The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 10, 1947, Page 4

PAbL FOUR shamefully ridiculed the idea that the Pacific Coast would ever be of hen small nation on the Atlantic Coast ate, once to t Pubiished evers ”‘M\‘T"\':’"‘ P its frontier along the Mississippi Valley Bicais Boil Main Streets. Junean, ANME He had never traveled much farther than from HELEN TROY MONSEN - e ;;yumm his native Ne England to the national capital and | AN B CARTER “Bditor aod hieident | had little faith in the reports and observations of | Managing Editor Business Manager others who had ¢ ized the pote ssed the continent and had visual- es of a great united nation stretch- as Second Class Matter t n Juneau ing from coast to coast st B\(ll PTION RATES “Whether he 0 Vi if h Delivered by carrier in Junean and Douslas for $1.50 per month; | Whether he would have changed his mind if he six months, S%.®0; one year, $15.00 | had peen able to sail around the Horn to the Golden By mail. postage paid. at the following rates: ke 1HE o iy it Cne sear. in advance. $15.00; six months, in sdvance, $7.50; | Gate or L e by stage coach may be sne month. in advance. 150 \munxem\ ical. But 1t Subscribers will confer a favor if they will promptly notffs ! Al we s the B Tasislal the Busin e ey fatlure br trregulacity in the delivery | Cf the West well i es the handicap any legislator of their papers. has in not knowing and, what he is talking Telep! News O ot X His ex: might well be recalled by present- Iy entitled to the use for it f t ummer's ‘junkets’ : AL . B rediied te 16 oF et QuRt- day critics of this sun mer's ‘j l'r s' of a large num and also the local news published ' ber of Senators and Congressmen. s it is unques! true, and it was outsts uldln'ls Asiis Newsaversju1 | true during the Roman Holiday known as the New Deal, that Congressmen will at times take plr-u.uno ja s at public expense which result in no value to the people who are footing the bills. That, however, | does not justify cond on of the practice of hav- ing *he men in whose hands the destiny of the nation lies know that natic hand. Even in these days of truly marvel isportation facilities the curse of provincialism in government persists, and there is no cure for it which can compare with travel. | We feel certain that Alaskans who met and dis- cussed Alaska aff with the recent Congressional visitors will agree that they are in the main a serious and open-minded group of men and that they will approach the many Alaskan problems of enormous importance to the Territory and the Nation with a more vital interest and a far greater measurz understanding because of their visit A billion-dollar corporation should not begrudge the traveling expenses of its board of directors who seek to inform themselves prior to reaching decisions of such magnitude as those which must be resolved gang of the Department of the concerning the future of Alaska of PROTEST FROM NOME The old wrecking Interior apparently is still going as strong under i Y i 8 Secretary Krug as it did under Ickes Shameless Gouging Word received here from Nome reveals that an ’ (Washington Post) Interior Department party held a surprise hearing Charges of outrageous profiteering in wheat by gentine sible )0 government have been confirmed by American officials, one of whom recently there August 18 for the purpose of discussing a plan to cstablish a reservation of 2300 square miles in the saw a purchasing agreement calling for payment in Shungnak area for the exclusive use and possession Amecrican dollars of $5.90 for a bushel of Argentina’s of Eskimos. The hearings were not publicized in wheat. It is difficult to find words to describe this ' advance kind of shameless grasving for profits at the expense Reports the Nome Chamber of Commerce, testi- of needy nations mo brought out these facts It would be bad enough if the profiteers were 1. The natives may have the reservation by a privafe citizens, but in this case it is the government majority vote of the native residents of the Shung- lhfu Jls»mkmg in the m.‘f\mi while paying the farmers nak District and the approval of the Secretary of the than a fourth of its own selling price. According E to report, these ill-gotten gains are being used to Interior finance Argentina's industralization program and 2. Given the reservation, the Interior Depart- pujd up her military machine. In view of !he m ment may lease the mining property if it desires to will created by such conscienceless profiteering a company or companies Peron regime may well look to its defenses. Fm a nation that hopes to benefit by exploiting the world misery is likely to be hereft of friends when if needs them. ‘The policy followed by our Government offers a heartening contrast to that of Argentina, though we cannot afford to be complacent with wheat selling at present exorbitant prices. However, the high prices in believing that the plight of the Alaska native will we are charging foreign countries for wheat are the Whites could hunt or prospect within the area natives and the Secretary 3 only by permission of the of the Interior i Why the Interior Department continues to insist upon discriminating between classes of Alaskan citi- Why the department persists zens we do not know Wil 7 OCTOBER 10 Dr. R. H. Williams Alfred Lundstrom, Jr. Mrs. Roberta Orme George Larsson Carla Carter W. L. Baldwin Mabel Jackson Ken Webster Beulah Raymond tcecceencsce ° . . e e s 0 0000 00 0o - NATL. PARKS AND HISTORICAL SITES END RECORD YEAR WASHTRGTON, Oct. 10—#— Thc National Park Service sald persons visited first 11 months of the travel year just ended than during any pre-| vious entire year on record. | By Sept. 1, 22,519,151 persons had | visited ni areas since Oct. 1, 1946, the Park ice said | During the entire 1945-46 travel year, the previous record-breaker, | attendance totaled 21,682,782 The' total for the first 11 months of the | 1945-46 travel year, 18,924,692 was 19 percent lower tham this year. . Attendance during August totaled | 5,341,281, a 22 percent increase over August, 1946 Sept. 30. Visitors to the National Parks for | the first 11 months of the travel| THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA o miral Rogers from Ketchikan, where he had been a witr o before the District Court. Rogers. with her mother, from THE 20 YEARS AGO OCTORBER 10, 1927 proprietor of the Alaskan Hotel, ret EMPIRE PP ) urned on the Ad- in a case Dave Housel, rock tram the This A slide on the north side of the Alaska Juneau 1uenous day noon blocked the Thane road to automobile traffic. o morning the Bureau of Public Roads put a crew of men ¢learing away the debris. The mud covering the road had apparently been gathering | above the highway, having been washed there by a creek flowing down the side of Mt. Roberts and when the embankment gave way it washed across the road and onto the beach below Lucille and June, were of several weeks in the daughters, visit and two Alice after a Mrs rrivals on tes Bertha Lynch the Princess and Mrs. Allen Shattuck arrived in Juneau on the Admiral Murs. Shattuck had been in Ketchikan for more than two months | Mrs. A. P. Swineford, who had passed away recently Mr ,in the First City lnol%uf her friends. Federally-operated arills won first prize, parks and historic sites during the Pierce, cut prize Mrs. Nels Anderson of Douglas was Cards were enjoyed during the evening and Mrs. John Mrs. Ted Dogan, consolation, and Mrs. Mrs remembrance of the day. ational parks and historic | { Admiral Rogers for the ro - 1 The travel year ended |1 t A. Van Mavern and M. S. Wilson, traveling salesmen, und trip to Skagway and Sitka. Weather: R e Daily Lessons in English % 1. corbox o High 47; low, 46; rain. B e 3 WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not. say, “He graduated from col- ege last year.” It is petter to say, “He WAS graduated from college ast year.” OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Caribbean. The preferred pronuncia- ion is with principal accent on the third syllable. OFTEN MISSPELLED: Verbatim; IM. Pronounce the A as in year, and the percentage of increase BAY, over the corresponding period in the preceding year included: Mount McKinley, Alaska, 2,246, an increase of 206 punn[ WOMAN ARRESTED : IN JUNEAU IS FREED BY ORDER OF JUDGE TACOMA, Oct 10 —(A—Mrs. Arly L. Kress. 44, of Vancouver, Wash., has been acquitted of charges that | | RECUR; ‘.rcms } t it SYNONYMS: Wellknown, renowned, famous, recognized, familiar. 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: to come up again for consideration. “This question often MODERN ETIOUETTE ROBERTA LEE Q. What preparations sheuld be made for a home wedding? A. These preparations are usually the same as those made for any ea or reception. The decorations are a very important feature, and here must, of course, be music. surprised on her birthday by 20| Frank | Anderson was presented with a fine blanket in | left on the\ | | i | Q. When a man brings flowers to a girl and she thanks him for | be bettered by placing him on a reservation we cannot result of mistaken domestic policies that have brought she forged four U. S. Treasury al- 4o chould she also write a note of thanks later? s, distress to Americans as well as to countries dependent lotment checks made out to her oAl (a4 e g & large reservations are estab- |on us for wheat supplies. foster daughter, Mrs. Alice Roge ' e A s o We can see that if large reserva 8 ‘T . < Tohes Q. Is it all right for a guest to use any receptacle in sight for an lishgd upon which the natives have control of large; hehmohts from wheat sales at least are return- ”\‘; e d Ju- ash tray? 3 3 r. fish canneries or other re- °d to the farmers and the traders of the country IS €sS was arres : Y o mining claims, timbes |bs |For the Gevenment buys at the market price and neau, ska, last July on com- A. No. He should always ask for one if there is none at hand. sources, the Interior Department would be able to | * € iy E Holdint Brwata: 1 ie 1. Binait ot tha sells at cost. Furthermore, a goodly part of the plaint of Mrs. Jones, who allegefi | &= —— e ——— enter the tleld fof pryate i) i funds for foreign purchasing come from loans and that her foster mother had cashed b‘ naifve, employing thousands of government WOrkers | reqjts a large proportion of which will probably never the $80 checks without authoriza- I.O OK a nd I-EA R N i in an experiment in socialism be repaid. Whatever its failings therefore, the United | tion. Mrs. Kress denied this and | A. C. GORDON — — — States Government cannot be accused of using our Federal Judge Charles H. Leavy Justifiable Expense surpluses to grow rich at the expense of impoverished in a ruling acquitted her of the . . 7 § foraigners. On the contrary; it is committed to poli- | ch: 1. What term is used to denote a thousand million? (Alasia Weekiy) |cies that impcse additional burdens on our heavily e 2. What are the four States in the Union whose names begin with Because of its timeliness in connection with re- |taxed people ard exact sacrifices from the CONSUMING o o o o o o » o » o o o o|the letter "W cent Congressional visits to Alaska we were interested | Public in the form of high and rising food costs. . o 3. Who was the first child born on the earth? in an edito comment in the Spokesman-Review | The people of Argentina, we know, must be hang- ' e TIDE TABLE . 4. What is a somniloquist? whicn we quote in part as follows )ing their heads in shame over the sorry exhibition | o . 5. What is the famous poem by Byron that is incomplete? “Daniel Webster, one of the most revered and | at the bar of history that the Peron regime is . OCTOBER 11 . ANSWERS: learned statesmen who ever sat in the United States | affording |® Low tide 5:37 am., 01ft. ® 1. A milliard. b e - e High tide 12:08 pm., 16.7 ft. o 2. Washixngbn, West Virginia, Wyoming, and Wisconsin. w ing|°n long-standing habit of going to bed this picture was taken last spring.' e Low tide 18:08 p.m 19 ft. e 3. Cain. afll at y'elocl r A Sen- 0 ver i less 7 » R .‘ 9 o'clock. Furthermore, the Sen- The pen.ple over there w}] get less ' o . 4. A person who talks in his sleep. -G R d itor quite recently married. next spring unless we do something. e @ e o o o » ¢ o ¢ o ¢ o si-Pon Tuan 'le’" o' OIII'I However, Countess Cassini's juicy 'You know what that means, Mr = D 5 2 tidbit spread through Washington | President. Unless we meet Our re- e e @ ¢ @ ¢ @ o o ¢ ¢ o o - iy sponsibility, the door will be opened Comtinued jrum Page C like wildfire. Some people believed | — [the st Shocked, the Senator's,to Communist insurrections and a subordinate replied that Dewey Office checked with the Washing-ia Red sweep of Europe.” could not be reached—period. Food | ton columnist, who quoted as her! mpruman said he was fully aware Commisteemen got the -impression | source newsman Fred Othman.|o this He looked hard for some | the car-ful GOP politico was duck- ‘Fred, in turn, said he remembered | time at the colored slide and the | ing. Speaker Joe Martin, reach- | seeing the Senator in Guatemala, meager amount of food on the | ed by telephone in San Francisco,|Dut at no time had he seen the pj,, | approved the food program but de- | Scnator with his shirt off or doing/ wThat's hard to believe,” he. said, a fancy dance. Ioehe s ciined an invitation to go on the 5 “In fact, it's downright radio with President Truman. He (‘Qul“ tess Cassini ‘n‘med““(hi appalling.” sugges‘ed Republican Senator White “P‘J‘mgjed Decorum now has been’ ccpypigur, 1947, BELL SYNDICATE. INC) restores o of Maine instead. Food Commit- tee members were surprised to dis- Ncgte—Countess Cassini may not B e — | . . ° . . . OCTOBER 11 . ® Sun rises 7:23 am. o ® Sun sets 6:06 am. e . . Men’s two-pants sults are now arriving. See them on display at GRAVE'S “The Clr)lhlng Man."” 6 tr, cover that the Agriculture Depart- have known it, but Senator Thomas C d P le ment, up to last week, had issued s a good friend and fellow Demo- rosswor uz no appeal to farmers to curtail c:at of the young man who may | 30 Watds) fattening of hogs and cattle. . The |bicome her husband, Senator War-| “_Arckaoss 3. Wondering Agriculture Department is scaling ren Magnuson of Washington. & Bty 'of .water: 3l Ancigntriah down Europe's 16-naticn cstimate i | 9. Obstpuot 38 “vfm!{“" of what it will cost to implement p S ADER. SPURS JMAN| 1% Mud 0. Commotion S . FARM LEADER SPURS TRUMAN 1% Mud o the Mavshall Plan. The farm €x- ajeit 5 Goss, master of the! 1¢ Duteh city 42, The Furopean perts claim that some nations in- national Grange, the nation's big-| 12 Winglike yew cluded grain for livestock &s 8N gecr fa : “mila.| 1% Srmbalat 4L G e b a5 @l loest farm organization, is a mild- dlock 45. High emergency food need Michigan's \ppearing, be-spectacled, little man 17. Elevator 47 l"l;ull;ll of G 5 . S i g, b 4 2 carriage >ythias indefatiga Senator Ferguson 15 voy might mistake for a professor . Kin 50. Poem still. bent on bringing Howard ), leave from an Ivy League col- i\lm‘mlr \ 5l ucly;xu:..-nm- 7o sy ; o 3 testaurants . Hughes to Washington for | jese Active almyra_palm IR the 3 paring Strike gentl! Send out '\‘i'“:xdm % “‘) Senate “l‘]“”“lw- However, Goss does some unpro- pi g 4 e S Meanwh ughes is secretly in-| g cional slugging on issues that Liblicai pr 8. Season 4 3 esfigat 3 estigators. e TR s i . Spirited ho 9. Hawaiian Solution of Yesterday’'s Puzzle sestigating the investigators. He jjterest him, and although he re- Couts. with has hired @ private detective aency | yreqents the farmer he also strong- 5 g /el wEain n river ~ DOWN Sogeich Senate sucommistes believes in feeding Europe. Call-| tention L Ips [ennmakey Whi President Truman’s jne on President Truman the other n river Commission on Civil Rights Issues|qay Goss urged drastic steps to N8 ciacier its report shortly, it will be dis-'qea) with the food erisis Pertaining to clesed that Frankln D. Roosevelt his i an emergency, compar- o i Jr. took a strong position against ,,je 1o g wartime emergency,” the racial discrimination in the armed 'y Jaader told the President. “So forees we all must pitch in, tighten our - belts and treat it as such | NO-SARONG SENATOR Until it is over, everybody—' A senator has no business doing Fusiness, labor and the farmers— a strip-tease on a hotel veranda, will have to be satisfied with a even in tropical Guatemala, where smaller margin of profit. I am satongs are in vogue. And of ali|sure you will find the farmers only Female sheep the men in Congre ator El- | too willng to do their part uiaERoundsn bert Thomas of Utah would be the, The Grange leader showed Tru- figure last expected to execute such a man a colered slide of a picture 34, Semiprecious fapcy dance of one week's food rations in the AS;‘*"; e However, Washington society col- | American cccupation zone in Ger- e miee ummist Countess Austine C many, taken when Goss was in hfintirel | . o . redently reported the austere Frankfurt during a European tour . Divisions of ator as having been spotted last spring. It was enough te cover | Guatemala veranda “stripped good-sized dinner plate, plus a . Bring into & kid to the waist small loaf of bread—a full week's e iy g The Senator is a former Mormon ' supply for one person A0 armed missionary to Japan, an ex-school “That's typical of the countries ,M;f‘. teacher, and is known to his ¢ ncw asking us for help,” explained lehllcnl Jud leagues for his ty and a Gess. “Let me remind you that §4. Dispatch b o c—— . e | ELLIS AIR LINES DAILY TRIPS JUNEAU TO KETCHIKAN via Petersburg and Wrangell With connections to Craig, Klawock, Hydaburg and steamers for Prince Rupert, Vancouver, and Seattle FOR RESERVATIONS PHONE 612 1891—0ver Half a Century of Banking—1947 * The B. M. 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