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was about the future or American economy. Ncurse reported that he did not consider a recession neceS- sary. though it was becoming more and more likely because of high prices.
 The country has reached a point. he said, where it's productive ca pacity is so great that the nation can have almost any kind Of pres perity 1t wants. He explained how ever, that if We are to have con- tinued full employment. industry must raise it's sights blow profits back into expansion and continu- ously strive to produce abundant ly at low prices for the widest pes sible consumption.
 Nourse cited steel as one indus try which would have to expand if we were to keep prosperous and if the national income were to pass the 200-biliion dollar mark. With steel the big bottleneck in indus trial expansion, Nourse contended, il is up to the steel-makers first to bring prices into line, then eX- pand their production.
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STEEL MUST EXPAND

Secretary of the Treasury Snyder took issue with this and set off a Hurry of Cabinet debate
 Tt isn't far 10 ask the steel in dustIy to expand at this time" Snyder argued. If they do, their profits will be wiped out by glutted markets in the future. We haven't had much steel TOT civilian pur- poses for five years, so now natur- ally everybody is demanding a lot"
 Snyder added that demand for steel exports from the United States by countries whose industry was crippled during the war would not continue. It was not fair, therefore, he contended, to ask American steel companles to build up their plants and have them idle later
 Both Secretary of Commerce Hartman and Secretary of the Interior Krug disagreed
 This modern world cannot com promise with the past" Hartman commented tartly. Tt is foolish to talk about what we produced in former years. But it is very im- portant to consider what We can produce now, especially in the light ol how that production will serve to equaIize prices and purchasing power.
 We have an economy wherein about 58 million people are employ ed, with higher standards of living than anywhere else ill the world. However, this can lead to disaster fl we do not have more equality between buying power and goods produced. We can't have production outrunning buying power, and in my opinion industry must face the fact that prices will have to come down.
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JUNEAU'S AIRPORT

The introduction of four-engined planes by Pan American Airways their Alaska run now gives the people of this area the best air service available any where in the world. must all admit that there is much to be desired in Juneaus airfield
 While the present field has been cleared by the CAA and the big ships are operating in and out it is generally known that the present runway must be extended to bring the field up to standards main taned at other Alaska airfields.
 Juneau also has airport administration build ing Quarters occupied at the field by the varois airlines and facilities offered for passengers are perhaps the worst in Alaska
 The job of building administration building. and engthening the runway, falls upon the city oi Juneau However any money spent for this purpose by the city would be matched four by the CAA In other words if the total project amounted to s40O 00O would have to raise cnly quarter of that amount or slOoOOO which would be money well spent in opinion.
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No. 5633-A

No. 5o33-A
 Tn the District -~9urt for the Terri tory of Alaska, Division Number One, at Juneau.
 TERRITORY OF ALASKA, Plain tiff and Petitioner, vs. JOHN H. WALMER. as Cl erk of the Dis trict Court for the Territory of Alaska, Division Number l; All other parties in interest or persons unknown having or claiming un- surrNndered bonds issued by the Alaska Gastineau Mining Com pany, a corporation, prior to De- cember 24, 1924 All other parties or persons unknown having or claiming any right, title. estate, lien or interest in the money de- scribed herein, Defendants and Respondents.
 Plaintiffs First Amended Petition and Information has been filed in the office of the Clerk of this Court in the above entitled cause, setting forth the following facts.
 That there is on deposit with the Clerk of the District Court for the Territory of Alaska, First Division. the sum of s9.94983. for unknown holders of Alaska Gastineau Mining Company bonds, resulting from foreclosure proceedings and a trus- tee transfer of funds, as more par ticularly described in the said First Amended Petition and Information on file in the above entitled cause, and that no per son Whomsoever has interposed a claim for my portion of said money at an time since Janu ary 3l, 1889. and said First Amended Petition and Information alleges that by reason of such facts and cir cumstances, said deposit has escheat- ed to and become the property of the Territory of Alaska, and prays for a Decree adjudging and decreeing such money the property of the Territory of Alaska.
 NOW THEREFORE. all persons interesed in said money on deposit with the Clerk of the District Court are hereby required to appear and show cause, if any they have, on or before the 2lst day of May, l947, at 2 o'clock P. M. of said day, why the title to said deposit should not vest in the Territory of Alaska
 IT IS FURTHER ORDERED, that this Order to Show Cause shall be published for six consecutive weeks, beginning March 27, l947. in the DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, Juneau, Alaska.
 Dated this 18th day of March. l947.
 HARRY E. PRATT,
 United States District Judge. First publication, March 27. l947. Last publication, May :, 1947.
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DIR. NOURsE's WARNING

1.-Prices have increased about 70 percent on all commodities since last July l. Foodstuffs have gone up about 30 percent. raw materials about 5 percent on an average.
 2.-In some flelds. wholesalers and retailers are pricing them selves cut of the market. The de- mand for certain goods-clothing. Womens apparel and shoes = has dropped 10 the danger point Even IT. lines recently scarce. such as radios. refrieerators and higher priced automobiles. Nourse report ed. demand Is going way down.
 While prices have increased, consumers wages have dropped This disturbed Nourse greatly. Sec retary of the Interior Krug and Secretary of Commerce Hartman backed him up regarding this.
 The figures used by Nourse for his conclusions show that wages dropped c CeAr III z d4.0 gl4G-4ic4G D4!IAJli Qgs- lars between the first quarter of l945 and the last quarter of l946.
 However, while wages dropped in i945, profits scared Durmg l94o net corporate profits were nine bil- lion dollars. Tn l946. with wages dropping. profits climbed to l2 bll- lien However. that was cnly part of the story During the last quar- ter Cf l946, profits were mounting at the rate of Sl4,900 ,000,0 for the year, and during the first quarter ol this year they increased at an even higher rate
 During this same period wages were tumbling from l945 high of III billion to l06 billion in 1946- and still going down ill l947. That was why MT Truman made his statement the day after the Cabinet meeting that if prices don't come clown, wages must go up.
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MacArthur's Warning
Cincinnati Enquirer


 Japan has been demilitarized That task is fin ished She also has been subjected to a profound political revolution, involving basic changes from feudal and nlitarstic to a democratic pattern This process is complete it can be within the limits of a military occupation Japan is now ready for peace treaty and the prompt termination of the present economic blockade.
 Such is Gen Douglas MacArthurs overall ap praisa of the position in Japan His words ought to heavily in the shaping of American policy He is not person to be accused of following a soft timental policy When he warns against continuation of the economic blockade which is still strangling the Japanese people. he is simply facing facts.
 Our declared aim is not to destroy the Japanese people, but simply to prevent their again becoming threat to the peace of the world There is nothing do in that direction by the direct super vision of the country with troops. We contribute further to that end by moving quickly possible to put the Japanese on a permanent basis of self eupport
 General Macarthur made a further suggestion well worth noting-that Japan be placed under the supervision of the United Nations for indefinite period to come. With American military forces at such outlying points Okinawa, Guam mad Saipan, there is no risk in the withdrawal of troops in favor of purely civilian supervision by LIN perosnel And this logical responsibility to place the LIN
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older than the establishment of the United States life liberty and the pursuit of happiness which sC succnetly described the spirit of 1776 What makes important now was the time and place of its delivery basic difference between the Russian policy anc our own not only in Germany which under discussion. but throughout the world arises from application of the word democracy" As Secretary Marshall precisely put it, democracy to Americans means certain inalienable rghtsthat is rights which may not be taken away" He added:
 They include the right of every individual
 to develop his mind and soul in ways of his
 own choice free of fear of coercion-proyided
 only that he does not interfere with the like
 rights of others
 To a society is not democratic if men
 who respect the rights of their fellow men are
 not free to express their own beliefs and con-
 victions without fear that they may be snatch
 ed away from home and family.
 To us a society is not free if awabiding
 citizens live in fear of being denied the right
 to work or deprived of life liberty and the
 pursuit of happiness
 It would be difficult to find real American wno would not subscribe to that definition There are few, who do wish that it could be stated so nsstently that it could break through any wall of censorship to give all peoples everywhere clearer understanding of the American ideal. Such rope ttion, it true, would carry assurance to alien ears that this country is making a perfect job of spreading democracy throughout the world but 1t would at least make more evident what We really are hoping to accomplish
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INDUSTRY ENDED OPA

4-Nourse pointed out that in dustry had asked for a chance to make free enterprise work without price controls. and that with OPA gone, prices would find their ma tural level. This level, Dr Nourse said Was new high in history and hardly natural
 Someone raised the point that businessmen were worried about getting together to cut prices for fear of antitrust prosecution. which caused Attorney General Tom Clark 10 report that he was looking around TOT means of avoiding this danger
 T don't think the Justice De- partment would prosecute any groups that got together to help the public" Clark said.
 Perhaps the most important part of Nourse's candid Cabinet talk
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can do about crecit. Chairman Eecles said The credit controls oi the Federal Reserve Board are pretty rigid now. The only solu- tion is a cut in prices and profits !"
 "If We don't do something about prices now" emphasized Dr. Nourse. the fall will be that much harder later on.
 Other significant points were de- velcped indicating that famine exists in the midst of plenty Re- cent Federal Reserve statistics, for instance, reveal that 10 percent oi American families have more than 50 percent oI the savings, that the top 30 percent of the nations fam lilies have 80 percent of the say ings and that the bottom TO per- cent have only 20 percent
 This lower 70 percent is the backbone of industry's postwar market AS it's savings diminish, the chances for prosperity diminish. Federal Reserve Board figures show that 40 percent of American fam lilies have average savings of only $40 per family, or enough to keep going only one week if the bread winner loses his job.
 President Truman was profound ly impressed with the cold logic of the discussion, and told the Cabinet he would hold similar ses- sions with the Economic Advisers soon.
 (coPYRICHT, 1947, BELL SYNDICATE. INcl
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20 YEARS AGO TIT FIFE EMPIRE
APRIL 15. 1927

15,
 officials here revealed telegram that bids had been opened there zeerbach of the pulp and other timber the Ketchikan
 cubic for Paper Co.'S hemock About 80 hmok officials stated Both bids taken
 Leading citizens of Juneau including Connors Allen Shattuk Boyle F VanderIees Warren H. Wilson Simpson MacKinnon, unanimous support of school bonds the erection of the proposed new high school Mill the Juneau Water Works and Mrs Mill proud 23C o'clock this morning their second child
 The lawyer formerly manager o the Club a copper city
 Weather lowest
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MODERN ETIQUETTE g SyoRrRrA LEE

Should small children be church. the theatre? They should they they quietly picture at the theatre
 O. a 5 a guest n $ should she offer to help with the housewok?
 A, Yes; should
 all right friendship?
 A. Yes her privilege
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STEEL SHOULD LEAD RE
 DUCTION

Secretary Krug and Federal Re serve Board Chairman Mariner Eccles emphatically agreed. Eccles said that the steel industry, judg- ing by it's profit index, could well afford to take the lead in sealing down both prices and profits.
 There is not much more We
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LOOK and LEARN SSs aopnoN

| What the first song-hit the What has appeared did originate? What suggestion King Solomon in case of baby disputed parentage?
 Who the greatest of all ancient Greek philosophers?
 ANSWERS:
 After the Ball. played almost constantly Chicago Exposition
 Tn God Vt It is merely contraction of the old parts one part to go to each of the two
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The Washington
 Merry-Go-Round
fContinued nun Page Onsj

stethoscopic analysis ol the nations entire economic health.
 Here are the high points of what he told the all-important closed Cabinet meeting:
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Daily Lessons in English v L. GORDON

WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do ADAPT, meaning suitable, take receive story We ADOPTED the plan he suggested"
 MISPRONOUNCED Nonchaance. Pronounce non-sna- n in in AN syllable
 Tattoo the TT the
 SYNONYMS: Ignore, disregard omit, slight overlook.
 WORD STUDY Use three it yours Let us
 vocabulary word each day TodayS word HSTRIONC Accent follows the M requires ability"
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BAND 10 PRACTICE
 AT 8 THIS EVENING

The Jur-au City Band will hold a practice tonight at 8 o'clock in the Grade School Auditorium in preparation for several parades to te given within the next couple of months
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ItttyisEkS

ATTEi TON LOGGERS with logs for Sale. Contact Juneau Lumber
 Mills. Will buy from 100000 it. to l0,000000 feet. For further
 particulars see Juneau Lumber Mills. 133-tf
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What Democracy Means

New York Sun The definition of democracy which Secretary Marshall presented at Moscow contained the phrase
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Evening star., 1947-08-03

little bundle. in her arms, but there
is just about everything else comparable.
For any cne who likes to read and wipe
the tears away it Is simply made to order.
Finally the ranks of popularity have
been ornamented by Taylor CaldwellS
"This Side of Innocence" Obviously a lot
of people like it.
You Can Count on These
Here shall name a group of good solid
novels which you can read without any
risk of wasting your time.
"The House Above the River" by Mi
chael Foster. A fine study of the aristo-
cratic spirit, personified in young South
erner of distinguished family, pitted
against the standardless mob which is
current society. The tale is marred some
what in its ending.
"Letty Fox, Her Luck" by Christina
Stead. savage dissection of the type
of modern girl who has it ground into her
from her infancy that her duty Is to get
a man." 1t is long and repetitious but its
force carries it along.
"AN the Kings Men" by Robert Penn
Warren Another study Of that Southern
State Governor who had it in him to be-
come a dictator and died by an assassin's
bullet. I found it the best on the subject
SO far.
"For One Sweet Grape" by Kate
OBrien. A historical novel OF the reign
OF Philip II of Spain. 1t is genuine
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'Wasteland," which latter work won the
distinguished Harper Novel Prize. The
Asch book is concerned with New York Jews
and Is, in sum. an eloquent plea for the
various immigrant groups which make up
50 large part of New York's population to
lay aside their Old World prejudices and
learn the meaning of America Mr. Asch
blames much of the misery Of New York's
slums on the retention by the immigrants
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what you liked and some Of what lies
between.
Late Novels Of the Year
Since the above was written, some other
interesting novels have come into the
ofaoe. For me, Arthur Koestler has done
an illuminating book on the much-dis-
cussed Palestine situation. It is obviously
a problem novel, as they used to be called.
but it is vivid and one reads 1t with
sensation of getting quite unbiased &C
count of Palestinian conditions. Mr.. Koest-
Ter makes no bones about 1t that the Jews
are in the process of invading and taking
over that country; they mean to own 1t
and control it, he says. His point Of view
is that whatever you may feel about Arab
rights, such invasions have seldom been
way before progressive ones. The Arabs
are to be pitied, in Mr.. Koestler's view.
but England has no possible defense for
her deviousness toward the Jews to whom
she guaranteed the Arabs land.
A curious novel, quite unlike anything
else which is now being written Is Titus
Dy McTNyu EcdAc. ~ Id d LhAC u
fantastic and often horrifying doings in
a vast castle in an unnamed country and
an unspecified period Of history The char
acters are grotesque but not Of any con-
ventional variety of grotesquerie. The
thing which makes the work commend
able-apart from the wild richness of its
imaginative quality-is the circumstances
that its author has a puckish kind Of
humor. He cannot resist putting touch
of the ridiculous on even the most horrify-
ing situations. The result is book which
appeals to the intelligence as we'll as to the
Imagination.
Marquand fans have quickly put the
latest novel of their favorite author on
the best-seller lists but I. for one found
"B. F's Daughter" written more from
standpoint of mass appeal than Of literary
excellency. 1t Is a wartime story with q
good many scenes in Washington and
those are well ne-Washingtonians will
recognize their merit. In the main. how
ever, the story is lifeless and the leading
character, the daughter Of q famous cap
italist who Is supposed to inherit her
fathers realistic intelligence, Is far from
convincing But daresay that, to the
fans, these objections will mean nothing
At all.
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OF an ul-eQuCat.
ed young man
trying to become
q writer and
turning into an
advertising sales
man. It was tech
nicany good and
humanity dreary.
Like e d m u n d
Wilson'S opus, 1t
won the distinc-
ton of being
suppressed, but
without the same
justice.
There they are
Uhof r 1ikoA
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r o m ance, eSpe-
cially fine in
characterization.
Road to CAL
vary" by Alexei
Tolstoy--a huge
solid thing on
the Russian rev.
olution and the
ye ars immedi-
ately afterward.
It gives you a
vivid picture of
the anarchy of
the poStrevolu-
ton period.
Lost Heaven
by Kylie Ten
nant. Another of
Australian tales
village entirely
vidualists and is
"ForetaSte of
Delicious comedy
which miStook t
end of the worle
lcly repented.
excellent best.
"The Devil Is
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Recommended

INDEPENDENT PEOPLE, by Halldor
Laxness. (knopf; So
BRIDESHEAD REVISITED, by Evelyn
Waugh. Gittle, Brown; $250)
THE MEMBERS OF THE WEDDING,
by Carson McCullers. Houghton; $2503
THE SPEAR IN THE SAND, by Raoul
Faure. Harper; $2.50)
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promptly g o n 9
on the b e S t.
seller lists. 1t is
another S t u d y
of q neurosis In
a mature man.
It is delicately
done but lack
ing in life.
Also on the
list of the for
tunate were two
studies Of Jew
ish life in Amer
lea S hol e m
A S c h s East
River" and 10
~
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involved. the oppression of the poor by
the rich. The book Is far more IMAM
that, You have only to compare IL
to works which are specifically limited
tn the social question to see Its superloIity:
John Steifbeck's "The Grapes OF WraIn.
for instance shows as piece OF schoolooy
sentimentality beside 1t. 1t Is the grea'
novel of the year.
"Brideshead Revisited" has extraolol-
nary beauty. 1t is memorable perform
once IT. is cut off from universality, now
ever bv it's theme. That deals with the
snecific issues of specific group ana Time
TT shows us family Of English aristo-
Gratis collapsing into decadence IN Sne
careers of the interwar generation Wltnlh
that limitation, the work Is close TO per
feet a long piece Of melancholla IN "n'c"
the autumn mood Is never raise.
The same thing can be said for THE
Member of the Wedding" It, too, uses
solendid literary quality on limited
theme It deals with adolescence. deals
with it as the raw, crude, green despera-
ton which it is, without any Mansheldian
delicacy. But through the nobility OF its
prose 1t lifts that treatment to the beauty
of tragedy. The novel becomes sort OF
solemn hymn on the pain of leaving child
hood behind.
."The Spear in the Sand" is book which
has received very lCCle nOtlCe Out WAACA
still stands as a work of striking original
ity. It Is q first novel and such q one as
makes a reader impatient for more of its
authors output. It Is q fantasy, purely
imaginative work. In it, . young man B
shipwrecked on an island where he has
neither the need nor the chance to exert
himself in any way and where his sur
roundings are those of dreamlike beauty.
He spends the rest Of o long life In this
lovely passive solitude. The novel Is the
study of what happens TO human being
I'm an eventless environment. 1t Is beauti-
full writing.
Except for "Brideshead Revisited" none
of these works went on the best-seller list.
There were however, some creditabas
novels which did win that distinction.
."The Hucksters" by Frederic Wakeman
Is one of the group which has attracted
wide attention. Plain Journalistic writing.
It attacks the fashions of current radio
advertising with pleasant vigor. AS =
study Of the entertainment habits OF our
day, it may well be read In decades TO
come as a serviceable text. AS novel.
however, it suffers from silly and inhar-
monious love story, obviously tackled on 70
give the requisite heart appeal"
animal Farm" by George Orwell is an
excellent little satire ON political revoleA-
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to hold Its place q
long time. 1t is hard
to describe - you
could call 1t q six
ring circus in which
the acts are just
about all the sure
fire stock situations
of sentimental tic-
ton. There is in it
no erring daughter
driven out into the
storm with a guilty