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DEEPENING CRISIS
This present conflict in Korea is only one of many
danger points on the rim of the Soviet world. And
it is not by anv means the most important to our
security.
There still is no reason whatever to suppose the
Soviet Government is looking for a global showdown
with the Ufiited States. But there is a more and more
evidence to suggest that the attack in Korea was a
feint, or else one of a half dozen thrusts designed
to disperse the forces of the West.
New demands have been made by the Russians
on the Government of Iran, closely linked with Am
erican interests in that country. There are clear hints
of new Soviet pressure at Berlin. And—most ominous
of all — troop movements in Bulgaria are forcing
Marshal Tito to maintan his army in the utmost readi
ness
Lesser fires could be started in Malaya and Indo
china, where substantial Communist elements are
available to serve as willing tools of an over-all con
tinental strategy shaped in the Kremlin.
The knowledge of these possible Soviet moves
is a major factor in American strategic planning.
And it raises one very serious question of military
policy—whether we have kept enough mobile striking
power in readiness to deal with a whole series of t
small-scale threats at widely scattered places. The
Korean attack caught us with only one aircraft carrier
in Far Eastern waters. Yet carrier-based air power
is by all odds the most flexible weapon we have for
use in "limited wars” far from our own shores.
The Marine Corps is our primary amphibious
force. Yet the new crisis found us with no Marines
stationed within 6,000 miles of Korea until units were
ordered there recently. Our military policy for five
years has been shaped for the gigantic struggle that
we and the whole world fear. We have failed, mean
time, to keep in readiness and in wide deployment
the arms so important for police actions, supporting
operations and small wars of limited objective in
remote places.
However tempting it may be therefore, to pour
everything possible into Korea to do a swift, dramatic
job, the government is obliged to look at the big
picture. The primary threat is not North Korea, but
the Soviet Union. And we cannot be sure yet where
the most deadly thrust will be made.
Querulous Quirino
(Washington Post)
President Quirino is trying to divert the lightning
from his own head and whip up a feeling among the
Filipinos against ''imperialists” in America on the
ground that they want to reoccupy the islands. It
is an ancient device. In the Philippines it paid poli
tical dividends in the days of such strong governors
general as Leonard Wood. But Quirino's "enemy" is
a straw man. The Filipinos are free, no longer wards,
but friends. And they .know it—and know, moreover,
that when their independence is in danger, the United
States is ready to come to their assistance and de
fend it. Many new countries u*>uld like to have the
same assurance, but the Philippines live in the know
ledge, and the people cherish it.
For this reason the American people are troubled
over the whittling away of that independence by mis
government and mismanagement. They would like
to help, but only when they are convinced that help
would be effective. That is a problem for the Filipinos
themselves. In the meantime the work of the com
mission under the Vice-President in investigating graft
and rooting it out will be watched sympathetically.
If this is done successfully, then the confidence of the
Filipinos in their government has a chance of being
restored and the Vice-President would find this Na
tion as gratified as his own. Americans would like
nothing better than to tender their appreciation per
sonally in the event that he can cope with his assign
ment.
If the people had as much faith in their own
government as they have in the United States, there
would be no problem in the Philippines. They know
who is to blame for the mess they are in.
“If you were transported to the sun, you couldn’t
stand on its surface because it is a gaseous body, ’
asserts an astronomer. Another reason you couldn't
stand on it is that your legs would be burned off.
THESE DAYS
- - E Y - -
GEORGE E. SOKOLSKY
TERROR BY LAW
Gecrge N. Craig, national com
mand- t of the American Legion, in
an kr •IcH fflfllHB^rror By Law *
reco nts hew in a suburb of New
York a real American arose to
speah. Let George Craig tell it:
"He got up at a town meeting
and declared, ‘This town is under
the thumb of a gang of pinks and
reds and it's time that the real
Americans here did something
about it.’
“Minutes later, this old-timer was
approached by two men of the
Communist-led faction whom he
knew to be lawyers. One of them
shoved his fist in his face.
“ 'You've just committed a vic
ious slander,’ he said, ’and unless
you retract it publicly, we're going
to sue.’
• uo ahead and sue,’ he replied.
'Wl:., I said is true and you know
it.’
“‘Majbe so,’ the lawyer said,
‘but you'll still have to hire lawyers
to defend you and before we’re
through with you, it’ll cost you
every cent you have.’ ”
There is lots of that going on,
particularly in the matter of libel
suits, which, while they might be
lost by ■the suer, prove expensive,
embarrassing, and time-wasting for
the suee. The young McCulloughs
had to give a year of their lives
to defending themselves from the
charge of libel that ordinarily would
oe regarded as a passing judgment
upon a current and local problem.
There is a device that helps along
the terrorization of patriotic clti
zehs. It is the examination before
trial. The theory of this process
is that to save time and money,
the lawyers and contestants get
together and remove from the need
for trial those issues upon which
there can be common agreement.
So the formalitise of the trtal
are eliminated. The judge and jury
are not present. The hearing is
held in one of the lawyer's offices.
The rules of evidence are not ad
hered to. A careiul record of the
proceedings is kept and what Is
agreed upon goes into the trial by
stipulation.
If honestly and conscientiously
conducted, such a hearing before
trial is a very valuable time and
money saver. But if a foxy lawyer
gets someone in his clutches, he
asks ali sorts of questions, which
may not be related to the subject.
For instance, he might in pursuit
of malice, try to adduce psychol
ogical reactions in childhood to ex
ple.n why a certain political pos
ition was taken. Also he cotild
ask questions which would never
be tolerated in a court of law or
among gentlemen eCen in a bar
room.
Tt has been my experience as a
nt wspaperman tiiat when a lawyer
cbjects to reporters being present
at such a hearing, something un
savory is in the offing. Often
when a man sues and gets into one
of t, ese preliminary hearings, he,
who thought himself to be the
plaintiff, discovers that he has been
made the defendant, even to the
extent of explaining why, as a child,
he played with his sister's dolls.
The Communists are not t*ne
only ones who employ this form
of Jerror. It is quite general and
i often results in a settlement where
tThere should be none, which, of
I course, is the object.
For instance, if two nominal
Catholics are fighting each other
in the courts and the issue is un
related to Jews, but one lawyer
gets busy and works up a stew Co
show that his opponent's client
knows half a dozen alleged or
asserted anti-Semites, what does it
prove?
It proves that he knows them.
It does not prove that he agrees
I with them, likes them, supports
them, or that he hates Jews. Never
theless. the lawyer can make quite
a situation out of that, embarrass
ing his opponent's client, partic
uuarly if he has many Jewish
friends.
Congressional committees go in
for this sort of thing so much
hat it has become accepted prac
tise. The extraneous questions
and answers do not help the com
mittee to draw up legislation,
which is why they exist. It is
done to help one group smear an
other. It is an instrument of pol
itical and social purge. Yet, when
Senator Hickenlooper made his
charges against the atomic energy
commission and could not prove
them without giving away national
secrets, he was ridiculed. Then
Klaus Fuchs was arrested and con
fessed and Gold, Slack and Green
glass were arrested. Hickenlooper
was proved to be correct. Yet, it
was Hickenlooper, not the spies,
who were smeared.
JIRP BOTANIST
HERE FOR STUDY
OF 3 GLACIERS
To the thousands of tourists who
visit here each summer, Southeast
Alaska offers unsurpassed scenery
for photographs and remembering.
To Dr. Donald B. Lawrence, bot
anist and glacier expert, this area
provides opportunities for studying
glacier recession “on a magnificent
scale." also glacier advance while in
progress. “This is particularly ex
citing," Lawrence says, "because
there are so few' places in the world
for such study.”
Dr. Lawrence, associate professor
of botany at the University of Min
nesota, arrived Tuesday with Mrs.
• Lawrence for his third summer of
study in the Juneau environs and
at Glacier Bay Monument. H/
learns about the ice tongues largely
through a technique using tree
rings and aerial photographs.
With his wife, who assisted him
last year, and Paul V. Livingston
I of the University of Oregon Geology
Department, Lawrence will set up a
low-level camp Monday at Herbert
Glacier, to continue the study of
Herbert, Mendenhall and Eagle
I
1 Glaciers by tree-age determinations. I
I Livingston will join him here this
week, after completing early-season
work with the Juneau Icefield Re
i search Project on the Juneau Ice
Cap.
The trio will be spared some of
the difficulties of the 1949 work at
Herbert. Then, the group stayed in
the Satko cabin and had a strenu
ous two-mile hike through dense
underbrush to reach the field loca
tion.
Thanks to the cooperation of the
U.S. Forest Service, the scientists
will cross from the south, which is
easy of access, at a point w'ell up the
Herbert River, almost opposite their
work site.
Lawrence considers that, of all
the glaciers surveyed, Herbert is
the most promising for providing
further detailed information. Men
denhall has been especially import
ant for working out exact tech
niques.
The three-week intensive study
of the three glaciers is part of the
JIRP research sponsored by the
American Geographical Society.
That organization is co-sponsor of
the three-week work which Law
rence will undertake August 1. The
Lawrences and Livingston will be
joined by W. O. Field and his
daughter, Diana, for the Glacier
Bay expedition.
Field, who heads the A.G.S. De
partment of Exploration and Field
Research, was here on similar work j
last year. Both he and Lawrence
began their Glacier Bay studies in j
1941. I
They will continue the study of1:
ACROSS
L Bustle
4. Object of
worship
1 Charge pel
unit
12. Tear
13. Western city
14. First victim
of murder
IB. Wayfarer
17. Sly look
18. Moon goddess
19. Arabian
chieftain
21. Places In
position
23. Nest of a
bird of prey
26. Wholly
occupied
29. Infallible
81. Wing
32. Go furtively
33. Recent: comb.
form
34. Mixtures
36. Eg^pUan sun
37. Tranquillity
38. Italian painter
40. Pedal digits
42. White
Mountain
peak
46. Couple
48. False show
00. Former czar r«
51. Early
alphabetic
character
02. Nothing 05.
f _ :g[6j
a a eBs o R i Be HE;
pIoImBsInIeIeBpieIbIdI
Solution of Yesterday’s Puzzle
Cronies
Large marine
mollusks
Juice of a tree
DOWN
1. Branches of
learning
2. Terrible
3. Gem
4. Goddess of
peace
6. Taking out
6. Unit
7. Learning
8. Straight two*
edged sword
9. Wandering
10. Golf peg
11. Wild animal
16. Sleeveless
garment
20. Target
22. Expression of
contempt
24. Arrow poison
25. English school
26. Inclined walk
27. Toward shelter
28. Magnificent
30. Right of using
another's
land
32. Large knlfs
35. Oak nuts
36. English river
39. Memoranda
41. Active
43. Hotels
44. Continent
45. Assist
46. Apple seed
47. Topaz
humming
bird J
49. Regret
JULY 15
Patricia Ellen Roberts
■Maudie Graham
Sam Paul Sr.
Harry Hendrickson
Mrs. Robert Hurley
Alvan Weathers, Jr.
JULY 16
Charlotte Reynolds
Mrs. Clarence Walthers
Geraldine Adamson
May Thompson
R. M. McGiven
Belle Stevenson
L. C. Keith
Joe Crosson, Jr.
development of vegetation on re
cently deglaciated terrain, with
special reference to the importance
of alder in the succession. Alder
greatly stimulates the growth of
other plants growing nearby, a cir
cumstance which will be studied in
detail.
For this trip, the scientists have
chartered the vessel Gallivanter of
Ketchikan, a former Coast Guard
boat owned by M. J. Bucey and
skippered by Frank Larson.
This expedition is sponsored by
the Arctic Institute of North
America, the American Philosop
hical Society, the University of
Minnesota Graduate School and
the American Geographical Society.
Through the related studies of
Plant Ecologist Lawrence and his
group and those of the JIRP party !
on the Juneau Ice Cap, it is hoped j
to predict climatic cycles and, j
therefore, changes in water supply ,
and potential power, both in this
area and in others touched by great
weather curves.
At the higher level, research will
attempt to explain great glacial per
iods. Lawrence believes they are re
lated to changes in the sun’s action,
rather than anything which hap
pens on the earth by itself.
I
KEITH G. WILDES IS
AGAIN WINNER OF
INSURANCE AWARD
NEW YORK, July 15— (Special) —
Special recognition has been given
to Keith G. Wildes of Juneau, Al
aska, a leading member of t'ne
New York Life Insurance Company’s
field force of more than 5,600
agents throughout the United States
and Canada, who for the fifth
consecutive year has been named
a winner of the National Quality
Award given jointly by the Na
tional Association of Life Under
writers and the Life Insurance
Agency Management Association.
In a letter from Dudley Dowell,
Vice President in charge of Agency
Affairs for the Company, Wildes
was commended on consistently
qualifying for the aw-ard in each
of the past five years. He was
also presented with a special 5-year
certificate by the two associations.
The National Quality Award is
a recognition given annually to life
underwriters "who conduct them
selves according to the highest
standards of ethics and who main
tain a high standard of compe
tence by means of continuous study
and practice.”
To qualify for the award, a life
insurance agent must have dem
onstrated a high degree of service
to policyholders as indicated by the
percentage of life insurance sold
by the agent in a two-year period
being continued in force.
For Plastering and Tile—rnone
Ray Rice—Douglas 21.
20 YEARS AGO the empire
JULY 17, 1950 •
After a nine-month absence, Prank A. Boyle, former U. S. Commis
sioner and one of the Democratic nominees for the House of Represen
tatives, returned on the steamer Aleutian. Six months of his absence
were spent in a world tour that took him to most of the principal
countries of the globe and into many out-of-the-way places.
Terminating an assignment to the port of Juneau that lasted for
a decade, the U. S. Coast Guard cutter Unalga had sailed, with Balti
more as her ultimate destination. According to her skipper, Crd. J. A.
Starr, the Unalga was to go out of commission and be virtually rebuilt,
transformed into an oil burner. Other skippers of the Unalga during
her notable service in Alaskan waters had been Captain Brockway, Cap
tain Boedecker, Commander Finlay, Captain Weightman and Captain
Addison.
Miss Caroline Todd, wellknown local musician, returned on the Prin
cess Louise after a year’s study in Boston at the New England Con
servatory of Music and the Emerson College of Oratory.
To meet Gilbert Skinner, president of the Alaska Pacific Salmon
Corporation, the airplane Taku, Robert E. EUlis, pilot, and Prank
Hatcher, mechanic, left for Funter Bay. Skinner had wirelessed that
he wanted to go from Punter to Port Althorp.
Douglas City Wharfinger Charles' Schramm Was the proud owner
of a motorcycle which he had just received and which would make com
muting easier between his home and the wharf.
Weather: High, 58: low, 50; misting.
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Daily Lessons in English l. cordon
WORDS OFTEN MISUSED. Do not say, "He spoke with a slow
drawl.” This is redundant. Say, “He spoke with a drawl,” as DRAWL
means a slow, lengthened utterance.
OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Expose (noun, meaning an exposure of
something discreditable). Pronounce eks-po-za, E as in EGG, O as in
NO, A as in ATE, accent last syllable.
OFTEN MISSPELLED: Wholesome: retain the E after the L.
SYNONYMS: Naughty, mischievous, disobedient, wayward.
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:
SOMNOLENT; sleepy, drowsy; inclined to sleep. (Pronounce first O as
in ON, second O as in NO, accent first syllable). “I remember him as
a lazy, rather somnolent youth.”
MODERN ETIQU ETTI: ROBERTA lee
Q. When a young man escorts a woman home after the theatre or
a dance, should he ask for her key and unlock the door, or should she do
this after he has left?
A. It is courteous for the man to unlock the door and see that the
woman is safely in the house before he leaves.
Q. Should the bread and butter plates remain on the table through
out the entire meal?
A. No; they should be removed from the table just prior to serving
the dessert.
Q. Upon which finger does a man wear a wedding ring, when the
double-ring ceremony is used?
A. He wears a wedding ring, as the woman does, on the finger next
to the little finger of his left hand.
LOOK and LEARN A. C. GORDON
1 when was the only time Franklin D. Roosevelt lost an election?
2. What bay lie*-, between France and Spain?
3. Where is the oldest continuously inhabited community in the
United States?
4. Who was the first martyr of the Christian faith?
5. What is the characteristic difference between a frog and a toad?
ANSWERS:
1. In 1920, when he ran for Vice-President on the ticket with
James Cox; they were defeated by Harding and Coolidge.
2. Bay of Biscay.
3. Oraibi, Arizona, in the Hopi Indian Reservation, is believed to
be the oldest.
4. Stephen.
5. A frog has teeth, and a toad has none.
Dr. Ted Oberman
Optometrist
Eyes Examined Telephone SEE
Visual Traininu Bimpbon BloA., Juneau
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TIDE TABLE
JULY 16
High tide 2:14 a.m., 17.1 ft.
Low tide 8:54 a.m., -2.3 ft.
High tide 15:17 p.m.’ T5.2 ft.
Low tide 20:58 p.m., 3.1 ft.
JULY 17
High tide 2:51 a.m., 17.2 ft.
Low tide 9:29 a.m., -2.2 ft.
High tide 15:49 p.m., 15.5 ft.
Low tide 21:38 p.m., 2.7 ft.
Weather at
AlaskaPoints
Weather conditions and temper
atures at various Alaska points
llso on the Pacific Coast, at 4:30
am.. 120th Meridian Time, and
released by the Weather Bureau
ire as follows :>
Anchorage . 51—Cloudy
Annette Island . 51—Drizzle
Barrow . 37—Fog
Bethel . 54—Partly Cloudy
Cordova . 39—Clear
Dawson . 51—Fog
Edmonton . 52—Cloudy
Fairbanks . 53—Fog
Haines . 51—Cloudy
Havre . 53—Partly Cloudy
Juneau Airport . 52—Cloudy
Kodiak . 48—Cloudy
Kotzebue . 56—Partly Cloudy
McGrath 52—Partly Cloudy
Noir.3 . 47—Fog
Northway 46—Partly Cloudy
Petersburg 51—Rain
Portland . 54—Clear
I Prince George . 48—Cloudy
I &eattle .. 53—Cloudy
Sitka . 50—Cloudy
Whitehorse 45—Partly Cloudy
Yakutat.49—Cloudy
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WIL GAMES
_
Final scores of WIL games last
night are as follows:
Wenatchee 4-2, Tacoma 2-8.
Vancouver 5, Yakima 0.
Victoria 11. Tri-City 5.
Salem 6, Spokane 4.
It requires 50,000 horsepower to
provide the right amount of force
for the latest supersonic wind tun
nel for testing aircraft.
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