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Evening star., 1943-03-07

body listens. The late Bishop Shipman
said he knew man who went about at
cocktail party remarking, MY mother
killed herself yesterday to which every
body replied, Really? How charming"
WHY do we do it? l don't mean those
who are paid for doing it to give enter
tainment or information. l mean the
cliches, and the small-talk, and the talk
about nothing, and the stocks of stale
stories that weren't 50 very funny in the
first place. Why are so few of us ever in
state of oral repose, which is 50 essential
to nerves and mental growth; and why are
we 50 frustrated and wretched when left
alone that we must rush out to find some
one - anyone who'll seem interested in
our rheumatism or what we said to the
plumber when he said what he said to us?
The whole answer can't be because we like
to hear ourselves talk, because most of us
don't listen even to ourselves, and it
can't be all vanity, or an instructive sense
of obligation, or physical necessity like
that of breathing. Why do we deplore the
wasted time that accidents and the COM
mon cold cost our war effort, and never
figure the loss from chatter that begins
in the directors meeting and goes right
down through the Office and plant?
Good talk is quite another matter. You
and both know men and women to whom
we could listen delightedly into the small
hours, and have frequently done so. There
are countless people who have important
things to say, and can say them captivat-
ingly, but most of 'em don't talk much.
But by far the greater part of those tril-
lions of words are in monologues many of
US would swim the Hellespont to escape,
but from which there is no escaping except
in DEATH
At the moment, we've cosmic struggle
on our hands. Even apart from the fact
that we wish to keep gossip from aiding
the enemy, wouldn't this be grand time
to keep our thoughts on the "Hush!"
placards, and put part of that conserved
energy into pouring out ships and shells
rather than sound?
Evening star., 1943-03-07
SlDEllMEs

START. We know the readers of this pa Be
will be interested in learning that CHI =,
ming Pollock's autobiography, Harv Y
of My Years." has just been publishes
Readers of THIS WEEK Magazine who
think of Mr.. Pollock primarily as phi
losopher will be surprised to know that he
wrote the books and lyrics for two Ziegfeld
Follies, and the lyrics of Fannie Brice's
famous song. MY Man."
He has been reporter. a drama critic.
stevedore, press agent. stage director,
producer and editor. He still lectures
widely and is the author of three novels,
three volumes of essays, 81 plays, many
verses, stories and movies. Now, in his
new book, Mr.. Pollock says: AT 81, find
myself with curious sense Of being at the
beginning of new career!''
Evening star., 1943-03-07

feeling myself pretty well talked out. I'd
discoursed an hour, answered questions
another hour, and attended an unusually
vocal public luncheon, through which the
lady on my left related her symptoms,
while the lady on my right reported what
her children had said from infancy to that
instant. YEARLY, climbed into taxi
whose driver Immediately began discuss
ing the weather and the gasoline ration.
The porter at the railway station took up
where the taxi driver left off, with stress
ON the coffee ration, and when | finally
got into the train and sank back in my
seat, a man across the aisle who had been
waiting his opportunity, squeezed in be-
side me to ask whether had heard the
story of the parachute trooper who pulled
the white cord. said l had, but he told
me anyway, and was still telling me
equally famous yarns when we pulled into
Washington. If there's one thing we
should have rationed before this war.
during and afterward, it's conversation.
Accustomed as we have become to
astronomical figures. those of speech on
Evening star., 1943-03-07

this particular planet ought to give any
one pause. Suppose we calculate conserva-
lively that the average man averages
thousand words an hour while he's awake.
That's 5000 words day, not counting
the output of the people who talk in their
sleep. On the basis of the last census, this
gives us grand total of 782. $50, 900, ,0O0,-
600 words a year in America alone. It's
overwhelming. When you consider that
the vocabulary of the ordinary cultured
person is 5000 to 10000 words, think
what that means in the way of repetition
- of words, and phrases, and ideas. You
could probably take off at least two
ciphers by merely cutting out the lis
tens" and What wanted to says"
and the How are you? - Fine - how
are you's?" Not to speak - as we do
speak, and incessantly - of symptoms,
Evening star., 1943-03-07
WHAT Do You SAY?

When you talk, are your thoughts worth
hearing? Or are you just word-waster?
by Charming Pollock
Evening star., 1943-03-07

NE of the things this war has
I brought us, and I'm in favor of
~ keeping after the war; is the pla-
cards that bid us Hush! Hush,' and
Button Your Lip" Specialists insist that
protracted and continual repetition is the
chief value of advertising, and two or
three hundred years of these admonitions
might make US nation OF strong. silent
men.
At the moment, should say the
chances are heavily against it. My per-
petual wonder is the extent to which the
human race supports the theory of its
kinship to the apes by incessant. needless
and meaningless chatter. A century or so
after Christ, Plutarch wrote that "A
prating barber asked Archelaus how he
would be trimmed; he answered, In ST.
lence. After 300 wears, the BARRIERS are
Evening star., 1943-03-07

still at it - though it must be said to
their credit that they probably talk
less than the rest of us.
Two or three weeks ago, stepped
off a lecture platform in Kentucky,
Evening star., 1943-03-07

and weather, and all the other things
that might reasonably be taken for
granted. If nobody ever said any
thing unless he really had something
to say, a lot of US might never open
Evening star., 1943-03-07
THIS WEEK MAGAZINE

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wholly etlevs Any Of which kapssns 10 b ks
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The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1943-11-19

Joe Damalas was admitted to ST.
AIMS Hospital on Thursday for
medical care.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1943-11-19
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He explains the siroccos OF Italy,
Malta and Sicily; the simoons OF
Africa, Syria and Arabia; the mis-
trails of Marseilles, the boras of the
Balkans, and the foehns of the
European mountains all winds
that will be as familiar to our boys
ever there as a winter nor'wester
or a Rocky Mountain chinook,
Tannehill fills in with charts that
tell you munth to month what the
weather is likely to be not only
over all the land areas OF the world
but also on the oceans.
Tannehill has written book that
will be of much service and maybe
comfort TO a lot of us in this global
war, but he also has tossed off a
non-technical work on weather that
is likely TO become one of the most
thumbed- reference tones in the
Libraries Of the armchair generals.
What / started out to say was
that the genial Mr.. Tannehill is one
fellow who really HAS done some
thing about the weather.
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tanks, retreated under a hail OF
Russian shells,
/ Counterattacks in g the Zhitomir
sector were also repulsed in these
areas where the Red Army drew
back Wednesday in the first re-
treat since mounting its summer
offensive beyond Belgorod
! A German communique said that
Russian attacks were on reduced
scale at the Dnieper bend, and that
German counter thrusts broke stiff
resistance in the Kiev area, turn
ing the Red Army out of a num-
Der of localities. The German COM
munique said that bitter fighting
continued in the Korosten and
Rochitsa ) areas and their Paris
radio asserted the Kiev-zhitomir
railway was. cut by the Nazis.gs
4. The Red Star report said, that
possession of Korosten and zhit-
omir, gave the, Russians a wedge
deep into, the German lines where
the rail facilities are busy moving
! reserve supplies, ~ SD polish 81
AT Korosten the, Soxiets arc with
in 60, miles of the old Polish from
tier and 1870 miles from the l94l
border s,,,srasi -sss .r.,r.ss-.
Just a year ago today the Red
Army launched their counter-of
fensiye from Stalingrad, and in that
year the Russians have advanced
z20nmiles from Stalingrad to Kor-
osten,- more than half the distance
to. Berlin.
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Continued from Page One)
the best seller lists. He unearths
such facts as: in summer the tenn
perature of the water in some parts
OF the tropical Pacific reaches 80
degrees and in the Red Sea and
Persian Gulf, 81 to SO degrees.
In spite of that. he explains, the
air in these tropical waters feels
cold to those constantly exposed to
it, and cites Eddie Rickenbacker's
experience on a raft, while drifting
around the Pacific. Waves stopped
into the raft at night felt like
buckets of ice water, although it
was probably far above 10 degrees.
He trots out such little interesting
items as these: In Baguio, the we'll
known resort and gold mining town
in the Philippines, they once had
46 inches of rain in one day; in ia
maica, where we now have bases,
96.5 inches fell in four days; and in
Fcrmosa, where the Japs trained for
their attack on Manila, there once
was BIS inches in three days.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1943-11-19

A baby son was born to Mrs. Ruth
Bailey at the Government Hospital
this morning.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1943-11-19
(ROPLEYS GET THANKS
FOR WORK, WAR DRIVE

In a letter from r. w. Coyne,
Field Director, War Finance Dl-
vision, United States Treasury De-
partment, Mr.. and Mrs. Jake Crop
ley. presiding officers of the Alaska
Native Brotherhood and Sisterhood,
gratitude was expressed for their
splendid assistance during the re-
cent Third War Loan drive, as fol-
lows:
Many thanks. The result in
Alaska was outstanding. Your val
liable help in making this possible
is appreciated by all of us here in
the office of the far-flung enter
prise. l am confident that we can
count on your continuing assist
ance in carrying out the war fl
nance program in the Territory OF
Alaska"
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1943-11-19
Dinner Given by
Girl Scout Troop

Members Of Girl Scout Troop No
8, sponsored by the Martha Society
and led by Mrs. Floyd Fagerson
entertained last night with an in
formal buffet-dinner in the Ameri-
can Legion Dugout.
Several members of the Scout
Council were present as well as
girls belonging to the troop.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1943-11-19

IS During u1e evening songs. were
presented by Miss Juanita Diaz and
Miss Lois Haired. Games we're also
played with Mrs. J, w. Manthey
winning the prize, for the gum
chewing modelling contest and Mrs
E. J. Blake for truth and conse-
auences, re.sr oss ~o.s..,..,..,.
Miss Nellie Borbridge, member
| 81 the troop. was COMPLIMENTARY
the girls in honor of her birtl1day
and presented with a gift,
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1943-11-19
k0R05TEN
CAPTURED,
RED ARMY
Anniversary of Galingrad
Battle Sees .Soyiets
Near Reich Border

Continued from Page one,
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Weatkerman Dusts
of Weather; Entire
World Now Tdken-ln

Continued from Page One)
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HERE INDEED ARE SUITS You'll WEAR now COME
SPRING AND ON AND ON Dressmakers Cardigans
hammered types Impeccaby tailored in 1907 pure wool Truly
suits with expression, veve Sfgps, t8.e4
m SIZES 1870
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1943-11-19
PAA MAN HERE

r. N. Jordon and j. L. Robertson,
both Pan American Always en-
ployees, whose homes are in Sc
attic, are registered at the Baranof
Hotel
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1943-11-19
HOSPITAL NOTES

Mrs. Ralph Mortensen and baby
girl were discharged from St AIMS
Hospital yesterday and are at nome
in Douglas.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1943-11-19
LEAVES FOR SITKA

A. B. Holt, prominent business
man of Sitka, left for that city
yesterday afternoon by boat. after
a brief visit here.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1943-11-19

At st. AIMS Hospital this morn
ing, Mrs. Al Skafelstad gave birth
to a baby son, weighing eight
pounds and fifteen ounces. The
child was born shortly after
o'clock
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1943-11-19
FROM WASHINGTON, d. c.

H, B. Chappell of Washington, d.
c., is registered at the Baranof
Hotel.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1943-11-19
YOUR BROKEN LENSES

Replaced in our own shop. Eyes
Examined. DR.. Rae Lillian Carlson
Blomgren Bldg. Phone 636. adv.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-07
Male and Female Help Wanted

EXPERIENCED SALESMAN or saleslsdy
capable ~ managing mems shoe store
Father and Sons Shoe Stores. Inc. 5s2s
West Fort 81. Vinewood 2-s430.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-07

Male Help Wanted
STAFF MAN
FOR TREASURER

Large industrial concern In
Toledo area needs man with
broad experience in industrial
field, to work as staff man in
ltreasurer's office. Should have
Thorough knowledge of finance
end background of accounting.
Neat appearing, young, ener-
getic, draft deferred. Job offers
good postwar possibilities. Write
giving full details, salary de-
sired; enclose photograph TO
Box A-367, Detroit Times.
STEADY EMPLOYMENT FOR 1917
6HEAAR oLD BOYS ON CURB SERVICE
MODEL LAUNDRY. 7o7 EAST JEFF
STOCK CLERKS
Opening for boys over rs 10 work as
stock clerks In our branch stores through.
out the city. Apply mornings.
General Tobacco q Grocery Co.
$3.50 FOURTEENTH
STOCK clerk, steady employment. Apply
Paramount Creamery Company. sos
East Milwaukee.
sToCKRoOM BoY-steady, full-time post
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ward
The Daily Alaska empire., 1943-06-22
Coal Output SIashed To TritkIe;; 500,000
 Miners Stage Strike

WASHINGTON, June p. = An other extensive mine walkout by a half million workers under UNIV chief John L. Lewis has cut vital coal production to mere trickle.
 There is little to indicate an im- mediate break in the tense situa- tion.
 Neither the War Labor Board nor the Fuel Administration office under Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes had taken any action, according to late reports, ai- though some observers saw the pos sibility that Ickes might take a hand in the matter at any time.
 The miners branded as "an in- famous yellow dog contract" the proposal by the VILE that they re- turn to work without an immediate decision being reached in their portal pay demand, and paid no heed to work whistles of the gov ernment operated mines for the third time in two months.
 This is the second time since the Stars and Stripes have flown over the pits that production has come to a halt.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1943-06-22
SAYS RF(T0L0AN
 TO PACKERS
Sm all Sldughferers May Get Immediate
 Funds

WASHINGTON, June 22.-Secre- tary Jesse Jones has ordered the Reconstruction Finance Corporation to underwrite immediately any fin ancing meat packers may need in the pending Federal subsidy pro- gram, move designed to stop threatened shutdowns in scores of small slaughter houses.
 Jones office says a number of small packers are unable to finance themselves or to get financing to carry over until the REC makes it's first subsidy payment, about the middle of next month.
 Accordingly, he has ordered the REC to underwrite any local banks or other concerns which will make loans, or if no local financing is available, the REC will make the loans.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1943-06-22
RUSS GALL
 FOR SECOND
 FRONT NOW
Says Must Be Opened This Year or May Be
 Too Late

LONDON, June 22.-The Rus sians, emphasizing ties with the United States and Britain stronger than ever, have called for the opening of a second front this year, saying ito be late now means cur common cause will seriously suffer"
 Germany is pictured by the Rus sians as being politically and m'li- tarily "in a state of crisis the Russ report said, adding, this is not enough. Everything now de- pends on how the Allies use this favorable situation for a second front, without which, victory is im- possible"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1943-06-22
5AY55H0ULD USE ALASKAN
 PROPERTIES
Development of Canadian Site to Cost S1O0.-
 100000

WASHINGTON, June 22-Devei- opment by the Army of the Fort Norman oil fields in northwest Canada instead of the oil resources of Alaska is termed as completely inexcusable" by Alaska Delegate Anthony J. Dimond.
 Dimond said development of the field at Fort Norman will cost i'll excess of S1O0,0O0,0O0.
 Owned by Standard
 The field is owned by the Standard Oil Company of New Jer- sey as a subsidiary, he said, end ing the secrecy which surrounded the field last year.
 The War Department disclosed last week that newly developed wells there will help supply gas and oil for the armed forces i'll Alaska and Canada.
 Dimond said the Interior Depart ment has set aside three huge oil reserves in Alaska this year, but nothing has been done to develop them. .s..a.
 These fields were surveyed by en- gineers and pronounced outstand- ing oil lands.
 T don't question the action taken by military men for mili- tary purposes, but the failure to develop the oil resources or Alaska is completely inexcusable.
 Expense Great
 Evidently from the news re- ports, we are undertaking to spend more than $l0o,0O0,o00 to bring Canadian oil to Alaska.
 For a comparatively small sum, we could find out if we have oil in Alaska. The engineers say it is there, and if the Government would only give private operators per mission to drill wells in Alaska they would be glad to do so," he said
 Dimond added, when there is a Jap threat to Alaska it isn't wise to open up new fields there, but said such threat has been re- moved.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1943-06-22
MAY DEFER ELK HILLS
 OIL QUERY
Public lands Committee Won't Comment on
 Proceedings

WASHINGTON, June 22. - The House Public Lands Committee has refused to issue a statement on the request by Attorney General Fran cis Riddle to defer investigation of the Standard Oil-Navy Depart ment contract for the development of the Elk Hills petroleum reserve in California.
 The contract was called illegal and invalid by the Justice Depart ment and has been cancelled by Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox on the basis of this judgmenr.
 Rep. William Lemke said the Justice Departments request to defer the investigation Jf the con- mittee made him suspicious"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1943-06-22
OWI Official Makes
 Statement on Policy,
 Aims of Organization

fThe following 400-word dispatch from the Office of War Information was received by the Empire this afternoon. It relates to the decision of the House of Representatives to abolish the domestic bureau of the OWI at a saving of some $5,000, 900 on the budgetD
 By The owl
 Palmer Hoyt, director of the do- mestic branch of the Office of War Information issued the following statement today:
 T accepted this appointment as director of the domestic branch of the OWI because I am convinced that it's operations are absolutely vital to the conduct of the war and to the interests of the entire coun- try
 After extended conferences with Elmer Davis, I arranged to take six months leave of absence from my paper to do this job with the clear understanding that I would have full authority to operate the domestic branch according to the freest standards of the American press.
 OWrs Aim
 The domestic branch of OWI will devote all Of it's energies to giving the American people as full and accurate information about the war as is possible. It will deal with the public only through the estab- lished media that go to make up the American press, and by the press mean not only the newspa- pers, but radio. magazines, and motion pictures.
 The domestic branch of OWI has three major functions one, to obtain the release of the fullest pos sible news from the military fronts and on the military progress of the war: two, to obtain and correlate the news of the operations of all the agencies of the Government concerned with the war; three. to make all the news available to the public as quickly and clearly as pos sible through the media whose job it is to inform the public.
 Sensible
 This is a perfectly simple and sensible program. It will be con- ducted that way.
 This office will not be concerned with propagandizing the American people. My policy is to give the country the straight information about the war and to give it to them straight. This means that this office will yield to no political pressure and will serve no political interests.
 This is an office of war infor-
 (Continued on Page Three)
The Daily Alaska empire., 1943-06-22
NEW FAR EASTERN DRIVE

Although Bullitt's memo had ao- solutely nothing to do with 1t, ana the decisions arrived at would nave been the same anyway, it now seems certain that we will concen- trate on the Far East to a much greater degree than most people expected.
 U. s. naval officials had been privately skeptical of British coop eration in the Far East and never expected Churchill to come through. However, he and Roosevelt both agreed that the time had arrived for vigorous operations to stop the Japs before they dug in so deeply on the Pacific Islands that it would take years to dislodge them.
 The British have now given def mite commitments regarding cer- tain operations. This is important. It so happens that the British do not promise easily. Our own top strategists are inclined to make promises quickly, but sometimes have to explain them away when conditions change and it is obvious they cannot be kept. But the Brit ish, though awfully hard to pin down. have absolutely kept their
The Daily Alaska empire., 1943-06-22
The W ashinqton Merry Go Round
By DREW PEARSON (Major Robert s. Allen on active dutyJ

WASHINGTON.--When Winston Churchill was conferring with the President recently, ex-Ambassador Bill Bullitt, now public relations adviser to Secretary Knox, wrote a memo for top officials which was highly critical of the Russians and somewhat so of the British.
 The general tenor of his memo was that we could not entirely trust our Allies and might find ourselves fighting the Japs alone after the war in Europe was ended
 Bullitt circulated this memo to various high officials in the War and Navy Departments, among them Assistant Secretary of War McCloy, who took it in to Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson.
 Stimson, shocked by Bullitt's lack of faith and his criticism of our Allies, wrote in his own hand-writ- ing at the top of the memo: The author of this memo does not serve the purposes of his country-HL.S."
 Bullitt also inspired Senator Happy Chandler of Kentucky, who virtually paraphrased Bullitts con- fidential memo in delivering his famous speech during the Churchill visit, demanding that we concen- trate on the Far East.