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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-18

To the dulcet strains of Beat
Me. Daddy. Eight to the Bar
some 214 Wayne County draftees
will be examined today prior to
heir induction into the army.
= Included among the youths who
were examined by army doctors
as a Federal Music Project dance
orchestra played on were two
brothers and a cousin from the
same home at 1884 Belmont ave-
rue. Hamtramck. The brothers
were Louis and Henry Kuznia. %
and "a years old, respectively. and
the cousin was Stanley Kuznia, "a,
who came to this country from
Poland three years ago. All three
volunteered.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-18

If SAVING a thing you don't miss Mill End!
The words BARGAINS all Detroit!
the first day Doors swing $50! Bargains
galore throughout the (inudng Basement) 6page
bulletin available doors!
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-18

45c Oil Silk Bowl Cover Sets, 6
Pieces, Assorted
s2.25 Iplet Cowhide Brief Cases
With Upper Tops --S1I9
$3.50 6-Drawer Utility Cabinets,
Floral Wallpaper Covered--s1.29
81 Rayon Lastex Girdles. Small,
Medium, Large Sizes --44c
S1.9S Desk Sets Lamp, Letter Opener,
F. Pen g. Holder, Calendar Etc.-s1.59
Soft Absorbent "Scot'' Toifet Tissue,
1000 Sheets in Roll. Limit 2 rolls &C
81 Size "Mar-O-Oil' Shampoo.
Full Ia OF. Limit bottle--37c
SIPS "Lydia Pinkhams" Famous
VEGETABLE COMPOUND --77c
Limit l bottle
PHONE ORDERS FILLED = RANDOLPH 24Oo
Jpf f)bicai Of MH-End Value,
or Crouiey''-Fir,t Fioor--Mai- BsH1'-s
Evening star., 1941-02-16
ONE GOOD THING
ABOUT PEOPLE
by Claiming Pollock

scrubbing brush to peer at yacht in the har-
Dor. Trim craft" commented the officer
Know who owns herr"
Eyes, sir" answered the sailor. Il do"
''If they had merely stepped from one deck
to another" said the Bishop with smile,
1T would have been the officer who said sir. ,"
Very recently saw newspaper picture of
men enrolling under the present conscription
act. The figure in the foreground was one of
our best known millionaires So what? There
will be privates and captains and generals in
that draft army, as there are in everyday life,
and they will be chosen not because of their
blue blood or greenbacks but because of each
mans fitness for the job. No private will hate
a general because of his epaulets, and no
general despise private for his lack of them,
but each will respect the other in proportion
to his worth as a soldier and man.
INxOREOvER, to repeat my grandmother
phrase, they will be much of muchness,"
just as in civilian life. When that fine but
nearly forgotten dramatist Clyde Fitch pro-
duced Her Great Match, certain critics COM
planned that its prince was too like ordinary
humans. That" said Fitch, lis because they
haven't known princes" Whoever believes
that common clay is less common clay be-
cause of fame or fortune, or race or creed,
owes the idea to caricatures in books, plays
and MOVIES or to deliberate class incitement
Our common instincts, appetites and reac-
tons were created thousands of years before
wealth and position. A mother at the bedside
of her sick child is the same mother in man.
sion or a tenement. The comforts may be
greater on one level than another, but the
worries may be greater, too. If one man frets
as to raise of pay, the other frets no less
over the state of his business - and nearly
all of us want something we haven't got.
Strip us of our belongings, as we are
stripped of them in the gymnasium, and we
get down to the question of who is the best
man. We are all on the same ladder striving
to climb The bottom man may be top tomor-
row, and it probably won't change him. There
are just men and unjust in every class, bril-
liant and dumb | may wish l had another
fellows brains, Drawn or character, but l
can't envy him his wealth or position.
At this moment, in America, we are not
only all in the same boa" - and lifeboat,
at that - but we are heading for shore
through rough seas and uncharted dangers.
Everything we value, everything that has
made our lot pleasant, or even endurable,
is at stake. 1t doesn't seem a good time
for pickering because one of the oarsmen
has more money than we, or belongs to an
other group. On the contrary. it does seem
the best of all possible times for forgetting
our differences, remembering that we are
much of a muchness," and pulling together
for safety in land of plenty where, at no
very distant date, we may reach clearer TN
derstanding of our common problems and
our common brotherhood.
Evening star., 1941-02-16
SlueMz@

ABOUT THE COVER. During World
War l, the boys in the freshman class
at Harrisburg Pennsylvania) Acad-
emy were told to write composition
on the Washington Monument. The
twelve-year-old boy who wrote the
lines we reprint on the cover today was
chided for not giving the height of the
shaft, number of steps to the top; how
long it took to build and how many
people visit it every year. His defense
was this:
Il tried to tell why it is there and
what it means" We think he sue
ceeded.
Ralph Ilgan, who made the oil
painting we have reproduced, studied
the monument close up, as seen from
the side of Arlington, where sleep the
men who died for freedom"
PERSONAL HISTORY. Don't miss
Ten Minutes a Week." in this issue.
1t is another of Joseph Harrington's
famous Harden House stories. Readers
who wonder how Mr.. Harrington OBJ
tained his behind the-scenes knowledge
of life in a great hotel will find the
answer in his own life story:
when | was boy, my father
worked in big hotel named - WELL
let's call it the Harden House. His
niche there, its walls covered with rows
of shining keys and shelves of clocks,
had treasured view of the place call
the Mediterranean Room. 1t was
sociable place. Engineers and electri-
clans, house detectives and watchmen,
Evening star., 1941-02-16
= NCE | called on Mark Twain to ask il
he would introduce Sarah Bernhardt

4 he would introduce Sarah Bernhardt
~ at a charity performance. This is
busy and important man." thought, land
mustn't take much of his time"
After an hour, | became more concerned
as to my own time. The great humorist cor
nered me on sofa, pulled his cigar and rat
tied on endlessly, asking questions and telling
stories When | got away. too late for my
dinner, he followed me, bareheaded, into
Fifth Avenue and walked block with me to
describe an experience of his boyhood.
That was the beginning of my understand
ing that, as my grandmother used to say,
people are much of muchness. There is
nothing more foolish than talk of class dis
tinctions and class prejudice in America,
because none of our distinctions are really
matter of class. Here we are all in the same
boat, and we may start frst-class and end in
the steerage, or start in the steerage and end
as cabin passengers. Some of us are kinder
than others, or more intelligent or have bet
ter manners, but these qualities are not badges
of social degree. The kindest person l know
is wealthy attorney in California; the most
intelligent is an engineer who started out
as $20-a-week craftsman; and the best
hammered is a carpenter in a shipyard on
Long Island. There is taxi driver on our
corner who practiced medicine, and is GER
tainly more learned man and a greater
gentleman than many of his fares. | have been
''snooted" by foorwalkers and hotel clerks,
and taken into quick and easy comradeship
by millionaires famous authors and artists.
We should be less conscious of class, /
think, if we all dressed alike, or didn't dress
at all. used to play handball at seven every
morning in New York's West Side YMCA.
The regulars" at that hour were Douglas
Fairbanks, Sr.; Arthur Hammerstein, the
theatrical manager; Leroy Scott, the novel
ist; city fireman; and young fellow who
owned small restaurant on Eighth Avenue.
There were no social distinctions because
there were no clothes, except running pants.
Each of us tried to get the fireman or the
restaurant keeper as partner. They were the
best handball players on the floor, and the
rest of us looked up to them.
i HIS is true whenever and wherever human
ity gets down to essentials and fundamen-
tails. You can't imagine considerations of class
in lifeboat, and perhaps you remember how
the bank holiday in 1882 reduced us to the
common denominator of whatever wealth we
had kept in our trousers pockets or bureau
drawers. My barber, who had just drawn 500
from savings account, was really much
richer than those of his patrons who had hun
dreds of thousands but couldn't get en- If
the banks had remained closed year, only
the qualities under the skin" would have
enabled us to classify anybody.
The late Bishop Herbert Shipman told me
how, during the World War, an officer aboard
a battleship saw one of his men set down his
Evening star., 1941-02-16

stewards and the maitre, floor clerks
and occasionally manager stopped in
for a quiet smoke and chat. Sitting
there you learned all the details about
the guests - how fine and generous
some of them were, how mean and un-
reasonable some of the others. They
were a peculiarly earthly people, these
workers, often surprisingly disrespect-
full of the people to whom they bowed
and scraped.
MY own hotel career was notably
undistinguished. started at the bot
tom - and stayed there. Really at the
bottom. My job was down in the SUBJ
cellar of the Harden House, about three
stories below the sidewalk. My duties
consisted chiefly of holding a portable
electric lamp for an electrician to see
by. Some of the men down there had
worked in the hotel for fifteen or twen-
ty years without having once glimpsed
the only parts of hotel the guest ever
SEES" M.
Evening star., 1941-02-16

- ->x -. Il. EE
WILLIAM BEEBE, the famous natural
ist, sends us some interesting observa-
tons on ways of animals which corre-
spond to ways of men in our own war
torn world. Hatred" he writes, rs
absent from jungle conflicts, yet the
methods of operation - of attack and
defense - are strangely like those in
use in modern warfare. Here are some
of his examples:
BOMBS would seem to be altogether
the products of mans homicidal genius,
but birds have mastered the idea, too.
Two reliable observers have reported
vltures in Africa as carrying good
sized stones into the air and dropping
them, with satisfactory results, upon
nests of ostrich eggs.
CAMOUFLAGE. Jungle war is carried
on In many disguises, as when a boa
constructor distributes its dappled
length along the lights and shadows of
jungle bough near game trail, or a
rattler becomes an indistinguishable
low mound of sand in the desert. As
we walk through the jungle we know
that hundreds of eyes are watching us,
belonging to creatures which our coarse
sight will never discover. Supreme ex-
amples of camoufage are mimicry,
where fly and moth closely resemble
singing wasp. The resemblance is
often so exact that we do not dare to
handle them, and they escape and live.
MAGNETIC MINES are operated by
the near approach of an iron or steel
hull, actual contact being unnecessary.
A not dissimilar thing happened to me
once on the deck of ship when was
emptying pail of water into a tank
and was suddenly lifted almost off my
feet. In the tank was five-foot electric
eel; the disturbance of the water led
him to discharge his electric batteries.
The electric energy went up the stream
ofwater tothe bucket and then through
my wet hands into my body. If l had
been fish in a jungle river l should
have been quick casualty.
SMOKE SCREENS are developed to
perfection by the squid, and few assail-
ants can penetrate the clouds of sepia
ink which he can pour forth. His only
danger is from too frequent assaults,
for a squid has only few shots in his
locker, then has to withdraw and seek
sanctuary until new supply of pig
ment can be manufactured.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-11-06

gear and dispose of them conlmer- cially. It was asked that the Ju- neau chamber take similar action and send a representative to a meeting of fisheries officials in Seattle, late in November. 'f
 But the Wrangell and Sitka chambers have been notified by the Juneau chamber executive board that the Juneau organiza- tion opposes such change, unless halibut caught by the salmon troll CTS are not counted against tn e halibut fishermens quota.
 Another fisheries development brought up was the recent stalt in processing vitamin fish oils at the Ward Cove plant of Willis Le- bo, who for a number of years has been in the fish by-product manufacturing business there.
 Called to the chambers atten- tion by President Curtis Shattuck, the potential possibilities of a vita min industry in Southeast Alaska were discussed. The chance to fish for scrap fish" for the vita min plants the year around was hailed as splendid opportunity for Alaska fishermen.
 On the motion of H. L. Faulkner, local attorney, it was decided to wire Lebo, now at Sitka, offering any assistance required from the Juneau chamber in interesting To- cal fishermen in going out after these vitamin- producing fish.
 It was announced that plans are in the making for street and store decorations in Juneau around the Christmas season and the playing of Christmas carols on downtown streets to brighten the Yuletide spirit in the city. Three prizes, to- taling $100 will be offered for best decorated stores, it is planned.
 Next Thursday, President Shat tuck announced, joint Rotary Club and Chamber of Commerce luncheon will be held at the Bar anof. @
 A resolution to be proposed for chamber vote, opposing strikes and work stoppages in defense indus tries, will not be brought up until some later meeting, it was de- clared
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strikes, that they settle all juris- dictional fights within the house of labor and employee-employcr disputes before the National Labor Relations Boards. However, Chin ella said, he defended labor's right to strike, saying that without that right labor would in the United States be in the same position as in the totalitarian countries-that there would be no more free la bor.
 Tremendous applause was accord ed Greens statement that the AFL was 100 percent behind the de- fense program.
 Resolutions Passed
 Resolutions passed by the Con- vention included a resolution de- lending labor's right to strike, a measure urging the repeal of the Hatch Act; another asking for adequate housing of all defense workers; one urging defeat of poll tax legislation which effects. the defranchising of workers as in the southern states. Broadening of the Social Security Act to provide higher payments, shorter wait ing period and longer period for payment of benefits was urged in another resolution as was preven- ton of unwarranted raises in the price of consumers goods and in
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-11-06

crease in the pay of all postal em- ployees.
 Peace Committee Appointed
 Another important resolution Chinella mentioned provided that a committee be appointed by the AFL council to stand ready at any time to meet with a similar CIO committee to settle the split be- tween the two organizations anl unite them in one house of labor Such a committee has been stand ing since its appointment at the l94O convention of the AFL.
 A declaration at labor through out the world should have voice in the final peace settlement was the subject of another resolution, Chinella said.
 In session for two weeks, the Convention was opened on October 6 by J. P. O'Reilly, chairman of Seattle,s Central Labor Mayor Earl Millikin, Governor Arthur Lang lie and Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins were other important speakers at the meeting.
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Labor Office Conference, the Presi- dent said:
 The American people have made an unlimited commitment tn { there shall be a free world. Against that commitment no individuals or group shall prevail
 Declaring that labor under the Nazi system has become the slave of a military state" and that Der lin is "the principal slave market of the world" Roosevelt added the American worker has no H. lusions about the fate which awaits him and his free labor organiza- tions if Hitler wins. He knows his own liberty and the very safety of the people of the United States cannot be assured in a world three fourths slave and one-fourth free He knows we must furnish arms 10 Britain. Russia and China. We must do it now-today!"
 The President said the peace of the whole western hemisphere in the German scheme for world dom- ination is marked on the Nazi timetable and that America has made the choice between realism, in terms of two or three shifts a day" to produce necessary defense materials and the attitude of the blind and deluded' who think business can be done with Hitler.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-11-06

neau. The Fcrnance saiied early this morning
 The money was raised by the AWVs by a food sale held several weeks ago the first Of several ac- tivities planned to swell the lund of the men.
 Also sent aboard the Fornapce shis morhIng were three large box es Of coat hangers anG small mirror, which were donated in answer to an appeal issued when news was received of the lack of these item al the Barracks
 The AWV5 called for hangers, mirrors and bath towels to send, and the hangers were sent oday.
 About a dozen towels were placed in the box left in the entrance of the Territorial Building on Third ano Seward streets yesterday, and these arc heing held here in hopes that the number donated may be swelled to loO, a towel for each man in Company A, before the next beat goes to Haines.
 Since no bath towels are obtain able either at the Commissary at ! the Barracks or in the town of Haines, Inc AWVS is continuing j the box in the entrance to the l Territorial Building Further do- nations of towels ano mirrors will be much appreciated.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-11-06
DOUGLAS
 NEWS
WORTHY PROJECT TAKEN
 UP BY DOUGLAS P.T.A

UP BY DOUGLAS FLA.
 The problem of providing recrea- tional diversion for the teen-agers of Douglas was projected before meeting of the Parent Teacher Association last night with sug- gested purpose of keeping the children off the streets at night and afford them educational as well as social pastime. For non commercial projects the school Gym CT the city hall was suggested as suitable places. It was also brought out that the Eagles bowling alleys, when completed, might interest the young people Supt. Poole offered suggestion of hobby development being included in their diversional plans Music, picture taking, build ing of plane models, were men toned With the Gym available every night at certain hours such games as ping pong and regular gymnasium workouts would occupy many periods. The matter was left for future action, perhaps at a special meeting, when some addi- tional data is obtained
 It was proposed that the P.TA. purchase an Alaska flag for the school and the following committee was named to get prices, also data on suitable room attendance prize for the year; Mrs. Edw Bach, Mrs. Robert Bonner and Mrs Grant Logan.
 The problem of providing spon- sorship for a bop scout organiza- tion in the town was discussed and appointment of Arne Shudshift to take charge was made.
 The idea of future programs for the P.TA meetings following along educational lines with perhaps a central theme throughout was dis Icussed but left unsettled.
 Entertainment for the evening consisted of two playlets by pupils from MT Obergs room, a radio skit and school room scene, and panto- mime singing.
 The P E. Girls served refresh ments of upside down cake and coffee to a fairly large attendance.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-11-06
BERNE, EHLER5 OFFER CONCERT
 NOVEMBER 1S
Merle Janice Schroeder and Ruth MeVay Also on
 Program by AWVS

Marye Berne and Ernest Ehlers have donated their services for a concert to be given under the aus pices of the American Women's Voluntary Services on November Is, Proceeds from the concert will be added to the fund the group is raising for the recreational fund of the Juneau and Douglas men at Chilkoot Barracks.
 The concert will take place in the Northern Light Presbyteria n Church, which has also been do- hated for the evening. An all American program will be given Of solos, duets. trios and piano solos. and Merle Janice Schroeder and Miss Ruth McVay will also take part.
 The program for the concert is as follows:
 Crown of Freedom, Hoiden-G Gaines
 Trio Marye Berne, Miss Schroe- der and MT Ehler.
 Do Not Go My Love, ~ Hageman The Friend of You. -............... Ware Wild Geese, .......o........... Buchanan
 Marye Berne and Ernest Ehlef. The Dessert Song, from The Des- seig Song, .....,...-............ Romberg Why Do I Love You. from The Showboat", ......-.................... Kern Your Eyes, from The Three Musk eteers'', ................................ Friml
 Ernest Ehler.
 Love Is The Wind, .. McFayden some Day, from "The vagabond
 Einr' ................................ Friml The Birthday, .......,.......W Woodman Merlt Janice Schroeder. rThe Same Silver Moon, from My
 Maryland", ...............-.. Romberg Wanting You, from New Moon,
 Romberg Throughout the Years, from "Smil-
 in Through, ................ .Youmans
 Marye Berne and MT. Ehler. Piano Selection
 Miss Ruth McVay.
 Morning, ......-......-................... Speaks Deep River, ................... .Burleigh Thanks be to God, ........... Dickson God Bless America, ............ Berlin Trio, Berne, Schroeder and Ehler.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-11-06
WEATHER SYNOPSIS

weather chart indicated low pressure miles south of Seward
 294) inches located at A degrees expected about 800 miles nohward 2 hours third low center was of about 3030 nbes extended to the Seattle and high dominated Bering Sea
 Alaska to as far south as White Pass this morning Southeast Alaska and cloudy skies as far north partly cloudy skies prevailed remainder of north of the Arctic Circle this morning was minus l6 degrees at Fairbanks yesterday was 50 degrees at Ket- chka Moderate ceilings poo disabilities prevailed the Juneau -Ketchikan airway this morning.
 Juneau 7-Sunrie 26 sunset 4:56 pm
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-11-06
PLAYERS SIGN UP
 FOR HOOP LEAGUE

Registration for Gastineau Chan nel Basketball League competition started today with players signing up at The Empire from g am. to 6 pm.
 Practice sessions in the Juneau High School gymnasium will start next week with teams to be se- lected in time for the opening of seasonal competition in Decen- Der.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-11-06
THE WEATHER
(By the U S. Weather Bureau) U. S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE. WEATHER BUREAU

(By the U. s Weather
 U S. DEPARTMENT COMMERCE, WEATHER BUREAU FORECASTS:
 and vicinity Mostly cloudy with dght rain and cooler temperature tonight 32 degrees variable winds tonight becoming norhery high strong In Lynn Canal
 Light with north of Junea u. tonight Friday strong northery winds channels connecting with the interior and mode southerly elsewhere
 Alaska tonight and Fri Entrance fresh strong southeast winds southerly Cape Spencer to Ca Hnchinbook: east winds showers Hnchnbook fresh strong northeast Kodiak fresh 10 strong northery winds, partly cloudy e
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-11-06
CORPORATION QUALIFIED

The Aqua Systems, Inc, a New York corporation, was today de- clared qualified to transac, busi- ness in Alaska after filing of cor poration papers here with Terri torial Auditor frank 4. Boyle. AL aal,a office fer the corporation will be located at Anchorage, it was stated.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-11-06
COAT HANGERS, FUND M0rty, ,AaE
 SENT 70 HA;MEl
A.W.V.S. Dispatches First S2O0 10 Chiikoo' barraeks
 Towels Sill Solicited

The first $200 raised by tAe Am erican Womeu's Voluntary Serv.ceS for the recreational fund Of the Juneau and Douglas men at Chil- koot Barracks was sent to the Bar racks this morning with Lieut., Evan Hill. who left aboard the For nance after a short stay in Ju-
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-11-06
REV. SEWELL VISITOR

The Rev. A. w. Sewall, Evangel- ist, is a guest at the Loveless' home until he obtains reservation on a boat for Seattle. He IS returning from an evangelistic tour to the Westward and Cook Inlet Area. Wednesday evening he took a Gospel message to the people of the Alaska Evangelization Society. Rev rector of the Lake Minnatonka Bible Conference near Minneapolis Minn.