The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 23, 1950, Page 4

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE SATURDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1950 20 YEARS A PAGE FOUR -JUNEAU, ALASKA Daily Alaska Empire Pub}lshefl every evening except Sunday by the EMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY Second and Main Streels, Juncau, Alaska HELEN TROY MONSEN DOROTHY TROY LINGO ELMER A. FRIEND MOUNT JUNEAU LUDGE Nu, 147 BECOND and FOURTH | Monday of each month 'ln Scottish Rite Temple lbegumlng at 7:30 p. m. Carson A. Lawrence, Wnra‘llp(ul Master; v |sanMEs w. LetvERs, Secrctary. Weathier conalllons ana temper- | == e points | @ B.P.0. ELKS also on the P; st, at 4 30 am, 120th ?f=idian Th fl"d‘ :'Lh::df:‘:’hwavé Weather Bureat Meeting every Wednesday at 8 P.M. Visiting brothers welcome, WALLIS S. GEORGE, Exalted Ruler. W. H. BIGGS, Secretary. of love and friendship, of liberty and tolerance, of “good-will” that is not merely a word in our language. On behalf of myself and the members of my Command, T wish to extend to all the people of Alaska my heartiest wishes for a very Merry Christmas and Manesing Baigor | @ Happy New Year. DRCEE 158 | R I P { ilding activities involving expenditure of between $75,000 and $80,- CONSTRUCTIVE APPROACH 000 in progress in Juneau despite the fact that winter was sup- SRR posed to offer unfavorable conditions for construction. Bad weather had {been so infrequent and of such brief duration that few delays were encountered. The building improvements were exclusive of work being the Capitol Building. Major projects were on the Juneau Mills, the government hospital, the Alaska Native Brotherhood B. Hall, Elks Lodge and Club building, Palace Theatre, Arcade and several new homes were being built in various pa and on Glacier Highway. Weather al Liaska Poinis from THE EMPIRE E 3 f:a e Wy - - Prestdent Batered in the Post Office In Juneau as Second Class Matter. UBSCRIPTION RATES: Delivered by carrier 15 Junean and Douslas for $L60 per months six months, $8.00; one vear, $15.00 By mail, postage paid, at the following rates: One year, in advance, $15.00; six months, in advance, $7.50; one month, in advance, $1.50. Bubscribers will confer a favor 1f they will promptly notify the Business Office of any failure or irregularity in the delivery of their papers. Telephones: a4, December 23 Leaders and members of the American Medical Association merit commendation for their new ap- !proach to the problem of keeping medicine free from government control, the Cincinnati Enquirer. At its Cleveland meeting the AMA appropriated $500,- 000 for a new fund to be used to strengthen and expand medical colleges. The $500,000 comes from a fund originally raised by physicians to lobby against compulsory health insurance. Certainly it is better strategy and structive to use such funds to correct the deficiencies of medical training than simply to fight inst a piece of legislation which never had chance of passage. So long as medical schoc the need of the nation for well- adequate numbers, they need have no fear of coming under government domination. Th same principle holds for medical So long as the physicians continue to support and develop non-profit programs for supplying medical care on a budget basis, such as the Blue Shis | plan, they do not need to fear what they call social- Leo V. Osterman Sally Crooks Pearl Swanson doné Lumber ©C 2600000000000 0000000C000 SN says News Office, 602; Business Office, 14—Snow | 41—Snow | -10—Snow | -7—Partly Cloudy | 34—Cloudy -12—Cloudy 34—Cloudy -10—Partly Cloudy 29—Partly Cloudy 48—Cloudy | 27—Fog | 30—Snow | -3—Cloudy | -8—Snow | . 19—Snow| 35—Cloudy | 54—Cloudy 33—Partly Cloudy | 52—Rain Showers | 40—Drizzle . 14—Drifting Snow 33—Drizzle | Anchorage Annette Island Barrow Eethel Cordova Dawson Edmonton Fairbanks Dgcember 24 MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRI The Assoclated Press 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 berein. nt, Kay J. Kennedy Lisle Hebert Arlie B. (Cot) Hayes Ed B. Shaffer Stella Dapcevich Rdath Prouty Julie Hud: Frank H. St »d lights to brighten the Yule- municipal Christmas tree at Guy's Drug Store corner. ng th ow from its many colo irit of the community, Douglas ted the day before Christme Mcose Lodge No. 700 Regular Meetings Each Friday Governor— ARNOLD L FRANCIS Secretary— WALTER R. HERMANSEN G T RN NATIONAL REPRESENTATIVES — Alaska Newspapers, 1411 Pourth Avenue Bldg., Seattle, Wash, it £ more con- H Havre Juneau Kodiak local tran: firms were awarded contracts for removal of niture and records of all Fedcral bureaus to the Territorial bujlding. The ful bidders were Reliable Transfer, Service and Cole Tran: the Airport rained physicians in December 25 and Mrs. W. C. Graham 14 M. A. Chase Sheron Louise Wruck William D. Gross Mrs. Martin Lynch Lee Rox Mrs. Edwin Gunst Ruth Bloomquist Mrs. Joseph Kendler Steve Stanworth Bessie Dapcevich A. J. Balog F. R. Sande Sam Paul, Jr. Bettye Kemmer Tom Langley Christine Ni e o o @ RLES DICKENS' Outdoor lighting during Christmas week was becoming a popular in Juneau. Two particularly attractive decorations of homes of Mr, and Mrs. Dave Housel on Fourth Street and Mr. and | Portiand Nordling on Twelfth Street. | Prince George Seattle Sitka Whitehorse | Yakutat Daily Lessons in English % .. corbon {| Mr. economics. custom 2 th s. Homer G. Brownies Liguor Store Pheme 193 139 Be. Franklim d P. O. Box 25% | , 43; low, 38; misting. | ized medicine. | Saturday, December 23, 1950 Americans do not like to see public utilities, labor or- | any In general, In keeping with the custom of former years,|economic group—physicians, o 0 0 0 06 0 0 o o there will be no edition of The Empire, Monday. Christmas Day. This is one of the few holida; universally recognized. We wish all a Merry Christmas. ganizations, or any others—spendiug money in Wash- ington to influence the thinking of the men l!w;. American people have elected to act for them. The|e position of the AMA and of the medical profession is morally stronger their chance for achievement of their goal is if they hold to the constructive approach they now are making. “The Rexall Store” Your Rellable Pharmacists BUTLER-MAURO DRUG CO. TIDE TABLE oD “The price reduction is| TO December 1st.” first A as in GAY, Do not; s say WORDS OFTEN MISUS! retroactive with December 1st. OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: xmt as in PAI OFT December 24 High tide 2:18 am,, Low tide 7:48 am., High tide 1:42 par Low tide 8:25 p.m., “retroactive ° la. Pronounce 146 5.1 16.9 -1.0 T i CHRISTMAS MESSAGE and 1 29 JWH 0 S greater more | CHA observe the CRE, not CER. inspect, administer. ‘Use a word three times and it is yours.” Let us \bulary by mastering one word each d: Today’s word: | ace first syllable HIGH). “His ISSPELLED: Mediocre Superintend, | Alaska Music Supply Arthur M. Uggen, Manager Seldom does The Empire have a guest editor but today we are pleased to present Lt. Gen. W. E. Kepner, Commander-in-Chief, Alaska Command, who gives the following Christmas message to the people of Alaska: supervise, oversee, December 25 High tide 2:53 a.m,, Low tide 8:25 am.,, High tide The reason the aged are considered eccentric is that they are granted the privilege of saying what | they please with impunity, and they take full ad- | increase our voc HYPERCRITICAL; overcritical. (Prc When the first Christmas dawned the world held out new hope for peace on earth. almost two thousand years later, everywhere are hoping, working and dying for the same ideal. o most of the children of the world, this part| of the globe is closely identified wil season. The realms of snow are his home, his means of bringing joy to everyo! Surely the spirit that brought tide fable into being is precious to dren alike. men of good will A jolly old man named Santa Claus, Krlx‘ Kringle, or Father Christmas, lives at the North Pole. | It is the same spirit that we. as Ame: This Christmas, th the (;hlx%[ll‘mfii come to. the reindeer are In our ne. this happy Y adults and chil old rural home community most of the | women had corns on their left ears from listening in ule- \un the party line telephone. vantage of the privilege. To effect a change of pace, as it were, Hmw the monotony of your worrying, now and then .slux) worrying about what the world may be coming to, and worry a spell about what it has already cans, feel from the bottom of our hearts—the spirit| to do nd an eternity to do it in. The Vlashinqlon Merry-6o-Round (Continued from Page One) of Lifftibergh®” father and thréw’ people into jail as socialists right after World War I Soviet Spy Ring Exposed I also reminds me of the deluge of mail I got in February 1946 when ; I exposed the Soviet spy ring in Canada, Scores of people wrote me that time denouncing me as a war- monger, a disrupter of American- Russian relations, and a threat”to world peace. I am sure these peo- ple were sincere, well-meaning, and thought that they were right and I was wrong. Frankly I heaved a sigh of relief when the Canadian Prime Minister, MacKenzie King, issued an official statement confirming the spy ring. That was the only thing that stopped the aeluge of letters calling me a lar, I don’t know whether my office has kept those letters but if so, I ought to send them up to Senator McCarthy to show what others have done—long before his unbal- anced tirades—to try to keep this country informed on Soviet dangers. I fear McCarthy, however, is in- fluenced by only one motive— his passion for headlines and more lecture fees, At any rate, what I am getting at is that this country swings from extreme to extreme. Some of the people who berated me four years ago lor exposing Russia may be among those who' now are just as vehement on the other side. These are tired, disillusioned, disappoint- ed, and you can't particularly blame them. However, the important thing is that we must not be swayed back and forth from extreme to extxreme, We must keep the middle road. It is not enough these days to be anti-Communist. We must be pro-American. The first Democratic rights any dictator must strangle are the rights of a free press and free speech. The sixth columnists and the McCartByites have already started this by branding those who disagree with them as Communisis. B-29 Spy Ring I remember September 1947 hav- ing written an expose of the Com- munist spy ring in a Washington suburb which stole the secret blue- prints of B-29s. The story seemed s0 sensational that some editors at that time would not publish it. And it was not until a year later, when the House un-American Act- ivities Committee finally got around to the story, that some of thése same editors gave the story head- lines, At the time I wrote the first story of the Canadian spy ring, T also called on the Chief Assistant of Jimmie Byrnes, then Secretary of State, and suggested that he ought to make an investigation of Alger Hiss. It looked to me as if | been justified. to the Russians—though I couldn’t | i tell for sure. Byrnes did invesii- gate and Hiss left the State De- partment. It was impossible for me to tell whether he was a Communist—an ‘exfrémely “serious“eharge for a newspaperman to make, even though it is brandished about so irresponsibly on the floor of the Senate. But I was sure that Hiss be in a high government and my conviction has ’ should not position, ! All this was in February 1946, four years before McCarthy sud- denly discovered an easy way to make headlines. I Italian Communist Plot In the summer of 1945, just ah,cr‘ Fred Vinson, now Chief Justice,} Lecame Secretary of the Treasury, I went to him to suggest that he investigate one of his top assistants whom I suspected of being pro- Communist. Vinson did investigate and as a result let the man out. The man is dead now and there is no ~use mentioning his name. In fact, I have never mentioned the incident before, not even to Mrs. P. But I did want my daughter to know in these days when the label “Communist” is dished out so recklessly on the floor of the Senate that her father has been doing his part for many years to get rid of Communism in vital places. There was another interesting occasion in September 1947 when I published a confidential report of Communist plans to seize control| of Italy. Included in the expose!| were the location of secret Com- munist ammunition dumps and the names of Communist leaders, among them Giuseppe Dozza, Mayor of| Bologna. Four months later, when I got to Bologna on the Friendship Tramn Mayor Dozza waved the clipping to American newsmen and ded- nounced me and the Friendship Train. He was the only mayor in Italy who refused to welcome us. I couldn’t help but remember, when I was in Italy, that its dic- tator once marched on fome with the excuse of “saving Italy from Communism.” However, force never cures force, and many of his black- shirts are now among the backbone of the Italian Communist Party. So the thing for us to remember in these difficult days is that Dem- ocracy can be choked to death just as effectively by a Fascist dictator as by a Communist dictator. In fact, there is no better way to play into the hands of Moscow i than to create disunity, lack of con- fidence, and doubt. There is no| time more advantageous for the Kremlin to strike than when we lack confidence in our leaders and when our country is torn by strife. And the best way to do this is the Moscow-Hitler technique of repeating again and again the mgl i lie and the big smear. Again I apologize for writing {such a discouraging letter on what i should be such a joyous occasion— I hope that long old enough to cope fairs of the world, have learned to hav Love The Old and re- Many a person’s idea of heaven would be nothing xmsi had been leaking mfcrnntwn the advent of a new grandson. But before he with the af- his elders will e more sense from LION’S CLUB Cabaret Dance Gold Room Sat. 690-2t HOLY NIGHT I This painting of Christmas s doj stein, ae at the X "% | parents, like Dickens himself, wans | the first me by Feuer- alintian who taught : Academy of Aré. Man. | at the Baranof| night. "LIFE OF OUR LORD' | For, accc | Him, § MOVING STORY Last year, the heretofore published Dickens’ manu ipt of Our Lord” p! world 1 100 yeurs earlier for the| € rl” ive audience of the author own children, it is a child’s life .of Chr simple, moving narra- tive, understandable even to a| child and yet touched by that in- comparable Dickens genius which insures its place by side of the ( famous ‘Christmas Carol’ the great masterpieces of mas literature. | Because he felt such deep ven- n for the life and lessons of Savious, he left instructi this particular manus: not be commercializ Thus, the manuscript was a pre cious family t for 85 ye: But when Fielding Dick- the ithor’s youngest child, it was finally brought | un- | The | = nted Q. I am p! | maids should 1 A. If you a are much les is the only at Q. When to see her, i Q. When | be spread on t A. No; (.‘l’l\\ our that should a What Which ens, died in 1933, and 1 2. 3. 4. How m forth sol { amount , word. 5. ol of her? Purcnasea the Loraon Da Mail, the manuscript Lecame literary event of the first magni- tude, destined to be read and cher- | ished forever wherever thoughtful| 1. Hydrog! 2. 3. 4 5. heir childre; e about the n to know something tory of Jesus Christ : to Dicke | ought. to know abou= No one ever lived who was s0 good, s so gentle, and so sorry for people who did wrong, o* were in any way ill or miserable, as He was “And where we meet each and there gether, you ¢ a good place knowing who Hc did.” “Everybo is 10pe now in heaven, to go, and all after we are dead, ke happy always to- ever think what | n is, without s and what He Te all PASSPS The Nugget to accommodate late will be open shoppers from | remarks were h MODER maid-of-honor A. This is use the knife for this pur 0K and LEAR} What painter’s mother is immortalized due to her Denver, Singing. ‘Thirteen. James McNeill Whistler’s mother. 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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 SAVINGS the usual custom is to have| son’s portrait | 2:17 p Low tide’ 9:00 pm., -1.0 December 26 High tide 3:27 am,, Low tide 9:01 am, High tide 2:52 p.m., :52 Low tide 9:36 p.m . . ° 148 49 ft. 16.9 ft. -09 ft. ° ° o o 9000000000000 000000 S0 | | MILK DELIVERY—CHRISTMAS | on Monday, Dec. 25, milk deliv. ery will be made at regular timi | but only to those who have thei tottles out. Only once over routes, so have your bottles tickets out! MERRY CHRISTMAS. an | LIO: CLUB Cabaret Dance at the }Cru Room Sat. night. TOM & JERRY Batter — Rum — Brandy At Percy’s WALT HATLIN ELECTRICAL CONTRACTOR Experienced House Wiring Electrical Marine Repair Phone Red 290 V.F. W. Taku Post No. 5559 Meeting every Thursday in the C.I.O. Hall at 8:00 p.m. The Erwin Feed Co. 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