THESE DAYS 1
By GEOllGE E. SOKOLSKY 1
(Copyright. 1851, Kins features ,
Syndicate. Inc.)
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A Misunderstood Country
It is indeed tragic that the re a
of the world so completely mi un
derstands the United States. The
question arises o< to whether we j
understand ourselves. If we do.!
we have not been able to convey
to the rest, of the world what it is
that we believe.
During World War II. our main
propaganda agencies were, of course,;
the State Department and the OWI. I
managed by Elmer Davis and j
Joseph Barnes. Nelson Rockefeller ,
operated a unit that was supposed |
to produce a "good neighbor policy ’ |
far Central and South America.
Then along came “The Voice of i
America” which i; a very expensive j
organization but somehow it makes i
no impression on the rest cf the j
world.
Professor Saul K. Padover mak:sj
the point:
‘Unlike the Soviet Union, the,
United States has taken no steps]
to train political propagandists or]
pcolpe to wage psychological war- j
fare . . . there should be in V.'i -h- j
ington a high-level staff, to set up;
and supervise a political and opera- j
tional training center. Such ant
institution should, after severe
screening and testing, recruit the,
ablest and most imaginative enndi- |
dates regardless of age or ex. andj
train them both politically and'
technically. This is specially impart- |
ant bee v, e all vyorld-p dr ■ al QSi
indicate'that we are In Tor'a' long 1
conflict on ideological grounds, and
one that will continue whether there
is shooting or not . . .”
Our tendency has been to turn ,
thl; job over to advertising and pub- ]
lie relations men. Their training j
unsuits them far the work. An
advertising man does not need to
believe in the product he sells. He
may be a cigar smoker who despise
cigarettes; yet he will write "bril
liant” copy to promote cigarettes.
He thinks in slogans rather than
ideas.
The curreift American type of
public relations man i a far ciy
from Lemuel Eli Quigg or I\y L<
who were idealists. They served not
their clients as much as the ideas
in which they believed and advised
their clients accordingly. Too .. .nv
American business men hire cud
fire public relations counsel as they
do foremen and are served accord
ingly.
In the battle over ideas, the tech
nics developed to sell "body odor.,
or to write dull speeches for halt
ing industrialists will not serve.
There must be faith, sincerity, con
viction. Every agent must be fervid,
even fanatical in his acceptance of
a view.
Let us see what we want to say
to the world. It can bo stated
simply:
1. The United States belives that
every individual on the face of the
earth possesses inalienable rights,
among them life, liberty and the
pursuit of happiness, and the own
ership of property protected by 1 w;
2. The United States believes that
these rights are not a product of
legislation or administration, but
that they are manifestations of
God's will; that they come from
nature’s God and nature's law;
3. The United States has no as
pirations to increase its territory or
to take over any people;
4. The United States believes that
every people, great or small, is
entitled to a government of its
own choice, selected as the people
themselves determine without inter
ference by any other government
by any means, by war, by propa
ganda. by infiltration, by intrigue.
5. The United States is commit
ted to an association of nations in
which any nation may be a member
if its people so desire. No such asso
ciation may be regarded as sat
isfactory as long as independent
and sovereign nations are excluded
from membership.
Few people in any country believe
that the United States has not
been using its billions of give-away
dollars for some ulterior purpose.
Texas Big Game
Hunters Had a Loiia
lusk, Lotta Fan
Those Texans with hunting t; > i
phies aboard the cars who caused
so much interest in town between
their arrival on the MV Chilkoot
and departure for the south or.
the Bnranof Sunday were Mr. and
Mrs. Marvin Key and three boy -1
from Knapp, Mr. and Mrs. Nolo.:',
von Roeder from Snyder, and Mr.
and Mrs. Claude Thomas from
Post, Texas.
From Snyder, over the Ala ; .a
Highway to Fairbanks wasn t
enough for these traveling Tex
ans. When they got to Fairbanks
they made the Wcin Airways trip
to Kotzebue which they thought
‘•mighty fin'’.'' Returning south,
the men in tne party started a
15-day hunt from Jacquot brothers
lodes at Burwash Landing.
"We don’t know whether it
wa. a cord hunt or not, but we
got three sheep, three grizzlies
and two moose and hats a Salt i
tur," Key and voh Boeder sail
Lefore leaving Juneau.
The paity of nine with two cars
arrived in Juneau by terry from
Haines and had the good luck to
travel with Juneau’s Pete Schnei
der who showed them around while
they were in town.
A fish fiy, special with Tee Har
bor halibut and ice cream made
with Mendenhall glacier ice was
arranged for them by the Rev.
James Bolton. Juneau Baptist
minister who is from down south,
too. •
When they aren’t hunting, the
Texans are cattle ranchers and
cotton growers on a big scale.
2 Juneau Sips!
C«ps Mss Set
Sergeant Stripes
Two Juneau men on the staff of
the Alaska Communications System
have been promoted from corporal
to sergeant, it was announced today
by Col. Fred P. Andrew,;, comman
der of the system.
They are Irwin Sower and Jasper
N. Tyler.
Other promotions in the service
in Alaska include Francis N M?.r
kry, Seward; Jasper W. Pedersen,
Sitka: Elbert C. Scott, Adak; Gor
don E. Stanton, Cathedral Bluffs;
George R. Wallace, Fairbanks, pro
moted from corporal to sergeant.
James b. Morton, Ketchikan, andj
Kenneth M. Rosevold at Anchorage
were promoted from private first
class to corporal and the following
privates received their private first
class rating: Robert M. Arnson,
Paul A. Praderio and Harold M.
Wakeley of Fairbanks; Philip G.
Dierstein. Richard V. Kuhl and Gor
don R. Pennington of Ketchikan;
Charles W. Glasgow, Chris H. Kort
ner, Miller A. Mathews, Jr., Francis
K. Sheehan and Lin K. Watson, all
of Anchorage.
The belief that the United States
seeks something selfish and mat
erialistic is so generally held that
it can only be the product of our
own activities.
Soviet Russia has been magnifi
cently successful in painting Amer
ica as a selfish, materialistic, im
perialistic country that hates all
people who are not “white.” Pro
fessor Padover tells this story:
“. . .this writer heard Asian stu
dents say that ‘it is a well known
fact’ that during World War II
the United States dropped the atom
bomb on the Japanese because the
latter were a yellow race and did
not drop it on the Germans because
they were white. ‘Everybody in
Asia,’ the students added, ‘know,
that to be true.’ ”
It is terrifying how such an ut
terly false idea can be accepted and
believed and spread. Yet ideas such
as these are being circulated and
believed throughout the world.
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Eugene “Tiny” Adkins, if*, 682-pounder of Long Eeach, Calif., rests
in his special tench wish four-by-four legs and surveys a chair
which collapsed sms or him. Four city firemen huffed and puffed
to gVt him on hi., led w hen family members were unable to tlo so.
This v,.:s the second weight;, problem foe ri'\ fh'.-men in a week.
A 640-pcund disc jockrv, Guy N. Cherry, was injured it: a ear crash
and firemen wen cod .1 to lead him into an ambulance, i.W Wii’epiioto.
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That ad«- ng look tor CpI. Richard F. \V . b is from his wife, Jean,
who held one of the two medals the 18-year-old Air Force hero
received in Bolling Field ceremonies. Webb, horn in Meadvil'.'a, Fa.,
anu later a resident of Gent .a, N. V., was awarded the Silver Star
icr gallantry ia Kt:'aa when he continued directing aerial strikes
after his position was overrun by the enemy. Later a North Korean
soldier stood ever him and fired a pistol at his head—the bullet
glancing off a metal patch imbedded in his for. head after a traffia
accident lour years ago in Geneva. For that he received the Purple
Hcait, his second medal.
did YOU know that...
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...Travellers
cheques
V can be purchased from any
Canadian Pacific agent
Vcan be cashed anywhere
You can buy Canadian Pacific Express Travellers
Cheques in U.S. or Canadian dollars, quickly, easily,
from any Canadian Pacific agent and most banks ... if
they are lost or stolen, their full value ^ill be refunded.
They can be used just like money—you don’t have
to go to a bank to cash them. Any shop, restaurant,
hotel, railway office will give you full value for them.
Your signature is your identification.
For full injormation see Wm. K. McFarlane,
Canadian Pacific agent, Juneau, Alaska.
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' wiling Fishing
levies Being Taken
! >•• Taferij l
li C ^Blu‘3-2 EtU * ;rj
!
j L-vision movie currently peine
] en at Taku Lodge have been
forward under favorable
v a her conditions, Royal O’Reilly,
i ’ e manager reported here yes
terday.
’ Malcolm Greany. local photo,t
, 'icr who is doing the camera
v. ik, has had plenty of fish, and
1 a! ermen-ector3 in the scenes. Star
;or of the fishing series is Tod
': b, outdoor writer for the San
■lei.-co Chronicle. Steve Ban
j it ift, Pan American pi!ot, of San
. - co. has been feature ).
i Assisting to give loc il color were
u wing weekend lodge guest
■ Juneau: B. F. Dunn, traffic
i r • of PA-': Carol and Sh’r'ey
. D i; of the Snap Shoppe: Pauline
; ■ den of the Employment Security
, ?■ mission and other-.
An unexpected shot occurred
"•lien the party was outboardisv
wn Twin Glacier Lake and circled
dimming brown bear who np
.’red frustrated at the • inuti n.
Another exciting morftent got on
fdm when Bancroft lo'-t h'-; f iverit
'urc to (wo trout fighting ove - i
■ Bo dived to retrieve it losing his
j i. w fishing cap on top of tiie
water as he went under. A second
later he arose with the lure, and
| came up under the floating cap.
j The television movies arc to be
■used by a San Francisco fishing
tackle manufacturing firm to pub
■ fi hing in the Juneau area^
ARRIVES HERE TO
MAKE NEW HOME
To join her husband here and
make their future fyjme in Juneau,
Mr . C. W. Peterikand small daugh
! ter Vallie Jean, arrived on the
| : .-nrr.er Aleutian Monday,
j Peters is Territorial price exec
I utive with the Office of Price Sta
bilisation.
For the past month Mrs. Peters
and daughter have been visiting
| relatives in Wisconsin. The fam
ily home was formerly in Palo
| Alto, Calif.
Mrs. Peters is no newcomer to
Alaska. During- World War II she
. erred with the U. S. Army at Fort
Richardson and McKinley National
I Park part of the time as a clerk -
stenographer and part of the time
1 as junior hostess. The Peters lived
I in Palmer for two years fallowing
i the war.
They have taken an apartment
in the new Mendenhall building.
VISITORS FROM CORDOVA
,£ Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Berry of Cor
| dova are registered at the Gastineau
! Hotel.
Eifrn Cove I
Hews Notes !
I
ELFIN COVE, (Special to The
Empire)—Mrs. Roy Clements was
very happy Tuesday when her
brother towed her hand trolling
boat here that, her father built j
for her in Hoonah. The next morn
ing she was out very early.
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Mrs. Ralph Alexander and her
mall son Stephen and niece Max
ine were on their way to thou-,
home in Tacoma, Wash, after |
pending their vacation in the j
Co', e l his summer. They left here |
\ ia Alaska Coastal for Juneau and j
Pan American from Juneau home.I
Mis. Alexander plans another va-j
cat’cn lure next year.
The • Seine boat Yukon II took
uel cil supplies at the Standard
Oil Company here Tuesday.
Mrs. Charles I.v (her and three
children are leaving for Juneau
1 hursday via Alaska Coasts!. Mia.
Le. her will put the cliildr ui ini
school, but Posher will trail the]
. ra.son out here.
The tug boat Margaret Fo: ;
towed i he Standard Oil barge he e
Saturday and filled the tanks with
gas, diesel and stove oil.
Mr. and Mrs. Max Dorman on j
their ttoilet Foxy will r .'turn so
their home in Punter Bay this'
fall. The- BornvAnsmpi ut last wiu-j
ter here in the Cove.
Mr. and Mrs. George Baker, j
newlyweds from Juneau, were in
the Cove Sunday on their trolley j
Sub. The Bakers vi: ited triends
before going trolling.
Mrs. Frank Barber will go to
Juneau Thursday via Alaska Coa- j
xt.nl for an indefinite stay.
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Man Drowns Saving j
Daughter's Life j
BELLINGHAM, Wash., Sept. 5—
(at—Efforts by a Bellingham maa
to save his five-year-old daughter
from drowning after the boat
from which he was fishing cap
sized in Lake Nelson, B. C., ended
in his own death Sunday.
Emil T. Thompson, 30. slipped (
to the bottom of the Caribou Coun- •
try lake after two companions I
arrived at the scone and pulled
his daughter, Joan, whom he was
holding up, safely. Into their boat.
Thompson’s- wile,. Idctito.
1 the boat, managed to 'cling to the
overturned craft until help arrived, j
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