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Entered as second class matter October 14, 1943, at the postoffice at
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Friday, September 21, 1945
SEARCH AND RESCUE
(Fairbanks News-Miner)
An outfit that is gaining for itself a reputation very
like that of the long-famous Coast Guard is the Army
Search and Rescue force. Just as the Coast Guard has
made a business of saving lives along the coast, the
Search and Rescue groups are building up a fine record
of inland rescues.
The most recent example of the ability of this organi
zation, of course, was the successful search for the three
persons lost for a week on a plane trip to the Circle
country. The work of a dozen or so civilian pilots in
searching for the missing plane is not to be overlooked
but Search and Rescue gets the credit for locating the
ship, dropping food and sending parachutists to com
plete the rescue of a woman who must have been glad
indeed to see help arrive.
In this case there fortunately were no injuries con
nected with the accident, but when broken bones leave
victims helpless the parachuting doctors and their help
ers save vital hours while the overland rescue crews of
Search and Rescue are on their way.
Alaskans have always been quick to go to the aid of
anyone in need, and Search and Rescue has earned
itself an important place in the Alaskan scheme of
things.
JEWISH PROBLEM
(Alaska Daily Empire)
If Adolph Hitler could know what is going on in Eu
rope today he might take satanic comfort in the thought
that amidst the wreckage of his great conspiracy one
hideous achievement still stands. According to the es
timate of the American Jewish Committee there were
8,939,608 persons of Jewish faith in Europe in 1939.
There now remain in Europe, outside of Russia, about
1,250,000. We do not know how many Jews are now in
Russian territory. A few thousand escaped to this hemi
sphere or to Palestine. With these exceptions, the dif
ference between the two stated figures can be account
ed for in just one way; cold-blooded, scientific mass
murder. Hitler hoped to be remembered a thousand
FIRST REFERENCE
—■ii mi— o
years. Even if there were no other reasons for bearing
him in mind as an eternally loathsome symbol of man s
inhumanity to man, this one reason would be sufficient.
One might believe that a true repentance on the part
of the Germans and all others who gave Hitler aid and
comfort would lead them to take special measures to re
store, and more than restore, the pre-Nazi status of the
survivors. This does not seem to be happening. Dr. L.
| Altman may be making a special plea, as head of the
New Zionist organization in Palestine, when he says
that 80 or 90 per cent of Europe’s Jews, outside of Rus
I sia, want to leave Europe and will do so, either lega y
or illegally.” Yet the feeling must be widespread among
them that they cannot endure living in communities in
which they were so frightfully abused. The murderers
may be dead, in prison or in hiding, but the people who
merely tolerated murder or shut their eyes to it are
necesarily still at large. With what strange and horri
ble embarrassment must they now face their few sur
viving neighbors!
A genuinely re-civilized Europe would solve this
problem of religious discrimination. But long years of
education, the passing of a generation made evil by
Nazism, may be required. In the meantime the fate of
1,250,000 innocent and deserving people, among them
representatives of Europe’s highest cultural ideals,
needs consideration. We have to hope that it will receive
consideration, in the thoughts of all civilized men and
women and in the kind of final settlement that was car
ried forward at Potsdam. _
ByOKME t-HNSON
iVtiiknt of HomMai Colege
Searcy. Arkansas
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GIFTS OF GOD
V
Draw on your imagination for a J
moment and consider with me an'
altogether improbable circum
stance. Suppose a well-groomed j
gentleman with an easy flow of
language should mount an im
provised plaftorm in the public
square of an agricultural county
seat town next Saturday after
noon, play a popular phonograph
record through a loud speaker to
get an audinece, and then should
say:
“Ladies and Gentlemen—there
is just so much water in the en
tire universe; so much and no
more. Any time you drink more
of it than you need to quench
your thirst, you are greedy be
cause some unfortunate person
somewhere on earth wants water.
He is thirsty. His throat is dry and
his lips are parching. And it is
all for want of water which you
so wantonly swallow.”
It Is Not Truo
Such a speaker would soon lose
his audience. People would walk
away and leave him. Some of
them might think about having
his head examined because they
know his ideas are out of joint.
There is no connction whatevr
between one man’s abundance of
water and some far-away strang
er’s thirst. The need of the suf
ferer, even if he were a victim of
' cruelty, is apart from the owner
of a good well.
But the speaker might hold his
audience if he said something like
this: “Ladies and Gentlemen—
there is just so much wealth in
the world; so much and no more.
Anybody with more than he needs
for food, clothes and shelter is
greedy because there are many
people in China and India who
never had a square meal in their
liveB. They stay poor because a
few people get very rich.”
Another Fallacy
This speech is no nearer true
than the one about the water.
Both have some facts in them but
they are not related facts. I am
not trying to say that wealth is!
free and cheap like water, but I
am saying this: My neighbor’s fine
home and big car have cost me
nothing. He has more than I have
because he (or his father maybe)
has more wealth-creating ability
than I have.
There is such a thing as oppres
sion of the poor. There is such a
thing as exploiting labor. It is
a crime which Jesus decried open
ly. It is also a short-sighted vice
because it leads toward poverty
and not toward wealth. “Good
money in circulation’’ is a mani
festation of prosperity and it oc
curs only in lands where workers
are well paid and thus permitted
to maintain good homes and live
in comfort.
America's Blessing
Workers are paid well in Amer
ica, twice as well as in England
and six times as well as in Rus
sia, and America is a rich coun
try. Families live on $1 a month
per person in China—China is a
poor country. Is China poor be
cause America is rich? No! With
out the United States as a cus
tomer, and supplier, the Orient
would be poorer still. The differ
ence is that we have liberty, and
they have oppression.
We Americans receive countless
benefits from God’s hand that
people in other countries never
heard about. Is God partial to
America? Certainly not! Our ben
efits come through a channel that
the rulers of other countries have
blindly and selfishly closed by ex
ploiting labor. Our God-fearing
ancestors opened it for us long
ago. The channel is personal free
dom, protected by representative,
constitutional government.
Let’s Get
Going...
i
President Eric Johnston of th
National Chamber of Commerc
issued this statemen* after Jaoan'
canitulation was announced:
“We, the American people, ou
forces on the fighting fronts an
our forces on the productio
fronts, have just won the greates
victory in history.
“But in the exuberance of cele
brating a military victory, let’
not be blinded. The fact remain
that we must still win the victor;
of a permanent and prosper*#;
peace. From today on, the mos
pressing problem before our na
iton will be reconversion. Recon
version of men. Reconversion c
machines and factories.
“Whether we are headed fo
new heights of prosperity or deep
er depths of depression will be de
termined by millions of decision
made by individuals in the imme
diate future. In a democracy, th
only power great enough to re
s'ore our war-scrambled econom;
to a constructive pattern of peac
quickly and efficiently is the cum
ulative force of individual initia
‘ive.
“We have been operating fo
years in the vacuum of govern
ment direction. Our resignation t
war-inspired government control
must not c?elay individual deci
sions. I am assurred by high gov
ernment officials that unnecessar:
government regulations will b<
cleared away as rapidly as possi
ble.
“Meanwhile, it is the job of ev
ery American to spur private ini
itative throughout the country ant
to speed up the removal of all ob
stacles to speedy reconversion
This immediate tackling of th<
problems facing our country wil
involve some risks. But AmeriC
has the resources, machinery
manpower and intelligence so tha
in the long run we cannot lose
Prosperity and peace, like war
must be won by taking calculatec
risks.
“From now on, let’s continue tt
follow the advice of Farragut wht
said, ‘Damn the torpedoes! G<
ahead’!”
GOING STRONG HERE
ABOARD A COAST GUARD
CUTTER IN THE OKINAWA
AREA (Special^ — Coast Guards
man Donald J. White, radio tech
nician, of Glendale, L. I., busied
himself one night by writing td
his father, a lieutenant in the New
York City Police Department, re
lated Coast Guard Correspondent
Dick Kolb.
“Dear Pop,” began White, “Just
heard that the war in Germany is
over.” That’s as far as he got for
at that moment general quarters
was sounded and another Jap air
raid was on.
Hours later, White, tired and
disgusted over the sleep he had
missed, finished the letter this
way: “But the war over here isn’t.
Love, Don.”
Hamas 5-Sport Man
STATE COLLEGE, Pa.—-(/p)_
Maj. Steve Hamas, former heavy
weight title contender, competed
in five sports at Penn State. He
was a member of the football,
basketball, boxing, lacrosse and
'track teams in his undergraduate
years.