The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 30, 1949, Page 4

PAGE FOUR profligacy doesn’t make the other kind of democracy work. In time it will smother it, just as surely as Roman freedom suffocated under “bread and circuses.” : . Daily Alaska Empire Published every evening except Sunday by the EMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY Second and Main Streets, Juneau, Alasks #ELEN TROY MONSEN - - - - President THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASEA ' '1'20 YEARS AGO 7%'s EMPIRE! = DOROTHY TROY LINGO - - ELMER A. FRIEND T GRS . ALFRED ZENGER - - & (4 . Vice-Pres'dent Managing Bditor Business Manager SUBSCRIPTION RA Delivered by carrier in Juneau and Do six months, $8.00; one ¥, One year, in me month, in advance, $1.50. Subscribers will ccafer a favor if they will promptly notify be Business Office of any failure or irregularity in the delivery M ‘heir papers. Telephones: News Office, tage paid, at the following rates: nce, $15.00; six months, in advance, $7.50; 602; Business Office, MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS | The starting d in Alaska has been $15.00 nouncement, supervisor of the changes an earlier designated for the e tory. will be counted as The Associated Pruss is exclusively entitled t( the use for cvublication of all news disyatches credited to it or nov other- vise credited in this paper and also the local news published terein. rest of the nation. start of census taking in the United States. made Sensible Change (Fairbanks Daily News-Miner) ate for taking the decennial census | set for April 1 to conform with the The an- by Gene Harris, the 11th area Bureau of the Census in Seattle, date of February 1 which had been start of the tabulation in the Terri- Under the new plan, the population of Alaska it is being counted throughout the This makes a lot more sense than the previous arrangement. A large proportion of the Territorial population irth Avenue Bldg., Beattle, Wash. NATIONAL REPRESENTATIVES — Alaska Newspapers, 1411 months e: earlier date cited tk DEMOCRACY When former President Herbert Hoover says “Let’s make democracy work,” and couples the statement with a plea for a retrenchment in Federal spending, he hews to the heart of the difference between de- mocracy as spelled with a small “d” and Democracy as capitalized. The word with the small “d” means government It means a political pat- tern of life in which the rights of the individual are of, by and for the people. not submerged, but are exalted. It for human dignity, freedom for private enterprise, freedom for ambition, thrift and energy. Democracy. with a capital “D” is referring to the Democratic Party. man and his predecesor have been busily engaged in making that kind of Democracy work. Indeed, they seem torhave found a magic formula in the opening up of the apparently limitless credit of the Federal Treasury to every block and clique. spending and unchecked waste seem to be good partisan politics. They make Democracy work. But Ihe Washinglon ' werry-Go-Round 8y ums\'w_ :’_EAKS()N (continued from FPage One) s i TR oA special White House plane to fly to the Big Three Foreign Ministers onference last November. #Facheson wanted the “Dew-Drop,” the de luxxe liner which the Air Force had built for “President” Dewey. But Johnson refused on the ground that the President’s special plane, the “Independence,’ was enroute to Iran to bring back the Shah, and that Mr. Truman wanted the “Dew-Drop” kept in the United States in case of emer- ency. Johnson offered his Cabinet col- league the President’s onetime plane, the ‘Sacred Cow,” but the Sacred Cow does not make as much speed as the Independence or the Dew-Drop. So, without arguing any further with the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of State quietly rented a special plane from American Airlines. This cost the taxpayer around $12000 and was the first time a Cabinet member has rented a spec-, ial plane, since Air Force planes| are available at considerably less cost, Winchell Starts Shortly after Acheson returned! from Europe, Walter Winchell] broadcast an item that Washington in 1950 would not be big enough for both Acheson and Johnson. Acheson didn't know Enyl.hing' about the broadcast—until 9 a.m. next day, when he got a phone call from Johnson asking if he could come over to see him right away. Acheson agreed; and John- son, arriving a few minutes later, asked: “Did you hear what Walter Win- chell said last night?” Acheson - hadn’'t, but thought it was interesting that the Secretary of Defense should go to so much trouble to say that he had nothing to do with inspiring the broadcast. As a matter of fact, if either of the men departs, it will probably be Johnson—not because he isn't doing a good job; he is. But he has occasionally stepped on Truman’s toes. Something | Johnson’s Double Johnson is doing one of the most difficult jobs ever tackled by any administration—pruning the military budget and at the same time putting across unifica- tion. Cracking Army-Navy heads together is difficult enough and contributed to the death of his! predecessor. But simultaneously cutting the budget is bound to make any Cabinet Secretary of| Defense unpopular inside the gov- erment. However, Johnson, in his zeal to get things done, doesn’t always| clear his appointments with either! the Democratic National Commit- tee or the White House Se-.etar- iat. On major appoiniments, hei clears with the President himself, but he goes over the heads of the men around Truman to do this, and they don’t like it, Job 'is seasonal and migratory. year are in the period when many Alaskans visit the United States on business or for vacations. Hed the census in the Territory been started two arlier than in the United States, the prospect was that many individuals would not be counted at all. { Population gains and other information whic sus is designed to yield could not have been reflected | accurately under those circumstances. In making his decision, Area Supervisor Harris levidently found himself perched on the horns of a dilemma from which he managed to extricate himself not without difficulty. The announcement setting the The early months of the | | DECEMBER 30 L. F. Morris Margaret Fowler Kenneth Kearney Alvera Robertson Leo. E. Osterman Florence Kelly R. M. Thomsen Millie Wallace 0 e © ® % @ est orator of the Roman Catholic| Church today. | Such rationalists as Emma Gold- | man, the brilliant anarchist, trav- he Territory’s vastness, the so-called travel difficulties Which would confront census erum- erators and the ebb and flow of seasonal workers. Then the census supervisor reversed himself, an- nouncing that the after all, because t would be bad in will contain the means freedom these days and ce a partisan word, President Tru- cyjties faced by than any involved ment. Unrestrained Politics fsn't t Recult has been a steady trickle | of well-placed anti-Johnson venom | in the President's ear. This, plus, perhaps the fact that Truman may see a 1952 Presidential rival in the dynamic Secretary of Defense, ex-| plains why he dropped the re-| mark to intimates that someday | he’s going to “get rid of that so- and-s0.” [ Truman, however, has been| known to fly off the handle and then forget about it. Meanwhile, Johnson is doing one of the best jobs in the Cabinet, and would not be easy to replace., So also is Acheson. And as of the present moment they seem to have climbed out of each other’s hair and put aside their differences. Mail Bag Correction: A recent column mayl have been unfair to Stephen Down- ey of Sacramento in linking him with his brother, Sen. Sheridan Downey of California. The fact is that Stephen Downey is an ablEi Liberal; and, unlike his Senatorial brother, fights for his convictiorns Just received from Sidney| Hyman, Washington, D. C., a let- ter which reads: “I've just read your column about toys for the kids of Europe, including the Ger- man children. I have no love for their parents. Some of them wip- ed out every member of my own amily in Europe; others among them were on the other side of the line when I was at the Kasserine Pass, at Cassina and Anzio. But 1 agree wholeheartedly with the thesis you advance in your col- | umn and am grateful tnat somu-' thing remains of your backsliding| Quaker conscience so that you still can advance such a thesis. Since I have no children of my own, and thus will have no opportunity to salvage toys from any after-Christ- mas shambles, I am enclosing this check to buy new ones, Would you be so good as to attach any name to the gift you think wise. You might simply say, America.” SAN FRANCISCO NURSE TO LEAVE FOR BARROW’ Mrs. O. Ann Reule, a registered | nurse who arrived here from San! Francisco, will fly to Point Bar-| row on Saturday to become Lhe‘ fourth nurse on the staff of the| 18-bed hospital maintained there by the Alaska Native Service. At present there is no physician at Barrow to minister to the na-! tives, Dr. James T. Googe, ANS| medical director, said, but one s expected to be placed there in the | near future, Plans are going ahead to augment the present establish- ment with a 26-bed tuberculosis| sanatorium, he said. At present no chronic cases are| cared for, he said. | DEEP SEA DIVER HERE l Bob Logan, Cordova deep sea diver, stopped overnight at the Baranof Hotel before going to Se- attle today. Pumpkin Center and Pumpkin! Chapel are two Kentucky poflo!-l fices. ! JOINT MEETING i Juneau Vessel Owners and P'lsh-l erman’s Union in Fisherman'’s Hall, 89-1t | [} 8 p.m. tonight, places in the Missouri Ozarks and which present problems far more insurmountable enumeration would start April 1 ravel conditions for census workers February and March while many Alaskans who should be counted in the Territory would be in the United States during those months. The result seems to be that Alaska will get the type of census which it is entitled to and one which full information compatible with similar facts gathered from the rest of the nation This is as it should be. tory to the United States is frequently emphasized The importance of the Terri- rtainly there is no excuse for the taking of a distorted or slip-shod population count among northern inhabitants. As to travel conditions and other alleged diffi- enumerators, there are scores of the Tennessee hills in reaching Alaska’s farthest settle- he only thing that makes strange bedfellows. There’s that thing called love. HESE DAYS GEORGE E. SOKOLSKY THE HALF-CENTURY YEAR—IV In 1900, the social center of Am- erican life was the church. The American people were religious deeply attached to their various sects, reading the Bible not only in church but even at home. Pray- ler at table or in the parlor Wasi,uiarly the biologic sciences, broke| not unusual. Many American Chris- tian sects were “fundamentalis! that is, they accepted literally every word in the Old and New Testa- ments as revealed truth. The larg- est number of church-goers among the Protestants were Methodists. A great religious revival had oc- curred in the Nineties, under the leadership of Dwight L. Moody with whom was asSociated Ira D. San- key. Moody was an Evengelical or- ator; Sankey was a hymn-singer. It impossible in 1950 even to estimate the force that these men released in their generation. Their style of religious preachment was followed by many others who trav- eled over the country and some of them to other countries. The most interesting in the early years of the century was Billy Sunday with his song leader, Homer Rode- heaver, whose trombone is a liv- ing memory to anyone who ever heard it. Of course, there were rationalists, agnostics, atheists, socialists and anarchists who conducted a steady attack on religion. Undoubtedly the greatest orator in American life in the later decades of the 19th Century was Robert Ingersoll, the rationalist, out of Peoria, Illinois, the same city that gave America Monsignor Fulton Sheen, the great- h the cen- | God's word. eled the country attacking God and the Bible, as the Evangelists spoke Only a nation deeply rehglousl could have devoted itself pro and | con to this debate, which headed | up in the Scopes trial at Dayton, Tennessee in 1925, over evolution,| the contestants being William Jen- | nings Bryan, often Democratic | candidate for President, and C)nr-f ence Darrow, the lawyer. It was| a contlict between Fundamentalism | and Modernism, between religious faith and the current version of| science. The entire country was/ stirred by this ‘trial, the newspap- | ers covering it plentifully and of-| ten heaping great ridicule on the | State of Tennessee which forbade the teaehing of evolution. Young intellectuals, even among, the clergy, at the beginning of | this century, were influenced by a European literature, hardly reud‘ nard Shaw, Tolstoy, Matthew Ar-/ old and a host of others were de-| voured. They were reading Thomas | Huxley’s lectures and among the | clergy, the higher criticism, eman- ating from Germany, deeply influ-; enced by Schleiermacher, produced a profound impression. | Protestant Christianity swerved | in many places from a religion of ethical system as the Bible to an which, while accepting Jesus among the great moral teachers of the human race, devoted itself more to social service. Many clergymen ceased to preach with texts from the Bible; they turned rather. to discussions of plays, books, politics. | The sermon became the sole at- traction of their services. The church was kept engaged during {every day of the week, but as much as a social center as a religious| ‘in 1950. Tbsen, Brieux, George Ber-/ At the same time, the tremen< dous emphasis on science, parti< down the authority of the Bible among young people in the early | decades of this century. During prohibition, especially as a re- sult of the moral horrors of the Jazz age, with its bathtub gin and the unbelievably careless conduct of parents in the presence of their | children, social restraints so es- sential in an orderly society were lessened. Divorce increased almost to its recognition as an institu- tion. The mores of the nation; seemed no longer to frown on il-| licit sex relations, newspapers and| radio devoting considerable space to normal news reports of such re- | lationships among persons whose fame was not a result of achieve-| ment but of ‘“glamor.” As 1950 is approached, moral problems attract renewed atten- won. There is an extraordinary re- vival of interest in religion. Church attendance has increased and the Bible has regained its popularity. * ~¢ the least significant factor in this resurrection of interest is the radio performance of “The Great- - 1vold,” the work of Fulton Oursler, a layman converted | to Roman Catholicism. | But the greatest factor of alll was the war and its aftermath and | the horrors of Marxian materialism as evidenced in Soviet Russia and! its satellites. | ayes Crossword Puzzle JIERR ACROSS 28. Body of water L. Feminine name 29. Horseman . Worker in 31. Make ready metal 34. Mohammedan 1L Stir up nobles 12. Polo mounts 35. Tenn!s strokes 14, Stuft 3t Spanish article neral spriugs 15. Became %8, Child's word 17. High mountaln for father 18, Owned 3. South Amer. 19. Praise T e 20 Woody plant 41, Form of Type measure security Nerve network 42 Blemish lace of action . Endeavors 0. Grinaing tooth The birds Shops Feminine name . Wear away . Thick 2 2i. Solution of Yesterday's Puzzle DOWN . A bt 1. Wandering mghibias . Sing softly . Plural ending Hurried . Cut down . At home . Little tiara . Capital of ontana . Pains Blade of grass . Regrets . Mechanical bars Military forces Large streams Simple minute organism Heating device oked 2 3. 4. 5 Ambassadors 6. 1. 8. Grates seribe . Arrangement Rest Puff up . Quantity of ‘medicine . Genus of the honeybee . Garden plot . Male child . Artificial { language ¥ . Football post- tion: abbr. .i MODERN ETIQUETTE ¥eerra LEE : institution. §| | = DECEMBER 30, 1929 The steamer Northwestern, Capt. Joe Ramsauer, arrived westbound with these passengers for Juneau: A. Johnson, Fred C. Jones, L. Shitanda and W. Sprigade. all from Seattle, and Mrs. J. Osborn from Wrangell. Boarding here were Mrs. Stella Linder, Lee Morris and Paul Leckwaller, going to Cordova, and Mrs. Clara Dickinson, Charles H. Flory and Pete Nordstrom for Seward. More than 500 youngsters shook hands with old Santa Claus at the Elks’ annual Christmas entertainment for Gastineau Channel children. All children under 12 years old had been invited to Be guests at the theatre, where Ken Maynard was featured in “The Canyon of Adven- ture,” and later party. > (LIRS A daughter was born early the morning of December 29 in St. Ann’s Hospital to Mr. and Mrs. Jack Koby of Taku River. The family was well known on Gastineau Channel. Tom Haines of Tee Harbor underwent an appendectomy, and Fred Campen also had entered St. Ann’s Hospital for surgery. Able to return to their homes after hospitalization were Mrs. C. J. Wittsell, Mrs .Eva | Robinson and Mrs. Pete Folden. John H. Guffey of the Butler-Mauro Drug Company was due that afternoon on the Princess Norah. Another passenger was Deputy Col- lector of Customs Maurice S. ‘Whittier, wno had been outside to spend the holidays with his family. Friends here had received word that Miss Hilda Nystrom and Mr. N. O. Hardy, former Juneauites, had been married in Seattle in Novem- per. The bridegroom had worked in various parts of the Territory as warden for the U. S. Bureau of Fisheries. After a pleasant visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Fox of Douglas, Miss Lucille Fox planned to return on the Norah to her position in Tacoma, Wash., with the U. S. Internal Revenue office. government nurse at Hoonah, arrived in Douglas : n b ‘ W. L. GORDON [f Miss Laina Aalto, for a short visit. Weather: High, 38; low, 34; rain. Daily Lessons in English WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “I like that car of John.” Say, “I like that car of JOEN'S.” OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Pseudonym (a pen name). Pronounce su-do-nim, U as in CUBE, O as in NO unstressed, I as in HIM, accent first syllable. OFTEN MISSPELLED: corner). SYNONYMS: Irony, sarcasm, satire, mockery. WORD STUDY: “Use a word three times and it is yours.” Let us ur vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Today's word: very small. (Accent follows the N). “The diminutive t are seldom heavy enough to be felt until they are too Angel (a mesenger of God). Angle (a increase 0 DIMINUTIVE; chains of habi strong to be broken.”—Johnson. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1949 NINE C-74 BIG CARGO PLANES WILL FLY IN ALASKA TRAFFIC SEATTLE, Dec. 30—(®—The mili- tary Air Transport Service will place nine Douglas C-47, four-en- gine transport planes, in Alaskan traffic service in January, Capt. Eric C. Forrester, MATS repre- sentative at the Seattle Port of Embarkation, announced today. The 165,000 pound cargo planes will make 12 flights during January taking off from their home base at Mobile, to fly to Anchorage with intermediate stops along the route it Tinker Air Force Base, Okla., Kelly Air Force Base, Tex., Sacra- mento Air Depot, Calif, and Mc- Chord Air Force Base, Wash. At Anchorage, Alaska, where the 247s discharge their cargo, C- 3&'s, Air Force transports, will pick it up for shuttle runs to outlying bases. Commenting on the cargo flown to troops in Alaska, Captain For- rester said that eight tons of fresh vegetable produce is flown there sach month. He added that fresh milk is being air-freighted to the axchange service at Adak under airline contract. Kind of Glove io Pick Up Sound Is New Aid fo Deat (By Associated Press) A marvelous new invention for he deaf has been announced at he New York meeting of the association for the advancement of science. It is still under development, but it is likely to end up as a kind of glove that picks speech out of the air and transforms sound into | a series of tiny electrictl shocks hat carry on to the brain. Dr. Norbert Weiner of the Mas- sachusetts Institute of Technology s;ays even a blind deaf-mute learn- :d to speak with the device, using his fingers as ears. PIONEERS ATTENTION Regular meeting &nd Christmas party Friday Dec. 30, 8 pm. Bring jifts for exchange.—adv. 87-3t o Q. When giving the floor number to an elevator operator, should one always say, “please”? { A. Yes. Say, “five please.” A “please” or a “thank you” are small courtesies that cost nothing, but mark the well-bred person. Q. Is it necessary for a bridge hostess always to have a new deck of cards on the table? A. The bridge hostess should have two table. Q. When a should the host sit? A. Directly behind his wife. TOOK and I.E_ARN fi’f{ C. GORDON e 1. Who is reputed to have originated the gold standard? 2. What is the name given to a railroad or steamship company that carries passengers and goods for hire? 3. What is the Kissing of the Blarney Stone supposed to confer upon one? 4, What English peer gave his name to a popular article of food on every picnic table? Who was the “sweet singer of Israel”? fresh decks of cards on each party of people is occupying a box at the theatre, where | | L. , 5. ANSWERS: 1. The Roman emporer Augustus. 2. Common carrier. 3. The ability to get what one wants by cajolery. 4, The Earl of Sandwich. 5. David. A — R Oldest Bank in Alaska 1891—0ver Half a Century of Banking—1949 The B. M. Behrends Bank Safety Deposit Roxes for Rent COMMERCIAL SAVINGS ) JOE HUGHES as a paid-up subscriber to THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE is invited to be our guest THISYEVE?“NG Present this coupon to the box office of the CAPITOL THEATRE and receive TWO TICKETS to see: "THE SECRET LAND" Federal Tax—12c—Paid by the Theatre Phone 14—YELLOW CAB C0.—Phone 22 and an insured cab WILL CALL FOR RETURN YOU to your home with our ngg,fliu WATCH THIS SPACE—Your Name May Appear! SCHWINN BIKES AT MADSEN'S. e — Brownie's Liquor Store Phene 163 139 Bo. Franklin P. O. Box 2506 S IITRS] GEORGE BROS. Widest Seclection of LIQUORS FHONE 399 —_— The Erwin Feed Co. Office in Case Lot Grocery Phone 704 HAY, GRAIN, COAL and STORAGE STEVENS® LADIES’—MISSES’ READY-TO-WEAR Seward Street Near Third The Charles W. Carter Mortuary PFourth and Franklin Sts. PHONE 1368 Casler’s Men's Wear Formerly SABIN'S Stetson and Mallory Hats Arrow Shirts and Underwear Allen Edmonds Shoes BOTANY 'le CLOTHES NUNN-BUSH SHOES STETSON HATS Quality Work Clothing FRED HENNING mmlu- B. W. COWLING COMPANY Dodge—Plymouth—Chrysler .WM SHAFFER' '8 SANITARY MEAT FOR BETTER MEATS 13—PHONES—49 Free Delivery ' e c————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————— ————————————————————————————————————————— MOUNT JUNEAU LODGE NO. 14 SECOND and FOURTH 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, Becretary. —— e e, BLACKWELL’S CABINET SHOP 117 Main St. Phone 72 High Quality Cabinet Work for Home, Office or Store —_——— Moose Lodge No. 700 Regular Meetings Each Friday Governor—JOHN LADELY "The Rexall Store"” Your Reliable Pharmacists Alaska Music Supply Arthur M. Uggen, Manager Pianos—Musical nstruments 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 8. PHONE 216—DAY or NIGHT for MIXERS or SODA POP The Alaskan Hotel Newly Renovated Rooms at Reasonable Rates . . PHONE sINGLE 0 PHONE 555 Thomas Hardware (o SOLD and SERVICED by J. B. Burford & Co. “Our Doorstep Is Worn by Satisfied 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 name Juneau Dairies, Inc. Chrysler Marine Engines MACHIVE SHOP Marine ifariware Chas. G. Warner Co. HOME GROCERY Phone 146 Home Liquor Store—Tel. 699 American Meat — Phone 38 To Banish “Blue Monday” To give you more freedom from work — TRY Alaska Laundry H. S. GRAVES The Clothing Man LEVI'S OVERALLS for Boys “Say It With Flowers” but “SAY IT WITH OURS!” PAINTS — OILS Builders’ and Shelf HARDWARE " Remington Typewriters Juneau Florists ” Phone 311