The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 14, 1947, Page 3

OVEMBER 14, Daily Alaska Empire Published every evening except Sunday by the EMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY Second and Main Streets, June: HELEN TROY MONSEN DOROTHY TROY LINGO - - WILLIAM R. CARTER - SLMER A. FRIEND ALFRED ZENGER Entered in the Po: BSCRIPTION RATES: nd Dougla one year Delivered by carrier in Junea: six months, S8 By mail. postage pa ene month, in advance, $1.50. Subscribers will confer a favor if they will promptly Doty | gy h o e ey N e failure of freepuarity. in the dativery | 50 that the employer is deprived of the incentive, | sometimes of the power, to supplement wages from of their papers. Telephones: News Office, 602; Business t the following rates: One year, in advance. $15.00; six months, in advance, $7.50; | 1947 |GE empolyees have been unionized and the union has | succeeded in bringing into the profit-sharnig plan |all employees who have been with the company for | a year. Hence, President Wilson explains, its original purpose has been defeated. The profit bonus is now | S 4 simply an addition to wages—a very insignificant ad- “Editor and Manager dition, too—instead of being a reward for length of | Managing Editor | service . | AT | Under present conditions, therefore, the company’s . | decision to drop its profit-sharing plan seems to us for $1.50 per month; | 1O V€ wise. For the methods of collective bargaining £15.00 | practiced today by strong labor unions leave little margin for development of genuine profit-sharing plans. | | Demands for wage increases are pushed to the limit TIDE TABLE NOVEMBER 15 tide 3:28 am.,, tide tide tide au, Alaska - - President 15.8 ft. 4.0 ft , 178 ft. ., -0.9 ft. High Low High Low o 00 000000 Office, 374, | profits. Indeed, if profit bonuses are liberal, that is a MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED The associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for all news dispatehes credited to it or not ether- rezublication of wise credited in this paper and also the tere !sxgnal to corganized labor to ask for further wage | increases. Hence, from the employer's viewpoint, the “syst,em of profit-sharing becomes an increasingly un- | satisfactory method of remunerating employees, es- PRESS local news published NATIONAL REPRESENTATIVES — Alaska Newspapers, 1411 mourth Avenue Bldz., Seattle, Wash. NOVEMBER 14 | pecially if the system is so comprehensive that it no | Julia Lea Walther { longer helps to reduce labor turnover. | Rev. Walter A. Soboleff Mrs. Stanley D. Paris H. L. Faulkner Willlam Haynes Mrs. Frank Henderson LaVerne Kendall Pauline Bassett Irene Thompson From the viewpoint of employees, too, reliance | upon profit-sharing as a means of supp]ementiugl wages is unsatisfactory. For the worker is better | |served by a payment system that is certain and | capable of determination in advance than by a system | that is tied to fluctuation in year-to-year profits. | Furthermore under an established profit-sharing plan, | employees come to regard the high profit banuses‘ of good times as a regular part of their income and | to spend accordingly. When profits decline, they re- isent reductions in such bonuses and may be seriously | embarrassed by the resultant loss of income. Gen- policy of friendship is just as Ierally speaking, therefore, it is better for all concerned | simple as baseball. It's to hit where | to put wage agreements on a firm basis, without any = » Z |ihoect tle-up. with “probibe; Rnd’ 16t e benefia” ot | . St BN L' THEL BT ! industrial prosperity, reflected in high profits, each {isn't friendly, and we are OTHER FACTORS, A recent advertisement sponsored by The Alaska Steamship Company brings home the point that per- haps too many Alaskans and their eager-beaver of- ficials fail to recognize. A lot ha: high freizht rates to Alaska, but few have taken the trouble to figure out just how much of the increase in Alaskan prices on foodstuffs an be charged to higher freight rates. Actually the freight increase is very small com- pared with the total increase—about a cent per pound | on meat carried in cold storage, less than a cent on a | degree—in the Kentucky gubernatorial election. The can of milk. Alaska isn’t the only region wh facing inflaticnary prices. This is a nation-wide con- dition. It is true that the transportation involved makes the situation more acute in Alaska, tran~ortation factors are disconnected from freight rates; such as: the increased cost of drayage in Seat- tle warehouse to dock; wharfage and marine insurance; Federal transportation tax; wharf- age and handling in Alaska and Alaskan cartage; and | adding to the costs of all of these the time lost in labor trcubles which force the merchants to carry large inventories to insure a supply. Profit-Sharing (Washington Post) The 13-year-old profit-sharing eral Electric Co. is to be scrapped insofar as the rank and file of employees are concerned. enjoyed by the president and othe continue to be paid—an invidious will doubtless bring harsh comment from labor leaders. However, some of the sharpest criticism of profit- sharing has come from labor leaders themselves who see in the program a device cunningly designed to limit the bargaining power of uniol their hold on labor. It is significant that when GE introduced its profit-sharing plan, employees we: Moreover, the benefits of the plan were limited to employees who had been with the company five years Thus the system offered an incentive to workers to remain on the job and become eligible for or longer. profit benuses. Today the situation i % | workers in the form of regular wage increases, pen- . TOO | i Torm, 08 T0w e PeN- | Tiats the main thesis behind the sions and other benefits. | | Marshall Plan for helping Europe Ry | And that's the main objective of : | Kentucky As A Portent 5 e, | American people, far ahead of their i Congress, are already showing that Popular sentiment pro and con on the Taft- |dOing unto others as we would have | Hartley Act has been tested in several elections prior them do unto us is the American |to this week. Uniformly, the returns have shown that | Way of making democracy live. | the public approved the action of Congress in adopt- | ing a law to compel some responsibility on the part of ! | labor unions. The new act was in issue again—to a very limited (Cincinnati Enquirer) s been said about d other items can HEROES WITHOUT HEADLINES Response from local communities to the Friendship Train has been | Democratic nominee for Governor Earle C. Clements, | had voted against the act as a member of the House |of Representatives. Some Republican speakers used 'this as a campaign argument for their standard- bearer, Eldon Dummit, although obviously Congres- { sional policy had little to do with the State election. but many of these | ™"y erarore, if, as most observers expect, Kentucky ; winds up in the Democratic column by a rather sub- | {stantial majority, we probably shall hear a great {ballyhoo in the union press about public reaction | against the Taft-Hartley Act. As a matter of fact, the election returns from | job of helping collect. | Kentucky will have little value as a barometer of pub- | lowe’en the school children of Sa- ere the people are | with bigger towns—San Diego, San | Bernardino, Santa Barbara, Ven- tura. . . .In Los Angeles the Team- sters Union, under Ray Leheney, the teamsters bought one carload handling charges; | lic feeling on this labor legislation. ing this at a time many hours before the first vote | instead of scaping windows. !is tabulated.) | cative only when due allowance is made for all the | geles ccllected hundred-pound sacks | other political factors involved. tof flour .. . .P. W. Litchfield, chair- H If Kentucky should go Republican, it certainly | man of Goodyear Tire and Rubber would indicate the power of some extraneous factor | has patriotically volunteered the —and in such event the Taft-Hartley issue might have | services of Goodyear men in towns played a part. But it must be remembered that Ken- ‘ along the route of the Friendship | tucky normally is a Democratic State. As was the | Train to help waterproof packages case in 1943, strong defections must exist in the|for export. Local Goodyear men are | | the majority party’s ranks before a Republican guber- "lnatorlal candidate runs on even terms. Gov. S.e8. |y, Dakersfield, everyone—from the Willis enjoved unified party backing four years ago |sma)) children of Greenfield Un-| while factionalism still rang strong within the Demo- |,y School who gave up ice-cream |craflc party in the final election after a super-heated | money to big Kern County ranch- | primary. This year the Democrats again had a very \ers—pitched in to buy one carload i spirited primary contest but they achieved a notable | ¢ Gheat carefully bagged and degree of solidarity before going to the polls Tuesday. | nacyeq for export T Ts AR And Kentucky Republicans, meantime, split sharply In | gejes” the first carload came fr ok | { their primary and remained nouct_aably divided. g “Charley Skouras and the employees This imposed a severe handicap on the party’s !of 20th Century-Fox The Pasa- | chances. That reality of practical politics should be | 4. . 1i0he Gup dofix;t,é ci AR borne in mind in any evaluation of whatever the tabu- |, city of Leng Beach one r?::i‘ + radically altered. | lation may show happened in Kentiicky Tuesday. €t Siee B e et for ] plan of the Gen- . The rich bonuses er executives will arrangement that supplying pliofilm ior wrapping. . .| ns and to weaken re not organized. | he Washingion Merry-Go-Round (Continued from Page One) All they could do was write let- | ters to Washington, which is pret- ty much like’ aiming an arrow into the ccean in the hope of hitting a whale. And in the end, he had to fight wars after foreign policy flopped. Now, however, for the first time in history the average American sees a chance to do something to influence the foreign policy of his country. FOOD AND FOREIGN POLICY For food guite definitely has be- come an instrument of foreign pol- icy. It is just as, much .an, instru- ment of foreign policy as tanks or Lattleships, possibly more so. Food means the difference between 2a ;Miluons one carload of multi-pur- tons of wieat in Italy last year—‘wim people, wants others to like o6 food, ‘Warner Brothers | which is just one boxcar. But the him. He acts this way abroad be- | 44 gave one car of wheat in ad- | ?parades they staged as a result of |cause he acts the same way “:‘ ition to the magnificent -service that one boxcar made thousands of |home. !of Harry Warner, who got out of | Italians think Moscow was their| The Russian Government, on the 'z cok bed to serve as national sole benefactor. | other hand, is an:;::lns bl‘ll;t friend- | chajrman of the Friendship Train | | ly. tel coun- | In France, when one meagre ship‘g‘e?sb::fix:s t‘;‘e im:’ curt:ln are ig%’n:‘mee' - «The BECERD, (Actary Mar- A gave one car of evaporated unloaded Russian wheat at ! terroristic, not friendly. Wherever | mjy ‘The City of Glendale, | seilles, the Communists declared 8 | 1o Russian Government has gone,!jufl ontaldd B AL IDa NG e cax" this case, | | the Friendship Train by which the! terrific. Little towns off the main- ! line have insisted on attaching cars. | Tiny Colton, Redlands, Beaumont, ' Ontario, near Los Angeles, lined up | arranged for picking up food; also | of wheat at their own expense. .The“ | Pacific Electric Railroad did agreat | o5 | MODERN ETI 1 (And we're writ- ' cramento collected money for food | Or, at best, the returns will be indi- | The American Legion in Los An-‘ | Q. If someone starts to tell you a joke you have already heard, 1t LOOK and LEARN 2 ¢ corpon || JUNEAU, ALASK, v o - 20 YEARS AGO 7% empirE THE PRSI SIS O IS FEOBREE S S } NOVEMBER 14, 1927 | Eleven persons, all natives, seven of whom children were ! drowned when the gasboat Jenne of Sitka was wrecked at the entrance of Whitestone Harbor. Nine of the bodies had been recovered and taken | to Hoonah. All the victims were residents of Sitka and were returning | home after spending the trolling season at Hoonah were A man named Allen, who boarded the SS Admiral Watson at Seward bound for Ketchikan, was reported to have jumped overboard from the steamer when she got inside of Cape Spencer, according to Capt. S. Glass, Brice Howard, local Admiral Line agent said today According to | the Captain, the man had seemed to be slightly deranged mentally when he boarded the ship Miss Florence Williams, who had been employed for some time at Violet Terrell's Beauty Shop, had purchased the establishment. The name of the shop was to remain unchanged and was to be conducted by Miss Williams and her sister, Miss Erma Williams. Miss Terrell was to leave in December for Honolulu where she was to take over one of the largest beauty shops there. i A large crowd of dance lovers of Douglas attended the Flnnlsh‘{ | Dance given in the Eagles Hall in honor of the fishermen of the town. So thoroughly was the dancing enjoyed that John Niemi kept busy play- ing his accordion until 3 o'clock in the morning. Henry Roden, Juneau attorney, accompanied by Mrs. Roden, re- turned on the Princess Mary from a trip abroad during which they attended the American Legion Convention in Paris, visited with Mr, Roden’s mother in Mulhouse, Ht. Rhin in Western Europe, and made an | extended trip of Europe. Weather: High, 30; low, 29; clear. i B e D & i D P Daily Lessons in English % & corpon 3 WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “The whole of the congre- gation sang.” “The ENTIRE congregation” is preferable. OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Jocund. Pronounce jok-und, O as in OF, accent first syllable, OFTEN MISSPELLED: Grievous; not GRIEVIOUS. . SYNONYMS: Drunk, drunken, inebriate, inebriated, maudlin. WORD STUDY: “Use a word three times and it is yours.” Let us increase our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Today's word : PROMONTORY; a high point of land or rock projecting into the sea. | (Pronounce first O as in ON, second O unstressed, accent first syllable). | “A forked mountain, or blue promontory, with trees upon ft."—Shakes- peare. intoxicated, UETTE ’byOBERTA LEE D e R e Q. Is it proper to “talk shop” when one is out in society? A. Not unless someone has asked you a question pertaining to your work. Your work may be very interesting to you, and even to your friends, but to talk it continually is in poor taste. Q. What is indicated when a girl refuses the invitations of a young man without a reasonable excuse? | A. It indicates but one thing—that it is obvious she does not wish to develop the friendship. should you stop him? A. No. e e e e e 4 e | element in the earth’s e 1. What is the most common chemical crust? 2. What famous navigator's name has been given to the straits off the southern point of South America? 3. Which is the largest printing establishment in the world? 4. In which Book of the Bible occurs the story of David's slaying Goliath? 5. Where is the “Land of the White Elephant”? ANSWERS: . ] 1. Oxygen which forms in combination almost 50 per cent of the known rocks of the earth. 2. Magellan. 3. The Government Printing Office in Washington, D..C. 4. The First Book of Samuel. | holiday, bedccked the city '“m!it has leit a trail of resentment.|o; wheat Compton, Bell, Hun- | Hlags, and cleverly convinced a good | The Russian people, as individuals, | tington Park ares loaded one car | many Frenchmen that they would 'aio’worm and friendly, not unlike | of food, and so on. The roll call 1ive oft Eustan wheat the rest of | pmericans. But the people of R“"'or American generosi&y in Southern | the winter. sia unfortunately, aren’t running|california is almost too long to ta- Meanwhile, shipioad after ship- |their government. bulate. |1oad of American wheat was poured | 1 fi n| Lo both? Pranbs ek Trle But! So the pmsenf American toreigr | (COPYRIOHT, 1947, BELL svchn:.nu:)! |since it was turned over lo the | French and 1talian flour millers, n; |reached the people merely as flour. | | There was no way to distinguish it | Crossword PUZZle irom any other flour. Few people ACROSS Near knew it was American. Face value of 32. Precisely In contrast, the food aboard the| stock 8, My | Friendship Train will be distributed | & Kind of bag 40, Adhesive ’thmugh the two joint American '-lr’,',',?ff.".'\l\'v':: fi el Rellef Comumittees in France and| 35 . Strainers 48. Brooch: Mark archale 49. Bliss’ Trading Post Beads, Paper Flowers, Hose Children’s Union Suits MARINE WAY To relieve miseries without dosing, rubon how long since you saw home? The end of the busy season is your * PAGE THREE NORTHLAND SAILINGS SOUTHBOUND November 17 December 1 December 15 NORTHBOUND November 15 November 29 December 13 (Juneau) HENRY GKEEN e e RCGENT SERVING SOUTMEASTERN — y ALASKA OEPENDASLY NORTHLAND TRANSRORTATION 0. ‘We invite you to greater tea enjoyment. Yours for finer quality—Schilling. j Doctor said, Start him off on Borden's!” Dennis is our first baby and you can imagine how fussy I was about his formula. The doctor suggested Borden's Vitamin D Evaporated Milk. He said it now has three times as much Vita- min D as before and that every pint contains 400 units—a full day’s supply. Dennis certainly has done well on it. He’s a sturdy little fellow, growing straight and strong as can be! P. S. to Mothers: Borden’s Vitamin D Evapo- rated Milk is accepted by the American Medical Association, Council on Foods and Nutrition. And my! What good soups Borde_n's makes! With a stock of Borden’s Evaporated handy on the shelf it wasn't long before I found out what a help it is in cooking. My husband and I both love cream soups and chowders, and Borden'’s . is just the thing for them. It makes them so rich and delicious, and it blends like a dream—never separates or curdles. Wait Lili you try it! "FOR A WONDERFUL HEARTY SouP TRY THIS ....." m . Rubbish: chaotic Eurcpe and a gradually re- | Italy. These committees are com- | ib cotch constructed Europe. In the end it posed of the various American re- may mean the difference between |lief groups functioning in Europe— peace and. war. | American Baptist Relief, National And Mrand Mrs. America—if this | Catholic Weltare Council, Ameri- Friendship Train is any barometer can Friends Service Committee, | —are only too glad to help send‘Lulherans. Mennonites, Brethren, food to certain countries of Europe, | Ccgregationalist Service Commit- if that food will offset the drought |tee, Unitarian Service Committee, in France and Italy, counteract the and most of the American church huge wheat crop harvested by Rus- |groups which conduct relief work sia and show our friends in West- |abroad. | ern Europe that they don’t have to! Their skilied personnel will un-| duck under the iron curtain for dertake to make sure that the | help and protection.” French and Italian people who re- These_boxcars of food, of course, | ceive this food will know that. a are only a token, and thousands|great many American people took | more boxcars of food must be sent [a lot of trouble to gather it irom 7 later. Furthermore, this food doesn't | their fields—as the Friendship la- |, come from nowhere. It comes from |bel read—"Bringing it to your door-' meatless days and breadless meals, steps in the hope that it will tide . past and future, and by countless|you over until your own fields are econcmies at the American dinner |agamn rich and abundant with table which may continue many |Crops.” months into the future. Nevertheless, it is an important token of American generosity, Am- erican saving and American friend- ship—a token which can be drama- tized and which Europe can under- stend: American scheme of things. It's just In the past, drama has been'®S friendly as the individual Am- o - Aquatic birds something completely lacking in | °rica™ , . B birge American food distribution. People traveling abroad can usu- _ 5. Spile ' % spot ebrew ‘measure . Bar of a knock- down soap frame 60. American Indian chance for o vacation in the old country. Plan now to go by air for many extra days with old friends and relatives. Daily flights from New York on new, four-engine Douglos luxury airliners Overnight io Strikes . Obtain &7, Scatter 5S. Peruvian city 09. Bacchanalian Improve 1. o4 . Poem . Unaspirated Omi cry 61. Wild sheep 62. Heated com- partment ©3. Fishing appur- tenances 64. Base of the decimal system 24, Long to possess another's good 26, Force ; 30. Tile used th mosaic Work Solution of Yesterday's Puzzle DOWN . Prods . Anoint Withdraws . Collego song . Tear . Imbecile Grow to be Moon goddess . Declare . Evergreen tree now vehicle 66, 433rd asterold 67. Affirmative Corn Soup 4 tablespoons butter 2 tablespoon chopped green pepper 1 tablespoon minced onion '8 teaspoon pepper 4 tablespoons lour 114} 0z. can Borden's Vitamin D Evaporated Milk 134 cups water or corn liguid and water 1 cup whole kernel corn AN dEaNNE N JEEEE 1 teaspoon chopped parsley, if desired 123 teaspoons salt Constellation . Irritate . Concerning . Adhesive Measure of length . Labels Small case 2, Law 6. Walked 7. Rumanian coln . Pleasure boat . Myself Dry 5. Empty . Australian bird Placid 0. At no time Glggl 1] HEEd JER LT TP d ~dEEELER Budadsd GEEN- Glasgow, Copenhagen, Oslo, Stockholm. Your travel agent represents us locally. Ask him about a complete round-trip by air Melt butter. Add green pepper, onion, parsley, salt, and pepper. Cook over low heat until vege- tables are tender (about 10 minutes). Remove from heat. Blend in flour. Gradually stir in Borden's Evaporated Milk and water. (Notice how smoothly Borden’s blends inl) Add corn. Cook over low heat, stirring constantly, until " smooth and thickened. Makes 4 delicious one- ¥ cup servings | | ol THE AMERICAN WAY ‘There is another thing about this new instrument of foreign policy which is important. It fits into the MiL AMIN D INCREA S ’ © The Borden Company Scandinavian Airlines System, Inc. 30 Rockefeller Plaza 30 Rockelller iz No finer milk in any can! NOW... 400 UNITS OF VITAMIN D PER PINT ally an American—largely RUSSIAN DRAMA because he’s a friendly person. He The Russians landed a scant 16 |likes to get along with people, talk