THE NOME NUGGET
Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday by The
NOME PUBLISHING CO.
Nome, Alaska
Telephone: Main 125 p. O. Box 618
W. A. and EMILY BOUCHER .Editors
•1.50 PER MONTH $16.00 A YEAR
Entered as second class matter October 14, 1943, at the postoffice
at Nome, Alaska, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
__ _ •
Friday, July 16, 1948.
CZECHS AND SLOVAKS VOTE
COVIETISM, THE FALSE GOD, ascribes to itself
freedom, democracy; the mother country and all
of its satellites are designated as "free, democratic
nations."
A striking illustration of this "new democracy"
was perfectly exemplified when, on a recent Sun
dayy, the Czechs and Slovaks "voted."
Of course, Czechs and Slovaks could have re
frained from voting, by staying at home; but use of
this liberty was rather dangerous; the absentee was
regarded as a Fascist or some other brand of miser
able wretch ;besides it made him subject to a fine
of $200 and one month in jail.
These "free and democratic citizens" could have
used a secret ballot; yes, there was a booth which
doubtless resembled what American citizens are
accustomed to employ when they cast their ballots.
But so enthusiastic was a very large percent of the
voters, that they voted publicly in the presence of
government election committees, so they could not
be accused of voting against the government. How
ever, even if they had chosen to employ the secret
ballot, the result would have differed very little.
Although the law provides that voters "may"
mark their ballots inside of screen booths, each
voter was compelled to accept two easily identified
ballots and to discard the ballot he did not use into
the waste basket under the eyes of a Communist
election official. Let us suppose that on entering a
booth, you receive two blank ballots, one of them is
red, while the other is white. You mark your ballot
very carefully then you come out in sight of the
opposition party, and deposit it in the proper place.'
Meanwhile you must publicly in open view discard
your white ballot. There isn't much doubt as to how
you voted, is there?
Meanwhile every effort was made to show that
the negative voter was not merely an opponent of !
the government and therefore unworthy of a job'
or any other consideration, but he was a parasite
and a menace to society.
Nevertheless in spite of all this, there were per
haps a million blank ballots cast; these were de
posited in the ballot boxes of Czechoslovakia by the
heroes, heroines and prospective martyrs — of free
dom and democracy.
%
POOR U.S.A.
t
(The Catholic Sentinal)
|T SEEMS THAT POOR Uncle Sam, as he is fam
“ iliarly called, just cannot do anything to suit oth
ers; he is always getting himself disliked.
During the recent war, he poured out his treas
ures by the billions in the way of lend-lease mater
ial, offered the lives of hundreds of thousands of his
sons to help the Soviet Union conquer the Germans,
etc., now he is just the meanest thing alive, a Fas
> * • i *» • ••
' ONB MAN BAND ,
itcoetl I
I
vi x._i _ _/iv
cist, an imperialist and all else that is low and vile;
at least so his former Soviet ally maintains.
\
Then there is our cousin, England, with whom
we surely want to be on the best of terms; there
may have been a time when some Americans did
not over love the British but things have changed;
Americans realize now that our British cousins
should be among our best friends and that it is just
absolutely necessary for us to take their part, as we
have done in two recent World Wars.
Now comes the question of Palestine; maybe
we (the U. S. A.) have bungled this up mournfully;
but anyway it is stated, on the best authority, by
correspondents, who apparently are unbiased and
ought to know, that our relations with England
have worsened very materially in recent weeks,
so much so that some fear it may have a serious
effect upon protection and restoration of the Euro
pean continent. We earnestly hope that this may
not be true.
Then there are the Chinese; surely we have tried
to be friendly with them, within limitations that the
war in Europe and other causes imposed upon us.
Now we are informed that many of the Chinese are
beginning to hate America, because they fe£l that
we are treating the Japanese too gently. In doing
this, they fail, altogether to look at the other side of
the picture.
For example, just now the Soviet is making a
superhuman effort to win favor with the Japanese,
while on the Japan front, the United States is losing
to Russia the battle of radio propaganda. The Rus
sians are still jamming the Voice of America broad
casts but are getting a steadily growing audience
for their Japanese programs from Siberia. These
if necessary to insist, paint up the U. S. A. in the
usual false, distorted and. hate producing manner.
When the Russian programs started they were
very awkward and did not worry the U. S. occupa
tion authorities. Recently they have been getting
better and have been effective in planting all sorts
of rumors among the Japanese ,to our discredit.
So while the U. S. A. is endeavoring to save
Japan from the clutches of the Soviet, on the other
I hand our Chinese friends are becoming more and
more angry with us because, in their opinion, we
are not treating the Japanese with sufficient harsh
neess.
So it is a great old world isn't it; and poor U. S
A. always seems to get the worst of it.
-.»* ^ t
CHURCHES
CATHOLIC CHURCH
Saturday 1:30 p.m. Catechism
Class.
Sunday:
Masses at 8:00 and 10:00 a.m.
At Base 4:30 pan.
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
dren’s Miracle Book Club.
Thursday - 7:30 p.m. - Prayer
Meeting.
FEDERATED CHURCH
Sunday
No morning services at the Fed
erated Church, except the Sunday
School as usual at 10:00 a.m.
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
Corner of Third and Division
Rev. Lewis I. Hudgins, Pastor
Prayer cheers the heart and
clears the brain.
10:00 a.m. Singspiration and Sun
day School Classes.
11:00 a.m. Morning message.
7:30 p.m. Singspiration and spe
cial 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.
NOME GOSPEL MISSION
of
Alaska Evangelization Society
Rev. Vern Rimling, Pastor *
Sunday:
2:00 p.m. Sunday School.
7:30 p.m. Gospel Service.
Tuesday:
7:30 p.m. Prayer and Testimony
Thursday:
Sabbath School 11 a.m. Saturday.
2:00 to 4:00 p.m. Bible Club for
Boys and Girls.
Friday:
7:30 p.m. Bible Study.
EMERGENCY HOSPITAL
OPENED TUESDAY
The Maynard Columbus Hos- ^
pital, with twelve beds in its new
emergency quarters, opened last
Tuesday when the patients Were
moved from the Marks Air Force
Base Hospital to the emergency
location in the former Native
School building on Second Ave
nue and D St.
The hospital is now equipped
with most of the essential facilities
and a few more pieces of equip
ment are expected on the next
boat.
Patients who were moved to
town were Mrs. W. Stettinger and
infant daughter, Mrs. Alfred Top
kok, C. F. Jamison, Mrs. Andy
Peterson and Clyde Kostenbader.
The staff of the hospital con
sists of Dr. J. B. Tucker, super
intendent, Mrs. Pearse Walsh, re
ceptionist, nurses Mrs. Vernon
Jacobson, Mrs. Lawayne Jones md *
Katherine Eckert. Madeline Green
of Kotzebue is in charge of the
kitchen.