dividual. I
Let us not confuse greed and sin
with the profit motive. There is
nothing unchristian, nor anti-so
cial ,in fair and honest buying and
selling and trading. One who is
against the profit motive is in re
ality opposed to ownership of pro- J
perty, .for when the profit motive
is taken away the right to own
things must go with it. It is high
time for some of our religious peo
ple to start thinking through these
things. Doing this, perhaps they
would refuse to be used as advance
agents of socialism and commun
ism.
EDDIE SHEDLEY RETURNS TO
NOME FOR VISIT
Eddie Shedley, who attended
school in Nome for several years i
w'hile his mother Mrs. B. Shedley,
was employed at Polet’s Store re
turned for a visit yesterday from
Seattle where he is employed by j
the Pan American Airways.
_
MRS. GEORGE MADSEN
AND FAMILY ARRIVE
Mrs. George Madsen and family
arrived Monday afternoon on the
Alaska Airlines plane from Seattle
where they have resided the past
year. Mr. Madsen returned earlier
this year to assist his partner
Keith Hedreen in the operation of
their business here.
Mrs_ Lary Galvin and daughter
Cherie, also returned Monday
from a visit to the States.
British Company
Profits Tax To
Be Doubled
LONDON, (/P) — Chancellor of
the Exchequer Hugh Dalton asked
the House of Commons today to
double Britain’s tax on company
profits as a step in the fight
against, inflation.
Dalton, introducing an emer
gency national budget designed to
drain off some consumer purchas
ing power, declared that many
companies have been declaring in
creased dividends contrary to his
advice.
“This is inflationary and dis
turbing to good industrial rela
tions,” he added.
The chancellor told the House of
Commons the British government
finished the first 32 weeks of its
current financial year with an
“unprecedented” surplus of 253,
000,000 pounds ($1,012,000,000.)
“We are within 5,000,000 pounds
($20,000,000) already of the sur
plus I estimated for the full year,”
he said in his address.
He referred only to the govern
ment’s revenue and expenditures
in the strictly domestic sphere,
and his accounting had no bearing
on the gap between what the gov
ernment pays other countries for
imports and what it earns from
exports.
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Alaska Health
Report Released
Tuberculosis is the most urgent j
and important health problem in j
Alaska, secretary of the interior J i
A. Krug was advised by a team of
five doctors assigned by the Amer
ican Medical association to survey i
health conditions in the Territory.!
The report of the team was , e
leased October 30 by Secretary
Krug,
The Alaska team arrived in An
chorage on July 19 and completed
its tour on August 9. The follow
ing sites were inspected: Anchor
age, Seward Bethel, Unalakleet,
Feme. Gambell, Kotzebue, Point
Barrow, Tanana, Fairbanks, Jun
eau, Hoonah, Sitka, Ketchikan and
Metlakatla. A total of about 4.500
runes wore traveled in Terr - ,
to;y.
Tuberculosis Can Be Controlled
Tuberculosis is a preventable j
j disease, the report points out, i
which “can be controlled in Alas- 1
ka in a period of five to eight
ears the death rate and incidence
i need not be greater than in the
best areas of the United States”
Suggested localities and ‘he
number of beds recommended for
each location are as follows:
Southeastern Alaska: 229 sana
j torium beds by expansion of the
i present facilities at Alice Island.
Anchorage area: 400 sanatorium
beds. This site is the center of pop
J ulation of Alaska as well as the
most easily accessible one by vir
tue of the Alaska Railroad and
Highway.
Arctic area: 100 bed sanatorium
in Fairbanks.
Isolation units: 25 beds each in
Bethel, Kotzebue. Unalakleet, Fort
Yukon and Nome.
Replacements of hospitals at
Seward and Nome are recom
mended in the report. The Seward
General Hospital is described as a
“small one and one-half story
wooden' structure, a single room
being used on the second floor. It
j is old and appears to be in a rather
poor state of repair and is over
crowded. It is distinctly a fire
hazard.”
The Maynard Columbus hospi
I tal in Nome is a two story struc
ture the report states. “The build
i ing is old, in a poor state of repair,
! and has a decided list due to the
settling of the foundation. The
main stairway to the second floor
is narrow. The building is a fire
trap. It should be replaced before
a serious catastrophe occurs.”
The Nome hospital “gave the
impression of a tragedy waiting to
happen” the report concludes.
• Dr. Rabeau, at the Alaska Na
; tive Service Hospital in Kotzebue,
j has compiled some very interest
ing statistics from his records.
Kotzebue is a village of 1200, all
Eskimos. 54.7 per cent of all deaths
in the district were the result of
tuberculosis, the diagnosis having
been proven by autopsy in over
half of the cases. Dr. Rabeau re
i ported that in a period of seven
i teen months he cared for forty
; cases of tuberculosis meningitis. It
was his opinion that 25 per cent
I of all the natives in the commun
i ity he served had open tuberculo
sis, a figure that has been substan
tiated in several communities by
j the mass x-ray now in progress,
j He further stated that an addition
al 35 per cent of the natives had
what he would be willing to clas
sify as arrested tuberculosis,
j The school teacher at Barrow
; stated that of thirty children be
j tween the ages of five and six that
' had entered school, six lived to
| finish. The majority of deaths
j were due to tuberculosis.
The City of Nome, either be
Production Of
Copper Declines
WASHINGTON, {A>)—The bur
eau of mines said yesterday the
nation’s copper consumption dur
ing 1946 established a peaee-time
record but was little more than
half the war-time peak rate of
1943.
“The producing segment of the
industry operated at far below ca
pacity rates,” the bureau’s annual
summary said.
“Labor strikes at mines, smelt
ers and refineries were the chief
depressant to domestic produc
tion, and they came on top of a
chronic labor shortage that had
affected production adversely dur
ing most of the war.”
• Mine production of recoverable
copper in 1946, in short tons in
cluded: Washington, 4,527; Cali
fornia, 4,240; Idaho 1,038; Oregon,
7; Alaska, 2.
cause of finances or inertia of its
citizens, has not been able to solve
its sanitation problem.
No hospital for the care and
study of mental diseases exists in
Alaska. Three hundred ninety pa
tients from the Territory are at
present confined in the Morning
i side Sanatorium in Oregon. The
; department of the interior bears
the expense of these confinements
on a per diem per patient basis.
The prevalence of eye diseases
among the natives is stressed in
! the report, which points out that
[ Alaska does not have a qualified
opthalmologist.
International
Administration Of
U. S. World Aid
PITTSBURGH, (JP) — Only the
establishment of an international
relief agency could clear the
United States of the suspicions
with which this country is viewed,
Henry A. Wallace Monday night
told an overflow crowd of 4,000 at
Syria Mosque.
“Despite our protestations of
disinterest in the internal politics
of other countries,” the former
vice president and cabinet mem
ber said in his speech delivered
under sponsorship of the Progres
sive Citizens of America, “We are
viewed with suspicion abroad.
“International administration of
relief could clear us of such
charges. It could lay the founda
tion for genuine reconstruction of
European economy.”
His talk was delivered a few
minutes after Dr. Frank Kingdon,
co-chairman of the Progressive
Citizens of America, appealed to
the audience for contributions
from “people who want to see
Henry A. Wallace elected Presi
dent.”
Donations estimated at $5,000 in
all were gathered but Wallace,
who entered the auditorium while
the fund collection was in prog
ress, took no part in the appeal
and made no mention of being a
Presidential candidate.
Some people are agreeable
when you catch them off guard.
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