The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 13, 1951, Page 4

PAGE FOUR Daily Alaska Empire Publisi .a every evening except Sunday by the EMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY Second and Main Streets, Juneau Alaska HELEN TROY MONSEN - - - - DOHA\IH\ TROY LINGO - - - President Vice-President Entered t the Post Office in Juneau as Second Class Matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Delivered by carrier in Juneau and Douglas for $1.35 per month; is months, §9.00; one year, $17.50 e paid, at the following rate: nce, §15.00; six months, in advance, $1.50; Subscribers will confer a favor if they will promptly notify the Dusiness Office of any failure or irregularity in the dellvery of th ir papers. Telephones News Office, §02; Business Office, 374. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS ted Press is exclusively entitled to the use for all news dispatches credited to it or not other- this paper and also the local news published Assoc jon of ted 1v Tuesday, November 13, 1951 A PUBLISHER VIEWS ALASKA seasons have brought to Alaska as rewspapermen, who have returned to their to write about Alaska, as did last summer. Reports from the National Editorial Association convention members are still reaching us. We will t the end of Orrin Taylor's series of articles in Archbold, Ohio, Buckeye, because we have enjoyed his fine w y newspaper and the things he has said about Alaska A recent newspaper to reach the Empire’s desk is the Ponca City News, one of Oklahoma's fine papers published by E. Clyde Muchmore who visited Alaska last September. His visit is the subject of a two-column editorial in the 26-page Sunday edition of the Ponca City News of October 14. It is too long to copy complete, but because it gives Alaskans a chance to see ourselves as others us, here is a part of what Mr. Muchmore has to about the territory: WE VIEW ALASKA That peninsula up at the northwest corner of the North American continent looks rather small when views it from the map. And it seems a long way from the ¢ Actually, it is neither small nor far. » is another statement that one hesitates to for Texans might be listening. Alaska would o of Texas, with a state the size of Arkansas It contains some 560,000 square miles, v tourist ma home towns reg the ¢ on thrown in the coast, seeing such cities as Ketchikan, Petersburg, Sitka and Juneau. All of them are small but inter- esting and all resemble our own cities. Even the people are like the rest of us, many coming from the states. The Indian population gives one the idea that he might have dropped in on some Oklahoma town. At first opportunity take a look at the map. See how far south Juneau, the capital, lies. Then not2 the great extent of the north and west country, how many miles yet it would be to Anchorage, Dawson, Fairbanks, Point Barrow, where our own Will Rogers perished. Put Alaska down as being a vast, undeveloped country, with great resources, much of them probably unknown. Also put it down as a country that would be difficult to defend, and as one that perhaps needs little defense. Every island we saw is covered with virgin timber, reaching up to timber line and dropping down to meet the sea. The islands are really tops of mountains, prortuding up out of the sea. They offer few and only narrow beaches, and such cottages and villages as on sees seem to be clinging to the mountain side. Agriculture as we know it is unknown, and must remain unknown. The vast resources of timber will some day be put to work. The trees are old, overgrown, some dying from full maturity. The timber would be better if a planned cutting had begun years ago. But the pos- sibilities of paper pulp and other cellulose products are enormous. They will in time be utilized. In Alaska fishing is big business. There is cannery in every city and village, and some have two. Along with many others, we thought of Alaska and gold together, these two being inseparable. Today there is little gold. The mines are still there but the known rich ores are about exhausted. Hard rock ores cannot compete with foreign production, due to wages and other costs, placer mining on the decline, and so most of the mines are closed down, closed a until the price of gold goes up to a point to make mining profitable. Wages are high and the cost of living is up in proportion. There are more jobs than workers, nnd strangely enough, more women than men, about five “to one, we were told. We do not vouch for this statistic. Near some of the pities, especially around Juneau, some of the narrow beaches are being claimed from the sea. Here small grains and hay are being raised. Juneau boasts of a growing dairy business, with three good herds of dairy cattle. Enough feed is raised for five months and the remainder must be imported for the winter. Alfalfa sells as high as $100 per ton. Milk of good quality is 31 cents. The undeveloped and undiscovered resources in Alaska are a challenge to industry. It will seek out the country when closer possibilities have been ex- ploited. In the meantime Alaska will be an expense to government, not an asset. one meets are directly or indirectly employed by government. This discovery comes to one as quite a shock, until he recalls the extent of federal employ- ment in the states. After a brief view of one little corner of this Many of the persons; and much of it today is an almost But Texans should not worry j not dy for statehood. about half that many Indians. and developed, there would illions. res ver have had to tone Alaska. We didn't. foot on the mainland. We visited The population is sparse, 100,00 white people with a little more than When Alaska's resources are since our visit to this fabulous country, we down the statement that we saw To be truthful, we scarcely set unknown country. | great territory, ust yet. Alaska is be living room for | two weeks on the hunt. the islands along we are convinced that we made good deal when we gave Russia $7,500,000 for it, and that Russia made a bad one. keeping it, and keeping it well defended. Publisher Muchmore and a party of friends spent travelers and hunters, Alaska, to the territory to see for themselves fabulous land of which he writes. a Yes, we recommend charter yacht Manana, bagged three bear, and plan to come back to Alaska for another In the meantime, he will probably send other in his stories of the interested The Washinglon Merry-Go-Round \Continued from Page One) defend countries so war weary they would almost prefer to be conquered than to fight. Of the three, Winston Churchill represented a brave attempt to re- vive private enterprise in an area slowly being enguyfed in red tape and regulation; Princess Elizabeth represented the brave attempt of the next generation to cope with problems which their elders have s0 miserably failed to solve; and General Eisenhower represented the thesis that from armed might is derived peace. All three, however, were symbols of hope—tired, discouraged, lagging hope, it is true, but nevertheless hope. MONEY AND HOPE That hope in each case, however, was based on virtually the same foundation—money from the U. S. Ei erican money if he is to succeed | in rearming Europe. Churchill will Qesperately need two billions = if British finances are not to reach the vanishing point. And it was part of the Princess’ job to help create the good-will so necessary for Am- erican-British economic cooperation. Hcwever, money is not inexhaust- ible. Furthermore, it is only a temp- orary palliative. And while more money will be necessary to bolster British finances and armament, it is time we worked out long-range plans that will give our European friends permanent hope— not cash-and-carry hope. As a result of my two visits to Europe this year I would like to urge two deep-rooted and perman- ! ent changes for Europe. Both are purely American. They are two of the great principles that have made us great, and without them I do not think Europe can long surviv One is a United States of Europe. Two is applying Declaration of Independence to Europe NO EUROPEAN EQUALITY Prosposing that these be applied to Europe may sound like pious preaching, but when you don’t have equality and unity, you cannot build a firm foundation of peace and free governiment. Unfortunately, equal- ity, the basic guarantee of the Dec- laration of Independence, simply does not exist in Europe. It exists enhower has to have more Am- | European | certain economic level, and in most countries there he usually stays. If | your mother was a servant in Eng- land, the chances are you will be a servant, too. If your father worked | at a certain- trade in Italy, the| chances are you would not be able | to rise above his status—unless you | migrated to the United States. Thus the great mass of the people, stuck in one groove, with little chance of improving themselves, abandon hope. That is why Communism, full of wonderful though phony promises of a bright, new horizon, brings hope plus European converts by the thou- sands. Meanwhile we have sat on our Ihnnds and failed to sell the great- est creed we have—the Declaration of Independence. We have passed out billions in dollars and material things, but hardly two cents worth of spiritual, cultural or philosophi- | cal things. " We have rebuilt factories, helped ! | big business, but have failed com- | pletely to attach any of the basic | principles of the Declaration of In-! |dependence regarding lush proflts or workmen's opportunmes UNITED STATES OF EUROPE Point No. 1, the United States of | Europe, is indirectly the chief rea- son General Eisenhower flew back | to Washington. For in trying to build up a Eu- ropean army, he has had to put the cart before the horse. He has been like George Washington, who |tried to draft the revolutionary army from the thirteen colonies. | Each colony reserved the right to decide how many men it would send | to fight the British, how much they | would be paid and when they would | be mustered out. Washington had no control over them except the appeai to patriotism. Likewise with Eisenhower. He has more ccntrol over the number troops France will ‘'send him 1 General Washington had over » of the Pennsylvania militia. Out of Washington's experience with the 13 colonies, there was { gradually forged a United States of America. And out of Eisenhower’s | experience there may emerge a | United States of Europe. However, he needs a lat of polit- ical help from the State Department, from the British, and from Ameri- can public opinion—help which he isn't getting. For instance, he has been trying to get the French to build jet en- gines in their own factories, but no of |is no use having the French spend a year fussing over new plans to develop their own engine. Ike wants production right now. The French have the factories, but also they hdve the national pride that de- mands that they develop their own blueprints. DISASTROUS PRIDE This illustration could be dupli- cated a dozen times. The chief rea- son Europe remains economically | unstable, unsound and without our support would be bankrupt, is the conflicting criss-cross of boundaries, customs barriers, and national pride which demand a steel industry for both France and Belgium, when one industry in one country could easily supply both countries. The United States is the only nation in the world which has solv- ed the problem of Federal govern- ment while preserving a fair degree of states rights. A similar federal unity is what Europe needs more than anything cise. ‘Without it her people know there will be unemployment, human mis- jery and eventually war. But with it and with the equality of human endeavor inherent in our Declara- tian of Independence, Europe can have genuine, not cash-and-carry hope. And with hope, the phony promises of Communism fade away. These two American principles will not be easy to sell Europe, but the alternative is a continual flow of loans across the Atlantic, plus a continual flow of troops—until the American people either rebel or are sucked dry and bled white. Caps Give Clue To Missing Bovs MINNEAPOLIS, Nov. 13— (® — Two caps belonging to two of three missing koys were fished from the Mississippi River near a dam this morning. Police Capt. Kenneth Moore said the caps had been positively identi- fled. Capt. Moore said the caps were first noticed by a workman at a dam in North Minneapolis. Moore said they were taken from the river near the dam and identified by Kenneth Klein, father of the boys, Kenneth, Jr, 8; David, 6; and Daniel, 4. The dam is downstream from a park where the boys had gone to play Saturday afternoon. Find- THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA NOVEMBER 13 Jerry Gucker Dan Livie Mrs. Fred Barragar Mrs. May Crowell Mrs. Olav Lillegraven Jeanette Shepard Oscar Johnson Charles Porter Sandra Lee Shirk Gloria Ahrensfeld Dean C. E. Rice Mrs. Paula Taylor A. V. Credo, Jr. e o o 0 o o Weather al Alaska Poinis Weather conditions and tempera- tures at various Alaska points also on the Pacific Coast at 4:30 am., 120th Meridian Time, and released by the Weather Burcau are as follows: Anchorage Barrow Bethel Cordova Dawson .. Edmonton .. Fairbanks Haines ... Havre o Juneau Afrport . Annette Island Kodiak . Kotzebue ....... McGrath Nome Northway Portland ... Prince George Seattle Whitehorse . Yakutat ... @eesc0eceseceecsscoce . ( 18—Clear 9—Cloudy 29—Fog 29—Cloudy . 2—Cloudy 24—Cloudy 9—Snow 27—Clear . 30—Cloudy 28—Cloudy 37—Cloudy 32—Partly Cloudy . 13—Cloudy . 12—Snow 32—Cloudy . 6—Snow 46—Cloudy 29—Snow . 49—Cloudy | ... 16—Snow ' . 32—Cloudy e lan incoming passenger o { by Senator Allen Shattuck was announced this day by Gov. George A. | CARE, not as in FAR. 20 YEARS AGO ftm EMPIRE NOVEMBER 13, 1931 Mrs. Glenn Oakes, stenographer-clerk in the Governor’s office, was the Alameda, returning from a vacation in (the States. George W. Folta, Assistant United States Attorney, returned to head- quarters here, from a visit to Seattle on official business. ' The creation of a Territorial Child Welfare Commission headed Parks. The commission was appointed by authority of the Alaska Leg- islature, which passed the act providing for a board to inquire into matters pertaining to child welfare and appropriated $500 to pay neces- sary expenses. Mrs. Frankz Metcalf, J. C. Thomas and E. M. Polley were also named on the board and a fifth member was to be announced later. With a large cargo and 33 passengers for Juneau, the steamship Alameda was in port this afternoon from Seattle, and was to sail for Seward by way of Haines and Skagway tonight. Among the passengers were J. W. Gucker, M. L. Freeman, and Gil Rich. to become a profitable enterprise, according to Ernest Walker Sawyer, to become a profitable enterprise, accordin gto Ernest Walker Sawyer, Assistant Secretary of the Interior. He said he had suggested carrying on of a little research at Matanuska and Fairbanks to assist in adapting the industry to the locality. Jimmy Barragar rolled a three-game total of 602 on the Elks' alleys, to lead the league in a mixed tournament, in last night's tourna- ment play. Weather: High, 37; low, 35; clear. Daily Lessons in English 3. 1. corvox g WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “The reason for this is be- Say, “The reason for this is THAT he tries cause he tries too hard.” too hard.” ' OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Larynx. Pronounce lar-ingks, A as in OFTEN MISSPELLED: Accidentally, not ACCIDENTLY. SYNONYMS: Compensation, pay, payment, fees, earnings, hire, re- compense, remuneration, salary, wages. 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: INFLEXIBLE; firm in will or purpose; resolute; determined . “A man of upright and inflexible principles can accomplish much.” Bulletins A Washington official said to- day that a federal grand jury prob- | ably will wind up an eight-months probe within a few weeks. Two Sen- {ators have recently questioned how |the investigation |loans is coming along. e | U.S. Army Secretary Frank Pace, | | |Jr., arrived in Frankfort today m! | tour allied military bases in Ger-! many. He flew from Paris after con- | ferring with General Eisenhower | about speeding arms for Europe. | of government | U.S. Defense Secretary Robert ‘Lmert landed in Paris today for conferences with Eisenhower and other Atlantic treaty officials. He'll |then follow Pace in touring U.S. units in Europe. Thousands of U.S. Marines are in the midst of practice invasion this morning. They're being landed from 200 warships to establish a third beachhead in North Carolina at Onslow Beach. |Community Evenls TODAY 4t 7:30 p.m.—Basketball managers meeting room 3 of high school. At 8 pm. — Annual roll call of Eastern Star in Scottish Rite Temple. At 8 p.m.—f with leaders NLP church, At 8 pm. — Odd Fellows meet in IOOF Hall. Initiatory degree. At 8:30 p.m.—Community Cente: Night for Adults at Teen Agc club with square dancing. November 14 At noon—Kiwanis club meets at Baranof. At 1:30 p.m.—WSCS meets at home of Mrs. Ed Hales for dessert lunch- eon. At 1:30 pm.—Garden Club meets at home of Mrs. Ernest Gruening. At 8 pm. — Pen Women meet at home of Mrs. Bernice Morgan, 431 Seward Street. At 8 pm. — VFW Auxiliary meets at 326 Fifth Street. At 8 p.m.—Elks Lodge. November 15 At noon — Chamber 6f Commerce meets at Baranof. At 7:30 p.n.—All nurses, active or inactive, meet at St. Ann’s hos- pital. t 7:30 p.m.—City Council meets. At 8 pm.—VFW post meets in Jeep | club. At 8:45 p.m.—Juneau Singers re- hearsal at Methodist church. November 16 At 7 p.m.—Martha Society County Fair in NLPC basement. At 8 p.m. — “Swinging Squares” dance for Tth, 8th and 9th grades at Parish Hall. At 8 p.m. — Rebekah Past Noble Grands meet at home of Mrs W. B. Converse. November 17 From 1:30 to 5 p.m.—WSCS bazaar, tea in parlors of Methodist church. At 9 pn.—Elks Days of '98 with show by Skagway Troupe of Elks. November 19 At noon—Lions club meets at Bara- | nof Hotel. | At 8 p.m. — American Legion meets at Dugout. | November 20 Girl Scout council meets and assistants at MODERN ETIQUETTE ¥oprra ruE Q. Just what are a bridegroom’s expenses? A. Engagement ring, wedding ring, wedding present for his bride, his bachelor dinner, marriage license, personal gifts for his best man and cshers’ bouttonieres for his attendants, clergyman’s fees, and honey- moon trip. Q. How may one rinse one finger’s at the dinner table if no fingerj Lbowl has been provided? A. It is permissible to tip the water glass against the corner of he napkin, and then wipe the fingers ou this damp corner. Q. If 2 man meets a woman acquaintance while waiting for a bus, should he offer to pay her fare? A. He is not at all obligated to do this. | LOCK and LEARN %c. corpox 13 England? 3. How many hours out of the twenty-four does a newborn mfant usually sleep? 4, Are the Hawaiian Islands closer to the United States or Japan? What is the chief source of malt? ANSWERS: 1. New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Detroit, Balti- more, Cleveland, St. Louis, Washington, Boston, San Francisco, Pitts- burgh, Milwaukee, Houston and Buffalo. 2. Five P. M. 3. Twenty-two. 4. The United States. 5. MARTHA'S COUNTY FAIR EASTERN STAR Roll Call night, Juneau Chap. No. 7, Tuesday, November 13, 8 o'clock. 64-4t | All members requested to be pre- Desserts and handmade articles at | the Northern Light Church at 7:00 | p.m., Friday, November 16. i sent. FROM WRANGELL Lee Lyster of Wrangell is at the | P BT T 1 | — EMPIRE WANT ADS PAY — ALICE BROWN, Secretary Gastineau Hotel C rossword Puzzle ACROSS 1. Rodent 4. South Ameri- can animal 8 Hlvl!l‘ little Hold the attention Ocean Perform Meddlal 5. Nocturnll Omen or 12. lhort for L man’s name 18. Presently 14. Shelter for bees 15. Table dish l’l. Detested l(eul f(;rm. Deinting 19, Va icles drawn be- hind other ‘vehicles 2. !lnlll thing 2. GO prophecy Deadly white ' Chum 3. Base cowards Narrow road 49. Ceremonies Sooner 62. German river . Feminine Solution of Ynhrd-y'l Puzzle DOWN 1. Wholly absorbed 2. Competently 8. Vessel for brewing a beverage Apropos Dillseed 6. Letter writer name Correlative of neither Walk in water 66. Worry: collog. . Half ‘ems gii%fi%fi‘fl! il 7/ Hlfi Wyl Made a preliminary ‘wager Artificlal language At present Live coal Eternity Behlnd - 26. 28, ol B Jfllllflll//////flflfl A/ dENENdd// o el V70 | | | nlflflll//fl lllfi/% i 32, Rlbbod !.bfll l. Eltlll ndu tl. Tennysonian character 40. Cubic meter am W TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1951 MEMORIALS MARBLE and GRANITE Monuments and Markers JUNEAU MARBLE WORKS Phone 426—302 Franklin St. €© B.P.0.ELXS Meeting Every Wednesday at 8 P.M. Visiling brothers welcome. LeROY WEST, Exalted Ruler. W. H. BIGGS, Secretary. Moose Lodge No. 700 Regular Meetings Every Friday Governor— LOREN CARD Becretary— WALTER R. HERMANSEN Taku Post No. 5559 V.F. W. Meeting every Thursday in the Jeep Club at 8:00 p.m. NASH SALES and SERVICE CHRISTENSEN BROS. 909 12th Phone Green 279 Brownie's Liquor Sfore Phone 103 139 So. Franklin P. 0. Box 2596 EMPIRE WANT ADS PAY J. A, Durgin Compw, lne. Accounting Auditing Tax Wi Room 3, Valentine Bflflfllnl Telephone 919 S e . EMPIRE WANT ADS PAY o . e e T E— STEVENS® LADIES’—MISSES’ READY-TO-WEAR Seward Street Near Third "The Rexall Store” Your Reliable Pharmacists BUTLER-MAURO DRUG Co. Alaska Music Supply Arthur M. Uggen, Manager Planos—Musical Instruments and Supplies Phoue 206 Second and Seward Card Beverage Co. ‘Wholesale 805 10th Bt. PHONE 216—DAY or NIGHT for MIXERS or SODA POP The Alaskan Hotel Newly Renovated Rooms st Reasonable Rates PHONE BINGLE O THOMAS HARDWARE and FURNITURE CO. PHONE 555 PAINTS —— OILS Builders’ and Bhelf HARDWARE Remington Typewriters SOLD and SERVICED by J. B. Burford Co. “Our Doorstep Is Worn by Batisfied Customers” = FORD AGENCY (Authorized Dealers) GREASES — GAS — OLL Juneau Motor Co. Foot of Main Btreet MAKE 63-2t | The Charles W. Carter Mortuary PFourth and Franklin Sts. PHONE 136 JUNEAU DAIRIES DELICIOUS ICE CREAM a dally habit—ask for it by name ‘i Juneau Dairies, Inc. f f ) Caslers Men's ;;: I HOME GROCERY Phones 146 and 342 McGregor Sportswear Home Liquor Store—Tel. §99 Stetson and Mallory Hats Arrow Bhirts and Underwear American Meat — Phone 38 Allen Edmonds Shoes Skyway l.llnrm BOTANY 500" CLOTHES NUNN-BUSH SHOES STETSON HATS Quality Work Clothing FRED HENNING Complete Outfitter for Men 1 To Banish “Blue Monday” | To give you more freedom from work — TRY Alaska Laundry H. S. GRAVES The Clothing Man LEVI'S OVERALLS for Boys SHAFFER'S SANITARY MEAT FOR BETTER MEATS 13—PHONES—49 BLACKWELL’S CABINET SHOP 117 Main St. Phone 12 High Quality Cablnet Work ter Home, Office or Stere A. H. PAULSON as a paid-up subscriber to THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE is invited to be our guest THIS EVENING Present this coupon to the box office of the CAPITOL THEATRE and receive TWO TICKETS to see: “SOLDIERS THREE" Federal Tax—12c Paid by the Theatre Phone 14—YELLOW CAB C0.—Phone 22 and an insured cab WILL CALL FOR YOU and RETURN YOU to your home with our compliments. WATCH THIS SPACE—Your Name May Appear! Oldest Bank in Alaska 1891—0ver Half a Century of Banking—1951 TheB. M. Behrends Bank Safety Deposit Boxes for Rent COMMEBCIAL SAVINGS politically in France and some oth- | using British blueprints. He argues |ing of the caps was the first con- er countries, but it does not exm that the Pritish have about the best | crete ciue to the b whereabouts y At ncon — Rotary club meets in_ €conomically. A man is born al jet engine in the world, so there since they dropped from sight then. i 1. Which are the 15 largest U. S. cities, according to population? 2. When it is noon in New York City, what time is it in London, Baranof Hotel.