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.
Friday, April 12, 1946
THEY BELIEVED
The teaching of Jesus’ crucifixion and resurrection
is a well based historical fact. Our present day calendar
has its beginning in Christ. His disciples in history
numbers in millions who have believed in Him as risen,
living, Saviour and Lord. His original disciples, with
exception of one, gave their lives in martyrdom for the
testimony they gave—that Jesus is risen from the dead
and is Lord and Saviour. They would rather die than
forsake the testimony and command of Him in whom
they believed. Why should they not believe it? They
had seen Him on several occasions since he had been
laid in a tomb, had touched Him and heard Him speak.
Then His last message to them was in promise of the
Holy Ghost whom He would send to be their teacher,
guide and power, which also came to pass. They truly
believed. Peter the leading speaker among them said,
“This Jesus hath God raised up whereof we all are wit
nesses—Therefore let all the house of Israel know as
suredly, that God hath made that same Jesus, whom ye
crucified, both Lord and Christ:’’ Acts 2. Accept Him
as the Lord of your life. He is risen indeed.
Pastor A. E. Capener.
THE RIGHT ROAD
(Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
In accepting the principle of arbitration to end the
costly strike which kept 18 of Seattle’s largest men’s
clothing shops closed for nearly a month, the Retail
Clerks Union acted with sound judgment and in the
public interest.
The Post-Intelligencer earnestly hopes that the time
will soon come when neither wars between nations nor
strikes and lockouts in relations between management
and employees will be necessary in the affairs of man
kind.
Strikes, like wars, are expensive and unnecessary.
No one wins in the long run.
But only through mature judgment on the part of
both management and labor and responsible leadership
on both sides will the strike be eliminated as a costly
and dangerous weapon in industrial relations.
In the selection of Mr. Dave Beck as the arbiter in
the retail clothiers’ strike, a demonstration of good faith
was made whic heventually must govern all bargaining
between employer and employee.
Mr. Beck has always been a vigorous and uncompro
mising champion of the rights of labor. He is a labor
union official himself. But in his dealings with employ
ers on behalf of labor he has invariably demonstrated
the necessary foundation of good management-employee
relations.
And no one can say that the interests of members of
the unions of which Mr. Beck is an official have not
been well and ably served in his dealings with employ
ers.
Fair play, good will and arbirtation of honest differ
ences will go a long way toward the goal at which some
day the world must arrive in its human relations.
That goal is the Golden Rule.
In case you’ve forgotten:
“Do as ye would be done by.”
FATS AND CEREALS
(Cincinnati Enquirer)
There is a world shortage of foodstuffs. The most
acute shortage, the one of greatest gravity, is in cereals.
Taking the world as a whole, people either eat wheat or
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rice. The poorer the standard of living, the greater is
i the dependence of a people on one of these—or on rye
and other cereal grains. We are extremely fortunate in
the United States, because we have an abundance of
food and because we have a wide range of choice.
There are two principal ways in which Americans
can help to prevent large-scale starvation abroad this
year. Neither calls for any sacrifice that is worthy of
the term. One is to avoid waste of food, particularly
bread and fats. The other is to eat less bread and other
foods made of wheat flour, substituting such compar
able foods as potatoes, oatmeal, buckwheat and corn
cakes.
This is primarily a job for American housewives, and,
of course, restaurant and hotel managers. One does not
need to look beyond his own kitchen, on any typical
day, to find the evidence of waste that would be appall
ing to any family in Europe or Asia. It is not a matter
of money. If a loaf of bread turns stale and several
slices are thrown away, the loss is a penny perhaps. And
a penny doesn’t mean much to the average American
family. But if every family in the United States saved
the equivalent of a few slices of bread a day, thehvheat
saved would represent many tons. And the lives saved
abroad would be many.
It is not a matter of generosity. We Americans have
devoted our energies, our wealth and some hundreds of
thousands of precious lives lo a great task in the last
five years. The task is not finished. It will not be fin
ished until the world is a good deal more stable than it
is today. Solely in our own selfish interest, apart from
any humanitarian feelings, we ought to share our vast
food resources with peoples suffering desperately from
war-born shortages. That is one of the most important
things we can do to complete the task left unfinished
i last August when the military defeat of our enemies
i was achieved.
By GEORGE 3 BENSON
President of Harding College
Searcy. Arfcanaaa
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AN ALLEGORY
In the midst of a forest there
was a shrewd mouse-trap manu
facturer who turned out a depend
able item, pis was a home indus
try. Son Joe worked hard for
long hours making steel springs
by hand. Mother kept the books
and wrote the letters. Dad did the
assembly work and finishing.
There were no sales problems.
Customers already had beaten a
p
path to his door—and formed a
waiting line.
But there was beefing in the
line. Deliveries were slow and
service was bad. Finally one day,
in a stack of third-class mail,
Mom found an advertisement for
spring-winding machines. It was
very timely because Joe’s work
bench was the bottle-neck. No
body else could make springs and
he was always rushed to keep up
with Dad. So Dad bought Joe
spring-winding machine.
Industrial Unrest
Turning out a better trap :ha
ever, and a lot more per day, bus
ne<s was fine. Prosperity [-(01
Dad was flush, declared Sntu'.da
afternoons off and raised pay a
the way around. About the Tim
the1 general good feeling wa.- ;
its height. Joe married a rate lil
tie communistic viewpoint. The
it was that the rodent extermin;
tion industry started to under*
complete reorganization.
The little c. v. convinced Jc
that he ought to have a half ir
terest in the business, and thei
wasn’t much Dad could do aboi
it. After the 50-50 partnership w;
formed, the c. v. started tellin
Mom off right regularly, makin
quips about faked accounts, an
gifts from buyers, to shock th
F.E.C. Mom had to keep booh
with the c. v. looking over h€
shoulder, eating an apple.
Industrial Strife
At length the junior partne
made bold to demand a spot o
The payroll for the c. v„ at Mom
pay. with authority to watch Mot
and keep her honest. That wa
the day the spring-winding mr
chine broke down. Repairing il
seemed quite useless to Dad. \vh;
with a shop full of headache
padded payrolls, no profits, an
all departments working at cros
purposes. He’d just quit!
Retiring from active duty 'oi
retaining an interest' Dad pull®
out and took Mom on a fishin
trip. New people had to be hire
at top scale to operate the finish
ing department and run the offict
Joe missed a few payments on th
new spring-winding machine he’<
bought on credit after junking thi
old one. Now nobody but littl
c. v. could think up a way out %
the dilemna.
Such A Brilliance
Here was the solution c. v
worked out: Raise wages again
all along the line, and boost th<
price of traps. Even Joe favorec
it, and he was general manag^
now. It was done. The very nex
buyer showed an unpleasant re
action. Word drifted back alonj
the line of buyers which meltec
down to a third of its averagt
length. Joe ran after the custom
ers but didn’t catch many.
That was Friday. Early Monday
morning a man of few words e£tne
in a truck with some unpaid in
stallment notes. He took the
spring-winding machine away,
leaving the whole crew wondering
where to go to look for a job. Rp
mor has it that the machine was
offered to Dad, cheap, but he was
not interested. By this time, old
crafty Dad was busy with research
on an odorless electronic, destined
in due time, to put mouse-trqps
off the market entirely.
Not For Diamonds
Nor For Rubies
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SANTA FE, N. W„ (/P) — An
Arizona woman offered without
success to leave a deposit of $5,000
in diamond rings and assorted
jewelry with the New Mexico
State law librarian to insure the
safe return of a book she wanted
to borrow.
Librarian Arie Poldervaart said
the volume contained rare ori^jp
al documents in the widely-pub
licized Peralta-Reavis land grant
case, and the offer was rejected
“not because the book is worth
that much, but just on principle.”