The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 10, 1950, Page 4

FAGE FOUR Daily Alaska Empire Publishied every EMPIR] Second HBELEN TROY MONSEN - - DOROTHY TROY LINGO - - ELMER A. FRIEND - ALFRED ZENGER - - - - d Main Streets, Juneau, this survey declared themselves i1 favor! of making | United States history courses compulsory, as opposed to the 51 per cent who did se in the survey of 1942. In advocating the study of the history of our country, whether such study be required or held vo]-‘ untary, 80 per cent of the men questioned did so be- | cause a knowledge of American history, according to Alaska - - President - Vice-President Managing Editor Business Manager Entered in the Post Office in Juneau as SUBSCRIPTION RAT) Delivered by carrier in Juneau and Dousla six months, $8.00; one year. By mail, postage paid, at the foll One year, in advance one month, in advance, $1.50. Subscribers will confer a favor if they will promptly notify the Business Office of any failure or irreg: of their papers. Telephones: News Office, 602; Busine: MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED §15.00; six months, in advance, $7.50; Class Matter. | their view, would be less likely to turn students toward other ideologies. Although we do not look with any | favor at all on these “foreign” ideologies, we are not certain that we quite preceive the cause and effect j relationship implied. It would seem to us that it is far sounder to study something for its own sake rather | than as an antidote to something else. Second s for $1.50 per month; $15.00 owing rates: ularity in the delivery ss_Office, 374. PRESS The Associated Press is exclusively republication of all news dispatches credite wise credited in this paper and also the berein. entitled to the use for Exemplary Brevity | (Cincinnati Enquirer) ed to it or not other- local news published NATIONAL REPRESENTATIVES — Alaska Newspapers, 1411 Fourth Avenue Bldg., Seattle, Wash Although there is some divergence of opimion in- side-the ranks of GOP leaders on the matter, the Re- SOME SATISTICS A lengthy article in the New York Times by its editor on education, Benjamin Fi significant statistical information concerning the study of United States history in this country’s universities The main fact which emerges on the basis of two surveys made by Mr. Fine, one in 1942 and and colleges. the other recently, is that courses history are compulsory at present fraction more than one-third, that is—of the insti- tutions of post high school grade. resents a gain of 16 per cent over the one in the earlier survey. American educators as a whole the sturdy of the history of the important adjunct to democracy and good citizenship, but they do not agree that it should be a “required” They do not state any s Moreover, theirs is course. their objection. jon. Sixty-twS per cent of the educators queried in|the lightning bug. publican party does have & 1950 campaign plaform of only 99 words. This sets an admirable precedent, worthy of emulation by candidates and other parties. Its' nearly telegraphic style lacks the literary| quality of traditional party manifestoes; but for busy ns this is a blessing. Tax reduction, balancing budget, fighting Com- munism, farm price supports, rural electrification, united American foreign policy, and safeguarding lib- erty against Socfalism—such are the key planks of this streamlined platform. No single document, however long or short, is like- 1y to be decisive in an election which will be scattered over 48 States and more than 400 Congressional dis- tricts. The contest will be very different in such diverse areas as Wisconsin, California, Alabama, Ohio and Vermont. Each individual candidate will make his own campaign, and will depart just as far as he likes from the policy line of his own party. But it remains sound practice for each major party to define its apprdach to the major issues. And it certainly is sound for the Republican party, which | has not been convincing to the majority of rank-and- file voters for a good many years, to boil its ideology ¢ down to 99 words, » citiz ! ine, reveals some in United States in 34 per cent—a Man is allegedly the most intelligent creature on ‘carth. but so far as we have been able to ascertain there is no other species dumb enough to be feverishly appear to regard [ working toward the goal of being in pesition to an- nihilate itself.—(Cincinnati Enquirer.) That figure rep- ir country as anl l “An inventor has made an electric motor so small it can be placed in a thimble.” That's small, but not pecific reason for nearly so small as the built-in dynamo possessed by a minority opin- The Washington Merry-Go-Round (Continued from Page One) do you want to do about the Um-l ted Nations; we must decide now, because in another six or eight months if the deadlock is not brok- en, this organization will collapse.” Lie added that he thinks the Soviets recognize that their walkout has been a blunder, just as the Berlin blockade was But Russia is a big power and it cannot extricate itself from this a biunder: Three, the other between Lie and the Kremlin in Moscow. In effect, Lie is now serving as an ambas- sador of good will between the two. THESE DAYS a2 Y GEORGE E. SOKOLSKY LOWERING STANDARDS OF LIFE I received a letter from the | Postmaster telling me all about the reduction of the mail service. ll' is a mimeographed lettér and takes | two pages and an envelope. It must have gone to lots of | the fence-sitting diplomat he seems to be in public. He talks with can- dor. He even expres vigorous | opinions about such things as "Thel dark combination of votes” that forced through the internationaliz- lation of Jerusalem. Lie said at the time that he had jnever seen such a combination— } of Catholics, Communists and Ar- abs—which rammed through a de-| cision that he regarded as unwork- able. He said he decided this after having talked with the U. N. military expert, Gen. William Riley, who, though himself a Catholic, reported that it would be impossible to make Jerusalem international without force. folks | !city like New York, some real slow | situation without some face-saving. Here he made a little circle with| his thumb and forefinger, and| peeped through it, and said: i STARTED AS OFFICE BOY Now 53 years old, the Secretary- “Some little peephole—just some little peephole.” Since then the search for the peephole has been made by Lie, the British foreign office and the French. The final result now de- pends on Lie’s talks in Moscow. o CORNERSTONE. LAYER Most Americans think of Trygve Lie as a stout, cornerstone-laying character, with a heavy Scandinav- ian accent, who does something or other at the United Nations. This vagueness is partly Lie's fault. He has operated for four years on the conviction that the Secretary-General of the U. N. should keep out of controversy. But he has changed in the last few months. Lie is now display- ing some of the fire he used to display when, at 16, he became a local president of the Norwegian Labor Party—or the kind of fire he displays now on a Long Island tennis court when the score is six games to six and he wants to break the deadlock. For, in these last months of his five-year term as Secretary-Gen- eral, Lie is determined to break the deadlock of the cold war. He is throwing his old caution to the winds. He doesn’t care any more whether he has the support of the State Department. Actually, he has lost it. Inside fact is that the State Department tried to sidetrack his mission to Moscow. As a European, and especially as ex-Premier of a country with a long border adjoining Russia, Lie is fearfully worried. He thinks the policy of both sides—name- calling and arms-building—will lead to an eye-for-an-eye and a bomb- for-a-bomb. And his strategy is to try to knock together the heads of what European delegates call “Les Deux Grands"—‘The Two Bigs."” For a long time he has been working behind the scenes with the skill of the best Washington lobbyist. One day, he whisks the Cuban delegate off to lunch at the Lies' Long Island home. Next day he makes a private appointment to meet a British or French dele- gate at the Manhattan headquart- ers of U. N.—where talks are more unobserved than at or near Lake Success. And the next day, a Polish or Ukrainian delegate for dinner— possibly mixing them with some' of the New York City officials in talk about the headquarters build- ing. Guests who meet Lie in his own home, or at a private dinner, find . pim a great surprise. He is not General of the United Nations was born in Oslo, the son of & carpen- and it must have cost a good deal of money. It was an unecessary expenditure because I had read it all in the newspapers. That is where most of the bad news ap- pears. What the Post Office is trying to say is that its inefficiencies having caught up with it, it hopes to solve the problem by becoming less efficient. A privately owned business would have to go into under such manage- ter. His first job was as an office boy in the headquarters of the | Norwegian labor party. At 16 he |became President of a local labor branch, and at 23 he was one of the leaders of the party. At the . outbreak of the war, Lie was Min-|bankruptcy ster of Commerce in the Nor-|ment. wegian government and by Feb-{ The Hoover Commission had pre- ruary, 1941, was appointed Minister [ pared a detailed plan for making of Foreign Affairs, then in exile in|the Post Office an efficient oper- London. ation. This plan had been worked Lie’s catapult into U. N. affairs out by competent men after thor- came during the San Francisco|ough study. However, most of the conference which founded the Uni- [ plans of the Hoover Commission ted Nations, where he served as|have been sidetracked. President chairman of the commission which | Truman is for them, but also ag- drafted the charter of the secur-|ainst them. He is for them in| ity council. nrivate conversations; he is against At that time——and since—he|them when it comes to legislative has sometimes sided against the[action. In fact, nearly everybody United States and Great Britain.|in Congress is for them up to the In fact, during the early U. N.|vote. !days, he was nominated by Am- bassador Gromyko to be the first President of the General Assambly We shall survive getting our mail | once a day instead of twice. We Now his influence js emphatically [shall also survive getting the mail against his onetime supporters. in the afternoon instead of the In New York, Lie gets along well | first thing each morning. But it} with Mayor O'Dwyer and Bob | Moses, with whom he confers every will only prove that the American standard of living is receding. I| | for the tempting dishes of home | — . . . MAY 10 . . Clara Hansen ® Donna Bushnell . Mrs. Virginia Hopkins . Nellie Paddock . A. T. Miller . . Mrs. Harold Koenig L . Ted Wagner . ® o 0o 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 shall look at our very filthy streets and at no police being around when you need them, and at all sorts of breakdowns of public efforts and ;| | ay to myself: “Our standards of | living are going down.” For the standard of living of a! people is to be measured as much by what one gets for the taxes he pays as by any other yardstick The Post Office used to be the ex- ample par excellence of communal effort. In fact, the Socialists used | to say that if a nation can run a Post Office so well, it can run the railroads and about everything else. | But the fact is that the Post Ofiice constantly costs more mon- ey and gives less service. We used to put a two-cent stamp on an envelope and it traveled swiftly | —in the horse-and-buggy days— everywhere in this country. Now; we put a three-cent stamp on the{ envelope and accept casual hand-| ling. If you want to see, in a big motion, put ‘a special delivery stamp on the envelope and tele-| phone to find out when it arrived. 1 1 | All this is just lowering the| standards of living. Or maybe ltl is due to a lowered tone. Now,| Harry Truman’s homely attitudes| have a great appeal to me, because | I like the little people of thel Farth. Stuffed-shirts bore me as| they must most of you. But does Harry Truman have to wear that funny outfit when he goes to Florida? Every time I look at his picture down there—cap with the‘ long visor, funny colored shirt and the cane, I think of sports at an| Atlantic City convention walking| the boardwalk of an cvening to see what’s around. I just can't help thinking of that. It does not mean that he isn't a good guy. maybe: but the tone is wrong. 1 So maybe he sets the tone andl by now it has worked its way down| to everbody in government. TOine is a standard of living. There used to be a hgmely phrase, “high- toned.” We don’t use it anymore. We no longer say, toned family,” by which we meant| that they were well set up, acting| according to the traditions of the race, fine looking, sometimes, you| bave the feeling about “high-toned,” when you see oldsters; but in'our generation, we level down. { And that is exactly what our Post Office is doing: It is level- | ing down. Maybe the next reform will be mail delivery every other| day or come to the post office to| get it. Maybe they will set up some self-service machinery so that you can grab your own, like in a cafeteria. Anything can happen| when the standard of living goes | down. And it can go awfully low. | DORCAS SOCIETY SALES SCHEDULED TOMORROW Tuesday evening the Dorcas Soc- iety of Seventh-day Adventists met at the home of Mrs. Edmond Hinke in Douglas to put the finishing| touches on the needlework articles which they have prepared for the | sale to be held at 10 a.m. tomorrow | at Parsons Electirc Co. Also to make final preparauons! cooked food which will be offered. MOTHER’S DAY SALE Needle Work—Home Cooked Foods Parsons Electric Tomorrow 10 a.m. ftwo weeks or so regarding the great international city on the East River of Manhattan, which the Rockefellers are erecting as a symbol of international peace. ACROSS 27. Rent This, of course, has put him in touch with various New York civic| & Qv substances 81 Plumes = {leaders such as Tom Watson of| o gr 84: Clothe International Business Machines,| 12 Jewlsh month 55 Sheat i its Winthrop Aldrich of the Chase| 13. Lamb's second year National Bank, and John W. Davis,| ,, Feeitonym BT Qollaotions ot former Democratic candidate forl 15 ciner o 30 Roman;sock President, who have come to regard | 16. Ridicule 45; Mbst ‘mature Lie almost as a fellow New Yorker. 18. Withdraw 45. “egi“;l’lym" i ;‘1’ qucm ;:l:é;uen g;l gm\"e man LIE AND McCARTHY ! obligation 1. Solar diale Last December, Lie told a friend 52. Winglike: that he thought the cold war B Matp A L could be ended by a high-level con- | ’ ference between Truman, Stalin, Attlee and Bidault. But when he was urged to see President Tru- man about such a meeting, Lie smiled. “The State Department wouldn't like it,” he said, “and they al-! ways keep a good watch on me.” In this, Lie has one remotely i common interest with Senator Mc {carthy. While he doesn't believe | ! there are Communists in the State | | Department, he wonders why, Pres- [ident Truman has made such a| clean sweep of his domestic cabinet | Hdmily, he has never brought much change to the State Department.| Lie apparently feels that it needs a change. | At any rate, the conference that | Lie proposed last December is nowr taking place in part—one segment | meeting in London under the Big HE ] ol il 1 Crossword Puzle Solution of Yesterday's Puzzle DOWN Cap Liquor Having small towers . Wild plum . Wishes King of the Visigoths Ceremonies . Japanese porgy . Barren . Bewilder Marries 54, 55. Unit of force . Sign . Restitch Tea tester ' Formerly mpaired by use . Pass | Shrewdly Ovule Therefore . Article of food . Food fish 6. Untrained | . Operated | Native metal “That is a high- | * THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA 20 YEARS AGO %% muerns MAY 10, 1930 Assets of the City of Juneau were $184,665.05 more than its liabilities Jewelry Store. The interior was finished in canary-yellow and black. There were two chairs, and three mirrors added to 800-candlepower light installations. Besides the haircutting department, Brown operated two bathrooms and a shower room. Weather: High, 63; low, 42; rani. Daily Lessons in English 3% .. corpow {| B e e WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: One is angry ABOUT a thing, and angry WITH a person. OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Parliament. THREE syllables, and not par-li-a-ment. OFTEN MISSPELLED: Ennui; pronounced an-we, A as in AH. SYNONYMS: Sorcerer, magician, wizard, conjurer, necromancer. 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: ILLOGICALNESS; contrariness to the rules of sound reasoning. “Il- logicalness throughout his discourse confused the speaker’s audience.” g MODERN ETIQUEITE Roperra LEE T e Q. Is it ever proper to leave the spoon in the cup when drinklng% tea or coffee, even if one thinks this helps to cool his drink morc quickly? i A. This is never proper. The spoon should always be placed in the | saucer after the contents of the cup are stirred. i Q. If a girl insists on smoking her own cigarettes, should she offer | her male companion one when she takes out her cigarette case? A. Yes, it would show good manners. Q. In a wedding reception, do the ushers precede the bridesmaids | down ‘the aisle? A, Yes. Pronounce par-li-ment, e e glom( and LEARN 2 ¢ compox 1. Which is the United States’ largest outlying possession? 2. What American woman was the first to swim the English Chan- nel? 3. What is the oldest game of purely American origin, received from the Indians? | 4. Who succeeded Moses as leader of the children of Israel? 5. What is considered the most popular opera? ANSWERS: 1. Alaska, with an area of 586,400 square miles. 2. Gertrude Ederle, in 1926. 3. Lacrosse. 4. Joshua. 5. “Faust” is said to have been sung more often than any otheri five operas combined. There is no substitute for GOOD Plastering || y For expert, distinctive plastering . . . with the plaster that INSULATES .. . cak 15 yrs. experience RAY nlcn Phone Douglas 21 F. W. HOFFOWER as g paid-up subscriber to THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE is invited to be our guest THIS EVENING Present this coupon to the box office of the CAPITOL THEATRE and receive TWO TICKETS to see: "SAN FRANCISCO” Federal Tax—12c Paid by the Theatre Phone 14—YELLOW CAB CO.—Phone 22 and an insured cab WILL CALL FOR YOU and RETURN YOU to your home with our compliments. WATCH THIS SPACE—Your Name May Appear! -Oldest Bank in Alaska 1891—0ver Half a Centfury of Banking—1950 - 'The B. M. Behrends Bank Safety Deposit ‘ Boxes for Rent " " COMMERCIAL SAVINGS o~ | WEDNESDAY, MAY 10, 1950 Weather af Alaska Points as of March 31, according to a consolidated balance sheet prepared by Weather conditions and temper- Auditor W. A. Habernol, who had completed his annual audit for the :;::e:n B:hev;::“:c glnsl:n :w:n;; i oast, at 4: city. Total assets were listed at $345,178.91. am, 120th Meridian Time, and I At a special meeting of the City Council, Ike Sowerby had been ap- :Lefi:sedmg’;w:?e NG St | pointed city tax assessor, and was to begin his duties immediately. Anchorage .......... 40—Partly Cloudy e pp——— Annette Island ... .. 44—Fog Mayor Thomas B. Judson designated Phil Herriman as acting chief Barrow 19—Fog of police in the absence of Chief G. A. Getchell, who had gone to Seattle | Bethel 33—Fog for two weeks: Cordova it 40—Rain Dawson 32—Partly Cloudy P . Edmonton 50—Partly Cloudy The Rev. Harry R. Allen, pastor of Resurrection Lutheran Church, | pajrhanks 33—Partly Cloudy was to attend the Synodical Conference at Tacoma, Wash., then go t0| Haines ......... 42—Cloudy Chicago for speaking engagements in Lutheran churches. He was to|Havre . 45—Partly Cloudy tell of mission work in Juneau. Juneau Airport .. 42—Rain Kodiak 38—Rain Superintendent Cathcart and Mrs. Thelma Engstrom were the only Kotzebue 235::3:" members of the Douglas School faculty to return the following year. bl\;{gg;ath 7 v' 34—R:1: Those leaving were Misses Lucile Pepoon, Katherine Shier, Hazel John- Northway 28—Partly Cloudy son, Josie Hursh and Dorothy Fay, and Coach Myron B. King. New|petersburg 42—Rain | teachers were to be Misses Helen McDonald, Margaret Pimberton, Edla ( Portland N ... 47—Fog Holbrook, Lena M. Thoma and Louise Painter, and Lloyd Rinden. Prince George 41—Partly Cloudy s L, Seattle . 50—Fog i X SItKR oror 42—Rain C. F. Brown, proprietor, opened Brownie's Hair Cutting Parlors, 10- | i 0h orce 35—Cloudy cated in the newly rebuilt Gross Building, adjoining Ludwig Nelson’s { vayyutat 40—Rain FILM LECTURES ON SAFE DRIVING FOR SITKA SCHEDULED| To check automobiles and give| film talks to students at Mt. Edge- | cumbe Vocational School, Highway Patrol Lieut. Emmett Botelho left this afterndon for Sitka, where he will be occupied until Sunday. Botelho will show motion pictures | on the subject of safe driving, to| illustrate several lectures he has prepared. He will appear before groups both in the old capital and the school. After his return, Patrol Sgt. John Monagle Will take the films and fly Monday to Petersburg and Wran- gell to speak there and to check cars used in the two island towns. BARN DANCE TONIGHT Dreamland Bar at 11:00 PAINTING AND DECORATING Priced to Meet Your Budge? PHONE 996 Ralph Treffers — Brownie's Liquor Store Phene 103 139 Se. Frankiin P. O. Box 2508 R R T GEORGE BROS. Widest Selection of LIQUORS PHONE 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 . PFourth and Pranklin Sta. PHONE 136 ' Casler's Men's Wear Formerly SABIN'S Stetson and Mallory Hats Arrow Bhirts and Underwear Allen Edmonds Shoes BOTANY : llmll CLOTHES NUNN-BUSH SHOES STETSON HATS Quality Work Clothing FRED HENNING Complete Outfitter for Men R. W. COWLING MOUNT JUNEAU LODGB 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 € B.P.0.ELKS Meeting every Wednesday at 8 P. M. Visiting brothers wel- come. WALLIS S. GEORGE, Exalted Ruler. W. H. BIGGS, Secretary. Moose Lodge No. 700 Regular Meetings Each Friday Governor—JOHN LADELY Becretary— WALTER R. HERMANSEN —_—————— BLACKWELL’S CABINET SHOP 117 Main St. Phone 773 High Quality Cabinet Werk for Home, Office or Store "The Rexall Store” Your Reliable Pharmacists BUTLER-MAURO DRUG CO. Alaska Music Supply Arthur M. Uggen, Manager Pianos—Musical Instruments 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 st Reasonable Eates PHONE SINGLE O PHONE 558 Thomas Hardware Co. PAINTS — OILS . Builders’ and Shelf | HARDWARE Remington Typewri somstu mvw:n':;' J. B. Burford Co. *“Our Doorstep Is Worn by Batistied Customers™ | FORD [ (Aut.horlaedA Gp..Em.N )C = || GREASES — Gas — o || Juneau Motor Co. Foot of Main Street JUNEAU DAIRIES DELICIOUS ICE CREAM & daily habit—ask for it by mamse Juneau Dalries, Inc. || Chrysler Marine Engines | MACHINE SHOP Marine Hardware Chas. G. Warner Co. HOME GROCERY Phone 146 from work — TRY Alaska Laundry H. S. GRAVES The Clothing Man LEVPS OVERALLS for Boys “Say It With Flowers” “SAY IT WITH OURSbl’"‘ Juneau Florisis Phene 311 o - 4 2 e