the public gets cut of it. On that sc alone it is pleasing to note that the claims cf Wallace, Pepper and their kind to the New Deal mantle are not to go unchallenged. some staff And, recollecting The Washinglon Merry-Go-Round (Continuca. from Page une,! try didn't have to face ihe consum- er directly, tuerefore might not know how much consumer pres- .u.e was piling up against high Professor Theodore Ynetama, Di- reetor of research for the Com- mittee on Economic development, ,manpower.” it was able to provide year-round Col. Frank McCarthy, close friend employment for its fleet of ships of Secretary of State Marshall, to and all their crews. head the Paris office of the motion “The engineers employed by in- Dicture asscciaiion. McCarthy had Pierce said, “have been been expected to take a top job .Ablo to develop production techno- in the State Department, but will lozy to its highest efficiency, but be Hollywooed's European trouble- they have ignored or overlooked shooter instead. . . . . Private pow- human technology. There’s no rea- ¢r and fertilizer interests are using con why the auto industry can't Senator McKellar and his Tennes work more than seven months a see feud against David Lilienthal year. Not to do so is a waste of to block Gordon Clapp from be- coming Lilienthal's TVA successor. (COPYRIGHT, 194, BELL SYNUICATE, INC) e Young Ford replied that he hop- ed to see the day socn when the tacked up Ford by pointing out auto industry was able 10 Provide ¢ ¢ o 06 ¢ ¢ » o ¢ o o o that prices generally were too high. its workers with year-round em- o - Prices have gone clear teyond the ployment. 5 T.:AI\)I?U:R\YB{&E : range of the average working man, It was a few days thereafter that o pcw tide 2:11 am., 51 ft. e Ynetama said, and he pointed Ford made his sensational an- o gyop tide 8:33 A 156 u . specifically to department store nouncement reducing the price of ¢ yow tide 15:35 pm. 17 5 prices, the prices of food, textiles, his cars. e High tide 22100}‘]“" 119 ft. clothing, and movie admissions. | A R e Professor Sumner Schlicter of NO LAME-DUCK JOBS 1 e g o Harvard agreed with Ynetama, ar-| Here's some bad news for Demo- LOGGERS guing that it would be wise for in- dustry to lower prices now or face cratic Congressmen and Senators defeated in the last election who ATTENTION LOGGERS with logs for sale. Contact Juneau Lumber a just demand for higher wages it have been priming the White House Mills. Will buy from 100,000 ft wouldn't like. ! for Federal jobs: to 10,000,000 f.eet For further sl President Truman has adopted a particulars see -Juneau Lumber STANDAKD FAVORS DECREASE new policy—no lame-duck appoint- Mills 433-tf Standard Oil's Frank Pierce, an xpert labor relations man, also the match to the high-price of Senator arguing that industry had ments, barring exceptional cases, ‘This is the story behind the hope Jim Mead's friends to land him a diplomatic post or to exercise its leadership by cut- scme other top job. ting prices. Truman and Mead are old and “Yes,” Plerce <cid, “industry will close friends, fought shoulder to AN, have to exercise its leadership by R - unds shoulder in many Senate battles, : 3 exposing the food and steel trusts and when Truman became Vice- SIoD. which have created such an out- President in 1944, Mead succeeded 13 Muiiquor. 48 Gotdea rageous situation.” him as Chairman of the War In- 13 Skv-blue 44 Nothing Pierce didn’t mention it, but pos- vestigating Committee. However, '|= 5::::‘#; :?I :x'r’:.'i‘.::'} 'f;‘:m tbly he had in mind the recent several times recently when White 10 WMu‘l‘.‘lor'I 4 ru':fswfifiy study of government economists rouse advisers raised the question 11 Metal rnlener 51. Region which shows how the focd indus- of putting the able New Yorker L try’s profits have soared as much ccmewhere cn the Federal payroll, ' authority as 250 percent in recent months. Truman replied with a flat “no.” painting by T Armour’s increased its profits 231 “If the people of a state or a . Uenus of the brother muple tree 62 Decuy percent for the first nine mpnths of 1946 over the same period of '45, Sunshine Biscuit's profits after tax- es/ rose 122 percent, United Bis- cuit’s profits rose 205 percent, the creameries of America made 673 percent more, while wages dropped t0 a level lower than on V-J Day. Finally, U. S. Steel's Stephens said he thought the others were being a little rough on him. The way to lower prices, he claimed, was through high production and fewer strikes. To this, Ford's Bugas retorted that, with prices so high, strikes were inevitable. ANNUAL WAGE Pierce of Standard Oil then be- zan a biunt discussion of the guar- anteed annual wage. Sooner or la- ter, he claimed, industry would have 1o face the quesdon ol guarantee- ng year-round employment to workers. In the past, Pierce ex- plained, Standard of New Jersey used to to lay up its tanker fleet cach winter, throwing thousands of nen out of work. Eventually, how- ever, Stan found that by push- ing its line of home-heating fuels, congressional district have decided Kind ot wine *hat they dont' want a man in % Washingten by voing him out of gz pym office, why should I go against 3% Chance their judgment by appointing him to some job as a reward for being defeated?” the President said. So far, none of Truman’'s advis- <rs has thought up a gcod answer. Note—FDR believed that when a man had longs experience in Wash- ington, that experience should not Le lost. Men who really know gov- ernment are hard to find, and he pelieved in appointing defeated Congressmen to administrative po- sitions. Other Presidents usually have followed the same course. CAPITAL CHAFF Italian Communists and Social- ists are fighting tooth and nail against the re-establishment of a new Italian government under Christian Democratic former Pre- mier Alcide De Gasperi, even though De Gasperi has just return- ed from the USA with a quarter- billion dollars werth of loans and promises. . . .Movie moguls are so worried over selling their pictures in Europe that they are sending Devd 63 Barrier in & 5. Cravat fence 66 Unity 6 Faty oo 6 JANUARY 30 Rodney Willilams Susan Jane Boggan . Mrs. Tay Bayers ° H. F. Stolfi o Emily Nolan b R. F. Edwards . M. M. Adamson e Cyril De Groyster . e . e e ¢ © o 15T ANNIVERSARY BAPTIST CHURCH, IS NEXT SUNDAY . The First Baptist Church of Ju- neau will observe its first anni- versity this coming Sunday, it w announced by the Rev. J. T. Spur- }lin, Pastor. i Guest speaker will be the Rev Felton H. Griffin, Pastor of the Baptist Church of Anchor- {age and Executive Secretary of he Alaska Baplist Convention. The |Rev. Griffin is to arrive in Ju- neau this week, A prog: arrang>d by the Rev. Spurlin will portray the gr th of the local church during it rst year. hlizhte~~are th foundinz of the church en Febru- ary 2, 1946, in the American Lecion out, with 13 charter members v the church has its own prop- erty and the membership has creased 67 percent. All person: are welcome to al tend Su morning’s servi Rev. Spur! d. > ARVO HAMALAINEN OF FIRLAYD, BALKED BY WIND, PELICAN BOUND topped within 100 destination 1 th and ruku 1 Hamalainen, wing ainen, ied by K. the trip across He ma ntic on Grip- then flew to tile via Uv‘lrni Axr me: Ra en met T ed to board little mail boat Aurora, owned by Raati- kainen, for the short llxp to P2li- can But the Tak led differ- ently. The Aurora has been hel since last wezk and has made sev- eral attempts to tuck t winds up Stevens Passage, without success. Although Arvo has alent of a hizh oo! education, and hopes to be able to enter sither the Uriversity of Alaska or some college in the states next fall, Hamalainen at present does not speak English. He sp Swedish. Finnish and German, hewaver, and tpects- to pick up the lanzuage kly. HOSPITAL NCTES St. Ann’s Hospital admitted Mrs. P. J. Falls for medical attention yesterday. Discharged were Mrs. Jack Warren and baby boy and Mrs. John Boland and baby girl. No new patients were admitted to Government Hospital; Mary Naomoff of Juneau was the only discharge. Solution ot Yesterday's Puzzle 69 Orientat dwelling 1 70 Diminished 71 Scarlet DOWN European Flowering shrud Chier Norse 20d . Chinese secret society Wi inferestea | Burning Containers Lizht brown sdering flux K Treat with ghsequious eterence Ked 4 ialian eity Ireland . . Give tempo= rarily . Relatives THE DAILY ALAbKA EMPIRL—JUVI:AU ALASKA d the equiv- —_ Rope for moore | ing a boat 1pport 4 P THE EmciRE o e et i f 20 YEARS AGO [ JANUARY 30, 1927 W. D. Gross was aboard the Alaska leaving Seattle for Gov. George A. Parks was a passenger on the Aluskn for Juneau.| Charles Skuse arrived on the Virginia IV from Chichagof. r arrived on the Admiral Evans from Seattle. JW.G Sigurd Wallstedt, representative of the Supreme Dictator of the Moose, was coming north on the Alaska. and Mrs. me. About 65 people swooped down on d the pepular couple in their new surprise The Juneau Ministerial Association made a census of Juneau and found that 83 per cent of tHe residents expressed som= preference fc r‘ religion. report: High, 30; low, 29: ' Daily Lessons in Engltsh clear. e i o e et e et s e i ) JSE U “No one, not even his Do not Ve 7, “No one, KNOWS his whereabouts.” Subje and verb must agree, the singular subject of the verb KNOWS. OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Chimerical. n KITE, E as in MET, second ond syllable. N MISSPELLED and ONE is Px'c'lam;uc ki- lus (excess). Surplice (an outer vest- \ brave, fearless, interpid, times and it is yours. Today's word “It is Farrar. SYNONYMS: He s WORD STUDY: “Use a word three one word each day. in matters of opinion. as not revealed. ncere cur abulary by mast DOGMATIZE; to assert pos.iively, dc ;;n:xlwu about things w ripts when: writing business letters? it is better in a business lctter t otten subject. himself should he call himself “M man is ir Smith"? rodue Q W Smith" A. Q. Where are A. At the ends or the d on the table? C. GORDON President of the United Stat D twentieth century? 3. Under normal concitions Icse in a we How many years aré usually considered a gener: 5. Which is the best swimmer of the bear famil, ANSWERS: The Amazon River o how much air doer automobile ation? William McKinley. About two pounds a week. 3. 4. 33 year~. 5. The polar bear. 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