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Monday, October 2, 1950
BE SURE YOU VOTE TOMORROW
The municipal election will be held in Juneait
tomorrow. It will again, tomorrow, become our duty
and privilege to choose the men who will administer
the affairs of our city. And upon the choice we make
will depend the quality of our civil government.
The right of the ballot carries with it an obliga
tion. We live in one of the few remaining countries
governed by consent of the governed. We are em
powered by the ballot to select our public servants
and because we have this power, we are under moral
compulsion to use it — and to use it wisely.
When citizens fail to exercise their franchise they
contribute to the decay of the voting system. An
election is designed to express the will of all the
people. However, it can record no more than the will
of those who vote.
The polls will be open from 8 o’clock a. m. until
7 o’clock p. m.
.Whoever the candidates of your choice—however
you vote—be sure YOU vote!
VOTE FOR CAPABLE MEN
The Empire endorses no candidates for municipal
office. We believe, however, that the men who have
| administered the city's affairs for the past year have
done a good job. We believe, too. that Mayor Hendrick
son deserves and may need the support, during the
coming year, of the men who have served with him for
the last year and who arc familiar with the city's cur
I rent program.
However, there are good and capable men—and
a woman—running for the city counci, too. It is our
hope that the voters of Juneau will choose the best
possible people for the job.
We believe, too, that a change in election regu
lations should be made to provide for the election of
councilmen for two-year terms, with three councilmen
to be elected every year. Thus, the council would
always have three holdover members—familiar with
administration problems and municipal projects still
in progress.
This should be placed high on the council ageeda
for the coming term.
Woods Full of Politiciahs
(Ketchikan News)
The woods are full of politicians.
t We are not referring so much to candidates as
we are to Territorial officials and key men. The
latter congregate on “official business at the centers
of population.
Ketchikan is no exception.
Prom private information Governor Gruening is
expected home from Washington, D. C., and will at
least remain in Alaska until after the election. His
“absentee governorship'’ has made a record for
Alaska.
The main thing is for all citizens to be prepared
to vote, one way or the other. Absentee ballots can
be secured for both the city election October 3 and the
Territorial election October 10, the former from the
city clerk and the latter from the U. S. commissioner.
Sample Territorial ballots for the First Division
are now,available.
Following is the candidates for the Territorial1
election:
For Delegate—Bob Bartlett, Democrat, Aimer J.
Peterson, Republican.
Treasurer—Henry Roden, Democrat.
For Labor Commissioner—Henry A. Benson, Re
publican; Ross E. Kimball, Democrat.
For Senator — Elton E. Engstrom, Republican,
James Nolan and Frank Peratrovich, Democrats. Vote
for two.
Representatives (vote for 8) Doris M. Barnes
Ralph Bartholomew, Waino E. Hendrickson, Prank G.
Johnson, Ed Locken, James S. MacKinnon, M. L. Mac
Spadden, Clyde O. Peterson, Republicans; Democrats
ire Amelia Gundersen, Robert E. Coughlin. Andrew
Hope, Marcus F. Jensen, Vernon M. Metcalfe, W. O.
Smith, B. D. Stewart.
The Washington
Merry-Go-Round
_tContinued tram Page One)
him. Soliday refused. Actually the
total amount kicked back is nearer
$10,000.
The amazing thing is the Con- .
gressman's explanation that the,
money was contributed to the Re- (
publican committee in Ohio, be- j
cause such a contribution is a viola- |
tion of the corrupt practices act.
Money paid to a Congressman for
clerical hire is paid by the tax
payers to help him serve his con
stituents back home and operate
his office efficiently. It is not paid
him for his personal use or to help
out any campaign fund or party
treasury.
It will be interesting to see what
if anything, the Justice Depart
ment does with this one.
Truman's Critic
Explanation which the White
House inner circle has put out re
garding the President’s intemperate
tirade against the Marine Corps is
that he thought the man he was
writing to—GOP Congressman Gor
don McDonough of California—was
an old artillery comrade of World
I.
However, the President, even now,
probably doesn’t realize how badly
he was mistaken.
This column, wanting to know in
what artillery unit Congressman
McDonough served, telephoned the
Congressman’s office. In his Con
gressional biography, McDonough
carefully lists his sons’ war re
cords, but says nothing about his
own. So I decided to get some de
tails on his artillery service. The
lady who answered the phone, how
ever, didn't seem to understand the
question.
"What was the Congressman’s
oufit in the First War?" she was
asked.
“Oh, the Congressman's family
have a great war record,” she re
plied. “He had five sons in World
War II."
“Yes, but I wanted to know about
his own record. What was his ar
tillery unit?"
“Well, he had three sons in the
Navy—Gordon Jr., Thomas and
James. .
“Yes, but what I am interested
in is the artillery unit in which
the Congressman himself served.”
The secretary still ducked the
quqestion, still wanted to talk about
the Congressman's children.
Later in the day and after re
peated calls to the office of "the
Republican gentleman from Cal
ifornia, it became apparent why his
office was ducking. The Congress
man, though raising cain with Tru
man and though of the right mili
tary age in World World I, simply
did not serve. He was busy, his oi
fice explained, working in a war
plant.
Tax Evasion
On Dec. 16, 1949, this column
began publication of a series of in
come-tax exposes showing how pol
itical pull had permitted big tax
payers to escape prosecution for in
come-tax evasion. One of these ex
poses showed how two Alabama
businessmen, Joseph Mitchell and
'Sam Ripps. had made more than a
million dollars selling GI jewelry
to Army PX's during the war and
cheated the government out of
about half a million dollars of in
come taxes.
Most significant part of the story
was how Ripps and Mitchell had
paid $12,000 to Ben Leader of Bir
mingham, Ala., former law part
ner of the U. S. Attorney, John
Hill, who was scheduled to try theii
case.
Although the Treasury Depart
ment had recommended criminal
prosecution, and though the Justice
Department sent the case to Bir
mingham for prosecution, U. S.
Attorney Hill and Justice Depart
ment attorneys later decided not to
try the case. At the time this col
umn published the facts, Dec. 16,
1949, the case was dead and its
I file was officially stamped "closed.”
Pica of Guilty
However, this writer was able to
dig up and publish further facts
in the case showing how Mitchell
and Ripps followed a system of let
ting their small checks and cash
accumulate. Then, when a large
check came in for PX jewelry, they
deposited the accumulated small
checks and cash to the same
amount of the big check, ta make
amount of the big check, to make
been cashed. Actually the big
| check was converted to a cashier's
check and sent by roundabout way
I through the Jefferson Investment
Co., of St. Louis, controlled by
Mitchell, to the Paramount Check
Cashing Company in New York.
When these and other facts were
published, the Justice Department
reopened the case, transferring it
away from U. S. Attorney Hill in
Birmingham.
All this was nearly one year ago. i
Last week, Ripps and Mitchell
walked into court and pled guilty.
U. S'. Judge John McDuffie sen
tenced them to two and a half and
three years respectively. And the
U. S. Attorney in Birmingham, who
incidentally issued vigorous de
nials when my first column was
published, had stanchly maintain
ed that it would be impossible to
get a conviction.
THESE DAYS
--BY-- ,
! GEORGE E. SOKOLSKY
POLICE STATE MENACE
The greatest menace to liberty
that faces the remaining free
world is that either by the force of
circumstances or by imitation,
totalitarian concepts of life are ab
sorbed and adopted.
The McCarran Act, which Con
gress passed over the President's
veto, whatever its necessity, is such ■
a measure. Half a century ago, no I
American could conceive of siih-1
ilar limitations upon human free- j
dom of thought and action. The
American assumption was that no
matter how wrong, how unorthodox,
how stupid a person's view might
be, he was entitled to express it,
as long as such expression did not
produce a dangerous overt act as
for instance, a riot.
As for the anarchists, they were
a tiny sect of men and women who
disliked power and force and gen
erally devoted themselves to dis
cussions of the writings of Bak
unin, Sorel, Ferrer, Prince Krop
otkin, and similarly minded writers.
Few of them believed in assassin
ation. Alexander Berkman, who
shot at Henry Frick, was the mild
est of men. Czolgosz, who assassin
ated President McKinley, was not
an anarchist, but because of him,
belief in the cooperative commu
nity without the employment of
force was made a crime in the i
United States, and is so today.
The McCarran Act deals with;
Communists, who present a special
sect in our midst, first, because
they are an apparatus of an inter
national body, strictly controlled as
to ideas and methods by Soviet'
Russia, which is today our self
proclaimed enemy; secondly, they
engage in espionage as has been
established in the Hiss, Coplon,
Fuchs and other trials and by
Congressional investigation.
VOTE FOR 11EWEW BAKER FOR
SCHOOL DIRECTOR.
VOTE FOR DEYVEW BAKER FOR
SCHOOL DIRECTOR.
October 2
Roy Carrigan
Charles E. Edgerton
Terrance Magorty
Lee Roy Drawe
Ethel Gleason
Rae Iverson
Cordelia McGowan
It is this circumstance which has
outraged American public opinion
rather than the canon of Marxian
dialectics, which few Americans
have bothered to study' and fewer i
still understand. As long as the
Communist devoted himself to lec- i
tuning and pamphleteering, that is,
from 1848 to 1934. he was regarded
as something of a freak in our
society, an intellectual separatist.
I recall, in my childhood, the
leader of American Marxists, Pan
iel De Leon, at one time professor
at Columbia University, who at
tracted more attention by the
peculiarities of his personality than
by the waywardness of his ideas.
Yet, De Leon left an impression
upon his generation, particularly
upon the outlook of Plekhanov and
Lenin, the two principal theorists
of Russian Marxism.
It was only after 1917, when
Lenin came into control of Russia,
almost by default, that Marxism
became an international problem
rather than one of many unusual
economic and social ideas.
So far as the United States is
concerned, Marxism made hardly
an impression until the exchange
of letters between Roosevelt and
Litvinov by w'hich this country
recognized Soviet Russia in 1933.
Although it was agreed by the
Russians that they would not en
gage in what we now call sub
versive activities, in the following
year, 1934, Harold Ware, an Am
erican who had spent a decade in
Russia in the reorganization of its
agricultural methods, was sent to
this country to organize Americans
into espionage and infiltration cells
against their own country.
The work of the Ware cells and
of other groups -moved with as
tounding velocity and it was im
possible to maintain the secrecy
which they desired. The House of
Representatives organized its com
mittee on un-American activities
to ferret out their activities.
This committee, under the chair
manship of Martin Dies, had to
start from scratch. The conspiracy
into which it delved seemed fan
tastic and, at times, preposterous.
No prior experience provided a
technique for investigation. For
tunately, at just the moment when
the committee's task seemed hope
less, Dr. J. B. Matthews, a fellow
traveler of great activity in the
Communist movement, fell out with
the party and joined the staff of
the committee.
Matthews knew more than he
could prove by such evidence as
could be accepted in our courts, but
he worked out a pattern of asso
ciation which has been followed
since, and which, while sometimes
unjust to individuals, has uncov
ered the Communist technique in
this coun'ry.
The problem that we now face is
to prevent the McCarran Act from
becoming a proscriptive measure
that will be used to limit discus
sion, criticism, scrutiny, examin
ation, protests and petition in the
United States. Like any other law,
the test of its worth will be in
its administration.
i "RAIN OR SHINE”
’ 'Enjoy weekend at TAKU LODGE.
$25 includes round trip transpor
| tation from Juneau; deluxe lodging,
i meals, fishing and sightseeing trips,
i Phone 202 for reservations. 592-tf
ACROSS
1» Musical ending
6. Old cloth
8. Gone by
12. State
positively
33. Greek letter
34. Operatic solo
15. Keeping
38. Individual
39. Before
20. Symbol for
tantalum
21. Gathers
23. Son of Noah
25. Term of
respect
26. Went in
29. Measures of
distance
33. Caustic alkali
34. Pouch
86. Masculine
nickname
87. Ancient race
40. Large shallow
dish
43. Corded fabric
45. Medicinal plant
4G. Airplane
shelter
49. Exist
50. Propel a boat
53. Old musical
note
54. Conduct one’s
self improp
erly
57. Made Into
cloth
69. Born
60. American
Indian tribe
61. Hastened
€2. Substance used
in road
making
63. Crooked
DOWN
1. Oversight
2. Finished
Solution of Saturday’s Puzzla
3. Hated
4. Southern
constellation
6. Gives another
title to
f. New Zealand
tribe or clan
7. Crews
8. Parent
9. Open court
10. Notice
1L Philippine
peasants
16. Roman road
17. “Douse that
22. Silkworm
-4. Pronoun
26. Tree
27. Brood of
pheasants
28. Drop bait
lightly on
the water
30. Able to read
and write
31. Piece out
32. East Indian
weight
35. Coagulated
sour milk
38. Unit of worl
39. Line of
junction
41. Leeward
42. As far as
44. Make letters
resembling
type
46. Chops
47. Unsymmetrical
48. Main body of
a church
5L Heated
chamber
52. Direction
55. Ocean
56. Boston
58. Short for a
man's name'
20 YEARS AGO -the empire
OCTOBER 2, 1930
Mrs. H. C. DeVighne returned from Vancouver, B. C. on the Princess
Louise after accompanying her daughter to Canada. Miss Dana DeVighne
ivas entered in the Strathcona Lodge School at Shaughnessy Lake, B. C.
O. E. Schombel had resigned from the operating department of the
Alaska Electric Light and Power Company to accept a position with the
Capital Electric Company. Mr. Schombel had for some time been an
jnnouncer for KFIU, the local broadcasting station owned and operated
by the A. E. L. & P. Co.
—
Declaring that the security of the Southeast Alaska lumber industry
was threatened by the increasing popularity of paper cartons, C. T.
Gardner urged he Juneau Chamber of Commerce to take positive action
at the October 18 convention of cannery operators in Bellingham, Wash.,
in an effort to keep the business in the Territory. Another speaker
was Dr. J. B. Loftus, Territorial veterinary surgeon, who had just re
turned from visiting Southeast Alaska fur farms.
C. W. Ask, veteran merchant of Skagway, saw a number of Juneau
friends while the Admiral Rogers was in port. He hhd been visiting
his son, Harry Ask, who succeeded to his father’s business. The elder Mr.
Ask was living in Seattle.
Mrs. W. J. Manahan. former Juneauite and sister of Mrs. Winifred
Jones of Gordon’s, arrived on the Queen with her sons. She planned
a short visit here before returning to Ketchikan, where her husband
had been afpointed Admiral Line agent.
Weather: High, 50; low, 40; rain.
Daily Lessons in English l. Gordon
WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “It is not I who is going
with you.” Say, “It is not I who AM going with you.”
OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Luxury. Pronounce. the first syllable
as LUCK, not as LUG so often heard.
OFTEN MISSPELLED: Admit; one T. Admittance; two T’s.
SYNONYMS: Noteworthy, remarkable, exceptional, extraordinary.
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:
INCOHERENTLY; in an inconsistent or unconnected manner. (Pro
nounce first ,E as in HE, accent third syllable). “The man spoke inco
herently as he poured out his story..”
MODERN ETIQUETTE ROBERTA LEE
Q. Don’t you think it rude for a man to take a girl to a dance,
and then dance with other girls for four or live consecutive dances?
A. This is extremely ill-mannered. A man, when escorting a girl
to a dance, assumes full responsibility for her and should never dance
with another gii'l unless he knows that his companion has a partner
for that dance.
Q. Which is the proper expression. “The boy was named for his
father,” or, “The boy was named after his father”?
A. The prefererd form is, “The boy was named FOR his father.”
Q. Is it necessary for a bereaved person to return calls of con
dolence?
A. No; this is not required nor expected.
LOOK and LEARN i! a GORDON
1. What is the chief commercnil city of the U. S. Gulf States?
2. In what game are the time and scoring divisions called “chuk
kers”?
3. By whom in the Bible were the word spoken, “Whither thou
goest, I will go,” and to whom were they spoken?
, 4. What great American frontiersman was killed at the Battle of
the Alamo?
5. What is the origin of the word “fed”?
ANSWERS:
1. New Orleans, La.
2. Polo.
3. By Ruth to her mother-in-law, Naomi.
4. David Crockett.
5. The first letters of the phrase "for a day.”
Dr. Ted Oberman
Optometrist
Eye 3 Examined Telephone 26ft
Visual Trainino Eimpson Blob.. Juneau
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Weather at *
Alaska Points
Weather concuucns ana 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 37—Partly Cloudy
Annette Island . 50—Clear
Barrow . 30—Snow
Bethel . 44—Partly Cloudy
Cordova . 48—Partly Cloudy
Dawson 33—Partly Cloudy
Edmonton . 27—Cloudy
Fairbanks —. 32—Partly Cloudy
Haines . 37—Clear
Havre . 29—Partly Cloudy
Juneau Airport. 30—Clear
Kodiak . 47—Rain
Kotzebue . 38—Partly Cloudy
McGrathh . 43—Clear
Nome . 47—Partly Cloudy
Ncrthway . 29—Partly Cloudy
Petersburg . 34—Clear
Portland . 42—Clear
Prince George .-. 14—Fog
Seattle . 33—Partly Cloudy
Sitka . 52—Cleai
Whitehorse . 36—Clear
Yakutat 39—Partly Cloudy
POPULATION OF
JUNEAU IS ON
THE INCREASE
A noteworthy item of news was
lost during' an excessively busy
weekend due to the increased ac
tivity brought about by two politi
cal campaigns.
A proud mother, Beetlebaum,
wishes to announce to the people
of Juneau the birth of two children
at 10 a.m., Saturday. The two, Snaky
and Miss ifectle, are the children of
one of the Snake Pit Bar’s thorough
bred guinea pigs.
TIDE TABLE
October 3
Low tide midnight 2.8 ft.
High tide 6:20 a.m., 11.1 ft.
Low tide 11:53 a.m, 7.1 ft.
High tide 5:41 p.m., 13.2 ft.
V. F. W.
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