The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 1, 1949, Page 4

{ i PAGE FOUR Daily Alaska Empire Published every evening except Sunday by the EMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY Second and Main Streets, Juneau, Alaska HELEN TROY MONSEN - - - DOROTHY TROY LINGO - - WILLIAM R. CARTER - - - ELMER A. FRIEND - - - - ALFRED ZENGER - - . - President Vice-President Editor and Manager | Managing Editor Business Manager | Entered in the Post Office In Juneau o SUBSORIPTION RATES: Delivered by carrier in Juneau and Douglas for §1.50 per month; six months, $8.00; one y $15.00 By mail, postage paid, at the following rates: One year, in advance, $15.00; six months, in advance, $7.50; me month, in advance, $1.50. Subscribers will confer a favor if they will promptly notify he Business Office of any failure or irregularity in the delivery M their papers. Telephones cond Class Matter. News Office, 602; Business Office, 374. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS The Assoclated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not other- wise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein ‘Tr 'NAL REPRESENTATIVES "A!:\hka Newspapers, 1411 PICKETS MUST TELL TRUTH Labor union pickets carrying ‘“misleading and* untruthful” signs were enjoined from displaying such banners in an injunction granted by a New York Supreme Court Justice in New' York recently. The | Judge explained that his ruling did not prevent honest picketing by a labor union. He held, however, that the slogans displayed by the pickets must be truthful in what they say. The case arose in a three-cornered jurisdictional fight between a number of restaurants which employed one of the unions and two labor unions seeking to force the restaurants to sign with them. The Judge found that the restaurants and the labor union contracted by them were living up to the agree- mnt and that signs declaring there was a labor dispute in an effort to persuade the public from patronizing the restaurants were not true. The rule of “truth” could be well applied to many campaigns now conducted to gain the public's support. In the vast amount of propaganda circulated in these statements are made because they support the cause rather than recite the facts in the case. The widespread practice of making statements containing half truths, and in some cases no truth at all, has seriously impaired the effects of such tactics in recent years. If words do mot signify the usually accepted slg,mhcance ascrlbed to them by generfll days man popular understanding, their use befogs an im,emgent‘l appraisal of the cause being pled. It would be well} for all propagandists to reappraise their literature | and amend it to conform to the pratice laid down by the Judge for unions to follow in picketing slogans. In recent years advertising has been judged by its truthfulness, and today the ads largely conform to the facts involved. If propagandists generally accepted | this line of criticism, the trustworthiness of the appeals would be greatly enhanced in the minds of tlm‘ . public. It is an old saying that “murder will out.” untruthfulness in any propaganda sooner or Basic later ° comes to the surface, and the perpetrators of the | buncombe sooner or later pay for it in their inability | o to have the public take anything they say, even if true, | at its face value. Government Responsibility (Fairbanks News-Miner) Governor Gruening, in his message to the regular session of the Legislature, urged the lawmakers to investigate thoroughly the requests of Territorial de- partment heads for funds for the next biennium. it’s part of the legislative functions to keep | a check on executive departments and to see monies | expended and expended prudently and economically,” said the governor, according to an Associated Press | dispatch from Juneau. 't The advice is as sound as it is long overdue. The present Alaska administration proposes to| spend a record breaking 17 million dollars in the next‘ two years. This is approximately 6 million more th;m was approved for spending in the last biennium. An increase of more than 50 per cent in the costs ! of government within a single spending period is a | serious step. It is fraught with possibilities of hardship for | taxpayers and serious consequences for the Territory | 'unless percautions are taken to control the handlmg‘ of the unprecedented sums. H The duty of the Legislature is plamn. in drawing | of appronriation bills, each department head and ad- | ministrative official must be required to justify to the smallest amount his request for funds to support hi; s‘ endeavors until 1951. Assurances must be given that emplovees will be | hired for service and not for politics. To this end lhc‘ lawmakers are duty-bound to examine the amounts | requested for payroll purposes in each department | against the rec s of the department’s past needs | and proposed future activities. Equipment requests, travel monies and expense funds, often tempting sources of revenue for ex- travagant politicos, must receive the closest scrutiny. Only through these and similar exercises of cau- tion in consideration of the spending measures can the Legislature fulfill its obligation to the people. But there is a futher responsibility and one that is mentioned far too seldom in the Juneau admin- istrative circles. When the Legislature completes its work in something less than 60 more days, the burden of responsibility for the public funds must necessarily shift to the executive branch. It will then be the duty of the governor and his officials to ‘‘see monies expended and expended pru- dently and economically,” thereby providing Alaskans with a Territorial administration for which each is to be required to pay a not mconslderable sum. | The Washington Merry-fio-kound By DREW PEARSON frem 1Pape e private firms offered him, $15,000. But this was the job Webb was planning to take when President Truman finally persuaded him to become Undersecrtary of State. ALONG PENNSYLVANIA AVE. President Truman, who always sports a neat crease in his trous- ers, won't stand for a crease in his coat sleeves. Always an expert on men’s haberdashery, he believes in a smooth, rounded sleeve, no wrinkles and no crease. . . . One artist, who did a portarit of the President, was requested by the Chief Executive to “kindly paint out those creases in the sleeves.” . The President dictates so fast that his confidential secretary, Rose Conway, has abandoned shorthand and now uses a stenotype mach- ins to keep up with her boss . . . Back in the 1890’s the great Polish patriot-pianist, rewski, paid a visit dence, Mo. While there, to Indepen- he took time out to give a piano lesson to: named an awe-struck youngster Harry Truman. Later Paderewski became President of Poland, and his piano pupil became President of the United States. One of the biggest guessing games in Washington revelves around the question of why Ed Bacher, exe- cutive director of the Republican National Committee, has a ma- chine attached to his telephone to record conversations. agreed he's not trying to catch Democrats off guard. Beyond that, it’s anybody's guess. MAN BITES DOG Believe it or not, a butter ducer is now lobbying for margarine -not against it. tors are blinking their a letter which Kingsdale Dairies of New York City is circulating on Capitol Hill Under a letterhead advertising “for bettering the buttering habifs of the nation,” Kingsdale Dairies confesses: interest in butter, pro- oleo- Sena- we believe we have nothing to fear from the re- moval of the oleomargarine taxes nor even with the removal of col- or restrictions—provided, of course, the margarine is not fraudulently foisted on the American people as butter. We feel that the danger of such fraud is small. ‘That a large segment of the American people want oleomargar- ine needs no demonstration, at extra cost, bag which permits easy coloring by the housewife. {To favor one industry by restrict- ing another is not in our cpinionl‘ { Jan Ignace Pade- | It's generally | eyes over | “While we have a vital | and | that they want it colored is now | amply evidented by their demand, | for the new type | Icompauble with deinocracy nor is 1it in the best interest of all busi- ness as a whole, or of the Ameri- can people. “We respectfully urge your sup- :port of any legislation that will i free oleomargarine from its present restrictions.” In the flood of mail that deluges Capitol Hill, such a letter—lobby- ing against the sender’s interests for the public good—is rare indeed. | | | | | Cengratulations. SENATOR BALL'S CENSORSHIP |the wraps off a report that was kept in mothballs while the Re- ;ublicans were still in power on Capitol Hill. It is a survey on how the Ten- inessee Valley Authority has been getting along with labor. The Re- publicans intended it to be an unfavorable report and sent an in- vestigator into the Tennessee Val- ley looking for trouble. Instead, the jagent found TVA humming and labor putting its shoulder to the wheel. The man who initiated this inves- tigation and tried to blast TVA was ex-Senator Joe Ball of Minnesota and ex-Chairman of the Joint La- bor-Management Relations Com- | mittee. He ordered staff investi- gator Alexander Christie to turn I'VA upside down and bring back the facts. That's exactly what Christie did. But when his report turned opt to be a boomerang, praising TVA instead of knocking it, Ball let the report gather dust lon his shelf. ‘Whereupon showed the report to Democratic Senator James Murray of Montana, {who has now promised publication. Meanwhile, this column has al- ready obtained a copy which pains- takingly geces into TVA's labor Summing up, the report “The Tennessee Valley Authority has bean in existence over 15 years and during that period it tions with labor have been relatively free of strife and discord | «“There is nothing in the labor policies of TVA that smacks of paternalism. The Authority is out to receive value for every dollar it spends. It constantly strives for economical and efficient operation. . . . “TVA believes that by treating |its employees as human beings, honestly and above board, by hav- ling the employees express them- |selves and take part in the joint ' cooperative committees, by letting individual employees join unions if they so desire, by giving the in- | dividual some recognition—he is not | | just another cog in a heartless, impersonal machine . . “TVA has proven that it wants factors are of secondary tance to this one. Labor knows these things. Therefore, it cooper- |ates with TVA, it works hard and it produces.” This is part of what Senator Ball suppressed. .. impor- The Democrats are about to take Christie burned up, ' to get along with labor—all other . ‘GROUNDHOG MAY SHOW NEW LOOK IN SHADOWS ON HIS DAY TOMORROW Tomorrow is groundhog day! A tradition that comes out of New England is the one about the reundhog’s appearance tomorrow. Accordingly, the groundhoz is sup- rosed to suspend his hibernation for at least one day. Weather per- mx(tlng, he will see his shadow and ep will continue for anoth- er six weeks. Otherwise, if the sun is overcast and the ground- oz's shadow is nonexistant, the summer activities of the not-so- certain herald of spring begin. It’s a toss up as to whether we| will have the groundhog with us' on an active status or whether | we wait until the Ides of March to see him again, | ® e e v ve 9 e V'IDE TABLE FEBRUARY 2 High tide, 4:32 am., 155 ft. Low tide, 10:57 a.m. 2.7 ft. High tide, 16:25 p.m., 14.7 ft Low tide, 22:45 pm., 1.2 ft. e ~ o s o 0 — e Flexible Flier Sleds at Madsen’s. Open noon until 6. 9t !STEVE FERRIS IS IN ] FEBRUARY 1 Lynne Barcus . Dr. A. W. Sterwart . Sally Hope . 1. Goldstein Mrs. Albert S. Burrell L. E. Tucker Mrs. Ira MacDonald { . « ¢ 0 v e 8 0 0 v e e o EBRRRE A R ‘ CONDITIONS OF WEATHER | ALASKA PTS. Weather conditions and temper- itures at various Alaska points, \lso on the Pacific Coast, at 4:30 m, 120th Meridian Time, and released by the Weather Rureau. Tuneau, follow: 2eececccccce Anchorage 23—Pt. Cloudy | Barrow —Missing | Bethel 12—Clear | Cordova 25—Pt. Cloudy | Dawson -10—Cloudy Edmonton -4—Clear Fairbanks 19--Snow Haines 21—Snow Havre —Missing Juneau Airport 29—Cloudy | Annette Island 28—Cloudy Kodiak 32—Clear Kotzebue 4—Clear McGrath 22—Snow ‘ome 4—Clear | | Northway . —Missing | Potersburg —Cloudy Portland 31—Cloudy , Prince George 12—Cloudy attle ; 31- Clear Sitka 32—Cloudy | Whitehorse —Cloudy | Yakutat 29—Cloudy | > THREE ALASKA MEN WIN PRIZES IN NORTH AMER. BIG GAME COMPETITION Of the 37 awards in the sec- ad annual awarding of medals in the Boone and Crockett Club of American Big Game Alaska men receive " OBEISANCE; a bodily movement, or a gesture, 948 North Competition, hree. Robert C. Reeve of Anghorage received first prize and M4j. Gen. J. H. Atkinson, Ft. Richardson, was |awarded third prize in the Alaska | brown bear competition. In the ! v,h te sheep division, Gordon D. Halsten, Sitka, took second prize. ' The winners of the second annual contest were awarded bronze med- 1s which bear the profiles of Juniel Beone and Davey Crockett o the obverse, and a powder horn n the reverse. The presentation { medals was made recently at a | buffet supper at the American Mu- um of Natural History. .- JUNEAU FROM KETCHIKAN L. S. Ferris, prominent Ketchi- kan business man, is at the Bar- anof Hotel. Mr. Ferris plans to| spend several days here. i - 1 TANA DOCTOR HERE i Dr. W. V. Bessonette of Tanana registered at the Baranof over the weekend L PSS VISITORS FROM EAST Mr. and Mrs. M. H. Haertel of Concord, New Hampshire, are guests at the Baranof. B FULL CHICKEN DINNER At the Salmon Creek Country Club, $2.50. 107 tf ACROSS 29. Undeveloped 1. Hydraulic flower pump 30. Kind of lily 4 Casts oft 81. French coin 9. Mineral spring 32. English fetter 12. Silkworm 33. ‘Reclpient of 13. Indian boat o T 14 Grown boy 34. Principal actor 15. Go down 35. Frequented 17. Prepared . . 'Dinces 19. Bring ashore 37. Viglant 20. Foundation 38. God of love timber 39, Winglike 21, Paid out 40. Part worked 23. Resinous with the foot substance 42. Enmity 26. Early English 45. Unit of work moneys 46. Unfastened 21. Wanders 48’ Ballad 25, Artificial 49. Small language 60, Bother | | | | i | Crossword Puzzle Solution of Yesterday's Puzzle 51. Dutch s. commune A DOWN 5 : Erimary color . Delude . Odor . Cluster of bananas 6. Finish 7. Perform 8. Brazilian bird . Little . Tablet . Some . Metal cons tainers . Additions to buildings 20. Kind of rock . Serious 2. Dried plum . Bottoms of the feet . Roaring . Woo 7. Talks bom- bastically Flower petals . Free from bacteria . Feminine name . Cabbage salad . Marsh grass . Narrow back street Too . Seat in chur . Befo o . Electrified particle Boy alkaly ! THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA 20 YEARS AGO T¥E EMPIRE FEBRUARY 1, 1929 Twin stories on page one told of new downtovin construction. N. G. Nelson announced that plans were completed for 'a three or four-story concrete building at the corner of Front and Franklin. S Zynda hoped concrete building at the corner of Front and Frarklin. S. Zynda hoped .o start construction in the summer on an enlargement of the Zynda | Zynda returning from a trip to Seattle, reportad that weather-there was |cold weather maneuvers at Kediak, ar more severe than in Juneau. Mary Pickford, “foremost screen artiste,” starred in “Little Annie Rooney” at the Coliseum. Walter B. King spoke on citizenship in the first of five talks spon sored by the American Legion Post. Later speakers were to be J. H Newman, G. H. Walmsley, E. M. Polley and T. A. Hellenthal. The Empire commented editorially on the program of reforesting the Olympic Peninsula with spruce trees, by the Zellerbachs, pulp and papermakers. A special ferry was to transport Douglas boys’ and girls’ basketball teams to Juneau for the fourth event in a series ‘'of games. Seven classified advertisements offered apartments for rent. A posi- tion was wanted by a fully competent blacksmith and horseshoer. Under “Lost and Found” was this item: “Who left spectacles in LeFevre's office?” Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Joan Crawford had announced their engagement. At the third card party of the season by Women of Mooseheart, ! prizes went to Mrs. M. D. Berry, Mrs. Peterson, G. Ingman and Frank Oja. Weather: High, 20; low, 19; cloudy. ‘WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “I am going to Bu(falo inside of a few days.” Say, “WITHIN a few days.” OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Buffet (a cupboard). Pronounce boo- fa, OO as in BOOK, A as in FATE, accent second syllable. OFTEN MISSPELLED: Nasturtium; IUM, not EUM. SYNONYMS: Antecedent, anterior, earlier, foregoing, former, previ- ous, preceding. WORD STUDY: “Use a word three times and it is yours.” increase our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Today's word: in token of respect or submission. (Pronounce o-bay-sans, accent on second syllable). men arose in obeisance to their leader.” MODERN ETIQUETTE by ROBERTA LEE Q. When a porter on a train carries one’s bag to a seat, what is the proper tip to give? A. Ten to twenty-five cents, according to the distance, the weight of the luggage, and the means of the person giving the tip. Q. TIs it proper for a girl to strike out the “Miss” if using her per- sonal card when sending a gift? A. Yes, if the recipient is an intimate friend. Q. What is the correct formal introduction when presenting a man to a woman? A. “Mrs. Smith, may T present Mr. Allen?” Third Flofilla o “The 1. Which is the longest State and which is the widest? 2. What famous opera occurs in Egypt? 3. What African country’s capital is named for an American { President? 4. What does the word “amen” mean? 5. How many legs has a lobster? ANSWERS: 1. California, the longest; Texas, the widest. 2. “Aida,” by Verdi. 3. Liberia, whose capital is Monrovia, named for James Monroe. 4. “So be it.” 5. Eight. Dr. E. Lannon Kelly .Osteopath Phone Blue 228 for Appointment o A e el 352~ Oldest Bank in Alaska 1891—0ver Half a Century of Banking—1949 r | The B. M. Behrends Bank Safety Depo‘sit Boxes for Rent COMMERCIAI SAVINGS DAVE WILLARD as a paid-up subscriber vo THE DAILY ALASKA | EMPIRE is invited to be our guest THIS EVENING | Present this coupon to the box office of the 1 CAPITOL THEATRE aad receive TWO TICKETS to see: “THE BRIDE GOES WILD" Federal Tax—12¢—Paid by the Theatre PHONE 14—THE BOYAL BLUE CAB 0. { i and an insured cab WILL CALL FOR YOU and RETURN YOU to yq&gome with our compliments. WATCH NBWA@—KW Name May Appear! TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 4949 MOUNT JUNEAU I.OBGE NO SECOND and FOURTH Monday of each month in Scottish Rite Temple / begining at 7:30 p. m. 1\&\9' GLENN O. ABRAHAM, Worshipful Master; JAMES W. LELVERS, Secretary. £) B.F.0.ELKS Meeting ever: Wednesday at 8 P. M. Visiting brothers wel- come. JOSEPH H. SADLIER Exalted Ruler. W. H. BIGGS Secretary. Come North; Join Kodiak Maneuvers| SAN DIEGO, Calif., Feb, 1—(®— Two aircraft carriers 'and four de- stroyers will sail Tuesday from San iego to take part in the Navy's i Alaska. This is the third flotilla leaving rom San Diego for the winter exer- cises in which some 18,000 men will articipate. The ships sailing Tuesday are thr 1rner Boxer, the escort carrier \I Moose Lodge No. 70( Regular Meetings Each Frida . Governor—ARNOLD HILDR: Secretary— WALTER R. HERMANSE] >airoko and the destroyers Floyd! 8. Parks, John R. Craig, Orleck and | Brinkley Bass. The light cruiser Duluth will join the force off Long Beach. L —_—————— ¥VA MARIE FARMER O'NEIL — — Communicate with L. E. Fear, | Bert's Food Cent: 7651 Foothill Blvd, Hayward, California. 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