2 THE NOME NUGGET Friday. October 11. 1946
THE NOME NUGGET
Published Monday, Wednesday and Fr:day by The
NOME PUBLISHING CO.
Nome. Alaska
Telephone: Main 125 P. O. Box 618'
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W. A. and EMILY BOUCHER .Editors'
Entered as second class matter October 14. 1943, at the postoffice at
Nome, Alaska, under the Act of March 3. 1879.
Friday, October 11, 1946
!
Servant And Protector
(The Denver Post) !
You are holding the ever-watchful servant and pro
tector of the republic—your newspaper. It brings the
world to your evening’s easy chair. In the pageant of
its pages you read and, in a sense, participate in the
great and small events of your day.
You newspaper readers are a diverse assortment, and
your interests run the whole scale of human activity.
That is why your newspaper is the richly varied organ
it is.
In Paris, world statesmen are making decisions that
will determine the future of you and your family: you
read the accounts of correspondents and the opinions of
learned commentators. Prices and quantities of food
stuffs, the housing shortage, industrial problems and
all the numerous concerns of present-day living claim
your attention.
You read an editorial on international control of
atomic energy, and you may disagree with it ... as is j
your democratic right. Upon what facts do you base
your disagreement? . .. the unbiased reports you find in j
the news columns. Your ideas are not strait-jacketed;
the honest facts are yours to form your own conclusions,
and on the conclusions of you, and millions of free men
and women like you, the course of our democracy will
be laid.
This is National Newspaper week, in which newspa
pers throughout the United States are reminding read
ers of the vital part the press plays in the machinery of;
democratic living. People are reading newspapers as
never before. United States and Canadian newspapers
distribute 51 million copies daily. This is a gain of 9
million copies a day over the highest prewar figures of
1939. In 1945, the people of the United States and Can
ada spent $803,593,000 for their weekday and Sunday
newspapers—more than 2 million dollars a day. That is
a measure of your democratic hunger for information.
Nor is the information you seek confined to the news,
educational and entertainment features of the newspa
per. Much of it is to be found in the advertisements. In
advertising there is a remarkable coincidence of inter
est among your readers, the advertisers and ourselves, i
Advertising helps you spend your money more effec
tively nad economically; it helps the merchant or man
ufacturer distribute his goods more quickly and effi
ciently—and with greater per-dollar value to you—and,
finally, advertising revenue helps us put out a better
newspaper at less cost to you readers.
This free press of ours—free only because you peop1'
pay for it and it is not dependent upon government sup
port—is the heart of our democracy. It cannot exist out
side democracy; nor can democracy exist without it.
The truth of these words of the great American demo
crat, Thomas Jefferson, is as shining today as when
they were written a century and a half ago:
The only security of all is in a free press ... were
it left for me to decide whether we should have
government without newspapers or newspapers
without a government, I should not hesitate a mo
ment to prefer the latter.
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At The End Of A Rope
(The Denver Post)
Hermann Goering and the condemned Nazis of
Nuernberg are looking to history for vindication. It is a
mad hope which fails to see how future men—if decen
cy survives—must abhor the bestial regime which
Goering and his fellow convicts served.
The egomania of these Nazis still blazes. With their
THAT GERMAN CLASS ACROSS THE HALL t
f " ' i i i i i v i ■ ii J. I IW
eyes on heroic enshrinement among German genera
tions to come, Goering, von Ribbentrop, Jodi and others
have asked to die “soldiers’ deaths” rather than suffer
the “ignominy” of kicking at the end of a rope.
It is precisely because shooting might act in some un-;
foreseeable manner to make heroes of these men that
they must hang. Hanging, Goering and his partners will
die in their own Germanic tradition, which since an
cient times has regarded such suspension as an indig
nity. According to the early historian, Tacitus, the An- j
glo-Saxons acquired from the Germans this notion that
hanging is shameful. j
One Man's Opinion
(By WALTER KIERNAN) ;
A bunch of the liberals are whooping it up for dis-|
armament—The current slogan is “Don’t give the boys
the tools to fight with.” . . . The idea will catch on just
as soon as announcement comes through of the opening
of a Moscow branch—and not much before. . . . Cousin j
Joe says there will be no war and we will string along
with him unless and until he changes a couple of com
mas, but we do not disband the police department when
ever we have a quiet weekend. . . . The lesson of history
is that he who is first to beat his swords into plow
shares is apt to be the first who is plowed under. . . . But j
it’s nice to see a fellow like Ickes picking up the “One'
World” chant—even though to Ickes the man who
wrote the book, Wendell Willkie, was a pet target. . . .
They did it easy tho—They just switched the credit
from Willkie to their own patron.
By GEORGE S BENSON
Resident of Harding College
Searcy. Arkansas
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IN EUROPE ♦
Leaving New York at eleven'
o’clock a.m., I flew to London in ,
just 20 hours. A flight to London j
shows how the world is growing
smaller. Our relations with other |
countries are becoming much
more intricate as the globe
shrinks, and our great need is bet
ter understanding which will be
get wisdom.
For 20 years I have had a great
personal interest in studying the
secret of national prosperity, which
of course is the sum of eaoh indi
vidual’s prosperity within the na
tion. This interest was first awak
ened when in 1925 I observed the
poverty of China for the first
time.
More Than Resources
Countries having equal re
sources are not always equally
prosperous. That is an axiom most
of our people accept readily. They
have come to know, sometimes
subconsciously, that our democ
racy is mixed of more, and per
haps finers, ingredients than sta
tistical reports of national re
sources will show.
Surely, what makes one nation
hpapy, peaceful, wealthy, need
not make another nation trouble
some and ripe for revolution from
within. Truly, there are many in
gredients in the recipe for na
tional well-being.
Like Good Deeds
Today, when the popular catch
word, even internationally, is “se
curity,” we know that one of the
most volued ingredients is pros
$1,000,000 Loaned
To Alaska Vets
JUNEAU—One hundred six?
two loans totaling $1,000,000 ha'
been made by the Territorial Vc
erans’ Administration since tl
establishment of its office
Juneau in May, Veterans’ Cor
missioner Norman Haley ai
nounced today.
These loans went for a varie
of purposes designated undet^ tl
Territorial Veterans’ Act pasrj(
in the special session of the Terr
torial Legislature and signed t
Governor Gruening on April
They include loans for a variel
of small businesses, fishing boat
farms and homes, as well as 1
enable veterans to pursue the
education at the University c
Alaska.
The Legislature made availabl
the sum of $350,000 for thej
loans, as well as the receipts froi
the sales tax which netted $25J*
715 in the first quarter. The ba'
once of $400,000 was derive
through a cooperative arrange
rnent with the banks, worked oi
on a mutually advantageous basi
In addition to that, 328 bonusc
totaling $120,00 have likewis
been paid.
Commissioner Haley report
that requests for loans are arrvl
ing at his office daily and are be
ing processed as fast as the facili
ties of the limited staff permit.
WELL - - -
KANSAS CITY. (/P>
It rained fish—well, maybe—in ;
parking lot here.
Clifford Neece, a chef, reportec
he and W. W. Wormington, res
taurant owner; reported the dej
uge the day after a thunderstorm.
“I had looked out of the win
dow before the rain,” Neece in
sisted, “and the ground was dry
and fishless.”
The weather bureau said a
"fish deluge” was possible but un
likely in this area. One theory was
that a fisherman, disgusted by the
storm, had dumped his minnow
bucket in the lot.
perity. If people everywhere could
understand and achieve the condi
tions necessary for prosperity, ev
ery home-neighbor and every
world-neighbor would benefit
This is like a good deed that pays
off for everybody.
Currently, the writer is con
cluding a stay of eight weeks ir
Europe, the full benefit of which
the readers of this column will
have opportunity to share. On the
itinerary are England, Norway
Sweden, Denmark, the Nether
lands, Belgium, Switzerland, and
France.
What Is The Secret?
The objective is to study politi
cal, economic, social, and religious
conditions in each country, with
a hope of arriving at definite ar?ji
significant conclusions regarding
the secret of individual and na
tional prosperity.
If we can be sure why it is thal
American wage earners and farm
ers can purchase with their earn
ings two times as much food
clothing, shelter, and transporta
tion as the workers on any othei
contingent can purchase with
their wages, we shall then under
stand the factors we must preserve
as vital to all of us in our period
of reconstruction. T '
Beginning next week, this col
umn will survey postwar England,
and will then proceed with som<
significant observations of contin
ental nations.