THE NOME NUGGET
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Entered as second class matter October 14, 1943, at the postoffice
at Nome, Alaska, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
Nome, Alaska, Friday, October 14,1949
OUR AMERICAN HERITAGE
(By George S. Benson, President, Harding College)
America, like the rest of the world, is passing through
a great transition. Whereas for a generation we have
concentrated upon stability and have sought for means
to avoid another depression, the time has now arrived
when attention is beginning to focus upon production—
upon a dynamic economy of plenty.
There are reasons to believe that within 30 years our
national income may increase to $400 billion annually;
that the purchasing power of the workmans’ wages may
double. There are also reasons for believing that our na
tional income might decrease to $120 billion a year, that
the purchasing power of the workman’s wages might
decrease to $120 billion a year, that the purchasing j
power of the workman’s wages might decrease by 50
per cent, and that the standard of living for the entire
nation might do down 50 per cent below today’s level
within 20 years.
Whether this nation moves on to a higher national in
come, to higher purchasing power of the workman’s
wages, shorter hours, in an economy of plenty; or whe-5
ther we move to the lower income, the lower purchas-;
ing power of wages and the lower standard of living for !
the entire nation depends upon what we do with our j
present American heritage.
This heritage does not consist of our wide fields, our
fertile plains, our cities, our bank accounts, our coal,
iron, oil, gas and other natural resources. There are
other resources in equal quantity and Russia has two
times our quantity. Our heritage, which is unique to
America alone, is our unparalleled productive system.
Without being aware of what was actually happen
ing and without central direction, America has achieved
a man hour productivity two times as high as that en
joyed in the best countries of Europe, such as England, j
Sweden and Switzerland. We have a man hour produc
tivity about five times as high as that now prevailing in
Russia and 10 to 20 times as high as that prevailing in
most of the Orient.
It is a statistical lact that an American workman can
buy with his wages two times as much in food, clothing,
housing, transportation, entertainment and education
for his children as a workman at a similar job in the
best countries of Europe and five time sas much as in
Russia. It is also a statistical fact that our national in
come is equal to the national income of the next six
highest countries. It is likewise a fact that we send more
young people to high school and college than does all1
the rest of the world combined.
Production offers the only means of creating wealth.
A measure of our productive capacity occurred during
the last two years of World War II, when we produced
more armament that our enemies and allies combined.
Now that productive capacity is giving to us automo
biles, radios, telephones, refrigerators, store bought
clothing, a variety of food—yes, a standard of living the
like of which no segmeut of the human race before ever
experienced.
A similar production record in China, in India, or
Africa, would dispel the poverty that is proverbial
•there. If Russia had a productive capacity equal to ours
she would in a generation dominate and rule all of the
earth.
300,000,000 PEOPLE FOR PEACE
A “bargain policy for peace” is what Senator Arthur
H. Vandenberg, of Michigan, calls the $1,314,010,000
arms air program. He says it will be an investment in
“prime and vital peace insurance.”
The Michigan Senator advocates passage of the bill
now before the Seneate, although he did not favor the
original arms aid bill presented by the Administration.
He objected to the power left in the White House to dis
ROTARY CLUB
Chitf Huxley Gives
Fire Prevention Information
If all the fires that have destroy
ed property each year in the
United States were placed on 50
foot lots, they would stretch on
both sides of a continuous street
from New York to San Francisco,
Chief Sam Huxley of Marks Air
Force Base told the Rotarians at
their meeting yesterday noon. On
that continuous street, every third
of a mile you would pass someone
who had been burned to death,
and in every quarter of a mile
someone who was severely burned.
Whereas the chief cause of fires
used to be oil stoves, Chief Hux
ley said, matches and cigarettes
were the chief offenders today,
with 87,000 fires cased this past
year. Alaska has the highest death
rate from fires of any place in the
U. S., he said, caused in part by
toxic gases from woolen clothing,
partly from especially low temper
atures coupled with low humidity,
or dryness.
Chief Huxley has just reterned
from the Fire Chief’s Convention,
and gave as important prevention
methods: neatness, with all rub
bish cleaned up at all times, good
fire extinguishers readily avail
able, and regular checks on chim- j
neys.
President Stan Morgan an- .
“13” Unlucky For
Fairbanks Woman
FAIRBANKS, itfP) — The 13th
has been unlucky for Mrs. Mary
Carter and perhaps she thought
she should have “stood in bed.”
But even that didn’t do her any
good.
Her rooming house, which she
had recently converted from a 44
year-old bar, caught fire early yes
terday, sending Mary Carter, her
four-year-old child and her room
ers scurrying in their nightclothes
to safety.
“My unlucky number certainly
is 13,” she declared afterward.
Another of her rooming house
ventures burned to the ground on
Friday the 13th of February, 1947.
Building loss was estimated at
$30,000. Mrs. Carter said her per
sonal losses were $5,000.
nounced that Russ Apple, regional
officer of the Boy Scouts would be
in town the last week of October
for Scout leader’s training, help in
setting up the new Cub Scout
Pack, and give assistance to the
regular Boy Scout Fund Drive.
President Stan appointed Bob
Treat, Larry Galvin and Ben
Young to assist with the drive.
Tom Tucker of Pan American
Airways was a guest.
tribute our military aid. Nevertheless, he thinks that
the present bill has been rewritten sufficiently to jus
tify his support.
Mr. Vandenberg denies that the program involves an
arms race because, he says, it only aims to equip exist
ing forces. Moreover, no amount of arms, in his opinion,
can compare, as a war deterrent, with the warning
found in Article V of the twelve-nation North Atlantic
Pact.
This article, according to the Senator from Michigan,
notifies potential aggressors that they will be confront
ed, not with the billion dollars’ worth of arms that
would be sent to Europe, but with “all the resources of
300,000,000 people.”
LOOKS LIKE ENOUGH OIL
Apparently, the United States will not have to worry
about its supply of oil and gasoline for centuries to
come. For many years, there have been doleful prophe
cies that we would run out of this fuel.
American investments in the Middle East have been
closely connected with the possible necessity to get oil
from that region in time of war. This has been changed,
apparently ,by the announcement of the U. S. Bureau of
Mines that a new process to extract oil from shale is
economically feasible. In 1944, Congress provided for
the experiments that have produced what enthusiastic
engineers call an “industrial miracle."
The experts say that a single plateau of marlstone
shale, in west central Colorado, contains about seven
times more oil than the United States has used in the
ninety years since oil was discovered in Pennsylvania.
In fact, the plateau has twenty-two times more recover
able oil than the proven petroleum reserves of the en
tire United States.
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CHURCHES
CATHOLIC CHURCH
Masses:
8:00 a.m.
11:15 a.m.
10:00 a.m.—M. A. F. B. Chapel
LAVINIA WALLACE YOUNG
MISSION
Pastors—Rot. Thoron McGrow
Rev. Paul B. F. Carlson
Rot. Robt. Treat, Methodist pastor
I Sunday—
10:00 a.m. Eskimo Speaking
Service.
11:00 a.m. Sunday School.
7:30 p.m. Evening Service.
Wednesday—
2:00 p.m. Children’s Mirad^
Book Club.
Thursday—
7:30 p.m. Mid-week Service.
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THE METHODIST CHURCH
(FEDERATED)
Rev. Robert Treat, Minister
Sunday—
9:45—Sunday School.
11:00—Morning Worship; Anthem
iby Men’s Section of the Senior
Choir, Sibelius’s Finlandia, “Be
Still My Soul.” Message, “If I
Were The Minister.”
7:30—Evening Service — Even
song, and Message, “Dwight L.
Moody. The Christian.”
Evening Fellowship Following.
Tuesday—after School, J unior
Choir Rehearsal.
Wednesday—7:00, Senior Choir
Rehearsal.
Friday—7:30, Teacher’s Meeting,
at the Parsonage.
ASSEMBLY OF GOD
PENTECOSTAL
Third Avenue West
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Miss H. E. Brown
Missionary in Charge
Sunday—
Sunday School .10:00 a.m.
Adult Bible Class.11:00 a.m.
Evening Service .7:30 p.m.
Tuesday—
Young Peoples Meeting 4:00 p.m.
Wednesday—
Bible Study .7:30 p.m.
Friday—
Bible Study and
Prayer Meeting .7:00 p.m.
EVERYONE WELCOME
CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE
Third and Division
Pastor—Lewis I. Hudgins
“It is possible to live a large life
on a little capital. <If you don’t be
lieve this ask God to show you.)
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.
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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
language by James Savok.
7:30 p.m. Gospel Service.
Tuesday—
7:30 p.m. Bible Study—trans
lated into the Eskimo language.
Thursday—
2:00 to 4:00 p.m. K.Y.B Club for
boys and girls.
Friday—
7:30 pm. Prayer, Praise and
Testimony.