The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1943-03-22
DR.. GRUBER,.
STEINHARDT.
DRAW CROWD.
Music and Lecture Heard
by Appreeiative Ca
paeity Audience

racy," Dr.. Ruth Gruber described
Fascism as life in the service of
DEATH" in contrast to the Russian
Communistic philosophy of build
ing for the future" and a dedica-
ton to the responsibility and pow
er of learning"
With Coronets for the Juneau au-
dience, DR.. Gruber opened her lee
ture by saying that she had been
impressed with strong sense OF
democracy at work here in Alaska"
as she watched the Territorial leg
islature in session. When the
statement was greeted with unex-
pected laughter Miss Gruber came
back spiritedly with the retort: I'm
any case it certainly is not rub
Der stamp legislature"
Continuing, she said: THE legis-
lature can make this the finest of
manifestations for democracy. =. .
Alaska is not only the last frontier
geographically, but the last frontier
of the mind also"
Gliding Clare Booth Luce for
her coinage of the term "globalo-
ney," the speaker substituted her
own term "globalogic,' pointing out
that both Alaska and Siberia's flu
lures lie in the air, and predicting
that such marts as New York and
San Francisco may well give up
their places of Importance to cities
of the interior which are ON the
direct international air routes.
Purpose in Alaska
Here to make a study of social
and economic conditions in Alaska,
DR.. Gruber first came to the Ter
ritory two years ago, she stated
After spending year and half
in the Interior and to the West
ward, she returned to Washington
where she reported upon conditions
as she found them, and discovered
that Washington knew as little of
Alaska as Alaska knew of Wash
ington"
AS basic precepts for the Nazis,
Miss Gruber found sex, food, and
propaganda occupying greatest i'm
portance, she said, with even the
love life of the herring glamorized
to induce the public to eat that
fish as substitute for butter
Propaganda is directed against
the women of the family, she found
during her stay in Germany as a
research student and representa-
tive for the New York Herald Tri-
bune, while German women them
selves are urged to consider the
bearing of children their life work
Communists Are Building
Particularly among the natives
of Siberia, Miss Gruber stated, did
she find the nobility of the earth
and stressed the Russians rapid ac-
QUESTION Of the impulse toward
life. Scratch a Russian and you
find human being" she said
succinctly, and remarked on the
number of public offices held by
women of the Soviet. In Ygarka
Siberia, women hold the offices OF
mayor, chief of police, wireless op-
orators, and the jobs of stevedores
winchmen and lumberjacks, SHE
found.
In describing Siberian transports
ton, the lecturer named the rivers
as "the highways of Siberia - in
summer, waterways, and. in winter
highways paved with ice upor
which trucks and tractors oper
ate"
In closing Miss Gruber summed
up Alaskans as being insulated from
the whole world. but raw, naked
and exposed to each other"
Musical Renditions
The musical selections present
ed by Milton Steinhardt at the
beginning of the program showed
eminently fine technique which YET
did not detract from the emotion
al values of the numbers played.
J Accompanied by Carol Beery
Davis, Mr.. Steinhardt presented
faultless renditions Of Tschaikow.
sky's "Ye Who Have Yearnee
Alone; ITO a Wild Rose" by Mac
Dowell; and as encore number.
"Malaguena" with its challenging
and difficult pizzicato passages; ano
Schubert's THE Bee"
The program was sponsored By
the Executive Committee of the
Juneau Womans Club, with club
president Mrs. Thomas Parke act.
ing as chairman of the evening
Mrs. D. w. Heron in charge OF
ticket sales, ushers Mrs. Floyd Fa-
eerson, chairman, and Mrs. Ear
McGinty, Mrs. r. B. Lesher, Mrs
James v. Cole and Mrs. William
Bulbransen. Mrs. w. F.. Eitemar
and Mrs. Fagerson were in charge
OF floral arrangements. while posters
were contributed by the high schoo
art class under the direction Of
Miss Lila Sturgis. and by Mrs. Al
Ian Wick, Mrs. G. L. Popejoy ano
Mrs. Ernest Ehlers. Mrs. Rober