The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 17, 1949, Page 4

| PR e PAGE FOUR Dtul Alaska Empire ruhushm every evening except Sunday by lhe EMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY Seeond and Main Streets, Juneau, Alaska HELEN TROY MONSEN - - - - DOROTHY TROY LINGO - - WILLIAM R. CARTER - ¥ i President Editor and Manuger Managing Editor ALFRED ZENGER - - - - Business Manager Entered tn the Post Office in Jun UBSCRIPTION RAT! Delivered by carrier Sh Junean and Douglas for S1.50 per month: Alx months, $8.00; one year, $15.00 By mail, postage paid, at the following rates: One vear, in advance, $15.00; six months, in advance, $7.50; one month, in advance, $1.50. Subscribers will confer a favor if they will promptly notify he Business Office of eny failure or irregularity in the delivery A thelr papers. d Class Matter. Telephones: News Office, 602; Business Office, 374. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS The Amooifted Press Is exclushely entitied fo 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 merein NATIONAL REPRESENTATIVES — Alaska Newspapers, 1411 fourth Avenue Blde., Beattle, W COMING HOME TO ROOST A couple of weeks ago in Seattle an Interior De- partment official addressed a group of Seattle busi- nessmen, urging them to invest more Seattle money in Alaska. He outlined several projects in a truly convincing manner and did a good job of it At the conclusion of his talk, he invited questions from his audience. “Don't you believe,” he was asked, “that the atti- tude of the present Alaskan administration and ac- tions taken by the current Legislature have the effect of discouraging Outside capital from investing in Alaska?"” In other words, the questioner went on, for the past few years the present Governor has been very critical of “absentee owners,” yet the Alaska Develop- ment Board and others are trying their best to interest private capital from Outside in investing in Alaska. The answer was a little surprising. “No one in Alaska knows better than Governor Gruening,” the Interior Department official replied, “that the money with which to develop Alaska must come from absentee financiers.” The Governor's at- tacks against absentee owners, he went on, are used because they are popular politically. They get votes. As for the present tax program, business pays taxes PlseWhErE and uhould be expected to pay taxes in Vice-President | | peoples of her own | Alaska. good proposition campaigns. His audience was polite, time was limited and the | quvsunn was dropped. Yet in the minds of many who attended the meet- by attacks 'ing, this was a problem that could not be so easily | dismissed. While it may be very true that mere words, ex- pedient political attacks perhaps have no real effect, it should be remembered that many of the men and women who are elected to the Alaskan Legislature on such arguments feel that they should do some- thing about it. That is when the chickens come home to roost. ession’s whipping boy seems to be the salmon “If it will hurt the salmon industry, pass seems to be the legislative byword at this session. And so it is that political attacks eventually develop into actions. Potential investors see this legislative attack ! against the fishing industry as a chip on the shoulder | which is taken as a warning to stay away. There are many other places to invest money. Why take a chance on Alaska? Oslo- \Ius(‘nw ]‘re:ltv Wouldn't Stop Ru«la 4 (Seattle Times) Plucky Norway is in a tight spot. She is asked to choose between a security pact with other western democratic faith and a non- aggression pact with the Soviets, with whom she has the misfortune to possess a common frontier. There can be no doubt as to where Norway's sym- pathies lie. Liberty and independence are inherent in her history, her institutions and the character of her people. She has not always enjoyed full national freedom, but the democratic spirit has burned fiercely there for centuries, and was never daunted, even dur- ing the dark years of Nazi occupation. Norway, of course. has no thought whatever of aggression against Russia. Neither have the western powers that propose the North Atlantic Security Pact. A non-aggression agreement with Russia would be an idle instrumnet to begin with. Moreover, a non-ag- gression pact to which Russia became a signatory would be meaningless in any case. Russia pays but little attention to pacts of any kind. The Soviet gov- ernment has not needed to employ military aggres- sion as such to envelop, infiltrate and fnially absorb within its own orbit the little nations it has forced behind the iron curtain. But Russia has failed so far in Italy, France and Greece. Unlike these, Norway's borders join Russia’s. But the blandishments of communism have not made much headway there. A communist coup-d'etat would not be as easy to accomplish at Oslo as it was at Prague. Norway has ncothing to gain by entering into any agreement with Russia. Her place is with the peoples of the western world, whose tradition of free- dom she shares and to whom she gave such an inspir- ing example of courage and fortitude during World War II. It is inconceivable that the same spirit should not prevail durinw her present dmlomnuc crisis. No big businessman is scared away from a! made during political | | FEBRUARY 17 Darlene Miller Bill Jorgenson James'Ruotsala Mrs. Ida Dahl Hazel Ferris F. R. Hayward Mrs. Robert Marlow ececesscoess "900ce00cese e e v o s 00 0 e - ' GIRL S(OUT NEWS i Officers were elecied Tuesciav m’-l’ ternoon when Girl Scout Troop &l met in the Methodist Qhurch, They are Alice Ann Johnson, President ‘Lorna Dee MacKinnon and Carl ! carter, Vice- Presidents; Sandral Junge, Secret: George Clark. | Treasurer, and Edith Lavold, Re- ! porter. We sang several songs, accom- panied by Anita Hoefner on the harmonica. 1 The second Girl Scout law—a} Girl Scout is loyal—was studied. We learned that she is faithful to her| family, her friends and to those who ¢ have faith in her. She is true to the things she thinks are right and| rood. She is loyal to those who are trying honestly to make her com- munity and her country a better place in which to live. EDITH LAVOLD, Reporter. The Girl Scout Troop 10 meeting was called to order by President Pati Goforth in the Northern Light Pres- * byterian church social rocom at 4/ o'clock Wednesday afternoon. We talked about plans for our Eilver! tea, then the meeting adjourned. GLADYS UGGEN, Reporter. Brownie Troop No. 8 met after school Tuesday in the Moose Hall. We had a Valentine party. Our takle had four pretty red candles, and hearts were scattered all over the table. Peggy Heath and Carol | Forward brought valentine cookies. We playved cames, and the win-. ners were Peggy Heath and Othilie | Dreibelbis. | Troop leaders are Mrs. Ray Tays or and Mrs. H. Rowland. 1 THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA { Alloway, 20 YEARS AGO FEBRUARY with Herbert Hoover about to take office March 4, from* THE 'EMPIRE 17, 1929 a preview of Alaska politics fcrecast the reappointment of 1929 incumbents, including Gov. George A. Parks. S The classified section carried this plea: Wanted—420 cookies for Wednesday evening. Lady Elks ONLY need apply. In Douglas, a chimney fire in Mike Pusich's place gave the fire boys quite a run, Pursuing “that floating phantom After an exceptionally fast run from Juneau to Sentinel Island, of scrap metal,” the Coast Guard cuiter Chelan found the wreck on the rocky *northeastern shore of Ugamak Island, at the entrance of Unimak Pass. but the blaze was out by the time they arrived. the lighthouse tender Cedar was back at the Government Dock. Just as City Clerk Jack Popejoy is doing now, shepard was calling attention to taxes that would be delinquent if not § getchikan aid by March 1. [ With G. H. Weisel, assistant manager of the Juneau Lumber Mills, Douglas H. Gillette, Alaska Road Commission engineer officer, went to Ketchikan for a conference and study of conditions in Wrangell Maj. Narrows. Mrs. W. J. Pigg returned from Seattle, where she had met her son then going to college in California. Henry, V. A. Paine, Juneau attorney, was going outside on the Queen, on ia business trip. Word was received of the recen of Skagway, to Mr. Charles William V; t marriage, an Buren. Bartley Howard, former member of the Alaska Senate from the Third Divison, left for Seattle. D. M. Bothwell, Juneau broker, went to Seattle for a week or so. in Seattle, :Jean Eleanor Hillery, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Hillery, of the freighter City Clerk H. R. Miss formerly I Hvre S S R CONDITIONS OF WEATHER ALASKA PTS. Weather conditions and temper- at various: ilso on the Pacific Coast, Meridian Time, released by the Weather Bureau, follow: atures % m, 120th Tuneau, Ancherage Buirow Bethel Cordova Dawsen onton Juneau Au pm t ~ THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1949 /MOUNT JUNEAU LODGE NO. 147 SECOND and FOOURTH Monday of each month in Scottish Rite Temple begining at 7:30 p. m. {GLENN O. ABRAHAM, ‘Worshipful Master; |JAMES W. LEIVERS, Secretary. ¢ B.P.0.ELKS Meeting every Wednesday at 8 P. M. Visiting brothers wel- come. JOSEPH H. SADLIER, Exalted Ruler. W. H. BIGGS, . Secretary. Alaska points, av 4:30 and -10—Clear 47— Fog -13—Partly Cloudy ki o m—cmr[- Moose Lodge No. 700 Regular Meetings Each Friday 1 -Snow -38—Clear ; Governor—ARNOLD HILDRE 8—Cloudy | i Secretary— 45—Partly Cloudy || WALTER R. HERMANSEN 6—Partly Cloudy 24—Partly Cloudy : I ———_.’ Kodiak 18— Clem { Kolzebue -20—Partly Cloudy McGrath 30— Clear | Bert's Food Center Nome -3—Partly Cloudy Northway -43—010111" Gn'“""n' h'on": . qi,‘ ’ Petersburg 19—Cloudy Deliveries—10:15 A ‘M’” Portland 49—Rain ¢ I'lb — 400 B. v Prince Georige 0—Cloudy | b : Seattle 42—Partly Cloudy { e il . " sea 1o—cioudy i “The Rexall Store Yakutat 12—Cleaxr | Your Relisble Poarmaciste 2 R 1 i | BUTLER-MAURCO \ P c »ff DRUK 3 i .,|| G CO. l {IDE TABLE . I ! . i . 5 : i o <|| Alaska Music Supply © High tide, 5:20 am, 176 ft. ® Artour M. Uggen, Manager o Low tide, 11:50 am, 00 ft. o} o High tide, 17:55 pm., 141 ft. o 1o8-—Masical instramenis © Low tide, 23:53 pm i and Supplies o Tk e e e one 206 Second and Seward “Clay pigeons were brokea and scattered to the winds by high- | score shooting at the Juneau Gun Club grounds.” cil and Morris. High men were Coun- ANNOUNCEMENT | This is to advise the public that ARCHIE B. BETTS { we have sold the New York Tavern The Juneau Woman’s Club scheduled a meeting at the Forget-Me- Not Tearoom. Weather: High, 38; low, 33; rain —————————~——e—eee—— now. Daily Lessons in English % 1. corpox WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “Every one of the members The Wasllmglon Merry-60-Round By DREW PEARSON org Contiriied from Pag: The only accommoraiions avail- able, Hayden explained, adjoined cffices now held by Senators higher priority. Mrs. Smith didn't press this delicate issue, although some lady reporters are now goad- ing her to do so. Actually, Senator Smith is much more interested in getting her offi- ces painted green. Three other Sen- | ators—Theodore Green of Rhode Island, Warren Magnuson of Wash- ington and Milton Young of North Dakota—had green offices, she told Senator Hayden. He pointed out, however, only their private offices were paiuted green, not their entire suites. a ration of green paint, he agreed, but only for her private office. She objected that this would be dis- criminating against her statf. “Anyhow,” she added, “Senator Green's offices are, too, painted green throughout.” At first Hayden denied this, but later discovered it was true. “Well,” he explained, “Senator Green is an exception because his name ic Green.” COMPROMI VICTORY Mrs. Smith dug deeper into the case, aud reported back that the color bf Senator Green's offices had nothing to do with his name. He had inherited the offices, already painted green, from ex-Senator Da- vid Reed of Pennsylvania. “But it would cost too much money to repair your offices,” Hay- den: protested gently. “We would have to put on two coats.” “I'll pay for the paint.,” offered Mrs. Smith. “It's not only that,” argued the Rules chairman. “The painters charge, too, you know.” ‘Il pay for the painters, too,” Mrs. Smith chirped. “I'll even bring in my own painters if you prefer.” The harassed Senator from Ariz- ona almost wept into the phone: “If we do that,” he moaned, “then everybody else will want to do the same.” Worried over turning down a lady, Senator Hayden called back three times to explain his reasons for refusing her. Finally, she com- piomised by having her private office painted green—upon the in- sistance of her staff, who agreed to leave their rooms a dull cream Note: Mrs. Smith has kept out of it, but there is also backstage debate over whether she is entitled to free beauty-parlor service—since male Senators get free halrcuts. HELPING REAL ESTATE LOBBY Reader's Digest, which gets into more homes and scheols than any other magazine, has now teamed p with the real estate lobby, to fight rent controls. with | that ' Mrs. Smith was entitled to | s hard w wveiieve, but the February issue of the Digest con- tains a conder version of an out-and-out propaganda pamphlet favoring the real estate lobby view- [ peint. Furthermore, publication in | the Reader’s Digest was significant- ly timed to coincide with rent-con- | tro! hearings on Capitol Hill—; though the real estate lobbyists have been passing out the pamph- | lets for several months. | Called “No Vacancies,” this amazing pamphlet doesn’t even deal with rent control in the “United States but in France, where condi- tions are altogether different. The | avther, a French economist named | Bertrand De Jouvenel, describes the ! festering slums and the acute hous- ing shortage in France, then im- plies darkly that rent control is the cause of it all—rather than in- flation. Not only did Reader’s Digest foist this propaganda upon its regular reuders, but the editors actually tried to drum up more readers by bombarding newspaper offices and civic organizations with sales pro- motion urging them to send for re- prints at cost. Without offering to present the other side of the case, the edition iwrote: “‘No Vacancies' describes the tragic eftect of rent control up- {on French housing—and draws a mecral which is particularly pertin- ent at this time in our own coun- try. “Because the Reader’s Digest be- :lieves this article to be timely and important, reprints are being offer- ed at cost to interested individuals and organizations. If you feel that ‘Ne Vacancies’ should be seen by your friends and by leaders of thought in your community, you may obtain as many copies you wish . . . “You may have other ideas for bringing the message of ‘No Vacan- jcies’ to a still wider audience. If so we should be very glad to hear from ycu.” This was the way the Reader’s Digest cooperated with a lobby which was publicly denounced by the President of the United States Note: In condensing “No Vacan- cies,” the Reader’s Digest accurate- ly gave credit to the Foundation for Economic Education which has been a fountainhead of reactionary propaganda. This is the same or- ganization which furnished mater- ial and wrote speeches lor iso tionist Congressmen opposing the Marshall Plan. Most were diehard Republicans defeated in the last election, but who (up to the last) permitted the Foundation for Econ- omic Education to use their free mailing privileges to send out c orful, rainbow-hued booklets. BRASS HATS WON'T BE MELTED The Army tried to gag gagman Jack Carter recently for pulling some rough stuff on the brass hats Substituting for Milton Berle on a television show, Carter had sug- gested that the Army boil down all ite brass into cuspidors. The brass hats didn’t think this ,was at all funny. So, when they, heard Carter would substitute for Berle again at the radio correspon- dents’ dinner attended by President Truman, an Army public-rela officer pleaded with the correspon- dcnts to keep Carter off the pro- —_PAGE WOOD, Rt‘porler.}“k“le pretty good.” Say, “Every one of the members SKATES VERY WELL." e e GORE, JERNBERG | HERE FOR PULP AND PAPER (0. | gram. The Army plained the officer, might say about the brass ha was afraid, ex- of what Carter n front ot the President. The cer even put his request in writ- ing to Albert Werner, president the ticn, Radio Corres; In the end, the show went on Pulp gnj Paper Company. with Carter, but without his Army | jokes. wise He got a n advance. ondents’ Associa- whisper to th Judge Lester O. Gme and Rnberu] Jernterg, Ketchikan attorneys, ar- ~ rived in Jureau Monday to attend hearinzs o: the General Property ill, now before the Senate. The Ketclikan men are in Juneau in t} interests of the Ketchikan Tax - - Fried Chicken and T-bone Steaks | ' —s2.50. Crossword Puzzle | ACROSS 34. Muke belleve ' Griet 37. Sends out I 6. Hike 40. Thing; law 11 Sober 41, East Indian { 12, Large streams timber trees 14. At home 43. Southern 15. Allowance for constellation i shrinkage 44. In addition 12. Oll: suffix 46. Golf mound | 18. Reduce to & 47. Indigo plant pulp 48. Pronoun 20. Crazy 49. Reform 21. Asiatic palm 52 Hebrew letter 23. Silkworm 63. Tell tales 4. An};,lu Saxon Eg :'loln: l slaves 67 Irritable Solution of Yesterday's Puzzl 26 Wager 58. Reddish yellow " "l 21 Ch:nr:'l:m color 2. Mystcal Hindu 6. Measures of 29. Hangings DOWN word paper 31. Lolters . 1. The number 8. Luxuriant €. Merchants 83. Asterighk ten 4. Killer whale 7. Outfit 8. thklrdl city 8 Myselt 0 T am i G T Emm | fl/ rLrl W fl I Wl <N/« Wllfl/flfllfll ] Hlel// o Oldest Ban 1891—0ver Half a Century of Banking—1949 The B. M. Bebrends Bank Safety Boxes for Rent COMMERCIAL B ol B NN Country Club. 19 tf ! tant of the Spanish peninsula Borde wholly . Cereal grase Old card zame Irregular : Suppiicates Three-bagger Auctions Smallest So may it be Outside: comb. form Follower of: suffix Diminutive ending ic! k in Alaska Peposit SAVINGS OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Process. The O as in ON is preferred. OFTEN MISSPELLED: Surreptitious (done by stealth); observe the URR. i SYNONYMS: Prevailing, prevalent, predominant, general, common.‘ | current. | 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: AMBIGUITY; quality of being doubtful, or uncertain, especially as to! meaning. (Place accent on third syllable). “There was not the faintest | ambiguity in his reply.” MODERN ETIQUETTE %prra LEe Q. Are two envelopes proper for ,are they used? A. Yes; the first, a wedding invitation, and how | | or inner, envelope is used as a protection for i the invitation, and remains unsealed and unwritten-upon. The second or outer envelope, is heavier, and large enough to contain the invitation and inner envelope. Q. When a man and a girl meet often, but have never been intro- duced, is it all right for the girl to begin speaking to him? A. Yes, if she is interested, and is courageous enough to run the: risk of making an undesirable acquaintance. I Q. When place cards are not used at an informal dinner, how should ‘ the guests be seated? A. The hostess stands at her place at the foot of the table and designates:the places. LOOK and LEAR A C. GORDON 1. What are the most popular forms of entertainment in the United States? 2. Who was the smallest President of the United States? 3. Which U. S. coin is used the most? 4. Which State capital city has the smallest population? ‘6. How much does on average full-grown ostrich weigh? ANSWERS: Listening to the radio, movies, reading, and attending sports events, in the order named. 2. Jamew Madison, who was less than 5 ft., 4 in. tall, 3. The nickel. 4. Carson City, Nevada. 5. About 300 pounds. - E O S L RN L f EYES EXAMINED LENSES PRESCRIBED DR. D. D. MARQUARDT OPTOMETRIST Second and Franklin PHONE 506 FOR APYOINTMENTS Juneau T m:x SWIBOCK IR as a paid-up subscriver 1o THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE is invited to be our guest THIS EVENL Present this coupon to the box office of the CAPITOL THEATRE and receive TWO TICKETS to see: “"WYOMING" Federal Tax—12c—Paid by the Thegtne PHONE 14—THE BOYAL BLUE CAB C0. and an irsured cab qquLL FO and RETURN 10U to your with our compliments. WATCH THIS SPACE—Your Name May Appear! and therefore will not be respon- Public Accountant sible for obligations after Feb. 1, A 1949 —George and Selma Salo, 21 2t nditer Tax Counseic~ — Simpson Bldg. 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