THE NOME NUGGET
Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday by the
NOME PUBLISHING CO.
NOME, ALASKA
Telephone: Main 125 P. O. Box 618
$1.50 PER MONTH $16.00 A YEAR
W. A. Boucher .Owner-Publisher
Emily Boucher .Local Editor
Jim Frye .-... Editor
Entered as second class matter October 14, 1943, at :he postoffice
at Nome, Alaska, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
Nome, Alaska, Friday, November 5, 1948
JOINT EFFORT
(Fairbanks News-Miner)
A recent issue of the Jesuit Mission magazine carried
a story on human relations, reprinted in the Milwaukee
Journal, which should be required reaching for men ev
erywhere now at loggerheads over questions threaten
ing the future of mankind.
The story was told by the Rev. Father Menager, S. J.,
Catholic missionary in Bethel. It described the manner
in which the people of McGrath labored together to in
stall a church in that tiny community, the fourth ooened
in the far north under Father Menager’s guidance.
Through the help of friends in the United States
Father Menager collected funds to buy an old building
in McGrath to be converted into a House of Wor
ship.
A Jewish contractor offered his tractor to null the
building to its new location, the story related. The trac
tor was diven by a Russian; an Irishman took charge of
anchorging the church in its new location; a Pole fixed
the doors. A German and his wife completed the finish
ing of the interior while Eskimo families helped decor
ate it.
A Methodist woman provided the benches, and a
recent convert played the organ at the dedicatory
mass.
Thus a variety of race's, faiths and nationalities in an
isolated Alaskan community mingled their efforts in ac
complishment of a joint project for the benefit of all.
The moral is or should be plain to all including the men
in the striped pants and cutaway coats who are charged
with adjusting their differences, racial and other, to
safeguard the world’s peace and security.
The difference is, in Paris they talk about the United
Nations. In McGrath, they practice it.
REPARATIONS AND THE RUHR
(New World News Service)
The problem confronting democratic statesmen since
the end of the war is how to create a united core of na
tions in Western Europe.
Fundamental to this is the finding of a realistic solu
tion to traditional hatreds between France and Ger
many. It is no new problem. For over 75 years the rival
ry between Germany and France and the French fear of
aggression have been the powder keg of European poli
tics. Out of the bitterness of defeat in 1870 and the rav
ages of World War I France has consistently demanded
the internationalization of the Ruhr. It was this demand
which led to the compromise in the Treaty of Ver
sailles.
Again, after World War II, teamwork between
France, Britain and America came close to foundering
on France's demand that the Ruhr be taken away from
Germany and internationalized.
Significance of the Ruhr has been pointed up lately
by the fact that European self-help under the Marshall
Plan is being stimulated in that area. America believes
that an adequate system of factory inspection will in
sure against armament production for another war. To
what extent German factories should be dismantled and
shipped to France and other allies as reparations has
caused some disunity among the Western Powers.
In this situation it is encouraging to note that M. Rob
ert Schuman, French Foreign Minister, has taken a
strong line to insure that the traditional mistrust of
France for Germany be alleviated so that Frenchmen
and Germans can fight together in the ideological war.
In the Ruhr city of Dusseldorf, M. Schuman spoke re
cently of reparations. He told the Germans, “There are
CAN’T DO A THING WITH IT
___ _ - _ i i i I It
umis y
also German interests to consider and that is why I have
talked this afternoon to churchmen, trade unionists and
political party representatives. We must make decisions
on the basis of what is just and right not only for our
own people but also for the Germans.”
Statesmanship like this on both sides of the French
German border will de much to create the atmosphere
in which those age-old rivalries will disappear.
i
NO PLACE FOR THE FREE
(Palmer Hoyt, Jr.)
In many ways, the current east-west battle in the
United Nations is reminiscent of the north-south strug
gle in the United States in the early nineteenth century.
This time, however, the battle is not over four million
American Negro slaves, but over the slavery of a great
percentage of the human race.
Since the beginning of the United Nations organiza
tion, the United States and the Soviet Union have been
at odds over qualifications for new members. Much as
the north and the south fought over the admission of
slave and free states to the Union, Russia and America
are fighting today in the U. N.
As with the South, the Russians have at times been
willing to compromise. They have let it be known that
they would be willing to admit non-Communist states if
we will permit a like number of Soviet-slave state to
enter the U. N.
It may sound like a good idea, until subjected to care
ful thought. Then the inherent fallacy becomes appar
ent.
On the other side of the world we find the Commun
ist states voting consistently with the Soviet Union on
all important issues. Not to do so would be Marxist here
sy, would subject any dissenting states to dosage of the
medicine given Marshal Tito, and would probably cause
collapse of the dissenting regime if not actual subjuga
tion of the country
Thus the Soviets* use of their twenty-seventh veto in
barring entry of Ceylon into the U. N. is easily under
stood. Ceylon is not a Communist country, nor is there
much chance of it becoming one in the near future. In
Soviet eyes its presence in the U. N would only compli
cate matters, therefore*the veto must be invoked
We doubt seriously if even the Russians beh^v* th~
excuse they used in taking veto action. They claimed
■hat Cevlon, while nominally independent, was still un
der British domination, by virtue of the presence of a
British governor-general. If that were true, Canada and
all other dominions would have to be denied member
ship. For they, too, have governors- general.
So the U. N. situation continues like that of the north
and the south, with one important exception. Before the
war, the south was fighting to maintain slavery within
its own territories, and did not care whether or not there
was slavery in the north. Today the Soviet Union in
fighting to keep slavery within its own expanding ter
ritories, and to force slavery on the entire world.
CHURCHES
CATHOLIC CHURCH
Sunday—
Masses at 8 a.m. and 10 a.m.
At the Base Chapel at 4:30 p.m.
LAVINIA WALLACE YOUNG
MISSION
Pastors - Rev. H. R. Amundse
and Rev. Theran McGrew
Sunday:
11:00 a.m. Sunday School.
7:30 p.m. Evening Service.
Wednesday - 3:30 p.m. - Chi
dien’s Miracle Book Club.
Thursday - 7:30 p.m. - Prayt
Meeting.
FEDERATED CHURCH
Sunday
10:00 a.m. Sunday School.
PENTACOSTAL ASSEMBLY O
GOD
Third Avenue West
Pastor A. E. Capener
Sunday—
Sunday School.10:30 a.nr
Evening service .7:45 p.rr
Wednesday—
Bible Study .7:45 pit
EVERYONE WELCOME
CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE
Third and Division
Pastor—Lewis I. Hudgins
“Bad habits are like a comfort
able bed, easy to get into, but hare
to get out of.”
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 and
Prayer.
Come and bring your Bible.
You are ever welcome to attend
these services.
NOME GOSPEL MISSION
of
Alaska Evangelisation Society
Rev. Vern Rimling, Pastor
Sunday:
2:(K) p.m. Sunday School.
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.
SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST
SERVICES
at
Pastor's Residence, corner of B St.
between 3rd and 4th Ave.
Sabbath School—10 a.m. Saturday
Morning Worship—11 a.m.
Visitors welcomed.
Fred H. Wagner, Pastor
BRYNE-FREEMAN NUPTIALS
PERFORMED WEDNESDAY
Sgt. Horace O. Freeman, of
Marks Field and Elaine Marion
Byrne of the Maynard Columbus
Hospital staff were married Wed
nesday evening at 7:00 in the Base
Chapel by Chaplain Darling with
Marilyn Munnand Sgt. Kenneth
Hebert as attendants.
The young couple will make
their home in Nome.
Mr. and Mrs. Jamas Walsh of
Pan American Airways are the
parents of a daughter, Elizabeth
Ann, born Wednesday, Nov. 3.