The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 3, 1949, Page 4

- Since I'm supposed to be a tough, PAGE FOUR THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, AM' e THURSDAY, MARCH 3,:1949 Daily Alaska Empire P2 P\lbll‘he'.?”!r\'try evening except Sunday by the TRE PRINTING COMPANY Second and Main Streets, Juneau, Alaska EELEN TROY DOROTHY TROY LINGO MONSEN WILLIAM R. CARTER ELMER A. FRIEND ALFRED ZENGER Bills relaxing regulations for licensing dsntisL:I { have been killed twice by the House and now a third bill has been introduced that would allow any dentist | who is an Army veteran with two years in the service | a license without examination President Vice-President Editor and Manager Managing Editor Business Manager The charge has been made that the Dental Exam- | iners are licenses to dentists, not on the | merits of examinations, but to protect their own | established practices, to create their own monopoly. - - - . refusing Entered in the Post Office in Juneau as Second Class Matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATE: Delivered by carrier in Juneau and Dous! 7 $1.50 per monthi six months, $3.00; one year, $15.00 By mail, postage paid. at the following rates: One year, in advance. $15.00; six months, in advance, $7.50; ene month. in advance, $1.50 Subscribers will confer a favor If they will promptly notify e Business Office of sny failure or irregularity in the delivery » their papers Telephones . That is a pretty harsh charge to make against the |Board of Dental Examiners, the members of which |are men of standing in their professions and com- munities, and we doubt that they would be so crass or | selfish as to consider themselves a closed body, set up | to further their own interests. The Associated Press 15 exclushely entitied to the use for | ; $ B republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not other- At a time when regulations for other professions ! wise credited in this paper and also the local news published | and trades are being increased instead of relaxed, | =2 why make it easier to become a practicing dentist in Alaska? Whoever has a toothache wants as good a man as i he can get to fix up that aching tooth . . . not one who san't pass the Territory’s Dental Board. > News Office, 602; Business Office, MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS NATIONAL REPRESENTATIVES — Alaska Newspapers, 1411 Pourth Avenue Bldg.. Beattle, Wash BY UNANIMOU: CONSENT | One request in tne House of Representatives that | received unanimous consent was that of Mr. Franklin, | Tuesday, when he asked that the invocation by the Rev. Walter A. Soboleff be spread upon the Journal. Here it with our approval, spread upon the editorial page of The Empire: O Great God of the Universe, Thou are perfect and we are willing to admit our sins. In Thy power is our strength from day to day. In Thy wisdom, | look upon us with love and let us learn from Thee At a time when many States are calling for in- | what laws to make and what laws and memorials to creased proficiency and ability among applicants for | tgple indefinitely. Let us be grateful in these acts. dental licenses, some members of Alaska’s House of | et us know what to say and how to say it, and to be Representatives are asking that the Territory's Board | sjlent when we have nothing worth while to offer. of Dental Examiners be nullified, that anyone be ad- | Grant us conduct without reproach for the rest mitted to the practice of dentistry who has a license | of this session, and for all time. We pray in the in one of the States. There is no reciprocity involved, 1 Master's Name. Amen. Alaskan dentist cannot practice in el and an other | CURSE OF INDESTRUCTIBILITY is, ATTACK ON DENTAL BOARD States without taking examinations from State boards. Alaska has maintained, through many years, a high standard of dentistry, due largely to carefu! ex- | amination by the Board of Dental Examiners. A bill such as now before the House would invite quacks, members of the profession who are not recog- nized by the American Dental Association, men who, because of their incompetence have to move from one %own to another as their patients finally become aware of their faulty work. It is said that this bill is an endeavor I part of some of the legislators, to grind the axe for To enterprising inventors we suggest that they one disgruntled dentist who has failed to pass the would find a ready market for some gadget that would Dental Board. ;break the unbreakable. After all, the word “atom” There must be some reason other than meets| means “unbreakable” and’it was split. Perhaps even | the eye, why this bill keeps being revived | unbreakable records can yield to science and despair. | Impermanence is not always a tragedy. Perma- I nence is not always a blessing. For example, take some of those records they are | making for children these days. They won't break. Apparently they won't wear out. But parents will. | The children love them and play them all day long. | "nmy drive the parents, particularly the mothers who | on the |are around him all day long, nearly mad. | g thick-skinned newspaperman, I did | just ordinary jolks. I'd like to not tell them that T was sitting at | write about some of them, tell what home listening to their ring and |they're doing, and spread the word | Brotherhood. ving to be brave enough not to |about the Servants of answer it. o — After that the phone just kem‘ on ringing, and has kept on ringing (OUR'I' MAR"Al | every day since. I haven't wrilten\ 1] ‘all those letters thanking the iolks,‘ me. For 1 did a very revolutionary | Who werenice tome,andI haven't NAvv IH R o w “ | L4 OUT, HIGH COURT fhe Washinglon Merry-Go-Round By DREW PEARSON ‘Contirued from Page Oue) | thing. I turned off the telephone. ‘(aken mel vacation with Mrs. P'j Mrs. P. has always talked about |In fact, I'm a little surprised that | what would happen if I turned off | She's still speaking to me. the phone—her idea being that| “Of course,” 1 was mean enough | nothing weuld happen at all. The ! to tell her, “it's all your fault. You | world, she said, would go on just elected him. You were the one who | 2s usual, and nobody would miss | was rooting for him. And if he me, nor I them | disrupts our evening and our vaca- So I told Ler I was going to |tion, then it’s your fault, not mine. settle down for a nice long evening | After all, you were the one who with her, wasn't even going to look |Put him in the White House. at my desk, and just to show that | I really meant business, I turned | off the phone. | When I was a youngster I had a Of course, I didn" turn off lhe\i'"—"f named Edwin Tomlinson who phone in the kitchen—and I'm not | used to hand out a lot of advice quite sure whether this was by ac-|Which I didn't pay much attention cident or by design. With the phone | to then, but which has proved valu- turned off upstairs, you can sml‘able since. One thing he advised barely hear the phone in the kitch- |Was: “If someone hands you a | lemon, make it into lemonade.” 3 WASHINGTON, March 3—®— The Supreme Court has thrown ouf |a Navy court martial conviction of | Harold E. Hirshberg on a charge! of striking two fellow prisoners in Japanese prison camps. Hirshberg was sentenced to ien months’ confinement, to reduction from chief signalman to the rating| of apprentice seaman, and to dis- honorable discharge. Hirshberg's appeal to the Supreme Court questioned the authority of the Navy court to try him. He was . honorakly discharged after his re- SR sn sounds faint and | nat's what T'd like to do with |tumn from the Orient to New York. not answerirg it. the lemon President Truman hand- |He re-enlisted the next day. Eleven P Y | ed me the other night. I don't see imonths later he was served with any reason why the initials “S. O. iLhe charges on which he was tried HARRY TRUMAN SPEAKS | B." should necessarily stand for | by court martial. Well, anyway. having turned off ‘what Mr. Truman meant them to| The Supremé Court ruledq that the phone, I began to tell Mrs. | mean. The meaning of any word | Hirshberg obviously could not have P. how I had reformed, wasn't|is what's in people’s minds. Some |been court martialed if he had not going to work so hard and how we ‘English words are fighting terms |re-enlisted. would go away for a little trip. We | in England though they have an | even began to figure out where we | innocent meaning here. When I were going. {was in Australia some years ago I| Everything was lovely, and we |was shocked to hear an Australian even had one solid uninterrupted |girl use a word which never would MR. TRUMAN'S LEMON Lauson new models at F. Supply. Air-cooled ©Outboards, | Madsen’s C. and 24 tf Juneau Airport Kotzebue | Seattle :$12,799, | House Judiciary Committee that in | farms. 20 YEARS AGO %3 EMPIRE MARCH)\3, 1929 Mr. and Mrs. B. M Behrends, already away from Juneau for two months, had returned from New York to San Francisco via the Panama MARCH 3 3 Canal Walstein Smith Homer" Nordling Mrs. R. Linguist Jack McDaniel, Jr. Signa O. Fowler Ed Shaffer, Jr. Mason Beach Raymond Beach Tony Del Santo Among subjects to come before the Ninth Legislature opening the ‘rnIlu\vmu day were governmental reorganization, involving the creation of at least one new Territorial office; larger pensions, tax revision and “a whole horde of proposals involving appropriations ’ There had been comparatively little planning for organizing either 'the Senate or House, as almost half the Legislature did not arrive until Ivh(\ eve of the session opening. Three Representatives were not expected {in time for the opening day—A. H. Ziegler, J. N. McCain and Joe Mc- ! Donald, of the First, Third and Fourth Divisions, respectively. Wallis George, President of the Juneau Cold Storage, announced | lthat a program for proposed enlargement of the local plant would be ‘;m-wmsd at the coming stockholders’ meeting. CONDITIONS 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 teleased by the Weather Bureau, Juneau, follow: g | Announcement was made of newly elected officers of the Martha | \ Society of the Northern Light Presbyterian Church at a meeting for which Mrs. C. W. Hawkesworth and Mrs. Robert Raven were hostesses Mrs. M. S. Whittier was re-elected President and other officers were Mrs. B. Clark, Mrs. Katherine Hooker, Mrs. Ray Taylor and Mrs. ! Grover C. Winn, Three great snowslides, one of which swept a car off the Thane road and another that completely dammed Gold Creek for several hours, joccurred during the previous two nights. |Kiloh, Jr., had a narrow escape when a mass of snow, ice, debris and Two were in Gold Creek. Alex | NEW TAX . FORCETO | BE HIRED Treasury Asks for 7,0001 Men But House Com- mittee Says 1500 ' WASHINGTON, March ing workers were approved today by { the House Appropriations commit- | tee. The Treasury Lac asked for 7,000 saying they were needed: to avert the “threat of a weakening in tax- power morale.” But the commiitee thought other- wise and said that to add 7,000 em- ployees would be to approach Lhe‘ “point of diminishing returns” inl tax collections. (Committee records show that chn' addition of 1,500 enforcement! workers would give the internal reve- | nue bureau about 50,000 employees { in all) | | | Postage Rate Hike At the same time, the committee 33— Snow | Tock blocked the road immediately ahead of his car. He abandbned it -12—Blowing Snow ]‘:md ran out of the danger zone, but his automobile was either covered 31—Fog |deeply by the slide or carried out into Gastineau Channel. 33—Snow —Missing 26—Clear 24—Cloudy —Missing 17—Clear 33—Snow 39—F 36—Rain 21—Snow 26—Snow 33—Snow —Missing 34-—Fog 41—Fog 22—Clear 40-~Clear 37—Rain 28—Cloudy 32—Snow | Anchorage Barrow Bethel Cordova Dawsorr Edmonton Fairbanks Haines Havre | Dr. W. W. Council was high in the Juneau Gun Club shoot, followed |by Rep. E. R. Tarwater of Anchorage, Truesdale, Morris, Radde, Kirk, ! Pulver, Baldwin, Simpson and McNaughton. ‘} In Douglas, Mr. and Mrs | party. Prizes went to Miss Lucile Pepoon, Mrs. W. E. Cahill, Alex Dun- (ham and K. W. Chapman. H Weather: High, 39; low, 37; rain. . R. Ketchikan Kodiak —_———om—m—m-m—«m _—,—————e—e—e l Daily Lessons in English McGrath . Neme Nerthway Petersburg Portland Prince George by W. L. GORDON I WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “Being as we are going “umorraw." Say, “INASMUCH AS (or, SINCE) we are going tomorrow.” Sitka OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Illinois. Preferred pronunciation is ‘Whitehorse Yakutat last syllable. e ——— OFTEN MISSPELLED: Violoncello; observe the LON, though VIO- LIN is LIN. i SYNONYMS: Liberal, generous, bountiful, munificent. ORD STUDY: “Use a word three times and it is yours.” Let us ARMY NOISE MAY increase our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Today's word: ‘RECTITUDE: rightness of principal or practice; integrity. “Never do BE UP T0 COURTS -— | MODERN ETIQUETTE WIFElaring SauPbpIA Ttk 10 kit ! Q. Should the bride and hridegro‘om wait to receive congratulations kittens has been ‘approved by, the |after the ceremony at a church wedding? House. It now ‘goes to the Srhate.i A. No, except from the minister. They should leave immediately Fred L. Koesing of Anchorage, for the bride's home, or the place where the reception is to be. estimated his s at $7,070, while Q. When a man is smokihg a cigar, meets a woman acquaintance Hilda Links and E. J. Ohman of on the street, and turns to walk with her, should he continue smoking Anchorage estimated their loss at jthe cigar? ‘hef A. No; the courteous thing to do is to throw away the cigar, or !merely hold it between the fingers. the spring of ‘1941, shortly after Q. When at the dinner table, is it all right to rest the hands on the young mink were born, Army the table when they are not in use? airplanes engaged in maneuvers A. No. When the hands are not in use, the only place for them over Anchorage and the two mink 'is in the lap. by ROBERTA LEE WASHINGTON, March Legislation to authorize ederal courts to determine the value of The mink-farm owners told LOOK and LEARN ’j{{ C. GORDON 1. Which country was the first to grant women the right to vote? 2. Who were the candidates in the closest Presidential race in U. S. history. 3. The unusual ncise, they said, used the old mink to kill the kittens and ruined their business. The owners criginally filed claims | for larger amounts with the Army. They wcre not allowed on the ground they had not been filed within one year. HOCKEY GAMES | Final scores of games played in the Pacific Coast Hockey Leazue| last night are: San Francisco 7; San Diego 2. New Westminster 5; Vancouver 4. Los Angeles 6; Fresno 3 - - e and T-Lone Steaks 19 tf ¢ What part of a dollar is a mill? What are the three largest cities of South America? What fish is the chief source of caviar? ANSWERS: New Zealand, in 1893. Rutherford B. Hayes and Samuel Tilden, in 1876. One-thousandth. Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires, and Sao Paulo. Sturgeon. Fried Chick —S$2.50. Country Club. hour together, when suddenly the;be tolerated in polite society here. telephene in the kitchen began to | But it meant nothing there ving. I was very brave. I ignored| So words and their abbreviations it. It rang and rang, but it didn’t |are all a matter of education, cus- faze me at all. I just pretended |tom and general usa And I am | not to hear. | sure Mr. Truman is good enough | Finally the phone stopped, but sport to join me in putting a new about 30 minutes later it rang |interpretation on the initials “S. again. Though it was way off mio_ B."—which man much better the kitchen, nevertheless it had a | mean Servants Of Brotherhood.” certain air of persistency. Finally When Harry Truman was a farm I could resist no longer. I picked |boy driving mules in Missouri, I up the receiver don’'t doubt that he needed some The United Press was calling to \preny strong language. I have nev- tell me that President Truman had |er driven mules in Missouri, but I sounded off at a dinner at the |had 100 Missouri mules and 100 Al- Reserve Officers’ Asscciation, calling | banian mule-drivers under my com- | me an s. 0. b. They wanted my {mand in Yugoslavia once; and comment. since the Albanians couldn't under- I told them I was spending stand Missourian and the mules | quiet evening with my wife, anc |couldn’t understand Alt an, and that if Harry Truman wanted tc |since the Serbian corporal couldn't spend his evenings away from his | understand either, T had 1o act as wife making speeches about other | interpreter. people that was his privilege. 1| So, aleng with Harry Truman didu't see why I should comment. |am familiar with mule-drivers But, said the United Press, other | guage. speakers at the dinner specifically However, neither Harry nor I are mentioned you and the President’s mule-drivers any more. We have | remarks definitely were directed at graduated, I hope, to bigzer and you. better things. Therefore, I am get- So, in ting up an engraved “Servants Of mented Brotherhood” membership certifi- cate, and perhaps some other folks will join me in picking out people n their neighborhcod or ny else who have really sacri; i for their fellow men. There are all sorts of people in this country who are working hard at democracy, and at being good ghbors and at doing things for |others—not necessarily big 33, Vocalist 84. Assumed name Unite ACROSS . Small weight . Bitter vetch . Mineral springs Scarce 3. Nevertheless K . Top cards . Not generally intelligible . Fusible opaque Silkworm . Operatic sovrano . Purple seaweed . That which is held . Ornamental v % . A single time English letter Command Small fish . African arrow poison . One under le 4 frican . Notable period . Nerve network 2 I lan- a weak moment, I com- THE TELEPHONE CONTINUES ‘Then I remembered that other long persistent telephone ring: so since the fat was in the fire, I called up the Associated Press “We've just been trying to get you, they said, “but you were out.” “Oh,” I replied. shots, i Crossword Puzzle Oldest Bank in Alaska 1891—0ver Half a Century of Banking—1949 The B. M. Behrends Bank Safety Deposit Boxes for Rent COMMERCIAL SAVINGS DOWN . Play 2. American black snake 3. EARLE HUNTER as a paid-up subscriver 1o 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: “LOVE FROM A STRANGER" Federal Tax—12c—Paid by the Theatre Phone 14—YELLOW CAB CO—Phone 22 and an insured cab WILL CALL FOR YOU and RETURN YOU to your home with our compliments. WATCH THIS SPACE—Your Name May Appear! 7. End . Depressed by solitude olor 30. Ingredient of varnish . Wing Ouiet itle of address a 1ine ame nglish cotng 29. 1scape by artifice Remount . Goddess of peace . Biblical character 5. Declare . Part of an ear of cgrn . Town in Pennsylyania . Ocean Guerin entertained at a bridge | ‘11-i»noi. first and second I's as in IT, OI as in OIL, principal accent on | concerning the rectitude of which you have a doubt."—P’Hny.‘ called for a hike in postage rates,; | especially those on publications un-? ]der second class permits. | The committee’s action was in a| 1$3,072,817,903 bill making annual| | direct appropriations to the treas-| ury and the postoffice departments | for the year starting next July 1. | In addition, the committee ap-| proved so-called permanent and; ncontrollable appropriations for the | | teasury department amounting to} estimated $8,260,809,683. These include interest on the public debt jand\such items as the old-age and | isurviyors' insurance fund and the iemployment trust fund administered by the treasury. 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