The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 20, 1950, Page 4

PAGE FOUR . Y . and put before him the arguments for and against Daily Alaska Empire | siec o' o ae thre i e g Published ev except ‘Sundsy by e that no nation, menaced as fundamentally as we are, | 3 COMPANY . can afford to pass up the opportunity of making the oup President | most colossal engine of war ever dreamed of. There s - Vice-President ng Editor Manager Entered in the Post Office in Juneau as Second Class Matter, SUBSCRIPTION RATES Delivered by carrier in Juneau and Douglas for S1.50 per month; six months $15.00 g ra is, in advance, $7.50; $8.00; * pa if they will promptly notify e or irregularity in the delivery 602: Business Office, ASSOCIATED PRESS News Office, 3. MEMBER OF Telephones v entitled to the use for not _other- s published a Newspapers, 1411 SUPERBOMB Whether or not to recommend a project for de- veloping the hydrogen-powered atomic superbomb is the gravest and most difficult question that Mr. Tru- man has been called upon to answer since the decision to drop the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima. Indeed, the choice may be the most cosmic that has confronted any chief of state in war or peace in American history; it may determine the survival of the civilization that the Western world has known for 2500 years. This terrific burden falls initially on the shoulders of one man—whether to build the superbomb or to leave it in its present stage as a theoretical possibility. The hydrogen bomb has been advanced as far as it can go on paper; it remains to try to make it. The prospects are that it can be made and that it will explode as designed. In theory, at least, it has no upper limit. It will be not merely 1000 times more powerful than present atomic bombs, but n times more powerful, with n any multiole its makers choose. It will have no peaceful use. The temperatures in- volved are beyond any human control or management It will be solely a weapon, fit to fry to a crisp ten or hundreds of square miles at a crack. Mr. Truman's own advisers have already marshaled is the additional argument that our mere willingness to begin its manufacture would serve as an irresistible would force the Russians into agreements building a truly and permanently peace ful world. If we don't take the step, maybe the Rus- sians will .;u\yway: if they could make a plutonium | bomb, they can probably make a hydrogen bomb. bargaining lever that Policy of Discretion (Cincinnati Enquirer) All of us will applaud the purpose of the Stewart- Warner Corp., of Chicago, in its new policy of not employing Commnists. The effectiveness and the jus- | tice of such a policy, however, will always depend on| the intelligence and the discretion of those who must enforce it. Certainly the policy could lend itself to some abuses. & s The company’s plan is to submit non-Communist affidavits to those employees whom it suspects of being Communists, and to fire those who refuse’ to sign. This is simple enough. And the purpose is { admirable for it is merely to give the advantage of good employment to those persons who believe in and support the political tem we have found in Am- erica—and to discourage those who would overturn it if they could. However, it falls to the management of the com- pany to select those employees who are suspect. This } at once invites discrimination. If 5 per cent of Stewart-Warner employees receive affidavits and all cign them, they are discredited in the eyes of many | fellow-employees, because they were suspected. Tt is also a fact that under the current practice of the Communist Party, a party member is free to sign a non-Communist affidavit when that seems tactically advantageous. This being the case, the Stewart-Warner formula may not lead to the dismissal of the real Commies at all. if there are any. The undertaking is an interetsing one and merits sympathetic study as it develops. But in view of the serious abuses to which it might conceivably lead, it can hardly be recommended to employers generally. The legal right of an employer to dismiss or refuse to hire a Communist seems unassailable. But it might | still be unwholesome for employers to set themselves up as judges to single out certain employees and label them as suspected Communists. “Today is the tomorrow you worried about yester- " says the optimist. Yes—and it is remarkable how psvchic we were, isn't it? Faith, hope and charity are commendable attri-| butes, but so often it is the case that a person with an | abundance of faith and hove is taken advantage of jand thus made an object of charity. | | Believed what He did say; ‘lhe future is safe. THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—-JUNEAU, ALASKA JANUARY 20 ‘ Joan Sabin. o Spencer DeLong .| Mrs. Henna Edman . Evan Hill Florence Dobson Joan Gissberg Mrs. Evans Kelly Mrs. H. B. Tindall e ® o o o 0o o o o exisitence but the songs still cir- culate. Here is the doggerel: “When Jesus came to town, Working folks around the The Bank! and the preachers | They nailed Him on a cross, And they laid Jesus Christ in His grave. “poor working people, they follered Him around, Sung and shouted gay; Cops and the soldiers they nailed Him in the air, And they laid Jesus Christ in His erave. “This song was written in New | York City, Of rich men, preachers and Slaves; If Jesus was to preach like he Preached in Galilee, They weuld v Jesus Christ in | His grave.” | Dr. Matthews says: | “A large part of the work which| Communists do among children under the supervision of the in- ternational workers order. The| children’s activities of the IWO in-| clude costume dances, drum -.and; bugle corps ,dramatic plays, coml(‘i strips, short stories with a ‘class struggle” angle, essay contests, and}' summer camps. The | | | | oldest and | largest of the IWO children’s camps | ‘Wo-Chi-Ca, situated in the north- | west New Jersey hills. The camp’s | name is derived from the words, workers' children’s camp. Paul Rob- | eson is the hero and best-known | sponsor of ‘Wo-Chi-Ca.” When he last visited the camp, he said to| the children who were camping there under these Communist aus- pices: ‘When T look at you, I know “All over the United States, there | - rom HE EMPIRE 20 YEARS AGO JANUARY 20, 1930 Miss Lillian M. Kennedy became the bride of Mr. Thomas R. Young at a ceremony in the Douglas home of U. S. Commissioner Charles Sey, who officiated. Witnesses were Mr. and Mrs. Harry Worobec of Juneau. After a month in Seattle and Portland, Charles W. Wilson, Bu’reau | of Public Roads Resident Engineer, returned to Juneau. Secretary of Alaska Karl Theile received a letter addressed to “Sec- | retary of State, U. S. Capitol Building, Sitka, Alaska,” requesting “native | postage stamps” for a high school educational exhibit in Roanoke, IlL, | to complete displays of similar envelopes representing all nations in the world. “Sixty-six have responded,” the request read, “and we wish to complete.” Comment: “Educational exhibit, indeed.” Mrs. Charles Flory, who had been called to Portland, Ore.,‘because {of a death in the family, returned home on the Northwestern. The Fire Department answered a call to Yurman's Fur Store to find that a plumber thawing frozen pipes under the sidewalk had raised a cloud of steam. E. W. Payne, traveling auditor of the Alaska Steamship Company, arrived on the Northwestern. Mrs. E. H. Kaser, who had been away for several weeks, returned on the Admiral Rogers. C. C. Rudolph, Federal jailer, and Mrs. Rudolph returned from Seattle on the Northwestern. Ed McCormick arrived home in Douglas after a couple of months visiting in California. Raymond Dickson, one of the young men residents of the island for the previous two,years, had moved to Juneau, where he had taken quarters at the Bergman House. William Cook of Doug- las had entered St. Ann’s Hospital for an appendectomy. The America First, Capt. Jonn Haho, arrived from Petersburg and way ports with three passengers for this port: Arthur Voght, from Harbor Island, and John Laidinen and Mike Pinstep from Taku Harbor. Weather: High, 30; low, 17; clear. Daily Lessons in English 3. 1. corpox WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “He’s an all-around star.” Say, “He’s an all-ROUND star.” OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Coral. in ORE. OFTEN MISSPELLED: Psychic, though pronounced sigh-kick. Pronounce O as in ON, not as [of the musicale, at which a silver | The Washington Merry-Go-Round | the Chinese grapevine on November | 4 that they had landed in Commun- | ist territory, were alive and in good health. This was confirmed by ad- ditional reports on January 17 and ! THESE DAYS --BY-- GEORGE Z. SOKOLSKY are summer camps for children 1 i 3 r'e N uil, unruffled. | which are run by the Communists SYNONYMS: Serene, calm, peaceful, placid, t .q. i land the numerous organizations 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: POLITIC (adjective); sagacious in promoting a policy; shrewd (accent first syllable). “This politic selection brought the good fortune intended.” i ) MODERN ETIQUETTE Roperra ee which are under Communist con- | trol. The number of these camps| ‘runs into the hundreds. During| jthe summer of 1949, not less than | 50,000 American children went to| i these Communist-controlled camps. (Continued from Page One) March 22, 1949 i : PR, SRS R R JININ J ) L] bridge until after 3 a.m., g down | the pair's captors, got in m\mhllri"an oty M‘;::;:gfl co(;m;:;' td 18" GHHEE abo it “oolr, Foes out | with the Navy by their right after to negotiate (ported that Bend been moved fr for golf lunch, sees callers at 6 p.m. If an American businessman letter and‘offered |, /" \ile by Dr. J. B. Matthews freedom. He Te- | which very Americ: t er and Smith had | L e R b m Hsia Tien to ishould read and pcnder. It is en-i So-called liberals may say that we must let the Communists do as they choose because it is important to preserve our children. None; of USSR S S 4 41 Q. Should a child be permitted to leave the table before the rest of the family have finished eating? wants to see the Ambassador, he is usually invited in at six, but finds so many other callers grouped arcund the Martini tray that he can’'t discuss anything private. What drives Wadswort staff really wild is his belief in strict protocol. He demands, for instance, that no one of lesser rank leave a dinner party until the top ranking guest has departed. And since the Ambassador usually outranks ev- € ne else, oth guests have to twiddle their fingers until 3 am., until he gets up from the bridge table. Once when a young matron, not in good health, tried to leave a ¥ y at midnight, Wadsworth put her in her place with: “Where are you going darling?” e—A great admirer of the abs, Wadsworth's denunciation of Je is so vigorous it is em- rrassing. When Arab dignitaries ss through Istanbul, he is a visiter at the airport to o frequent greet them National Water Survey The U. S. Public Health Service will socn make a sweeping survey tc determine the effects of water sh and water pollution on the s health. Federal Health officials privately rcport that the lack of facilities to decontaminate river water— h most Americans drink—is king. A sudden breakdown of these subgrads facilities, they say. cculd lead to serious water short- ages in other cities besides New % More than 10,000 new water- cleansing units are needed through- out the nation to decontaminate drinking water taken from rivers bring it up to proper health taste standards. and Communist Captives Though the heat was taken off the Chinese Communists after An- gus War release, the State De- partment is still trying to free two cther Americans from Communist hands. They are Marine M /Sgt. Elmer Bender of Cincinnati, Ohio, and Navy Chief Electrician William Smith of Long Beach, Calif. These men have already endureu one icy winter in an underheated Chinese but the public clamor in their behalf hasn't been loud enough to arouse the State De- partment. Believing, however, that two en- listed mz2n are entitled t protection as one of the State De- partment’s own employees, this col- umn has investigated the case of Bender and Smith. They disappear- ed on a routine training flight near Tsingtao, China, on October 19, 1948—one year and two months ago. Word reached the Navy over .{ Note—What the State Department | Nan Tsun, China, about February ! 15. The Navy delivered a written document, asking for their release, 'received an answer that the Navy fweuld be put in touch with the| “highest authorities.” However, i further further word came through,?! |50 the Navy turned the matter over (to the State Department. That |kbegan the series of notes to Chin- ese Communist officials, | Finally Mrs. Smith on July 23,7 '1949. appealed to Congress. 1 “As the Navy has evacuated | China, my husband has been left | behind without supplies and medi-| jcine,” Mrs. Smith pleaded. “I have | never been able to correspond or !send him supplies. I have two small ; jchildren, one his father has never ! 1seen. My children need their father | as I need him.” l Can't Even 3irite Families 1 On August, 4, Ernest A. Gross, Assistant Secretary of State, in-! {forming Congress: jed Congress: “Our diplomatic and consular of- ficials in China are doing everything | possible to secure information | concerning the welfare of Mr. Smith {and Mr. Bender and to secure their |return. A message just received from the American Consul General at Peiping states that he has at- tempted further approach to the authorities there.” One month later, Gross prcmisedl again: “The matter is again being: brought to the attention of the highest Chinese Communist au- t ities at Peiping Another month passed. On Oct- ober 18, Gross reported sadly: “The Consul at Tsingtac on October 10, 1049, addressed an informal mem- crandum to the lccal Communist authorities stressing the humanitar- ian aspects of the two cases. This approach was without satisfactory | response from the local authorities who the were ‘instructed’ to inform Consul that they no longer w the whereabouts of Mr. Smith | Mrs. Bender.” ] test word from the State De- partment said: “On November 25, 1949, our Consul General at Peip- |ine a letter to Chou en-Lai, |who is in charge of the foreign re- | j lations of the recently es!nbltshed‘ Chinese Communist regime request- ing that he cause an early inves- | |tigation of the matter to be made jto the end that the men be per- jmitted to communicate with their | families regarding their personal ) welfare.” sent {is up against, of course, is the| | impossibility of sending armed ! force into China to rescue two men. i However, it would seem that ft| {should not have required a year| “m ask the Communist Foreign Min- | lister that the men have the priv- ilege of writing their families. | titlea Kid: gerel Alan 1o | T€ctors were Tom 1% Grenell, Mill Lomax. “The Commies Go After the and begins with issued by People’s Songs, Inc whose national director Seeger. On the national board of di this dog- was Peter Glazer, Horace ard Lampell, Earl Rob- insen, Kenneth Spencer, John Ham- mond, Jr., Songs, Inc., has now gone out of People's 'us would willingly put our child- |ren in a pest-house; yet we often |do not give a second thought te | the corruption of their minds and | moral welfare. We permit them to be corrupted. There is a law against | na {the impairment of the morals of | minors that to be applied only to sex morality? There are other | immoralities. A. He will be better trained if he is taught to sit quietly until the others have finished. Of course, he may be excused if the grown-ups linger over after-dinner coffee and conversation. Q. Is it correct for a married woman to send a wedding gift in her me only if the bride-to-be is a special friend of hers? A. No; she should always include her husband’s name when sending wedding gifts. Q. Should a man wear plain black socks with a formal evening | suit? ACROSS . Inquire . Broverb . Old times: poetic Constellation . Plump and rosy Negative . Notched on the edge . Day’s marth Comfortable . Insect . Conflict . Follower ot hobbies . Artificial = language Egret Plant witha pithlike stem Beard of grain 2. Silken . Pinch Acute . Book of maps . Down: prefix . Missions 2. Shipworm . Contends 5. Sheet of glass . Steps for cross- ing a fence . Good buy . Chinese dynasty idler . Murmur . Poultry product Leaven Embrace A. Yes; patent leather shoes, white tie, and plain black silk hose | should be worn. Imimr e 1 LOOK and LEARN ¥ A. C. GORDON S ) 0 LOEEER | o/m->rimojijna H 1. Which of the U. S. States is named for (a) its green mountains; E (b) its snow peaks; (c) its red ores; (d) its dry climate; (e) a daughter : of Henry VIII? S I 2. What great explorer was Kkilled by natives of Hawaii? 3. What is the distinguishing feature of Gothic architecture? Solution of Yesterday's Puzzle 4. What is a firkin? DOWN 3. Asiatic 5. What does the French phrase, “‘comme il faut” mean? foen | iy ANSWERS: 2. Perceive o Bdgea e | 1 @& Vermcyt, (b) Neveda, (¢) Colordoa, (d) Arizona, (e) Vir- 1: {‘ffifi-fl‘ ginia for Queen Elizabeth. 9. Relation 2. Captain James Cook (1728-79). through e 3. The pointed aich. . Fold over on | . Coloring agent | . Ov ty | . Yo ers . Kind of brittle limestone . Rail bird Let down . Places of defense Avalanche Candl 8. Peru . Gn!'(nz strength 4. A small cask. 5. As it should be; proper. sl soreeirancelifvstsoelif smstifoonsesfrarocif oo} Plumbing ® Healing Oil Burners Telephone-319 Nighis-Hed 730 . Restaurant en- tertainment . Metal fastener . Vocal musie Oldest Bank in Alaska ‘ 1891—0ver Half a Century of Banking—1950 The B. M. Behrends Bank Safety Deposit Boxes for Rent COMMERCIAL Harri Machine Shop, Inc. 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FRIDAY, JANUARY 20, 1950 Weather ai Alaska Poinfs 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 . =6—Clear Annette Island o 22—Clear Barrow -35—Clear Bethel 23—Freezing Rain Cordova 25—Clear Dawson -10—Fog Edmonton -1—Snow | Fairbanks 12—Cloudy Haines 16—Clear Havre 3—Sleet Juneau Airport -3—Clear Kodiak 36—Partly Cloudy Kotzebue 20—Fog McGrath ... 6—Snow Nome 33—Drizzle Ncrthway 19—Snow Petersburg 7—Clear Portland 29—Freezing Rain Prince George -6—Snow Seattle 42—Rain Sitka ... 23—Clear Whitehorse -8—Partly Cloudy Yakutat 0—Clear FIRST VESPER MUSICALE AT METHODIST CHURCH SUNDAY, JANUARY 29 Three prominent Juneau musi- cians will combine their talents for the first in a series of vesper musicales at the Methodist Church, at 3 o'clock Sunday afternocn, Jan- | uary 29. Presenting the program will be Mrs. Corrinne Jenne Kenway,: vio- 1i Harold Salisbury, bass, and Ruth McVay Popejoy, piano. | Mrs. Jane McMullin and Mr. and Mrs. Lauris Parker are in charge | offering will be taken for a spec- ial church fund. A reception in the social hall will follow the musicale, with Mrs. Mild- red Lister in charge. METAPHYSICAL GROUP WILL MEIJ TONIGHT | The Metaphisical Group will con- | vene in their regular weekly meet- | ing tonight at 8 o'clock at the| headquarters at 113 Third Street. All interested persons are extend- ed a cordial invitation to attend. =a | —— Brownie's Liquor Store Phone 103 139 So. Frankiin P. 0. Box 2508 SR——. SRR O i TS GEORGE BROS. Widest Sclection 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 Beward Street - Near Third The Charles W. Carter Mortuary Pourth and Franklin Sts. 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