The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 27, 1948, Page 4

PAGE FOUR Daily Alaska Empire Published every evening except Sunday by the EMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY Second and Maln Streets, Juneau, Alasks HELEN TROY MONSEN - - - - DOROTHY TROY LINGO - - WILLIAM R. CARTER it - ELMER A. FRIEND D3l S - ALFRED ZENGER = - - - President . Vice-President Editor and Manager Managing Editor Business Manager Butered in the Post Office in Juneau gs Second Class Matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Delivered by carrier in Juneau ard Douglas for SL5¢ per month; six months, $8. ne vear, $15.00 Ey mail. postage paid, at the following rates: One sear, in advance, $15.00; six months, in advance, §7.50; woe month, in advance, $1.80. | Subscribers wil) ccnfer a favor if they will promptly notify the Business Office of any failure cr irregularity in the delivery af their papers. Telephones: News Office, 602; Business Office, 374. Or ASSOCIATED PRESS s is exclusively entitied to the use for republication o ws dlsp~iches credited to 1t or not other- #ise credited in this paper .d also the local news published serein. | NATiunaL REPRESENTATIVES — Alaska Newapapers. 1413 | Pourth Avenue Bldg., Seattle, Wash. i | that it gets along only by lying about its accomplisk an affair of several drunken U. S. soldiers attacking a Russian guard, who was compelled to shoot “in self-defense.” Nearly all contacts with the outside world have been miserpresented as completely. Our European Recovery Plan isn’t intended to help Europe but to “enslave it,” the Communist party line S, Moscow's errand boys throughout Europe are “states- men and leaders of the people.” Obviously it requires a very low grade of intelli- gence to subscribe to the Communist line, especially when the party outlook often changes overnight Many an American Communist had to do an immediate flipflop in this attitude that England and France were the “warmongers” when Hitler made the mis- | take of attacking their beloved Russia The true Communist, of course, doesn’t bother about whether the party line embraces lies or truth He accepts what he Kknows to be lies just as un- questioningly as he does the truth because he is taught that lies are instraments of war, cold war or resl war, to establish Communism over all the world. He blindly assumes that the directors of the party policy know what they are doing when they call for a certain line of fabrication. It tells a great deal about Communism to say ments, lying about its friends, lying about its enemies and lying even to its own followers. Fortunately, lies in time defeat themselves. Press Privilege (Washington Post) The news editor and a staff reporter of the New- burgh News in Newburgh, N. Y., went to jail recently | because they refused to tell a grand jury the source | Adolf Hitler and his associates developed the hei as a weapon. They used it on occasion to monstrous advantages. Affairs under Nazi control were sys-| tematically misrepresented, and whatever lie might serve their particular purpose was applied to outside | affairs. Up until the very hour that Hitler and his henchmen were at bay in their concrete bunker in Berlin the massive framework of lies—then down to a COMMUNISTS ARE LIARS tissue—was kept up. The Communists use the same technique. As a matter of fact the manipulation of truth to their own | | advantage, or the flagrant lie, was an instrument of | Nazis started. | Coemmunist party policy before the Also, the USSR is going the Third Reich one better in its lying 1f baffles the intelligence to hear Russian news- | casts tell how enthusiastically other lands are wel- coming Communist control, and. to be told how para- | dise-like Russia is compared with the rest of the capi- talist-world. That incident in Vienna when an Ameri- | can. soldier was ordered to walk in the gutter, thenj was knocked down and shot in his back when he| refused, was duly reported to the Russian public as| who frequently The Washinglon Merry-Go-Round like. And a studied th which Washington officials do not s atom-bomb most carefully. I of certain information they had published in connec- tion with a crime under investigation. Whatever ihe legal validity of this punishment, it represents an anomaly in American life. For most Americans, we have no doubt, feel strongly that reporters, like physi- clans, priests and lawyers, have a moral obligation to protect persons who talk to them in confidence. A newspaperman who betrayed confidenctes, even at the behest of a court, would undercut the basis of his livelihood and would forfeit the respect of col- leagues and public .hke. Thus, if the judge who sentenced the two men for contempt of court was right in ruling that the law confers no such immunity on members of the press.the law is at variance with settled American concepts of fair play. We should think, however, that even in the ab- sence of any statutory definition of a news iource as privileged, the first amendment to the Consti- tution would give newspapermen the right to respect confidences—and that this right has, in point of fact grown up as a part of the common law. Lack of it would constitute a serious handicap to publication of new sand consequently a real impairment of the freedom of the press. But whether the remedy lies properly in the courts or in the legislatures, it is a remedy which should be provided without delay on grounds of the public interest entailad. years and was a getting this one world has And Italian tive for several little slow in started. But all the been a little slow recently. 1 predict that with the publishes news newspaperman I question can assure you By DREW PEARSON (Contirued from Page One) thousands of people in Gorizia were when I tried to deliver it My thoughts and those of many other Americans have been with the Italian people since that time, especially so right now. “This week, the Itallan film ‘Thanks America,’ expressing the gratitude of the Italian people for the Friendship Train was shown before members of the American Cabinet, the Supreme Court, the Senate and House of Representa- tives — a stirring demonstration of {§ Italian-American friendship. ¢ “Your American friends have also # been thinking about you these days 4 because we have heen worried. We " have been worried by disturbing | reports that some of the things| we fought for may now be forgot-! ten | “I think I can truly say—because I knew well the American soldier | —that they were sincerely fighting | a war to end war and preserve Democracy. And many of you,| though your Fascist dictator was on the other side, courageously | helped them toward that goal | ARMISTICE DID! PEACE “But when the armistice came,| and we sent our armies home, we found that another power didn't. At first we couldn't believe this.| As allies we had trusted each oth-| er. But with the end of the war, | when one power kept a big army | in the field we began to wonder.| And as that army marched into other weaker countries to enforce its rule we wondered more, and became worried. | “The American Army was demo- | bilized from the huge total of 15,000,000 men to only 600,000 in a few short months, but our ally, though discharging a few men,| has kept a very large army. “Then another thing happened 'T BRING that you in Italy may not know | abcut. I consider it most impor- tant “During the war the United States had developed a new and| terrilying weapon—so terrifying that after the United Nations was organized, we offered to abolish this weapon—the atom bomb, We, offered to wipe it out altogether| and never make another bomb— on one condition “That condition was that an in- ternational board be appointed to inspect the war plants of other nations to make sure they were not making the bomb which we had agreed not to make. “But this one power, this former ally which had not demobilized, refused to cooperate. It refuse this generous American offer to- abolish the atom bomb. This one country refused to have the United Nations inspect its war plants though we were willing to have ours inspected. é “Now T am a newspaper man J | ies of [ help to that my Government and American people were most sincere in their desire to cooperate “I am afraid the refusal by one power to accept this act of friend- ship has led to more distrust and ill-will than anything that has happened since the end of Hitler. “For if the atom bomb could be abolished, and the peacetime sec- ret of the atom could be shared by the world, it would bring a new haven of happiness and prosperity If the atom could be harnassed for peacetime medicine and indus- it would mean the end of worries over coal, it would mean energy for the great factor- Milan and Bologna and Turin without jmporting one ton of coal. It would mean heated homes for all Italy—the sunshine of the summer blossoming forth in the winter. | “All this, Americe offered to the| world. And becfuse of one nation, | it was refused. | AMERICA HAS ITS FAULTS | “Now you may have heard some! critical things about the United States these days when propagan- da is being spread so energetically from certain sources; and I would ke the first to deny that we in America don't have our faults. We have plenty of them “But I know the American peo- ple, and this much I can tell you. They sincerely, devoutly want peace, and are willing to work at it. The Friendship Train was one! example. That was an effort by all sorts of Americans, high and low, to show their iriendship for needy people in Europe, even though some of those people once had been classified as enemies. “The Marshall Plan and the tons and tons of wheat we have sent to Eurcpe is another example of work- ing at peace and friendship. When I was in Italy, I heard some /Ital- jans say that the Marshall Plan was just a clever scheme to bene- fit America, a device to bolster our prosperity “Well, I can tgJl you that last week the American people finished | paying their annual taxes, taxes | which have been kept high because | of the wheat we have been sending to Europe and because we have to | pay for the Marshall Plan. Those | taxes are as high as those of any | country in the world, and we don't like to pay taxe But we will pay them, and will sacrifice if it will build up a peaceful friendly Europe. ‘I hope that no iron curtain wik | separate us aiter April 18. I hope that I shall be coming back 10| Italy when days are happier, ana times are more Prosperous as a re- sult of continued cooperation be- tween American and Italians. I hope I shall come back to Udine again and hear the little boys’ band play, and that I shall ride once more in a locomotive cab with Minister of Transport Cor-| bellini as the engineer. Ministes | Corbellini is a great guy, even | though he hadn't driven & locomo- | the and American people working to- gether, pulling together after Ap- yil 18, at least one part of the world will be moving a lot fast- er—toward peace and friendhip.” ——————— AH BOATS EXPECTED NORTHERN COMMERCIAL HOO! The Emma, Messenger and Naha, belonging to Joe Winther, Ray Westfall and Earl Forsythe, are completed and back in the water at Northern Commercial ways. The Naha is now skippered by Capt. Sully. The Norma is also off the ways and in the water to undergbd deck repairs. Two boats are expected in from Hoonah for repairs the first of next week. The Sweet Lorraine, according to Ray Packard, is having her ribs worked on while shaping up. P RN JOHNSON ZISSING Reuben Johnson, 50, has been missing since last Monday and in- formation is sought by the Juneau Police Department. He has been employed by Victor Johnson on Fritz Cove and not by the John- son Children’s Home as previously . Animal en- closure . Recorded pro- ceedings . Ireland 42. Eccentric . Ledge g 20. Bottom timber 48. Withered of a shij 49, Answer 21. Consequently purpose 22, Exclamation §1. Jumbled 23, Salamanders 2. Affluent . Charge 54. Early Norse 27. Period of time gods 25. App! 50. Sweetheart pproval 5 30 Kormer fine for 9. Before murder 60. Number 2. Grate §1. Send payment . Top of the 62. Turkish army head officer Thing: law Append 36. Ancient Ro- Meadow man official Vermilion e BELL 7, THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA MARCH 27 . . Mrs. Robert Simpson William 8. Dapcevich Bob Phillips Arvo Wahto Mary Paul Evan Wruck Kenneth Willard MARCH 28 Leslie D. Cashen s. Norman Cook trude E. Lackey Rose McMullen Sasha Soboleff Alan Gordon Gray e0seceere0ec00cooscs e Sees s scsesscscceccse e e 00 0 0 0 0 o R Sovieli Erecting Monument fo Early - Explorer, Alaska MARCH 27, 1928 A dance, honoring the Husky Glee Club members, was to be given after the concert this night in the Elks Hall, sponsored by Alaska | Washingtonians., i Among them were Mrs. W. R. Heisel, Mrs. R. J. Sommers, E. J. Kir of - fer, Henry Messerschmidt, Ed Ninnis, Mrs. Alex Gair, Mrs. Edna Feero, Mrs. Prosper H. Ganty. Eddie Leach, former cook on the gasboat Yakobi, left where he was to join the kitchen force at the Pioneers’ Home. The Coliseum was wded the previous night at a splendid concert given by the University of Washington Glee Club. for Sitka E. E. Engstrom, of Wrangell, was registered at the Gastineau. . Mayor Thomas Judson called for a mass next night to make nominations for city offices. |and little interest was being shown. ting of the citizens the Registration was light | Weater: Hgh, 35: low, 34; trace of rain |ttt o . et f’ Dailv Lessons in English % ¢ corbon r—— ) MOSCOW, March 27.—(®— The| Soviets are erecting a monument to Ivan Alexandrovich Kuskov, early 19 century explorer of California and Alaska and founder of Fort Ross in California. | The Russians established Ft. Ress on the California coast about 60 miles northwest of San Francisco in 1812. The fort, which was used primarily for trading with the Span- iards, was abandoned in 1841, Izvestia, the Government news- papers, said today the Town Coun- cil of Totma, city in the Volgoda district of northern Russia more than 400 miles due east of Lenin- grad, has decided to commemorate Kuskoy, a native son. Alter 32 years in Alaska and Cal- ifornia Kuskov returned to Totma and died tnere a year later. His former home is being preserved as a museum, and the museum or- ganization will publish his biography Izvestia said B CALLING ALL GARDENERS Be sure to tune in on KINY Sat., at 6:15 p. m. for Mr. Oldroyd’s address on “Gardening 846 2t EVERYBODY PAYS A SALES TAX By William L. Paul, Sr., candidate for the Republican nomination to the Legislature. In 1927, the Fairbanks delegation tried to impose a sales tax on gaso- line but the Senator could not get aorund the argument that boat owners would get no returns from their payments while automobile owners would get roads. : It nained for Hanford, of Wrangell, to find a way to make the fishermen pay a line tax and “like it”. He provided that the tax on gasoline should be paid to the “general treasury”, and so the bill passed”. The tax is now 3c per gallon which on a percentage basls is FIFTTEN PERCENT. How do you like that? And yet the Democrats have just told us AGAIN (see their recent plat- form controlled by Gruening Demo- crats) that they are against a sales tax! ? The Republicans had it right in 1945 when they said: “We advocate a complete revision of our territorial system of taxation | on these principles; a. Taxation according to the ability to pay and according to the privileges received; b. To build up the resident pop- ulation of Alaska; and c. Enforcement of all tax sta- tutes with audit of the tax collector’s receipts. A tax on sales is a tax mainly on the poor. (Paid Adv.) £ [Aamxlzime wllix-(c 32 DHHEIOIJ 2EEE8 BEe [0 [miwi»/0|r] lmwC] z] Solution of Yesterday's Puzzle DOWN 3. Sliver coin 1. Swamp 4. Manner of 2. Hawalian g freseliog the salutation Vase . Hazards . Easy gait Expresses cons tempt . Astern Gave . Commotion . Fasten. | Danger signal . Monastic superiors dian g bird 1 tune intain nymph . Fiber from the century plant . Men who handle a train . Close Conjunction Sesame Democrat Fred WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “There is the tree that I| threw at.” It is better to say, “There is the tree at which I threw.” OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Maniacal. Pronounce ma-ni-ak-kal, first A as in ASK unstressed, I as in HIGH, accent second syllable. OFTEN MISSPELLED: Rabbit (animal). Rabbet (a groove) SYNONYMS: Shout, shrick, scream, call, cfnmor, exclaig, yell, cry out. \ WORD STUDY: “Use a word three times and it is yours,” Let us increase our vocabulary by mastering ome word each day. Today's word: MAXIM; a general truth; especially a saying of a proverbial nature: “It is a maxim, that those to whom everybody allows the second place have an undoubted title to the first."—Swift. | MODERN ETIQUETTE %oprra wes Q. Is it necessary for a weman to say “please” and “thank you” to her servants? A. While nat A gracious efficiency among one’s employees and associates Q. Is it all right for a woman to introduce h Smith”? A. It is preferable for “Jim.” Q. Should one reply to a letter that announces an engagement? A. Yes, and with sincere expressions of interest and best wishes. B e neces still this is never out exactly of place. husband as “Mr. the wife to say “my s (TN SR R I 1. How many provinces are there in the Dominion of Canada? 2. Which is considered the oldest science? 3. What is a “banner” or “streamer” in a newspaper? 4. What is a “sampan”? 5. Who was the composer of “The Nutcracker Suite”? ANSWERS 1. Ten provinces. 2. Astrocnomy. 3. A headline which runs all the way across the newspaper. 4. A Chinese flat-bottomed river boat. 5. Tschaikowsky. B ) NORTHILAND SAILINGS FROM SEATTLE for Ketchikan, Wrangell, Petersburg, Juneau, Haines, Skagway and Sitka) 8. 8. ALASKA————THURSDAYS, APRIL 8 and 22 AGENT HENRY GREEN — NORTHLAND TRANSPORTATION G srins iouthtatries ¢ i | 1891—0ver Half a Ceniury of Banking—1948 | * | The B. M. 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Good Advertising recognizes both its economic responsibility to help re- duce distribution costs and its social responsibility in serving the public interest. o Quoted from: ‘EDITOR and PUBLISHER The Fourth Estate SATURDAY, MARCH 27, 1948