THE NOME NUGGET
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Emily Boucher .Local Editor
Entered as second class matter October 14, 1943, at the postoffice
at Nome, Alaska, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
Nome, Alaska, Friday, March 18, 1949
BETTER FILMS, MAYBE?
For many years, the makers of moving pictures have
operated hundreds of theaters throughout the United
States for the purpose of assuring outlets for their films.
The Department of Justice instituted a suit against
the five major film distributors under the Anti-Trust
laws in July, 1938, charging that production and exhibi
tion by the same concern amounted to monopoly. The
case has dragged along somewhat slowly but two of the
leading companies have not signed consent decrees un
der which they will divorce their exhibition business
* from the production and distribution enterprises.
With thousands of theaters controlled by the makers
of moving picture films, it is easy to understand that a
picture, regardless of its type or quality, was assured
what the trade calls “bookings.” Assured of the sale of
the pictures, there was not much incentive for the pro
ducers to unduly bestir themselves about the quality or
decency of their productions.
If the production of moving pictures can be complete
ly divorced from the exhibition part of the show busi
ness, the chances are that the producers will get into
competition with each other and attempt to win the box i
office receipts by the production of better films. This
would be a boon to all those who attend the moving pic
ture theaters and might help bring about the better;
business which the film makers have been anxiously
awaiting for several years.
U. S. HATE OF GERMANY DIES, SAYS EDITOR
FRANKFURT, (/P)—A German editor who toured
theUnited States found that Americans no longer hate
the Germans now that Nazism has been destroyed. “But
they (the Americans) want to know whether there is
still hatred against the Americans in Germany,” wrote
Heinrich Kierzek in the ’’Fuldaer Volkzeitung.”
Kierzek explains the American attitude toward Ger
many as follows:
“Taxes in America have increased immensely since
the end of the war. The American taxpayer is always
told by his government and by his press that a great
part of these taxes is used for the reconstruction of
Western Europe and Western Germany. Since the
Americans practically are paying taxes for us they want
to know, naturally, what is done with this money and
what the effect among the Germans is.”
The German editor wrote: “Many Americans we
spoke to wanted to know with an almost anxious solici
tude whether the U. S. Military Government in Ger
many does not make any psychological or political mis
takes and whether the G.I. discipline really is so good.”
The Fulda editor asks himself “how much stupidity and
inability was combined by German politicians to con
duct two wars against America.”
This though came after he said “everywhere in the
States historical and living signs of active German work
which helped America to become this rich and power
ful land. Every second or third American we spoke to
told us proudly that his mother or his grandfather emi
grated from good old Germany,” Kierzek wrote, “and
leading Americans even today greatly appreciate the
constructive and skillful role Germans or their descend
ants have played during America’s political and econo
mical development.”
But not everything was “bright and shining” in the
U.S.A. for Kierzek’s watchful eyes. He noted “a sharp
border between white and colored people.” He was dis
concerted by the lavatory problem in southern States.
There are four of them: “White Ladies,” “Colored La
*9 99 )■>#> snorted.
SPRING OUTFIT
AMERICA*
REPS
Miners Seeking
Free World Market
For Gold
On the last day of January this
year, Harry Sears, of Angel's
Camp, California, president of a
gold mining company, spoke be- i
fore the Western Annual Mining |
Conference. Below are excerpts
from the talk.
Sears stated that “the proper
use of gold will provide one of the
strongest influences in final ar
rangements for world peace.” I
He said that government regula
tions victimized and oppressed
gold producers, their properties
forced into expensive idleness,
credit weakened and solvency
sapped.
“A producing gold mine is a fac
tory, the gold its raw stock. It
should enjoy the same freedom as
every other industry,” he contin
ued.
“People here are now seeking
and buying natural raw gold and
paying premium prices for it. Peo
ple in other lands have long ago
bid and paid vastly higher prices
and they are eager to absorb all
they can find.” I
With the awakening of the gold
industry to the distrust of political
promises, it is significant that
there is a return to public confi
dence in gold as the honest bul
wark of value.
Gold producers are hampered
by regulations dating back to that'
era when Congress was told to
pass laws in spite of doubts as to
their validity or constitutionality.
If the law did not give its new
deal planners the desired freedom
of action this was achieved by a
department order, rule or practice,
under pretense of authority. They
possess no such rights. Their
propaganda over the years, how
ever, has been so effective that
even some of the gold producers
do not realize that they are being
robbed, and that they have impor
tant rights, if they will assert
them.
A statement from the secretary
of the treasury, said: “Based upon
the opinion of the attorney gener
al, collectors of customs have been
advised that ores, concentrates,
precipitates and unretorted amal
gam containing gold which has
not been smelted or refined are
not to be considered as gold bul
lion and may be exported.”
This has become of great im
portance now that production
costs have increased and prices
in other markets for gold are
greater than the mint price here.
The next step will be to estab
lish freedom to smelt and market
our concentrates so that all of our
gold may be in salable form.
It is only through firm and uni
ted action that the industry can
regain the position of freedom and
respect which it enjoyed until the
social planners began to under
mine and nationalize it.
The scope of the Gold Act is^
limited by Clause Five of the Con
stitution which gives Congress1
power—
“To coin money, regulate the
value thereof, and of foreign coin,
and fix the standards of weights ,
and measures.”
It doesn’t say anything about,
gold mining, and the Gold Re- j
serve Act by its own description '
is— 1
“an act to protect the currency
system of the United States” . . .,
“to pimvide for the better use of
monetary gold stock of the United
States.”
The treasury and federal reserve |
can allocate their money and deal '
with their gold after it becomes
their property, but foreign gold j
sent here for currency exchange:
and our national gold reserve, are
quite different things, in no way
related to new gold produced from
our mines. The two subjects have
been mixed up and confused. Nei
ther of these government agencies
has any valid right to our new j
gold unless they buy it at the
price we are willing to sell. When
a producer is compelled to yield
up any of his processed gold at a
price fixed by the government,
and is denied the right to seek an
other purchaser and receive a
higher price, it is clearly a viola
tion of his property rights guar
anteed under the Fifth Amend
ment. —
Since 1$34, when the price of
$35 an ounce was set by law, the
dollar has been devaluated so that
now it equals only $17 an ounce
today. A figure of $70 an ounce
should be set, but the Treasury
Department is now administering
the Gold Act and no increase is
allowed. "And remember,” Sears
goes on to say, “we are not al
lowed to seek other markets and
sell our product to higher bid
ders”
Through the free gold market
bills which are now before Con
gress we arc really asking that
body to direct the bureaus and de
partments responsible for the
present impositions on gold pro
ducers to cease violating our prop
CHURCHES
CATHOLIC CHURCH
Sunday—
Masses at 8 a.m. and JO a.m.
At the Base Chapel at 4:30 p.m.
Lenten Devotions
Sun. eve. 7:30.Instructions
Wed. eve. 7:30.Instructions
Fri. eve. 7:30, Stations of the Cross
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 M.raele Book Club.
Thursday - 7:30 p.rn. - 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.
EVER YON E WELCOM E
CHURCH CF THE NA2ARENE
Third and Division
" Pastor—Lewis I. Hudgins
“The cheering-up business is a
good side-line, and it doesn’t in
terfere with your main-line.”
10:00 a.m. Singspiration and Sun
day School classes.
11:00 a.m. Morning message.
7:00 p.m. Young People’s Meeting. 4
7:30 p.m. Singspiration and special
music.
8:00 p.m. Evening message.
Wednesday: 7:30 p.m. Melody ani
Prayer.
Come and bring your Bible.
You are ever welcome to attend
these services.
NOME GOSPEL MISSION
of
Alaska Evangelisation Society
Rev. Vern Rirnling, Pastor
Sunday:
2:00 p.m. Sunday School fac
boys and girls.
Preaching service in the Eskimo
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 fa?
Boys and Girls.
Friday: “
; 7r30 pm. Bible Study.
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INDIA TRAPES TEA
AND JUTE FOR WHEAT
NEW DELHI VP)—'India is trad*
ing tea and jute for badly needed
wheat.
A food ministry spokesman yay* k
India is nefotiatinf with Russia
for 100,000 tons of wheat, fcnr
which it would five 10,000 tone of
tea. Last year India and Russia
agreed to exchange SO,000 tons of
wheat for 5,000 tons of tea.
India hopes to get 700,000 tons
of wheat from Australia in ex
change for jute and cash.
I
erty rights.
The advantages we now offer to
our government to use this influ
ence of a free gold market to de-.
termine their future course m»>*
prove a profound blessing and
benefit all the people of this and
other lands.**