THE NOME NUGGET
Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday by the
NOME PUBLISHING CO.
NOME, ALASKA
Telephone: Main 125 P. O. Box 6ie
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W. A. Boucher .Owner-Publisher
Entered as second class matter October 14. 1943, at the postoffice
at Nome, Alaska, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
Nome, Alaska, Friday, April 22, 1949
ENOUGH FOR EVERYONE’S NEED
(New World News Service)
Communism waits for the economy of the West to
crack up in depression. If that happend, they reason,
America will pull back the help she is now using to get
the world’s wheels running again. Unemployment, hun
ger, and confusion will sour men’s minds. They will
turn to the Soviet type of “democracy.”
There are certainly economic forces to be reckoned
with in the suicidal cycle of inflation and depression.
Nations emerging from a war economy in a world starv
ing for food and goods are bound to face re-adjustment
on a mighty scale. But the economic process is plagued
and drawn into accumulated catastrophe by millions of
decisions made out of selfishness in individuals and in!
sections of national life. If every group grabs the dough
and forgets the nation, the days of the early thirties will
once again be in our land.
If everybody cares enough and everybody shares
enough, everybody will have enough,” says Frank
Buchman in his book, “Remaking The World.” But if
too few care enough and too many grab enough, then
very few will have enough.
We in America may be slow to see the consequences !
of selfishness in their national effect because we have!
been living more or less on a gold mine and spending it j
fast. The condition of our land is a glaring example. At
least 70,000,000 acres that were once in cultivation are
lost forever because men mined the land, grabbed what
it gave, and let the top soil flow down to the profitless
sea. Yet farmers are no more selfish than labor, man
agement or the politicians. When times are hard, each!
group gets hard on the other.
“You have got to be selfish to get along,” is the lie
that infiltrates into the mind and the clear-cut edges of
moral character become blurred.
The sister of selfishness is blame. The fact is we are
all to blame and we can stop blaming. Nations undergo
ing hard times and golfers at the 19th hole all have in
common the basic cause of their trouble: it lies in cir
cumstances or in somebody else.
So we come to the heart of the current crisis in world
affairs. The materialistic forces say—human nature
cannot change. God is a myth. Selfishness is the nature
of man. Selfishness admitted, organized and exploited,
they say, is the hope of humanity.
Democracy, when true to its heritage, maintains the
opposite. Human nature can change. Freedom in the in
dividual depends on his responsibility for the whole. All
have a fair share of the privileges. All share the respon
sibilities. Moral character is a necessity. Moral fibre
is the backbone of the state. “In God We Trust” was not
a meaningless motto chosen by our founding fathers be
cause it looked nice on paper. It was the major cause of
our birth as a nation, expressed in a single phrase.
There is enough in the world for everyone’s need, but
not for everyone’s greed.
ANOTHER FINGER OF SOCIALISM
(Montpelier (Indiana) Herald)
The Post Office Department is trying to gain control
over what goes into newspapers through a thing called
“increase in second class postal rates.” The plan though
is not so much to raise more money as it is to GAIN
MORE POWER.
We don’t know who started this bill but the hand
writing is evident—Congress is 'being forced to socialize
medicine. IF the newspapers were quieted down so the
U. S. citizens would be ignorant of what was going on in
Washington, medicine would be socialized here and be
come a flop such as England has. Some magazines and
newspapers have been “bought off” now to publicize
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how “great it is in England,” and all they have publish
ed is a pack of lies!
To get back to this newspaper postage increase—If
the post office department is losing so darned much
money, why don’t they fire some of their unneeded and
worthless help in Washington? That’s what business
does when times get rough. Government printing plants
are cutting more every day into the trade zone of pri
vate printers.
This so-called postage increase is a “blind for censor
ship.” All that it proposes is a 400', increase in rates
and (now get this) A CONTROL FOR RATE-MAKING
PURPOSES, OVER THE CONTENT OF PUBLICA
TIONS.
Not only does that phrase STINK, it turns your stom
ach. If postal rates were increased a fair price and serv
ice bettered accordingly, WITHOUT censorship, the
newspaper would have no kick coming.
Somebody said it couldn’t happen here. Somebody
else said, we want only to control the comics ... or the
radio ... or the guy across the street. But censorship by
law—other than that prompted by decency and personal
integrity—is dangerous. It applies universally, once on
the books. The answer is self-censorship—without re
course to the statutes—if a free, unlicensed and econo
mically sound press is to continue in any land.
“FAIR DEAL” FIGHTS THOUGHT OF DEFLATION
(Algonac (Mich.) Courier
All signs seem to be pointing in the direction of de
flation. In our book that’s good. But fuzzy thinking
Harry Truman and his pseudo Fair Deal economists do
not think so. They’ll not ^permit the slightest degree of
deflation if the Government can find a way to stem the
tide. Federal spending on a grand scale is the weapon
our Harry is most likely to choose, but not be able to
utilize to as great an extent as he would like.
The reason for Truman’s preference for inflation is a
simple matter of political expedience. It’s not easy to
keep a molly-coddled populace happy during deflation.
Neither is deflation in accord with the program which
has been mapped out for us by the economic planners.
These ivory tower theorists envision a managed econ
omy which is designed to take care of everything.
It is important to note, however, that the Fair Deal
is faced with a stunning defect. Civil rights legislation
is postponed for a generation. There will be no quick re
peal of the Taft-Hartley law. Neither will there be Con
gressional approval for a wild spree of spending such as
we have been subjected to since the arrival of the Great
Master in 1933.
“It seems quite obvious,” says the Fort Mill, S. C.,
Times, “that our dear friend and president Harry Tru
man, has encountered a bit of difficulty with his legisla
tive program and his nominations for appointment to
high office. There is a lesson that some people have a
hard time learning—never antagonize or underestimate
the people of the South.”
CHURCHES
CATHOLIC CHURCH
Sunday—
8:00 a.m.—Mass
9:00 a.m.—Mass.
9:30 a.m.—Mass.
LAVINIA WALLACE YOUNG
MISSION
Pastors - Rev. H. R. Amundsen
and Rev. Theran McGrew
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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, 10:00 a.m. Sunday School
PENTACOSTAL ASSEMBLY OF
GOD
Third Avenue West
Sunday—
Sunday School. 10:00 a.m.
Adult Bible Class.11:00 a.m.
Evening Service .7:30 p.m.
Tuesday—
i 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
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‘‘The preaching of the cross is
to them that perish foolishness;
but unto us which are saved it is
the power of God.” I Cor. 1:18.
Sunday—
10:00 a.m. Singspiratlon 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.
i 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 for
boy? and girls.
Preaching service in the Eskimo
j language by James Savok.
7:30 p.m. Gospel Service.
Tuesday:
7:30 p.m. Prayer and Testimony
Thursday:
2:00 to 4:00 p.m. Bible Club for
I Boys and Girls.
■ Friday:
! 7:30 p.m. Bible Study.
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U. OF A. OFFERS NO MINING
SHORT COURSE THIS YEAR
Word has been received from the
Registrar of the University of
Alaska that the School of Mines
i will not offer a course in mining
extension at Nome this spring.
(Failure to secure an instructor is
responsible for cancellation of the
course as originally scheduled.
The course will undoubtedly be
offered next fall or winter.”
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