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! LETTER TO THE
j EDITOR
It has been a matter of much sur
prise to learn that so many people
in the lout anus ka Valley have the
same racial' prejudices that affect
so much of the world's action and
thinking. We expect to hear this
kind of thinking from the Deep 'South
or from California where racial prob
lems have had a prominent part of
the program for many years, but the
-people of Alaska ere supposed to be
! far ahead of the r<sb of the country
{in liberal ideas and tolerance.I jt
haps we got the idea-by reading a
buuL the big strong .men from the
north in popular novels. Also, we
imagined that Hitler’s idea of r c
ial superiority had been so deeply
jburied by the events following ' the
jcollapse of '..arid h r II that this
(particular problem had’been solved,
:but evidently uhis is not true, h'e
(should have known better for human
inaturo doesn't change much in a few
'years or even Centuries.
Despite the fact that the Hindu and
;thi> Arab were studying and solving
intricate problems of science,relig
ion and philosophy long before most
■of our Nordic ancestors wore even
(conscious of the pr-senco of such.,
(things; we have looked down on them
(for centuries because they have a
(different colored skin, different
jcustoms \na traditions that are alien
(to ours. lust stop and think about
jsome of the people who have made a
(lasting, name for themselves in our
jl if etinie ’ ho c. re from homos s itni 1 ur
*to th homes of the children who am
Re.moi
Bunc:
ored
St at
To t:
or J
home
Ghani
seeking admission to our f-ir v-lloy.
•ibur ill Rogers? and v>ho his people v/uro? hrd, rembnbor Ralph
ii-, the most outstanding diplomat in thr last twenty years, a col
man who refused one of the highest offices in the United’States
- Uepartnont because of the race prejudice in our national capital,
'lose vho ar« interested in the superior athlete, how about Joe Louis,
-ckl~ Robinson the boxer and the baseb.11 player? To got closer to
» how about Simoon Oliver, the museian and writer? How many Kahatma
lis has the world produce in the last ton centuries?
Parhams thore are some problems connected with the. plan that has been
presented to us in tna matter of the ietiv^ School, out it surely can’t
b- the color of the skin and cultural qualities that make it impossible
°o i.ccept tha proposition. Romember that the whole v/orld is watching
the United States. If wo fail to solve questions that bother the un
settled nations of the world, then wars will still be the final resort.
Do wo want that? It must be plain to any thinking person that we as r.
Christian nation should be "our brothers’ keeper1*; ' ho can show that we
ara above such thoughts of discrimination or actions by an example.
Carl R. Rasmusson
RETURNED HOME
Kre. -most Kirkpatrick and daughter
Ruth, loft Saturday by plane for
Lotro.'t, Michigan. They ver, called
b- ck because of . sickness. Mrs.
Kirkpatrick and Ruth hate been
visiting Mrs. Loren KcKochnio this •
sumner. Mrs. Kirkpatrick is a sister
QfUIns^RUCdidmi.^
IN FAIRBANKS
Mr. Hugh Johnson end Clarence A.
ilooro, Economists, arc makeing n
Marketing Survey in Fairbanks this
week. Ur. Johnson end Ur. I.ooro
■are stationed in tho Valley with
the Alaska Research Aflministr- tion.