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PAGE FOUR task. Again a part of the world will need our food as they have since the vears of war. Home demands will be larger, with more people able to buy more produce than ever before in history. Bumper crops of Dail y Alaska Empire lished every evening except Sunday by the e Bt Sirects, Jansat, Alssks grains, especially, are needed, for America must fill i o .,}3,’.".‘.“,,‘:5,2 its grain reser badly depleted in war years i and Manager But agriculture is meeting with difficult times FRIEND £ . i = Editor [ Over a large part of America the weather is cutting L e TR g Business Manager | " ¢ iy southern Ohio, plantings have been seriously he Post Office In Juneau ns Second Class Matter. | Jelayed by rain and cold from coast to coast and from SUBSCRIPTION RATES t Setiveral By carrier o pCa Snd Dougiss for $L88 per menths |0OTder to border. In additlon, Misslssippt 8nd Ak e year, $15 | souri floods have ruined hundreds of thousands of o ihe following rates: . lacres—and at a time when replanting probably wil ’ s gy | be impossible. Early floods are serious enough. Thosc T e Pt yelivery | Which come in June—fortunately infrequent—are even - | worse. W o e " 'Had these disturbing conditions developed in nor- | MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS mal times, the threat they pose would be less grave. | wise credited paper and al e local news published | sufficient “fat” to carry us over even the worst years. hereis But today the granary is -=r beiow ncrmal. We drew | ATIONAL REPRESENTATIVES Alaska Newspapers, 1411 | heavily on that bank immediately after the war to Fourth Avenue Bidg , Seattle help feed a world which, otherwise, would have starved. | Our record farm production of 1946, 1945 and 1944 helped immensely. But we need still more Probably we'll get it. Probably, in spite of all the tribulations thev face, America’s farmers will come through with great yields. In certain areas this will be impossible. But we're a large country Wwe'll be | able to make up, in good sections, at least a large part of that which is being lost in the bad areas. That has been the history of U. S. agriculture. No reason to believe it will change now Army Enlistments | (New York Times) The enlistment figures for the Army since the | expiration of Selective Service on 1 31 indicate that we are losing the gamble that President Truman said we would be taking in relying on volunteers to keep our Army and Air Force ngth up to 1,070,000 men and the Navy at 571,000. Against a minimum ement of 20,000 men a month for Army and Air, the Army reports April enlistments totaled 16,000, May 15,000 and the first two weeks of June—always ANS | good enlistment month be high school graduations—10,103 In his message to Congress on March 3 Mr. Tru- man said that only time could give the answer to the question whather the ranks could be filled with volun- He said then that if they could not be filled by ve to ask that Selective Service be restored. It is increasingly evident t the quotas are not going to be reached. With expiration of Sept 1 of some benefits ncw held out as inducements, it would not be surprising to see enlistments fall even below their present inadequate totals. The time is appreaching when Congress must face the fact that if our Army and Navy are to be NOT THAT BAD Service, under the recently The Alaska Native enacted Interior Department appropriations bill, will get $3,500,000 for the ensuing fiscal year for operations in Alaska A statement issued the other the claimed that a million dcllars would have to be shaved from “current operating expenses.” We don’'t know whether our reporter or the ANS erred. Actually this appropriation is only about $200,000 less than last year, A million dollars more was requested from Congress, but thes day by ise of teers that means he would every department always asks for more than it receives The cost of governmei to lessen ti Actually is being cut down gradu- ally in tremendous burden upon the American taxpayer we believe the ANS came out in good shape in securing as much as it did order when other Interior Department funds were sliced kept anywhere near the manpower that has been set much more severely as a minimum for assurance of national security, Next year will be even tougher, since the demand | Selective Service will have to be reimposed. We do to reduce government expenditures will be much |not see why it is a hard decision to make. Selective greater- as a result of the faiure on ihe part of ' Service spreads the burden equally through the whole Congress to override President Truman's tax reduc- population, it is elastic, it is fair, it is democratic. No i Ll vt a5 sase the tax’birden on ithe indi- |0n® likes ihe neccmlly b jReljaitg e Jige =) L LA and Navy and Air Force as we now have. But vidual taxpayer | there are few who deny the necessity. And if the The Farm Prospect necessity exists, the right way to meet it is in the | predictable way, the honest way, the democratic way, the way of Selective Service. Military service should (Cincinnati Enquirer) not depend on degrees of patriotism or on economic a's farmers again are faced with a critical necessity. It should be a burden shared by all Ame; yber savings under the new tax bill Jin a month would just about pay her increese in rent for cne week, control protection throughout the and I think that was about the United States generally.” | aptest economic statement made up - to the present. MARBLE FOR | Taft, thinking of House veto of the tax bill, had the The President heartuy agreed. “I hope to be able to use this of- * he id, “to spread flood- [he Washingfon Merry-Go-Round (Comtinued jrum Page Onel the White VERMONT GOP more successful than the obtuse TRUMAN BB or Howard HiBHOS—-wAS |- Atoshb . Tacbhit -eltte regeived byy S nord L i o vy I Tt et G ete] . Thtiy ipern(zOte npUling ¢ he Senator Brewster went into all|of marble bockends. They were l))LCl‘{llm.d 15 necthing— that’s these lobbying setups, especially the | presented, appropriately enough,by “ . amazng ramifications of Pan Am- 5 rock-ribbed Republican, Rep. (COPYRIGHT, 1947, BELL 5 Y NDICATE. INC) erican Airways, he would be doing A a great service to the country Charles A. Plumley of Vermont. Plumley, a former schoolteacher STORY HOUR AT Note—Brewster is known as the and one of the leading wits of best friend Pan American AIrways | Congress, tcok great delight in pointing out the “political charac- teristics” of the bookends. One set, he said, was carved from Missouri TLe regular story hour of the week will be held at the Juneau narble and the other from Ver- Public Library tomorrow forenoon ment “Danby Imperial” marble at 10 o'elock according to an- “To any political student, the dif- | houncement made today. ference is obvious,” said Plumley. z e AR “You will note that the Missouri CALIFORNIANS HERE 10 to 1 won't are t he NO FLOGL CONTROL Congres: adiourned without do- irg anything constructive about one of the most vital needs of the na- tion—flood control. How vital it is was illustrated in a conversation pockends are a mixed gray, Demo- | Registering at the Baranof Hotel between Presicent Truman and Rep. cratic color wiale the Vermont set from Califorma are A. K. McDon- Al Elliott. conservative Democrat nas a pure white, or Republican, ald, Hollywood; Edith C. Clark, Si- of Tular if., who do not agree pye {mone; ard karry R. Smith, San on many things, but do see-to-eye -Incidentally, you Democrats Francisco. on flood contrel chese th's Vermont Republican ! e Ay 0, R FROM SEATTLE Lauris Lorenwzen of Seattle is at tne Gastineau Hotel “There are { rivers, Mr. Pres- ident, coming large area in ry district and the district of Bud marble for the Jefierson Memorial | here in Washington. So when you' look at these bookends, Mr. Presi- into a -TUNEAU, ALASKA 20 YEARS AGO 7 e s JULY 31, 1927 oo — GERMAN ATTEMPTS 10 FINE FRIENDS OF FATHER HERE | precipitation Ralph Mize. and extinguished by Assistant District Forester M. | sperling Mrs. David Peratrovich left on the Northweste: July was mucii ws was of ordinary {requency, Albert Matzdorf, of Hohenecken Ly Kaisersiautern, French Zone, | ! Germany, has written a letter to Two Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer men, Frank Messenger and Robert New- | the Northern Light Presbyterian | hard, passed through Juneau on their way to Culver City, Calif. Church here asking for informa- tion concerning possible acquaint-|chitna. ances of his father, also named| weather report: High, 68, low, 63; clear. Albert. b L The elder Matzdorf, according ; ” to an enclosed story from thel D -i I. . . h Alaska Daily Empire of June, 1915, ally essons in ng Ish w came here from Germany in 1913.1 . He worked in several local barber | shops, then opened his own sh()p; "‘BS}‘;{‘:‘*lf\'fl“d“,_l went fishing with | Pute.” Say, “This does not admit OF dispute.” a partner, William Miller, and was| OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Glisten. drowned accidently off their boat silent. anchored in Auk Bay. His son| ~ OFTEN MISSPLELLED: Col in Ger is now attempting to| SYNONYMS: Unwieldy, hea WORD STUDY: “U who may | locate acquaintanc still be living in Juneau or Doug-|increass our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Today's word: | las. % in\'IQUITY‘ oss injustice; wickedness. ‘“They will be punished for their “I have tried,” says Matzdorf in : {iniquity his letter, “tc get the American 7 e et e e nationality, after my sister, who | was born in America, has got it My mother of course stayed in | Germany after father's death “I live with my wife and surely | { cee oo e S ia ! you have already heard from thej i:rv"t food L,“’ trophe in Ger-| Q. If a girl does not wish to dance with someone of her acquaint- | WY p\'lurul in our circles,ance. is it permissible for hdr to refuse? And to come to the principal of | A. Yes, if she has some good reason, but sne must make some polite my wiiting, I don't have any re-|excuse and not dance with anyone else during that dance. and so I will lation in ! . (to contact) | ask if it's po: come American families who | A. She may say, ‘Mr. Grant, for whom I work. will be able to help us with food | employer,” or merely, “Mr. Grant,” if he does not S areAsity | @ 1If a guest brings a box of candy to his ho it around to the other guests? alwa LOOK and LEARN 2 y interested to m for learning 1 am a painter| can enjoy | to show ! “We would be ve correspond with th perfectly English of art and perhaps I them with a nice painting them my thanks. “Qur situation is very difficult. For example, we have only to.eat S in the month: 200 grams bread; per day, 125 grams meat in the’ gpeatest proficiency? week, 290 grams butter in the| month grams sugar in the month, 200 grams macaroni or noodles in the month Testament? | 3. 4. What is a bittern? ing we have| B s ] Mrs. J. H. Abbot of Laramie, Wyoming, with her daughter Amy Abbot . JULY 31 . . Virgil V. Bolton @ !and her granddaughter, Amy Cotheil, who have been visiting her cousin, . George H. Peterson .:Mn J. H. Hellenthal, left on the Dorothy Alexander. . Shirley Graham . Lateen . Dorothy Kimball ¢ The Smithsonian Institute had four scientific research parties busy »: Mrs - Ray Shermal) ® i Alaska this year. The life and civilization of early natives in Alaska g M_‘” m“[” w_l%mx :‘was being studied and one ethnologist was attempting to trace a Lribel : ("’(““:‘A an(m\\(s]t:u o | migration from the lower Yukon to Arkansas and Tennessee Traces & o |Of the migration of prehistoric man from Asia into the North American | o' ® ® o © o ® @ » | continent were being sought by a group of scientists on Nunivak. A small forest fire was discovered this afternoon on Mt. Robert mer and drier than the average, although the according The highest temperature of the month was 83. had been filming the “Trail of '98” in the vicinity of Fairbanks and | e e B B> B WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “This does not admit dis-| Pronounce glis'n,, the T is al; two O's, two L’s, two S's. burdensome, cumbersome. : a word three times and it is yours.” Let us MODERN ETIQUETTE Homerra 1re Q. How should a girl secretary refer to her employer? <Y 1. What is the average age at which baseball players reach their What is the popular name of the Aurora Borealis? 21 EMPIRE L. Merritt and Harry n for Seattle. to Weatherman | They L. GORDON B e i Mr. Grant, my | require identification. stess, should she pass ¢. GORDON mJ‘ | { 2. How many more books has the Old Testament than the New | “Much of our dres lost during the territle war, and| 5. Who wrote, “The paths of glory lead but to the grave”? we cannot buy ar ing for our| ANSWERS: children who need boots and mi 1. At 28 years of age. on, you can imagine, because they| 2. Twelve more. grow older. Nearly 10 years we| 3. The Northern Lights. m‘gd R3O0 bu’:} '“"hl?" L nc‘l:wefl:‘ 4. A bird of the heron family, noted for its booming cry. in desr:::yeélmg;)&hi a;;"’mr’cne‘um) \ 5:’ ‘Thomas Gray, in his famous “Elegy Written in a Country Church- “We hope to find . . . the well- Y&Td" known friendly uncle from America,| == = ez of whom all our hungry children are dreaming. We write because in your town my father is buried.” Anyone who may remember the elder Albert Matzdorf and would be interested in writing to his son in Germany or helping his family with packages, may get further information from the Rev. Willis R. Booth of Northern Light Presbyterian Church > | BIGGEST IN ALAS | Complete stock of oil. wood, coal | burning ranges, stoves, heaters at Juneau Young Hardware Co. i —ady . Housecleaning—From Floor To Cei Lightweight! Strcamlined! De luxe in every 644-tf Gearhar explained the Califor- dent, furst at the Vermont Republi- way! This new G-E “Airflo” Cleaner is the answer to all your housecleaning needs! CLEANER ling—Fast! | | i | | | “AIR-FLO" ;'(”'n C‘y“, P Q"j;" z“‘ B ]”‘” can and then at the Missouri ones, ElS ing, the e and e aweah- I padil > y I : i i ahealutis s v‘m_ can readily see that they ex- N[ Long extension tubes and hose reach from and they have absolutely HO 0UL- emplity the difference between Jef- 1 floor to ceiling—air purifying dust filter— F 1 ey - - ] fersenian Democracy and the New ACROSS | D) ! glider skids—large telescoped bag that’s casy 1 thought I ned a lot about pep) 1. Cover the top i to empty. Complete set of cleaning tools. flocd control nd the rivers of th's s aughingly agteed that| ¢ A CEatner ot L0 Tal (] see it today! Compare! See why this G-E MODEL AVT 150 country wk the Senate” ihere was roem in his library for| 12 Car Boring tools W _*Airflo” is a value that can’t be beat! Complete with attachmests the Presid ¢ ed, “but I-potn 15 Graok ipantion o f never knew about th ers 15 Yawn L o ey P - 13 Room Y| ¥ peasan Jood Senator Bob Taft had things Word of H | i 8 soun L pretty much tis own way during 48, g Ameniation ) | & POWER CO oy (o | 40 Ulige o the closine davs of Congress, but Appear 6 > D | : g b by serious flash ran into some spicy arguments at' 55 facimve ¥ region G | Cheerfill Qishenaers ofiDependatlo g5 1503 s hearings of the joint committee on - Fairer ation &l 24-hour Electric Service imes lasge parts of that cconomic policy. Sharp Senater Joe Vag Lot Dt b aave beert indes water for 45 O'Mahones of Wyoming and wit- s i/ AR L U SR U S wch as years—a en ) PUTRIN O Bitwo, 30 g I've SN pegs Leon Henderson ganged up on| 34 Méaxures ot DOWN 3 b4 ik e, T grain crope worth as much as $30- pim 25, oSBT L Deland of the 4 30,00 e 4 Y ok Ak » 3 3 y in vest Indie b 8 ’Il :,‘(xuu|,«lj~)1{-:t"\ \:]’)l’dwl'\:‘lwn W;nny\:\ I wonder. Senator Taft, if you' .. . Nebraska Rl R t "E ALASKAN CAB C0o O e e ;m :nufu*l-l /l\.‘. rent just( ° EAYSL SR istirhancey: ZREIUA Of e “THE FINEST CARS AND SERVICE IN JUNEAU” be A lott continued: placed upon most all Americans by " that ¥ 5S A [ (hat I ol lat, Mr P"“;[’ the 15 percent voluntary increase ollow closely COURTESY 7DOUBLE7 — AFETY dent, that I've seen as much as D is @ o y P o ;. | acres completely covered with »\‘1- e RO 10, ve B flec igon D *Fho Fadkarg Clipper Systen” i vith Wa- the purchasing power?” O'Mahoney Doviae o i e et ter—and vet tne would N0t gekeq 3 et : el 8 = — *:“ gacE A0 ;;“xui and a half deep “yes” Taft replied. “I would say | s i one poin the inc that went to the land- AR e S. P. WHITELEY. e Ang g e Biowen palm and things | neglscted, snd 27. Contral as a paid-up subscriber 1o THE DAILY ALASKA t 1one a ¢ ppropriated. g0, at 2 B e - Culiures L % B lml\ nl two uudxl:’ )\)nu would o pman EMPIRE is invited to be our guest THIS EVENING 3 sl p e il o at money wou. e spent.” i 5 i i :1‘1\”:\ but for the Tule and Kaweah 1 think we're going to have to ol { Present this coupon to the box office of the Jers. e cords ve ; wdd something further to that, or - e e CAPITOL THEATRE ‘n"“ ]“'»‘ ortage of oil, it scems o' -1 know hundreds of landlords - r gl ,m' ,J.lz,],;,_: 1:1“1:)“, ,]“,:r) to protect -Taft con‘inued, “who have been Household and receive TWO TICKETS to see: B ] D 1f 5 near Ba field o i BNops § d " wholly urable to keep up their : 4 i e T e e e e B BLACK ANGEL denger irom floods—and it 0 ‘ past some of the highest grade oil “Tha theory 1s. then.” sai . /_///5% 4 Federal Tax—12c per Person 10 be founs anywhere has been lost 20 Hien. e O ’ 1 e has been 105t noney with a poker face, “that if P wiwr o |N, PHONE 14—THE ROYAL BLUE CAB CO. ¢ ik rother wa landlord in reat, it ake the " oyiockfish i it it shonld come, we'd certainly’ tenant more o l\)lu-x'(‘:\,;il" make the and an insured cab WILL CALL FOR YOU and not like fo take any chance or s i i y cha 3, Before Taft could reply, Hender- RETURN YOU to your home with our compliments. having production from that field siowed down.” remaked ) grapher who son “we had a figured it out steno- that Addition to & buildivg WATCH THIS SPACE—Your Name p——— . May Appear! VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS Taku Post No. 6559 first and third Fridays. Post Hall, Sew- ard St. Visiting Com- rades Welcome. H. S. GRUENING, Com- mander: F. H. FORBES, Adjutant. Meets FUR STORAGE Cleaning—Glazing—Repairing Martin Vicior Furs, Inc. Swedish Fur Craftsmen for Three Generations James C. Cooper, CPA BUSINESS COUNSELOR Specializing in Corporation—Municinal and Trust Accounts The Erwin Feed Ce. Office in Case Lot Grocery PHONE 704 HAY, GRAIN, COAL and STORAGE (R, CALIFORNIA Grozery and Meat Market 473 — PHONES — 371 High Quality Foods at Moderate Prices Jones-Stevens Shop LADIES'—MISSES® READY-TO-WEAR Seward Street Near Third Alaska Music Supply Arthur M. Uggen, Manager Pianos—Musical Instruments and Supplier Phone 206 Second and Seward HEEINKE GENERAL REPAIR SHOP Welding, Plumbing, Oil Burner| Blacksmith Work GENERAL REPAIR WORK Phone 204 929 W. 12th St. Warfield's Drug Store (Formerly Guy L. Smith Drugs) NYAL Family Remedies HORLUCK’S DANISH ICE CREAM Hulchings Economy Market Choice Meats At All Times I PHONES 553—62--95 lThe Charles W. Carter Mortuary Fourth and Franklin Sts. PHONE 136 THURSDAY, JULY 31, 1947 MOUNT JUNEAU LODGE NO. 147 SECOND and FOURTH Monday of each month in Scottish Rite Temple beginning at 7:30 p. m. \CHAS. B. HOLLAND, Worshipful Master; LEIVERS, Secretary. ——— Silver Bow Lodge No. A 2, LO.O.F. Meets every Tues day at 8:00 P. M,, I. O. O. F. HALL Visiting Brothers Welcome J. A. SOFOULIS, Noble Grand H. V. CALLOW, Secretary €5 B.P.0.ELKS Meets 2nd and 4tih Wednesdays at 8 pm. Visiting brothers wel- come. VICTOR POWER, Ex- alted Ruler. W. H. BIGGS, Sec- retary. JAMES W “SMILING SERVICE” Bert’s Cash Grocery PHONE 102 or 105 mes DELIVERY Juneau "The Rexall Store” Your Reliable Pharmacists BUTLER-MAURO DRUG CO. HARRY RACE Druggist “The- Squibb Store” Where Pharmacy Is a Profession ARCHIE B. BETTS Public Accountant Auditor Tax Counsclor Simpson uidg. Phone 757 Wall Paper Ideal Paint Shop Phone 549 Fred W. Wendt You'll Find Food Finer and Service More Complete at THE BARANOF COFFEE SHOP The Alaskan Hotel Newly Renovated Rooms at Reasonable Rates PHONE SINGLE O PHONE 555 Card Beverage Co. | | | Thomas Hardware Co. Wholesale 805 10th St. SATNDS 2= (OILS PHONE 216—DAY or NIGHT Pulioon axa Bhalt for MIXERS or SODA POP MDIARE —_— Window—Auto—Plate—GLASS IDEAL GLASS C0. 121 MAIN STREET DON ABEL PHONE 633 BARANOF ALASKA’S FINEST HOTEL EAT IN THE BUBBLE ROOM Special Dinner 5to 8 P. M. $2.00 Furs? Complete Fur Service at a Very Reasonable Price CAPITOL FUR SHOP at 113 Third Street TIMELY CLOTHES NUNN-BUSH SHOES STETSON HATS Quality Work Clothing FRED HENNING Complete Outfitter for Men B, W. COWLING COMPANY Dodge—Plymouth—Chrysler DeSoto—Dodge Trucks Lucille’s Beauty Salon Specializing in all kinds of Permanent Waves for all Textures of Hair HAIRCUTTING Phone 492 2nd and Franklin Remington Typewriters SOLD and SERVICED by J. B. Burford & Co. “Our Doorstep Is Worn by Satisfied Customers” FORD AGENCY (Authorized Dealers) GREASES — GAS — OIL Juneau Motor Co. Foot of Main Street MAKE JUNEAU DAIRIES DELICIOUS ICE CREAM a qaily habit—ask for it by name Juneau Dairies, Inc. Chrysler Marine Engines MACHINE SHOP Marine Hardware Chas. G. Warner Co. | HOME GROCERY Phone 146 Home Liquor Store—Tel. 699 American Meat — Phone 38 ZORIC SYSTEM CLEANING Alaska Laundy CITY DRY CLEANERS PHONE 877 “Quality Dry Cleaning” ASHENBRENNER’S NEW AND USED FURNITURE Phone 788 142 Willoughby Ave, H | i R—_e 2, R C—— i

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