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The Daily Alaska empire., 1943-06-23

Eddie Turchin, Cleveland In dians' rookie, speaks and under stands six languages.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1943-06-23

Mrs. John Johnson and Mrs. Betty Stone, medical patients, have been admitted to St. Anns Hospi- tai
The Daily Alaska empire., 1943-06-23
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O.E.s. PICNIC CALLED OFF

The picnic planned by Nugget Chapter No. 2, O.E.S., for tonight at the Treadwell beach has been postponed until the first sunny day, the committee in charge an- nounced this morning.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1943-06-23

Ray Wiseman was an outgoing medical patient at St. Anns re- gently
The Daily Alaska empire., 1943-06-23

Lee A. Miller entered St. Ann's Hospital yesterday for medical care.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1943-06-23
CANNERYMEN TAKE APT.

K. W. Bill Oakson, cannery machinist and Dan Hickman, ae- countant, have taken one of the Kilburn apartments for their resi- dence here during the canning sea-
The Daily Alaska empire., 1943-06-23

Arleene Martin, surgical patient at St. Ann's Hospital, has been dis charged.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1943-06-23
o. EDWARDS MOVE

Orrin Edwards and family have removed to the Tom Jensen home for their residence while Jensen is in the service.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1943-06-23
CARD OF THANKS

We wish to thank all of our good friends in Juneau for the flowers and understanding sympa- thy extended in the death of James McAlister.
 MRS. JAMES McALISTER, !.
 CAROLINE, KAY, PAT AND
 MARILYN McALISTER. n
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Evening star., 1943-07-17
Unchoneine
From the Baltimore Sun,

from the Baltimore Sun.
The polite sneer that Mr.. Churchill
is fighting 20th-century war for 18th
century ideals means that he is fight
ing for ideals with which the signers
of our Declaration and the conquerors
Of the Bastille were not unfamiliar.
Can it be possible that those ideals are
out of date? Are there no declarations
OF independence to be pronounced in
1913? Are there no Bastilles to come
crashing down? Tell that to the pro-
fessors in the concentration camp at
Dachau! Tell that to the Jews, if any
survive, in the prison ghettos of Warsaw
and dozen other conquered cities!
Tell that to the Czechs and the Poles,
and tell it, indeed, to great numbers of
the Germans themselves, to greater
numbers Of the Italians! Very emphat-
ically there are men to be made free in
1943, just as there were men to be made
free in the last quarter of the 18th
century. And the way of making them
free, the freedom to which they must
be given access, are much what they
were in the last quarter of the 18th
century
Evening star., 1943-07-17
Food-Stump PIun

The proposal to adopt food
stamp plan for the benefit of those
whose incomes have not kept pace
with the rise IN living costs, which is
nothing more than a subsidy for the
benefit of persons W>lo are in real
need, has been attacked on the
ground that it would subject the
beneficiaries to a form of humilia-
ton. Most of those who object to
this proposal see nothing wrong,
however, with subsidized price roll
back, which extends a similar benefit
to every one-those who need help
and those who do not
There are objections, undoubtedly,
to the stamp plan. Those who would
benefit from it are good citizens.
They are not persons who are in need
because they are unwilling to provide
for themselves. Many of them live
on fixed incomes, and their problem
arises from the Governments failure
to check the rise in living costs.
Others are wage and salary earners
whose incomes have remained at
prewar levels-who have not received
the increases that have gone to other
Evening star., 1943-07-17

workers and who have not benefited
from overtime work in war indus
tries. If some sort of stamp plan
were to be worked out for their
benefit it would be an injustice to
look upon them as recipients of
charity.
But there also are objections to a
subsidy plan which extends the same
benefits in the form of price reduc-
tions to everybody. Why should a
man whose income has doubled in a
period which has brought 20 or IS
per cent increase in living costs re-
ceive the same subsidized benefit
from the Government as would 60 to
man whose income has not ad-
vanced at all? In time of war, we
have been told, the people must
expect a reduction in their living
standards. If this be the case, why
insist upon a subsidy program which
still further improves the relative
position of the majority, whose living
standard has improved since the
beginning of the war, in order to aid
those whose economic position has
suffered?
What the country is faced with,
after all, is the necessity of working
out stabilization formula to curb
rising imitation And to that end,
well-conceived stamp plan would be
a far more effective weapon than
universal price rollback predicated
upon large subsidy payments. We
have come to a point in this matter
where our real concern should be to
find formula which is best for the
Nation as whole, and, that being
the case, the stamp plan proposal is
at least entitled to far more serious
consideration than it has received up
to this time
Evening star., 1943-07-17
THIS AND THAT
By Charles Z. Trace,pell.

more It, in its turn. frightened them by
its leaps and bounds.
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1t IS gentle creature, however. and
makes an excellent pet.
NO other squirrel has a flying mem
brane.
This enables the animal to become a
complete glider, with the short, fiat
furry tail acting as sort of rudder.
The strong hind legs permit the crea-
ture to catapult itself from the top of a
tree, sending 1t out far from the trunk
before the flight really begins.
In this way the flying squirrel goes
from the top of one tree to the base of
another Then, since it is a real souir-
rel, it scurries UP the trunk, and launches
itself into space again.
In thls way 1t can 60 through woods
even quicker than regular squirrel.
Ihe flying squirrel and the flying fishes
nave taught man a great deal about
night, since their methods and use of
membranes and fms in flight" are closer
TO those OF an airplane, in many respects,
than the true flying of the birds. The
olrds have Tapping wings, which take
the place OF the propeller, but their use
has been the despair of human inventors
during the centuries, wings have been
tried many times, but so far only the
nlrds succeed with them, and this they
DO, not only because the wings are an
integral part of them, but also because
their designer seems to have known
just what He was doing.
The fur of the flying squirrel is very
soft. In this respect, no other squirrel
can touch it. The eyes, too, are UNIQUE.
being Intelligent as well as soft in ap-
pearance. This is because it is a noe
turnal animal, and all such have very
large, expressive eyes. Mankind has
never yet gotten over admiration of the
owls eyes.
II flying squirrel is kept several days,
1t gets over its fright and likes to cuddle
into ball, with its head near the root
of the TAIL and the latter spread out
both as sort of pillow and cover.
Since it does not like sunlight, it should
be given a darkened room during the
daytime, and permitted out to frolic at
night. During the day it is mostly quiet.
1t is best, however, to turn it loose
since it is a true wild animal, like the
raccoor, and never enjoys captivity.
If one is fortunate enough to see a fly
ing squirrel in flight, he will see one of
natures most interesting spectacles, es-
pecially when the animal is about to
light.
1t is going down head first, as if to butt
into the trunk, when suddenly it bends
the fiat tail downward and elevates its
head
This instantly puts it into the correct
landing position Most movements in
nature are beautifully co-ordinated, but
not many can equal this one. 1t is just
what you could expect of such graceful
animal.
Evening star., 1943-07-17
Flower on q City Window

Here on the thin, aDhite Dindo1D sill
The fo1Der pot is placed Uithi1 the
sphere,
The little circle of recurring sun.
So does the tardy bloom displace
The modicuna of liDing air.
Small is the radius in the atmosphere
Wherein the blossom spends its lure,
Its hope perennial,
Where neUer a bee has lifted lazy
1Ding.
Yet oDer its beauty bends the sharp
ened face,
The eyelids shutting all the face a,pay
Sape the small part that do,DnWard
turns to stare
At the round stem that plumneted
from dark,
Bearing on either side a single leaf
Where the unmoUing ripers fo,o.
TIE petaled bloom ,oherein the
honey stays
Is lifted no,o to the face that leans
Like ,Dinter finding proof OF spring.
SARA VAN ALSTYNE ALLEN.
Evening star., 1943-07-17
The TroubIe-Mokers
Prom the New York Herald Tribune.

Prom the New York Herald Tribune.
Chinese intelligence agents in India,
Burma and Malaga have reported long
ago that pro-Japanese Indians were
confidently expecting the japanese to
train and send home force of at least
1000 Indian agitators and saboteurs.
They confidently believed that Indian
Army men captured by the japanese in
Malaga and Burma had been converted
to the japanese cause and enlisted in
great Plumbers and that these. should
long since have slipped back into India
through Burma to inspire trouble, dam
age communications and, by posing as
escaped prisoners and rejoining the In
dian Army, create cells Of disaffection
which would shake British confidence
in the dependability of that army. It
would appear that the Hindu conspir-
ators have had Japanese assurances of
such organized trouble-making, but
have waited for it in vain. For such
action radio harangue by Chandra
Bose in far-away Toxic is q poor SUBJ
stitute
Evening star., 1943-07-17
Welcome Liberalization

The White House memorandum on
relaxation of annual leave restric-
tions in the Federal service is de-
signed to relieve a situation that
IN many cases was becoming in
tolerable The longer WorkWeek,
staggered hours of work and less
elasticity in granting short-leave
periods have left many Federal en-
ployeS without the time to take care
of personal business without resort
ing to absenteeism. Under the terms
of the White House memorandum,
supervisors are to make sure that
employees have the time, at short
intervals, for strictly personal affairs.
What has happened here in Wash
ington in the change of living habits,
made necessary by longer working
hours and more rigid schedules, has
also taken place in other centers of
war activity throughout the country
and has been a contributing factor
In large-Scale abSenteeism. In nor
NAL times, the conmunity's business,
professional and mercantile life was
tuned to the hours of work in the
principal industry-Which in Wash
ington is Government. The war
disrupted all normal schedules. Sat-
urday half-holidays were eliminated,
in many establishments the working
day was put on a tWenty-four- hour
basis divided in three shifts and,
despite evening shopping hours and
other expedients, thousands of work
ers have found themselves without
any time away from the office when
they could go on errands of their
own.
Many expedients have been con-
sidered, one of them designed to
reinstitute the Saturday half-holiday
by lengthening the daily schedule Of
working hours The White House
memorandum is plainly against this,
as the objective of the plan is to
maintain working schedules in all
offices, including Saturday after
noon, but to permit Individual en-
ployes time off, to be counted against
annual leave, at frequent enough
intervals to meet their own personal
convenience. The liberalization of
leave provisions should be welcome
reform to the employees and will tend
to increase, rather than lessen, office
production
Evening star., 1943-07-17
Mr.. Wilkes Bid

1t would have been simpler and
more direct If Wendell Willkie had
announced himself a candidate for
the Republican presidential nomina-
ton. Instead, Mr.. Willkie has merely
declared he will enter the Republican
presidential preferential primary in
Illinois If Colonel Robert R. McCor-
mick, publisher Of the Chicago Trib-
une, does likewise. Mr.. WILKES
challenge to Colonel Mccormick,
however, is the first open dangling of
toe in the presidential pool of 1914.
For that reason it is considered sig
nificant. 1t has been we'll under
stood. however, that Mr.. Willkie has
actually been a candidate for the
nomination for many months.
A battle in the Illinois primary be-
tween Mr.. Willkie and Colonel Nc
Cormick intrigues the Imagination.
Mr.. Willkie is the chief exponent of
internationalism among the Repub-
licans-and Colonel Mccormick the
chief defender of isolationism.
Colonel Mccormick and his news
paper have backed many candidates
for public office, but he himself has
never run. His favorite candidate
in the last election was Senator
"Curley" Brooks of Illinois, one Of
the dyed in the wool isolationist
Senators before Pearl Harbor. Sena-
tor Brooks won with lead of more
than 100000 votes over former Rep
resentative McKeough, his Demo-
cratic opponent, who sought to make
Brooks isolationist record the chief
issue of the campaign.
Colonel Mccormick, if he entered
the presidential primary in Illinois
against Mr.. Willkie, would be fight
ing in his own backyard. This does
not daunt Mr.. Willkie. The latter is
so confident that he has the popular
end of the issue that he is willing to
take on all comers who defend the
old isolationist policy Shorn of this
issue, Mr.. Willkie would be compelled
to fall back on domestic issues, con-
corning which most Republicans
agree. Hence, he must make his
principal bid for the nomination on
the basis OF his stand on postwar
policy.
In a measure, Mr.. Willkie is en-
titled to recognition as the chief Re-
publican exponent of international
cooperation. He started the fight to
WOO the party away from its tradi-
tional isolationism, and In 1941 he
forced the issue at meeting of the
Republican National Committee in
Chicago. The result was the adop-
tion of resolution by the commit
tee in which Mr.. WILKES ideas were
embraced. He has pursued this
Evening star., 1943-07-17
ARLINGTON, Va.

Dear Sir:
while was ironing in the basement
last week heard nibbling which when
traced turned out to be little animal
perched on chopping block from which
he was peeling and eating the bark.
Il went within two feet of him and still
he sat up on his hind feet nibbling and
watching me, quite unconcerned, with
his big black eyes.
my first impression was half squirrel,
half mouse, with a white marking on
each side, and fiat furry tail. He
looked as though he'd make good pet.
Several nights later he Cor she)
turned up in our dining room, sitting up
looking at us with his bright eyes, his
tail arched very prettily.
He was slow in maneuvering, with a
running, hopping motion. My husband
finally managed to put large sieve over
him and forthwith proceeded to make a
wire screen cage for him in which we
kept him for two days.
After observing him closely, we be-
came more and more convinced that he
was flying squirrel, since the white
marking turned out to be the edge of
loose fold of pelt which served as web
between front and back feet; and when
the animal climbed upside down on the
screen, the under side, all spread out as
though to make a flying leap, was almost
white.
Though he ate readily of salted pea
nuts for while, he soon became melan-
cholic and we released him outside.
mo one seemed to know of such an
animal. Could you tell us whether we
surmised right in clubbing him a flying
squirrel?
"I1l never forget those beautiful big
black eyes.
Yours truly, M R. c."
The flying squirrel is one of our most
interesting mammals.
1t never fails to make great impress
sion. Our correspondent is right in call
ing attention to it's eyes These are
large and soft, and correctly express the
disposition of the little animal (Which
usually is about nine or ten inches
long.
Yet no creature, except the bat, fright
ems household as much, especially at
night, since this is a nocturnal animal.
The flying squirrel has habit of get
ting into house after every one has
gone to sleep. This occurred in the old
days, of course, much more frequently
than today, when most homes have
screens.
In small country towns, flying squir-
rels seemed to make a speciality of get
ting in, and then flying up and down
the staircases, as the awakened house.
hold took after it.
1t can be imagined that the more the
sleepy people frightened the squirrel, the
Evening star., 1943-07-17
Huskin's Answers
To Questions
By Frederic J. HaSkin.

~ Fredef1c j. HGSktn.
A reader can get the ans,per to any
question OF fact BY Driting The Epe-
ming Star Information Bureau, Fred
eric J. Haskin, director, Washington,
D. C. Please inclose stamp for return
postage.
@. What per cent of American fami-
lies are buying War bonds and stamps?
S. U. H.
A. According to a recent Gallup poll
on purchase of bonds or stamps since
the Treasury first began to issue them,
81 per cent of American families have
bonds or stamps in their possession,
while 10 per cent have never at any
time bought them, or have cashed
them in
@. When was the Japanese beetle IN
troduced into the United States?-C.
N. o.
A. The Japanese beetle was reputedly
introduced into this country some 20
years ago with some irises brought over
from Japan.
@. How many children are born out
of wedlock each year in this country?-
N. w. H.
A. According to the Bureau of the
Census, in l941 there were 83,348 il
legitimate children born in the United
States al States and the District OF
Columbia reporting.
Evening star., 1943-07-17
Naples

1nere is an ancient prOVerD, verdi
Napoli poi muori," which commonly
has been interpreted, "See Naples
and die" A lifetime's ambition, it
is suggested, would be gratifed by
visit, perhaps merely a momentary
visit, to the place variously called
Parthenope, after the tabled siren,
and Neapolis, New City" The orig
inal settlement appears to have been
Rhodian and Chalcidian enterprise
of the ninth century BIC. Three
hundred years later Athenians and
other Greeks arrived in the neigh
borhood and set up a rival town,
Both colonies, however, were con-
quered by the Samnites about 400
and, after a long siege, by the
Romans in 1926.
Hellenic traditions might have
been expected to disappear under
Latin domination, but their vitality
was too compelling. Neapolis, says
Muirhead's, "was regarded as the
city of learning and the Roman
youth flocked hither to cultivate the
arts of rhetoric, poetry and music"
Wealthy mobiles built magnificent
mansions in the suburbs. Lucullus
was a resident; Virgil wrote the
Georges and the Aeneid while a
dweller within the walls; Augustus
Caesar spent considerable time
under the same opalescent sky. Then
came the barbarians-Alaric in 40,
the Vandals in 456. Belisarius re-
trieved and sacked the town, Totila
took it, NarSes besieged it. From
568 to 1130 line of dukes ruled in
nominal fealty to Byzantium. They
were succeeded by Roger de Haute-
vile and then by the Hohenstaufen.
Frederick II founded the university
in 1924. Subsequently the Angevin
French and Spanish held sway.
Robert the Wise and Don Pedro de
Toledo still are remembered as the
principal benefactors in the Middle
Ages.
The Bourbons, the Austrians, the
insurrectionist Masaniello also left
their marks upon Naples. Napoleon
made his brother Joseph sovereign
OF kingdom created by his sword
in 1906. Garibaldi drove out the
restored Bourbon dynasty in 1860.
At that time the name Of the once
honored center of learning and
civilization was a synonym for
squalor and vice. AS recently as 1905
the community was described in the
words, "A paradise inhabited by
devils" Nowhere else on earth,
unless possibly in Cairo, were there
so many professional malefactors.
"All the evil and dirt in Italy" seemed
brought together in lone of the most
beautiful sites in the world"
Most American travellers, of course,
saw relatively little of the worst
Neapolitan slums. Their impressions
emphasize the natural grandeur of
the bay, its bright blue waters en-
circled by high hills, most of them
supporting serried rows of houses
facing the sun. Vesuvius, the dark,
smoky mountain" rises in the back
ground, its crater showing the glow
of hidden flames against the evening
heavens, Yankee flyers, bombing
military objectives in the harbor,
will require no tourists guide to iden-
tify the most famous of volcanoes.
Evening star., 1943-07-17

fight on every possible occasion
until now the Republican party has
moved we'll away from its former po-
Sition, although 1t has not gone as
far as Mr.. Willkie wishes.
The foreign policy stand of tho
party must be settled, and in a way
acceptable to the great mass of Re-
publicans, before the 1914 campaign
gets under way. Otherwise, there
will develop a form of intraparty
strife as bitter as the struggle now
under way between the two wings of
the Democratic party.
Evening star., 1943-07-17

In Los Angeles a man confined to
a wheelchair with arthritis is taking
care of a Victory garden covering
$500 square feet. His example is
cited for the benefit of persons
nearer home who, having no all
ments worth mentioning, find it
exhausting to supervise their wives
and children cultivating few rows
of carrots.
Evening star., 1943-07-17

u. What are the words OF the Chinese
national anthem?-P. j. E.
A. National Anthems of the United
Nations and Their Allies" gives the fol-
lowing lines:
San Min Chu, our aim shall be
To free our land with world peace
planned.
Q comrades, vanguards, venture far;
Hold fast your aim by sun and star.
Be strong and brave! Your country
save!
One heart, one soul, one mind one goal"
Q. Please list the clothing and equip
ment to which a soldier is entitled upon
leaving the service.-W. j. R.
A. The War Department says that the
clothing and equipment which a soldier
is to receive upon his discharge from
the Army includes the following:
barracks bag, web waist belt, pair Of
boots or shoes, l wool olive drab gar
rison cap, cotton garrison cap, if he
has one; insignia set, collar and sleeve;
wool serge coat, l overcoat or mack
inaw, if required; 2 shirts, one of which
may be wool, if he has one; pair
trousers or breeches, wool or cotton: 2
suits Of underwear, wool or cotton; all
gloves, handkerchiefs, socks, neckties
and toilet articles, including towels.
Q. Are the most expensive perfumes
natural or synthetic odors?-H. S. D.
A. The American Perfumer says that
oil 20
are created odors, not the pure floral
notes like rose, violet, etc.
@. Where was the moving picture MY
Friend Flicka" filmed?-C. E. A.
A. The picture MY Friend Flicka" was
filmed near Salt Lake City.
@. Is there opportunity for advance
ment in rank in the WAVES?-J. H.
A. The headquarters of the WAVES
says that enlisted personnel of the
Women's Reserve have an opportunity
to advance in rank. If girl after en-
listing is qualified to become an officer
and Is recommended by her commanding
officer after completing six months
active duty, she can apply for officer
training. If she completes the train
ing successfully, she will be commits
! stoned as an ensign
O. How many members were there in
the Confederate Legislature?-L. D.
A. There were 26 Senators and 106
Representatives in the Legislature of
the Confederate States.
G. Are there in existence any relics
of the dodo the bird that has been ex-
tinct for centuries?-E. l.. H.
A. In the museum at the University Of
Oxford there are the head and foot of a
dodo which was preserved in 1856 The
head of another dodo, species which
was last recorded alive in 1851, is pre-
served at Copenhagen.
@. Are special CRATES needed to burn
anthracite coal?-B. C.
A. The Bureau of Mines says special
CRATES are not needed for use in burning
anthracite, unless the coal is of the small
variety, such as pea coal, buckwheat,
etc. In such case, the CRATE should have
smaller interstices. The size Of the coal
would be the governing factor.