THE NOME.NUGGET
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Nome, Alaska, Wednesday, December 27, 1950
PEACE ON EARTH
(By George S. Benson, President Harding College)
People of good will have hoped and prayed since the
dawn of civilization for “peace and plenty" on the earth.
Philosophers have pronounced ten thousand learned
theories on how it could be achieved. But only one re
cipe for lasting peace has appeared. The Man of Galilee
gave it to the world. Man has failed to make it work.
Peace on earth thus remains a spiritual goal. It perhaps
is THE goal, mankinds ultimate quest, the Why and
Wherefore of life; for it cannot be attained until Chris-!
tianity is lived in all nations, becomes a flame in all
men’s hearts.
On the other hand, “plenty” is a relative term in pop
ular understanding. The word makes me recall the pic-1
ture in my old school reader showing “The First
Thanksgiving” as it was observed by the American Pil-i
grims. The “plenty” in that picture was food—turkey, j
and pumpkin pie, and potatoes baked under the coals, j
The Pilgrims were thankful for their prospects in the
new world, for their freedom, and their “plenty” or suf
ficiency of food. j
Unquestionably the Pilgrims would have been only
a little less thankful had their harvest of foodstuff been
considerably less bountiful. Yet “bread”—meaning, in;
its broadest sense, a sufficiency of food, or plenty”—has
become the great political and social watchword in our
strifetorn world. Some people have made “bread” a god.'i
The communist leaders are marshalling masses of hu
manity to make war over it—a war their describe as the;
“Have Nots” against the “Haves.”
In sections of Europe, in Asia and especially in the
Orient, I have seen countless millions of poverty-strick
en people whose every waking moment had to be con
cerned with seeking food for survival. Their agriculture
had progressed little in the last thousand years. It is up
these people, uninformed and constantly at grips with
hunger, that the Kremlin masters are waging their
propaganda wars. Had these masses achieved any sub-!
stantial degree of “plenty'’ it is doubhtful that the Reds
would have succeeded so well in this effort.
Thus “plenty” is a practical stepstone toward peace
on earth as well as a humane ideal. We in America have
found a recipe for “plenty"—our freedom philosophy in
government and our free enterprise economic system.
It hasn't made everybody rich but the poorest American ■
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BOY SCOUTS REPAIR AND
j WRAP OVER 750 TOYS
The Boy Scouts, Troop 666, re
j ceived wonderful response in its
! request for used toys to be re
' paired for Christmas, and it is re
ported that over 750 separate toys
were repaired and gift wrapped
! for distribution on Christmas Eve.
According to Scoutmaster Ed
Hawkinson, it took a crew of 20
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several hours on Saturday just to
wrap the packages and pile them
in ten large cartons.
Korean Situation
V t A Glance —
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had made a “juncture ” with the
Eighth, but did not elaborate.
Ideal flying weather permitted
Allied planes to turn out in force
to blast Red troops and supplies
throughout North Korea^B-29 Su
perforts dropped 176 tons of
bombs on a variety of targets.
Pilots reported no opposition.
Announcing the successful with
drawal from Hungnam, MacAr
thur declared the United Nations
forces had been blocked in aims
to end the war and unify Korea
by Red Shina’s “surreptitious” in
tervention.
He said the Allies’ November
offensive which smoked out Chi
nese communist intentions had
exposed “secret political and mil
itary decisions of enormous
scope.” His forces, he stated, had
been withdrawn intact ready to
fight again. The evacuation had
been carried out with light cas
ualties and no loss of materiel.
Combined naval forces trans
ported 105,000 American, South
Korean, British and Puerto Rican
troops and nearly 100,000 non
communist North Korean civil
ians.
The northeast Korean port was
left devastated.
NEWS IN BRIEF
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days of pre-Christmas warnings
and doubled law enforcement
crews trying to keep the holiday
safe and sober.
The drab hangover is a record
of 11 traffic deaths, 362 persons
facing drunk driving charges and
a grand total of 1,222 arrests for
drunkenness.
LOS ANGELES, (£>)—-'While he
and his family attended holiday
church services, James D. Mills
told police Monday, a thief en
tered their home and stole:
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An 18-pound turkey, $40 worth
! of gifts from under the Christmas
! tree—and the family Bible.
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SPOKANE, (iP)—The thermom-'
eter read -*6 degrees here Monday i
—warmest Christmas day sines
1890.
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TOKYO, {IP) — An Everett, |
Wash., man has moved into com- j
mand of task force 77 off Korea.
General MacArthur’s headquar
ters disclosed Monday the post has
been taken by Rear Adm. Ralph
A. Ogstie, one of the navy’s top
atomic experts.
Ofstie lists his present address
as Everett, Wash.
Succeeding Rear Adm. E. C.
Ewen, the new commander will,
have under his command the car
riers Princeton, Valley Forge,
Philipine Sea and Leyte. It was
this group which took part in the
successful withdrawal of U. N.
forces from Hungnam.
SEATTLE, {IP) — The govern
ment’s deportation hearing against
Ernesto Mangaoang was virtually
complete today. With the excep-!
tion of final briefs to be filed by ;
both sides, it was ready to be sent
to Washington, D. C., trail exam- j
iner John Keane said.
Mangaoang, a Seattle cannery!
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citizen is twice as well fed as ninety-nine per cent of
Asia’s millions—and we are a nation of peace-lovers.
The degree and the wide distribution of America’s
“plenty” caused the communist plotters long ago to give
us the idea of violent revolution here. So “plenty” IS a
factor in war or peace.
Until world-girdling, war-making communism is
overcome, we need as a nation to concentrate our think
ing, and planning, and action on that objective. But if
we are victorious there is a great challenging task await
ing—the expansion of “plenty” to the underdeveloped
and unwisely used regions of the earth. We cannot do
it by sending federal government funds and a handful
of technicians to Borneo and Mandalay; or a steel plant
or electric generator to Yugoslavia, or a combine to
China. j
The two great hopes for future peace and plenty on
earth, and the expansion of Christianity, are educa
tion and research. Once the world menace of interna
tional Communist is overcome, we cauld take a fraction
of the amount of money spent in Europe on the Marshall
Plan and bring a million college-age youth to America
to learn, first hand, what makes America tick. Those
with aptitudes could be kept here for extended training
in the ways American people get things done—in agri
culture, in industry, in forestry and mineral develop
ment. :
Think of what 100,000 Chinese with American agri
cultural and industrial knowhow, and with a first hand
knowledge of our distribution and marketing system,
could do in a generation in a free enterprise China! In
25 or 30 years such a force could bring that wallowing
backward' country upon the road of progress and plenty.
The same thing could transpire in every other nation.
And during that 30 years, American science, through
research would be further exploring and developing
limitless possibilities of God’s material blessings to the
people of the earth—the natural resources.
GEORGE MARSHALL PASSES
ON IN STATES
Word was received yesterday
morning from Seattle by Ben *
Mozee of the death of George
Marshall who passed away yester
day after a lingering illness.
George Marshall, an oldtimer in
the area was for many years con
nected with the maintenance of
the Pioneer Igloo Hotel with his
wife, and in later years worked as
jailer in the U. S. Federal jail, as
well as operating a small transfer
business.
union official, was arrested last
October in a nation-wide roundup
of what the justice department
called key communist aliens.
Conclusion of the hearing was
accompanied by a blast against
“dilly-dallying” in the prosecution
of such cases.
“We’re not going to let them
drag these cases out indefinitely,”
said regional immigration director
John P. Boyd. We’re going to in
sist on completion of this case and
other communist suspect cases as
fast as possible.”
LOS ANGELES, (/P)—Gorgeous
George is now the legal, as well
as professional, name of the mar
celled wrestler. He had it changed
in court yesterday from George
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Maynard Wagner. His wife, Betty,
said “George” is the only last
name their two children know.
BRINDISI, Italy, (J-P) — The
American freighter “Cape Race”
docked here today with a cargo of
United States aviation equipment
and supplies for the Italian air
force.
FRANKFURT, Germany, IjP)—
The heaviest snow in 61 years
smothered the southern two
thirds of Western Germany toda\-t
The snowfall, which began on
Christmas night, ranged from 13
inches on the plains around
Frankfurt to 68 inches in the Alps.
Weather records showed noth
ing to match it since 1889.
Trains and planes, however,
continued to run almost on sched
ule.
SEATTLE, (/P)—A Seattle brok
erage firm advertised for sale to
day about $330, OOJ worth of
Olympia Brewing company stock
from the estate of the late A. E.
Lathrop of Fairbanks, Alaska.
In listing 11,549 shares of par
ticipating preferred stock, Grande
& Co. said: “We have purchased
the above total holdings of the es
tate.” The stock was offered at
$28.50 a share.
Lathrop was a long-time direc
tor of the Olympia company.
DETROIT, (/P) — A would-be
robber turned into a “milk icicle*
last night.
He tried to rob Mrs. Dorothy
Kozol while she was returning
from a grocery. But Mrs. Kozol
slammed a half-gallon milk carton
over his head.
The carton broke and milk
streamed over his face. In the 2
above zero temperature the milk
froze almost instantly.
He fled—without any money.
LONG BRANCH, N. J. (/P) —
Three-year-old Virginia Kreto
wicz was very proud of her new
bathrobe Christmas Day.
She showed it off to her little
friends and her family.
But it caught fire when she got
too near an open fireplace in he?:*
Red Bank home.
Yesterday, Virginia died of her
burns.