THE NOME NUGGET
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Entered as second class matter October 14, 1943, at the postoffice
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Nome, Alaska, Friday, May 20, 1949
MORAL RE-ARMAMENT
As you well know, we have been publishing reports
and editorials on Moral Re-Armament nearly every
week since more than a year ago. when Yvonne Mozee,
a Nome girl, wrote us in connection with the movement.
Since that time many things have been accomplished
by the great family of workers who are giving their
time and money to the momentous task of remaking the
world. The efforts of the “family” have been almost
miraculous in their successes. Strife and strikes have
been averted. Statesmen have been “converted” and
give full support to the great plan, taking all available
information back to their people.
A new approach to the European problem will take
place in Caux, Switzerland, when the French and Ger>
man cabinet ministers will meet to plan, in a new at-;
mosphere, international headquarters of the MRA, thej
future of Europe’s age-old problems.
Something definite is sure t ocome of it.
Another project under way is the filming of “The.
Good Road” which depicts the “ideology” in actual life j
scenes, and will be shown on the screen for the first
time at the meeting of the German and French states
men in Caux.
The film is being made, wholely and entirely, on gifts
of money and services. One small group of G. Vs on
Adak, in the Aleutian Islands, sent in their gift of
$5,200 toward the expenses of the film. Hollywood
technicians secured leaves of absence from their stu
dios to give their services to the filming of the picture.
The “family” make many and varied sacrifices to keep j
the “ideology” advancing throughout the world andi
maintaining headquarters and training centers in many j
large cities in the United States and other parts of the
world.
The U. S. headquarters is at 833 S. Flower St., in Los
Angeles, California. The building was formerly a wo
man’s athletic club, and is being purchased with dona
tions just as the entire movement is financed, by per
sons who believe in the “ideology” and its answer to
world problems. The story of the Alaska G. L’s might
assist in giving many people the idea that they can help
get the world democratic ideology spread over the earth
“in time.”
The operation of the various centers is entirely by
service. That is, by means of each person in the institu
tion taking on duties “without pay” necessary in the
smooth running of the project. Some will do janitor
work, others clerical and right on through all of the op
erational functions. This is the true spirit behind the
democratic ideology, Moral Re-Armament.
COD CALLING THE WORLD
(From the book “Remaking The World,” by Frank, N.
D. Buchman, which tells in the form of addresses by Dr.
Buchman, the founder of the Oxford Group, of the pro
gram of Moral Re-Armament.
(Kronberg, Denmark, Whit Sunday, 1935)
In Copenhagen on Jubilee Day I heard London calling
the British Empire. People in far corners of the world
heard the same message, hi Singapore, Ottawa, Cape I
Town, Melbourne, Hong Kong, and hundreds of other
cities and villages, millions were listening in.
Today all Scandinavia is listening in to the broadcast
of a Whitsun demonstration in the Castle of Kronborg,
where the waters of Sweden and Denmark meet. News
papers the world over are featuring it. From Riga to
San Francisco and from Iceland to South Africa there
are eager listeners.
By a miracle of science millions can think and feel as
THERE'S A LOT OF M ONES THAT ST>Y AWAY'
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one. Barriers of time and space are swept away. A com
monwealth of many nations and languages becomes aj
family. Radio listeners understand that miracle. And
they will also understand the Oxford Group, which is:
showing people how to listen to God.
“God calling the world” is becoming a daily experi-i
ence in the lives of hundreds of thousands of people in
the more than fifty countries where the Oxford Group j
is at work.
We accept as a commonplace a man’s voice carried by;
radio to the uttermost parts of the earth. Why not the I
voice of the living God as an active, creative force in
every home, every business, every parliament?
Men listen to a king when he speaks to his people over1
the air. Why not to the King of Kings? He is alive, and i
constantly broadcasting.
Norway listened in, and in the words of one of her
leading editors, “The whole mental outlook-of the coun-i
try changed.” Canada listened in, and the Prime Minis-!
ter said that the message had made his task of govern
ment easier, and its influence has been felt in every
town and village in the Dominion. South Africa listened
in, and racial unity began to come in a country torn by
decades of racial strife.
What might not happen if Denmark also listened to |
the perfect program of the King of Kings?
At the first Whitsun God spoke to a group of ordinary j
men. They changed the course of history. May He not
today have a plan which can solve the problems of a
troubled world?
The Holy Spirti is the most intelligent source of in
formation in the world today. He has the answer to ev
ery problem. Everywhere when men will let Him, He is.
teaching them how to live.
The world needs a miracle. Miracles of science have
been the wonder of the age. But they have not brought
peace and happiness to the nations. A miracle of the
Spirit is what we need.
Divine guidance must become the normal experience
of ordinary men and women. Any man can pick up di
vine messages if he will put his receiving set in order.
Definite, acurate, adequate information can come from
the Mind of God to the minds of men. That is a normal
prayer.
There must come a spiritual dynamic which will
change human nature and remake men and nations.
There must come a spiritual authority which will be ac
cepted everywhere by everyone. Only so will order
come out of chaos in national and international affairs.
If this miracle is to come into the world some nation
must give a lead. Some nation must find God’s Will as
her destiny and God-guided men as her representatives
at home and abroad.
Some nation must produce a new leadership, free
from the bondage of fear, rising above ambition, and
flexible to the direction of God’s Holy Spirit.
Such a nation will be at peace within itself, and a
peacemaker in the international family. Will it be your
nation?
Hello Again—
(By Yvonn* Mom)
• MR A Headquarters
Los Angeles, California
I’ve been wanting to write you -i
about a recent great day in my life
here at the Club—my 25th birth
day. You can’s imagine how over
whelming a birthday can be until
you’ve had one with this MRA
family.
Mine began in the hills over
looking Hollywood at the home of
Mr. and Mrs. George L. Eastman.
He is the president of a building
materials company, and a past
president of the Los Angeles
Chamber of Commerce. Their gift
to me was an exquisite handker
chief which they’d brought back
from Switzerland last year. They
went to Switzerland to attend the
World Assembly for Moral Re
Armament which was held at
Caux. As you know, the Nugget
carried news of that Assembly and
of delegates who attended—repre
sentatives of government, indus
try, labor, press, education, the
theater—from fifty nations.
One of my birthday greetings
came from Caux (Switzerland)
where the cast of the musical re
vue, "The Good Road,” has gath
ered in preparation lor the film - t
ing of the revue. Many of the cast
were with us in Los Angeles a year
ago. Now they are preparing to
make a full-length motion picture
of "The Good Road.” A number
of Hollywood technicians have
gone to Switzerland to give their
services. They are experts in their
fields and obtained leave of ab
sence from their studios in order ^
to go. I hope next winter you will
see the film in Nome.
The surprise of the day was a
tea given for me by the chorus
(with whom I sing), the "Mackinac
Singers.” There were spec i a 1
songs and poems, climaxed by a
crown of flowers. When I think
back to my birthdays in Nome and
remember the honeycombed drifts
as the first heralds of spring, it
seems incredible to have had
sweet peas and daisies placed
upon my head. (
One of the delights of the day
was the large representation of
Nome at dinnertime. There were
five of us. including Dave and
Kay Walsh Farley, and Norma and
Bob Scott. It was great to see them
again after several months, and as
you can guess, we talked much of
our years in Nome. The family
here was intrigued by the tale of
Nome’s one cow—and Kay to
prove it! Both the Farleys and the
Scotts had seen “The Good Road”
here last year. Also at the party
was a secretary from the Holly
wood Bowl with whom we worked
when the revue was presented „
there a year ago.
The birthday cake turned out to
be Baked Alaska—the first I’d ever
eaten. It was constructed by three
of the fellows—a Scotsman, a Ca
nadian, and an American from
New Jersey. And I do mean con
structed. You know how they’re
made—cake with ice cream on top
covered with meringue and then
browned in the oven for a few ^
breathless minutes. One of the fel- ^
lows thought their product better
named as “Scorched Siberia.” . . .
I hear that Nome is planning to
observe its golden anniversary this
summer—that’s one birthday I’d
like to help celebrate.
The Anchorage Skf Club is spon
soring an excursion tri*p to Nome
May 2B and report that the seats
are all sold out. Another flight is
under way for May 29th, accord
ing to the president Wayne Jacobs.
The round trip fare is $50.00.