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PAGE FOUR — o i tonnage could come from the proposed pulp and paper developments at Ketchikan and elsewhere. Although THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE--JUNEAU, ALASKA Dml y Alaska Empire the firms were not named, we have been given to 20 YEARS AGO %#%¥e EmpirE rWEWORIALS | TUESDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1951 e e FIELD PROPANE GAS AND APPLIANCE CO. MARBLE and GRANITE hed every evening except Sunday by the EMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY Secopd and Main Streets, Juneau Alaska MONSEN - - - - 0Y LINGO - - - sm;nd Class Matter. understand that the list includes the sponsors of the ) ‘ Alaska projects. D e e m e e X § DECEMBER 11, 1931 " Gas Has Got It” Walter D. Field — Phone 581 Monuments and Markers JUNEAU MARBLE WORKS Phone 426—302 Franklin St. oo President HELEN TE g Vice-President DOROTHY Juneau t Office in Confusing the Public O T G UBSCRIPTION RATES: s Delivered by carrier in Juneau and Douglas for $1.75 per month; i months, $0.00; one year, $17.50 A movement to draft Senator A. J. (Tony) Dimond, Valdez, as { Democratic candidate for Delegate to Congress next year, was launched En red DECEMBER 11 bl 0, TRy B e e o o o (Seattle Post-Intelligencer) EMPIRE WANT ADS PAY ge paid, at the following rates: onths, in advance, $7.50; will promptly motify arity in the delivery News Office, 602; Business Office, 374. )CIATED PRESS 1sively entitled to the use for ches credited to it or not other- and also the local news published REPRESENTATIVES — West- Tuesday, December 11, 1951 TO BOOST NEWSPRINT PRODUCTION Defense Production Administration officlals an- nounced last week that the United States intends to assist the newsprint industry in an effort to boost production by almost 50 per cent. For the first time, apparently taking a leaf from Canada’s book, our government plans to grant the industry quick tax write-offs on the new plant construction. In effect, the announcement means that the news- print industry has been placed i the category cf‘ defense industries eligible for “certificates of neces- sity” which permits the tax write-offs over a five- year period instead of the usual 20 to 25 years. The DPA said its program calls for expanding news- print production capacity by 494,000 tons a year. amount is estimated for this year. Officials said that five or six newsprint firms with applications pending for tax certificates should get their answers within the month, how that the green light has been given. Because of growing consumption, total news- print supplies will fall short of the demand by some | travelers and corjffused persons are similar to saying | and inconsiderate in sounding the alarms that the | Last | year’s output was about 1,100,000 tons and the same | A new propaganda technique, designed to per- petgate the “Fair Deal” in office, has been sweeping the nation. It consists of an effort to confuse the public by attacking® the critic instead of objectively examining his argument, At first, the hue and cry against “McCarthy- ism” fooled some into believing it was an isolated campaign against Sen. Joseph A. McCarthy, Republi- can of Wisconsi. But the far-reaching nfture of the device was recently disclosed whep union spokesmen, “Fair Deal” politicians, and others sought to detract from the inherent merit of General of the Army Douglas Mac- Arthur’s brilliant address at the Seattle Centennial on the ground that it was “political.” Likewise on a television show a participant was criticized for referring to Mr. Truman as “High Tax Harry.” This new subtle tendency is totalitarian in char- acter, and would hamstring the American principle of auditing the acts and behavior of men in pub]icl office. If fair criticism is to be tempered, then a bias is created in the directtion of continuing the in- cumbents in public office. The role of opposition is to expose the errors, inconsistencles and shortcomings of men temporarily holding “public office. The principle of rootation in office should not be impaired by any counter propaganda to give the bum’s rush to those who undertake to dissect the record of public officeholders The red herring trick of crying “McCarthyism” | should not deter the American people from demand- | ing that public office be entrusted only to those who are loyal and trustworthy. The counter attacks on McCarthy by Reds, fellow that -Paul Revereé on his historic ride was uncouth enemy’ was comlng at midnight. who complained that the firemen who extinguished | the fire did water damage, anl got the rugs muddy. The American system thrives on a free com- petition of ideas. No impugning of the motives and methods of critics should impair a thorough audit of the per- formance, the competency, the soundness and the| | Kodiak ... They resemble the reaction of a home owner‘Prime George 344000 tons next year and run about 494,000 tons behind in 1953 1t is estimated that expansion programs will begin deficit late in 1953. overcoming the time, it is hoped, newspapers will along by The news to voluntary conservation methods. implications of the foregoing will be good Southeast Alaska, as a good part of that! In the mean- | punches. be able to get The Washinglon- Merry-Go-Round (Continued from Page One) pounds per month—an increase of 88 percent. As proof that this blooded squeeze-play, doubled its aluminum shipments to Australia, Brazil, Uruguay and even Argentina at the same time it strangled the aluminum flow to this country. In fact, the United States is the only major market that re- ceived less Canadian metal this year than last. As a result, the United States is the only North Atlantic Pact country that has been forced to clamp civilian con- trols on aluminum. CANADA WINS is a cold- Canada has Meanwhile, the Canadian squeeze has accomplished its purpose, and forced the United States to swap American steel for British alum- inum. Hard up for steel but over- flowing with aluminum, Britain has agreed to divert 22,000,000 pounds of aluminum to American purchas- ers during the next five months. In return, Britain will be allocated 25,- 000 tons of fabricated American steel, 45,000 tons of steel ingots and another 28,500 tons of iron and steel scrap from the American zone of Germany. The joker in this deal is that the United States must return the aluminum after its own plants are expanded to make up for the shortage, though Britain is allowed to keep the steel with no strings attached. Another ironic fact is that Brit- ain’s contribution of 22,000,000 pounds of aluminum won’t come from Eritain at all, but will be shipped directly to us from Canada. In other words, this is the same aluminum that normally would have been shipped to the U. S. market anyway, but was withheld in or- der to force this country to kick in precious steel. ICKES PREDICTED IT But here is the final ironic pay- off. During the recent war, Jesse Jor then czar of the RFC, ad- vanced $68,500,000 without interest to the Aluminum Company of Can- | ada (affiliated with the Aluminum Company of America) to build the | Shipshaw aluminum plant on the | Saguenay River. Jones also extended another $34,- 240,000 at 3 percent interest, gave | the Canadian plant an order for all its aluminum, and provided that if the order was canceled before 1945, it would not be necessary | for Canada to pay back $68,500,000. set back American power Lolorado- Grand would projects—Shasta Dam, Big "Thompson, parts of Coulee, and others. However, Jesse Jones had his way. Now Canada, withholding al- uminum from us, is fulfilling Ickes' prediction. END OF PENNY POSTCARD There will be some nostalgic sighs at the Post Office Department when the latest casualty of inflation, the penny postcard, bows out on Jan- uary 1. For about 80 years, during which helicopters have replaced horses and which have seen a 500-fold in- crease in the cost of government, Uncle Sam has heen toting the pop- ular, green-stamped postcard to all parts of the country—even to our troops overseas—for one penny. » Government subsidies helped, of course, but it is still a tribute to American rugged individualism that the penny postal could survive so long. The postal was first issued in 1872 during the administration of President U. S. Grant. Later, in 1892, the same one-cent postage was authorized, the more elaborate picture card on which you place your own stamp. Ohe reason Congress boosted the postcard to two cents after January 1 was because big business has been evploiting the penny postal for ad- vertising purposes. Actually only about 10 percent of the 4,000,000,000 cards sold yearly in post offices are now used for personal corres- pondence. To foil the advertisers Congress further provided a 10 percent surcharge for postcards purchased | in bulk lots of over 48. Bt the Post Office Department doesn't think the new price will serjously affect sales. Even for two cenits, the government postcard is stil- far ‘and away the best mail bargain anywhere in the world. Note—Mall a postcard today to the Pearson Poll of Republican candldates for President. Mail it to Box 1052, Washington 13, D. C, and state the GOP candidate of your preference for 1952. CONVERTED An off-the-record crack by George Allen, onetime White House jester, | is proving good campaign ammuni- tion for Eisenhower boosters who want to prove Ike is a Republican. Sen. Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., of Massachusetts, leader of the “I want Ike” forces, and former Sen. Harry Darby of Kansas are repeating remarks Allen made “before the National Industrial ~ Conference Board at the Sea View Club near Atlantic City. “I know General Eisenhower is 8 | Republican,” quipped Allen, effectiveness of men holding public office. At this critical historic juncture, when Ameri- | | cans should be alert, there should be no pulling DI‘Ha\'e Developed a Superior Army Old American Custol ernment “partly subsidized” | telegraph line from the Atlantic to the Pacific. “be- | In 1861 the U. S. gov- the construction of a| in the world today is copper. All! sorts of defense projects are retard- | | ed because of it. However, when a couple of young men called on defense mobilizers in Washington with® a new inven- | tion by which the government could | save millions of pounds of copper, | all they got was advice and the} run-around. The new invention is a bimetal | combination of copper and steel, | whereby a steel sheet can be per- | fectly lined with copper, thus saving | tremendous amounts of copper, yet | at the same time giving steel cor- rosion resistance. During World War II, a group of civilian scientists organized a board in Washington to sort out new in- ventions and use them for the army and navy. Today, this board has been replaced with runaround- ers. However, fed up with the govern- nrent, William Ulmer, one of the inventors, is getting private busi- ness interested in Cleveland this *CARD OF THANKS |5 We wish everyone to know how thankful we are for the Kindness and sympathy that has been shown us in the loss of our father and friend John Christian Sve. Mr. and Mrs. Olaf Rosvold Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Clauson ATTENTION REBEKAHS Business meeting Wednesday night December 12 at 8 pm. in 1.0.0.F. Hall. 87-1. BERNA WEST. Noble Gxnnd Frank Cashel Jessie E. Shelly Jimmy Connor” Mrs. Thomas Morgan Laura King Anton L. Bartness Louise Muller Howard Wallace Jim Houston C. J. Ehrendreich Marjorie Williams e Betty Jean West . © 0o e 0o 0 0 0 0 0 o Weather af Alaska Points ‘Weather conditions and tempera- tures at various Alaska points also on the Pacific Ccast 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 . | Juneau Aupurt | Annette Island 33—Snow 13—Snow 10—Snow 35—Rain 3—Cloudy 36—Rain, Snow 5—Partly Cloudy 42—Cloudy 36—Cloudy . 41—Cloudy 45—Rain 34—Partly Cloudy 18—Clear wenn 5—Cloudy 1—Partly Cloudy 15—Partly Cloudy 40—Fog | 38—Smoke 39—Cloudy | 42—Fog, Smoke Kotzebue McGrath Nome Northway .. Petersburg Portland ... | Seattle Whitehorse Y"Akutat Communication Editor, | December 4 editorial 38—Rain Daily Empire — In the sue of the Empire the states that the “British Rifle.” For readers, ciation has released information, regarding tests that the U. S. Ordnance experts have been conducting, with several new rifles including the British .280 (7| | mm). your information The results of these tests were very disappointing in so far as the British .280 was concerned. The rifle actually weighed almost ten pounds, and the velocity of their 132 gr. bullet was only 2565 FPS. Compared with our Garand of about the same weight and shooting a 152 gr. bullet at 2805 FPS. Therefore the striking power and muzzle vel- |ocity of the British .280 is far be- low the American standard. The reliability of the British rifle did not even approach the minimum re- { quirements set up for the American Garand. British Minister of Defense Shin- well’s announcement last April that they would adopt the .280 auto rifle, krought a flood of protests from the Parliament and Ordnance expe of the North Atlantic Treaty na- tions, which have adopted the U. S. Garand as the standard arm. By actual tests of velocity, relia- bility, penetration and striking pow- er, the British 280 does not even approach many other arms in use today. How could it be Lalled superior? I trust that you will find “space to publish this to give the readers of the Empire, the facts as they are Yours Truly, ARTHUR SKINNER TO SEATTLE Mr. and Mrs. Gene Vuille are leaving tomorrow for a week's vaca- tion in Seattle. Vuille is with the FHA here and Mrs. Vuille is ac- | countant in the local PAA office. . 34—Partly Cloudy ' and the the American Rifle Asso- | considerable | 'u Seward, according to advices received here by National Committee- man J. J. Connors. The First Division woull also have a candidate, as the Divisional Conveption at Pelersburg affirmed the candidacy of Rep. A. H. Ziegler of Ketchikan. According to the annual report of Secretary of Navy Adams, the NMavy bought food, fuel, clothing and other essentials with much the same care as a housewife on a budget, with resulting lower costs in food supplies. Members of Igloo No. 6, Pioneers of Alaska, met tonight for nomi- nation and elections of officers. Following the Pioneers’ session the ladies of the Igloo gave a card party. The Martha Society of the Northern Light Presbyterian Church was sponsoring a concert tonight and tomorrow night in the church. An interesting program, featuring both instrumental and vocal numbers, had been arranged. An overheated stove in the Sorri Apartments set the wallpaper on fire early this morning, but the Fire Department made a quick run to the scene and extinguished the blaze before any material damage was done. i William L. Paul was a guest at the Government school house in Douglas this evening, where he gave a talk for the benefit of the Indian people, touching on matters of general community interest. e e s { Daily L in English 3 ] aily Lessons In English - w. .. corvoN S ) “Those that attend the is preferable. Pronounce ar-ki-tect, and Weather: High, 32; low, 25; cloudy. WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say. meeting.” “Those WHO attend the meetin H OFTEN MISPRONDUNCED: Architect. ! not ar-chi-tekt. OFTEN MISSPELLED: Loathe (to abhor; {the E. Loath (reluctant; averse); no E. , SYNONYMS: Defnse, romcss bulwark, rampart, protection, ter. | WORD STUDY: “Use a word three times and it is you Let us increase our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Today's word: ,REPUDIATE; to refuse to acknowledge, or to accept. (Pronounce the #U as in CUBE, accent second syllable). “The plan was repudiated by “mc-mhers of the opposing party.” detest; hate); observe shel- © B.P.0.ELKS | © © 0 o 0 0 0 0 % 0 @ Meeting Every Wednesday at 8 P.M. Visiting brothers welcome. LeROY WEST, Exalted Ruler. W. H. BIGGS, Secretary. | MODERN ETIQUETTE % perra 1xx Q. If a person has accepted an invitation to be a house guest for a week and finds upon arrival lhut'conduiuns in that home are ' just too uncomfortable and impossible for him to last out the visit, how could he tactfully arrange an early departure? i A. Onme of the best things he could do under these circumstances ‘v\u.ld be to walk to a nearby store and send himself a telegram—and} lgave. 7 Q What kind of napkins should be used to go with a lace table- i doth? H A. Plain hemstitched linen, as nearly matching the color and tex- { ture of the lace as possible. Q. Is it proper to use the salutation, letter to a company? A. This salutation is no longer accepted. 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