The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 3, 1950, Page 5

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1950 SHOWPLALE or L GOLD Shows at 7:15 — 9:30 Feature at 8:00 — 10:15 EXTRA? TONIGHT AND SATURDAY CONTINUOUS SHOWS SAT. starting 1:30 p. m. THE PRIZE DARING MEN SOUGHT AND FOUGHT FOR HWEST! SUSPENSE OF TWO STRONG MEN...WANTING THE SAME WOMAN! LEON ERROL in “CACTUS CUTUP” CARTOON—MUSICAL—Pathe NEWS THESE DAYS BY - - GEORGE 2. SOKOLSKY | PERJURY 1 Like others, I have been reading the apologies for Alger Hiss and | Dean Acheson in the New Herald Tribune and the Washington Pest and 1 find it increasingly dif- | ficult to discover their moral posi-° to forgive | tion, They want us Hiss with a sort of boys-will-be- Foys slap on the wrist. They want us to believe that on and p jury are to be determined not by or moral, but by the times in which they were commit- ted. Young boys cut of the gutter are sent to prison for perjury, but if the liar is from Harvard or Groton, a different rule applies. That_is.a snoh's law. Yet, the fact is'that Alger Hiss has been convicted as a liar. Anyone who has read the case, even if he has some doubts as to the nature and extent of Hiss’s treason, and even if he rejects Whittaker Cham- bers, must know that Hiss not only a liar but a continuing one is Further, he might even reach the conclusion that he been as- sociated with other liars, because evidence shows lying in the seconc trial by others as well as by Hiss A liar is ipso facio « 1eprehensible ( person, He denounces himself as untrustworthy. The opposition to lying in hun tradition 1is so Geeply rooted that an oath is pro- vided in most instances, not only to connect the lie to civil law but to mroal law. The liar is not only punishable by government, but by God. And that brings up the issue of the oath. We swear in public of- ficials, and we used to do it by having him place a hand on thc Bible. I note that nowadays, the public servant, in many places, just raises his right hand and takes his oath. When a man swears to God that he will tell the truth, the whole truth, and r.othing but the truth, or that he is and will be loyal to the Government of the United States, or that he will uphold and main- tain the Constitution—He is not only committing himself to Gov-j ernment but to God. He acknow- ledges his obligation ‘to moral law. But suppese a man is a Marxist, ] an Atheist, a Communist, then he makes no such committment and therefore is not involved in the preying of his conscience. True, he is a hypocrite for having sworn to God whom he rejects. True, he has taken the oath with his fingers crossed and his tongue in his cheek. As he hates God and hurls his fist at Him, the oath itself is a mockery. Before an oath is sworn, the per- son should be asked to state that | he believes in God. He should be required to make a public confes- sion of his faith; otherwise, of what use is it to swear him in? To him, such an oath is just a joke. Now, when the New York Her-| ald Tribune, the Washington Post, | and other so-called liberal organs seek to ease our consciences con- cerning Hiss, they really ask us to condone lying, to accept the| oath as a joke, to renounce moral law. Their position is that wild| oats will be sown, not only before | one knows right from wrong, but| even by those who are supposed to | be so mature that we entrust to| them the highest tesponsibilities in | government. When Dean Acheson quoted Matthew in defense of. Hiss, he might also have quoted thej Commandments: “Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain; for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.” And also, “Thou shalt not beer false withess against | materia thy nczighbor. It is sweet and gentle to ask for nerosity and forgiveness, but it is a debasement -of morality to justi the lie. Too long in our lives have we permitted our public of- ficials to be liars, to get away with the lie, to abuse us by false reducing the oath n of civilization {0 witness and by fhe 1eje moral 0 by-play. la reduces ou v y That is the issue. If these news- papers, for political reasons, wish to justify the lie, let them say outright without fancy verbia 50 SWAN LAKE PROJECT RECLAMATION STUDY OVER, GECLOGIST BACK After a I -week study of the proposed Swan Lake power project under way by the Bureau ot Recla- mation held in Denver, Ade E. Jasker, geologist with the bureau’s Ala; to Juneau to complete preliminary reports on the Ketchikan project to be submitted to Washington. Jaskar conferred with other geol- ogists and designers in the chiet en- gineers’ office in the Colorado city in regard to the project. The bureau is currently completing prelimina investigations for their Washington repor While in Denver, the geologist re- viewed latest developments in the reau’s laboratories, where spec- are conducting research on planning, designing, building and »peration of Reclamation’s projects Through laboratory research’mil- lions of dollars are claimed to have been saved the government by dis- coveries of more economical uses »f materials and by solution of con- struction problems, During his stay at the plant, chool was being conducted for field inspectors of concrete and earth-fill he said In addition to the Swan Lake pro- ject, the bureau is at present mak- ing headway on survey of a project on the Susitna River, 125 miles north of Anchorage. Plans call for de- velopment of the Susitna, Nenana and Matanuska Rivers. Already investigated and reported on are a power project at Lake a lDorothy, 16 miles southeast of Ju- neau and the proposed $20,000,000 Eklutna power project near An- chorage. Fate of the Eklutna proposal is now in the hands of the Senate, where hearings are presently under way. The bill was passed by the House last July, and would autho- rize construction of a dam, diver- sion tunnel, a 30,000-kilowatt power plant and transmission lines from Anchorage to Palmer, If approved, completion is set for 1955. Joseph M. Morgan, chief of the Alaska office, is now attending the Senate hearings. | WEATHER IN a investigation office, returned | THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRF_JTUNTAU, ALASKA PACT "0LD LOS ANGELES’ | 15 FEATURE BILL AT | CAPITOL THEATRE e | ays of “Oid Los An- | the feature tonieht for the | end at the Capitol’ Theatre. | The stars of the historical epic arc | | e lawless zeles” is William Elliott, John Carroll, Cath- erine McLeod ph Schild and Jose only cold-blooded gang sters ruling the area let no one | obstruct t} grandiose scheme tc utput of the area. Ir Missourian, played by | t, determines to finc | his brother. In his Juest, lovely young ca r, portrayec | by Cath d. He also sus ects John Carroll, in the role of ¢ | charming but secretly vicious hood- | Schildkraut, whc | nbler. With this comes a spectac- sebh there | alar fil JANUARY WAS BELOW NORMAL THe’ monm 6. chnuasy, (dbep | On the Heelh ol the ainomie- “”"I’:‘ invited to go to the 5 5 *| nent of the spring concert serles ’ cold and clear | ;g was received by Ernest Ehler tion 2 of the proposed consti- / Juneau, and 2t the &ir-| 5. ot of the Juneau Concert ion sets forth the m't‘:um/xnuxr ?:u( :m,u : w‘nffll{\\q{'rc bmkewAw“,m“m" that the community | 2 ((:llnv\.? n; w](],l:)u‘lm (1m—)' | for the period since 1943, when the | o " he ‘shipped immediately meau) purpose shall be to pro Weather Burcau was established | = of tne instrument for which Ju- te community study and sing Firs. | neauttes have contributed gener- |ns by systemdtic effort in fx | The highest temperature of 32{ ) .o John Ortez of the Baldwin |1Ucnt rehearsals and concerts both grees for the month was 9 de- | piye “Company in New Yurk, | M€l or with other groups in such | es lower than that for any pre-| ;. te. “The rvl‘)mlt concert grand iy as to ‘lhmul:\t(r the love for vious year. A new record low tem- |1 D No. 98531, is in perfect c that is in this community perajire. of s 19 degrees sondition, in both case and ac- |2nd awaken ftalent in both the established, 2 degrees colder fon, and met with Maxim Schapi- | Adult and the young that otherwise any previous record. The mean| .o’ approval in both looks and (Might cither be lost or too long maximum, mean minimum and|ione . you will find the key in a |-cferred.” mean monthly temperatures were| oy ; ———— all much below the average, and| The Baldwin Company is pay- (ou"(u TO (0"S|DFR more than ten degrees cclder than | ng half the freight from New York means recorded for any previous| . Seattle. the Juneau Associat TWO NEW ORDINANCES vear. The mean temperature for the Lo ogher $149. The instrument month was over 17 ae below | sompletely covered by insurance The JuBbcs Gy Ootnod Wil | the normal for January | Schapiro will give the first con- | meet in regular session tonight at ! Cloudiness and precipitation were | ert on the new concert grand g o'clock in the Council Chambers , very low for this month; the|some time in March, and the se-|of the City Hall. Two new city precipitation recorded was less than | >nd artist will be Kenneth Spencer, | ordinances will probably be read percent of the normal amount. The percentage of possible sunshine was three times as great as is aver- age for January. In the city of Juneau, extreme low temperatures are more infre- quent, and January produced colder temperatures and lower precipita- tion values than normal, but no new records were established. How- | ever, the mean temperature for the city of Juneau was the lowest re- corded since 1916, and the precipi- tation recorded was the lowest since 1930 Airport Data Highest temperature: 48 in this January 32; lowest temper: ~17 in 1947, this Januar mean maximum temperatur age 317, this January 18 minimum temperature: 21.0, this January 8; mean | monthly temperature: normal & this January 7.9; total precipitation 1944, mean | average | normal 4.06 inches, this January 094 inches; maximum wind: SE 45| mph in 1948, this January SE 38 | mph; average cloudin: average | 79 percent, this January 44 percent; | percentage of possible sunshine: average 25 percent, this January 74 percent; total snowfall: average 182 inches, this January inches. | City Data | temperature: 41; lowest ature: 0; mean maximum ature: 23.4; mean minimum | temperature: 12.5; mean monthly | temperature: 18.0; total precipita- tion: 1.17 inches. GILMORE TO ATTEND ATTORNEYS’ CONFAB The annual conlerence oz all fed- | eral district attorneys will begin in Washington February 13, and wil! be attended by P. J. Gilmore, Jr., U. | 5. attorney for the First Division. | Attotney General J. Howard Mc- Grath called the conference to go | through February 16. Gilmore wili | leave Sunday on the southbound | Denali, he said. The meetings are usually held in the fall, but last year was skipped because of Mc- | Grath’s being only recently ap- pointed to succeed Tom Clark, who went to the Supreme Court, and he ;vmshed time to get his office or- ganized before calling in his far- | flung organization. Highest tempe tempe LICENSED RADIO SERVICE Well Equi pped Shop NORTHERN RADIOPHONES Parsons Electric Phone 161 quick to mistrust a |3 134 § CASH PRIZES CHORAL CLUB IS NEW NAME FOR ARE GIVEN IN singinG GRoup MENU (ONTEST Community Chorus Board s met t night to hear the Censtitution ¢ nmittee headed by W — Paul Sr. Outstanding proposal Ladies (and gentlemen), you still ht forth by the committee wa ave time to win a cash prize in f setting forth a new name first ¢f The Empire’s weekly »up. Choral Club of Ju 1 and recipe contest > the new name whi you need is Wednesd and ymitted to the group a Chursday’s Empire. Both 1ssues con the proposed cc complete instructions and the | rocery ads necessary for participa- ition and by ion ‘n the contest. m shiy offic Three menu and recipe combina hod of conducting t jons will be published each week the new group which did on Wednesday, Thursday and Fri-| itstanding work with th Prizes will be announced in M h at Christmas “riday’s paper. The first prize is $3,| P call for the reproduction of he second ¢ thira, 31 eac Znter wdopted rules so that they may 10w, let others enjoy your favorite ed to all members of the recipe: attend next Thursday Reme:mber, we must have rsal at the Methodist C C by Tuesday. Mail it to| Work® will begin at next week CONTEST, Daily Alaska rsal on the Easter portior Box 1891, or bring it to he Messiah. Part of the mecet- ire office. time will be used to discus ness but many members have ted that work start on music as soon as possible. New nbers of the community or thos were otherwise obligated dur the Christmas season but who to work ‘with the group are CONCERT GRAND IS ENROUTE T0 JUNEAU will be April who probably bass-baritone, in April, Negro oresented 15. for the third time at the meeting. They are: (1) the ordinance call- | ing for the donating and granting of the lots upon which the Arctic | FROM FAIRBA | Brotherhood Hall now stands to Fairbanks residents staying at]the Territory as a site for a new he Baranof Hotel include Mr. and | Territorial Building; and (2) the ordinance setting new regulations for the regi ation of voters. : The transfer -of land to the Ter- FROM SITKA | ritory would first have to be ap- Gould of Sitka is a guest| proved by Juneau voters in a special anof Hotel. {(-lc(-tirm. city officials said Mrs. R. P. Hill, A. E. Waxberg and James Chiarelli. I C. N. at the Ba Buick from Stem to Stern - This sturdy looking bumper and grille combination graces th.e front ‘end of the complete line of 1950 Buick automobiles. Other distinctive l.e-. 'tures are the full taper-through front fenders, wrap-around bumpers with homb-shaped bumper guards housing the parking light and direction signal indicators in front, and back-up lights in the rear, and identifying name plates on the front fenders. The cars have completely new bodies, and a new and more powerful enginc is under the graceful hood of the new Super sedan shown above. -— Subscribe to the Library Building NOW! Only $23,000 Needed THINK OF THIS!—By raising $23,000 we are assured of getting a fine new pubic library building costing $140,000, and to be built this year. Never again can we expect such a fine opportunity to get the kind of library structure we have talked about for a quarter of a century. Subscribe now to the library | fund — in cash or in the form of a pledge to be paid within two year: Call the Memorial Library Board for details. (Space contributed by Alaska Coastal Airlines) IMYSTERY WITH | | MUSICAL FilM AT 207H CENTURY the | End onight IO0MENTURY + EATURES — CHAN SOLV HIDDI DEATH! CHARLIE CHAN “DOCKS OF NEW ORLEANS” 0 and 9 ) | | i 9 YOUTH JIVES ITS WAY THRU COMEDY! | in | DING DONG | WILLIAMS | Glenn Vernon Anne Jeffrey ) A double bill is showing tonight he 20th Century Theatre and zive did entertainment | A tense mystery drama, “Docks of | New 18, is the second of the Charlie Chan detective films star ng Roland Winters as the Orier he gives a con¥incin nce. laughter Hollywood setting in RKO Radio (OLORED SLIDES s, Save-27% CHRISTIAN SERVICE | ss Erma Wainner led devoti { the monthly meetin Woman's Soctety of Christiar vice Wednesday evening | Methodist Church Chapel icribed the need for literacy Or h, and are all motic “Ding up in studio Williams,” ly with music, feat mixed a Complete « des- and | more schools throughout the world in Alaska and to Seattle between October 15 and March 15 and mentioned the work of the ! American Bible Society | A program of colored | picting varied project !x-wt_v. was shown by |B. Morgan, with .a by Miss Beatrice ides included scenes lides, Rev commentar, The orphan- | | ages, hospitals and schools, as well A ® Take advantage of Pan American’s annual fare reduc- tions. Visit cities in Alaska ... fly to Seattle on business or pleasure . . . vacation in Hawaii. At these fares you save enough for extra fun. And Largain tickets are good until April 15. Fast, frequent 4-engine Clipper service. Shepard at s national and international con- erences. These slides touring | |the Alaskan WSCS groups, which ! | recently purchased them | Mrs. Clyde Turner presided [the business session in the parson- | age where plans for the World Day |of Prayer, Feb. were formed | Valentines and ccokies will be sent !to the Jesse Lee Home again this |vear by the women. Secret sisters are at YOU SAVE ON BOTH ONE-WAY AND ROUND-TRIP FARES for the past year were revealed | N o and new ones drawn. The commit- | BETWEEN SEATTLE KETCHIKAN' | JUNEAU | WHITEHORSE | FAIRBANKS tee reported the succes: of the mus- orw B S ® SRR i o Jicale recently sponsored by the So KETCHIKAN! /¢ | Al oroks ik b | ciety. oI el Childran 212 yaan, Plans were made for a dinner| | JUNEAY iy | holf of bargoin vare. Monday evening, Feb. 13, tg hon-| [ 'WHITEHORSE o/w or Roy L. Smith, who will be guest LR AL | speaker. Mis. Jack Popejoy was o/w X 1 i RBANK! |appointed chairman of a commit- | FURSANEE &1 [ 16920 |tee for this occasion. NOME o/w 125.00 Refreshments with a Valentine M| 22500 N30 itheme were served by the host-| | ¥INCLUDES CONNECTIONS BETWEEN KETCHIKAN AND ANNETIE ISL. Y'ONE WAY, ROUND- TRIP sses, Mr. Don McMullin and Mrs {he ot il ek BARANOF HOTEL — PHONE 106 rs. Peter Oswald will be hos! e Py, for the Afternoon Circle meeting E L Feb. 8. A[p tfl[t/qll f | { 1 e | amons sencienes swmns e SYORLLT ALBWAVS %, F | Baranof Hotel are G. R. Sumpter, “ o | Ross P. Hebb, Daniel Narodick and expent | Alfred Schmid TOMORR 7:30 P. M. | (Preliminary) | House of David vSs. | 2 Top Channel Teams Plenty of Standing Room S s JUNEAU 1 TAX HIGH GYM