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

"AGE FOUR venine except Su PRINTING COM ELMER A. FRIE: ALFRED ZENGE! Entered in the But some of wagon now for st merely lip service y by the ¥ Alaska I President | Vice-president | Managing Editor | . v B ss Manager | _Because they which they hope ond Class Matter ATES v Delivered by carrier in Jun six months, $8.0 Sttice. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED ALAS Now we know we are li Alaska. Those who have been readi Press dispatches in The Empire duri eral days are receiving a great education as to resource | possibilities. The reports issued have been full of data, some | " 0oL P oem Cit establishes as a privileged new, some old. We have been hearing about Lhcse‘“as eldorlv.low-mr‘mne veterans who incurred no : ility w:hahocver as a result of their military "1t is a crude handout which discredits the have been telling us all about it. Action speaks stronger | yeterans’ organizations that lobbied for it so ef-| than the hundreds of words spoken. If the resources | fectively and the members of the House who voted are here, let us get started on them—now. things for many 's. Now let instead of talk and this is just a h And while population is needed, {ion must be housed, but we must wait and see just | political suicide; and we hope that th what the various housing investigation and with what results. las for €150 per month; | GREAT LAND They will acc | hood in order to ice, $750; | fare of Alaka is $15.00 } | that the voters o | about who to sen | capital. We shall see! PRESS | e for | »ublished | Newspapers, 1411 | The veterans' | set an unwise pr would establish more firmly than ever a privileged jclass in this demo | financial burden o | Ving regulations, th termining whether ;ntcwd disability a | passed the House, [ i i respective of “em ng in a great land— |restriction, the new pension proposals would have nation it, the ng the Associated | €St without ing the past sev- | Vears | 000,000. | bill is thoroughly us do something | di int to those who | service. the new popula- |tious that to vot 1s will bring forth | show more courage | shown by 226 Democrats an Alaska is a great land, no doubt, but at that, House. there is still something lacking. SOUND ADVICE According to a statement just is: eral Reserve Board, there’s nothing prosperity picture that a little salesmanship wouldn't remedy. This hint to businessmen is p: published during the past two days The report indicates that the buying public is still quite able to buy—and willing—but it to want goods at the right price. Matter of Stateho (Ketchikan News) Let’s get one thing straight! There is no magic wand in statehood which will uddenly flower into general prosper 4 Most America sued by the Fed- | wrong with the smiling watchers. President starting everyone having a art of a survey | by the Board. ! is also beginning | friend of ours. od ball can no longer alone, arm raised, him, whisper fears and hates. T ity. in America, arned the right to | have statehood. To have distinct advantage Why the sudden change? sentatives from the Territory Well, if and when statehood comes, they may find | | mittee was bad enough, but as it passed the House | ! of Representatives it is very much worse. The principal fight in the House recently revolved around the question of “employability.” Quite apart from the fantastic cost the pension | for it so irresponsibly. One Picture—Two Views (Milwaukee Journal) photograph of President Truman throwing out v.he‘ first ball of the opening game of the baseball seasc‘n in Washington. The ball had just left Mr. leumans :1 e | hand, the arm was still raised, the presidential face, 946 the 3 was tense with action. But read how the Communist propagandists in Europe are using this picture, as told by a newspaper They have painted out the background. The base- the Communists, against an unseen mob of citizens that he clearly mbolized by a warmongering President | standing against the peace-loving people. ’ FRIDAY, JUNE 17,:1949 a vole in Congerss will be a the ores most active in.the band- atehood are the ones who have given to the cause heretofore. have the Territorial machines by | to control the Senators and Repre- ept any kind of emasculated state- | try and keep control. The real wel- | a secondary consideration. f Alaska may have their own ideas | d as representatives to the Nm.ionnl‘! | A Bad Bill (New York Times) pension bill as reported from com- | 1t would | ecedent in veterans' legislation; it | cracy; it would impose a crushing n future generations. | Under exist- is factor must be considered in de- veterans who have no service-con- re eligible for pensions.. But as it the bill would grant pensions ir- nployability.” Even with such a $8,700,000,000 over the next fifty the cost is estimated at $65,000,- bad in principle. Ignoring the We think the theory is ficti- e against a veterans' bill means e Senate will in dealing with this issue than was d 138 Republicans in the ns will recall vaguely the recent | Around the President stood; It was the annual picture—the off another baseball season—with b good time. | be seen. The President is standing face hard and strained. It shows defending himself t shows, they say, the great division ' Statehood will help. We have e: The Washington Merry-Go-l{qud By DREW PEARSON (Continued from Page 1} ward Ewen, to Guam. Admiral| Ewen had served only cne year of | a three-year tour of duty, but sud- | denly he was whisked off to a dis-| tant island, far fr the strong| arm of a congressional subpoena. The Vinson committee is also ex-| pected to apply the microscope to| the mcst powerful backstage lobby- ing organization ever to buttonhole Cengressmen for a government bur- eau the Navy League. Frank Hecht, president of the Navy Lea- gue, has now become so vxtuperuuvc! in comparing Secretary Johnson w; European dictators, that good-na- tured Bob Fleming, president of/ Washington's Riggs National Bank, is all set to resign as treasurer of the Navy League. As treasurer! of the G.OP. congressional com- | mittee last year, Fleming helped | raise arcund a million dollars for | Dewey, and has no love for the ad- ministration. But he hasn't been able to stomach the Navy League| diatribes. The Navy League has now taken, over the admirals’ crusade against | the bill kefore Congress tightening unification. What the admirals say vrivately, the Navy League now says for them publicly. HISTORY REPEATS | Harry Truman isn't the first| President to have trouble with the; Navy League. Herbert Hoover also had his headaches. Just 17 years| ago he got into such a mudslinging | duel with the Navy League that! the latter ended up charging the Presidentof the United States with “abysmal ignorance.” Attemping to practice economy, Hoover had ordered the admirals to cut their 1933 budget Instead the admirals upped it by $40,000,000 and Hcover sent the budget back with a demand that is be reduced $20,000,000 under 1932 Whereupon the Navy League, act- | ing as a megaphone for the adm als, hurled the “abysmal ignorance” charge at Hoover just as the same Na League is now calling Secre- tary Johnson a dictator. Most folks have forgotten the origin of the Navy League—which shouldn't be forgotfen. For its fcunders read like a meeting of metalliurgical magnates. They in- clude: Charles M. Schwab, Bethle- hem Steel Corporation; J. Pierpont Morgan, United States Steel Cor- pcration and owner of a controlling interest in the Carnegie Steel Com- pany; Col. R. M. Thompson, Inter- | inghouse, Westinghouse Electric Co.; | Steel Company. | not want naval limitation to suc- | national Nickel Combpany; B. F.| | Tracy, attorney for the Carnegie | Steel and Harvey Steel Companies, | and director of the Tennessee Coal | and Iron Company; George West- | | Clement A. Griscom, director, the; Cramp Ship and Engine Company, | the Electric Boat Company and the | United States Steel Corporation, S. S. Palmer, Lackawana Steel Co. eighteen members of the Midvale ! STEEL COMPANIES WANT BIG NAVY There is a good reason why these gentlemen and their successors should be the most powerful, un- scrupulous, and consistently irre- pressible propagandizers for a big navy. It pays. The bigger the Navy, the more steel plates, the' more generators, the more copper | and nickel these gentlemen will sell | to Uncle Sam, [ Members of the Navy League| have been active and brazenly ad- mitted their activity in sabotaging American diplomats at international conferences. It was Charley Schwab of Bethlehem Steel and assoclates who paid $25,000 to “Big Bass Drum” Shearer to frustrate the Ge- neva Naval Conference. The steel | and shipbuilding companies just did | | seed. Dividends, for them, came | ahead of their country's efforts for peace. At Geneva, Shearer would have got nowhere if he had not had the all-to-eager cooperation of several U. S. naval officers sent to Geneva to work for naval limitation. In-| stead, they did the opposite. One of Shearer’s most active nav- al collaborators was Adm. Joseph M. Reeves, later exposed as such be- ‘rore the Senate Naval Affairs com- j mittee. During the balance of the Hocver economy drive, the bewhisi- ‘crcd Reeves was kept in simulated disgrace. But FDR was the admir- al's giit from heaven, and under | Roosevelt, Reeves was actually re- y Warded for his lobbying by promo- | | tion to be commander-in-chief of the fleet. | It may be a surprise to President | | Truman and Louie Johnson to find the Navy League now fronting fur- | lously for the admirals. But it | surprises no newspaperman who has watched the admirals work. { “You must take off your coat and 20 to werk helping to save the sit- uation,” Navy League Presldenti‘ | views before Congress. The right of to your Congressmen and Senators. | Go to Washington; telephone or, write your Representatives. Ask for copies of meaterial to send your friends. Help arrange for speakers before various groups; tell the story. Speak up for America and the U. S. Navy.” There is nothing wrong with pre- senting pro-navy or anti-navy petition is guaranteed by the con- stitution. However, it is equally| impertant that the public know who is behind all the propaganda. It is largely either the admirals themselves or their friends who, in many cases, profit from Navy con- tracts. Note—The inescapable fact is that either you have unification or you don’t. And you can't have it with one branch of the service waging a death battle against its commander. ATTENTION TROLLERS See Burrows Welding Co. Stabilizers. for 23 6t FATHERS’ DAY SUNDAY DINNER Baked Virginia Ham, Roast Tur- key, $2.50; children’s plate $1.50, av PASTOR ZUMWALT it Gt ol 20 YEARS AGO L2ie marnra JUNE 17, 1929 Snow-burned and tired, but enthusiastic over the results of geo- logical investigations and discoveries, the Rev. Bernard R. Hubbard, S. J., head of the Geology Department of the University of Santa Clara, returned from a survey trip into the Twin Glacier region. Accompanied by two student companions, Charles Bartlett and Frank Klatt, the Rev. Hubbard joined a Coast and Geodetic Survey party headed by Lt. W. B. Scaife, for the four-day expedition. After a day's rest, he planned to tackle Twin Glacier Mountain with the survey party. JUNE 17 George F. Shaw, Jr. Becky Mize Edna Taggart Mrs. Carl J. Johnson Jennie Brady. Mrs. Walter Dahl Addie Irvin Douglas took its six straight ball game, winning from the Elks | Paul Warren ' 13 to 14 on the Island grounds. e®0c0e0co0ecececae LR S «Old Man Sol certainly had his loving arms around Old Lady Weather,” said Ben Leaming, veteran steward of the Elks' Club, re- ‘counung the annual Elks’ picnic the previous day. The weather or something brought out a record attendance of 490 men, women and fchildrcn for the jaunt to Marmion Island, requiring three trips by the | Alua to take the crowd. Planning for the Douglas Fourth of July celebration was following RETURNS; ABSENT ] NEAR[Y 3 Mo"IHs the lines of previous ones. Heading the dommittee on program and *parade were Mrs. Charles Sey, Mrs. Roberta Fraser, Mrs. J. R. Langseth, and M. TR | Harold McConnell and James Edmiston. On the sports committee were recently returned to Juneau after an absence of nearly three months, | Jack Langseth, Arne Shudshift, Nels Anderson, Mike Pusich, Robert Mrs. Zumwalt spent the winter in; Fraser, Sam Devon, Mrs. Felix Gray and Mrs. A. R. Edwards. Other the states helping care for her | committee members were A. J. Balog and Guy Smith. aged father, who is a retired Sev-| enth-day Adventist minister. She | Mrs. M. Wernecke and her daughter were northbound on the Louise acccmpanied Pastor Zumwalt on his ‘ going to their home in Mayo, where her husband was connected with the trip to the churches of the interior. | Bradley interests. They returned by way of Seward,l arriving here on the Baranof. While in the states Pastor Zum- Pastor | After receiving his degree from the Sch,ool of Electrical Engineering walt attended a committee meeting |t Oregon State College, Ralph W. Mize, son of Mr. and Mrs. R. C. of the North Pacific Union Con-|Mize, returned to Juneau to take a position with the Alaska Electric ference of Seventh-day Adventists Light and Power Company. at Portland, Oregon, then journeyed | by train to Washington, D. C‘ where the denominational head- | quarters are located. Weather: High, 63; low, 50; rain. He arrived there in time to see the Japanese —_———— —————————— cherry trees in bloom. His trip to; Daily Lessons in English %% 1. corpon ‘Washington was occasioned by a convention of all the presidents of |\ the conferences of North America.| WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, ‘The idea is practically | This meeting was attendad by & | worthless.” Say, “The idea is ALMOST worthless.” PRACTICAL means hundred or more officials of the| capable of being turned to use. e e "m_‘li OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Finite. Pronounce both I's as in LIE, idents’ council, e spring council| ... eyt syllable. ?;t:ff,a‘f:fi:z;fi‘:’;‘fgfssiez’ Sev-| " OFTEN MISSPELLED: Soothe; note the E. Smooth (verb) no E. Pastor Zumwalt says that during SYNONYMS: Begin, start, commence, originate, initiate, institute, introduce, inaugurate. 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: INEVITABLE; incapable of being avoided. “There is no such thing as an inevitable war. If war comes it will be from failure of human wisdom."—Bonar Law. —_—m—m— MODERN ETIQUETTE % ROBERTA LEE In nearly every country of the| Q. Should a guest who has taken a package of cigarettes from her world doors are opening wide to the | handbag leave them on her hostess’ table when she leaves, or pick them preaching of the Protestant faith.!up and put them back into her bag? One of the marvels of modern mis- | A. There is no reason why she need leave them; they're her prop- sions is the radio. erty. : In Japan, Philippines, India, and Q. If a woman is ill, may she request a man to give his seat to her the isl_ands‘ of the Pacific, the spon- | ;1\ o streetcar or bus? sorssfing dp sosiliey tapceein A. Yes; but never under any other circumstances. glh:(:e]‘;s;;ngg;hmfii d:?;;:dw?; gm,Q. Should a man ever show the letters he has received from a the report of the wonderful progress the gospel is making were reports A. Never. He should not even mention them to his most intimate friends. 4 of dark spots in the mission pro- gram. Ohinn 45 Ta8E; DElHE el e e T T L behind the Iron Curtain. Behind this curtin little is known of condi- tions, says Pastor Zumwalt. 1. What was the optical instrument of old-fashioned parlors, which blended two pictures into one image to give the impression of depth? 2. What country is often referred to as “The Eldorado of the North”? 3. What is an isosceles triangle? 4. What is the meaning of the medical word “paranoia”? 5. What man’s name was given to a military belt supported by a strap over the shoulder? ANSWERS: The stereoscope. Alaska. A triangle having two equal sides. Insanity. Sam Browne. Conference ted nearly every country of the world and thus had a first hand report to render. Those visiting Central and Northern Eu- rope reported terrible conditions of starvation and privation. Conditions are not asybad as at the close of the war, still there are thousands of homeless Starving people. But in the midst of this suffering the gospel is being received as never before. | ® ® o e 0 0 C 00 TIDE TABLE JUNE 18 Low tide, 1:26 am, 52 ft. High tide, 7:08 am, 117 ft. Low tide, 13:26 p.m,, 3.2 ft. High tide, 20:09 p.m., 133 ft. METAPHYSICAL GROUP WILL MEET TONIGHT o o o 1. 2. All interested persons are invited to attend the weekly meeting of the Metaphysical Group tonight. The study group will meet at its head- quarters, 113 Third Street, at 8 o’clock. Salmon Creek Country Club. 24 2t Oldest Bank in Alaska SCHWINN BIKES at MALSEN 32. Above 34. Season 35. Ixcept 36. Peruse again 38, Kind of dog 40, Weaken 41. Shelter 42. Conjunction 44. In general favor 48. About 50. Mature 62. Town in Penn- sylvania Unoccupied The southwest wind Greek letter Cut of meat Permits Bush ACROSS Minced dish Shake Pertaining to grand- parents . Malarial fever . Sheep . Assert to be talse . Couch . Ribbed fabric 3. 66. 56. 5T, 58, 59, 60, . Period preced ing Easter . Short poem . Daub . Solid water 9. June bug Whereas us . Rule of action Epic poem Hecht has frantically written to thousands of people. “You must | Join our crusade. By joining to de- | teat the efforts now being made to emasculate our Navy and jeopardize | our country’s safety you can help | “Stir up interest in your locality,” ‘Hecht exhorts. “Talk to your local editor. Write cards or letters to | those on your Christmas list. 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Old musical EE 7 E W/ i W . Burden . Medley . Swamps . Caress Small cup used SEABEES OF NAVY 'BEAT OUT ESKIMOS IN ICE HARVESTING SEATTLE, June 17. —P— Navy Seabees have beaten the northern- most Alaskan Eskimos at their own game—putting in the annual ice supply. 5 Since time immemorial, the Eski- mos have “harvested” ice as a source of their winter water supply at Point Barrow. They cut-it with'a hahdsaw and drag the blocks out’ with a-leather | thong. t the Seabees thought they could im- prove on the old technique. They adapted a motor-driven, circular blade timber saw on wheels. They used a ‘“weasel” (snow tractor) to pull the chunks from the water and bent-pipe skids to haul them ashore. The Navy said the result was 40 tons in storage in an eight-hour day—more than an indusirious | Eskimo could cut and store in 80, days. Gls Get "'Glamorous™ But Different From Expecied YOKOHAMA, Japan, June 17.—| (A—The “glamorous mermaids” | caught the eyes of the American GI's at the Yokohama trade fair. ‘The Japanese girl swimmers were cavorting in an oversize fish bowl on a stage. The GI's thought they woul have some fun. They threw couple of rocks at the bowl. It broke. The spectators down front—in- cluding the Americans — were flooded out. i d a SCHWINN BIKES at MADSEN'S, Widest Selection of TLIQUORS PHONE 399 “Say It With Flowers” but “4AY IT WITH OURS!” Juneau Florists PHONE 311 The Erwin Feed Ca. Office in Case Lot Grooery ZBONE % HAY, GRAIN, COAL and STORAGE Call EXPERIENCED MEN Alaska JANTTORIAL Service FRED FOLETTE Phone 247 STEVENS’® LADIES'—MISSES’ READY-TO-WEAR Seward Street Near Third The Charles W. 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Alaska Music Supply Astbur M. Uggen, Manager Plance—Musical . and Supplies Phone 206 Second and Seward Wall Paper Jd2al Paint Shop Foone 640 Fred W. Wenas Juneau’s Finest Liquor Store BAVARD'S Phone 689 The Alaskan Hetel Newly Remevated Looms ¢ Reasenable Rates FHONE BSINGLE 0 Thomas Hardware Co. PAINTS — OILS Builders’ and Shelf HARDWARE | Remington ters SOLD .and BERVICED by J. B. Burford & Ce. “Owr Doerstep Is Worn by Batisfied Customers” FORD AGENCY (Authorised Dealers) § GREASES — GAS — OIL ' Juneau Motor Ce. Poot of Main Streeé MAKE JUNEAU DAIRIES DELICIOUS ICE CREAM & dally habit—ask for It by aame Juneau Dairies, Inc. Chas. G. Warner Co, HOME GROCERY Phone 146 e — To Banish “Blue Monday” To give you more freedom from work — TRY Alaska Laundry e e———— DR. ROBERT SIMPSON H. S. GRAVES The Clothing Man LEVIS QV, |