THE NOME NUGGET
Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday by the
NOME PUBLISHING CO.
NOME, ALASKA
Telephone: Main 125 P. O. Box 610
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W. A. Boucher . ...Owner-Publisher
Emily Boucher ..Local Editor
Entered as second class matter October 14. 1943, at the postoffice
at Nome, Alaska, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
Nome, Alaska, Friday, March 11, 1949
WHY THE AMERICAN SYSTEM IS BEST
(Prize Paper, Sent to U. S. C. of C.)
George C. Roberts’ prize-winning statement on “I Be
lieve the American System of Business is the Best for
Me Because ...” has been forwarded bv the Tacoma
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Chamber to the United States Chamber of Commerce
and will appear soon in one of its publications.
Roberts, a native of Austria who came to this country
in 1927 and is now a certified public accountant here,
won a $500 savings bond in a contest conducted as a
part of Roderic Olzendam’s “Out of the Fog” radio pro
gram. Judges were Pearl A. Wanamaker, State Super
intendent of Public Instruction; Stephen Fielding
Bayne, Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Olympia: and'
Harold A. Scoring, Seattle attorney.
The winning paper follows:
“I believe The American System of Business Is The
Best for Me Because . . . ”
“What is best for mo must bo good for my fellow citi-j
zens too or it will not long endure for me.
“tf I claim the right to free speech, and do not con-'
cede it to others, my claim to that right will soon be dis
puted. If 1 ask respect for mv way of worship, I must re
spect all other ways, or I will soon be coerced into reli
gious submission. If I am to vote according to the die;
tates of my conscience and convictions, I must fight for
the right of others to vote differently, or soon m\* priv
ilege to vote will vanish.
“What holds true in the general pattern of life, ob
tains with equal force in the more restricted domain of'
business.
“I want to pursue that vocation which I consider best j
for me economically, mentally and emotionally. I have!
this privilege now, I want it preserved, and I want my
fellow citizens, each and every one, to have the same
right, so that it may not perish for my children.
“The American Svstem of Business, more than that
of any other country, gives me that right.
“I want the right to be employer, with greater prom- j
ise and greater risk, or employee, with smaller promise i
and smaller risk, as I may chooce. If T denied others the j
same right of choosing, I might soon find myself unable i
to hire, as I wish, or to apply for a job, as I wish, to start1
and to quit when I want and where I want.
“The American System of Business gives me this,
choice. Restrictions do exist, imposed by law, union pro-'
visions, experience and training requirements. But they
are needful, or at least tolerable, and protective rather
than coercive.
“To be able, then, to do within the law what I want,
%vhen I want it and where I want it, to prosper from my
industry, my knowledge, my personality—these rights
I share with my fellow citizens; on these rights they
and American business are prospering, and on these
rights American business is built. As long as they pre
serve. I shall feel, deeply and firmly, that American!
business is best for me.
“Let us not indulge in the mistaken belief that free
dom in business is a thing different and apart from the
freedom to worship, the freedom to vote. Freedom is an
invisible whole. These freedoms have created the pat
tern of our life. It is a good and abundant life. It is a
hard life, too. But I would rather work hard in, with and
for American business that gives abundance, then pur
chase a brief and deceptive honeymoon at the price of
regimentation, coercion and fear.”
NAZI PARROTS
(Christian Science Monitor)
The comic and the sinister make a weird cacophony
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in the story of that unthinking parrot now attracting at
tention from visitors to the zoo in Munich, Germany.
The bird continues to heil Hitler, despite efforts of zoo
authorities to bring her up to date.
The keeper is trying to de-Nazify the bird, but whe
ther he is succeeding any better than occupation author
ities have with human birds of a similar feather is a
question. His efforts are partly nullified by those of vis
itors who constantly urge the bird to utter her archaic
crv.
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This is all in fun, of course, though of a somewhat
morbid turn. To be sure, laughter at Hitler used to be a
sort of escape for freedom-hungry Germans under his
heel. But now that the Nazi tyranny has been wiped out
largely by the sacrifice of other peoples than Germans,
the laughter in Munich has a hollow sound, as of a lack
of comprehension nearly as profound as the parrot’s.
Possibly the keeper’s difficulty in de-Nazifying this
bird is only symbolic of a deeper difficulty which exists
wherever slogans have once taken the place of thought.
REAL” WAGES DOWN SINCE 1946
Not many people realize that the decline in living
costs, so greatly advertised, has been rather slight or
the truth of the assertion of Secretary of Labor Maurice
J. Tobin that “genuine price reductions are less than a
casual reading of newspaper advertising or a passing
glance a1 window displays would lead us to believe.”
Mr. Tobin asserts that, because of rising living costs,
the “real” wages of factory workers — namely, what
their wages will buy—have not increased and, in many
cases, have actually diminished since 1946.”
When price controls were dropped in 1946, the situa
tion grew worse, with the most rapid rise “of which we
have record.” While there was a period when living
costs seemed to be coming down, this was short-lived,
says the Secretary, and the tendency has recurred but
it is easy to “exaggerate the prevalence and effects of
these price reductions.”
BRITISH INCREASE ARMS
The British, still battling for economic recovery, plan
to spend nearly four billion dollars on the armed forces
during the coming year. This will include the cost of
providing Western Europe with a common radar air
raid-warning system and of supplying some British jet
planes to France, Belgium and Holland.
The British Government recently issued a White Pa
per, warning that costs of defense must continue to rise.
In addition, 100,000 extra civilian workers will be need
ed to work in arms factories to re-equip and maintain
the armed forces. This means more than half a million
civilians working on armaments.
In the official document, the Government points out
that hopes of collective security on a world-wide basis
have been disappointing and a realistic defense system
must be based on Western Europe and the North At
lantic.
CHURCHES
CATHOLIC CHURCH
Sunday—
Masses at 8 a.m. and 10 a.m.
At the Base Chapel at 4:30 p.m.
Lenten Devotions
Sun. eve. 7:30.Instructions
Wed. eve. 7:30.Instructions
Fri. eve. 7:30, Stations of the Cross
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
Sunday
10:00 a.m. Sunday School.
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
Third and Division
Pastor—Lewis I. Hudgins
“Have you a little fairy in your
home?” ring her to Sunday school
and let her brow as beautiful in
character as in person.
10:00 a.m. Singspiration and Sun
day 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.
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 Evangelization Society
P.ev. Vern Rimling, Pastor
Sunday:
2:00 p.m. Sunday School for
boy? and girls.
Preaching service in the Eskimo
language by James Savok.
7:30 p.m. Gospel Service.
I Tuesday:
7:30 p.m. Prayer and Testimony
Thursday:
i 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. Bible Club for
Boys and Girls.
Friday:
j 7:30 p.m. Bible Study.
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TWO ALASKA HIGRSCHOOL
PAPERS HONORED
NEW YORK, (&)—'Two Alaska
high school papers were among
the 1,066 winners in the annual
school newspaper and magazine ^
competition sponsored by the Co
lumbia university scholastic press
association.
Joseph M. Murphy, association
director, said more than 1,000 pa
pers and magazines were entered.
The Alaska school papers that
won honors were the Kayhitems.
Ketchikan high school and the
Gastineau Breeze, Douglas high
school.
The Ketchikan paper was in the
first place division in the classifi
cation of high schools with 300 or
less pupils. The Douglas publica-^
tion was among the second place
rating in the same classification.