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PAGE FOUR Laily Alaska Empire SRS Paiiive COMAANY Second and Msn Streets, Juneau, Alasks AELEN TROY MONSEN Presideny President Vice-| GLMER A FRIEND ALFRED ZENGER @awred in the Post Office in Juneau as Second Class Matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATI Delivered by earrier In Junean Do six months, $8.00; By mail, postage paid, One sear. in advance, 315. e month, in advance, $1.50. Subscribers will confer a fevor if they wili prompily Dotify e Business Office of any fajiure or irregularity in the delivery *f the'* papers. Telephones: Ncws Office, 602; Business Office, 374. for $1.5¢ per menth| 15.00 ne ¢ the followine rates: six months, u advance, $7.80; ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associnte clusively entitled to the ure for woublication of ews dispatches credived to it or not ethes- 7ise credited in this paver #od also the local nows publisied wrein MEMBER OF P 1 NAT:UNAL REPRESENTATIVES — Alaska Newspwpers 1411 murih Avenue Bldg, Scattle. WasiL S STEADY PROGRESS Census Bureau Having unted with care, the declares that there are at present 2,800,000 Americans above 14 years of age who can neither read nor write. Stated in ubsolute terms, that seems a staggering total of illiterates. Set against the stupendous sums of money we spend in America for schools, it looks like an ugly black mar And, as a matter of fact, it is a black mark for the country though not necessarily for the country’s educational facilities. Expenditures for education vary widely from one section to another. The illiterates, of course, is most common in areas of low average in- come and consequent low expenditures for education. When the statistics e examined in perspective, however, they are not too discouraging. The rate of illiteracy is 2.7 per cent. We may grant there is no excuse for that many illiterates in a nation with a total income of §220,000,000000 a year. But the figure for 1930 was 4.7 per cent. And in 1920 it was 6.5 per cent. We are progressing. Looking back still. further, to 1870, when public education was much more restricted, we find an illiteracy rate of 20 per cent. It is a fair conclusion that we are making steady progress. That progress is traceable to compulsory school attendance, to the extension of educational facilities and opportunity, to the special instruction given to illiterates in the armed forces, and of course to the death rate among older illiterates who were “too which school budgets are shockingly small. And this, of course, is the aim of Federal school aid legislation which is being considered each year with increasing recognition that it must ultimately be adopted. Stress and Strain (Washington Post) The pessimism reported in Allied capitals on the Russo-Western conversations is genuine enough. But how much is due to sheer fatigue is another matter. Secretary Marshall himself looks well, and, though he is not by nature an equable man, he appears to have developed at least a facade of composure. Yet the kind of diplomacy waged by the Kremlin is foreign to his temperament. He is, moreover, a soldier by training and approach, and the weasel words and circumlocution associated with Soviet diplomacy leave him puzzled. Even John Hay commented on his trials in dealing with Russian diplomacy “mendacity,” but ' John Hay's task was child’s play compared to Mr. Marshall’s, for Soviet diplomacy, being the spearhead of an international coonspiracy, has a super-Machiav- ellian quality about it. Nor, as the quick change over the Italian colonies testifies, it is subject to disguise. This new contempt for world opinion is some- thing to wonder at. No Czarist diplomat would keep a straight face in the manner of his Soviet counter- part while indulging palpably devoid of any connection with fact. We are thinking particularly of the Kasenkina exchanges. In similar cirsumstances Mr. Hull dressed down Ja- pan’s Kurusu in the final interview prior to the Japanese-American war, but Mr. Hull then knew that the guns had already gone off, and he could vent his indignation with impunity. Mr. Marshall has need for and shows restraint, in spite of tempetations that must be frequent to repeat Mr. Hull's performance. The cross is equally hard to bear for Mr. Marshall's aides who have to spend the night watches in the dual task of keeping a united front among the Allies and evolving fresh instructions for the Allied repre- sentatives in Moscow and Berlin. O, Pioneer! (Washington Post) Looking over the financial columns of the New York Times, as we sometimes do in moments of desperation, our eye fell on an item of more than ordinary import to all proponents of free-enterprise capitalism. One of the vice-presidents of General Motors, the one in charge of distribution, has resigned, our contemporary said, “to enter private business.” Being within naked-eye range of the Federal Government, we have been highly conscious of and no less concerned over the way many of the most competent public servants have been departing for the greener pastures of private business. But until now we had not realized that the siren call was being felt in the General Motors administration out in De- troit, too. Apparently the man who once said that the real boss of all big business is the Collector of Internal Revenue wasn't so far wrong after all. He had in mind, of course, the endless forms, rules, regulations, inspections, reports and red tape that issue from the Government, severely limit the free- dom of all enterprise in this so-called free enterprise system, and occupy so much of the time of executives in any large concern. What impresses us is that the subsconscious realization of this state of affairs has become so natural that General Motors—of all firms in repetitious lies which are ' old to learn” We shall not make further progress, however, in prgportion to our total expenditure for education. For aim equalization of educational opportunity. Greater at- tention must be given to those particular areas in the future, we shall have to The Washington Merry-Go-Round By DREV.V_P}JARS()N (Continued from Page Cue) farmers lacking storage have to sell out at lower prices. 2. Tucked into the Marshall Plan Act was an innocent provision that the Marshall Plan Adminis- trator shall “utilize private chan- nels of trade.” The grain lobby not only put this through Con- gress, but has now pressured Paul Hoffman into ruling that the Com- modity Credit Corporation, hLighly efiicient U. S. agency which has hought grain for Europe for years, is now by-passed, and more ex- pensive private brokers will buy the grain instead. and the taxpayers bear xtra cost. ARGENTINE-REFUGEE LOBBY The “Big Three” of the grain trade are the chief beneficiaries from the latter 80th Congress jok- er. They are: 1. Bunge Corporation, owned by Bu and Born of Argentina and Uruguay. 2. Continental Grain Corp. own- ed by the following Park Avenue refugees: Jules, Rene and Michel Fribourg, Louis Ullman and Lu- cien Lang. 3. Leval and Co., controlled by, a 3-man voting trust—Fernand Le- val, Leopold Stern and Jacque Kay- loff. These three groups worked with and through North American Grain Export Association and the Na- tional Grain Trade Council. Their buttonholer on Capitol Hill was ex-Congressman Roger Slaugh- ter of Kansas City whom President Truman purged in the 1936 elec- tions Slaughter, though rates higher with Republicans than with hi party, and had no trouble ng congressional votes. he did a masterful job. Slaughter’s ace-in-the-hole was his cold friend, Congressman Jesse Wolcott of Michigan, Chairman o the House Banking and Currenc; Committee, who insisted on inse ing a provision ir Commodit Credit Charter that the gover ment could noi acquire additional storage space Formerly the government could store 300,000,000 bushels, but thi year only 50,000,000; so th | grain received by many has tumbled below parity. Note——Despite the lobbying law, Slaughter failed to register as a lobbyist, However, the Justice De- the e of farmers |campaign managers had a highly a Democrat, | —can be referred to, albeit indirectly and inadvertently, as if it were not private business. We commend the issue to the attention of Mr. Henry Wallace and of the World Council of Churches, and wish the vice-president well in his bold venture out of the safe compound of Government-controlled enterprise into the distant wilds of private business. the greater {partment unearthed a letter writ- | Chicago Tribune's Senator,” will be | ten by the Northwestern Grain Ex- able to capture the huge Negro | port Association, March 31, solicit- | vote of Chicago and East St. Louis. ing contributions from its mem-! Brooks is now claiming to be bers to pay Slaughter’s salary. The |the great friend of the Negro. But— Justice Department put Slaughter’s he mcre than any other Senator was case before one Grand Jury, butresponsible for the success of Sen- did not push prosecution—perhaps ate fiiibusters against civil-rights because it was feared Truman would measures. be accused of persecuting an old He blocked them by a quite political enemy. |simple procedure. As Chairman of SRR |the Senate Rules Commmittee, he failed to bring out a resolution on cloture—to shut off filibusters. As |early as April 3, 1947, a majority of Brook’s Rules Committee ap- ILLINOIS GAMBLING POLITICS One of the most respected and e e ot e e | Proved an anti-filibuster rule. GOP Rep. Everett Dirksen of Pe-| But the redoubtable Curley let kin, Ill, now stepping out to join | the measure gather dust in his the Dewey entourage. Out in rock-:¢ommittee. For more than a year ribbed Iilinois, the Republicans|he would not and did not bring it aren’t too happy about the man out for open debate. As a result they are supposed to elect as his! When the Anti-Poll Tax Bill came successor—Judge Harold Velde. |up in July, 1948, it was promptly Velde has received heavy fi- | filibustered out of the Senate. nancial support from Bill Degaris of the night-club gambling frater- nity, and the other day one of his | Two Republicans referred to this at the time—Vandenberg of Mich- igan and Morse of Oregon. But Senator Brooks remained motion- No he claims to be the great |friend of the Negro. significant conversation with Harry Neumiller, President of the Heni- tube Manufacturing Co., of Peoria. Mistaking Harry for his brother, L. B. Neumiller, who is President| Some 250 billion cigarettes are of the Caterpillar Tractor Co., Smoked a year. LR [ |® OCTOBER 23 I I James Drake George Shaw Elizabeth Tucker Augusta Byington Robert J. Snell Bob Druxman Mrs. Allen Shattuck Jean Tanner Robert N. Osterman Eber Cameron Lyman Snow OCTOBER 24 Mrs. Ely J. Post Carol Jean Camp Mrs. Robert Schwartz Conrad Kirkebo Sarah Lee Atkinson Mrs. T. M. Reed Jane McDonald ARMY PHYSICALS ONE-DAY AFFAIR, SAY 1ST DRAFTEES j ! ! THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA 'v.mW 20 YEARS AGO 43 THE EMPIRE OCTOBER 23, 1928 3 The Juneau High School senior class swamped the junicr class by a | sot. iscore of 17 to 10 in a hard fought basketball game. Line-up on the| winning team was: J. Orme, F. Orme, Jenson, Ramsay, and Jackson. On the junior team were Messer, Barragar, Bayers, Berggren, and Brant. Miss Bernice G. Berggren, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Berg- gren, became the bride of Mr. W. Elbert Day of Everett, Wash. The marriage was performed at the home of John P. Conn and the Rev. Charles C. Personeus of the Bethel Pentecostal Assembly officiated nt' the service. The bride, who was well known in Juneau, came from Sweden nine years before her marriage, with her parents, sister and brother and resided in Douglas. Mr. Day was an evangelist. Mr. and Mrs. Day left on the Princess Alice for Everett, Wash., and a large number of friends were at the dock to wish them happiness. J. H. Wheeler, druggist, who operated stores in Petersburg and wrangell, arrived in Juneau gn the Yukon. The yacht Anna Helen was destroyed by fire at Funter Bay. Drl W. F. Good, owner and master, who had been using the boat as a travel- ing dental office, arrived in Juneau aboard the gasboat Gloria. The, Anna Helen had been built in 1923 in Seattle to compete in the Pacific yacht races to Honolulu. The cost was about $20,000. { Weather: High, 41; low, 41; partly cloudy. e et ! Daily Lessons in English % ». coroon || e e et~ . D WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “His speech was overly} First men to be drafted from the First Division under compulsory ! military training laws were back in | Juneau today on their way homei after undergoing pre-induction | physical examinations at Fort Rich- ardson. Examinations took just one day,| they said. The group of four left here by PNA Tuesday, spentl | Wednesday taking physical and| physco exams and returned yester- | . day afternoon by plane. Three out of the four to pass xaminations, George Bernardi of | Sitka, Jerry Proper and Emanuel ! Vera, of Ketchikan, said they werel| going back to former jobs to await all for service, Lloyd Jorgenson of | Pctersburg said he has been re- jected for army service. Two draftees from Kodiak also took pre-induction physicals on Wernesday, the men said. | g WOMAN IS NAMED CTY SANITARIAN OVER AT ANCHORAGE ANCHORAGE — Appointment of | Mrs. Alice Powell as city sanitarian for Anchorage was announced jointly today by City Manager Don | Wilson and the Territorial Depart- {ment of Health. Mrs. Powell comes here from Lorraine, Ohio, where she served as a professional sanitarian. Her | appointment became effective at| once. ! Lowell Lambert, district sanitary | ! engineer, said that “Mrs. Powell 1 i long.” OVERLY is regarded as dialectal. It is better to say, “His speech’| was TOO long.” OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Due. as DO. OFTEN MISSPELLED: Presentment (presentation). Presennmentl (a premonition). 1 SYNONYMS: Puzzle (verb), perplex, mystify, bewilder. WORD STUDY: “Use a word three times and it is yours.” Let us! increase our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Today's word: DILIGENCE; preserving application. “The expectations of life depend upon diligence."—Confucius. MODERN ETIQUETTE Q. Wha, should a guest do if he accidentally overturns a glass or Pronounce the U as in USE, noLI by ROBERTA LEE’ | | i ! ' { i - ot ‘. |is highly qualified for the posi- tion and we are fortunate to have her with us.” Although she is responsible to the city manager, the new sani- tarian will also cover Anchorage and its vicinity for the Territorial Department of Health. She was named to the post after) joint consultation between the two {agencies concerned. “Numerous ,applications were received,” Lam- bert said. e - EXTORTION THREAT | NEW YORK, Oct. 23.—(#—A plot |to extort $100,000 from Edgar F. | Luckenbach, Jr., heir to a steam- ship fortune and “angel” for Broadway shows, was disclosed to- day by police. Detectives said the scheme had | been -broken up with the arrest of itwo men, one of whom admitted sending an extortion letter. 1 Velde's solicitor asked for a cam-| paign contribution. Harry Neumill- | MIA[C|A W] G/AIR|B|S] er declined. O[V|VU/L]ARIES|O[C|! AL w » T/E[DJNDI/E|P ORI TIRIA You better think that over, ACROSS 34, Rowing imple- O|N M IIRIEGETIR]Y, replied Velde's money-raiser. “Don't | Givi ments L Give ohen R{u[T[A[B[A[G[AJ T|H[1[® |forget that Judge Velde sits on! 7 owing dim 'h i Thus E|A[T/E[R[SND| ! |RIE the Tazewell County Court and| 13 Expunges hodents K[ [N C|O[M]| Al has a lot to say about fixing taxes, 14 Smappiiz Unele: Sooich S [T PlAINE[LS for the county. Don't forget that! |5 wo: prefix Ahyas | ; i 15 Two: pre Always ¥|o|n[T JliW/A[T[E[R[L]O[0 the Caterpillar Tractor Company's | xisted property is all in Tazewell Coun- | erative votes RIVIGEEW| | |RIE VIR oy 9 ! {\;L';K"’J"dih ARO[ [LIE/R|SHNO|RID| Y- | brew Wor man,” replied Harry Neumiller.! SR e “But if you think blackmail will| et , t yo ackmail wil note Solution of Yesterday's Puzzle get a campaign contribution out of | Naulnw, either me or my brother, you're Placed in sate DOWN 8. Symbol for ey | keening L Discuss sodium staken | Bonbons 2. Source 4 ipauize Later Harry's brother, L. B. Neu- | & Park In the miller, head of the Caterpillar; [/ [2 |3 [¢ |5 |6 718 17 |[@ | |2 A BRoKIee Tractor Co., was approached for a | . 5 Clquor "* s ‘ooht i 7 9. Hurl Velde contribution. . 0. Pronoun “You know 1 perfectly well it's| . Wise ma: the G = against the law for a corporation . Amgrican 3 to contribute,” L. B. Neumiller re- ;.’ Butle‘ge?;l" plied.s . Within: cemb “Yes, but there are ways of get- 29 ,\.t';r"“ ting around that,” was the pointed ! 5. (H;urn ravats however, | [47 i suggestion. Neumiller, Pass vlowly Kind of spice did not take the suggestion. lots ‘l Dwarfed Meanwhile Velde has had . Voleanic of financial support from the| [3g vl.nr:\:o"grrnlnl gambling-liquor fraternity which, . Egg dish Tazewell County and Peoria| [45 e County alone, contributed $35,000 | xalks 1ol to the 1944 campaign of Velde's| |50 N political friend, Gov. Dwight Green. | 3 THE NEGRO'S GREAT \ FRIEND | [0 | One interesting point bemgi ! watched by the politicos is whelh-‘ ‘ur Curley Brooks, Republican, “’I‘hbl Plumbing ® Healing Oil Burners Telephone-319 Nights-Red 730 Harri Machine Shop, Inc. Oldest Bank in Alaska | 1891—0ver Half a Century of Banking—1948 Casler's M The B. M. Behrends Bank Safety Deposit Boxes for Rent COMMERCIAL SAVINGS DOULGAS MEAD as a paid-up subscriber to THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE is invited to be our guest THIS EVENING Present this coupon to the box office of the CAPITOL THEATRE and receive TWO TICKETS to see: “BLONDE IN THE DOUGH" Federal Tax—12c—Paid by the Theatre PHONE 14—THE ROYAL BLUE CAB C0. and an insured cab WILL CALL FOR YOU and RETURN YOU to your home with our compliments. WATCH THIS SPACE—Your Name May Appear! | MOUNT JUNEAU LODGE NO. 147 SECOND and FOURTH Y~ Morday of each month . . VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS Taku Post No. 5359 Meets first and thira Thursdays. 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