The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 24, 1948, Page 4

Daily Alaska Empi Published every evening except Sunday by the EMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY Second and Main Streets, Juneau, Alaska HELEN TROY MONSEN - - Prestdent DOROTHY TROY LINGO - - - Vice-President WILLIAM R. CARTER Editor and Manager ELMER A. FRIEND - Managing Editor ALFRED, ZENGER Business Manager Butered In the Post Offiee in Juneau as Second Class Matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Delivered by carrier in Juneav and Douslas for S1.5¢ per month; six months, $8.00; one year, S15.00 By mail, postage paid, at the following rates: One year, in advance, §15.00; six months, in advance, $7.50; ane month, in advance, $1.50 er o favor if they will promptly notify fatlure cr irregularity in the delivery €. 602; Business Office, 374, MEMBER O ASSOCIATED PRESS ted Press is exclusively entitled to the use for 1 dispatehes credited to it or not ether- also the local news published ATIVES — Alaska Newspapers, 1411 Wash. POLITICS ALREADY Although the primary election is still more than two months away, the campaigning has begun, indi- rolls around cating a livelv battle before April 27 In Ketchikan the Chronicle opened its campaign at Senator Norman R. Walker, which is going It was predicted that Senator Walker ¢ hard to avoid being snowed “Walker bloc” to def to be a big job will have to battle vel under because he headed the so-called during the last Legislature. he next day the Chronicle had to publish an saying what the editor hadn't taken This ad, signed by “A Friend of Doc advertisement into account pointed out: The veterans will not forget that it was Doc ralker who authored the sales tax bill which made |V le the establishment of our liberal veterans’ program 9. The voters who are sore about the lack of taxes passed by the last Legislature will remember that Walker co-authored all the so-called pro- gressive tax measures such as the income, property axes, only to have these killed of and corposate licenses t by the so-called “Walker bloc.” sts that if the editor of the Chronicle, who has been pushing for the above taxes really wants these taxes then he should have no basis for not supporting Walker. Walker has yet to be defeated for election to the Legislature. He has led his ticket in most of his races tions, ~including ments. “Well, asked Congress ffie Washifiqlon Merry-Go-Round By DREW PEARSON why | dent. ure.” “They mack, priations promise (Continued from Page One) can't,” military | their esting facts showing that leaders are talking through brass hats when they deny they| the using public funds to pro- pagandize for peacetime conscrip- tion There are only 650 trainees at| the Army's Universal Military Training Camp at Fort Knox, Ky., six-month cycle. Yet the Army publishes of the camp news- Pione Of these 1.000 copies are distributed at Ft. while the remaining 4,000 are mailed throughout the country.| Unlike the typical camp news- paper, devoted to local news items of interest to soldiers on the post, the “Pioneer” is filled with articles extolling the kenefits of compul-| s | Truman training of American youth. P tell Budget Congressional ~ Committee Webb to notify t also discovered that no other i At enterprise has received as much publicity from Army public relations as the effort to sell UM. from fund at the for executive week money to come 5.000 ('“P‘i. later in the paper, “UM.T 8 er ficit’ ha: grants S practice as e never thing,” he said. sory The ha | I breakdown of vital veterans func-!ing” he snorted, “it hasn’t appropriation?” inquired the Presi-|ia's Senator Harley That’s the usual proced- time champion of GI's, is working f “because the Committee VA they wouldn't ask for a deficiency | time | approved the agency’s propriation for this f For years it has been customary departments of Government which year ppropriations, but I' erved would Having long been familiar with|dewing in dent exploded he; had no authority to do that. instructed Director and seems to have the support of a great many people who have elected him time after time, while others have gone down to defeat To us that’s a good indication of Walker's chances | for re-election. He has never used his seat in the Legislature to seek the patronage of a political job or for personal gain and seems to have a better-than- average record of service. Why Not War on Disease? (Cincinnati Enquirer) The frightful but useful power of the atom was unlocked in just a few years of intensive research. U until atomic energy research was given a top priority in cur war activity, and the best of our physicists were recruited and given unlimited money and re- sources to pursue their research, atomic fission was little more than a possibility on the far horizon of science. In the ordinary course, with research in atomic power proceeding along a casual cour d dependent upon the seps e work of individuals, none possessing unlimited money or resources, we dare say that atomic power would not have become a reality for many, many years. There’s food for thought in this. The human race is plagued with many woes and ails which could be solved or remedied by a proper mustering of talent and resources. Think of the invisible enemies of man- kind—cancer, polio, tuberculosis, the virus diseases the disorders of old age—which could be conquered in short order if we brought to bear on them anything | like the organization we applied to, the creation of atomic bombs! Just a year ago Cowyress appropriated $50,000 | for research into the causes and possible cures of the common cold. Two scientists and "about 10 laboratory workers went to work with the appropriation. A fort- night ago they announced they had identified one | species of the cold virus, and were hopeful that a vaccine could be produced. It wasn't much, but at least a tangible beginning on the task of relieving mankind of a great source of disease and discomfort The common cold presents a complex problem which has defied the efforts of the medical profession to provide a specific remedy. We should , rather, it has defied the individual efforts of doctors and drug houses. Never has there been a great concerted coordinated campaign to ropt out the virus or viruses which compose the so-called common cold. It hasn't seemed worth anybody’s effort to tackle the pro- digious task of clinical and laboratory research sing | handed. Yet, while Congress was appropriating $50, 000 for a beginning on public-financed gesearch on the problem, the people of America were spending $400,000,000 cn cold * which could deal with varying degrees of effectiveness only with the symp- toms and possible after-effects of a cold We decry the expense and waste of strikes, but they compose a small item alongside the cost of the common cold. The United States News in a recent issue estimated that the working time lost due to colds | could produce 10,600,000 tons of superphosphate fer- | tilizer, 64,000,000 pairs of men’s shoes; 160,000,000 men’s dress shirts and still have enough time left for | the production of 68,000,000 table model radios. Bear | these figures in mind, add in the $400,000,000 spent | annually for cold remedies, make some allowance for | | the innumerable deaths that stem from complica- | tions resulting from colds, and then reflect upon the tangible results obtained in one year and $50,000 worth of federally supported research. The moral is self- evident. (the Marshall Plan) will cost us $60 billion| land we will be broke. Then we| the agency‘;nnght as well turn country for a deficiency over to Russia.” ... West Virgin- Kilgore, long- disability pay- the court order fon a plan for a replied McCor- for the armed service: House Appro-|to bring fairer court martials. Any, exacted a|GI could appeal his court martial officials that' sentence to this supreme court. 4 JAP COTTON DEAL regular ap-, A mountain of cotton—one mil- 1 year.” |lion bales—has been shipped to| |Japan by the U. S. Army, and| | the industrious Japansese have | woven every stitch of it into tex-| | tiles. As a result, the Japanese| for deficiency | textile market is flooded and the‘ the GOP Con-|U. §. Army in Japan is stuck with | notice that “de-!a vast surplus. | not be voted.! To save this surplus from mil-| Japanese warehouses, | the | cotton-minded U. S. Senators are | urging the Army to trade the rd of such a|Japanese-manufactured cloth to “The Committee |other Asiatic countries in return| | for rubber, oil, chrome and other an aide to|strategic materials. Although the| James Eiclulh was produced in Japanese! supreme n the Committee | the run short of back to Congre: a Senator, THE DAILY ALASKA EMP = = S5 wy | | Laurel C. McKechnie Har Sperling tina Hope Mrs. John Natterstad Mrs. R. D. Peterman Dorothy Brown Esther Rollins Belle Holmes May Graham mills, it Arny I plar till owned by the | { is to barter the cot- | n goods and give the Army cre-! dit ainst a $300-million appro- | priation, allotted for buying up cer- tain scarce materials, | The surplus of cotton goods in | Japan i8 estimated at onc~thml‘ the hipment from America— | equivalent to the goods produced | from 400,000 bales of raw cotton. ! Members of the unofficial Sen- | ate cotron committee pushing this | program are: Knowland of Califor- nia, and Kem of Missouri, Repub- licans; George of Georgia, May- bank of South Carolina, Spark- man of labama, and Eastland { Mississippi, Democrats, - - McCORMICK O OFFICIAL INSPECTION te total BETTY Mrs. Betty McCormick, Nn(lun.!l} Deputy Chief of Staff of the Ladies Ayxiliary of the Veterans of For- | eign Wars, left yesterday for| Ketchikan via Alaska Coastal, on one of the many visits required of her office Mrs. Mc nick will eventually | visit all the Auxiliarfes in Alaska She has made her visit to the local | Auxiliary in Juneau. On the present trip she visited Ketchikan Auxiliary at the month-/ ly meeting held last night, m,ni‘ on her return will stop at Peter: burg for the official call there. - | e e e 0 0 v 00 s 0 . . . . < | TIDE TABLE FEBRUARY 25 High tide, 2:30 p.m., 185 ft Low tide, 8:28 a. m., -04 ft. High tide, 14:31 p.m., 194 ft. Low tide, 20:52 p.m., -3.8 ft. * o 2 o o o o In early Roman day: yellow was used onl; bridal garments. the color | for dyeing | Xt " Insurance Agent Tells of Switch 3 To Lighter Calvert | [ “I’'m a moderate | man,”'says Chas.” | 8. Gea i Centralia, 111 “That's why I | switched to Cal- vert. It makes uch a light yet tasty highball.”’ | Coast to co: thousa switched to Calyer found it uniforml smoother, milder. Thot learned that it faste highball, cocktail, or Jalvert Reserve, cl ey, 86.8 proot. in this pr or more old, a product of Calver Corporation, New Yo lighter, | ids have | he VA to “put in” — a deficiéncy request at once i “We'll have a showdown on this,”’ remarked Truman, crisply carrying economy a little too far “It the people. In the last year more than 75000 UM.T. pamphlets have been published, plus 150 mimeographed articles and more than 30,000 other publi- cation: The da 218 have paper cost of this propa- blizzard alone amounted to Congressional learned JUB, T News that Henry Wallace's can- didate, Leo Isacson, stole a Con- gressional seat away from the Democratic machine in the Bronx reached one jubilant 0. P. Congressmen an off-the-record round-table di cussion. Massachusetts’ John H elton announced the New York re- sults. “Here's some welcome news for the Republican Party,” he grinned. Speaker Joe Martin was 50 as- tounded, he asked to have the an- nouncement read again, After thoroughly dige: ed it would for man to shift to the left “I don't think Wallace will come back into the Democ: fold,” the Speaker added, “unl Truman is replaced on the ticket And there is no chance for that.” CUTTING THE VETERANS President Truman hit the ceil- ing the other day when Rep. John McCormack of Massachusetts, the Democratic whip, informed him that the faced another sizeable personnel cut due to lack of operating funds. Dropping this personnel, McCor- miack warned, would mean a investigators group of G.| while holding | ing it, he predict-, President Tru- | Veterans Administration | Note—Dropping Veterans Admin- | istration personnel, including nur- s and doctors in the middle of | the year, means that they are| | almost impossible to hire back| fagain when more money is voted | the next year. TRUMAN ON COMMODITIES On the day before President| Truman held his press conference on commodity prices, White House Assistant Clark Clifford rushed | fover to the Council of Economic Advisers and requested a detailed | analysis of the market break. “The President wants to read it to the press,” he informed Chair-| man Edwin G. Now | Nourse worked his staff over-| time preparing the statement, but is still wondering why it wasn't| publicized Inside fact is that when Clifford placed the . report on the President’s desk, Truman informed him in a nettled voige that he could do his own talking to the press. Other White ! House aides, inci-| dentally, adviser Truman against reading the economic statement. | The newspaper boys, they said, might get the idea that he was (not qualified to talk for himself and had to rely on experts. So | {the President briefed himself | L ACROSS Convert Into money 8. Pale brown 9. Condensed moisture of the air . Ceremony “all Biblical priest . Norse god 6. Places at intervals . Metal thoroughly on the contents of the | contents of the Council's report, | then e the press his commodity views MERRY-GO-ROUND Talking to friends the other day, Speaker Joe Martin confided his real views on the Marshall Plan. ! “If we keep on the way we're go-" container Animation: irm Musical study Fish pickle alsam pronouncing . Cover the side 50. Principal . Knock 4. Hummingbird 55, Closing measures . Feminine name . Harden wking compartment 59. Short jacket 60, 6 7. 2. Conduce IRE— [UNEAU, ALASKA D RATRIL 17:Y SDI Tl E S Y e p 20 YEARS AGO 7%'c mmrire e /'WMMM FEBRUARY 24, 1928 seorge A. Parks was reelected President of the Alaska His- | ;nu;rnd:;‘ J. C. BRADY, ty at a meeting of the organization held the previous night. | VETERANE OF FOREIGN WARS Taku Post No. 5559 Meets first and third Friduys, Post Hall, Sew- ard St. Visiting Com- rades Welcome. H. 8. GRUENING, Com- Gov torical Socie Youll Always Get a Better Deal | in Fur Styles and Values at Marfin Victor Furs, Inc. Swedish Fur Craftsmen for Three Generations s | ame was to be played this night in the A doubleheader basketball g School. | A. B. Hall, between the Juneau High School and Douglas High i won the championship but the girls were tied The Juneau boys had Special ferries and the final battle was to be the big event of the meet were announced to be run from Douglas The! bowling tourney on the Elks alleys had been cancelled by HOMER (. MURPHY N D U, Ed Radde because players failed to appear for scheduled games NATUROPATHY Medicated Steam Baths Herbs ictly fresh eggs were adve rtised at 45 cents a dozen and two dozen for 85 cents. 10th and E Phone Blue 650 The Erwin Feed Ce. Office in Case Lot Grocery PHONE T4 HAY, GRAIN, COAL and STORAGE CALIFORNIA Grozcery and Meat Market 478 — PHONES — 371 High Quality Foods at Moderate Prices A new Kimball pipe organ had been received here to be installed in the Coliseum Theatre. It was shipped to Seattle from Chic i two freight cars. Factory mechanics were to arrive soon to make installation Services at the Methodist Church for the World Day of der the auspices of the Women's Missionary Society, were held in the Prayer un afternoon and evening of this day Skating were the previous night on Mendenhall Lake. i parties and family left for the south enroute to Russia in charge of gold mining operations. J. D where he was to be Littlepage STEVENS® LADIES'—MISSES’ READY-TO-WEAR Near Third Weather: High, 24; low. 20; clear. et et et Dailv Lessons in English % 1. cornon e i it e i -3 All of the people respond- | Seward Street WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not Omit OF. OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Refugee. USE,'E as in ME, with accent on third syllable, and not on the first, ed.” : Pronounce ref-u-je, U as in! Alaska Music s“pply Arthur M. Uggen, Manager Pianos—Mausical Instruments and Supplies Phoue 206 Second and Seward as so often heard. OFTEN MISSPELLED L's. SYNONYMS: Devout, piou WORD STUDY: “Use a word three times and it is yours.” increase our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Today's word: : MOTIVATE; to provide with a motive; to impel. “What were the causes which motivated these deeds?” et i MODERN FTIQUETTE ROBERTA LEE { e s s Q. In a case where a bride-to-be has no father or mother and no Warlield's flrug Siore near relatives, in whose name may she send her wedding invitations? (Formerty. a . Smith Drugs) A. If she desires to send out formal invitations, these would have to be engraved: “Miss Mary Smith and Mr. John Brown request the honor of your ence at their marriage, etc.” i Q. When circumstances force a man to let a woman whom he has the Manful, manfulness; one L. 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