The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 11, 1949, Page 4

’ PAGE FOUR Daily Alaska Empire bushed every evening except Sunday by the EMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY a, Alasks Second and Main Streets, Jun, TROY MONSEN DOROTHY TROY LINGO Prestident Managing Editor Business Manager Entered fo the Post Office in Juneau as Secovd Class Matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATE! Dellvered by carrier in Juneau and Doul: alx months. $8.00; one ye: By mail, posiae paid. at the fo One year, in advance, $15.00; one month, in advance, $1.50. for $1.50 per monthi $15.00 wing rates: i Bnbscribers will confer a favor if they will promntly notify the Business Office of any faflure or irregularity in the delivery af their papers. Telephones: News Office, 6u2: Business Office, 374. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS The Assoclated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for sepublication of all news dispatches credited to it or not other- Wwise credited in this pape and also the local news published Rerein, NATIONAL REPRESENTATIVES — Alaska Newspapers, 1411 Pourth Avenue Blds. Seattle, Wash. A “HANGOVER TAX” the Federal Government It is high time that consider the 15 per cent transportation tax in. the| light of present day needs. For eight years this “emergency”’ measure has been on the government’s books. Tt has cost the nation’s travelers more than $1,500,000,000. ‘There was reason, back in 1941, for the trans- portation tax. In those days it was wise to discourage travel. But this necessitv has passed. Today the:levy does two things: It places an unjust burden on a part | of our people, and it sends much business which might have stayed at home to foreign lands. Tickets and sleeping space for travelers going to foreign countries are not taxable. Regardless of why he goes or where he goes in his own land, Mr. America must pay 15 cents of every ! tmmpormmn dollar to the government. It is levied Vice-President | six months, in advance, $7.50; | | against the business executive, the salesman, the | person called home to bury a relative jlist as it s | charged against those who go for pleasure alone | The nation’s gigantic travel industry is feeling the ill effects of this tax which already has been in effect twice as long as its World War I predecessor. As | time passes, its weight will hang heavier and heavier | on our economy. Hangovers always are unpleasant; hangover taxes are doubly so. Let Congress repeal this measure—and quickly! Insurance Stamps d (Washington Post) When the Federal old-age insurance system was inaugurated, millions of workers were excluded from j coverage because of the administrative difficulties (involved in the collection of the tax. Consequently, many wage earners most in need of the protection afforded, notably farm laborers and domestic servants, { are still outside the system. Arthur J. Altmeyer, Social | Security Administrator, assures the Ways and Means | Committee that the practical objections to extension of coverage can be met by introducion of a stamp- | bock system especially designed for workers on farms where pay records are not kept and for domestic ser- vants. i establishments, relieving them of a good deal of book | work. This method has | other countries, and there is no reason for supposing | that it would not work here. The employee would be »auppned with 2 book in which his employer each pay- | \ day would place insurance stamvs equal to the amuum | of the required contribution, half the cost of the stamps : being borne by the employee. These books would pro- ‘ndo a record of earnings and contributions for the 'Suunl Security Administration and no special reports | would be required of the employer. i The unjust discrimination practiced against the uninsured would be magnified if Congress were to | increase the present inadequate old-age benefits with- out the recommended extension of coverage. The earners with a form of protection in old age that is | theirs by right and to prevent them from becoming public charges. Americans are deprived of an opportunity to earn this protection by their own contributions the old-age in- surance system will only partially fulfill its purpose. 1 i | The principal cause of widespread unrest is the get in one another’s hair. hours, a didn’t | While filibustering for nearly seven Senator changed his shoes three times but change the subject. The Washlnglon i {ment. The Asso i:x;nr of American Foundry Equip- this columnist has ever seen years of keeping check jobs in ciation’s Washing- Me’ 'GO'RO““‘ ton representative is Malcolm Perhaps the lobby" " Hardgrove, formerly with the Irving > friends are one reason bz Trust Cempany at No. 1 Wall Senator Kilgore's resolution to By DREW PEARSON reet Hardgrove is prebe all lobbying doesn’t even get out of the Judiciary Committee. More about the lobby’s links with not registered as The same system could also be used by small | been succesfully employed in | | purpose of the insurance system is to provide wage | So long as millions of industrious | | fact that the world has become so small that people ! (Continued from Page 1) ing device has just been uncovered. Most Senators and Representa- tives don’t realize it, but one of the most adroitly organized lob- bies in Washington supplies them with an analysis and summary of pending bills every morning. ‘What most of the Congressmen! don't know is that this lobby financed by some of the most pow- erful manufacturers in the USA, which means that big business has|ijipping material to Hardgrove, but) arranged to have its own nutshell digests of pending legislation plac- ed on the desks of Senators and Representatives every morning. Since Congressmen are harrassed and busy people, and since it is extremely difficult to keep up with all legislation, it is a great con- venience to have legislation sum- marized and digested. However, any slanting of those digests or any questions asked in the memos! accompanying the digests can in- fluence the entire Congress on im- portant issues. AMERI EMTERPRISE ASSOCIATION The lobby which concocted - this: extremely clever war of swaying! Congress has adopted the dignified | and all-embracing name of the American Enterprise Asscciation. It also hides behind some high-sound- ing camouflage about being an “education and non-partisan body | tries to be impartial in its work . . . takes no stand either in favor or against proposed legisla- tive measures. Yet its contributors and officers i are some of the most influential biz businessmen in the country, most of whom support the militant National Association of Manufact-) urers and the Foundation icr Eccnomic Education, crusaders against rent control, tion, the national health program and other measures which mlghtl increase corporation taxes. The officers include: Lewis H. Brown, beard chairman of John Mapville; ex-Senator Sinclair Weeks of Massachusetts, president of the United Carr Fastener; Robert L. Lund, past president of NAM; Fred A. Poor, president of Pcor and Company: and N. Baxter Jackscn, president of Chemical Bank and Trust Among the more active are Alfred C. Fuller, founder Fuller Brush Company; Edward H Little, president olive-Peet; Hughston trustees M. McBain. president of Marshall Field; Henry! P. Bristol, president of Bristol- Myers; B. E. Hutchinson, financial chairman of Chrysler; Wilfred S kes, president of Inland Stee! Thomas Drever, president of Amer- jcan Steel Foundries; and Henry D. Sharpe, president of Brown and| Sharpe. This is the group which every morn'ng interprets legislation for some 500 members of Congress. INSIDE JOE MARTIN'S OFFICE fludtu genius of the American *Bntemhn Assoclation is Guy Wy- | att, former advertising sales man- at has done cne of the clv\'er:st: is| {he shrugged. aid to educa-! of ! of Colgate-Palm- | a lobbyist yet he admitted to this column that he visits “twenty to fifty” members of Congress daily. He seems to be about as skillful at getting his ideas across to Con- mress and getting information out of Congressmen as anyone in the 1ame. Among other things Hardgrove pays a Negro in the office of ex- Speaker Joe Martin, named Will- iam Patten, to slip him material. Patten, when interviewed, admitted swore it was stuff Martin was ‘through with.” Patten also ad- mitted taking cash for the job but wouldn't say how much. Other sources indicated that Hardgrove slipped the Negro $20 from time to time and charged it up to his expense account as a “contribution.” This astute back-stage wire-puller also has a close friend in Joe Mar- tin’s office who arranges contacts with other Congressmen. He is the| ex-Speaker’s assistant, Jim Milne. When interviewed, Milne said he Ihardly knew Hardgrove. “I've met him five or six times,” “He came into the office about the first of the year.” “What did he want then? “He wanted us to subscribe for the bill analyses.” Milne had already mentioned the fact that Joe Martin had been taking the lobby’s legislative analy- ses for some time, so Milne was asked why it was nece y to sub- scribe again. “Well,” Milne faltered, “Hard- grove wanted to make sure we re- newed.” “And what did he want when he came to see you the other four} times?” “He wanted to make sure we were getting the legislative anal; | Milne alibied. “You mean he keeps coming’ in Jjust to make sure you're getting the service?” “Yes,” said Martin’s assistant, feebly. i TIES WITH THE REAL ESTATE LOBBY Actually Hardgrove not only in- fluences Cengressional thinking by lanalyzing pending legislation for | Congressmen, but writes speeches Hardgrove coudn't afford to get tied up with the real estate lobby op- enly and discussed running the {show for them through a front | man, Later the idea was drop- ped. The American Enterprise Associa- tion usually plays the Republican side of Congress but it also has been smart enocugh to woo f ds on the Democratic side. 1In fact, ‘for them and furnishes them with | various material | He also has secret ties with the real estate lobby through Eddie Carr, former president of the Na- tional Association of Home Builders, tand used to meet on the q. t. with the real estate committee, made up ot Carr, Waverly Taylor, Clark Daniel and Joe Deckman, all big | builders. i This group wanted Harc ve to thandle “public relations” against the Taft hous bill, rent con- trol, slum clearance, etc. However, ithe Democrats will follow in a later column. PASSENGER TRAFFIC | OF PAA LAST MONTH SHOWED Pan American World Airways arried 2,253 passengers in and out of Alaska last month, a 25 per cent increase over any previous year's figures for March, D. E. McMorran, regional traffic superintendent say: ‘Traffic during the past few months indicates that this will be a year of increased activity in tensive government contract work,” McMorran said. Cargo carried by the Alaska Clip- pers totaled 200 tons, an iucrease 10f 60 per cent over |figures for March. Fresh produce made up the bulk of the shipments. o HOSPITAL NOTES Admitted to St. Ann’s Hospital ;Saturday were Joe E. Maker, baby Evans Peterson, Edward Bower, and Emil Steger, Discharged from St. Ann's were Ottke, Mrs. Robert Prueher, ward Bower, Carl Carnahan. Bessie Watson of Juneau was ad- mitted to the Government Hospital. Ed- Lauson 4-Cycle Alr-cooled Out- lozrds New iwodels. Madsen’s. 41 tf INCREASE | Alaska, partially as a result of ex- last year's| Miss Margaret Burgh, Mrs. Norbert | APRIL 11 Ruth Posey Don Foster Anita McNeil Mrs. Dolly Stewart Frances Tucker Eunice Wanamaker Claire Winslow Herman Jeffreys | ° ° ° ° . . c ° ° . ° . . ALASKA COASTAL " CARRIES 55 ON WEEKEND FLIGHTS I | PMSIORL | Alaska Coastal Airlines’ full schedule of weekend flights brought in 21 passengers and took out 34 \for a total of 55. | For Haines, passengers were wing, Cal Ohlson, Carl Hien- { For Buttler, Mrs. Duncan Wright, Sitka: Dr. Jackmon, D. J Irene Dr. George Mrs. Carl Reed, Carol Dale, Mrs. Johnson. For Tenakee: For Pelican: Barnard, Zollner, V. Rhods, Dermot O'Toole. Marie Cox, Vivian Sanford Lysne, Norman Lysne, Kenneth Wold, K, Raatika- inen, Mrs. Roxcoe Max, Larry Johonnson, Elsie Johonnson, Mrs John Bear, Mrs. Jake Cropley. For Ketchikan: Herbert Starrick, Bertha Bonechea. For Petersburg: John Graf. For Tulsequah: T. Tracy. { For Skagway: H. D. Walter, Morgan W. Reed. For Excursion Inlet: Rose Mary { Hobson, Vivian Barney. i For Hoonah: Andrew Mrs. Ione Chaney. 1 For Gustavus: R. M. Cross. From Skagway: Ulmer. From Tulsequah: G. W. Robin- son and son. | McKiniey, C. A. Carroll, P. From Patterson Bay: CIff| O’'Shea, Earl Holden From Sitka: Lily Hage: n, Jay Cquch, Karl Oho, Gil Rich, Leo Rhodes, Neil Anderson, R. Young, Dave Beattles. 1 ! From Tenakee: Hazel McKinley.| From Hidden Cove: Tom Mc-| | canin, From Wrangell: Bud Whiteside, From Ketchikan: W. M. Chap-| nan, Helen Amos. | From Petersburg: Fred Seidell. From Haines: E. Sheelds MAKE YOUR REGSERVATIONS Early for your Ham or Turkey | { Easter Dinner—$2.50—at the Salmon | i Creek Country Club. 167 51‘ | : | e [ | BID ON PRINTING ! The Territorial Departraent of Labor wishes to receive bids for the printing of 10,000 copies of a safety code, before April 26, 1949. Specifications may be obtained at | j the office of the Department, Val- | entine Building, Juneau, Alaska. | | The Department reserves the right to reject any or all bids. ; HENRY A. BENSON, | Commissioner of Labor. First publication, April 4, 1949. Last puhhcalmn April 18, 1949. ' INVITATION TO BiD The Alaska Department of Health, Juneau, Alaska announces the invi- tation to bid for furnishing com- plete marine insurnce coverage the | M/V HEALTH, as per specmcation';.' for the period June 1, 1949 to M'(yl 30, 1950. Bid forms and specifications may | be obtained in room 203 in the | Territorial Building, Juneau. { Bids will be received until 10:00 jam., April 29, 1949. First publication, April 8, 1949. Last publication, Apnl 22, 1949. ACRUSS 27. Youandl L. Boon com- Behave _ panion Was in a rags . Prohibition 9. Greek letter 12, Shy 13 30 . waterwa; {ind of acid | 14 Arabian Y Lop, er Had merey on Signify garment 15. Pasture 16. City in 42 Assumed an Nebraska attitude Vi 43. At once . Young gomt 4. Insect managed Color . Recline . Unit of work . Cringe | Cereal grass 31, Archilles’ vut- 50 Yawned nerable spot 51, French 26. Carries marshal T T I amm T fums o =T e Crossword Puzzle Solution of Saturday's Puzzle DOWN . Topmost po!nt 1. Horseback Folder game | Shortening | 6. Desides . 01d Dominion state: abbr, | Pushed through rudely . Lowest point Brother of Caln 1gnoble Chills | . Lubricate 21, Was exces- sively fond 23. Funny 24. Sandwich filling . oud French 2 3. 4. 6 1, . Pale . Purpose . Andiron . Indicate . Pulled apart . Gained . Moisten whils roasting . Stitched . Box . Small horse . Pigeon . 'Weary " Treitable Pinch . ¥ixciamation | g | {E DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA | MODERN ETIQUETTE % nerra 1em MONDAY, APRIL 11, 1949 20 YEARS AGO frHE EMPIRE APRIL 11, 1929 Announcement was made by E. G. McMicken that the Admiral Line stcamer Dorothy Alexander would make ten excursions trips to Southeast , Alaska during the summer, the Queen and the Admiral Rogers to make | the other 20 in the full schedule. | | Mrs. Peggy McLeod entered St. Ann's Hospital for an opemtion.l Prizes at the card party given by Women of Mooseheart Legion went to Mrs. Alma Hendrickson, Mrs. D. Meade, Mrs. Lockie Mac- | Kinnon, Mrs. Oscar Obreg, Mrs. Walter Hellan, Mr. and Mrs. W.| B. Kirk, Claude Helgeson, Oscar Harri, Oscar Jensen, E. F. Jewell and Dave Carlson. Departure of the Rev. and Mrs. O. A. Stillman for White Salmon, Wash.,, was greatly regretted. Crowds had thronged the Northern Light Presbyterian Church to hear the Rev. Stillman deliver his last sermon, n Easter Sunday, before his retirement and departyre. J. J. Meherin, well-known merchandise broker, returned from six weeks to the Westward and the Interior. ‘ Bishop P. T. Rowe of the Alaska Division of the Episcopal Church, arrived for a week’s stay before sailing for Cordova. He was the guest of Dean and Mrs. C. E. Rice. Miss Grace Naghel, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Naghel, a senior 1t Cheney Normal School in Washington, had been chosen to do cadet teaching in Seattle. Weather: High, 45; low, 41; clear. (r———————————eeee e Daily Lessons in English %% 1. corpox WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, Say, “It is a fact,” OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Glycerin. Preferred pronunciaticn is | glis-er-in, accent on first syllable, and not glis-er-een. | OFTEN MISSPELLED: Decent; CE. Descent; SCE. SYNONYMS: Oration, address, speech, sermon, discourse, disserta- tion. ‘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: SINUOUS; bending in and out; of a serpentine or wavy form. ‘“Streak- ing the ground with sinuous trace."—Milton. “It is an actual fact.” as all facts are actual and all actualities are facts. Q. Would it be all right for a girl to send a birthday card to a man with whom she works, the relations being friendly, but never having been out with this man? A. Yes. friends. Q. When a girl introduces a young man to another girl, isn't it tactless for this second girl to say, “I am glad to know you. Jane has talked so much about you'? . A. Yes; nothing could be more tactless or embarrassing. Q. How should asparagus be eaten? A. With the fork, the part which is not easily broken off with the fork being left on the plate. he purpose of birthday cards is to extend greetings to [LOOK and LEARN ¥ ¢ corpon | 1. In what year, and by whom, was the cornerstone of the U. S.| Capitol Building laid? Which is the largest plant family? 3. Which State has the tallest State building? 4. What is the most highly-developed sense in most animals? 5. What is the name of the last Book of the Bible? ANSWERS: 1. In 1793, by George Washington. 2. The thistle family, to which belong such flowers as the asters, daisies, goldenrod, and many others. 3. Baton Rouge, La., 450 feet high. 4. The sense of smell. 5. Revelation. EYES EXAMINED LENSES PRESCRIBED DR. D. D. MARGUARDT OPTOMETRIST Second and Franklin * PHONE 506 FOR APPOINTMENTS Juneau Oldest Bank in Alaska 1891—0ver Half a Century of Banking—1949 The B. M. Behrends | A Bank | Safety Deposit Boxes for Rent COMMERCIAL SAVINGS JOHN HOGINS . as a paid-up subscriver 1o THE DAILY ALASEA 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: “EASTER PARADE" Federa) Tax —12c—Paid by the Theatre Phone 14—YELLOW CAB CO—Phone 22 and an irsured cab WILL CALL FOR YOU and RETURN YOU to your home with our compliments. WATCH THIS SPAC E—YO_n'r‘ Name May Appear! CONDITIONS OF WEATHER ALASKA PTS. Weather conditions and teiaper- atures at various Alaska polnts, also on the Pacific Coast, at 4:30 a. m, 120th Meridian Time, and released by the Weather Bureau, Juneau. follow: | IMOUNT JUNEAU. LODGE NO. 14 SECOND and FOURTH Monday of each month PR in Scottish Rite Temple begining at 7:30 p! m. GLENN O. ABRAHAM, NV Worshipful Master; JAMES W. LEIVERS, Secretary. €D B.P.0.ELKS Meeting every Wednesday at 8 P. M. Vistting brothers wel- come. JOSEPH H. SADLIER, Exalted Ruler. W. H. BIGGS, Secretary. BABY GIRL BOR‘\' A 6 pound, 5 ounce baby girl was born to Mr. Sutton of Taku Harkor at |o'clock Saturday afternoon. R AR PGBRNIo 4 < ALASKA POTTERS Are to meet Monday night at 8 in the Club Room. Urgent that all members attend. 66 2t Rae Peterson, President Dr. E. Lannon Kelly Osteopath PHONE BLUE 670 Widest Selection of LIQUORS PHONE 399 “Say It With Flowers” but “SAY IT WITH OURS!” Juneau Florisis PHONE 311 The Erwin Feed Co. 'Office in Case Lot Grocery PHCNE 104 HAY, GRAIN, COAL 1d STORAGE Call EXPERIENCED MEN Alaska JANTTORIAL Service FRED FOLETTE Phone 247 e cm— STEVENS® LADIES’—MISSES' READY-TO-WEAR Seward Street Wear Third The Charles W. 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