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Entered as second class matter October 14, 1943, at the postoffice
at Nome, Alaska, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
Nome, Alaska, Friday, October 22, 1948
A NEW WORLD OUR BUSINESS
(New World News Service)
“The time has come for business management to
make good on some of its eloquent assertions,” said Mr.
Morris Sayre, president of the National Association of
Manufacturers, in a recent address.
Businessmen everywhere seem to feel that we *have
entered a new age—an ideological age. In this age it is
necessary not only to convert industrial output to back up
a war of arms, but to convert industrial outlook to backi
up the underlying cold war of ideas. Russia has made
this conversion 100',. But free countries, faced with the
triple threat of economic collapse, totalitarian dictator
ship and atomic war are still doing business under the
old commercial mentality. Improved working condi
tions, fair wage structures and other of democracy’s in
dustrial reforms are good. But they have failed to sure
industrial crisis.
„ ‘.Communism has called the bluff of the Christian
world,” said John Roots of Washington, D. C., recently.
Their program “is colossal gall,” he said, “but you have
to admire it. It is just as if we set out right now to in
filtrate the Politbureau at Moscow.”
Do businessmen sit down with a communist to change
his thinking? If not, is it because of lackof salesmanship,
or is it rather because we ourselves fail to live the de
mocracy we profess and have little really to sell?
Through commercial competition we have produced
and distributed more goods than any other nation on \
earth. But we have not attracted the world to our way
cf life. To compete ideologically we must transform our
American way of life until it becomes the world’s most
desired way of life, and then set out to market it.
THEIR NAME IS “MUD”
(Denver Post)
Communists like to cling to the fiction that their
party is just a good, clean, freedom-loving organization
of patriotic Americans which can indorse a Presidential
candidate without scaring away all other supporters of
that candidate.
Qr, as Elizabeth G. Flynn, Communist party national
committeewoman, put it, Communist support of Henry
A. Wallace won’t hurt his chances because “we sup
ported Roosevelt (in 1944) and it never affected the
vote.”
Even a Communist would have to be pretty naive to
believe that:
Four years ago we didn’t know that Russia was using
spies to steal war secrets from her companion in arms.
Russia had abolished the Cominform and had disavowed
her earlier intentions to overthrow all other govern
ments in the world.
Russia had subscribed to the Atlantic charter, which
called for a free world and the self-determination of na
tions.
Since then Russia has created the Comintern and has
revived its plans for world revolution nad world con
quest. It has subjugated millions of free peoples in east
ern Europe. It has done its best to dash mankind’s hope
for a responsible world government. It has brought the
world to the bink of a new war.
By now it is pretty plain to all Americans that the
Communist party is not an American party at all but a
Russian fifth column party. That is why, in spite of the
protestations of Miss Flynn and others, the Communist
indorsement of Wallace has caused a stampede away
from the so-called Progressive party of all but the most
jmllible of the left-wing non-Communists whom Wal
lace originally expected to attract.
WHAT A FI0HT f
_ m OTMBit——Mtiirrt
MORE RELIGIOUS STUDY IN COLLEGES
(By Lee Casey)
Of course Robert L. Stearns, president of University
cf Co’orado, spoke truth when he told a gathering of
educators that “intelligent study of religion as one of
the great forces of the world should be a major factor in
the rebuilding of our institutions to meet the needs of
humanity.”
I would go further. It seems to me that the right sort
of nstruction in the history and nature of religion should
be an essential part of any university course.
Yet no course in religion—or, rather, religiouss—is;
offered in many colleges. Certainly it is an essential for
a well-rounded individual to have acquaintance with
faiths and creeds other than his own.
Ihere should be no effort at proselyting permitted,
and every religion and sect should be treated objective
ly and sympathetically. For all beliefs, or at least all be
liefs that have supplanted paganism, are essentially de
voted to the welfare of mankind, no matter what the
lapses on the part of their practitioners have been.
The Catholic should know more of the Protestant be
liefs; the Protestant should know more of the Catholic,;
and both should know more of the meaning of the Jew
ish faith. That would tend to develop truly educated
citizens, men and women better fitted to live with their
neighbors and with the world.
Religious instruction in the elementary and second
ary schools is something else again. There, in dealing
with immature minds, there would be a constant danger
of proselyting. Children should be left to the religious
instruction of their own faith of denomination.
It is different with an institution of higher learning.
I Information concerning religions should not be left en
J tirely to theological schools but should be included in
any arts course. Such instruction ineed should be pre-,
requisite for a degree.
Perhaps the job would be too much for one man. But
it may be, simply to protect against possible slanting,
that a Jew should give the lectures concerning the Jew
ish faith, the story of Catholicism should be presented
by a Catholic, although not necessarily by a priest, and
that a Protestant should tell the origins and hopes of the
various sects.
For colleges and universities to pretend that religion
does not exist so far as curricula are concerned is mani
festly absurd.
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HENRY’S SUNDAY TEXT .
Henry Wallace told a Sunday audience in Montana
that the Sermon on the Mount offered the only practical
solution to current world problems.
He did not read the sermon to his audience, but it may
be recalled that is the one in which Christ said, among
other things:
“No man can serve two masters: For either he will
hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to
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CHURCHES
CATHOLIC CHURCH
Sunday—
«* O n wi nrwl 1 ft >) TY>
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.
11:00 a.m.—Regular church serv
ices. Cpl. Clarence Gold, pastor.
PENTACOSTAL ASSEMBLY OF
GOD
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
CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE
Third and Division
Pastor—Lewis I. Hudgins
“GO FORWARD—this is our
watchword. This is our God-given
command. Let us arise and Go
Forward.”—Rev. G. Coulter.
10:00 a.m. Singspira'ion and Sun
day School classes.
11.00 a.m. Morning message.
7:00 p.m. Young People’s Meeting.
7:30 p.m. Singspiration and special
music.
8:00 p.m. Evening message.
Wednesday: 7:30 p.m. Melody and
Prayer.
Come and bring your Bible.
You are ever welcome to attend
these services.
NOME GOSPEL MISSION
of
Alaska Evangelization Society
Rev. Vern Rimling, Pastor
Sunday:
2:00 p.m. Sunday School.
7:30 p.m. Gospel Service.
Tuesday:
7:30 p.m. Prayer and Testimony
Thursday:
2:00 to 4:00 p.m. Bible Club for
Boys and Girls.
Friday:
7:30 p.m. Bible Study. *
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SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST
SERVICES
at
Pastor's Residence, corner of B St.
between 3rd and 4th A
Sabbath School—10 a.m. Saturday^
Morning Worship—11 a.m.
Visitors welcomed.
Fred H. Wagner, Pastor
FATHER MURPHY RECEIVES
APPOINTMENT TO NOME
Father Murphy is being wel
comed back to Nome this week by
old and young alike who have
been pleased with his appointment
in the Nome parish for the winter.
Father Murphy, who had been*
here for a few months last year
and was then transferred to Holy*
Cross, made many friends during
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