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also to expand existing plane and motor factories and to farm out orders for propellers and other parts to scores of plants not now engaged in defense work.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-05-08

Our advice to Turkey is not to remain aloof too long from the new Balkan war dance. Wall flower ing has become of the most dangerous occupa- tions we know
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-05-08
ATTENTION. ELKS!

All Elks requested to meet in Club rooms at 1:30 Sunday after noon, May II, to attend Mothers Day services.
 COMMITTEE.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-05-08

It now appears that we won't have any new automobile models in 1943 This should help lot in the national defense and the old cars deprecia- tion.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-05-08

The Daily Alaska Empire has the largest paid circulation of any AL aska newspaper.
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Warrington Merry
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Empire Classifieds Pay!
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Weather: Highest, 46; lowest, s2; clear
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-01
Against

NOWHERE on earth, in any country, has
IN there ever been a document that would
so victimize and Cypress, rob and ravish one
nation for the benefit of another as the lease
lend bill.
Why does not our President stop making
himself ridiculous before the rest of the world
and trying to fool the American people?
GEORGE X. TYLER,
IL Temple avenue.
4 LII able bodied men to arms to Americas
"A defense Con it's own shores), because
the invasion is so near that it makes my hide
SILVER. / mean the invasion of the United
States pocket book by the English.
My motto is America First.
CHARLES ROUGHOUSE,
6541 Bingham,
Dearborn, Mich.
4 MERICA should never again make the
"A mistake of 1917 and enter the European
war.
We should concentrate on our own de-
tense and never ally ourselves with England
If we build an impregnable defense for Amer
lea, there is no foreign power which can
attack us.
MRS MILDRED PELLICCIA,
1902 Marcus street.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-01
I'd Success Of 'GWTW
Lesson to Movie Makers
BY DAMON RUNYON

something like "GWTW." We
have already seen it three times,
which is quite a job of seeing if
you recall the length of the pic
ture. That is not a record with
us, however.
We think we have seen Birth
of a Nation" counting revivals
and all, at least half a dozen
times and we gave the Disney
short, Three Little Pigs" our
business on no less than 10 diff
ferent occasions.
1t might be argued that
"GWTW" is a sort of freak in
the picture business. the like of
which will never be seen again
and that il cannot be used as a
yardstick on pictures generally.
We do not think this is true.
We think that any picture with
the same entertainment value
would do the same business.
We think this picture is def
mite proof that the movie
makers have just scratched the
box office possibilities of their
game. When they stick to en-
tertainment and entertainment
only they are sure to be re-
warded. The old gag still holds
true-"There is nothing wrong
with the pictures that a few
good pictures will not cure"
DUT there remains among the
- picture makers and espe-
cially. we think, the directors,
that same curious misapprehen-
sion as to what constitutes en-
tertainment value that has
prevailed since the inception of
the industry. We find II in the
gloomy message cycles that pro-
duce the screen poisoning among
the cash customers and in the
arty efforts which win the enco-
miums of the critics but which
are not entertainment within the
purview of the cash customers.
"GWTW' should be run at least
once week in Hollywood for
years TO come and all directors
required to c present at every
showing. with some representa-
tive of us cash customers an
nouncing to them at intervals:
"See, boys, that Is what we
mean"
pfstrfputed BY International News Service
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-01
Connolly Answers

/. (a) Gibraltar: (b) Berlin. Ger
many; tc) Athens, Greece.
2. (a) The sun; (b) dining hall;
(c) weapons.
3. (a) Mt. Sinai, Mt. Nebo; OBJ
Bethlehem, Mt. Calvary. Jeru-
salem: tc) Road to Damascus
Rome.
4. (a) Blast. gust. eddy, gale;
OBJ garrote. guillotine, lynch
ing. electrocution, hanging; (c)
bronze, gunmetal, pewter, etc
5. ta) Keep-out of it "a blind
alley); (b) show it Exhibit OF
your strength; tc) tell it "a
reason for your existence).
6. Cal Balboa; OBJ Walter Hunt;
(c) Samuel Colt.
Z. (a) The beggar is taxed for a
corner to die in" J. r. Lowell;
(b) with a heart for any
fate" Longfellow; (c) Like
softest music to attending ears,
Shakespeare.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-01
/ etters
TO The Editor
TO THE EDITOR:

TO THE EDITOR:
WHAT possible excuse can the
w state and federal govern
ments offer for neglecting to
renew the federal allotments de-
signed to provide maintenance
for the American wives and chill
dren of national guardsmen and
naval reserve men whom the
President saw fit to call into
service.
OF course, American wives
and children are unimportant to
our government officials and as
a result many of them have re-
Gently been reduced to hunger
and privation. While American
women and children 60 hungry.
our government has manifested
the utmost concern for foreign
refugee children, and has gone
to great lengths to wine and
dine the princesSes of foreign
lands who should be back in
their own countries helping TO
fight their own wars.
If Mr.. Roosevelt were true to
his American people he would
proclaim America first for the
Americans and not bleed the
American taxpayers to help only
foreigners.
would suggest that Mr..
Roosevelt relinquish the presi-
dency and join his frien d
Churchill. Together they might
be better able to anticipate the
needs of the English.
We have any number of red
blooded American men who
could and would faithfully dis
charge the duties of an Ameri-
can president to the American
people for the salary paid to him
by the American taxpayer.
FRANCES HORNUNG,
552 Piper boulevard.
The best of prophets of the
future is the past.
Lord Byron.
And after all, what is lie?
'Tis but
The truth in masquerade.
Lord Byron.
The reward of a thing well done
is to have done it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-01
For Aid

DROBABLE results of Nazi victory prompt
i me to urge all possible aid to Britain!
If our city were the whole world and in
one corner of the city strong, ruthless gang
made vigorous and successful efforts to con-
quer and enslape the surrounding people.
should consider "all possible aid" to be just
that:
ALL MUNITIONS POSSIBLE!
ALL RAW MATERIALS POSSIBLEi
ALL FOODSTUFFS POSSIBLE!
ALL ECONOMIC ENCOURAGEMENT!
ALL POLITICAL ENCOURAGEMENT!
ALL MORAL ENCOURAGEMENT!
We have always led in the march of in
dustrial speed in production. Let us be done
with quibbling and show EN-!
JOSEPH CHARNOSKE,
31O1 Barlum Tower.
AM for all the aid necessary to Britain.
Britain must not fall into the hands of
the dictators. I say this not because of my
sympathy for the brave British people, nor
because fear we will be conquered next, but
because for us to have safe democracy there
must be other democracies in the world.
HICHARD HEITZNER,
1928 Detroit street,
Flint, Mich.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-01

IN A middling sized city the
i other day at two movie thea
tiers showing Gone With the
Wind" at popular prices, they
had ropes up keeping the
crowds in line. We are told that
the same situation exists where
ever they are putting on the pic
ture for its second run and this,
we think, should be a fine object
lesson to the movie makers who
occasionally become pessimis-r
tic over the future of the
cinema.
If they give us cash GUS
toners genuine entertainment,
we will do the rest, now and
through the years to come. That
is all Gone With the Wind is
entertainment. 1t is just an
enthralling story told in the
best manner of the screen.
1t has already hung up new
record for money crossed and
this in a time when the world
market is not what it used to
be and before it is finally laid
away on the shelf it will prob
ably play to more cash customers
and consequently more money
than any half dozen pictures in
the history of the industry COM
bined.
Gone With the Wind" is now
an Oldie as the age of pictures
go. 1t has played all the big
first run cities at advanced
prices, and to damned houses.
You would have thought it
must have absorbed all the trade
possible to one picture, because
even the cash customers who
are usually content to wait un-
til an offering gets down to the
lower levels at the box office
stretched a financial point to
see it. But here it is doing
land office business all over
again, and we suspect that some
of this business is repeat stuff.
THAT is. many cash customers
i who saw "GWTW" before
are seeing it again. which is a
further tribute to its entertain
ment value, especially when ii is
playing against numerous new
pictures. We personally welcome
the return of the picture because
we know il will prove an anti
dote to severe attack OF
screen poisoning that we sus-
tanned recently.
One of those sad message pic
lures that come out of Holly
wood in cycles leaped out on us
in a theater not long ago and
bit us. The result was a spell
of deep depression and complete
lassitude toward all suggestions
of theater going.
A victim of screen poisoning,
which is a malady peculiar only
to cash customers, can scarcely
abide the thought of seeing an
other picture for awhile. 1t pro-
duces dark thoughts of ven
geance against the makers OF
the picture.
Sometimes a victim has been
known to sit brooding for hours
at a stretch wondering where
he might find the producer and
the director and the authors
and even the performers and
give them what-for.
T,IIE condition is usually only
Il temporary. as in our case,
and can be promptly cured by
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-01


EVEN the Germans must ad-
~ mire them for their sus-
tanned bravery. and, win or lose
this war. the English are going
to be respected afterward and
have some say in the running
of that world.
But even admiring the English
and all the English, for that
matte r-Americans can't tell
themselves that we must help
Britain only because we think
Britain is defending freedom as
such.
II Germany didn't threaten
our position as big nation we
wouldn't be taking all these ex-
ercises to develop our chest
measurements and making all
these speeches to ourselves.
Our government and most. of
our people are convinced now
that the Germans are this eoun-
try's enemies, too, or, at least,
that they are very tricky. un-
reliable neighbors who really
have set themselves the task of
tossing the whole world.
But there our own freedom
and our existence as a big ma
ton are threatened. AS to the
freedom, 1 think we will lose
some in the struggle and, even
if victorious, never will get il
all back.
EVEN if the slave states should
II wiggle loose if Hitler were
demolished that is no promise
that they would be free.
So it appears that in fighting
for their own safety the British,
incidentally, are defending ours.
too. but I don't think they ever
would fight for ours unless their
own safety and freedom were
involved or that we would make
all this effort unless we felt
that ours were threatened.
If it is freedom, as an ideal.
everywhere that we are so
wrought up about, why didn't
we tie into the Russians a year
ago?
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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-01
Quiz Answers

1. The "tin can" was the Monitor;
"the turtle" the Merrimac.
?. Tucson, Arizona.
3. Palladium, iridium. platinum and
rhodiumdn
4. Spain. Z
5. Sixteen miles.
S. Greece.
Z. New York.
Error is hardy plant: II
flourisheth in every soil.
Martin Farquhar Upper.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-01
ONE YEAR AGO TODAY
Feb I+I9<0

The Russians smashed anew
at the Mannerheim line with an
attack in Karelia in which $50
planes. armored sleds and smoke
screens were used.
Finnish President KslIio again
asked for negotiations to con-
cIude IAN honorable peace"
Indicating Turkeys stand.
Foreign Minister Saracoglu de-
clared Turkey was not neutral
but merely out OF the war"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-01
IS YEARS AGO TODAY
Feb. 4. 1916

The British S. S. Appam was
brought into Norfolk Harbor.
Virginia, by German prize
crew.
The Turks continued their at
tacks on the British az Kut-EI-
Amsrs.
Two British merchantmen
were sunk, one by bomb from
a Zeppelin, one by U-boat.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-01
By HUGH S. JOHNSON


AS MORE reports from the
"A Albanian battle come
through, it is more apparent that
the skirted Greek equivalents Of
the World War killed Scotch
''Damen Won Hoelle" (ladies from
He'll have added a new post
script TO this war-or rather, a
very old one. They have proved
once more the effectiveness Of
cold steel. breast to breast, even
in modern mechanical war.
The suggestion comes to me
from Roy Tinney. a newspaper
colleague, who is an ex-bay-
onet-instructor of the late world
unpleasantness. Interpreting cur
rent reports, he says OF these
Greek bayoneteers:
"They duck dive bombers, de-
tour around tanks and ignore
machine guns until they are In
thrusting distance of PegIer's
buns. Then they proceed to fight
as their forefathers fought. The
Evzones' ancient method of
fighting so offended MussOlinfs
invincible iegions they simply
had to leave the field"
MO CONCLUSION about this
~ war can be made too much
sinplified but, on the other
hand nothing should be unduly
complicated. Old military prin-
ciples never adjourn sine die"
The urge of troops for physical
contact is the most effective Of
fensive psychology that can be
cultivated.
The Germans, in 1918. feared
the bayonets and ear-slitting
knives of the Senegalese above
all weapons. las Rome shortened
her swords she broadened her
borders. II is still doubtful
whether you can destroy good
troops with artillery fire or
bombing. The only certain way
remains the shock of physical
contact.
That doesn't mean that you
can ignore machine guns but
il does mean that war Is still
fight. II soldiers can become con-
vinced of their invinciblllty at
close range, their guiding
thought is TO get at the enemy
and that is the only way battles
are won.
THIS doesn't mean to depre-
i ciate all the power and
necessity of modern. motorized.
mechanical armament. T his
column advocated il about long
before even our general star
appreciated what the Germans
were doing. But. al the same
time. there is such thing as
killing the offensive spirit by too
much armor-too many Maginot
Lines.
The Germans haven't done
that. Eyewitness accounts oil
their thrust along lne Nleuse a
too full of beserk catapulting of
human missiles on motorcycles
and in armored cars against
seemingly impregnable French
obstacles 10 suppose such q
thing.
Neither defensive nor the Of
fensive is exclusively the proper
military prescription at all times
but neither policy is any good
without troops who. when they
see an enemy. have any other
impulse but to close with MN
and tear him apart.
II isn't pretty, but IL Is
war-which next TO Bedford
Forests: Git thar fustest with
the mostest men" never had any
better maxim from Hannibal 10
the present day than JACK
Dempsey's:
Get in there and keep ON
socking until something drops.
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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-01
u. S. Selfish
In Helping
Britain Fight
John Bull Defending Us
Battling for Freedom

1.-THE opinions expressed by
Westbrook Pesisr are not neces-
sariy those Of The Detroit
Times.)
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-01

Here's hoping the boys and
girls get their $4,000. A col
lege degree held in calloused
hands is something new and
promising. As TO old Alma
Mater these lads aren't like
the boys who celebrated their
mothers birthday by buying her
new AK.
Copyright 1851. King Features synd.. Inc
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-01
By WESTBROOK PEGLER

IT CERTAINLY would be a
L great favor to many of us if
some one would explain patiently
in plain. little words to what ex-
tent we are being idealistic and
moral in this war and to what
extent practical or, if not prac-
tical, then selfish.
Because, if we are strictly
idealistic and moral, how do we
distinguish between Hitlerism
and Stalinism. which, as so many
have observed, are equally Often
sive to American ideals and NOR
ais and both guilty Of wanton
aggression, though in the latter
respect there has been a differ
ence of degree That is to say.
Hitler is no worse aggressor than
Stain but is. in fact. from the
standpoint of efficiency, a better
one.
Both are extremely unkind to
elements of their home folk, but
Stain has vastly outscored Hit
Ter in slaughter within the ma
tional family circle.
But, however the cries OF the
victims pain us, we have no right
to interfere by force-anyway,
on that ground.
IF WE were to take that atti-
i tude we should be forever
rushing into other peoples
houses and yelling 'unhand that
woman"
If that were our position we
should have taken firm steps
against Turkey long time ago
for the terrible things the Turks
did to the Armenians, and we
never should have recognized
Soviet Russia.
However, | think we can take
il as settled that it is not our
intention to reprove by force OF
arms the rulers of other nations
who hold masSacres or otherwise
prosecute clements of their
people, much as we deplore this
conduct.
Now, if Russia today were to
throw in on the Allied side
meaning our side--we would
give numerous rousing cheers
and our best people would start
inviting the Soviet ambassador,
Constantine Oumansky, to par
ties at their homes.
WE ARE prepared to admire
w and root for the Turks as
well. although Turkey, of course.
is dictatorship. too. So it
comes around that we are will
ing to help one of the worst
aggressors and one of the most
fiendish tyrants in all history TO
lick the other, after which the
tyrant of the inst part-mean-
ing Stalin-would be stronger
and meaner than ever.
That wouldn't be spreading
freedom in the world.
Then-about England, For the
first time in the adult life of this
country we are beginning TO
realize what tough, game people
the English arc.
1t Just happens that In this
fight the blow has fallen on the
English almost exclusively and
that they have stood up under
their punishment as no other
people ever did or had to in the
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-01
What DO YOU Think !?

I-Should America Enter the European War?
Twill Our Present Course if Persisted in Inevitably
Involve Us in War?
Should merica Concentrate Her Own Defense and
independence, Ally Herself With England in
the Recent World War?
America today
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-01
War; Still
Man to Man,
Greeks Show D
Dempsey's Motto Held
Tops in Advice

(The opinions expressed by
General Johnson are not nscss-
sariiy those of The Detroit
Tires.)
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-12-12
CHAPTER ELEVEN First Witch Whispers in Hildur's
 Ear

Now the three witches who lived underground had dreadful powers. The witch in the first cave could make every plant she saw wilt and die. The second witch could look at any bird or beast and it would drop dead.
 But the third was the worst of all. She could look at men and make them want to fight and kill each other.
 They had walked through the land a hundred years before Hil- dur entered their cave. They had been taken prisoner by very brave men. They were allowed to leave behind them, however, an opal which blazed crimson when the light fell on it. The opal had this power if it fell to earth from the hand of good person it could open the stairs which led into the witch's cave.
 And, as you know, that is what finally happened. It fell from the hand of Princess Hildur when she
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-12-12
SHELDON WILL
 FLY HERE FROM FAIRBANKS SOON
New Unemployment Com pensation Chief Ready
 to Take Over Job

Robert E. Sheldon, newly ap- pointed executive director of the Territorial Unemployment Com pensation Commission, is due to fly here from Fairbanks to assume the duties of his new office as soon as he san secure plane accom- modations. it was announced this morning by commission members holding their annual meeting here.
 Harry Phillips, of Fairbanks, chairman of the commission, said he had advised Sheldon will leave the Interior city for Juneau today if planes fly. Both Phillips and Mrs. Hermann, Juneau member of the board, said they could not com plete their session until after con- ferring with Sheldon.
 The commissioners were meeting today in the Federal Building and said they were checking over rout- inc matters.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-12-12
/hG kIla NLaCGd t Cgu MGT JGIlOW CHy1.<.

was only ten, and she had prom ised the witches her first three wishes after she became 21.
 So the day Hildur was 2l the witches were very excited. They sat very still in their caves so they could hear if Hildur made a wish
 And of course she did. Her father, the King, gave her a fine party. There were May-poles all over the castle lawns around which maidens danced while the finest musicians played.
 The best horsemen of the king dom held a tournament and the man who won was given big red rose by Princess Hildur.
 Then there was dance by very small boys and girls which Hildu, liked particularly because the ( small girls were dressed as violets and the small boys as bright, red poppies. The program ended with the singing of a hundred people dressed in white robes who stood on the palace lawn
 Then the King stood up and sig nailed for everyone to be still. He smiled at his subjects who seated themselves quietly on the lawn to listen Then he said, This is a happy day for my wife, the good Queen, and me because today our princess comes of age We feel she has a good heart and a wise head and that we can safely see her become Queen some day"
 The crowds shouted The King
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-12-12
Gaslineau Council
 Plans Health Meei

The Gastineau Public Health Council will hold meeting on Mon day, December 15 at 7:30 o'clock in the Public Health Room.
 This assembly will attempt to coordinate efforts on defense health measures and to cooperate with Public Health authorities regard ing proper diet requirements.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-12-12

The Story So Far: Princess Hildur is bound by three prom ises to three witches who live in deep cave. She has prom iseG them her first three wish es after she is 21.
 All Rights Reserved
 AP Feature Service
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-12-12
AUTOMOBILE OWNERS
 ATTENTION

The 1922 Automobile License Plates are now available and on sale at the Office of The City Clerk. Territorial and City regulations require that the new plates be dis played January l.
 R. G. RICE,
 City Clerk. First publication, Dec 12, l941. Last publication, Dec IS, 1941.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-12-12
, Tobatto Companies (onyitied Monopoly, Are Denied New Trial

LEXINGTON, Kya Dec. 12-The Nations big three tobacco com panies, Reynolds, Liggett and Myers and American and thirteen offici- als have been denied a new trial on their price fixing monopoly con- victions in the United States Dis trict Court and fines of $l5,000 each assessed.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-12-12
MISCELLANEOUS
WANTED

WANTED--McIean's Agency needs two Health, Accident and Life Insurance salesmen. Part or full time. Experience not necessary. Will teach you. Travel or stay at home See j. H. Rodgers or phone 53.