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Entered as second class matter October 14, 1943, at the postoffice
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Nome, Alaska, Friday, August 26, 1949
CASH CANNOT UPLIFT THEM ALL
(Hugo S. Sims)
What is the obligation of the Government of the
United States to the undeveloped areas of Africa, Indo
China, and other places, where colored races exist in
abject ignorance and are so often exploited and possibly
mistreated?
This is an interesting question that comes to mind
with the efforts of so-called leaders of the down-trodden
races to secure outright gifts for the economic develop
ment of these vast areas. If successful in this pursuit, the
time will come when the demand will be made for funds
to educate, house and feed these teeming millions on the
same basis that more fortunate races enjoy. |
Just why there are certain areas in the world almost,
entirely undeveloped and certain races of people ignor
ant and semi-civilized is something of a puzzle. If we
presume that every individual and all races were cre
ated equal, the wonder still is that there is now such a >
wide disparity in their status and fortunes.
While every intelligent person would like to see!
backward races develop and their economic resources \
utilized for their benefit, it would be a mistake to as- ;
sume that the so-called civilized races can accomplish j
this task by the expenditure of money.
If the United States devoted one hundred billion
dollars to the uplift of the teeming masses of Africa,:
Asia and Indonesia, the process would come to an end
as soon as the money was completely exhausted. The J
net result would be the impoverishment of the United
States and little advancement for the backward peoples.
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POWER FURNACE UNDER THE GROUND
The idea of burning coal underground has been dis
cussed for many years but, in Alabama, some 150 feet
below the surface of th eearth, fifteen to twenty tons of
coal are being burned daily as experimenters seek to
develop the process in a sealed-off area, three hundred
feet long.
James Elder, supervising engineer for the U. S. bur
eau of mines in this underground experiment, reports
that heat gas can be made and combustion can be main
tained. Nevertheless, the heat gas being produced aver
aged from fifteen to forty British thermal units as com
pared with the one thousand units of natural gas.
Mr. Elder says that he can run a boiler part-time
with the type gas now being received on the surface and
that, in a few months time, he thinks he can run the
boiler all the time. The essence of the process is to se
cure a heat gas consistently maintaining sufficient ther
mal units to operate gas turbines.
For many years, suggestions have been made that the
digging of coal be eliminated by the combustion of coal
beneath the surface of the ground. The heat produced
would generate electric power which could be distrib
uted much more cheaply through the area than the cost
of transporting coal. With all experiments, there are
many kinks to be ironed out before one can be assured
that the process can be worked satisfactorily.
TO SELL ABROAD, WE MUST BUY
Back of the dollar shortage in Great Britain, which
has produced an economic crisis in that country, is the
fact that British exports to the United States in June of
this year were less than half of the average figure for
the preceding year.
Since the British must have dollar exchange in order
to buy what they want in the United States, declining
exports force the Islands to reduce their imports of
American goods. The chancellor of the exchequer has
announced that less sugar, tobacco, newsprint, timber,
steel and other things will be bought from the United
Truman Will
Welcome States*
Righters, If —
WASHINGTON, (^—President
Truman put out the welcome mat
for Southern party bolters yester
day, but demanded that those who
cross it get in step with the 194.8
Democratic platform.
He delivered the invitation—
strictly on his own terms — at a
rousing dinner of the Democratic
national committee a few hours
after it had read five southern
States’ Rights members from the
high command.
And, leaving the door open to
non-Truman Democrats in Con
gress to fall in line with the Tru
man program, the committee ex
empted them from the party
purge.
The fires of revolt, however,
already were burning anew.
States’ Righters announced they
are opening Washington head
quarters to spread the flames. The
whole thing was sparked by south
ern dislike for Mr. Truman’s civil
rights program.
It was Truman the campaigner
—swinging free style in the man
ner of his “give ’em hell” stump
ing of last year—who proclaimed
his party of today “a national
party, and not a sectional party
any more.”
“The tail no longer wags the
TWO CAPTAINS PROMOTED
AT MARKS AIR BASE
Headquarters Alaskan Ai C om- :
mand has this week announced |
the promotion of Capts. William |
McDonald and Robert Pash to the
rank of Major 'Temporary* last
1 Saturday. The new majors are
i presently assigned as Statistical
Control Officer and Officer in
Charge of Arctic Indoctrination
1 School respectively of Marks Air
Force Base. Both officers are
! members of the Regular Air Force
! and hold the permanent rank of
i Captain.
Norman Angell, English econ
omist, used to be an American |
1 cowboy and prospector in the j
western part of the United States
and Mexico.
dog,” he said.
He went on to say that he won
j in 1948 without New York, “with
out the industrial east and with
out the solid south” and that he
was “prouder of that than any
thing that has ever happened to
me.”
Then came the invitation:
“And that doesn’t mean that we
are not inviting the industrial
east and the solid south and all
the rest of the country to join the
| party of the people, and help the
country go forward. That is exact
ly what we want, and that is ev
actly what we are going to accom
plish in the next two years.”
States.
It might be interesting to Americans to know that in
the battle to reduce imports from dollar currency coun
tries, the British have reduced the sugar from ten to
eight ounces a week. This is as low as at any time since
1939. Candy rationing, which was removed in April of
this year, went into effect again this month.
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The people of Great Britain, like those of other coun
tries, can only buy American goods if they are permit
ted to sell something to the people of this country. Since
international trade is, in reality, a swap of goods, the
process cannot continue indefinitely if there is any
thing like a one-way flow of trade.
Seeking to secure a source of dollar credit, the Bri
tish, it is intimated, suggest that world prices for such
raw materials as wool, tin, rubber and cocoa, produced
in the Empire, be fixed and that the United States buy
fixed quantities o fthose things from the Dominions and
colonies for a certain period. This, according to the pro
gram, would assure a stable dollar credit in this coun
try, permitting Britain and her partners to buy large
quantities of American materials, goods and products.
The question seems to boil down to this: If the people
of the United States expect to sell to other peoples, in
cluding the British, they must be ready to take cogni
zance of present world conditions and open their mar
kets to the goods of other nations.
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Message by the pastor: “God Is
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There is a nursery for the con
venience of parents with children.
8:00 p.m.—Evensong, and Mes
sage by the pastor: “If Things
Were Different.”
Fellowship hour following the
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rehearsal at the parsonage.
Friday —Woman’s Society (Ladies
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Miss H. E. Brown
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Sunday—
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Adult Bible Class.11:00 a.m.
Evening Service .7:30 p.m.
Tuesday—
Young Peoples Meeting 4:00 p.m.
Wednesday—
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Friday—
Bible Study and
Prayer Meeting .7:00 p.m.
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Third and Division
Pastor—Lewis I. Hudgins
“Christians not only stand FOR
something, but they stand BY.”
10:00 a.m. Singspiration and Sun
day School classes.
11:00 a.m. Morning Message. *
7:00 p.m. Young People’s Meeting.
17:30 p.m. Singspiration and special
music.
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Prayer.
Come and bring your Bible.
You are ever welcome to attend
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Rev. Vern Rimling. Pastor
[ 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. Bible Study—trans
lated into the Eskimo language.
Thursday—
2:00 to 4:00 p.m. K.Y.B Club for
boys and girls.
Friday—
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Testimony.