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Friday, August 3, 1951
The Soviet Royal Family
(Seattle Post-Intelligencr)
Those artless and ill-advised souls who condone
the barbarous depotism of Soviet rule in Russia by
saying that the tyranny ol the czars was worse have
as much to learn as they have forgotten.
Continental news agencies that are friendly to
Communism report two items that are of interest an ,
this connection.
When Stalin’s daughter was married the affair
was reported as a lavishly sumptuous celebration
marked by the splendor that attends the nuptials of j
an Oriental potentate.
Tire recent display of Soviet air power in Moscow
was led b', a much-bemedaled general, whose only ac
complishment is to be Stalin’s son. r — j
Taken together, with the customary adulation
of Stalin, and we have what amounts to recognition
of a new dynasty succeeding -that of the Romanoffs.
The pro-Moscow European press, however, sajjs
nothing about the 7 million slaves in concentration
camps; the ill-fed, unshod, overworked millions living
in crowded filth; the mass murders, summary trials
and executions of those suspected of doubting that
life with Stalin is not the culmination ol human
happiness.
The truth is that, compared with the rule of the
Politburo, the regime of the czars was patrenally
benign.
In fact, the very existence of the Soviet dictator
ship is due to the comparative liberality of the czar
ist government, which permitted and at times even
encouraged a certain amount of agitation for reform.
No czar since Ivan the Terrible wielded power so
ruthlessly, so brutally and completely as Stalin.
Never were the mute, patient and desperate
masses of Russia so utterly and helplessly in the grip
of a savage tyranny.
Soviet Russia presents to the world a para
doxical and unprecedented phenomenon:
The revolution carried out in the name of lib
erty, property held in common by all, social and
material progress as an enterprise of the whole peo
ple, has been transformed into the exact opposite.
The dream of Communism has awakened to the
reality of autocracy.
Precisely like the czars, the new Soviet royal
family has its favorites, its privileged functionaries,
its arrogant overlords and its synical despoilers of
the people.
The huge estates of the grand dukes are no
more. 'In their place are the luxurious country homes
of government and police officials.
Pogroms are no longer carried out publicly, against
a single class or race of helpless people. They are
supplanted by secret mass arrests, torture and mur
der.
The parliamentarism of the czarist Duma, weak
but promising, is supersededd by the crass mockery
of the single-party ballot. •
The “dictatorship of the proletariat"^ is an abso
lute fiction. But the commands of the Politburo,
backed by brute force, are the harshest of realities.
Nothing has changed — in kind. But everything
has changed to a worse degree of oppression, poverty
and persecution.
Despotism has only one fact, but many names.
Its most terrible features in Russia today bear the
pseudonym of Stalin.
This is the deepest tragedy ever to befall the
Russian people.
It should be a great and invaluable lesson to the
American people, to be learned thoroughly so that our
free and healthy society may remain forever in
vulnerable to the deadly virus of Communism.
The Washington
Merry-Go-Round
(Continued from Page One)
were a conscientious and sincere
attorney general, also concerned
with the above problems. Perhaps
I have been prejudiced in your
favor by %the talk we had before
you ran for attorney general in
which, you sought my advice and
help.
Federal Oil Profits
I suppose I could answer your
letter in part by recalling your
criticism to me of your opponent
in the attorney general's race, Mr.
Pat Nejf, whose law firm, you
said, represented certain oil com
panies. You seemed to think, at
that time, that a man who had
represented or associated with big
oilmen was to be viewed with sus
picion and alarm. Now, apparent
ly, you do not.
Or I might answer your letter
by calling attention to the ex
tremely high rate of return which
the federal government recently
received from its mineral rights
under Barksdale . Field, La. You
argued in your letter to me that
the federal government leased oil
lands too cheaply, and that Texas
netted $7,000,000 from its tidelands
oil whereas the federal govern
ment would have ’leased the same
submerged oil lands for only $175,
000.
I should like to point out,
however, that the federal govern
ment is not obligated to lease
tidelands oil under the old min
eral lea ing act for 50 cents an
tfere, as witness the secretary of
the Interior, Mr. Oscar Chapman,
who leased Barksdale Field for
nearly $6,000,000 or about $3,000
an acre instead of 50 cents. When
you consider that Barksdale Field
consists of only 2,082 acres on
which there was a return of $0,
000,000, while Texas leased the
huge area of 350,000 acres for
$7,(,00,000, it looks to me as if the
federal hoys were pretty good
horse-traders.
L'nity Against Communism
The main point I would really
like to make in answering your
letter, however, is an appeal to
you that in the extremely danger
ous battle we are now waging
against Communism there are
times when we have got to put
the nation as a whole ahead of
the interests ol the 48 separate
states.
Perhaps the biggest problem the
founding fathers laced when they
set up our Republic was a fair
division of power between the
federal government and the indi
vidual states. They also faced the
problem of clashing interest be
tween city and farm, north and
south, the seacoast and the west,
and in order to arbitrate those
differences between the individ
ual states and Washington they
set up the Supreme Court.
This system has worked far
better than the founding fathers
ever dreamed. And il you don’t
think it has worked well, travel
through Europe, with its narrow
boundaries, conflicting interests
and constant wars, and then re
member that we would be in the
same chopped-up, feuding predi
cament if we hadn’t had u strong
lederal government and a highly
respected Supreme Court to bind
us together.
This system having worked as
well as it has, I am of the strong
personal opinion that today is no
time to start pulling it to pieces.
For when you overrule the Su
preme Court, as your tidelands oil
bill proposes to do, then you chop
one of the first holes in the dike.
Texan Started Texas’ Trouble
1 he Supreme Court has ruled
quite clearly on tidelands oil. and
the Supreme Court is s». long way
from being radical, socialistic, or
even liberal. On it, incidentally,
sits a distinguished Texan, Jus
tice Tom Clark, who as attorney
general of the United States star
ted the legal action which you as
attorney general ol Texas now
complain about.
It is a fairly easy matter, of
course, to get Congress to reverse
the Supreme Court these days.
But is it wise? Congress today is
especially subject to personal pres
sures, big campaign contributions
and the biennial problem of get
ting re-elected. Also it is leader
less—except for the doubtful lead
ership of certain powerful lobbies.
I disagree with you vigorously
when you state that the oil com
panies are not interested in whe
ther the states or the federal gov
ernment lease tidelands oil. This
is true of some companies, but by
no means all. Some of your own
oilmen have sent thousands of
dollars of big campaign donations
into the districts of certain Con
gressmen, even as far away as
Maryland, to help elect those who
will vote for them on tidelands
oil.
Furthermore, much of this lobby
is carefully and dangerously con
cealed. Why do you suppose that
Edward A. Ruinely, who served a
jail term for being the agent of
the Kaiser in World War I, was
Willing to risk a second jail term
by refusing to disclose the contri
butors to his lobby?
The answer is simple: because
Rumely had collected thousands
of dollars from some of your
iii A’nc'js—w^th the , understanding
that their names were not to be
disclosed- That was how he paid
lor the tons of literature which
supported your position on tide
lands oil.
Unquestionably the Supreme
Court in ruling against you, had
in mind the fact that all the 48
states face a more serious danger
than at any time in our history,
and that the entire seaeoast of
the United States and the miner
al rights below the water of that
seaeoast must be in the hands,
not of one state, but of the au
| thorlty which also commands the
army and navy.
I do not believe it is fair to
the Supreme Court to call it So
cialistic for ruling that way. Nor
it is wise to exert lobbying pres
sure on a leaderless and disinte
grating Congress to obtain a re
versal of the court.
These are days when we need,
above all things, to stick together
—not get into a mud-slinging con
test over one of our greatest bul
warks for unity and defense
against Communism. I had hoped,
following my conference with you
some time ago, that a man of
your sincereity would have given
it your support.
Yours truly.
Drew Pearson
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Weather conditions and temper
atures at various Alaska points
also on the Pacific Coast, at 4:30
a.m., 120th Meridian Time, and
released by the Weather Bureau
are as follows:
Anchorage .,. 52—Cloudy
Annette Island . 56—Cloudy
Barrow . 40—Cloudy
Bethel . 50—Drizzle
Ccfdova . 44—Partly Cloudy
Dawson . 53—Partly Cloudy
Ec'monton . 59—Partly Cloudy
! Fairbanks . 55—Rain
I Haines . 52—Cloudy
I Havre . 63—Partly Cloudy
i Juneau Airport . 46—Cloudy
j Kodiak . 51—Cloudy
Kotzebue . 48—Partly Cloudy
I McGrath . 58—Rain
Nome . 38—Partly Cloudy
Northway . 48—Partly Cloudy
Petersburg . 49—Fog
Portland . 54—Cloudy
Prince George 48—Partly Cloudy
Seattle .. 54—Fog
Sitka .... 51—Cloudy
Whitehorse . . 44—Partly Cloudy
Yakutat 51—Cloudy
MERIT EXAMS WILL
BE GIVEN SATURDAY
Fourteen will take Alaska Merit
System examinations tomorrow
in the Juneau High School, Dr. I.
J. Montgomery, director, announ
ced today.
Tests will be given for field au
ditor, junior accountant, senior
accountant, accounting clerk, and
property and supply clerk. Exam
inations are being given in An ■
chorage and Fairbanks.
AUGUST 3
Jewell J. Hill
Mrs. Jack Warner
Mrs. Steve Stanworth
Marlon Rhodes
Etolin T. MacAden
Robert Howell
Karen Boggan
E. L. Bost
Mrs. Marian Hedges
Stephen Sundborg
Thomas Jay Bratner
196 Fly on PAA
Thursday: 30
Arrivals
Pan American World Airways
I carried 106 passengers Thursday
with 3D arrivals, 34 departures
and 33 through to Seattle from
I the Westward.
| From Seattle: A. Armstrong, W.
[ Bernhart, Carl Brown, G. Cabris
tante, Mrs. Oliver Colby, Ruth
Colburn, Ted Daddco, Mariano
Giness, Richard Goodwin, M. Hall
and two children; C. H. Johnson,
C. A. Pangborn, Phillip Peralta,
George Rigsby, Mrs. John Rogoski,
Virginia Shattuck, Fred Vonsild,
Laura Witton.
To Seattle: Kelton Butler, P.
Evans, O. C. Knudson, Mary San
dell, Thomas Lambert, M. Haik
kepan. Mrs. Knickerbacker, Hazel
Sievers, W. Exelby, O. Christen
son, Mildred Hermann, .James
Gage, Mrs. Pettinger, Nancy and
Ann Furness, S. Gray, Catherine
Knox, R. Hunt, A. Frivold, Capt.
Perry, Elmo Bjorge, Torleif Wika,
Felix Heinert, James Woods.
' To Ketchikan: Herman Ludwig -
son, P. Venees, Andrew Sutton,
Roy and Dixie Shaw, Jack Chan
strom, C. Castel, Sam Baker, Joe
Stickman, Frank Haldane, M. Ar
nevick.
From Fairbanks: Frank Hald
ane, W. H. Barton, A. Callin, C.
Sherman, Joe Attutuguk, Mr. and
Mrs. Harry Crawford, Mary Whit
aker, Joe Stickman, Henry Er
vasti, C. Castel, D. Charles, Verna
and Louis Johnson, Duane Jensen
and son; Sam Baker, Mr. and
[ Mrs. H. L. Luckenback.
Communication
Juneau, ; Alaska,
July 30th, 1951.
Editor, The Empire,
Juneau, Alaska.
Dear Sir:
Just a note of appreciative
thanks from the Fourth of July
Celebration Committee for your
part in helping put the 1951 cel
ebration across.
•If this seems a little late just
blame it on time out for the chair
man to do a little recuperating.
Again thanks.
Yours very truly,
, O. R. Cleveland, Chairman
4th of July Central Comm.
Klwanis Treasury
Surfers-Members' Aces
Gelling io Be Habit
KICNTON, Aug. 3—Iff I—Figure
the odds on this one:
For four years the Kenton Ki
wanis Club's annual hole-in-one
contest went without a singl-e
dodo. This year there were five
in four days on the 110-yard hole.
And each of the shots that con
nected made a deeper hole in the
club’s pocketbook. The aces are
wortli a $100 defense bond apiece.
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20 YEARS AGO ?"E empire 1
AUGUST 3, 1931
1 Alaska’s red salmon pack will probably aggregate 1,750,000 cases, ac
; cording to partially completed pack reports received from various dis
tricts by the United States Bureau of Fisheries. With several districts
not included, the red pack up to August 1, was 1,300,000 cases.
Elmer H. Roberts and family, who have been residents of Douglas
for the past year and a half, have moved to Juneau.
! F. A. J. Gallwas of Douglas and son Harold, are on a trip to Sitka,
having left last week on his boat Mary Ann.
Contracts will be awarded and construction started during the
present season on a $20,000 school house for Hoonah, It was announced
by the Office of Indian Affairs today.
Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Snyder returned here last week after spending
the winter in the States. Snyder reported that times were bad in the
States and from now on he and his family would make their home in
Alaska.
Gene Owens, popularly known as the "Mayor of Sum Dum," pioneer
mining man of that district, arrived in Juneau today on a business and
pleasure trip.
Miss Bessie Yurman entertained at bridge and dancing Saturday
evening at the Zynda Hotel. Four tables of cards were in play after
which luncheon was served and then dancing enjoyed.
Weather^ High, Gl; low, 47; fair.
Daily Lessons in English w. l. Gordon I
WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “We found the dog inside
I of the house.” Omit bE. , ' •
OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Opine. Proonounce o-pin, O as in
OBEY, I as in PINE, acccent second syllable.
OFTEN MISSPELLED: Prophet (one who foretells events). Profit
I (gain).
( SYNONYMS: Monotonous, tedious, tiresome, dull, humdrum, un
varied.
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:
HUSBAND (verb); to direct and manage with frugality. “He husbanded
his resources to the very best of his ability.”
MODERN ETIQUETTE Roberta LEE
Q. My husband, who is a physician, has on occasion been mis- ^
takcnly introduced as Mr. Johnson. Would it be proper for him to
correct this error or to ignore it?
A He m&y ignore it. once, find correct it a second time.
Q. At a public dinner, where the speaker’s table is long and nar
row, should the chairman or toastmaster sit at the end of the table?
A. No: he should sit in the cehter, at the side—the mo6t important
speaker of the affair at his right.
Q. When introducing two men, would it be proper to say, “Mr.
Baker, this is my friend, Mr. Harris”?
A. This would be rathct tactless, as it implies that Mr. Baker is
not your friend.
LOOK and LEARN a. c. GORDON
1. Which is the most ductile of all metals, that is, capable of being
drawn out into the longest wire?
2. Was William Tell a real person or a lengendary hero of Switz
erland?
3. For what manufacture is Birmingham, Alabama, noted?
1 4. What ancient Roman province is roughly equivalent to modem
Rumania?
5. What is a "slip-stick”
ANSWERS:
1. Gold.
2. A real person, a Swiss patriot who lived in the 14th century.
3. Iron and steel.
»
4. Dacia.
5. A slide rule.
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United Statfcs District Court for the
Territory of Alaska
Division Number One at Juneau
Civil Action No. 6493.
MERNICE MURPHY, Plaintiff,
Vs.
PASTORINO ROCCO, also known
as PASTORINA ROCCO, and as
PASTOTINA ROCCO; the un
known wife of PASTORINO
ROCCO; VICTOR WILHELM,
also known as VICTOR H. WIL
HELM and as V. H. WILHELM;
the unknown wife of VICTOR
WILHELM; BONNIE WILHELM,
also known as BONNIE E. WIL
HELM; the unknown husband
of BONNIE WILHELM; also
each and every unknown heir of
each of such above named de
fendants as is now deceased; and
also all other persons or parties
unknown claiming any right, title,
estate, lien or interest in the real
estate described in the complaint
herein, Defendants.
SIMMONS FOR PUBLICATION
THE PRESIDONT OP THE UNI
TED STATES OF AMERICA, to the
above named defendants,
GREETING:
In the name of the United States
of America, you and each of you
ire hereby required to appear in
ihe District Court for the Territory '
of Alaska, First Judicial Division, at
Juneau, Alaska, within thirty < 30>
days after the 17th day of August,
1951, in case this summons is pub
lished, or within forty (40) days
after the date of its service upon
you, in case this summons is served (
upon you personally, and answer j
the complaint of the above named '
plaintiff on file in the above court '
in the above entitled action.
The said plaintiff ip said action !
demands the following relief:
A decree quieting the title of
plaintiff in and to that parcel .of
real property which is more par
ticularly described as follows, to
wit:
All of Lot 7 in Block 26 of the
Townsite of Juneau, Alaska, as
shown on the official plat of said
townsite, on file and of record in
the office of the ex-officio re
corder for the Juneau Precinct
of Alaska;
tnat aeienaanis, ana eacn oi meui,
be required to declare the nature |
and extent ot hfs claim or claims, j
if any, to said property; and that [
the court declare all such claims J
unfounded, without merit, and of
no effect; that plaintiff be de-1
dared to be the sole owner of said ,
property and entitled to the ex- \
elusive possession' of the same; for i
such other and further relief as;
the court may consider meet in
the premises;
And, in the event you, and each
of you, fail to so appear and answer,
the plaintiff will take judgment
against each of you so failing to
appear and answer for want there
of, and will apply to the court for
the relief demanded in her com
plaint.
WITNESS the Honorable George
W. Folta, Judge of said court, and
the seal of» said court hereto af- j
fixed, this 26th day of July, 1951. |
J. W. LEIVERS, Clerk of the j
District Court for the Territory |
of Alaska, Division Number ;
One at Juneau, Alaska.
By , s/ IRENE RASMUSSEN j
Deputy.
Certified as a true copy of
the original
By JOHN C. DUNN
Of Attorneys for Plaintiff.
First Publication; July 27, 1951.
Last Publication: Aug. 17, 1951.
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