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A Nazi Trick
Some of the present Japanese statesmen, heads of the current
war cabinet, should get no end of* enjoyment out of reading re
cent German political papers.
At least, the Nipponese war lords might gain a little insight
into the high regard in which they are held by Hitler and Co.
One of thebest round-ups of the Nazi-Nippon fee ing of friend
fchip as it exists in Germany is to be found in a recent article in
the Asia magzine. Carefully, the compiler of the Asia article has
gathered together a lot of documentary evidence regarding the
Way high chiefs under the swastika feel about the Japanese and
published it under the heading: "Hitler Means to Destroy Japan."
Prime example is found in Awful Adolf’s own book, "Mein
Kampf,” in which he speaks of the Japanese as an "inferior" race
and declares that the moderization of Japan is entirely due to
"Aryan influence" and predicts that if this influence were remov
ed from theland of the cherry blossoms, it would “sink back into
the sleqp from which the Aryan wave of culture rudely awakened
it.”
Other of the Hitler followers, in their recent writings, have
classed the Japanese among “racially inferior nations” and have
described the Oriental axis partner as “yellow devils.”
Most striking is the open admission that the Nazi plan is to
use the Japanese as a dispised tool in the Pacific against the
United States. Says Dr. Karl Hausshofer, head of the Nazi Geo-1
political Institute: ,
“We must use the liberation of the colored races as a defense
mechanism against our oppressors; this gives us a future chance
for Geopolitik in the Pacific; a possibility of active participation
in spaces trom which we have been crowded out by force."
Also openly, Alfred Rosenberg, the national philosopher of
the Nazi regime, is quoted in Asia as explaining to the Germans
that the Hitler system of government "is the herald of a new era
for the white race at large."
Another of the German political writers, Otto Authenreid, is
frank’y looking forward to "World War IV—white against yellow.”
We wonder if the Japanese leaders can read German, or is it
just a matter of not caring what their allies think about them,
so long as the allies seen strong in war?
Surely, the Japanese can't feel that their armed forces are
Strong enough to resist aggression from the modern Nazi war ma
chine.
Youth Keeps Faith
(Cleveland Plain Dealer)
The change which has come over the thinking of American
youth toward the war in the last year justifies those who ma-in
tainrd faith in the younger generation at a time when it seemed
caught in a wave of cynicism, skepticism and pacifism.
Undergraduates, the best gage of what the nation’s youth is
thinking, have come off the pedestal of isolation and, through
their college papers, have advocated open war against the Axis.
This metamorphosis is virtually universal. The stand taken by
Oberlin Review is but the latest of a series of editorial statements
upon to do th fighting should their ideas receive official accept*
which have been featured by co lege papers throughout the
nation.
Typical of undergraduate reasoning is the Oberlin publica
tion's declaration that “the in-between ipolicy we have been foi
k-wing, tlit cf tickling our opponents enough to antagonize them
but n training from hitting them hard enough to weaken them, is
more dangerous than either outright isolation or intervention.”
This change is t-he more remarkable in that these young men
who advocate a firm policy are the very ones who will be called
ance. They are aware of this. Let there be no doubt about their
deop-rooted honesty. Let there be no doubt about their intelli
gence. for it is through a full understanding of the issues involv
ed that this stand has been reached.
Let Home D. Swander, Jr., one of the editors of the Michigan
Daily, who wrote a front page editorial with Morton Mintz, also
advocating war, explain:
“We—the youth of the nation—who will have to live in a Hit»
ler world if Britain, Russia and China are beaten, beg our elders
not to let this happen. In ever increasing numbers, those of us
who will hi(ve to do the front line fighting are willing. It is now
up to those who call themselves our leaders. They must realize
that for our American ‘the only hope of a free nation, a free world,
lies in war.’ ”
Youth sees the issue clearly, more clearly t-han many of i,ts
elders. They arc willing to defend their homeland. Twenty years
of debunking and paeifisa propaganda has been set aside in face
of the menace. Youth has come through and into its hands cian
safely -be trusted the future of America with the guarantee that
our way of life will not perish from indifference andl inamation.
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MEMBERS OF TERRI. WELFARE
BOARD MEET AT FAIRBANKS
All members of the Alaska j
Territorial Welfare Board except
ing Gov. E. H. Gruening, chair
man of the board, met in Fair
banks recently in the first ses
sion of the board to be held out]
side of Juneau. Director Russell j
G. Maynard met with the board.1
After some discussion the board
adjourned to await the arrival of
he governor, who arrived too late
for the first session.
Members of the board present
were J. Walmer. of Juneau: Mrs.
H. H. McCutcheon of Anchorage:
Howard Lyng of Nome and J. G.
Rivers of Fairbanks. Mrs. Mc
Cutcheon and Mr. Lyng arrived
in Fairbanks over the week end
and Mr. Walmer and Director
Maynard arrived Friday.
Members of the board and Mr.
Maynard were guests of the joint
meeting of the Chamber of Com
merce and the Rotary C ub at the
Model Cafe at noon Wednesday.
Director’s Report
A report of the activities of the
Alaska Department of Public
Welfare was miade to the board
by Russell G. Maynard, Director
of the Department, covering the
six months period April 1 to
September 30, 1941.
The report covers expenditures
for Old Age Assistance, Mothers
A lowances. Board of Childrens
Guardians, and relief. j
Under the Old Age Assistance!
program the Department of Pub
lie Welfare now furnishes as
sistance to 1,566 persons in the]
Territory with an average month 1
ly grant of $29.16. During the
period from April 1 to Septem-!
ber 30. 1941, a total of $269,638.
50 was expended for Old Age
Assistance. Of this amount $132,
582.25 was in the form of grants
from the Federal Government!
and $137,049.25 was supplied
from a Terri, fund. The Terri, ap
propriated at its 1941 Legislature
the sum of $660,000 for the 1941
43 biennium. There now exists a j
balance in this appropriation ofj
$529,084.84 as of September 30.
During the six months ending
September 30 of the 1941-43 bien
nium there was expended for gen
oral relief, including medical j
care, $51,704.20. Of this amount'
$30,714.86 for other classifica
tions of relief. Sixty percent of
the amount expended was in the.
form of medical relief both in
the Territory and for persons re
ceiving sanatorium care for tu
berculosis.
Available for the 1941-43 bien
nium was $240,000 for general
relief appropriated by the 1941
Legislature. Of this amount a bal
ance as of September 30, 1941 ex
ist. of S138.825.32.
The reduction of unemploy
ment, the development in the
mining industry, the successful
fishing season experienced in
southeatem and southwestern A1
ask a and the increased employ
ment available to Alaskans on de
fense projects are attributed as
the cause of the tremendous re
duction in relief needs.
The Territory of Alaska in
1917 adopted a system of mo
ther's pensions or allowances,
which are made available to mo
thers for assistance in providing
eft e for their children where the
breawinner in the family has
been incapacitated or the widow
left without a means of support.
Under this pro-gram the Depart
ment of Public Welfare expend
ed $13,967.50 during the six
months period ending Septem
ber 30. An appropriation of $72,
000 was made available by the
1941 Legislature of which a bal
ance on September 30 existed of
$58,023.50.
In each of the four judicial
divisions of the Territory there
exists a Board of Childrens
Guardians consisting of the U. S.
District Judge, U. S. Marshal,
and one woman member appoint
ed by the Department of Public
Welfare. Cases of dependency
and juvenile delinquency commit
ted to the Board are paid for
from an appropriation made
available to the Department by
the Legislature. This appropria
tion was in the amount of $50,
000. For the period just ending
$8,548.97 was expended, leaviing
a balance on September 30, of
$41,541.03.
Terri. Welfare
Hoard Adjourns
Fairbanks Today
J
The Alaska Territorial Welfare
Board which has been in session
in Fairbanks for the past ten
days is adjourning today, and is
the first session of the bcdy ever
to be held outside of the capital
city of Juneau.
It is se'dom that any of the
many boards or groups of the
territorial or federal services
functioning in Alaska convene
outsde of Juneau, and have the
advantage of getting more thor
oughly acquainted with condi
tions obtaining in other than the
first division. Advantages of
knowing the conditions in var
ious divisions are obvious.
While here members of the
division, all prominent in public
affairs of the territory, not only
will acquire a more thorough
knowledge of affairs touching the
services of their particular board,
but also of several problems of
major concern to the Interior.
Doubtless while in this region so
vastly dependent upon the placer
mining industry, they also will
obtain much valuable informa
tion on problems so vital to this
part of the country and the terri
J tory as a whole, all of which has
a direct bearing on the services
\ of the welfare board and other
j territorial services.
| Leaders of various local ser
[ vice groups will do wel lto see
j that the members of the board
! are guests at their various gather
ings while they are here, and
offer every opportunity for them
to form every possible public con
tact while in the city.
Russell G. Maynard, Director
of the Alaska Territorial Public
Welfare will continue on to
Nome on the Tuesday mail plane.
—-Fairbanks News-Miner
NEW ENVOY
Maxim Litvinoff (above), form
er Russian foreign minister, was
reported in Washington diplomat
ic circles to have been selected
to succeed Oumansky as Soviet
| Ambassador to the United States.
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LURE FOR NAZIS?— Derricks sprout skyward above the rich oil
wells of Baku, Russian city oai the Caspian Sea believed to be
one fjoal of the Nazis in their quest for precious oil.
STONAGE AT BAKU—Russia’s most important oil fields are at
Baku on the Caspian, where these kerosene storage tanks are pic
tured. Germans are believed anxioust o take Baku.