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The Nome nugget., 1945-09-10
BILL LAVERY, DEKE BROWN ARRIVE IN TOWN

Bill Lavery, airplane operator of Anchorage arrived from An chorage with Deke Brown, jew eler also of Anchorage, and brought the news of the marriage of Capt. Sam Shafsky and Lou Ellen Smaltz. Pilot Shafsky is well known in this area and now flies for the Alaska Airlines. The bride is an airways stewardess.
 Harry-How come your dog is so smart?
 Jerry-He nose it all!
The Nome nugget., 1945-09-10

Clothing can be made out of soybean protein.
Evening star., 1945-11-10
Pleads for Cancellation

To the Editor of The Star:
IL would seem to the average man that
II America desires to lead the world in
keeping the peace, then Washington
must learn to conciliate, to meet other
nations half way, that arbitration shall
supercede war in settling international
problems. Threat of force among EQUALS
Is the definite way not to keep the peace.
Let America lead through offering other
means OF solving world problems than
threats. For instance, instead of bring
ing pressure on Britain to force Euro
pean Jews on the Arabs, let America
propose that Britain and America each
will absorb like number of dislocated
European Jews that they ask Arabia to
admit to Palestine. America might dis
continue German immigration to Amer
lea until their yearly quota is in balance
after admitting the Jews driven from
their homes by the Germans
Likewise, America should meet Russia
in friendly and conciliatory spirit by
offering to give as much as she asks
Russia to forgo. If America expects
to have her way for the most part in
the Pacific and Britain her way largely
in the Mediterranean, then what is so
wrong with Russia's action in looking
out for her western frontier? That is
logical in any language. The price of
world peace is tolerance and confidence
and trust. There is no other way.
FRED D. PATTON
Evening star., 1945-11-10
So Much for So Many
From the Ottawa Journal.


Hansard is fascinating publication,
especially in new Parliament with
new members trying their oratorical
wings, telling us what is wrong with the
world and how they would set it Alright,
We come upon, for example, the maid
en- speech Of Patrick H. Ashby, mem
ber for Edmonton East, who knows
what ought to be done about things.
He set out his program in some de-
tail. "An taxation" he said, on all
incomes up to 5000 a year should be
Immediately abolished" There should
be pension of $50 month for every
body reaching the age of 50-and 'if
the people desire it" he would give them
500 month at 40 In addition he de-
manded an immediate cut of taxes ION
goods Of all kinds" so that prices would
be brought down below prewar levels"
That IS for most everybody. In addi-
tion Mr.. Ashby demands that each war
veteran and merchant seaman be given
BY the Government $4,000 for house.
free hospital and medical care for life.
and $4,000 in cash. Need we add that
the member for Edmonton East belongs
to the Social Credit group? And, as is
well known, Social Credit knows how to
get money by picking it off the trees.
Evening star., 1945-11-10
The Political Mill
By Gould Lincoln

not prevent many of his Republican
friends from talking about him as a
distinct possibility to head the party's
national ticket
In the past Mr.. Vandenberg has dis
couraged proposals that he be a can
didate on the national ticket, either for
President or Vice President. He could
have had the vice presidential nomina-
ton as running mate with former Gov
Alf Landon of Kansas in 1886 by turn
ing over his hand. But he declined
Democratic leaders, State and ma
tional have declared Gov. Thomas E.
Dewey of New York politically dead and
all but buried as a casualty of the New
York City mayoralty election. This cleo
ton swept the Democrats into control
of the city by huge plurality, with
William O'Dwyer the Democratic Amer
ican Labor candidate as victor. This
rejoicing appears a bit premature, since
1t is based entirely on a victory by
Democrat in city which has been for
years overwhelmingly Democratic in
State elections. Gov. Dewey supported
Judge Jonah j. Goldstein, an independ-
ent Democrat who had the Republican,
Liberal party and Fusion nominations
for Mayor. But he made it clear in his
speech for Judge Goldstein that he was
backing a good government - Fusion
candidate in a contest that was strictly
New York City affair.
The New York Governor has a record
OF efficient administration as chief exec
utive of the State. Even his Democratic
opponents have been unable to pick
major flaws In his handling of State
affairs. His appeal is to Republicans
and to Independent voters. Not little
may depend on the attitude of the Lib
eral party next year. This party backed
Judge Goldstein in the mayoralty race
last Tuesday. 1t is an offshoot of the
American Labor party-the right wing
OF thA party which has no love for the
radicals in the ALP. Leaders of the
Liberal party have in no way committed
themselves to Gov. Dewey, 1t is said.
But many OF the party members are in
clined to be against a candidate for
Governor who has the backing Of the
ALP
Evening star., 1945-11-10
The Bars Candidates

The recommendation from the
District Bar Association that the
vacancy created on the Municipal
Court of Appeals by the death OF
Chief Judge William E. Richardson
be filled by the advancement OF
Nathan Cayton or Andrew M. Hood
associate judges, may be expected to
meet with a favorable reception.
This is a proposal for the selection
of local man to head what is exclu-
sively local court. and both the
first and second choices of the Bar
Association have demonstrated by
their service to the community and
to the court that they are eminently
qualified for the post
If adopted, of course, the associa-
tion's recommendation would leave
untitled a place on the appellate
court, but in proposing candidates
for this place, and for other vacan-
cies which might result, the associa-
ton adheres strictly to the principle
that these posts should go to men,
bers of the local bar who both prac-
tice and live in the District.
In recent address to the Bar
Association, Attorney General Tom
c. Clark, who has the responsibility
OF recommending proposed judicial
nominees to the President, indicated
that he was strongly in sympathy
with the associations point of view
and in the light of this it is hoped
and expected-as a matter of simple
justice to the District-that both he
and the President will act favorably
on the list of nominees which have
been proposed.
Evening star., 1945-11-10
This Changing World
By Constantine Bro,Vn

Statements from high official quar-
ters in Washington that the Marines
who are now occupying the Tientsin
area will eventually be withdrawn do
not mean a change in the policy of
the United States IN China, according
to well-informed quarters.
1t. Gen. Albert c. Wedemeyer, after
a series Of consultations in Washington
with President Truman, Secretary of
State Byrnes and the members of the
Joint Chiefs of Staff, has now returned
to China with definite instructions re-
garding our policies in that area
These can be summed up as follows:
To keep aloof from any fratricidal war
as far as the intervention of American
forces is concerned, and to support the
Chinese central government, which
alone is officially recognized by all the
Allies, by every other means available.
Thus, while American troops will not
participate in any battles between the
armies of the Chinese central govern
ment and the Communist forces, war
material and transportation will be
placed at the disposal of Generalissimo
Chang Kai-shek to fulfill his task of
taking over from the Russian forces
the areas in Manchuria they are now
evacuating and to accept the surrender
OF the 100000 Japanese. In this latter
task they are being directly assisted by
American military forces, which in the
absence of Chinese regular army units
are proceeding to disarm the Japanese
The American forces will leave China
as soon as this latter task has been full
filled. At the same time all the war
material Gen. Chang can buy will be
sold to him. An American military air
and naval mission will eventually be
organized to continue the training of
Chinese armies.
Gen. Chang at present has an un-
believably large number of divisions,
about 260. But only 40 are fully trained
and can be counted as really organized
troops
The Chinese Communists hope they
eventually will receive support from
the U. s. S. r. and are prone to con-
slider the Sino-Russian treaty signed
three months ago mere front" with
little real basis.
This belief is based on the fact that
while the Russian high command in
Manchuria lived up to the letter of the
treaty, its spirit has been violated re-
peatedly. Moscow has, for instance,
recognized the central government as
the sole authority in China. In conse-
quence, the Communist route armies
should not have been permitted to in
Nitrate into Inner Mongolia or Man
Evening star., 1945-11-10
Czech Naturalization

In relation to Britain, to Europe
and to the world as a whole, the
United States must now be described
as the most conservative of the great
powers in an economic sense. Here
private enterprise is still paramount;
elsewhere the general trend is to-
ward more and more socialization,
and since this development seems to
be anything but a temporary one,
we shall probably find it increasingly
important to understand what is
happening and why.
A good case in point-since it is
typical of the trend in Europe-is
summed up in bulletin just issued
by the American Friends of Czecho-
slovakia. First of all. the bulletin
seeks to explain why the Czechs
appear generally agreed upon ma
tionalization in one degree or an
other. The basic reason would seem
to be kind of historic inevitability
caused by Nazi occupation. All the
country's banks were absorbed by
German banks. Its steel industry
was annexed by the Hermann Goer-
ing Werke. Five hundred new plants
were built by the Germans for war
purposes. Private Czech capital was
not sufficient to carry out the job of
restoration without staggering state
loans" In sum, the government had
to step in.
According to the bulletin, virtually
"all industrial corporations with
more than 500 employees, all natural
resources, public utilities, transport,
commercial banks (but not savings
or loan associations), all insurance
companies" are to become state en-
terprises, with compensation to be
paid to former owners, except enemy
nationals or collaborators, in gov
ernment bonds. As for the COM
panies themselves. although each is
to operate individually as in the past,
the management will be subject to
government approval. This "solu-
tion," says the bulletin. which may
tend to oversimplify the situation, is
considered necessary because OF "the
inability of private owners to repair
plants destroyed by war. to absorb
the staggering losses on goods de-
livered to Germany which will never
be paid for, to re-equip their plants
after the Germans stripped them of
machinery or to retool them for
peacetime production in the finan-
cial chaos in which the Germans left
the country. = = The revolutionary
| phase of the measure is that persons
who formerly owned corporation
bonds and stocks will receive fixed
interest from government bonds, and
cease to control industries for pri-
vate profit" This is socialism but
not communism, the bulletin de-
clares. adding that 80 per cent OF
Czech manufacturing plants employ
| fewer than 500 workers each and will
continue under private ownership.
/ Despite the latter point, however
all this is likely to seem very drastic
to many Americans. Yet Czech ma
tionalization, no matter how much
the friends of private enterprise ma,
Evening star., 1945-11-10
The AttIee Visit

Prime Minister Attlee's arrival in
Washington heralds a conference
between him and President Truman
which is urgently needed and out of
which important decisions may
come. The third participant, Prime
Minister King of Canada, empha-
sizes the meeting as one between the
leading chief executives of the Eng
disappearing peoples. This, in itself,
insures wide measure of mutual
understanding, since the basic ideals
and aims of those peoples are closely
analogous. OF course, there are i'm
portant Emergencies of interest and
policy which need to be harmonized.
But there is a fundamental meeting
of minds which will greatly facilitate
the discussion and handling of all
problems that may arise.
The conferees will have plenty to
talk about. Though the atomic bomb
presumably has top priority, a num-
ber of other issues will doubtless be
considered. Some, such as Palestine,
the Dardanelles and the Far East,
are primarily political and involve
international considerations. There
is also the diplomatic problem pre-
Sented by the crisis within the ranks
of the big Three" which tends to
align the western members in oppo-
sition to the views of the Soviet
Union. But there are likewise a
complex set of questions economic in
character and concerning the United
States and the British Common
wealth of Nations. The negotiations
that have been going on so long here
in Washington between American
and British financial and CONNER
cial experts should not be narrowly
construed as being merely the mat
ter of an American loan or grant to
Britain. That issue involves the
monetary. trade and tariff policies
of the United States and the British
Commonwealth, to say nothing of
non-BritiSh members of the So
called sterling area" 1t is because
of those wider aspects that the pres
ence of the Canadian Prime Minister
is so timely and helpful.
The question logically suggests it.
self whether this Anglo-American
conference may be the prelude to
another meeting of the big Three" ."
Certainly. a successful outcome of
the present conference would clarity
the attitudes of the British and
American governments. But this
would not automatically entail an
other meeting between their chief
executives and that of the Soviet
Union unless the existing impasse
between them had been sufficiently
modified to make another tripartite
conference fruitful.
Evening star., 1945-11-10
g : SATURDAY, November 10, ls45
LETTING Things Slide

Last July a CommlJCee OF clClZenS,
representing the Council of Social
Agencies, made an inspection fol-
lowed by blistering report on con-
ditionS at the old Industrial Home
School on Wisconsin avenue. The
nub of the recommendations was
that while the ancient buildings
used for this So-called school made
proper maintenance difficult, it was
still possible to bring about improve
fnents by the use of fresh paint and
repairs. The report also asked that
salaries-which The Star showed
compared unfavorably with salaries
paid for attendants at the Zoo
should be increased and real effort
made to fill vacancies.
1t is noted that the Commissioners
a few days ago transmitted to Con-
gress a request for supplemental ap-
preparations to prepare plans for a
new Industrial Home School. The
money will undoubtedly be made
available. But in the meantime,
nothing has been done to improve
the deplorable conditions at the In
dustrial Home School. which must
continue in use two or three years
, longer. And it seems to The Star
that it is about as important for
Congress to find out why nothing
has been done about this situation
as it is to appropriate funds for new
buildings.
The report from the Council of
Social Agencies Committee was &C
cepted by the Board of Public We'll
fare as sound criticism. There were
indications that the recommended
tions would be carried out. But the
request for repairs seems to have
produced nothing. The request for
reclaSsiflcation of salaries is only
now being acted on at the District
Building. The superintendent at
the school has quit, indicating that
he had talked himself hoarse in
trying to get something done and
that now he is through talking.
Another series of reports has just
come from other committees of the
Council of Social Agencies. One of
them finds that conditions at the
Receiving Home for Children are
poor, which is not surprising in view
of the fact that 1t is housed in a
building erected about 1850, which
has not been kept in good repair,
and which was never intended for
its present use. More important,
however, is the fact that the author
tiles seem content to twiddle their
thumbs for several more years, while
new building is being constructed,
instead of trying to overcome, to the
best of their abilities, generally rec
ognized inadequacies.
No one debates the need for new
construction to meet pressing needs
of several welfare institutions. But
unless the Board of Public Welfare
Is able to obtain higher standard
of management and use of what it
has, or until it Is able to show COM
plete lack of cooperation on the
part of other municipal authorities
in carrying out it's recommendation
there is a serious question as to the
ultimate reform to be expected from
new brick and mortar.
Evening star., 1945-11-10
Present Duty of Science

The November issue of the Scien-
tif1c Monthly contains an article on
1.-THE Social and Moral implications
of Science" which ought to be read
widely and pondered deeply. Its
author is DR.. Joseph Schneider, a
distinguished member of the faculty
of the department of sociology in
the University of Minnesota. He is
fortnight in his approach to the
challenge of those critics of science,
including many scientists of the
very highest standing, who realize
that, despite the progress which
undoubtedly has occurred through
the exercise of organized common
sense: "The simplest needs of men
still remain unsatisfied"
DR., Schneider is specific, too.
Adequate food, clothing and shelter
for every one," he comedies, ''is still
an unrealized aspiration" He also
admits that in the recent ''vaSt con-
test of organized destruction" the
magnitude of the damage done was
"of the scientists own making" 1t
was the man of science "who devel-
oped the principles from which were
born in the minds of the inventor
and (the) engineer the guns, the
shells, the tanks, the ships, the
planes and the robot bombs which
threaten to make shambles of the
world for years to come" The
scientist likewise is to blame for
developing 'the techniques of mass
regimentation for death everywhere
so IN evidence" He, in brief, has
"given mankind power over nature
and that power has been abused.
But DR.. Schneider particularly
resents "the comfortable conviction
of many men of science thai
they share no moral responsibility
In deciding to what uses their discov'
cries and inventions are put" Ye'
he does not indulge in pessimistit
resignation to conditions of chao
as they are. eff we should wish Il
call a given social and moral orde
more desirable than another" h
Evening star., 1945-11-10
More About Strikes
To the Editor Of The Star:

To the Editor OF The Star:
The wave of strikes which threatens
to engulf the Nation is attributable in
large measure to tremendously in
fiated currency. which is reflected in
reducing purchasing power of dollars.
There is no excuse for labor violating
contracts; nevertheless, as long as costs
increase, the workers will demand still
higher wages.
1t is the height of absurdity to main
tain that imitation can be controlled
forever by Government edict. One
might just as well decide that the best
way to control blaze is to instruct
the fire department to keep 1t within
bounds while an increasing stream
of gasoline is being poured over the
flames.
EDMUND K. GoLDsBoRoUGH.
To the Editor of The Star:
I think 1t is shameful the way every
one Is going on strike. Is this what our
soldiers are coming home to-a land of
strife?
The people who are striking should
have been overseas doing the fighting.
II they had, they would know what it
is like to come home to this.
Men fought long, hard battles and
when the war is over, the little people
at home have to start another war. Is
1t asking too much to let the soldiers
come back to peaceful country.
THELMA PHILIPS.
Evening star., 1945-11-10

churia, any more than they were per-
mitted by the American Marines to in
filtrate into Tientsin or other areas
under temporary American control. Yet
by some unexplained laxity on the part
Of local Russian commanders, impor-
tant units Of Chinese Communists have
dug in behind the Russian lines.
Now when the Red Army is with
drawing, in keeping with pledges con-
tained in the recent treaty, the Chinese
Government troops find themselves con-
fronted in the evacuated areas by
well-equipped and powerfully intrenched
Communist force. The result is bloody
battles which are considered to be
the beginning of a long and bitter
civil war.
In accordance with the statements
made by Gen. Mao Tse-tung, head of
the Yenan government, the large Com
munist armies he claimed to command
possessed altogether only $4,000 rifles
and small number of machineguns
With the exception of few antiquated
Boxer Rebellion" guns they have no
artillery at all.
X r ~
The recent engagements between the
mist forces showed that the Yenan arm
les were provided with excellent equip
ment and large supply Of ammunition.
There are no indications that this
was Russian material. In all likelihood
1t comes from the surrendered Japanese
stockpile of war material. This should,
however, have been kept by the Russians
or surrendered to the Chinese or Amer
leans. The fact that local Russian army
commanders permitted the Chinese
Communists to take over surrendered
japanese war material is considered to
be departure from the spirit of the
Sino-RuSsian treaty.
Nobody in Washington or in the Pa
cif1c command wants American forces
to become involved in civil war which
may last for years. An outright inter-
vention on the side of Gen. Chang can
also have far-reaching international
repercussions which the United States
Government is determined to avoid at
any cost.
But, on the oher hand, in keeping
with our pledges to- Gen. Chang, who
was unf1inchingly loyal to the Allied
cause in the darkest moments of the
war; and in keeping with the terms of
the japanese surrender, to which Gen.
Chiang's central government is party,
the forces under Gen. Wedemeyer will
continue to give Gen. Chiang's troops
all the necessary air and naval trans
portation together with every other as
Sistance short of actual Intervention.
Evening star., 1945-11-10

regret it, is merely an example OF the
spreading trend. In time, the over
all situation is likely to raise such
peculiar problems for our relatively
conservative economy that we would
do well to begin studying it now SO
as to adjust ourselves to it with un-
derstanding. The case of Czecho-
slovakia probably is as good a start
ing point as any,