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Tuesday, August 28, 1951
COEXISTENCE WON'T WORK
Arc those people who were so entranced with the
prospect of peace when Mr. Malik suggested an armi
stice two months ago still of the same opinion?
It was a beautiful prospect . War over, reduction
in armaments, resumption of trade between the Com
munists and the rest of the world!
With that prospect, the doubter was a skeptic
indeed.
But there were doubters two months ago, and there
should be more now.
That is the Opinion Dana Adams Schmidt, New
York Times correspondent now stationed in Paris after
two years in Czhechoslovakia, expressed in an article
in a recent New York Times Magazine.
"Coexistence—A Lesson from History” is his title
and he sees the fate of Czechoslovakia standing as a
warning to the western nations when the Communists
speak of peace.
Coexistence sounded fine to the Czechs. It was
the principle behind the "national front” regimes with
which the satellite countries began the post-war
period.
"The Communist party pretended to be a party
like any other, willing to abide by the rules, to live
and let live,” Mr. Schmidt points out. "There were
to be equal rights for all parties in political life, for
nationalized enterprises and private business in eco
nomic life, for Eastern and Western traditions in cul
tural life,” he explains.
But it didn't work in spite of the earnest effort
of the democratic Czechs.
"Czechoslovakia, then, is a case history by which
to judge Communist promises, a warning today of the
priril^«P^Wi)IIKei1W!y*^W»Wl<lWW<lt sWs.
' TJ»- -Czech" experiment -was; -utvft>rt-atts4ely;-based
from the beginning on the fallacious assumption of
Communist goodwill, according to Mr. Schmidt who
knows whereof he speaks.
His warning is the same as that given by Thomas
Dewey in Juneau Friday. The free world must remain
free. -Tt must accept no false offers of truce. It must
recognize the fact that "coexistence" would lead only
to a fate similar to that of Czechoslovakia ... to all
in the remaining tree world who listen to the soothing ;
song of Moscow.
Remember, Mr. Schmidt reminds us, “There were j
many good idealists among the Czec.hs who fell for
this line, and there were fools—just as there are j
among the Americans who today, on the international !
plane, are inclined to take at face value the asertions I
from the Soviet Union, the Chinese Commusists and |
the North Koreans of good will and peaceful inten- '
tlons.”
A strong free world, able to defend itself, ready ■
to fight together, if necessary, may indeed make it
possible to “win World War III without fighting it,”
as Mr. Dewey said the other day.
CAN T WE TELL RIGHT FROM WRONG?
(Cleveland Press)
Some people think it dates back to the First World
War ... •
There are those who think science and the as
sembly line started it as we turned into the 20th
Century . . .
Some blame the philosophy of Sufficient Unto
the Day Is the Evil Thereof, induced by . . . depres
sions and wars . . .
The analysts whose job it is to examine our na
tional behavior ... do not agree among themselves.
About this, though, they do agree.
Something has happened to us as a people
something serious.
We have gained much in the last half-century. j
We have lost something, also . . .
Has what we gained been more important than
what we lost?
What is wrong with us? . . .
Is it in the air we breathe. The things we do.
The things we say. Our books. Our papers. Our
theatre. Our movies. Our radio and television. The
way we behave. The interests we have. The values
we fix.
We have everything. We abound with all of the
things that make us comfortable. We arc, on the
average, rich beyond the rdeams of the kings of
old . . .
We lead in everything—almost.
Yet . . . something is not there that should be
—something we once had . . .
Stalin, like Hitler, thinks we're soft, preoccupied
with material things.
* * *
Are we our own worst enemies?
Should we fear what is happening among us
more than what is happening elsewhere? . . .
Why has a moral deterioration set in among us
that brings corruption, loose behavior, dulled prin
ciples, subverted morals, easy expediencies, sharp
practices? . . .
What corrupts our top people?
What has taken away the capacity for indignation
that used to rise like a mighty wave and engulf the
corruptors—the corruptors of public office, of busi
ness, of youth, of sports?
What is it? No one seems to know. But every
body seems to believe it is upon us. No one seems
to know what to do to meet it. But everybody worries,
as the father of a ten-year-old son, who this morn
ing said:
“What do I do? I am concerned about my son.
We try tty-teach-him right rsm -wr-Grig-. ®ut—the-ftfr-,
is filled with today’s easy interpretations of what is
right and wrong” . . .
Maybe the farmer of years ago. looking with
troubled eyes at the skies upon which he depended
so much for providential kindliness, had a greater
faith than we do who rise vertically many miles
into the air to find out what rdally goes on Up
There . . .
The Washington
Merry-Go-Round »
(Continued from Page One)
to "the party line” regarding
friendship balloons. For no satel
lite government dares take a pub
lic stAnd without first getting its
cue from the Kremlin.
.Czech Flying Saucers
Meanwhile, the percentage of
“hits” by operations winds of free
dom must be almost 100 per cent,
For, instead of sending balloons
5,000 miles across the Pacific, we
; have been working from just 10
miles from the Czech border. Thus
■ almost every balloon is likely to
hit—though some may overshoot
the mark and come down in Po
j land.
$ By this time a total of about
15,000,000 messages have been
f rained in on 12,500,000 people in
? an area somewhat smaller than
j Virginia and West Virginia com
1 bined. Most of these messages fall
] from the sky like rain. They are
j released from an altitude of 30,
000 feet when the Dewey and Al
5 Aiy rubber balloons burst. Two
1 thousand messages are in each of
i these balloons, written on water
; Proof paper, and they scatter
- down in all directions. Incidentally
: it takes two hours for them to de
: scend.
! The other type of pillow balloon
J probably is treating Czechoslovakia
• to a siege of flying-saucer heebie
j jeebies. For they are smaller edi
s tions of the huge plastic pillows
; made by General Mills which air
: plane pilots have sighted in the
' sky and identified as flying sau
r cers. It is now no secret that these
; flying plastic pillows are part of
t the Nitty’s experimental work on
; the cosmic ray.
The jjjuch smaller plastic pil
lows, made by General Mills, which
'« we have been showering over
• Czechoslovakia, have the same
j eerie quality as the flying saucers,
j They come to earth gradually and
• bounce along the ground, the
: word "Svboda” or "freedom” being
{ printed in red letters on the side.
Inside Balloon Story
It is now possible to tell some
: of the inside facts as to how oper
. ation winds of freedom was con
j ceived and executed. Chief credit
| belongs to C. D. Jackson, dynamic
I executive of Time, Life and For
' tune, now on loan to the commit
tee for free Europe, The latter
committee, headed by Gen. Lucius
Clay, put the freedom bell in Ber
lin last year and has been doing
an important job of beaming
broadcasts into satellite countries
from two radio stations in south
ern Germany.
Jackson and I first conferred
regarding friendship balloons on
April 13. It was exactly four months
later, Aug. 13, that the first bal
I loon was launched over Czechos
I lovakia.
During that four months more
! detailed preparation went into this
j operation than the Czech Com
munists would ever dream. One
meteorologist and two balloon ex
perts were sent to Germany a
month in advance. They had to
I corral hydrogen tanks, trucks,
| train German launching crews. Ev
j ery detail had to be thought out
I beforehand—from selecting differ
ent launching sites to take advan
tage of different w’ind currents, to
arranging for fresh hydrogen to
be pumped into the tanks every
morning.
Motive behind this operation is
fairly simple. Communist under
cover operations in the U. L. A.
have kept us in a recent state of
jitters. Therefore instead of fray
ing our nerves and using up our
energies looking under our beds,
we should fray Soviet nerves and
keep them in a state of jitters by
carrying the propaganda war to
the other side of the Iron Cur
tain.
It has long been the traditional
policy of the U. S. A. to fight our
battles on the dnemy’s soil; not on
ours. But in the current war of
nerves, now one of the most im
portant phases of modern war
fare, we have permitted the enemy
to keep the offensive and use our
territory as the battle ground.
Operation winds of freedom, un
dertaken by private individuals,
not government, marks a small
start in reversing this.
Balloon-Go-Round
Three American G. I. students
studying in Germany became the
expert balloon-launchers: Ross Gra
ham of Niles, Mich., John Hen
ninger of Pine Grove, Pa., and
Richard Ives of Binghamton, N.
Y. They were studying for their
master’s degree under the Univer
sity of Maryland plan when Mary
land U. suspended its plan, and
the boys have been trying to live
on the German economy to fin
ish their course. . . said a Bavar
ian cop as he trundled his bicycle
past the balloon-launching con - i
voy: "You should drop ration I
cards on the Czechs. That’s what
the Americans did to us during |
the war. and they were such good i
counterfeits that the Hitler crowd j
got all fouled up.” . .. Lee Lewis, ■
the General Mills balloon expert,!
is one of the few men ever ar
rested for coming down in a bal-j
loon in the U.S.A. His arrest was
at Sheboygan, Wis., where he
landed hs big bag rather than go1
out over Lake Michigan. After the1
cops pinched him they apologized,
and when Lewis couldn’t find a
hotel room, they let him sleep in
jail. . . Lewis says that, when
traveling by balloon, there is ab
solutely no noise and you can hear
housewives gossiping in their back
yards, 2,000 feet below. . . C. D.
Jackson, the human dynamo of
AUGUST 28
W. J. Leivers
Glenn Allen
John C. Martinsen
George Phillips
Thomas Burns
E. E. Smith
o Cyril O. Hansen
9 Gene Vuille
Weather at
Alaska Points
Weather conditions and tempera
tures at various Alaska points alsr
on the Pacific “Coast, at 4:30 p.m.
120th Meridian Time, and releasee
by the Weather Bureau are ar
follows:
Anchorage .
Annette Island
Barrow .
Bethel .
Cordova .
Dawson .
Edmonton .
Fairbanks ..
Haines .
Havre ..
Juneau .
Kodiak .
Kotzebue .
McGrath .
Nome .
Northway .
Petersburg .
Portland
Prince George .
Seattle .
Sitka .
Whitehorse .
Yakutat .
. 56—Cloud)
. 57—Clear
45—Cloud )
. 57—Cloud)
. . 51—Cloud)
45—Partly Cloud)
. 43—Cloudi
. 53—Fi.
. 50—Clear
... . 49—Drizzle
. 43—Clear
. 54—Cleat
. 49—Cloud)
. 55—Cloud)
. 49—Cloud)
. 55—Cloud)
. 44—Cleat
. 52—Cloud)
38—Partly Cloud)
. 49—Rain
. 51—Clear
. 48—Cloud)
.49—Fog
Furniture Repair
Classes Scheduled
A furniture repair and uphol
stery workshop will be held ii:
Juneau in October, it was announ
ced today by Miss Hallene Price
home demonstration agent for the
University ot Alaska. Miss Marj
Robinson will supervise the work
shop.
Miss Price said that anyone in
terested in attending classes should
telephone her at 883. or write tc
her at Box 1109. Juneau. She jvill
oUvp thprp special instructions con
cerning the meeting.
At 1:30 p.m. on Aug. 29, Mr
Price will give a demonstration in
her office in the Red Cross room
in the Shattuck building, on meth
ods of measuring chairs and dav
enports to determine the amour!
and kind of material to complete
a face-lifting job.
She stated there would be an
afternoon and night work period
and that a chair or davenport
could be completely remade in tw-o
or two and one-half weeks, de
pending on time spent on it.
the committee for Free Europe,
has been so steeped in balloonism
that at Munich he dreamed he
was hoisted by the seat of his
pants and was floating over
Prague, with the word “Svboda—
Freedom" painted on his rear. . .
Most people don’t realize that, due
to the earth's turning on its axis,
the winds in the upper altitudes al
ways blow from west to east.
That’s one thing that Stalin, des
pite his claimed omnipotence, can
not control. That's also why we
can easily send balloons over the
Iron Curtain, but Moscow would
have difficulty sending them back
to us.
THE AMERICAN WAY
MOW ABOUT
A FRBBZE ON
TAYES?
A Reasonable Question
Miss Mildred Arnold and Mr. J. Marlin Norris were married August
2G at 4:30 p. m. in the parsonage of the Lutheran Resurrection Church.
Ihe ceremony, witnessed by a few friends, was performed by the Rev.
Erling K. Olafsen. The bride is a popular young woman of Juneau,
having resided her since 1928. Mr. Norris is equally well known and is
a projectionist at the Capitol Theatre.
Mrs. Elmer A. Friend and Miss Miriam McBride returned to Juneau
on the steamer Queen this morning. They went to Skagway to meet
Collector of Customs J. C. McBride and Mrs. McBride who were return
I ing from a trip to the Interior and Westward.
Lillian Miller entered St. Ann's Hospital yesterday afternoon for
medical treatment.
F. A. J. Gallwas, Louis Delebecque and Capt. McDougal left yester
day on the boat Mary Ann for a week’s hunting trip.
Miss Impi Aalto, of Douglas, who has been attending normal school
in Bellingham, Wash., for the past couple of months, is a passenger
on one of the steamers due to leave Seattle for Juneau this weekend.
Bound fer Petersburg, the following passengers left Juneau this morn
ing on the Admiral Rogers: Joyce Wilson, George Blake, Joe Hassen,
; R. Hassen, Rosalie Lanado, Mary Lanado.
Mrs. H. L. Faulkner and daughter Jean left for Seattle this morn
ing on the steamer Queen.
Edward Jahnke, registered guide and well known fox farmer, left
here today on the mail boat Pacific for Pybus Bay where he will meet
a party of big game hunters. They are aboard the yacht Allawee. one
I of the Campbell-Church fleet, and will hunt on Admiralty and nearby
, islands.
i _
Weather: High, 55; low, 51; rain.
1
Daily Lessons in English
by
W. L. GORDON I
WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “Leave me see him.” Say.
“LET me see him.”
OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Purlieu (a place of resort). Pronounce
pur-lu, first U as in FUR, second U as in USE, accent first syllable.
OFTEN MISSPELLED: Glutinous (sticky). Gluttonous (greedy).
SYNONYMS: Active, agile, alert, quick, lively, supple, brisk.
WORD STUDY: “Use a word three times and it is yours.” Let us
increase our vocabulary bv mastering one word each day. Today's word:
ASPIRATION: ardent desire or longing for what is elevated or above
one. "Her aspirations made her unconscious of what was happening
about her."
j MODERN ETIQUETTE ROBERTA lee 1
Q. When a man and his wife are entertaining a number of guests
for dinner, and dinner is announced, do both the host and hostess pre
\ cede their guests into the dining room?
;■ — A: -Nor-Ute-faest •• stewkl~4ea$ -4he- -way--with-thr-- mett- important
j woman guest, and the hostess goes in last of all.
Q. When a man is escorting a woman and another man offers her
a seat in a public conveyance or picks up something she has dropped
! isn't he supposed to lift his hat to that man?
A. If he has any sense of courtesy, he certain does.
Q. Is it proper to send ^typewritten letters of condolence?
A. No. More thoughfulness and more sympathy are expressed when
! letters are written by hand.
I
LOOK and LEARN bA. c. GORDON !
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1. What Vice-President of the Cr. S. bears the distinction of being
the most widely-traveled?
2. Which adjective would best describe a martinet—sad, gay, strict
carefree?
3. Which are found at higher altitudes, cirrus or stratus clouds?
4. In what language was the New Testament originally written?
5. What is the modern name for the ancient Hellespont?
ANSWERS:
1. Vice-President Alben Barkley.
2. Strict. —
3. Cirrus.
4. Greek.
5. The Dardanelles.
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levy
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plant
15. Dig
17. Ceremony
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11*. Edge of a roof
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name
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the earth
27. Declares
21). Witnesses
30. Concerning
31. Color
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carnivorous
animal
34. Conflict
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30. Most severe
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44. Skip
46. L/Ose luster
48. Perseverance
52. Old
53. Units of work
54. Born
65. Flat-bottomed
rowboat
66. Table utensil
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