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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.
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Nome, Alaska, Friday, November 12, 1948
M.R.A. PROGRAM LIFTS GERMAN MORALE
(By special Christian Science Monitor correspondent)
The Moral Rearmament World Assembly, which has
just ended at Caux, Switzerland, was of particular in
terest because of the large German delegation. The
Germans accepted moral rearmament as capable of fill
ing the void of despair left in Germany today.
Of the 1,300 delegates housed at Mountain House, Eu
ropean headquarters of MRA, some 400 were German
guests. They came empty-handed, from homes kept go
ing only by the devotion of German mothers and wives.
As they confessed later, they came often with suspicion,
doubt, and even hatred in their hearts.
After some days of living, working, and being to
gether with people of some 46 nations, on a basis of
friendship and frank acceptance, resentments melted
away. It was only when they became part of this com
munity of nations again, some speakers later said, that
they realized their previous isolation.
From many private talks and public declarations, it
was emphasized that Germany presents a great oppor
tunity to the democracies. In order to fight materialism
and Communist disruntinn, it was stmssed. there was
need of a militant united democratic ideology.
Other former enemy countries also were represented
at Caux. For the first time since the war a Japanese del
egation has attended an international conference. With
this group, too, the need for a positive ideology accept
able to all races and creeds was said to be paramount, if
Communism was not to fill the vacuum left by the de
struction of Japanese militarism. . |
From Italy came seven senators and 32 deputies, from
all the main non-Communist parties.
The Orient, China, Burma, Indonesia, Pakistan and
India were represented by leading men in government
life. A party of United States senators and representa
tives and Canadians came by special Pan-American
Constellation plane more than 7,000 miles.
The “rejuvenated and revitalized Europe” and Bri
tain that the Americans and Canadians saw at Caux
convinced many of them, who previously were in cloubt,
that help to Europe was a good investment.
Ruhr miners’ leaders, some of whom had left their
country for the first time in 16 years, expressed them
selves as filled with new zeal and courage after meet
ing with friendly miners from Britain and elsewhere,
and hearing of the effects of helpful cooperation instead
of enmity in the coal mines.
LEADERSHIP FOR DEFENSE
(Rocky Mountain News)
Whether the world is to have oeace or another global
war probably will be decided within the next four years.
The best insurance against war is strong and resolute
leadership, in and by this country.
We lost much of our postwar power to bargain for
peace by our premature disarmament. The President
and Congress were less to blame for that than the Amer
ican people. The boys wanted to come home. The folks
at home wanted to hurry back to peacetime ways.
But, to regain our bargaining power, we must rearm.
We are utterly unprepared for war, if it should come
tomorrow. Russia knows that even better than we do;
the hard-boiled men in the Kremlin think in terms of
divisions and armament, while most Americans do not.
So long as we are unprepared for war, our weakness
will mvite attack and lessen our council table influence.
Mr. Truman’s directive limiting the militray budget
to 1* billion dollars for all defense purposes is danger
ously unrealistic.
“WHAT HOUSING SHORTAGE ?”
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It would mean that the 70-group Air Force program
must be scrapped—with loss of the 150 million dollars
spent this year to ‘tool up” so plane building could get
started in earnest next year.
The 70-group Air Force represents one of our mini
mum defense needs. We should start building it next
year. Delay impairs our national safety.
Our defense spending last year was just as unrealis
tic and illogical as the present budget limitation. The
Navy was given more money than either the Air Force
or the Army;
If war comes, it will be an air war, not a sea war.
Russia has no naval force comparable to ours. The
threat of direct attack on the United States is by air,
across the “top of the world.” That is what we must
prepare to stop.
Adequate national defense machinery is our gre?t.°st
most pressing need, and to get it quickly we must have
stronger national leadership.
IT’S TIME FOR SOMETHING TO DE DONE |
Yesterday the East Coast maritime forces joined
hands with the West Coast maritime forces, and the
Gulf Coast promising to join shortly—completely en
circling the United States, in getting a stranglehold on
all business and industry in this glorious Nation, and, if
continued for long, will shortly affect every individual
in the country.
If manufactured produce cannot move it backs up and
industry stops; if industry stops, business stops; if busi
ness stops, workers are made idle; if workers are idle,
t.hev became hungry, and so on throughout the vicious
cycle.
The strike is because union members are not satisfied
with pay scale agreements reached between union offi
cials and employers.
Unions have done much in the past, toward bettering
the living standards of the American laborer, and that
is to be commended. But they have gradually gained
strength and power and have become autocratic in the^
efforts to secure more strength and greater power in the
nation. They have flouted and ignored laws at will, and
have even defied the greatest and best power in the
land—the United States Government.
It is inconceivable that a very small minority group of
workers can obtain the power to paralyze the industry
^f this mighty nation of 130.000.000 supposedly free
^cu1^. It is also inconceivable that this nation, conceived
in freedom and reared with the concept that all men
are free and equal, will long bow to these despots.
President Truman, in his election campaign, pledged
to repeal the Taft-Hartley Labor Act. Be that as it may.
We only hope that the present newly-elected Congress
will have the non-partisan intestinal fortitude to pass
labor legislation with real teeth in it which will bring a
halt to this tyrannical whip-lashing of the many by the
few.
Yes, it is time for something to be done.
CHURCHES
CATHOLIC CHURCH
.Sunday—
Masses at 8 a.m. and 10 a.m.
At the Base Chapel at 4:30 p.m.
LAVINIA WALLACE YOUNG
MISSION
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Pastors - Rev. H. R. Amundsen.
f 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 pjn. - Prayer
Meeting. .
FEDERATED CHURCH
Sunday
10:00 a.m. Sunday School.
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
Third and Division
Pastor—Lewis I. Hudgins
“Thanksgiving is good: thanks
living is better.”
10:00 a.m. Singspiralion 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.
NOME GOSPEL MISSION
t of
Alaska Evangelization Society
Rev. Vern Rimling, Pastor
Sunday: »
2:0') p.m. Sunday School.
7:30 n.m. Gospel Service.
Tuesday:
7:3') p.m. Prayer and Testimony
Thursday:
2:00 to 4:00 p.m. Bible Club for
Boys and Girls.
Friday:
7:30 p.m. Bible Study.
SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST
SERVICES
at
Pastor's Residence, corner of B St. e
between 3rd and 4th Ave.
Sabbath School—10 a.m. Saturday
Morning Worship—11 a.m.
Visitors welcomed.
Fred H. Wagner, Pastor
Railroad Barge ,
Still Aground
SEATTLE. (A*)—Efforts to re
float a grounded Alaska Railroad
barge in Southeastern Alaska were
awaiting more favorable weather
yesterday. ,
The barge, loaded with supplies
for Seward, went aground Mon
day in Fern Harbor .
Standing by were the coasf
guard cutter Hemlock and the
Seattle tug Christine Foss, whichK
had been towing the barge before
a rip tide put it aground.