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STATEHOOD AND KOREA
That the statehood bill has small chance as a
result of the Korean situation, was suggested in a
news story from Washington in last night’s Empire.
Yet the Korean war has been used by proponents
of statehood in an attempt to hasten action on the
bill.
Suddenly the threat of war has become a com
pelling reason for the immediate passage of the revised
HR 331 now before the United States Senate.
This is a regrettable attempt to inject a note of
hysteria into the deliberations on the question of
statehood for Alaska and tends to create confusion by
indentifying two wholly unrelated issues—statehood
and the war. The state of affairs in Korea is a
serious subject, as is the question of statehood for the
territory. Decisions affecting either will be far reach
ing In their influence over the lives of a great many
people.
The theory has been advanced by statehood pro
ponents, some of them, we believe, irresponsible politi
cal opportunists, that statehood is vital to the defense
of Alaska and, of course, to the nation.
The theory is an interesting one and was discussed
at length by expert and amateur strategists during
the recent hearings before the Senate Committee on
Interior and Insular Affairs.
The testimony presented at that time failed signal
ly to show in what manner Alaska’s defense would be
augmented or impaired by reason of its status as a
territory or state.
Rear Admiral Ralph Wood, USN retired, in his
statement before the committee said: "Were Alaska to
become a state tomorrow, it would not alter, I am
sure, the general over-all consideration of our defense
problems.”
The men charged with the grave responsibility of
formulating and carrying out plans for the defense
of the United States and its territories and posses
sions are not concerned with regional governmental
structures, but rather with the mechanics of strategy
and logistics.
These latter considerations are dependent upon
a number of factors among which are geographical
location, the physical characteristics of the area to be
defended, available facilities for communications and
the transportation of men and materials to the af
fected zone.
In any emergency such as actual or imminent
invasion by hostile elements, there is the probability
that martial law would supplant any local authority
without reference to its political nomenclature.
Approximately one hundred and thirty thousand
Uaskans will be affected by the ultimate disposition
jf HR 331. Ninety-six men, many of whom have never
set foot in Alaska, will shortly be called upon tc
letermine if this territory shall be admitted to state
hood.
We earnestly hope that the deliberations of these
Senators will not be influenced by the alarmist pro
raganda now circulating freely in Washington.
We hope that reason will prevail and that the
ssues will be resolved on their respective merits, fret
>f any bias resulting from the present pressure of
hreatened war.
Like Senator Butler, we beleive that statehood
now would be ruinous.
CASUALTY LISTS
America's first casualty list from the Korean front
:ontained 11 names, and inevitably it was a depressing
hing. Even though these men died for the right, for
iustice, for freedom, it was saddening to think they
iad to die at all.
And yet, amazingly, simple carelessness on Am
erica’s highways killed as many men as this in 2’s
hours over the Fouj'th of July weekend. Roughly every
3 minutes another person died in an automobile
rccident during the four-day period.
Pessimistically the Natonal Safety Council had
predicted 385 persons would die in such accidents
unless more-than-usual caution was exerted. The
pessimism wasn't dark enough. Four hundred and
ninety-one were needlessly killed.
We, as a nation, deplore the casualty list from
Korea and try desperately to avoid any more such
lists. We, as a nation, ignore the casualty list from
the holiday and go on by carelessness to insure that
there will be even bigger lists in the future. Some
how the two attitudes don’t seem to fit together.
The Washington
Merry-Go-Round
(Continued from Page One)
Why We’re Losing
Meanwhile, here are some of the
blunt, cold facts about the Korean
fighting:
1. The nucleus of the Korean
army is Korean veterans trained
by the Japanese. After fighting as
part of the Japanese Army for four
years, they were taken over by the
Russians following V-J Day. Since
then, they have been baptized by
fire in Chinese fighting, and are
now armed to the teeth with Rus
sian equipment.
2. American troops not only are
outnumbered but relatively green,
While many of the officers and
noncoms have seen combat service,
most of the men in the ranks are
young and, because of quick per
sonnel turnovers, not always well
trained. Japan has been considered
one of the easy Army berths,
where living was cheap, servants |
numerous, and duties not arduous.
For instance, the commander of
the First Cavalry Division, Maj.
Gen. Hobart Gay, a fine officer,
suffered a heart attack some time
ago, and, not wanting to retire at
the age of 56, Japan was picked
for him as a soft berth. The First
Cavalry Division, now armored, is
supposed to be one of the crack
combat outfits of ine Regular Army.
Yet its comr .under cannot rss i
physical.
3. For reasons that the Army
cannot adequately explain, our
tanks are no match for the 60-ton
Russian monsters with 12-inch ar
mor. Our tanks were inferior to
German tanks in the recent war,
and they are still inferior to enemy
tanks. Not only were Russian tanks
better than ours during the war.
but the Russians began improving
their tanks af!er the war, while
our biggest tank, the Patton, is
only just arriving in Korea now.
Russian Sub Sighted
4 There is no question but that
Russia is directing the Korean war.
However, no Russians have actual
ly been killed captured. There have
been a dozen reports, chiefly from
South Koreans, of Russian officers
seen at the front, and the Navy
officially reported sighting -one
Russian submarine, which carefully
stayed out of the range of Amer
ican guns.
5. Nothing is being said about
it publicly, but the grim Korean
setbacks have raised doubts in the
Pentagon Building as to whether
General MacArthur has the force
and vigor necessary for the Korean
campaign. Now 71 years old. Mac
Arthur has been absorbed with
political problems. While no one
blames MacArthur for the difficulty
of getting supplies to Korea, there
is some resentment at his glowing
promise to President Truman the
night before the Korean decision
was made, that he would “guaran
i
tee” success whether Russia came
in or not.
Will Moscow Move?
Most worrisome development in
the whole Korean defeat is the
effect It is bound to have on other
prospective Red moves—in Ger
many, Yugoslavia, Iran, Indo
china and Formosa.
There are Communist troop con
centrations in all these areas. If
the Korean war had ended in a
reasonably quick Americn victory,
the effect on other Russian moves
would have been extremely damp
ening. Nowr the opposite is bound!
to happen.
With American troops bogged
down in Korea, Moscow is sure to
be tempted to move in other areas.
That is why backstage criticism of
the military—including Secretary
Johnson. General MacArthur, our
lack of tank-planning, et al—is
getting so vigorous.
The Other Wisconsin Senator
Cut off by an angry snort from
President Truman, Wisconsin's
windy, likable Senator Wiley sput
tered and shut up the other day
at a private White House confer
ence on the point four program.
Wiley started out his usual jovial
self, apparently not understanding
too much about the point foui
program, which is to aid under
developed areas. Anxious to con
tribute his two cents worth, how
ever, he blandly boomed:
"I hope you are not going to
have this program administered by
lust another governmqnt bureau
1 hope you are going to call in
ome |>eople from the outside, some
practical people who know some
thing.”
"I understand that you don't
hink anybody in the government
| knows anything,” the President
broke in coldly.
"Why, no, that is, I didn't mean
. .” sputtered the senator from
| Wisconsin.
' That in the only inference I can
take from your remark,” snapped
Truman.
Wiley said no more.
War Flashes
Secretary of Agriculture Brannan
is considering a plan to store up
surplus American grain in England
now', as a protection against Sov
iet snorkel submarines in case the
war spreads to Europe . . . Despite
the intensity of the Korean battle
Russia has a 230-man mission at
tached directly to General Mac
Arthur's headquarters in Tokyo . . .
The British shipped steel, machine
tools, and electrical equipment to
North Korea right up to invasion
day; and are still sending them
to Communist China. In other
words, British steel is now being
used against American G.I.’s . . .
Intelligence reports pouring into
the State Department show con
crete evidence of Russian activity
near Turkey, Trieste, Iran and
Iraq, as well as a secret agreement
between Albania and Bulgaria to
start new trouble in Greece. Hot
test spot of all is Yugoslavia.
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THESE DAYS
--BY
GEORGE E. SOKCLSKY
GROPING FOR FRIENDSHIP
*' I’he United States Itas never beer
an aggressor. If anything, this
country’s weakness has been what
the Freudians call an inferiority
complex. We always have looked
elsewhere for greater wisdom
greater knowledge, greater perfec
tions. Some years ago, it was
fashionable, in certain circles, tc
accept the Swedish modifications
of capitalism as so wonderful as to
be worthy of our imitation. Yet,
one had to ask: What has Sweden
got that we do not have?
So. after the last war, our in
tellectuals became active to re
stimulate the culture of the dying
nations of Europe. It was Amer
ican enthusiasm and financing that
produced UNESCO as a world-wide
revival of the varying cultures of
man that had suffered devasta
tion of war. A UNESCO descrip
tion of culture appears in an in
teresting study of the entire sub
ject issued by the Carnegie En
dowment for International Peace:
"Into the making of a culture
go many factors—climate, natural
resources, language, tradition, edu
cation, commerce, government, etc.
Geographical barriers may help one
people to develop in peace through
long periods of time; an exposed
geographic position may tend to
make a people warlike, either Hi
their own defense or in conquest
fj&mm
JULY 18
Mrs. K. K. Kyler
Dixie L. Tandy
Billie Pegues
George Sundborg, Jr.
Duncan Robertson
Mrs. Margaret Kljaich
Mrs. Olaf Peterson
Clara Walther
of their neighbors. Possession of:
metal and sources of power may
lead one people to industry, while
fertile soil leads another to agricul-i
ture, and good harbors on the sea j
may lead a third to commerce . . j
Then they say something that
is more in the nature of the total
itarians:
“. . . Good government and great
leaders may provide one people
with a heritage of order and just
ice, while tyrants and a different
tradition in government lead an
other to'internal antagonisms and
political instability. Men of genius
find varying forms of expression,
and fulfill their genius variously
in different periods and among dif
ferent cultural contexts.”
We do not, in this country, worry
too much about men of genius.
They come and go. In fact, very j
few who function in government!
fail to believe that each is at least j
a great leader and probably a
genius. Few men who have sat
,in the White House have ever
assumed that truly it is the whole j
people and not the individual in j
office that accomplishes all the j
wonders that we behold. The |
“great man” theory of life which j
gave us such bad dictators V
Hitler and Mussolini, has also given
us Stalin, who is worshipped in his
own country and its satellites as
the greatest genius that ever lived.
The other day, I visited Associa
tion Island in Lake Ontario to at
tend a camp of General Electric
executives and what impressed me
most was the total absence of the
“great man” theory. Charles E.
Wilson, the president of General
Electric, was there, but so were
about 300 others. And there was I
no rank of any kind. I could not !
help recalling how I have seen,
in other countries, men rise when
the top man entered a dining hall;
how they practically stood at at
tention; how uiey bowed deferen- ;
tially as they approached the gen
ius. Americans take c d that in
their stride. The top man is just
another specialized worker.
I contrasted that with an ex
perience I once had in Communist
circles. I was debating Earl Brctw
der and we were in the ante-room
waiting to go on the stage to do
our stuff. Browder stood alone,
aloof from the ordinary people who
milled about in the ante-room.
When one of his own people ap
proached him, it was with a defer
ence due to superiority. He, as one
of the Communist heads of the
world, was not to be spoken to as
though he were just one of the
plain people.
Of course, a few years later, they
kicked him out of the Communist
party and each little flea had to
take a bite out of him to prove
that they hated him even more
than they loved Stalin. Those
were orders.
A free people never worries
about its great men; it concerns
itself with the standard of life,
the spiritual and intellectual level,
the accessibility to opportunity of
the whole people. As long as these
are high, the nation possesses re
sources of strength beyond any
thing that a few great men can
produce.
Lower that level and the nation
degenerates into a mass, a mean
ingless, faceless, characterless mob
whose productivity is the product
not of initiative but of fear. This
we need to remember most in our
present bad times.
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L Upon
6. Persian ruler
9. Edible tuber
12. Kind of rubber
13. Central Dart
14. Equality
15. Arabian
chieftain
16. Decoration
IS. Dam in the
Panama
Canal
20. ltaves
1 21. Frying Dan
23. Siamese coin
24. Genus of the
clothes moth
25. Summer pests
29. Guido’s highest
note
30. Annex
31. Eternity
32. Receive eladlj
35. Frolic
37. Lone narrow
Inlet
88. Excite to
action
39. Purloin
42. Bootv
43. Property
45. Ratify
48. Ventilate
49. English river
50. Edee of a roof
61. Plaything
62. Shin channels
53. Difficulty
DOWN
1. Monkey
2. Head covering
Solution of Yesterday’s Puzzle
3. First-hand
4. Formal
procession
6. Polish
6. Projection
from an
animal's
head
Alder tree:
Scotch
8. lied suit at
cards
9. Accessible
10. Hypocritical
talk
II Wiles
17. Companion
19. Beveratre
21. Cook slowly
22. Heap
23. Also
25 Small fish
20. Azure
27 Pedal dlerlts
28. Large knife
30. Ancient wine
receptacle
33. Stuff
24. Luhrlcatlnr
35. Sim of a full
house
30 Balances
38. Parts of
churches
39. Low palter
4ft Set of three
41. Weird
42. Dispatched
44. Ocean
4C FTi.rnmtnrblrd
47. SMe of a
triangle
20 YEARS AGO tiTe empire
JULY 18. 1930
Faced with the shortest salmon pack and lightest run of fish in
its history, Bristol Bay was closed to all commercial fishing for salmon
for the rest of the year.
Former Territorial Senator Frank A. Aldrich, who had arrived on
the southbound trip of the Admiral Watspn, entered St. Ann's Hospital.
D. E. Sheriff, wellknown throughout the Territory as a piano tuner,
came here on the Queen with Mrs. Sheriff and their daughter, Janet,
and son, James. The family was staying at the Gastineau.
Women of Mooseheart Legion elected an auditing committee at the
regular meeting, naming Mrs. Baldwin, Mrs. Heller and Mrs. Moe. Honors
at the card party after the meeting went to Mrs. Hendrickson, Mrs.
Kasalica and Mrs. Berry. Hostesses for the refreshment hour were Mrs.
Olson. Mrs. Pastl and Mrs. Neilson.
Among passengers boarding the Admiral Watson for Seattle and
way ports were Tom Hall, E. S. Hungerford for Petersburg; Mr. and
Mrs. R. H. Stock, H. O. Johnson for Ketchikan, and J. M. Hardy and
Sam Shucklin for Seattle.
Mrs. F. E. Kukkola advertised for information leading to the recovery
of her gasboat T-61, which had been lost or stolen.
Weather: High, 54; low, 50; cloudy.
Daily Lessons in English & L. Gordon \
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WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “The sun sank down be
hind the hills.” DOWN is superfluous, as SINK means to go down. Say,
'The sun sank behind the hills.”
OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Occult. Pronounce o-kult, O as in
OF unstressed, U as in UP, accent on second syllable prelerred.
OFTEN MISSPELLED: Signet <a seal). Cygnet (a young swan).
SYNONYMS: Strange, singular, queer, quaint, odd, peculiar.
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:
INDETERMINATE; not settled or fixed; indefinite. (Accent follows the
Ri. "He was given an indeterminate sentence, depending upon good
behavior.”
i MODERN ETIQUETTE ROBERTA LEE j
Q. Was there ever a time when it was considered proper .to eat with
a knife?
A. The table knife became popular after the 17th century. During
the period of transition from fingers to forks, knives were properly used
for eating as well as for cutting.
Q. Is it really correct to say “man and wife” when husband and
wife” is meant?
A. The use of “man" in the sense of “husband” has the sanction
of time, dating back to about 1300.
Q. What would be an appropriate kind of affair for introducing a
new daughter-in-law?
A. An afternoon tea, a reception, or a card party.
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| LOOK and LEARN A. C. GORDON j
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1. What country, because of its soil fertility and its almost in
exhaustible mineral and other natural resources, is known as the ‘Store
house of the world”?
2. Can you complete the famous quotation: "The world will beat a
path to the door of the man who .”?
3. What radio personality was recently voted the most outstanding
of the past 25 years?
4. What is the title of a baronet's wife?
5. What is the literal meaning of “ersatz”?
ANSWERS:
1. Mexico.
2. “Builds a better mousetrap than his neighbor.”
3. Jadk Benny.
4. Lady.
5. Substitute.
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also on the Pacific Coast, at 4:3C
am.. 120th Meridian Time, and
released by the Weather Bureau
are as follows:
Anchorage 61—Partly Cloudy
Annette 54—Cloudy
Barrow . 39—Partly Cloudy
Bethel 47—Drizzle
Cordova . 49—Rain
Dawson . 54—Ram
Edmonton . 54—Clear
Fairbanks . 47—FX>g
Haines . 50—Drizzle
Juneau Airport 48—Rain
Kodiak . 51—Cloudy
Kotzebue . 62—Cloudy
McGrath. 52—Cloudy
Nome . 54—Rain
Northway 51—Rair
Petersburg . 52—Rair
Portland . 55—Clear
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Yakutat . 49—Clear
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