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The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1951-03-22
NEW ENTERTAINER
IN BUBBLE ROOM

Leonard Carr, pianist baritone
from New York, was due to arrive
here today to team up with John
Goettell in the Bubble Room at the
Baranof Hotel.
Carr comes highly recommended,
E. j. O'Brien, Baranof Hotel man
ager, said today He has previously
played in the Monkey Bar at the
Elysee Hotel and the Town House
in New York, won national Ar
thur Godfrey show and had his
own radio show in New York. Carr
comes here from Sun Valley, Idaho.
Pinchhitting with Two-story
Johnny" last night were Juneau
ties Jim Gregg at the piano and
Doug Gregg on the guitar.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1951-03-22
AVA TO LAUNCH
FUND RAISING
CAMPAIGN NOW

Hang on to your hat, here we
gol" Bob Ellis, temporary president
of the Alaska Visitors Association,
said today with big grin on his
face.
The Alaska legislature appro-
priated $4,000 last night which
must be matched by the Associa-
ton for national advertising and
promotion of tourist travel to the
Territory.
Temporary directors in each of the
Alaskan towns will go into a fund
raising campaign Immediately, Ellis
said. He plans to make a trip
throughout the Territory beginning
next week in the interest of getting
the funds needed so some promo
ton can be accomplished to step
up travel for the coming season.
AS soon as the matching funds
have been raised permanent Of
ficers will be elected who will select
an executive secretary
Membership are of two kinds. par
ticipating at 500 each which en-
titles the member to voting power,
and sustaining memberships of $40.
IF the world situation doesn't get
any worse, and we raise our funds
socn, we can hope to catch a good
many travellers who have short
range plans at this time" Ellis said.
The funds will be spent for ma
tional and newspaper advertising,
direct mail contacts and operations
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1951-03-22
DR.. MILLER IS TO BE
H0kORED, N0-H05T
LUNCHEON FRIDAY

Honoring DR.. Brewster S. Miller,
Director of the Professional Edu-
cation for the American Cancer
Society, whose headquarters are in
New York City, the Board of Dir
ectors of the Alaska Division of the
American Cancer Society. will hold
a no-host luncheon at the Terrace
Room of the Baranof Hotel Friday
at IL o'clock noon. All members of
the Board of Directors, are urged to
be present to meet DR.. Miller, and
doctors and nurses of the commun-
ity who would like to do so, are
invited to attend the luncheon.
Reservations may be made by call
ing 227 and all reservations must
be completed by this evening.
A radio program over Station
KINY also has been arranged
for the visiting Cancer Specialists,
and the local medical association
is making plans to keep them busy
with workshop meetings. during
their visit to Juneau.
The three specialists, DR.. State
of Minnesota State Medical School,
DR.. Queen of the University OF
oregon Medical School and Dr..
Miller, arrived from Ketchikan
Yesterday, after brief stop there.
They were delayed in reaching
Ketchikan, by bad weather in the
middle west, DR.. Queen being the
only one to arrive on schedule last
Sunday.
Visits to Anchorage and Fair
banks will follow the visit to Jul
neau, at which places local medi-
cal associations are making plans
to keep them busy with consulta-
lions, clinics, demonstrations and in
some instances diagnosis.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1951-03-22

The Juneau Chamber of Com
MERGE has increased its membership
from "a to 1870 members, 20 of whom
are new members.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1951-03-22
YOUNG FELLOWSHIP
GROUPS TO CONDUCT
4. NJ. EASTER SERVICE

The Senior Hi Westminster Eel
lowship of the Northern Light
Presbyterian Church, assisted by
the Junior Hi Westminster Fellow
ship and the young people of the
Chapel by the Lake, will conduct an
early morning service of worship
at 7 o'clock Easter Sunday. This
is an annual event with these young
people and the public is cordially
invited to attend. The service will
be held in the sanctuary of the
Northern Light Presbyterian Church.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1951-03-22

William Knight of Sitka is at
the Gastineau Hotel.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1951-03-22
MRS. DE BOER TO COMPLETE
COLLEGE WORK IN JUNE

Mrs. Dorothy DeBoer, formerly
Miss Dorothy White of Gustavus,
left this week for Seattle to attend
Seattle Pacific College. She will
receive her B. A. degree in June.
Mrs. DeBoer is a graduate of the
Juneau Public High School, Glass
of 40. Her husband is an instructor
in the Juneau Public Elementary
School.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1951-03-22
KADoW OPENS OFFICE

Ken Kadow has opened his new
offices on the sixth floor of the
Goth Century Theatre building and
is operating under the name OF
Alaska Consultant and Develop
ment Co. 1t is anticipated that the
company will do management and
development counsel work, primar-
lily in industrial enterprises, he said.
Webb Trimble of Seattle is reg
istered at the Baranof Hotel.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1951-03-22
ROAD MATERIALS BE
TESTED IN ANCHORAGE

w. B. Boyd, Material Engineer
with the Rugeau spf .,Ppbhc Raads
juneau office has left for Anchor
age to participate in the testing Of
materials to be used In road con-
struction in Alaska in the coming
season. The tests are being conduc-
ted by the Corps of Engineers Lab
oratories superintendent.
Boyd expects to return to Juneau
by the end of the week.
Evening star., 1951-08-12

schools from their responsibility
the minute you let down, you run
into trouble"
The West Point cadets believe they
have an answer, or at least an ex-
cuse. They say that men coming in
as plebes have seen honor code vio-
lationS, think these have been going
on for long time, and "just think
it is natural to fall into it,
When in Rome
A former West Point football
player declared: THE players have
to keep their academic work up. It's
pretty easy for your marks to start
falling down, and it's big temp
tation to try to get little help from
a fellow who might have taken the
exam to day before"
The system of cramming for i'm
portant examinations reaches back
for as long as colleges can recall.
Fraternities and sororities at many
major colleges keep files of examina-
tions of past years. Sometimes, these
vary little from year to year, and
are a boon to the student too busy
to study"
The question of whether athletics
makes a student TOO busy to study is
one that has been argued long and
loud for years-just as the West Point
situation will be argued at length and
vociferously for long time. One
thing is certain, meanwhile: There
Is nothing very unusual about what
was happening at West Point. 1t
just looks worse tlAre.
Evening star., 1951-08-12
By Jack Jonas

AS the first shock of the West Point
cheating scandal abated little, Gov
ernment officials, Congressman, old
Army men-and the public in gen.
eral-began looking around for a
scapegoat.
In the past, college scandals have
been blamed on many things. During
the '20s they were laid to a general
breakdown of morals. In the '30s
the boredom and insecurity of the
depression got the burden of the
blame.
With the '40s, the war took over
as the given cause. And after that,
1t was postwar readjustment.
1t seemed. during the past week,
that every one who talked about the
West Point situation had an answer.
They ranged from a charge of
"chronic moral turpitude" in the Fed
eral Government, leveled by nine
House Republicans, to overemphasis
on college sports. Mostly, sports got
the major share of the blame.
Professional Athletics
Ralph E. Himstead, general secre-
tary of the American Association of
University Professors, lays it squarely
on professionalism in college athletics.
For a long time" he says, I'VE
have had an overemphasis on win
ming athletic teams, notably in foot
ball and basketball. This has led to
competitive recruitment of students
on tine basis of athletics instead of
Gchol rship.
Evening star., 1951-08-12
West Point Lacks Scopeeoot for Cnbbing Scandal

Many institutions admittedly buy
their football and basketball players.
They confess it now. This is usually
done through athletic scholarships.
Phony jobs are created for athletes.
Since the faculty still requires a
certain scholastic average, there have
sprung up in many institutions vari-
Gus forms OF cramming systems, to
prepare athletes Tor exams This has
come to exist on wide Scale-the
benefciaries are not all athletes.
1T borders on outright cribbing.
Skill for Sale
Since outstanding athletes in the
high schools are very much in de-
mand, and since there are competi-
tive offers made to them in scholar
ships, it is not surprising that these
young men regard it as acceptable
practice to make money out of their
athletic ability. They are made to
feel that they have very valuable
skill for sale.
Personally doubt if we'll ever see
a return to athletics on a strictly
amateur basis"
DR.. Himstead emphasized. how
ever, that in his opinion, some form
of athletics is necessary to rounded
education
DR. Thelma P. Hunt, head of the
psychology department at George
Washington University. says the sit
uation is too complex for definite
general statements concerning the
causes. a
y "One thing that tends to happeN
Evening star., 1951-08-12

in college or school system" she
said, "is that you get something like
that started in a small way. and
other students see those cheating
getting away with it. They think
that if one person can get away with
it, another can, too.
Another factor is that today there
is high degree of competition
among students There is terrific
motivation to get ahead-to come out
on top. There might be tendency to
do something dishonest to insure
coming out on top.
"a third factor that might be
involved in cases of cheating or any
other moral laXity would be break
down in the morale, or the relation
ship between the instructors or school
administrators and the students.
where a don't care attitude would
develop"
Let Down and Ran Into Trouble
Senator Young. Republican, Of
North Dakota says many of the
disgraced West Pointers were just
football players who were anxious to
remain in school,"
At the University of Maryland,
Dean of Men Geary Eppley. discussing
the subject of cheating, has this to
says:
Cheating is continuous problem.
I believe it's human nature. Only
continuous work in the home and
church will keep q stNdent from
cheating. I'm not excepting the
Evening star., 1951-08-12

called upon the employers to collect,
in addition to his regular union dues.
l per cent of each workers wages.
regardless of whether he is member
of a union or not-thiS extra per-
centage to go direct to the head
quarters of the CTC. But great num-
bers of the individual members of
the unions, as we'll as the nom union
employees, rebelled against such de-
ductions The government then is
sued decree requiring the COM
panies to pay per cent of their total
payrolls directly to the federation
headquarters. 1t is estimated that
this item alone brings into the CTC
Golfers over SO million year.
The maritime industry is, next to
the sugar industry, the largest single
enterprise in Cuba. Port and dock
workers not only make more than the
employees on the sugar plantations.
but they are also the most tightly
organized on the island. A leading
Cuban newspaper charged fatty the
other day that the port Of Havana
is controlled "by Communists who
operate under cover"
The basic wage Of a stevedore is
now $9.77 day. At one time gang
discharged an average of 18 and
20 tons an hour. but today no gang
discharges more than 10 tons an
hour. If the work be done in over
time, the wage per man becomes
about $19.54 day of eight hours. A
ship which formerly completed its
operations in 10 hours, discharging
5000 tons and loading 1000 tons of
export cargo, now requires six days
for these operations. The steamship
lines plying between the United States
Evening star., 1951-08-12

and Cuba suffer an extra cost Of some
81 million year.
Innumerable demands can be made
upon the owners or agents of ship.
If very small cargo is to be loaded
or unloaded. the foreman can de-
mand a piece rate instead of the
regular hourly wage. He may, at
his discretion, demand extra pay if
it rains. even though the crew may
knock off during the time. If the
employer refuses, there is no one to
whom he can turn and the union
boss usually orders a slow down, or
strike. until the owner or agent
gives in.
One ship owner recently cited the
decisions of the Supreme Court
against such practices. He was
curtly asked: who is unloading your
ship? The Supreme Court?"
Senator Mujal himself has been
quoted as saying, I'VE will obey the
rulings of the Supreme Court when
they are in our favor" No shipping
line operating into Cuba can count
on keeping it's schedule, and several
are now considering the possibility
of eliminating the entire island from
their routes.
Politically Bankrupt
Cubans tell you frankly that this
unfortunate state of affairs is due
to the virtual political bankruptcy of
the country. Both the present ad-
ministration of President Prio and
the previous administration of PreSi-
dent Ramon Grau San Martin owed
their elections largely to organized
labor.
Grau San Martin, at one time
previous to his election to the presi-
dency, was an open adherent to
communism, although he later in
sisted that he was not. At any rate,
he was the father of most Of the
extreme labor laws now on the
statute books. 1t was he who en-
couraged labor leaders to take direct
action against employers. and par
ticularly foreign employers who OBJ
jected to their demands.
President Prio Soccaras was Grau's
Minister of Labor. While in that
position he took considerable action
against some Of the best-known, card
carrying Communist union leaders.
but catered to other gangster ele-
ments just as dangerous to legitimate
business. These men are now in con-
troll of the labor movement.
A new general election is in the
off1ng, and Prio and the members Of
his administration are anxious to
control the election Of their sue
cessors If they lose the support Of
organized labor or Of the union
leaders-and particularly the support
of Senator Mujal-they have no
chance to win. Consequently no
demand from the labor lords is likely
to be denied, at least during the life
of the present government.
Evening star., 1951-08-12
Russians Didn't Invent Honey Propooondo Technique

during World War II and worth con-
sulting again are Hitler's own book,
"Mein Kampf"; study of German
Radio Propaganda" by Ernst Kreis
and Hans Speier. and William L.
Shirers Berlin Diary"
Hitler consistently attacked us and
the British as imperialists, capital
lists, plutocrats, aggressors, warmon-
gers. barbarians, liars, and the like.
Premier Stalin's people use the same
words against us.
Just before the Germans invaded
Denmark and Norway the Nazis
switched from calling the British
plutocratS to calling them warmon-
gers. II helped build up their later
story that their troops got to Scan
dinavia just two hours before the
British planned to attack. They said
later that they beat a British and
French invasion by two days when
they invaded the Lowlands. Just
before that campaign, the Germans
began to use the epithet aggreSsor.
The Russians have been calling us
warmongers and aggresors for long
time.
They Just 'Counterottocked'
Mr.. Shirer has told how the Ger
mans maintained that they did not
go to war against Poland in 1910 but
only counterattacked in reprisal
against provocationS. Similarly, &C
cording to the Russians, the North
Koreans did not attack the South
Koreans but only were provoked to
counter measures when the South
Koreans attacked The labels of
warmonger and aggressor the Rus
slams have been industriously trying
to pin on us make it just a logical
step for them to blame the South
Korean 'attack" on us.
England was consistently blamed
by Hitler for extending World War
II. One can almost hear the Russian
vilifiers now, if the Reds refuse an
armistice in Korea. They will main
tain that America, led by Wall Street
capitalist aggressors, has insisted
that the war shall go on.
When allied air raids increased
over Germany, Hitler's propagandists
attacked the allied flyers as bar
barians, aSSasSinS and air-gangSters.
The only destruction that the Ger
mans admitted the enemy did was
of churches. hospitals and cultural
Evening star., 1951-08-12
By Froncis P. Douglas

Take a refresher course in the
propaganda of Hitler and his hench-
men and you will find it surprisingly
perhaps alarmingly-like that of
Russia today.
Even with the current Russian
strategy of alternating threats with
moves that seem to indicate that
Russia wants to get along with the
Western world has family resemb-
lance to the thunder-and-honey
technique perfected by Nazi mouth
pieces.
On June 23-to take an obvious
example-Jacob A. Malik said the
Russian people believed that the war
in Korea could be settled. This ap-
parent move toward peace was fol-
lowed by other gambits in what
seemed to be a peace offensive. 1t
included publication in Moscow in
English of the magazine News, hav-
ing as its purpose, according to the
Russians, "a closer understanding be-
tween the peoples of the Soviet Un-
ion and the Anglo-Saxon world
But later came a gathering of Com
muniSt brass in Warsaw. Soviet Dep
uty Premier Vyacheslav M. Molotov
screamed at Tito the way Hitler
screamed at President Benes of
Czechoslovakia just before Hitler
took the Sudetenland. The Tito re-
gime, he said. "holds itself in power
by bloody terror This cannot con-
tinue long. The people of Yugoslavia
will find way to freedom and liqui-
dation of the Titoist fascism regime"
AS Edmond Taylor pointed out in
'The Strategy of Terror" written
during World War II, simultaneous
rumors of peace and war were stand
ard weapons in the war of nerves.
Some Old Story
If peace comes in Korea the Rus
slams can, and no doubt will, raise
the threat of war, if not war itself,
elsewhere-in Yugoslavia, Iran or
on some other front. If the peace
moves in Korea come to nothing, it
will at least have been what Mr..
Taylor has called the light of hope
in the permanent anxiety"
Mr.. Taylor's book, incidentally, is
valuable one in the refresher course
for the student of totalitarian tech
nique. Others available before and
Evening star., 1951-08-12
BY Edword TomIinson

HAVANA, Cuba.-The whole econo-
my Of Cuba is being Systematically
undermined by group OF power
drunk labor leaders who, in the opin-
ion Of responsible CubanS, are under
Communist influence. ''These little tin
gods"-as the Diario de la Marina,
Havana's leading daily. calls them
have been able to defy decisions OF
the highest courts in the land and
reduce officials of the republic to the
role OF mere messenger boys.
The present head of the labor
movement, or CTC-iS Eusebio Mujal,
who is also one Of the most powerful
members of the Cuban Senate. Sena-
tor Mujal loudly disclaimS any SYM
pathy for communism. 1t has been
publicly charged, though not proven.
that earlier in his career. in his native
town of Guantanamo, he was card
carrying member of the Cuban Com
munist Party At any rate today he
has access to the President at all
times, and usually sits in as sort of
umpire, with the Minister of Labor,
when the latter discusses disputes
arising between employers and the
heads of individual unions.
According to business leaders in the
country, both native and foreign.
Senator Mujal and the other labor
bosses leave no doubt that they are
out eventually to destroy. or nation
aliZe, more than a billion dollars
worth of United States investment in
Cuba as we'll as those of Great Brit
ain and other countries, not to men
ton locally owned industrial enter
prise. Plans are already under way
for the government to acquire the
British-owned railroads. Agitation
for similar action against Cuban
railroads, owned by United States in
terests, is now under way.
Protest Compoien
The situation confronting business
in general has become so critical that,
in the past six weeks leading COM
mercial. industrial and civic organ
tzations in Havana have launched a
public campaign in an effort to arouse
the people of Cuba to the peril that
confronts them. One of the first blasts
was issued by the Cuban En-
ployers' Association. That organiza-
tion charged that all business enter
prise in Cuba is at the mercy of the
labor unions, and without any pro-
lection for their legitimate interests
and rights"
although union leaders say they
are anti-CommunistS, it is undeniable
that their procedures are exactly the
same as those of communism" the
association says, adding: Neither the
Ministry of Labor nor the unions re-
spect the laws or the decisions of the
courts. Government officials have
even suggested that employers get the
Evening star., 1951-08-12

prior consent of labor before they be
allowed to organize"
Perhaps the most significant
charges come from the newspaper
publishers. On July %. Is of the lead
ing Cuban dailies carried boxes in
large type at the tops of their front
pages. The manifesto, entitled An
Appeal for Order" demanded "ener-
getic action" because of the "situa-
ton which confronts the national
economy on the labor 'front.'
The demands of the labor
unions" said these newspapers, ARE
provoking an almost continual state
of uncertainty. The prevailing dem
agogy constantly eXcites the uneasi-
ness of the businessmen, and the
lack of administration control re-
suits in mob rule in Cuba"
The publishers said that "if it were
not for the present cycle of pros
perity in the sugar industry, Cuba's
economy would already be in a state
of prostration." But, they warn,
even with that bonanza, trade, in
duStry, agriculture and all the econ
omic activities of the nation are pass
ing through a phase of grave un-
easiness, and lack of faith in the
future"
Business leaders in Cuba seem to
agree, almost to a man, that the
administration of President Prio Soc
caras has apparently abdicated it's
responsibilities to the whims and
wishes of the labor leaders.
Wages are continually being upped,
usually by executive decree or en-
forced agreement rather than by
legal collective bargaining, as pro-
vided by law. If any company OBJ
Evening star., 1951-08-12

jectS to union demands, there is a
sudden strike or lowdown-withou
the notice that is required by law.
The labor leaders then rush to the
Ministry of Labor, or to the PreSi-
dent, and demand an executive order
legalizing their demands. So far they
have invariably. gotten immediate
favorable action. Labor contracts
are kept so long as it suits the par
ticular union leaders. Because of
strikes and slowdowns, production
throughout the island is only about
so per cent of normal.
High Poy, Low Output
Cuban wages and salaries, as well
as prices of commodities, are among
the highest in the hemisphere. Pro-
duction per man hours of work Is
about the lowest.
At typical sugar mill in the
Havana area, the basic pay of
blacksmith is 1885 per day. A boiler
maker makes $11.40 and a mill me-
chanic 1898. But along with the
basic pay go many other considera-
tions and privileges. First of all, in
addition to his basic pay, the worker
receives .0909 cents an hour. called
for by what is known as law 9O9."
He is paid on the basis of eight hours
for six hours work. He gets one
months vacation out of every IL
at full pay. He is protected by un-
employment. health, accident and
old-age insurance In many in
stances. he is paid while he Is on
strike. The latest innovation is that
his employer must pay part of his
union assessments
The labor high command recently
Evening star., 1951-08-12

monuments. That was, Of course,
sound strategy since it disclosed no
damage of strategic Importance by
the allied raids.
Last July the Russians told their
people by radio that United States
air forces again were subjecting
Pyongyang to "barbaric bombing"
American air attacks are usually de-
scribed as forays for the purpose of
killing farmers and other innocent
people.
Just as the Germans deified Hitler,