The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 17, 1950, Page 4

PAGE FOUR Daily Alaska Empire Puhll\hed every evening except Sunday by the EMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY Second and Main Streets, Juneau, Alaska EELEN TROY MONSEN DOROTHY TROY LINGO ELMER A. FRIEND ALFRED ZENGER President Vide-President Managing Editor Business Manager Entered In the Post Office In Juneau as Second Class Matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Deiivered by carrier in Juneau and De for $1.50 per month; six months, §8.90; one year, $15.00 By mail, postage paid, at the following rates: One year, in advance $15.00; six months, in advance, $7.50; sne month, in advance, $1.50. Subscribers will confer a favor {f they will promptly notify the Business Office of any failure or irregularity in the delivery of their papers. Telephones: News Office, 602; Business Office, 374. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS The Ascociated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for repablicatior. of all news dispatches credited to it or not other- wise credited in this paper and alse the local news published herein ATIONAL REPRESENTATIVES — Aiaska Newspapers, Ty ro Avenue Bldg., Seattle, Wash. August 11, 1950 Thursday, COMMUN In a striking and significant declaration, mari- time labor 1éaders and their employers have Jointly declared war3ion Commumsu. An’ agreement :reached at a conference in Washington, attebded, by repre- sentatives offf the National Administration “and gl government Agencies concerned with shipping, recog- nizes that ‘urum" union men will be classified as bad security #sks on-the waterfront and at sea. These are men known to be Communist card holders, or “notorious aseconsistently caFying out the policies of' the Communist party.” « The uniens pledge to delay no ship when such men are reje’cted by the proper government authority. A replacement will be furnished. For their part the operators undertake to make no use of the rejection power to retaliate against unfon activity. ‘There will be port review boards to which rejected men have recourse, and above them a national appeals board. Unions will be represented on the boards by men of their own choosing. Invitations to the conference pointedly exempted two unions, and in a definité sense these organizations are a target of the resolutdon. They are the CIO dock union of Harry Bridges and the Marine Cooks and Stewards Union, also CIO, headed by Hugh Bry: son. The resolution, in its seventh policy point, says that any union attempting to frustrate shipping by “phony demonstrations, bogus picket lines, etc.” will receive no support from the signatory unions. ‘They will keep the ships sailing. There is no doubt that there are Communists in other unions as well, a fact attested by the futile hut sizable vote against the leaderghip of the De- tional Maritime Union in its recent election. At the NMU, took a leading role and allaying fears of some union men that the rej powers would be misused by the companies. Mr, Cur- waged a long fight against “disrupter: was persuasive ran has union. American Radio sign was adherenece to the three locals of Mr Bridg These are good omens not only for the current time trouble, but for the shipping industry when the 1s Another anti-subversive pact by Association heartening s' own dock organization. of risis over. \](I\I\.l l’ulmcal W hl‘(‘\\‘l\h lkeulnluu News) Tn 6ne evening we the peonle he morass of Democratic party bungling and de iousness into the light of understanding and pur We refer to Jim Pinkerton’s letter describing how I Yemocratic Precinct Committee recently became first n th arts of their countrymen, and the Council’ eprint of an Anchorage editorial explaining that the the Phlmer airport was not a scandal have becn led from candal over after all Pinkerton, who sounds buoyed by the recent “non- »olitical” visit Dr. Gruening made to Ketchikan hastens into print to tell us that his Precinct Com- nittee disowns parentage of the fishermen's licensing law. The fact remains that his party fathered the egislation, pushed it through the legislature, and following the close of the session beat their chest in satisfaction over the great tax measures they had adopted. And Dr. Gruening opined that it was the sest legislature in Alaska’s history. Insofar as this particular bill is concerned one only has to look at the halibut landings in Ketchikan to see why Pinker- ton has to get to an audience with some sort of a story before October. The constructive offering of criticism which Pink- arton now plaintively requests was made during the 1949 sessioris of the legislature, and fell on the deat sars of the Gruening®inspired legislators. We are slapped on the wrist for .repeating our complaint against the fishermen’s licensing law, but we feel it is our public duty to point out that the two Senators and the lone Representative from the Kechikan end »f the division did more to sabotage the economic life of our city than any single thing we know of. Whitewash ig a thin coating, but not readily notice- ble in the dark. If Pinkerton's Democratic Com- nittee wants to whitewash the three Ketchikan leg- islators we think their subtlety is newsworhy. While we have to give away a lot of pounds to make the weight of ‘the lightweight division, we are willing to comment on the Comical’s (Oh, pardon us, we mean Chronicle) editorial explaining the Palmer airport “deal.” It really should be banned when you think of the influence it may have on school children, or adults who may be prone to fall under the spell of such perverted thinking. The editorial, when boiled down and the scum of the Democratic party brew removed, says that any fraud worked on the Federal government is justified. No holds are barred in the battle for Federal funds, falsehoods and larceny are the rules of the game, according to the editorial. That is the Palmer method: but we doubt that even the clever editorializing of the Ancorage Times will be able to convince anyone that black is white, that a crooked deal can be justified. While it seems {foo academic to mention, we wonder if the Anchorage Times and his left end at Ketchikan are aware of the fact that tax money does Inot belong to some stranger. That such raids on the treasury means that someone will have to pay higher taxes sto make up for the inflated value the Palmer gang set on their airport property. Needless in cetidn n his A similar housecleaning has taken place in the Washington conference Joseph Curran, president of | to say, that someone is YOU. THESE DAYS --BY-- GEONRGF E. SOKCLSKY PRIVATE RESPONSIBILITY In time of war, for a people to become deeply con- cerned over details, Where is Pu- san? What did Averell Harriman say to General MacArthur? All this is interesting, but ;l‘ divorces the mind from our major | problem—the answer to which will’ decide what our world will be, no matter whether battles are won or lost. Obviously something happened between the years 1914 and 1950 which altered the course of west- ern civilization and of American history and life. That alteration has not been for the better. It has brought us, to date, three gen- eral wars and an economic dis- location of great depth. Its social consequences are just bewmmng o appear in the ghanged cHaracter of our family mn.‘ Walter Hoving, it this way: “Why are merchant, put so confused? Is it possibly bec e so many of cur basic beliefs w under fire durini the first half of the twentieth cen- tury? Beliefs that we used to take for granted suffered from constant and vigorous attack. Take our religious beliefs for example. The initial assault on religion came from science. Science set itself up as having an omnipotence of its own. Many people instead of rec- ognizing that science was merely discovering the laws.of God were led to believé that science itsell was God. They, were made to feel that the spiritual basis for the universe was oldfashioned and ob- solete.” This is a clinical dlagnosis of a deep social illness, namely, that the vast accumulation of unrelxted data has had the effect of separ- ating us from the essential char- acteristic of western civilization which is, private, personal, individ- ual responsibility. But what it comes to is that pot a majority, or a mass or a mob, or a committee, nor even a minor- ity, can assume responsibility for the conduct of the individual in the presence of God. This concept of personal respon- sibility had the broadest hiscoric consequences, for it evoked the doc- trine of personal libe: d of political and economic freedom. On the political side, it destroyed the concept of despotism and estab- lished the principle that a good gov ernment is one in which the choice is made, in an orderly fashion, by the people themselves. On the ec- i it is not unusual | side, it produced capitai-| | onomic ism. By whatever name, private enter- | prise, free enterprise, profit and | 1oss system, capitalism is the econ- | omic consequence of a philosophic system of personal rather' than mass responsibility. It is one man anding alone to do what he can | and must, assuming all the liabil- ities, risking his future, accepting | the benefits, whatever they may te This system, whatever its i vantage or defects, cannot e: at all if government or any other communal agency rejects the re- the individual for lu; choices, decisions and his conduct, For instance, such a sys- item cannot exist in a prison or an asylum or even when, in despair or for power, men are forced to go to war. Under such conditions, a despot- ism appears—either the despotism of the person, or of an oligarchy or a ‘mob, i'The indwidual is not gnly, repressed; ke s sactually sup- pressed as’ @ muisance, Whoever confrols force and power, controls man. The individual not only may aot do according to his choice; he Imay not think without consent. Thus, Zhdanov was able to tate the character of newly-written music; and now Stalin is messing ibout with the property of words. Dictators operate not only in the political and economic realm; would fashion all men to théir es and destroy those who dis- ase them. Walter Hoving makes this igter- sting point: “One of the most tragic con- scquences of all this is that we have :ven lost our deep seated belief in freedom itself. Although we still use the word, its connotation has hanged. We have substituted for freedom a sort of parasitical sec- urity. For example, many people aumber among the so-called four rcedoms two new ones ., 21 the freedom from fear. These, of rse, are not freedoms at all, but securities.” For every benefit, there must be compensatory payment or even a sacrifice. traordinary securities freedoms have to be curtailed or sacrificed en- tirely. Guaranteed existence, which is called security, can only mean a lessening or the elimination of personal responsibility. This is the essential danger of our era. l FOOD SALE Hot dishes — salads — cakes— pies, Friday, Aug. 18, 11 am. at Vic Power Paint Store by Past Presidents, American Legion Auxil- lary. 82-2t they | . they |u(~ the freedom from want and Therefore, to obtain ex- | $400,000 (ONIRA(T LET TO BUILD GRADE SCHOOL, FAIRBANKS FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Aug. 17—® —The Alaska Department of Public Works have awarded Reed and Martin a $400,000 contract for con- struction of an elementary school building. Excavation work has istarted and the completion date is set for Aug. 23, 1951. BOAT WORK, C. Co. Boat work completed at the Ju- | heau Marine Basin of the Northern | Commercial Co., includes the Wil- {liam Booth, Salvaticn Army mis- sionary boat, off the ways yester- day after a complete repainting, the ; Adak, operated by Columbia Lum- ber off the ways after installation of a new load line, Carol Ann with a,copper paint job, and the Taku Chief, Polaris-Taku Mining Co., on the ways for a stern bearing and shaft change. { 1 ACROSS . Imitates . Declare . Sin 2. Resolve . Sheiter Circumpolar constellation . I\ewl agency: br. 3 L‘ne\ en . Sharp . Symbol for nickel 37. As far as . Humbles 40. Bustle 43. Covered wagon 5. For fear that . More severs 48. Leav g . Short for a man’s nanje . Took for. granted . Roman poet Everyone Porcine Acts of taking | for one's own | SCHWINN BIKES AT MADSEN'S WANT ADS BRING RESULIS | I Crossword Puzzle * YHE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA ° 20 YEARS AGO 7%'s emrirE AUGUST 17, 1930 1 AUGUST 17 Celebrations were in order, to observe the fiftieth anniversary of the | founding of Juneau. Richard T. Harris, father of W. John and Richard | Harris, and Joseph Juneau arrived August 17, 1880, and pitched their camp where the J. J. Stocker Building now is. Mrs. Fred Schindler City of Juneau Patricia Virginia Sider Mrs. Elsie McLean James -Larson Lauraleen Miller Miss Dorothy Jones Mrs. Ruth M. Farrell Helen Aaste Gary Jenkins George Graves Sidney Smith Pat Jones | | Two Douglas residents were on the sick list. Robert Bonner, Jr., ® | was having an enforced vacation, as his hand had been severly crushed ® | while at work earlier in the week. Louis Hanken, captain of the Volun- . | teer, Douglas Island Packing Company cannery tender, had been taken :;m St. Ann’s Hospital. ®eccccce and Mrs. John H. Bixler of Skagway were among guests registered o |at the Zynda Hotel. Others included Encell K. Greenjee, school teacher ® |who had been spending a vacation at Sitka, and Mrs. F. B. Van Zandt LI of Madison, Wis. WILLIAM J. RIEMI IS TRANSFERRED T0 JUNEAU AREA William J. ler Niemi, Alaska | Road Commission District Engineer | at Anchorage, will be transferred | to the Juneau headquarters office as Chief of the Operations Division on Nov. 1, Col. John R. Noyes, head of the ARC announced today. John I. Noble, Chief of the Con- Mrs. C. M. Archbold of Petersburg, able to leave St. Ann's Hospital, was a houseguest of Mr. and Mr. R. L. Bernard at their apartment in The Empire Building. Mr. M Avoian and her new daughter were dis- | missed from the hospital. Miss Mary Katheryn Butler was there, con- valescent from an operation. C. E. McCormick had been admitted for treatment of an injured ankle. Another new patient was John Ander- | son, whose back and one arm had been hurt while working in a cannery Bt Tenakee. | | Henry Ringling, younger member of the famous Ringling Brothers Circus family, and Mrs. Ringling, residents of Gainesville, Fla., were on the Prince Henry, making the round trip to Skagway. R. D. Balser, R. G. Holmes and James Watson were among Seattle- tract Office Section, has been act- |ites stopping at the Gastineau Hotel. Among guests at m:vzlxlsskar; ing Chief of Operations. were Charles L. Parker of White Water Bay and Ben ilson 0! Niemi is well known in Juneau Killisnoo. and Alaska. He lived in Doughs‘ from 1910 to 1918 where he at-! tended grade school. He went to! high school in Anchorage and was | graduated from the Colorado School | of Mines at Golden in 1926. He has been associated with the Al- | aska Railroad and U. S. Smellmg‘ Mining and Refining Co. at Fslr- banks, He joined the Alaska Road | Weather: High, 60; low, 49; rain. D e Daily Lessons in English Y L. GORDON WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “They have lived there Commission in 1930. In 1941 to upwards of a year.”” Say, “They have lived there ALMOST a year.” 1945 he served in the Army as OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Elm. Pronounce as one syllable, and Commander of a battalion of Avia- Dot el-um. tion Engineers constructing avia- | OFTEN MISSPELLED: Plaintiff; tion facilities, roads, housing, utii- | SYNONYMS: Established (adjective), ities, hangars and airfields in the |gtaple, Aleutian Islands, Okinawa and Ja-| wORD STUDY: “Use a word three times and it is yours.” Let us p“:i,n leaving military service in increase our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Today's word: 194&\ Nl;'mi was om}cc enginter METROPOLITAN; pertaining to a chief city. “Her life in the country of Reclamation Was so different from these metropolitan customs.” MODERN ETIQUETTE % penra rex at Pasco, Washington until Dis~ i) observe the two F's. fixed, permanent, settled, when he rejoined the ARC as trict Engineer at Anchorage. Mrs. Niemi was formerly a tea- cher at Anchorage. The Niemis Iha\e two daughters, Miriam Anne, 19, who is a student at the Univer- | Q. In = restaurant, if a woman stops at a table to talk for a ;x;y of Washington and Celia Beth, | iy te with some acquaintances, should the men at that table rise, * \wherher they are acquainted with her or not? ke Yes, and they should remain standing until she takes her leave: DEFENSE DEPARTMENT * | 1 fl Even if the wedding is to be very small and informal, would it be &l right for a bride to wear a whitebridal veil? MED'(AI_ ME" UNABLE g ;Ies‘.t provi:ed g.;s dnot her sec:nd martriag& s i .'o BE A.I. AMSKA MEEI fcmwi;‘g s it considered bad manners for ‘one to sip coffee or tea while on food that is already in the mouth? A. Yes, this is very ill-bred. Due to thé Korea situation, offi- | cers and physicians of the Office | of Defense will not be able to at- | tend the Alaska Civil Defense med- | ical meeting at Mt. McKinley park this weekend, according to a tele- gram received today by Dr. C. Earl, Albrecht, commissioner of health. The telegram was from Richard L. Meiling, director of medical sér- vices for the office of the Secretary of Defense. It said: “Due to Korea situation, the Sec- | retary of Defense regrets the nec-| essity of cancelling entire Depart- | ment of Defense program of the Alaska Territorial Medical Associa- tion meeting August 20.” Defense office physicians were To lead the Alaska Civil Defense med-w ical meetings following the Tern-{ torial Medical Association meetings for which Alaskan physicians are|: convening at Mt. McKinley pa"k foday. Alaska Department, of There is no substitute for Newspaper Advertising! _ LOOK and LEARN Z?C.GORDON' 1. In what year did the Major Leagues start playing night baseball? 2. What is meant by the degradation of soil? 3. Who was the only child of a President born in the White House? 4. About what percentage have pay checks of American workers risen in the past 10 years? 5. What is the maximum weight of a bantam-weight in boxing? ANSWERS: In 1938, at Cincinnati. ‘Wearing down by erosion. Esther Cleveland, in 1893. On the average, about 130 per cent. 118 pounds. | | ‘ 1 | Health medical staff members had | g left today to attend the meetings| = ‘ which open tomorrow. | J. W. 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Hebrew letter AP Newsfeatures THURSDAY, AUGUST 17, 1950 Weather af Alaska Poinls Weather conditions and temper- atures at various Alaska points also on the Pacific Coast, at 4:30 im., 120th Meridian Time, celeased Ly the Weather Bureau re as follows: Anchorage Annette Island 51—Partly Cloudy Barrow 33—Drizzle Bethel Cordova Dawson Edmonton Fairbanks Haines Havre Juneau Airport Kodiak Kotzebue McGrath Nome Northway . Petersburg Portland 2rince George ... eattle 3itka . Whitehorse . Yakutat {ORDOVA FISHERY UNION MAII_ QuiTs CORDOVA, Ala.ska, Aug 17— H.J. “Kinky" Lahngn, executve sec- retary of the Cordova ot Fish- eries Union, has resigned his’ post; effective next Saturday. Lannen said the resignation was because of his health. ¥ ./He denied any connection with the 43—Clear: . 38—Clear 50—Ciear 41—Parcly Cloudy 46—Partly Cloudy . 41—Clear 52—Cloudy 60—Partly Cloudy 57—Clear . 47—Partly Cloudy 45—Clear . 63—Clear 4 36—Fog 51—Partly Cloudy cevnenn 48—Clear 50—Partly Cloudy 48—Partly Cloudy the CIO, a report, prevalent in Ket- chikan, Until a new executive secretary son, the assistant secretary, will take over Lannen’s duties. Peasant Skirts—Special this week— $3.95 to $7.95 Stevens Up-The-Stairs Store 81-2x V.FE. W. Taku Post No. 5559 Meeting every Thursday in the C.1.O. Hal} at.8:00 p.m. —_— Brownie's Liquor Store Phene 163 139 So. Frankils P. 0. Box 1M Widest Selection ol LIQUORS PHONE 399 The Erwin Feed Co. 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