The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 6, 1951, Page 4

evr- K FOUR Daily Publisfied e EMPIRE PRINTIN hailing the event, and congratulating ; and Territorial officials who had ar- We felt that the appearance of these nationally-known figures the University was an honor to the graduating class, and an event that VieEresident | was bound to benefit the Territory by calling the na- Managing Editor | tion's atention to its importance, and to its problems. Unfortunately. when the commencement week rolled around, we were bitterly disappointed. The i ofic yeal . governor took command of the affair, and it turned se pald. at the following vates: srs0; |into a political rally. Speeches were political, and one month, in $1.50. | they concerned controversial subjects. Political lines m‘;‘"&,a& Lo ,‘“{“;:',,:‘1,‘3:,’“l::‘,{,",’:";‘;fi"‘,;‘:‘,‘y were drawn in arranging the program. The greduat- ing class got lost in the shuffle, and so did Alaska, g, Davers: E o ephones: News Office, 603; Bustness Office, 374. as far as we were concerned. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS The following Tuesday morning, we pondered the The Associsted Press s exclusively entitled to the use for o v h sepublication of all news dispatches credited to it or not other- | advisability of saying exactly what we thought of the affair. After considerable thought, we decided against wise credited in this paper snd also the local news published ok LI e bringing out our objections. For the sake of the Uni- WATIONAL REPRESENTATIVES — Alaska Newspapers, 1411 | versity faculty and others who had worked so hard on ol e ook v the program, and of the students who had been pushed around enough, we decided to drop the matter, and let the governor’s actions speak for themselves. In short, the governor had made a political football out of the affair, and we decided against kicking it. Later we discovered that three of the Territory’s six daily newspapers had condemned the proceedir The fact that these editorials appeared in print ma news, and we felt the people of Fairbanks should at least be able to read what is being printed all over the itory. Since we agreed with these edito we said so, when we printed them. A point has been brought up that one editor re- ferred to “anti-statehood” Fairbanks. We questioned that statement, but it is not considered proper to edit another person’s editorial, so we let it stand. The News-Miner hereby corrects that one mistake on the part of a visiting editor, by acknowledging that in a referendum held several y ago, the city of Fair- banks voted in favor of statehood, although the Fourth Division as a whole did not. ed editoris the Univer ranged the program. Alaska Empire very evening except Sunday by the COMPANY Juneau Alaska tered Post_Office in Juneau as Second Class Matter. ¥ e SUBSCRIPTION RATES: TES. Delivered by earrier d Douslat six monibe & in Juneaun $1.75 per month; 50 Wednesday, June 6, 1951 PEACE AT ANY PRICE! It often has been said that President Harry fruman really s himsgitryhmoke Shrows away & The News-Miner is proud of the manner in which EiRDUSCHipt and starfs “punching” we covered the graduation exercise, even though we We'll say this much: His capacity for puting his disapproved of the way it was being run. We pub- foot in his mouth certainly increases when he 100ks | jicized the atfair fully, and gave it full news coverage up from the typewritten page which, e often suspect, | as well as printing many pictures of the events. Any was prepared by, or at least with, the help of some- reader will recall that we had a paper on the streets one else. less than an hour after the ceremony ended, giving interpolations in his speech to a national conferengc émor V;Iarren indorsed statehood. Unfortunately we on citizenship at Washington the other day. Hisf ;4 fare too well at the hands of the governor, in manuscript pointed out that our defense spending Will | (oo ¢ these efforts. During his “politicing” at the run about $60 billion during the next year and a half. | yeception for Warren, he suggested that we were not But then, with a typical politician’s disinclination to|gne of the Territory’s “PAIR” newspapers. In let a few billions stand between him and a burst of | ing out our respective parts in (}w graduat : applause, Mr. Truman looked up and interpolated: “Let | cise, we are convinced that 'rhe News-Miner was {s me drive this home—ONE WEEK of all-out war would | and the governor was not falr. cost 10 to 20 times that.” We can sum up our feelings on the whole ma Ten times $60 billion is $600 billion, and 20 times it would be $1,200 billion. For a WEEK'S warfare, mind you. It simply couldn’t be worth it! exer in two points: 1. It is unfortunate that the commencement ercise became embroiled in a political controv it was Governor Gruening, not the newspapers Republicans or any other group, that injected politics into the affair. 2. We are convinced the University of Alaska to fw ambitions which he harbors. Furthermore, we might point out that ch: that ‘'we were “disgruntled,” or that Republicans w disappointed because the “governor showed them ur at the exercise, do not hold water. The charges are not true, but even if they were, we still believe that a University of Alaska commencement eexrcise 15 not for Governor Gruening to be displaying his manipulating Territorial servants , but the An Answer to Some Letters that Governor Gruening used (Fairbanks News-Miner) rther certain political Several people have written to the News-Miner to protest the fact that we printed editorials from other papers, criticizing the University’s commencement exercise. While we respect the right of these people to entertain their own opinions, the letters indicate | that some confusion exists as to the News-Miner's feeling about the exercise. So we are going to make sur stand clear. ‘When we heard the news about Governor and other dignitaries coming to Fairbanks for the | graduation ceremony, we wefé enthusiastic. We print- The Washinglon . Merry-Go-l!flnd (Continued from Page One) Warren | the place political prowes: like puppets, or “showing people i Fish for nd why nd “The Sex Life of a Rac- cat. not? coon. The Government printing office has an estimated 50,000 different titles of printed matter, and an estimated total of 30,000,000 cc This doesn’t include the cost to taxpayers of research and writing. Though most government pamph- lets contain useful information, taxpayers probably could get alor without knowing about the geog phical distribution of fleas and the sex life of raccoons. only thing I can say is that, as a citizen, T am truly grateful you made your talk. As to the suspicion that you may be called naive, I have | so often had this adjective applied to myself and for such odd reasons, that I have come to look upon it as a very distinct compliment; at the very least, it would seem to im- ply the opposite of deliberate rack- eteering.” Eisenhower also called Fulbright's attention to a New York Times story which the General quoted as follows: “The rise in illegal border- crossings’ by Mexican ‘wetbacks’ to a current rate of more than 1,000, 000 cases a year has been accom- panied by a curious relaxation in ethical standards extending all the way from the farmer-exploifers of this contraband labor to the levels| of the Federal Government.” t and that we have ‘mnot pounded home the very real fact that the American people want peace. Regardless of Acheson’s English Zorebears, however, part of this failure is probably more due to the fact that the State Department has been so hounded by Senatorial critics that it is punch-drunk and timid. If it makes any peace moves, for instance, it immediately gets tagged with the appeasement label. Most extravagant users of news- print, however, are Congressmen, some of whom are so fascinated with their own speeches that they order thousands of copies printed at cost, then mail them out at the taxpayers’ expense. Congressmen also like to stock up on free gov- ernment pamphlets to give away to their constitutents. Truman's Sea Language Missouri farmer Harry Truman is changing the sacred nomenclature of the Navy—much to the delight of Navy enlisted men aboard the U.8.8. Williamsburg. Waving toward the forecastle or ED ERICKSON IS Making Democracy Live Amvets went in the hole $228,000 as a result of its atomic blood tag nts of each guest | June 6 Hollis Triplette E. E. Engstrom Paula Kay Cook Mrs. Katherine Karinen Mrs. Zalmain Gross J. J. Connors ret Holbrook “Ken"” Alexander Mrs. C. C. Carnegie Alice Ghiglione © o e 0 0 o o COMMUNITY EVENTS TODAY At 8 p.m. Elks lodge. At 8 pm Folkateers will meet at Barrington residence, 127 Seventh street. At 8 p.m. —WSCS will hold business meeting in the parsonage. June 7 At noon — Chamber of Commerce meets at Baranof. At 6:30 pm. — Juneau Rifle and Pistol club shooting on Menden- hall range. At 6:30 p.m. — Baseball game be- tween Elks and Coast Guard. At'7:30 pm. — Central Committee on July 4th celebration meet in Baranof lobby. At 8 p.m. — Regular meeting of City Council. At 8 p.m. — Regular business meet- ing of Women of the Moose. 9000000 cecece ©eeec0e0c0ececee t H June § !at 8 pm. — Soroptimist club meets | in Gold room at Baranof for in- stallation of officers. June 10 { At 12:30 pm. — Start of Annual Shrine picnic at Auk Bay recre- ation area. June 12 Nt noon — Lions club, Baranof. At 7:30 pm. — Soft ball game at Firemen’s park between Rotarians and Lions. | | At 8 p.m. — American Legion post. | meets in Dugout. t June 12 | At noon —Rotary club, Baranof. June 13 At noon — Kiwanis club, Baranof. it was announced by assistant reg- |ional director C. Howard Baltzo to- | day. The Brant is based in Juneau and will leave for Seattle June 10 in order to effect transfer of the supervisory staff and records which will complete removal, from Seat- tle to Juneau, of the base for | fleet of boats Brant, with Jim Collins xpects to be gone about two wee TO SERVE OUT FINE IN FEDERAL JAIL' I m was ledged in erday for mon-pa 50.00 on charg as| 20 YEARS AGO {{?{n}fl EMPIRE ] The Amc n Legion Auxiliary nominated the following delegates }to attend the Alaska Department in Petersburg August 26, 27 and 28: Mrs. Homer Nordling, Mrs. Ralph Reischl, Mrs. Edith Sheelor, Mrs. M. E. Mor Mrs. J. D. Donald, Mrs. Edith Bavard and Mrs. Chatles Seelye. Al tes nominated were: Mrs. John Lowell, Mrs. George Baggen, Mrs. Fannie Robinson, Mrs. John Newman, Mrs. G. H. Skinner, Mrs. G. H. H on, Mrs. Robert Faven and Mrs. A. B. Clark. Local Boy Scouts planted a black walnut tree from Mt. Vernon on the Fifth streec side of the Capitol grounds in ceremonies presided over by Ct s H. Flory, ex-officio Commissioner for the Department of Agricul Despite a driving rain, the city band turned out but dedication sveeches were curtailed due to weather. The seedling was put in the soil by the Scouts and the ceremony was concluded with the band ple The Star Spangled Banner. Pwentv-one passengers arrived in Juneau from the south on the Northland which docked here at 5 p. m., June 5. liams was m of the vessel Capt. Leonard Wil- texr Passengers from Seattle were: Earl Sears, C. M. Grows, J. L. Halterman, Mrs. W. L. Stephens, Diana Austin, C. T. Larson, Mrs. Merl Thomas, Robert Thomas, Merl Thomas, Jr., J. Adams, Jack Metzgar. From Southeast ports: Ted Johnson, Glen Carrington, Mrs. G. Bach, G. Bach, J. L. McCarry, M. J. Lovold, Mrs. E. E. Hill, Florence Nelson, Master William Robertson. be combined with pleasure by the Chamber of Com- ition Bureau which opened on Front Street with Miss 1 in charge. Besides disseminating facts and literature touris the bureau will function as an emeloyment B merce Delma among exchane W Han: ing ring Higk T Wes 1, 54; low, 50; rain. Daily Lessons in Engfish % 1. corpon WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Distinguish between “flaunt,” which means “to display ostentatiously,” and “flout,” which means “to scoff at, or jeer.” 5 OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Credence. Pronounce kre-dens, first E as in M © as in MEN unstressed, accent first syllable. OFTEN MISSPELLED: Capital (city); AL. Capitol (building); OL. SYNONYM Equivocal, uncertain, ambiguous, problematic. 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: CIRCUMSTA D (adjective); placed in a particular conditicn. “The government was so circumstanced that it was powerless to make a move.” MODERN ETIQUETTE Hoperra Lem & Q. When a secretary is an expected visitor into her embployer’s office, what form of introduction does she make when she knows the two men concerned do not know each other? A. All she has to do is merely announce the visitor — “Mr. Gordon.” Surely the visitor knows the name of the person he came to see. Q. Is it proper for an engaged couple to mail greeting cards signed with both of their names? 4, It is guite all right to send cards together to all who know of the engagement. Q. How should one address a woman doctor socially? A. As “Doctor Johnson.” escorting | LOOK and LEARN IXJ,C.GORDON, 2. | 1. What three adjoining U. S. States begin with the same letter? gy tne| 2 For what is a crucible used? which w:h" 3. What was the first name of the Webster of dictionary game? N 3 Coast Gu.:rd} 4. On what continent was the ancient city of Carthage? Tuesday for fishing after the h“"i 5. Nostalgia is better known by what name? ibut season was closed. A fine of‘\ ANSWERS: 00 four ‘months suspended "y yngiana, Ilinois, and Towa. jail ce was levied on thel ' L 1 IHinE ora : captain and $150 and four months | fpiy 8 Dot for moliing oredior matls, suspended jail sentence on each| 3 Noah. member of the crew by Judge Gor- 4. Africa. don Gray in Commissioner's Court 5. Home-sickness. when they were found guilty of Tervom i e the ch. e. All paid their fines ex- cept Jac to ma on who will serve 75 days up the fine of $150. EYES EXAMINE LENSES PRESCRIBED DR. D. D. MARQUARDT 'CALIF. NAT. GUARD bow, Mr. Truman will genially in- vite guests to come down to the front porch.” Again, he refers to the stern as “the back porch,” and the decks as “upstairs” and “down- | stairs.” { The sailors of the Williamsburg have taken up the Presidential terms and now use them freely. Finally, an officer twitted Mr. Tru- man for undoing the Navy's nomen- | clature. “I'm just a farmer,” replied the President. “I never will be a pro- fessional sailor.” Midwest Uranium It hasn’'t been announced yet, but precious uranium has now been discovered in certain low-grade coal found in the northern great plains area. This could be of strategic impor- tance in case our foreign uranium | sources are cut off, though the WEDNESDAY, JUNE 6, 1951 MOUNT JUNEAU LODGE NO. 147 SECOND and FOURTH Monday of each month in Scottish Rite Temple beginning at 7:30 p. m. Wm. A. Chipperfield, ‘Worshipful Master; JAMES W. LEIVERS, Secretary. € B.P.0.ELKS Meeting every Wednesday at 8 P.M. Visiting brothers welcome, LE ROY WEST, Exalted Ruler. | W. H. BIGGS; Secretary. Weather at Alaska Points Weather conditions and temper- atures at various Alaska points also on the Pacific Coast, at 4:30 am., 120‘h Meridian Time, and released by the Weather Bureau are as follows: Anchorage 49—Partly Cloudy Annette Island .. 52—Partly Cloudy Barrow 30—Freezing Drizzle | Bethel 50—Cloudy | Moose Lodge No. 700 Cordova 47—Fog Regular Meetings Every Friday Dawson 49—Partly Cloudy Governor— Edmonton . 38—Partly Cloudy LOREN CARD Haines 5 52—Clear Secretary— Havre - 39—Partly Cloudy WALTER R. HERMANSEN Juneau Airport .. 42—Partly Cloudy | Kodiak 44—Rain Kotzebue 49—Cloudy McGrath $3—Cloudy v, r, w. Nome ... 50—Rain Northway Tso—clouay| Taku Post No. 5559 Petersburg . 40—Clear Meeting every Thursday in 52—Cloudy the C.I1.O. Hall at 8:00 p.m. Portland Prince George 38—Partly Cloudy ttle woro 50—Cloudy a . 46—Clear | Whitehorse .. 52—Partly Cloudy. 5 P Yakutat . 44—Fog i “trones | Brownie’s Liquor Store CLOSED SEASON ON CRAB FISHING IN ICY STR. CANCELLED Fish and Wildlife Service Region- Director Clarence Rhode today announced removal of the closed son on crab fishing Strait which was to have effect June 15 to July 31. Reason for cancellation of the closed season W given that on- | the-ground surveys made during the past two weeks show that there will be no significant moulting | during the closed period so there- Phene 103 139 So. Franklin P. O. Box 2508 —_———) | J. A. Durgin Company, Inc. | Accounting Auditing Tax Work Room 3, Valentine Building JUNEAU, ALASKA i P. O. Box 642 ‘Telephone 919 se: —EMPIRE WANT ADS PAY— "The Rexall Store” fore there is no need for protec- | tion. | + < » | Your Reliable Pharmacists FWS officials pointed out that| 3 < crabs in the Icy Strait region re- UT fuse to conform to habits of crabs BULLER MLLRD in other places. Their behavior is DRUG CoO. different from bay to bay in Icy Strait and from year to year. The FWS action in cancellation | of the closed period will especially | affect two crab processing plants, | which operate five boats, one plant | in Juneau and one in Hoonah. Alaska Music Supply Arthur M. Uggen, Manager Pianos—Musical Instrumenta and Supplies Phone 206 Second and Seward (-47 RETURNS HOME BASE IN CALIFORNIA The California National Guard; C-47 left for Sacramento Monday afternoon after 20 days temporary duty hauling personnel, equipment, and supplies for the Alaska Na- tional Guard. .Card Beverage Co. ‘Wholesale 805 10th Bt. PHONE 216—DAY or NIGHT for MIXERS or SODA POP | The Alaskan Hotel National Guard stations visited | Newly Renovated Rooms in Alaska were at Anchorage, Fair- | A e et banks, Bethel, Nome, Kotzebue, and Point Barrow. Personnel of the\l FRONESENE D Alaska National Guard headquar- ters were flown over the Juneau ice cap Saturday. Members of the plane’s crew were Capt. J. Craddock, pilot, Capt. Rob- ert Rice, copilot, Sgt. T. F. Stew- THOMAS HARDWARE and FURNITURE CO. PHONE 555 PAINTS —— OILS art, and Sgt. Roger Haile. They flders’ were very interested in Alaska and 5 ll!l!l]“d BBCIC particularly enthusiastic about WARK Southeast. | Remington Typewriters SOLD and SERVICED by J. B. Burford Co. | “QOur Doorstep Is Worn by * ATTENTION TOURISTS . For an intimate acquaintance with S. E. Alaska on the mailboat Yakobi for a 600 mile 4-day scenic voyage. Sailings once a week, de- TR IR R with a complete set of emergency equipment—including ladders, flares, axes, rope, steel helmets, blankets, and medicine. Other companies with big fleets of trucks could well fol- low Ballantine’s lead in preparing * 2. Abolishes 31, Top card . Home 34. Fish eggs ACROSS 1. Preposition 4. Cast asper. sions upon the country against an atomic at-| 8 Rodents | tack. 12. Exist 13. Sustained silicate 14, pAosture 41. Hand warmer | “Old Sailors Never Die” 36 Trhced aaiin 42. Backbones Adm. Forrest Sherman, chief of duck Naval operations, was talking about MacArthur to his colleague on the River feas | coal contains less than a hundredth of 1 per cent uranium. 5 Traces of uranium have also been discovered in black shale in Tennessee, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin. But, even more important, the government has developed a process for extract- ing uranium as a by-product from phosphate fertilizer. Eisenhower on Ethics ‘“amen” to Senator Fulbright’s plan for drawing up a moral code for ernment conduct. Ike sent the 'Arkansas Senator a letter, warmly praising his “ethics in government” “It would be difficult for me to | express the fullness of my agree- with your sentiments,” wrote “There are so many K fic points in your talk to which | 7 am moved to say ‘amen’ that the It has never been made public, | ‘but General Eisenhower has written | joint chiefs of staff, Gen. Omar| s1. Relentless Bradley. 23 Happen 2 25. Badgerlike “When I heard that song about oS | old «soldiers never dying,” Admiral ‘Shcrman said, “It was in the Navy jand it was ‘old sailors’ who just {Iaded away. | “Furthermore, the way we used | sing it, they just faded ‘awi,’” continued Sherman, giving a cock- ney twist to “away.” “In brief, it's | a British song and it applies to the |Navy, not the Army.” | . Domesticated Ito Sex Life of Raccoon While American newspapers and ' | magazines are ed for {newsprint ,the Government print- | ing office is using up 15,000,000 pounds of paper per month and prints so many pamphlets that it |cannot keep an inventory of them | |all. | The pamphlets range from the “classification, identification, and goegraphical distribution of fleas” and “mist netting for birds in Jap- | an” to “How to control ugx-um: | il 5E i Crossword Puzzle Present this coupon to the box office of the CAPITOL THEATRE and recetve TWO TICKETS to see: MY SON, MY SON!" Federa! 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