Daily Alaska Empire
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DOROTHY TROY LINGO ... Vice-President
ARCHIE E CAMPBELL ... Managing Editor
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Fourth Avenue Bldg., Seattle, Wash.
••Thursday, August 30, 1951
YOT GET A LOT FOR A DOLLAR
Every town, big or little, has more drives for
funds thifr anyone in the town approves. And Juneau
has its share oi drives. They are all worthy. Whether
the drivers for Christmas Seals, the Girl Scouts, Boy
Scouts, Cancer Fund, Salvation Army, or Alaska
Crippled Children, everyone should help as far as hr
is able, z:
Juneau's current drive is for the Juneau Health
Center, r:
And help for the Juneau Health Center helps
everyone in Juneau. Here X-rays are taken during
mass X-ray drives to locate possible tubercular per
sons, or to check those who had TB and for whom
further X-ray examination is indicated.
Visiting nurses from the Health Center call at
homes where nursing help is required.
Expectant mothers receive advice, examinations
and help through the Juneau Health Center.
Examinations at the Health Center lead to the
discovery of need for dental care, for eye treatment.
Until the new City Hall is built and a permanent
home established for the Juneau Health Center, it
equipment of the temporary quarters has cost more
equipment of the temporary quarters ha scost more
money than is available from the city of Juneau or
from the Territorial Health Department. Consequent
ly it is up to everyone of us to contribute what we
can to maintain the Juneau Health Center.
There is a drive in progress now for Juneau
Health Center memberships. It is a modest drive.
Memberships are only $1. A membership entails no
duties. It only means that a member is interested
in the Juneau Health Center and its program of
prcvanthwt.lliiMHfi Bflfi lrfgmiet% StlR
need it.
How to buy a membership? Stop by the Baranof
Hotel between 11:30 a. m. and 2 p. m. tomorrow
Friday.
Tomorrow will be the last day of the drive.
Though those who do not purchase memberships
this week may do so at the Juneau Health Center at
any time, don't wait. Get your membership card
tomorrow, while the drive is in progress.
IT IS THE LITTLE THINGS
The little things that can make one happy:
A comfortable desk chair, that will roll around
easily instead of scraping the floor; a reading light
above .one's bed; a view of mountains clear against
a blue, blue sky — when one has decided that winter
is coming and only grey skies can be expected until
another summer; an unexpected telephone call from
a friend, "Hello. I just wanted to say hello;" fall
flowers; a letter from a relative when none is due;
accomplishing something for one's town, whether it
is buying a Health Center membership or attending a
community meeting
And, of course, for us on the Empire, nothing
; makes us happier than getting the paper out at a
reasonable time.
While Man Plumb Loco
(Denver Post)
When lengthier sermohs on soil conservation are
forgotten, this succinct “Injun" yarn still will be
enjoying circulation. A farm journal, the Faimer
Stockman, printed a picture of a deserted farm
house and gullied field, offering a $25 pi ise foi the
best 100-word description. Here's the winning entry
as quoted by Outdoor Magazine:
“Picture shows white man crazy. Cut down trees,
Make big teepee. Plow hill. Water wash. Wind
bio soil. Grass gone. Door gone. Window gone.
Whole place gone. . . . Buck gone. Squaw, too. Pa
poose gone . No chuck-away. No pigs. No corn. No
plow. No hay. No pony.
“Indian no plow land. Keep grass. Buffalo eat
grass. Indian eat buffalo. Hide make tepee. Make
moccasin. Indian no make terrace. No build dam.
. . All time eat. No hunt job . No hitch hike. No
ask relief. No shoot pig. Great Spirit make grass.
Indian no waste anything. Indian no work. White
man he loco.’I
Hits and Misses
Along about the time that the woodshed gave way
to the garage those memorable trips of father and
son also went into complete eclipse.—Everett Herald.
* * *
It’s possible that the annual Apple Week was
started by a group of duck-hunting doctors.—Brem
erton Sun.
* * ‘ *
A friend of ours remarked the other day: “When
I started work. I used to dream about getting the
salary I'm starving on now."—Friday Harbor Journal.
The average dollar bill lasts nine months, accord
ing to the Treasury Department. Pardon us if we
laugh!—Daily Olympian.
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The smart girl shows distinction in her clothes,
according to a style expert. Or is it distinctly?—
Bremerton Sun.
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A man may fall several times in the battle of life
but can't, be considered a failure until he starts saying
somebody pushed him—Evrson News.
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•The “first-signs -of-weakening appear in a_ widely
held superstition that it will be Eisenhower versus
Eisenhower in 'November, 1952—Tacoma News Tri
bune.
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History not only repeats itself — it stutters the
first time.—Concrete Herald.
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Money always talks—but right now its talking
in a different way. All it says is hello! and goodbye!
—Daily Olympian.
The Washington
Merry-Go-Round
(Continued from Page One)
controlled a nation-wide syndicate.
We trapped him like a rat. It took
men, endless patience, long hours
of vigilant surveillance, and irnin
ite detailed corroboration. Now.
■where did he get his supply? From
a country which signed the Geneva
convention of 1931 to limit the
manufacture of narcotic drugs to
medical needs. Even with elabor
ate reporting and checking by in
ternational bodies, the padded es
timates escaped the attention of
the United Nations control mach
inery.
We first picked up the interna
tional leakage when the Los An
geles country sheriff turned over
to us a peddler with ten ounces of
heroin. He got it from a ship’s
steward traveling between New
York and Trieste. In Trieste, the
Allied military authorities had in
advertently repealed narcotic laws.
Diversion in Italy provided a ready
source, with the connivance of
Mafia. Wheels within wheels. The
narcotic traffic is intricately in
terlaced and skillfully interwoven.
We have 195 agents; less than
2 per cent of the federal enforce
ment personnel. These men ac
count for 10 per cent of the federal
prison population, and their con
victions average 95 per cent. Our
force is about as large as that of
the police department in a place
the size of Tampa, Florida.
The whole world regards the
U. S. Treasury Department’s Bur
eau of Narcotics as a model. The
work is" dangerous, nerve racking,
round-the-clock, yet there is some
thing which makes crusaders of all
who engage in it. They respond
beyond the call of duty.
Our enemy is artfully cunning.
The seller is satisfied, and the
user won’t tell. There are no com
plaints as in crimes like robberies
and kidnaping. Not one witness be
fore the Senate Crime committee
would reveal his source of supply,
through fear of consequences. We
work completely undercover, and
must come up with the corpus de
licti (evidence) at the conclusion
of the investigation. We are se
verely handicapped by court de
cisions relating to search and sei
zure, and must rely on state pros-j
ecution in many cases.
We need a law which will put
the peddler away longer than 16
months. The House of Represent
atives passed such a bill. It is
pending in the Senate. These cruel
exploiters deserve greater punish
ment. If we had 1,000 agents —
without a mandatory sentence law
—we would still be on a treadmill;
a merry-go-round (no reference to
this column). Recently a notorious
trafficker with five narcotic-law
convictions received a suspended
sentence.
Harold Normandale is an addict
with over 100 arrests, including one
for rape, murder, and many for
narcotics. He peddled narcotics to
take care of his own addiction.
This type creates addicts. There
are thousands like him. They have
no sense of moral responsibility.
They would, without hesitation,
shoot heroin into the radiant veins
of your 15-year-old daughter, arid
send her into prostitution to get
money for the heroin they pump
into her innocent body, yet such
peddlers get off with suspended
sentences.
The addict must be quarantined
in the city hospitals. Baltimore has
the distinction of being the first
city to set aside 10 beds lor the
disintoxication and rehabilitation
of drug addicts.
Limitation on manufacture of
narcotic drugs and control of in-;
ternational distribution have been
accomplished through eight trea
ties. The United Nations is now
working on a plan to limit opium
production to world medical needs.
This is the goal I have been work
ing for at every international
conference I have attended since
1931. Such an agreement would be
the greatest achievement so far
attained toward suppressing the
abuse of narcotic drugs through
out the world.
Present sources of our illicit nar
cotics are Italy, Iran, Turkey, In
dia, Greece, Communist China,
and Mexico. Mexico is doing good
work with airplanes and troops to
suppress illicit opium cultivation.
Other source countries please take
note. ,
Reports of large-scale drug ad
diction throughout the world re
flect a post-war phenomenon, and
a jittery world.
About 1947 we had the traffic
under control. Prison wardens re
ported an absence of addicted
criminals. The population of our
Lexington Narcotic Hospital had
fallen to such an extent that ^ a j
move was under way to abolish the j
hospital. I urged all to stand by
and to prepare. We could feel it j
coming here and abroad. Warn
ings went unheeded. In the past
two years it rolled in like ,an en
gulfed surf.
Finality in dealing with the in
ternational traffic must be reach
ed. Its continued existence and
evergreen activity is a -sad reflec
tion on the 'World's lack of joint
determination to be done with
these plague carriers whose God
is auri sacra fames (the accursed
thirst for gold).
NOTICE
Regular meeting of Pioneers of
Alaska Igloo No. 6 and Ladies
Auxiliary, Friday, August 31, 1951.
I.O.O.F. Hall at 8 p.m. 899-3t
NOTICE
Remember ‘ HONOLULU'’ when
Miss Aloha calls. 898-3t
"JOE BEAVER"
• AUGUST 30
• Mrs. Minard Mill
• Mrs. Albert Carlson
• Mrs. Maude Hamlin
• Marvin R. Wilson
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
follows:
Anchorage . 57—Cloudy
Annette Island 56—Partly Cloudy
Barrow ... 37—Drizzle
Bethel . 50—Drizzle
Cordova . . 51—Rain
Dawson . 57—Cloudy
Edmonton . 44—Cloudy
Fairbanks . 51—Cloucft’
Haines . 57—Clear
Havre . 55—Cloudy
Juneau 49—Cloudy
Kodiak . 51—Rain,
Kotzebue . 42—Cloudy
McGrath . 51—Rain
Nome . 35—Partly Cloudy
Northway . 50—Cloudy
Petersburg . 48—Clear
Portland .54—Cloudy
Prince George . 35—Fog
Seattle . 53—Rain
Sitka .. . 54—Cloudy
Whitehorse .. 54—Cloudy
Yakutat . 51—Drizzle
BOEfiLAS
NEWS
Etolin Wittomen To Teach
Elwin Dell, superintendent of the
Douglas public schools, announced
that Mrs. Etolin Wittomen, senior
member of the Douglas teaching
staff, will teach the 1st grade clas'
again this year. The first grade
will be in the government school
again as in the past years. This will
be Mrs. Wittomen’s sixth year at
the schools. •
Two Pair of Tonsils
Miss Pamela Hamilton and Miss
Donna Sower both underwent ton
silectomy operations on Tuesday in
Juneau.
Pamela, 5-year-old daughter of
Mr. and Mrs Homer HairilRCTl, tuv
derwent. her operation at St. Ann’?!
Hospital while Donna, 9 years old.
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Irwin
Sower, had her operation at the
Juneau Medical Clinic. Both are
home resting well, it is reported.
First Teacher Arrives
Mr. Charles Hunnicutt arrived
last Tuesday from his home at
Warner. Okla. He is the first teacher
to arrive for the new school tend,
and will teach commercial sub
jects. Hunnicut has been a form
er teacher at Wrangell.
Arrive In Hawaii
Word has been received by the
families of Misses Shirley Edwards
and Terry Snethen of their arrival
in Honolulu, and their enrollment
at the St. Francis Hospital where
theye are beginning a three year
nurses training course. The girls
spent two weeks visiting in Seattle
before flying there.
APPLY FOR LICENSE
Murlen Isaacs, a carpenter, and
Margaret Haddon Fisher, waitress
at the Sugar Bowl, have made
application for a license to mar
ry, according to records in the U.
S. Commissioner’s office.
Both give their residence as Ju
neau.
The National Geographic So
ciety says the Koreans used rain
gauges 500 years ago.
By Ed Nofziger
Forest Service, U. S. Departm< nt of Agriculture
"Frankly, I can’; Hi the fs.es.' fort!;e trees."
20 YEARS AGO the empire |
AUGUST 30, 1931
Alleging that less than the going local wages are being paid to
painters and helpers engaged in painting the inttrior of the capitol
building, local painters have wired Alaska Delegate James Wickershant
asking him to lay the matter before the Treasury Department. It alleged
the wages paid by the contractor here are as follows: $6 for painters
and $3 for helpers while the going local rate, it is said, are $8 and $6.
Capt. William Strong arrived from the Taku River last evening
with the following passengers from Tulsequah: Edward Gibbon, Mel
Lee, George Bacon, Mary Joyce, Bessie Hearn. He reported a rough trip
from Point Bishop to Juneau.
For a week’s hunting trip up the Taku, Mr. and Mrs. Glen Kirkham,
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Campbell and Walter Scott are planning to leave
tomorrow afternoon. Capt. O. F. Rollins is taking them up to moose
country on his boat Mayflower.
Douglas and Gordon Gray, of DjJjlas, left this morning on the
| Highway .if members of a survey party which the Bureau of Public
| Hoads i > pending to Sitka for a short season's work.
Richard McCormick, an employee of more than 40 years in the Tread
well mine in Douglas, left this morning on the Northland to make his
home in the south. He will visit a son, W. H. McCormick and a daughter,
[Mrs. Ann Hurlbut in California. Mrs. Richard McCormick, Jr., and two
children are accompanying hint south.
The motorship Northland arrived in Juneau from Seattle yesterday
[.afternoon with the following passengers for Juneau: Mr. and Mrs.
E. F. Wentland, D. G. Mentrum, Mrs. R. L. Stewart, Elizabeth Stewart,
i Anne Morris, Matt Bushman, G. A. Paulson, all of Seattle. From South
I eastern Alaska ports were: Ralph Wilcoxern, L. Coleman, J. G. Lennon,
| F. Thomas, Frank Thomas, F. Thoren.
—
Weather: High, 60; low, 51: rain.
.
Daily Lessons in English w.l. cordon !
WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say. “That job is over with."
It is much better to say, "That job is COMPLETED."
OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Domain. Accent second syllable, not
the first.
OFTEN MISSPELLED: Manila (the city); one L. Vanilla, (the
: flavor); two L’s.
SYNONYMS: Obscure, indistinct, intricate, ambiguous, abstruse,
' ;omplex, complicated.
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:
! PALPABLE; manifest; obvious; tangible. "He was credited with mak
j ing only palpable discoveries.”
MODERN ETIQUETTE Roberta LEE
Q. Should one express a choice in cocktails when the host or
hostess requests it?
” A. TV S rnQbir Better "tP" State a~ prefeieitec •’tettfeer - -than- -to Teavc
the host in a quandary by saying, "Anything at all.”
Q. Whose duty is it to see that the bride and bridegroom’s car is
ready and waiting for them at the wedding reception?
A. The best man should attend to this.
Q. What kind of clothes should a mother wear to the christening
of her child?
A. A daytime dress, hat and gloves.
LOOK and LEARN a. c. GORDON 1
l.~-1
1. What is paleontology?
2. What state’s name means "red”?
3. What is a mahout?
4. For what in the U. S. does "ICC” stand?
5. What terms in horseracing describe second place and third
place?
ANSWERS:
1. The science dealing with fossil life.
2. Colorado.
3. An elephant driver.
4. Interstate Commerce Commission.
5. Place and show.
There is no subsiiuie for
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ACROSS
t. Percolates
6. Pursue
11. Snarl
12. Black birds
'.4. Fitter of a
ship’s rig
el ns
15. Punish by a
fine
1ft. Yale
17. Mountain
crest
19. Deface
20. Not any
22. Anger
23. Stockings
24. Visionary
2ft. Sharpens
27. Youngster
23. Ask payment
29. Flat cap
32. Regret
36. Baking cham
ber
37. Slight taste
38. Steeps
39. Drop bait i
lightly
40. Bend down r
42. Large tub \
43. Literary
supervisor ;
45. Withdraw
47. Spanish title
of courtesy
48. Gaining pos
session of
goods: law
49. Pay back
60. Horse
Solution ot Yesterday's Puzzle
DOWN
1. Mariner
2. Locomotive
8. Poultry prod
uct
4. Supplication
B. Crowded
6. Box
7. Part of a
harness
8. Salutation
9. Religious dis
course
10. Surround
11. Inclination
13. Scorches
18. Sin
21. Corroded
23. Reputation
25. Entangle
26. Buzz
28. Removes from
the country
29. Portends
30. Shirker
31. Complain
32. River: Spanish
33. Restore to
conscious
ness
34. Gazed
35. Compound
37. Wander
40. North Amer
ican bird
41. Saucy
44. Summit
46. Pedal digit
MOUNT JCNEAU LODGE NO. 14?
SECOND and FOURTH
Monday of each month
In Scottish Rite Temple .
beginning at 7:30 p. m.
Wm. A. Chipperfiold,
Worshipful Master:
JAMES W. UEIVERS, Secretary.
B. P. 0. ELKS
Meeting Second and Fourth Wed
nesdays at 8 P.M. Visiting broth- j
ers welcome.
LE ROY WEST, Exaxlted Ruler.
W. H. BIGGS, Secretary.
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Moose Lodge No. 700
Regular Meetings Every Friday
Governor—
LOREN CARD
Secretary—
WALTER R. HERMANSEN
V. F. W.
Taka Post No. 5559 •
Meeting every Thursday in
the C.l.O. Hall at 8:00 p.m.
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