The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 17, 1947, Page 4

PAGE FOUR Daily Alaska Empire Published evers evening except Sunday by the EMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY <8 President Vice President Editor and Manager anaging Editor iness Manager n i as Second Class Matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Delivered by carrier in Juneau and Douglas for S1.50 per month: six menths, SA.0P; ene year. S15.00 Post_Office in Ju postage prid, at the following rates $15.00 50, a favor if they will promptly notify the Business Office of any failure or irregulasity in the delivery » their Tele Business Office. Offiee. 602 ATED PRESS sively entitled (o the use for The Associated P is exc republication « news dispatches credited to it or not other- wise credited in this puper and also the local news published nexein —3 RESENTATIVES Alaska Newspapers, 1411 SAVINGS AND PRICES The Council of Economic Advisers is reported to have told the President that purchasing power and comsumption have begun to sag slighty. Buying has been maintained, according to this report, only because of an expansion in consumer credit, a shrinkage in wartime savings, and a reduction in the present rate of savings. It is true that the volume of savings has declined substantially from its abnormal wartime peak But the most recent figures on savings indicate that they are now in line with pre-war experience. Al- though some persons are cashing in their war bonds and drawing down other forms of war savings, this has been more than offset by new savings by other perscns. And it is the over-all result which is important During 1946, for example, total sales of Series E bonds aggregated $4,466,000,000 as compared with re- demptions of $5,423,000,00, or an excess of redemptions of almost $1,000000000. In contrast, sales of Series F and G bonds exceeded redemptions by more than $2,000,000,000. Thus on balance tiere was a net in- crease in the outstanding volume of these bonds instead of a decrease. In each of the first three months of this year Series E bond sales have actually exceeded redemptions—the net increase for the three months was over $400,000,000. Savings in qther forms have also been increasing. In 1946 deposits in mutual and postal savings ks rose by almost $2,000,000,000. Building and loan asso- ciation investments, time depcsits and insurance have also been increasing. In fact, in his Economic Report to Congress the President reported that savings in the final quarter of 1946 were at the rate of more than $14,000,000,000 annually. With. total savings still increasing, which means that for everay dollar of past savings used there is more than a dollar of new savings by someone else in the econcmy, it is difficult to understand why the shrinking volume of a particular segment of savings is important. Moreover, comparisons with the wartime totals are completaly irrelevant because wartime sav- ings were totally abnormal and resulted from the exigencies of war finance and the lack of adequate The Was'hinglonr 1% {a brief reaction to a general ‘ supplies of goods and services. The decline in savings from the wartime rate is a healthy development, not a’ “danger signal,” as is being alleged Wity | Hemline Gamble Cinc! ati Enquirer) | . MAY 17 | Proponents of longer skirts have overcome, at 5 i least temporarily, the resistance movement they hava|® K. G. Merritt o hitherto encountered. Both New York and Paris say | ® Donald Wingerson ° definitely that the mid-calf, or longer, skirt is what | ® Billy Joe Stoddard L3 they” are wearing, and will continue to wear. Wom-|® Elsa Lundell six months, in sdvance, $7.50; | en who swore they'd never hide their knees again are | ® W. C. White meekly accepting the two-inch longer hemline, com- | ® Marzaret Pearce pensated in the knowiedge they look definitely 1947 | ® James A. Sofoulis LH in their new spring outfits, and feel superior to their | ® Claude H. Anderson shorter skirted sisters in 1946 lengths . . Jokn Anderson What is worrying thrifty shoppers, also manu-|® Perry E. Beebe facturers, even stock traders and economists, is Whether | ® L the slumping hemline is a long term or an intermediate | ® MAY 18 terend. Periods of hemline decline have been relatively | ® John Hermle . short lived during the last s. One in 1923 was . ® Joseph Riedi . Ray G. Day Harold T. Jacobson Hans Floe ise in skirt lengths that | ® stated in 1920. But in 1924 the hemline rallied, to- ® gether with the stock market, and started a riss that | @ by 1928 reached a record high of 21 inches above the | ® Malcolm Faulkner . floor--and on most wearers above the knees. But Mrs. Raymond Haydon L X shortly thereafter it began another recession that|e Grant Ritter brought it to a modest 10 inches above the floor by | e Chee Hermann 1932. The next year it started to rise and, except for'e Guy Westall e i a brief intermediate dip in 1935, kept going up until | e Barry Van Sandt in 1040 it was 17 inches above the floor. It then'!e Mrs. C. L. Gaddie vin Butts Milton M. Finkel levelled off, and remained more or less static during | e wartime e Those who are bet! on a bearish curve in hem- | o lines believe women want change from the short|e e o s« © o« o @& 8 o skirts they have been wearing for so long. Designers, they point out, want to market new designs, manu- | i heard . what | bed. When my wife # : s ' soods 8 who 4 i ) —— e rr s 1 r.ucimrm‘s (;: mn\.c“nc“muxvds tIh:::e”v\lm dlls;S.L l!_\, Herbert Hoover said about Harry rising hemline will soon reassert itself, as it has in | o o emarked: “What's he the past, are gambling not only on the feminine urge to look young, but on science's predilection to upset market graphs and indexes. For a recently discovered oil treatment for mylon threads will not only make them resistant to runs, but give them greater smooth- ness and sheerness, and permit the manufacture of 2 higher number-gauge stocking. What woman, they ! ask, would be willing to hide such stockings under a mid-calf or lenger skirt? on the Democratic ticket?” .. Re- publicans on the House Appropria- tions Committee are wondering why Rep. Francis Case of South ota, always a devout eccnomiz- I has been fighting so hard to prevent drastic cutting of the Army budget. They now figure the rea- son why: Case, who hopes to be- er, Free Press in Russia . £ ool in 1948, thinks that by being kind (Cincinnati Enquirer) In a recent interview with Harold Stassen, Premier | '0 ‘S“)“lf‘]“,‘_;‘:,f:fq“.f“ss‘l“‘ghl:‘f giip ‘ Stalin declared that Russia is “unable” to lift the Of SOutl Dakotas Sen. Chal | Vice-President; Mrs. H. C. Gorham, “Secretary Treasurer. doing? Running for Vice President ; come Senator from South Dakota the I. 20 YEARS AGO ¥';-}nE EMPIRE el MAY 1%, 1927 Mrs. A. F. McKinnon was in St. Ann’'s Hospital suffering from an attack of influenza. Commencement Week at Juneau High School was to begin with ® | Baccalaureate Exercises Sunday, May 22, with Commencement Exercises | to be held May 27 in the high school auditorium. The class was the largest ever to graduate from JHS and numbered 19. They were Elsie o | Baggan, Lillian Bayers, Harold Brown, James Connors, Jr., Rachel Grace | o | Fisher, Edward Giovanetti, Evelyn Judson, Natalia Kashevaroff, Mar-! a }garot Kiloh, Alfred Lundstrom, Edward Naghel, Grace Naghel, Margaret Peterson, David Ramsay, Jackson Rice, Edna Smith, Mabel Sturrock, ® | Gertrude Waltonen and Alma Weil. The Alaska Steamship Company’s steamers Northwestern and Ala: ® |meda were due to arrive here this night, westbound and southbound, | o | respectively. Territorial Highway Engineer R. J. Sommers was to leave on th: nterior. ks i Mrs. C. J. Skuse was chosen President of the Juneau Woman's Club | 4 at their meeting held the previcus night. Mrs. Mary Monagle was elected | and Mrs. T. J. McCaul, Weather: Highest, 56; lowest, 39; cloudy. Daily Lessons in English 3. 1. corpox O ) WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “You would have been de- have been delighted had you gone.” OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Oceanic. Proncunce o-she-an-ik, not o-si-an-ik nor o-shan-ik. OFTEN MISSPELLED: Accompaniment. SYNONYMS: Noisy, clamorous, uproarious, hoisterous, blatant. WORD STUDY: “Use a word three times and it is yours.” Let us ncrease our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Today's word: censorship ban on newspaper articles emanating from | 1¢Y: sometimes called the brass|STIPULATION: any condition in an agreement. “He granted it with hats’ bellboy. South Dakota’s other 4 Senator, tough .Harlan Bushfield, has heard that Case and Gurney | have already reached an under- standing. A lot of people wondered why his country. Stalin's announcement, made verbatim by the former Minnesota Governor, occasions little surprise. There have been no indications that the Kremlin had any intention to comply with the “free press” requests made by other democratic nations. It is difficult—perhaps impssible—for leaders of il many foreign lands, particularly those long under dic- | GOV. Tom Dewey passed up Gen.! tatorships, to understand either the values of or the | Wid Bill” Donovan as GOP Sena- | reascns for a free press as we in the United States toFial candidate from New York know it. To the dictator free speech is dangerous; |31'd Put his' hand on Irving I\'esl free discussion something to be feared. The individual Instead. The reason is now appar-! who rules by force rather than by popular will con- a stantly must be on guard lest the mass of his peopls |Of the most fair-minded and intel- learn the whole truth, either about his own administra- | ligent members of the Senate. tion or the administrations of democratic nations. | . . Pinchpenny Congressman John | MOERN ETI he stipulation that we assist him.” QUETTE Roserra LR I Q A. No. The prover kind ¢f woman does not like this, and if he ent. Ives has turned out to be one | aPPens to meet one who does, he'd better avoid her in the future. Q. When invited to an outdecr party, and the weather is very !rainy, should one go anyway? A. Yes, unless the hostess has notified you of a postponement. D) If a man meets a woman friend getting into a streetcar or bus, | should he pay her fare? | ! Ncrthwestern to initiate work on existing projects and investigate other ! e | proposed routes and requests for new airplane landing fields in the | | | | [ [ | | | lighted had you have gone.” Omit the second HAVE. Say, “You would | i | | | | i Nor is it probable that the people of a nation | Taber offered to restore part of the Q. Is it necessay that a business man rise when a woman employee | long under a rule would be able to comprehend the | @PPropriation for the “Voice of enters his office? ; meaning of a free press. For years and years they . America” if Secretary of State A. Certainly not; but he must always rise to receive a woman have looked upon the press as an instrument of gov- Marshall agreed to fire Assistant|yigitor g o ernment. They expect to find, in their newspapers, | Secretary oi State Bill Benton. | government propaganda rather than factual truths.|Marshall replied that the R e e e Experience—and experience alone—can teach them branch of the Government refused | that real truths, freely circulated, give the public to be intimidated and that the ap-! the full information cn which good government must | Propriation would have to be passed be founded. or defeated on its merits. . . .Mar- Democracy is not a precept which can be handed shall might have asked Taber why | to a peonle complete and ready for operation. It|he kept his brother on the payroll must come from the people themselves. They must | at the taxpayers' expense. . . .Atty. build it gradually; must educate themselves in its |Gen. Tom Clark has ordered his mathods and structure . A free press, as an instru- |assistants to continue prosecution ment of democracy, also must have a gradual growth. ' of all OPA violation cases. Clark |It would be as impossible to install, instanter, a free has even ordered new indictments | press within a dictatorship as it would be to pass a|drawn for black marketeers who camel through the proverbial needle’s eye. i might escape prosecution because = e - o =5 of previous bad legal work. men Thruston Morton asked Stas-|“Toughy” Spaatz, head of the Air|(COPYRIGHT, 1947, BEL. SYNDICATE. INC) b . LOOK and LEARN A. L. fORDON e et S —~—— 1. About how many stars can the person with average eyesight see? | 2. What is the science of sounds, especially of speech sounds, called? 3. Who bred the first mule in this country? 4. In what novel is Becky Sharp the principal character? 5. How many distinct diseases can be traced to flies? ANSWERS: 1. About 7,000. . 2. Phonetics. 3. George Washington. 4. Thackeray’s “Vanity Fair.” 5. Thirty. sen how he'd have voted on lheiF‘m’cv. and Gen. Jake Devers, heaq | SR o S i | M G R d Hartley labor bill had he been alof the Ground Forces, but alsoGeén. @ ®© @ » = = ~ '+ & o o o e"y' 0-Roun member of the House. Stassen re- Hoyt Vandenberg — who, at that|e ° plied that ho had opposed it, and time, actually wasn't in the Army. e TiDE TABLE . (Continued frum Page One! would have voted against it. | “Why are you decorating Van- e . = i ok o “There was a need for labor leg- | denberg?” the Egyptian Embassy'e MAY 18 ° is now turning out oil drilling islation, but ihat just went too far,” was asked. ® High tide 0:00 am., 17.1 ft. o equipment. Another plant I saw is Stassen said “Because,” replied the smart' ® Low tide 6:24 am, -07 ft. today rolling steel for industrial _Rep. Jack Javits, New York City|pgyntians, “he is the nephew of |® High tide 12:38 pm., 156 ft. e equipment—during the war it was Republican, asked whether Stassen ine Chairman of the Senate For-|® Low tide 18:25 pm. 15ft. working on finished war goods favored a hand-off attitude or in- ejgn Relations Committee.” I . The Russians, Stassen said, are telligent planning for possible fu-| . MAY 19 . concentrating on building up the ture depressions. | MERRY-GO-ROUND |® High tide 0:35 am., 183 ft. e industrial facilities which will even- “Of course, we cannot afford not| wyhile it isn't permissible to pub- |® Low tide 7:03 am. -23 it. tually enable them to raise their t0 plan” Stassen replied. “Two im- }ish Gridiron Club speeches, there'sl ® High tide 13:19 pm., 162 ft. e standards of living. And “they are Portant things we must bear in'po ryle against telling your wife!® Low tide 19:07 pm., 13 ft. e Wotkdne st it wikl seed siirit mind—we must maintain the SR R N N oo sy The ex-Minnesota Governor sisted that the Russians feel frie in ly toward Americans and do not believe insnired stories that the United States is unfriendly toward them Cenditions in England and France will soon “settle down,” Sta went on, explaining that tho: countries will eventually em: with governments of neither the extrems right nor the extreme left Stassen did not attack the Greek- Turkish loan, but did gripe about the way in which the issue was breuzht forth by President Truman “The bipartisan foreign policy can't surv.ve dictation by one party,” he ccmmented. “Both parties must be in on the formulation of this policy as well as its implementation.” Stassen did insist that if we ad- yance 1 s the future for any foreign government, we must know in advance how those funds will be used “We can't just hand it over,” he ergued. “We've got to nave some- how like what's thing to say about is to be spent. Ju we've got to k done with it the money a banker, to be BAD POTSDAM BARGAIN “U. 8. foreign policy,” Stassen told th- GOP Congressmen, “must be more practical. We've got to re- ‘member that we're not always 100 percent right. We've been wrong in the past and we will be aga Byrnes and Truman agreed to an impossibly 1oggy compact on re- parations while they were in Pots- dam, and we just can't escape all the blame :n that situation. We must be firm, yes; but practical, rather than just tough.” Kentucky's freshman Congr ,only strength and purchasing power of labor, and wz must strengthen the anti-monopoly fight and the en- fcreement of the anti-trust laws.” When Javits asked Stassen how he would accomplish these objec- tives, Chairman Goif of Idaho steppea in to enforce the rule of the evening—only one question per- mitted a member. | UNDER THE DUME | NBC was sore as blazes at Sen-i ator Taft when debated the all-im- portant labor bill with AFL boss Bill Green. Taft merely read an old about them when you go home to) Crossword Puzzle ACROSS 32. Work over L. Confidence 34. English 6. Shore murderer 11. idolizes 36. Low haunt 13, Timber 37. Mountain 14. Frequeaten (i place 89, Wage 15. Singing bira ~ 41. Articie 16 Indian 42. Spanish title mulberry 44, Small round Type of lens marks . Porous rock 46. Furniture Small candle support Asiatic trees . Qindu - Time or . garments speech delivered three weeks before season: Gainip 3 3 Scoteh Orlental nurse and printed in the Congressional 5. jece crystals li:\erzrccn tr s g _} 2. Part of a You and | Rec.urd Reason Taft stumbled oc- | i o iy casionally w: because the print, 29, Steamship: Kind of s st diesg % abbr. mineral was so fine he could hardly read' gy pyicai 60. Accustomed it. NBC had given him several | country 61, Slow thousand dollars’ worlin of time, presumably to tell the public some- thing new. Eugene Casey, | Rocsevelt's ex-aide, heard that sev-! eral disabled veterans had been trying to buy Bob Allen's new book, | ur Fair City.” So Casey, without | telling anyone, ordered “Our Fair City" sent to 176 Army, Navy and VA hospitals, .E-Gov. Charlie Edison of New Jersey, who is tak- ing lessons at Arthur Mur Murray he hoped that polit gagements wouldn't interfe his finishing the course. advised Mu with “Listen,” two 1ormer pupils of mine ran unsuccessfully for President of the United States. Maybe if thev had taken g few ex- lessons they would have made the White House.” The Egyptian government re- cently decif~d to award decorations to top U. 3. military teaders. When the proposed honor list was shown to U. . officials, it contained not General Eisenhower, Gen Solution of Yesterday's Puzzle 62. Merfume with burning DOWN L Units of electrical capacity 1 s 63. Teansmits 2. Feminine name 3. Peacock . Approximately . Considering one’s own nterests . Flat parts ot stairs . 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