The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 12, 1949, Page 4

¢ the PAGE FOUR | | to the world. Therefore, there is general acceptance of Columbus’ America. Columbus’ discovery of America was probably the greatest thing that has thus far occurred in the history of the world. It gave the peaples of the North and South America an opportunity to escape from the fetters that bound people down and smoth- | ered liberty—political, industrial, social and religious. f Its effect is not only exemplified in the development of | the peoples of America but it has had unmeasurable | influence upon the Old World. ' No matter how ex- | tensive might be the celebration today of Columbus crowning achievement it will not be as extensive as the event deserves. Daily Alaska Empire Published erery evening except Sunday by the EMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY Alasks Second end Main Streets, Juneau, AELEN TROY MONSEN DOROTHY TROY LINGO ELMER A. FRIEND ALFRED ZENGER President Vice-President | Managing Editor | Business Manager | Entered ir the Post Office in Juneau as Second Class Matter. SUBSCRIPTION RAT) Delivere¢ by carrler in Juneau and Douklas for $1.50 per months six months, $8.00; one year, $15.00 By mail, postage paid, at the following rates: One year, in advance, $15.00; six morths, in advance, $7.50; ne month, in advance, $1.50. Subscribers will confer a favor if they will promptly notify ihe Business Office of sny failure or irregularity in the delivery » heir papers. Telephones: News Office, 602; Business Office, 374. EMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRE! Mrs. Prier and Pencils (St. Louis Star-Times) It was the Monett (Mo.) Times that led us onto a new and—for the moment at least—incomprehensible sort of collector. Mrs. Ogcar Prier of Purdy, Mo, it develops, has a collection of 2,900 pencils at her home, no two of them alike. More than that, her interest has led the whole family to collecting, and now there are 5,553 pencils around the Prier home. Collectors' fancies have always been baffling, of course. There's a man in Albany, Mo, for instance, who saves the red cellophane strips from cigarette vackages. But pencils—well, we never! Our problem at home always has been to avoid collecting pencils. It didn't occur to us anyone would set out deliberately to accumulate the things. Slowly, treacherously they pile up in every available drawer, even the most outlandish. Sometimes, in fact, we think the things breed there in the darkenss. They're .jall without points, “of course, afid the erasers have| been work to nubs, and the ends are mysteriously Four hundred and fifty-seven years ago today,| ,...q_ put there they are, thousands of them, (well, | Columbus, an Italian navigator in the service of the Wiindreds). King and Queen of Spain, first beheld the new world If Mrs. Prier would like to drop around, we're and established the right to be called the discoverergyre we'd have some items for her collection. They'd of America. 3 be stubs, of course, but they'd be pencils, and of the Previous visits to America and temporary settle- |rarer kind—the kind that don’t write/ Be glad to get ments led by Leif Ericcson, his brother Thornstein |them out of the house. and Thorfinn Karlsefni, and perhaps others, were not ! il known then to the civilized world. They had heen! “Men are reverting to teh ape,” says an anthro- forgotten, except as traditions handed down in re- |pologist. In many a case it would take very little | stricted areas by word of mouth and noted in I¢elandic | reversion to accomplish the metamorphosis. sagas which were unknown in the world of letters until long after Columbus’ time. ! So it was Columbus that made the discovery of the New World and took back with him to the Old| World accounts that became part of common know- Peace would no doubt be an appetizing dish ledge. The encyclopedists agree that Columbus had |if we could only find someone who knew how to never heard of the Norse discoveries—if they are en- | prepare it. titled to the dignity of being called discoveries. In| fact few people credited them until conmm-auvfly} “Every man longs to marry a good cook, a witty recently. | companion, a skillful housekeeper and a devoted part- Discovery does not only mean finding something, ner,” declares a columnist. Perhaps so—it is said men setting foot on a new land, but in making it known |are naturally polygamous. The Assocta Tusively entitled to 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 herein NATIONAL REPRESENTATIVES — Alaska Newspapers, 1411 surth Avenue Bldg., Seattle, Wash. THIS IS COLUMBUS DAY In many a case a headache is a pain in the neck that moved upstairs. in a mood to lobby, he didn't get moving, active story. Houston a chance with Vice President Bark- Harte, of Texas, has had the cour- ley. For the VP slept both ways. age to think of the Bible in these ;I;VIashinglofi 7 right to be called the discoverer of THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA OCTOBER 12 David Douglas Gray Mrs. Fred Henning Leonard Matthews Bernice Milligan Thomas L. George, Jr. Mrs, George Getchell William J. Baldwin His Adam, his Isaiah, his Solomon might be among us today. They are timeless, placeless men. | Just as the words of The Book speak an eternal language, so have his figures caught eternity. They are not Jewish nor American but; universal. One has to gaze, time| and again, at his Balaam, to cateh | the glory of a personality that can, under duress, say: “How goodly ! are thy tents, O Jacob; thy taber- nacles, O Israel!” It makes Ste- | pinac and Mindszenty understand- able. It makes the millions who| have gone to death for faith and belief and ideal understandable. In- deed, we have matured as a people if we can produce one artist of} such philosophic stature, whose paintings are poems and whose; beauty is ageless, I am now looking at Guy Rowe’s Elisha. Never before have I quite | caught the full spirit of this pro- phet. His soul is in his eyes and they speak to me with kindliness and sorrow and friendship and hope. Those eyes live and burn in-; to one and it seems that I must ask his pardon for the wrongs I have done. They are more than probing, more than magnetic. They are absorbing. I shall come back to this portrait of Elisha, maybe ong day when someope has angered me and I shall look at him who clean- sed the leper with faith. Per- haps his spirit will wash away the canker of hate. I did not expect to meet such a portrait at this time, in this country. And what a contrast it is with the vulgar, insane Pisan Cantos, to which the Library of Congress gave a prize. A friend sent me this book to share it with me, and I share it with you as a treasure. It is noi |terms. He wanted the story and he found 52 of them told in swift | and glorious narraive. Twenty- | six of these stories, from the Old Testament, in the language of the King James version, he has put| together in a book, “In Our Im-| age.” He has added not a word, | but his pencil pulled out the im-! pediments to narrative, the obstruc- tions to good story-telling, and he has produced a book that can be read at leisure, with pleasure, for lits own sake. | Being an American newspaper- man, he could not do without pic- tures. So, he got him an artist, Guy Rowe, who apparently was not too close to the characters of the Bible, he having drawn the pic- tures which appeared on the cover of Time,” a magazine of current |events. Rowe devoted four years to the task of drawing 31 Biblical Merry-Go-Round By DREW PEARSON (Continued from Page One) SENATOR MILLER'S VOTE The sudden death of Senator Bert Miller of Idaho may hold up Dis- | placed-Persons legislation until next year. The bill removing religious dis- crimination from the Displaced Per- sons Act was supposed to come up for Senate debate this week, but now the Judiciary Committee will be expected to attend Senator Mil- ler’s funeral in Boise. Since thi sin the committee hand- ling the Displace Persons bill, it may prevent the bill from reaching the floor at all. However, there is one thing the Senate ought to oknow. The evening before Senator Miller died, as one of his last wishes, he told Senator Magnuson of Washington that he wanted to vote for the Displaced Persons bill. Undoubtedly Senator the Navy can do and how much you need in surface ships, subma- *Tines and air power. “It's obvious to me that you want to promote all this discord, which must be of no little comfort to a potential enemy. I'm for end- ing it right here and now, without letting this committee be used to carry on such bickering at an open hearing.” Secretary of the Navy Matthews ¢ didn't open his mouth until after committee overrode Kilday's ! protests and voted 9 to 6 to give the admirals an open hearing. Then he remarked to Chairman Carl |or a caughter who is so sure, in{ '.Vinson of Georgia, who sided with the admirals: “The responsibility ¢,i8 now yowrs." “Mr. Secretary,” interposed Kil- day, “you -might as well cancel out your court-martial of Captain | Crommelin. He is not promoting | discord any longer. This committee | has taken over for him after the vote today.” GERMANY IS STH.L NAZI Just back from Germany, Sena- tor Lester Hunt of Wyoming warns that it will take an army of edu- cators following up the army of cccupation to -defeat Nazism in| Germany. i “There is no such thing as de-| Nazifying a Nazi,” the Wyoming Democrat insists. ! The only solution, Hunt believes, is to place an American superin- tendent or principal over every German school and an American president over every German uni- versity. “It would cosg us less,” he promises, “than the first month of World War IIL” FREE AIR RIDE The Democrats were tipped off that this columnist was checking on what Air Force planes might fly to Kansas City for Bill Boyle's big home-coming jamboree. Possibly this had something to do with the fact that not a single Air Force plane made the trip However, a few high officials still got a free ride—in a plush, private plane owned by Phillips Petroleum Cempany. This plane was put at the disposal of the Democratic Na- tional Committee by Phillips’ chief lobbyist, R. C. Joplin, and its free passengers included Secretary of Labor Maurice Tobin, U. S. Treas- urer Georgia Neese Clark and Assistant Secretary of Commerce Tom Davis. The plane also stop- ped in St. Louis to pick up Vice President Barkley, who had been courtin’. After the party, Phillips Petrol- eum flew Barkley and Tobin back to Washington, then the plane re- turned to its home base in Okla- homa. Note—The oil companies have been lobkying for control of tide- lands oil and against Leland Olds’ confirmation to the Federal Power Commission. But if Mr. Joplin was L Miller would have preferred to have ¢ |portraits and my guess is that he has made a lasting contribution to |tion of MacArthur on the ground his cclleagues stay in Washington and vote to aid thousands of | refugees who are still alive, than mourn over him in Idaho. JAPANESE COMPETITION While the State Department plans | to lower tariffs, a New England | manufacturer is getting ready to, put the blast on General Doug- | las MacArthur for encouraging Jap- anese production of cheap, com- petitive goods for the American market. He is Alfred F. Reilly of Provid- | ence, R. I, president of Evans Case Company, biggest U. S. producer of cigarette lighters. Reilly will demand a congressional investiga- that he is using U. S. taxpayers’ money to build up Jap industries at the expense of American busi- ness and labor. ' Reilly will charge that MacAr- thur has encouraged Jap produc- tion of cheap cigarette lighters to a point where American manufact- urers are in serious jeopardy. The Japanese, he says, have made exact models of the Evans, Ronson | and other American lighters, using | a copper mold, thus saving re-| search, tool and die designing, and other costs American companies have had to pay. They now plan to go into large- scale production, using inferior ma- terials and cheap labor, unless Con- gresse blows the whistle on Mac- Arthur. i | i THESE DAYS --BY-- | GEORGE E. SOKOLSKY 1 IN OUR IMAGE An American newspaperman’s ap- proach to nearly everything 1is:| What's the story? He pmbably} even reads his love letters, pencil| in hand, to copyread the text, un-| consciously discovering an 1ncorrect‘ word, a grammatical error, or he| tears out a sentence as an impedi- | ment in the channel of thought. He is adept in moving a tale to its un erring climax. ‘ | And so the Bible, book of books. in the hands of an American jour- nalist becomes a living story, a ' the essence ; of American culture. His thirty-sec ond portrait, while not Biblical, is the spiritual life of our people. The Bible, written by Jews, and at the time, mainly for Jews, is of | no people, no age, no time, no' place. It is one of the few rare| literary contributions .of the hu-| man mind that is as much a part1 of America as it is of Israel, of | the Mediterranean as it is of North- | ern Europe. Only a great artist| can capture that truth. Just as the{ so Guy Rowe speaks in our idiom. too early to get it mow for a som | this atom smashing age; to give it as a Christmas gift—for it will tell them beyond doubt, that wis dom is eternal, truth is universal. In Our Image”—the very name makes kinsfolk of centuries. (Copyright, 1949, King Features Syndicate, Inc.) LUTHERAN LADIES’ AID IS T0 MEET TOMORROW The October business meeting, of the Lutheran Ladies Aid will be held on Thursday evening in the social’ room of the church with Mrs. Jack Gould and Mrs. Fred Orme serving as hostesses. A short program of music and devotions will begin at 8 o'clock. Roll call is to ke answered with scripture verses containing the word | “desire.” Members are urged to attend this meeting as plans will be discussed ! and committees appointed for the December bazaar. Visitors are most cordially welcome to attend the meetings of the Aid. N6 afternoon sewing meeting will be held this week. FAIRBANKS VISITOR Lloyd W. Martin of Fairbanks is a guest at the Baranof Hotel. 1 | 20 YEARS AGO 7% gmpirE | | | Yictim of Thief OCTOBER 12, 1929 Sanford Dodge, professional showman, had arrived and was to present “Cappy Ricks" during the month under the auspices of the American Legion. Those appearing in the selected cast were Muriel Jarmnh.‘ Homer Nordling, Hazel Petrich, Frank Metcalf, E. F. Herrmann, Edna Polley and Harry ‘Stonehouse. Dr. and Mrs. H. C. DeVighne and daughter Diana left on the Louise for the States. The former was to go to New York and the latter two were to spend the winter in Los Angeles. George Simpkins left on the Louise for Seattle on a business trip and expected to be gone three weeks. The census was being taken and all were being urged to see that their names were registered. The first traffic ordinance for Juneau was published in The Empire and it took nearly two pages of type. The Elks were staging their annual Purple Bubble Dance this night. The Athletics defeated the Cubs in the fourth game of the World Series by a score of 10 to 4. Weather: High, 54; low, 50; light rain. > . | Daily Lessons in English +. .. corvon ! WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: “The factory” means completely, or wholly, satisfactory. FAIRLY satisfactory.” OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Deign. Pronounce as though spelled DANE. ¥ OFTEN MISSPELLED: Climatic (relating to the climate). Climactic (of the nature of a climax). SYNONYMS: Matchless, peerless, unequaled, supreme. 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: RHYTHMIC; marked by, or manifesting, rhythm. “They swung along | the road in rhythmic motion.” ' | experiment was QUITE satis- Otherwise, say, "wssl ' 1 FORLORN lady is Mrs. James 8i- rois, 19 year old bride of Univer- sity of California radiation lab- oratory chemist at Berkeley, who lost all clothes when thief stole car as they were movi to new home. ' (International) { CORDOVA CENSUS-TAKING Mrs. Bonnie Jo Gronroos, First Division supervisor for the Bureau of Census, leaves today to enumer- ,ate Cordova. . l Mrs. Gronroos returned to Ju- neau Monday, after completing the business census of Sitka. Her work MODERN ETIQUEITE Hhmsrs e . | ! Q. If a girl is walking along the street with a man and he speaks to someone she doesn't know, should she speak also? A. Yes, she should smile and nod her head. And this also holds|in the First Division ended, she true for the man, should she speak to an acquaintance. will aid Third Division census tak- Q. What does a bride do with her engagement ring before the [ing in Cordova. wedding ceremony? A. She either leaves it at home when she departs for the church, '* or she wears it on her right hand. The wedding ring should not be put 2 GEORGE BROS. on above the engagement ring. Widest Selection of Q. Is it all right to take more than one kind of food on the fork LIQUORS at a time? FPHONE 399 A. Never; take only one piece of meat or one forkful of potatoes . The Erwin Feed Co. at a time. Oftice in Case Lot. Grocery Phone 704 HAY, GRAIN, COAL and STORAGE [ { LOOK and LEARN ® o compon J 1. What two words are most often used in telephone conversations in the U. S.? 2. By what foreign nation was the United States first recognized as an independent nation? 3. What are the warm and cold colors? 4. How many muscles does one use when speaking? 5. What is the most prolific mammal? ANSWERS: “I” and “you.” France, in 1778. The warm colors include red, orange, and yellow, while the cold colors are green, blue, and violet. 4. Approximately 44 muscles. 5. The common barn rat. SHOP AT BERT’S FOOD CENTER Alaska’s Finest Supe! et STEVENS’® LADIES’—MISSES’ READY-TO-WEAR Seward Street Near Third \ i | { i Plumbing ® Healing 0il Burners Telephone-313 Nighis-Hed 730 The Charles W. Carter Mortuary Fourth and Franklin Sts. PHONE' 138 WOMEN OF THE MOOSE Planning to attend the luncheon | Renaissance spoke its language in|Friday 1 to 2 honoring visiting (—-:_— |its Biblical paintings and sculptures, | ladies, call Green 840 before noon Thursday for reservation. 20 3t ACROSS . Hair ointment . Cutting wit Public speaker . Entertained . Schools of whales . Certain . Incline arly Immi- grant to New Eng- land Pronoun . Type measure Alack . Leave . Turkish title Musical shake 7. Marble 48. State In Brazil monkey Palm lily Opposite of aweather While Symbol tor tellurium Wild asses Measuring devices . Public store- houses ale French author 64. Avgids L;j Solution of Yesterday's Puzzle DOWN Cho Edible tuber Dethr Devoured . Perform 6. Rubbers Bebalf . sxist Card wool I Pertain Whirlpools Utilizes Conmponent AP Newsfeatures part Soiled Mola Harri Machine Shop, Inc. Card Beverage Co. ‘Wholesale 805 10th St. PHONE 216—DAY or NIGHT for MIXERS or SODA POP Oldest Bank in Alaska 1891—0ver Half a Cenfury of Banking—1949 The B.M. Behrends Bank Safety Deposit Boxes for Rent COMMERCIAL SAVINGS Casler’s Men's Wear Formerly SABIN'S Stetson and Mallory Hats Arrow Shirts and Underwear Allen Edmonds Shoes Skyway Luggage BOTANY llml' CLOTHES NUNN-BUSH SHOES STETSON HATS Quality Work Clothing FRED HENNING Complete Outfitter for Men R. W. COWLING COMPANY DeSoto—Dodge Trucks C. D. SWANSON as a paid-up subscriber to 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: Federal Tax—12c—Paid by the Theatre Phone 14—YELLOW CAB C0.—Phone 22 and an insured cab WILL/CALL FOR YOU and SANITARY MEAT FOR BETTER MEATS 13—PHONES—49 Pree Delivery RETURN YOU to your home with our compliments. WATCH THIS SPACE—Your Name May Appear! WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1949 MOUNT JUNEAU LODGE NO. 14/ SECOND and FOURTH 1 ‘Monday of each month in Scottish Rite Temple beginning 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. F. DEWEY BAKER, Exalted Ruler. W. H. BIGGS, Secretary. BLACKWELL’S CABINET SHOP 117 Main St. Phone 772 High Quality Cabinet Work for Home, Office or Store Moose Lodge No. 700 Governor—JOHN LADELY Becretary— WALTER R. HERMANSEN "The Rexall Store” Your Reliable’ Pharmacists BUTLER-MAURO DRUG CO. GENERAL PAINTS and WALLPAPER Ideal Paint Store: Pyone 549 Fred W. Wendt ' LIQUOR STORE BAVARD'S Phone 689 The Alaskan Hotel Newly Renovated Rooms at Reasonable Rates PHONE SINGLE-O.- PHONE 555 Thomas Hardware Co. Remington Typewriters SOLD and SERVICED by J. B. Burford & Co. “Our Doorstep Is Worn by Satistied Customers” FORD AGENCY (Authorized Dealers) GREASES — GAS — OIL Juneau Motor Co. Foot of Main Street MAKE JUNEAU DAIRIES DELICIOUS ICE CREAM a daily habit—ask for it by mame Juneau Daries, Inc. Chrysler Marine Engines MACHINE SHOP Marine Hardware Chas. G. Warner Co. HOME GROCERY Phone 146 Home Liquor Store—Tel. 699 American Meat — Phone 58 To Banish “Blue Monday” To give you more freedom from work — TRY Alaska Laundry H. . GRAVES The Clothing Man LEVI'S OVERALLS for Boys “Say It With Flowers” but “SAY IT WITH OURS!” Juneau Florists o s