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Monday, February 4, 1946
GOOD VETO
(Washington Post)
President Truman has shown both courage and com
mendable judgment in vetoing teh bill rescinding 40
billion dollars in wartime appropriations to which a
“rider” returning the United States Employment Ser
vice to the State governments had been attached. In
passing this botched-up sort of legislation, Congress, as
the President said, violated a fundamental principle of
good government. It attempted to deprive him, more
over, of the basic right of vetoing specific measures of
which he disapproves. That performance thoroughly
merited the stiff rebuke that the President has admin
istered.
Fortunately, the savings which the Congress sought
to achieve will not be lost. President Truman has in
structed the Budget Bureau to place the full amounts
specified in the bill for saving in a nonexpendable re
serve. In other words, the main purpose of the bill will
be accomplished, and the crippling amendment which
Congress sought to impose on the Employment Service
at this crucial period of its postwar responsibility goes
into the ash can. The veto thus serves not only the cause
of orderly legislative procedure, it also saves from un
timely disruption the agency that must find jobs fori
returning veterans and displaced warworkers.
When employment crises have arisen in this country
in recent decades, we have moved to meet them on a!
national basis. We did this in World War I; we did it
again in the depression of the 30’s; we did it once more
to overcome the difficulties of an acute manpower short
age during World War II. In the last two instances, we
took this course despite the existence of State employ
ment offices because we found that these were wholly
inadequate to the occasions. The channeling of men to i
jobs, whether the scarcity is one of manpower or of em-,
ployment opportunities, demands a Nation-wide organ
ization with tacilities in every section ot tne country.
We face an employment crisis today, although it is
less serious than that which confronted us during the
war. It comes as an inescapable aftermath of the war.
Millions of men and women, released from the armed
services and displaced from war production jobs, need
help in getting back to work. Thousands of employers,
seeking to return to peacetime production, need help in
•finding employees. Their problems take no cognizance
of State boundary lines. And the fact is that State Em
ployment Service, differing from one another in stand
ards and efficiency, seriously complicate the problems
by artifically segmenting them. For the emergency re
conversion period at the very least, a Federal employ
ment service seems absolutely necessary.
For these reasons we think the country will sustain
the President in this veto. The “rider” to which the
President objected flew directly into the face of his ex
pressed wish that the employment system continue to
function in a single unit under Federal direction during
the reconversion period. Now that it has been disposed
of in this effective fashion we hope that Congress will
have the good judgment to leave the Employment Serv
ice alone, at least until the new job crisis has passed.
EVAPORATED MILK IN GLASS BOTTLES
Marketing evaporated milk in glass bottles instead
of the long-familiar tin cans becomes a possibility
through the sterilizing machine on which patent 2,388,
103 was granted to three Baltimore inventors, Dr. Ran
dall Whitaker, Dr. Robert P. Myers and Robert E. Hom
berger, assignors to Sealtest, Inc. After the milk has
hnrn evaporated and filled into the bottles, the whole
fptipgye is a weeps mi
operations is conducted either in an atmosphere of an
inert gas or under vacuum, in order to exclude flavor
spoiling oxygen. The bottles are spun rapidly in order
to agitate the milk, while sterilization heating is car
ried on at a temperature between 280 and 300 degrees
Fahrenheit for from three to five minutes. Superior
color and flavor are claimed for evaporated milk bottled
by this process.
“Why do onions cause me to have indigestion?’’ asks
a columnist. It’s probably because you eat them,
brother. We don’t eat-them, and they never cause us to
have indigestion.
\v ASI1L\GT(: K NEWS-LETTER
By MARY LEE COUNCIL
Secretary to E. L. (Bob) Bartlett, delegate to Congress from Alaska
BUDGET FOR ALASKA
The President’s budget message to Congress for the fiscal year 1947
recommends appropriations in the amout of $21,673,850 for the Terri
tory of Alaska, approximately five million dollars in excess of monies
appropriated by Congress for the 1946 fiscal year. A summary of the
Alaska items follows:
Estimate Appropriated
1947 ’946
Care and custody of insane .$ 291,709 $ 09
Communications System . 543,009 227,840
Fire prevention on the public domain. * 147,460
Fisheries . 858,009 624 '00
Game Law Enforcement . 186,900 142,535
Governor and Secretary, salaries and con
tingent expenses (Governor’s office'. 48,200 41 000
Indigent Relief . 20,000 24.000
Legislative Expenses (appropriated bienni
ally) ... 48,009 .
Medical relief for natives. ** 844,150
Mineral Resources . 312,500 157,500
Natives, education of . ** 1,414,910
Alaska Experiment Station Work. 52,500 42,500
Alaska Extension Service Work . 23,950 23,950
Public Schools .. 50,000 50,000
Alaska Railroad, appropriated funds. 5,368,300 2,825 400
Alaska Railroad, special fund from revenues.. 5,050,000 6,630,000
Alaska Railroad, retirement funds. 217,000 217,000
Railroads, additional income tax receipts. 7,000 9,600
Reindeer Service . ** 80,000
Roads, bridges and trails, construction and
maintenance . 3,790,400 1,038,900
Star Route and airmail service. 400,000 400,000
Townsites, trustee funds . 2,000 2,000
Reconstruction and improvement of Rich
ardson Highway . 1,000,009 1,2"0f'',9
Alaska Native Service** (includes) . 3,264,400 **
Education of natives $1,957 194
Medical relief 1,199,074
Reindeer service 88,462
$21,673,850 $16,608,995
* No figure available as funds for Alaska included in entire estimate
for United States.
** See “Alaska Native Service”.
I The increase in the recommended appropriation for roads is based
largely on a program for new road
construction for the Territory.
The President’s budget massage "
is only the preliminary step toward
final appropriation of funds for
<he Territory. Several months will
elapse before it will be known
what Alaska will finally receive
for the 1947 fiscal year. The
amounts finally agreed upon will
evolve from action in the subcom
mittees of the House and Senate
Committees on Appropriation, in
the whole committees, and on the
floors of the House and Senate.
REVENUE BOND BILL
Delegate Bartlett’s bill authoriz
ing municipalities and public util-41
ity districts in Alaska to issue rev
enue bonds has passed the House
without amendment.
The bill elminiates the necessity
for Alaska municipalities and
public «tility districts to come to
Congress for permission to issue
revenue bonds. It provides for a
majority vote of the qualified
electors in the municipality or dis
trict concerned on such revenue
bonds.
POWER-BOAT AND
STAR ROUTES
Contracts on bids for forty
seven power-boat and star routes
in Alaska will be awarded within
a few days, according to informa
tion made available to Delegat^
Bartlett by the Post Office De
partment.
December 11, 1945, was the
closing date for submititng the
bids making proposals for carry
ing the mails in the Territory
from July 1, 1946, to June 30.
1950.
AIR ROUTES DECISION
It may be a matter of months
before the decision of the Civil
Aeronautics Board is made on ap
plicat;ons for air routes to and
through Alaska to the Orient, ac- y
co’-ding to latest information made
available to Delegate Bartlett.
Tt had been expected earlier
that a decision would be rendered
in *"Vcember of last year.
SMALL BUSINESS IN ALASKA
Governor Oruening and Dele
gate Bartlett have conferred with
Secretary of Commerce Wallace
and Chairman Henderson of the
Pvr\ urgin'* continuation and ex
pansion of the functions now vest
ed in the Smaller War Plants Cor
poration when the Corporation
dissolved on January 28.
Secretary Wallace expressed his .
continued interest in the general
development of Alaska and his
recognition of the need for expan
sion of small business in the Ter
ritory. He repeated his special in
terest in the agricultural possibil
ities of Alaska and recalled with
pleasure his visit with President
Bunnell of the University of Alas
ka when returning from Russia
Russia several months ago.
I
VISITORS
Leon Urbach of Seward was a
visitor in Delegate Bartlett’s office p
during his recent trip to Washing
ton. Mr. Urbach, chosen by lot,
represented the local draft boards
of the Territory and received a
medal from the President in cere
monies held at the White House.
His son. Kenneth, on hospital
leave from Fort Meade, Washing
ton, attended the presentation of
the medal to his father.
Donald O’Connor of Juneau vis
ited Delegate Bartlett’s office
while in the capital on official
business. Mr. O’Connor is price
executive with the Office of Price
; Administration.