The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 7, 1949, Page 4

PAGE FOUR : ] . : Daily Alaska Empire Published ecery evening except Sunday by the EMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY 3 Second and Main Streets, Juneau, Alaska N TROY MONSEN - - DOROTHY TROY LINGO ELMER A. FRIEND ALFRED ZENGER Py - President Vice-President Managing Editor Business Manager Entered in the Post Office in Juneau as Second Class Matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Deliveree by carrier in Juncau and Doutlas for six months, $8.00; one year, § By mail, postage paid. at the following rates: vance, $15.00; six months, in advance, $7.50; nce, $1.50 confer a favor if they will promptly notify $1.50 per month; 00 the Busin fice of any failure or irregularity in the delivery ¥ their papers. Telephones: News Office, 602; Business Office, 374. | MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS ated Pross is exclusively entitled to the use for all news dispatches credited to 1t or not other- n this paper and also the local news published republ vise cr serein TIONAL REPRESENTATIVES — Alaska Newspapers, Hlll se Bldg., Beattle, Wash, ' Ave THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA tide mesages she has been stamping on all Christmas- . postmarked mail for many years. It seems that so many persons want their holiday mail to bear the Christmas, Fla., postmark that more personnel would be needed to help the lady in charge of this tiny office. » Santa Claus, Ind, had somewhat the same ex- perience a few years ago, and the situation was solved there when a commercial organization took over the re-mailing of material to be sent out from Santa Claus -at no expense, of course, to Uncle Sam. We suppose that's the only solution for Christmas, Florida. The Post Office is a money-losing operation, and it is proper for this department to cut every possible corner to keep its deficit as low as possible, but we can think of an enormous amount of franked govern- ment mail that could b eliminated without anybody knowing the difference. The saving in paper alone (not to mention the wear and tear on the Post Office) in such a wholesale elimination would save enough .money to hire more extra help than the whole population of Christmas, Fla. STATISM OR A BILLION DOLLARS? Congressmen Tollefson’s praise of Alaskans for to trade the “statism” offered by the la Deveolpment Corporation Bill for its proposed billion dollar appropriation was welcomed by those who heard him at the Chamber of Comemrce meeting last Thursday. 1f more of the pzople in the States would show the dence and self-reliance that Alaskans are evi- in their questioning of the Interior Depar there would be less danger of the United other countries down the road to e Washington Congressman said. Vith assurance from Interior's Kenneth Kadow that the much discussed bill was intended to be introduced in the form in which it was presented to Alaskans, we mow await the bill that Mr. Kadow believes will be acceptable even to the Alaskans most critical of the original proposed bill We believe that Mr. Kadow is sincere when he! says that he finds the billion dollar bill as objection- able as most Alaskans do, and the new bill that will follow more closely his ideas will be read with interest when it is presented to Alaska. The bill, as made public, was drafted, it is said, for conversation only, to hear the views of the people on the proposed act and for general discussion. It indepe dencir ment bill States followir ization, tk never { federali: tstate residents will have no say. Federalization for Alaska (Ketchikan News) No matter what Alaskans may say or desire, Assistant Secretary Warne of the Interior Depart- ment, is going right ahead with his pet Fede’-ahzed plans for Alaska. Recent press dispatches say he has withdrawn five areas of 60,000 acres each known as the Kasilof area. The idea is to develop paternalistic farms of 150 acres each. . The government will do the clearing, build roads, construct farm buildings and loan money at a low rate of interest. On the face of it it sounds good. Mavbe it will do as he expects, incréase Alaska’s population some 20,000. Maybe, also, it may in time prove to be an excellent farming community, a real asset to Alaska. / But the fact remains he is withdrawing Alaska land without consent of Alaskans, land that should belong to a future state. This or any other such with- will be mortgaged to the government, will be ed gections inside a state over which the drawa The principle is socialistic, paternalistic, un- American and without the consent of the governed: Look at it from another point of view. The “farmers” will essentially be tenants. They ill have to do exactly what the government agents tell them to do. They cannot use their individual initiative to build the kind of residences they want or barns or fences and put in the kind of crops they want. They must follow a government pattern, whether they like it or not. We all know that farmers cannot make a go o Alaska without financial assistance. But if they are willing to take a chance they should be allowed a long-term loan at a low rate of interest and let them do their own planning. They could do this if they secured money from private sources. Moreover, the government work under government direction will cost | was drafted by the Interior Field Committee. Since its rejection by practically all Alaskans, it proved to be no bill at all. END OF A CUSTOM The Post Office is one of our favorite government agencies, but now we're a little disappointed to find postal authorities permitting business to interfere with sentiment. The Post Office has just ordered the Postmistress at Christmas, Fla., to discontinue put- ting the little rubber-stamped green trees and yule- them a great deal more in the end, since if they were on their own, they would do much of the necessary work themselves. We thought when we had gotteniride of Ickes the Interior Department would be through with mak- ing Alaska an expermental ground . without consent of the.inhabitants and high-handed ukases for! land withdrawals, but it looks like: we are against the same old government racketeer game. By the time we get statehood there will be nothing left but a shell on which we will have to pay taxes. We are like a lot of sitting ducks with Congress standing by to see us shot at. The Washinglon [to the innocuous could of the not tip Navy any Personnel at Miami, Fla., where he off job of Chief of to the acceptance of -authorities the and controls which the practising more. Secretary | L I f it in § down ' Mrs. Fred Turpin . Mary J. Hackwood . G. A. Baldwin Mrs. Thersa Satre Logan E. Hughes Fred Schmidt Eugene O. Hulk Mamie Corey k the innocents who follow them. They believe in the socialization of everything and it makes little dif- ference to them where it starts. Today, they are a bit frightened by the unfavorable developments in England, where socialized medi- cine is settling down to a deadly pall for doctors and patients. But they are not hopeless that in some manner, it can all be made to work in the United States. In any medical group, in any medical society, except such as are especially organized for socialist I propaganda it will be found that p! most American physicians abhor socialized medicine and find: it unnecessary in the current circum- stances of American life. They not only object to their enslave- ment as a profession and a class to the State, but they fear that the great advances that have been made in medicine in a free society will be arrested. Physicians have accustomed themselves generally not to en- gage in politics. Some of the medi- cal secrecy of their profession con- | tinues into our age. Newspaper- men used to have the greatest dif- ficulty getting anything out of a doctor on the grounds. that even if his name appeared in the news- paptrs, he was guilty of something unprofessional. I think the Mayos smashed that nonsense; they got their names into the newspapers all the time, evoking a general in- terest in their profession. Also Dr. Morris Fishbein did much to break the newspaper prejudice against doctors. It is :me voicelessness of the medical profession that gives the politicians the courage to go after this profession as they dare not go after laywers, fot instance. Os- car Ewing, who is most responsible for the war on doctors, is a lawyer and does not advocate the! sociali- zation of lawyers, He knows that moest members of Congress are law= yers and they would fall upon him like a herd of elephants on the rampage. But the doctors regard themselves as too dignified to fight back pol- itically, which is the only way that they can fight back in this country. They have to face the fact that { Congress counts votes apd the Pre- These medical men have acCUst- | gyen counts votes, and only those jomed themselves to small incomes, | o Uonnhroduce votes force these elected officials to their will. The other night I was talking J ! 20 YEARS AGO " pmpirEe NOVEMBER 7, 1929 Judge James Wickersham, former Alaska Delegate to Congress, announced his candidacy for the Republican nomination for the same }orrice. - Twelve eager Boy Scouts attended the first session of the patrol | leaders’ training course, and organized into three patrols. At this meet- |ing were Edward Rodenberg, Loren Sisson, Edward Mize, Elliott Robert- |son, Hilding Haglund, Earl Beistline, Wayne Olson, John Stewart, T. Judson, Bennie Messer, Sonny Gray, Willie Rodenberg and Earl Lag- ergren. Also attending and assisting were Field Executive Fred E. Baker, H. L. Redlingshafer, R. S. Raven and H. ‘W. Douglas. J. J. Hillard, veteran Deputy Collector of Customs and for many ars in charge of the Eagle station during summer months, was on relief duty at Skagway, according to Collector J. C. McBride. Hillard was to be back here early in 1930. A record crowd attended the parent-Teacher Association meeting, the Grade School Auditorium being filled to standing room. Mrs. M. L. Merritt, President, named Mrs. John Dunn, Chairman; Mrs. G. Blomgren, Miss Dalma Hansen, R. S. Raven and R. C. Mize to the hospitality committee. These members were put in charge of the November rummage sale: Mrs. Philip Harriman, Mrs. Harold Smith, {Mrs. H. L. Redlingshafer and Mrs. Roy Rutherford. On the program committee were M. S. Whittier, Chairman; Mrs. J. D. Helps and Miss Mildred Abrahamson. Miss Dorothy Chisholm, music and art super- | visor for both high and grade schools, presented the High School Boys’ EGlee Club in which were Carl Alstedt, Olavi Kukola, Bennie Messer, Gordon Ingman, Elmer Powell, Edward Powers, Tom Redlingshafer, !mn Servelli, Robert Simpson, Billy Sparks, John Stewart, Elmer Swan- | son, Edgar Tarr, Alvin Bloomquist, John Hellenthal and Glen Reeder. Mrs. C. E. Kipste sang. Speakers were Scout Executive Fred E. Baker of Seattle and Dr. W. H. Chase, President of the Alaska Game Commis- sion. Closing numbers were by the Girls' Glee Club which numbered Amy Bates, Dorothy Bakke, Winnifred Oberg, Jean Faulkner, Phyllis Friend, Alpha Furuness Eleanor Gruber, Renee Guerin, Matilda Holst, Verna Hurley, Muriel Jarman, Ellen Mize, Xenia Paul, Edna Riendeau, Margaret Robinson, Mazie Rogers, Mary vVanderLeest, Hildred White- ley, Thelma Bodding and Mary Simpkins. | Weather: High, 37; low, 36; rain. 5 1 Daily Lessons in English 3. 1. corvon ““WORDS OFTEN MISUSED One REMEMBERS many things at all times, but makes a conscious effort to RECOLLECT a certain thing. «] REMEMBER Helen's party, but I cannot RECOLLECT the names [of certain guesst.” OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Forum. Pronounce the O as in FOR, not as in FOND. OFTEN MISSPELLED: Hors d'oeuvre; observe the vowels. SYNONYMS: Pause, hesitate, halt, cease, desist, stop. 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: VERVE; brilliance of imagination. “His books have a certain verve & about them that appeals to his readers.” I MODERN. ETIQUETTE %seers 1es | il - — — {diretclonis_while he 1§ ] l ‘Q‘.’ sh“;u!d a man’s wife ever give hfl carving the meat at the table? 3y A. Not unless she wishes to encourage band, or conjectures among the guests as to who | family. Q. If a woman acquaintanee speaks of her husband (whom you do not know) as “Tom,” should you also refer to him as “Tom”? A. No; you should refer to him as “Mr. Nelson,” or “your husband.” Q. Should the family of an honored speaker. sit in the audience and register applause for what he is saying? A. It is quite all right for them to look pleased and happy over what he is saying, but their applause should be soft and brief. ; I # dark look from! et us- 'is “boss” in her == CONDITIONS | i | 1 MO OF WEATHER ALASKAPTS. Weather conditions and temper- atures at various Alaska points, also on the Pacific Coast, at 4:30 am., 120th Meridian Time, and released by the Weather Bureau | at Juneau, follow: Anchorage Barrow Bethel Cordova Dawson Edmonton Fairbanks . Haines . Havre 2 Juneau Airport . Annette Island Kodiak Hotzebue McGrath Nome Northway Petersburg Portland 7 Prince George. . Seattle Whitehorse ... ‘Yakutat 34—Fog 17—Snow | 32—Cloudy | 39—Drizzle 31—Cloudy .. 31—Clear 14—Partly Cloudy . 43—Partly Cloudy 32—Partly Cloudy 46—Rain showers . 47—Rain 40—Cloudy 27—Partly Cloudy e 22—SNOW « 30—Snow 13—Cloudy | .. 45—Rain 52—Cloudy 39—Cloudy 36—Partly Cloudy | e 43—RaiND | PRESIDENT SEE ART EXHIBIT SENT 10U5. BY AUSTRIA WASHINGTON, Nov. 7-—(®— President Truman spent 90 minutes at an art exhibit yesterday. Disclosing this today, Charles G.| Ross, the President’s press secre- tary, said Mr. and Mrs. Truman! went to the National Gallery of | Art to see an exhibit sent here| by the Austrian government. It includes paintings, armor plate, cameos and other art to be shown to the public bLeginning Nov. 20. Some of the objects were seized by the Nazis during World War| salt mines in which they had been hidden. Roks' said ‘the President was very much’ interested and impressed. SGHWIINW. B‘CYCLES ‘at Madsen’s. ' GEORGE BROS. Widest Sclection: of - LIQUORS " FHONE 399 The m Feed Co. Office in Case Lot Grocery Phone 704 y | HAY, GRAT II and later were recovered from| NDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1949 in Scottish Rite Temple beginning at 7:30 p. m. GLENN O. ABRAHAM, Worshipful Master; JAMES W. LEIVERS, Secretary. @ 5.P.0.ELKS Meeting every Wednesday at 8 P. M. Visiting brothers wel- come. F. DEWEY BAKER, Exalted Ruler. W. H. BIGGS, Becretary. BLACKWELL’S CABINET SHOP 117 Main St. Phone 772 High Quality Cabinet Work for Home, Office or Store Moose Lodge No. 700 Regular Meetings Each Friday Governor—JOHN LADELY Secretary— WALTER R. "The Rexall Store” Your Reliable Pharmacists BUTLER-MAURO DRUG CO. Alaska Music Supply Arthur M. Uggen, Manager Pianos—Musical Instruments and Supplies ..Phone 206 ..Second and Seward.. GENERAL PAINTS and WALLPAPER Ideal Paint Store Phone 549 Fred W. Wendt Card Beverage Co. ‘Wholesale 805 10th St. PHONE 216—DAY or NIGHT for MIXERS or SODA POP The Alaskan Hotel | Newly Renovated Rooms at Reasonable Rates PHONE SINGLE O PHONE 555 Thomas Hardware Co. PAINTS — OILS Builders’ and Shelf HARDWARE Merry-Go-l!o_ulld OAL By DREW PEARSON E physician would find intolerable. | .r;re 4 medical association when | I happened to call the American That was the turning point in Forrestal's running of the Navy C! and STORAG: LOOK and LEARN 2. Then there are the Iailuresi Remington Typewriters - not unlike Secretary Mathews' cris is with Denfeld today. He ordered who find the risk of private prac- tice unbearable. They may be very Medical Association a trade union. This offended one physician who % . GORDON ‘ SHOP AT SOLD and SERVICED by (Continued from Page OnNe) | giovich back to Washington as became very serious about it. Buf|'“ Duke ef Windsor Intervenes The admirals were also urged to borrow submarine experts from the British, who had gone through two years of fighting Nazi subs, and just about had them licked. However, only one British Naval officer was invited to advise the American Navy. Subsequently the Duke of Windsor and Fred Searles of the War Ship- ping Administration stepped in to persuade the Navy to adopt the protective device which ultimately defeated the submarine. The device, invented by Lieut. Comgdr. Carl Herluf Holm, a Dan- ish-born American Naval officer, got bogged down between three Navy bureaus, all rivals—Naval Ordnance Laboratory, Bureau of Ships, and Bureau of Ordnance. Between them, the invention re- mained stymied for two whole years—while American ships and lives were being sent daily to the bottom of the sea. It was Fred Searles, who, learn- ing of the invention from the Duke warned the admirals that if they did not immediately use this anti- submarine weapon, Commission would use it indepen- dently That was how the most import- ant anti-submarine device of the en war came into being. It illustrates what Frank Knox was up against in his struggle to run a department where the admirals kept him in the dark, ignored him, or went over his head to the White House Forrestal Got Wise At the time Frank Knox died the admirals made it a practice to meet in formal session, show him a few routine cables, then adjourn Later they handled the really. im- portant war cables which Knox never knew existed. When James Forrestal became Secretary of the Navy, his former aide, Capt. John Gingrich, him off to this practice, suggested that Forrestal go up to the Com munications room and look over the other telegrams the admirals held ouf on him This Forrestal did. Simultane- ously, Captain Gingrich got discips lined. The top brass relegated him {Radford is the admiral who touch- the Maritime | tipped | fine men and excellent physicians, but they hate the wear and tear of life, the battle for success, the struggle for recognition and ach- ievement. They often object to being young. They would step whole from college into major achievements, For some, it is envy, greed, cupidity; for others, it is simply that they cannot wait. They | Deputy Chief of Personnel, ap- peinted Admiral Denfeld Chief of Personnel, and things went smooth- ly for Forrestal from that point un- til the grueling debate over unifi- cation set in. But when Forrestal finally sided against the admirals in favor of unification, some of them never forgave him. They worked against him in much the way they have opposed Secretary Matthews. And in the last two months of his life, Forrestal, emotionally upset by the bickering, sometimes broke down in the middle of conferences and wept over the fact that his friends in the Navy had turned against him, ernment. They would rather maove by seniority, by periodic exam- inations than by the risk of per- all this as a personal problem. socialized medicine, socialized hos- pitals, a socialized medical profes- sion. They, are the Marxists and would rather be paid by the gov-|{ ; man sonal achievement. One described | | clusion, Mr. Ewing would return to [the Bronx to call in a physician | 3. The third group is totally for!to heal his wounds. That is the | | i what this man did not and could not understand was that the rea- | son the doctors are so scared is| they are not a union, a trade or| a professional union, pounding on Mr, Ewing's table and saying that | we shall vote against every man | who supports your socialistic pro- | gram. While Mr. Ewing might be | slow of understanding, the chair- | of the Democratic National | Committee would calculate what these doctors really could do. } And if he reached the right con- way it works these days and the doctors be realistic about it. might well Naval Merry-Go-Round Adm. Arthur Radford, when leav- ing Washington for Pearl Harbor, told disciples: “We're in this thing to stay and we'll win or sink.” . . . . B ACROS: Engrosse Palm leaf Sacred image 2. Europegn river, Iron block in 30. Anger ed of the Navy revolt. . .Opera- :,l Frefaction tion 23, the Navy propaganda unit, . Luft;l: beiad has started a whispering campaign gainst Adm. Forrest Sherman. They call him the “Quisling of the Navy"—for supporting unification everyone expected fireworks at the first meeting of the joint Chiefs of Staff after General Brad- ley had fired his “fancy dans” bar- rage at the Admirals. But nothing happened. Bradley called Admiral Denfeld “Louie,” and at the second meeting Denfeld presided in Brad- ley’s absence. Ironically, he was presiding at the mcment President Truman fired him. President Truman has told friends he is go- ing to ax several high-ranking Air Force generals if they don't quite to build a 70-Group Afir S BV GEORGE E. SOKOLSKY SOCIALIZED DOCTORS % I find three types of physicians among whom many are favorably dispcsed to the socialization of their priessicn | 1. The permanent teachers in medical *sct men who rarely | practise medicine except occasion- | ally consultants. Also in this group are to be found many public health officials. 34, Small wild ox of Celebes . Artificlal waterways . La : . Qive: Seotch to ormous Peer Gynt's mother as Crossword Puzzie OnOn DED GORg O Q Solution of Saturday’s Puzzle DOWN 1 Corded fabrio . Gone by Pelting with small m Loyal Enthusfastie ular utes Fortune Lift Roman’ date Held §6. Horses 57. American humorist 88, City in Oklahoma ] " fit 45. Competently Distant: p Heroine Bohem: Accustomed 1. What does “I. Q.” stand for? 4 2. With what weapon did the Biblical character, Samson, fight the Philistines? 3. Why is a bus boy in a restaurant so called? 4. What great fortress is said to be the Key to the Mediter- ranean? 5. What well-known opera has a famous baritone solo as its pro- | logue? ANSWERS: 1. gence of a person. 2. The jawbone of an ass. 3. Because he does miscellaneous johs. the Latin “omnibus,” meaning all. 4. Gibraltar. 5. “Pagliacci.” Intelligence quotient; a number supposedly denoting the intelli- “Bus” is a contraction of —— Oldest Bank in Alaska 1891—0ver Half a Century of Banking—1949 The B. M. Behrends Bank Safety Deposit Boxes for Rent COMMERCIAL SAVINGS F. N. 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