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Nome, Alaska, Monday, February 11, 1952
THOUGHT FOR TODAY
OFFICE
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ABRAHAM LINCOLN SAID IT THIS WAY
Too many of us have listened to and believed
the “government owes me a living” propaganda which
has been fed to us by Washington bureaucrats. We
have forgotten that the only security which is worth
anything at all is the security we provide for our
selves by our own efforts.
Whether we realize it or not, or whether or not
we believe it, it nevertheless is an eternal truth that
“there never has been a successful substitute for hard
work and thrift.” Abraham Lincoln said it this way:
‘‘You cannot bring about prosperity by discourag
ing thrift.
“You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening
the strong.
“You cannot help the wage earner by pulling
down the wage payer.
“You cannot further the brotherhood of man by
encouraging class hatred.
“You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.
“You cannot establish sound security on borrowed
money.
“You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more
than you earn.
“You cannot build character and courage by
taking away man’s initiative and independence.
“You cannot help men permanently by doing for
them what they could and should do for themselves.”
With Churchill and Eisenhower rousing, uniting,
energizing the mental and spiritual forces of the peo
ples of the United Kingdom and Western Europe, with
Ridgway doing all right in Korea, Uncle Joe may come
to see that he would do well for himself, his own people
and all those over which he has any influence by adopt
ing the Irishman’s good old motto, “If you can’t lick
’em, jine ’em!”
It’s going to be awfully cold and lonesome outside
this winter. Joe, and it’s fine and warm and friendly
inside the clubhouse with the gank. But any boy who
comes in has to behave himself and keep the rules of
the club.
Better think hard about this, Joe. You can’t lick
’em. Why not jine ’em ?
— ZANESVILLE (OHIO) NEWS (Ind.)
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The Lincoln You Know
AP News features
Abraham Lincoln lived when photography was in its pioneer stage. There were no .candid
cameras and taking a picture meant a "sitting.” The need for these formal sessions immo
bilized his features and his friends said that many qualities of the man failed to get through
to the photographic plates. But the Lincoln you know is in large part derived from about 125
photographs which exist today. Here are some of them. The big picture may be the most
familiar. It is the one on the $5 bill. The others were taken between about 1848 and 1865*
the first when he was a member of Congress, the last a few days before his assassination.
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1864
1863
1864
186*
15,000 Ike Backers
From Six States At
New York Rally
(By the Associated PnFssl
Fifteen thousand noisy Eisen
hower-for-president backers from
six states whooped it up for the
general last night in New York’s
Madison Square Garden.
The crowd fell short of the
hoped-for capacity total of 18,500
but Senator Lodge (R-Mass), man
ager of the Eisenhower campaign,
beamingly called this first big
rally of the 1952 campaign a suc
cess.
“Usually we have to work to
fill the Garden at the end of a
campaign,” he said. “Now we’re
doing it at the beginning—with
our man 3,000 miles away,” he
said, adding:
i
I his is without precedent.
The delegations were from Tex
as, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Virginia,
Pennsylvania and New Hamp
shire. They chanted “We Want
Ike” and joined in singing a re
vised version of Irving Berlin’s
hit song, “They Like Ike.”
Meanwhile, backers of both Eis
enhower and Senator Taft of Ohio
were reported annoyed that for
mer Gov. Harold E. Stassen of
Minnesota was in a Republican
race that now looks like one
primarily between their candi
dates.
Villagers Pay Homage
To King George VI
By Robert S. F. Jones
SANDRINGHAM, England, (/P)
—Humble villagers filed through
their hushed country church Sat
urday to pay last homage to the
man they called squire — King
George VI.
Farmers, carpenters, woodsmen,
and servants sorrowfully stopped
before the candle-lit bier to look
for the last time on the coffin of
their sovereign and friend.
Inside the big mansion nearby,
where the king was born and
where he died, Queen Elizabeth II
—proclaimed throughout the land
yesterday as the new ruler of the
British realm—remained closeted
in deep mourning with her mother
and sister and others of the royal
family.
PERU BEGINS TALKS WITH 1
U.S. ON FISHING RIGHTS
WASHINGTON, (IP)—Peru Sat
urday began conversations with
the State Department cm fishing
rights in Peruvian waters where
a United States tuna fishing fleet
yearly takes many thousands of
tons of tuna.
No mention was made in a Per
uvian statement of any plans to
enforce retaliatory measures
against the American tuna fleet
in the event that new or higher
tariffs are imposed on tuna ex
ports to the United States.
ATA Claims Unfair
Competition From
Northwest Airlines
WASHINGTON, (TP)—Air Trans
port Associates, Inc., Seattle,
asked the Civil Aeronautics Board
Friday to halt movement of freight
or passengers to or from Alaska
by Northwest Airlines, Inc., at
“unjustifiably low rates.”
The non - schedule (irregularly
operated) air carrier also pro
posed that the board eliminate
future subsidy payments to North
west and lop $10,000,000 off the
proposed $14,224,000 mail sub
sidy allowance to the Minneapolis
concern for 1949 and 1950.
“Northwest is receiving its sub
sidy essentially as a passenger
carrier as an aid in developing a
standard passenger service, but
is using this subsidy as a means
of flying cargo rates far below
operating costs for purposes of
competition with other carriers
that are developing economical
air services without benefit of
subsidies,” ATA’s petition said.
ATA moves passengers and car
go between Alaska and Washing
ton State but handles nor mail and
receives no government subsidy.
Sea level in the distant past
dropped many fpet when untold
tons of water were locked up in
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advancing glaciers.