The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 2, 1950, Page 4

PAGE FOUR Daily Alaska Empire Pumm.u every evening except Sunday by the RE PRINTING COMPANY Main Streets, Juneau, Alaska MPi gacond and SELEN TROY MONSE JOROTHY TROY LINGO ELMER A. FRIEND ALFRAD E President - Managing Editor Business Manager Entered in the Post Office in Juneau as Second Class Matter. SUBSCRIPTION RAT! 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The American Legion in the States is playing a vigorous role in the cam- paign against sex crimes, ents can aid in this campaign and the Ohio De Legion reeently recommended a set of rules for par- ents including the following which should be earnestly read Know your child’s whereabouts and associates. Enforce your own curfews. Report suspicious actions to your Police Depart- ment promptly and frankly. Train your child to go straight home from school. Train your child not to accept automobile rides or favors from strangers. No comment is necessary on these rules other than the statement that they are suggestions that every mother and father will do well to follow. passes but tment of the American TRAFFIC VISIBILITY In time of rain, fog, sleet and snow the average | pedestrian is less likely to be careful about traffic. He or she darts across the street or pays little attention at Intersections — thinking more about getting wet or} Vice-President | i six months, in advance, $7.50; slipping than about the danger of getting run over. The mental attitude usually is: “Let the cars wait on me.” That attitude is more than a little foolish. Pedes- trians who don't drive cars aren’t fully aware of the fact that rain, sleet, fog and snow make it more difficult, or in cases impossible, for drivers to see them in time to stop. The visibility from within a car is lowered tremendously when it's raining, or caused the windows to some atmospheric conditions have steam up. The safest thing pecially in time of bad weather times that the driver of an oncoming car doesn’t see often, that will be the for pedestrian to do—es- is to assume at all any him or her. Because, very actual case. (Cincinnati & The Clarksville Tribune, published in the Indiana town between the Ohio River and the Great Lakes, town which prides itself on being the oldest American commented rather poignantly the other day on the sheer fatigue of tie local, State and Federal tax bur- dens on the citizenry. It enumerated the long list of taxes and deductions and other weights upon the productive power of the individual or business. Then it made the plaint that too many folk on the public pay roll are “busy doing nothing.” The newspaper was in position to cite an im- mediate example. It seems a government employee, in a government car, had driven all the way from Chicago to Clarksville to find out how many new houses had been built there in the last two years. The mission took two days and 600 miles of mileage to obtain information which a three-cent letter could have obtained from the Town Clerk. Nor was that the end of it. A week later two women employees of the government, driving another government car, arrived in Clarksville seeking the THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA ' MARCH 2 Mason Brent Beach Raymond Beach, Jr. Connie Sharon Brown Howard C. Hayes Jean Hall Nina Wagner Matilda Rowan e o o o | thinking, is and very supported b filial consid- s it not a cruelty,’ they ‘to suffer either man ¢ woman to I uish any considerable time under a avy, age? Can you see a parent or a relative shaking and freezing un- der a cold, dreary, heavy, useless old age, and not think, in pity to them, of putting an end to their misery by putting, ‘which is the only me; an end to their days? Civ creasing regard for this country, perhaps more than anywhere or ever, an lmproved standard of living has been de- voted to the prolongation of lite | way of | | very pious erations. ask you, human life. In ards of old age. An extraordinarily large number of men and women, in their enties and even eighties, often achieving, more than out of experience, same information. When advised the data already had been obtained by a Federal man, they said. “Oh, we know zbout him—but HE was from the Cen- E Bureau and WE are with the Department of Labor.” “A person shouldn’t get up in the morning until he feels like doing so,” asserts a psychologist. But, ‘Dm wouldn't we get too much sleep if we fell into the habit of not getting up until the day after tomorrow? A naturalist says fish have no means of com- munication. We have often wondered why they never respond to lines we drop them. | ' It's strange that so many people are very little | concerned about the future. They don’'t seem to realize they are going to have to spend the rest of their lives in it. lhe Washmqlon Merry-Go-Round (Continued from Page One) | e I am t two., difficult alternatives: 1.—Telling the people the truth about the pessimistic world pic- ture and increasing their wo! Or 2—Painting a more optimistic | picture even if it is not entirely, accurate, Not that the American people are the ones to duck the truth: Nor to duck worry. In my opinion, they are better prepared to take the viccissitudes of life than any! other people in the world. But| they like to know. . They don't like to be kept in the dark. They don't like to get the im- | pression that those at the helm in Washington are confused or vac- cilating. They are not anxious for sacrifices, but they will be will- ing to make them—provided they are necessary and provided they can see the goals ahead. That is why I took the liberty of writing to Dean Acheson the other day, urging that a new and more concrete pelicy be charted, and then explained fully to the American people. Decision Not Now, I am nct proposing to tell you what that course should be. I don’t know what it should be. And I doubt”if you or Dean at the present time know. It is the most difficult question the Cabinet and the country faces—whether to hold a conference with Russia which undoubtedly® would be a failure; whether to force an early showdown which might lead to war; whether to continue an ex- pensive battle of economics and nerves on a far-flung front ex- tending from Japan to Norway and from Indonesia to North Africa. Those are problems which are very easy to discuss in editorial columns or in smoking-car com- rartments where no decisions have to be made. But when the discus- sion takes place on the level of the Secretary of State and the Se- cretary of Defense, where mens lives may be at stake, then my sympathies are with you. I am glad T am not in your shoes. Fur- thermore, when these matt: re discussed with reasonable frank- ness and openness, it helps to ed- ucate and inform the gountry. And that, in my opinion, is the most important thing the Administra- tion has neglected today. between Proved Right Before I have noted with some & ment the pinpricks of my columnist colleagues, the Alsop Brothers, at your efforts to scale down our huge military budget. And I also re- member those who panned when you insisted on prepared- ness in 1941, Pearl Harbor proved you were right then, and I am ping that events will prove you Ehz now. Certainly the nation admired your courageous fight for clvilian rule in the Navy. But all this admirable effort on your part may blow up in smoke SCHWINN BIKES AT MADSE\"S‘ | which | slave labor. if we are immersed in another cut- | throat arms race with a nation has no regard for lmmdni life and is relentless in its use of mean we should of atomic-bomb conferences with Russia, merely for the sake of pacifying public opinion. As a young newspaperman, I attended most of the early arms conferences—the Washington Na- val Conference of 1921 presided over by Charles Evans Hughes; the Coolidge Naval Conterence In Geneva in 1927; the Kellogg Pact Conference; and the London Navalf Conference of 1930. i Most of them ended in partial or complete failure. And the Kell- ogg Pact to outlaw war, which re- presented man’s most cherished dream, dreamt ahead of its time, later was torn to shreds. That does not | hold limitation Sincere Groping But even though those confer- ences failed, they had two all-im- portant effects which made them worth while: 1—They convinced the rest of the world of our sincerity in grop- ng, pushing, working for peace. They gave us new prestige in the moral leadership of the world 2—They inspired the American people and kept our moral fibre from bogging down. And once the American lose their moral leadership; once we lose our ability to differen- tiate between right and wrong, then the cold war might as well be called quits. For in my opinion, the example of fair play which we give the world is worth more than all the Marshall Plan money that Congress will ever appropriate, That is why I think most peo- ple applaud your sincerity in try- ng to prune the deadwood from our military budget at a time vhen pruning is not fashionable. That is also why I think we are fortunate in having under you to- lay the highest type military men have ever seen serving the Army, vy and Air Forces. As you kKnow have been a vigorous critic of he brass hats in the past. But I im covinced that your top mili- ary men are imbued with higher deals and greater devotion to de- mocracy than at any time during my news career in Washington. Furthermore, 1 am sure they would be the first to wi way of telling the American people ust what lies ahead—what wea- ons must be di pons we should rely on in the fu- ture, what steps we must take toward diversifying industry against tom raids; How far we can go in penetrating the Iron Curtain to reach the Russian people; whether we face a long 50-year war of nerves or an early showdown of force over the vital question of whether the majority or brutal- ity shall rule the world. These are some of the things I'!.‘ American people want to know, i:mu have a right to know. I am ( | would like to help tell them. | Sincerely, people N 1 lcome some | rded, what wea- | and | certain you are among those who Drew Pearson THESE DAYS «+BY-- GEORGE E. SOKOLSKY | THE OLDSTERS The Sander case in New Hamp- shire not only arouses discussion over the question of “mercy killing’ but also as to the general atti- tude toward the elders. The tradi- tions of civilization are that the elders are to be respected. “"Honor thy father and thy mother: That thy days may be long,” extends itself to all old folks. But it was not always .thus Among some primitive peoples, the elders were regarded as a burden on the tribe and they were killed. Also, in time of war, they could not be moved readily, or if at- tempts were made to carry them from one encampment to ancther, it slowed up operations. Theretore, they were killed and the excuse was that if they fell into the hands of the enemy, they would suffer a lingering death. Their relatives| preferred a quick death for them. Also, in the time of famine, the savages used to kill the old, so that there would be more food for the young. The old w generally re- garded as useless, they having lived beyond their productive and defen- sive powers. A student of the problem, Peter Kolben, writing in 1731, says this: “If you represent to the Hotten- tots, as I have done very often, the inhumanity of this custom,; they are astonished at the repre- sentation, as proceeding, in their opinion, from an inhumanity of| your own. The custom, in their enthusiasms. Yet, among savages, age was not ! respect but rather| regarded with as a nuisance. And what they called | old age was what we, in our way,! would call middle age. Fifty was| once a very ripe old age, approach- | ing senility. It is said in Melan-| esia, it was regarded as a disgrace | if an aged chief were not burfed ! alive, | The recognition of the right to| life, for young and old, for thc weak as for the strong, is a com- | paratively new concept. Considere ! how we treat our parents with the attitude of a Fiji Islander of the old days who, when he killed his! father, did it with great ceremony.“ I quote a description: “The son will kiss and weep! over his aged father as he prepares him for the grave, and will ex- old custom among change loving farewells with him! as he heaps the earth lightly over| him.” The kissing and weeping marks | an advance, for among some s ages, the custom existed to eat the aged as an act of kindness [ Those who ak of “mercy-kill- | ng” and cf relieving the aged of their maladies by leaving “homes’ of pills” on the night table \\nm the warning that one may help,| but an entire bottle taken at once| will kill quickly, should remember that they are not novel in their attitude. It was an >rimitive peoples to kill the sicl Or. Nansen wrote of the primitiv Greenlanders that their moral code was “to hasten the death of those who are sick and in great suffer-| ing, or of those in delirium, of| which they have a great horror.” The answer of civilization is, of | course, “thou shalt not kill.” It is a direct, swift, sure answer, ana it leaves nothing to private judg- ment. The aged, the physically weak and infirm, can still possess mind and spirit and experience, There. are no “useless” human beings. e ® ® o 0 v s ee e TIDE TABLZE MARCH 3 High tide 1:26 am,, 16.1 ft Low tide 7:16 am., 15 ft. High tide 1:18 pm.,, 17.9 ft, Low tide 7:44 p.m, -25 ft. o o e o o o o Traffic “accidents at night are twice as likely to be fatal as acci- dents 'occurring in daylight hours. . Reverse ends of hamner heads Owns ACROSS Obstruct . Former Humor . Barly E: money Spike of flowers sister of Semele . Diminishes h Sxcept Anglo-Saxon slaves . Constituent of oil of cloves winding . Extreme fear Witheut help High priest Report Honey . Anything cts high-flown © Musical note . Burns Ixistence Solution of Yesterday's Puzzle DOWN 1. Acknowledge applause 2. Constellation 3. Boats with three rowers [t | \ 39, Water wheel Cogwheels iolf moung . Measure of length - 50:;9: S Meshed taby . City i “ceeo0000n motionless old | and to the reduction of the haz- | sev-' in “6ur society live useful and active dives, ! youth can out:of its! | point, Al 20 YEARS AGO from THE EMPIRE ] N ) ) ) L MARCH 2, 1930 Red lost the main event to Joe Collier on a technical knockout. A vere Douglas Island visitors, ller Bertie II. In the absence of Customs Collector J. C. McBride, Assistant Col- Jector M. S. Whittier announced that a regular customs station was to be |created at the mouth of the Taku River in Taku Inlet, probably in the early spring. With no contests for any positions in Juneau Lodge No. 420, B. P. O. ks, the nomination just closed were tantamount to elections. Ralph irtin was nominated for Exalted Ruler, with these other officers: George Messerschmidt, A. B. Clark, John Hermle, M, H, Sides, William | Pranks, H. M. Porter and H. Messerschmidt. E. M. Goddard was named lml»uam- to the Grand Lodge and G. F. Freeburger, alternate. | { Carl Johnson, who had contracted the habit of alternating between | ation is marked by an in-|ajaska and South America, sailed on the Queen, starting a journey |Portland 1 | C Peru. , Formerly employed at the Chichagof mine, he more recently 1d worked for Alaska Juneau. lombia and Venezuela for oil companies. low, 26; occasional snow flurries. Weather: High, 37; | | Daily Lessons in English % 1. corpon W.J WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “The man with his threc | brothers were there.” Say, “WAS there.” MAN is the singular subject OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Leisure. of the first syllable is as LEE. OFTEN MISSPELLED: Description; DES. Discretion; DIS. SYNONYMS: Incredible, inconceivable, unbelievable. 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: REFUTATION; disproof. “The incident seemed a refutation of the charge that she was calculating.”—Churchill. - f MODERN ETIQUETTE % nprra 1as et ) ~ N \ ) ) ll [ B e ——n Q. Is it ever permissible to contradict another person in conversa- tion? A. No. Of course, it will create further conversation. But drop the subject if you find that the other person is becoming incensed. Q. Is it all right at the bridge table to pass your hand over to your “dummy” partner for his inspection before beginning to play? A. No, this is the height of ill-breeding. It not only slows up the | play, but gives the impression of possible gloating over good cards. Q. Is it all right for three friends of a bride-to-be to combine on a wedding gift for her? A. This is quite all right, especially if by so doing you can send a nicer gift. LOOK and LEARN Z?C. GORDON — 1. Which State at one time included six of the present States? 2. What is the average temperature of the sea? 3. Can you think of at least six birds which are named after the spunds they make? 4. How many pecks are there in a bushel? 5. What famous English author said, “A woman is only a woman, | but a good cigar is a smoke”? ANSWERS: 1. Nebraska in 1854 included Idaho, Montana, Colorado, Wyoming, North and South Dakota. 2. Thirty-nine degrees Fahrenheit. 3.. Cuckoo, bobolink, whippoorwill, chickadee, bobwhite, towhee, and peewee. 4. Four. 5. Rudyard Kipling, in “The Betrothed.” Bader Accounting Service Monthly Accounts, Systems, Secretarial Service Tax Returns Prepared Room 3, Valentine Bldg. Phone 919 Oldest Bank in Alaska 1891—0ver Half a Cenfury of Banking—1950 The B. M. 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A big crowd turned out for the American Legion smoker for which | | Red Campbell had drawn up a fine card—the only trouble was that | and Mrs, William Miller, who had been wintering in Security | still making their home on the| In previous years, he had worked in The preferred pronunciation \‘crats say they will if you can politely present an opopsing view-| THURSDAY, MARCH 2, 1950 Weather af Alaska Poinfs, Weather conditions and temper- atures 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: Anchorage | Annette xhaxru\\ | Bethel Cordova | Dawson | Edmonton Fairbank | Haines Havre Juneau \Kndxak | Kotzebue ‘Vl(’ th . 36—Cloudy | 40—Ratn -14—Partly Cloudy 26—Snow 37—Rain 12—Partly Cloudy 11—Cloudy 16—Cloudy | 36—Rain ¢ 3—Partly Cloudy 35—Rain 34—Snow i 24—Cloudy 21-~Partly Cloudy 28—Partly Cloudy ; -9—Cloudy 39—Cloudy . 42—Rain . 31—Snow . 39—Rain . .. 40—Rain ”Bvatly Cloudy 36—Rain ! Northway Petersburg | Prince George Seattle Sitka | Whitehorse | Yakutat ELECTORAL VOTE CHANGE DOOMED PRESENT SESSION (By Associated Press) A proposed constitutional amend- {ment that would change the meth- |od of counting electoral votes in a | Presidential election appears to, |be dead in this session of Congress. | The Senate already has passed |the bill, but four northern Demo- | try to keep/ the bill in the House Rules Com- { mittee, Even after passage by both | Houses—by a two-thirds vote—the | | proposed constitutional change! would have to be ratified by 36 | states. The proposed change would split up a state’s electoral votes among | the candidates in proportion to their popular votes—instead of al- lowing the winner in each state to take all—as provided now. Radio manufacturers report that television receivers constitute 65 percent of the dollar volume of their output. | | ——————— Brownie's Liquor Store Phone 103 139 So. Frankiin P. O. Box 2528 ) Widest Selection of LIQUORS FHONE 399 1 I | | | 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 Fourth and Pranklin Sts. PHONE 136 Casler's Men's Wear Formerly SABIN'S Stetson and Mallory Hats Arrow Shirts and Underwear Allen Edmonds Shoes Bkyway Luggage BOTANY "500" CLOTHES NUNN-BUSH SHOES STETSON HATS Quality Work Clothing FRED HENNING Complete Outfitter for Men B. W. COWLING COMPANY Dodge—Plymouth—Chrysler DeSoto—Dodge Trucks SHAFFER'S SANITARY MEAT FOR BETTER MEATS 13—PHONES—49 Pree Delivery MOUNT JUNEAU LODGE NO. 18 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 8 P. M. Visiting brothers wel- come, F. DEWEY BAKER, Exalted Ruler. W. H. BIGGS, Becretary. Moose Lodge No. 700 Regular Meetings Each Friday Governor—JOHN LADELY Secretary— WALTER R. BLACKWELL’S CABINET SHOP 117 Main St. Phone 13 Eigh Quality Cabinet Work { for Home, Office or Store "The Rexall Store” Your Reliable Pharmacists BUTLER-MAURO DRUG CO. 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 St. PHONE 216—DAY or NIGHT for MIXERS or SODA POP _The Alaskan Hotel Newly Renovated at Reasonable Rates PHONE SINGLE O PHONE 565 Thomas Hardware Co. PAINTS — OILS Builders’ and Shelf HARDWARE Remington Typewriters 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 Dayries, Inc. | Chrysler Marine Engines MACHINE SHOP Marine Hardware Chas. G. Warner Co. HOME GROCERY Phone 146 Home Liquor Store—Tel. 659 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 Fhwefi” but “SAY IT WITH OURS!” Juneau Florists FPhone 311