THE NOME NUGGET
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(Wednesday, August 4, 1948)
PEACE IS MORE THAN A WORD
(The Breeze)
The word peace has been printed billions of times,
uttered in billions of prayers, spoken millions of times
over the radio and voiced thousands of times by every
member of the human race in all the languages of earth.
And still we have wars.
It is high time to consider that peace is more than a
word. It is more than a spot of ink on a piece of paper,
or a sound on our lips.
Peace is everything that makes life worth living.
Peace is God on both sides of the table in a confer
ence. •
Peace is good will in action.
Peace is worldwide neighborliness.
Peace is cooperation and teamwork; it is pulling peo
ple instead of pushing them around.
Peace is sanity and common sense in human relations.
Peace is openmindedness. It is a willingness to listen
as well as to talk. It is looking at both sides of a situa
tion objectively.
Peace is patience. It means keeping our tempers, ris
ing above petty irritations, taking the long-look. It
means keeping our shirts on and giving time a chance
to work its magic.
Peace is having the courage and humility to admite
mistakes and fake the blame when we are wrong.
Peace is international courtesy. It is good sportsman
ship in world affairs.
Peace is tact, and tact has been defined as the ability
to pull the stinger of a bee without getting stung.
Peace is vission. It is being big enough to give up
small individual advantages for the universal advant
age of a warless world.
Peace is using the Golden Rule as a measuring stick
in solving world problems.
Peace is the open hand instead of the clenched fist. It
is tolerance and understanding toward men of every
class, creed, and color.
Peace is a mighty faith. It is a radiant belief in the
the potential goodness and greatness of men. It is a dy
namic confidence that war can be abolished forever.
Peace is a thing of the heart as well as the head. It is
a warmth, a magnetism, that reaches out and draws
people together in a common purpose.
Peace is top-level thinking, feeling, acting. It is rising
above tanks, planes, and atom bombs as a way of set
tling disputes.
Peace is a way of living!
THE COMMUNIST INDICTMENTS
(By Jack Foster)
The 12 leaders of the Communist Party indicted by
the Federal Grand Jury in New York are not charged
with being members of a foreign “spy ring.”
The indictments allege that the defendants, as indi
viduals, consipred with each other, and others, in or
ganizing a group which teaches and advocates the over
throw of the United States government “by force and
violence.”
That group is known as “The Communist Party of the
United States.”
But a distinction is to be made between leaders, who
are alleged “knowingly and willfully” to have advo
cated such lawless acts, and members of the party who
may have been mere dupes of such leaders.
Of course, it remains to be proved that the individu
als named in the indictment have in fact urged over
throw of the government by force. If the defendants are
found guilty as charged, the issue unquestionably will
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go all the way to the Supreme Court of the United
States. In that event the status of thefCommunist Party
may be clarified.
In previous cases taken to it the high court has not
passed upon the question of whether the Communist
Party as such avocates the overthrow of our govern
ment by force and violence, and party leaders consist
ently have denied this familiar allegation.
It is reported that the grand jury which returned the
indictments against the Communist leaders also is in
vestigating the existence in this country of a foreign
spy ring, operating with or through the Communist
Party or certain of its leaders.
But that does not appear in the indictments which
have been returned.
DIPLOMATS REPORT ON MOSCOW MEETING
(The Associated Press)
I WASHINGTON, (AP)—Secretary of State Marshall
yesterday received a report from U. S. Ambassador Be
dell Smith on his conference with Soviet Premier Sta
lin in Moscow Monday night.
Marshall and his top ranking state department ad
visers immediately began an intensive study of the re
port. Presumably it will also be sent to President Tru
man.
Michael McDermott, state department press’ officer,
said that he could not disclose anything about the mes
sage from Smith other than that it had been reveived.
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| LONDON, (AP)—The foreign office announced yes
terday that it had received a report from special British
envoy Frank Roberts on his conference Monday night
in Moscow with Prime Minister Stalin.
A spokesman said the report now is being studied.
London received with cautious optimism the new^ of
the momentous Kremlin conference.
Although none could read any sure signs concerning
future relationships of the feuding east and west, Prime
Minister Stalin’s two-hour audience with western
power diplomats caused many here to take heart.
Still, most of the optimism was restrained. One of the
lessons diplomats, politicians, newspapers and the man
in the street have learned in dealing with Russia is to
avoid wishful thinking and false hopes.
Congressman Eaton of New Jersey, chairman of the
House foreign affairs committee, thinks President Tru
man should have told Congress, when the special ses
sion opened, how close the United States is to war with
Russia. But it is questionable whether the President:
has that information. If there is any one man whohnows ■
how close to war the United States and Russia are, it is i
Stalin. He knows how much further the Soviet govern-'
ment intends to go in trying to force Russia’s wartime!
allies out of Berlin.
U. S. Agents Probe
Secret India Raw
Gold Shipments
SAN FRANCISCO, (/P)—Secret
service and customs agents are
investigating the operations of an
international syndicate that is
smuggling millions of dollars
worth of raw gold to India.
The smuggling activities, it was
learned, are being carried out by
plane and ship from the United
States, mos'tly through San Fran
cisco.
Secret service agents admitted
they are investigating the illegal
gold shipments, but declined to
reveal any of the results of their
inquiry.
Joining in the ettort to smasn
the syndicate, customs officials
ordered all trans-Pacific airlines
to redouble their safeguards
againts smuggling.
Huge profits were said to be
accruing to the smuggling ring.
Gold purchased in the United
States at the pegged price of $35
an ounce can be sold in India for
$93 to $100 an ounce.
The San Francisco Examiner
quoted an unnamed source as say
ing investigators believe at least
300,000 ounces of gold are con
cealed in the area, awaiting ship
ment. That quantity of gold, at
the American pegged price, would
be worth $10,500,000.
Officials said the gold comes
from mines in California’s grass
valley, Mexico and Alaska. They
said it is processed into various
forms to render it easier for
smugglers to hide.
In one instance, $50,000 worth
of spun gold was put inside the
feed and oil lines of a China
bound plane. It is reported, though
not confirmed, that this gold ex
panded with the heat, clogging
the lines and causing the plane to
crack up while en route over the
Himalayan “hump” to India.
More than a year ago customs
agents in San Francisco seized
some spun gold concealed aboard
the steamer China Bear. A sailer
admitted he had been bribed to
secrete it in the ship’s hull.
International
Sourdough
Reunion Aug. 12-15
Gold Rush Sourdoughs of the
Days of ’98 in the Klondike are
beginning to stampede to Van
couver, B. C., where the Annual
International Sourdough Reunion
and 50th Annivarsary convention
will be held August 12-15 in the
Vancouver Hotel, reports B. J.
Parker International president.
Robert Service, bard of the Yu
kon, has arrived from Monte
Carlo, France; A. V. “Art” Buell,
noted Klondike cartoonist from
California; Capt. A. J. Goddard
of Seattle, who piloted tAe first
boat down the Yukon River;
Leonhard Seppala, famous dog
musher from Nome; Mrs. Grace
Wickersham, widow of the late
Judge James Wickersham, Jun
eau; Lee B. Loomis of the Idita
rod, now living in Portland, Ore.;
C. A. “Clem” Alexander from
Moose Jaw, Sask.; ‘Klondike’ Kate
Rockwell Van Duren of Bend,
Ore., and hundreds of others will
“whoop it up” when they ex
change tall tales of the Gold Rush
days in Vancouver.
The convention meeting Friday
morning will be followed in the
evening by the grand ball a la
Monte Carlo an/1 wind up with a
potlatch banquet on Saturday. W.