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The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-07-25
Labor Saving"
Cincinnati Enquirer)

Cincinnati Enquirer)
 One of the hardest popular misconcepQons IS that unemployment is attributable to new inventions and mechanical progress Most of the time surface lndl- cations are accepted the final result For instance if a new machine performs in an hours time the labor which previously required man-day, it IS assumed that eight men have been displaced in industry
 Frequently overlooked is the fact that it requires men to make machines to furnish the power which operates them to repair them and to tend them Thus the net result in many instances is only changed character of employment and an easing of the demand upon labor.
 During the first 30 years of the present century, recognized as the greatest three decades of invention and echnological development in the history of man. kind employment in the United States increased by 2OOOoOO0 jobs Even since 1880 the percentage of the population with jobs has been greater than during the eras which 75 to 100 years ago considered prosperous.
 Fifteen new industries owing their development to inventions patented since 1870 estimated to have created directly and indirectly jobs for 150OO0OO Americans The industries are: Aircraft aluminium manufacture, automobiles cash registers, adding ma- chimes and calculating machines electrical machinery, apparatus and supplies; ice cream lighting equpment petroleum refining radios and photographs rayon and allied products refrgerators and refrgerating rubber tires and tubes, telephone communication, tin cans and tinware and typewriters and parts.
 The automobile industry alone-which at the start was regarded job destroyer because of its ten dency to displace backsmiths and stablemen-empoys ly several million more Nearly third of million persons are employed. at $327000O00 year, in the garment industries which it thought would be ruined by the introduction of the sewing machine Clearly unemployment is by no means the inexorable price of industrial progress.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-07-25
NOTICE TO PAY SCHOOL TAX

All male persons between the ages of 21 and 50 years, who are not Sailors in the United States Navy or Revenue Cutter Service, volunteer firemen, pauper or in- sane persons, are required to pay an annual School Tax of $5.
 This tax is due and payable after the first Monday in April and shall be paid before May l, providing you are in the Territory on said first date; if not. the tax is due within 30 days after your arrival in Alaska or within 10 days after written or oral demand is made upon you by the School Tax Col lector. Taxes not paid in accordance with the foregoing requirements shall become delinquent, and each person delinquent shall be subject to a fine of $2.
 All persons subject to, and refus- ing or neglecting to pay said tax are subject to line Of $25, or i'm prisonment in jail for a period of one month.
 H. J. TURNER, City Clerk,
 School Tax Collector for
 Juneau.
 Publication dates, April 1928, May 25. June "A. July 25. 1939.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-07-25
DAILY LESSONS IN ENGLISH
 By w. L. Gordon

Words Often Misused: Means is singular or plural according to the context. No other means was pos sible." Various means are possible. y
 Often Mispronounced: H u h. dredth. Pronounce the e as in dread, not hun -derdth.
 Often Misspelled: Monetary; ary, not cry.
 Synonyms: Tedium, tediousness, irksomeness, tiresomeneSs, mono tonoy.
 Word Study: "Use word three times and it is yours Let us in crease our vocabulary by mastering one word each day Todays word: ucous; hoarse; disagreeably harsh; strident. (Pronounce ra-kus, a as in alb. He had raucous voice."
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-07-25
HOSPITAL NOTES

T. Conrad, of Hawk Inlet can- uery, was admitted to St. Ann's Hos oital last night and is receiving med cal care today.
 Admitted to St. Anns Hospital today, George Whyte is receiving medical supervision.
 After receiving medical care, Swan Landmark, of Port Althorp, was dismissed today from St. Ann's Hos pital. s@s
 A baby boy weighing pounds IA ounces was born last night at St. Ann's Hospital to MT and Mrs. J. Rasmussen. Both mother and the new arrival are in the best of health.
 Mrs. Ernest Parsons was read mitted to St. Ann's Hospital yester- day afternoon and is receiving med ical supervision.
 Mrs. Mable E. Nance underwent ! tonsilectomy this morning at St. Ann's Hospital.
 Mrs. J. Plimento and her baby girl were dismissed today from St. Ann's Hospital
 Admitted to the Government HoS- pital last night, Mark Williams of HOonah received surgical attentiDn
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-07-25
NOTICE OF HEARING ON FINAL ACCOUNT AND REPORT AND PETITION FOR FINAL AWARD
 AND DJSTRJRIITION

1lND Dlo Il HUN
 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on July 18th, 1889, GEORGE BIDNICK, as administrator of the estate of Ivan Macyznski, common ly known as John Rudy, deceased, made and filed in the above entitled Court at Juneau, Alaska, his final account and report and petition for final award and dis tribution, and that on said day this Court entered its order directing that a hearing be had upon said Final Account and Report and Peti- ton for award and distribution be- fore it on Saturday, October IA, 1889, at 10:00 o'clock, A. M., of said day at the office of the said United States Commissioner, and Probate Judge, in the Federal Territorial Building, in Juneau Precinct, Ter ritory of Alaska, and requiring all persons to then and there appear and make their objections, if any, thereto, and to the settlement there of and to the distribution of the en- tire residue of the assets of this es- tate direct to JUSTINA MACYzN- SKI, mother of deceased, residing at Sarnki Gorne, Lipisca dolna, Gal acia Poland.
 GEORGE BIDNICK,
 Administrator. First publication, July Is, 1889. Last publication, August 8, 1939.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-07-25
LOOK and LEARN
 By A. C. Gordon

l. In what well-known novel is "Fagin" principal character? 2. What were the Elysian Fields? 3. Does water require more or less heat to boil on the top of a mountain than it does at sea level? 4. Who is considered to be the father of medicine? , 5. What is the principal river of Russia?
 ANSWERS
 1. "Oliver Twist by Dickens. 2. In classical mythology, they referred to the abode of happy souls after death.
 3. Less heat.
 4. Hippocrates; Greek physician, born 460 B. c.
 5. The Volga.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-07-25
on YEARS AGO ZO From THE EMPIRE
JULY 25, 1919

JULY 25, 1919
 Having outgrown his hospital es- tablished in the Orpheum Theatre building, Dr. L. P. Dawes moved the Dawes Hospital to the General Hospital building.
 Henry Roden, formerly practic- ing lawyer of Fairbanks, and Iditar- cd and a member of the first Terri torial Senate, was to succeed to the law business of the late z. R. Cheney in Juneau.
 J. w. Bell, Clerk of the Court, R. H. Stevens and N. O. Hardy, Deputy United States Marshal, were to leave on the City of Seattle for Se- attle.
 John Beck, of the Alaska Meat Company, had purchased the stock of the Independent Market from Julius Reinberger, its manager.
 Capt. A. Nilsson, superintendent of the Northwest Fisheries Company, cannery at Dundas Bay, accom- panied by Mrs. Nilsson and their son, were at the Gastineau Hotel.
 Mrs Harry F. Morton, whose hus- band was superintendent of the Pioneers Home, and little Myrtle Morton, arrived in Juneau on the Admiral Evans and they were to spend about two weeks visiting here.
 Dudley G. Allen and Mrs. Allen returned to Juneau on the Admiral Evans after making a trip to Skag- way and Sitka.
 Dr. James V. Johnson, Sitka phy- sician, was staying at the Gastineau Hotel.
 J. J. O'Neil, of the Frye -Bruhn Company was registered at the Cas- tineau Hotel.
 Weather: Highest 56: lowest 49; cloudy.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-07-25
ONLY ONE WHALING
 STATION TO OPERATE

Only the station at Akutan will be operated this season by the Am erican Pacific Whaling Company, and it will be served by but three killer boats. These vessels are: Paterson, Capt. A. M. Thorvik; Aberdeen, Capt. A. Pedersen; and Kodiak, Capt.. Peter Oness.
 The Unimak, Morgan and Tangi- nak, together with the Port Ho- bron station, will be idle.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-07-25
M o D E R N ETIQUETTE
 By Roberto Lee

Q. What music should the bride select for her wedding?
 A She may select any music she wishes, but the wedding march from the opera Lohengrin is the most popular.
 o. Is it permissible for a man to watch woman mount and dismount her horse without aid?
 A. No; he must always assist her unless she is accompanied by a groom who is accustomed to doing this for her.
 o. When a guest at hotel l, where are ones callers usually re- ceived?
 A. In one of the public sitting rooms.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-07-25
DR. BREDLIE TO
 LEAVE SATURDAY

Dr. S. H. Bredlie, Vice President of the Board of Chiropractors, or ganized here over the weekend un- der recently granted Territorial pow CTS, plans to return to his interior home Saturday.
 From here, Dr. Bredlie will go to Valdez to drive over the Richardson Highway to his home city.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-07-25
FEDERAL EMPLOYEES
 LUNCHEON TOMORROW

A noon meeting of the National Federation of F d CT a Employees will be held tomorrow at Percy's Cafe, and all members are urged to be present.
 A tentative speaker has been ar ranged for the session.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-07-25
KETCHIKAN MILL OPERATES AGAIN
 AFTER BAD FIRE

Eldon Daly, of the Ketchikan Spruce Mills, arrived in Juneau this morning on the steamer Columbia and flew to Fairbanks with Pacific Alaska Airways for two weeks there in connection with his company's business in the Golden Heart City.
 Daly said operations of the Ket- chikan Mills reopened week ago after two-weeks' shut down occas- toned by the recent burning of the mills power house.
 Thee fire "came at a bad time,' Daly said, and caused about $20,- 900 damage"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-07-25

Virgin Gayda, Italian editor, cites the lack of resistance by Czechs and Abanians proof they were not the victims of aggression" By the same process of reasoning, burglary isn't burglary if no one wakes up and yells.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-07-25

Britan's Foreign Secretary, Lord Halifax says that it is impossible to negotiate with government whose responsible spokesmen brand friendly country as thieves and blackmailers." Give em time over there, and they may work up to fightin' words yeti
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-07-25

"Alaskana" by Marie Drake at all book stores, 50 cents.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-07-25
cHbpy
 Birthday

The Empire extends congratula- lions and Jest tcishes '-day, their birthday anniDersary> to the fol- lot0ing:
 JULY 25 R. B. Martin John L. Mccormick
 Cyril H. Seeds
 Fred H. Endres
 Charles Miller
 John Bavard
 Lewis Taylor
 Eddie Hughes Vienita TalintSuff
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-07-25

Today's News Today-Empire.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-06-09
October 2 Set For Retrial
Of Harlan Labor Cases

London, Ky. (ILNS). ~ Federal
Judge H. Church Ford has set Mon
day, October 2, as the date for retrial
of the Harlan labor conspiracy cases.
In setting the October date, Judge
Ford remarked that it would be i'm
possible to hold the trial in the winter
months because there is inadequate
shelter for witnesses in the Federal
Building.
The government was represented
in Judge Ford's court by District At
torney John T. Metcalf of Lexington
and Assistant Attorneys General
Henry Schweinhaut and ]. NJ McIn-
erney of Washington, D. C.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-06-09
SWEDISH EXHIBITS
AT FAIR TELL OF
NATIONAL PLAN

New York City (ILNS).-Sweden
at the Worlds Fair is advertising her
already famous middle way" in an
effective manner.
Z Some of this advertising is in the
form of photomurals, photograph
enlarged and no doubt touched up till
it goes on the wall, and can be seen
by all passers. One of these repre-
sents employer and worker negotiat-
ing in the labor courts. 1t is empha-
sized that one-sixth of the entire
Swedish population belongs to labor
unions.
Credit Based On Character
Character is credit in Sweden"
this national advertising shows. A
young Swedish worker can borrow
1000 kronor "on his face" marry
this seems to be a condition of the
loan-and build a cottage with two
rooms, kitchen and bath, paying out
at the rate of $40 per month.
An attractive young Swedish
mother, child in arms, tells how Swe-
den makes it possible for "every child
to get the best out of life" She ex-
plains how she gets leave from the
factory where she works of six weeks
before and six weeks after confne-
ment. She stays in a well-equipped
hospital free, except for a trif1ing
charge for meals. After the mother
returns, her child is cared for in a
public nursery, spending eight hours
a day of it's early life in play with
children of it's own age.
Sickness Prevention Emphasized
'Less sickness through more pre-
vention," is the slogan Of the doctor
in the photomural above the health
section. Regardless of means, per-
son can stay in the public ward of a
hospital for 60 cents day, including
medicine and operations. 1t costs So
to have ones appendix out in Sweden
The medical section also visualizes
the national struggle against cancer,
tuberculosis, syphilis and the rheu-
matte diseases and shows how can
GER patient receives free public care.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-06-09
ARMS RACE BRINGS
STARVATION PERIL.
SAYS lilo DIRECTOR

Washington, D. c. (ILNS).-John
G. Winant, former governor of New
Hampshire, chairman of the federal
board which investigated the textile
strike, and now the first American di-
rector of the International Labor Of
flee at Geneva, has made striking
report to the coming conference at
that CITY, In part he says:
"War not only affords no solution
to the human wants with which people
are confronted, but is the very mega
tion of everything they seek. The
existing condition of near war, though
not so terrible in immediate destruc-
ton, produces results which are SINH
lar in a slower but no less certain
way.
"Rearmament cannot continue at
the present rate Of acceleration with
out eventually absorbing SO much of
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-06-09
Permanent Staff OF B.U.C.
Selected By Civil Service;
81 Per Cent Are Classified
Administrator III c. Atkinson Replies To Critical Charges
That Civil Service Eligibility List Was Being Ignored;
HAS Been Practice To Conform To Letter OF Law"

Compensation is young state de-
partment. The former commission,
two years ago, faced an enormous re-
sponsibility in setting up this organ
ization..
'Within short period of time,
some 1000 people were on the payroll
and of these, there were far more
temporary appointees tn a n those
taken from the civil service lists.
"The Bureau of Unemployment
Compensation operates headquar-
ters in Columbus, and 60 local and So
itinerant Offices. Approximately 800
people are employed in the Columbus
central Office and about 1000 others
are on duty in various places through
out the state.
'It has been my practice to con-
form to the full spirit and letter of
the law. 1t is my publicly avowed in
tention to not deviate from those
principles" Administrator Atkinson
said.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-06-09
WACE-HOUR ACT IS A
REPETITION OF LAWS

New York City NS).-Speaking
before the convention of the United
Hatters, Cap and Millinery Workers
Union, Elmer F. Andrews, admins
traitor of the wage-hour law, told his
audience that this law is just repeat
ing the experience of other labor
reforms.
"The history of labor legislation
repeats over and over again very
familiar pattern" Andrews said.
First, the most timid portion of the
business community mobilizes to re-
sist change. Lobbyists are rushed to
the scene of action. The proposal is
denounced and we are assured that
grass will be growing in the streets
if any change is brought about in
the status quo.
Eventually, the law is written on
the statute books. And then the lob
byists swarm again to get the law
repealed or amended out of existence.
But the law stays on the books and
is upheld by the courts and the ex-
citement dies down and business be-
gins to adjust itself to the new cir
cumstances.
"Finally, the new order of things
is accepted and becomes a part OF
our industrial folkways and at last
the very interests that resisted most
bitterly become not only reconcilec
but cooperative. And thus we emerge
another step out of the jungle and il
the end everybody is glad of it."
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-06-09
House OF Representatives Yields To Heavy Pressure Of
Labor Representatives And Administration Leaders
Labor Enlists Aid Of Governor Bricker For Bill.

Senate Bill 8, permitting persons
other than attorneys to appear before
the utilities commission. The bill
permits labor representatives to ap-
pear before the commission on safety
and transportation matters.
House Bill 5, providing for the re-
turn of property decided to the state
by old age pensioners, and increasing
burial allowances from $100 to $140.
A provision which would enable the
state to increase the amount of pen
sions should the federal act be lib
eralized was deleted from the bill by
the Senate.
House Bill 400, establishing one
a. m. closing hour for liquor permit
holders throughout the state, with the
exception of night clubs, which may
continue to remain open until later
hour.
House Bill 628, increasing the pay
of state welfare institutional en-
ployes $35 per month, and establish
ing 54-hour work week.
The House defeated Senate Bill 72
which provided for construction OF
buildings and dormitories by state
universities, with the cost to be added
to tuition fees paid by students. The
vote on the bill was 55 to AZ.
| Sine die adjournment of the regular
session of the Ninety Third Genera
Assembly was set for June IA, OF
which date legislative leaders and of
ficers will return to sign the numer
Gus bills passed last week.
The General Assembly gave its ap
proval to 229 bills during the fiv
months it was in session. None ha
been vetoed by Governor Bricker t.
date.
All bills pending on the genera
| calendars and in standing commit
tees will be "indefinitely postponed
by motion to be offered before tn
motion to adjourn sine die is mad
June ID.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-06-09
'wNu sERvicD
(Hy Ohio Labor News service)

Columbus, Ohio. - Yielding to al
most unprecedented pressure from la
Dor representatives and administra
tion leaders, the House of Represent
atives on June /, the final working
day of the regular session, approved
Senate Bill SO, amending the prevail
ing rate of wages law, to enact the
only major piece of labor-sponsored
legislation to receive approval of
both branches of the Ninety Third
General Assembly.
The full force of the Ohio State
Federation of Labor and the Ohio
State Building and Construction
Trades Council was thrown behind the
bill, and the aid Of Governor John w.
Bricker was enlisted to have the
measure placed before the House for
passage after it had apparently be-
come hopelessly imbedded in the rules
committee.
Following brief debate on the floor
of the House, in which the member
ship was admonished that the bill
represented their final opportunity to
vote for labor measure, the bill was
passed by vote of 80 to IL.
The bill amends the law to provide
that the wage rate established by la
Dor contracts in the county nearest
to one in which none exists shall pre-.
vail on all public building construc.
ton.
After refusing amendments and the
| recommendation of a conference com
mittee, the House and Senate broke
their deadlock on bill reorganizins
the Civil Service Commission and eX
tending the right of appeal to include
lay-offs and salary reductions, ant
concurred in the report of a secont
conference committee.
The bill as finally enacted retains
the present two commissioners AM
provides for the appointment of
third member by the governor, VIII
advocated the provisions of the bill
as passed by the Assembly.
A humping 10-to-91 defeat was ad
ministered by the House membership
to Senate Bill 139, reorganizing tn
welfare department into four divi
sions.
The bill was opposed by organize'
labor, and was attacked bitterly b,
several members of the House, prin
cipally Representative w. H. Whetre
Ironton, as a proposal of "professiona
welfare workers seeking to gain com
plete control of jobs in the depart
ment."
Other legislation Of interest to la
Dor which was enacted by the Gen
eral Assembly in the final two day
of the regular working session in
J cluded:
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-06-09
Assembly Approves Prevailing
Wage And Civil Service Bills;
Legislators End Long Session
Union Shop Provided In
Anthracite Agreement

New York City (ILNS).-A two
year agreement on anthracite coal
mining has been reached, providing
for the union shop" 1t covers about
100000 hard coal miners. The basic
scale of wages remains unchanged.
Formal signing must be deferred un-
til the hard coal miners take a refer
endum vote on it.
Meantime, the contract has been
initialled by John L. Lewis for the
U. M. W., and Major w. w. Inglis,
spokesman for the operators. Both
hailed the agreement as making for
peace and stability in the industry.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-06-09
(By Ohio Labor News service)

Columbus, Ohio.-Replying to crit
ical charges that the civil service eli
gibility list was being ignored in
stating the Bureau Of Unemployment
Compensation with permanent ap-
pointees, Administrator H. C. Atkin-
son last week declared that 81 per
cent, or 1929 Of 1900 B. w. en-
ployes are under classified service.
Civil service appointees will repre-
sent 95 per cent or better OF the
B. U. C. personnel by July l, Admin
istrator Atkinson said, in line with
the established policy of the federal
Social Security Board, which requires
100 per cent civil service stats.
Only 13 per cent, or 237, are tenn
porary appointees at present, the ad-
ministrator said. The classified per-
sonnel of the bureau has been in
creased from "A per cent as of March
1, 1889, to 81 per cent June /.
"The Bureau of Unemployment
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-06-09

the national income of many coun-
tries as will prove intolerable. A
POINT MAY COME WHEN DE-
FENSE EXPENDITURES WILL
CAUSE ACTUAL STARVATION IN
THE LOWER INCOME GROUPS.
Wastage Like War
"The present state of armed peace
means the speeding up of production,
a concentration of productive ener-
gies on non- productive activities, the
diversion of groups of people to mill
tary service, the decrease of the sup
ply of labor relative to the demand,
the infiationary effects, and inevitable
tendency toward rise in the cost of
living and the hardships which that
necessarily entails on the masses of
the population.
GAS these manifestations are pro-
longed, they become aggravated, and
the wastage they involve is not very
different from thatNof war itself"
He outlines these consequences:
longer hours of work, lower stand
ards of safety, neglect of protection
for labor's rights, wages tagging be-
hind the rise in prices. And then
he turns to comparison between the
sums which the world spends on war
and on organizations, like the /. L. o.,
intended to help peace.
Peace Chance Seen
"In world annually spending 16
billions of dollars on ornaments and
in which over million men are un-
der arms, the handful of us who are
here are all too few"
All the investment in the Peace
Palace of the League of Nations, the
| Agricultural Institute at Rome, the
International Court of Justice at the
Hague and the /. L. 0. at Geneva sis
less than the cost of battleship, anC
those who work in the institutions
named number less than single regi
ment."
None the less, Director Winant be
lieves, like his predecessor, that ths
chance to work for real peace "may
come like thief in the night" ant
that the workers for peace must b.
ready.