The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 11, 1948, Page 4

PAGE FOLR Dai Alaska ! (Pairbank the bz finer) ind of the recent elec- dskc uggests that those newspapers opposing the control the Territory are in danger of *trampled to death” by a phenomenon described on the farch.” In regard to the News-Miner, Hilscher sees signifi- cance in the fact that it “fought,” as he puts it, with s7.50; | John Butrovich and Gov. Gruening. ! The News-Miner has on occasion critized Presi- " DU | dent Truman, members of Congress and the cabinet, sundry foreign governments, Josef Stalin and the weather. Gr g, Butrovi and now Hilscher a in distinguished co! re will be added to t on H anda, sms to place undue empha of winning, regardie iples held by th on the opp He argues that newspapers out of require “an angel to guarantee the y in business. There are, of course, many notable examples to {the contrary. . A count by Editor and Publisher, authoritative | trade magazine, showed that 65 per cent of the daily I papers in the United States were supporters of Gov. y SUBSCRIPTION RATE Delivered by carrier in June:u and Doucl six months, $5.00; ail, postage paid for §1.50 per month £15.00 hs, in advance, time goe less in th | vote he list dout names as the ain Dealer, St. Louls r, De Post d the |danger of going out of r offers the d 1636 ele 1 the ce with the vii ple at all. Digest had begun do CHANCELLOR MISCONCEP t onal Cc oulsville the other day M. Hutchins gave these gentlemen of the press what he regarded as a piece of his mind. Unfortunately, g 5 When that failed, the magazine had to go. the Chancellor of the University of Cl't)cago based‘ Conversely, in the same 1938 election, President his remarks on a misconception of his own. | Roosevelt was opposed for re-election by virtually every “I shall begin by paying you the greatest com- llarge newspaper in the nation. Roosevelt carried 46 pliment in my power. I think you are teachers,” he | giates. The newspapers are still in business. said. That is very white of the Chancellor. But| It is obvious that newspapers have far more to heaven forbid! Being an educator, or at least the ;ufler their readers than polls and editorial opinions. “ead of a great university, although not himself a It is also plain that “political astuteness” in their retired U. S. Army General, Dr. Hutchins seems to | newspapers is not nearly as important to most readers harbor the motion that if we are not educators, we |25 the reassuring knowledge that they are getting hould be. This, of course, is the sheerest rot. opinions from their publications—opinions freely of- s RN 23 fered and freely expressed which the readers may Dr. Hutchins has added nothing to the lore of accept or reject as they wish. journalism by telling us that people buy newsp&persl This is as it should be. for a variety of reasons—among them the comic strips, | Fortunate, indeed, are the newspapers that are race track news, department store ads—but not for invariably on the winning or popular side of the issues the editorials. That probably is true enough, but of the day, although there may be some doubts as to t is a fact that has pretty well been established by the soundness of the character of such journals. In his opinion, if people read editorials at to suffer ion of the much more lively and carefully from terary prepared Time Magazine long before 1936. The tele- . phone-book poll was the Digest's chief stock in trade. The history of journalism bears the names of now. g them musement and not for |MAany Who were not so fortunate, yet were not averse Eils":}zimread g o i ¥ " to paying dearly to fulfill fundamental obligations of : : | their calling. We find no definition of an editorial that says; Elijah Lovejoy was lynched by an Alton, TII, mob it should be instructive or didactic. Webster's Col- | for expressing his views on abolition. Before that, he legiate Dicticnary says an editorial is “an article | was forced to flee from St. Louis and his presses were in a newspeper or magazine giving the editor’s views : thrown in the Mississippi. or these of the person or persons in control of the Peter Zenger was another who was “out of tune” paper; a lead This does not preclude the pos- | With his time; i, e., out of tune with the British rulers sibility of an editorial being instructive if the reader |Of New York who imprisoned him on a trumped-up can find something in it to guide them. | charge of {11)91. His acquittal, finally, laid the corner- 5 ey e for the basic American freedom of the press that e ’X"?rt (]ml editorials we know of l;ml mlm witk later ten into the Constitution. r. Hutch understand it, SR these which appe lled pr Chr - 80, buck sio; L. Dhelonie off e of dictatorships. s which tell | ston we s we nment > the editor contre These a to impugn the motives of a news- people wha believe and what to do. They are not | i 'cho- &lde or the other P s quite the kind we wa And we doubt that Dr Hutchins does either. : stem from If he and his fellow eduactors about their | their cour d ssession of a own jobs of raising the st iction from | crystal ball. the low level to which the it to sink, e s ey they ultimately will create a pu which w nothing but newspapers of the h Mean- | the Engl while, they need not expect the editorial writers of |on | that, the nation to do their jobs for them. | exaggerat e is the most overworked expression in guage, according to a professor. Not in many cases it constitutes gross 1 accept [t hest quality. but ion. {5 le Eob But tod Butle energetic, like- is doing a great p our good- a lot more who should The Washingion Herry-Go-Round By DREW PEARSON factor hold American air | X the fact that he is a nei dier. | importan fans have more respect pow > have, spite ote diplom t career fact 1 assa- poli Coantirued from Page One) he = e constant droning of the Ber- dors y supp! ent each the Public Health Service first re-|ln airlift in Russian ears has other, filling in the qualities the| vealed its amazing qualities.” only increased that respect, he other lacks. ced, and, at the same time, im- essed the rest of Europe. It i FORGIVE THE DIXIECRATS ? ay’s belief that Russia wants to| Chatting with Rep, Albert Thom st whether the airlift can sur-|as of Texas the other day, Presi- e the winter before backing gent Truman hinted that he might | own from the Berlin blockade. | be by- told the Congressmen ti rats and wnists are going fro pro- or in Berlin as 1 Then the President a smile: - “It would be a wonderful thing if we could shed our teeth when they start bothering us and grow a brand new Truman pron thought” to a Minges and his added with S =0 be wil Clay ticle on Alaska | cvveeeceeeece THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALAS DECEMBER 11 Katherine Bavard Bert Kiefer Louise Miller Mrs. Thomas A. Morgan Frank Cashel Anton L. Bartness Laura King William Fromholz . . . ° . . . . . . . . . CEMBER 12 iam Paul e Maier ed Apland O. G. Culberhouse Loren E. Shaw Margaret Mercado Harriet Meriwether Esther Miller Mrs. A. G. Goodman ° ceee000o 0 e eecccccccce € 0o 0 0 0 0 0 0 00 C ST INGUISHED DOCTOR JOINS HEALTH STAFF =] Karcla R specialist, has joined the tubercul is control stafi of the Alaska De- as medical eclin- d Sanitorium. duties Sewar over her ician at the Dr. Reitlinger well trained in the field of tuber- culosis control, with experience in the United States and Europe. —— ATTENTION MASONS Stated Communication Monday evening at 7:30. Election of Offi- cers. Dinner served in the Dining Room at 6:30. J. W. Leivers, Secretary. SRR 85 2t) FOOD AND APRON SALE Dec. 18, at Sears Roebuck, at 11 o'clock a. m. (65 1t) crats or anyone by name, Truman told the tall Texas Congressman: “There’'s been a lot of newspaper talk and speculation about how I'm going to get even with indivi- dual Demcerats and groups who were agains: me before the elec-| tion. | ell, it's no true,” he added. I'm not mad at anyone and I don’'t want to punish any indivi- duals or groups within the party.| And I'm not mad at any states; that went against me. “I just want to weld the Demo- | . cratic Party back together again | into the solid organization it used | to be in the old days. I'm going to keep right on working v.owarq that end.” Note—Says Ernest Cuneo re Tru= inger, tuberculosis | tment of Health, and has taken | comes to Alaska: e o SEATTLE | 20 YEARS AGO /3 RE 4 ! THE EMPIRE e n R i BERVICE DECEMBER 11, 1928 Only three influenza patients entered St. Ann’s Hospital today.| gpewey W. Get tne NEW The new patients were all miners from the Alaska Juneau. Metzdort WASHINGTON Vice-Pres. Mrs. Grace McCartney, proprietor of the American Beauty Shop, was and : EHabit! leaving for the south on the Victoria. . mblrecwxm sl ALASKANZ FEEL AT Kake had an excellent season and the community, one of the model o was recovering from its disastrous fire | Indian villages of the Territory, hant of Kake. of two years previous, according to Ernest Kirberger, merc W. D. Gross announced today that he was planning to build a new SATURDAY, DECEMBER 11, apartment building in Juneau and 2 new moving picture theatre in | Petersburg. The apartment building was to have 30 units in it. Moose Lodge No. 700 Regular Meetings Each Friday Governor—ARNOLD HILDRE Secretary— WALTER R. HERMANSEN E. F. Watkins, who had been in charge of the 240 Power Plant at ! Treadwell for three years, had moved from Douglas to Thane with his family. Watkins had recently accepted a position with the electrical department of the Alaska Juneau. No children were to be admitted to the moving picture theatres during the influenza epidemic by order of Dr. H. C. DeVighne, Territorial Health Commissioner. H. S. GRAVES The Clothing Man LEVI'S OVERALLS for Boys GECRGE BROS. Widest Selection of LIQUORS PHONF 29¢ .| ‘Say tt Witk Flowers” but SAY IT WITH OURS!" Juneau Florists PHONE 311 | The new Scottish Rite Temple was opened the previous evening th,h‘ | the first official Masonic meeting at which officers were elected for the year. Walter P. Scott was elected Master of the Mt. Juneau Lodge No. | 147, F. and A. M. He stcceeded H. I. Lucas. Other men elected to office | were E. L. Gruber, W. B. King, W. S. George and C. E Naghel. The formal jal dedication of the new structure was to be on the following| | It was the opening night for the play, “The Whole Town’s Talking,” 3\- hich s given by the senior class of the Juneau High School at the Coliseum Theatre. Members of the cast were: George Hall, Gladys | Naghel, Ann Elliott, Robert Waggoner, Xenia Kashevaroff, Carl Jensen, | Gardner Leighton, Dorothy Bakke, Lorraine White, Bernnie Messer, Ada Minzghor and Verna Hurley. Weather: High, 35; low, 33; light rain. | - | Daily Lessons in English . 1. corpox The Erwin Feed Ce. Office in Case Lot Grocery PHCNE 704 HAY. GRAIN, COAL and STORAGE -~ | WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not write, “Kindly pay this bill at ;once." Write, “PLEASE pay this bill.” OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Recourse. | the first. 1 OFTEN MISSPELLED: Contemptible; IBLE, not ABLE. | SYNONYMS: Contract, compact, agreement, arrangement, bargain, | pact. | 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: FUNDAMENTAL (adjective); pertaining to the foundation or basis; elementary; primary. “Enthusiasm is a fundamental law of success.” Accent second syllable, not Call EXPERIENCED MEN Alaska JANTTORIAL Service FRED FOLETTE Phone 247 STEVENS® LADIES'—MISSES’ READY-TO-WEAR Seward Street Near Third MODERN ETIQUETTE penra vem | Q. To whom does a prospective bridegroom usually give a dinner, | and how long before the wedding? A. He usually gives a stag dinner to his ushers and very close men friends an evening or two before the wedding day. Q. Should a girl begin to put on her wraps when she has dined with a man, and is preparing to leave the table? A. No; she sould wait either for her escort or the waiter to assist Alaska Music Supply Arthur M. Uggen, Manager Planos—Muxical Instruments her. \ man’s cheek-turning toward the S R and Supplies Dixiecrats: “he’s like a man whom . er‘s,,M“y pre s PDawIIT STon DVINORS, (acoepiances, an Phone 208 Seccnd and Seward you tell, ‘I've just shot your two j eBTELs? brothers in the back,’ and he says, ‘That’s fine, let’s all e triends.” =& REBUILDING RUHR Acting Secretary of State Lovett held some important backstage meetings with the joint Congress- ional “watchdog” committee last week that weren’t supposed to get to the press. v were on the vital question ir ) rebuilding Ruhr. The watchdog” co e, dominated by O.d Guard Republicans, de- mands that the State Department gnore the wishes of the French and begin rebuilding the Ruhr. In fact, the watchdog” commit- tee is to delermined on rebuilding the Ruhr that—believe it or not— they demand that the State De- partment and Marshall Plan Ad-| ministrator Paul Hoffman immed- iately e on the French go along with re- 1 industry, all Mar- to France will be Solution of Yesterday's Puzzle 65. Locoma . Biblical servi country DOWN . Entry in an L Compel account 2. Soft valate Larxs receptacles proclaim National cally as magazine - subsc ¥ t entiouing - Hhes B Dental Health Day next lesmen, trying to scare indivi- _ g to stimulate great into the Communist cam; the care of teeth by school children £t night their threats back B Thi odsent ed up with kidnapings Note—The Washington Merry- Of terror, hundreds of Go-Round on March 5 first report- having disappeared for ed the amazing progress of the ' the Iron Curtai ACROSS 32. Bagks of Putlic Health Service in using| b c"‘,‘;,“:',f,,";',,';" FRE N oo B ; | ¢ sodxu:‘n fluorine to preserve cml-; BOUNCING BOB BUTLER 8. Stumbles 35. Exist drens’ teeth, and gave credit to 13. Spontaneous 36. Excuse Congressman Frank Keefe, Wiscon- | FOF Years controversy has raged public 37. Sea: French sin Republican, for helping the \l the State Department regard-| pocclamation 39 Writer of s [T nature Public Health Service. It was re. |ing the relative merits of the car- Stories ported that sodium fluorine would €€ @nd the political diplomat. L Animations save about 50 per cent of chil-|Career diplomats resent the intru-| iy [ntimation 44, Masculine ddrens’ teeth from decay | sion of ambassadors appointed be- . s:;rr;\:r‘l))r! PR L At that time, the American Den.“c“USe_ they have ponied up during hearing 47. Dog's delight tal Assoclation's Journal was criti-|# Political campaign—and this re-| 22 Roman house- ot e cal both of this column and the | SEntment is sometimes justified. So! 4. Knot 50. Squander Public Health Service for publish- 810 Political appointees resent| 33 AR Corat® ing this claim, but ADA officials 51_1: lack of imagination, the rou-| 2. By row admit that painting childrens' € viewpoint of many career dip- 30. orw teeth with sodium fluorine at 1OMAts. proper intervals when under the| OBDE political ambassador who got age of 13 will preserve them in| cuffed around at first is bounc- | . Behold lerat about 40 per cent of the cases. _Bob Butler, the former St. builder, who became U. s Ambassador to Australia. Today, however, Butler is Am- “NO WAR” — CLAY Powder-keg-sitting G Lucius Clay expects the Russians to in- tensify the cold war, but to stop short of a shooting war. ba A ador to Cuba and doing an job. Not only does he have the warmth and human quality which some carcer diplomats lack d which Latin Americans love —but he has imagination. It was Butler who conceived the important Talking privately to visit House Armed Clay predicted Con- the gressmen from Services Commit Long narrow opening . Quick return thrust 1o that the Ru: uld h: rope would the op: is to stir up chaos and breeding ground for Coi The General admitted that a misfire in this delicate bat- tle of nerves could easily precipi- President Prio Eu- however, fencing Wilness . Mare mature Devour 2. Go in . leverse ends of hamimer heads . Otve temporarily Poet Pronoun Gained That wun || 1891—0ver Half a Cenfury of Banking—1948 A. No; this is considered in bad taste. P e e HEINKE GENERAL REPAIR SHOP { i GENERAL REPAIR WORK Phene 204 929 W. 12th 8t 1. What is the difference between contagion and infection? 2. What were the Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria? STRIAL 3. Which State of the Union contains the most gold mines? HOME ANE NN 4. What bird’s song can be heard for more than a mile? INSULATION 5. What great opera by Wagner is founded on the story of the l; i ry of the Holy || poox WOOL—ALUMINUM WEATHER STRIPPING Warde A. Johnson—Phone 344 The Charles W. Carter ANSWERS: 1. Contagion is the transmission of disease by direct or indirect | contact; infection is the communication of disease, especially by agency of atmosphere or water. 2. The names of Columbus’ three ships. 3. Colorado. 4. The nightingale. Mortuary 5. “Parsifal.” fourth and Franklin Sts. | ; PHONE 136 ‘ Card Beverage Co. ! Oldest Bank in Alaska i 805 1o 8 PHONE 216—DAY or NIGH?T for MIXERS or SODA POP Casler's Men's Wear i Formerly SABIN'S Stetson and Mallery Hats Arrew Shirts and Underweas | The B. M. Behrends Bank Safety Deposit Boxes for Rent COMMERCIAL SAVINGS TIMELY CLOTHES NUNN-BUSH SHOES STETSON HATS Quality Work Clothing MRS. G. BOGGAN 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: "'SON OF RUSTY" Federal Tax--12c—Paid by the Theatre 13—PHONES- 49 Pree Delivery SHAFFER'S PHONE 14—THE ROYAL BLUE CAB (0. SANITARY T WILL CALL FOR YOU and zfl Rfigl‘:fi i;fix{}egoc;g“ home with our complim‘énu, ¥OR BETTER ME\TS | WATCH THIS SPACE—Your Name May Appear! 1948 MOUNT JUNEAU LODGE NO. 147 SECOND and FOURTH a Morday of each month in Scottish Rite Temple beginning at 7:30 p. m. WILLIS R. BOOTH, Worshipful Master: JAMES LEIVERS, Secretary, bt € B.P.0.ELKS Meeting every Wednesday at 8 P. M. Visiting brothers wel- come. JOSEPH H, SADLIER, Exalted Ruler. Ww. Secretary. o ] Follow the Cabs to ROSS’ OASIS in Douglas for a Good Time Bert's Food Center Grocery Phones 104—105 Meat Phones 39539 Deliveries—10:15 A M. 2:15 — 4:00 P. 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