The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 1, 1950, Page 4

PAGE FOUR Daily Alaska Empire Puhllsh(d every evening except Sunday by the EMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY Second and Main Streets, Juneau, Alaska ) the golden decad memories that a YOU SELEN TROY MONSEN - - - - President JOROTHY TROY LINGO - - - Vice-President ELMER A. FRIEND - - - - Managing Editor ALFRLD ZENGER - - - - Business Manager Entered In the Post Office in Juneau as Second Class Matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Delivered by carrier in Junean and Douglas for $1.50 per month; six months, $8.00; one year, $15.00 By mall, postas2 paid, at the following rates: One vear, in advance, $5.00; six months, in advance, $7.50; ope month, in advance, $1.50. Subscribers will confer a favor if they will promptly notify the Business Office of any failure or irregularity in the delivery of their papers. Telephones: 3. sums of money t. ! serving in Japan i would. But not Office, 602: Business Office, ER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS New: EN to tunity arises accept. The Associated is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not other- wise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. NATIONAL REPRESENTATIVES — Alaska Newspapers, 1411 | . " Pourth Avenue Bidg., Beattle, Wash. slight majority, Japanees Diet—a visitors were Jap: soning” | Council. rudely treated democracy is an legislative bodies good sense. IN FOND RECOLLECTION l People are beginning JuU } when many devoted one might suppose | States would cooperate is quite often different to learn more about the responsible for Pearl Harbor. of Boston’s elder statesmen, | be allowed to watch the proceedings of the Boston when a majority now to talk about the '20s as e of sports. We've a hunch it's the re golden, not the decade. h\ ER KNOW When the Federal Government is spending great o inculcate democracy in Japan, and Americans are conscientiously as missionaries of political democracy, City Council in the United And almost any Council the Council of Boston.. For Boston especially when the oppor- something that other citie: ny ban The latest proof that Boston is out of step with the nation was given when its Council voted, by a delegation from the delegation touring the United States democratic process. The Certain other Japanese were Therefore, in the “rea- they should not to exclude a anese. Perhaps it is just as well that the visitors were in one city. For the fact is that imperfect process. There are times is stupid. There are times when act hastily, on the basis of prejudice and fanaticism, and act quite against the dictates of Since those things occasionally happen in democratic America, it is doubtless wholesome for We've been reading the results of the Associated | our Japanese visitors to see for themselves one example Press's poll on the sports greats of the last half cen- 'of democratic self-government when it is functioning jpe kept “constantly in mind.” There tury, and we've been struck by one thing: Every win- | imperfectly. ner, with a single exception, has been a top-notcher from around the '20’s. The exception was in basket- ball, where George Mikan got the nod over Hank Luisetti on the only really close vote of the poll to the earth, and because the But then basketball didn’t come up with any great | fall to. national heroes in the '20’s. All the other sports did, | and it’s they who have been tapped for first places Reforestation earth was the nearest thing We believe it did so for it to we have ours. would conserve the natural water THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA MARCH 1 Joseph L. George Raymond Dickson Jack Popejoy Jane Williams Helen Gallagher Mrs, W. M. McDevitt . F. F. Sharpe . Eleanor Wilkins o o o o o o The doctrine of panhandling has been incorporated into a document entitled, “universal declaration of human righ prepared by the United Nations under the Aegis of Eleanor claration be ratified by the govern- ment of the United States, it would be the'law of our land. s Also, it would place upon this country obligations and responsibii- ities beyond our capacity. The fin- ancing of some of these ohlxgnciqns would bl anyone try to enforce these rules and regulations, we should be in permanent war. " Of course, the United Nations is|perg of Virginia, Minn,, and on the Juneau teaching staff for two years, \ only declaring. This is a pxocl'mp ation of intentions; “a common standard of achievement. . .” is not much harm in keeping thxs in mind, so long as it does not Newton had his theory as to why the apple fell fcost us money and send our sons all over the world enforcing these rights. Take, for “@) Everyone a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of him- instance, Article 25: Babe Ruth in baseball, Bobby Jones in golf, Big Bill | supply of New York City, and it is suggested that the | co)e and of his family, mc]udmg Tilden in tennis, Johnny Weismuller in swimming. And all of a sudden we have a theory: It isn't| their calculated judgments that the sports writers | have been voting; it's their fond recollections of boy- | hood heroes. Everyone has his rosy recollections of the past. Everyone thinks that the athletes he wor- shipped when he was in his teens were the greatest ever to come down the pike. Maybe Byron Nelson could whip Bobby Jones 3 up on the best day Jones ever had. Maybe Jake Kramer could have taken Bill Tilden in straight sets. | No one really knows—and who cares particularly when recollection insists it could never possibly be? Has Paulette of 1,000,000 stars ly to be envied. concerned, it just One thing, though, ought to be kept straight:|Herald.) there is little sympathy for the| deserve sympathy. Finally, John L., aged, lonely and at the peak of his career, appears Merry-Go-RBund (Continued from Page One) | for the first time. He had partly have offered him a $40,000 contract to run for seven years. | week, which many of them blam- HIts an unpleasant but Ynbsdad- [l om him, ‘ able fact that civilian defense pre- | the demand for coal had lessened. parations for dealing with any sur-| Now they are sore at the operat- prise attack on the United States|Ors and Taft-Hartley, and the gov- are being speeded up in important ernment which has invoked the talks inside the Pentagon Build-|T-H Act. ing. The old days of air-raid wardens, sand buckets and tin hats are now over, and the new civilian detense against atomic war will concentrate chiefly on diversification of indus- Sick Industry The truth is dustry is sick. And Lewis, by his work stoppages to win wage in- creases, has made it sicker. Every to have lost control of his miners! ‘lust control during the three-day ! notyunderstanding that, that the coal in-! | natives pull up their skyscrapers and plant trees. Goddard ever appeared in a pic- | ture in which she didn’t take a bath in a quart of water and three barrels of soap suds? Harvard University is sending a team of astron- omers to South America to begin an 18-month study and other interstellar bodies in 30,- 000 light years of space between.the earth and the,| center of the Milky Way. That is an assignment great- So far as a study of earth itself is seems a hopeless mess.— (Bellingham ; THESE DAYS (:EORGE h SOKOLSK}. NIVERSAL PANHANDLING While we are being involved more and more in responsibilities beyond our capacity, it might be import- ant to note that universal pan- | handling is being recognized as a, assumption | | “human right.” The is that the doctrine of the “great- est good for the greatest number” requires that 150,000,000 Americans must carry on their backs all the weak, backward, idle, lazy, incom- | petent, wilful peoples of the earth | to the number of more than 2,000,- 000,000. Secretary of State Dean Acheson food, clothing, housing and medi- cal care and necessary social ser- vices, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sick- ness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in cir- cumstances beyond his control.” more than all the expenditures since the end of World War II have achieved. The British still have| to go easy on eggs, and in this country, as a result of last year’s blizzard, lamb chops have become | prohibitive. On the basis of this guarantee, every Englishman is en- titled to two eggs for breakfas whether they exist or not, and I want my lamb chops, blizzare no blizzard. What right has a bliz- | |zard to interfere with the inten- | tions of the United Nations? icle 25 of this declaration of good intentions: enjoy the same social protection | 1Is this an encouragement to all| ,the young ladies of the world to {have babies out of wedlock? By| ocial protection” is meant sub- | sidies, state care, all that sort of thing. The United Nations ap- | parently wants provision made in jall countries for Roosevelt. Should this de-| d us white and should has the right.te; Now that promises a great deal| And look at Paragraph 2 of Alt-' tomfortable illeg- | itimacy. When Hitler encouraged | from THE EMPIRE izo YEARS AGO 7 | The Alaska Indian Band of the Salvation Army returned from a essful tour which included concerts in Vancouver, Victoria and New | Westminster, B. C. The group had been well received everywhere, according to Salvation Army Capt. E. K. Tobin, who returned with Mrs. | Tobin from a stay of several weeks outside. Thirty members, including Bandmaster Williams of Kake, had spent a week in British Columbia, |and were heard over CKWZX, Vancouver, as well as in theatre engage- | ments. ———— MARCH 1, 1930 ! snowfall the previous month had been the heaviest of any February :in the history of Juneau, aggregating 655 inches, according to the | official weather summary of R. C. Mize, meteorologist in charge of U. S. Weather Bureau stations in Alaska. The greatest amount on the |ground at any one time was 32 inches. was 11.3 inches. i Mrs. Keith G. Wildes was most delightfully surprised when a group of 25 friends called at her home and presented her with kitchen and | pantry equipment. After the bridal shower cards were played, with Miss Ida Foss and Mrs. Oscar Jensen winning the prizes. Mrs. George Getchell was hostess to the Woman’'s Missionary So- ciety of the Lutheran Church. i ! Miss Gertrude M. Sandberg, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L. J. Sand- ! became the bride of Mr. Thomas J. Selby. The afteronon ceremony was ! | performed by the Rev. Harry R. Allen, in the future residence of the couple on Twelfth Street. Their attendants were Mr. and Mrs. ! MacSpadden. The bridegroom, an Alaskan of many years’ standing, had !lived in Valdez and Seward before coming here. The son of Hal B.| Valdez Miner and Seward Gateway, Selby had been connected with the | | mec hanical department of The Empire as linotype operator for 20| months. ! selby, veteran Alaska newspaper man and former publisher of the i | ‘Weather: High, 38; low, 28; cloudy. | Daily Lessons in English % 1 worpon WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “There isn't but one book | on the shelf.” Say, “There IS but one book,” or, “There is ONLY one book.” | OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Chicanery (trickery). Pronounce shi- | kan-er-i, both I's as in IT, A as in CANE, accent second syllable. OFTEN MISSPELLED: Innocuous (harmless); two N's. Inoculate | (to communicate a disease to); one N. | SYNONYMS: Kingdom, empire, dominion, domain, realm. WORD STUDY: “Use a word three times and it is yours.” Let us increase cur vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Today’s word: SUBVERSION; act of overthrowing or state of being overthrown, or ‘xumed utterly. “Laws have been often abused to the . . . subversion {'of that order they were intended to preserve.”—Rogers. P MODERN ETIQUETTE ¥oprrrs Lee - “(2) Motherhood and cluldhoodL SR iare entitled to special care and g Q. Should a business woman make a practice of shaking hands? assistance. All children, whether| — pis is entirely optional with her. However, if she is really born in or out of wedlock, shall {her hand. Q. .When a man and a girl attend church together, is it all right | for them to walk down the aisle side by side? it is. better to allow the girl to precede. Q. Should the hostess answer a “bread and butter” letter? | A. Yes; if the hostess does not reply, the guest may think her visit | was not a success. The largest fall in a single day' sincere about making a certain acquaintance, she should always offer! A. Yes, this is all right, if the aisle is wide enough . Otherwise, | WEDNESDAY, MARCH 1, 1950 Weather af '~ Alaska Poinls | Weather conditions and temper- latures at various Alaska points also on the Pacific Coast, at 4:30 lam., 120th Meridian Time, and | released by the Weather Bureau | at Juneau, follow: ] MOUNT JUNEAU LODGE NO. 1& SECOND and FOURTH Monday of each month in Scottish Rite Temple beginning at 7:30 p. m. Carson A. Lawrence, Worshipful Master; JAMES W. LEIVERS, Secretary. €D B.P.0.ELKS Meeting every Wednesday at | Anchorage 27—Snow; 8 P. M. Visiting brothers wel- | Annette Island . 45—Cloudy| Ccome. F. DEWEY BAKER, | Barrow -19—Partly Cloudy| Exalted Ruler. W.H. BIGGS, Bethel 14—Cloudy Becretary. Cordova 40—Ray | — Dawson . 3—Cioudy Edmonton s—partiy clouay || Moose Lodge No. 700 gmrbanks G—Cloudy' i Regular Meetings Each aines - . 32—Cloudy Friday Havre 7—Partly Cloudyj| Governor—JOHN LADELY | Juneau 37—Partly Cloudy[| Secretary— | Kodiak . . 6—Drizzle WALTER R. HERMANSEN | Aotzehue 10—Clear | & McGrath - ... =2—Cloudy ome 14—Partly CloUaY | e e, | Northway -2—Cloudy BLACKWELL'S Petersburg . 35—Cloudy { Portland . 46—Cloudy CABINET SHOP | Prince George . 16—Cloudy 117 Main St. Phone T3 | Seattle 44—Clear { | Sitka o 45—Rain | wh'tehorse 23—Cloudy Yakutat 37—Rain ‘BLOGD-TYPING PROGRAM |15 PLANNED FOR CORDOVA | Plans for a blood-typing program '\»mch will furnish Cordova with a | virtual walking blood bank were under way this week, sponsored by | the Cordova Health and Welfare { Council. | During the blood bank drive, all | Cordova residents will be offered | the opportunity of having a free | | blood test. The samples are to be | | shipped to the Alaska Department | of Health laboratory at Anchorage | for analysis and cards showing the | blood type and Rh factor will beI mailed to each donor, according to | information about the drive re- ceived here today. | STORIS ENROUTE HERE The Coast Guard cutter Storis was enroute to Juneau this morn- ing from Ketchikan after a month- long trip which took it far out on the Aleutian chain. The Storis re- turned from Kodiak to Ketchikan. | No estimated time of arrival at Ju- neau was given, but the cuttter is ‘expected to reach Juneau sometime | tonight. | pom—— | Brownie's Liquor Store Phone 103 139 So. Franklin P. 0. Box 2506 4 e, [Pommn—a e ] GEORGE BROS. Widest Selection of LIQUORS { | | High Quality Cabinet Weork for Home, Office or Store "The Rexall Store” Your Reliable Pharmacists BUTLER-MAURO DRUG CO. Alaska Music Supply Arthur M. Uggen, Manager Pianos—Mausical 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 St. PHONE 216—DAY or NIGHT for MIXERS or BODA POP | | The Alaskan Hotel Newly Renovated Rooms at Reasonable Rates PHONE BINGLE O PHONE 655 5 i Thomas Hardware Co. PAINTS — OILS Builders’ and Shelf HARDWARE strike he called, every wage boost|ang pCA Administrator Paul Hoff- he won increased the demand for: ., have already warned us that try, blood plasma, and underground | garages. his storm troopers to increase popu- | lation by the same method, public| Remington Typewriters lieved that it would be too expen- operating often irksome, alone preserve civili- 5 PHONE 399 | | Medical experiments, as a resultfoil and natural gas, until today | aynay, 75 . gh the Marshall Plan ends | gpinjon was horrified at the re-| g Yiroihima bombiie, bave] only 61 percent of the mationsioaiisne AT R R R e | Smor e arEe | K d LE ARN . SOLD and SERVICED by shown that whole blood and plasma | passenger trains burn coal, aslyoearter to provide some more du?nonoforbligleo vL}mll} to the mech- a n A C. GORDON “e Emlll reed cn- are the only effective treatment for |4gainst 68 percent two years 8g0.[os tne same to those Europeans| Tr o okl | Oftice in Case Lot Grocery J. B. Burf l'd&c B fiibivii. Thus sree iblood] Todny, ‘alka; a0 many fastories, ls| SRR T 0 R R s Died A Phome 704 o o 0. banks must be built up. ic power plants and homes are| o vonding and like it. The theory‘gmis 3':’ of Ell e P‘."E';““O‘”v of this 1. What ten words comprise 25 per cent of our ordinary speech? i “Qur Doorstep Is Worn by Also under consideration are un- | turning to oil that it is doubt- [pF0 AN T e Yo brive | gny ‘:;:t"}‘l‘{tlerg“::‘r’(’]pm‘;‘l’si‘fs“fia:fg . When was the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima? HAY, GRAIN, COAL Satisfied Customers” Gerground _garases n all major |1l the mines will ever meed tol ot e N Jo baced | & Which is the largest city in the world, situated approximately | and STORAGE cities. It is believed that these not|work much more than three days|puen MeMahon of Connecticut ap-|on good intentions, That kind of | 9% the Equator? FO ::‘alam“"mzfel;:“m:‘m‘\" _\_“““"'““;‘l“:‘ “k‘“*"k except; In case of emergen: parently believing that bribery be- | reasoning has led us astray before: 4. What former Vice-President of the U. S. attempted to set up o (.lqzugarleedGD:Eu.Nn)c Y raid sheplters in”case uicltr:xr:Zenc}v y That is why President Truman, ing so excellent a dev ice; we ought | 1t is like making the distinction|8&n empire in the Middle West with himself as its first emperor? STEVENS GREASES — GAS — OIL B i 0w under considere i he really wanted to solve the coal to use it on the Russians. between good and bad dictators. 5. How much water can a full-grown pelican hold in its pouch? %, ISSES® Hom may be % rent e fodra | s, coula have appoinied not | I fch DR B, e 0| SO L K omienct] 1, ot o HEADY.TO-WEAR Juneau Motor Co. $inds will be awarded to states or|fact-finding board for wages but &) (el that What we should do is 1o} : 4 el 1. The, of, and, to, a, in, that, it, is, and I E R - iti ¢ . wreck American industries by en-|of those who intend. But encourage- * Foot of Main Street fisiee. Fuslinmission. couraging European and Asiatic|ment to bastardy is a renunciation | flsnueus B, 100, Seward Street Near Third Military planners have also been| What the nation needs to know 5 b T 4 AT , | 3. Singapore. considering the whole field of war-|is whether certain unproductive dumping of their goods in this|of the fqmlly. as the elemental unit} o ! plant dispersal. In general it’s be- | mines should not be closed down country, the American sufferer re-;of a social system. It is destructive | B * ] MAKE o5 s ey g tun | ceiving compensation for his losses fof the moral restraints which, while | 5. Seven quarts. The CharlesW Carler JUNEAU DAIRIES sive to uproot certain major in- dustries, such as the auto industry in Detroit. Instead, military plan- ners propose to duplicate facilities kuilt on a stand-by basis. . The civilian defense program may lead to enormous expansion of industrial capacity and the relo- cation of some parts of the popu- lation, but there will be no drastic ehanges overnight. The Army Walks ng.before the House Arm- ices Committee, Defense Se- cretary Louis Johnson was asked why the draft act had to be ex- tended to get men into the Army. “We don't need legislation to get recruits for the Navy and Air Forc- es,” remarked Congressman Doyle of Long Beach, Calif. “Mr. Doyle’s question can be ans- wered Vi simply,” interrupted Chairman CBII Vinson of Georgia. “The Navy floats .the Air Force flies. but the Army walks Lewis’s Tragic Climax John L. Lewis, at the has reached the most tr of his long career. His tragedy lies in that he has done more for one great segment of labor than any other individiual ih history, yet the more he has done for the miners, the less de- mand he has created for their pro- duct, As a result other fuels today have become almost as important as coal. Another tragedy is that, in wag- ing his battle, John L and his bushy eyebrows, his stentorian statements and his bulldozing man- ner have become such a symbgl of diglike to the American public that of 170, climax time; whether some miners should not move to other jobs, allowing {other mines to work full time. In orief, what the very sick coal in- qustry needs is not prolonged bick- kut over-all planning. Dewey Dictum J. Russel Sprague, shrewd pol- to Tom Dewey, had GOP leaders in around New York City the day. He, Sprague, laid down s that the party leaders must: Pledge their support for Dew- s rencmination, if Dewey decides to run, and 2—If Dewey | | | ing, tical adviser 1 meeting with ind other decides to step out, they must support his choice for he nomination, GOP leaders went along on the first request, but refused to swallow number two. U. 8. vs. U. 8. 8. R. Justice Larry Todd, ed reporter for gency, Tass the thin, red-cheek- the Russian news rushed into the | State Department’s press office to ask: “Does the Department have a statement on the arrest of Klaus Fuc | Roger Tubby, an assistant to! Secretary Dean Acheson, looked up and said no. Then, he added: “This show the tween the American and Russian ems. Over here” he continued, “a man accused of giving secrets to the Russians is investigated op- enly before Congressional commit- tees, The story is in all the papers and on the radio. The case is arg- ued on formus. The trial is public. “But, in Russian,” concluded Tub- “if a man is accused of giving secrets to the U. ©., he just vanish- es. No stories, no trial, no man.” goes to difference be-' from his Government, which means from the American taxpayer. zation. ACROSS 2. Elevations of 1. Swab 4. Arabian 33 snake garment 34 o 1. Less 35. Confined 12. Masculine 86. Pronoun name 39. Past 13. Crony 40. Philippine 14. Make amends native 15. 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