The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 18, 1950, Page 4

¥ THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA TUESDAY, JULY 18, 1950 PAGE FOUR l E augmented or impaired by reason of its status as a al m lre territory or state. Publisl\ed every evening except Sunday by the Rear Admiral Ralph Wood, USN retired, in his | EMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY 2 2 % Ll e ) H Second and Maln Streets, Juneau, Alaska statement before the committee said: “Were Alaska to! EELEN TROY MONSEN . o & President | become a state tomorrow, it would not alter, I am DOROTHY TROY LINGO = - - Vice-President ELMER A. FRIEND - - - Managing Editor | sure, the general over-all consideration of our defense ALFRED ZENGER - - = =~ Business Manager | problems.” Entered In the Post Office in Juneau as SUBSCRIPTION RATE! Delivered by carrier in Juneau and Douklas for $1.50 per month; six months, $8.08; one year, $15.00 postaxe paid, at the following rates: six months, in advance, $7.50; By ma One year, in advance $15.00; sne month, in advance, $1.50. Subscribers of their papers Telephones. ~ MBER OF ASSOCIATED Il confer a favor if they will promptly motify | structures, the Business Office of any failure or irregularity in the delivery News Office, 602; Business Office, 374. E Second Class Matter. | .t The men charged with the grave responsibility url formulating and carrying out plans for the defense jof the United States and its territories and pgsses: sions are not concerned with regional governmental but rather with the mechanics of strategy and logisties. These latter considerations are dependent upon PRESS The Associated Press is exclusiv republicatior: of all news dispatches cred wise credited in this paper and also the herein y entitled to the use fe tited to it or not othe: a number of factors among which are geographical the physical characteristics of the area to be defended, available facilities for communications and the transportation of men and materials to the af- ation, local news published NATIONAL REPRESENTATIVES — Alaska Newspapers, 1411 Pourth Avenue Bldg., Seattle, Wash. fected zone. actual or imminent STATEHOOD AND KOREA That the statehood bill result of the Korean situation, news story from Washington in last Yet the Kor war has been u bill. Suddenly pelling reason for the immediate passage of the revised HR 331 now before the United States Senate. This is a regrettable attempt to inject a note of hysteria into the deliberations on statehood for Alaska and tends to c: indentifying two wholly unrelated and the war. territory. Decisions affecting either ing in their influence over the lives of a great many people. The theory has been advanced ponents, some of them, we believe, irresponsible politi- cal opportunists, that statehood is vital to the defense of Alaska and, of course, to the nation. ‘The theory is an interesting one at length by expert and amateur the recent hearings before the Senate Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. The testimony presented at that time failed signal- ly to show in what manner Alaska's defense would be has small was suggested in a sed by proponents of statehood in an attempt to hasten action on the the threat of war has become The state of affairs in Korea serious subject, as is the question of statehood for the any emergency such hostile elements, there is the probability [that martial law would supplant any local authority without reference to its political nomenclature. Approximately one hundred and thirty thousand Alaskans will be affected by the ultimate disposition f HR 331. Ninety-six men, many of whom have never, et foot in Alaska, will shortly be called upon tc leterming if this territory shall be admitted to state- 100d. We earnestly hope that the deliberations of these Senators will not be influenced by the alarmist pro- »aganda now circulating freely in Washington We hope that prevail and that the ssues will be resolved on their respective merits, free pressure of ] 7,28 as i invasion by reason will »f any bias resulting from the present hreatened war. Like Senator Butler, 10w would be ruinous. chance as a night's Empire. we beleive that statehood America’s first casualty list from the Korean front ontained 11 names, and inevitably it was a depressing hing. Even though these men died for the right, for justice, for freedom, it was saddening to think they 1ad to die at all. And yet, amazingly, 'rica’s highways killed as many hours over the Fourth of July weekend. Roughly eve 3 minutes another in an automobile iwccident during the four-day period. the question of reate confusion by simple carelessness on Am- men as this in 2 issues—statehood is a person died will be far reach- Pessimistically the Natonal Safety Council had by statehood pro- | predicted 385 persons would die in such accidents unless more-than-usual caution was exerted. The pessimism wasn't dark enough. Four hundred and ninety-one were needlessly killed. s discussed We, as a nation, deplore the casualty list from s during | Korea and try desperately to avoid any more such lists. We, as a nation, ignore the casualty list from the holiday and go on by carelessness to insure that e e e e | and w; strateg The Washington Merry-Go-Round (Continued from Page One) hy We're Losing Meanwhile, here are some of the blunt, cold facts about the Korean fighting: 1. The nucleus of the Korean army is Korean veterans trained by the Japanese. After fighting as part of the Japanese Army for four years, they were taken over by the Russians following V-J Day. Since then, they have been baptized by fire in Chinese fighting, and are now armed to the teeth with Rus- sian equipment. 2. American troops not only are outnumbered but relatively green. While many of the officers and noncoms have seen combat service, most of the men in the ranks are young and, because of quick per- sonnel turnovers, not always well- trained. Japan has been considered one of the Army berths, where living was cheap, servants numerous, and duties not arduous. For instance, the commander of the First Cavalry Division, Maj. Gen. Hobart Gay, a fine officer, suffered a heart attack some time ago, and, not wanting to retire at the age of 56, Japan was picked for him as a soft berth. The First Cavalry Division, now armored, is supposed to be cne of the crack combat cutfits 0¢ ine Regular Al Yet its comn.ander cannot phvsical 3. For rcasons that the Army cannot adequately explain, our tanks are no match for the 60-ton Russian monsters with 12-inch ar- mor. Our tanks were inferior to German tanks in the recent war and they are still inferior to enemy tanks. Not only were Russian tanks better than ours during the war, but the Russians began improving their tanks affer the war, while our biggest tank, the Patton, is only just arriving in Korea now. Russian Sub Sighted 4. There is no question but that Russia is directing the Korean war However, no Russians have actual- ly been killed captured. There have been a dozen reports, chiefly from South Koreans, of Russian officers seen at the front, and the Navy officially reported sighting -one Russian submarine, which carefully stayed out of the range of Amer- ican guns 5. Nothing is being said about it publicly, but the grim Korean setbacks have raised doubts in the Pentagon Building as to whether General MacArthur has the force and vigor necessary for the Korean campaign. Now 71 years old, Mac. Arthur has K been absorbed wxfh:' political problems. While no one blames MacArthur for the difficulty of getting supplies to Korea, there is some resentment at his glowing promise to President Truman the night before the Korean decision was made, that he would “guaran- there will be even bigger lists in the future. Some- how the two attitudes don’t seem to fit mgcthcr. tee” success wuether Russia camc in or not, THESE DAYS B Jea Will Moscow Move? ‘: GEORGE E. SOKCLSKY Most worrisome development in & I ythe whole Korean defeat is the ‘effect it is'bound to haveron otheri. prospective Red moves—in Ger- many, Yugoslavia, Iran, Indo- [Chum and Formosa. There are Communist troop con- | centrations in all these areas. If the Korean war had ended in a reasonably quick Americn victory, | knowledge, freater perfec: the effect on other Russlan moves) tions: Some years ago, it was} would have been extremely damp. | fashionable, in~ certain circles, tcf ening. Now the opposite is bound | 2CCePt the Swedish modifications it nen! of capitalism as so wonderful as to With American troops bogged|Pe Worthy of our imitation. Yet down in Korea, Moscow is sure to|Oh€ had to ask: What has Sweden | be tempted to move in other areas, |20t that we do not have? ] That is why backstage criticism -of | SO after the last war, our in- the military—including Secretary { (llectuals became active to re-y Johnson, General MacArthur, our |Stimulate the culture of the dying: lack of tank-planning, et al—is nations of ‘Eumpu. It wa§ Amer- zetting so vigorous. ican enthusiasm and financing that produced UNESCO as a world-wide revival of the varying cultures of | man that had suffered devasta-} tion of war. A UNESCO descrip- tion of culture apyg s in an In- ' teresting study of the entire sub- | ject issued by the Carnegie En-| dowment for International Peace: “Into- the making of a culture’ go many factors—climate, natural resources, language, tradition, edu- ! GROPING FOR FRIENDSWIP The United States has never been j If anything, |luk, kness has been what} Freudians call an inferiority We always have looked for greater wisdom the complex elsewhere greater The Other Wisconsin Senator Cut off by an angry snort from | President Truman, Wisconsin’s windy, likable Senator Wiley sput- tered and shut up the other day at a private White House confer- ence on the point four program. Wiley started out his usual jovial self, apparently not understanding { ikhked him out of the Communist . JULY 18 . Mrs. K. K. Kyler . Dixie L. Tandy Billie Pegues . George Sundborg, Jr. L Duncan Robertson . Mrs. Margaret Kljaich . Mrs. Olaf Peterson . . Clara Walther @ o 0o 0 0 0 0 0 0 of their neighbors. Possession of! metal and sources of power may | lead one people to industry, while fertile soil leads another to agricul- | ture, and good harbors on the sea[ may lead a third to commerce . . Then they say something thal is more in the nature of the total- | itarians: Good government and great lva(lom may provide one people with a heritage of order and just- ice, while tyrants and a different | tradition in government lead an- other to internal antagonisms and political instability. Men of genius find varying forms of expression,| and fulfill their genius various in different periods and among dif- ferent cultural contexts.’ | We do not, in this country, worry too much about men of genius. They come and go. In fact, very| few who function in government; fail to believe that each is at 1(*:;5(1‘ a great leader and probably a! genius. Few men who have sat| a com- W 4n the White House have ever| assumed that truly it is the whole| people and not the individual uH office that accomplishes all ln(‘" wonders that we behold. 'Ih(l “great man” theory of life which | gave us such bad dictators 'w Hitler and Mussolini, has also given | us Stalin, who is worshipped in his| own country and its satellites as| the greatest genius that ever lived. The other day, I visited Associa- | tion Island in Lake Ontario to at-| tend a camp of General Electric executives and what impressed me‘l most was the total absence of the| “great man” theory. Charles E Wilson, the president of Genera Electric, was there, but so wer about 300 others. And there was! no rank of any kind. I could not| help recalling how I have seen,| in other countries, men rise whén the top man entered a dining hall; how they practically stood at at- | tention; how :ney bowed deferen- tially as they approached the gen- fus. Americans take cu that in their stride. The top man is just another specialized worker. I contrasted that with an €x- perience I once had in Communist circles. I was debating Earl Braw- der and we were in the ante-room waiting to go on the stage to do our stuff. Browder stood alone, aloof from the ordinary people who | milled about in the ante-room.| When one of his own people ap- proached him, it was with a defer- ence due to superiority. He, as one| of the Communist heads of the| world, was not to be spoken to as though he were just one of the | plain people. " Of course, a few years later, they party and each little flea had to take a bite out of him to prove | that they hated him even more | than they loved Stalin. Those were orders. | A free people never worrles about its great men; it concerns "20 YEARS AGO 7 from THE EMPIRE JULY 18, 1930 ed with the shortest salmon pack and lightest run of fish in Fa Iits nistory, Bristol Bay was closed to all commercial fishing for salmon for the rest of the year. Former Territorial Senator Frank A. Aldrich, who had arrived on the southbound trip of the Admiral Watson, entered St. Ann's Hospital. D. E. Sheriff, wellknown throughout the Territory as a piano tuner, came here on the Queen with Mrs. Sheriff and their daughter, Janet, and son, James. The family was staying at the Gastineau. women of Mooseheart Legion elected an auditing committee at the regular meeting, naming Mrs. Baldwin, Mrs. Heller and Mrs. Moe. Honors at the card party after the meeting went to Mrs. Hendrickson, Mrs. Kasalica and Mrs. Berry. Hostesses for the refreshment hour were Mrs. D]'Ux\ Mrs. Pastl and Mrs. Neilson. Among passengers boarding the Admiral Watson for Seattle and way ports were Tom Hall, E. S. Hungerford for Petersburg; Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Stock, H. O. Johnson for Ketchikan, and J. M. Hardy and Sam Shucklin for Seattle. Mrs. F. E. Kukkola advertised for information leading to the recovery of her gasboat T-61, which had been lost or stolen. Weather: High, 54; low, 50; cloudy. Daily Lessons in English %, 1. corpox WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “The sun sank down be- hind the hills.” DOWN is superfluous, as SINK means to go down. Say, “The sun sank behind the hills.” OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Occult. OF unstressed, U 2s in UP, accent on seccud syllable preferred. OFTEN MISSPELLED: Signet (a seal). Cygnet (a young swan). SYNONYMS: Strange, singular. qucer, quaint, odd, peculiar. Pronounce o-kult, O as in 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: INDETERMINATE; not. settled or fixed; indefinite. (Accent follows the R). “He was given an indeterminate sentence, depending upon good behavior.” wmmm MODERN ETIQUETTE Hoperra rEw Q. Was there ever a time when it was considered proper .to eat with a knife? A. The table knife became popular after the 17th century. the period of transition from fingers to forks, knives were properly used for eating as well as for cutting. Q. Is it really correct to say “man and wife” when husband and wife” is meant? A. The use of “man” in the sense of of time, dating back to about 1300. Q. What would be an appropriate kind of affair for introducing a new daughter-in-law? : A. An afternoon tea, a reception, or a card party. LOOK and lEARN A C. GORDON “husband” has the sanction 1. What country, because of its soil fertility and its almost in- exhaustible mineral and other natural resources, is known as the ‘Store- house of the world”? 2. Can you complete the famous quotation: “The world will beat a path to the door of the man who ... B2 | 3. What radio personality was recently voted the most outstanding of the past 25 years? 4. What is the title of a baronet’s wife? 5. What is the literal meaning of “ersatz”? ANSWERS: Mexico. “Builds a better mousetrap than his neighbor.” Jack Benny. Lady. Substitute. o p e itself with the standard of life, the spiritual and intellectual level, | the accessibility to opportunity of | the whole people. As long as these| are high, the nation possesses re- sources of strength beyond any- thing that a few great men can produce. ;(;(‘))grgqr:f‘hw:ifiuzisn:: :;émt\mg:";i Cflli!)n. commerce, government, etc.] Lower that level and the nation develoned arens skuMous to con. Geographical barriers may help one ; degenerates into a mass, a mean- | @ibnte Bk teoTearis fworth. howe people to develop in peace Lhruugh. ingless, faceless, characterless mob | ever, he blandly boomed E long x)cr{ods of time; an exposec whose productivity is the product | “I' hope you are mot going to geographic position may tend to not of initiative but of fear. -This have this program administered by 'm,nkL a people warlike, either M we need to remember most in our just . another. government burean their own defense or in conquest present bad times. {1 hope you are going to call n\l Th K T ome people from the outside, s ARICe/AASIS[T[A]Y practical people who know some- EER ADEE BRNE thing.” T/o/[RIR[E/A[C[T[1[O[N[S “I understand that you don't ACROSS 0 AT S|TIRE[E T/ E[NT think anybody in the government{ 1 Upon 31 Eternity -,AR [ INEP|A knows anything,” the President| 6. Persian ruler 32 Rectlve ladh sie[c TS/ O Ec/aM foroke in coldly. | fdible, tuber 37, Lone_ narrow mA[TIS|T i NTIIR 1[0 | “Why, no, that is, T didn't mean| 1 Contral oart g, Excite to [E'SSEARESHEIRELY " sputtered the senator from | 1% Arabiay 1. pction W) FlaRJlIM[O[A| Wisconsin 16, D&-I.'.ir':q’ffl,’."' 42, Booty L EVENEISE TITER “That in the only inference T can| IS Dam in the 43 RrORer? o1 \ver/GENTHRE take from your remark,” snappec Fapape 48. Ventilate olv[E E[R[{[ElMo[sS[E Truman 2. Raves 13 Bamuan rivess T[a[RITIER[a[P/SEINED Wiley said no more. 23, 5’; l;"lqa‘mh}!‘nu . - Genus of the = g5 Difteatiy ole Solution of Yesterday's Puzzle War Flashes % im[n‘nmrhlln;u DOWN 3. First-hand 6. Polish is considering a plan to store up | animal's surplus American grain in England head now, as a protection against Sov- bk 55 1 iet snorkel submarines in case the 8. Red suit at war spreads to Europe . . . Despite b i the intensity of the Korean battle e Giif;’,“?l:.. {Russia has a 230-man mission at- ' talk tached directly to Gener: Mac- | H L'yulv::'v.mn!on Arthur’s headquarters in Tokyo . [ 19. Beverage The British shipped steel, machine &l Gaeksiowy Sools, and electrical. equipment fo] Ao North Korea right up to invasion B in {day; and are still sending them 34 Large knife to Communist China. In ()(hel‘l 30. Ancient wine words, British steel is now being | L Sitesentacle Jused against American G.I's . . .| 24. Lubricating Intelligence reports pouring info| 35, Sign of a ful the State Department show con- A8 Bpiances crete evidence of Russian activity | churches near Turkey, Trieste, Iran and! 3; :':‘:’,“'Jfi'fi:’.’. Iraq, as well as a secret agreement by r“»'(,'mma between Albania and Bulgaria to| 44. Ocean ~start new trouble in Greece. Hot- | R oMt spot of all is Yugoslavia. triangle test il [} EYES EXAMINED LENSES PRESCRIBED DR. D. D. MARQUARDT OPTOMETRIST Second and Franklin PHONE 506 FOR APPOINTMENTS Juneau | i \ | .|IIIIIIIIII|fifill|II N S \ L. A. LEXASSEUR ! as a 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: fi “THE SECRET GARDEN" Federal Tax—22¢ Paid by the Theatre Phone 14—YELLOW CAB C0.—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 Century of Banking—1950 The B. M. Behrends Bank Safety Deposit Boxes for Rent COMMERCIAL SAVINGS During | Weather af Alaska Points Weather conditions and temper- atures at varlous Alaska points also on the Pacific Coast, at 4:3C am., 120th Meridian Time, snd released by the Weather Bureau are as follows: Anchorage 61—Partly Cloudy Annette 54—Cloudy Barrow . 39—Partly Cloudy Bethel . 47—Drizzle Cordova 49—Rain Dawson 54—Rain Edmonton ... 54—Clear Fairbanks . ... 47—Fog Haines & 50—Drizzle Juneau Airport 48—Rain Kodiak .. 51—Cloudy Kotzebue 62—Closdy McGrath 52—Cloudy Nome 54—Rain Northway 51—Rair Petersburg . 52—Rair Portland ... 55—Clear Prince George ... 51—Rain Seattle 53—Partly Cloudy Sitka 51—Rair Whitehorse 47—Rair vakutat . 49—Clear COMMUNITY EVENTS | S v TODAY At 7 p.m—Soap Box Derby try- outs, unless showery. At 8 p.m.—BPWC meeting in Bara- nof for showing of Alaska slides. At 8 pm—Odd Fellows meet in IOOF Hall. July 19 At noon—Kiwanis Club, Baranof July 20 At noon—Chamber of Commerce Baranof. At 6:30 p.n.—Juneau Rifle anc Pistol club at Mendenhall Range At 8 pm.—Women of Moose meet- ing, Moose Hall. July 21 At 8 p.m.—Regular meeting of City Council. July 23 At 2 p.m—Soap Box Derby on Twelfth Street hill. July 24 At noon—Lions Club, Baranof. At 8 p.m.—American Legion, Dug- out. July 25 At noon—Rotary:Club, Baranof. Sewing macmmes for rent at the White Sewing Machine Cesiter. Brownie's Liquor Sfore Phene 103 139 Bo. Frankiin l P. O. Box 2508 e 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 Seward Street Near Third The Charles W. Carter Mortuary Fourth and Pranklin Sta. PHONE 138 Casler’s Men's Wear McGregor Sportswear BOTANY "50"" CLOTHES NUNN-BUSH SHOES STETSON HATS Quality Work Clothing FRED HENNING Complete Outfitter for Men o R. W. COWLING COMPANY DeBoto—Dodge Trucks SHAFFER'S SANITARY MEAT FOR BETTER MEATS 13—PHONES—49 Free Delivery m VMOUNT JUNEAU LODGE NO. 100 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. EIKS Meeting every second and fourth Wednesday at 8 P.M. Visiting brothers welcome. WALLIS S. GEORGE, Exalted Ruler. Yi. H. BIGGS, Secretary. i s Moose Lodge No. 700 Regular Meetings Each Friday Governor— ARNOLD L FRANCIS Secretary— WALTER R. HERMANSEN BLACKWELL’S CABINET SHOP 117 Main 8t. Phone T3 High Quality Cabinet Work for Home, Office ur Store "The Rexall Store” Your Reliable Pharmacists BUTLER-MAURO DRUG CO. Alaska Music Supply The Alaskan Hotel umm PHONE SINGLE O PHONE 6585 Thomas Hardware Co. PAINTS — OILS Builders’ and Sheit HARDWARE Remin, SOLD g.tnl:nsgg‘ecvglt:,n J. B. Burford Co. “Our Doorstep Is Worn by Satisfied Customers™ FORD AGENCY (Authcrized Dealers) GREASES — GAS — OIL Junean Motor Co. —————————.—_____——————————-— PFoot of Main Street MAKE JUNEAU DA DELICIOUS ICE CREAM & daily habit—ask for it by name Juneau Daries, Inc. Chrysler Marine Engines MACHINE SHOP Marine 'ware Chas. G. Warner Co. HOME GROCERY Phones 146 and 342 Home Liquor Store—Tel. 699 American Meat — Phone 38 To Banish “Blue Monday” To give you more freed from work — Tnym Alaska Laundry H. S. GRAVES The Clothing Man LEVIS OVERALLS for Boyu “Say It With Flowers” b “SAY IT WITH OURS P GENERAL PAINTS : and WALLPAPER Ideal Paint Store Phone 549 Fred W. Wenat R S Card Beverage Co. Wholesale . 805 10th 8¢, PHONE 216—-DAY er NIGHT for MIXERS or SODA POP Juneau Plonsn l ‘4 o