THE NOME NUGGET
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Nome, Alaska, Friday, September 3, 1948
ALASKA'S LIFE LINE MUST BE PROTECTED
(Alaska Daily Empire)
With aviation a big feature in the development of
Alaska and of interest to all Alaskans as a method of
quick travel, etc., the following editorial, with the
above caption is taken from the Seattle Post-Intelligen
eer and reprinted here in full:
Alaskans are exhibiting grave concern over the ac
ion of the Civil Aeronautics Board in citing air lines
operating on a non-scheduled basis to show cause why
'’hey should not be forbidden to continue flying be
ween the Territory and “the States.”
They view the situation as being especially alarming
it this particular time because of the impending mari
time strike, which would make Alaska entirely depend
ent on airplane transportation for the necessities of
life—just as when maritime commerce was last tied up.
The Anchorage Daily Times observed in a recent edi
torial:
“Alaskans are in the peculiar position of seeing their
water transportation jeopardized by a dispute in Seat
tle, and their air transportation jeopardized by the Fed
eral government.”
Quoting Federal statistics which purported to show
that more than half of all the passengers traveling be
tween Alaska and the United States are carried by non
scheduled lines and that more than 90 per cent of the
Territory’s air cargo moves over these lines, which op
erate without benefit of a Federal subsidy, the editorial
continued:
“The non-scheduled lines have become the backbone
of air transportation in the economy of Anchorage and
some other communities. They have proven their value
to the Territory and, if they are not* regulated out of
business, their future seems secure. . . .
“Public concern over this fumbling of the air trans
portaion problem is centered in the fact that the Fed
eral government appears to be using its power to elim
inate the little fellow who is rendering a service. The
tendency is to turn over the business to the big operator
whose failure to meet the need has made it possible for
the little fellow to become established.
“It is an indisputable fact that if the CAB had pro
vided sufficient air transportation via certificated air
lines, there would have been no room in Alaska for the
small non-scheduled operators.
“The converse must also be true. The non-scheduled
carrier is here because of the failure of the certificated
air lines to meet the need.
“It would be strange indeed if the Federal govern
ment would upset air transportation at any time, but
more especially at the moment it may become the life
line of Alaska while ocean-going vessels are idle.”
Some non-scheduled operators have fly-by-night
concerns which make no effort to observe safety regula
tions. These should not be permitted to remain in busi
ness in Alaska or anywhere else, as the maintenance of
air safety is the most important function of the CAB.
But if there is the slightest tendency to “turn over
the business to the big operators’ and to “eliminate the
little fellow who is rendering a service,” the CAB is
completely without justification.
The situation is much the same as the one which pre
vailed in Seattle 30 years ago immediately after the city
took over the street car system.
The street cars were incapable of carrying all the
traffic and, as a result, the City Council was compelled
to permit the operation of “jitney buses” (private auto
mobiles which picked up passengers along the over
loaded street car lines).
These “jitney buses” were by no means as comfort
able as the street cars, but as long as they observed cer
tain minimum safety requirements, they were tolerated
A TREE GROWS IN BERLIN
until the transit system was able to meet public demands.
It would seem that the CAB should adopt a similar
policy and permit the continued operation of those non
scheduled lines which live up to safety regulations as
long as the need for them exists.
THREE ALTERNATIVES CONFRONT HUMANITY
(New World News Service)
Three alternatives confront humanity: world dicta
torship, atomic war, or the moral re-armament of men
and nations at a speed and scale adequate to retrieve
history in time.
Which alternative it will be depends largely on the
word “Ideology.”
Ideology is a word new to most Americans. It is a long
word and in many cases not yet understood. Yet in this
ideological age, when nations are mobilized behind these
systems of ideas for which men live and are prepared to
die. democracy can only survive by finding an inspired
ideology of her own.
Speaking in Los Angeles recently Peter Howard,
noted British author and columnist, pointed out, “The
democracies ideologically are at the bow and arrow
stage in the era of the atom bomb.”
In terms of dollars, the truth of this can be clearly
demonstrated. The Marshall Plan costs us $16,523,000
every day. Military preparedness costs us $28,812,000
a day. In ideological preparedness the nation is spend
ing a thin trickle. Moral Re-Armament, called by Poul
Hoffman, ECA Administrator, “The ideological coun
ternart of the Marshall Plan,” cost in the entire year of
1947 less than one modern super-bomber.
Yet. consider what ideological preparedness is worth
to democracies. In Caux, Switzerland, recently at the
MRA World Assembly, a union leader from the vital
Ruhr district of Germany said, “If you carry out in the
Ruhr area the ideas you have got here, Communism, in
which I have believed for so long, will disappear over
night.”
Wherever Moral Re-Armament goes in, the isms go
out. Dr. Chen Li-Fu, vice president of the Chinese Par
liament, speaking at Caux, termed MRA a “superior
ideology” and said “This force can sweep away all
lesser ideologies.
If then ideological preparedness is democracy’s num
ber one priority, the citizens of democracy must also
find the way to give it a top priority on their list of fi
nancial responsibilities. It is not too late until the
chance is gone. Such preparedness can save the democ
racies the expenditure of hundreds of billions of dollars,
It can save the immeasurable catastrophe and the in
calculable cost of the first two alternatives posed above.
It can make possible the renaissance of mankind.
If ideological preparedness goes into the red, the
blood of a world civilization will be ’on our heads.
What is the cost of an ideology?
What is the cost of none?
CHURCHES
CATHOLIC CHURCH
Sunday—
Masses at 8 a.m. and 10 a.m.
At the Base Chapel at 4:30 p.m.
LAVINIA WALLACE YOUNG
MISSION
Pastors - Rev. H. R. Amundsen
and Rev. Theran McGrew
Sunday:
11:00 a.m. Sunday School.
7:30 p.m. Evening Service.
Wednesday - 3:30 p.m. - Chil
dren’s Miracle Book Club.
Thursday - 7:30 p.m. - Prayer
Meeting.
FEDERATED CHURCH
Sunday
10:00 a.m. Sunday School.
PENTACOSTAL ASSEMBLY OF
GOD 4
Third Avenue West
Pastor A. E. Capener
Sunday—
Sunday School.. 10:30 a.m
Evening service .7:45 p.m
Wednesday—
Bible Study .7:45 pm
EVERYONE WELCOME
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CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE
Corner of Third and Division
Rev. Lewis I. Hudgins, Pastor
“The way to keep your religion
is to keep it busy.”
10:00 a.m. Singspiration and Sun
day School Classes.
11:00 a.m. Morning message.
7:30 p.m. Singspiration and spe
cial music.
8:00 p.m. Evening message.
Wednesday: 7:30 p.m. Melody and
Prayer.
Come and bring your Bible.
You are ever welcrme to attend
these services.
NOME GOSPEL MISSION
of
Alaska Evangelization Society
Rev. Vern Rimllng, Tastor
Sunday:
2 00 p.m. Sunday School.
7:30 p.m. Gospel Service.
Tuesday:
7:30 p.m. Prayer angl Testimony
Thursday:
2:00 to POO p.ra. P>ible Club for
Boys and Girls.
Friday:
7:30 p.m. Bible Study.
Girl Scout News
I _
Last Saturday afternoon the
Girl Scouts helped the Boy Scouts
clean the Scout hall.
Wednesday afternoon seven
girls, Miss Morgan, Mrs. Elmo
Miller, and Mrs. McLane made a
tour of the submarine the Blower,
anchored in Nome’s roadstead.
We were transported to and from
the ship by a coast guard tugboat.
I We saw four torpedo tubes, three
were loaded. The ship is about
200 to 300 feet long. The tour was
very interesting.
At our regular meeting Wed
nesday evening the doors were
locked promptly at seven-forty.
We sang some songs. We worked
on our badges and washed dishes,
as part of cleaning the Scout hall.
We formed our friendship circle
and dismissed.
Kay Coulthard (Scribe)
RUSSELL TOOTKEELUK.
ELLEN PAUL WED
Russelli Tootkeeluk and Ellen
Paul were married yesterday by
U. S. Commissioner, T. C. Duf
field.