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Nome, Alaska, Wednesday, May 17, 1950
A JOB IS VERY IMPORTANT
Hunderds of thousands of young Americans will go
into the job-market in June, as schools and colleges re
lease new recruits for employment.
The important task of finding a job is rarely appre
ciated by those who have steady and dependable em
ployment. It is quite another problem, however, for
young people who have trained themselves and are
ready to begin the business of making a living.
There was a time, not so very many years ago. when
the absence of jobs created insuperable difficulties for
millions of American families. The likelihood that this
wlil be the case again is not threatening but, in mid-1
February, acording to the Census Bureau, one worker
in every fourteen was without work in the United
States. Idle workers numbered 4,684,000 at that time.
Employment opportunities for those able and willing
to work should be the concern of every American.
There is no future in this land of opportunity for any
young man or young woman who is unable to find suit
able employment. Consequently, the creation of econo
mic opportunity is a matter of prime importance.
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SOME STATISTICS
(Daily Alaska Empire)
A lengthy article in the New York Times by its editor
on education, Benjamin Fine, reveals some significant
statistical information concerning the study of United
States history in this country’s universities and colleges.
The main fact which emerges on the basis of two sur
veys made by Mr. Fine, one in 1942 and the other re
cently, is that courses in United States history are com
pulsory at present in 34 per cent—a fraction more than
one-third, that is—of the institutions of post high school
grade. That figure represents a gain of 16 per cent over
the one in the earlier survey.
American educators as a whole appear to regard the
study of the history of their country as an important ad
junct to democracy and good citizenship, but they do not
agree that it should be a “required” course. They do not
state any specific reason for their objection. Moreover,
theirs is a minority opinion. Sixty-two per cent of the
educators queried in this survey declared themselves in
favor of making United States history courses compul
sory, as opposed to the 51 per cent who did so in the
survey of 1942.
In advocating the study of the history of our country,
whether such study be required or held voluntary, 80
per cent of the men questioned did so because a knowl
edge of American history, acording to their view, would
be less likely to turn students toward other ideologies.
Although we do not look with any favor at all on these
“foreign” ideologies, we are not certain that we quite
perceive the cause and effect relationship implied. It
would seem to us that it is far sounder to study some
thing for its own sake rather than as an antidote to
something else.
WEAPONS FOR U. S. ARSENAL
News that the Navy seeks authority to build a sub
marine propelled by atomic energy, to be ready in 1952,
is followed by announcement that the Army has devel
oped an anti-aircraft-rocket, capable of shooting down
an airplane flying at 60,000 feet, and that another mis- i
sile promises to produce greater results against hostile
airplanes at even higher altitudes.
Admiral Forest P. Sherman, Chief of Naval Opera
tions, also speaks up for the construction of a guided- j
missile cruiser despite the fact that, two years ago, the
Navy stopped construction on the Kentucky, which it1
intended to arm exclusively with rockets. At that time
the program in guided missiles did not seem to justify
construction of the Kentucky, and other ships for the
McGrath Leads In
Cancer Crusade
For the second consecutive year
the little town of McGrath on the
Kuskokwim River leads the field
in the Cancer Crusade for Alaska.
McGrath, first community to sub
mit a final report in the current
Cancer Crusade, rang up a total of
$500 for its contribution toward
Cancer Control.
This is according to announce
ment made by the Rev. R. Rolland
Armstrong of Juneau, Territorial
Crusade chairman.
“We believe,” Mr. Armstrong
said, "that McGrath’s contribution
bids fair to become the highest
per capita contribution in the en
tire United States. There are less
than 150 residents of McGrath and
a per capita contribution of more
than $3.00 is a good target for any
community to shoot at.”
Mrs. Pearl Laska, Director at
Large of the Alaska Division of
the American Cancer Society,
handled the crusade for McGrath
as she did last year, but she rais
ed the ante 25% for 1950. Last
year’s contribution was $*00 and
it also was the largest per capita
in Alaska.
Simultaneously with the re
lease of the McGrath story, Mr.
Armstrong reminded Alask a n s
that the Cancer Crusade in Alaska
will extend through May. Cru
sades are already under way in
other communities. Nome is ex
pected to ring the starter’s bell
for hers, early next week. An
nouncement of the appointment of
the local Crusade chairman and a
working committee to support
him in each town may be expect
ed later this week, Mr. Armstrong
stated.
Mr. and Mrs. Lindell Bagley
passed through Nome yesterday
from Noorvich, enroute to the
States on a vacation trip. Mrs.
Bagley was a teacher in the Nome
school during the war while her
husband was stationed here in the
U. S. Army, and have many
friends in Nome. They have been
teachin" in Noorvich since 1946
and plan to return there in the
fall.
The death rate from cancer has
risen from 65 per 100.000 popula
tion in 1900 to an estimated 140
in 1950.
Foster Leaves For
Aleutian Islands to
Study Conditions
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(Juneau Empire*
Don C Foster, area director of
the Alaska Native Service is on
the first stage of a journey which
will take him far out on the Aleu
tian Chain to study the conditions
under which the island natives
live.
Accompanied by his wife, his
daughter Kara Lee, 13, and Earl
Intolubbe, ANS education super
visor, Foster will leave from Sitka
on the ANS ship North Star Mon
day.
After studying conditions on a
number of Aleutian Islands, in
cluding Atka, where 50 former
prisoners of the Japanese live,
Foster will travel to Naknek,
Goodnews Bay, Hooper Bay, and
as far north as Gambell on St.
Lawrence Island in the Bering
Sea.
He said that a study of natives’
living condiitons would be made
at 10 villages while two 2,000 gal
lon oil tanks are being installed.
The tanks will be filled with
bulk oil carried in tanks aboard
the North Star and landed on tank
lighters. Foster said the tanks and
use of bulk oil will cut down the
cost of fuel in the villages and
eliminate a serious fire hazard
which accompanies storage of fuel
oil in drums.
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Beach Named
Juneau Assessor
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(Juneau Empire)
Ray Beach was named city as
sessor at an informal meeting of
the Juneau City Council.
Formerly employed by the Ter
ritorial department of labor and
the Territorial treasurer, Beach
began work for the city last week
and will complete the assessing
job in September, according to
Mayor Waino Hendrickson.
The council announced at its
regular meeting a week ago that
an assessor had been selected, but
announcement of the council’s
choice for the job was not made
until after the meeting last week.
Three Juneau residents had ap
plied for the post.
Nugget Ads Bring Quick Result?
same purpose, but apparently the development of this
weapon has been considerably accelerated.
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“Fair Deal” “Will
Hankrupl U. S.”
(By The Associated Press*
Republicans stepped up their
bid today to win control of Con
gress with a charge that Truman
Administration policy ‘‘will wreck
the United States and reduce it
to bankruptcy.”
That charge, uttered by Senator
Taft of Ohio, was the official GOP
reply to President Truman’s self
styled “non-political” cross-coun
try speaking tour which ended
yesterday.
The Ohio Republican spoke last
night over a nationwide radio
hookup. Besides attacking Demo
cratic domestic policies, Taft laid
down a Republican pledge to op
pose communism abroad and
eliminate it from government
agencies at home.
In a strictly Republican fight.
Gov. James E. Duff and his slate
of candidates won a major vic
tory in Pennsylvania yesterday
over the 30-year-old statewide po
litical organization headed by for
mer Senator Joseph R. Grundy.
Duff himself won the GOP Sen
atorial nomination by a better
than two-to-one edge over Rep.
John C. Kunkel, the Grundy can
didate. John S. Fine, backed by
Duff, won the Republican Guber
natorial nomination handily over
Jay Cooke, endorsed by Grundy.
Duff-supported candidates also
won nomination in contests for
four statewide offices. The pri
mary was the most bitterly-con
tested in Pennsylvania in decades.
Duff, who will oppose Demo
cratic Senator Francis J. Myers in
November, saw a national tinge in
his triumph over what he called
“Grundyism—government by a
few. for the benefit of the few, at
the expense of the public.”
Hailing the result, Duff said:
“We can guarantee a Republi
can President in 1952 i fthe policy
now adopted in Pennsylvania is
carried out nationwide.”
Taft’s speech climaxed continu
ed Republican criticism of Mr.
Truman’s 6,000-mile trip to the
northwest and back.
The President, who had stvled
his trip a “report to the people,”
challenged the1 Republicans to
“come up with something better”
than his “fair deal” program.
Taft said Democratic policies
have raised the threat of a third
world war and at home have
pointe dthe nation toward regi
mentation and socialism, leading
to bankruptcy. He said:
The general program of the
Truman crusade is clear. Promise
everything, and hope to back it
up with government money. Ev
ery American knows in his heart
that such a policy will wreck the
United States and reduce it to
bankruptcy. It will bring, first in
flation, and then depression.”
In New York, GOP leaders sur
prised the Democrats by propos
ing Mrs. Wendell L. Willkie, wi
dow of the late Presidential nom
inee as a coalition candidate for
Congress. The Republicans sug
gested the Democrats join in
backing her fo rthe 18th District
seat held for 16 years by the left
wing Rep. Vito Marcantonio, New
York’s American Labor party
leader. The Democrats said they
would have to thing it over.
Guest <phoning down from his
hotel room>: “Is this the desk
clerk?”
Clerk ,in bad humor*: “Well,
what’s eating you now?”
Guest: “That’s what I'd like to
know.”
l egal Planks at The Nugget office