THE NOME NUGGET
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Entered as second class matter October 14. 1943, at the postertw*
at Nome. Alaska, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
Friday, March 7, 1947
Pacifists Ignore Centuries of History
Battles Saved Christianity;
Sickle and Hammer Peril Cross!
(By PETER F. BOSSIE)
Mr. Barker, executive secretary, Fellowship of Recon
ciliation, indites a guest editorial, “Pacifists and the
Atom.” A fallacious argument, it ignores forty centuries
of human experience; it is predicated on elusive ideal
ism, In his peace formula, he would alter the value of its
principal factor, which is a constant as necessary to the
correct analysis of human relations, international inter
course, as “Pi” is to an accurate computation of any
problem involving the circle. That constant is a proper
ty, or trait, of man—HUMAN NATURE—which varies
not,perceptibly, in all the annals of history . . . The
stone hurling warrior of neolithic times, and the con
temporaneous atomic-bomb hurler are twins, just be
neath their skins.
“We must have faith that human nature does change,”
says Mr. Barker; a heavenly ideal, devoutly desirable,
but earthly reality indicates that reconciliationists will
not soon effect what countless teachers, preachers, and
legislators, of all ages, have utterly failed to do.
Again: “If ‘Christiandom’ alone did not sanction war,
war, it would have ceased to exist following the battle
war, it would have ceased to exist hollowing the battle
of Tours (A. D. 732), when the Christian legions of
Charles Martel saved it from Mohammedan conquest;
which, at that time, meant acceptance of Mohammedan
ism, payment of tribute, or death . . . Some died, few
paid tribute, and most conformed... .
Christiandom’s ascendancy dates from Constantine’s
bloody victory at the Milvian bridge (A. D. 312). And,
if ‘Christiandom’ now fails to sanction war it will not
long exist, for the red banner (sickle and hammer) will
replace the cross atop St. Peter’s at Rome, as well as
Liberty’s statue surmounting our national capitol . . .
plus all Aryan shrines betwixt.
Pacifists, with malice prepense or otherwise, are fos
tering the subtle propaganda, emanating from Moscow,
feverishly disseminated in western lands with the avow
ed object of dividing, and demoralizing, the peoples!
thereof, preparatory to another periodic mass-migration
of Asiatic hordes such as those led by Attila, Arpad,
Genghiz Kahn, Tamerlane, etc. Migrations easily organ
ized because, from'time immemorial, inhabitants of
bleak northern Asia have ever coveted those sunny fer
tile lands of the southern half of the north temperate
zone. The vines, wines, and cheerful climes of that fav
ored zone, which girdles the earth, have ever been, and
are now, the incentive of numerable invasions.
We Americans possess the most favored, by nature,
land on earth. Herein an industrious people, possessing
all the requisites, has developed the best civilization re
corded in history. Shall we, as pacifists, meekly surren
der it to the first invader that covets it, or shall we fight
to preserve it for our posterity? “Ridiculous,” say the
pacifists, “we are not endangered, or even threatened.”
My answer is: The shortest lines of invasion, between
bleak Asia and fair America, lie along the great circles
over the north polar regions; and that modern war is
primarily aerial. Like our ancestors of Europe, let us al
ways keep an alert watch northward, and ever be fully
prepared to meet any emergency. (Preparation is an
other theme.).
Dictators and their satellites, having usurped power
bv promising undeliverable utopias, must eventually
choose civil strife, or foreign war. Stalin, like Hitler,
MussoPni, and their ilk, will soon face the necessity of
choice, and he knows it. Which will be choose? Foreign
war, of course.
Is war inevitable? No, providing the pacifists and
their confreres, the reconciliationists, exert their best
efforts to pacify, conciliate and unite the western peo
uxs into a solid block to meet Asia, which then would
not dare risk war. Let all of unite to forever ban those
imra-racial civil wars that have brought the west to the
verge of self-destruction. A united western front is the
sole guarantee of world peace. Otherwise, the dires . vv r
of all is inevitable. ,
Coal, Oil and Miners
(Rocky Mountain News)
THE PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD plans to replace
some of the coal-burning locomotives with diesel en
gines, fueled by oil, and officials of the United Mine
Workers are up in arms about that.
They are demanding that the Pennsylvania Legisla
ture forbid the change.
“We will fight it to the last ditch,” says Michael
Honus, secretary-treasurer of the union’s district four.
“The 25 new Diesels will cut coal demands 2750 tons a
day.”
“Every time a steam engine is driven off the railroads
two miners are out of a job,” adds John P. Busarello,
president of the union’s district five.
By and large, we think, railroads, other industries
and the general public will use the kind of fuel that is
most economical and dependable. •
If the price of coal continues to rise, forced upward
by strikes that arbitrarily shut off the supply of coal, the
consequence will be many such changes as the Pennsyl-!
vania Railroad plans, and many miners out of work.
And that consequence won’t be prevented long by any
Legislature. 1
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HOW LONG CAN HE GO WITHOUT A DRINK ?
By GEOROE S BENSON
Ptooidont of Harding Collego
Soaicy. Arkansas
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RECLAMATION ACT
The receipts from the sale and
disposal of public land in Alaska,
Hawaii, Puerto Rico and the Vir
gin Islands would go toward the
construction of irrigation works
for the reclamation of arid lands I
through a bill recently introduced
by Congressman Welch of Cali
fbrnia.
At the present time, the Re
clamation Act of 1902 which ap
plies to the States does not extend
to these territories and possession.
The bill is now before the House
Committee on Public Lands of
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which Congressman Welch is
chairman.
DIFFERENTIAL FOR
FEDERAL EMPLOYEES
Payment of the 25 per cent sal
ary differential will continue to be
paid on the present basis outside
the Continental United States, in
cluding Alaska, until a uniform
policy is established as a result of
a study now under way by the
Bureau of the Budget and the
Civil Service Commission, ac
cording to assurances given Dele
gate Bartlett by an official of the
Budget Bureau.
It is not now known when the
permanent policy will be announc
ed. The study is now being made
upon instructions issued by Presi
dent Truman the latter part of
1945.
LAND TO VICTORY BIBLE
CAMP GROUND. INC.
The request that approximately
35 acres of land bordering Index
I.ake 45 miles east of Palmer on
the Glenallen Highway may be ac
quired for use as a recreational
camp for young people received
impetus recently when a sub-com
mittee of the House Public Lands
Committee approved Dele gate
Bartlett’s enabling legislation.
The land would be purchased by
the Victory Bible Camp Ground,
Inc., a non-profit corporation of an
interdenominational nature, from
the Interior Department.
PETERSBURG
SCHOOL BUILDING
Petersburg’s chances for obtain
ing a portion of a block within its
townsite, together with the school
building now located on the prop
erty, were brightened this week by
favorable action taken on Delegate
Bartlett’s bill by the Public Lands
sub-committee of the House Pub
lic Lands Committee.
The land embraces lots 9 and 10
of block 14 with an old building in
possession of the Alaska Native
Service, and this property would
be transferred from the Interior
Department to the town and would
be used by the town for school
purposes.
FAIRBANKS
WATER SUPPLY
Subject to valid existing rights,
the Interior Department has with
drawn 120 acres for the protection
of the water supply for Fairbanks.
Anyone objecting to this with
drawal has 30 days from February
18 to present such objections to
the Secretary of the Interior. If
any objection warrants, a public
hearing will be held “at a conven
ient time and place” where oppon
ents may state their views and the
proponents may explain the pur
poses of the order.
KODIAK JAIL
The Public Buildings Adminis
tration will ask for bids the week
of March 3 for construction of a
new jail at Kodiak, accord ng to
information recently given Dele
gate Bartlett.
The drawings and specifications
for the project have been com
pleted, and the time limit for sub
mitting will be five weeks. Ac
cording to the Public Building?
specifications the total cost of the
building, including all equipment
and furnishings, cannot exceed
$140,000.
PULP INDUSTRY
The development of a pulp in
dustry in Alaska was the subject
for discussion on the floor of the
House of Representatives this
week when the members, by a
vote of 260 to 100, set up a Select
Committee to Investigate News
print which will conduct studies on
the short-range and long-range
possibilities of increased pulp pro
duction in the continental United
States and Alaska.
One of the members who will
serve on this committee, Con
gressman Brown of Ohio, stated
on the floor “that several larger
newspaper publishers and other
groups in the United States are
making a study of the whole Alas
ka situation to learn whether we
can obtain a part of our plup and
paper needs there and, if so, at
what price. The Secretary of the
Interior, Mr. Krug, has recently
made a study of the Alaska paper
possibilities. He is very enthusias
tic about the outlook for obtaining
a greatly increased American news