THE NOME NUGGET
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Entered as second class matter October 14, 1943, at
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March 3, 1879.
Friday, May 25, 1945
TWO SCHOOLS
(San Mateo Times)
Indicative of the confusion in high
places is the two schools of thought in
Washington—both vocal—one of which
fears postwar inflation and the other of
which fears postwar deflation.
The inflation crowd is alarmed by ris
ing farm, home and security prices and
commercial rents. These are the only ma
jor activities remaining outside the fed
eral control zone. Rising values in these
categories, it is argued, exert strong pres
sure against other inflation brakes, such
as wage, price and domestic rent control.
What the deflation crowd fears is a
decline in national income as war spend
ing eases off. This would cut into federal
revenues, increase borrowing, make serv
icing of the national debt and a balanced
budget more difficult. Organized labor is
striving to hold up national income by in
creasing basic wage rates as overtime dis
appears.
Fear of inflation seems to be more
prevalent than fear of deflation. It is
grounded in a belief that the impact of
record savings on scarce consumer goods
after the war will be difficult to combat.
UES OF PLANES
(San Mateo Times)
Some of the uses which will be found
for airplanes after the war are to be found
in requests which the War Production
Board is filing away for reference when
production controls are relaxed.
To date 350 such requests have been
received. A pipeline company wants a
plane for use in inspecting its route. A
company with extensive cotton land in
the South would like a plane to dust its
cotton crop. Ranchers are asking for small
craft equipped with machine guns to kill
coyotes and other predatory animals.
Lumber firms need planes to spot timber
fires before they get out of control.
A physician with widely-scattered pa
tients thinks he could make better time
on wings. Several industrial executives
seek planes to keep in personal touch
with remote plants. Flying schools com
prise the largest group of applicants.
They want planes for use in teaching
novices to fly.
Some day, in the not to far distant fu
ture, the bans will be lifted, and plane
factories will begin to fill these and sim
ilar orders.
The biggest difference between a big city and a
small town is that the running down in the big city
is done by the automobiles and in the small town
the local gossips take care of it.
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RIGHT TURN
Plain people in America are
tired of regimentation. The figures
show it. Late in April big-city
j newspapers were publishing tables
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of figures tha4 grew out of a sur
j vey by the American Institute of
Public Opinion, popularly called
a “Gallup Poll.” An article by
i
George Gallup himself acompan
ied the figures I examined and'
they were interesting, encourag
ing.
Nothing but victory in war
could make bigger news. Nothing 1
short of unconditional surrender
by all of America’s national ene- 1
mies could* be more gratifying'
I
than this: Suddenly there hasj
come a popular yearning for the j
days when Mr. Customer was |
boss, when people got paid accord- |
ing to what their work was worth,!
when they had a right to anything '
their money would buy.
• Back to Earth
Dr. Gallup says, “there are in
dications today that the largest
group ol the American people are
not now particularly interested in
seeing many changes or reforms j
in this country after the war. In 1
fact, a survey just completed
across the naiion by the Institute
reveals that the majority of Amer-1
icans want things to remain pretty
much as they were before the
war.”
The head of the Institute put
out a few hopeful details about'
individual answers to his ques- ‘
tions. He says a good share of the ^
minority who wish for post-war
changes want to change back,
back to conditions we knew years
before the war. He didn’t say so,
but indicated clearly that the peo
ple are longing for the days of
self-reliance, before the WPA,
the CCC and the NYA.
Pompus Protests
People are beginning to walk
around the idea of dictated social
change to look at the back side of
it. The gold paint is beginning to
rub off those cheap theories about
all citizens doing a similar amount
of work and drawing about the
same pay, government guaranteed
jobs for everybody, politically run
banks and stores, regimented
farmers, standardized houses,
clothes and food. The sawdust is
showing through.
The f{*mous surveyor of public
opinion grouped into three classes
j everybody his scouts questioned.
The brpak-down was by educa
tion, (1)‘ college, (2) high school
and (3> grade school people. Now
who. do you suppose, want the
social changes? The college peo
ple—M% of them. More than half
the other 'wo groups disagree but
most of the cap-and-gown folk
want America made over.
Fake High-Brows
Revolutionists critics of repre
sentative government, malcontent*
and promoters of European theo
ries have done an amazeng job in
American colleges. The mystery
is—How! They smoke-screened
the unique prosperity of this
world’s most favored people and
{protected by academic indiffer
ence* spotlighted the flaws of pop
ular government and fumed about
unfair competition.
Selfishness is a trait of mortal
man, not a special feature of pri
vate enterprise. This fact has
been proved to a lot of honest
people under war-time regimenta
tion, needless restraints, question
able rationing and discourteous
petty officials. It is losing favor.
How odd that we hear so much
aoout demobilization of the armed
forces and nothing at all about
demobilizing bureaucracy.
INFORMATION WANTED
ABOUT MISSING PERSON
Benjamin R. Cole — Approxi
mately 73 years of age, and be
lieved to have come to Alaska
about 1925, and to have lived here
ever since, with the exception of
a stay Outside about 1940. A
miner, he may have some mining
properties in the Territory. Any
one having information concern
ing him kindly costact the Gov
ernor’s Office, Juneau.
A.T.G. BENEFIT DANCE
Ther will be an informal A.T.G.
benefit dance Sautrday, May 26,
at the high school starting at 9:00
p.m. The music will be furnished
by the air base orchestra.
The United States is the princi
pal producer of zinc.
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