THE NOME DAILY NUGGET
GEO. S. MAYNARD. Editor
RUSSELL G MAYNARD, Manager.
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AN EDITORIAL ON PEACE
(New York World-Telegram)
Or perhaps we should say, rath
er, a “pictorial,’’ on peace. For
u’hat we have in mind is that if
you really want to know how luc
ky you are to be living in a coun
try at peace, you should drop in
at the theatre and see the latest
“March of Time,” or almost any
of the China newreels.
If that doesn’t make you want
this country to keep out of war
nothing will.
But let us add the corollary.
If China today is being smeared
with her own blood it is because
she is both rich and virtually de
fenseless. LittleJapan, with only
70,000,000 inhabitants, would nev
er have dared tackle big China,
with her 450,000,000, had China
been anything like as strong as
her manpower indicates she might
be.
Some day the great dream of
that great American President,
Woodrow Wilson, will come true.
At least 85 or 90 percent of the
peoples of the world demand
peaec. Some day the world com
munity, or league of nations,
backed by this 85 or 90 percent
will act collectively to prevent
such things as are now going on
in China.
But that time, sad to relate, is
not yet—as witness the reported
refusal of the existing League at
Geneva to go to the aid of the
victims of aggression.
Meantime, any country that
does not wish to invite the same
sort of treatment which China is
getting must not lose sight of the
fact that, like it or not, the only
insurance is adequate national
defense.
QUESTION OF LIQUOR
TO INDIANS
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(Alaska Fishing News)
Should Alaskan Indians be al
lowed liquor?
Most sensible people will ans
wer no.
But the question goes deep into
fundamentals.
Can they be denied liquor and
retain full citizenship rights?
If they are prohibited use of
liquor will not the cure be worse
than the disease by making them
victims of bootleg rotgut?
We all know by this time that
prohibition does not prohibit.
Some believe that the Natives,
the same as the whites, must
work out their own salvation, no
matter what the cost to them.
This question promises to be an
important one at the Native Bro
therhood and Sisterhood conven
tion to be held in Kake, Alaska.
November 8-13. Most progres
sive Indian leaders favor strict
prohibition for their people, but
not at the cost of full citizenship
rights. The value the Natives
place upon citizenship rights is
the most striking example of
their fundamental worth of mak
ing good citizens. Some hold
that through health rules natives
may be protected from strong
drink.
Possibly so!
But still the question will not
be satisfactorily settled.
J. Allison Moore, special agent
and investigator of the United
Slates Indian Service, is quoted
by the United Press as saying:
"I have yet to investigate a sin
gle crime committed by an Indian
who has not been influenced by
alcohol. The crime rate among
Indians varies in direct propor
tion to the amount of liquor they
get. . . . Only a thin veneer
of civilization is present in the
Indian's makeup. Give him a
dring or two and this veneer dis
appears. . . . The white race
has been civilized for hundreds
of centuries, and its members
have been consuming alcohol for
at least 2.000 years.”
With all due respect to the
views of Mr. Moore we might re
mark that many whites also al
low the “veneer to disappear”
when in their cups. The same is
true of the Negro race or any
race. What we are trying to say
is that there is no easy way for
1 the Natives or any race to reach
the goal toward perfection. The
best steel is pounded out and tem
pered by hard knocks. The dross
is sluffed off. Natives, the same
as whites, must work out their
own destiny in their own way.
We might say further, without
fear of being challenged, that no
Indians anywhere, or people of
any race, have made better and
quicker progress toward the high
er aims of civilization than the
Natives of Alaska, especially
Southeastern Alaska. They have
pulled themselves up by their
boot-straps, despite the fact that
i their boot-straps were leaded with
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the white men’s vices.
Their progress has been a strik
in" and glorious achievement.
Th > Fishing News, (of Ketchi
kan). for one, believes the liquor
quest on i? something which th v
arc l'u.ly able anal capable of
tling t’nemselvc', r”d in whatever
way will be b.st for their com
mon good.
THE PREACHER !
Someone is always writing a
bout doctors and lawyers and
teachers, but seldom can you find
space devoted to that humble ser
vant known as the preacher. May
be if it handn’t been for the re
cent thoughtfulness of a Missouri
editor y-ou never would have had
a pen picture of the preacher.
But. he has thought to write one.
and in belief that citizens will
enjoy reading it, we take the lib
erty of reproducing it—and here
! it is:
“The preacher has a great time.
If his hair is gray, he is too old.
If he is a young man, he has not
had experience enough. If he
has ten children.he has too many.
If he has none, he is setting a bad
example. If his wife sings in the
choir, she is presuming, and if
she does not, she isn't interested
in her husband’s work. If the
preacher reads from notes, he’s a
bore, and if he speaks extempor
aneously, he isn’t deep enough.
If he stay at home in his study,
he doesn't mix enough with peo
ple; if he is seen around the
streets, he ought to be at home
getting up a good sermon. If he
calls on the poor, he is playing to
the grandstand; if he calls at the
homes of the wealthy, he is an
aristocrat.
“Whatever he does, spmeone
could have told him how to do it
better. Yes, the preacher has a
great time!”
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Japanese Forces
Report Progress
Road Nanking
(By The Associated Press)
SHANGHAI. Nov. 26. -Sear
head units of Japan’s Shanghai
armies tore into the heart of the
Chinese defenses, in a drive, their
commander in chief declared,
would force a speedy collapse of
Chiang Kai Shek's regime.
Word of Progress Heard
Field officers sent word back
to Japanese headquarters that
their troops had crossed Lake Tai,
the great natural barrie between
Nanking and Shanghai, for the
push against the virtually evac
uated capital.
Made Invade Interior
General Iwane Matsui, com
mander of the Japanese forces,
proclaimed in an interview with
the Japanese-Shanghai united
news agencies, that his armies
might be forced to invade the in
terior, far up the Yangtze river
from Nanking, unless Chiang’s
government ends its resistance.
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