THE NOME NUGGET .
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Nome. Alaska
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W. A. and EMILY BOUCHER . Editors
Entered as second class matter October 14. 1943, at the postoffice j
at Nome. Alaska, under the Act ot March 3, 1879.
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Friday, October 25, 1946 I
Will It Strike Again?
According to figures made available recently, every
minute, day and night, a FIRE BREAKS OUT. Ev
ery hour a life is lost—one-third are children under 15
years of age.
Most fires and most fire deaths are preventable, and
can be prevented if you will do your part. This does not
mean just one can prevent fire and fire deaths, it takes
the combined effort of everyone. Promote fire safety—
help check carelessness and recklessness—save mate
rials, save lives, save what you have from destruction.
Tell your neighbors about the need for fire safety—
get them to clear out all their fire dangers—tell them
-about the threat of our growing fire losses—about the
need for substituting caution for carelessness.
In America, one out of every hundred homes is dam
aged or burned down each year. One hundred ten
stores burn every day. Inspect your premises, eliminate
fire hazards, set up safety rules, learn to protect what
you have.
Homes and stores are not the only places fire strikes.;
Seven schools catch fire every day. Seventy-eight fires
are reported daily in theaters, hotels and restaurants.;
Even the school children have a duty to themselves,;
their teachers, and their parents to be careful, to be at
tentive in fire drills, and fire prevention studies, and by
their example, teaching their younger brothers and sis
ters to be fire prevention conscious. They can also re
mind their parents, at home, or at work, that fire pre
vention is much more important than fire fighting.
We have a tragic lesson before us. The fire last week
claimed the lives of three of the finest children the Lord
has ever permitted to grace the earth, might have been
prevented. But, if we continue to be callous to those
tragic warnings, the next time it may strike our loved
ones.
Let us all start now, and at once, to build a better
place in which to live, to make it safe for our loved ones.
Don’t wait, or lose one minute. Our community de
serves a better effort than we have put forth in the past, i
Our fire losses alone would be reason enough, but,
added to this, are the lives which can never be brought
back, the jobs which are lost, the comforts which are
gone, and many times health breaks down because of
hardships endured after losses. These are not all. There
are losses which every man, woman and child must pay
for dearly.
Think it over. Remember Nome is isolated for at least;
seven months—we must be self-sufficient.
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Your Meat, Soap And Sugar
(Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
The New Deal administration which has contrived,
with its collectivist controls, to make meat, sugar, soap
and fats scarce in America, has been engaged at the
.same time in shipping vast quantities of these necessi
ties to foreign nations, a department of agriculture re
port reveals.
Most of the supplies were given away by the United
Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration to
Albania, Austria, Byelo-Russia, China, Czechoslovakia,
the Dodecanese Islands, Finland, Greece, Italy, Poland,
Ukraine, and Yugoslavia.
Those nations received in July and August 100,262,
906 pounds of American meat.
They received 4,429,742 pounds of American soap.
They were given 13,167,252 pounds of lard, 6,246,016
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pounds of oleomargarine* 2,212,781 pounds of shorten
ing, with smaller quantities of peanut oil and soybean
oil, rendered pork fat, beef suet and tallow.
They received 72,167,056 pounds of sugar—so scarce
in America that housewives are not able to can fruit for
their families.
Shipments of flour, grain and cereal products amount
ed to 937,205,440 pounds, milk and cheese to 123,920,152
pounds.
In the same two months, the department of agricul
ture reports, tremendous shipments were made to other
“foreign claimants”—Britain, Belgium, France, Italy,
Greece* the Netherlands, Finland, India, Mexico, Saudi
Arabia, China and North Africa.
To these nations went 40,074,739 pounds of meat and
livestock products, including millions of pounds of
frozen fresh beef, for steaks and roasts, and million of i
pounds of frozen fresh pork loins.
They received 35,475,425 pounds of lard.
They also received 1,315,342 pounds of soap.
The generous and humane American people are al
ways willing to share with others to prevent distress,
but there is evidence that great quantities of the sup
plies shipped abroad by UNRRA do not go to alleviate
distress.
They are diverted into black markets in the lands to
which they are given, to provide luxuries for the greedy
and to enrich thieving officials and criminal bands.
Moreover, the American people’s own needs should
come first.
But the New Deal Administration, having demon
strated its indifference to the needs of the American,
people by unnecessarily depriving them of meat, soap,|
sugar and other necessities through its stubborn main
tenance of collectivist controls, now emphasizes its in
difference by providing those scarce articles in abun
dance to other peoples all around the world.
The foreign-minded New Deal operates on a policy
of America last.
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That’s That By bruce gustin
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Gyrations of the livestock mar
ket show that the natural laws of
supply and demand are beginning
to operate. With government con
trols eliminated, supply and de
mand are the factors which will
regulate prices. Record high prices
for hogs Tuesday brought a flood
of hogs to the Chicago market
Wednesday and prices declined.
With price controls off, nearly
four times as many hogs and twice
as many cattle went to market
during the first three days of this
week as last week. So the removal
of price ceilings is bringing out
meat on the hoof.
Only one control is needed in a
system of free enterprise. That is
self restraint. If producers are not
satisfied with reasonable profits, i
then the price resistance of con
sumers operates to bring them in
I to line. Competition among sellers
aids in the operation of this sys
tem. But before there can be ef
! fective competition, there must be
! an adequate supply. The astro
nomical prices now teing paid for
livestock serve a useful purpose
in getting cattle, hogs and lambs
to the market.
Removal of the quaran tine
against Mexican cattle will help
to fill up American feed Jots. Tak
ing off this embargo does not
mean any change in unpur. ,
Mexican cattle have beer, ore
into the United States for i
years under a quota system w
permitted the import of one
million annually. That was h;
last June when a quarantine
imposed while an investigi
was being made of the hoof
mouth disease situation. Bee.
no evidence of the disease
found, the quarantine has 1
lifted. But until the Mexican
tie, which will be shipped in n
have been fattened in Ameri
feed lots, they will not augrr
the beef supply.
The American Federation of
bor was specific in its denun*
tion of Comn\unist infiltration
charged, first, that Commun
have wormed their way into
federal government, including
state department, stolen sec
state papers and sent photosta
copies to Moscow. Then, it chart
that 280 active Communists ha
been employed as paid organize
for the C. I. O.
In a way, the A. F. L. alleg
tion of Communist influence
the C. I. O. was a slap at John
Lewis who recently led his Un;ti
Mine Workers back into the A.
of L. fold. During the twenties, i
investigation directed by Lewis e:
posed Communist plans to infi
trate American labor unions. Is
one ever attacked the Communis
more bitterly than he did the\
But when he set out to organiz
the C. I. O., it was with Commur
ist assistance. Maybe that was be
cause he recognized their talent
as organizers and though he couli
get rid of them after using then
to get his new union started. Bu
it was plain that they hadn’t beei
weeded out by the time he washer
his hands of the C. I. O.
The execution in London of Nq
ville Heath, former R. A. F. pilot
whose plea of “moral insanity’
failed to save him from being con
victed of a sadistic murder, callec
attention again to the swiftness ol
British justice. Three weeks after
he was found guilty and sentenced
to death, he went to the gallows.
The British don’t mess around
with murderers, as we do here in
the United States.
Often it takes a year or more ^o
execute a death sentence in this
country. A slayer convicted of
murder and doomed to death first
is allowed time to file a motion
for a new trial. If that is denied,
he usually appeals to the highest
state court. If his sentence is up
held, he may try an appeal to the
United States supreme court. Then
pleas for clemency may further
delay his execution. &
Accusing the United States of
“dollar imperialism” has cost
Czechoslovakia 90 million dollars
of American aid. Negotiations on
a Czech request for a 50-million
dollar loan have been broken off
by the state department and 40
million dollars of American sur
plus property earmarked for the
Czechs will be diverted elsewhere.
That should teach foreign coun
tries that biting the hand they ex
pect to feed them is a poor policy.
Some of them seem to think that
since the United States has taken
so much abuse from Yugoslavia it
will stand for anything. It is high
time they were taught to keep a
civil tongue in their heads.
Until the invention of the “Fly
Shuttle,” the weaver of cloth, >n
order to interlace the filling^
threads, would throw his shuttle
from one hand to another. In !7tf^
John Kay invented a device by
which the weaver could pull a
cord and send the shuttle on its
course through the web without
throwing it himself by hand.