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Nome, Alaska, Wednesday, September 22, 1948
Senator Cain Sees Vital Program For Germany
(New World News Service)
“In these mountains I have found the only available
and reasonable answer to the sweeping tide of Com
munism,” Senator Harry P. Cain of the State of Wash
ington said at the World Assembly for Moral Re-Arma
ment. Senator Cain announced that he was communi
cating with top authorities in Germany to facilitate the
presentation of the plays, “The Forgotten Factor” and
“The Good Road” in the near future, and the spread of j
the Moral Re-Armament program in that country. “If
this program cannot revitalize and reinspire the desire
in free nations to remain free, I don’t know what can,”
he stated.
At thirty-eight Senator Cain enlisted in the para
troops and was promoted to a full colonel on Ardennes
Battlefield after being wounded in the Battle of the
Bulge. He told how he had flown 7,000 miles to be three
days at this Assembly and is now flying back to the
U. S. A.
Speaking at the premiere performance in German of
the industrial drama “The Forgotten Factor,” Cain said,
“I have been amazed by what these plays have done for
the hearts and minds of the Germans who have been
here. As citizen, as taxpayer and as Senator I know of no
greater investment to be made at this very time than to j
make these plays available to every German.” Cain add
ed, “We must possess the same things we want the Ger
mans to have. Steel, timber and food alone will not give
them an ideology. We must first have it ourselves. I am
going back to the U. S. to do all I can to encourage others
to support and participate in Moral Re-Armament.”
Among statesmen at Caux from the three Western
Zones of Germany were: Dr. Hans Ehard, Minister
President of Bavaria, (largest province in the American |
zone); Dr. Karl Arnold, Minister-President of North
Rhine-Westphalia (Ruhr); Dr. Michael Horlacher, Pres
ident of the Bavarian Parliament; Lorenz Hagen, Presi
dent of the Bavarian Trade Unions; Dr. Erwin Stein,
Minister of Education in Hesse; and Wilhelm Keil, Pres-1
ident of the Wurteemberg-Baden Parliament. ,
Cain said he had not been satisfied before in appropri
ating millions of dollars for European aid because he
was not certain that it was the best thing. “But,” he add
ed in refreence to his findings at Caux, “I can say with
conviction that these material things that we give are
going to give us a run for our money because behind
them all and more important is the spirit first of Europe1
and then of the world which is being rejuvenated and
revitalized.” i
ALASKA AIR CARRIERS
The Civil Aeronautics Board has issued a proposed (
rule for the “allevation of the operational problems” of
Alaska air carriers operating within Alaska, according
to a notice issued by the Bureau of Safety Regulations of
the CAB.
At the present time, certificated air carriers operating
within the Territory in applying for air carrier operat
ing certificates have had to comply with Part 41 of the
Civil Air Regulations which are now considered by the
Civil Aeronautics Board and the Civil Aeronautics Ad
ministration as being impractical and unworkable in
many instances as applied to Alaska operations. The pro
posed rule will allow the CAA Administrator, after
thorough investigation ,to authorize a company to either
operate a segment of or the entire route under Part 42
if it is found to be more applicable and if that operation
can be conducted safely under Part 42. It is understood
that if the proposed rule is finally approved, the threat
will be removed to many air carriers in Alaska who
would otherwise have to cease operations should re
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quirements of Part 41 be enforced. Among other things
that have served as impediments to certain air carriers
in Alaska is the requirement in Part 41 that those car
riers had to have certain communication facilities and
dispatching systems wholly unfeasible because of the
relatively small size of their operations and remoteness
of areas served.
The proposed rule will not be finally acted upon until
the early part of October after receipt of comment from
intrested persons. Communications should be submitted
to the Civil Aeronautics Board, attention Bureau of Saf
ety Regulation, Washington 25, D. C.
“People’s Democracy;” Not Behind, But Below
(The Denver Post)
America’s dealings with the Soviet Union have been
so unsatisfactory for so long that Americans are in
clined to condemn not only the Soviet government and
its governors but the Russian people.
That condemnation is not only unfair, but it is dan
gerous. If we lump the Russian people into the same
mold as the Soviet government, we give the Soviets a
powerful propaganda weapon, and destroy one of our
greatest strengths in Russia—the natural friendship of
the Russian people.
This is emphasized in a Saturday Evening Post arti
cle by Alexander Barmine, former Soviet general and
diplomat. Barmine believes that we must battle the Sov
iet government with democratic propaganda, not with
unfriendliness to Russian and the Russians. I
As a government we have tried and are trying this.
The effectiveness of our propaganda program can be
measured by vitriolic comments from the Kremlin.
Scarcely a day goes by but that the Russian people are
warned against the “lies of the Voice of America.” The
increasing bitterness of the Soviet government is proof
enough that this medium is effective.
But perhaps we are doing well enough. Barmine is
right when he laments a growing tendency in the United
States to think interchangeably of Soviet Communists
and Russians. Such public comparisons, voiced or print
ed, are readily available to Soviet correspondents and
agents in this country, and they make constant use of
them for home propaganda.
In individual contacts with unofficial Russians, we
have seen that their attitudes are not fairly reprseented
by those of the Soviet government. Almost any time that
A Russian feels he can speak freely he claims that he
does not want to be unfriendly—the Soviet government
demands it. The same is true of other states in the Sov
iet sphere, whose leaders represent only an extension of
the Kremlin. Ev^n in these states. Romania, Hungary,
Poland, Bulgaria and Czechoslovakia, the people are not
behind their governments—they are right under them.
It is very easy for Americans to blame the people of
the satellite nations and of Russia for the actions of their
governments, but to do so is to commit crass folly.. We
can get rid of our government—they have no choice.
Three More Blind
Eskimos Enter
Oregon School
Alaska Native Service announc
es the acceptance of three more
Alaskan children in the State
School for the Blind at Salem, Ore.
This raises the Alaska enrollments
in this school to nine Native chil
dren from Fairbanks, Hydaburg,
Juneau, Kanakanak, Ketchikan,
Perryville (2), Pilot Point, and
Rampart. Two Alaska children,
from Juneau and Nome, respec
tively, are enrolled in the Wash
ington School for the Blind at Van
couver. The Washington State
School for the Deaf also at Van
couver is accepting four new en
rollees from Barrow, Bethel, Holy
Cross, and Hydaburg, in addition
to the two Alaskan children al
ready there from Juneau and Ty
onek.
All of these blind and deaf chil
dren are supported in the schools
by funds provided through the
Alaska Native Service for the edu
cation of the handicapped. Until
special educational facilities for
the blind and deaf are available in
Alaska these opportunities pro
vided by the Alaska Native Serv
ice, in cooperation with the States
of Washington and Oregon, make
possible the academic and voca
tional training necessary for these
children’s development into self
supporting citizens. It is also pos
sible through these schools to se
cure special medical services that
give promise of improved vision or
hearing for these handicapped
children.
Temporary foster homes usual
ly make it possible for these stu
dents to remain in the States un
der helpful home care during the
summer .thus adding to the child’s
raining and lessening the expense
for travel between their homes and
the State schools.
The case studies for these han
dicapped children and arrange
ments for their enrollment in the
special schools were made by Dr.
Evelyn I. Butler, Supervisor of So
cial Welfare in the Alaska Native
Service. Miss Glayds Mcllveen,
Indian Service Social Worker in
Seattle, visits these students occa
sionally and. reports their progress
to the Juneau Alaska Native Serv
ce Office.
Truman Offers
Westerners Choice
(By Ernest B. Vaccaro)
Aboard Truman campaign train
(TP) — President Truman offered
western voters today what he said
was a choice between the most
ambitious irrigation and power de
velopment program ever devised*
and Republican “strangulation.”
He carried his campaign into Ne
vada and California on the theme
that a Democratic victory in No
vember will mean “a glorious west
with wealth and security for our
people.”
A major address before a cheer
ing overflow crowd in Salt Lake
City’s Mormon tabernacle set the
tone for rear platform speeches at
“whistle stops” enroute to ad
dresses in Oakland and San Fran
cisco tonight.
Tabernacle officials said 11,500
persons sat and stood within the
building while a loud speaker car
ried the President’s words to ad
ditional thousands in an assembly
hall on the grounds.
Folks used to make their own
clothing on spinning wheels; now
they lose their shirts on ’em.