The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 28, 1948, Page 4

PAGLE FOUR Publishe Secor HELEN TROY X DOROTHY TROY LINGO - . WILLIAM R. CARTER - - - ELMER A. FRIEND - e {k = ALFRED ZENGER - - - o and N Daily Alaska Empire EMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY Streets. Juneau, Alaska in the Air Safety (Washington Post) The final renort of the President’s Special Board by no standard flam- of Inquiry on Air Safety is boyant. It recommends no earth-shaking sky-shaking It methods than with gadgets and panaceas. Prestident ‘ - Vice-President ! Editor and Manager Managing Editor Business Manager | or rather changes. is concerned more with Indeed Entered In the Post Office in Juneau as Second Class Matter. is that it the most justifiable criticism of the repor SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Delivered by carrier in Juneau and Douglas for $1.5¢ per month; six months, $8.00; one year, |3 One year. one m n advance, $1.50 bers will ccnfer a favor if they 8 the Busine of their papers. Telephones News Office, 602; Business ail. postage paid, at the following rates: advance, $15.00; six months, in advance, $7.50; | ss Office of any faflure or irregularity in the delivery is not This lack of specificity un- doubtedly was due to the effort to achieve unanimity on the part of the five board members, an which, unfortunatel did not succeed Despite general character, however, the report is on the whole Office, 374 la factual, documented study. of air safety practices more specific. $15.00 will promptly notify | its MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED. PRESS sclated Press is exclusively en republicatic bereix of all news dispa‘ehes credited to it or not other- wise credited in this paper and also the local news published that should serve as a guidebook both for the airlines and for governmer agencjes dealing with aviation In view of the attempts at conciliation, it is sur- prising to have the dissent of Milton W. Arnold titled to the use for NATiUnAL REPRESENTATIVES — Ala ®ourth Avenue Bldg., Seattle, Wash. Vice-President of the Air Transport Association, on ska Newspapers, 1411 the ground that recommendations concerning avia WHY SUCH A LA Congress obviously has no moral ) favor of one profession over anotl H. R. 3214 amounts to essentially House and await the right ready passed by the would deny accountants payers before the Tax Court. In practical effect, ompel the hiring of a lawyer for all such repre | tion economic problems were presented under a “cloa | of safety.” Presumably this objection has root in the board's cautious suggestion othat base pay of pilots !be increased so as to lessen their dependence on actual flying hours and hence minimize the impetus | to fly in bad weather. In similar vein the board cit for emulation the retirement plans now operated by five airlines. In both these instances we think Mr. Arncld has taken a mistakenly narrow wiew. This is Ja case in which airline safety and airline economics are indivisible. Moreover, the safety board’s concern ! with this problem seems wholly legitimate in view of the broad mandate given it by President Truman Perhaps the most significant innovation recom- mended by the report is that airlines appoint full- time, high-level safety practices. Safety directors al- ready haye proved their value in many .lines | indust; The innovation is one we should think air- lines would weleome as a token of their acceptance of primary responsibility for air safety, especially in view of their particularly vulnerable status. Another im- portant recommendation certain to have the approval of the commercial airlines is the suggestion that gov- ernmental agencies be given autharity to require non- sertificated and contract carriers to meet the same afety standards as the old-line companies. The raport 1so shows a proper interest in such items as the in- w? right to legislate her, wheh is what This measure, al- ing Senate action, tax- ] to represent | woulc | 3 | tallation of electronic altimeters, called for in an datalo. i criiharybouits pGoRRBRaSONY MR: TasaRt, standardized _inspection proceaurs, { legal couns ¢ essential. Tax Court ‘T'h"d”d(" !’“‘“” P “_“;i‘“g“"l‘)‘l':;“l‘:sm"‘ 2 | ilet and mechanic tral rograms. however, handles settlement negotiations whieh are | oo oy which there should be little cantroversy. mich more the province of an accountant thamn ar It'is perhaps regrettable that, possibly to avoid attorney. The government’s own technical staff o' | ,uher altercatio 1 report did not go into the experts assigned to the settlement of controversief | yestion why there has not been more widespread Court is composed chiefly of account- | doption of known safety devices for bad weather cases some to trial torne nd account To requir beth attorne only questions of fact, and which are settled by nego- tiation prior to trial, appears unjusti It might be a nice thing for the t measure it is an impc but ir pay equal TS, payers to be represented by both at- and accountants in cases which involve | J savigation and landing. Such an inquiry would have hown, first of all, the foolish parsimony of Congress n cutting appropriations for installation of such levices at airports. Bevond this it would have disclosed ‘he inability of the azirlines so far to get together in attack on the problem of bad-weather k assuredly would cost money, even with governmental help. | it is customary e the services of 1 concerted flying. Such an att 1 great deal of money fied ax case attorney psition upon tex- | really comprehensive approach to safety in the air. effort | * | day period beginning March 7 THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE = FEBRUARY 28 M Connie Mrs. Minzghor Sharon Brown R. M. Babcock Ada Whelan Susie D. Kennedy Mrs. Roberta Wheeler 29 (Leap Year) Mrs. Tom Dull Maxine Lund Jack Lund R. Guerin ancy Niemi M. D. Beamish Edward Bowden, Alan Doyie Douglas B. Hulk Sr o v o s 00 0 0 - DUNCANS ATTEND - SAN FRANCISCO NiCD CONVENTION Mr. and Mrs. A, R. Duncan were dinner guests of their son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Steve Sheldon Fi evening, this event taking the arewell party tor the Duncans who had completed plan PAA for to San attend of the ers Ay form of a Seattle. They are enroute Francisco where they will the 38th nual convention National Institute d Dyers scheduled for a four- 7 in the city by the Golden Gate. = journey will include more than the trip to the NIDC convention as the Duncans will spend three or fou days at Gray's Harbor and Sea tle. They will be gone for a month or more, combining business and pleasure while enroute. It is anticipated, said Mr. Duncan that the convention will otfer op- portunity of learning much about the latest techniques in cleaning and dyeing field, besides making it of machinery and equipment. Follow- ing the convention Mr. and Mrs. to leave today via | of Clean-| | ! i | | i ] ! f‘ { { I | ! | | l { i | | A o a prime prerequisite to a 4 ) But it is, in our opinion, a prime prerequis > % possible to examine latest designs | ® |Duncan expect to stop over for at, h w h- i shall was involved, but here e as I“q on two ol them. |® R least a week in Portland and vic- Early in 1940, Roosevelt was urg-| ® TIDE TABLE ® inity.* Me“’y-GO-Round ed to send England and France a|e Prior to his purchase of the Tri- | _— quaptity of old American rifles, | ® FEBRUARY 29 : angle Cleaners in 1945 Mr. Duncan By [ [ SOD | som¢ left over from World War 1| ® 3 9 3 had operated the Duncan’s Clean-!| B VXLLARSOV some even from the Spanish-Amer- | @ High tide, 5:02 am, 175 ft. ®!ing and Pressing Shop in Juneau (Continued from Page One) ican War. The British had danger- ® Low tide, 11:30 am. 0.1 ft. ® which he established after having —— - {ously depleted their arsenals and ® High tide, 17:37 pm., 142 ft. @ opened and operated the post M | bas dome little except Churchill was frantic. He told e Low tide, 2334 pm, 25 ft : laundry and cleaning plant at Fort complain _fo his Undersecretary, Roosevelt, the British. would have e s ? Richardson. - ; Bob Lovett, that Lovett got him © ist with bare hands and/® MARORS 162 ft. ® RouehaNERaE il O D3NS toc an awful mess. bottles. 'S High tide, 5_-43 am., 16.2 ft. Richardson, Duncan had been em- m,, \d while the Secretary of State; But while the U. s. Army admit-| ® Low tide, 1.1123 pam., l._-2 ft. ® ‘ployed for 17 years by The Alaska g i 5 of ST 4 these old rifles were of no|® High tide, 18:32 pm, 125 ft. ® Laundry in Juneau. He came to stood almost pathetic in his paral- ¢ B e B i R el SR S st B B S e vsis. his Cabinet colleague, James value to us, General Marshall, then i J }xl G, - 1o, e Forrestal and his own Near East- Ohlef of Staff, opposed sending {in Juneau. His. last trip. “outside | was made last July when he travell- them to France and England. He maintained that Congress wouldn't! {like it. Roosevelt, however, over-| ruled him. The rifles were ship-| ped. openly poliey almost 5. were ofiicial U ermn experts flaunting the on Palestine, The effect on the Arabs of this open opposition was quite simple. It lit bonfires under Arab hopes thereby making Marshall's problem One year carlier, the Chief of | all the more difficult | staff had shown similar lack of {foresight when it came to avia- RSTAN §0 |tion planning. And at one his- A LESSON FROM KELLOGG | o ‘witte House session it fell| The last time war the to the lot of a civilian to argue| peace of the Western Hemisphere the generals into a big air pro- was about twenty years ago when gram. | ed to the Continental United Stat- les for inspection and purchase of | cleaning equipment and machinery | Mrs. Duncan is a life-long resi- e 8 Philippine Delegate . ReSIgns ‘rom u“pc‘dem of Alaska, Juneau b.eing her |place of birth. LAKE SUCCESS, Feb. 28—®--| In commenting upon the trip Senator Vicente J. Francisco, the “Dunc” remarked he did not expect Philippines delegate, said today he to find places that are any better had resigned from the United Na- | than Juneau, but wanted to make ticns Palestine Commission. 1Lhe trip so as to learn what is hap- Francisce’s resignation followed pening “outside” in the cleaning the disclosure last week of grow- industry and did not' know of any ing friction within the five-member Letter way to do this than to make commission which has the task of a jaunt to the first Institute conven-, Bolivia threatened to invade Para- | guay. Frank B. Kellogg was then Secretary of State—not a polished diplomat, but one who believed in heading off trouble beiore he had to meet it head on. At the first sign of Paraguayan- Bolivian belligerency, Kellogg sum- moned the leading Latin-American statesmen to Washington, enlisted the prestige of Charles Evans Hughes and rolled up such solid public opinion against war that hostilities were stopped. In faect, Kellogg's shirtsleeve diplemacy held oft war for two solid years, and the only thing that defeated him was a $20,000,000 munitions loan to the Bolivian Army by the bank- ing firm of the very same James Forrestal who now champions the Arabs Another Secretary of State who believed in heading off diplomatic trouble before it got started was Henry L. Stimson. When Russia and China began making faces he Chinese Eastern Railroad on summoned the en- atic corps, wrote strong notes, made those notes public, and vigorously = mobilized worl dopinion against war. The two armies were demobilized. Again when the Japanese Army 8 d its famous Manchurian in- cident in 1931, Stimson saw this isolated skirmish for what it really diplomat was—the beginning of the Jap conquest of China. And ior two years, using diplo- matic. pressure, public opinion and the feeble power of the League of Nations, he kept the Japs at bay. If_he had had a kind of support from the isolationist President then in the White House—Herbert Hoover—he might have succeeded. WAR. SECRETS TOLD | Unfortunately, George Marshal, even when Chief of Staff, did not seem to realize that ability to| look ahead is the measure of true statesmanship. Wartime secrecy obscured many of the vital de¢fSlons in which Mar-| The civilian was the late Her- man Oliphant, then General Coun- | partitioning the Holy Land. sel of the Treasury Department., e i The military men present werv:st””_‘f'“ 2 ‘;;‘g: ;’r‘)‘;““’l‘]'mf"“ il General Marshall, Gen, Hap. Am-' Sioeria in d i by heard in Irkutsk, 600 miles away. |old, head of the Air Corps, and {tion held on the Pacific Coast in 15 years. | While in San Francisco the Dun- lcans will stay at the Sir Francis ' Drake Hotel. . Adm. Harold Stark, Chief of Naval | Operations, g : 0 The meeting was early in 1939, C d Puul e [SIA] At it Oliphant argued (1) that TOSSWOI jzzie B there was certain to be war in . jLity Europe; (2) that when war came ACROSS 370 Bxpl EIN| 1. Revolves 58! Hundre: ME the job of the United States would | AT o o m be to give its friends in West- | 6. Wild sheep 39, Small barrels ern Europe not & handful of planes, | . * [MERNE KTUAL, 0. ROTRG oo but a minimum of 20,000 planes; ' 12. Understood \uricle. and (3) the United States must L ora AT gl immediately launch a program of }: 3 ‘50.000 new airplanes | 1. | General Marshall, however, was! ,; pConlict F opposed. . He though the idea of Italian river mulberry (50,000 planes was preposterous. So; 1 Trouble: BUBDE toeals did General Arnold. And the sig- | 2L Aerial © nificant thing is that the 1939 shoailieg Army budget, prepared for 1940 by the General Staff which Marshall b headed, provided for only six fly~| 5. BaiaMones ing fortresses his is a matter | Alrship o earanal of record which any Doubting | Showy dress 60, Donkey Thomas can check for himself, | o oro® ot In other words, the Chief of Staff simply lacked the ability to | |look ahead and see what airpower would mean in the impending war. | begun. ! Roosevelt and Henry Morgen- | thau, however, overruled the gen-[ erals and backed up Oliphant. That | White House meeting in 1939 was | >ow R mix/a]> > Solution ofs Yesterday's Puzzle DOWN 6. Former publle of the ear conveyance se on Stationary honor \ parts 3. Cake covering 7. Capital of Cuba 4 Feminine name g [nstigates . French blue . Turn to the right . Scuttle country Shorthand Furnish . Impresses with how the 50,000-airplane program Getting back to diplomacy, there are quite a few moves which a' Secretary of State could have made to head off trouble in Palestine— | in fact, still can make. Monday . Writing implement . Coil Genus of the Virginia willow Form of iotto this column will discuss some of them | g | . Household - duties The furniture manufacturing in- dustry of the United States has o over 300,000 wage earners. - S Stone b oy 2 { Look on ap- AUTICE | aiher I will not be responsible for any bills contracted by any person other than myself. 1 (748-Mar. 1) Steve Feist, | Belgian river East Indian fiber plant Utility Female sheep TUNEAU. ALASKA from 20 YEARS AGO T%'s mmpire e FEBRUARY 28, 1928 To develop the old Harkrader holdings and adjoining areas in Kootz- nahoo Inlet nto a producing coal mine was the object of Admiralty nahoo Inlet into a producing coal mine was the object of Admiralty and General Manager, Howard H. Lerch, Secretary-Treasurer, and Board of Directors John Reck, Wallis S. George and Judge James Wick- crsham Mr. and Mrs. Frank Oja announced the marriage of their daughter Daisy Ellen, to M. S. Wood, at Cordova. The bride haq lived most of her life in Juneau and Mr. Wood was an officer of the U. S. Radio Station at Mile Seven on the Copper River and Northwestern Railroad H. S. Graves was advertising the latest Clotheraft serges at $29 and $35 There was to be nominaticns and a feed at the Elks this night The Lions Club, at a noenday luncheon, discussed plans for building a Boy Scout cabin in the Eagle River area Yurman arrived on the Aleutian Eva and Bessie from the south Mrs. A. J. Balog, of Douglas, was a passenger homebound on the Aleutian William Bosch underwent a major operation at St. Ann's Hospital and his condition was reported satisfactory. was registered D. Perelle, of Montana Creek at the Alaskan Weather: High, 44; low, 40; clear i i s s i e B B s | Daily Lessons in English % 1. corbox s e #3 WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not Say, “was PROVED OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED This statement was proven.” Grimace (a distortion of the counten- ance). Pronounce gri-mas, I as in IT, A as in ACE, and accent LAST syllable, not the first OFTEN MISSPELLED: Ammeter; two Ms. Amethyst; one M SYNONYMS: Cauticn, cauticusness, prudence, discretion, wariness care, vigilance, watchfulness WORD STUDY: * > a word three times and it is yours.” Let us increase our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Today's word CAPTIOUS; apt to catch faults. “A jealous."—Chesterfield at vulgar man is captious and ¥ by ] MODERN ETIQUETTE Hoperra Lee | Q. Should children be taught what some people call ompany manners”? A. No. in the home, of company. Q. Is it ill-bred when one is talking with a person, for this person to show a lack of interest in what is being said? A. Yes, this is one of the most frequent acts of discourtesy. To be a good listener is one of the surest ways to gain friends, and is just as important as to be a good speaker Q. Is is all right for the parents of a girl's fiance to announce the engagement? A. No; this is the privilege of the girl’s parents only They should be taught that good manners are for da office, and on the street, as well as when in the pre use ence D e e e e = — e 1. How many quarts are there in a dry bushel? 2. How far does a greyhond leap when traveling at full speed? 3. What is meant by the phrase, “carrying coals to Newcastle"? 4. What was the most famous ancient library? 5. What is a prognostication? ¢ ANSWERS: 1. 32 quarts. 2. About 18 feet, when necessary to clear a hurdle 3. Wasted effort; taking things to places where they already abound: Newcastle was a coal mining district. 4. A library at Alexandria, Egypt. 5. A prediction. MAYOR ELLIS HERE Bob Ellis, Mayur of Ketchikan, arrived in Juneau yesterday after | spending a few days in Anchorage. ‘While in the Capital City he will | attend the Southeast Alaska May- | ors’ Council being held in con- | junction with the Gold Medal Basketball Tournament. He is registered at the Baranof Hotel. 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