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Nome, Alaska, Monday, June 13, 1949
ADMINISTRATION HEALTH BILL
(Somerset, Penna., Daily American)
What’s the use of spending billions of dollars to com
bat communism in Europe and Asia when we have in
the White House a man willing to sell the American
people down the river to Moscow under the pretense
that he will give his fellow countrymen health?
The Truman health bill is not even cleverly arranged.
It is too obviously an attempt to bribe for the Truman
administration a following that the President expects to
continue indefinitely in office a regime that smells to
high heaven.
If the number of people who cannot provide for their
own medical needs was sufficiently great to warrant
governmental action, the place to begin would be in the
smaller political units.
There is no such need.
The President’s health program is an undisguised ef
fort to destroy self reliance among the American people
and enslave them to the government.
Perhaps there is a natural relationship between the
Truman health program and the deceitful policy the
Truman administration has pursued in Germany.
The issue in Germany was between the Socialists de
manding a strong central government and a conserva
tive group standing for state’s rights and home rule.
France has feared and yet fears a strong Germany,
and a strong central government has been viewed by
the French as a step towards another war.
Secretly, the United States betrayed the supporters
of state’s rights and consented to the Socialist viewpoint.
The result is a situation that always arises when a
principle is surrendered for expediency.
The President’s health bill is another step towards
strong central government and the enslavement of the
American people.
Its tax feature is on itself vicious. ,
Few American families spend as much for medication!
as the health bill would require them to pay in taxes.
The idea in America has always been that each Amer
ican should be free to spend his own money as he sees;
fit. Te should be free to earn it and free to dispense it.'
That is basic freedom.
Whatever palaver the President may employ to pro-j
mote his nefarious project, the fact remains that he
aims at destroying American freedom, at enslaving the j
American people to a tyrannical government while pre
• ending to work an act of mercy upon them.
The American people’s intelligence is entitled to
more credit than the President is willing to give them.
His predecessor laid a payroll tox upon the wage
earner’s pay envelope. Im the present trend continues,
the government will have taken out of the pay envelope
all there is in it bfore it gets to the wage earner. Yet. as
President Franklin D. Roosevelt said: “All taxes are
paid in the sweat of toil.”
I
AGENCIES NO SOLUTION !
(Hugo S. Sims)
While applauding the purposes of many agencies of
the United Nations, we doubt that many of them rep
resent a practical solution of the problems that confront
the peoples of the world.
At the present time, the United Nations Educational,
Scientific and Cultural Organization, often referred to
as UNESCO, plans a greater effort to “quenah the
thirst for knowledge among the masses of the people of
the world.”
A program, outlined by the newly-appointed direc
tor, speaks of throwing the resources and prestige of the
agency into the battle against illiteracy and ignorance.
It will involve an effort to make available to all persons
or^' "k..'
the scientific and cultural achievements of the various
countries through press, wireless and motion pictures.
Included are efforts to relieve such shortages as wood
pulp, newsprint, radio receiving and transmitting
equipment, raw stock for films and movie projectors.
We are interested to learn exactly how the agency
expects to reach the millions of uneducated people who
reside in Asia, India and Africa. Just how it will make
available to these illiterates scientific and cultural
achievements is something of a puzzle.
We suspect that greater progress could be made if the
United Nations agency devoted its time to working on
tbx level of governments and leaving to the govern
ments the efforts to make contact with their people.
HOW YOUR COMMUNITY BENEFITS
FROM SPRING CLEAN-UP
Starting today and continuing until Sunday, June
19. is Clean-Up Week in Nome. Let’s make this a really
oang-up” Clean-Up Week, and make Nome a clean
little city which will be attractive, to the many tourists
expected to visit Nome during this, our Golden Anni
versary Year. Besides making Nome a clean, attractive
place people like to visit—
Cleaning up vacant lots in your neighborhood will
provide more play space for children, thus reducing
juvenile accidents and crime. It will also remove breed
ing places for flies, mosquitoes, rats and other disease
bearers.
Tidying up your home and getting your neighbor
hood to clean up their yards will reduce fires, improve
public health and reduce neighborhood blight.
A clean, tidy neighborhood is a better place to live in.
. The nation’s fires cost over 10,000 lives and nearly
three-quarters of a billion dollars a year.
An increasing number of these fires is caused by rub
bish and litter. In other words, plain negligence.
You can help keep your home and community free
from fire by giving them a thorough Clean-Up this
Spring. Remove fire hazards that have accumulated
during the winter.
What You Can Do
1. Clean up your own home and yard.
2. Join your friends in a neighborhood project to cor
rect eyesores and fire hazards in your block or on your
street. #
3. Take active part in any civic group that cooperates
in organized Spring Clean-Up campaigns.
Work hard, be stingy and hang on to your money—
your children will have the time of their lives flinging
it ever the country faster than you made it . . . Sporadic
interest in the welfare of others in commendable, but
systematic work for social improvement will do more
fer the unfortunate in Nome. . . . We were told, not so
long, ago, that people are tired of reading about condi
tions in other countries. We just can’t believe our peo
! pie are that thoughtless.
] Advisory Commit
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tee Drafts “Positive
Alaskan Policy”
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the proposal is under considera
tion.
The committee also "reaffirmed
its unequicoval stand that there
that there must be no discrimina
tion whatsoever between Indians
and non-Indians in the adminis
tration of social security.”
I La Farge said the committee
condemned a bill submitted un
successfully in the 80th Congress,
“or any similar proposal,” to pro
vide the settlement of native land
titles in Alaska "by an arbitrary
procedure which insured the loss
to the natives of all but a fraction
of the lands and fishing territories
to which they have just claims,
and upon which they depend for
their very existence.”
The committee said it is the
duty of fhe secretary of the inte
rior to define and establish as
rapidly as possible the title of na
tives of Alaska to adequate lands
and natural resources, including
fishing grounds, to insure a sound .
economy, with due regard to their
existing possessory rights.”
The policy declaration added:
"To this end the secretary
should negotiate with the native
communities, and where suitable,
with individuals, to establish by
agreement the territories to be
patented to them, such agreement
to go into effect when ratified by
vote of the communities concern
ed.
"As cases will occur in which
agreement cannot be reached, an
impartial tribunal should be es
tablished, made up of persons ap
pointed by the President and rati
fied by the Senate, with authority
to determine the territories to be
patented to the natives concern
ed, the findings of that tribunal to
be final in regard to lands.
"Any natives who feel them
selves aggrieved should be en
abled to enter suit for indemnity
in the U. S. courts of claims.
"Trust patents should be issued,
without any fixed period of ter
mination of trust. As for the In
dians of the United States gener
ally, patents should be issued to
individuals or to communities ac
cording to the wishes of the
groups concerned. As for the na
tives of Alaska, trusts should be
terminated as the groups concern
ed become ready to compete with
the non-Indian community on
even terms.
“In view of the fact that the
possessory rights of the native an
tedate the establishment of the
national forests, lands inclosed
within forest boundaries should be
patented to the natives on tne
same basis as any other lands.
“As the natives’ rights derive
from aboriginal occupancy, any
reservation of mineral rights to
the federal government in the
lands patented should include pro
vision for payment of reasonable
royalties to the land owners.”
La Farge said that “if the bror.d
principles set forth by the adv' -
ory committee are put into efit
we may expect a just and I<> > \
overdue settlement of a diff; * ill
problem.”
Other members of the comm:'
tee are Louis R. Bruce, New York
City, vice-chairman; Dr. Mark A.
Dawber, New York City; former
Nevada Governor E. P. Carville,
Reno; Barry Goldwater, Phoenix.
Arizona; Mrs. Ruth Kirk, Gallup,
N. M., and Mrs. Bronson, Wash
ington, D. C.