The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 2, 1951, Page 4

PAGE FOUR Daily Alaska Empire Pblisiied every evening except Sunday by the %= EMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY Second and Main Streets, Juneau Alaska HELEN TROY MONSEN - DOROTHY_TROY LINGO ELMER A Bntered i the Post Office in Juneau as Second Class Matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Delivered by carrier in Juneau and Douglas for §1.75 per month; six months, $9.00; one year, $17.50 By mail, postage paid, at the following rats One year, in advance, $15.00; six months, in advance, $7.50; one month, in advance, $1.50. Bubscribers will confer a favor if they will promptly notify the Bustness Office of any fallure or irregularity in the delvers their papers. O ephones: News Office, 602; Business Office, 374, MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclusively entitied 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 herein. NATIONAL REPRESENTATIVES — Alaska Newspapers, 1411 Pourth Avenue Bldg., Seattle, Wash. President Vice-President Managing Editor Monday, July 2, 1951 NO SPECIAL PRIVILEGE The general public will utter a loud “Amen” to the sufgestion of a Senate subcommittee that a lot of collége and professional athletes now exempt from military service should be drafted. During World War II there were good-natured jokes about draft boards accepting men who could hardly tell black from white or who had never done any more strenuous work that totting up a column of figures. However, there was also deep resentment over the fact that many athletes were classified as' 4-Fs while still good enough to earn handsome incomes on baseball and football fields, golf courses and in box- ing rings. This latest recomendation of a Senate committee comes after a check of 16 Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine training centers where 95,784 men and officers, most of them “presumably” fit for front-line fighting were found assigned to desk jobs. “The day-to-day activities of these youths (pro- fessional and college athlete: belie the claim that they are useless to the services,” the committee report said. “The competitive sports in which they engage usualy require: a much higher degree of physical activity and exertion than perhaps 75 percent of the members of the armed services experience.” The Territory Enters Business (Anchorage Times) Entry of the Territorial government into the busi- ness of operating a ferry service between Juneau and Haines introduces a new feature in <the spreading network of government activities. . The territory has undertaken the operation of the ferry service because private enterprise failed. TM™ opepation would not pay for itself, despite the fact that the ferry provided the only link between the capjtal city ang the network of roads to Western Alagka. ;The failure of private enterprise has been attri- (<34 208 h required a used by buted to Coast Guard regulations wh crew of five men on the ferry. The ferry the private operator was too small to carry a payload large enough to meet the operating costs involved in a five-man crew. So rather than see the ferry service abandoned, the territory has stepped into the picture. A larger ocean-going ship has been purchased and will be oper- ated with funds collected under the territorial tax law. The territory will also be required to comy with the Coast Guard r lations that proved too much for private operators. But there is a chance that the larger ship may gross sufficient funds to meet the expenses. However, there can be no optimism that public ownership is going to achieve what private enterprise failed to do. The record of government is not good when it has engaged in operations that ordinarily are a pri Whether the Territory should undertake the ferry service is a question that has at least two sides. oline ate business. Without the service_the capital city is cut off from ! the beautiful highway system of interior Alaska. This | would deprive the interior of the benefits that accrue from the visits of the Juneau motorists. It isolates | the capital in an undesirable w: It stifles growth | of the roadside installations which are vital to the; full development and use of the highway system More than that, it prevents the intermingling c Alaskans, and perpetuates the undesirable characte istic found in too many Alaskan minds—sectionalism | and sectional interests. ® The intermingling of Alaskans is bringing about a complete under: thoughts and problems of the variou territol Isolation breeds selfishness in the segments of the population which are held apart { of easy trans- | important ding of parts of in the the | and suspicion | by the barrier of distance and the I portation. Thus the ferry is an important Alaska and might be considered an iny Entry of the territory into this ope without precedent. The state of Wasl for the purchase of ferry boats on Puget private enterprise, faged with elimination bec the bridge construction program, failed to rend service demanded. But the other side of the question i ignored. H Is the new demand for public funds going to be an investment which pays the dividends desired? the operation be suffic economical to ju existence? The territorial government is n ciency or economy in that “the public's b nt in ters ponsible ervice for all of { of not to be noted 1 The nobody’s business irs too frequently. Appoi tions are often d wdministration ramp: mer handed men incapable of the are often friends who wo in private enter Thus the a cary awart political hack ideration for a position | n of the ferry ser 1 determination on the ume of b are comp! e new venture 4 The Washingfon Merry-Go-Round (Continued from Page One) |in the United State {and octupy Westchester | York City. | E. Y. Soong, nep Yangtze officially —|of the been c taken vigorous action and has sus- pended the dummy trading cor- poration, set up by his former cabi- net colleague, from getting further export licenses for a total of three years. It is significant that Louis John- son, when Secretary of Defense, was the most ardent advocate of sending American aid to the Chiang Kai-Shek group on Formosa. In various debates inside the cabinet and with the State Department, he ' consistently hammered home the importance of Formosa. The State Department disagreed and the Joint Chiefs of Staff partially disagreed with him. At no time during these discus- sions, so far as can be ascertained, did Johnson disclose that he or his law firm acted as the attorney for Chiang Kai-Shek relatives. Nor was it ever disclosed that, at the very time Johnson proposed aid to Chiang, both Chiang’s relatives and Johnson's own partners were ship- ping strategic tin to Chiang's ene- mies, the Communists. Johnson Didn't Know Johnson has the excuse that he did not know what the dummy cor- poration set up by his law firm | was doing, since in 1949 he had become Secretary of Defense. How- ever, there appears to be no ex- cuse for Johnson having failed to acquaint the public or his cabinet colleagues with his firm'’s legal fees from the Chiang family during the occasions when he vigorou urged aid to Chiang. The corporation the tin to Commur Yangtze Trading C its setup is extr It was incorporated by son firm in 1943, long b son entered the cabinet pears to be one of the scr the financial operations of brother-in-law, reported among the wealthiest men in this |month country. b The firm's manager is E. Y.I Soong, nephew of T. V. Soong, the former Foreign Minister of China and brother-in-law of Chiang Kai- Shek. Its largest stockholder is L K. Kung, son of Dr. H H Kung, another Chiang brother-in ‘ law. Soong is the brother of [ Madame Chiang, while Dr Klln:l\ux.' married Madame Chiang'’s smvr.[ ing shipments of signees, in China r receive them. He ship tin to Comm der an export licer Yangtze corporatio! Soong admitted waived all rights tantamount guilt. the other officers Trading Corporatio ners of ex-Secr Chairman of the E M. Carney, a partn Johnson. Presiden of the firm are Quain and Kingsle Johnson's law par Together they o stock, part of ment for legal stockholder is Chiang’s brother 925 shares, while 870 shares. A fourth Johnsd ald Lincoln, is al three subsidiaries Trading Corporati politan Supply Co., Trading Corporatic Continental Tradir The Yangtze Cor with the New State Virginia in the Clarksbu '\\L, Valley B W. Va. These also where the Hirm has which st China is the poration, and interesting the Jok and s ped Corpors ap- after the could be no po: in mak hermore t wands of ance Furt It was in No 1049, t battlir to license Both Soong and Kung have lived | March 5\ palatial county | mer Foreign Minister, and m Commerce Department with permitting another company to |scribed, made false repr Soong Admits Guilt to an wh L. K. Kur -in C. Albany a Commun: ns also probd®] Joh phew of the for- a ad become Secretary March 1949. Sawyer’s office of Inter: commenting on the , said: ondents in effectuating hereinabove de- sentations the ager corporatio: has harged b, with switch tinplate to con- not authorized to 3 is also charged portations unist China un- and certifications on each of nse issued by th hipper’s export declarations n. with and authenticated jto the identity and ultimate consignee and tha the cuharges and |specified license named to a hearing, | quthorized such exportation. admission of | “In of the pur a da. that respondi 1t nts use of alleged using and is g s shiper’s 3 export declara- 4 {tions and oills of lading to effect on & Board er in t and Ge 3 V. | ey R. Smith, also | tner ACROSS L Object of in- tense devotion 5. Bu 32. Bar of con- trasting color 5. Coats with an alloy of tin and lead Winter precipe itation . Music drama Pinch n law, H on par ¢ on, the the Metropc 50 a “urkish name of . 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