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EDITORIAL
SUPPORT —
AND IT IS NEEDED
When The New York Times
says it’s going to support Willkie
for President, it means it. Wit
ness The Times headlines on the
story of the latest Gallup poll,
(gauging the opinions of voters
«s of October 1. The Times, in
small type on page 45. puts this
head over the Gallup story:
“Roosevelt’s Lead Mounts in
Survey. Gallup Study Gives Him
499 Electoral Votes to 32 for Will
icie. BUT RACE IS STILL
CLOSE.”
Brother, that’s what’s meant
by support.
On the same page of The Tim
es, Republican National Chair
man Joseph W. Martin is inter
viewed in an attempt to oftset
the legitimate Gallup story. Mar
tin attacks the Gallup figures as
“preposterous” and says private
figures sent to him by “Republic
an organizations and independ
ent sources'’ show Willkie lead
ing in Oregon and Minnesota,
which were among 42 States
awarded to the President in the
Gallup survey.
Dr. George Gallup whose elec
tion predictions since 1936 have
proved to average less than four
percent in errors from all causes
says in issuing the new figures
that “despite Mr. Willkie’s open
ing campaign tour, which took
him through a large part of the
West and Midwest, President
Roosevelt is slightly stronger in
current institute tests than he
was in mid-September.” At the
same time the Gallup poll show
ed the President with 453 elec
toral votes and Willkie with 78.
Only 266 electoral votes are nec
essary for election.
In the latest Gallup poll, start
ed September 20 and concluded
October 2, representative groups
of voters in all States were ask
ed: “If the Presidential election
were held today, would you vote
for Willkie or Roosevelt?” The
President got 56 percent of the
popular vote and all States ex
cept Nebraska, Maine, Vermont.
INorth Dakota. South Dakota and
Raisas.
The Times is not the only old
and distinguished newspaper
prostituting itself this fall for the1
Wi lkie “cause.” The number of
papers and magazines which
4vave turned their backs on the
tenets of objective journalism in
■order to give their all to the Re
publican candidate is enough to
make any newspaperman a little
'-•shamed for his profession. The
reporters of The New York Tim
es, Tome magazine, Life Maga
zine and The Seattle Times,
among other journals, must hold
their noses while they write the
stuff they have been turning out
of late for their big business over
lords.
The Seattle Times of course
was never noted for its fairness.
It is now publishing every day
on its editorial page the most vit
riolic and unreasoned column of
editorial comment ever to come
to our notice. Everything that,
hafpens in the nation or abroad,
everything, is turned into either
a smear for Roosevelt or a halo j
for Willkie The Republican cand
ddate’s very obvious downhill
slide in the estimation of the
people of the United States is
<first denied as propaganda, then
blamed on the underhanded con
"hiving of the Democrats who as
all readers of The Times know,1
are just about four notches be
low Hitler and Mussolini.
The open defection of Time,
and life magazines is sickening
to thousands who have placed all
but unshakable faith in thier ob
jectivity over many years. The
method of Time now whenever it
i
receives a letter taking it to task
for its Willkie slant is to pub
lish the letter alongside another
calling it down for favoring
Roosevelt. We don’t accuse Time
of manufacturing the latter class
of letters, but we do accuse
Time of selecting, as any provoc
ative journal of jiation-wide cir
dilation must select from its
bulging mailsacks, only those
which serve its purpose of cloth
ing a virtue which is gone. We
wep for Time and Life for we
respected them highly. Of course
Russell Davenport, editor of For
tune, another magazine of the
Time family, is Willkie’s manag
er. In this connection, a letter of
Editor Henry Luce of Time, in
which he admits he is sold on
Willkie, has recently come to our
attention. Sic transit gloria.
—Juneau Empire
Child Welfare
Conference Is
Held Juneau
\ ^ 4*
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The first Territorial conference
of Child Welfare Service Work
ers and Alaska Department of
Public Welfare representatives
convened recently at Juneau,
meeting with Director Russell G.
Maynard and Supervisor of
Child Welfare Services Mis Deb
orah B, Pentz.
Representatives of the depart
ment taking part in the three
day conference wer Miss Elea
nor Oman of Anchorage, George
W. Louden Jr., of Fairbanks,
Miss Adelhaid Guenthner of Ju
neau-Douglas and John S. Cow
gill, Ketchikan representative.
The first conference of its kind
called since the adoption of the
social security act by the Terri
tory of Alaska occurred on the
same date on which the child
welfare service program was for
mally approved by the United
States Children’s Bureau three
years ago. Subjects considered at
the conference included the gen
eral program of child welfare
services throughout Alaska, in
cluding mother's allowances and
services and assistance available
to dependent and delinquent chil
dren Other general welfare act
ivities to be discussed included
old age assistance and relief of
destitution.
Juvenile Act Revision
Proposed revision of the juve
nile act now appearing on the
statute books also was an import
ant subject. Problems of health
and relief as regards the children
and families coming under the
jurisdiction of the Department of
Public Welfare and the relation
o the department and its repres
entatives with other Territorial
and Federal agencies affected,
were discussed wiht various rep
resentatives during the confer
encf Through the services of the
Department of Public Welfare,
medical aid and hospitalization
are made available to needy
children and families of Alaska.
The importance of sanitarium
and hospitalization care for per
«ons suffering from tuberculosis
came up for general discussion
with the purpose in mind of
drawing the attention of the Al
aska Legislature to the danger
ous prevalence of the disease
among the citizens of the Terri
tory.
Other general programs to be
discussed included WPA, CCC.
the national youth movement.
"H age and survivors insurance
and unemployment compensa
tion.
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ACTIVITY IS
REPORTED IN EGYPT
—
CAIRO, Oct. 23—Renewed act
1 iyity by the Italians in the west
ern district was reported by the
i British High Command in Egypt.
The Italian operations were des
cribed as probing expeditions in
tended to test out the strength
of the British in western Egypt.
One Italian column was said to
have moved eastward about 10
miles along the coast road from
Sidi Barani where it had pitched
camp. British mobile artillery
and armored units were reported
, to be harassing the Fascist en
| eampment.
Another Italian force eonsist
i ing of 200 truckloads of infantry
j protected by a fleet of 30 tanks,
1 approached the Libyan border on
; the plateau south of the coast
land the British said this force ad
vanced until it came within
range of British artillery, then
returned across the Libyan bor
I der without firing a shot. Several
■ of the Italian trucks were report
ed to have been cripple by Brit
j ish shell fire.
Meanwhile the British Air
(Force in Egypt & East Africa in
, tensified its attacks on Italian
j naval and military establish
j ments.
THOUSANDS FLEE
HOMES FROM FLOOD
VICHY. France. Oct. 23—More
than 130 persons are reported
dead o: missing and officials esti
mate the damage at one billion
francs as the result of torrential
.rains and foods which forced
thousands to flee from their hom
es in French Catalonia.
D:t :1s of the weekend disas
ter became known in Viehv only
today when telephonic communi
cation with Perpignan the cap
ital city of the stricken region,
was restored.
Perpignan itself was evacuated
as the swollen river Tet inun
dated the lower parts pf the city.
EPISCOPALIAN REMARRIAGE
MAY BE OKEII
KANSAS CITY. Oct. 21 —Op
ponents of a measure to liberal
ize the Episcopal marriage laws
predict defeat of the measure by
the Church House of Deputies.
The revolution: ry bi 1 to relax
century-old restriction on remar
riage was approved by the Epis
copal House of Bishops. It would
allow anyone to remarry and re
gain c' " b status after a div
orce. The cnlv restriction in the
bill was placed on Episcopal clcr
?vmen. b~n'irg them from per
forming marriage ceremonies for
d;vorced p "sens. Bu* after a
year the o r on - involved ma'’ an
ply for Yure’i sanction of their
civil weddi-g.
| SIX DEAD IN
CRASH OF PLANE
MARIANNA, Arkansas, Oct. 23
I_ The Civil Aeronautics Board
planned to investigate a midair
i accident in which six persons
were killed when a sightseeing
plnne became entangled in a
stunt man’s parachute at an air
show and plunged 50 feet to the
earth.
The sightseeing plane, accord
ling to eye witnesses was circling
slowly around the descending
parachutist, Paul Nalejava, 34 to
give the passengers a closeup
view.
The plane became entangled in
the parachute lines when it sud
denly sloughed in the wind and
plunged downward carrying the
| parachutist with it.
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PICKET MARCH IS LEGAL
FOR GOLDEN STATE
SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Oct.—
The legality of closed shop con
j tracts in California and the
■‘right to peaceful picketing'’ has
been upheld by the State Sup
reme Court in a 4-3 decision.
The opinion reversed the decis
ion of the State District Court of
Appeals in San Francisco in the
Howard Auto Case and also ex
j tended to four similar cases in
i scattering sections of the state.
; The right of a union to picket
in the absence of a labor dispute
was upheld with this language:
“It is not the duty of the court
in the absence of violence to en
join peaceful picketing, but it is
for the Legislature to act if it!
is to be a public policy of the
i <ate to prohibit such acts.”
1 The AFL Retail Auto Sales
men’s union picketed the How
ard Auto Company here two
years ago in an effort to force
the company’s 32 salesmen to
join the union and negotiate for
closed shop contracts.
When AFL mechanics refused
to go through the picket line,
salesmen sought an injunction to
halt the picketing, but a Superior
Cnu-t iudge refused to issue such
an order.
REPORTER APPOINTED
AS SENATOR
ST. PAUL. Minn.. Oct—Joseph
Ball, 34. political reporter on the
St. Paul Dispatch-Pioneer Press
has been appointed by Gov.
Haro d Stassen to the United
Slates Senate, succeeding the
late Senator Lundeen, Farmer
1.•'barite, killed in a plane crash.
Ball is a Republican like Gov.
S'asren is the father of three
hildren u':d has long been in
r'"l tics ;<*'d an intimate friend
rf the State’s Chief Executive.
,T • h*s been reporting politics
since 1934.
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S U BJECT IS BORIN C—Spade and shovel methods of
digging tank traps and other defense holes appear doomed, now
that an earth borer such as this from the Buda plant at Harvey,
III., has been introduced. It is designed for use in warfare also
to facilitate the laying of land mines. The men are non-commis
sioned U. S. army officers testing operation.
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