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DISPELLING THE FOG

CHARLES NICHOLSON

We had won triumph-a mill
tary triumrh-and sought meth
Cd that would end forever the
menace of a destruction of the
worlds peace. The League Of Ma
tions covenant may not have been
a perfect production, but it did of
fer an international accord calcu-
lated to partially, at least, police
the earth against such bandit dis
turbers as the present Hitler re-
gime.
What Might Have Been
Had it been permitted to func-
ton, whatever weaknesses and
flaws, developed from actual prac-
tice could have been corrected
We should have learned from that
struggle that no single nation un-
prepared was a match for one that
devoted itself to getting ready for
war. Had the nations been asso-
ciated, and capable of meeting the
present onslaught, that onslaught
could never have occurred. A halt
would have been called on Ger
many's upbuilding of a terrific
combat machine, long before it
reached the stage where it would
overrun it's neighbor nations.
In our own country the unity
that enabled us to do our part
with signal success ended with
the armistice.
We should have learned that
isolation was impossible in a
world so contracted that an hostile
plane could span the Atlantic in a
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MORE SELECTEES
LEAVE NEXT WEEK
TO SERVE COUNTRY
At Least 1000 Men From
This County Now With
the Armed Forces

Hagerstown and Washington
County will send another large
group of selectees into the Army
next week. the first group leaving
on Monday. On Tuesday, another
group will be sent to the reception
center in Baltimore and on the
18th, Goth and 21st more Young
men will be inducted from the coun-
ty.
These five calls to service will
probably constitute the largest
number yet selected. it is reported.
While no figures are available il
is conservatively estimated that
no less than 1000 Washington
County men are now serving with
Uncle Sans Army, Navy and Ma
rine Corps. This number. OF
course, includes members of Com
pany B, and those who enlisted
rather than wait to be called. Both
the city and county are represent
ed in all the fighting units of the
Army and many are stationed on
the battle lines in foreign coun-
tries
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single daylight; where submar-
ines could function with deadly eff
feet off shore thousands of leagues
from their bases, and giant tanks
could with practical immunity
break through defending armies.
Those lessons were wasted. AS
soon as hostilities ceased Wood
row Wilson's political enemies
started in to undo what he had
done. 1t was not the League they
fought, but the President. Actual
ly the League Of Nations was a
Republican objective back in Theo-
dore ROOsevelt's period.
We had come out of the war the
most powerful country of all; with
a Navy superior to anything af1oat
but we elected to go our own
way, and trusted to luck that the
shattered world would get along
without us.
Will 1t Happen Again?
We celebrated the peace by jet
tisoning our Navy, by way of a dis
armament conference-a fine ideal
which resulted in our destroying
splendid battleships, while the
others, in the main. tore up some
admirable blueprints.
We went further than that for
the Conference gave us the right
to retain a Navy equal to that of
Great Britain, or any other Navy
but we permitted our sea strength
treaty arrangement, and our Army
to deteriorate, far below the
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NATIONAL DUTIES

In addition to being Mayor Of
the States largest metropolitan
area, Jackson also is director of
civilian defense for Baltimore
City and coordinator of civilian
defense for the entire metropolitan
zone which includes Baltimore
County and parts of Howard, Car
roll and Anne Arundel counties.
This several-fold job is respon-
sibility which poses some practi-
cal questions.
Can he, for instance, with a
clear conscience, take time Off to
wage statewide campaign. Would
he be criticized by the public? FL
nally. is the public apathetic as
to who should be governor and is
it willing to let the contest go by
default to the incumbent governor?
The clue as to how Howard may
resolve these tough questions may
be found in a big political gamble
which the Mayor took shortly
after his defeat at the hands of
O'Conor in the 1888 campaign At
that time Howard looked all wash
ed up, seemed at the absolute bot
tom of his political zenith. For
Howard didn't carry single Bal
timore district, To most interpre
ters that meant he would never
have the nerve to stump for re-
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QUESTiONNAlRES GO OUT
LATER IN THE MONTH

Occupational questionnaires call
ing for information of all draft reg
istrants, will be mailed out late
this month, the Draft Board has
announced. The purpose of these
questionnaires is to compile labor
statistics for the national defense
industries and other vital plants
now in engaged in war production.
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Hitler's dilemma is whether tc
watch the RAF puiverize all OF
Germany and if the answer is
mo-" what?
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election as Mayor. The people,
according to all the wiseacres,
were through with him.
Jackson said nothing, and went
off to Atlantic City for rest. At
that time this column stated:
Don't make the mistake Of count
ing Howard Jackson out of the
Maryland politicaI picture - he is
anything but dead dog, political
ly."
PUBLIC OPINION POLLED
For Howard had concocted a
means Of determining whether he
was a has-been. He decided to
conduct a POLL of public opinion
and let the response decide wheth-
er he should quit or go on. His
friends were alarmed The thing
was too audacious. Supposing the
public was apathetic?
However, hizzoner ran full-page
advertisements in the Baltimore
press frankly asking the public at
large whether he should run again
for Mayor. He told the voters to
write him, wire him or call at his
Office.
In the course of this extended
open letter to the public, the then
perplexed mayor lashed out against
the victorious Curran O'Conor
faction and their mayoralty candi-
date, Charles Buck. He appealed
to people in every walk cf life
CONTINUED on page A.
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HANGOVERS
BY
LITTLE HEISkELL

OF course, wouldn't know,
but the gals hereabouts tell me
that there is a sharp decrease in
the number of eligible guys who
give thoughts to marriage, all re-
ports to the contrary notwith-
standing. Time was when the
supply equaIIed the demand, but
no more.
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All this, naturally, applies to
the young sIugs who have first
call on the SWEET things. The old
boys are still waiting in line for
a nod, hoping against hope that
although they are we'll along in
years, they might snap one of
'em up who really wants a hus-
band. Methinks they are wastin'
time.
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To the average person, this
serious scarcity of females amt
noticeable, the chief reason being
that the gals are going in for
sIacks ankie-length pants to
you! And, frankly some of 'em
can't be distinguished from tn
male of the species. A few of
'em really look snazzy but, unfor
tunateIy that doesn't apply to all.
Not a few of 'em look like they
have just been fished out of the
Potomac.
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On the other hand the lads are
becoming somewhat alarmed
over the situation. One young
cowboy confessed to me a few
days ago that the situation was
serious, and that it's aettin' so
that an eligible man isn't safe
walking around unescorted. OF
course, he was probably exag-
eerating but maybe the guys got
something at that.
1t just amt uncommon to see
a lone defenseIess male accom-
panied by pair of sweet things;
then, too, there's lot of alI-girl
parties being staged in this town
(imagine!) and that's not because
the gals crave each others COM
pany. They're down right lone
Iy. One of these killer OILERS
has also passed me the info that
the danes amt nearly as indie
pendent as they used to be and
that they seldom rave when the
boy-friend stands 'em up on
date. It's scarcity brother, and
perhaps Uncle Sam ought to DO
somethn' about it. He's in the
rationing mood, these days. so
one more ration card wouldn't
do any harm.
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MARyL AND MERRY-GO-ROUND-
- DREW PEARSON ----
BY DREW PEARSON

make a decision just before May
%.
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Times change. Years ago
a wren would land in the hoose-
aow if she appeared on the main
DRAG wearing slacks. Nowadays
even the weakest of the males
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There's a fortune waiting for
smart guy who designs a
stream-Iined job for the female
heavyweights. The thin ones
can always buy a larger size, but
the "heavies" - we'll, they've
got no camaflouee advantages.
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The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1942-01-01
HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Today we start 1912 Yesterday, and ls4l are
things of the past
The last month of l941 "all the news was bad
news" to paraphrase Of President Roosevet's
addresses in the early days of the war In 1912,
most of the news must be good news.
Happy New Year" as January l greeting, has
lost its CHEEKY flavor this year, when it is used as
casual by-word. When say Happy New Year
today, must it,
For with that phrase, when it is pronounced by
those who realize what 1912 holds in store for Amer
lea, must go the determination to make the new
year happy through blood sweat and tears
through personal sacrifices and unreenting work
In Alaska used to hard work. This is
still a frontier country. 1t has been developed
through sweat and sacrifice Under difficulties not
encountered for years canneries and mines must
operate during this new year. Naval patrols must
guard coastne, to keep lanes of commerce
open Armed air craft must keep constant vigil
to protect from invasion. Some of commune
ties-some of our major defense bases-may be tar
gets Of enemy bombing raids
But Alaska must carry on. She has an impor-
tant job to perform in the defense of the nation
and the offense against aggression She must pack
her salmon to feed Americas armed forces. She
must furnish important bases from which attacks
may be launched on our Asatic enemies. Alaska
must in many ways meet sterner challenge than is
hured at any point in the States.
President Roosevelt has asked that today be a
day set aside for prayer.
In these days ahead in 1912, will find need
for prayer and for the strength prayer give us
to carry on task, well the faith in the flu
ture which may derive through communion with
our God
We have in our land the resources the capital,
the manpower to completely turn the tide of war
against the greedy dictators of the world-to make
1912 truly Happy New Year But we must drive
resources and our manpower to the limit of en-
durance in unified national effort to achieve this
end
So with knowledge of the job ahead, and with
faith in America to roll up collective sleeves and
do that job well, we wish and all a Happy New
Year"
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1942-01-01
PLANES FROM
ALA5kA(0ULD
BLAST La JAPAN
Bradford Wdshburn Out
lines Possibilities Of A.
tack from North Bases

BOSTON, Jan. 1.-The bombing
of Tokyo by planes shutting be-
tween certain points in Alaska and
Russia was today pictured as a
possibility by young scientist who
has spent a dozen years studying
the topography Of Alaska by aerial
exploration.
Bradford Washburn, head of the
New England Museum of Natural
History, said in an interview he
thought 1t possible for bombers to
blast Tokyo by swerving from a
direct course between the nearest
land points enroute.
The Alaska Russia route he Wis
Toned as approximately 1000 miles
shorter than flights from Hawaii
to Tokyo. Weather conditions in
the North Pacific are not insur-
mountable, he asserted, adding that
the bombing of Jap cities by Al
aska biased planes is even more
practical than ferrying bombers to
England or shipping them across
the Pacific to Russia for the ulti-
mate purpose of blasting Japan.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1942-01-01

eventually will seal the doom of the
AXIS.
When the Nazi army invaded
southern France, an American bud
dy of Montgomery was captured and
forced to drive Nazi ambulances.
One day he was standing on hill
beside a German officer, watching
panzer division in action against
Scotch and French infantry. 1t was
carnage at it's worst, for the defend
ing force had no plans and no tanks.
Suddenly, a remarkable thing hap
pened. AS a powerful force of Nazi
tanks swept forward, several hun
dred Scotch soldiers dashed out into
the open to meet them head-on. All
but about 25 we're killed as they
tried to destroy the tanks with hand
grenades.
Stupid fools-your friends the
German officer snickered.
mo they are not stupid said the
ambulance driver. They undoubt-
eddy were told to stand their ground
and they had nothing else to fight
your tanks with. You will remember
this incident when the war is over,
if you're still alive, for it is the kind
of spirit we have just witnessed that
eventually will lick he'll out of you
Germans"
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1942-01-01
TO SET UP
PROHIBITED
ZONES HERE
Will Soon Require Identi-
.fiCdtion Cards 10 Enter
Waterfront Property

Juneau residents will soon be
required to show Identification
cards before they are allowed to
set foot on waterfront property,
oil storage yards and other areas
to be designated as prohibited
zones" for the duration of the war,
it was learned today.
Cards to identify workmen or
others authorized to enter these
zones on business will be issued
here by either the port captain of
the Coast Guard or by the Alaska
Steamship Company office, as soon
as the provision is put into effect.
How soon the prohibited zones
here will be set up is not known.
Similar provisions for guarding
important areas will also be made
in all Alaska communities.
Areas to be included in "prohib-
tied zones will be as follows:
l. Shipbuilding or ship repair
plants.
2. Wharves, piers or waterfront
terminals, including warehouses.
8. Seaplane ramps and hangers.
A. Oil docks and adjacent stor-
age tanks with connecting prop
erty.
S. Powder magazines.
6. Military bases, depots or stor-
age warehouses.
7. Cold storage plants.
8. Canneries and packing plants.
The order setting up these zones
states that there shall be mo
trespass, visit. occupation, nor per-
sonal presence whatsoever unless
persons employed thereon, visiting,
or entering shall exhibit satisfac-
tory proof of Identification which
must be presented to owner, mana
ger, or his designated representa-
tives or military authority
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1942-01-01
Distribution
0fDividends u
Being Made

CHICAGO, Jan. distribution
of dividends for the last half o.
1941, totalling an estimated $81,-
600 900, will be completed by the
nations savings, building and loan
associations today, according to
Fermor S. Cannon, indianapolis,
president of the United States Saw
ings and Loan League. He pointed
out that approximately 100000
persons will share in the distribu-
ton of earnings from the most ac-
tive home lending period the as
sociations have had in twelve years.
Checks will be sent to all hold
ers Of income share accounts in
the thrift and home financing in
situations, accompanied in hun
dreds of cases by the suggestion
that the earnings be directed to-
ward helping win the war by in
vesting in Defense Savings Bonds
or Stamps.
Mr.. Cannon said that dividends
were paid by approximately $500
savings, building and loan associa-
tons in every state, in the Terri
tory of Alaska, and SO far as he
can gather, in Hawaii, as usual.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1942-01-01
Taking No Chances
PHILADELPHIA Record)


Walter Duranty, author and foreign correspon-
dent reports current Russian wisecrack to the eff
feet that while the Russians shot their potentia
fifth columniss, the French put them in the Cabinet
The English haven't shot theirs, but they have
pretty we'll cleaned them ALPHABETICALLY since Win
ston Churchill has been Prime Minister
Sir Oswald Mosey jailed in May, 1910. We
now learn that Admiral Sir Barry Domvie, former
director of the British Naval Intelligence, and his
son. Compton Domvile, under arrest and that
Lady Alexandria Domvle has been released after
l6 months in custody.
Just how many fifth coumnists and Fascists
have been jailed has never been announced But il
is known there several hundred of them in
termed on the Isle of Man.
We have been fortunate in this country We
have none to clean out of the Cabinet.
But we should be just as ruthless as the British
in interning any potential fifth coumnists BEFORE
they get chance to strike
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1942-01-01
The Happy Warrior
Cincinnati Enquirer

Cincinnati Enquirer
Who is the Happy Warrior, who is he
That every in should wish to be?
Wordsworth asks the question and answers it,
too. The warrior is the man:
Whom neither shape of danger can dismay,
Nor thought of tender happiness betray.
He is the man who in face of danger of the
unexpected attack:
Come when it will, is equal to the need.
Soldering is not matter of gay hostesses or OF
weekend parties 1t is the most serious business in
life And soldier must prepare for toll and hard
ship There easy war. There never
yet was but that it was the man behind the
gun who counted.
Our boys drilling in the camps are OF the
same breed as the hardy frontiersmen who drove
back the Indians; the same blood runs in their
veins flowed in the veins of those sublime patriots
at Valley Forge; they the great grandchildren
of the valiant men who followed Grant and Lee
We in a greater war than ever before. Our
boys will show the stuff of which they are made
They will prove, as did Wordsworth's Happy Warrior
Equal to the need.
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casion he waded into the industrial
lists as follows;
Mr.. Moderator. When the in
dustries of this country come out of
this war, they will have built for
themselves, at the expense OF the
American people the most gigantic
plants, perfect in every mechanical
excellence, that ever before existed
in any nation in the world. The
government is going to build all
this for them and they will make
vast profits at the expense OF AM
erican workers who are being re-
quired to do without automobiles
and without Injuries.
AT the same time, Mr. Moderator,
labor is being asked to accept a pro-
posal whereby industry will come out
with fat SURPRISES while labor or
CARNATIONS will be debilitated or
entirely eliminated. Workers will
come out Of the war with bodies
broken, spirits crushed, and their
unions dispersed and futile"
Demurring at these accusations,
Hook recalled that he once had
worked for 10 cents an hour.
Are you still working for that,
Mr.. Hook?" rumbled Lewis.
NOTE: Lewis and William Green,
AFL President, who not SO long ago
plastered each other with sizzling
brickbatS, throughout the confer
ence were very chummy, calling one
another Bill and john Both
labor groups gave significant in
dication of their private views re-
garding Secretary Frances Perkins,
when she, with characteristic inept-
ness, invited them to lunch at the
height of the deadlock AS they
unanimously declined, Meany sum-
med up their attitude with the
impatient remark, Doesn't she
know we've got work to do? We've
got no time for frills and society"
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1942-01-01
TIME, AND THE EMPIRE

Every publication in the country has been faced
with the same problem of news censorship since the
outbreak of war.
From the standpoint of national security, news
papers are not allowed to publish all the OBJ
serving reporters able gather. There is too
much danger of information of military nature
leaking into enemy hands and proving a danger to
our operations even our civilian populations.
Because Juneau is a seaport and much of our
news must of necessity stem from the docks and
shipping items, The Empire has previously an
nounced that for the duration of the we will
be unable to print much information regarding
shipping movements and military activity. 1t was
interesting to this week to note that the weekly
newsmagazine, Time" is in exactly the same spot
in which find ourselves.
Prefacing it's reports in its latest issue, Time
said:
For the first time in nearly 10 years of publi-
cation Time finds itself unable to tell its readers
freely and frankly all the things it knows. Readers
in many parts of the U. S. will doubtless see mill
pages.
Time still believes that editor has a right
to decide that the public should not know certain
facts. But in wartime to disclose secret military
information which might be of value to the enemy
is not only illegal but unpatrotic So Time, al
telling the truth and nothing but the truth, will be
unable for the duration to tell all the truth about
military matters"
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ROOSEVELT DECIDES

The AFL and CLIO leaders accept
ed Thomas's plan instantly. The
business delegates also said it was
acceptable to them, if provision
was added freezing the status quo
on the open-closed shop issue.
When this was rejected, the en-
ployers, for the sake of harmony,
then agreed to put the issue up to
Roosevelt. Whatever he decided they
would accept.
1t was their expectation that, be-
fore ruling, the President would
confer with them. He didn't. After
a private talk with Thomas and
Moderator william Davis, Roosevelt
sent the conference letter that he
favored Thomas's plan.
While making no secret of their
disappointment, the employers bow
ed to the Presidents decision and,
without further discussion, agreed
to sign up.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1942-01-01
LEWIS CRATES

At the end, when they finally got
tgether, the employers and labor
ties parted cordially, shaking hands
and exchanging friendly holiday
greetings. But during the long stale
mate they pulled no punches in
their exchanges. They talked frank
ly and bluntly.
Charles r. Hook, President of AM
erican Rolling Mills, was the chief
employer spokesman. Mathew Vol,
AFL President, and George
Meany. ambitious AFL Secretary,
did most of the talking for their
group. John L. Lewis carried the
ball for CLIO.
He did it in his usual sonorous,
melodramatic manner. On one oc-
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Daily Lessons in English e. L. GORDON

WORDS MISUSED: say, proceeded
a soldier" "The PRECEDED soldier
MISPRONOUNCED Foliage foli-aj I in
A a in AGE, and o-ij.
MISSPELLED: Stationary Gxed certain place. AIRY
Stationery cry.
SYNONYMS: Silence stiffness. qeude, quetness
STUDY Use three times and is yours Let
mastering Todays
passing another
nothing long idle things and discursive ngH
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1942-01-01
20 YEARS AGO f {yfm EMPIRE
JANUARY /, 1922

JANUARY /,
confetti all promised L.
1922 welcomed High
of brakes
success the hall the
up early the morning.
Mrs. w. W.
New Years reception
Assisting
DeVighne Mrs p Coleman Mrs Guy McNaughon,
H l.. L.. Harding H. A. Bishop
Mayor of Skagway President of the Bank
Eebeh the Estebeth
the ebach
Open Mansion
Mrs Scott Mrs John Ford Starr
Marguerite Bone to the citizens juneau No invitations
being invited The reception between the
of 2 and
low, cloudy colder:
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1942-01-01
POLITICAL-Go-ROUND

Inner COP word IS that Governor
Harold Stassen of Mimi, who led
Willkie forces at the Philadelphia
convention, is quietly veering away
from his one time champion. Stas-
sen has burning 1914 presidential
ambitions, of his own. -. Latest
isolationist to climb on the pro-war
bandwagon is tall, swarthy Lawrence
Dennis, author of The Coming AM
erican Fascism."
Copyright. 194l, by United Feature
Syndicate, Inc)
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1942-01-01

The Christmas festival at Madrid.
New Mexico, draws some 100000
visitors annually; it is estimated
that the. electricity bill alone
amounts to $4,000 for the 30-day
pageant, yet the show remains
strictly on-commercial.