The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 15, 1949, Page 4

PAGE FOUR definite indication of a world trend to the right,” and then they'll throw their hats into the air. They can save themselves a hat or two, though, if they'll just do a little checking on New Zealand's past and present. As to the past, history would suggest the overturn of the socialist Laborites is just part of a crest-trough progression in New Zealand. I’ was in 1890 that this tight little nation saw its first progressive government in control. At that time the Liberal-Labor Party de- feated the Conservatives and began one of the world’s most amazing social-welfare programs. Then in 1911 the people tired of the government they’d had for more than 20 years and defeated the Liberals. In 11912 the Reform (Conservative) Party took over, only | to be turned out 18 years later by the United (Liberal) d Pross fo exclusively entitled to the use for | party. And then in 1935 the Labor Party won a clear this paper and also the local news published majority. Now there has been a lapse of 14 years, and the old ferment of the desire for a change—any sort of change—is strong at work. Labor has lost. As to the present, the New Zealand National Party is conservative only in limited definition. Tru |the Nationalists stand for free enterprise and agains socialism. But they also accept, as New Zealand’s history forces them to, a velfare state” that would turn the stomach of a John Taber, say, or a Jim Kem. The Nationalists are conservative only relatively, with the Labor Party as their point of reference; they equate roughly to the somewhat-left-of-center Fair Dealists in this country. Is it the ascendancy of such as these that the reactionaries want to celebrate? Perhaps the brethren of the far right had better wait for a more propitious occasion. ; : J: Daily Alaska Empire Published every evening except Sunday by the EMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY Second and Main Streets, Juneau, Alaska HAELEN TROY MONSEN DOROTHY TROY LINGO ELMER A. FRIEND ALFRED ZENGER President Vice-President Managing Bditor Business Manage) Post Office In Juneau as Second Class Matter SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Delivere¢ by carrier in Juneau and Douglas for $1.50 per month six months, $8.00; one year, $15.00 By mail, postage paid, at the following rates: One vear, in advance, $15.00; six morths, in advance, $7.50 12 month, in advance, $1.50. Subscribers will confer & favor if they will promptly notifs ie Business Office of any fallure or irregularity in the deliver: heir papers. the fntered 1 News Office, 602; Business Office. 874 MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS IVES Wash & Newspapers, 1411 Beattle, TMAS SEALS ] CHRI Ir 20 YEARS AGO /" smrpirE DECEMBER 15 ,1929 Arthur L. Anderson Jim Gleason Bonnie L. Wagner R. B. MclIvor Donna Jean Jewett Edward J. Giovanetti Claire Wilson Judy Clements | Preparations were going on apace for the Community Christmas | Tree festivities Christmas Eve. The tree was provided by the Juneau Woman’s Club, which had accepted the report of Miss Stella Jones, chairman of the Civic Committee, recommending the sponsorship. Mrs. Harold Smith was president. The tree in front of the Nelson Building | was to be lighted by the Alaska Electric Light and Power Company, and Elmer Reed was in charge of the Christmas carols. e o o o o Weather af Charles Bohm, tormer keeper of the Sentinel Island light station, | master mariner and pioneer, had retired from active service with the | Lighthouse Department after 27 years of guardianship of Alaska sea lanes. f The Palace Theatre was installisg RCA Photophone sound equip- |ment for presentation of its first talkie feature, “Broadway Melody.” [ Alaska pOIn' | Charles A. LaHar was installation engineer. At the Coliseum, “Simba,” | Mr. and Mrs. Martin Johnson's African expedition, was a “drama of Weather conditions and iemper- ;dpspmm realities.” atures at various Alaska points, | also on the Pacific Coast, at 4:30 um. 120th Meridian Time, ana| released by the Weather Bureau all for Tenakee: | chirovich, John Popoch and Sam Budaeff. The Margnita sailed for Sitka and way ports with these passenegrs. G. F. Johnson, W. A. Walsey, Pete Jackson, Louis More About the Gruening Machine “The -Christmas Seal has become a trndmonnl. part of Christmas, as important as the sprig of holly (Ketchikan News) or mistletoe, Francis L. Paul, executive secretary of Another Territorial law has been challenged in the Alaska Tuberculosis Association reminds us in the | court. This time it is the property tax. recently issued ATA News Letter. | Already in court are the income tax, the fish trap The sale of Christmas Seals or Bonds is the only |tax and the fishermen’s license act. method the Tuberculosis Associations have of raising | These numerous taxes foisted upon Alaskans by money and the Christmas Seal sale is the only appeal the Gruening machine, with numerous court action f made for public support. 2 as a result, is one of the main indictments against Once a year we have the opportunity to contribute | the loose methods of the machine. to the anti-tuberculosis fund, to buy the seals that add The property tax is contested by Luther Hess of a message of mercy to our letters at Christmas time, Fairbanks. Among a number of citations are that the It was interesting to learn from Mrs. Paul that tax Wil be a cloud on a taxpayers' property, subject the ‘Alaska Tuberculosis Association joins with the O Provisions which place them in danger ;oliEinrY county associations of Washington State in assuming " personal property until the, obligation is met. the cost of the rehabilitation and counseling programs Remember the cambaign promises of the Gruening carried on at the Riverton and Laurel Beach Sanatoria | S208? They objected to a Territorial sales tax as s hitting the “poor man.” The main reason was that near Seattle on the basis of the number of patients |, 004 practically collect itself, climinating from the from the north. 1 payroll a lot of political favorites. This is just one of the ways in which your Christ- | ™" b/ ") s ene soker in the whole set-up is that Bias Seal mvonry 8 Bpant. numerous taxes were devised under different names There is so much tuberculosis in Alaska that the | gy voach right into the bottom of the poor man’s Christmas Seal fund can never be too large. There pocket. v is always need for money for case finding, health For the property tax alone the expense of col- education and medical research as well as rehabili- | Jecting it amounts to an enormous chunk of it. tation. There never was a time in the history of Alaska If you haven't Christmas Seals, a check when the Territorial tax structure was thrown intc mailed to the Alaska Tuberculosis Association, Juneau, |such a mess. will bring them to you.. Or telephone the Association, T TG e 234, and Mrs. Paul will see that a member'of the The way to grow old gracefully is to be content Christmas Seal committee calls upon you. | to let the world go on its stupid, muddled way without your trying to inform, advise or reform it. HOLD THOSE HATS | | Appear hesitant and reluctant when granting | something that is asked of gyou, less the beneficiary | will fee! he should have asked for more and will be disappointed. There are likely to be a great many American conservatives to celebrate the defeat of New Zea- land’s Labor government. “Here,” they’ll say, “is skuldugery. After the canceled| Congressman Brown was vac- checks in Thomas's kickback deals, ationing at the Tivoli Hotel in plus an important witness, were |Ancen, Panama, when the Revolu- turned over to the Justice Dep: | tion started, and was envious of | ment, it carried through thoroughly | his GOP colleague, Rep. Chnr}es |and efficiently. However, Alex | Wolverton of New Jersey, who wit- Campbell, dynamic chief of the | nessed some of the early shooting. Criminal Division, who carried the So Congressman Brown decit?ed ball, had to buck some opposition|to do a little front-line reporting himself and walked bravely up the The Washington i erry-Go-Round PEARSON bW e of this kind before a Grand Dear the top. g General Benny Meyers—the first | Street toward the theatre of Rev- wwon. of course, has had a revelation that General Meyers had | olutionary Operations about two two miles away. However, when the Congressman was several blocks away from the hotel he heard shots from a near- spreial White House pass, has sup- |P€€0 UD to no good was published |in this column on July 29, 1947, plied liquor to Gen. Harry Vaughn, | s ridden on special Presidential when it stated that Meyers had . stood on the bridge of a|sPeculated in the stock market with t'leship with the President \vhun""k much as $4,000,000. Chief credit he reviewed the fleet in New York, ; Pelongs to the Brewster Committee, and at one time had access to the | however, for bringing out the facts| White House at almost any time|in the Meyers case and turning| of the day or night. So while Gen- them over to the Justice Depart- eral Benny Meyers can't even get|ment. parole, Maragon isn't even indict-| Arabian Oil—it was also thej ed. | Brewster Committee which develop- Reluctant Justice Department ed the amazing manner in which Pailure to act In the I\Ihr;\gnu“.“tm“ Admirals ::nd‘\lm Navy had case brings up a point reg ,-(i,,,Q'“V"rCI“‘r“‘“ the U. S. Government for Arabian oil during the we the Justice Department which Justice *pa B r most people don't realize. The public b(‘:l Ew‘fi(‘p;::‘l\:;:' ‘f_mc 55 generally thinks of the Justice De- Famear broceca Darbment B ih s Snroteotig (ach, uted this scandal, but exposure of the facts resulted in new oil con- tr that he didn’t want to be a “war correspondent” after all. Ohioan, who tips the scales above 200 pounds, returned to the hotel in a dead heat with a run-away horse which had also been surprised by the shooting. REBEKAHS BAZAAR 1O.O.F. Hall Dec. 1-5, evening 7-11. —adv. 17, alternoon 69-2pl by building and suddenly decided a portion of the Carlanna Road According to colleagues, the hefty | oomnany of Juneau, Frank A. Met- | SCHWINN BIKES AT MADSEN'S.'gistered at the Gastineau Hotel. t Juneau lollrw: Anchorage 13—Snow | Barrow 18—Snow M. S. Wilson advertised in The Empire for a lost bulldog named Bethel 18—Cloudy | g oo, Cordova 7—Clear g;:::;:::(m 1 nig:g:;; In a doubleheader, the Juneau Fire Deparement quintet won from Fairbanks 4_Clear | the Unalga cagers, and Juneau hoopsters came out on top of the Haines 28—Clear | Douglas Firemen. Havre 18—Clear Juneau Airport 24- ~Clear[ McCloskey's Place advertised taxi service of 25 cents a passenger Annette Island ... . 40—Cloudy | t; any part of the city. Kodiak 29—Cloudy Kotzebue 13—Partly Cloudy = < 2 McGrath i 16— 0lear }Nfeather. Hirzi 29; low, 26; dea,r‘, L Nome 22— Partly cxoudyi‘ i " Northway . 7—Snow | -I . . Y s | Daily Lessons in English v | Portland . 39—Cloudy ! W. L. GORDON Prince George 27—Snow | e — e ] Seatie 40—Rain| wORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “The letter was dated from vyhnehorse ;3——Srlmw : Chicago.’ Say, “The letter was dated AT Chicago.” Yakutat leet OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Brooch. The preferred pronunciation |is BROCH, O as in BROKE. OFTEN MISSPELLED: Intelligible; three I's and three L's. SYNONYMS: Novel (adjective), new, unusual, unique, different. 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: REPUDIATE; to refuse to acknowledge, or to accept. (Pronounce the U as in CUBE, accent second syllable). “The plan was repudiated by members of the opposing party.” ELECTION HELD BY HRE! UNION At the Tuesday night meeting of Local 871 of the Hotel and Restau= | rant Employees’ International Un- [=—=— ion, the following were elected to hold office for the coming year: Marge Voilles, Vice President; San- ! dra « Zenger, Recording Secretary; | Cledamae Cammock, Financial Se- | cretary and Business Agent; Bertha Hills Little, Vivian Powers and Emily Schmitz, trustees; William| Mong, Inspector. Election of Mong was the twelfth | consecutive time he has been chos- en as Inspector of the local union. | GIRL SCOUT NEWS Troop No. 5 Girl Scouts met| Tuesday afternoon in the Metho- dist Church. We worked on our gifts for Mt. Edgecumbe, and brought|F TR ] sut pictures for the scrapbooks. Wel‘l ompleted plans for our Christmas[‘. LO OK a nd lEA RN party December 20 when our| nothers will be our guests. Helen Claire Lister, Reporter | | Q. When a woman is indebted to several people who have enter- tained her, would it be all right to give one large party and invite all of them? A. It would be better perhaps, if a large number of people, to give several smaller affairs, inviting to each party only those persons she thinks would be congenial. ¢ Q. What should one do when with a crowd of people, following ‘a dance, and the others wish to drop somewhere to eat, and one is not hungry? | A. One can always order something very light and make an attempt |to eat it. | Q. When caling on a friend and she is not at home, is it all right to leave a message of some kind? A. Yes. “Sorry to have missed you” may be written on one's card. A. C. GORDON Why is the yolk of an egg called by that name? 1. | . By what is e llector ki 2 ROAD (ONIRA(T GOES 1 Z P:o; ;harémn:\islca?s::;n lt:olcr:,ese:hl)erso:Z.W‘x‘ISlumher On, My Little Gypsy Sweetheart”? TO JUNEAU COMPANY 4. What does eugenics mean literally? " | 5. What is a sextant? Contract for regrading work on ANSWERS: north of Ketchikan has &een| 1. From the Anglo-Saxon meaning “yellow.” The word also signi- fies the core or heart of anything. granted to the Berg Comimctmn‘ 2. Philatelist. calf, Territorial Highway Enginoer.} 3. Victor Herbert’s “Fortune Teller. announced today. | 4. Well born. Metcalf returned from Ketchikan 5. An instrument for determining a ship’s position at sea. yesterday. The bids for the job were opened there Saturday. The Berg COnStruction COMPANY | pme——— e - bid $12,900 for the job, Metcalf | il | Oldest Bank in Alaska 1891—O0ver Half a Century of Banking—1949 HERE FROM HAIN| George Meacock, of Haine: of the U. 8. Government, which Gt And iavine {0 the taxnases reaches out to punish dishonesty| . . g s A8 taxpayers i R o 3t LA 2 3 of millions of dollars. wherever found ‘and does its best|" goo o RO CONLL 3 to keep the Federal Govern s e ol C d P | e ] e en S i op P 2 e "w“"glmma-—wlmn a Grand Jury prob- osswor uZZIe | » A teul of ibortant oases,| DS 1obbyiss leerned about the ACROSS 23. By way of however, indicates that the Justi specylating gaesvilies (ol - Semalor] o1 1n sddition 1. Typs: measure a s S TS A Thomas, it wanted to indict him,| & Tiffs 30. Destroys | Department is extremely reluc- 9. Unseal: poetle 31 Austrian | tant to go after the big boys m;but the Justice Department de- {g gmd of beetle meanirsol s . ys in ot el e Capeety D 1] government, and that most of the ‘:‘]}‘:X‘T&;:jtefit‘] ’f}.mm?si rrfen'da. boundary 32. Au_fh?!r ol | ufety epas t cleanup cases have been d(»\‘(‘lu];e(l,mgo Ralph ]\:L‘)OX‘C ".;I;n:nl;fi;c;ldz- i Tny?.’fv?rlg R“e‘::o:’F. ) either by committees of Congress|p s, . ) » J-| 12, city in 33. Masculine { B R ther by committees of Congress|*\ty nonaig, ‘ana Rovert Harriss| L1 Hinbte e * oxes for Rent or by the newspapers. Frequently | " o "o oo S o 18. Feminine 34. Rude house it isn't until after a crime has been C. S8 AR ok name 36. Proportion | ; A [ 19. Pinchers 37, Expenditurs COMMERCIAL SAVIN thoroughly aired by the press and{ Thomas has been defended dur- g Marsh grass 38, Make desti- 1 on Capitol Hill that the so-called |ing discussions inside the Justice| 35 Siorn towa 40, Recnive 2 ; | upholders of the law in the Justice Department by No. 2 bigwig Peyton | 2. Morbid 4 Camoip Sofution of Yesterday's Puzzle | DA ont o, Z et ath! N nt's Department move in. And if |Ford, who hails from OKlahoma Sounds “mother DOWN 3. Anticipated } friend or high political figure is!Ford also dr ed his heels a ros- Down: prefix Church gov- with fore- d his heels at pros- | 3 Nourished erning body 1 Fuss involved, such as John ragon, | ecuting certain other high-ups in| 27, More rational 45. Three: prefix 2. Peers o | mm sc:cumm they t move at all.|government while the little fellows 5. East Aticss | o“n Bmm ere are a few mnotable cases|associated with them went to jail " cotn as a paid-up subsc TH. ALAS in point: Voo toet: Mont 1 are of i WebEl 6. Noah's boat I EMP[PRE A l; ubscriber to THE DAILY KA Alger Hiss—now on trial for per- [kneed in the Justice ¢ LR P is invited to be our guest THIS EVENING jury. This case was developed by|when it comes to going after the Eaee | resent this coupon to the box office of the the House u terican | big politicos who cheat their own 0. Biblical { cu famed pumpkin papers. Since thel C e oy § 4. First name of On the other hand, the Justice the inventor and receive TWO TICKETS to see: Jusl)uc Department finally moved | Department’s criminal division and in, however, lawyers have done [the FBI did an excellent job of a S Pl an: Prsis ! 7 " . an efficient and persistent job, I tracking down and prosecuting var- ..////nfi - SO H!Gn WALL ’ Congressman Andrew May of [ious trea ases—nota 24 . Not dangerous |lous treason cases—notably AXis( % . Fabric resem- Kentucky—now sentenced to jail.(Sally, Tokyo Rose, Herbert Burg- -//%H.. s yelvet Federal Tax—12c—Paid by the Theatre Various hints of May's peculiar ac- man, together with the Judith Cop- | %H. Fina Ph 14—YEL 5. Comfortable one 14— Low cAB co. Phon: =i e tivities were published by this col- |lon documents case. But in none of | umn and others for some years, but | these were any high-up Democrats | it took the Senate Inve :or high-up Republicans involved. committee, under Sen. Jim Mead of —— New York, to bring out the facts House colleagues are getting a After that the Justice Department big chuckle over the ill-starred ef- | acted. forts of Ohio’s Representative Clar- Congressman Parnell Thomas— |ence Brown to become a “war cor- now sentenced to jail. It took a ' respondent” during the recent up- newspaperman to dig out Thomas's rising in Panama, Wooers S, Different Boone aud an insured cab WILL CALL FO! and ; g}:::;‘l{: eross RETURN YOU to your home with ouchg:)ptilimentl. 4. Soft drink WATCH 'THIS SPACE—Your Name May Appear! City in ada Receptacle for Ornament for a spire Exclamatlon There is no substitute for Newspaper Advertising! by w IALEUTIANS QUIT FOR "KEY’ BASES Limited Funds Limifs De- fense, Says Symingfon- Counter-atfack Spots SEATTLE, Dec. 15—(®—The Air orce is withdrawing from Aleutian Jases to concentrate its personnel at key Alaskan installations from which counter attacks can be launched in case of invasion, Air Secretary W. Stuart Symington dis- closed here. Symington -again gave veiled THURSDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1949 _—— - —_—_— ment authorities. The bases are: Shemya; an auxiliary field at Am= chitka; Davis Base on Adak Is- land; Cape Base on Unmak Is- land; Thornbrough Base at Cold Bay near Dutch Harbor; and a. auxiliary field at Atka Island. “While we consider that there is & requirement for an increase in both the air and ground defense potential (Alaska),” Symington de- clared, “facilities simply are not available to absorb the additional forces.” The Air Force will seek addi- tional funds to strengthen Alaskan and Pacific Northwest defenses, Symington stated. Symington expressed resentment that despite Air Force assurance that it never has planned to close the Boeing plants in Seattle, criti- cism from this area of the Air Force's policies with respect to Boeing and the Pacific Northwest has not lessened. Buy Christmas Seals assurance that the B-52 jet bomber vould be built in the Seattle plants f the Boeing Airplane Company. His statements were contained in’ wo letters dealing with Pacific| lorthwest and Alackan defense nade public Saturday by Senator Warren G. Magnuson. Symington emphasized that the Air Force intends to strengthen the aefenses of toth areas, but is doing all it can with funds available. He acknowledged that the pre- sent radar warning system in Alaska is not satisfactory and thnt' t has been impossible to deploy all | of the military forces earmarked for Alaska because of inadequate facilities in the Territory. BEST ADVANTAGE Air Force troops have been with- drawn from bases of lesser im- portance, in order to utilize its limited forces in Alaska to the greatest advantage, Symington wrote Magnuson, who had ex- pressed concern over the Territory’s defenses. The Air Force announced 10 days | ago that it was tuming over six Aleutian pases to other govern- Help Stamp Out TB AXOOCOCCS Open 11 a. m. to 3 a. m. 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