THE NOME NUGGET
Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday by the
NOME PUBLISHING CO.
NOME, ALASKA
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W. A. Boucher . .Owner-Publisher
Entered as second clas< matter October 14. 1943, at the postoffice
at Nome, Alaska, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
Nome. Alaska, Monday, August 1, 1949
THOUGHT CONTROL
(By George S. Benson, President, Harding College)
The wisest man who ever lived said that “as a man
thinketh in his heart, so it he." I believe this means that
if a person can control his own thinking powers, he can
make himself whatever he wants to be. A man is what
he is, because of what is deep inside his heart and mind.
At the same time, his actions are the product of his
thought. A man’s deeds reflect only that which lies
within him.
A person living in a free country, like America, has
the perfect liberty to think whatever he will. This is a
great freedom. But not to be overlooked is the heavy re
sponsibility that goes along with this privilege. An
American has the duty of managing his mind in such a'
way that his family, his neighbors, his country—even
he, himself—will benefit because of his way of living.
This freedom brings duty and responsibility.
A man, then, should endeavor to think straight, tor
his own sake. More than that, he needs to think straight
for the good of America, the land that grants him this
freedom. Well, then, do you and I have a chance to be
straight-thinking citizens? Yes, a good chance, much
better than you could hope to find anywhere else on the
globe. If you’re young, you have a better chance of get
ting an education. If older, you have more newspapers,
books, and other things to read.
More radio, more movies, more television. You see,;
these things are not yet controlled by the State, or by a (
political party. You have a chance to do your thinking
and to say what your thoughts are. That’s one great rea-;
son why the planners and plotters, .who desire to have
full “thought control” in their hands, are not getting
you in their power as soon as they’d hoped. Thought
control in America is still in your hands.
Yet, sometimes I wonder whether your thoughts will
always be your own, even in America. We do not picture
the idea of “Thought Control” by the State, or a “Propa
ganda Ministry” as belonging to the American way. But
there are those who would very gradly grab control of
the thinking of the nation. They would not do this open
ly. They would do it by methods htat seem to have
nothing to do with thought control.
Here’s a typical example. “One of the leading “think
ers” in Washington in the Thirties, who at one time
headed the President’s Brain-Trust group, once had this
to say about the “health and welfare” proposals: “There
is a little group of a quarter-million men in this coun
try who visit each any every family in the home at least
once a year or who are called on in their offices. They
have in their charge the most precious thing that each
and every individual citizen has—his or her health.”
They are chosen because they are the one person in
all the world that these citizens, who are their patients,
will trust their most cherished possession to. Those men
are the physicians and the dentists of the country. If
we can ever control the medical and dental professions
we will control the thinking of the entire United
States.” In other words, give us government medicine
and the rest will fall into our hands!
Thought control, that is it. Author of the statement
was Prof. Rexford G. Tugwell, whose socialistic text
books have been thrown out of many schools in this
country. The question well may be raised as to how
many other backers of socialized medicine (compulsory
health insurance) may not also have in mind the corn
plete political thought control of all Americans. Their
goal is government management of everything, even
your thoughts! The same ambition could be influencing
some people who want federal aid to aducation extendi
ed to every public school district in every state of the
union.
GOVERNMENT WORTH OUR TAX
(Hugo S. Sims)
Society, as we know it, could not be perpetuated
without government. Whether it is the best, the best
i possible, or only fair, the continuance of peaceable lives,
the carrying on of farming, business and commerce, or
any of the hundred and one necessary modern activities,
require law and order, established processes, safeguard
and the cooperation possible only through government.
Regardless of some waste, and waste cannot be en
tirely avoided, still the fact remains that the average
citizen gets more for his tax dollars than for.any other
expenditure he makes. The average family head does
not pay as much taxes as his children cost the govern
ment for their education, if he has an average-sized
family. All the rest of the benefits from government he
gets over and beyond that!
Government cannot operate without some money
and, therefore, taxes are necessary. Every citizen
should be willing to pay his proportionate share of the
common cost of these beneficial services.
Of course, every effort should be made by tax of
ficials to equalize taxes so that every citizen is fairly
treated and is not called on to pay proportionately more j
or less than his neighbors pay. Yet, the task of perfect |
equalization is hard to accomplish and just as hard to
maintain after its accomplishment, in view of the chang
ing factors involved.
Notwithstanding the many centuries during which j
various governments have collected taxes, the problem !
still calls for the thought, effort and cooperation of ev
ery good citizen.
BRYNES HELPS ORPHANS
Royalties amounting to about $100,000 received by
former Secretary of State James F. Byrnes, from the
publication of a book, “Speaking Frankly,” have been
put into a special fund to provide scholarships for wor
thy boys and girls.
Because he was left fatherless, Mr. Byrnes has lim
ited beneficiaries to orphans. Already, thirty scholar
ships have been awarded, each providing about $2,000
to each student. The fund will probably be dissipated
within two years.
All that Mr. Byrnes asks of the young people who
benefit from his generosity is that they ‘‘give something
back to society.” Certainly, this is the least that this!
distinguished American can expect from those who owe
their education to his desire to make it possible for
others to secure an education without enduring the
hardships he underwent.
INDISCRIMINATE—Now we’ve heard everything.
The post office reports that pens are stolen frequently'
from its writing desks in post-office lobbies. There may :
be something less worth acquiring than a post-office
pen, but we’ve never heard of it—undess it might be a
post-office blotter—Pittsburgh Press.
A LONG, HARD PULL
Unnlakleet News
July 24, 1949
Dear Editor:
The month of July has been a
busy month for the women. They
had to take care of the children,
dogs and the gardens, fishing at
the same time, while the men
were working in the canneries.
The Eskimo Mother’s Club
sponsored 4th of July celebration.
Airs. Lilly Ivanoff and Mrs. Selma
Lockwood gathered donations
from the people here. The dona
tions consisted of cash and miscel
laneous goods. They had races,
games and contests on land and
water. They topped the day’s fun
with our National Anthem.
With the help of Mr. Elmo Alil
ler of the ANS the women set the
local vegetable prices. Much to
our disappointment we were in
formed that we would have to
lower the rhubarb price to 10c per
lb. We were sorry there was no
market at Nome, for the rhubarb.
However, this change caused
quite a bit of scheming amongst
the woman. The result was that
we canned the rhubarb, so thanks
to Mr. Miller. Mrs. Warbelow
helped us with the canning. She
is the leader of the 4-H club. They
canned some rhubarb. It pays to
have canning outfit. The Eskimo
Mothers’ Club’s pressure cooker
was a great help but their canner
or sealer was not used as parts
were missing.
Talk about fun, when the Eski
mo Mother’s Club women went
seining foj? salmon. We seined 129
salmon and humpies. Leave it to
women they can do hustling. The
following day, July 22nd, they
canned 258 cans of fish. But did
we sweat with a small outfit. It
took us to process them 18 hours,
but it was worth it. Mr Warbelow
let us use the school home econo
mic kitchen. We intend to can
vegetables and berries. Our spe
cialty m canning in the near lu
ture will be berry jams. So don’t
be surprised if you see some gen
uine cranberry jam on the mar
ket, and don’t forget to order this
Fall.
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Johnson of
Fairbanks came to visit their son,
Art Johnson and his family. They
are enjoying seeing many of their
friends here. Art saw two big
nears down the coast a few days
ago. So tonight some of the men
went down to take a look for
them, might bring the bacon
home.
Wayne Ebens finally arrived
about two weeks ago from White
Mountain. They moved from there
as they have a house of their own
to live in.
A double wedding was perform
ed by the U. S. Commissioner, Ste
phan Ivanoff. He is resigning Au
gust 1st, and thus much rush, and
there will be more marriages be
fore he leaves his office. Lucy
Sookiayak and Silas Sockpealik.
Eva Otton and Peter Takak were
joined in marriage.
Thank you for the Nome paper
you’ve faithfully mailed to me. I
will be seeing you soon on my way
to Noutak. So this is niv last news
that I am writing for you.
Sincerely,
Emily Ivanoff Brown.
Unalakleet ANS teach, r.
CZECHS TO AID WARSAW
PRAGUE, i/P)—The Czech gov
ernment announced through its
press agency that it had recru >1
167 boys and girls from all over
the country to ship to Poland as a
“volunteer brigade in the recon
struction of Warsaw.’’ They will
be engaged in house building and
in road building.