The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 24, 1949, Page 4

PAGE FOUR Daily Alaska Empire Publis | basing form of entertainment appealing to the cupidity and gambling instincts of mass humanity. | broadcasting industry is to continue as a form of | private enterprise, it must provide the kind of instruc- tion and entertainment that justifies belief in the superiority of the American system of private owner- ship and conirol ot broadcasting facilities. Otherwise an aroused public will eventually demand increasingly dr: regulatory action and possibly Government supe jon of private companies. The steady deterioration of broadcasting programs in recent years resulting from the vogue for the give- ways has disgusted millions of Americans, But the hope of getting something for nothing, or next to nothing, has an irresistible lure for other millions who tune in on these programs in the hope of a trlophonuE call that will tell them they have won hundreds of d_every evening except Sunday by the EMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY Second and Main Streets, Juneau, Alaska TROY. MONSEN - - - - DOROTHY TROY LINGO - < - ELMER A. FRIEND - - - - ALFRED ZENGER - - ™ ) the Post Office in Juneau as Second Class Matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Deliveree by carrier in Juneau and Douglas for $1.50 per months six months, $8.00; one year, S15.00 By mail, postage paid. at the following rates: One vear, in_advance, $15.00; six morths, in advance, $7.50; sne month, in advance, $1.50. Subscribers will confer a favor if they will 'promptly notity the Business Office of any failure or irreguiarity in the delivery of their papers. Telepbones: News Office, 602; Business Office, 374. - MEMBEK OF ASSOCIATED PRESS President Vice-President Managing Editor | Business Manager Entered ir. tic The Assocla d Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not other- 3 wise credited in this paper and also the local news published | thousands of dollars in cash or assorted merchandise bere As a result, the programs that rely on their strictly entertainment or informative value are losing listen- |ers and in some cases have been pushed off the air. NATIONAL REPRESENTATIVES — Alaska Newspapers, 1411 Jurth Avenue Bldg., Seattle, Wash, If the | SEPTEMBER 24 Mrsr. Albert Cooley Joe Bolduc, Sr. May Godfrey Hazel Ayers Mrs. R. M. Fisher Albert Carlson, Jr. SEPTEMBER 25 Mrs. J. F. Mullen Patricia Stanyer Mrs. Fred Paul Earl Hammond Edna King Cockeyed Spending (Carrolton, Mo., Republican Record) | . And we believe it a fact that many Americansl |have given up hope of salvaging much out of the | wreck left by the New Deal, the Square Deal and the Fair Deal. With the cockeyed legislation that has been crammed down the throats of the public, and the | squandering of our resources and the billions of dol- lars of debts, waste and inefficiency rampant and every son-of-: -a- gun looking for and expecting some- | nder that hope is fast Beveral dag Al wo. Mentived: the: metopelieaittitng for ofhing) iy 1s:no. worde: GEek HXH airs Juneau was taking on by establishing a mail T ot 5 . ksilsts: % v b America needs a good awakening, but it is our collection tem from both business and residentlal |\ npecy that it will take a major disaster to bring TOKENS APPEAR HERE BegLions. |it about. Not until then will we look for a return Now here is a new air. Tokens have appeared in | 5 many of our lost frontiers, a return to sanity and Juneau. |a nation that has at last realized it can not spend { These tokens, about one quarter of an inch in |jtself into perpetual prosperity. diameter, are “good for one fare, Juneau Transit | P System,” the city's bus system. Whatever the outcome of the legal marathon now drawing to a close before Judge Medina in New York, | it can never be said the Commie didn’t have his deeade |in court.—(Tacoma News Tribune.) It might be called advertising but it is also news that these tokens are worth 12': cents, two for 25 cents. The regular city bus fare is 15 cents. Herbert Hoover calls professors who are Com- munists “fuzzy-minded.” In short, such faculty mem- bers don’t have all their faculties.—(Lydnen Tribune.) BAN GIVEAWAYS Instead of challenging the authority of the FCC | to ban radio and television giveaway programs, re- | e — sponsible broadcasting companies ought to we]comc} Something for a seaman to think about: Speed this ruling as a salutary policing measure that will |in the air or on land is miles per hour, but knots protect them from the competitive pressure of a are always water- logged—lhxerelt Herald.) CONDITIONS | boon we could give to Russia.” Ching's top assistant, William The Washingfon | Margo! broke in wnh the Ohiel< Merry-Go-Round vt es the " sortrs s T | Pravda will be having a wonderful By DREW PEARSON [time the next few weeks if our| steel plants close down.” (Continued from Page One) At one point Murray unloosed a » caustic blast—which almost equal- ed John L. Lewis’ sarcasm—against S. Steel's publicity campaign. | ALASKAPTS. “I've been missing your telegrams lately, Phil,” added Fairless, and 4 B i d Fairless that U. S.| e there was a little sarcasm in his He reminde % { Voico this time, as he referred to|Steel had spent several hundred Weather condluions ana temper- A 7} thousand dollars on advertisements | 8fures at various Alaska points, Murray’s tough telegraphic ultima- | tum that U. S. Steel would have to negotiate on the basis of the Presi- in the morning paper and wanted also on the Pacific Coast, at 4:30 to know what he meant by dissi- &m. 120th Meridian Time, andj pating the assets of his corporation | feleased by the Weather Bureau | j the Florence Monroe HEDGES RECEIVES NEW DICTIONARY FOR USE OF ESD Copies of a new ana expanded edition of the Dictionary of Occu- pational Titles which contains ti- tles and definitions of jobs in the! newer industries in the American economy as well as the older ones, | have been distributed to all local offiges of the Employment Security Commission of Alaska, it was an- nounced today by A. A. Hedges, Director of the Employment Se- curity Division. The new version of the Diction- ary of Occupational Titles contains . approximately 22,000 definitions of common and uncommon occupa- tions and more than 40,000 differ- jent titles by which these occupa-| tions are known. The jobs with| which at least 85 per cent of the American economy are concerned are defined in the new edition.’ “The new edition succeeds the| one originally compiled and pro- duced by the United States Em- ployment Service in 1939 which has heen used ever since by the employment service in its day-to- day job of matching workers and jobs,” Mr. Hedges said. “Because of wider coverage and| more spe cefinitions and titles, the work of local offices. ing employers’ employment service It will be used in cod- job openings and classifying them, in coding job ap- plicants’ occupational experience, and in reporting current labor mar- ket information. In short, the new Dictionary provides what amounts g::r:dfimi‘(?;f l.l.w:n}g‘m.h;?{d:a(;::x:y in such a wanton manner. |at Juneau, follow: |to 2 universal occupational lan- telegrams in the last few da “It would have been far better ap.jorape 45—Cloudy | guage and something that is vitally “Well, you may get a few before |0 use the money to pay pensions,”:p.. o £ 31— Fog | Necessary in employment service the day is over,” replied Murray. chided Murray, “rather than pull}peipe A 37—-Par[ly Cloudy | Work. ¥ A the wool over the public's eyes.” Cordova 46—Drizzie| “The importance of the D,cg,gu. U. S. STEEL'S POSITION i e rcamc=d Dawson ... 38—Cloudy | 81V is illustrated by the fact that John Stephens, vice president of| MELLON GIVES ORDERs | Edmonton g ATl 1 WALLIDS useclmot By biihe dos U. S. Steel in charge of labor re-| Murray also criticized Adm. Ben | Fairbanks StLpirily Cltydy| oal oftices of the Alagks Perrioeial lations, did much of the talking|Moreel, former chief of Navy Sup- |Haines cieneennnn 47—Cloudy emplogmer?t MBS e h’: 11 for the steel executives. For many|ply, now head of the Jones, and .Havre 52—Partly Cloudy | ¢al cmp]u)rflem oirlce's t»hxo.ughout. years Stephens has been quite|Laughlin Steel Company, and hith- |[Juncau Airport ... 16-_Olodgy | the countty dud by ‘varius S friendly with Murray and leaders|erto friendly toward the steelwork- [Annette Island 49—Clear go_ver"m"f",a‘;_mmes' e S of the Steelworkers Union, but|ers. Moreel had appeared ready to;Kodiak #0-Ruin and Defmle|Aymedyservices RAvHye Veisrans lately relations have been strained.|accept the fact-finding board's | Kotzebue 44_Cloully| Administration, by esiployers, and Stephens charges that Murray | recommendations, but, just before' McGrath . 47—Clody | by ‘sehools. and ‘colikges: agreed last year not to raise thethe negotiations began, Moreel was | Nome ... 42—Cloudy S i issue of increased wages this year.|reported to have received instruc-iNorthway 32-Clerly o o ¢ o 0 o 0 o o o Murray in turn is indignant overitions from the Mellon interests in | Petersburg 41—-Fog! o . the fact that the rooms in which|Pittsburgh, who control Jones and!Portland 5%6—Cloudylg T DE TABLE o negotiation were held on a previous: Laughlin, to backtrack. Murray, (Prince George . 39-Fog| 4 s . occasion were wired with hidden | therefore, accused Moreel of vacil-|Seattle 54—Cloudy | o SEPTEMBER 25 . microphones, and now steel execu- [lating, not being a free man, and | Whitehorse 33—Clear| ¢ gigh tide, 3:33 am., 180 ft. ® tives allude to statements which{he quoted statements by the Ad-!Yakutat 46—Cloudy | ¢ pow tide, 9:32 aum., -05 ft. were secretly recordec. miral indicating his earlier willing~ ] © High tide, 3:39 pm., 19.7 ft. e = . % 2 A & ness to accept. ! Andrew Carnegie came to Amer-|e Low tide, 10:08 p.m. -28 ft. e tir Ot Rt d’Ph” Jisaty iar|why he -didut accept the fact-| o 8 SEPTEMBER 26 ¥ the en-cents-an-hour increase for| " et Aqetial o h, Gax:Nowils he fime:for desaish dEdLe Blah ude, G20 e 000 L. 4 Denatarns and’ focial-eebdrly. baak: .,T.he. Admiral, ‘who had a fine |repairing your fur coat. Let us give| e Low tide, 10:15 am, 12 ft. e Tis recommended by the. White| ¥ar record, claimed Murray had|you a free estimate. Martin Vic-je High tide, 4:18 pm., 186 ft. o House fact-finding board was Umvnot quoted him correctly. ; itor Furs, Inc. 95 1t| e Low tide, 10:57 p.m., -1.7 ft. e 87 ime cuestion After these fireworks, Mediator T TP L 3 Btenhens - Feitaraton ithat i Ching decided that separate meet-{ FILIPINO COMMUNITY AUX-ie ¢ © © ¢ o o o o o o company was prepared to offer four S mxght Do ilore oonductve L8 MEVARY | RRENEE nienb 9. i pl R e T Ronle an Hdar hEatH ekt harmony and went ‘m_" a series!Catholic Parish Hall. 1t SCHWIN\I BIKES at MADSEN’S pensions—provided the steelworkers i aTa e, B0 PG Mnlon leadiiy ) - e PR RS o A themselves contributed an addition- o B, fhe et S autives, 'l‘hey' al two L‘ents—-but would go no gotdnawhere lBlut il nebgluuml.lons Cro sword Puzzle e r g made one point reasonably clear: ) too great a tax on industry and|ipe S muct come under | ACROSS B0 RowtduTe eventually on the consuming pub- the Taft-Hartley Act, and that| o withou e lio, the Stch) sbidakan “dectatad to brmg thl_svabuul the industry { LLeggg.i‘\r g; g;fi:{ royally “You never know where they're WAS QR MyIoe accehl & ORI E ““tl".fé'v i g:\]-leer?mt going to stop,” said Stephens. “The 12. Above: poetie 38. Anoint coal industry has had bitter ex-| WOMEN ASSAILS POLYGAMY | 1k Gl inouiae o > soqhum perience along this line with John rm LA 43 Easiian L. Lewis. Lewis started demanding; BANGKOK—(®—How can Thai! 17. Soon 43. Be located and getting five-cents-a-ton royal- | (Siamese) women be considered as| 1 Hore, €7°Ple 44 Ef".,’?é“ % ha ty for the miner’s welfare fund. having equality with men when the| 20. Feminine 49, Playtul Then :e got 10 cents, then 20!males are permitted to have more| 23 Pg?[ci?lahm. g§ anx rapldly cents and now he is reported to be |than one wife? So asked Nang| XOOKS demanding 40 cents from the coal | Nantaka Suprabhatanand, rarmer% = Tytpr?cog\-fi!::-t. g m:gxl'l‘:l‘”l‘: 1 Juggl%uonx 5. Spars operators.” chairman of the Women's Law! go miihajea o5 Nertls spots 2. Long fish |3 s»i'»;:s ?(?nsely Ching replied that he could not|Association, amid the cheers of 2. Ii st 57. Terminal 3. Card game 8. Syliabl understand this reasoning. The|the Thai Women’s Association. 9. !uln:;zlnt:“on fact-finding proposal for 10 cents| The woman attorney said Thai’ “a““ T e was fair to both sides and had|women legally have equal rights / 16. é-renx been made after a thorough study|but nature and tradition militate / H “,e. wmb‘ by conscientious men who were|against attainment of this equal-! thinking of the national interest. ity. She said it probably wouldi N‘l’l‘?}fiéi';"" —_— be impossible to pass a law to Gen;’l'":: RUSSIA WATCHES STEEL change the marital situation, but; Lubricant CRISIS it was forunate that the cost of liv- Rfline “But this is more than a national | ing these days obstructs most men Flo:gfi issue,” Ching emphasized. “It has|from having more than one wife. mm',,;?: very serious international implica-| The law recognizes three types of ak tions. A steel strike at this time | Thai wives: legally registered, semi- | A,.',f.:“m' would be disastrous, not only to our | wife and servant wife. Women have | C"fi'mg"au own economy, but to the program|the right of divorce, she comment-} Article we have undertaken to insure world | ed, but she did not favor use of | 3 Art vy peace. this legal weapon except in ex-| W 4P Eat away “You all know what has happen-j treme cases. Nang Nantaka also 2 B e oed ed in Britain, and we cannot afford ; criticised the law that gives the --fl“ 46. And: Latin to allow anything to happen to our|husband power to handle his wife’s | T & Shape oo own economy il we are to continue pmperly She said women who had ' .//n-. gg. 853:?“ to help other ward off the threat ' their own careers outside the home | %r " " wagon of Communism. A steel strike at|should be allowed to manage their .////fl.. g T own property. ” this time would be the gieatest ExE ) new Dictionary will facilitate | THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA SATUR IZO YEARS AGO IIZ‘HE EMPIRE I R || GEORGE E. SOKOLSKY STEEL AND TAFT-HARTLEY The more one ponders the find- ings of the three-man board ap- pointed by the President for the! Steel Industry, the clearer comes that all that this board dkh was to throw the case back to col- lective bargaining under the Taft- Harley law. For this is what the board said: { | = | SEPTEMBER 24, 1929 | | Keynote address opening the tenth annual convention of the Am- | erican Legion and Auxiliary, Department of Alaska, was made by Gov. | George A. Parks, stressing the qualifications of the Legion to promote ‘pubhc welfare and foster good citizenship. For the separate sessions, | Maurice L. Sharpe of Anchorage was in the chair at the Legion meet-{ | ings in the Elks' Hall; ‘Mrs. Mary J. Ela presided for meetings of the | Auxiliar§’ in the Dugout. Miss_Belle Greenblatt, who had been visiting for several weeks as the guest of her aunts, Mrs. Robert Simpson and Miss Minnie Goldstein, ‘and her uncle, Dr. Robert Simpson, left on the Alaska, She was to | enter her senior year at the Universtiy of Washington, already looking ‘ “(a)” The subject of pensions is| not bargainable at this time under | the terms of the reopening clause providing for the right of either( | for a six-week vacation trip to Washington and California. DR ——— pensions is bargainable under the law as interpreted by the National Labor Relations Board as to all the | | companies. Pensions are not in-| | cluded in the written agreement | | i " and with respect to unwritten-terms > on the Glacier Highway. 4 ‘[Mml A % dealing with wages, hours and oth- | er terms and conditions of employ- | | Jim Cashen and Neil Ddogan, Douglas youths, returned to their | homes after a sojourn in St. Ann's Hospital. Mrs. L. J. Jewett and baby girl left St. Ann’s Hospital for their r. and Mrs. Noel Wien of Fairbanks visited Dr. A. W. Borland ment, the obligation remains on! ing a brief stop in Juneau, en route to the States where "hey'both parties to bargain continuous- The bridegroom Iy Avoiding the name of the law, to [suit the politics of the President,| (. the board nevertheless says that the subject is bargainable under| the ’rafl»Hamey AcL Such an du wv, anned an air honeymoon trip around the country. ‘\‘.4\ an aviator with Alaska Airways. \‘«m\her High, 60; low, 41; clear. _|ITHESE DAYS i play it be-|economy. Nor should the President DAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1949 stating that we understood it to mean that there would be no moral or legal obligation upon us to ac- cept any recommendation which the board might make . . ."” It is dangerous in a country such as ours to ignore the law, for the President or any other al to function by whim or to politics with the nation’s of fi appoint boards which are to make recommendations which the Presi- dent himself says need not be ac- cepted. It seems such a_waste of | time, (Copyright, 1949, King Features \ Syndicate, Inc.) Although tb people of the U, S. | forward to a return visit the next summer. party in 1949 to negotlate for a| yceq patyral gas for lighting as | general and uniform change in Pie” baok as the e 1800, it is . AT rates of pay and/or for described .. i < iy by ; | Misses Mamie and Elizabeth Feusi of Douglas left on the Alaska| ., ., m\_‘l‘”“fl, ,:115 in the last 15 years that it al insurance. 308 L G & «b) However, the subject of| s been extensively used in homes and industries. ATTENTION MASONS Stated Communication Monday evening with Labor in the M. M. | Degree. J. W. Leivers, (306 2t) Secretary. ] PROSTATE Dally Lessons in Enghsh BRI O ey R, i ! {board m\m know it ultra vires. The R board has no legal status. It is not ! WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “I beg to say,” or, “I bes|n court. It cannot establish the to differ.” Say, “I beg leave to say,” and, “I beg permission to differ.” |upplicahilily of any act to a set Towever, it is just as well to avoid the “begging” phrases. jof conditions. Only Congress may | OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Jocose. Pronounce jo-Kos, both O's|determine the applicability of an \s in NO, accent first syllable. act by specifying its relationship to| rar: " 9 cenditions and circumstances only | OFTEN MISSPELLED: Bailiff; one .L, two F's. Ao 1 the. SusE IR Oo kL | SYNONYMS: Ignoble, base, mean, vile, low, dishonorable. | 3 & | finally—can interpret the intent of | | WORD STUDY: “Use a word three times and it is yours.” Let us Congress and the validity of nsl increase our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Today's word: |gets under the constitution, The! ILLUSION an unreal or misleading image presented to the vision. lNfl[mnal Labor Relations Board,} Psychologists recognize normal illusions, which are often not di administrator of the law, also has| nn«vuishahle from hallucinations.” the function of application and in- g terpretation. All that this three-man fact find- {ing board, or any other appointed JJ by the President, can legally do, is !l|to make recommendations which! == lczn be accepted or rejected by Lhe\ partles at issue. No recommenda- tion can be binding; in fact, the Loard should have stated the facts iand clarified the issues and let it 'go at that. And all that they did! do was to throw the entire issue I back to ccllective bargaining under |the Taft-Hartley Act, each party enjoying such remedies and such MODERN ETIOUE[TE husband as OBERTA LEE to her “Mr. Jones” when Q. Should a woman refer talking with an acquaintanece? A. It would be better to say “my even when talking and husband,” with a stranger. “Mr. Jones” can be reserved for the servants | employees. Q. How much tip should be given to a check girl in a night club? A. Twenty-five cents is the usual minimum. Q. What is the correct way to acknowledge an invitation to a ‘duistenmg“ redress as the Act provides. Phil | A. Enher by 191(0 or telephone. Murray does not like that and e o2 0, e sl — = = — x 1| therefore threatens a strike. ! |[{ I am not, in this article, dis- cussing the recommendations of the three-man board, nor does it mat- |!ter whether Ben Fairless and Phil Murray come to terms, as 1eason-‘ able men should. The importan the permanent fact in this s:tua- tion is that the three-man board proved to be a useless instrument which did not save time, or the country from disaster, byt which rather increased the confusion and ‘t LOOK and LEARN 1. What is the largest statistical bureau in the world? 2. Which is the world’s largest port in tonnage of vessels entered | and cleared? 3. What is philology? 4. By what other nmame is the Book of Revelation in the Bible *’known? 5. What ia s danseuse? in the end went right back to the ANSWERS: Taft-Hartley Act. It should never | 1. The U. S. Census Bureau. have been appointed. for 2 New ¥ark CHR : The law showa not have been 3. The study of language, especially as a science. by-passed. It ought not to hap- 4. The Apocalypse. pen again, and the Taft-Hartley 5. Act should be fortified to prevent The female dancer, especially a ballet dancer. Plumbing ® Heafing 0il Burners Telephone-319 Nights-Hed 730 Harri Machine Shop, Inc. iour current or any President from pursuing -his ipse dixit in industrial relations. The law of the land should always prevail, net the poli- tical necessities of an elective offi- cial. That this issue was handled poli- tically is obvious from the corres- pondence between Phil Murray, head of the union, who accepted the board’s recommendations as binding, and Ben Fairless, President cf the United States Steel Corpora- tion, who sought collective bargain- ing. 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