“GOP Taking
Depression Route*’’
Aboard Truman Campaign
Train, (A*)—President Truman Fri
day night attacked what he called
Republican party “special privil
ege groups” and accused the GOP
o ftaking the “same fatal course"
that led to the last depression.
Mr. Truman said everyone, in
cluding the Republicans, wants
prosperity. Real prosperity, he
said is based on justice and fair
treatment for all kinds of people.
“But the leaders who now con
trol the Republican party want
prosperity for special privilege
groups first and for other people
second,” he said.
Alaska Prepares
For Long Winter
SEATTLE, (/P) — Winter’s fast
approaching in the Far North.
In the fargest movement of cold
weather equipment this season
Pan American Airways clippers
carried a ton of fur hats, parkas,
rubber boots, wool socks, stoves,
heaters, robes and fur coats dur
ing the last three days.
Far-sighted Alaslgms are also
ordering Christmas tree ornaments
well in advance, and the highly
breakable items are being flown
weekly from Seattle.
A $1,500-organ, weighing half
a ton was flown by PAA to Skag- i
way Monday morning.
DEMOCRATIC
TICKET
For Delegate to Congress:
For Attorney General:
For Auditor:
For Highway Engineer:
For the Senate:
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For the House:
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E. L. (Bob) BARTLETT
J. GERALD WILLIAMS
FRANK A. BOYLE
FRANK A. METCALF
EDWARD ANDERSON
HOWARD LYNG
WILLIAM E. BELTZ
GEORGE P. MADSEN
ALMER RYDEEN, Nome
FRANK DEGNAN, |
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All of the Democratic Candidates are pledged:
1. To the support of our schools and the University
of Alaska.
2. To seek economy in our Territorial Government.
3 To enact an equitable tax program to support our
Territorial institutions.
4. To give equal opportunity to every citizen in ac
cordance with the rights guaranteed by the Con
stitution and Laws of the United States and the
Territory of Alaska.
5. To grant pensions and financial support of the
pioneer and needy commensurate with the needs
of the times.
8. To support the right of the people to elect their
own Governor.
7. To the passage of a Municipal Airport Act to pro
vide all communities with adequate air service.
8. To work for fair and reasonable regulation ofj
child labor for the protection of our children.
9. To the improvement and expansion of our high
way system in the Second Division.
10. To the enforcement of all laws including the
liquor laws.
11. To work for additional home facilities for pioneer
men and women.
12. To work together for the betterment of the Terri
tory in harmony and without self-interest.
The Democratic Party has always been the party of
the worker. Its record in the past in this regard cannot
be successfully attacked. It has always sponsored lib
ral legislation for the protection and advancement of
the people and has never been the tool of private in
terests. It supports no clique or self-seeking group, but
labors consistently for the general welfare of all people.
NOME DEMOCRATIC CLUB
Soviet Edict Drastic
Blow At Science
(By Dorothy Thompson)
The association of the word “pro
gressive” with the Soviet Union
and Marxian communism and
heir claim to represent “scientific”
socialism probably account in large
measure for the attraction they
have for some minds. Yet recent
events in the Soviet Union demon
strate again that Russia is not
“progressive” but, is, in fact, the
most reactionary country in the
world, governed by an intellectual
fundamentalism.
More than 300 years ago the Ital
ian astronomer, Galileo Galilei,
was brought before the inquisi
tion for publishing a book support
ing the Copernican theory that the
earth moves around the sun. This
was held to be in contradiction to
scripture and to Aristotle’s theory
which was, one might say, still the
official “party line” of the church
in the seventeenth century.
Undar threat of torture he re
canted; but the story has it that,
rising from his knees, he muttered,
"Nevertheless it moves." That it
does move is recognized scientific
truth today; and the story lives to
demonstrate the power of scientif
ic truth over theological fiction.
The affair Galileo was repeated
in Russia when the Soviet Acad
emy of Science, in the role of the
inquisition, put the clock back 100
years in the name of “progressive
Soviet biology.” Led by Trofim
Lysenko, the whole body of exact
knowledge in the field of genetics
was obliterated as “anti-Marxist”
and “bourgeois.” Soviet biology is
today exactly where the French
man Jean de Lamarck left it when
he died in 1829.
Lamarck, a forerunner of Chas.
t
Darwin, observed mutations in
organic structures and, knowing
little that was later to be discov
ered concerning gene molecules
and germ cells, deduced that
changes occurred in response to
environment.
A few years after Lamarck’s
death an Austrian botanist, Gre
gor Mendel, blew Lamarck’s theo
ries sky high by actual breeding
experiments with plants. His work
later was confirmed by Hugh de
Vries, August Weismann, Thomas
Hunt Morgan and hundreds of
others—among them, it is amusing
to note, Henry Wallace, who, in
experimenting with hybrid corn
and leghorn chickens, shows a de
votion to scientific exactitude en
tirely lacking in the fogginess of
his politics.
As a result of the shift back to
Lamarck (which is indeed compat
ible with Marxian “science,” which
also has not moved a step forward
intellectually for 100 years), the
most distinguished Russian biolo
gists all are being forced to recant
and say their Lenin-Stalinist pray
ers.
Whal a sight! Professors Loon
Orbeli and Samuel Schmalhausen
are dismissed. The institute of
morphology is dissolved! The
whole of genetic science is banned
—the only field of heredity where
really scientific evidence, positive
and incontrovertable facts, has
been produced.
It now is the true gospel that the
Politburo can determine the devel
opment of natural organisms with
out reference to their structure
and in defiance of the limitations
of mutations. The great Ivan Pav
lov once believed that conditioned
reflexes in mice are inherited, but
withdrew the conclusion on his
own initiative after further experi
ment
Years ago I asked Bertrand Rus- i
sell, brilliant mathematical and
physical scientist and a man of
radical social views, why he was
not a communist. He replied, “The
communists believe that ‘matter’
is a little hard, round billiard ball
of stuff, and I am very much
afraid it is not.”
In the physical sciences the Sov
iets are stuck in stagnation because
of their maierialisi theology, which
is blind to the facts discovered in
the last twenty-five years.
But how about you, Mr. Wal
lace? You have written, in your
last book, a 100 per cent apology
and extenuation for every Stalinist
measure, including the murder of
thousands for ideological devia
tions. Now, come clean, is heredity
determined by environment or
transmitted through the genes? On
what principle did you create hy
brid corn? Will you (in the name
of the world) speak up for the Rus
sian Galileos, or won’t you?
We hearken with intense inter
est!
Some girls are like trees—they
get a new ring every year.
PUPILS TO SHOW
HOW TOOTH BRUSH
MAY AVERT ACHES
CHICAGO — A two-year test
with school children is expected
to show just how effective careful
brushing of the teeth is in prevent
ing tooth decay.
The study is being launched by
the University of Illinois College
of Dentistry, and will involve
2,000 sixth and seventh grade
youngsters in three downstate
communities.
The children will be asked to
brush their teeth at their desks
each morning and afternoon, and
after each evening meal at home
and before going to bed. The
amount of tooth decay will be com
pared with that in other children
who will continue brushing their
teeth according to their usual hab
its.
The tests also will study the ef
fectiveness of three kinds of den
tifrices. One is a new kind, devel
oped at the college and containing
ionium compounds, which in
limited tests has shown a sharp re
duction in tooth decay.
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