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Tuesday, December 11, 1951
IT. S. TO JJOOST NEWSPRINT
PRODUCTION
Defense Production Administration officials an
nounced last week that the United States intends to
assist the newsprint industry in an effort to boost
production by almost 50 per cent. For the first time,
apparently taking a leaf from Canada’s book, our
government plans to grant the industry quick tax
write-offs on the new plant construction.
In effect, the announcement means that the news
print industry has been placed h* the category of
defense industries eligible for "certificates of neces
sity" which permits the tax write-offs over a five
year period instead of the usual 20 to 25 years.
The DPA said its program calls for expanding new'S
print production capacity by 494,000 tons a year. Last
year’s output was about 1,100.000 tons and the same
amount is estimated for this year.
Officials said that five or six newsprint firms
with applications pending for tax certificates should
get their answers within the month, now that the
green light has been given.
Because of growing consumption, total news
print supplies will fall short of the demand by some
344,000 tons next year and run about 494,000 tons
behind in 1953.
It is estimated that expansion programs will begin
overcoming the deficit late in 1953. In the mean
time, it is hoped, newspapers will be able to get
along by voluntary conservation methods.
The implications of the foregoing will be good
news to Southeast Alaska, as a good part cf that
tonnage could come from the proposed pulp and paper
developments at Ketchikan and elsewhere. Although
the firms were not named, we have been given to
understand that the list includes the sponsors of the
Alaska projects.
Confusing the Public
(Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
A new propaganda technique, designed to per
petrate the "Fair Deal” in office, has been sweeping
the nation.
It consists of an effort to confuse the public by
attacking* the critic instead of objectively examining
his argument.
At first, the hue and cry against "McCarthy
ism" fooled some into believing it was an isolated
campaign against Sen. Joseph A. McCarthy, Republi
can of Wisconsin.
But the far-reaching nature of the device was
recently disclosed whep union spokesmen, ‘‘Fair Deal”
politicians, and others sought to detract from the
inherent merit of General of the Army Douglas Mac
Arthur’s brilliant address at the Seattle Centennial
on the ground that it was "political."
Likewise on a television show a participant was
criticised for referring to Mr. Truman as "High
Tax Harry.”
This new subtle tendency is totalitarian in char
acter, and would hamstring the American principle of
auditing the acts and behavior of men in public
office.
If fair criticism is to be tempered, then a bias
is created in the direction of continuing the in
cumbents in public office.
The role of opposition is to expose the errors, ^
inconsistencies and shortcomings of men temporarily
holding'public office.
The principle of rootation in office should not
be impaired by any counter propaganda to give the
bum’s rush to those who undertake to dissect the
record of public officeholders.
The red herring trick of crying "McCarthyism"
should not deter the American people from demand- ;
ing that public office be entrusted only to those who
are loyal and trustworthy. j
The counter attacks on McCarthy by Reds, fellow •
travelers and confused persons are similar to saying I
that Paul Revere on his historic ride was uncouth J
and inconsiderate in sounding the alarms that the
enemy was coming at midnight.
They resemble the reaction of a home owner |
who complained that the firemen who extinguished
the fire did water damage, anl got the rugs muddy, j
The American system thrives on a free com
petition of ideas.
No impugning of the motives and methods of
critics should impair a thorough audit of the per
formance, the competency, the soundness and the
effectiveness of men holding public office.
At this critical historic Juncture, when Ameri
cans should be alert, there should be no pulling of
punches.
Old American Custom: In 18G1 the U. S. gov
ernment "partly subsidized” the construction of a
telegraph line from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
The Washington
Merry-Go-Round
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pounds per month—an increase of
88 percent.
As proof that this is a cold
blooded squeeze-play, Canada has
doubled its aluminum shipments
to Australia, Brazil, Uruguay and
even Argentina at the same time it
strangled the aluminum flow to this
country. In fact, the United States
is the only major market that re
ceived less Canadian metal this
year than last. As a result, the
United States is the only North
Atlantic Pact country that has
been forced to clamp civilian con
trols on aluminum.
CANADA WINS
Meanwhile, the Canadian squeeze
has accomplished its purpose and
forced the United States to swap
American steel for British alum
inum. Hard up for steel but over
flowing with aluminum, Britain has
agreed to divert 22,000,000 pounds
of aluminum to American purchas
ers during the next five months. In
return. Britain will be allocated 25,
000 tons of fabricated American
steel, 45,000 tons of steel ingots and
another 28,500 tons of iron and steel
scrap from the American zone of
Germany. The joker in this deal is
that the United States must return
the aluminum after its own plants
are expanded to make up for the
shortage, though Britain is allowed
to keep the steel with no strings
attached.
Another ironic fact is that Brit
ain’s contribution of 22,000,000
pounds of aluminum won't come
from Eritain at all, but will be
shipped directly to us from Canada.
In other words, this is the same
aluminum that normally would have
been shipped to the U. S. market
anyway, but was withheld in or
der to force this country to kick
in precious steel.
ICKES PREDICTED IT
But here is the final ironic pay
off. During the recent war, Jesse
Jones, then czar of the RPC, ad
vanced $68,500,000 without interest
to the Aluminum Company of Can
ada (affiliated with the Aluminum
Company of America) to build the
Shipshaw aluminum plant on the
Saguenay River.
Jone.i also extended another $34,
240,000 at 3 percent interest, gave
the Canadian plant an order for
all its aluminum, and provided that
if the order was canceled before
1945, it would not be necessary
for Canada to pay back $68,500,000.
Harold Ickes, then Secretary of
the Interior, vigorously protested.
He argued that the U.S.A. could
not control Canadian aluminum,
and that equipping a Canadian
power project with vital turbines,
would set back American power
projects—Shasta Dam, Colorado
Big Thompson, parts of Grand
Coulee, and others.
However, Jesse Jones had his
way. Now' Canada, withholding al
uminum from us, is fulfilling Ickes’
prediction.
END OF PENNY POSTCARD
There will be some nostalgic sighs
at the Post Office Department when
the latest casualty of inflation, the
penny postcard, bows out on Jan
uary 1.
For about 80 years, during which
helicopters have replaced horses
and which have seen a 500-fold in
crease in the cost of government,
Uncle Sam has been toting the pop
ular, green-stamped postcard to all
parts of the country—even to our
troops overseas—for one penny. ,
Government subsidies helped, of
course, but it is still a tribute to
American rugged individualism that
the penny postal could survive so
long. The postal was first issued
in 1872 during the administration
of President U. S. Grant. Later, in
1898, the same one-cent postage
was authorized, the more elaborate
picture card on which you place
your own stamp.
One reason Congress boosted the
postcard to two cents after January
1 was because big business has been
evploiting the penny postal for ad
vertising purposes. Actually only
about 10 percent of the 4,000,000,000
cards sold yearly in post offices
are now used for personal corres
pondence.
To foil the advertisers Congress
further provided a 10 p'ercent
surcharge for postcards purchased
in bulk lots of over 49.
But the Post Office Department
doesn't think the new price will
seriously affect sales. Even for two
cents, the government postcard is
Stifl far and away the best mall
bargain anywhere in the world.
Note—Mall a postcard today to
'the Pearson Poll of Republican
candidates for President. Mail it to
Box 1952, Washington 13, D. C.,
and state the GOP candidate of
your preference for 1952.
IKE WOULDN’T BE CONVERTED
An off-the-record crack by George
Allen, onetime White House jester,
is proving good campaign ammuni
tion for Eisenhower boosters who
want to prove Ike is a Republican.
Sen. Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., of
Massachusetts, leader of the "I want
Ike" forces, and former Sen. ftarry
Darby of Kansas are repeating
remarks Allen made * before the
National Ilndustrial Conference
Board at the Sea View Club near
Atlantic City.
"I know General Eisenhower is a
Republican," quipped Allen, “be
cause, Lord knows, I’ve tried hard
enough to convert him to be a
Democrat. I didn’t have a bit of
luck.”
SOLVING COPPER SHORTAGE
one of the most strategic metah
in the world today is copper. All
sorts of defense projects are retard
ed because of it.
However, when a couple of young
men called on defense mobilizers
in Washington with a new inven
tion by which the government could
save millions of pounds of copper,
all they got was advice and the
run-around.
The new invention is a bimetal
combination of copper and steel,
whereby a steel sheet can be per
fectly lined with copper, thus saving
tremendous amounts of copper, yet
at the same time giving steel cor
rosion resistance.
During World War II, a group of
civilian scientists organized a board
in Washington to sort out new in
ventions and use them for the
army and navy. Today, this board
has been replaced with runaround
ers.
However, fed up with the govern
(irrent, William Ulmer, one of the
inventors, is getting private busi
ness interested in Cleveland this
week.
'CARD OF THANKS
We wish everyone to know how
thankful we are for the kindness
and sympathy that has been shown
us in the loss of our father and
friend John Christian Sve.
Mr. and Mrs. Olaf Rosvold
Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Clauson
ATTENTION REBEKAHS
Business meeting Wednesday
night December 12 at 8 p.m. in
I.O.O.F. Hall. . 81-1
BERNA WEST, Noble Grand.
DECEMBER 11
Frank Cashel
Jessie E. Shelly
Jimmy Connor'
Mrs. Thomas Morgan
Laura King
Anton L. Bareness
Louise Muller
Howard Wallace
Jim Houston
C. J. Ehrendreich
Marjorie Williams
Betty Jean West
Weather at
Alaska Points
Weather conditions and tempera
tures at various Alaska points also
on the Pacific Cu.vst at 4:30 a.m.,
120th Meridian Tims, and released
by the Weather Bureau are as
follows:
Anchorage . 33—Snow
Barrow . 13—Snow
Bethel . . 10—Snow
Cordova . 35—Rain
Dawson .:. 3—Cloudy
Edmonton . 36—Rain, Snow
Fairbanks . 5—Partly Cloudy
Haines . 42—Cloudy
Havre . 36—Cloudy
Juneau Airport . 41—Cloudy
Annette Island . 45—Rain
Kodiak . 34—Partly Cloudy
Kotzebue . 18—Clear
McGrath . 5—Cloudy
Nome . 1—Partly Cloudy
Northway . 15—Partly Cloudy I
Petersburg . 40—Fog !
Portland . 38—Smoke |
Prince George . 39—Cloudy
Seattle . 42—Fog, Smoke !
Whitehorse . 34—Partly Cloudy 1
Yakutat . 38—Rain
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Communication
Editor, Daily Empire — In the |
December 4 issue of the Empire the
editorial states that the ‘British
Have Developed a Superior Army ,
Rifle.”
For ycur information and the
readers, the American Rifle Asso- I
ciation has released considerable
information, regarding tests that
the U. S. Ordnance experts have
been conducting, with several new
rifles including the British .280 (7
mm >.
The results of these tests were ]
very disappointing in so far as the
British .280 was concerned. The
rifle actually weighed almost ten
pounds, and the velocity of their
132 gr. bullet was only 2565 FPS.
Compared with our Garand of about
the same weight and shooting a 152
gr. bullet at 2805 FPS. Therefore
the striking power and muzzle vel
ocity of the British .280 is far be
low the American standard. The
reliability of the British rifle did
not even approach the minimum re-1
quirements set up for the American
Garand.
British Minister of Defense Shin
well’s announcement last April that
they would adopt the .280 auto rifle,
brought a flood of protests from the
Parliament and Ordnance experts^
of the North Atlantic Treaty na
tions, which have adopted the U.
S. Garand as the standard arm.
By actual tests of velocity, relia
bility, penetration and striking pow-1
er, the British .280 does not even
approach many other arms in use
today. •
How could it be called superior?
I trust that you will find space
to publish this to give the readers
ol the Empire, the facts as they are
Yours Truly,
ARTHUR SKINNER
TO SEATTLE
Mr. and Mrs. Gene Vuille art
leaving tomorrow for a week's vaca
tion in Seattle. Vuille is with the
1FHA here and Mrs. Vuille is ac
countant in the local PAA office.
STRICTLY BUSINESS ■*>«*««
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“I found the trouble, Mr*. Argyle—it wa* shorting on a can
of jnoney labeled ‘poker Mannings!’ ”
20 YEARS AGO the empire j
DECEMBER 11, 1931
A movement to draft Senator A, J. (Tony) Dimond, Valdez, as
Democratic candidate for Delegate to Congress next year, was launched
at Seward, according to advices received here by National Committee
man J. J. Connors. The First Division woull also have a candidate, as
the Divisional Convention at Petersburg affirmed the candidacy of Rep.
A. H. Ziegler of Ketchikan. <
According to the annual report of Secretary of Navy Adams, the
I Navy bought food, fuel, clothing and other essentials with much the
I same care as a housewife on a budget, with resulting lower costs in
' food supplies.
Members of Igloo No. 6, Pioneers of Alaska, met tonight for nomi
nation and elections of officers. Following the Pioneers’ session the
ladies of the Igloo gave a card party.
The Martha Society of the Northern Light Presbyterian Church
was sponsoring a concert tonight and tomorrow night in the church.
An interesting program, featuring both instrumental and vocal numbers,
had been arranged.
An overheated stove in the Sorri Apartments set the wallpaper on
fire early this morning, but the Fire Department made a quick run to
the scene and extinguished the blaze before any material damage was
done.
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William L. Paul was a guest at the Government school house in
Douglas this evening, where he gave a talk for the benefit of the
Indian people, touching on matters of general community interest.
Weather: High, 32; low, 25; cloudy.
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Daily Lessons in English
by
W. L. GORDON \
WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, "Those that attend the
meeting.” “Those ’WHO attend the meeting” is preferable.
OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Architect. Pronounce ar-ki-tect, and
not ar-chi-tekt.
OFTEN MISSPELLED: Loathe (to abhor; detest; hate); observe
the E. Loath (reluctant; averse); no E.
SYNONYMS: Dcfnse, fortress, bulwark, rampart, protection, shel
ter.
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:
REPUDIATE; to retuse to acknowledge, or to accept. (Pronounce the
U as in CUBE, accent second syllable). “The plan was repudiated by
members of the opposing party. ’
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MODERN ETIQUETTE ROBERTA LEE
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Q. If a person has accepted an invitation to be a house guest
for a week and finds upon arrival that 'conditions in that home are
just too uncomfortable and impossible for him to last out the visit,
how could he tactfully arrange an early departure?
A. One of the best things he could do under these circumstances
would be to walk to a nearby store and send himself a telegram—and
laave.
- Q. What kind of napkins should be used to go cvith a lace table
dloth?
A. Plain hemstitched linen, as nearly matching the color and tex
ture of the lace as possible.
Q. Is it proper to use the salutation, “Dear Sirs,” in a business
letter to a company?
A. This salutation is no longer accepted. Use "Gentlemen.”
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1. What are the 14 U. S. states which border on the Atlantic
Ocean?
2. About how much of the weight of the human body is made up
> of muscle?
3. What country uses one-third of all the soap manufactured in
the world?
4. What two colors combined make purple?
5. What is the wake of a ship?
ANSWERS:
1. Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecti
cut, New York. New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North and
South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida.
2. One-half.
3. United States.
4. Red and blue.
5. The track it leaves in the water.
LOOK and LEARN bA.c. GORDON
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Crossword Puzzle
ACROSS
C Copy
4. Stop
5. Festival
12. Tool for trim
ming roofing
slate
13. Preposition
14. Sufficient:
poetic
15. Oftend
17. Issue forth
IS.
Slighting re
marks
16. Measure
21. To an Inner
point
23. Part of a
metrical foot
27. English letter
29. Globular
82. Hawaiian
wreaths
14. Draw after
35. Inclosure for
birds
36. Old dances of
sailors
30. Staff
40. Cubic meter
41. Nerve network
43. Flower con
tainer
46. Mother-of
pearl
49. Management
of money
62. Deck out
63. Press
64. Dismounted
66. Seaweed
67. Small pie
58. Ancient Phe
nician city
69. Espouse
DOWN
1. Vipers
2. Bucket
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Solution of Yesterday’s Puzzle
3. Of surpassing
quality
4. Searches
5. Negative
prefix
6. Detail
7. Large volume
8. Having a wide
application
9. Literary frag
ments
10. Great deal:
colloq.
11. Wondering
16. Vase
18. Kind of per
fume:
variant
22. Optic: comb,
form
24. Bugaboo
23. Shakespearean
character
26. Sleigh
27. Trees
28. Location
30. Very warm
31. Pitcher
33. Domestlo
worker
37. Not fat
38. Legislative
body
42. Sailor
44. Command to a
45. Wriggling
47. Scarce
48. Watched
closely
49. Conform to the
shape
50. Babylonian war
god
51. And not
55. Biblical char
acter
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Governor—
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Secretary—
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Taku Posi No. 5559
V. F. W.
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