The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 18, 1951, Page 2

PAGE TWO THESE DAYS By GEORGE E. SOKOLSKY The Position of Japan No phase of the MacArthur cong troversy 'is more important than the future of Japan. Conquered by the United States, in a phase of World War II in which no other country played an important role, Japan could have been devastated. Instead, Douglas MarArthur brought to Japan ample evidence that the United States can end a fight with a handshake and even help the enemy to a reconstructed life. Thus, MacArthur as our pro- consul created a new Japan. What- ever its role is to be, its foundation is the friendship and support of the United States. The Japanese cannot defend themselves. They have not thc economic means fto sustain themselves. Left alone, they must fall a prey to Soviet Russia. Their dependence upon the Uni- ted States has been symbolized by the personality of General Doug- las MacArthur. Despite the almost universal cliche that human nature is the same everywhere, ‘it is more correct to say thal different human beings do not respond in the same manner to identical challenges. The Japanese have been condi- tioned by their history to accept the leadership of one individual, whether he be Mikado or Shogun. In a word, they approach the man- God concept of leadership. MacArthur’s personality erd his moralistic conduct in Japan fitted this Japanese concept. Therefore, his success in Japan depended as much upon his personality as upon his authority. He became the father of the Japanese people and they expected from him not only guid- ance but protection. MacArthur’s attitude toward Russia coincided with the Japanesc attitude. For the Japanesc have for nearly 100 years feared and ha- ted the Russians. Before Japan was opened to the’ world by Commo- dore Perry (in 1853), Russia made severa! attempts to settle on Jap- an but failed. After Perry, ex- traterritoriality and a conventional tariff were established over Japan and foreign troops were stationed in that country, the Russians es- tablishing a garrison aki, the evils of which were re- membered even in my time in that country. i After the Meiji Revolution (1868) | the Japanese sent delegations w\ | America and to several European | countries to learn the processes of | modernization, but they did not send a delegation to Russia. In 1882, Korea was opened western tiade, with China, Japan} and Russia vying for centrol of that country. This struggle event- uated in the Sino-Japanese war (1894-95) in which Japan was vic- grounds that they had to be pre- pared to withstand conquest by Russia. The elimination = of scArthyr from Japan restores this fear. Should they feel themselves aban- doned, they may be forced o turn to Russia to avoid being conquered, o1 the assumption that a satellite might have an easier timeé than a conquered country. It is, for them a frightful dilemma. THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA SE ALASKA IS FEATURED }GEO. SURVEY T0PO. IN APRIL ISSUE, SUNSET WORK OUTLINED FOR sounesst At 5s & vaamtion.| 51 SUMMER SEASON land is featured in the current is- | sue of Sunset magazine, oommq,e} During the coming summer, the with map, pictures and text to put | topographic division of the U. S. “Fo-by-By"* in any reader’s feet. | Geological Survey plans to do field The article gives much infor-|work for the topogfaphic mapping mation compacted into a readable of approximately 5200 square miles in Nagas-z torious, the Japanese by the treaty of Shimonoseki gaining the Pes- cadores, Formosa, and the Liao- ANNUAL MEETING - tung Peninsula (Dairen: and Port uA S G 4 Arthur) in Manchuria. A((A 'S URSD" e, and However, Russia, F¥ Germany forced Japan to fcresc her Manchurian gains and t0 £¢-| pe annual meeting of the Ju- cept a money indemnity insteid 1eau-Douglas chapter of the Alas- ta Crippled Childrens Association #ill be held Thursday, April 19, at (1896). The same year, Russia and China signed the Li-Lobanoy } pm. in the Council Chambers of he City Hall package and - tells what where, how long and at how much. Among the illustrations are pic- | tures ,of Juneau, Taku Glacier, Hele-in-the-Wall Glacier, and one of, the O. F. Benecke home' here. Taku Lodge is mentiomed prom- inently and enticingly. Even before| the ‘issue appeared on the news- stands, Royal and Eleanor O'Reilly; owners of the lodge, reported that prespects for the comjng tourist season are much better than last year. They will leave the Pamaray Club here where they are current treaty by which Russia gained the right to build the Chinese Easteir Railroad, thus controlling the very This meeting is regularly sched- a that 1npgn had wen I wa. | jeq each year for the month of and lost Ly diplomacy. anuary but has been delayed due And thrcughout this period, Rus- | o the absence of the president penétrating into Korea anc|irom the ity for medieal atten- establishing herself as the conjuer- | tion. * 4 er of Manchuria. T led to the| .The meeting i5 open to anyone Russo-Japanese W. (1904-5) in|%Who is interested .in the Crippled which Japan was victorious. 3;{ Jhildren’s program and. s special the treaty of Portsmouth, Russia{-Rvitation is extended to all organi~ recognized Japan’s paramount in-|Zations in this area:to send repre- terest in Korea, transferred to | sentatives, Japan the southern part of the| The annual reporf of the active Chinese Eastern Railroad (henoe- | ties of the Juneau Chapter will be forth called the South Manchurian | Aven. At this meeting there will Railway). Japan was also giver | Uso be election of five trustees the .iaotung Peninsula in Man-| © Serve three-year terms. churia and half of Sakhalin. S R Although Japan and Russisd MOOSE WOMEN TO signed a number of secret treaties MEET, INWTE by which they divided Manchuria SO y and Mongolia between them, there was no real Russian-Japanese friendship. In fact, in 1917, when|?® the Russian Revolution occurred, the Japanese sought to take areas in Siberia as far as Lake Baikal. This was countermanded by the allies, principally the United States who sent expeditionary forces t Sikeria to hold the trans-Siberia railroad as trustees for Russia. Much that is false has been written about this Siberian expe- dition. T was there and know the facts first hand. It must be obvious from this re- view of the historical facts that a great fear of Russia has long existed in Japan and 1s. even | stronger now. The Japanese inthe 1920's and 1930’s justified their re- militarism on sia wi ¥ Women of the Mogse will held program. . Serving - on ment committee are son, Mary Albright, E ly Hibler. STITZEL-WELLER DISTILLERY, E KENTUCKY STRAIGHT BOUR “Thirty-seventh in a Series NO HENRY Sir Robert Bruce Atwood, the allant Knight of Knik Arm, has nefted his bluntest lance and gone ‘orth to mow down certain editors, sorrespondents and other ignorami who have referred to Dr. Ernest Henry Gruening as Dr. Ernest Henry Gruening. Says Editor Atwood in his weekly paper, The 49th Star: “The full and proper name of the Governer of Alaska is Ernest Gruening. There is no ‘Henry’ in his name, 10 ‘H’, and no middle initial. of any kind.” 4 I am one of the writers who has referred to the Governor of Alaska as Dr. Ernest Henry Gruening. I cannot certainly say that his mid- dle name is Henry, any more than [ can certainly say that Robert At- c2e | wood’s name is Bruce. I can report ST. LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY 1849 1::‘ 1 *};:'emwn these m::::n isted wil ese lwvfl e BON WHISKEY (9 Bl AR, aames in what are generally regar- jed as standard biographical refer- :nce works. In a search for facts it is con- sidered good practice to go back Shall We Dance? You can't resist when you hear the _tantalizin g Music of John Goettell w=en and Leonard Garr NIGHTLY-9 p. SATURDAYS-9 m. to 1:00 a. m. p.m.t02:00a. m. COCKTAIL DANCING-Daily 5:30 10 6:30 MONDAYS th rough FRIDAYS S e ! Bubble Room of .nor's npame: © the earliest possible sources. And anyone who cares to thumb shrough “Who's Who in America” tor a few years ago will find lis- ed an Ernest Henry Gruening. Comparison of.. the ' information ained therein ~with that of surrent editions of the ‘same work will show beyond a reasonable doubt that this was.the same per- son who is now Governor of Alaska although in the ¢ it editions ne is listed merely ag Jr Grue- aing. b 1t is of interest to mete, £00, that in at least one of the early edi- sions Ernest Henry Gruening was Jdsted as a Reépuhblican.” It is generally understood thas ihe biographical material in “Whals Who in Ameri¢a” 15 wriften by the subjects themselves, and that to juard against errors, the subjects are furnished preofs for checking after the matter has been set in type. There can, of course, be errors in any printed matter, biographical reference works jncluded. I am sure, in fact, that errors do creep in. A certain “Who's Who ig Al-] aska,” for example lists Robert Bruce Atwood as a Republican. But to get back to the Gover- Edjtor William L, Baker of the Ketchikap Chronicle reported in his _editorial columns) a couple of months ago that the Governor does have a middle in- itial. Py Baker sald be saw the jnitials “E. H. G.” embroidered on some of the Governor's handkerchiefs. I cannot - effirm this and I pass it along only for what it is worth. For that particular job of snooping, Editor Baker is, or was, in a bet- ter position than I am. entertainers, and will go to the lodge about May 1 to get ready for the coming season. Far d i 8008 O FWS INVIIE BIDS CONSTRUCRON: - KOTZEBUE BUILDING day . was dssuiry. bid-.on_ const Furness, administrative officer. The structure will be & combin- ation headquarters and residential building, - housing, offices. of, the agency, and containing, two apart- :ments, Bids will be opened May 4, at 2 pm, &t the Juneau pffice Construction will be started at a designated time, after the contract is awarded., Y .Apyone. inferested. in subr 2 bid, can gontact Furness at the locs' office of the Fish and Wild- life dgrviee: N3 WANT ADS PAY+ I do not know exactly what all the fuss is about. I am not aware that calling a man “Henry,” whether or not that is his name, is libelous, defamatory or even de- rogatory. As a matter of fact, Editor At- wood says that these “detractors” who speak of the Governor as Dr. Ernest Henry Gruening are actu- ally building him into a bigger man than he really is. Speaking for myself, I can say that such was not my intention. Quite frankly, my efforts have been in another direction. But I am not entirely convinced that giving a man a longer name builds him into a_bigger man. Still, if inserting “Henry” be- tween “Ernest” and “Gruening” does build the Governor into a bigger man, I fail to see why this should be causing Sir Robert such an acute pygalgia. k STATEHOOD QUOTES The recently published report of the Alaska Statehood Committee is sprinkled with quotations regard- ing statehood, most of them taken from last year’s Senate hearing on the subject. Here are a few quotes, from the same source, that were overlooked by the Statehood Committe. Senator Herbert Lehman, former governor of New York: “I do not. thipk there is any doubt that Alaska, from a defense standpoint, is a vital spot. I think the only question is whether you can, get that defense any more surely-.as a State than you can as a Territory. “I. believe that the /Congress and the people of the country are go- ing to follow the judgment of tiie experts in military defense rather than any representation that might ‘e made by a Senator or Congress- - man. “You know how I feel about statehoed for Alaska, but I think you have not made a case with regard to the fact that Alaska can be defended any better or any less well because of pelitical represent- ation on the floor of the Senate.” Rear Admiral Ralph Woed, re- tired, former Commandant, 17th Naval District (comprising all of Alaska) : “Y think all military strategists concede the importance of the Al- askan position. It has been stated that statehood for Alaska is now going to bolster somehow the na- tional defense. “In my opinion, it makes no dif- ference whether Alaska is a State or a Territory as far as national defense is concerned. As a matter of fact, since the federation of the original Thirteen Colonies the common defense has been just that. “Were Alaska to become a State tomorrow, it would not alter, I am sure, the general over-all consi In this whole matter, however, eration of our defense problems.” to see!in southeast Alaska. The mapping is to be completed in all of Bar- anof Island, the unmapped portion of Chichagof Island and 1300 square miles in the Taku area. The Chichagof Island area will be mapped by a seven man party jead by Arthur Gervais, Jr. and the Baranof Island area by a sim- ilar party lead by Kenneth Mc- Lean. The six man party for the Taku area will be lead by John V. Lyles, Jr. All topographic work will be supervised by R. E. Isto, project Engineer of the Geological survey Denver office. Gervais, Mc- Lean and Lyless have worked in southeast Alaska in previous years and Isto has spent two seasons in the Anchorage-Fairbanks area. The parties working on Chicha- goff and Baranof Islands will use two large boats, the 50 foot Triton contracted from « Lester McCarty and the 52 foot Verma contracted from Fred Holtiner. Both boats are from Petersburg and are to arrive in Juneau on April 25 to pick up the parties and equipment. These two parties will also be assisted by two Bell helicopters contracted from Allied Helicopter Services of Tulsa, Oklahoma. The helicopters are o arrive in Juneau on May 1. Isto and Robert Foley recently arrived in Juneau to do prelimin- ary work including the locating of camp sites and preparing equip- ment for the summer’s work. The majority of the Chichagof and Baranof Islands parties are sched- uled to arrive April 24 and the Taku River party is to arrive May 1 It is anticipated that the island Jwork will be completed sometime | in July at which time those parties will be moved to the Valdez area. The topographic division has a similar mapping program in cent- ral Alaska. This work is in the Denali and Tonsina areas. TONER RETURNS FROM SURVEY OF HAINES PROJECTS Felix Toner, engineer, has re- turned from a trip to Haines where he made a survey for rehabilita- tion of the Haines airport. Rebuild- ing of the airport is a Territorial project handied by the Territor- ial Department of Aviation, George S. Schwamm, director, and is being carried out under the federal aid program administered by the Civil Aeronautics Authority. Toner also did survey work on the $269,000 water and sewer pro- ject being carried forward in Haines under the Public Works program, through the office of John Argetsinger, district engin- eer for Alaska. NEW NURSE ARRIVES Miss Eugenia C. Wassell of Bal- timore, Md. arrived here on the Denali. She is to be the new pub- lic health nurse with the Alaska Health Department at Anchorage and will be here until April 25 for orientation. She has recently com- pleted special* public health studies at the University of Michigan. AUDITING MAY BE FINISHED IN MID-MAY FORESTER EXPLAINS | SITUATION ON LOGS EXPORTTO KIWANIS “Pressure has been brought to permit export of Alaska logs to the Puget Sound area and to Brit- ish Columbia,” Alva Blackerby, of ! the U. 8. Forest Service, told mem- bers of the Juneau Kiwanis Club at a ‘vegular luncheon meeting at, the Baranof Hotel this noon. Blackerby stated that the Forest Service policy for Alaska was the| same as for forests in other areas| —that of primary use of forest re-| sources in local communities. That policy has been followed in Alaska except in emergencies such as dur- ing the last war when Sitka spruce was needed for aircraft and when the Juneau mill burned here in 1949 and loggers had equipment and committments to furnish logs. 'The current pressure to permit export is being brought by Puget Sound mills, and a U. S. company | which is building a pulp mill in| Prince Rupert in addition to a few local loggers, Blackerby said. While a relaxed policy might: benefit local loggers temporarily, it would be to their disadvantage in the long, run. If export of 10gs| is not permitted, the chances of getting several pulp mills in South- east Alaska are increased. These, together with plywood plants and sawmills would more fully utilize the resource, make for year-around | operatjon, double the population and wise cutting would improve the timber stands in 80 years, Black- erby said. ‘The Territorial legislature, Cham- s of Commerce, and many Al- aska organizations have backed | the Forest Service policy. In response to questions the for- ester said that problems faced by companies wishing to put pulp mills in Alaska were: (1) heavy initial cost of installation; (2) | shipping problems; (3) and the tax situation. He mentioned the advan- tages of a car ferry from Alas to Prince Rupert where cars could go directly to eastern U. S. mar- kets with the Alaska-made pro- ducts. ‘When asked about improvement tin roads in the forest areas, Black- erby stated that $3,500,000 special ; opriation for this purpose had | Iready been approved by a house | committee. Another similar amount is being asked for improvement and building of roads to mill sites near Ketchikan, Sitka and Juneau. No extension of roads is planned for Juneau, he said, but improve- ment and surfacing of existing roads is needed. Lt. Norman Steinig reminded Imembers that no regular meeting | would be held next Wednesday in lieu of the Ladies Night dinner and program set for the evening at [ 7:30 in the Gold Rcom of the Bar- anof Hotel. MORE TALKS SCHEDULED, MacARTHUR (Continued from Page One) him on the Washington Monument grounds. Later the Defense Department an- nounced that Secretary Marshall and all the top military command would be at the airport to greet MacAr E vi Auditing of accounts of all Terri- d(}legu:i};‘;‘r fi’(l)‘:ler;m:ng;les: ls,:) r:;e)r:- torial departments, which is being | sentative from the staté Depart- carried on by the Arthur Anderson | ment, and the District of Columbia and Company of Seattle, will prob- | commissioners. ably be completed by mid-May, P D0 D oA 1 00 Territorial ~ Auditor Nejl Moore EI.KS (oMMI"ES said today. is the regular every two- BE "AMED .I.ONIGH.I. \This year audit required by Territorial law. Le Roy West, Exalted Ruler of SCOUT FIELD Juneau Lodge No. 420, B. P. O. Elks EXECUTIVE ON TRIP | will announce his committees for the coming year at the regular meeting Ken Ubbelonde, Boy Scout fielé | ‘onight, executive left yesterday for Peli- The members are urged to be can to meet with the leaders and | present as this is the first official members of the new Boy Scout|meeting conducted by the new of- troop sponsored by Pelican Pro~ | ficers. Program for the coming yeai gressive Club. This evening special | will be announced by the Exalted investiture ceremonies will be held | Ruler. for the scouts in the new troop. The picture of the Christopher Ubkelohde travels to Mt. Edge- | Movement, which has created grea’ cumbe on Thursday for a regular | interest in its various showings ir service field trip. Scheduled that | other organizations, will be showr evening is a training session for | following the regular meeting. all cub leaders, pack committee Members are urged to put every men and den mothers. He retutns | >ffort behind the coming Juneau earily next week. High school spring concert thit weekend. This is a worthy cause and demands the support of all. BOY —~EMPIRE WANT ADS PAY— WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18, 1951 SHAFFER’S 49-Phone-13 SANITARY MEAT CO. Meat at Its Best — at Lower Prices FREE DELIVERY Prices Good Thursday, Friday and Saturday Hormel's Finest BACON Half or Whole Ih. 52 Rhode Island Red ROASTING PULLETS Ib. §9¢ Choice Steer Beef Roast Ib. 7 5¢ Farm Fresh PAN READY FRYERS Ib. T8¢ For delicious week-end dinners, serve a Teader, Juicy STEAK Round or Sirlein Ib. 99 Rhode Island Red FRICASSEE CHICKENS Cut-Up - Ready to Cook Ib. §5¢ Eastern Grade A — Boned and Rolled Pork Roast Ib. 79c RATH’S ~ SLICED BACON Ib. 63« From the Land of Corn @