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Officials in the United States could well spend a
little time in studying the plan for a general price
ceiling, which has been in operation in the Dominion
of Canada since December 1. In contrast to the present
American system of partial, selective price ceilings, the
Canadian plan seeks to deal with the whole situation,
including wages, rents and farm products.
This scheme is impossible at present in the United
States because Congress has not given the Office of
Price Administration the power to put ceilings on
wages or farm crops. However, this Canadian example
is worth noting. It comes the closest of any plan to
the ideas advocated by Bernard M. Baruch, Chairman
of the United States War Industries Board in the last
World War.
This Canadian plan also should be of importance
because Canada is an older belligerent in this war and
has advanced her war actons ahead of ours.
In advancing the plan to the Canadian people, Prime
Minister W. L. MacKenzie King said: “The action
which I am about to explain represents an experiment
hitherto untried on this continent and perhaps having
regard to its breadth and variety, hitherto untried by
the will and consent of any free people anywhere.
“It has to do with the price of goods and services,
and the price of the products of land and sea. It has
to do with wages. It is of the greatest importance to
every citizen in Canada, and of particular importance
to every housewife, every worker and every farmer.
It will affect the daily lives of each one of us. ft will
require the cooperation and support of all. It will
help to intensify the effort of ths country in war. It
will help to prevent a repetition of distress and de
pression after the war.
“After two years of the present war. we have reach
ed the same stage we had reached after two years of
the last war. Prices are again rising rapidly. To speak
generally, prices are rising again because the public
has more money to spend and there is less of the things
people wish to buy. For two years the government has
been competing with the individual for almost every
commodity Canada produces or imports.
“The government must have Ihe goods to build and
maintain our war machine, to clothe, feed and equip
our fighting men and to aid Britain and other allies
with arms and with food. We sometimes forget that
the same sheets of aluminum cannot be used to make a
plane and to make pots anr pans. The same gallon of
gasoline cannot be used in an army tank and a pleasure
motor car. The same pound of cheese cannot be eaten
in Britain and Canada. And most important of all, the
same me cnannot make machine guns and washing ma
chines at the same time.
“We must face the fact thai there are not enough
men, there are not enough machines, there are not
enough materials to meet the demands of consumers
and the needs of war. Since the government, with
the full support of the Canadian people, is determined
to maintain and to intensify the war flort, we have no
choice but to reduce our consumption of goods. To us,
too, has come the choice between guns and butter.’’
His opinions seem worthy of notice and study.
—Daily Alaska Empire
National Employment Week
it seems to us especially important in this time of
war that employers and employment officials heed the
words of President Roosevelt in the proclamation
which draws our attention to National Employment1
Week, which will be from May 3 to 10 this year.
Says the President: “There is a place for these men,
and other workers past 40 in the gigantic war produc
tion program in which we are engaged. There is a
place for them in jobs for which they are already fitted
and there is a place for them in job-training courses/'
designed to build up the skills of the nation’s manpower
“While employment in many industries not essential
to the prosecution of the war will be diminished, it is
also true that as the war program accelerates, many!
Americans not now regularly employed will be called/
upon to take an active part in production vital to the,
war effort. Vet it is not on a basis of patriotism alone;
that employers are urged to open their doors to older!
workers, but on the basis of sound business sense as i
well, for it should not be forgotten that these older
workers have qualifications that younger persons lack.
Work experience, stability, and responsibility are as
sets we cannot afford to waste in this crisis.”
The President’s words forecast a condition that is i
going to be arrived at if the efficient prosecution of j
the war is to continue.
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Amazing Journalistic Coincidence
Revealed In Big News of Today
WASHINGTON —Over coffee and doughnuts in the
Senate restaurant the other day, a group of Washing
ton newsmen hashed over an amazing journaltistic co
incidence.
The eves of Washington and perhaps the whole
world that day were turned to New Delhi, India, where
Sir Stafford Cripps, No. 2 man in the British War Cab
inet, was holding a two-hour session with a scrawny
little man in a loin cloth, Mahatma Gandhi. On that
session depended much, perhaps the future of India
and the tide of the war for months or maybe years
to come.
And in Ventura, Calif., James A. Mills, one of The
Associated Press’ greatest foreign correspondents died.
These seemingly unrelated happenings had a very
definite rlationshiy for it was Jim Mills who years ago
“discovered’’ Gandhi for the world outside of India.
One veteran correspondent recalled that the little
man in the loin cloth was considered no more than a
fanatical leader of one of India’s many factions, when
Mills met him, sensed the potential appeal to the Hindu
masses in his philosophy and the power he was be
coming in his land. “Jim’s dispatches years ago intro
duced Gandhi to the world,’’ said this correspondent,
and added, “and if I’m not mistaken Jim took the first
news picture of the Mahatma to be printed.”
Certain it was that Jim was with Gandhi all through
those months when the little leader in the fight for
India’s freedom was conducting his salt rebellion in
1930 and he went with him to that all-India round
table in London a year later. Certainly no single cor
respondent turned out more copy on the little man
whose life is so bound up in India’s destiny than Jim
Mills. On the day Gandhi was making his greatest
decision, one that not only affected India, and the Brit
ish empire, but the whole world, Jim Mills died.
It was Morgan Beatty,, the radio commentator, who
said: “You know that clinches what undoubtedly will
turn out to be Gandhi’s greatest prophecy.” And to
the queries of “How so” he explained:
Mills was the last person to speak with Gandhi when'
the Indian leader enetered Poona jail in 1932 and 17
months later when Gandhi was released. Mills was
waiting alone for Gandhis first words. They were:
“Why, Mr. Mills, if I should die and start to enter
Heaven, I should expect to see you waiting to inter
view me at the gates.’’
Prison Ship Linds Nazis, Canada Port
A contingent of hundreds of German prisoners of
war, including captured U-boat personnel, merchant
seamen and a few Nazi airmen, has arrived in Canada
after an orderly trans-Atlantic voyage on which many
spent most of their time secretly devising tools for es
cape. Their guards attributed their singularly good be
havior enroute to the quiet application to their plans
for breaking out of the internment camp where they
are now walled in for the duration.
Escape Tools
A captain in the provost corps who searched the cap
tives as they arrived here said the Germans had suc
ceeded in making the usual number of escape tools
aboard the ship. “It’s amazing,’’ he said, “what those
chaps can make out of nothing at all. On every prison
ship we find the Germans have made jimmies, screw
drivers and daggers out of flattened nails, spoons and
plates.”
The hundreds were landed here on a boisterous
spring day and marched from their gray prison ship!
through lines of soldiers armed with bayoneted guns;
and tommy guns to a heavily guarded train. One the;
sea side of the ship lay a naval launch with her Lewis
guns stripped for action. The prisoners were less
cocky then, plodding along with heads bowed.
One naval prisoner was troublesome, protesting
about carrying his own luggage, but he was moved
along carrying his bags.
A bearded Nazi, however, saved a Canadian soldier
from a reprimand by tipping him off on the approach
of an officer in time to discard a forbidden cigarette
and come up with a snappy salute.
His 110th Trip
The guards told of one prisoner who still might be
in Germany but for playing his luck too far. Their
story was that the airman had made 109 trips over
England and finally won a home-front aviation instruc
tor job, but he wanted to bring his number of raids up
to 110 and that time an Allied vghter downed him.
The Canadian soldier guards watched the prisoners!
in complete silence.
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In accord with Chapter 29,
Session Laws of Alaska. 1919, |
and amendments thereto, all male
persons between the ages of 21 ■
and 50 years, who are not “sol-1
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Navy or Revenue Cutter Service,
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sane persons,” are required to
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This tax is due and payable
after the first Monday in the
month of April and shall be paid
before the first day of May, pro
viding you arc in the Territory
of Alaska on said first date; if,
not, the tax is due within thirty :
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written or ora] demand is made '
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of TWO DOLLARS ($2.00).
All persons, firms and corpora-1
tions employing labor in Alaska
shall furnish to collectors a list
of all employees subject to tax,
and employers of labor as above
set out are authorized by pro
visions of said Act to deduct
amount of the tax from the wag
es of each employee who is sub
ject thereto. If any such employ
er shall fail to report and deduct
as herein specified within the
period designated for payment of
said tax, the said employers of
labor shall be guilty of a mis
demeanor and subject to a fine
of from $50.00 to $500,000.
All persons subject to, and re
fusing or neglecting to pay, said
lax, are subject to a fine of $25
or imprisonment in jail for a per
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employers of labor as herein set
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shall pay the amount of each in
dividual tax, and a further pen
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The receipts will be furnished
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Dated at Nome, Alaska, this
13th day of April, 1942.
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