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Friday, February 22,1946
ONE MAN’S OPINION
By WALTER KIERNAN
R. J. Thomas says President Truman is weak ... he
doesn’t seem to be able to settle the G. M. strike any
better than the U. A. W. which started it. . . . The C.I.O.
opposed Mr. Truman’s fact-finding legislation but feels
that G. M. should have the common decency to accept
it. . . . It is true that the Democrats raised no title con
tenders for many years. Mr. Truman was not presented
as strong ... he was presented as willing. . . . Now in
Russia . . . Stalin has just won again and there wasn’t
a single vote for an opponent . . . that’s how strong he
stands. There wasn't even an opponent . . . that’s how
strong he stands. ... It came out during the campaign
that Russia won the war which was started by those
well-known capitalists, Hitler and Mussolini. . . . Franco
wired: “If that was a democratic election why do I keep
running into trouble with the UNO?” . . . The UNO had
some difficulty in picking a place to live but none at all
in deciding that Franco would not be invited to the
house warming . . . The only peace-loving nations which
can attend are those which were in the war and a few
old friends like Argentina.
THE COMIC RELIEF
(Rocky Mountain News)
We have a friend who has a philosophy which he
phrases thusly: “Tell the truth and fool ’em.”
The jovial George E. Allen applied that philosophy
when he appeared before the Senate Banking Commit
tee about his appointment to be director of the RFC.
He told all—about his income, the sources thereof, his
various business connections, his directorships, his di
rector’s fees, and what he would and would not do about
giving up private sources of income if he is put into the
big public job.
One quip was particularly effective. He said he would
not relinquish everything because if the Democrats
were not returned in 1948 he would be in a terrible fix.
He kidded himself. He was very frank and very human.
He brought forth laughs, including the first reported
from Senator Taft in the last decade.
And the committee voted for him 14 to 5.
It was all a striking contrast to the grim, lie-passing
session in which Mr. Pauley and Mr. Ickes and Max
Thornburg starred. And the Senators loved it.
The incident seems to prove a few things:
That nobody ever wanted to execute Falstaff; that
this nation loves to laugh and is especially hungry now
for a break in the sustained seriousness of our times and
that Kipling was right when in sizing up “the Ameri
can” way back in 1894 he wrote: “Mine ancient humor
saves him whole.”
Without trying to judge Mr. Allen’s fitness or unfit
ness for handling $15 billion of public money we want
to give him credit for providing what is essential in all
great tragedies such as we have been through — the
comic relief.
STATEHOOD FOR ALASKA
The question of Alaska being made a state is again
being brought up. It is time Alaska should be made a
state. It has been a step-sister long enough in the Sis
terhood of States. Make it a state so that a representa
tive and senators will be sent and they will have votes.
Votes are what count in Washington. As it now is, the
Delegate is simply a cipher, a “0”. He can go around
begging for appropriations, etc.
—C. L. Andrews in “The Eskimo”
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GEORGE WASHINGTON
George Washington, American soldier-statesman,
and first President of the United States, was born in the
family homestead at Bridges Creek, in Westmoreland
County, Va., on February 22, 1732. He was the fourth
generation of the Washington family who had lived in
America.
Washington took a decided part in asserting and de
fending the colonial rights against England, and became
the first Commander-in-Chief of the “Continental
Army.”
Of Washington it was stated, “He had common sense,
lifted to the level of genius.”
Washington, the citizen, became the first President
of the United States on the 30th day of April, 1789. Fol
lowing his second term of office, Washington said fare
well to the people he had served through a generation.
For three years following his retirement he lived at
Mount Vernon, Va., until his death, December 14, 1799.
Through the courtesy of Mrs. E. E. Bartling, of
Coupeville, Wash., The Nugget has been able to repro
due a page from The Ulster County Gazette, Vol. II,
No. 88, dated Saturday, January 4, 1800, published at
Kingston (Ulster County) N. Y., by Samuel Freer &
Co.
The copy of the Ulster County Gazette was given to
Mrs. Bartling by her father, and has been in the posses
sion of the family for many years. She kindly loaned it
to the Nugget for reproduction. We have as faithfully
reproduced the copy: style and of type and general page
make-up, as it were possible for us to do.
The Gazette was a four-page tabloid-size paper, and
this issue dealt, for most part, with the passing and eu
logy of George Washington; and the Napoleonic Wars
| raging in Europe at that time.
IN RUSSIA HE’D BE SHOT
(Rocky Mountain News)
The Communist party is about t oexpel Comrade Earl
Browder, long its leader and perennial candidate for
President of the United States.
It was Comrade Browder’s hard luck to miss the lat
est corkscrew turn of the party line. And so, according
to a manifesto of the party’s national committee, pub
lished in that fascinating periodical, the New York
Daily Worker, he stands convicted of the following
crimes:
“Factionalism. Revisionism. Open defense of Ameri
can imperialism. Political warfare against Marxism
Leninism. Opportunism. Left sectarianism.” And, final
ly, “Browderism.”
Perhaps Comrade Browder isn’t so unfortunate, after
all. At least, he lives in a country where “ismism”’is not
a capital offense.
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EX-GIS ORGANIZE FOR
SELF-HELP IN ALASKAN
ADVENTURE
WASHINGTON—A few nights
ago in the Capitol’s House caucus
room there was a strange meeting.
It was the organization meeting
of a “Veterans’ Alaska Co-opera
tive Corp.’’
Its purpose is simply to establish
i a co-operative effort by which vet
erans with a yen to settle in Alas
ka can pool their funds, talents,
knowledge, etc., to make less slip
pery the toehold they are seeking
in America’s northwest territory.
About 50 persons were present.
Among them was the Alaskan del
egate, E. L. Bartlett, and several
other federal officials. Educational
slides on Alaska were provided by
the Department of the Interior
Land Office. Present also were a
few Alaska business men, like
Carl Eubanks of the Aleutian Live
Stock Co., with headquarters on
Unimak Island.
The rest were all World War II
veterans who have a deep interest
in seeking their fortunes and es
tablishing permanent homes
Alaska.
Bartlett’s office and Interior
seem convinced that these aren't
just restless, fly-by-night GIs.
Principal speakers and leaders of
the movement were Steve Larsson
Homer, ex-Navy ensign who serv
ed in Iceland and the Pacific, but
who had worked his way through
the University of Washington by
jobbing in Alaska; and T. D. (Ted)
Gregg, late of Navy Photo Intelli
gence, who spent most of his
stretch in the Aleutians and the
Alaskan mainland.
So far their plans are to open
their rolls to all serious, healthy
veterans (or their friends or rela
tives) to a non-profit co-operative
organization the primary objec
tives of which would be:
(D To set up a central informa
tion service with a co-op repre
sentative in Alaska to answer spe
cific questions of prospective set
tlers. (Surprisingly enough, this
information is very hard to get.)
<2) To purchase outright or con
tract land, sea and air transporta
tion for moving the members,
family and equipment to Alaska
and providing year-around low
cost service within and outside the
territory. (Surplus LSTs or LCTs
and a C-47 plane).
<3) To set up a housing program,
using Seabee construction meth
ods in erecting engineered-for
Alaska homes and purchasing sur
plus barracks or quonset huts as
temporary quarters for new arriv
als. (Alaska’s present housing
problem is serious, too).
(4) To reduce living costs
through producer-consumer buy
ing and marketing.
(5) To set up an employment
and replacement service that will
practically blanket the territory.
<6) To establish a mutual bank
to serve settlers’ financial needs
at lower rates than now prevail in
the territory and guarantee full
participation in credit benefits of
the G.I. Bill of Rights.
As one of the members put it,
j “It’s just the old forty-niner co-op
: wagon train idea brought up to
| date a hundred years later.’’