The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 28, 1951, Page 4

PAGE FOUR THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA SATURDAY, JULY 28, 1051 » VUOAX, 4 ad, PG e pace at which the Post Office carries on is anything Daily Alaska Empire [o s ,,m,,,gh,d Ay el ek by The Over the years in this column, I have stated time Bevhit Al Bovee. ‘J‘f‘“ b MM" and time again that the Post Office should be taken HELEN TROY MONSEN president Jout of the hands of the Federal Government and D i G T iee-President | ;) e over to private ownership. Under private ownership, the service would be improved, wages of P,Mm Ilw il\l()(“\T JUNEAU LODGE NO. 187 from ea' er I SECOND and FOURTH 2 0 Y E A RS A G o ! a Monday of each month (.‘\ € X4 y iy THE EMPIRE J Charlotte Alspaugh of Puyallnp, Washington, arrived in Juneau VERS, Sccrelnry. Entered in the Post_ Offi Class SUBSCRIPTION employees could be raised, Uncle Sam would collect | ® pé Detivaredihy GAteiet B JRuaeRHE DOustRl 0N 1T monthi | | ves on profits made instead of having to make up{® July 28 o iyesterday on the steamship Prince Henry. She is here to visit her (“,7_"‘_""" conditions and tempe R O D oL siy-months; dn sdvance, $7.80; lannual deficits out of the general tax fund and stock- | ® Harry Doyle o | friend Miss Ann Coleman, librarian for the Juneau Public Library. &;:Lfm “fhc“l, g one i advance, $1.50 [holders would receive dividends. All of these things|® Ford R. Butler . = am., 120h Me 0 B.P. 0 ELKS s N fa o they Wl Drom D etiry |could be accomplished without raising postage rates, b Helen Webster . W. D. Gross, owner of the Coliseum chain of motion picture houses | released by the Weath o of thelr pabers. | s Office, 603; Business Office, 378 in fact, there would be good prospects of lower rates| J Pl D * |in Southeast Alaska, has returned. srom a business tour to Haines, Skag- | ¢ as follows: e g ot ey {,r‘i““"b“";‘:l‘ = e e efficient private management got in its “licks.” . bater Gmm’)’i’l’:}' 2 . Sitka, Ketchikan, Wrangell and Petersburg. He found all his Anchorage ... s s e Assooiated. Presa D R eato the use for| At this particular time when the Administration is | e Pat Tanner L excellent condition, he said. Axxzzc};tl Island | LE ROY WES iches credited to il or not other! pending every energy to socialize other public utilities. | o 3 : — SR | LE ROY WHST, Exaxlted Ruler. herein. 3 p ome manufacturing industries, it Je July 29 ’ of With a la quantity of fisla destined for S tle and several W. H. BIGGS, ccretary. T NATIONAL REPR FATIVES — Alaska Newspapers, 1411 -optimistic to hope that the Post Office can bej ® ce Adams o {passengers from Juneau, the steamer Yukon on her way from the [ —— SRR, B e NatUs, e _____ |rescued from government ownership. But it is some- . Eileen Doogan C ward to the South, mdde a brief call here last night. Booked from F E. d R {thing to think about, against the day when rm«un’ ] rs. Edwin Dull o | runcau to Seattle were: L. H. Herbert, Mrs. T~ @ireen, Dorothy Bakke, | 00se Louge No. 760 | will have been restored at Washington and the trend : 3 ;»4xl||:xx| Bucy o |Mr. and Mrs. O. M. Olson, Col. and Mrs. Roger Fitch, N. C. Talma Regular Meetings Every Friday }toward socialisim in this nation will have been stem= g o il L. Ashton. e © & & 0 o o o o o o —_— | med The steamer Princess Charlotte; due in Juneau at 8:30 tonight, ha Just as long as the Post Office remains in govern- following three passengers for this port: Adrian Roff, J. J. Fargher ment hands, there is no hope that is will ever attain pink le in ; jie Richard. 3 }a maximum degree of efficiency. But there are some things that can be done to make it * less worse.” Let's p 2 M er a few of these. Fifice jitigin Miss Donie Taylor, Juneau school teacher, con: department of govern- erince Henry this morning on a vacation Outside. The Post Office is the or . » Capt. J. V. Davis, whko is associated with his brother, L. C. Davis service to szll that is muru(l mn to mo p\lbllv. by L ) which individuals and companies pay in ratio to the| In tions of a goed pink run in South- ailed south on Takn Post No. 5559 cting everv Thursday in 2 C.1.0. Hall at 0 p.m. B —— e ishing activities near Funte trcatment of an infected hand It is a patient at St. Ann’s hospital ler ught to be a c sharp contrast with indica Saturday, July 28, 1951 degree they use that service. Therefore, the Post i Office, if it has a desire to do so, can’ ascertain its| %3¢ Ala the run in Prince | poisoning. DOUBLE PLAY — TAXPAYER OUT | costs of bandling the various types of mailings. This, {7 L Salit T S as far as I can learn, it has never done. Of col e !‘V)LIIIO(‘:”_ ! " Weather: High 63; Low 46; Fa Whic's ?.!qimf SgO!e A bit of digging by the Department of Agrlc\llmrl‘»“m is so simple that it is doubtful that the Post prm iy C = : angd the Department of Justice in Washington h““omm» will ever undertake such a cost accounting this_afternoon for |] g e e Phene 193 139 So. Franklin P. 0. Box 2508 i unearthed the interesting information that the Badg A 5 Ordnance Works in Wisconsin was leased by the Air (ot _ | the contrary, it is badly overstaffed. A Force to a private firm for $16600. Then it was| == ' /" G : e g 2 4 oul eveal ki t sublet by the private operator (and we use the term [ PR fee | MABPOREL WOLLD, T “ ite clamorings of Post Office offici ealistic survey | last Satu € of pinks ha He 1 because therc has R LAl S S ) wany, Inc. Daily Lessons in English 3 1. corbon | - Ca . A. Dur; advisedly) to the Commaodity Credit Corporation; an- | chcumbered with SN Cnioy oS actically no .gscapement, Rt : L ! other government agency for $215,000. | released to civilian pursuits. This would ¢ fish are showing, it “ORQc OFTEN MISUSED: Do not saj s is going to stop cap | Accounting Auditing” ‘Tax Work ' { s and bring the Post Office closer to close the season!in St for a few dg ay, “is going to stay in St. Louis for|d A Room 3, Valentine Building 1 expe to being a, So, while it seems that Uncle’s right hand doesr.'L]\flrASu:)p‘ toa Gni H earlier than 7,|a few : it know what the left hand is doing, we can be comforted | " A"\ cqent the various departments, bureaus and jas deter { MISPRONOUNCED: Fatigve. Pronounce fa-teg, a as in ask | hich | p B by the thought that some folks know the right people | oo " bt G overnment use gl | kel o R el h e 5 5 Telephone 919 BiL miithge 80 et to whoce hie money 18, the Post Office “for free.” In drawing up their bud- OFTEN MISSPELLED: Annex;’two n's. Anecdote; one n. ‘ L The astounding thing in this whole fantastic|gets these units should make provision for postage PAR Men are Here NONYMS: Meaning (noun), sense, signification, significance, im- : ,5"-~——«~-—«~~,-,, port, purpc ,.,‘ SFy | . ‘3 —EMPIRE WANT ADS PAY— 0 transaction is the statement of a Department of Agri expense. They should pay at r s \ rates m:»i'ro Audit — and esman who says his department “doesn’t piece of maling they is no .about the private profits made in the| eason why the unprofitably-operated Post Office hsh m Derby vernment. " Let us lay’s word: | Mar ) 'said e i i ] STUDY: “Use a word three times by mastering one W WORD our vocabulal ATIZE; to s “It is useless to dogmatize about t culture spok give a hoot deal should play Santa Claus to other uniis ¢ We don’t believe it would take a great amount Also, our U.S. Senators and Repr of ingenuity to compile a of available government | 4} of their mail sent out on government business. Tt property and maybe ask around some of the other|;s necessary for these legislators to use the Post Office agencies to see who needs it. But that sort of operation | racijties, but there is no reason why the Post Office doesn't seem to fit in with the scheme of things in|gnouig tote their mail without cha Congress should Washington. appropriate an extra expense allowance for our No wonder taxes are high — and getting higher. |),¢5;s to enable them to purchase their postage o R R tstamps, even as you and L. To sum up: the Post Office should not carry single piece of mail anywhere, for anyone, Wwithi charge, with the single exception of mailings inci- B AT dental to carrying on the legitimate busine: (Editor’'s Note: George Peck is Chairman of the ‘ther, Post Office. Further, no piece of mail sh Board of the National Labor-Management Founda-} ...ieq at a lo tion and Executive Editor of its official publication,| 2 3 " If these elementar Partners.) » v Office could be taken out of the “red,” and the mailing The Rexall Store” Your Reliable Pharmacists BUTLER-MAUROC DRUG CO. without addy gs which k ite positive frank auditer e here for books of the ——y ey have already irban | | | | { { MODERN ETIQUETTE HOBERTA LEE e men smoking on the! s Q. It's becoming more as well | sireets. Is it this now cor A. Tt is still considered improper on ci streets. ever sm in the c along with a cigarctte is sic Supply ered proper? Slow Motion gen, Manager Nor doesa ma e. On the ot ong with a won 3 ngs which are *not don and a woman walkir By George Peck are permissibl econd and Seward s e 1 community. are things were done the Post| Several Oklahoma obligatory, or even customary—but Card Beverage Co. From all sections of the nation complaints are|public would get the k =/ its - pouring in regarding that socialistic IInsle—s7 ai &T ol 1 y won't i m Incle=7es and to which it is e ed. But they won't be r doing this if she wishes. Her gift might be cuff link SR v Sl Gt = E v 3 g le wishes. eift mig} f links, | Wholesale 60 Sam's Goverpment.-<Five~ PUST Office. What was at ‘(m,,p unless you and I keep everlastingly at Con- i key chain, or cigarette case. But this is not very often done at all. |t ) S s PHONE 216—DAY or NIGHT uits at the table? en apart with the fingers, hrst a disorganized, feeble remonstrance has so in- | gressmen to force a thorough house-cleani Q. How shouid, one eat hot b A. These should be brok "e'“]e" Sl as s mighity roar. . The American | renovation of our defunct, inefficient Post Office. people are “fed up” with the “beating” they are taking | Meanwhile, if left to its own devices, the Post ATTENTION TOURISTS | the knife. . s at the hands of the Post Office. ! Office will continue to agitate for higher postage rates,} For an te acquaintance | | X : ! g | {h S kyin o o4 REOU ST R T The fellow who invented slow motion pictures K more employees, more equipment and e s gt ithe RN must have gotten the idea from the Post Office. He | thing, and we will continue to get slower and slower i 1'2:; a 600 mile 4 i‘,w L 0 OK d L and LEARN ¥ ¢ cornox added some humor to it, however, because the snail’s | deliveries of our mail. Wedne gu, '[‘ i e 1 for MIXERS or SODA POP never cut with ( { ‘ he Ala: zan Hotel more " evers Newly Renovated Rooms at Keasonable Rates of { EVS 2 PHONE SINGLE O nle waflling'fll | best of a bad situation until such|don me for mot signing thisiings was once 1 $1,500 for vio=| E lump it is resolved hy Congres: "‘mfi:fixm LR |tating price ceilings | 1. How long docs it take light to travel from the sun to the carth? | Melry-Go-lound | Headaches and Humor Jom ner taxpayer being inter-1 e js Arthur B. Maurer, a Kan- 9. Who was the first President of all 43 states of the Union? | — — R | el | The most unpopular agency in|" ewed by a deputy collector wasisas City meatpacker, ¢ ltant 10} 3. What, according to statistics, is the most popular beverage in| x ARIANT IS HERE THOMAS HARDWARE (Continued from Page One) ‘:(he government, as everybody U'ymz:l to get away with a o Office of Price Stat ‘"““‘”‘-"mc world? | r‘F’”,““‘ o the and FURNITURE CO, ” nows, is the Bureau of Internal|ping list of dependency claim 1is job is to advise how h price S S S A 3 isheries from 2 | B @iyt chebper prices: than meIRe\enue which collects our taxes:|The deputy, knowing that the ceilings should be on food, : 5’ Wi ,“,h, ‘uu?pb n:;‘uc -‘,n ?Olfxl;lxv 1 (,‘ 088 Mo capiR s i Barsans ; b ! An\eflcans are paying for their Actually however, the BIR is made | man was lying, turned to another) Yet Maurer's own pa plant 5 “-' -) ‘L SIWRSER S cotsldered. the gapetire JodioC) all’] VT FatUIs i i own food. up of human beings who, despite |collector and jokingly inquired: |Was fined $1,500 dv rid W SEW RS H Builders’ and Shelf 'This is on top of $2,000,000000 in |PCIl unpleasant job, manage to| “John, what time does that bus II for violating price s, He| 1. Approximately 8.3 minutes. ks § HARDWARE $id Hist it adrendy been ;mured fl;m, a few chuckles out of their re- [load of people who have gypped l/hfl(:fll : nolo ¢ to 2. William Howard Taft. Al ~—- HHIE T & tions with John Q. Public. ¥ gove S 2ave L . counts of overchar 1 other 3. Te: o3 " o | { into Greece since the end a the government leave today for - " e Y "mine My g ki of (he For instance, a disgruntled tax-|the Federal penitentiary?” words, he placed at the 4. Venezuela. LAST DERBY DAY | R x!“\nglrm Typewriters Note—Real profiteers are the p‘ ““‘:;“r ““"]e ”‘°l b“‘f“:‘l- “Man, I just remembered,” in- :];Lm; lfr 1;?; i\o‘“” oog OL}\ 5. The mule. e ,‘h‘ o IL K BOLD. and, CRBVIGAD Greek shipowhers, who have grown — and from him that hath|tevrupted the startled taxpayer. ) Lk of - e —— —— o 5 el fabulously wealthy mm"“m”mp"xz‘::t'wx{ié\rlxmllxlebz?.:;m] away even |“Scratch all those names off. l‘I;I']lltl‘:‘]g111“'.5\"2‘:?“-;:' xfi,t, B . “" i J. B. Burford Co. | ping ECA cargo. They bought | ' or, W0 i A don't support nobody but myself.” | o 0 g Tl i : . B = STa-1t “Qur D 2 | their ships at bargain-basement andfl‘lfl‘l“'h“‘:g’“““"‘[ff“""' ¥4 Meat Price Protector l“]:,‘f,:] By govers «u-| There is no substitute forNewsnaperAdvemsmg! c i) ’"t-'nf)";::‘\xh(pv-'ia::::r:‘ it | prices from the United States, and | 8, the - orly ey ; o : 7 s are now charging scandalously you believe in.” ‘lvxl)f url' D”ik l_hkc, 91 Salle prob- Now he is supposed t Ip pro- A A A IR R TN { | L S G e Another taxpayer attached this|aPly doesnt know it, but one tect the public from e high Il FORD AGENCY T s e e o Inake 0 hiz: {ncome. reburn: his top consultants on price ceil- |price of meat. i | Chlthiriselt Dentiia taxes to the United States a AL things in life are certain: B A G = nQ QR S 2 O I0 the Tn A Bleke 009 mx.m and taxes. What LADIES'—MISSES GREASES — GAS — OIL el e e : DON GALLAGHER READY-TO-WEAR ||| 0 Co. | | > (Iw ! ; unean iZeior Lo | While Congress has been hagg-| The BIR has heard about every | id- beeril Seward Street Near Third Foot of Matn 8t , ling over price controls, the Office |alibi in the book for the filing U(f ACROSS 30. Select soclal as :l,p'u TN B SR e to THE DAILY ALASK \ i I’ 'Mu “L“mn S.mrcet —— [ of Price Stabilization has come to |delinquent returns, but the most| ¥ Cited Eathering SMPIRE is invited to be cur guest THIS EVENI ; T % | a 'yirtual standstill. This is re- | unusual came from a man who| yi oo e Present this coupon to the box office of the T'hG Charles w. Carier | MARE vealed in a confidential memo|coniessed: “I would have paid| 1y Coroiar JUNEAU DAIRIES from price headquarters to all|this sooner only 1 was laid up| o e CAPITOL THEATRE Mortuary || DELICIOUS ICE CREAM | | branch chiefs and section heads. |with a fractured uncle.” Another| > “';m:t a Klin S || a dally habit—ask for it by name Marked “for internal use only.”|taxpayer, explaining why he listed| 16. Salan ot 4. Units and receive TWO TICKETS to see: Eantusd Fe e ol the memo shows how the price his mother-in-law as a dependent, | .’.\.'\{lii"ffw . O || Juneau Dairies Inc agency has bogged down and be- |added: “She eats like a horse” | 13 7 P o KI M ‘ A 5 ¢ come demoralized while waiting| Bureau officials get a lot of ” ge ’ | i ' for Congress to make up its mind |Poetry in the mail, some of it an- | 20 Worshiperor e or veaterd, Federal Tax—12c Paid by the Theatre Caslers Men's Wear || HOME GRUCERY 1 about controls. | onymous and unprintable. A frus-| b1y R e Ty ya Pigly MeGregor Sportswear | fl“N:lt'n\:‘xaallxn ‘:xem-(x»ctlnlml\mmu):x:nv ::];uix” (ll‘ll/\::l‘\l(.l’t\(?.\ri the follow- | 21 Mother i :’ “,[“f{"m.] : v a Phone 14—YELLOW CAB C0.—Phone 22 stetson and Malory Hats ||| Phones 146 and 342 y S 4 15 10 25. rk a ed mec NI a ‘g o S, 3 < T, | $-a halt the development of five| ‘A man ‘stood at: the pearly Adegilon ot n curling - e : and an insured cab WILL CALL FOR YOU and Arrow Shirts and Underwear e S e months of carefully ~considered | face was worn and old; iy e g n?.fi,flNm.. : t RETURN YOU to your home with our compliments. All‘?l"l E.fm":ds Fhoes | . q‘ e and hard work” the memo de-| He, merely asked of the man of | 25 Demestic o o 1 WATCH THIS SPACE—Your Name May Appear! BEyis, Luggare 1] mecioan Mea — Ehans I clares. “However, neither recrim-| fate ageualn ko b - . | a ws N - 1 ination nor looking for an easy| Admission to the fold. . n | RIS » way out will resolve our problems, | f BOTANY || To Banish “Blue Monday and we ask that the agency con-| “What have you done?” St. Pet- | i ” L || To give you more freedom | tinue to stand together as a team er asked, | %, Oldesl Bank in Alaska 500 | fromdwork — TRY until such time as its immediate| “To seek admission here?” | c L 0 T H E s : course can be more clearly char-| “Why, I tried,” said the man, | a 1 1 tered. | o’ sisure | 1891—0ver Half a Century of Banking—1951 Ll Alaska Laundry The memo instructs price chiefs| “My tax till the end of the year.” | lakes NUNN-BUSH SHOCES ;hrou;;;mm the country that price | | shirub STETSON HATS ‘ oss Mike Di Salle “desires to| The gates swung open sharply, | Il h B M B h d 2 Tale i | maintain the status quo. . in| As St. Peter touched the bell; | e @ 2 e ren s Quality Work Clothing | I'lé[h SC GRAVES connection with our manufacturer me in,” he said, “and take .:h.h”:; | e Clothing Man regulations as well as with most, a harp, | ,m Ba“k PRED HENN“{G | LEVI'S OVERA | other price actions.’ } “You-ve had enough of Hell.” | e . Cumplets Ontftites tos Men | e ERALLS “As just one example’ the con- | | s 4 for Boys {idential memo points out, “Mr.| The Bureau received an anony- | “attoy fet 3 Di Salle felt that if we issued only |mous letter from a taxpayer who | gty sa ety De"os.t AHARFPR S BLACKWELL’S price-increase actions during this|fely that his obligation to the ! e Baxe > f Re”t SANITARY MEAT | i A i period, Congress could take the government was greater than his [ e S or | CABINET SHOP position that we were showing |tax. Enclosed was a substantial ": :a FOR BETTER MEATS || 117 Main St. Phone 772 pique and petulance and trying to |check, with an attached note: o 183—PHONES—49 High Quality C: place it in the worst light. . . Ac- | “Inasmuch as I wish to remain | ! tor COMMERCIAL SAVINGS i Doy it l:m" ’om':h‘“ Work { the . l i ; —————————————— | i 2o e e scale cordingly, our job is to make the anonymous, you will please pm-.l