THE NOME NUGGET
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Entered as second class matter October 14. 1043, at ‘he postoffice
at Nome, Alaska, under the Act of March 3. 1879.
Nome, Alaska, Friday, February 11, 1949
NORWAY REVERES MEMORY OF LINCOLN
In the Elder Edda, a book written in Iceland a thou
sand years ago in the old Norse language, probably by
a descendant o one of the Norwegian kings, there is a
poem called Havamaal, which includes these lines:
“Goods decay, friends die, we ourselves also die, but
an honored name never dies for him that won it.”
Capt. Charles Olson, of the Fred Olsen Line of Nor-!
way, commander of the motorship Abraham Lincoln
made the following statement a year ago while berthed
in Seattle:
“Today I think it fitting for us to remember Abraham
Lincoln with those words from Edda. No man ever won
a more honored name than Abraham Lincoln. And free
men’s judgment of him will always be the same. A glo
rious fighter for the freedoms.
It seems to me that we could use a whole battalion
of Lincolns not only in the nations behind the “iron
curtain,” but also in some of the nations which suppos
edly have a “government of the people, by the people,
and for the people.”
Argerica’s great Emancipator means much to the
liberty-loving people of Norway, which has a statue of
Lincoln in Oslo’s Frogner Park where children lav!
flowers at its base each July 4th, America’s Independ
ence Day.
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LINCOLN AND THE ORDINARY MAN
(New World News Service)
Eighty years ago America faced crisis. Civil war;
threatened to split to Republic. Abraham Lincoln, log- j
splitter and lawyer, set his course. Though cursed and i
criticized, he stood firm. “I have so many evidences of,
God’s direction that I cannot doubt this power comes'
from above,” he said. “I am satisfied that when the Al
mighty wants me to do or not to do anv particular thing,
he finds a way of letting me know it.”
When, at first, the Federal armies were being de
feated and political enemies decried him, he did what
few statesmen then and since have had the courage to
do. He did not blame the other side or the other fellow. |
He called the nation to repent of its sins. “We have been1
the recipients,” he said, “of the choicest bounties of
Heaven . . . but we have forgotten God. We have vainly
imagined in the deceitfulness of our hearts that all these!
blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and,
virtue of our own. . . . We have become too proud to
pray to the God who made us.”
Now, in Lincoln's tradition, we have won a war of
arms and are fighting a war of ideas for the unity of a
world divided within itself. The war of arms produced
great leaders, but victory depended in the final analysis
upon the devotion and discipline of the ordinary soldier.
So in the ideological war. The issue will be decided by
those same qualities in the ordinary citzen. Ths battle
field is not in Europe or Asia, or even in the United
Nations, but in our own hearts. “As I am, so is my na
tion,” ought to be for everyone the ABC of true democ
racy. For Lincoln, personal and national repentance,
marked the road to the victory. Today, instead of point
ing our finger at the other fellow, we might let Lincoln
point the way for us.
Will President Truman, Generalissimo Chiang Kai
Shek, Prime Minister Attlee be the Lincoln of the 20th
Century? Or will it be a lot of little Lincolns—the log
splitter, the lawyer, the thousands of ordinary men who
can do the extraordinary thing. And will one of them
be you?
INDO-CHINA FIGHTS OPIUM TRAFFIC
SAIGON, Lndo-China, (/P)—Opium smoking will be
*.. ’ 1- -i- 1040 A roront
The National Lincoln
</P) Newsfeatures>
Manv a hard-boiled visitor to Washington has been softened
hv the Lincoln Memorial.
"Worth the trip alone." they may say, blinking in the sun
light after the dim illumination of the interior—dim except for
the gleaming white marble statue of Abraham Lincoln, gentle and
thoughtful, yet powerful and massive at its 19-fool height.
Most-visited of all shrines under supervision of the National
Park Service, the memorial received 1,500,000 tourists the past
travel year.
The beautifully proportioned structure was dedicated on Me
morial Day, May 30, 1922. The architect was Henry Bacon, and
Daniel Chester French chiseled the statue.
The statue faces east, towards the Washington Monument and
the capitol. On the south wall of the central hall, where the sta
tue is located, is inscribed Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. On the
north wall is his second inaugural address.
Murals by Jules Guerin are placed above these two inscrip
tions. They portray the principles by which Lincoln lived truth,
justice, fraternity and charity.
government decree bans sale or use of the narcotic ex
cept by confirmed addicts who must furnish exhaustive
details to the police before being authorized their daily
ration of one gram.
Since 1946 opium had been distributed only through
specialized hospitals, where physicians issued special
certificates to those addicts whose condition made it im
perative that they continue to receive a controlled and
lmited quantity of the drug. Critics argued that these
hospitals were abused and that some of them became
like camouflaged opium dens because physicians were
too freely releasing the amounts of the narcotic under
their control.
In future those addicts who, if deprived of their dailv
dose of opium, might die or become seriously ill, must
undergo an intensive examination from the police be
fore receiving a “smoking license.” They must give
their identity, age, address, profession, details about
their family, the amount of their income, and the quan
tity of opium they thing they require. Photographs and
officially stamped documents must acompany this in
formation. If the authorities decide he really requires
it, the addict may then receive his daily gram—but the
whole neighborhood is likely to know about his vice.
But with the official banning of the drug, an increase
in smuggling is feared.
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CRICKETS FOR THE SLEEPLESS
ATLANTA, Ga. (/P)—Crickets are putting people to
sleep in these parts. That’s what W. E. Voellinger of Ma
can, Georgia, says. He runs a cricket hatchery.
Time was when he sold the critters mostly for bait.
Now he is putting them in little boxes for folks to hang
near their beds. It’s a sure cure for insomnia, he says.
He puts about 50 crickets in the sleep boxes. Listen
ing to their music is lote better than counting sheep, his
customers tell him.
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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. Amundsen
and Rev. Theran McGrew
Sunday:
11:00 a.m. Sunday School.
7:30 p.m. Evening Service.
Wednesday - 3:30 p.m. - Chil
dien’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 p.m.
Wednesday—
Bible Study .7:45 pm.
EVERYONE WELCOME
CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE
Third and Division
Pastor—Lewis I. Hudgins
“No day is well spent without a
talk with God.”
10:00 a.m. Singspiration and Sun
day School classes.
11:00 a.m. Morning message.
7:00 p.m. Yoijng People’s Meeting.
7:30 p.m. Singspiration and special
music.
°. 00 p.m. Evening message.
Wednesday: 7:30 p.m. Melody and
Prayer. \
You are ever welcome to attend
these services.
Come and bring your Bible.
NOME GOSPEL MISSION
of
Alaska Evangelization Society
Rev. Vern Rimling, Pastor
Sunday:
2:00 p.m. Sunday School for^
boys and girls.
Preaching service in the Eskimo
languaga 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.
Wage Total Drops 1
In December
WASHINGTON (/P>—Wage and
salary payments to Americans de
clined in December for the first
time since early last year, the
commerce department reported
this week. ^
An immediate result was a rise
in unemployment compensation
payments.
Both developments were due
chiefly to a drop in factory em
ployment, the department said.
It reported that December wage
and salary payments were at an
annual rate of $137,300,000,000
compared with a rate of $138,000,
000,000 in November.
But despite this decline in the
wage-salary rate, the department
said, all types of personai income
payments in December were
the highest rate ever recorded for
any December. They were at an
annual rate of $220,800,000,000.