THE NOME NUGGET
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Entered as second class matter October 14, 1943, at the postoffice
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Friday, June 11, 1948.
A UNITED STATES OF THE WORLD?
(Monitor)
T\OT LONG AGO a Gallup poll showed 63 per cent
of the American people in favor of strengthening
the United Nations and 56 per cent openly for a
world government. A late Roper poll shows more
Americans for than against participation in a full
fledged United States of the World.
Put these facts against the assertion of Crane
Brinton, McLean Proffessor of Ancient and Modern
History at Harvard, that "plain people" do not take
seriously the "extremists" who insist that we must
have world government or be blown to bits. After
examining history for evidence in a newly published
book on the subject, Professor Brinton concludes
unequivocally that "in our times a United States of
the World is impossible." History is dgainst it.
"Plain people" may not know much apout his
tory. That is too bad. They do know history isn't ev
erything .And that is good.
History could not help us to forsee that atomic
research would put at our disposal, for constructive
or destructive purposes, some forty million times as
much material power as we had ten years ago.
It cannot foretell that sudden release of spiritual
energy which—both before and since the conver
sion of Saul of Taurus—has been agle to transform
the bitterest opponents of a new idea into its stanch
est advocates.
History, then ,is not the last word. But it is a
sober second thought- for those untempered en
thusiasts who expect world government to be set
up by the wave of a legislative Wand. Recent his
tory itself is sufficiently sobering. The evidenced
unwillingness of nations to use the UN even to the
degree realistically possible in recent years does
not presage readiness to surrender far greater na
tional interests.
Under these circumstances, are not sincere world
federalists compromising their cause when they
support Congressional attempts to bring about a
revision of UN at a time and in a way which could
only result—as some of its sponsors frankly hope—
in prying Russia out of the world organization?
Would not they do better in helping strengthen
UN towards the ultimate day of world govern
ment by bringing pressure on their own Govern
ment to make fuller use of the world machinery
already available?
For it is not only Russia which has been ob
structive. Sir John Boyd Orr, retiring head of the
UN Food and Agriculture Organization and a ster
ling blend of realist and idealist, recently declared:
American talks about Russian misuse of the veto,
but the United States itself has vetoed and there
fore destroyed a world plan to feed the world.
World hunger is a far greater danger to civilization
and mankind than the atomic bomb • • . but the
United States won't or can't understand this.
The historic American attitudes have obstructed
the progress towards world cooperation possible
even under present conditions .World federalists
must take full account of these atavistic tendencies
as well as of the great historic American contribu
tion to the world—its demonstration of the principle
of federalism.
Let them blend support for the actual practice
of cooperation now with education in the nature and
necessity of federalism. For in cooperating to feed
the world's hungry, for instance, Americans can
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grow into a better understanding of the consonance
of Christianity and federalism which is real strength
of the latter.
The federal principle—E pluribus unum, From
many one*- has never been better stated than by
the converted Saul of Taurus when speaking of
his Lord and Master: "For he is our peace, who hath
made both one, and hath broken down the middle
wall of partition between us . . . for to make in
himself of twain one new man, so making peace."
EARTH WOBBLE HELPS MAKE OIL
THE EARTH'S WOBBLING MOTION has left its
mark in the oil shales of the Rocky Mountains. The
wobble is a motion like a top about to stop spinning.
The earth takes about 21,000 years for a single
wobble. How this motion has recorded itself in the
oil shales is told in the latest publication of the
Foundation for the Study of Cycles, by Wilmot H.
Bradley, of the U.S. Geological Survey.
These oil shales are like layered chocolate cake.
About every 21,000 years, two layers of cake were
formed, one for oil, and one for dry stone.
The timing is not quite that precise, but is so
close to the earth's wobble. that Dr: Bradley sug
gests it is not a coincidence .He thinks each double
layer of rocks recorded one wobble. The proof rests
mainly on the fact that the climate changes during
one wobble. During half of this time the climate,
in the American Rocky latitudes ,has short, hot
summers and winters long and relatively warm.
Dr. Bradley has to explain also the fact that the
change from oil to dry stone is sharp. The climate
changes, he notes, were certainly not sharp. He re
cites a little chemistry to show that in spite of
gradual climate change, the shift from making one
kind of rock to the other might be abrupt.
PUTS BITE ON WOLVES
J. D. Bradshaw credits his seven greyhounds with
the success of his northeastern Oklahoma '‘wolf
extermination" service. "My hounds," he says, "can
snap the life right out of the biggest wolf that
roams."
Bradshaw doesn't charge for his service. Neither
does he collect the $2.50 bounty the state pays for
each wolf bagged. With him, it's a hobby. He be
gan his hunting two years ago after a pack of
wolves invaded his farm .mangling two calves and
killing several young turkeys.
Bradshaw hunts the wolves in a pickup truck with
a hinged tailboard which can be opened in the
truck's cab. The dogs ride in the back. "I just drive
around the ranch until I spot a wolf," he says.
"Then I let the greyhounds out and they pick up the
scent and that's all there is to it." He recently ac
counted for 20 wolves in less than that many trips.
CHURCHES
CATHOLIC CHURCH
Saturday 1:30 p.m. Catechism
Class.
Sunday
Masses at 8:30 and 10:30 a.m.
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 Miracle Book Club.
Thursday - 7:30 p.m. - Prayer
Meeting.
FEDERATED CHURCH
Murlin W. Day, Minister
Sunday
No morning services at the Fed
erated Church, except the Sunday
School as usual at 10:00 a.m.
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.
EVERYONE WELCOME
CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE
Corner of Third and Division
Rev. Lewis I. Hudgins, Pastor
Prayer cheers the heart and
clears the brain.
10:00 a.m. Singspiration and Sun
day School Classes.
11:00 a.m. Morning message.
7:30 p.m. Singspiration and spe
cial music.
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 Evangelisation Society
Rev. Vern Rimling, Pastor
Sunday:
; 2:00 p.m. Sunday School.
7:30 p.m. Gospel Service.
Tuesday:
7:30 p.m. Prayer and Testimony
Thursday:
3:30 p.m. “Vit-Em-In Childrens*
; Bible Class.”
Friday:
7:30 p.m. “Know Your Bible
Class.” Verse by verse study
in Hebrews.
You are invited—Everyone Is
welcome.
SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST
CHURCH
Frod H. Wagner, Pastor
All services now held in pastor's
residence located on Fourth Ave.
and Division St.
Sabbath School 11 a.nr^. Saturday.
Evangelistic Service, 7:30 p.m.
Sunday.
The Public is cordially invited.
CHAPLAIN DARLING TO BE
SPECIAL SPEAKER SUNDAY
Chaplain Albert Darling, of the
Marks Air Force Base, will be
special speaker next Sunday ev
ening at the Lavinia Wallace
Young Mission Church.
He will show slides on Gambel,
Alaska, and his sermon topic will
be “prayer.” The service will be
gin at 7:30 p.m.