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Montana labor news., 1948-01-29
TRADE PAYROLL
HITS HIGH OF $6l

Reflecting the current trend, whole
sale and retail trade. the largest SIN
lie industry in Montana. employing
bout 80 per cent of the total number
of workers in industries covered by
the Montana unemployment compen-
sation act and paying about 40 per
cent of the total wages, is estimated
recorded total sales OF more than $3.50
million for 1917 as against $3.50 mil
lion for 1899. the last year for which
figures are available.
Wages paid for l941 are estimated
at SCI million. which is % per cent OF
total wages paid in covered industry,
about $3.50 million.
Tho industry has shown remark
able growth. Increases since 1910
are found in the following: the num-
Der of units has increased 500: there
are $500 more workers in the industry
for an increase Of 81 per cent In COW
cred workers from 3o.3 to 1914 per
cent: rayrolls have doubled; and the
average annual wage increase is 5000.
based on total wages and the number
Of covered workers. for 1947 $4,000.
No comparable statistics later than
1899 arc available as to total volume
of sales. With the rise in commodity
prices and the greatly expanded BUSH
ness in the post wal period, 1t is prob
able that the 1917 sales will be more
than double the volume of 1899. The
total dollar volume of wholesale and
retail sales in Montana as reported
by the US. census was $3.50 million,
thus 1917 sales should exceed $3.50
million.
Retail Sales Increase
Retail sales in the early months OF
1917 were 35 per cent higher than In
1916, or a higher figure than Idaho
Colorado, and Utah, according to the
Department OF Commerce. Food sales
were up 20 per cent. general mer'
chandise sales increased 10 per cent
lumber rose SO per cent. hardware
sales made a gain Of 20 per cent, and
motor vehicle dealers reported an in
crease of more than 100 per cent.
Employment in wholesale and retail
trade has increased $500 since 1916
to a total of $4,000 estimated for 1917
Since the war. the proportion OF trade
workers has increased with greater
availability of goods and the pent-uI
demand for things which were scarce
during the war period. II is probable
that employment in 194S will continue
at this high level. Average percent
age employment in trade in the Uni
ted States for 1914 was 20 per cent
The high percentage in Montana
about 40. is a reflection of a relative
~ small proportion of workers in man
ufacturing. since Montana depends t
a large extent on other states to sup
ply the goods which Montana people
buy.
Montana labor news., 1948-01-29
Why PUBLIC DEBT
WILL never Be PAID
BY LOWNDES MAIRY

The rue answer to this problem explains the riddles of or postwar ad-
ministraton. This nation consists of thu HAYES and the Have Nots; workers
and possessors; labor an owners OF exploiting capital When what is really
labor" is clearly defined, m see h fufness of truth in:
LABOR PRODUCES ALL WEALTH
MANY iumn to the conclusion that labor embraces only such as do hard
Montana labor news., 1948-01-29

That on the 18th day Of May, 1929,
in the City OF Butte. Montana, the
plaintiff and defendant intermarried,
and ever since said date have been,
and nov are, husband and wife.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-12-07
41 ON cOASTAL'S
 MONDAY FLIGHTS

Alaska Coastal carried Il passen- gers yesterday with 27 coming in to Juneau and Ii leaving. Passengers included:
 From Tulsequah: G. Walker, Mix Yaramushuck, John Jorge nson. Charles Watson. D. M. Collins.
 From Sitka Bert Proctor, o. Col by, Helen Featherstone, Ed Fettle, L. Colby, George Morelander, A. L. Zumwalt, w H. Smith, Melvin Sholl Sam Cotton.
 From Tenakee: O. Neuman, MT and Mrs. c. Johnson, Peter Martin
 From Hood Bay: J. o. Leaf, Ar hold Rude, Ed Watson, Ben Green L. Spencer. F. Swenoke, Olaf Berk ley, M. Hoag.
 To Sitka: Nellie Lott, Sadi F Bill is, Bob Ilickner, c. H. Johnstone Mrs. Alice Johnstone, Gale John stone.
 To Tulsequah: w. Hermanson, L Dempsey, L. Winters, A. c. Irvine. ". Johnson, Bill Galloway, Peter Odynski.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-12-07
(oasf Ports Being Worked; Above Normal
New Problem Develops With Sailors But Is Not
 Proving Serious

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 7.-tR- Cargo handling of San Francisco's s waterfront was well above nor- nal today after 95-day tieup.
 CIO longshore hiring hall dis patchers said about 125 gangs were assigned to ships on today's a. m. shlt. The rormal pre-strike op- 9ration was 70 to 50 gangs.
 Most of the work consisted in digging into the holds of the big backlog of ships tied up during he three month work stoppage.
 Meanwhile a new problem de- veloned as the AFL Sailors Union of the Pacific rejected pay in- crease matching that given other seagoing workers in strike settle ments. The SUP did not strike but was made idle by the tieup.
 Last night it approved a settle msnt of jurisdictional dispute witch delayed resumption of work nere over the weekend and voted o man Pacific Coast vessels. But he union decided to hold out for more than the S21 monthly increase
 ven the striking CIO Marine cooks and the Independent Marine iigemen.
 Negctiaticns on pay will start his week between SUP chief Harry
 ndekerg and the Pacific Ameri- Can Shipowners Association.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-12-07
Dog Team in Seallie Put Through paees;; SeppaIa
 In Charge of New Outfit

I SEATTLE, Dec. 7.-iR- Fourteen dogs ran up the road at the edge of town yesterday pulling a truck. ] Bgstanders gaped, but E. L. Snod- ! ie, TOSS of the Bow Lake Kennels, stood calmly on the running board and gave the dogs instructions and Leonard Seppala, the famed Alaska Dog-team racer, sat behind the wheel and called for more power.
 They arc Siberian husky sled dogs of new strain being developed by Seppala and Snodie. These truck towing brutes have pure white fur hlue eyes and pink noses and weigh about 65.
 Their trainers take them out for q slx-mile exercise jaunt three times Q week, but the dogs consider that mere breather
 The name of Seppala is associated with dog teams like the shout of
 mush!' He won the 403-mile Alas kan sweepstakes in 1915-16 and IT, snd drove tho. tenn thst delivered dipatheria serum 10 Nome in 1925.
 Sled dog statisticians say Seppall has won more sled dog races than any other man in North America
 about 35 ir all, including same in New England and Quebec.
 reppala says he thinks tlae Siber- ian huskies are crossbreed of fox and dos. without any wolf strain thanks. No one seems to know their oxact origin, but Seppala says they nun cn the trail with a touncing iope like that of a fox.
 They have been "a 'sed for centur- ies by the natives of Eastern Si- teria and were first brought to A. aska by an English no'7leman.
 Snodia said the Siberian husky makes a good pet because he is so ! friendly-he is known as the bite less" dog
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-12-07
T0NIGHT'S SPEAKER TAD WIDE SERVICE .NEUROpFAN SECTOR
Battalion Commander If. Col. J. D. AIexenader
 Awarded lHonors

It. Col. Joseph D. Alexander
 he featured speaker for tonights icod Neighbor day observance, has pproached his subject, Let's Be Good Neighbors" with back
 round Of European travel and mil .ary service that is indicative Of grasp of the present problems ghich face CUT country in it's deal ngs witt othsr people of the rorld.
 A native of Chicago, Alexander Tas graduated from the Crane
 igh school of that city and prior 3 World War II, devoted cons.d-
 1able time and effort in behalf
 f the National Guard of Illinois.
 During the recent glehal con- list he was a member of the 520th
 infantry Regiment of the 35th Di-
 son. and saw service from Oma-
 } Beach to the River Elbe in sermany. He also participated I engagements in Belgium, the
 -tkellands and Luxembourg, be- -des having seen action in both
 rance and Germany.
 Military honors accorded the 5clonel include the coveted French 1ecoration. the Croix de Guerre
 ith Bronze Star, in addition to which he holds the following dec 5rations: Silver Star, Bronze. Star yith two oak leaf clusters, Army Commendaticn ribbon, the Order 9f the Purple Heart and five ma ior campaign stars.
 Following his separation from military duties in January, l946, he speaker engaged in business as sales manager of the F. A.
 uber Company of Chicago, a firm of business brokers. Early in 1948 gol. Alexander resigned that posi- tion to accept q commission in the regular army of the United States
 Alexander is married, and his wife, Aurora, and their daughter, Karen Jo, age six, are in Juneau where he has been stationed for several weeks under assignment of the War Department in connec- tion with the program of further ing the defenses o1 the Territory.
 The Alexanders are enthused with the outlook in Alaska, Jo- eph having remarked recently that in receiving an assignment to luty here. they were able to satis- " desire of long standing to sisit the far North.
 The address of Col. Alexander to- night in the Grade School audi ,orium is being awaited with con- siderable interest, according to re- ports of the widespread attention this program has received.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-12-07
EDUCATORS GO OUTSIDE

Southbound aboard yesterdays $ PAA flight were three prominent Alaska educators, bound for the three-day meeting of the North west Association of college and Secondary Schoo's, meeting in Spokane, Wash, December 9, 10 and II.
 pr. James c. Ryan, Comnis- sioner of Education for Alaska, was accompanied by Dr. George A.. Dale director of education, and Max w. Penrod, principal of the Mt. Edgecumbe School, for the AL aska Native Service.
 Besides the accrediting of the Mt Edgecumbe School which has be5n recommended to the Associa- tion and which was the primary interest of his two companions, Dr. Ryan hoped also for accrediting cf the Valdez High Schcol, and the maintenance of accredited status of
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-12-07
LARGE CROWD DIGS IN AT AMER. iEGI0N DUG(lyT LAST NIGHT

Last nights meeting Of Juneau Post Number 4. The American Le- zion, was well attended, despite low temperatures and strong winds Various matters received consider ation as Vice Commander Jchn Tanaka presided in the absence of Post Commander Chester zenger
 Frederick W. Perry. who saw Naval service during World War II. was a candidate for member ship and was voted into the or ganization
 Discussion of more service in behalf of funerals for deceased veterans ensued, and the post was advised that the body of local service man who gave his life in the campaign for Italy will be re- turned for interment in this area.
 Post Service Officer. A. L. Zeng- CT, Sr., made a report concerning several veterans receiving hospital ization, and it was decided to send holiday greetings to Legion mem- bers Of this community who have moved to other parts of the United States.
 Plans were outlined for the din- ner to be held in the Dugout the evening of December 13. This is an event resulting frcm a contest between veterans of World War I and World War II, upon sale of tickets to the dance held the night before Armistice Day
 A full report was given by the Anlericanism committee relative to tonight's meeting starting at 8 o'clock in the Juneau Grade School auditorium
 Homer G. Nordling, Commander If The American Legion, was pres aat and recited a number of his experiences at National headquart- CTS m Indianapolis, from which peint he has recently returned.
 The immensity of The American Legion, together with the vast amount of work required to carry on it's worldwide program of ser vice in behalf Of veterans of both World Wars were among some of the significant observations of Commander Nordling. He recount co numerous changes now being made in the internal affairs of the
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-12-07

pcrtant t is for Legionnaires to take active part in their own or ganization.
 More than S3,oO0.o0 is now be- ing spent annually by The Legion 4or service work among veterans.
 Following the meeting, refresh- nents were served, members of this committee belng c. E. Chuck Porter, Department Ad- jutant, and John Parmenter, Post Adjutant.
 Several last-minute details were consumated at the meeting, and members were urged to be at the Grad School auditorium not later .han 7:30 tonight to be in readiness for the public Americanism program which begins promptly at 8 o'clock.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-12-07
.ApT. CALDWELL NkMED ATHLETIC
 DIRECTOR, NAVY

ANNAPOLIS, Md, Dec. 7-tR- Capt. Henry Howard Caldwell will be named to succeed Captain Tom Hamilton as Navy athletic director, the Naval academy announced to- day
 Caldwell, Navy explorer and com lat hero, has been head of the de- partment of mathematics at Annap- o..s since last June. He is also of- ficer representative for football.
 Hamilton, athletic director for tl.e past year, is scheduled to retire Feb. l to become athletic director at the University of Pittsburgh.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-12-07
ALASKA GREETINGS IN PUBLICATION OF
 SEATTLE ME. CHURCH

From a member of the Firs t Methodist Church, Seattle, Dr. New ton E. Moats, pastor, comes a clip ping from The Chimes" the c urch's weekly publication.
 A note "in the editors mail box" November Il from the Rev. and Mrs. Robert Treat and Mary Mar garet, eight months old, read:
 Sorry we can't stay a few hours more in Seattle, but must have the car. on the steamer by noon
 We stopped in, four years ago on our way to Juneau, and enjoyed a grand Sunday morning service here.
 Will you please put just a note of greeting in The Chimes?' Quite a few members of the Juneau Meth odist Church now attend here. We gre just returning for another three- year term up in Juneau, Alaska.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-12-07
FOOTBALL BUS IN PLUNGE; 2pLAYERS
 BURNED TO DEATH

GRANTS PASS, Ore, Dec. 7.-lR "A chartered bus carrying home he Oregon State high school cham
 ionShip football team, plunged off J. s. Highway 99 near here Sunday night, Killing two players and injur- ng 25 others.
 The bus burned and the boys and coaches had to break they way out trough the windows.
 The two players killed were Al Newman, halfback, and Sterling Heater, end, both of Grants Pass. They were burned to death.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-12-07
5ub-zero Weather AZ Anchorage for
 Weeks al Time

ANCHORAGE, Dec. 7.-R- It loo,z5 like a cold winter, if Novem- Ger was safnple.. From Nov. 12 through the 30th, Anchorage did not nave a single day of relief from sub zero weather.
 Ihe coldest was 20 helow on the 27th. The average temperature dur Ing the month was 14.2 degrees, and the month was the third coldest November here in the past 33 years.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-12-07

and four Army and Department of the Interior ships were being worked.
 Twenty-one of the gangs, com prised of 10 to 12 men. were be- ing used on Alaskan ships. The official estimated some TOO men were Dusy, counting checkers, foremen and others.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-12-07

the IS other schools of the Terri tory, accledital of which must be
 snewed each year.
 Of special interest to pr. Ryan and his companions was their pro- posed inspection of the Edison Vo- cation School in Seattle, which starting experimentally, has prov en practical many educational theories.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-12-07
SITUATION AT SEATTLE

SEATTLE, Dec. 7.-lR- Forty cne longshore gangs, about half tie lcngshoremen in the port, were ar work today on the waterfront, 9 Waterfront Employers spokes- man said Nine Alaskan, one Commercial, two foreign
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-12-07
PUNCTUATED MAIL

DENVEiu-,r CcIorado's rural mail carriers have a beef, says their president, Joe A. H..i, of Pine. They wish hunters would stcp taking potshots at letter box ss stuck on posts at roadside gates.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-12-07
MRS. WHITE OUTSIDE

Mrs. Josephine White, assistant curator of the Territorial Museum, was on today's southbound PAA light, starting a months leave.
 She will visit her daughter, Miss Lenore H. White, in Los Angeles, and her son. Stroller H. White, and family, at Balboa Island, Cal, Before returning after the holidays.
 WANT ADS BRING RESUL ITS
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-12-07
7 , saasI' 10 Have feow. aYrfnG of
 Slu'off Of Wa'ey

WRANGELL. Dec 7.-lPA- The surfew he'll may sound at any time cs day here It VII give an hours advance warning, an official city notice said. the the city water sup ply is t9 be shut off.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-12-07
F o R E c A s T Duncan and Vicinity

. Fair and continued cold
 . tonight and Wednesday.
 3 Lowest temperature tonight
 , 5 belcw zero. Highest tenn
 3 perature Wednesday 2 de-
 , grees above zero. Gusty D northeasterly wind.
 , P R E C r T A T l o N . CPast 24 hours ending 7:30 m today } In Juneau City Trace; } since Dec. l, A inches; } since July l, 66.91 inches. } At the Airport Trace; } since Dec. 1, .43 inches; , since July l, 46.30 inches. } . 2
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-12-07
CA MAN HERE

George Sink, CAA man from An 'chorage. registered at the Gastin- au yesterday.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-12-07

The droplets of water in a cloud gre electrically charged.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-12-07
WEATHER REPORT
fU s WEATHER BUREAU

tU $ WEATHER BUREAU (Data at 4:30 A. M, 120th
 Meridian Time) In Juneau Maximum, T; minimum 2. At Airport Maximum, 5; minimum, -12.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1948-04-16
GRIEF FOR ALL
Bell Syndicate.-WNU Feat

Everybody in THE course of
everyday living, encounters obsta.
eles, beartaebes, disillusions and
gross injustiees. BY eonqnering
The many tborns .Ubieb are strewn
in the path of life .ve build CHAR
aeter of such sterling quality that
,0e are immune to practically any
fluctuations 1vbicb are cast in our
direction.
Miss Norris reflects ON her
CHILDHOOD days and reveals that
she experienced many tragic in
eideuts Wbieb impressed her
torcefully. But to aseribe adult
conduct to childhood incidents
seems unWarranted to Miss Nor
ris.
To apoid such tallaeious reason
ing children should be taught
early that life is constant, Diff
feult, uphill battle. When such
an attitude is firmly inenleated in
their minds they will accept dis
appointments and failures in
stride. Instead of seeking the ad-
vice of a dubious bsyebiatrie e*-
pert they ,viH be able to find the
solution to their problems nnaid-
ed and nnassisted.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1948-04-16

seems to me to deal, at best, with
lamentable results rather than with
preventable causes. Wise parents, or
even one wise parent, can do more
for childhood, during childhood,
than can kindly analytical outsiders
be they ever so honest-when the
mischief of the long years is done.
Why not take a more heroic,
spiritual attitude with our children?
Why not teach them, drill them in
the truth that life is hard, disap-
pointments plenty, their own self
esteem far too sensitive, other
persons opinions far less important
than youth thinks them? This can
be done without pessimism; indeed
it can be done in a spirit of strength
and courage. An honest view of all
the petty tribulations of babyhood,
nursery days, and the teens can be
an exhilarating challenger; it can
build character so strong that all
the storms of life can burst against
it in vain.
Youthful Tribulations.
Worthwhile lives are not always
built on youthful tribulation and dep
rivation, but SO times out of 100 they
are. The smiling, strong, resourceful
man who solves his own problems
and has a hand free for those of
others, didn't climb to that height
over rose leaves. The serene and
gracious woman to whom you turn
as an example and guide wasn't
born that way. Perhaps she has
known poverty, ingratitude, years of
apparently unavailing struggle. Per-
haps her seemingly happy and
successful marriage was built on
early years of complete incompati-
bility with that man who is so de-
voted, so content, on their silver
wedding day. Perhaps she has seen
the boy who was her world walk off
to the war, not to return.
1t would be wrong to belittle the
gallant struggle of the new school
of mental doctors to straighten out
the twists of unhappy lives. But per-
haps your particular trouble can be
handled by yourself? Perhaps in the
forgiveness of injustice, in service
to others, in prayer, in courage and
in looking forward to better things
rather than back at those wrongs
we all knew in youth. you may find
the answer.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1948-04-16
Cars to Be Scarce in 1913

If you have been anticipating
shiny, new, 1913 model car this year
you'd better salt away your plans.
Paul G. Hoffman, president of
Studebaker corporation, claims that
new cars won't be any easier to
get this year than they were in l947.
He predicted that the auto industry
won't catch up with the record-shat-
tering postwar demand, particularly
in the popular car field, all through
1919.
Furthermore, they won't be any
cheaper, either.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1948-04-16
By KATHLEEN NORRIS

nor man either, tor that
i matter-who has not suf-
fered injustices, humiliations,
disappointments, griefs in child
hood. There isn't one of us whose
parents were always just and
wise, whose teachers were al
ways enlightened and self-sac-
rificing, whose associates-in
school and play, street and
shop-were always good. Rude
boys down the block, the man
who killed the kitten, the big
girl who snatched the doll, the
cowardly desk-mate who told
lies, the measles that came in
circus week and the birthday
when grandma was so sick
there couldn't be any party
wasn't your childhood filled
with these and similar trag-
edies?
Mine was. And yet mine was
spent in lovely country home, with
wise and gentle parents in charge
of it, and all the fun and freedom
only love can buy for children-gar-
den, books, cows, horses, dogs, pic
MICS.
Can't Stop Pain.
1t is impossible to save childhood
from pain. In reasoning, helpless
and impatient, children inevitably
suffer. Children under the age of
seven are in desperate tears five or
six times a day. Older children are
the victims of constant heartbreak.
1t is impossible for mother to take
them to the park. Another head for
the broken doll is not to be found.
There is no more cake because the
other child devoured the whole
thing. A bicycle would cost daddy
too much money, dear. You have to
stay in bed if the doctor says so.
We don't know why one little boy
breaks his arm and another little
boy gets a pony.
In later life to sweepingly ascribe
marital failure, heart weaknesses
and the tendency to fall over small
objects to any one of these babyhood
crises seems to me pitiably absurd.
Yet scores of books now crowd our
shelves with these exact analyses in
serious print.
Scared by Spider.
Because a small girl of eight was
shockingly scared by finding a large
spider on her hand, she was some
20 years later assured that the very
dark hair of her husband and eldest
baby recalled this experience and
explained her increasing stomach
troubles and hysteria. A man of 40,
whose pretty widowed young mother
had remarked when he was II
months old, went into a hospital and
after a while was told that weeks
of investigation and hundreds of dol
lars expense had ascertained that
an unconscious "Opedipus complex"
chow they love that termD had
given him asthma, timidity and a
We love to talk about ourselves.
We love to feel that someone else
is responsible for our laziness, jeal-
ousy, cowardice, fears. And since
we are the result of heredity, en-
vironment and experience, and since
these inflexible three never arise
from sources of complete purity and
wisdom, we are by heredity subject
to human weaknesses of all sorts.
Full of Quacks.
But the much abused science of
psychiatry - and no field is more
full, at the moment, of quacks. ex-
perimenters and oprortunists -
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1948-04-16

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