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Monday, September 17, 1951
DEMOCRACY OR DICTATORSHIP?
More and more, Alaska Democrats are wondering
whether it is worth the effort and expense to maintain
their party's political organization in the Territory.
Time and again, the party organization is bypassed
in the selection of candidates for appointive offices.
Committee endorsement of such candidates is rarely
requested and frequently disregarded.
The political party is essentially an instrument
of the people and follows a pattern of organization
established in the nation’s infancy as a safeguard to
the processes of democracy. Through the party, the
reins of government are kept where they belong—in
the hands of the people.
The party organization exists in every political
subdivision of government as the direct representa
tive of the rank and file members. Here in Alaska,
each voting precinct meets in caucus to elect the
members of the precinct committee and choose its
delegates to the Divisional convention. At the Divi
sional convention, the same procedure Is followed; a
divisional committee is elected, as are delegates to
the Territorial Convention. In turn, the Territorial
Convention elects the Territorial Central Committee
and a National Committeeman aod Committeewoman
In addition to delegates to the party’s National Con
vention. Thus, it is seen, the will of the people is
expressed at all levels through their duly elected
party representatives.
The functions of the party are well defined and
simple in their opeiation. It ascertains, by ballot,
the wishes of its members and then sets about to
establish a program, or platform, designed to carry
out thqse wisher- From its membership are nominated
candidates frr public office who are pledged to sup
port that platform if elected. Once the nominations
upon, the party coordinates the efforts of
all its members to assist in the election of its candi
dates.
In addition, the party, through its committees,
screens' applicants for appointive positions and en
dorses those acceptable to the members. The posi
tion to be filled determines the appropriate com
mittee. For example, an applicant for a postmaster
ship should present his qualifications to the precinct
committee for endorsement. Should that body ap
prove, the committee chairman forwards the en
dorsement to the divisional committee for its endorse
ment, which is in turn forwarded to the appointing
authority.
In the case of a divisional position, such as
marshal, deputy, Judge, etc., the applicant should
have the approval of the divisional committee.
Territorial positions—Governor, Secretary of Al
aska and so on call for the endorsement of the
divisional committees, the Territorial Central Com
mittee and the National Committeeman and National
Committeewoman.
This outline of party procedure is necessarily
brief. Several pages are given to the subject in party
by-laws.
By routing applications through these channels,
the people of the Territory are able to control the
appointments of these important posts. When these
channels are bypassed and appointments are made
without the approval of the people, dictatorship re
places democracy.
Alaska’s Democrats are learning that committee
endorsements are seldom requested, except occasion
ally in the case of postmasters jobs and. some Terri
torial board appointments. And when endorsements
are provided applicants for political positions—to the
few applicants who go through the approved organi
zation channels—they are frequently ignored.
Passing up endorsements to fill minor positions
might be excused. Immediate need for someone to fill
a position or the fact that an applicant is one who
would undoubtedly have party approval might war
rant omission of proper procedure.
But we doubt that there was any attempt on
the part of the Governor to go through party chan
nels, either in asking for the dismissal of Lew Wil
liams as Secretary of Alaska or in securing^the ap
pointment of Joseph Kehoe as his successor.
Even the Delegate to Congress said that he knew
nothing about Williams’ removal.
Does this mean that the Governor and the De
partment of the Interior are accomplishing their
purges without the knowledge and consent of the
Delegate to Congcess from Alaska?
The Secretary of the Interior, Oscar Chapman,
is credited with having won the west for President
Truman; with having been the guiding genius of his
campaign tour through the western states. If this is
the case, he should have some respect for political
parties—and, of course, the Democratic party in par
ticular. And he should realise timi his success de
pended in large measure on the cooperation of the
Democratic party organization.
This has nothing to do with Williams’ dismissal
or Kehoe's appointment. It is too late to save Wil
liams’ job and Kehoe has already been relieved of
his second division judgeship.
Our purpose is to call attention to the fact that
the Democratic party and its organization in Alaska
has no standing with our present administration.
The Governor, a professed Democrat and a Demo
cratic appointee, has demonstrated his contempt for
his party by repeated purges of Democrats and, in
some cases, appointments of Republicans to important
positions.
Only the names are different. In Missouri it was
Prendergast, in Jersey it’s Hague, in Tennnessee it’s
Crump — and in Alaska it s Gruening
Alaska's government is a one man proposition
one man, aided and abetted by the Department of the
Interior. _
The Washington
Merry-Go-Round
(Continued from Page One)
poikadotted with loopholes ,to ben
efit special, private interests all
the way from mine owners to oy
ster-shell dealers.
What: the Senate Finance Com
mitee has done is trim one and a
half billions off the House tax bill,
in such a way that 90 per cent of
this tax saving goes to the rich
who can afford to pay more. Only
a paltry $200 million will be cut
off the tax bill of the small-income
people who earn less than $5,000
per year'
For example, the House approved
a 12'. per cent boost in individual
income taxes. The Senate Com
mittee cut this to 11 per cent, thpn
threw in a clause for the special
benefit of some of their own group.
This clause would limit the in
crease to 8 per cent of all income
remaining after taxes paid under
the present law. The way this
works out, it would benefit single
people making more than $27,000
a year, or married couples making
over $54,000 a year. The loss to the
treasury is estimated at half a
billion dollars annually and the
low-bracket taxpayer gets no bene
fit.
The Senate Committee also re
duced taxes on corporations, which
are now earning at the rate of $50
billion per year—the largest prof
its in history. Most of these pro
fits are coming from the Korean
war boom, yet the Finance Com
mittee whittled down the excess
profits tax to the tune of an es
timated $750 million.
In just one stroke, the Senators
saved the big corporations another
approximately half a billion dol
lars. The House had adopted the
normal procedure and had voted
corporate taxe increases to take
effect as of Jan. 1, 1951. However,
the Senate changed this tax date
to April 1, 1951.
Children Count as Partners
Though the House had already
added a few loopholes to the tax
frill, the Senate Finance Commit
tee adopted all the House loopholes
and added several more of its own.
Here are some of the most glaring
loopholes, designed to save taxes
to the wealthy but add to the tax
burden of the poor:
I. Individual incomes are tax
able up to 90 per cent. However;
capital gains are taxable up to only
25 per cent. The House voted, and
the Senators approved, a loophole.
by which coal royalties would be
capital gains. This is a tax bon
anza for the coal-mine owner,
putting him in a special category
from other businessmen such as
the apartment-house owner, for in
stance, who cannot charge up
rents as a capital gain.
2. A farmer or workingman can
now reduce his taxes by splitting
his income with his wKe. However,
the House voted to allow business
men the special privilege of split
ting their income with their en
tire families, under certain condi
tions. Thus, in some cases a bus
inessman could count his children,
including newborn babies, as full
fledged business partners and thus
reduce his tax load. The Senators
not only accepted this loophole,
but made it retroactive all the
way back to 1939. This means a
saving of several hundred million
dollars to businessmen, which will
have to be made up by other tax
payers.
3. Oil and gas owners now have
| a special loophole, which enables
I them to deduct 27 >4 per cent of
their investment each year. This
would be the same as a 2714 per
cent reduction from a wage earn
! er’s gross salary—only the wage
earner isn't allowed it.
After four years, the oilmen's
entire investment has been deduc
ted, yet under the new bill they
can continue taking 2714 per cent
additional deductions each year.
Instead of closing this gaping
loophole, the Senators allowed sim
ilar but lesser deductions for sev
eral other industries — sand and
gravel, clay, tile, asbestos, salt,
oyster shells, clam shells and many
others.
Beef-Cattle Bonanza
4. In addition to the benefits for
coal-mine owners, another special
tax loophole was voted by the House
for the mining industry generally.
This permits full tax deductions for
the development of new mines. The
Senators not only accepted this but
added on a $75,000 tax deduction
for exploration cost.
5. The House permitted live-stock
breeders to count their income as
capital gains. The Senators accepted
this and added turkey breeders to
hoot, since one turkey-breeding sen
ator is a member of the committee.
This new capital-gains bonanza on
cattle is why dairy farmers are
going out of the milk business in
favor of raising blue-ribbon show
herds which they can sell at a huge
capital-gains profit.
The five millionaire Senators who
drafted- this rich man's tax bill be
hind closed doors are Bob Kerr of
Oklahoma and Harry Byrd of Vir
ginia, Democrats; Gene Millikin of
Colorado, Bob Taft of Ohio, and Ed
Martin of Pennsylvania, Republi
cans. Also on the committee, and
men of large incomes are: Clyde
Hoey of North Carolina, Allen Frear
of Delaware, Democrats; Hugh But
ler of Nebraska, cattle raiser; Owen
Brewster of Maine, and John Wil
liams of Delaware, a turkey raiser;
Republicans. Two other members of
the committee are well off but not
wealthy—Walter George of Georgia,
chairman, and Ed Johnson of Colo
rado, both Democrats.
Texas’ Tom Connally, also a mem
ber of the committee, is wealthy,
but has a long record for voting in
favor of the small taxpayer. Aside
from Connally, the small taxpayer
is not represented on the commit
tee.
However, Senator Humphrey of
Minnesota, Democrat, will lead the
fight on the Senate floor to close
the tax loopholes. He will be back
stopped by a group of Democratic
Senators including millionaires Len
man of New York, Benton of Con
necticut, and Green of Rhode Is
land.
M|HAPPV UPhP^II
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• September 17
•
• Joe Belloto
• Noreen Patricia Andrews
• Steve Vukovich
• Mrs. Lillian Uggen
• Louis Sorensen
• Dorothy Gair
• Lillian Collins
• Mrs. E. O. Davis
• George Fleek
Weather at
Alaska Points
Weather conditions and tempera
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
j follows:
Anchorage . 48—Rain
Annette Island . 55—Drizzle
Barrow . 29—Snow Showers
Bethel . 44—Rain
Cordova . 54—Rain
Dawson . 48—Cloudy
Edmonton . 44—dlear
Fairbanks . 49—Rain
Haines . 58—Partly Cloudy
Havre . Missing
Juneau Airport . 58—Cloudy
Kodiak . 51—Rain and Fog
Kotzebue . 31—Cloudy
McGrath . 43—Partly Cloudy
Nome . 43—Cloudy
Northway . 42—Cloudy
Petersburg .'.. 57—Clloudy
Portland .:. 59—Fog
Prince George ... 52—Ground Fog
Seattle . 52—Smoke
Sitka . 55—Drizzle
Whitehorse . 59—Partly Cloudy
Yakutat . 54—Rain
Rainbow Girls, at
Saturday Meeting,
Renew Obligations
Last Saturday evening members
of the Order of Rainbow for Girls
met at the Scottish Rite Temple,
and renewed their obligation to
the Order.
During the meeting Elizabeth
Wyller was installed as Sister of
Hope, Healther Hollman as Pat
riotism, and Joan Patton as Outer
Observer.
Everyone enjoyed the excellent
reports, of the Grand Assembly
Session held in Spokane, Wash,
last June, which were given by
j Virginia Nielsen, Grand Delegate,
and Joan Williamson, Grand Choir
member. Mrs. Ralph Martin, the
Juneau Assembly’s first Mother
Advisor, also attended Grand As
sembly and remarked on the in
spiration derived from witnessing
a gathering of over 1600 young girls
and adults brought together through
the divine teachings of Rainbow
—not only in Spokane but all over
the world.
Refreshments were served fol
lowing the meeting.
MRS. BALLENTINE LEAVES
Mrs. Jean Ballentine and son
Burt left Monday on the Bar&nof
^ for Eureka, Calif. She is the
daughter of the Rev. and Mrs. Paul
Prouty. Mrs. Ballentine has been
employed by Behrends store.
Baseball Stars
By the Associated Press
Batting: A1 Dark, Giants—Collect
ed six hits, including an inside-the
park homer, and drove in three runs
as New York swept a doubleheadec
from Pittsburgh, 7-1 and 6-4.
Pitching: Allie Reynolds, Yankee*
—Spun a five-hitter and fanned
eight as the Yankees defeated Cleve
land, 5-1. It was his fifth victory
over the Indians.
THESE WOMEN | ( r* By <fAleaaio |
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“Before you could even DREAM I’d ever marry you, Gerald,
you’d have to distinguish yourself first—like getting a iob
at Schultz’s Ice Cream Nook, at least!”
20 YEARS AGO the empire j
SEPTEMBER X?, 1931
Gus Ellich, who was in St. Ann’s Hospital tor medical treatment,
left the institution yesterday afternoon for his home.
Edw.ird Mize, son of Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Mize, who graduated from
Juneau High School last spring, left on the steamer Alaska yesterday
and will enroll in the University of Washington in Seattle.
—
The Petersburg Chamber of Commerce has invited the Democrats of
the First Division to hold their proposed convention in that town in
\ November, according to a letter leceived by J. J. Connors, national com
mitteeman for Alaska.
Miss Velma Case, former Juneau girl, daughter of Mrs. May Case,
now residing in Seattle, and Mr. John T. Linley of Vienna, Austria,
were married in Seattle on August 20, according to announcements
received here by Mrs. Lindley's friends.
Having won seven out of 12 games this season, the Junior Elks
claim the junior baseball championship of the Channel. Opponents to
the team were the Junior Moose.
Mayor L. W. Kilburn, of Douglas, is busy making up for time lost
during the rainy weather with his painting contracts. He has painted
his own building on Third Street and is now painting the Shudshift
house.
Wedding bells rang for Andrew A. Rosness and Miss Beatrice F.
Jones September 15. They were married in the Resurrection Lutheran
Church at 7 o’clock by the Rev. Erlin K. Olafson. Witnesses at the
ceremony were Mr. and Mrs. Olaf Bodding.
Weather: High, 60; low, 36; fair.
Daily Lessons in English $.L. cordon I
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WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Either INSANITARY or UNSANI
TARY is correct. However, INSANITARY is perhaps more frequently
used.
OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Elixir. Pronounce e-lik-ser, first E
as in ME, I as in LICK, accent second syllable.
OFTEN MISSPELLED: Transfer; FER. Transferred and trans
ferring; FERR.
SYNONYMS: Add, increase, enlarge, amplify, augment, annex, ex
tend.
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:
CRITERION; a rule or test by which anything is tried in forming a
correct judgment respecting it. (Pronounce first syllable as CRY, E
as in ME, accsent second syllable). “We cannot accept his words as
a criterion of that man’s character.”
MODERN ETIQUETTE Roberta lee | ]
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Q. Are there any certain occasions when a man precedes the
woman he is accompanying?
A. Only when the way is uncertain or dangerous, such as when
pushing their way through a boisterous crowd. He also precedes her
when alighting from a vehicle, so that he can better assist her in alight
ing.
Q. Is it proper to eat the lettuce on which a salad is served?
A. It certainly is all right. The lettuce is as much a part of that
salad as any other of the ingredients.
Q. Is it good form to mail a wedding invitation to "Miss Shirley
Smith and Brother”?
A. Never. The correct procedure is to mail a separate invitation
to each of these persons.
| LOOK and LEARN 5lC. GORDON i|
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1. What is the greatest source of internal revenue collections in
the U. S.?
2. Of what is gunpowder made?
3. What state has been the birthplace of most U. S. Presidents?
4. Which is the softest of all precious stones?
5. What living creatures are used to detect gas in coal mines?
ANSWERS:
1. Income tax.
2. Saltpeter, sulphur and charcoal.
3. Virginia, with eight. Ohio is second with seven.
4. Emerald.
5. Canaries.
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5. Couch
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13. Mulberry tree
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15. Large city
18. Companys
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19. Light brown
color
20. Knowledge
21. Base pf the
decimal
system
22. Those people
24. Roman bronze
26. Hc.-.d
26. or ua
27. Coal receptacle
28. Wild animal
29. Pint; abbr.
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36. French cola
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BUTLER-MAURO
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Alaska Mnsic Supply
Arthur M. Uggen, Manager
Pianos—Musical Instruments
and Supplies
Phone 206 Second and Seward
Card Beverage Co.
Wholesale B05 10th Bt.
PHONE 216—DAY or NIGHT
for MIXERS or SODA POP
The Alaskan Hotel
Newly Renovated Rooms
at Reasonable Rates
PHONE SINGLE O
THOMAS HARDWARE
and FURNITURE CO.
PHONE 655
PAINTS-OILS
Danders’ and Shelf
HARDWARE
Remington Typewriters
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J. B. Bnrford Co.
“Onr Doorstep Is Worn by
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Juneau Motor Co.
Foot of Main Street
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DELICIOUS ICE CREAM
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Juneau Dairies, Inc.
HOME GROCERY
Phones 146 and 342
Home Liquor Store—TeL Mb
American Meat — Phone M
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To give you more freedom
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Alaska Lanndry
H. S. GRAVES
The Clothing Man
LEVI’S OVERALLS
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