The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 3, 1948, Page 4

x i MRS I PACE FOUR Daily Alaska Empire Published every evening except Su EMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY Second and Main Streets, Juneau, m:LrN TROY MONSEN - - ROTHY TROY LINGO - . wlu,uM R. CARTER - - - SLMER A. FRIEND - strings, should think that the President’s new budget | is too big would be to vass a joint resolution instructing the Budget Bureau to prepare and present an alter- nate budget of lesser amount as determined by Con- Alaska . rwise aress wi s Sradiaain | BT Otherwise Congress will get lost Vice-President | swamp of detail l‘dnor and Manager Managing Editor Business Manager nday by the ess. again in a THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE JUNEAU, ALASKA | | | u‘nfm ZENGER - s o8 But timing in respect to tax changes should not| ¢ . Entered 1n the Post Office s as Second Class Matter. | be evacuated exclusively from the standpoint of the | e JANUARY 3 . SUBSCRIPTION RATES: onve . . f 1 . rarily Delivered by carrier in Juneau and Douslas for § per month; | cOnvenience of politicians temporarily in charge of | ® . six months, $8.00; one year, $15.00 the government ° Doucette 3 d. at the following rates: | 2 | indegar 5.00; six months, in advance, $7.50; Timing in terms of the life experience of indi-|® Lindegard . 5 will promptly notity | vidual citizens should also be considered s TREk $ of t Cularity in the delivers While it is simple to say now is not the time, it[® -4 their paper: 1 £ ° D . News Office, 602; Business Office, 374, should not be forgotten that for citizens approaching | o SARUARE A : - s NMEMDER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS the evening of their careers it is now or never for :. Guy F. Scott » Press is exclusively entitled to the use for | them to win a competence to make em ! enden p oot Shns: | in a competence to make them independent | o Anton J. Reiss . so the local news published | in their old age. If politicians defer the task of | o 1e Alexander . : N = making a more scientific approach to fiscal matters,| e J. Niemi . ESEN A‘I‘”\!\!;Z‘S — Alaska Newspapers, 1411 | it will be too late for a whole generation.) le Miller . Seattls, Wash, it 4 Likew young men, barely started on their |® Beazley . ors, won't be able to achieve the full promise ur’ s a competitive society if high taxes confiscate the sav- ings, which should provide the nest egg for up in enterprises of their own setting | In the stock market, experience shows that when {vou buy or sell is important, as well as what you trade in. On the rd, it appears that the free initiative the citizen provides better and inertia of bureaucrats. and enterprise of than the lethargy timing ! Ring \round a Rouble S SR | (Washington Post) TIME TO CUT TAXES? | The sice of America,” 'which, as everybody knows, is actually the voice of the Department of nley Rukeyser, economic commentator State and its solitary vehicle of counterpropaganda onal News Service, believes that now in Europe, has poped and startled all” the news- | r the Federal government to cut taxes. Says Ppapers of the world with the stery of a buyers’ panic in Soviet Russia. The story is that rumors of an | nesian manipulation of money rates down- impending devaluation of the rouble have precipi- timely and suitable in 193¢ when unemploy- tated a run on >{\onx and savings banks in all the Russian cities. Everywhere, it seems, shelves have ment was rife, there is certainly no warrant for €n-'peen"pripned bare by purchasers eager to convert tinuing such narcotics during the inflationary boom .. e y into any kind of durable goods, such as furs of late 1947 jewelry, expensive books and Chinese vases. in faced tougl , if while wi atory ce war through conf middle and upper brackets, certainly fication for freezing such destructive rates two and a half after the shooting phase of the riy, and nated by the opposing tion, the President has repe: issue of timing in the matter of Federal personal income taxes. would be inopportune. Rep. Harold Knutson«(R.. Mmn.) ministr of time will scon seek tax reduction despite the Presi- dent’s opposition, takes a different view. The economic problems £ sided Usus from the standpoint of the fiscal convenience of the government. While opponents of ta that tax reduction now would be inflationary through increasing the net spendable income, advocates of tax reduction insist that the change would merely shift the right to spend pay, of the public, from bureaucrats to citizens. This presupposes that tax reduction be synchronized with | reduction in total spending. If this objective of reduction rfare on both cceans Congress elected temporarily to the clash between the eightieth Congress, domi- revision downward Truman has indicated that tax reduction now governme:i: Moscow the famous Mostorg, the government depart- ment store, and all its branches are said to have been closed, ostensibly for “repairs. Several mysteries in connection with 1 enemies in total tax rates in the that is no justi- this need, it seems to us, to be cleared up. One is why all . | the stores were not closed at the first symptoms of the ¥ | buyers’ panic. If a tenth of what we have heard | about the vigilance and efficiency of the Soviet secret | police is credible, it would have been no great trouble to clear the premises and to disperse the customers It is conceivable, of course, to those who know some- thing of the ways of bureaucracy, that nobody could be found with courage enough to give the order and the Truman ad- atedly raised the | their cold war to be aware of the panic. But this | would indicate that the rumors about the develuation of the rouble were unfounded. Such devaluations to be sure are easily possible in any completely controlled economy, and they are ainly nothing new in Russia. Usually, however, v have been put into effect without any warning, and great precautions have been taken to prevent information from leaking out in advance. In the price decree of September, 1946, for example, the purchasing value of the rouble was arbitrarily cut in half over- night. But if the government were planning to move in an opposite direction, that is to increase the value of the rouble, the rumors become comprehensible, since it would be to the advantage of the government to call in as many of them as possible in advance of the decree. There remains another possibility. Rumormonger- ing is a well-tested tactic of propaganda which the | who for the third are many- the timing of tax changes is viewed solely x reduction argue home or take latter argument in total spending story | that very high-ups were too much preoccupied with | AP SPORTS ~ ROUNDUP | By HUGH FULLERTON, Jr | NEW YORK, Jan. 3—M— When the National Collegiate A.A. hig- | wigs start their discussion of the ‘purity” code next week, somebody {is bound to point at the Pacific | ! Coast conference’s Rose Bowl rec- ord for the past three games and | say: “Loc ! Those three shellackings the | westerners have taken probably Istem d irom the celebrated | “Athertoniz of the conference. ! Football declined everywhere dur- ing the war, bit due to intensive application of the “purity” idea, it hasn't made a comeback on the Pacific slope At the other extreme, the college baseball coaches will continue their efforw to bring a little less purity into their game. Their complaint |is that the professional clubs gr: every boy who isn't obviously strict amateur i - i YANKS DIMAGGIO DISCUSSING PAY | . FOR NEXT SEASON YORK, Jan. 3—#— The and Joe Di- NEW New York Yankees Maggio have opened negotiations cn the salary the star outfielder is to receive for the 1948 season But just how far apart they are | at this point can only be a matter of conjecture. Both parties have agreed to maintain a strict silence until a final agreement is reached, Club Secretary Arthur (Red) Pat- tersen said yesterday. | Patterson admitted negotiations were underway in replying, in a| statement from the Yankee offices, to a report that DiMaggio was de- | i S | JANUARY 3, 1928 Smith, Territorial Treasurer, returned to Juneau on Walstein G. the Princess Mary after visiting in southern California since November. ! ; Sy " | Mis. E. Ninnis and E. M. Polley, National Executive Committeemen [to the American Legion Convention in Indianapolis, sailed on the Prin- | cess Mary for Seattle enroute East | The past December was the coldest on record with the exception of 1917 when the mean temperature was 10 degrees lower than during the past month. The average temperature was 25 Cempliment: to Miss Mamie Feusi, who had been away from rty was given last evening Prize winners were Douglas for the past four years, a delightful t the Feusi home. Guests included 12 young Miss Helen Hewitt and Elizabeth Fraser ladies. 1e sailed for Seattle Mr on the Princess Mary for the States on a v and Mrs. A. R. Duncan and daughter Co ation trip Goldstein's Emporium T. L. Allen and Al Pessemier, buyers left for the States on the Princess Mary. Pessemier was going as far south as Portland while Allen was to continue to San Francisco. Both place orders for their busi- ‘huvurs will meet Eastern representatives ar ness house here Tom Pollard, formerly clerk on the evening shift at the GnS(intu\l‘ Hotel, left on the Princess Mary bound for his home in Red Lodge, ' Montana. Weather: High, 33; low clear. The new walking trail for those in using climbers for the up-hill who do not have climbers runs climb while several senior skiers straight up from the ditch ahd | have walked 0ss the ski trails. the patrol requests that all hikers e o s please fcllow the signs and stay off NOTICE the downhill ski trails I will not be ponsible for any Skiers going to the breakfast ai | bills contracted by any person other the Baranof tomorrow morning should plan to go up the trail in a group, side-stepping and packing the trail as much good was accom- | nlished last year through this means Junior Steve Feist. The atersrad in South Africa includes gold reefs over an area 180 miles long, 90 miles wide and about five miles thick skiers have been excellent 1891—0ver Half a Century of Banking—1947 * The B. M. Behrends Bank Oldest Bank in Alaska COMMERCIAL SAVINGS SATURDAY, JANUARY JUNEAU PLUMBING & HEATING CO. PLUMBING—-HEATING—OIL BURNERS—SHEET METAL WELDING PHONE 787 Third and Franklin 3, 1948 C. E. 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Is ' manding $75.000 for his 1948 con- | it possible, then, that our own .propaganda strategists | tract, have resolved to wage a little war of nerves on their! “The Yankees,” said the state- - e own account? Before attemoting to answer, we had |ment, “do not deny that they I &%//e,%fla;,a g//fiwye » better wait to see what else may develop in con- entered into contr - T ——_ ct negotiations man will pr;fiem next month as well as which ones pc.ion with this Russian buyers' panic. Meanwhile | with DiMaggio and others. It has . will be included. | we may be assured that in an age of controlled eco- | been mutually agreed by DiMa v 7 Z . 5 ally agreed b aggio 17) / 6 A practical technique, in the event the present nomies and controlled news no story is improbable and General —Manager George lachl ana’ 4 0!(71()0% /)/Ué... majority in Cuugxm which controls the purse- merely because it is fantastic. | Weiss that no publicity will be r TR O L TR g e iElven ey caiinin Th Yankeag Gathering place of the elite and fashionable in Cuba! 3 Ih w h ' and jowl with Tito, they make a Oh,’ replied Coloned House, therefore, have no comment to Here, 100, members voted Parker the most-wanted 3 e washingion o g, up Moscow's| We will bulld a betier one. And|make on reports mentioning spe- pen .« more-wanted than all other makes combined. | M G R | next moves. They have to, For|not only have you built bigger and|cific salary terms.” ! erry-Go-Round |mext o, ey ey ‘may be | beiter _bridges, but when the| R e i Abs Sovikt sonp: | American Army came back to Eu- X By DREW PEARSON The Russian ®olitburo, claims|rope in the last war it was far \ N7 ) the Moscow specialists, believes in | far better than the Army of 1917-| | E Continued from Puge O [ shifting strategy. When it fails 1018, 5 ; 0 e e WOI‘ S I“OS Wall e el‘ o —— b .““h one move, it makes a light- So,” concluded the 87-year-old { question but that he's an A-ijning change to another. Thus, | Italian statesman “Here's to| Skiers are reminded to use ski P Ambassador. de knows Italian|when the Truman Plan was adopt- American friendship you can|climbers on the np-hill trek to! psychology, has been tireless inied and U. S. advisers and money always rely on it and it gets bet- | the slalom hill this weekend Moscow ans- ter with every year. | Juneau Ski Patrol members re=- promoting the right kind of friend- ship between the United States and Italy, and has proved himself the kind of representative the United| States can be proud of. Though| Jimmy Dunn comes from the op-| posite side of the railroad tracks| than the present Italian govern-} ment, he has worked most sympa-} thetically to straighten out their; preblems. \'w could use more like | him in other countries. HOW TO PREVENT WAR There was something qulle’ the ceremony o(‘ unloading the first Italian Friend | Ship in the bombed-out city of Naples. There were piles of |ubble, on one side, gutted buildings on| the other and old German bomb | shelters in front. And around the| dock were Italian school children,! touching about { poured into Greec ! wered by suddenly shifting to Hun- (Copyright, 1948, by The igary. There it kicked out the Bell Syndicate, Inc.) anti-Communists, freely elected < s government and set up a puppet government of its own. | rd P 1 Next, Moscow strategy centered rosswo uzze on France and Italy and those countries were given a hot dose | HAB‘;“"SS :‘; i_f”b"‘“l’ S 5 t 8 mparative of politically inspired strikes. : K.l]nd’ol R Penaing When this strategy failed, MOSCOW | personification 32 It ls: contr | shifted—only last week—back to| of truth Israelite king Greece. Obviously, the new Com-| 2 Peer Gynt's Hemote mother munist. republic of Greece is going | (a -Town in Maine to get most of Moscow's attention | Horse for a while, and the United States| 15. Thing: luw o 16. Train of wives is going to be the recipient of | I3 \AEH Before all sorts of resultant headaches. 18, Glass tube for L beverages 5| o o blowpive teresting But simultanecusly the Soviet! analysis 4 sple experts also predict that shenani- 20. Sur[acE‘d a : Cut A"( beet RS stree 8. Lpoch gans are brewing in Austria. Juslj Wander 49 Private how soon the Russians will move lxr‘efinblo Es instructor 2 51 Sorrow to set up their own puppet gov- Celectrode \(n»mmn crowding, waving flags and shout-|ernment in their part of Austria| 20 Stillnese 4 pe ing, “Viva America!” \is only a guess, but it's sure to| 0 B 1 e S Up above the harbor, scarcely come fairly soon. The gentlemen | discernable through the clouds,|in Moscow believe in versatility. | towered Mount Vesuvius. In the H harbor itself a crew of 400 steve- dores had worked all day Sunday| to unload the ships and stevedores aren’t easily persuaded to work on Sundays in this part of the world. The cheering children, the grim,| bombed-out buildings all seemed | like a new Italy smiling and strug- | gling to lift itself out of the trag- ic blunders of the past. I couldn’t help but remember as| 1 watched the crowd that it was, only two brief years ago that the| “And the United States,” he con- United States and Italy were at war and that i1, despite the bit- terness of war, people can get to- gether with people and help each; other as Americans are now help- ing the people of Italy, then may- be that's one wvery important way to prevent war in the future. ORLANDO TOASTS U. S. | Sprightly 87-year-old ex-Premier | Vittorio Orlando, Italian delegate to the 1918 peace conference and revered elder statesman of Italy, proposed a toast to the Uniled" States and the Friendship Train. | “Friendship,” he said at a private | dinner, “is different from love. Love | scmetimes goes back en you, is not | always reciprocated. But {riend- hip never. tinued, “never goes back on you. When American troops came to France in 1917, some Allied officcrs | lcoked at them and remarked that they could not stand up in battle. 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