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VACATIONS
We don’t know who ever started vacations, but
taken in moderation they are a grand development of
civilization. This is the time when the employed laf
off work for two weks, or a month if they hold a
government job. and still longer if they are teachers,
and change their entire mode of living for that time.
Some go on trips, some stay at home and paint
the house. Some go fishing, some go on highway
trips, some fly to the States. Some turn lazy and
sleep until noon, some work harder at recreation than
they ever do on the job. Some leave all the needed
Jobs to be done around the home until vacation time.
It’s all a matter of taste and purse as to how one
spends a vacation. But it is usually all good, and
Alaska offers a wide choice in the matter of a vaca
tion.
For some, vacation is a meaningless word. This
applies to those who never work anyway, who are
unemployed and want nothing more than a job, or
• who are self employed and so interested in their work
or find the demands so great they feel they cannot
take time off.
But for the run of the mill wage earner, and
particularly those who work in offices or other indoor
places, vacation offers a brief surcease from worries
of everyday existance complicated by the uncertain
grim shadow of future events.
It's a great institution provided it is not carried
to excess.
THE SILLY SEASON
That the Dog Days are near at hand is indi
cated by the fact that English Channel swimmers
have started their annual quest to crash the head
lines. By gosh, one of them did, with a war going
on, too, by being first across this year and breaking
the long-forgotten women's record held by the long
forgotten Gertrude Ederle.
This channel-swimming business is intensely in
teresting — to the swimmer, his or her immediate
entourage, and perhaps a handful of the folks back
home. Yet, according to a member of one of the
world's biggest news services who was sitting on the
London desk late last summer while Shirley May
France was making her several attempts to crass,
he had to sidetrack all other news until he had
cleared the stories about her, on orders from New
York. And she hadn’t even done it.
Nor has she yet. A young lady named Florence
Chadwick beat her to it. We are satisfied that swim
ming the English Channel is a prodigious feat of
endurance and one that all of us would have difficulty
in accomplishing even in a boat, yet it strikes us as
one which leaves the average individual profoundly
unmoved.
I
Man Power and Land Mass
(Ketchikan Chronicle)
“You find waves and waves of men approaching
you. You fire your machine gun and row after row
goes down. But they never stop coming. You fire
until the gun is hot in your hands and still that
irresistible tide sweps toward you.
“It is like trying to stop the ocean coming in, and
after a while you feel it is hopeless to try to stop them,
and you either give up or run away.”
Sounds familiar, doesn’t it? Like a GI talking
about the fanatical North Koreans. But it isn’t. It’s
a former German officer telling an American reporter
in Paris about the Russians in World War II.
There's a crucial parallel, nevertheless,_ between
the North Koreans today and the Soviet soldiers of
1941-45. In the Soviet Union, in China and the various
Russian satellites, human life is cheap. In much of
the Communist realm, it is also plentiful.
Communism emphasizes masses of men, not indi
viduals. A man is literally the property of the state.
Whether in peace or war, he’s expendable. As a
soldier, he’s a weapon of war in a very real sense.
Much is being made these days of Russia’s great
superiority over the west in tanks, planes, guns and
submarines. Rightly so. But even if we devise ef
fective defenses against this materiel, that will not be
sufficient. How do we plan to throw back those waves
| upon waves of men?
Korea has shown us how hard it is to check ad
vances by an army which utterly disregards its own
manpower losses. We can be sure that wherever Com
munism marches, that same callous use of men as
weapons will be evident.
To make it worse, Russia and her Communist
satellites have a defensive weapon of unparalleled
value: millions of square miles of space. As it takes
extraordinary means to offset the great mass of red
forces, so it requires similar measures to win and
control space.
The western world naturally hopes it never will
have to try conquering Communist manpower and
space. But it is now preparing to defend itself
against a Soviet Union which might want war.
It’s entirely fitting that we should be thinking
of new and better anti-tank, anti-aircraft and anti
submarine weapons as we build that defense. But
•shouldn’t we also be devising some highly destructive
anti-human weapons?
The west can’t match Communism’s numbers if a
test comes. And we can’t count either on the costly
atomic bomb. Its practical worth against millions of
men on a battlefield is unknown.
Any American and western military planning that
does not take Red manpower and land area into ac
count is unreal. The enemy foot soldier is still the
man to be beaten.
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Merry-Go-Round
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not a particularly good one. Yet
the G. I.’s at the front are en
titled to the best commanding gen
eral we’ve got.
Walker's Chief of Staff is Col.
Eugene Landrum, who commanded
the 90th Division when it landed
in France in June, 1944. However,
he made such a poor showing that
he was relieved of his command
within two months and shipped
back to the states. Later, when
most of the wartime generals were
demoted one rank, Landrum was
dropped two ranks, from major
general to colonel. Yet he now
holds the crucial post as Walker’s
Chief of Staff in Korea—because,
like Walker, Landrum happened to
be in line for the job.
BacK m japan, me G-2 section
is General MacArthur’s eyes and
ears. Its job is to gather and an
alyze military intelligence, so vital
in time of war. Yet the G-2 chief,
in charge of this important listen
ing post, is Maj. Gen. Charles Wil
loughby, a strutting heel-clicker
who has been accused by subordi
nates of doctoring the intelligence
reports to please rather than in
form MacArthur. Born in Prussia,
Willoughby's real name is Von
Tschepe-Wiedenbach, and his prin
cipal qualification is the fact that
he served under MacArthur on
Raman This is the estimate Of
fellow generals.
Note—Like the Army, the Mar
ines also sent a subordinate to
Korea. Instead of MaJ. Gen.
Graves Erskine accompanying his
troops, he was given a diplomatic
assignment in Latin America and
the* next in command. Brig. Gen.
Edward Craig, went to Korea. The
reason was that the Army divisions
are commanded by brigadier gen
erals, and the Marines didn't want ^
to embarrass the Army by sending
over a major general.
Explosive McKellar
The full story hasn't been told
how 81-year-old Sen. Kenneth Me- 1
Kellar of Tennessee tried to bop
71-year-old Congressman Clarence
Cannon of Missouri over the head
with a gavel.
It happened behind closed doors,
While Senate and House conferees
were trying to iron out differences
In the appropriations bill. This
brought McKellar, the Senate ap
propriations chairman, and Cannon,
gte House appropriations ohairmsn,
into violent disagreement.
With an explosive snort, Mc
Kellar accused Cannon of “making
slurring references." Then the aged
Tennessean began spouting exple
tives, which an eyewitness lafei
reported “almost peeled the paint
off the walls.” One of the milder
terms McKellar used to describe
was s.o.b. (Unabbreviated).
This was too much for Cannon
who announced he wouldn't take
such abuse “from any man” and
started after McKellar. Simultan
eously, the sputtering senator from
| Tennessee picked up his gavel
which he had been using to rap
the table and tried to rap Cannon.
However, colleagues separated them
before they could do any damage
to each other.
Washington Pipeline
General MacArthur was consider
ing coming back to the United
States just as the Korean war
broke out. He was interested in
an offer of a top job at Reming
ton Rand . . . Before the end of
the year, President Truman plans
to set up a special board to keep
an eye on prices and a new agency
to take over the vital job of civilian
defense . . . Many top mobsters
have been reporting ridiculously
small incomes and lumping it all
under such general terms as “self
speculation” . . . Mike Reilly, FDR’s
famous friend and bodyguard, is
now quietly working for the Inter
ior Department . . . Tariff Com
missioner Edgar Brossard has been
! cooling his heels two months, wait
ing for President Truman to de
cide whether to reappoint him.
Brossard doesn’t always agree with
the President, but he has been a
capable public servant.
Pulling Strings
Whether you’re a five per center
angling for government contracts
or a reserve officer trying to get
out of a combat unit, it still pays
to have inside track with Maj.
Gen. Harry Vaughan, the irrepres
sible White House military aide.
For example, here is how Vau
ghan is pulling strings inside the
Pentagon for Robert C. Smith of
Columbia, Mo., a reserve Army
lieutenant, who wants to transfer
from the field artillery to the
Army’s legal section.
Ordinarily Smith wouldn’t stand
a ghost of a chance, because the
Army isn’t taking any new lawyers.
However, after the Army had al
ready rejected one transfer request.
Smith appealed to a Missouri pol
itician and crony of Vaughan's
William H. Becker.
All it took was a letter to Vau
ghan. in which Becker explained
' that Smith had recently graduated
from the Missouri University law
school and had ‘‘requested transfer
to the judge advocate general’s
corps reserves where he believes he
can best serve his country.”
White House Memo
Vaughan wasted no time dis
patching a White House memo to
the adjutant general’s office re
questing "action” on Smith’s case.
And action is what Smith got. His
application was listed out of normal
channels and given the personal
attention of the brass hats. An
official letter was also rushed to
Fifth Army headquarters in Chi
cago for required recommendations.
Dated August 17, this letter set a
deadline of August 31 for the Fifth
Army to reply.
“In view of the White House in
terest in this case,” the Pentagon
letter stated, “it is requested that
Lieutenant Smith’s application for
transfer ... be forwarded to this
office for review by the judge ad
vocate general.”
In other words, the judge advo
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• AUGUST 25 •
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• Nick Bez •
• Edmond S. Westby •
• S. Tanaka •
• Mrs. J. P. Pasquan •
• Edmond Peterson •
• John R. Thibodeau •
• Lynn Winters •
UNGRATEFUL PET
-*-E’ive-year-old Andrew Vara
nelli is unhappy because his pet
parrot, ‘‘Folly,” bit him during
1 judging at the pet show of Chil
iren’s Aid Society, New York.
cate general, himself, will decide
the case—thanks to the President's
pal, Harry Vaughan. Meanwhile,
the Army has no need for green
behind-the-ears lawyers, but could
use some artillery officers with
Smith’s training.
House Committee
Approves Extra Funds
For Alaska Military
(AP Special Washington Service)
WASHINGTON, Aug. 25—The
House Appropriations Committee to
day approved $170,927,399 for 80
military construction projects.
All were included in President
Truman’s request for an extra $10,
500,000,000 to run the Korean War
and boost U. S. military defenses
and fighting strength.
The bill containing the construc
tion items now goes to the House.
The projects and the amount ap
proved for each include:
Navy—Naval communications sta
tion, and Naval operating base, Ko
diak, Alaska: consolidated commun
ication facilities, repair of water
front structures, $1,548,000.
Army—Alaska—Eielson Air Force
Base: Gymnasium and infirmary,
etc., $978,500; Fort Richardson:
Telephone exchange building, etc.,
$16,325,000; Ladd Air Force Base:
Site clearing, erosion control, etc.,
$2,976,200; Alaska Communications
System, etc., $9,205,940.
GUERIN CHILDREN RETURN
Brucella, Marcia and Sherian
Guerin returned yesterday after
noon by Alaska Coastal Airlines
after spending the summer vaca
tion with their aunt, Amy Lou Blood
in Pelican.
CHILCOTIN IN PORT
The S. S. Chilcotin arrived in
port yesterday at 6 o’clock and sail
ed for the north at 11 p.m. There
were no passengers for Juneau.
ACROSS
1. Repose
5. Elevations of
land: abbr.
g. Kind of
cheese
12. One opposed
13. Skill
14. Fish rod
15. Golfer’s
warning cry
16. Threw off the
track
18. Two: Scotch
19. Calyx leaf
20. Ornament atop
a pagoda
21. Frozen dessert
23. Asiatic
country
25. Signifying
2S. Off
32. Scenes of
combat
33. Right of
using grass
land for
pasturage
35. Merchandise
36. Small fish
38. Spirit
40. In addition
41. Liquor
44. Australian
aboriginal
war club
46. English letters
49. Device for
holding
together
51. American lake
62. Make a
preliminary
wager
63. Weep
64. Existed
65. Bobbin
\) I-. vav}
ISjOjU
jotutx
Solution of Yesterday’s Puzzle
66. Type measures
67. Paradise
DOWN
1. Log float
ia n
2. Sufficient: poet.
3. Filter
4. Bind
5. Manufactured
6. Surgeon's
instrument
7. More unfa
miliar
8. Finiai of a
spire
9. Stupid person
10. Opposite of
aweather
11. One of an
ancient race
17. Wing
19. Bristle •
22. Tapering solid*
24. Pertaining to
the morning
25. Black bird
26. Age
27. Act of giving
out
29. Roamed
20. Grow old
31. Affirmative
34. Each day
37. Made of a
certain wood
39. Be under
obigation
41. At a distance
42. Narrow road
43. Old Italian
family
45. Prohibitionist*
47. Combustion
4$. Witnessed
50. Distant: prefix
51. Female sheep
120 YEARS AGO ^he empire j
AUGUST 25, 1930
R A. “Dick” Schmidt, chief clerk at Feusi’s Hardware Store in
Douglas, returned home after a six-week visit in the States. He went
as far east at Minnnesota, to visit relatives.
Three young men from Atlin, B. C.—Henry, John and Edward Jack
_arrived in Douglas in the 14-foot canoe, “Me-Too,” which they had
carried 65 miles across country to the Nakinaw River where it joins the
Taku at Inklin, then followed the river down to the Tulsequah, where
they spent a few days. Many narrow escapes from ice and rapids were
reported, but the young men planned to return to prospect.
The Alameda arrived southbound, bringing the Rev. Edgar Gallant,
Virginia B.. Magness and H. W. Frizzell from Skagway.
With 13 passengers for Juneau, the steamship Queen arrived from
Seattle. Disembarking here were Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Gross, Z. Gross,
Karl Theile, Mrs. Louise Johnson, A. B. Eisner, Miss Mary Reep, Mr.
and Mrs. A. L. Watson, Mrs. J. O. Kirkham, C. Hawthorne, Newton
Corday and A. N. Housmer. Boarding the Queen for Lynn Canal ports
were C. C. Warner, Harry Brown, Mary S. Brown, A. Johns and Tom
Johnson for Haines; Dr. R. E. Southwell, Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Wild,
Richard King, Gibson Young, Wiliam Nickish, Katherine Sonnevich,
Edna C. Nelson, George Rafofzi and Charles L. Parker for Skagway.
James Colvin of Rainy Hollow, B. C., and Robert J. Grant of
Hoonah were among guests at the Alaskan Hotel.
Unloading 300 tons of coal,*the freighter Lakina, Capt. Jerry Flynn,
of the Alaska Steamship Company, was in port for U2 hours, having
arrived at 5 a.m. After shifting to Douglas to put off 50 tons of coal,
she departed south with calls scheduled at Port Armstrong and Port
Conclusion. * :
Weather: High, 54; low, 61; mist.
Daily Lessons in English w, l. Gordon j
WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: CONTINUAL Implies a close succession
or recurrence, CONTINUOUS implies an uninterrupted continuity. “There
was CONTINUAL rain." “The work, required CONTINUOUS labor from
morning till night.”
OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Fragment. Pronounce the A as in
RAG, not as in RAGE.
OFTEN MISSPELLED: Accelorator; observe the two C's, one L.
SYNONYMS: Speech, address, oration, talk, harangue.
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:
CONSTANCY; firmness of mind; fidelity. "Without constantcy, there
can be no real friendship.”
MODERN ETIQUETTE ROBERTA LEE j |
Q. Should cocktail glasses be engraved with the wife’s or husband’s
initials? I’ve been told that all ‘drinking” glasses are supposed to belong
to the man of the house.
A. This is optional. It is appropriate to use the husband’s initials
on such glasses, and it is also correct to mark the glasses with the wife’s
initials — to match the rest of the household glassware.
Q. Should small, dry cakes, such as lady fingers or macaroons, be
broken as each bite is taken?
A. No. It Is better to take small bites out of them.
Q. Is it correct to use “Dear Sir” and “Dear Madam” in social
correspondence?
A. No; these terms are used only in business correspondence.
LOOK and LEARN a! c. GORDON
1. What is the change of a liquid into vapor at ordinary temperature
called?
2. How does Mt. Whitney, the highest peak in the U. S., compare
i in height with Mt. Everest, the highest peak in the world?
3. Who was the first U. S. Presdenit to ride on <i railroad train?
4. What common food on every table contains two of the deadliest
poisons?
5. What very small animal causes milk and fruit juices to sour?
ANSWERS:
1. Evaporation.
2. It is about one-half as high as Mt. Everest, which is 29,141 ft.
3. Andrew Jackson, one June 6, 1833, on the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad.
! 4. Salt, consisting of sodium and chloride.
5. Bacteria.
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Weather at
Alaska Points
Weather conditions and 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 . 48—Cloudy j
Annette Island . 55—Rain
Barrow . 33—Cloudy
Bethel . 55—Fog
Cordova .. 52—Rain
Dawson .. 42—Cloudy j
Edmonton . 50—^Fog !
Fairbanks . 46—Smoke
Haines .. 51—Rain
Havre .. 52—Partly Cloudy
Juneau Airport .53—Rain
Kodiak ... 50—Rain
Kotzebue .. 51—Rain
McGrath ...—. 46—Fog
Nome ... 55—Cloudy
Northway . 46—Partly Cloudy
Petersburg . 56—Rain
Portland 58—Partly Cloudy
Prince George .... 49—Partly Cloudy
Seattle . 59—Partly Cloudy
Sitka ... 59—Rain
Whitehorse . 47—Rain
Yakutat . 50—Rain
PLAY TENNIS?
Only six contestants have signed
up for the Evergreen Bowl Tennis
Tournament scheduled for next
week, weather permitting. A wo
men's tourney is planned if suffi
cient players sign up. Those In
terested are asked to call A1 Carl
son or Dick Forrest at the Ever
green Bowl any time during the
day.
FROM PELICAN
C. A. Williams of Pelican is
registered at the Baranof Hotel.
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• TIDE TABLE •
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• AUGUST 26 •
• High tide 12:42 a.m., 17.3 ft. •
• Low tide 7:13 a.m., -2.1 ft. •
• High tide 1:35 p.m., 16.2 ft. •
• Low tide 7:23 p.m., 1.8 ft. •
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Widest Selection of
LIQUORS
PHONE 399
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Office In Case Lot Grocery
Phone 7M
HAY, GRAIN, COAL
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STEVENS’
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READY-TO-WEAR
Beward Street Near Third
The Charles W. Carter
Mortuary
Ponrtb and Franklin Bta.
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Casler's Men's Wear
McGregor Sportswear
Stetson and Mallory Hats
Arrow Shirts and Underwear
Allen Edmonds Shoes
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CLOTHES
NUNN-BUSH SHOES
STETSON HATS
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Complete Outfitter for Men
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MOUNT JUNEAU LODGE NO. 147
SECOND and FOURTH
Monday of each month
In Scottish Rite Temple
beginning at 7:30 p. m.
Carson A. Lawrence,
Worshipful Master;
JAMES W. LEI VERS, Secretary.
@ B.P.O. ELKS
Meeting every second and fourth
Wednesday at 8 P.M. Visiting
brothers welcome. WALLIS S
GEORGE, Exalted Ruler. W. H.
BIGGS, Secretary.
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Noose Lodge No. 700
Regular Meetings Each FHAay
Governor—
ARNOLD L FRANCIS
Secretary—
WALTER R. HERMANSEN
BLACKWELL'S
CABINET SHOP
117 Main St. Phone 713
High Quality Cabinet Work
for Home, Office ar Start
"The Rexall Store"
Tdur Reliable Pharma elsta
BUTLER-MAURO
drug CO.
Alaska Music Supply J
*fthur “ Uggen, Manager
Miaoi' MbsIa^i Tutnmcnts
And Supplies I
■Phone 296 ..Second and Seward. I
GENERAL paints j
«nd WALLPAPER ]
Ideal Pain! Store
pA°ne 649 Fred W. Wendt
Card Beverage Co.
Wholesale 805 int*. <>, f
PHONE 218—DAT i wcSk
foc MntEES er SODA FOP I
The Alaskan Hotel
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Thomas Hardware Co.
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Pool of Main Street
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MACHINE SHOP
Marine Hardware
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HOME GROCERY
Phones 146 and 342
Home Liquor Store—TeL 699
American Meat — Phone S8
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