The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 25, 1949, Page 4

PAGE FOUR D(ul y Alaska Empire young Published every evening except Sunday by the COMPANY % Juneau, A BOROTHY TROY LINGO - - WILLIAM R. CARTER - - - ELMER Entered in the Post Office in Juneau as SUBSCRIPTION RATES Delivered by carrier in Juneau and Douslas for S1.50 per month; $8.00; one year, Llow six month: e paid, at the f . $15.00 one month, in advance, $1.50 Subscribers will confer a favor if they will promptly notify the Business Office of any fallure or irregularity in ) their papers. Telephones: News Office, 602: MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED The Associated Press is exelusively e republication of all news dispatches credit wise credited in this paper and also the berein NATIONAL REPRESEN Fourth Avenue Bldg.. Seattle, Business Office, Alaska Second Class Matter tes advance, $7.50. the delivery ceiv 374 - geisod lector. Here a | the governmen For yea complaining | too much money. Newspapers, 1411 | lof the year, | taxes. ‘ te | ing surtax sca les. | | that he used it i\\u) SAD YOUNG MAN How unlike a King, Peter of Yugoslavia sounded |out of the the other day when interveiwed by the press! to invest in any he said, “and I have no plans to work.” The training of a King, we suppose, haven't enough money |from his pay, busine: ‘\ is rather | i ng about their qualities of leadership. man appears to possess neither. Presidentiz (Fairbanks The United States Senate, voted President Truman a pay raise and has approved a $50,000 boost in his tax exempt expense allowance. As sent to the House, the measure would increase | the President’s salary from $75,000 to $100,000 and | also provide pay raises for the Vice-President and the Speaker of the House. These officials, too, would re- substantial expense accounts for which they will ! be required to make no accounting to the tax col- again the difference between and New Deal practice, for beeomes apparent. rs the New Dealers have been constantly that American business management gets lization as well as the neces- Unfortunately, this sad Pay Boost News-Miner) in its wisdom, has New Deal the elite of the At the same time, they complain [ that the top administratich figures do not have ade- | | quate funds remaining from their salaries at the end after paying their living expenses and Under the Democratic regime, business long ago I discovered that the tax laws impose a limit on the ex- :nt to which superior performance can be rewarded. Beyond a point, salary raises are consumed by mount- If a private employer gets an expense allowance, the burden of proof is on him to show the treasury to meet allowable expenses. Otherwise |it is considered as more of his salary and taxed as | There are no expense funds in business that lare marked as tax exempt from their inception. It is unlikely that the most highly paid cor- poration executive in the country will realize as much after taxes, as the President should net proposed $100,000 salary and $90,000 tax “I |tree expense fund. To regard this as merely a matter of a few Hhousnnds against the billions the Federal government | spends annually, is to ignore the lessons of history. Despotism was toppled and monarchies fell be- special. If he loses his job, as Peter did after Tito | cause the ruling classes that collected and spent the came to power in Yugoslavia, he is not equipped !‘"mcs were exempt from paying them. do much else than be a former King. This can be | Freeing the officials of government from bearing pleasant enough on a full purse, we imagine, but| the same tax load they impose on other citizens is an difficult for anyone who is nearly broke. " Royal families in Northern Europe order things differently. In the Scandinavian countries and Ger- | evil precedent. many, the sons in reigning houses—in most princely houses, in fact- —are taught something useful as part of their training, just in case something should go wrong and they should lose their property. Nevada had an shocks. Jittery? No Wonder 1SPat(l(‘ Times) This old planet is becoming restless. It twiches. “epidemic” of minor earthquake The ecarth jiggled twice beneth Rome and Peter has political as well as economic troubles ’shuok selsmographs from the direction of Queen He still has hopes, however faint, of being restored 'Gnarlotte Islands on the same day. Who would blame to power in Yugoslavia. such hopes, he must have their financial means to tr) some humamly The Washington Merry-Go-Round By DREW PEARSON One» Contirued tmm Page ease as the naval aide to the Governor of the Virgin Islands. Later that afterncon, 3,000 people plus milled around in the Mellon Art Gallery waiting to shake hands with President Truman. They had received engraved invitatious to this, the most exclusive of all re- ceptions, and they had come from Omaha and Kalamazoo, Keokuk and Olathe, to greet the President of the United States. The White House had especially asked that the little people who worked for Truman—not the big socialites—be invited. Some had rented gray-striped pants and swallow-tails. Some wore tuxedoes, some wore white ties and evening clothes. But they were all primed for this, the most important of all receptions. Meanwhile Truman was sitting on Pennsylvania Ave, watching long lines of artillery and troops, the naval cadets and armored cav- alry which had done nothing to elect him and which could have been reviewed on any other day. The brass hats had put their mil- itary units near the head and middle of the parade, leaving the labor unicns, the war veterans, the Negro units and civilian groups who swung the balance to elect Truman, bringing up the rear. So Truman stayed to the end. TRUMAN ARRIVES Finally, however, he arrived at the Mellon Gallery reception. The waiting guests perked up, preened their clothes, prepared to greet the President. “I don’t want him to shake this clammy hand,” said one man, wip- ing the moisture from his hand with a fresh-laundered handker- chief. “The folks back home bet me I wouldn't shake hands with Tru- man, but now I can tell 'em this invitation meant what it said,” opined another. Hastily, the President shook hands with the foreign diplomats, waiting in a side room. Then he greeted the Cabinet in another room. Then he came out into the great rotuhda of the gallery and surveyed the 3,000 or more people waiting to see him. Obviously it was hopeless. So, lifting his voice, the President announced: “I am very glad to see you all, and I thank you for coming. I wish I could shake hands with all of you, but you can see that it's impossible. So I'm going to shake hands with the Vice President and our ladies will shake hands. Then you can all go home and say that you've shaken hands with the Pres- ident of the United States’ Whereupon Mr. Truman and Barkley held their hands aloft in a clasp that zll could see, while Mrs. Truman and Mrs. Truitt, the Vice President’s daughter, shook hands. Then they departed. The crowd looked after them Obviously they could not tell the folks at home they had shaken hands with the President for the hxmple reason that the press and | radio would tell the true story ev- en before they got there. Mr. Tru- man, they thought, should have re- alized this. However, over there was Big Jim Farley, looking distinguished | and handsome in his tall topper and neat-fitting cutaway. So the 3,000 disappointed guests formed a lonz line and they all shook hands with Jim. Note—He who laughs last, laughs best. PARNELL THOMAS DRAWS PAY | Ex-Speaker Joe Martin didn't advertise it, but he had difficulty getting other Congressmen to serve the new Un-American Activ- on |ities Ccmmittee as long as ex- Chairman J. Parnell Thomas of New Jersey remained a member, Conscientious Congressman Pat Kearney of New York, when offer- ed a Republican place on the com- mittee by Martin, turned it down. He said he wouldn't serve as long as Thomas, under indictment for conspiracy to defraud the Govern- ment, remained a Committee mem- ber reveals what has been gen- erally overlooked in the hubbub of opening Congress, that Parnell Thomas, claiming to be too sick to stand trial, is not too sick to continue as a member of the Un-American Committee. Thus he can continue to draw pay, perhaps indefinitely, from the same Government he is under in- dictment for defrauding. Also he can continue getting the best medical attention in the world at Walter Reed Hospital virtually free; from the same Government he de- irauded. While there is no question that Thomas has been ill, it is also no question that he was not too ill to come to Washington last sum. mer and bulldoze Committee w nesses in prolonged and exciting hearings, which to the wif concerned were just as n racking as the trial which Thomas now seeks to avoid. FREE ALASKAN BORDER There is one spot on the globe where the Iron Curtain doesn't come between Russian and Ame can citizens. They not only inter- mingle but intermarry across the border without bothering about either politics or passports. Ironically this rare relationship is found along the only border where the U. 8. and the U S. R. actually touch—among the Eskimos of Alaska and Siberia. On one side, the inhabitants of Big Dio- mede Island are Soviet citizens. Three miles to the East, their neighbors on Little Diomede Is- land are American citizens All of them Eskimos, their na- tionality depends upon which side of the border their parents hap- pened to be camped when they were born. It isn't unusual for brothers and sisters to be citizens of opposite countries. In fact, dur- ing the war, the draft reached into Little Diomede Island and took a Russian citizen by mistake. imos frequently paddle be- tween the Alaskan and Siberian mainlands in whaleboats that carry as many as ten. One boatload of American Eskimos, however, was detained recently on the Siberian s.de, The FBI also checked a re- So long as he entertains it for being jittery, considering the burden of quarrel- tn!es amu'ul’ port that Russian agents had slip- | oed into Alaska with a boatload of Siberian Eskimos. Clarence Rhode, and Wildlife, was sent up to in- vestigate but found no evidence. As a matter of fact, a stranger couldn’t get far on the Alaskan side without being reported by American Eskimos. These natives are loyal to the United States, in spite of their wandering across the border, and many served in the American armed forces during the war. ——,o——— VELLY SOLLY, JAPANESE NOT LIKE U.5. CORN TCKYO.—(M—Ask any Japanese what’s cooking and he'll tell you it isn’t corn. Not at his house. Me does | not like corn. And there are 300,000 tons of corn waiting to be eaten.| It was shipped over here 'by the United States to feed the hungry. The United States couldn’t ship wheat and other grains because the | Allies of Europe get first crack at| the available supply. Now the U. S. Army has a little scheme to get rid of some of that corn. The Japanese farmer is allowed to keep millet, sorghum and other coarse grains to feed his livestock. These grains can be made into food a Japanese will eat. The Japanese can trade these grains for corn, which can be fed to the livestock. The livestock don’t care. They'd just as soon have corn. - Flexible Fller Sleds at Madsen’s. Open noon until 6. m Alaskan Director of Fish | THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE——JUNEAU ALASKA (ONDITIONS - OF WEATHER ALASKA PTS. Weather conditions and temper- | atures at various Alaska points, also on the Pacific Coast, at 4:30 a. m, 120th Meridian Time, and | |released by the Weather Bureau, JANUARY 25, 1929 Miss Minnie Field was installed as Noble Grand of the Rebekah Lodge at a meeting held the previous evéning. Others elected to offices included: Mrs. C. W. Carter, Mrs. Gertrude Helgeson, Evelyn Judson, Mrs. Helen Skuse, Mrs. Edith Sheelor, Mrs. E. M. Polley, Mrs. Bessie Manning, Mrs. K. Hooker, Mrs. Mary Bavard, Mrs. M. Lagergren, Miss B, Williams, Mrs. Arnold Curtis. Mrs. Dorothy Hart, who retired as Noble Grand was presented with a beautiful jewel of her past office. J. A. Ramsey, Chief of the Field Division of the General Land Office, opened bids for the construction of a new bath house at Tenakee [ llow: i A':l’;‘;i\:_'a;: i 6—Clear 1 Hot Springs Mr. Collins of Tenakee was low bidder on the project. Barrow —Missing | { Bethel ... 0—Clear ' Henry Stragier embarked on the Virginia IV for Chichagof to work Cordova 35—Cloudy !in the mine there. | Dawson -10—Cloudy _ ;dlm;m;n -zi—glenr At the Women of Mooseheart Legion card party, prize winners were | Fairbanks . =1—8now i .. | Haines e o0l william Jarmen, Mr. Kirkpatrick, Mrs. Oberg and Mrs. Allen Laurie. Havre -13—Clear | Juneau Airport . . 31—Snow The Juneau High School and Douglas High basketball teams were to play this night in Douglas. The Douglas High teams had been vic- Ketchikan . 32—Snow Kodiak . 32—Cloudy | torious during the first part of the season. | McGrath -21—Clear | s | Nome 15—Fog Allen Shattuck and wife were expected to arrive from the south ::(l:lhfi‘:lilyg :;g—:now on the Princess Mary. 'S I'g - —Snow | Portland " 16—Clear | Weather: High, 13; row, 12; clear. Prince George 3—Snow Seattle 18—Clear 2 H Hh y | otacbue sisnov | Daily Lessons in English Sitka 34—Snow | W. L. GORDON ‘Whitehorse 8—Snow | e - 31-8noW| woppS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “Do not stop until you i “ 'have completely finished.” Omit COMPLETELY. FINISH means to "MYS‘ERY" pARK‘ l“’me 1-"2[‘;;\; e):‘]’SPRONOUNCED Appall. MADE 'Io ORDER fok ‘:m AT, O as in ON, accent second syllable. LECTURE PLATFORM ? OFTEN MISSPELLED: Kaleidoscope; observe the EL usual, ordinary, inveterate, accustomed, cus- | The case of the mysterious parka { WORD STUDY: “Use a word three times and it is ycars.” Let us | has been solved, and oldtimers and 'increase our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Today’s word: |other experts can reassure them- TRUCULENCE; savageness, as of manners; ferociousness. (Pronounce ;‘:“S;g O;S Atl(; slt:fi:m?}?::)‘ t;lom the | }hrst syllable TRUCK). “Every curve of her features seemed to express PRS- 1. | harsh truculence. »—Mrs. Humphry Ward. MODERN ETIQUETTE ¥operra 1ee Pronounce a-pol, first A as SYNONYMS: Habital, Kuthahn, curator, purchased a | parka for the Territorial Museum —a most unusual parka. Keithahn, {well versed in such things, had Inever seen one like it. He could ‘noL identify it, nor could experts | | he consulted. } The parka is ornamented with |old trade beads, and the hood is in | !the form of a wolf's head, with | elaborate embroidery and beading. ! Keithahn now finds that it was | the property of an Englishman, | John Horn, who went: Outside from ! ‘the Yukon and Arctic regions im | the '30's to lecture. Mrs. Collista | Dowling, an artist of Portland, | Ore., received it in payment for drawings to illustrate Horn’s book. From her, it is learned that the parka was made for Horn by Yukon or Arctic natives, to his or- | der—to bLe ‘“decorative, mt,eresung‘ Q. When walking with a companion and one meets an acquaintance on the street, is it necessary to introduce the companion? A. No; there is no obligation to do so. Q. It it ill-bred to toy with the silver or move a glass around on the ; table during a meal? A. This is not so much a matter of ill-breeding as of nervousness and lack of poise. Will-power alone can overcome it. Q. When a widower is to be married the second time, should he igive a bachelor dinner? A. No. LOOK and I.EARN X . GORDON |and fanciful, so as to appeal to 1. What is a vendetta? |audiences.” It is representative 2. Which State is called the Nutmeg State? jof no tribe, nor order nor period.| 3 What Danish King sat on the English throne during the Middle | From Portland, Horn went £0|,cocn | California, where he died before he | €% |could start his lecture tour. 4. ‘What 1s g hoyden? | Keithahn purchased the parka 5. Who was the favored son of Jacob and Rachel? |from Mrs. Gertrude Glutsch Jen- ANSWERS: \sen of Purtland 1. A feud for blood revenge, the obligation resting upon the rela- RS - i ol 2 itives of a deed or injured man to take vengeance on the person who has !caused the death or injury. ‘Yoshlda GivenNew | 2 comecton Control as Resulf of | & Jm v s o tomen | Japanese Election Oldest Bank in Alaska 1891—0ver Half a Century of Banking—1949 The B. M. Behrends Bank Safety Deposit Boxes for Rent (By The Associated Press) 1 Ultraconservative Democratic Lib- ' eral Party, 263 diet seats, a gain of more than 100, on the basis of com- iplete returns from Sunday’s elec- tions in Japan. This gave Yoshida a clear par- liamentary working majority to ad- vance a program of lessened eco- nomic controls. ‘The Communists rolled up a popu- lar vote of more than a million, and took 35 seats, emerging as a strong political faction. 1 —— ! Yellow and brown shades of topaz are relatively rare. ACROSS 33. Printer's ap- L Tifr prentice 5. God of love 35. Urban resident 4. Article 86 Drinks slowly 2. Tardy 38. Medical fluids 4. kasy'guilop 39 Babylonan i. Floor covering 5. Metal 40. Whle moulhea 6. lore Jar: & American 2. Gidei! snow rabbit fleld 20. pile 44. Sign 21, Parts growing 46. Injure above 0. Musical com- position 23. 63. Persia 26. Wondering 51. Top card fear 55. Jewel 2y, On the ocean 56, Look after 31. Stringed In- 57, Rumen strument 58. 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