THE NOME NUGGET
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Emily Boucher .Local Editor
Entered as second class matter October 14, 1943, at the postoifice
at Nome, Alaska, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
Nome, Alaska, Friday, March 25, 1949
HOPE FOR CHINA
(New World News Service)
“The immediate future of stricken Nationalist China
may rest largely on the sagacity and personal influence
of her new Premier, General Ho Ying-chin,’, said De
Witt Maskenzie, (/P) foreign affairs analyst, in his na
tion-wide column recently. “Ho long was regarded as
President Chiang Kai-shek’s right hand and, next to the
generalissimo, is said to have more influence with Na
tionalist China’s military leaders than any other man.
However, I had a long talk with him while he was in
America and he told me he had some new ideas—that
there were other ways of getting results than by force.’’
For military leaders this is a new type of warfare un
developed except by the Soviet Union.
There is a story behind Ho’s statement, A. R. K. Mac
kenzie, Member of the British delegation to the United
Nations, who happened to be in on the story, write re
cently, “During his sojourn in the U. S. as head of the
Chinese military mission to the U. N., General Ho came
into contact with Moral Re-Armament. I travelled with
him to an MRA gathering at Niagara Falls.
“ ‘In my battles with the Communists,’ he said to me
afterwards,’ ‘I have hitherto opposed force with force.
Now I see that it is also necessary to fight an idea with
a better idea.’ He was so impressed that he submitted
proposals to the Chinese government for the regular
training of selected Chinese officials at MRA’s ideologi
cal training centers in Europe and America.’’
As Premier, General Ho faces an almost impossible
job. He will need courage and wisdom in order to stand
against any compromise which would be just a step in
putting all China under Communist domination. Be
cause of his influence with the Nationalist military
forces and his unique training in ideological
warfare he is perhaps the only man who has any chance
of success in this task.
With the active backing of American foreign policy
he might be able to achieve the impossible. If he and
we fail, 450 million Chinese will go into Communist or
bit.
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NEARLY SEVEN BILLIONS FOR VETERANS
There are 18,800,000 living veterans of the wars of
the United States and the number is still increasing, ac
cording to a report of the Veterans Administration to
. Congress.
While there is a tendency to regard demobilization as
completed, the Administration points out that “the liv
ing veteran population increased by almost 500,000 in
the twelve -months ending last June 30th.” The veteran
population will continue to increase because the armed
forces had 1,000,000 who served during the war period
and might eventually return to civil life.
The Veterans Administration reports that its expen
ditures in the fiscal year 1948, were $6,896,264,628.
During the year, 1,676,634 veterans received compensa
tion for disabilities growing out of the last war. There
were 103,600 veteran patients in hospitals, with forty
nine per cent being veterans of World War II, forty-five
per cent of World War I and the remainder from other
conflicts. The Administration had on its staff 3,536 phy
sicians, 947 dentists and 11,065 nurses.
In addition to the payment of disability claims and
the giving of medical care, the Administration received
1,902,831 new applications for educational training dur
ing the twelve-months period and had 520,969 veterans
engaged in on-the-job training.
We call attention to the expenditure being made by
the nation for the benefit of its veterans. Certainly, no
loyal citizen should object to disability benefits which
veterans receive for injuries or to the medical care
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which is extended to the veterans of the nation’s wars.;
Neither is there much objection to the rehabilitation
and educational program by which the nation seeks to
assist its veterans to become self-supporting.
VACATION FROM HEAVEN :
(By Hal Boyle)
In 1897 an obscure farmer named John Nobody was,
kicked to death by a mule in the vicinity of Peculiar,1
Mo. Having led a fairly reasonable life without cheating
anyone—this was before the days when a man filled out
an income tax blank—John went to. Heaven.
He quickly rose to the third assistant harp from the
left in the Heavenly symphony orchestra. But John’s
heart wasn’t in his harp. He was homesick for earth,
because he had left it too suddenly.
So. he pulled all the strings he could—and they were
not all on his harp—and made this plea:
“Gimme a two-week vacation from Heaven, and then
I’ll come back and strum my harp forever and be con
tent. But right now I’m still a powerful lonesome man.”j
Well, he had a good strawboss. The man said, scratch
ing himself under the wing:
“John, you rustle that harp good as anybody. But a
lonesome man don’t make group music. Go back and
take your look-see, and we’ll keep your job here open.”
Well, Mr. Nobody finally got his celestial passport
okayed and plummeted down toward Missouri.
He landed on his old farm. Motor cars were zipping
past on the highway that used to be a dirt road. Right
away old John began to be a little homesick for his harp.
Along came his grandson riding on a tractor instead
of following a mule. The tractor halted. “Whoa,” said
tho crrandson. amazed. “Whurr.yuh from,-old man?”
Fum Heaven, said John. And then as his grandson l
hesitated, John added testily:
“Don’t you believe in Heaven?”
“Can’t say as I don’t,” said his grandson cautiously.
“Is it anywhere near Washington?”
The young man took John home and apologized be
cause his missus wasn’t there. “Went into Kansas City
to see the psychiatrist,” he explained shyly. “She got
another complex last week—just before harvest, too.”
Old John picked up a newspaper carrying a big black
headline: “War Looms.”
“Spain still actin up in Cuba?” he said.
“Spain?” said the grandson, “Where you been, old
man? We whupped Spain long ago. We been through
Germany twice since then, and Japan, too. Now Rus
sia’s acting up.”
“Russia?” said John. “Law! Where’s that?”
The grandson explained, interrupting his story only
once—long enough to go down and pick up a govern
ment check from the rural postman.
Old John walked out into the fields. He hitchhiked a
ride on the next big cloud that floated by. They say that
ever after that, as his gnarled hands swept across his
harp in the celestial choir, John Nobody always looked
up. He never glanced earthward again.
CHI K_
CATHOLIC CHURCH
Sunday—
Masses at 8 a.m. and 10 a.m.
At the Base Chapel at 4:30 p.m.
Lenten Devotions
Sun. eve. 7:30.Instructions
Wed. eve. 7:30.Instructions
Fri. eve. 7:30, Stations of the Cross
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.
PENTACOSTAL ASSEMBLY OF
GOD
Third Avenue West
Pastor A. E. Capener
Sunday—
Sunday School.10:30 a.m.
Evening service .7:45 Tvm.
Wednesday—
Bible Study .7:45 pm.
EVERYONE WELCOME
CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE
Third and Division
Pastor—Lewis I. Hudgins
Spin carefully, spin prayerfully,
but leave the thread with God.
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.
8:00 p.m. Evening message.
Wednesday: 7:30 p.m. Melody an l
Prayer.
Come and bring your Bible.
You are ever welcome to attend
these services.
NOME GOSPEL MISSION
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Alaska Evangelisation Society
Rev. V?n Rimling, Pastor
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:
7:30 p.m. Bible Study.
BOXING MATCHES AT
BASE GYMNASIUM
FREE TO PUBLIC
A big night at the Nome Air
Base has been announced for Sat
urday night at 8:00 p.m. in the
base gymnasium.
Cpl. Lynn and his boys will put
on some real fine boxing matches
for an eight-event evening per
formance, ending in an exhibition
bout between Cpl. Lynn and Cpl.
Perez. #
The eight events are listed as
follows:
Pfc. Duncan vs. Pfc. Juares.
Sgt. Miller vs. Pfc. Ober.
Cpl. Bridges vs. Sgt. O’Bryant.
Cpl. Brightman vs. Pfc. Hughes.
Pfc. Ellis vs. Cpl. Scroggins.
Cpl. Vallejos vs. Cpl. Bobeda.
Cpl Lynn and Cpl. Perez (exhi
bitioh bout).
It was distinctly specified that
the evtjpt would be free to the*
public. All are cordially invited
to attend.