The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 15, 1951, Page 4

PAGE FOUR Ddily Alaska F impire mmumd cvery ev MPIRE PRINT! Soviet wishes to live in peace and to get along with the rest of the world, there is nothing in the record sincerity of these protestations. As a consequence of the military might of Russia, the natisns of Europe — and the are fearful of precipitate aggression on the part of the Russian There difference, however, in the discour- parallel 1939 and 1951; a offers This (hl‘l the world have banded together for | defense. The North Atlantic Treaty even now preparing framewor al force to be trained Whether time to support the aware President world President HEL DOROTHY TROY Lj ing Editor 30 ARCHIE E. CAMPBELL is one between encouragement the Post Off SUBSC B Delivered by carrier in Juneau and Douglas for S1.75 per month; : one year, §17.5 at the following t $16.00; six months, in Entered in aging difference which time some free nations of their common r if they will promptly notify ure or frregularity in the d the organization is and equipped Russia will permi successfully build of an internati wa Telephones: News Office, 602; Business Office, 374, for defensive are the democracie their defenses is a question with dangerous overtones the people of the United States are MEMBER OF The Associated Press is ed to the use for republication | news dispatches credited to it or not other- 4 in this paper and also theé'local news published ereir Fortunately, ATIVES — Alaska Newspapers, 1411 [more conscious of their present pe le, Wash, fof N in 1939. No longer ity and in the path of o of civilization and f military istance, the rearming of also contributed recuperation. Accord- a much better posi- than they were in 1939, although not a sudden Soviet thrust. The situation, as outlined above, should convincey Americans that the action of this country is of pri-% mary importance and may be the decisive factor in whether+ there to be war or peace. have asserted, that Adolf Hitler would not have precipitated-World War II had he theen convinced that the United States would enter the conflict. The Russians are updoubtedly always | hat an oyert ageression in Euhope would mean im- 1mvdiutv participation by this country. They may be |of the opinion that a quick blow today, before the democracies are rearmed, would succeed. The most effective way. to correct that opinion is to substitute firmmess for' appeasement and continue the mobiliza- American and the strengthening »f xclusively ufficient to NATIONAL REPRESEN' 1 than they were Fourth Avenue Bldg MG ol the Nazi threat do dangerous tutes s contribu- join defense program of [ neutral: tions to the Already, through our we have committed our resources to the We ubstantially ingly, the We tion, defensewise, yet prepared to meet edom. a rn democracies d havé to their economic tern nations are in determining is Many strategi 1951 awares| Death — always sad, a shock, In the past few weeks, death has taken -two.of Alaska’s legislators, -1t Was sudden death in the cast of Guonard Engebreth, president of the Senate dur- ing the last session’ and a shock to those who Knew and were associtted with him during those busy sixty | Amelia Gundersen, member of the ¥ i resentatives, had been seriously’ill.and had undergone | major operation ot long before the legislature con- ! vened. She was not well during.the session and was | frequently in pain, but'it was eharacteristic of her to put her work before her own interest. That death brought kind relief to one so long in pain is slight -onsolation for those who remain to mourn. The Empire joins many others in 2 fering condolences to the relatives of Mr. and Mrs. Gundersen. expected or not — is tion of power allies T \\ “MISTAKES se of Rep- INCOME mistake in according to the ds that, in nine the taxpayer’s four incon Bure One out of taxpayers makes a their individual Internal Revenue of ten, return: , Which cases out the mistake is in favor While Bureau found a in of- Engebreth in 1948, contgined er- $1,400,000,000 survey of returns the that 14,000,000 returns rors, with the Government being short and the taxpayers short only $100,000,000 Because of inadequate help, many of the erroneous ar will not be adjusted. While spot lected number of returns 1 income of | making a S PARALLEL 1939 AND 1951—A PERIL Ol | returns for any checks will be m\(k‘ of a st in the lower brackets, $25,000 or more will be fully scrutinized Another surprising revelation is that business men, despite their training, make mistakes in nearly half of their returns. Thi. sole owners of farms non-farming enterprises, not doctors, Because of ihe class will be chec The world situation today is strangely re mm\wcnt of that which existed in 1939, immediately prior to Adolf Hitler’> bid to subjugate Europe Preceding the German military campaign were a number of speeches by Der Fuehrer — protesting his love of peace and proclaiming the earnest desire of the Nazis to live on a friendly basis with the other all those repor includes or which are incor- porated, sional men. the returns of this the future. Undoubtedly many of the mistakes made with filing income tax returns are honest errors. Equally undoubted, is the intentional effort of some taxpayers to avoid a the levy These mistakes take from the Governmeli dentists, rs and rofes- people of Europe. By 1939 it had -become apparent that the words of the Nazi leaders were not to be relied upon. No nssurgnge could be placed in the pledges and promises of the Herrenvolk. Nevertheless, the rést of Europe was sadly deficient in military strength and utterly unprepared for the lightning attacks of the powerful Nazi units. The dictator did not give the free nations time to arm themselves for effective defense. At the present stage of international affairs—in the year 1951—no reasonable man is prepared to rely | upon the word of Soviet Russia. Despite the frequent assurances of Soviet officials and spokesmen that the | and collect the proper lhe Washmqlon : high perce ksd more cl in in con- nection is much of they can. more than a billion dollars a year and it would seem to be wise to permit the Internal Revenue Bureau t employ more assistants in order to catch the mistakes sums from all taxpayers. that we are a friendly, peaceful | people who will fight if necessary but who, contr to the radio, do not want w | until after we had seized German documents and interviewed Ger- man officers after V-E Day. But Stalin knew. And he knew that Russi ececeeeecossce Merry-Go-Round (O e Thor Bhee OE) the German army never would have penetrated Russia as it did |if many of the Russian people have to fight wars all over again. had not actually welcomed it, and | Finally we have failed.to realize|if whole segments of the Red ar- that Russia has never been con-|my had not been eager to surre: quered by force of arms. Napoleon | der. tried it and got bogged down on The Kaiser's the road to Moscow. Hitler also advanced only to Riga. tried it and got swamped in front actually reached the soil of Stalingrad. \sia proper. Hitler's army But the Kaiser, having been marched ‘two-thirds of the way stopped in Latvia, picked up Len-!acr Russia, right down to the in in Switzerland, put him on “a | Caucasus In other words, the special train with drawn blinds, | Czar, with all, his tyranny. om- | and sent him to Russia. It was manded more loyalty than Stalin.| 2. Cadets who admit under after this that under a| These some. of the feasons|put refuse to resign will be dis- new * Bolshevist finally | for the Iron’Curtain. These also|charged. surrendered. are some of the reasons why we| .8 Cadets pleading not guilty | In other words, must, mzke the Iron Curtain @ |under oath may be discharged ad- | ganda and politics lace curtain if we are to prevent | ministratively, or may be tried by defeated the Czar. | war; if we are to win IUI'"H\nCIt;CU‘“’ -martial, depending upon the |peace over a period of sears. | evidence in each individual cz SRy e | 4. In cases of insufficient Propaganda balloons floated | 967¢¢: the charges will be dropped. | across the Iron Curtain have their | A1 discharges will be by admin-| drawbacks. If they disrupt sate _ | istrative urdvn'r without specifying lite and Russian o opinthp | oAk type. (Il sanopnis. ke diie] Iren Ctiftain and get the truth to|enough, the Kremlin is bound to| U honorable ‘ nor dishonorable the people of Russia and the sat-|start the rumor that they are | Sscharse. West Point Review Conflicting stories have come out of West Point as lu the status of the 90 cadets 2 in exams. However, |is that the de | them is not f to another review screent board. the mmln fact on to dismiss but is in 191 by a It never of Rus- in 1940 army This board will recommend fin- al action, which may be any of the following: | 1. Cadets admitting guilt under oath will be allowed to resign. 2 oath = regime, it was which propa- really Weather Balloons That is one reason why I have| been hammering home the idea | that we should use any and all| kinds of propaganda, including| weather balloons, to penetrate thc { seed. THE ity AUGUST 15 Pete Warner L. J. Holmquist Dick Clithero W. E. Wall Mrs. Hugh B. Antrim Allen John Wruck Mrs. Katherine Parker Darlene Adsero Dick Forrest Miss Linda Callahan e © 0o 0 0 0 0 0 0 Weather at Alaska Points Weatner conditions tures at various Alaska points also on the Pacific Coast, at 4:30 p.m. 120th Meridian Time, and released by the Weather Bureau are as Ws: Anchorage nnette Island Barrow Bethel Cordova 56—Cloudy Partly Cloudy 41—Rain .. 58—Rain 51—Cloudy 54—Smok 56—Cloudy —Partly _Cloudy 50—Cloudy rtly Clouc 49—Rain 52—Drizz} 49-—Clou 59—Cloudy Partly Cloudy Partly Clou 53—Foggy Miss Edmonton Fairbanks Haines Havre Juneau Kodiak Kotzebue Airport Nome Nortk Petersburg Portland Prince G 51—Partl; 1—Cloudy 19—Partly Cloud 15 Take Mount Roberis Hike of club Cloud the Sha hiked to t Roberts Saturday. ir lunch at the top tineau. Good weather ood pictures down e top of B They ate Mount made nowfleld, | e and M Rhona Hmbu‘u cl , Mr 1ls, nd N Florence Hibk and Montgc This c ur the group | climb Mount Bradley (Mount bo to the old timers) on Doug= land. This will be a more rug-| hike, Monteg said. The ip will leave from in front “of he high school at 8 o'clock in the morning. i Seturday omery (ommumtahon | August 13, 1951 To Daily Alaska Empire I would like to take this ing (‘thank you” to t and boys of the ¢ Kimball for nd me in to the r Taku River safe and means of - Coast | ing | pital from com- | | fortably. Especially the poor had to carry us from the the rocks where we have in, down to the slippery rocks at low water in pitcl ness. And Mr. and las who called the for help for me Holmes, the chief nur Government Hospital for kindness. wsx,undr Mrs. Flax is grown either ic or for seed, called linseed or Flax fiber is made who top_of last but not least Mrs. Richards Cc and Jank Doug- Guard | Mrs. | the | their Joe vens fiber flax- 1en. ellites. I carrying bacteriological warfare—- No matter what else is happen-|germs aimed to ruin the crops ur‘ ing inside Rusia, one thing is cer-|the Communist people. tain. Stalin has imposed the Iron; The Kremlin may also plant a | | WEEKLY EATING CLUB By Jim Darstow Curtain for the specific rl‘asmx‘bwmb with an alleged propaganda | that he fears contact between the | balloon, arrange to Kkill somcone Russian people and the outside and then claim that westerne world. * are; trying' to murder the Rus He knows, and a small segment | people. of the Russian people also know,| Some counterpropaganda like | how American and Soviet troops|this is almost certain to happen. | drank vodka together, toasted | But when two nations suffer such their mutual friendship together ned relations as the USA, on the shores of the river Elbe and USSR. you can't make those | at the end of the war. | relations any worse, and some- | He also knows how of | times revolutionary methods and | the Red army who have visited |radical surgery improve them. | Vienna, Warsaw, Prague or even Certainly it will be true that the shell-pocked Berlin, have returned |louder the Kremlin squawks and | to tell their friends about the|tries to twist the mea of | culture snd economic progress of | friendship messages to the Rus- | the Free World lying beyond the|sian people, the more it is certain | Soviet border. Some of these sol-|that such propaganda is hurting. | diers have shown such enthusiasm| Freedom-friendship balloons over the west and such skepticism | floated across the Iron Curtain | over Communism that it has been [are not, of coursé, going to chan ; necessary to isolate them, follow- ing their discharge, from their native villages. Stalin also knows that when the Nazis advanced into Russia in 1940 the astounding total of 3,600,000 Russians surrendered to the Ger- mans. We in the West did* about this wholesale ITS ALWAYS A BIG RISK il TO ASK HIM ABOUT HIS |1 HEALTH, ESPECIALLY NHILE_LUNCH 1S ON / -THER THEY CALLED IN ALL THE INTERNES AND NURSES TO SEE IT . WHAT A MESS ! b\E'ZYTHan COVERED WITH BLOOD' AFTE HE LAYED MY KIDNEY ON YHE TABLE HE EXPLORED...FOR SOMETHING . My SPLEEN T THINK ..IT HAD TURNED DARK \ GREEN' AND. DT, a E soldiers the people of Russia, Czechoslo- | vakia, Hungary overnight But | they can help. And added to the Voice of America and other pro- paganda, some of which cannot | be written about, they can hit the | Kremlin in the Achi! heel | wheih Stalin is worried most about | —the fear that the people behir ii the Iron Curtain may get to know not know surrender and tempera- 1 DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE-—~JUNEAU, ALASKA from THE EMPIRE /| 20 YEARS AGO AUGUST 15, 1931 Ruth Langseth, who has been ill at her home in Douglas with ton- : for a week is on the road to recovery. Passengers arriving in Juneau last night on the Northland from cattle were: George Tulinkoff, Mrs. Vera Tulinkoff, Hazel Smith, rel Pe , the Rev. James Furey, Mr .and Mrs. 8. G. Gazaloff, Mrs, e Webster, Mrs. L. White. From Southeast Alaska ports were: M. Richard, M. Mastafa, A. Allalal, E. Jabor, R. Hassen, Richard Suratt, James H. Wheeler, N. Ludvickson. Mrs. Dorothy Stear I Northland for left this morning after J enger on the eattle when it sg this port. i Licut. H. A. Kurstedt, of the U. S. Engineering Corps, accompanied | Mrs. Kurstedt, arrived in Juneau on the steamer Alaska to take up his ities with the Alaska Road Commission. { Every prelimina detail y to launching of construction Thane Highway project was cleared away today when the Secre- | tary of Agriculture affixed his signature to a contract awarded some time ago to Siems-Spokane Company. preparato: Opening of a new auto service station at Third and Main is an- nounced today by John E. Green, owner of the property. It is located on the old Tayfor corner adjoining a garage and machine shop in A. B Hall. Dr. J. B. Loftus, Territorial veterinarian, and Mrs. Loftus have left Juneaw. for Fairbanks. Dr. Loftus’ trip is in connection with Terri-| torial business. = i Prices of fresh fruits and vegetables, advertise by California Grocery having just arrived on the steamer Alaska were: Seedless grapes, 20 | cent pound; large peaches, 50 cents a dozen; Bartlett pearsd0 cents er bananas, 2 pounds 25 cents; corn on cob, 4 ears 25 cents; 15 cents each; mnt:’xloupcs. large, yellow meat, 15 and 20 h S Weather: High, 58; low, 52; showers. P e - Daily L in English $¥ i ally Lessens In tngilsh w. .. GorRDON ¢ L e e U { WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “The three girls divided | the candy between themselves.” Say, “AMONG themselves,” when refer- to m than two. OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Fete. OFTEN MISSPELLED: Descent agre). Decent (proper). SYNONYMS: Mercy, compassion, tenderness, WORD STUDY increase our vocabul INDOMITABLE; M). “He dozen; ucumbers, cents eac ring Pronounce the same as FATE (going down). Dissent (to dis- kindness, forgiveness, pardon, pity, clemency, lenience, lienency, lenity. “Use a word three times and it is yours.” Let us ary by mastering one word each day. Today’s word:{ not to be subdued; unconquerable. (Accent follows the has an indomitable will.” | S Q. If a man is entertaining a group of friends in a restaurant or a hotel dining room, in what order do they go to the table? A. If the headwaiter leads the way to the table, the host goes first to seat his guests, the women follow next, and the men of the party Q. When you are talking with someone whose name you cannot | remember readily, and another friend joins you, should you attempt an introduction? A Y Say, “I am: very sorry, member your name. Q. Who should select and engage the clergyman for a church wed- but for the moment I cannot re- | di A. Usually the wedding ceremony takes place in the church which the bride and her family attend. i LOOK and LEARN AcGORDON , A,WWMJ 1. Does anything move faster than heat radiation? 2. What substance from milk isjjised for making glue, sizing, and plastics? 3. Who became President of the U. S. when McKinley was assassi- nated? Of whap codntry is Helsinki the capital city? What well-known bird can fly backwards? ANSWERS: No. Light, heat, and other forms of electromagnetic waves have the same speed, which cannot be exceeded. 2. Casein. or milk protein. Theodore Roosevelt. . Finland. Hummingbird. \ ACROSS 1. In the back Animal's stomach Small soft mass 12. Blockhead Milkfish . Exist 15. Certificate of postage Implement for enlarging . Hear judiclally Mistakes in printing . Narrow back street . Capture Negative Performer Take offense t al Disconcerted 45. Entices: var, Dance step . Lyriec poem . Sluggish Old form of three . Church seat Constructor of Wash- ington mon- ument pal . Type of ez~ cellence . y . Waistcoat . Consumed . Female ruff . Relieves . 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