The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 16, 1948, Page 4

PAGE FOUR SATURDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1948 Daily Alaska Empire EMPIRE PRINTING COMVANY i | Becond and Ma.n Streets, Juneau, Alasks (Seattle Po maritime strike -Intelligencer) ‘The which has immobilized all 3 Vice-President | Nan @ month is providing persuasive and conclusive ‘Bditor and Manaser evdence of the vital need for reexamination in the | Congress of the whole field of labor relations e Managing Bditor - |\ . Business Manager | | law. Butersd in the Post Office in Juneau &s Second Clase Matter Even if there was no other way to solve labor- SUBSORIPTION RA | management problems except by strikes, the country | could ill afford the exorbitant and prohibitive costs of such prolonged work stoppages as the current maritime strike. But since there vastly bhetter ways, thus sustained are wholly indefensible and unjustifi- MEMBER Oy ASSOCIATED PRESS | able. The Associated Prese s or:cnulnl:mo::lnl:ad“lowmn;'n:‘:h:gf‘ It is utterly unnecessary and inexcusable that a ::’:'f.‘,‘.‘.’;‘:.“f.“&.‘."::fi‘f“&é"i‘-.fi' the local news publisded | labor controversy, such as that prevailing in the mari- Serein. |time industries of the Pacific Coast, should lead to a strike. ! The issues between the shipping employers and unions, lacking settlement by direct negotiation and agreement, should go automaticaly before a com- petent court of arbitration, with adequate powers of hearing and decision. All labor disputes should take that wise and reasonable course. The basic and permanent law of the land should require it, not as a matter of ad- vantage or disadvantage to any of the disputants, ,but as an utterly esential matter of national welfare and security. |, In the case of the current Pacific Coast mari- 'time strike, which so amply emphasizes this point, |the costs are already enormous and shocking. At the end of the first month of the strike, 175 American ships were idle in our Pacific Coast ports, land when all vesesls now at sea reach port and are * | tied up at least 375 ships will be idle. WILLIAM H. SEWARD—PROPHET | In the first month, the strikers and other mari- Selivered by earrier in Junes six menths, e paid, at the following rates: One year. In nce, $16.00; six months, in advance, §7.80; nth, in advence, $1.50. " Gubscribers Wil confer & favor if they wili prompily botify | -mmmnl;ummu:nmflnmumwm‘ * papers. S .r\l»nonu Newa Office, 602; Business Office, 374 are not only other ways but NATiunAL REPRESENTATIVES — Alaska Newspwpers, :i1 murth Avenue Bldg , Beattie, VasiL |time workers forced out of employment lost nearly . 110 million dollars id wages. “Russia and the United States may remain good | ‘\roveqver, many industries unrelated to the mari- friends until each having made the circuit of l“‘”[ume industries but dependent upon their services of the globe In opposite diretcions, they shall meet ' aye peen curtailed or forced out of business al- and greet each other in a region where civilization | together. first began and where, after so many ages it now | Although this comes at a time of great potential becomes lethargic and helpless.” | prosperity on the Pacific Coast, it creates a situation i i ok 1 | worse than depression. Chile paoiliony vy, wrlign 1801 by EARER With respect to the maritime enterprises alone, Seward, Secretary of State, to Cassius M. Clay, newly 1146 Ahsd ave /devabiating appointed American Minister to Russia. Seward stood | Even before the strike, the volume of American alone in his belief, all other Americans knew the RUS- | avitime business—a vital factor in the prosperity of sians only as tried and true friends who had stood by |the country—was in a state of decline. the Union during the Civil War At the time the strike was called, American ships Perhaps that is why the correspondence remained i were carrying less than half the total volume of Am- secret until long after Seward's death, But William |€rican foreign trade. 5 i heey. | Without the strike, American shipping volume Seward never wavered in his belief m‘ th JRUpIcEY: was slipping swiftly back to the prewar level which And he did what he could to aid America in what he was less than 30 per cent of our own foreign trade. regarded as an inevitable conflict. i The strike incapacitates a vast part of our He purchased Alaska. Seward, alone and unaided, | American maritime enterprises, and if continued will overcame all objections of the Administration and the certainly destroy it. Senate, and gained the permission to purchase “Sew- | Of course, the American people cannot ard’s Icebox On October 18, 1867, the Stars and such losses in strikes, in the maritime industries or Stripes were raised over the small Russian village of in any field of national production and service. Since the vital interests of the American people Sitka. Seward knew that the American possession of are so impaired by strikes, why do we persist in a Russia America was the first line of defense for the national policy of impairment? United States. He knew that if Russia retained her A national structure of Federal courts of arbitra- tion should be established by Congress, with authority foothold in North America it would some day breed trouble. to render decisions in labor-management disputes and to enforce them. < Billy Mitchell said nearly a century later, “He Industrial peace should be maintained in the 1 orld.” ¢ i s U able and impartial laws V] s s holds the world. United States under the reasonable an ey h?ll](-i\ Ma}:ka'q o‘”d oy this of the country, just as property rights are protected ) ‘:!l R e by law and as all the other rights and liberties of the Alaska. As we honor Alaska Day on Monday let us all pray that Seward’s prophecy will forever be wrong, people are sustained by law. . Why should any part of the economic life of the but let us be thankful that he had the foresight to be always prepared. and purchased country, or very nossibly the whole of it, be permitted to lie stagnant while labor-amanagement issues are re- solved in passion and violence? The Governors of these two! higher-ups played into Republic's states are now running for Presi- | hand by shilly-shallying on the dent and Vice President of the|deal for weeks, refusing to O. K. United States. | the sale to Kaiser, an independent. In the fall of 1946, Attorney| These were things Mr. Truman General Tom Clark placed the Cal- | overlooked when he made his | iitornia Labor School at San Fran-|sbeech at Louisville. cisco on the “subversive list” as| NOTE — U. 8 la Communist-front organization.|into the Truman Cabinet d platform, | Simultaneously the Veterans Ad_\BbIE, bumbling Secretary of Tw“f' labor's en- ministration in Washington re-ury John Snyder. Republic Steel's I‘he_Wa;hinglon Merry-Go-Round By I)REW_I;;EARSON (Contirued from Pape Ome! Steel’s pipeline the Democratic him support | shipping enterprises on the Pacific Coast for more | the grievous and incalculable losses | o afford is like- | from ? THE EMPIRE 20 YEARS AGO OCTORER 16, 1028 Purple bubbles, purple balloons, purple favors and purple punch, fall were ready for the annual Purple Bubble Ball of the local lodge of Elks to be held the following Saturday. The committee promised a real hot time and the public was invited to attend. . OCTOBER 16 . NS . John Winther, Jr. . Rose Cohen . Fred Latimer . Gertrude Treffers . William H. Sherlock , Dave Housel W. F. Rodigkeit was to open a cafe in the Gastineau Hotel in the ynear future and the establishment was to be known as “The Tavern.” | Rodigkeit was formerly chef for Rippe’s in Seattle. lé The Grocers beat the Butchers in the first bowlng match of the winter season. Grocers were Bavard, Blomgren, George, Hendrickson and Hermle. Butchers were Ficken, Kean, Harris, Van Atta and Radde. . OCTOBER 17 . . Ernest M. Davis e Alida Lee Warner e Ann Grisham . Olav Bartness . Teddy Keeney . Harold Danzer . le o 06 c 000006 00 ARTHUR GEYERS . TOLEAVE JUNEAU ~ AFTER 2 YEARS Miss Mabel Koenig was a passenger on the steamer Queen enroute to Sitka where she was to assume the duties of sccretary to Dr. H. W. Alberts, Chief U. S. Agronomist for Alaska. rict Forester C. H. Flory left with Ranger Harold Smith for a field trip to cover the Hoonah and Glacier Bay districts. Di week Weather: High, 4; low, 41; cloudy. P e . . . by | Daily Lessons in English % 1. corpox |’ -~| { WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “The fivc menh were help- | Juneau friends, many of as longying each other along.” Say, “were helping CNE ANUTHER,” when standing as two decades, will re i e s v eferring to more than TWO. ‘ gret the proposed departure of Mr. & 3 : and Mrs. Arthur M. Geyer, to make! OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Habeas corpus. Pronounce ha-be-as their home Outside. k s, first syllable as HAY, second syllable as BE, A unstressed, O Due to Mr. Geyer's health, he|as in OR, U unstressed, and accent first syllable of each word. has sold the business he founded i OFTEN MISSPELLED: Effervescence; five E's in the word. 21 years ago in Juneau and m{ SYNONYMS: Reverence (noun), veneraton, adoration, awe, which he has been continuously en- {ship. gaged, the Geyer Sheet Metal] WORD STUDY: “Use a-word three times and it is yours.” Works. The family plans o re-fncrease our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Today's word: 3 establish the family home in onely,crr1ATE; to move one way and the other; to answer. (Pronounce | “cf the south ; y S Sl 5;;;? orTTkefo””‘ syllable VASS). “A spheroid is always liable to shift and vacillate ifrom one axis to another.”—Paley. year, After six years' residence in Skag- } ‘ | | | | { ! J ! wor- Let usi MODERN ETIQUETTE hnenra cxe | way, the Geyers spent two years; in Seattle, but yearned for Alaska, so came to Juneau in 1927. A | Of their three children, all rear- ed here, one son, Dr. John Geyer, i lives in Juneau with his family. Q. What should a hostess say if a young man whom she has im'!ted; A daughter, Mrs. Joseph Storms.im a party asks to bring a certain girl? lives in Seattle, ancd the second A. The hostess should tell hin: that she would be glad to have him son, Robert Geyer, is a Reno resi- j bring the girl, and she should obtain the girl’s address and invite her to! dent. the party. | ‘ They'll miss tneir many friends,{ Q. If a wedding reception is to be held in the home o fa relative and their Ca}"" sl Harbor, " of the bride, is the bride's family expected to pay the expenses? .too, Mrs. Geyer is certain. | A. Certainly. ! D ! Q. Is it correct to eat patty shells? | A. Yes, if they are made of pastry, and they should be eaten with | the fork. LOOK and LEARN ‘What is the difference between engraving and embossing? Who was known as “the father of American football”? What is the great vein of the neck calléd? Who in literature was Portia? What is a gourmand? ANSWERS: . To engrave is to cut into the surface in sunken patterns; to emboss is to raise in relief from the surface. i 2. Walter Camp (1859-1925). Jugular vein. The heroine of Shakespeare’s “Merchant of Venice.” One who delights in luxurious focds. 2 TIDE TABLE OCTOBER 17 High tide, 1:26 am., 16.0 ft. Low tide, 7:26 am., 14 ft. High tide, 13:33 p.m,, 174 ft. Low tide, 19:50 p.m., -0.1 ft. OCTOBER '18 High tidé, 2:00 am, 163 ft. Low tide, 7:55 a.m., 1.7 ft. High tide, 13:57 p.m., 17.8 ft. Low tide, 20:21 p.m., -0.9 ft. by A. C. GORDON e e~ 000000 e \ | HEARING ON DEATH ' OF PHYLLIS THOMAS AWAITS EVIDENCE, 3. 4. 5. they would give { [quested the State of California | dorsement i ¥ory o its 0 | r v s ¢ om | Gov. Clements is largely respon- |0 remove this school fr sible for getting Chapman the approved list for veterans. i Senatorial nomination, but when The State ana not the Federal| he asked his protege to support the Government is given the power of Democratic platform, Virgil refus- certifying those schools which can| ed. receive veterans benefits. And When President Truman's train though the Veterans Administra-| came through Kentucky, however, tion in 1946 requested California it was a different story. Chap- to uncertify the labor school, it| man hung on the President’s coat- | Was not removed from the list un-| tails from beginning to end. And ' til June 30, 1948. { all the way across the state, Tri-| In the interim, the U. S. Gov- man and Gov. Clements begged ernment was forced to pay thous- Chapman to say he would support ands of dollars to a school wmch‘ the Democratic platform. Each was teaching Communism—due to time he refused. failure of the State of California “I will not give up my position ' to_act. - H as an independent statesman,’ Twisted Democratic facts— At-) happie kept repeating. | tacking monopoly in Louisville, the Won't you promise to support President stated: “Three steel com-i Truman?” pleaded Gov. Clements. Panies own 59 percent of all the “Only when I agree with him,” ingot capacity of the Umwd: replied the would-be Senator, who States” | for once appeared to be cold sober.! One of these companies is the “Will you promise to support giant U. S. Steel Corporation. And | Barkley?” countered Clements. |in Louisville Mr. Truman ignored | “Not even Barkley will ride on the fact that his own administr: i Virgil Chapman’s coattails,” re- tion helped increase U. S. Stecl's‘ plied the Congressman. | part-monoply when it sold the “All right,” shot back the enraged Government-owned steel plant at Clements, “if you think you are Geneva, Utah, for 20 cents on lhe‘ such a damned statesman just dollar. The Justice Department’s | paddle your own canoe from here Anti-Trust Division strongly op-| 20. posed this sale to U. 8. Steel on Clements the ground that it increased mono- However, the Anti-Trust Di-! was overruled by higher- | on out.” Since then Governor has ignored Chapman's campaign PO and has concentrated on Truman Vision and Barkley. Hps. Another of the three companies referred to by President Truman at Louisville is Republic Steel. But he also forgot that his own ad- In yesterday's column it Wwas ministration increased , Republi suggested that not all the issues in monopoly trend which he so vig- this campalign are getting a fair orously criticized airing before the public. Followng The Truman Administration has this up, here are some facts the given Republic Steel for a song public deserves to know about steel facilities which cost the Gov- Twisted Republican facts: Gov. ernment $155,000,000. The Govern- | Dewey plus other GOP leaders have ment's South Chicago plant, cos heaped criticism on the Democrats ing $92,000,000, was sold to Repub- for failing to clean the Commun- lic for $27,000,000, while the Gov- ists out of Government. This is ernment allowed Republic to lease an important issue a wartime blast furnace at Gads- However, on March 16, 1947, J. den, Ala., and then close it down Edgar Hoover testified that the jor more than a year—despite the two states with the largest number tragic need for pig iron. of Communists' were New York Finally, wnen War Assets Ad- with 30,000 and California with ministrator Jesse Larson got tired £,553, giving them 52 percent of of Republic’s favored position and the nation's card-carrying Com- sold the Government's Cleveland munists. blast furnace to Henry KEEPING-THE-RECORD - STRAIGHT DEPARTMENT Kaiser, . pipeline is ex-White House Jester No date has yet been set for the George Allen. It has long been the inquest into the death of Phyllis} boast of Republic Steel president Thomas, according to U. S. Com-} Charley White that he could get missioner Felix Gray, who will pre- the White House on the phone day side at the hearing. Arrangements or night. !Ior the inquest await requested evi- — |dence from Seattle. It probably will FINED FOR SPEEDING |ke held early next week. Patrick D. Robinson was arrested Mrs. Thomas’ fully-clad body was vesterday by the Highway Patrol found in Gastineau Channel Tues- and charged with speeding. He day afterncon, some 10 or 12 hqurs pleaded guilty and was fined $25. after her death, authorities esti- e PRBGEIR uishe's 4 jmate. Mrs. Thomas, who operated JUNEAU WOMANS CLUB |the Bus Station Restaurant for the Will hold rummage sale at Meth- past year, is survived by her par- odist Church Parlor, October 19. ents and her “four children. One On afternoon of October 18, parlor daughter, Phyllis Thomas Jr., re- will be open for anyone having sides in Juneau. anything to donate to sale. Phone ——————— Blue 786. 18 2t WANT ADS BRING RESULTS! Lodioiis Crossword Puzzle ACROSS 31. Kind of dog L Anxiety 32, Exist . Deity of flelds 33 Goddess of- and herds 12. Cilylln Portu- e 3| of hy . Not there Low gaiters . Violent storm Velcanic matter . Measure of length 5. Witnessed 6. Fish sauce 47. Spire orna- ment . Nothing more than Direction ga 18. Bitter herb . Singing voice . Disencumber . Penitential period B Resla [wl>m{w]> Bw4]>]-] > |ollo/m/x/wlim[+c] Solution of Yesterday's Puzzl DOWN 1. Feminine name 2. Greedy 3. Fundamental Raises . Exist . Companion . Each without exception . Son of Judab . Maintains . Magic . However . fiumbugs . Watehful ry Employs ndia .1 Not any 6. Ship's record ute y Camphorated tincture, ot opium Mineral spring Headpiece Eyes: Scoty Public con- Gratifies Unimpaired . Massachusetts cape . Edges of a root . City in Nebraska Sliced cabbage . Fence plckot Narrow fabrig Venture . Has debts Word of cope sent . Greek letfer , Plumbing ® Heafing Oil Burners Telephone-319 Nighis-Red 730 Harri Machine Shop, Inc. Oldest Bank in Alaska 1891—0ver Half a Cenfury of Banking—1948 The B. M. Behrends Bank Safety Deposit Boxes for Rent COMMERCIAL . 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Visiting brothers wel- ;;l:!eo.e JOSEPH H. SADLIER, d Ruler. W. H ; Seiretary, . BIGGS, _— e +H. S. GRAVES The Clothing Man . LEVI'S OVERALLS for Boys sl T Beri’s Food Center I Dei!urm—xo?fisnl\.s M. 2:15 — 4:00 P. M. et LR e ” A “The Rexall Store” Your Reliable Pharmactsts BUTLER-MAUROQ DRUG CO. ARCHIE B. BETTS Pablic Accountani Auditor Tax Counsesor Stmpson gldg. Phone 787 ¢ FOR Wall Paper Ideal Paint Shop Phone 549 PFred W. Wena Juneau’s Finest Liquor Store BAVARD'S Phone 689 The Alaskan Hetel Newly Renovated Reams st Reasenable Rates PHONE 555 Thomas Hardware Co. PAINTS — OILS Builers’ and Shalf ‘HARDWARE ? Remington ters SOLD and SERVICED by J. B. Burford & Ce. “Our Doorstep Is Worn by Satiafied Customery® FORD AGENCY (Authorized Dealers) GREASES — GAS — OIL Junean Molor Ce. e JUNEAU DAIRIES DELICIOUS ICE CREAM s daily habit—ask for it by name Juneau Dairies, Inc. Chrysler Marine Engines MACHINE SHOP Marine Hardware Chas. G. Warner Co. 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