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Nome, Alaska, Friday, May 27, 1949
DEMOCRACY WORKS
(New World News Service)
While the lifting of the Berlin Blockade fills the head
lines, news of the adoption of a Constitution at Bonn for
a new Western German state marks equally as great a
victory for democracy. And it is more than the defeat of
the totalitarian forces which sent the communist chief
hurrying back to Moscow for fresh instruction. It rep
resents a new, overarching unity in the German politi
cal scene which is a great triumph in a nation which has
lacked democratic traditions. 20 years ago Germany’s
first democratic experiment, the Weimar Republic, fell
before Hitler because of the lack of an idea on which
sound elements could unite. This time a new factor has
apparently been brought to bear causing leaders of all
parties to forego some of their own ideas so that the
best thing for all Germany can be created.
It is dimcuit to know all that went on behind the
scenes at the Parliamentary Council. A United Press
dispatch declared, “There was no public explanation
for the sudden shift in the position of the rebellious So
cialists.” On the other hand, Sir Patrick Dollan, editor
of the “Scottish Daily Herald,” who recently completed
a tour of Western Germany, especially emphasized that
Social Democrats, Christian Democrats and Marxists
were finding their ideological differences bridges by the
greater idea embodied in Moral Re-Armament. “I would
not have believed the influence of Moral Re-Armament
in Germany was so great if I had not seen it for myself,”
he said.
Further evidence of a new spirit behind the scenes
was given by Dr. Konrad Adenhauer, chairman of the
Christian Democratic Party and president of the Par
liamentary Council charged with drafting this new
German constitution. He said, “Even in this chaotic age
it is possible to appeal to the best instincts in men and
to make effective again goodness, decency and self
respect. We can be grateful to Moral Re-Armament
which, in a world of destruction, has had the courage to
raise the banner of moral values.”
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THE CHURCH HAS ITS OWN JOB
(Hugo S. Sims)
The Christian Church can play a distinctive role in
the development of the United Nations, according to
Mr. John Foster Dulles, a U. S. delegate to the General
Assembly of the organization, by helping to reduce the
divisive effect of extreme nationalism and by creating
a “world-wide moral sensitiveness.”
This utterance sounds all right in principle but what
we would like to know, if Mr. Dulles can answer the
question, is: “How can the Christian Church reduce ex
treme nationalism and creat moral sensitiveness in the
vast areas of the world in which it is hardly known?”
The Christian Church, which operates in only a lim
ited area of the earth’s surface, is badly divided and
finds itself unable to agree upon questions of religion.
To assume that it can solve the problems at issue in the
world is to conclude that they exist only in the coun
tries where the Christian Church represents a predom
inant moral force.
How can the Christian Church, for example, reduce
the nationalism that is rampant in Russia, in the East
Indies and in China? What kind of moral sensitiveness
can it create in these areas where, with the possible
exception of Communist Russia, there exist few people
who believe in the Christian religion?
The task of the Christian Church, and of all other
churches, as far as we can see it, is to make better peo
ple out of those who profess religion. The Christian
Church, represented in the United States by innumer
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able faiths, has the primary task of encouraging its
members in the development of spiritual personality
and in the expression of such spirituality in individual
lives. Just how this can be accomplished by resolutions
in the field of politics, economics and international af
fairs is beyond our ability to comprehend.*
COAL TO YIELD GAS AND OIL
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(Clip Sheet)
The Government of the United States is interested in
the development of commercial-scale fuel plants so that
the nation will be able to use them in any emergency
but, because of the high cost of synthetic fuel per gallon,
most of the industry representatives are somewhat re
luctant to become involved in the huge expenditures
necessary for the construction of a plant to make oil and
gasoline from, coal.
According to the estimates of engineers, the cost per
gallon of synthetic gasoline is twelve to fourteen cents,
before credit for by-products, which might reduce the
cost to eight or ten cents. The cost of gasoline from
crude petroleum is estimated to be around seven cents.
Consequently, there is no rush on the part of represen
tatives of the oil industry to put up the $40,000,000 or
$90,000,000 required to set up a plant of the size neces
sary to assure economical production.
It may be easily possible for the nation in peace-time
years to secure all the oil that it requires, either from
production in this country or from wells overseas. In
the event of international war, however, the supply of
oil from overseas will be insecure and it may be that
this country, like Nazi Germany, will find it necessary!
to produce oil in synthetic plants or seriously handicap
the war effort.
While the cost of synthetic fuel is higher than the
natural product at the present time, there exists the
possibility that refinements and the development of
commercial synthetic plants may, in the course of years,
make it possible for synthetic oil to compete with the
natural product.
PRESIDENT GIVEN HIS FIFTH MAJOR LICKING
(Somerset, Pa., Daily American)
I President Truman has taken his fifth major licking.
The Senate by a vote of 63 to 23 has adopted rules
that forecast defeats for the President.
When Mr. Truman travelled over the country declar
ing what he would do if elected, there were those who
were impressed by his exaggerated estimate of his own
power.
The sentiments of the people are reflected in the
Senators and representatives they send to Washington
—their lawmakers.
The sentiments of the people are being exhibited in
antipathy to the President’s program for increasing the
federal power, and particularly the powers of the Chief
Executive.
CHURCHES
CATHOLIC CHURCH
Sunday—
8:00 a.m.—Mass
9:30 a.m.—Mass
4:30 p.m.—At the Base Chapel
May devotions every evening at
7:30 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.
Children’s Miracle Book Club.
Thursday—7:30 p.m.
Prayer Meeting.
FEDERATED CHURCH
Sunday 10:00 a.m.—Sunday School
11:00 a.m. — Morning service.
Rev. A. E. Purviance will speak.
ASSEMBLY OF GOD
PENTECOSTAL
Third Avenue West
Miss H. E. Brown (
Missionary in Charge
Sunday—
Sunday School .. 10:00 a.m.
Adult Bible Class 11:00 a.m.
Evening Service 7:30 p.m.
Tuesday—
Young Peoples Meeting 4:00 p.m.
Wednesday—
Bible Study 7:30 p.m.
F rid ay—
Bible Study and
Prayer Meeting . 7:00 p.m.
EVERYOXE WELCOME
CHURCH OF THE NA7ARENE
Third and Division
Pastor—Lewis I. Hudgins
“One reason why some people
don’t talk much about their reli
gion is they don’t have much to
talk about.”
10:00 a.m. Singspiration 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.
3:00 p.m. Evening Message.
Wednesday: 7:30 p.m. Melody and
Prayer.
Come and bring your Bible.
Yop are ever welcome to attend
these services.
NOME GOSPEL MISSION
of
Alaska Evangelization Society
Rev. Vern Rimling. Pastor
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Sunday—
2:00 p.m. Sunday School for
boys and girls.,
Preaching service in the Eskimo
language by James Savok.
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— 1
730 p.m. Bible Study.
REBEKAH LODGE HAS
INITIATIONS
Last Wednesday evening the
Midnight Sun Rebekah Lodge
conferred degrees on Eve l y n
Leighton and Pauline Nelson af
ter which delicious refreshments
were served by Christie Waldheim
and Mabel Jonish.
Special recognition was bestow
ed on Mrs. Nels Swanberg, Sr.,
one of the oldest members of the
Order, who celebrated her 76th
anniversary.