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Monday, August 21, 1950
POLICY NEEDED
An Ap dispatch of recent date reports the pos- j
sibility that Russia, in conjunction with Communist!
China, may reoccupy that part of Korea which lies
north of the 38th parallel and which in the immediate
post-war period was under Russian occupation.
If Russia should carry out such a reoccupation
and if the tide of war should turn in favor of the
UN forces, the United Nations will be confronted
with the need for a weighty decision. If they pursue (
the North Korean aggressor into his own territory |
beyond the 38th parallel, they will have to fight the ^
Russian occupation army in that area. If they rt- ,
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linquish the opportunity to carry the punitive expeai
tion against the North Koreans into the latters' own
territory, the UN may well wonder whether it has set
a punitive precedent strong enough to discourage fu
ture aggression.
The problem posed by the report that Russia
may reoccupy North Korea is a considerable one. It
underlines the need for a well-planned, long-range
United Nations strategy for war and peace. So far,
it would appear, the United Nations are merely mud
dling through, intent only on the immediate goal of
repelling the North Korean invader. UN policy of
the moment, if such it can be called, is to keep the
enemy at bay and hope for the best.
But what will the UN do after the North Koreans
have been pushed back across the 38th parallel.
Will UN forces follow them with a view to destroying
their offensive power and so preventing the possi
bility of another Red invasion of South Korea? Will
UN forces go beyond the 38th parallel, even in the
event regular Russian forces have In the meantime
reoccupied North Korea? No one seems to know the
answers.
It might on the surface, in these trying days of
American setbacks in South Korea, appear more im
portant to concentrate on repelling the Red invader,
than to worry about the questions that will arise from
the hoped-for Communist defeat. The tendency to
muddle through is a natural one.
But the post-World War I era has shown that
muddling though is not enough. It was muddling
through that got the United States involved in the
Korean conflict. It would demonstrate a spirit of
idle and useless carping to dwell on past errors. But
the bitter lessons that may be learned from those er
rors, from the planlessness of our policy in the Far
East, should drive us to adopt in good time a care
fully delineated policy providing for all eventualities
the future may bring.
It is essential that Dlans for the future be drawn
up now, il a semblance of world peace is to be main
tained. The sightest blunder, committed under the
stress of unforeseen emergency, may be the spark
that lights the fuse of World War III. Intricate,
careful planning is essential at this stage, foreseeing
as many future eventualties as possible,£»if even the
slim chance for the present queasy world peace is to
be maintained.
fhe Washington
Merry-Go* Round
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National Defense, she suggested
firmly that Johnson should be re
placed.
Low On Sugar
This won’t be pleasant news to
the G.I.'s in Korea, but the home
folks' sweet-tooth appears to be
stronger than their patriotism. In
spite’ of the appeals against hoard
ing, the nation’s sugar stocks are
critically low.
The Agriculture Department’s'
commodity boss, Ralph Trigg, can
didly admitted this the other day,
testifying behind closed doors of
the £■. nate Banking Committee.
"Regardless of how you cut the
cloth, there is no sugar available,”
Trigg reported flatly.
"Nothing has changed except that
the sugar is in the pantries of the
folks throughout the nations,” sug
gested Indian’s GOP Senator Homer
Capehart. "The consumption has
not increased. It is hoarding that
has done this.”
"Tin t is true,” agreed Trigg. “You
will not increase the consumption
per person a great deal. . .but there
is no sugar available for a great
many people who are unable to get
it at the retail stores.”
Note—In the hope that public
opinion may still shame the hoard
ers and profiteers, we have been
urging patriotic Americans to or
ganize "home front” committees and
to campaign through the local press,
radio and civic groups against war
greed.
Rough Going-Over
Jack Redding got a thorough
going-ovcx behind closed doors be
fore the Senate confirmed his ap
pointment as Assistant Postmaster
General.
At one point, Sen. Bill Langer,
North Dakota Republican, noted
that Redding claimed to be a
"writer of fiction.”
"Yes, he was Director of Public
ity for the Democratic National
Committee,” dryly remarked Sen.
Zaies Ecton, Montana Republican.
Economy Cut
President Truman won't take the
proposed 10 per cent, across-the
board slash in government spending
with his bat on his shoulder.
At a recent meeting with Federal
agency chiefs. Truman strongly in
dicated that he might send a special
message to Congress if the two
house? don't reconsider the 10 per
cent reduction.
“Tilts so-called ‘economy’ cut is
one way to destroy government
agencies without outright abolition,”
declared the President. "You can
cripple an agency so badly by chop
ping off Its personnel that it can
not do the job. This is a grave
situation.”
"It's all the graver in wartime,"
broke in Federal Communications
Chairman Wayne Coy. He explained
that his agency was engaged in
top-secret project vital to the
war effort.
"We cannot do the job right if
nye are deprived of key personnel,”
fie added.
“The same applies to my agency,”
broke :'n Thomas Buchanan, Acting
Chairman of the Federal Power
Commission. "The FPC must see to
it that our war plants have enough
gas and electric power to keep them
going. We must establish a balance
between consumer and war use of
fuels and power.”
Buchanan pointed out that gov
ernment departments, like Agricul
ture and Interior, might be able
to withstand the 10 per cent cut by
spending less on “construction con
tracts,” such as road-building and
reclamation projects. But regulatory
agencies, like FPC, would be dan
gerously crippled, he said.
“I would like to get a memo
from all agencies that will be crip
pled by the 10 per cent reduction,”
Trum.'.n finally decided. “We've got
to do something about it—right
away.”
GOP “Place”
House Appropriations Chairman
Clarence Cannon of Missouri always
sees to it that Repuublicans keep
their “place" in committee sessions.
When House and Senate conferees
on the District of Columbia ap
propriation met behind closed doors,
Cannon’s sharp eye detected GOP
Congressman Earl Wilson of In
diana sitting in "Democratic ter
ritory” near the head of the table.
The Missourian crisply ordered
Wilson to move to a humbler spot
at the Republican end of the table.
“Okay, I'll move,” snorted the
Hoosier Congressman, angrily push
ing back his chair. "It must perplex
the Chtairman to see a thorn
among his Democratic roses,”
Iron Curtain Chaff
Concrete evidence that the Chin
ese Communists are openly support
ing North Korea is contained in a
message from Chinese Communist
leader Mao tse-Tung to Korean
Prime Minister Kim 11 Sung. 'The
people in the just war against U. S. i
imperialist aggression,” wrote Mao
. . .Political observers attach sig
! nificance to reports from the Chin
I ese capital indicating that Mao
I tse-Tung left Peking on August 11
for an "unannounced destination."
. . .This could mean Moscow or
somewhere in Korea. . The prestige
of the United Nations is still troubl
ing Communist leaders, judging by
the fact that Americans are fighting
their propaganda efforts to conceal
the fact Americans are fighting
in Korea under the UN flag. . .
. . No reference is ever made to
United Nations authorization of
American action in Korea. . .Des
pite careful censorship, reports are
trickling through the Iron Curtain
that Communist officials must re
sort to desperate measures to make
labor toe the mark. For example, in
Rumania, a recent law has made
“dle£al appropriation-and negli
gence at work" punishable by the
death penalty.
Plight of Cotton Farmer
South Carolina’s Senator Burnet
Maybank, chairman of the powerful
Senate Banking Committee spoke
up sharply about the plight of the
I cotton farmer at a closed-door
meeting with the Agriculture De
partment’s commodity boss Ralph
Trigg.
“This whole cotton deal is dis
tinctly misunderstood, and I am
sick and tired of it,” snorted May
bank. “Now, you produced 16,158,
000 bales approximately last year,
did you not?”
“That is correct,” agreed Trigg.
"And you have got the lowest
! acreage on record for a long, long
time, and you have had a terribly
bad year with boll weevil infest
ation,” continued the South Caro
line Senator.
“That is correct,” Trigg nodded
again.
"And if you rolled the price of
cotton back to June 15, it would
not be worth picking, and the
farmer would in some instances
have only a fourth of the crop, is
that right?” demanded Maybank,
referring to the proposal to restore
commodity prices to the pre-Korean
war level.
“Now, what does the Korean war
have to do with the price of cot
ton?” demanded Maybank.
"Nothing at all,” replied Trigg,
“Nothing at all, that is right,”
snapped the Senator from South
Carolina. “It makes me so tired to
see the poor cotton farmer having
all these people saying, ‘the farmer
gets it all’.”
Trigg agreed shippers, manu
facturers and retailers were chiefly
to blame for higher costs of cot
ton goods.
Sewing machines for rent at the
White Sewing Machine Center.
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• Mrs. Glen Franklin •
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Truman Asks Money
For Maintaining
Seward-Porfage RR
Delegate E. L. Bartlett said today
that the Department of Interior’s
desire to maintain the Seward
Portage section of the Alaska Rail
road was confirmed last week when
President Truman sent to Congress
a request for a supplemental 1951
fiscal year appropriation of $1,500,
000
The funds are requested prin
cipally for the repair or replacement
of bridges on this southern portion
of the railroad to permit safe opera
tion, "The port of Whittier,” the re
quest stated in speaking of the al
ternate southern terminus of the
railroad, “is unable to handle freight
shipments for both military and civ
ilian needs, thus making it neces
sary to continue Seward as an active
port, particularly for civilian bene
fit. Many of the structures in the
loop’ section of the rail line have
I deteriorated to such an extent that
[ immediate repair or replacement is
| required.”
The House Committee on Appro
priations is now in process of hear
ing supplemental requests to the
1951 budget, and it is anticipated
the supplemental bill will be re
ported this week. It is understood
that the Department of Defense
will give strong support to the funds
sought for the rehabilitation of the
Seward-Portage section of the rail
road.
ATTENTION REBEKAHS
Picnic will be held at Auk Bay
Bathing Beach Tuesday at 6 p.m.
Bring your lunch. Coffee, pop and
ice cream furnished by Lodge. 2t
FLEISCHMANN on a product is
like 24 carat on gold—the finest it
can be. Try FLEISCHMANN GIN
and be convinced.
ACROSS
1. Brilliantly
colored
bird
7. Struck
sweepingly
13. Sticker
14. Thin
15. Four
16. Wild asses
18. Above and
touching
19. Little drink
21. To one side
22. Mountain in
Crete
23. Grandson of
Adam
25. Dutch
commune
26. Seaweeds
27. Holds back
29. Most tender
31. Attempt
32. Kitchen utensil
33. tootball team
3G. Cover the
inside again
39. Deep mud
40. Before
42. Look at
closely
43. Half eras
44. Stewed fruit
4G. Roost
47. Short for a
man’s name
48. Edible portions
of nuts
60. French
article
61. Retreat
53. Splinter
65. Sharpshooter
6G. Cold dishes
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7. Scandinavians
8. Merchandise
9. Pronoun
10. Hebrew letter
11. Eats away
12. Ruler
17. Swindle: slang
20. Makers of
earthenware
22. Study of
Christian
unity
24. Put a tennis
ball into
play
26. Spoken
examinations
28. Cereal grass
30. Unclose:
poetic
33. Eastern
potentates:
variant
34. Kind of tree
35. Closer
36. Intermission
37. Fastened
securely
3S. Comes in
41. Flow
44. Withered
45. Feminine name
48. Way of
mounting the
horizontal
bar
49. Yellow ocher
52. Palm Illy
54. Southern
flhhr
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AUGUST 21, 1980
Southeast Alaska’s 1930 hunting season opened August 20 for deer
and mountain goat. The hunting period on deer would end Novmeber
15 and on goat, December 31. The season bag limit on deer was three
animals and, for goat, two. Meat of either could be possessed after the
hunting season, provided the animals had been legally killed.
The gasboat Apex, which had been operated as a cannery tender
for the Douglas Island Packing Company, changed, hands in Douglas
at a forced sale to satisfy a mortgage. Capt. Henry Pfdundt, who had
operated the seine boat Elsie for the local cannery, was the successful
bidder, offering his own boat and a cash, consideration. F. A. J. Gallwas,
representing the mortgagor, the Admiralty Coal Company, conducted the
sale.
Mr. and Mrs. Elton Engstrom, who had resided in Juneau for the
summer, returned to Douglas to occupy their former suite in the Smith
Apartments.
Ivan Winsor, assistant Bureau of Public Roads district engineer, left
on the tender Highway to inspect roads and construction work in the
southern end of the division. In Ketchikan, he was to meet Baird M.
French, Junior Highway Engineer, who was to accompany him from
there and return to Juneau to his new assignment.
Two “automobile trucks” collided at the intersection of Main and
Front streets and both vehicles crashed into the U. S. cable office,
smashing its windows and some of the wooden structure. No one was
seriously injured. The accident involved an empty Standard Oil truck
driven by Harold Campen and a loaded gravel truck driven by Morris
Tonsgaard. An informal hearing was scheduled later before City
Magistrate H. R. Shepard and Police Chief G. A. Getchell to determine
the cause of the accident. No arrests were made.
Weather: High, 55; low, 49; rain.
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Daily Lessons in English & L. cordon J
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WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, "He has started in to work."
Omit IN.
OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Institution. Pronounce the U as in
USE, not as OO in TOO, accent third syllable.
OFTEN MISSPELLED: Technical; observe the CHNI.
SYNONYMS: Pastime, recreation, diversion, entertainment, play.
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:
ANTIPATHETIC; naturally contrary or opposed. (Accent first and
fourth syllables). “His manner was antipathetic to that of the teacher.”
I MODERN ETIQUETTE ROBERTA LEE j
Q. If the bride-to-be’s mother is divorced and remarried, and the
stepfather is almost as close to the bride as a parent, how should her
wedding invitations read?
A. “Mr. and Mrs. John L. Baxter request the honour of your pres
ence at the marriage of their daughter, Mary Ellen Williams, etc.”
Q. How soon after a visit should a house guest write a “bread and
butter” letter to the hostess?
A. Immediately upon arriving home, the same day if possible. Under
no circumstances should this obligation be delayed any longer than two
or three days.
Q. What is the correct way for a friend or relative to respond
to a birth announcement?
A. By calling to see the mother, sending flowers to her, or a gift
to the baby.
LOOK and LEARN ^ c. GORDON
1. Can you identify five U. S. Presidents by these nicknames:
Old Hickory, Old Eloquent, Old Rough and Ready, Teddy, and Little
Magician?
2. Why is the chemical symbol for silver written as “Ag”?
3. What South American country borders all other countries but
two?
4. What is fresco painting?
5. Who was the “beloved son” of King David?
ANSWERS:
1. Andrew Jackson, John Quincy Adams, Zachary Taylor, Theodore
Roosevelt, and Martin Van Buren.
2. Because this is an abbreviation of the Latin “argentum.”
3. Brazil.
4. Pictures painted on freshly spread plaster before it dries.
5. Absalom.
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Weather conditions and temper
ature! 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 . 56—Partly Cloudy j
Annette Island . 56—Fog
Barrow . 39—Cloudy i
Bethel . 52—Rain
Cordova . 53—Rain
Dawson . 47—Clear
Edmonton . 51—Partly Cloudy
Fairbanks . 49—Partly Cloudy j
Haines . 52—Clear
Havre . 55—Cloudy
Juneau . 47—Clear
Kodiak . 53—Rain
Kotzebue . 56—Rain
McGrath . 54—Rain
Northway . 46—Partly Cloudy
Nome . 51—Rain
Petersburg . 50—Clear
Portland .. 58—Clear
Prince George 47—Partly Cloudy
Seattle . 57—Clear
Sitka .. 55—Fog
Whitehorse . 51—Clear
Yakutat . 56—Cloudy
BOWLING
There will be a meeting of the
Tuesday night major bowling league
team captains Tuesday night at 8
p.m. in the Elks Club. It is request
ed that the captains representing
the following sponsors be present:
Joe Snow. Thomas Hardware; Erv
Hagerup, Parsons Electric; Archie
Stewart, Hennings; John Scott,
Triangle Club; Walt McKinnon,
Sicks Rainer; Alex Sturrock, Stand
ard Aviation; Art Burke, Juneau
Florists; Bernt Mork, Don Abel
Also that Otto Smithberg and War
ren King be on hand in the Club j
room subject to call in case a
change has to be made in the
Sicks Rainer line up.
After the meeting there will be
a Pot of Silver tournament for all
members of the Tuesday Night
| League.
V. F. W.
Taku Post No. 5559
Meeting every Thursday in
the C.I.O. Hall at 8:00 p.m. j
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MOUNT JUNEAU LODUE NO. 147
SECOND and FOURTH
Monday of each month
in Scottish Rite Temple
beginning at 7:30 p. m.
Carson A. Lawrence,
Worshipful Master:
JAMES W. LEIVERS, Secretary.
B. P. 0. ELKS
Meeting every second and fourth
Wednesday at 8 P.M. Visiting
brothers welcome. WALLIS 8.
GEORGE, Exalted Ruler. W. H.
BIGGS, Secretary.
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Noose Lodge No. 700
Regular Meetings Each Friday
Governor—
ARNOLD L .FRANCIS
Secretary—
WALTER R. HERMANSEN
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CABINET SHOP
117 Main St. Phone 773
High Quality Cabinet Werfc
for Home, Office or Stare
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and 8nppUes
..Phone 206 ..Second and Seward.
general paints
and WALLPAPER
Ideal Paini Store
Phone 549 Fred w. Wendt
Card Beverage Co.
Wholesale 805 10th 8t.
PHONE 218— DAY or NIGHT
for MIXERS or SODA POP
The Alaskan Hotel
Newly Renovated ffsnnw
at Reasonable Ratae
PHONE SINGLE O
PHONE 655
' Thomas Hardware Co.
PAINTS - OILS
BaRden* and Shelf
HARDWARE
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Jnneau Motor Co.
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MAKE
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DELICIOUS ICE CREAM
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Chrysler Marine Engines
MACHINE SHOP
Marine Hardware
Chas. G. Warner Co.
HOME GROCERY
Phones 146 and 342
Home Liquor Store—TeL 690
American Meat — Phone 38
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