THE NOME NUGGET
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W. A. and EMILY BOUCHER..Editors
Entered as second class matter October 14. 1943. at the postoffice at
Nome, Alaska, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
Wednesday, September 4, 1946
ALASKA IS THE NEW
LAND OF PROMISE
EVER SINCE THE YEAR 1620, when the Pilgrims!
landed at Plymouth Rock, America has been
known as a land of opportunity. For more than 300
years peoples of all nations have settled in America to
escape prejudice and persecution, and to take advant
age of the privileges and opportunities unheard of in
their own lands, freedoms they had never before!
known. Truly, America has always been a land of the
free.
America is a comparatively young nation, yet,,
several times during her brief history, America has
called upon her people to put forth their every effort
to stave off despots who have threatened that security
and prestige which has always been hers. In each and
every instanct the people, the citizens of America, have
while-heartedly answered the call, and America contin
ues to be the greatest nation in the world, not in size,
or in population, but in its ability to meet the require
ments of a people who desire to be free.
In order to keep our country the land of opportun
ity, we must adopt a program of the kind that will en
able us not only to do our duty to returning veterans,
who deserve the opportunities they fought for, but to
make our community a better place in which to live
and do business
In Alaska, today, we are more than ever conscious
of the need for coordinating effort with opportunity.
This, Alaska, is the new land of promise.
No matter what your work may be—you are a def
inite part of progress. It takes all kinds of workers
to make up a community, a country. Whether you
are operating a business in town or are employed in
some capacity in any of the enterprises of this com
munity, you are important to the success of the endeav
or to which you are connected and for that you are
important to the community The spirit in which you
porform your duties, is the only way in which your
worth can be judged. j
It is not always ability that counts. A man who
makes a pleasure of his job, loves it, studies it, and1
who counts the hours devoted to it as the best of eachj
day. He indeed is an asset to his community.
Today, perhaps, we should decide, in order to make i
this a better community in which to live and work,
let us resolve to apply ourselves to the job at hand I
and give the best we have.
Perhaps some of us have become blinded to real-'
ities through conditions arising out of foreign diplomat-;
ic relations, or on the home front, the wage and labor!
relations in a manner to couse you to say, “What’s the
use of trying,” let’s remember it is now our privilege
an duty to make this the finest community in Alaska,
and make Alaska the real land of promise.
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PRICE OF PEACE
PERMANENT PEACE can be purchased It has
a price as sure and clear as the price of shirts or
sewing-machines. While we may consider the price
a high one, certainly it is not out of reason when com
pared with the endless cost of endless wars. Yet the
nations of the world seem loath to pay. They hesi
tate; they dicker; they procrastinate, looking backward!
instead of toward the road ahead
The price, we say, is high. The thing we must
give in exchange for peace is a precious thing. It is,
old as the human race, and has grown and evolved as
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civilization has grown. In a manner of thinking, it
is our most highly valued possession. Yet, to pur
chase peace, we need not give it all. But to part
possession with even a fraction, is not easy—although
the inexorable processes of time have stolen crumbs
from the edges of our table as the years have passed.
But peace can be purchased. True, the contract
would be difficult to draw, for it must include most
of the people of most of the nations of the earth. Tra
dition. prejudice, superstition, bigotry and hatred stand
in the way of many signatures. Those must be brok
en, at least in part, before the deal can be closed.
Sometimes it seems the world is making progress in
the transaction. At other times we seem to be moving
backward
What is the price? It is simple to tell. For all
that is required to end war is the sacrifice, by each
and every nation of the world, of a part of its national
sovereignty; a willingness on the part of every people
to make suggestions—even orders—from a group of
other nations; a willingness to lay aside certain national
plans and ambitions so that the plans and ambitions of
all peoples on the earth could succeed.
,Such is the price we must pay for world peace.
High? Yes. But best goods command best prices
Eternal friendship and brotherhood between the na
tions of the world, if ever it is attained, will be better
than the best. (Cincinnati Enquirer)
HOSPITAL ACT
AVAILS FUNDS
FOR ALASKA
With the signing by the
President of the Hospital
Survey and Construction
Act, an appropriation of
375 million dollars is auth
orized during the next five
years for the construction
of hospitals and health cen
ters. Three million dol
lars is also authorized for
State-conducted surveys of |
need. These must be j
made preliminary to the
granting of Federal funds
for construction.
The Act provides lati
tude for each State to de
velop its own program ofi
hospital and health center
construction, to be admin
istered by State Authorit
ies under standards speci
fied by the United States
Public Health Service. The
Surgeon General will be
assisted in establishing
standards by a newly-cre
ated Federal iHospital
Council consisting of eight
members to be appointed
by the Federal Security
Administrator.
“This Act sets for the
first time a national policy
which makes it clear that
hospitals in the future must
be planned, located and op
erated in relation to the
overall health needs of the
people,” Thomas Parran,
Surgeon General, U. S.
Public Health Service said,
“This policy, as evolved
through the leadership o
hospital authorities of th
country, is recognition o
the integrated role that hos
pitals and health center
must play in the future
Adequate hospitals, heaiti
centers and related physi
cal facilities are essentia
workshops, without whicl
it is not possible to provide
■ even a minimum of moderr
i health and medical serv
I ices.”
Any State may initiate
action by submitting a re
quest to the Surgeon Gen
eral for funds to carry ou1
an inventory of existing
hospitals, and to prepare
a plan for the constructor
necessary to provide ade
quate care for all the peo
' pie- In making the request
the States must designate
a single State agency tc
carry out the survey and
planning and must appoinl
a properly qualified advis
orv council to consult with
the State agency The
proportionate share fof
each State of the total Fed
eral appropriation for sur
vey and planning will be
determined by the popula
tions of the several States
However, Federal funds
must be matched by twe
to one in defraying the sur
vey expenses.
Allotments for the act
ual construction of facili
ties will not be made until
the State plan based on the
survey findings has been
approved. Construction
allotments to individual
; States will vary in amount
Population wil be one fac
tor, and in addition, the
average per capita income,
will be used in the allot
ment formula in such a way
that States with a lower
per capita income, where
there is a relatively greater
need for medical facilities,
will receive proportionate
ly larger allotments per
capita.
Application for funds for
individual construction pro
jects musk; be channeled
through the State agency.
Here again, Federal funds
may not exceed one-third
of the cost of a project. Be
jfore any single project is
approved by the Surgeon
General, sufficient evidence
must accompany the build
ing request to show that
two-thirds of the total cost
of construction is available
from other thai Federal
sources, and tha' financial
support is adequ&e for the
maintenance and operation
of the institution.
Each year for fve years