The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 6, 1948, Page 4

€Y MERUR ‘Daily Alaska Empire Pablished every evening except Sunday by the IMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY Second and Msin Streets, Juneau, Alssks @RLEN TROY MONSEN - - - - DOROTHY TROY LINGO WILLLIAM R. CARTER ELMER A FRIEND - ALPRED ZENGER - foremost musical Business Manager @utered in the Post Office in Juneau Becond Class Matter | tion of Musicians, SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Welivered by earrier in Juneau and Douglas fer S1.5¢ per menth v six mor $8.00;: one year, $15.00 By mail, postage paid, st the followins rates: Qne year. in advance, $15.00; six months, in sdvance, $7.50 wne month, 1o advance, $1.50. Subscribers wil) confer a favor if they wili promptly botify s Business Office of any failure or irregularity in the delivery o thetv papers. Televhones: News Office, 602; Business Office, 374. MEMBEP OF ASSOCIATED PRESS Associated Prcss Tusively entitled to the use for jcation of ali news dispefches credited to it or not cther- wise rredited in tols paper also the local news publisiec ‘erein. where. should also be aj ™ (Washington Post) | Not Toscanina, not Kouseviksky, not Olin Downes, or Virgil Thomson or Deems Taylor is this country’s The man whose words carry most weight in mamrsf(an Be Fun . musical is a plump ex-trumveter named Petrillo. What | James C. Petrillo, President of the American Federa= authority. Not even Milton Cross. , AFL, says about music goes, and he pretty much decides who plays and hears what music Some time back Mr. Petrillo announced that in his ! considered opinion a harmonica was not a musical | instrument, a decision we have sometimes thought pplied to the saxophone owned and abused by a neighbor lad. Our opinion never had any noticeable effect, but Mr. Pettillo’s did. It barred such | = mouthorgan virtuosos as Larry Adler from member- | concert pianist ship in Mr. Petrillo’s union and thereby permitted Mr. Adler and some other harmonica experts to make & chore for children. e VR - Als . mewe—nere 341 | PhONOgraph recordings. This secondary result, perhaps NATAUNAL REPRESENTATIVES — Alsska Newspupers, 141) murth Avenue Blds, Besttle, "Vasiy unforeseen by Mi | | either. | Which of Mr we leave to | correct equipped handle r. Petrillo, has now caused him to change his mind. Harmonicas are musical instruments | & after all, the experts are in the union,.and there will | }ays down five rules be no more mouth organ recordings to compete with |learning: | the recordings the other musicians are not making | Petrillo’s two decisions is esthetically to the musicologists. these delicate matters by long | vears of training and experience in such questions as | whether Schubert | Ninth or vice versa. 's Seventh Symphony is really his | But in the matter of policy we | should like to exercise our own pr‘erogfltive of pointing | out that Mr. Petrillo is getting into deep water. | he considered the | harp and the musical saw? Has question of the ocarina, the jew’s- ‘What will he sayv when |some specialist at making music on a set of bottles | comes through with a recording of the Anvil Chorus? are JUMPED, OR SHOVED? | These problems | Petrillo should be giving some thought, also, to the just over the horizon. Mr. The U. S. Air Force recently released a p)cture!inenml)le need of a decision on musical chairs. of a “para-rescue” dog “jumping” from a pmnewwilh.j of course, a parachute attached. It was a novel devel- opment in aerial warfare and made a cute picture. The underlines went on to say that the dogs, | | inflation in China. attached to the Tenth Rescue Unit at Ladd Air Force | a letter from an $1 Equals $3.000,000 (8t. Louis Star-Times) Apparently there is no limit to the ravages of Recently The Star-Times received | American missionary there soliciting ! Base in Alaska “do not mind the parachuting chore.|funds. The postage between China and the U. S. is 5c, | During winter months they are hitched to sleds and | put in order to g assist in rescue of airmen and isolated persons in | missionary put up $60,000 in Chinese i | that $1,200,000 Chinese then equalled $1.00 American. | But we wonder if the dogs really | The same mis8onary, probably through a clerical it ‘slcrror. sent an identical solicitation a few days later. barren areas of the Far North.” That's finc jump, or are slightly pushed? If they do jump, an amazing illustration of faith in man. Even when a parachute is explained thoroughly to a human being, and he knows he will (or at least should) land safely, it takes a good bit of will power to jump voluntarily. | This time the sta one $40,000, one $150,000 worth of We, of course, OUT ON LIMB FOR SURE | our and Publisher of the Ketchikan Daily News, he did | B e ien o go out on a pronounced limb in Tuesday’s edition when | lvxl:xflati::r\txlll f:c"u he blazoned in an 8-column streamer on the first page, | 2 “Dewgy Next U. S. President.” other newspapers, as well as columnists, was all out | this problem, we for Dewev but without regard to what the public wanted. The next day, Sid very cleverly “covered up” with purely» political. an 8-column first page screamer, “We're Wrong; It's and sincere gove Truman,” and explained that “we made a sligh XOL': iR, our headline the previous day. ‘“Our news- | The handling paper ‘hunch’ was all wet. It may take us 10 minutes | .4 president Tri or so to get over the shock of being wrong, but believe | ;ne of the worst it or not, dear reader, it happened to us.” The Washinglon Merry-Go-Round By DREW PEARSON (Contirued from Page Ome) | fast about his shabby attire and | demanded that he buy a new suit. Humphrey of Minnesota—Hubert Humphrey, who toppled Joe Ball in the Minnesota senatorial race, is a proverbial giant Kkiller, Less than four years ago, Humph- | rey literally wore his voice out at “I remember the time I worked |the 1944 Democratic convention in in a cement mill for 15 cents an | Chicago screaming for Henry Wal- hour.” | lace. In fact, Humphrey was such When F. D. R. was asked who|a rabid Wallace man that he re- should keynote the 1944 Democratic | iused to vote for Truman after | convention, when he was nominat- | Truman won and the convention ed for a fourth term, he replied: | chairman moved to make the nom- | “I don’t care, as long as it's Bob | ination unanimous. Kerr." | Few who watched the Democratic | When Europe was clamoring for | Convention closely will ever forget | aid in the fall of 1947, Kerr dldn"{ the sight of Humphrey and Bar-f wait for Washington to act, but ney Allen, a Red River Valley | helped organize his own wheat re-|farmer, their clothes half torn off | liet committee. Kerr has broad- their backs and their voices gone,| gauged views on protecting tne| racing through the Chicago Stad-| future economy of the United!ium carrying an American flag and | States, and once warned President|a be able to feed itself, much less support their man. others, twenty years from now un-| Byt that was four years ago.| less we embark on a more extensive . One year later, Humphrey, | flood control program to stop the| wrapping up practical politics with | costly. erosion. a clever doorbell-ringing campaign, War as an artillery lieutenant, is u church-going iamily man, the | father of four children. He doesn't | driok, smoke, ‘. chew,.and' h“sious voice for civil rights and so- | cne vice is eating pears, which! ) rerorms As Mayor of Min-| he consumes by the peck. | neapolis, cne of his first acts was to set up a Council on Human Gillette of Iowa—White-haired,| pelations. Hwe founded it on| never-say-die Guy Gillette is re-| greams, but made it work. Again membered for his battle to expedite | 4¢ the Philadelphia Convention, it | the synthetic rubber program which | was Humphrey who split the Dem- Jesse Jones let lag so disastrously gcratic Party wide open by demand- during the war and for the Roose- | jng a strong civil rights platform. velt purge. | In retaliation, the Dixiecrats pour- | Now 69 years old, Gillette Was| eq money into'the Republican cam- | a buck sergeant in the Spanish-| pajgn in Minnesota and even sent | American war and an infantry | ex.Governor Sam Jones of Louis- captain in World War 1. He has jang yup to help re-elect Senator | been a battler from the time he| joe Ball first set foot in Washington in 1932 pyiit on springs, Humphrey won't as a rookie congressman. He bat- ngiq stil] long in th Senate. He tled against food profiteers, for nas the breathless personality of sofl conservation, for reclamation, g youth on a roller-coaster. Jet- and for rural electrification. * His| propelled ideas shoot through his most publicized battle was the 1938 | head and take off on the busiest primary contest with Otha Wearin, tongue in politics. He has the selected by the White House in| yocal endurance of a phonograph, | the unsuccessful purge attempt. | can blow up an oratorial wind- | In Washington, Gillette is also| storm at the drop of a gavel. Buti remembered for having taken over ' he is, a man of action as well| the newspaper route of his young as words. | son who was ill; and for the Sun- A professor-politician, Humph- day nights during the war when rey taught his classes at MacAles- the Senator and Mrs. Gillette wash- ter College to take an active part, ed dishes at the Stage Door Can- in politics; then he, himself, went teen. out to practice what he preached. | However, the news story that He brought a truce between labor | caused the greatest confusion in and management, brought quarrel- the Gillette family was the time ing Sister Kenny and the National Guy was chosen by a magazine as Foundation for Infantile Paralysis the Senate’s best-dressed man a|tcgether to fight the crippling few hours after his charming wife polio epidemic which struck Min- Rose had lectured him at break- neapolis. i neapolis, | The trigger-tongued Humphrey | will bring to the Senate a clamor- took $3,000,000 Chinese to equal $1.00 American. > States is not headed for any such inflation | the wage-price spiral keeps on and on, it will break economy sooner With due regards for Sid D. Charles as Editor 1 wiped out, insurance policies will be worthless, mount- | | ing wages will buy less and less goods, black markets lifted wage controls too soon and then Congress pre- maturely scuttled the OPA. t warned them that their actions would lead to just such conditions as we have now. executive branches of our government. | Fairmont. et the equivalent of a 5c stamp the | This indicates | mps on the letter were one $60,000, $30,000 and one $20,000, totalling | stamps and indicating that it then , hope and believe that the United But ii‘ or later. Life savings will be all the other havoc accompanying r here. | 2 How Congress and President Truman can sleep Sid, like scores of | ot pight after their disgraceful failure to cope with do not know. First the President ! These actions were | Sound economists and financiers rnment officials and Congressmen of the matter by iboth Congress uman will go down in history as double plays by the legislative and His ambition in the Senate will be a position on the Education and Labor Committee. Neely of West Virginia—Friends of Matt Neely boast that he has run for more oifices and been elected more times than any man in West Virginia politics. He be- gan as a $45-a-month school teacher, resigned to try his luck at politics, served five terms in| | the House of Representatives, three | times as U. S. Senator, once as| governor of West Virginia, and | once as mayor of his home town | This marks the fourth| time West Virginia voters have | chosen him for the Senate. 1 Matthew Mansfield Neely is best | known as a crusader for an air-| tight federal mine inspection law; to prevent tragic mine accidents. | Too many have occurred under | slipshod and frequently graft-rid- | Wallade banner, begging and}de“ state mine inspection. Neely | a lot of guéssing about this, and Truman that America may not pleading with the delégates to 8Y€W up in.a mining community | Matt refuses to tell even his close and accompanied ‘his father, a| country doctor, on many emergency | had struck. | Always a colorful figure, Neely; Kerr fought in the First World | managed to become Mayor of Min- is addicted to snappy suits of pis-| Neely's health and stamina They are | | kindergarten to grade 9 is to be| THE DAILY ALASKA HV[PIRE;—JUNEAU ALASKA X Music Lessons ARS AGO /7% mxrine l 20 YE e e it S : NOVEMBER 6, 1928 The Territorial General Elections were held today. ! At 3 o'clock 1575 citizens had cast ballots. | F J [ ‘ or unlor In the national elections in the States millions had flocked to the polls. This was the first election in which women were granted the By DAVID TAYLOR MARKE | franchise. AP Newsfeatures $ Music can be fun. 1t all depends Mr, and Mrs. H. L. Cochrane had returned to Douglas to reside, [on how you approach it with junior. having moved over from Juneau. They had taken the apartment over The idea is, says Henry L. Scott,| paiqi's bake shop and humorist, to | make music lessons fun instead of Gold and silver shipped from Alaska to the States the previous Mr. Scott, who first introduced:month totaled in value $1,500,957 and exceeded any single month’s ship- fun into classical concerts at such jment in a decade. places as Carnegie and Town Halls, § e for pleasant ! The general election returns were to be received through the Juneau iCable Office at ten different places in Juneau on election night. Returns 1. Teach children one popularwere to be received and posted in The Empire, at Democratic Head- piece elong with their classics each| .. ters on Seward Street, Palace Theatre, all hotels, Elks' Club, Customs | | week. Popular music Is a valuable |y, . purord's Corner, and Juneau Billiards asset developing understanding of ( o |rhythm, and is not incompatible ,with classies. i : 2. Do not demand tedious practice | in the cottage formerly occupied by Marshal Grant. Jack Mobly of Juneau, had opened a tailor shop in Douglas located 1 |on scales and arpeggios. Progressive y | | teachers now know that technique Weather: High, 42; low, 41: rain i lis test developed from the actual “(Om‘ osition to be studied. 1] e s s ey 3. Encourage several short pe- . . . by riods of practice during each day,| Dally l_essons n Enghsh W. L. GORDON | e | | | 1 instead of demanding one long! practice period. 4. Do nct force jun‘or to play i but encourage him to nn( WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, hostess.” Say, “She’s a VERY good hostess.” 5. Expose junior to the best of | OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Extricable. Pronounce eks-tri-ka-bl, all kinds of music, If you are a mus- T as in IT, A unstressed, and accent first syllable, not the second. ical enob, don't let him know it. Be| OPTEN MISSPELLED: Baron (a nobleman). Barren (unproductive). sure he has an opportunity to know!l gyNONYMS: Superiority, excellence, preeminence, worth, value,| that mu sic can be fun, and let him Froatiieal. . ;};OO:;‘;:“ nl:‘l:?m:; ]lsl;es xfi?t ,:\,? WORD STUDY: “Use a word three times and it is yours.” Let us; tastes. ¥ increase our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Today's word: JANOMALY; deviation from the common rule; irregularity. ‘“Through A unique book in the field of | €Very rift of discovery some ceeming anomaly drops out of the dark- music has just come to hand, It is | ness."—E. H. Chapin. by MODERN ETIQUETTE “serra rer ords” and contains a complete de- B Y for othérs “She's a mighty goo ' scriptive listing and appraisal of ' recorded stories, songs, and music for children of all ages. The au-; thors are Dr. Philip E.senberg, re- search psychiatrist at Columbia Broados ixl:g- Qy&lelr: 1‘5*)9%151“‘1%[)1:1: Q. What hand should a man use to take off his hat when he stops children’s programs, and Heex 0 speak with a woman? { Krasno, who has written and made A. It would be less awkward if he used his left hand, so that the | a number of children’s record al- right one is free to shake hands if the woman should offer him herI bums. {hand. The book is divided into two sec- | § . Sh a e tons. The first tells what chil . Q. Should one tip .| hotel ’bcll boy for paging, and what is the amount that is customarily given? y like about records, and why.| The, 3 second is a critical evaluation, by “5: Yes, one should tip for paging, and ten cents or a quarter is sufficient. age groups, of what is now on the market 3 Q. May one use a spoon for eating peas when dining at a formal { affair? A. No, never. Another fine listing of books on F Always use a fork for conveying 5 and atout music for children from 3 RIS BTy be gty 'LOOK and LEARN % ¢ corox found in the new 1948-49 edition of | the “Annotated List of Books”- which has just been published by | the Children's Reading Service of | New York i Edited by Dorothy Kay Cad-! wallader, educational consultant and | principal of the Robbins School,i Trenton, N.J., it contains, in addi- i tion to music subjects, a list of over | 1,000 children's books, arrangéd by ! topics and school grade levels. School teachers, lbrarians and| principals can obtain copies with- out charge by writing to the Serv- ice at 106 Beekman Street, Newl York 7, N.Y. 5 ‘ — e NOTICE After November 10, no telcphonc’ rentals for the month of November | will be accepted at a discount. All remittances must bear postmark o% not later than discount date. Please be prompt. 1 JUNEAU AND DOUGLAS TELEPHONE CO. —adv. Who was the first famous newspaper columnist in America? What five States border on the Gulf of Mexico? What are the four component parts of an orchestra? What name is applied to the giving of false testimony? What is consanguinity? ANSWERS: Benjamin Franklin. Flerida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas. Strings, wood-winds, brass, and percussion instruments. Perjury. Relationship by blood. Plumbing © H:afing . Oil Burners tachio green, is noted for his frankness, but is secretive about Por COMrORT und BERVICE Qet the NEW WASHINGTON Habit! Dewey W. Metzdorf * Vice-Pres. and Msanaging Director ALASKANZ FEEL AT HOMI st Telephone-313 Nights-Red 730 Harri Machine Shop, Inc. one thing—his age. There's been friends exactly how old he is. How- ever, one week from tonight, No- by‘cnlls to mine pits where death vember 9, the Senator-elect will be 74 year old. But many men 20 years younger would like to have Oldest Bank in Alaska Crossword Puzzle ACROSS . Basy gait . Kind of horse . Likely . Organs of hearing Hindu garment j . 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