The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 14, 1947, Page 4

——-—-—————————— PAGE FOUR i D(d'l)' Alaska EMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY Main 8 Jur Al Empire Sunday by the President ent tor for $1.30 per month; £15.00 B wing rates e me S f they will promptly notify the Business Office or irregularity in the delivery Te x o, 602; Business Office, 374 iy MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS . e 1 ews published s NATIC REPRE IVE Al ka Newspaper 1411 TAXES AND THE COST OF LIVING onents of the proposed net income income and general property tax program for ow before Territorial Legislature ue that one of the reason: needed is because of the r es in the cost of ; since 1945, We wonder if any consideration has been given to what effect the imposition of these new taxes would have on the cost of living? taxes will mean an in Alaska Without a doubt, increased even greater increase in the cost of livin and soaring hig f Alaska t get something for already high The you ¢ that people ¢ should know by now nothing. No matter h the advocates sound the bill. Prac- they are levied words of the high tax called upon to of whether sweet the people ti directy or to John Q. Public few other isolated businesses, would not be able to pass ; along in the form of higher prices will still be ally all taxes, regardless the individual Only the gold mines, and perhay eventually are passed along increased tax: So when they tell you that the capitalist is goi to pay for the most of the proposed increases, figure it out for yourselyes. Most businesses in Alaska today couldn't afford to shoulder new tax loads if they want to, and it is apparent by now that they can expect no relief in Federal taxes. The merchant, faced with high wages and increased taxes has only one recourse raise prices. And where does that put you, Mr. and Mrs ge er? Right behind the eight ball New taxes will only help to further increase the so if new taxes are piled on this year, w the argument will be that the increased so we must have more A Great ldea, But— (Cincinnati En r France for a few weeks has been aitempting to put into operation W daring and thoroughly sound economic plan. It calls for greatly expanded produc- tion of coal, electric power, steel and other hasic items. | for longer hours of work, for enforced and for borrowing overseas to cover rehabilitation It call of prices generally wgent imports of machinery for modernization of French industry It is a good plar and economist, Jean Monnet on the 1gne relatively long work wee ness to forego strikes and ps icreases Before the project was really beginning to show results, some 5,000,000 government workers left their jobs in a protest demonstration to enforce their de- mands for higher pay. Their tion paralyzed trans- portation, telephone commui broades ing d police service Uready were unable to publish, owing to a strike of typographical workers To plunge a country into chacs in the very be-| ginning of a notable effort to rebuild its shattered aconomy is, indeed, a grave responsibility Y thi. no suddenly conceived, spontaneous walkout. It planned in detail, and organized fully. Parading strikers in great numbers carried Cor and sang the 1 rnationale This in 1f proves little, for are the large single political group and their strength is among the flaunting of their Commt the clue. It is possible that has chosen to with the or cooperation e u 5 e coalition support of the Monnet plan If that is the fact, the out indeed, grim. The best hope of recos France lay in the willingness of controlled trade unions to stay o1 their work week. But if unior ployees will not hold the line nd larger unions will not do so eithe mark the definitive failure of plan for of the Ainst mmunist emblem: anized workers deflation the work of an eminent banker But its usefulness hinges s of French workers to stay on the job and for their willing- Commt t in France today Yet tion may be government ok 1 e in: he French Communist licy of constructive and its r France is, and stabili Communist- the job and extend | government em- flation, other r. And that will French before it has even a chance to prove its worth four-year The Camera Does the Rest (New York Tim As early as 1890 George Eastman was seliing his You the ri kodak by telling the world, we do the r Since then mean some shop to which the film is mission to a developing and fixing establishment press the button, has come to | ken for trans- It was the taking and not the making of pictures in the chemical sense that Eastman so greatly improved. Now comes Edwin H. Land with the s artling announce- ment that he has invented a camera which not only takes but develops and fixes pictures a minute after the button or bulb is pressed. Dr. who sighed two years ago in T for a way of snapping pictures immediately, has been heard When the motion picture became possible to project news ever the need for quick developing and f The steps necessar, duced Hot chemicals and mechanical devices have made it was s 0 inevar Bu ntic Monthly at them nted and it n the screen, urgent y to shorten the process were re- ingenious possible to present darkroom a picture in a minute and less after exposure. Blue- prints have been produced with almost instantaneous rapidity, and mechanical processes have made it possible for of themselves a in a dummy automobile or a fishing t is crude compared with what Mr. Land has done hoat visitors to Coney Island to see pictures few minutes after they have posed But all this He simply presses the exposed film and a strip of paper into a sandwich. The “ham” sticky yet almost which is squeezed out of a capsule. and out comes the picture All this seems so simple why it was not done before. in the dry mixture of developer and fixer A tu andwich is a arn of a knob a permanent positive. that, as usual, we wonder Though e chemicals are the familiar ones used in darkrooms, the process is 1 new. In ordinary developing and fixing silver in the unexpesed areas is lost—washed away This very silver now forms a positive which pops out of the camera when the knob is turned. There is nothing like this in the history of photography : method is not simple, but it is new. The Washington Merry-Go-Round tics and poweriul U grecund out from under Russian‘cri- from those S. Army-Navy urged a |figure that th propagand who in e lo) their agents, their tem of boring from within ca favor a centraiized Germany. They ng run their take eces0ecesccsoe o THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA MARCH 14 Ted R. Lyman George Folia/ Martin Lynch Be‘ty Kristan Mary Lou Fagerson DeBoft Lineham Harry Olds Oscar Manhsol Mrs. Delia Dull N. A. McEachran Judson Brown Dan Mahoney Mrs. Herman Wel o . e et e Mr Wallace Charles Murs Mr aies. which also England has never been in close contact with the Rus- sians, has become more Soviet- minded than ever before. Britair exceptionally cold Winter and Bri- tish confusions have played into Russia’s hands. If a Conservative Government rather than a Labor Government were now running ngland, there might have been olution this winter. All this boils down to the fol- lowing: What we do now, during the crucial post-war period, is going to shape the course of the world for years o come. It is not war or big armies or navies that we have to wor- ry about for the next five or ten years; it is the problem of becoming an example to the rest of the world, of making the USA he best-run, most humanitarian country in the world. It is the problem partly of strikes, profits, and not hegging the road And it is also the problem of less, a continuing wise, forthright, but generous foreign policy. Finally every i ot to consider foreign affairs as obsorbing as the sports page or the murder headline. That is one man’s opinion of our and perhaps our only chance to outsmart the Russians at their own game. best CPYRIGHT, 1941, BELL SYNDICATE. INC) - e HUUSE MEASURES DAY, MARCH 13 sures Passed) H. To increase the per diem allowa to Territorial of- ficials frem $7 to $10, when travel- Con ee Substitute for H. B. 95 To define the term “Annual Resi dent” it applies to insurance dealers or agents in the licensing law. H. J. M. 27—Ass Congress and others to take steps to set up a program for land clearing, farm development and outright purchase N ] l} ) \ § | | i RSN ONG, | 20 YEARS AGO 73 | THE EMPIRE , ‘ SUPFET S ST PREEEN P SPPUEVRSS 50 G MR & MARCH 14, 1927 1 Two Senators and four Representatives were to be named to visit the | cers' Home at Sitka { A minimum wages bill had been introduced in the Senate i amgadaidp e | ; { Lucretia Botsford, of the U. S. Attorney's office, returned to Juneau | m Ketchikan, where she had been on court work | £ | ce ‘Graham trucks had been received and delivered to J. B.| ympany, D. B. Femmer and Olaf Torkelson | A i Anderson of Douglas announced a would be next night for the purpose of nominating candidates for seven positions and one for the school board Mayor public caucus Weather report High, 34; 1 ; cloudy. 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Time, nfusion Of land by larmers in Alaska (Continued rrum Page C curface, there appeared to be no ac- |and chaos will play into their S J. R 1—Directing the Depart- R — tual change of Russian policy hands ment of Public Welfare to pay the 4 i apable ot Nome ospital $10 a day for the policy during the past six months.| For it was an inescapable fact Actually, however, time can also (n‘H‘A‘\v’l“l“w“_mr v S0y s . This may be the way to un- | that while Molotov was being con- piay on cur side—if we are smarter B. 34—To amend the law re cerstand General shall's very | Ciliatory in New York, the MOSCOW (han the Russians and if we make . = = % 0 0 ) ‘)mw'dm,f“ b difficult problem Moscow. press and lo were pouring out the USA an example of orderline: ating o al i ¢ e. a steady stream of anti-American i, 5 disordered world R A vitrio 3 ssian people HENRY WALLACE FIRED iizigh b0, ot ‘S"“\I‘:z( "1’1"‘”‘f: In Austriz, Russla at first was ® @ ® ® « = » w C ® ® 3 x was an escapable ac also 2 . er. S Last September there appeared to ;}l 1‘: mm:"mdus in Korea, were | R8iled 858 friendly deliverer. She @ . te & ohange of Soviet polloy. Tt be: t i it has now become the most hated ® TiDE TABLE . s ’ thumbing their noses at a formal corld. T 14 gan immediately after Henry Wal- nation in the world. Time played e . € 3 agreement to cooperate with the £ 3 lace published his letter to Truman A against the Russians in Austria. e MARCH 15 . United States in governing Korea, ', 4 s o . & urging better relations with Russia, o¢ the Soviet was ignoring p The same is true in Hungary, Ru- e Low tide 1:30 am. 7.0 ft. ® following which he was fired from : pre- ' ania and Russian-occupied Ger- e High tide T7:39 am. 12:7 ft. vious promises regarding the evacu- the Cabinet Y many. e Low tide 14 pm. 38 ft. e ation of Manchuria, doing its best ] s ;- e = The storm of anti-Russian c¢ to stir up trouble in Greece, pres- In France, which has never seen e High tide 21:53 p.m., 106 ft. o cism which broke in the Americ Aring I\;or to get an .Al'c\;(' a Red Army occupation, pro iet o ° ss ) 1cide s ¢ 32 sentiment is higher than in the ¢ @ @ o & © © ® o o o pres GuEaE e WY ace JCIEN 50 Tin - Spitzbergen, and _working | s SRR A \’;vv(uulu.‘ | .”\\\1’.)1m the remlin.| pione and v to undercut the Also i \l.‘m(‘_. d ‘“‘r"l\\ Cne : 9| United States with its own neigh- 3 e % i plo irom 1e ahinet rior to Wal- » bors in’ Latin America C d P 7zl lace’s exit, Moscow « rosswora ruzzie E[M] that policy toward Russia| But, most important of all, So- o £ ided. After viet Ambassador Gromyko during I'A?ROEA? $ijbatiold N exit, they it was 1 this period of so-called conciliation | ' '8 Rinle | knew the entire nation was almost was stalling on atomic energy. Af- 19 100 percent behind the B ter muddying up public opinion by (] firm-wi a policy paying lip service to the principle | |E Accordin Moscow executed 1l inspection, he pro- 0 cne of its famous somer -and-fill, talk and In pre: delay. until the American public ol he eason fc 1s oo con: ¢ wh | R| wa » confused to know what t0| |g' \foct recently . peace the outside worl think. All it was sure of was that| = acquired Pointed arches D { L | ong Mature er Molotov began sof atomic energy is a very complicat-' 2" M e £ r note at Paris. Later ed subject Shelter Finished Y[R e o N i = Aucient Greek Russian city e cam New York a British Finally, Gromyko showed his true 5 ty Hard-shelied Solution of Yesterday's Puzzle senger vessel, I colors only two weeks ago by flat-| 20 FI nLeLialEd fruit passen i L = » | 30. Chess pieces 59. Covers with 0. Brood of 6l P passe s, courteous with ly rejecting what everyonethought' g3 Houeu‘: hlack wum: A ”.mf:ns;nu L 'ecllonjemleelzolr . newsmen, acted st like a hu- he had accepted in principle—in- DOWN n being ternational inspection of atom and . On the highest In New York also vice- The Vyshins ms pl just w of attend this aite ceived in the Fori ad developed a small atomic homb viet polic her own The Russiar other words, during the six ciple to the & sir Henry Wallace left proposed policy et, Russia has executed a national ir tc atom v, very conciliatory right- and munition: on Russian about-face—on the surface. But be- and other forej 0il neath the su:fa her policy has Many American obsersy remained exactly the same. elated. They felt that Ru , = icy had really changed RUSSIANS PLAYING FOR TIME Kremlin had decided on o policy, in brief, is not war with the United State but eventual world revolution. What ering friction, and t he Russians are playi or is should forget o tim Not unly could th not ries iight a war ¢ even if they wish- — ed, but they figure that if they SOVIET POLICY UNCHANGED wait long enough, they won't have This, of course, was exactly w the Kremlin wanted, They wanted clements in other the United States lulled in se- the job for them curity. They wanied to cut the That's one rea identally information was re- this country that Russia to fight a war at all. Revolutionary he did point Swindle Solid silver . Kub out . it together at _an angle qual. prefix . Sea bird countries will do on the Russians Lenting contraet ble FFuneral orution Loves to . Desert . 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