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The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-06-13
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IN JUNEAU
5th War Loan Drive Opens
Fire Boys and Sorority
Sell This Evening

Juneau is off to a good start In
the Fifth War Loan Drive, the total
reported this morning being S42,-
462.50.
Last night the Girl Scouts were
credited with selling bonds amount
ing to $2,23O and the Miss Liberty
contestants, $4,000 worth of bonds
Bonds will be sold in the booths
tonight by the Beta Sigma Phi Sor-
GRITTY and the Juneau Fire Depart
ment and tomorrow night by the
Alaska Native Brotherhood and Sis
terhood and the Federal Employees.
Merchants and business houses
and professional men and women
are purchasing bonds and are max
ing donations of minimum OF So
toward the Quitting of the Miss
Liberty contestants. The contestant
having the greatest number OF votes
and the four runners-up will be
dressed from "tip to toe" for the
occasion of the coronation on July
8 and for their reign on July 4.
Beauty shops which will do their
share in adding to the youthful
beauty of the five young women are
the Baranof, Lucille, the American
Frances Ann and Florence. The
shops which will do the outfittine
at liberal discount are the B. NJ
Behrends, Yvonne's. Channel and
Jones-Stevens.
If there are persons in Juneau
who do not know the candidates
they and the friends OF the girls
will be interested in seeing the pho
tographs of the contestants taker
by Fern Eaton of the Hammersley
Studio. These are now on displa,
in the windows of the Alaska Elec'
trio Light and Power Company.
The outstanding event OF this
week is the bond premiere Thurs
day night complimenting the con-
testants. The host is Homer Garvir
of the Capitol Theatre. The picture
to be shown is one of the choice
productions Of our war years. Ad-
mission Is through bond purchase
The regular show will close at
o'clock. The doors will reopen i'm
mediately and at $50 o'clock the
bond premiere will get under way
The Miss Liberty contestants will
marsh down the ramp in their smart
frocks, and Flight for Freedom
will take the audience for breath
taking flight into the skies, to the
islands, and into the hearts Of
patriotic America.
MISS LIBERTY CONTEST
At o'clock this afternoon tn
vote fer Miss Liberty stood a
follows;
Joyce Smith 1925, Betty Mill
3575, Betty Nordling 1878, Kath
leen McAlister 1903, Lila Sinclai
275, Lois Allen $50, Mary McCor
mack $50, Ruth Kunnas rs, Bett.
Bonnet rs.
BIG TIME TONIGHT
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Bulletins

LONDON - American bombers
based in Italy penetrated German
areas today and blasted the Munich
area and Innsbruck, Austria.
Evening star., 1944-02-13
Study of Strategy

Every organized community soon
or late developes a form of defense
suited to its own concept of its need.
An agency devoted to the science Of
war is included in every government
worthy of the name. But in the
very nature of things there is bound
to be great variety in the objectives
and methods cultivated by different
nations. Military philosophy, there.
fore, in the experience of the aver
age individual is a tremendously
confused and confusing subject.
Any book that serves to simplify the
chaos ought to be welcomed by the
general public as we'll as by scholars.
Makers Of Modern Strategy" edited
by DR.. Edward Mead Earle and pub
lished by the Princeton University
Press, is such a work. More than a
score Of collaborators are associated
in the production of the text.
The compiler defines his terms in
his introduction. War" he explains,
"is not an act Of God. It grows
directly out of things which indi-
viduals, statesmen and nations do
or fail to do. It is, in short, the
consequence Of national policies or
lack of policies. And once such
policies are submitted to the terrible
arbitrament of war, victory or de-
feat likewise ensues from what we
do or fail to do. These truths being
self-evident, it would be folly to
leave the determination of war
policies to soldiers alone or states
men alone or to soldiers and states-
men together"
Yet, as DR.. Earle admits IN the
Evening star., 1944-02-13

same paragraph, the vital decisions
made for even the most democratic
Of countries necessarily are made by
a small minority Of persons equipped
with special knowledge or at least
supposed to be so qualified. The
strategy adopted, however, "can sue
coed only II it has the support of en-
lightened and determined citizens"
DR.. Earle then sets forth the major
purpose of the book he has spon-
sored. 1t is expressed in the words:
Democracies In time Of war require
great leadership and usually produce
1t but the wellprings of such
leadership come from deep in the
heart, the will and the conscience
Of the people. Even the private
soldiers and the junior officers OF an
emhAttled democratic society must
understand the purposes for which
they risk their lives. =" = The Amer
lean Nation is in the process Of be-
coming the foremost military power
OF modern times. The manner in
which we use this great power Is
momentous for ourselves and for the
world.
In other language, DR.. Earle re-
lates skilled and accurate compre-
hension OF military science with
durable peace among men.
Evening star., 1944-02-13
The Polish Test

The personal letter Premier-Mar-
shall Stain is reported to have writ
ten to Prime Minister Churchill,
while it may not heighten the i'm
passe existing between Russia and
Poland, apparently does little to
ease it. The letter is said to express
the Soviet Unions reluctance" to
deal with the Polish government
in-exile as now constituted. which
would seem to be polite diplomatic
indirection meaning that that gov
ernment must either rid itself of
some Of its key members or be ig-
nored entirely by Moscow.
If accurately reported. Premier
Stalin's attitude is thus scarcely en-
couraging. For. although it does
not slam the door tight against the
possibility Of 4 satisfactory agree
ment with the Poles, 1t sets forth
a condition which the government
in-exile will f1nd difficult to meet
and still maintain prestige. the fact
being that If it should now throw
out some Of its cabinet ministers,
the action might be readily con-
strued as the surrender of a sub
stantial degree of independence in
order to conform - puppetlike - to
Moscow's views on the border ques-
ton and future Russo-Polish rela-
tions.
The situation is not an agreeable
one. to put it mildly. for either
Britain or the United States. Both
have long recognized the govern
ment-in-exile as the only authority
legally constituted to speak for
Poland, and just recently Foreign
Minister Anthony Eden emphasized
this fact by asserting that nothing
had altered British policy in respect
to treaty understandings with the
Poles or to the principles OF the
Atlantic Charter. Nevertheless, the
Russians have made clear their dis
taste for the government we have
recognized, and the implication is
that unless that government is dras-
tically reshufled they may do busi-
ness with the rival Polish group or
ganized in the Soviet Union.
In view of the realities, with the
Red Army already driving deep into
old Poland. there can be little doubt
that Moscow is in position to have
things pretty much its own way.
1t can only be hoped, in the circum-
stances. that some eleventh-hour
formula will be devised to save
everybody's face all around and
make possible settlement mutually
satisfactory to the several parties
concerned. Otherwise the idea Of
genuine international collaboration,
on the basis of a fair and honest
give-and-take between country and
country, will have had an unpro-
pitious start, foundering sadly and
disillusioningly on its first real test.
Evening star., 1944-02-13

which normally will come within the
policy committees Jurisdiction. Thus
the voice OF q renascent France will
be heard In the preliminaries to the
postwar settlement. II
On its side, the French Committee
OF National Liberation is understood
to have given assurances that. at
the earliest possible moment after a
successful Allied invasion of the
continent, provisional government
will be chosen in France itself by
democratic methods. However, here
again, the Allies presumably will not
attempt to specify the precise
method by which the future provi-
sional government will be set up.
The principle Of trusteeship ac-
knowledged by the present National
Liberation Committee suffices to
assure Washington and London that
the aims behind their policy toward
France will be attained.
Evening star., 1944-02-13
HimmIer on q Post Card

For some reason or other, it has
been decided to try to make Helm
rich Himn1ler popular figure in
Germany. That sour face is to be
sweetened; that frigid personality
is to be made to seem warm. To this
end, no fewer than 100000 post
cards are being distributed through
out the Reich depicting the head OF
the Gestapo as quite genial fellow
who loves children and whose thin
lips can shape hemselves-believe
it or not-into a reasonable fac
smile of smile.
-Four million post cards are a lot
OF post cards. and more than a few
OF them are likely to reach Germans
who heretofore have thought not
too kindly Of the man. It is pos
sible, for instance, that one will
reach the widow of some citizen
who was dragged from his home
back in those stirring days of the
prewar Nazi revolution and beaten
to death by Herr Himmlers secret
police. Or perhaps one will reach
the mother Of son who was spirited
away years ago by the same police,
never to be heard from again. And
it is not at all inconceivable that the
family of man who recently had
his head cut of for listening to for
eign radio broadcasts will be among
the recipients.
Not on the mailing list. of course,
are the Jews, who have been vir-
tually exterminated. Nor does the
list contain the names of relatives
and friends of victims of the Ges-
tapo terror in France. Czecho-
slovakia, Poland, ETC., etc. But there
are thousands and thousands of
Germans who know somebody who
has been shot, beaten to death, left
to rot in a concentration camp, or
decapitated for having offended
Herr Himmler in one way or an
other, and the chances are that
good number of these will have an
opportunity now to see with their
own eyes how the ogre and flend of
their imagination is in reality-by
camera standards-a jolly sort, as
harmless and human as any one
could wish. Thus, In the darkness
OF the Reich, Is enlightenment
spread.
Evening star., 1944-02-13
Senate Subsidy Ban

Senate passage of the Bankhead
bill-barring an unexpected defeat
Of a presidential veto-brings to an
end, for the time being at least,
q protracted and disruptive legisla-
tive battle which has accomplished
little more than to put the Congress
on record as opposing consumer
food subsidies.
The Senate bill will go to the
House this week, and prompt con-
currence is anticipated. Then the
measure will go to the White House,
where the President, if he follows
the precedent he established last
year, will veto it. Administration
supporters are confident that the
veto will be sustained, and the vote
by which the Senate passed the
Bankhead bill-43 to 28-indicates
that they are right. The next step
would be to continue the life of the
Commodity Credit Corporation by
separate legislation, with the result
that Congress would have recorded
Its opposition to subsidies and the
subsidies, by action of the President,
would go on just the same.
, There are two points in this con-
nectlon that are worth recalling.
The main argument advanced by
subsidy supporters was that without
these payments food costs would
rise and the stabilization authori-
ties then would be unable to resist
demands from organized labor that
the Little Steel formula be scrapped.
But the fact is that organized labor
Is demanding that the formula be
scrapped anyhow, and about ali that
remains to be determined is whether
we are to have subsidies and higher
wages, too
The other point has to do with
that forgotten class" of Americans
whose earnings have not kept pace
with the wartime rise in living costs.
Some of these people actually have
smaller incomes now than before
the war. Yet the administration
program is not specifically designed
to aid them. They receive only the
same benefit from subsidized price
reductions as those whose earnings
have been swollen by war condi-
tions. and in the former case the
benefit is deplorably inadequate.
During the Senate debate an effort
was made to shape a subsidy pro-
gram that would fit the require
ments of these forgotten millions,
but this proposal was beaten, 4s to
20. This Is a confession that we
cannot-or will not-set up subsidy
program which recognizes that there
is a difference between the needs of
the millionaire and of the person
who is living at the bare subsistence
level.
Evening star., 1944-02-13
French Recognition

For some time past Semi-off1cial
advices have been vouchsafed in
London and Washington indicating
that an understanding was being
arrived at between the American
and British governments and the
French Committee of National Lib
Grafton seated at Algiers. A high
source" in our Capital has made
these intimations more definite
by revealing that the committee
soon will be recognized by Lon
don and Washington as the pro-
visional authority for metropolitan
France. until such time as a provi-
sional government can be elected
within France itself
This development is another step
IN a logical evolution. Already the
committee has been recognized as
the authority for the French Empire,
particularly in North Africa. In the
light of that decision, the broaden
ing of recognition to include the
French homeland is normal pro-
cedure. Although the precise formula
whereby such recognition will be
accorded has not yet been worked
out, that is a matter of detail
The establishment of the principle
Of recognition carries with it impor-
tant consequences. What the Com
mittee of National Liberation has
sought to avoid from the start was
a situation analogous to that Of
Italy, where the Allied invasion was
accompanied by AMG-a military
regime composed of Allied officials
who established temporary gov
ernment under which such native
omcials as were retained in ofiice
functioned as mere subordinates to
the Allied officers, and these In turn
we're guided by the decisions Of a
policy committee composed prima-
rily of American and British repre-
sentatives, with more or less formal
participation by Soviet Russia. On
that committee France hitherto has
had no seat. Allied recognition of
the Algiers National Liberation body
assuredly will imply the inclusion of
France on the policy committee, and
the French representative impliedly
will participate, not only in matters
concerning metropolitan France and
French North Africa but also on all
questions concerning. the Mediter-
Sanean and West European areas
Evening star., 1944-02-13

Abraham Lincoln, 18th President
Of the United States, is known rs
humble rail splitter who rose to the
highest elective office within the gift
Of his countrymen, q master Of Eng
lish prose, the Great Emancipator,
the preserver Of the Union and the
first of our Chief Executives to be
martyred by assassination but
Abraham Lincoln cannot be UNDER
stood apart from his humor.
Mere facility in joke telling Is In
sufncient evidence OF 4 personal gift
for humor, as witness the many
comedians who must hire others to
compose their patter. Mr.. Lincoln
was the source as well as the foun-
tain of his own humor His ability
to see the incongruous, often In him
self or in situations involving him.
self, undoubtedly saved his sanity,
relaxed tensions around him and
brought light and order into, dark
and confused problems.
Sometimes 1t was humility and
irony mixed, as In his reply to the
report that Secretary Of State Seward
had called him q fool Then 1t must
be so: Seward is usually right"
Again it was an evidence Of de-
termination to meet his destiny.
Thus, when he dropped into q re-
vival meeting conducted by famed
Evangelist Peter Cartwright, his op-
ponent for Congress, he did not rise
when Mr.. Cartwright asked all who
were going to heaven to stand.
Challenged personally then by the
preacher, he rose to his feet and re-
piled: Mr.. Cartwright has asked me
to state where I am going This is
serious question and deserves a
serious answer. I am going to Con-
gress"
And all remember his constant
thrusts at himself for his homeliness
and large feet. The latter explained
his feeling cold, he believed, be
Evening star., 1944-02-13

this monument of human weakness and
folly"
Two days later, on Sunday, January
3, Representative Cutler writes In his
diary that: THE two Houses of Con-
gress assembled, as was then the
custom, in the House chamber for di-
vine Worship were insulted by the in
PRODUCTION of Leland, the cheesemonger,
as a preacher, on the text, And behold
a greater than Solomon is here JEFF
ferson was present; the allusion was in
tended, and obliquely directed more to
him than the glorious Christ to whom
the text referred =" His first obserya-
ton was: Solomon was born with sill
yer spoon in his mouth and scepter in
his hand"
Four years later Congressman Cutler
attended the New Year reception at the
White House and "had cake of different
kinds; silver urns filled with punch, and
(ate some Of the) mammoth cheese"
Evening star., 1944-02-13

cause there Is 50 much Of me on the
ground"
But hunor gave Lincoln perspec-
tive and this helped him both to
keep his vision steadfastly on the goal
OF national unity and to sift the futile
from the wise among his visitors and
advisers.
Humor permits one to see life
steadily and to see 1t whole. This
quality In himself reassured Lincoln
as to the essential decency of men and
the goodness of God. His humor was
not flippant wisecracking, but it did
permit him to see through the ar
tifices OF little men. Better than that,
1t kept him rooted in a faith that
God is just and at last His will shall
prevail. In that mood he responded
to a clergyman who told him that he
hoped "the Lord was on our side" II
am not at all concerned about that"
replied Mr.. Lincoln, "for I know that
the Lord is always on the side of the
right. But it is my constant anxiety
and prayer that this Nation should
be on the Lords side"
1t is quite natural that any one with
a faith like that, despite obvious mo-
ments Of perplexity, should have a
heart possessed of full joy, deeper
than laughter, more refreshing than
tears, because 1t has rested itself on
the eternal goodness of God.
Perhaps his hunor, too, explains his
sadness, which has achieved an al
most equal legendary character in
our memory of Lincoln. For one who
believed in the Fatherhood of God
and the Brotherhood of Man must
have had many hours of soul travail
as he contemplated the violations of
Gods laws and mans continuing ill
treatment Of his brother.
His gentle understanding and wise
compassion unite to make him de-
serving of the eulogy: Now he be-
longs to the ages"
Evening star., 1944-02-13
Curing the Jap
rom the Detroit News.


The suggestion of former Ambassador
Grew, that the institution of emperor
worship in Japan might be transformed
to force for good, deserving of our
support, does not follow naturally from
anything the Ambassador has had to
say concerning the Jap, whom he came
to know about as well as an Occidental
can. Yet the discrepancy may be more
seeming than real
Mr.. Crews observations until now
have had to do with the barbarous
nature OF the Jap and the attributes of
that nature which are making him a
tough adversary indeed, including q
fanaticism and fatalism which stem
directly from devotion to one who Is
both emperor and god. How the latter
might be sublimated into q force for
peace Is somewhat difncult to imagine.
Evening star., 1944-02-13
No AMG in France
Prom the San Francisco Chronicle.

From the San Francisco Chronicle.
French underground says the people
Of France want no AMG setup when
the Allies invade, because 1t is not
needed. That is fine. There win be no
AMG where not needed. There is no
intention to override the sovereignty Of
. responsible government In any friendly
territory We enter, We have set up no
AMG In Great Britain.
Evening star., 1944-02-13
Indictment of Jupon


nails OF diplomacy than the formal
protest which has been sent to the
Japanese government by Secretary
OF State Cordell Hull. The COM
munication, transmitted through
the Swiss government, which has
charge of American interests In
Japan. charges JapanA.ith violation
OF the common laws OF civilization, I"
failure to apply the human pro-
visions OF the Geneva Prisoners Of
War Convention and "inhuman
cruelty or callous failure to provide
the necessities of life" to both mill
tary captives and interned civilians.
The long and carefully itemized
bill OF particulars accompanying
the comprehensive protest in an
accompanying communication fol-
lows closely the official report given
to the public by the Army and
Navy. There is nothing essentially
new in what the State Department
recites. The American people al
ready know the grisly tale. What
the protest does is to place the
whole matter on the diplomatic
record and to demand formally Of
the japanese government the ces-
sation Of such practices and the
punishment OF those soldiers and
officials guilty. Of barbarous and in
human conduct.
There seems to be scant likelihood
that our protest will have any i'm
mediate effect upon what appears
to be a settled policy of the TOTO
regime which dominates Japan.
This is not the first protest that
Washington has addressed to TOXIC.
1t is merely the most detailed and
emphatic of long series dating
back to the early months of the war.
The Swiss representatives in Japan
have done their best to investigate
conditions in prison camps and
ameliorate the sad lot Of our prison.
ers there. They have also conducted
similar Investigations of imprisoned
or interned Japanese in this coun-
try and have informed Toxic of the
excellent conditions here prevailing.
The Japanese thus have no shadow
OF excuse for the atrocious policy
persisted in long after the war
exigencies which have been set up
as an attempted Justification.
Equally hollow are the absurd allie
cations circulated by Japanese
propaganda agencies that atrocities
have been committed by us against
Japanese prisoners and civilians in
the United States and in the Philip
pines before the Japanese overran
the islands.
Such false charges may mislead
the Japanese public, cut of as they
are from any objective news reports.
1t Is most unlikely that our latest
diplomatic protests will be given
any genuine publicity in Japan. But
the world at large will read and
understand, and the horrified re-
vulsion excited throughout the globe
outside Of Germany will harm ia
pan profoundly both now and in the
future.
1t will be interesting to see what
steps Britain and the dominions will
take regarding similar violations OF
civilized conduct and conventions
perpetrated on their prisoners in
Japanese hands. Judging by recent
events. parallel action Of some sort
can be expected from London.
Ottawa and Canberra. More and
more, Japan is pilloried as a bar
barous power beyond the pale of
international comfy and decency.
Evening star., 1944-02-13

Two Red armies are struggling
hard to close a Dnieper trap. A
much tougher Job would be to get
Propaganda Minister Goebbels to
close his trap.
Evening star., 1944-02-13
Lmc0M's Hn,nOr

BY the Rev. Ho10drd Stone Anderson, D. D.,
Minister OF the First Congregational Church.