THE NOME NUGGET
Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday by the
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NOME. ALASKA
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W. A. Boucher .Owner-Publisher
Entered as second class matter October 14, 1943, at the postoffice
at Nome, Alaska, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
Nome, Alaska, Friday, May 13, 1949
STEP BACKWARDS
It seems to be the opinion of most of the people to
whom we have talked recently that the new “looser”
regulation of liquor in Nome is a step in the wrong di
rection to correcting any of the evils now confronting
our law enforcement departments, city and federal.
Another angle against the new ruling is that par
ticularly on week days the persons who frequent the
dispensaries of liquor and remain until the closing hours
are not in shape to do an honest day’s work the follow
ing day. Employers will be handicapped by “help” in
capable of doing their part of the job. The work and
lives of others may be jeopardized by those thusly in
capacitated. It is more than likely that the establish
ments dispensing liquor will benefit at the start, by the
later closing hours, but, in the long run it seems to be a
step in the wrong direction. Those persons who make it
a practice may lose their jobs and therefore will not be
able to continue the course of dollars across the bar.
These, and other items of conversation were gathered
from sources about town and might be good for some
little consideration in future changes in regulating
liquor in Nome.
This is by no means a chastisement of the Nome City
Council members, who have been electecf by the people
of Nome, and who do the city’s business in the best way
they know how, “without help from the people who put
them in office.”
These “City Fathers” are generally ready to listen to
those who are civic-minded enough to go to the regular
meetings and express their desires and opinions.
For a change in the right direction, go to City Coun-1
cil meetings.
THE ROOT OF THE ISSUE
(New* World News Service)
Is America really going to the root of the issue today?
Recently another $5,000,000,000 was voted to ECA
for the coming year. The Atlantic Pact was also signed
throwing America out on the limb of her destined role
in world affairs. Ten years ago it was inconceivable that J
America would take this leadership. But still, are we
going to the root of the issue?
An American wrote recently from China: “I hope the
signing of the Atlantic Pact won’t give the western
powers a false sense of security, while the world falls
apart in Asia.” And, in a widely advertised article,
TIME Magazine recently quoted a German leader:
“Whether any of us likes it or not, one thing is true in
Europe today—its future depends on the workers of
Germany. Russia cannot win them yet—but the West
can lose them. ... If they should ever desert the West.
. . . then you can have all the Atlantic Pacts you can
write. Communism will be everywhere.”
Once again, events are forcing America to re-evalu
ate what she is giving Europe and the world.
The United States has poured into France millions of
dollars in aid. In terms of aid, Russia has sent exactly
“one shipload of wheat.” But she has sent 1,000 trained
ideological fighters. Some indication of communist
strength was given last fall when the French coal indus
try came to a standstill and the equivalent in coal of six
months’ Marshall aid was lost.
America must face the fact that we are not going to
the root of the issue. If what that German leader says is
true, then it is imperative that American policy develop
the means at once of complementing our security pacts
and aid plans with trained ideological fighters who can
demonstrate and sell inspired democracy to the world.
If we can produce ideologically trained and equipped
eersonnel in time, then the millions we’ve poured into
Europe can become the real basis of recovery and the
DOBS THAT BO WITH THE JOB 1
North Atlantic Pact can usher in a new age of human
cooperation.
U. S. TOWARD BUDDHA?
(Hugo S. Sims)
The less-than-two-year-old nation of India is sending
a new ambassador to the United States in the person of
Mrs. Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, the younger sister of
Pr me Minister -Jawaharlal Nehru.
The lady was educated in Europe and says she can
not remember when “I could not speak English.” Nev
ertheless, she comes to this country in the hope that
she can persuade the United States to support, with its
material strength, the pacifist spirit of India, and her
country’s leadership in Asia. Broadly stated, she seeks
to make India better understood in the United States,
but, of course, she hopes to promote American financial
assistance in the development of her own country.
It is interesting to note that Mrs. Pandit has no idea
of accepting Western civilization, preferring a return
to the inherited culture of India as opposed to the
“cheap imitation” of the West. She fears that India
would lose sight of those inner values with which her
country hopes to enrich the world if there is complete
westernization and stresses the belief that Mahatma
Gandhi led her people a long way back toward the kind
lier philosophy of Buddha’s day.
While we have no objection to the lady’s re ten tier, of
her belief in the spirtual values of India, including those
of Buddha, we doubt if she will make much progress in
persuading the people of the United States that tlw are
superior to those already acepted by Americans. Her at
titude, we presume, represents that of the comparative
ly small group! of intellectuals in Asiatic countries who
take pride in their culture, spiritualism and civilization
but look to the Western world for converts rather than
seeking to improve the lot of their own people by adopt
i ing Western methods which will give them a higher
| standard of living.
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“The financing of the soldiers bonus,” says the Green
j bush, Minn., Tribune, “seems to be pretty much up in
the air. It seems that everyone is in favor of the bonus
but no one wants to be taxed to pay for it. If a bonds is
I to be repaid it should be paid for within a short period of
; time. Certainly future generations will have enough to
pay without shouldering on them a bonus that will ben
efit only the present generation. Some form of taxation
will be necessary to pay a bonus and beneficiaries are
I sure to have to pay a portion of it in one form or another.
“Every veteran has a family or relatives who will pay
| the bonus, and so in the long run it will not be a bonus at
all. When this amendment was submitted, it should also
have been asked if the voter was willing to be taxed to
pay the bonus. In six states in which the question was
put this way the bonus was defeated. It is easy to say
i that the veteran should have a bonus, but it is, horse of
'another color when it comes down to digging up the
wherewithal!.
I CHURCHES
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CATHOLIC CHURCH
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Sunday—
8:00 a.m.—Mass
9:30 a.m.—Mass
4:30 p.m.—At the Base Chape!
May devotions every evening at
7:30 p.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.
Children’s Miracle Book Club.
Thursday—7:30 p.m.
Prayer Meeting.
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FEDERATED CHURCH
Sunday 10:00 a.m.—Sunday School
ASSEMBLY OF GOD
PENTECOSTAL
Third Avenue West
Miss H. E. Brown
Missionary in Charge
Sunday—
Sunday School .10:00 a.m.
Adult B ble Class 11:00 a.m.
Evening Service 7:30 p.m.
Tue day-—
Young Peoples Meeting 4:00p.m.
Wednesday—
Bible Study 7:30 p.m.
Friday—
Bible Study and
Prayer Meeting 7:00 p.m.
EVERYONE WELCOME
CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE
Third and D'vision
Fastor—Lewis I. Hudgins
"God is for us—that is good;
God is with us—that is better; God
is in us—that is best.”
10:0d a.m. Singspiration and Sun
d \v School classes.
11:00 a.m. Morning Message.
7:00 p.m. Young People’s Meeting.
7:30 p.m. Singspiration and special
music.
8:00 p.m. Evening Message.
. dnesday: 7:30 p.m. Melody and
Prayer.
Come a~d bring your Bible.
You are ever welcome to attend
these services.
NOME GOSPEL MISSION
of
Alaska Evangelization Society
Rev. Vern Rimling, Pastor
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Sunday—
2:00 p.m. Sunday School for
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 for
boys and girls.
Friday—
730 p.m. Bible Study.
Barney Vogen. who has been U.
S. Commissioner at Teller for a
time, has terminated his duties
and has gone to Anchorage for the
summer. No one has been appoint
ed to date to take his place.
Mr*. Weelkovagveek died Thurs
day, May 12, 1949. Formerly of
Cape Prince of Wales, she has
been a resident of Nome for the
past year. She was 68. Mrs. Weel
kovagveek is survived by a step
daughter, Mrs. Alice Attatayuk.