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The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-06-27
LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS FORM INFO r PANEL ON U. N.

A program of explaining the func- ton and intricate machinery of the United Nations to all interested parties was decided upon today at the st-of-the-season meeting of the League of Women Voters held in the Terrace room of the Baranot Hotel.
 From what was scheduled as a regular educational discussion Ot the United Nations intended for it's women members, the group found itself discussing a timely subject, the mechanics of the international body which today is caught in a major struggle for life or death.
 Today's meeting was under the chairmanship of Mrs. Ernest Gruen- ing, who outlined a 1950-1952 infor- nation program to be undertaken by this non-partisan women's league.
 Mrs. Gruening specified three major items csnsidered by the na- tional women's group to be perti- nent to current political thinking. They are: l. The expansion of world trade and economic develop ment with a maximum use of United Nation machinery. 2. A con- tinued analysis of the federal bud get. 3. Reorganization measures aimed at streamlining of the fed eral government machine.
 Mrs. Gruening then turned the program over to Mrs. George Me grath who, with the assistance ot elaborate materials supplied by the leagues national organization in line with their countrywide pro- gram, spoke on What's going on in the United Nations"
 Before adjourning for the sum- mer months. the group arranged to hold a special meeting July 28, at which time they will entertain Mrs. Irene Sweeney, representative of the national office of the League of Women Voters of Washington, DC. Mrs. Sweeney at that time will be making a Territory-wide trip to the chapters of the League telling what is going on in the na- tional scene.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-06-27

Sockeye salmon from the prolific Situk River, near Yakutat, will be canned this season in Pelican, through arrangement between Lib by's and the Whiz packing com ranies. The Yakutat cannery will remain closed.
 The season opens there July l. which, as it falls on a Saturday and the weekend closing law still holds-means that fish may De taken from 6 am. to 6 pm. that day and that's all until Monday.
 Last year the season began June 10, with this years opening de- layed to allow the early run to escape, which for the past several years have been decreasing rapidly, according to Clarence Rhode, head of the Fish and Wildlife Service.
 Up to yesterday the counting weir there had taken a census Of l8000 salmon having gone upstream already, which mean start on rehabilitation has been made all ready, Rhode said.
 If the season had been opened as usual, not more than 5000 would have gotten up to spawn, he be- lieves.
 All Varieties
 One of the oldest and best fish cries in Alaska, the Situk spawns every variety of salmon-reds, pinks. kings and large echoes. Each spawns in a different place: the reds in an upstream lake, the pinks in pools in the river, the kings in tributaries and the echoes find still another spot-which has re- ;ulted in the Situk's being one of the finest fishing grounds ever found.
 Canning activity there has been going on since before 1900.
 The Yakutat ana Southern Rail- road. incidentally, built to bring fish into the cannery. is steaming like the New York Central, despite the fact the cannery isn't operating.
 Hi-Ball.
 Rhode said there's so much traf- lie footing along it's rails that care must be taken not to have a col ision. The Civil Aeronautics Ad- ministration, the Army, and Lib oy's each have It's own motor equip
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-06-27
ENGLISH GIRL RETURNS HOME TO LONDON VIA
 ALASKA AND MEXICO

Seattle is a long way from Lon- don and when Miss Barbara Shook left Chislehurst, Kent, a year ago to do an exchange teaching job in Seattle she wondered how it could be happening to her.
 For the last year she has been teaching art in Queene Anne High School Seattle. Now, her teaching over, she is returning home-by way of Alaska and Mexico She is go- ing to see all she can Of America before boarding her steamer for England in New York late in Aug uSt.
 A passenger to Alaska on the Princess Louise, Miss Shook ye- mained in Juneau over Sunday, chartered a Elane for the ice cap trip, spent hours in the museum talking to Curator Edward Keith ahn to learn as much as she could about Alaska and its lore, then was a Pan American passenger to Seattle Monday.
 She will be glad to return. to her home-but would like to be an ex- change teacher another year.
 "The size of your country am- ages me- she said looking at a map of Alaska. Here I have travelled for days and have only seen this little bit of southeast Alaska. I would like to see it all. !"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-06-27

as Oscar Ewing, Charles F. Bran- nan, and such a congressman as Frank Buchanan forget that they are not leaders but servants; that they were not chosen to impose their concepts and will upon the people, but to submit to popular responses. It must be the people who decide. It is their country; they pay the taxes. They vote.
 Perhaps the difficulty arose from MT. Roosevelt's assumption that a college degree and utilization es- tablished a man as an expert. This has never been true anywhere and certainly it has not been true in this country where the widest ex- perience is often the product of the give and take practical oper- ations. Many of our most fruitful citizens were not college men, but came out of the factory and busi- ness
 Thus, under Roosevelt, vast number of theoreticians were given not only employment but rank and power, to the confusion of the nation. Harry Truman has tended to be equally dependent upon such persons, an example being Leon KeySerling, who makes up the Pres idential mind on economic ques- tions, field in which Keyserlings s validity is regarded by many as dubious. The person of practical experience finds himself so con- pletely nonplussed by the notions and operations of these doctrinaire personalities that he either leaves them to their own devices or falls before them without resistance but with much splking.
 Curiously, our ne " type of offic- ial is acting more like a German official than like anything that has been known heretofore in the An glo-Saxon world. They sense them selves as masters, probably because they have been so long in office. When our officials felt that their tenure was tentative, they were restrained by their responsibility to the people. They checked. They had their ear to the ground.
 Today the official calculates what device may be made attractive, no matter how false or harmful, and having projected that, he sets out to demand it's acceptance. Should Congress reject him, he regards it as a personal attack, although un- der our constitutional system, the bureaucrat is only hired to carry forward the will of Congress to the letter of the law.
 There is a lack of propriety in all this which surely comes from the initial worship of the President and respect for his office beyond constitutional require men's. When a nation adulates its so-called great men, it weakens it's apparatus of control over its offfc- ials.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-06-27
HANSEN, AppLEGATE |ARE TRANSFERRED,
 SEATTLE AC5 OFFICE

After two years duty at the Jul neau station, Alaska Communica- tions System. Capt. s. c. Hansen and It. Delbert P Applegate have been transferred to headquarters office in Seattle.
 Captain Hansen, sector com mander, will leave Juneau August with his wife and children-Gary, 12, and Christine. 2. His entire ACS career has been off and on"s in Alaska, and he has served in every part of the Territory.
 He will be succeeded by Capt Melvin A. Johnson. former chiet of ACS personnel and training di- vision, whose previous Alaska ACS duty was at Nome The Johnsons have bought a home here, on Gold Belt Avenue.
 Lieutenant Applegate. officer in charge of the Juneau station, will start his duty in Seattle early in September. Mrs. Applegate and 3-year-old Susan went outside yes terday by Pan American Airways. Replacing Lieutenant Applegate will be It. Nels Ahlstrom, now ot the Seattle office. He formerly was in charge of the ACS cable barge in these waters for two years. Other ACS news already has at- fected the station complement Tn Juneau. Just effective is ruling whereby all ACS personnel stationed in Southeast Alaska can wear civil ian clothing while on duty.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-06-27
DREDGING PROGRESSES
 AT SMALL BOAT HARBOR

An advance of approximately 100 feet since Saturday in the dredging of the small boat harbor was made Monday.
 It is expected that another three or four days will see the comple- tion of work between floats one and two.
 The next area to be cleaned will be on the south side of float one. That between float two and three has already been completed.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-06-27
TACOMAN HERE

Arthur Johnson of Tacoma, Wash, is registered at the Baranof Hotel.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-06-27
I H ESE D A Y s
 E Y-- GEORGE k. SOKCLSKY
A NEW ORDER OF POLITICIAN

A NEW ORDER OF POLITICIAN
 It used to be that politicians
 were afraid of the people, part.c- ularly when an election approached.
 It is true that in some of tie
 larger cites, the bosses were care less in matters of money honesty; yet they generally developed a
 delicacy of projecting their per sonalities, so that the eXternals of decency were sharply outlined, like the frock coats they wore. Nowadays, Ha.iy Hopkins gen. eral assumption that the people are dopes pervades the political atmosphere. I was discussing such a matter recently with a woman who gives the impression of in- telligence and yet who, in spite of Teheran and Yalta and too much else to cite in one article, insists that Franklin D. Roosevelt was a truthful man in his relationship to his own people. The record does not count with such a person, because for highly cultivated civic responsibility has been sub stituted the much decried fascist concept of the elite. Historical objectivity is replaced by the great man cult.
 In word, too many Americans flor the good of this country wor- ship human beings, the heroes of the era, who, to them, represent the thought that whatever such men do, good or evil, must have a right reason or they would not have done it.
 Such a concept of the political leader is closer to that held by the Nazi, who accepted Hitler i'm plicitly, than to the American as- sumption that all men are equal before the law. Yet those who hate Hitler the loudest, follow the Nazi doctrine in relationship to Roosevelt and to his circle. They
 acknowledge an elite which most Americans have been taught to reject.
 Passing over the question of
 Roosevelt, the attitude is bad in a free country because it exalts an elected or an appointed official beyond our Concept of the rela-
 tionship of the people to their employed and paid servants, the officials.
 ! For instance, such office-holders
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-06-27
FROM BAKER. ORE.

Mrs. Charles Clark and Mrs. Mel Willifred of Baker. Ore, are guests at the Baranof Hotel
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-06-27
FROM ANCHORAGE

FKJM ANCHORAOE Miss Freda A. Jose of Anchorage is a guest at the Baranof Hotel.
Evening star., 1950-08-27

OF Lime. He is ordinarily a very
independent thinker. Somehow
what he is tellin' us has a propa-
ganda ring to it.
Bushy Barnes, the corner news
man, notices it, too: Lime, you
sound an awful lot like you was
tryin' to sell yourself bill of
goods!'
SWELL" Lime grins at us, Il did
have a little discussion at home.
MY Of lady is of the opinion
that down at the Wagon a lot of
riffraff get together, tell bad sto-
ries, think up deviltry, an waste
time that had better 60 into now
in the lawn or other forms of
social improvement"
"Jeepers!" I answer or Lime.
Il would rather the joint had a
reputation of bein' a meetin place
where food an frivolity was both
carefully inspected"
Evening star., 1950-08-27
The Ladies Are Thinkin'

That's just the point" Lime
goes on, absent-mindedly stackin'
up his dishes the way a dutiful
husband does at home when he's
goin' to have to wash 'em after
dinner.
Il have an idea. If we was all to
60 home tonight an let drop what
; a high plane our conversation here
is kept on, the gals would give us
"A in department the rest of the
week.
Just then, the telephone rings
an Jake answers it. In minute he
is back.
Lime" Jake says, that was
your wife. She wanted to know
what was goin' on here. ! told her
we was just talkin'. She wanted
to know what about. So I said
Women She said she thought
so an for you to get right home
before she locked you out for the
night" -WMlY bOREN
Evening star., 1950-08-27

TVHERE is a mistaken idea that
the world is bein run from
the US. capital. from Moscow or
by politicians, crooks, bankers,
labor leaders or various other de-
nominations.
or Lime Woods says he just
don't believe it. He thinks all the
important decisions on earth are
finally made by women - wives
mostly. An he. for one, don't pro-
pose to raise any objections.
"You take all the big talk that
goes on around Wally's, here"
Lime tells the boys last night.
Watch how careful every orc of
us is not to get out on a limb where
our females can saw us off! Now
senators an preachers an generals
also have wives, same as we do. /
bet they don't get too far out OF
line with what their women folk
think out for them."
I take a long sidewise look at
Evening star., 1950-08-27

on the market called Tampar. In
stead of a combination of belt, pins
and pad worn outside, you simply
wear Tampax internally. You will
marvel at this dainty, efficient Tam
pax (made of pure surgical cotton)
with it's slender one-time-use appli-
Gator for easy insertion. No odor or
chafing and you cannot even feel the
Tampax when in place. Easy to dis
pose of. A months supply will
60 right into the average purse. Buy
Tampax at drug or notion counter.
8 absorbencies Irregular, Super,
Junior) to suit various requirements.
Economy box contains 4 months
average need. Tampax Incorporated,
Palmer, Massachusetts,.
Evening star., 1950-08-27

HIVM SERVANTS :. Which
~ five states could fit their COM
bissed populations into the employee
list of the US. Gocernnssnt?
Arizona, Delaware, Nevada,
New Hampshire and Wyoming.
JIG, KEN Gardens. N. Y.
GUILTY What is the biggest
single reason for which persons are
seat to Federal prisons?
Violation of immigration laws
$500 persons were sentenced for
this last year.
W.A.B., Albany, CdlJ.
HOT DOCS . Who recently ate
Is miles of frankturte1s?
The 47,0OO Boy Scouts who
held their second National jam
Evening star., 1950-08-27
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Questions and answers from current news

boree in Valley Forge. Pa. They
also polished off two freight-car
loads of breakfast cereals.
81, PhiLGdeibkia, Pa.
GIGANTIC Where UiH the
worlds largest obe's-Gtr movie (SeGt-
ing $4,000 soon be opened?
In Berlin.
CT, Detroit, Mich.
LURE >. Oak Ridge, Tenn,
once k,,oUn as The Hidden City, has
q new industry. What is it?
Tourists. Last year 10000 per-
sons visited this atomic capital.
SEP. Los Angeles, Calf.
MOO .. What state has more cows
than humans?
Evening star., 1950-08-27

Vermont. There are 375,S3O
Vermonters and 405, 900 cows.
-G.B., Wellesley Hills. Mass.
0LDSTERS . There are about
10 million me, and Vomen tn the
US. over IS. What percentage are
dependent for support on tkeir chill
dren or upon the community?
Almost 60 per cent.
-R.H.H., Brooklyn, N. Y.
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be acknowledged or returned.
Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1950-01-16

Ever since devaluation "D-Day'
Norwegian, Swedish, and Danish
newspapers and foreign trade
journals have been running a Sc
ries of articles asking, "how can
we increase our exports to the
U.S.A?"
In Sweden, the principal indus
trial nation of the trio, how to in
crease production is one of the
major subjects of discussion among
manufacturers and exporters. Des-
pite a shortage of skilled labor,
Swedish heavy industry already is
working at capacity, and unem-
ployment figures, even in the wood
industry, are at record low for
the season.
Recent United States tariff re-
auctions will aid Denmark in the
export of a number of agricultur-
al products, principally butter and
ham.
The Danes also are working on
plans to find larger American
market for their ceramics, decora-
tive silver, and art goods.
Following the 30.5 per cent de-
valuation of the Norwegian
crown to TIA to the dollar, Erik
Brofoss, Norwegian Minister of
Trade, said Norways prospects of
Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1950-01-16

Recently all of Norway has fol-
lowed the every move of a little
dark-haired boy resting in his bed
at Drammen hospital. He is 12-
year-old Isac Allal, the sole sur
vivor of the tragic air liner crash
which took the lives of % Jew
ish refugee children and 6 grown
ups near Oslo on November 21st.
Public reaction to the tragedy has
been deep and spontaneous. Gifts,
flowers, and kilograms have
streamed to the bed of the young
ster who through a miracle es-
capped from the wreckage of the
ear-pulverized Netherlands plane,
with little more than slight
scratches. In a land which has
contributed heavily to the aid and
rehabilitation of little Isac's coun-
trymen few hours were to pass
before expressions of grief and
sympathy took concrete form.
Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1950-01-16

On Saturday, November goth,
"Arbeiderbladet," the capitals La
Dor daily, launched a nationwide
drive to raise funds for living
memorial to the victims of this
mercy mission. To aid the thou
sands of living Jewish youngsters
who have survived the terrors of
war, pogroms, and concentration
camps, Norwegians behind the
drive are determined to build a
miniature city or 'Kibbutz' in the
desert of Israel. With refugees
streaming into the new Jewish
homeland and some 100000 pres
emily living in tents, the Norwe-
gian memorial group is going to
provide shelter in the form of 80
NorWegian-built pre- fabricated
houses and buildings to comprise
the core of a new Jewish desert
agricultural colony. There will be
a building in memory of each of
the children as we'll as the one
Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1950-01-16

increasing industrial exports to
the United States were limited at
present.
With the aim of aiding Swedish
manufacturers to produce for AM
erican buyers, a recent article
called "The Art of Selling in the
U.S.A." appeared in Svensk Utrik-
eshandel, the Swedish Foreign
Trade Journal. This article includ-
ed a market survey of the most
prosperous" American commune
ties, and placed Cleveland, Ohio,
in first place, followed by Sioux
City, Iowa; Hartford, Conn.,; &C.
dar Rapids, Iowa; Orange, N. j.;
Davenport, Iowa; Fort Wayne,
Ind; Des Moines, Iowa, and Hon
olulu. Washington, D. c., was in
tenth place.
New York City, given a para
graph to itself, was described, on
the other hand, as Americas Mt.
Everest, which the inexperienced
European exporter was counseled
to avoid. A market analysis of
American tastes and preferences
and, above all, a careful study of
American advertising and mer-
chandising methods, could result,
according to the author, in intro
ducing new lines of goods to the
American public which would
Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1950-01-16
Sweden's Outlay For European Aid
quaIIed 15a OF National Income

foodstuff, medical supplies an d
clothing to our Scandinavian
neighbor nations as well as to the
Netherlands and Greece. These
shipments were financed by both
private and State donations as
well as credits. Thus, a total in
excess of 100000 tons of food
stuff was supplied to the above
mentioned nations.
An important part of Swedish
aid during the war was the care
of refugees. At the end of 1914,
refugees in Sweden totalled near
ly 100000, of which $4,000 were
children. Following the war, Swed-
ish aid measures were directed to-
ward alienation of hunger an d
disease to the greatest extent pos
sible in the war-ravaged countries.
To a large extent this was affect
ed by means of childrens' feeding.
With the aid of State and pri-
vate contributions, arrangements
were made for the daily feeding
of a total of 100000 children in
Norway. Finland, Germany, Aus
tria, Hungary, Rumania and Yugo-
slavia
Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1950-01-16
"How Can We Increase Exports To u.S.?"

compete on only small scale with
American products.
A plan built along these lines
was recently proposed by a BUSH
ness executive, Per Wenander, di-
rector of the Rosendahl factory in
Filipstad, Sweden. The plan calls
for the formation in the United
States of a company, tentatively
called Products of Europe" which
would organize the distribution of
European products all over the I'm
tied States.
Incorporated as a private BUSH
ness enterprise, the company would
work closely with already estab-
lished importers and distributors
of European goods, its major OBJ
ject being - not competition with
them = but a more efficient dis
tribution of their products through
out the United States.
In Norway, an economist sug-
gests the following to Scandinav-
ian manufacturers: How quickly
we can increase our exports and
thereby better our own living
standards will depend on whether
our exporters a. are quick in de-
veloping products to suit the Am
erican taste; ca keep informed OF
changes in the American economic
setup; and 90 give service in the
American way"
Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1950-01-16
Norwegian Memorial Village In Israel

Norwegian and two Jewish nurses
who died in the crash. Labor un-
IONS public and private organize
lions, and individuals the country
over have been~asked to contribute
the 100000 Kr. (S42 ,00O) needed
to bring "Kibbutz Norge" into be-
ing.
In the meantime the rehabiMR
ton center for Jewish children ~
Holmestrand continues its pro-
gram to prepare 600 youngsters
from Europes slums and DIP.
camps for a new life in Israel.
Operated by Aid to Europe, Nor
wegian relief organization, the
center is providing eight months
of rehabilitation for 200 children
at a time. The % youngsters who
died were en- route to this center
which only few days before had
bid farewell to a first contingent
of 60 children, Israel bound
Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1950-01-16
Germany And
Sweden Have
Freer Trade

Observation-Disclosures nego-
tiatiOns in Frankfort, a new trade
agreement was recently signed be-
tween Sweden and West Germany
valid for twelve months from
January 1 and providing for a
considerable liberalization of West
German imports from Sweden.
Among Swedish products free
for transportation are timber and
processed timber products, includ-
ing pre-fabricated houses, farm
products, foodstuffs in general,
iron, steel and engineering indus
try products, while licenses must
be obtained under a continent
agreement valid to the end Of
June, 1850, for pulp, paper and
paper products, fish. light bulbs,
etc. Sweden is to import automo-
biles, textiles, rubber, leather and
plastic products, toys, office equip
ment, etc, to a value equalling
$2,O0O,0O0, in addition to con-
tingents fixed in previous agree
ments.
A payments accord is still be-
ing negotiated but mutual draw
ing rights as per the current
agreement will be increased from
Kr. 100000 to Kr. 6O,OOO,0OO.
The Swedish delegation was
headed by the managing director
of the General Export Association
of Sweden, Mr.. forster Vinell.