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WEDNESDAY, JULY 26, 1944._
OCCUPIED EUROPE
In a recent issue of the Journal of
American Medical Association there was
an article on the plight of Europe’s chil
dren.
The writer stated that there are many
more civilian casualties in the war, dy
ing from indirect causes, than there are
direct casualties.
The losses include children who would
have been born, other children dying in
infancy because of the war, and a gen
eral increase in mortality.
Information is being gathered to give
some idea of the appalling indirect loss
es of the present war.
In the early years of the war, there
were 120,000 fewer births in France
than the previous low birth rate. In Bel
gium the birth rate was down 20 per
cent from pre-war figures. In Rumania
down 15 per cent, Italy 13 per cent, and
Germany 14 per cent, and at present is
down 25 per cent.
Tuberculosis is taking a great toll of
the children, in which deaths increased
over 50 per cent, with a majority of the
new victims being children.
Eighty per cent of the babies in France
suffer from rickets, and nearly all of the
skin tests performed on Paris children
showed tuberculosis definitely.
The children of Europe are under
nourished and too hungry and weak for
exertion other than the search of food.
The parents may be dead, or prisoners
of war.
The appalling stories which come out
of the occupied countries should be
enough to set every ounce of our free
wii: and energies to the task of liberat
ing. and nursing back to health, the peo
ples of the earth who have been cruelly
scourged, beaten and starved by savage
beasts who by some freak of nature have
assumed the human shape. Beasts who
are even today at each other’s throats.
It is this bestial mania which will be
their downfall, and blind them to the
surprise moves of the forces of our united
nations, who have banded against the
tyrants for an unconditional peace.
GENERALS
To offset the oft-repeated assertion
that the American Army is top-heavy
with generals, Representative Overton
Brooks, Democrat, of Louisiana, points
out that the American Army has more
men to a general than any other major
force in the world.
Generals of the United States com
mand, on the average, 6,270 men. The
Italians come next with 5,100 men to
each general. The Germans have 5,000,
the British 2,528, the Japanese 2,400 and
(the Chinese 1,000.—Fairbanks News
Miner.
NOBODY’S ROAD
That Alaska Highway—formerly Al
can—quietly planned and rushed to com
pletion at great cost by the United States
Army, is in early way of deterioration
for lack of maintenance. It extends
nearly all its distance through British
Columbia; and our army authorities
seem to have expected the province to
furnish workers for the upkeep.
Official thought across the line runs
contrariwise. Canada’s selective service
chiefs firmly say that British Columbia’s
own manpower needs are so urgent that
no men can be spared for an American
project.
From the Canadian viewpoint, no
doubt, this decision is reasonable; and
not many Americans are in position to
say it isn’t. Amercans wanted the road,
located its route, and built it. It might
have been better in the first place to
find out how and by whom the road was
to be kept useful; but that is not always
the American way of doing things.
The Alaska Highway is in Canada; of
benefit mainly to Canadians. It remains
an American project, and Americans
have the choice of keeping it up or quit
ting.—(Seattle Times).
LITERARY
GLIDEPOST
"TAILOR'S PROGRESS." by Ben
jamin Slolberg (Doubleday.
Doran; $2.75).
Probably the International La
flies Garment Workers Union is
the most picturesque and the most
peculiar of all such organizations!
in this country One gathers from
Benjamin Stolberg’s history of the,
union, "Tailor’s Progress,” that
one important reason this is so
must be the fact that its member-:
ship is largely feminme
His booi* shows many things i
very clearly, but particularly two
things. One is the extraordinary
influence the inescapeable female
urge toward “culture” has had,
and the other is the continuing
battle inside the union (and other
uniorie as well) between the ex
treme left and the middle ground
ers— there are very few out and
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out conservatives in the organ
ization described.
I doubt that the general public
will be much excited over the
fantastically involved history of
the ILGWU in the labor move-;
ment, although this is a part of i
Stolberg’s book, unavoidably.
More important for labor, it ap
pears to me, is the enlightened!
course the union follows in the in
dustry itself. The public has small!
idea of this—it does not realize J
that the make-up of the cloak and
suit industry is such that great
departments of lesearch and de- j
velopment like those of General
Motors and the Duponts cannot
exist, and that the ILGWU, not
the manufacturers, is still leading
in development within the indus
try. That is, development on the
owners’ side as well as the work
ers’.
The educational activities of
the ILGWU have had enormous
publicity, but Mr. Stolberg shows
that (for him, at least) they have
not been very successful. Even
the enormous hit made by “Pins
and Needles”, which somewhat
uneasily rests among the “educa
tional” achievements, almost
wrecked the recreational plans of
the union. Consistently, the
ILGWU has opposed labor rack
eeters, without doing too much in
that department. What it has un
I questionably accomplished is to
i lift an industry which once was a
symbol for industrial expression
! oiito a high plane, considering
the difficulties among which It
operates, and this story is expli
cit in “Tailor’s Progress.’’
Baked Brown Rice and Cheese
1-2 cup brown rice
2 tabelspoons margarine
2 tablespoons flour
1-2 teaspoon salt
1-4 teaspoons dry mustard
Dash cayenne
Dash black pepper
1 cup milk
1 cup grated cheese
1-3 cup soft bread
crumbs
1 tablespoon margarine (addition
al!
Cook rice and drain. Prepare
cheese sauce as follows: melt mar
garine, add flour, salt, mustard,
cayenne and black pepper. Add
milk slowly and cook in double
boiler, stirring constantly, until
sauce begins to thicken. Add
cheese and continue cooking until
cheese melts. Now mix sauce with
rice and pour into a greased bak
ing dish. Cover with crumbs, dot
with margarine, and bake at 350
degrees for 45 minutes.
Peach Cobbler
2 euns sliced peaches
1 egg
1 cup sugar
1-4 cup margarine
Beat eggs thoroughly with su
gar. Mix with peaches. Place in
the bottom of baking dish and
pour melted margarine over. Cov
er whole with shortcake dough
about one and a half inches thick.
Bake in 400 degree oven until
brown on top. Serve with hard
sauce.
Shortcake Dough
1 1-2 teaspoons baking powder
1 cup flour
Dash of salt
3 tablespoons margarine
Several tablespoons milk
Mix and sift flour, baking pow
der and salt. Cut or rub in short
ening. Add just enough milk to
hold ingredients together. Knead
lightly. Roll to thickness of one
and a half inches on floured
board.
DIES RECENTLY
IN OAKLAND
Word comes to The Nugget that
Leonie von Muesebach-Zesch, sis
ter o fMrs. John Gillis, and aunt
ter of Mrs. John Gillis, died in
Oakland July 7. She was a mem
ber of the Oakland Forum, the
California State Dental Associa
tion and the American Dental As
sociation. Deceased was born in
San Antonio, Texas.
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DISCOVERER OF RAMPART
GOLD DIES IN ANCHORAGE
Manford W Sinclair, discoverer
of the Rampart gold strike, veter
an Alaskan contractor and miner,
died in an Anchorage hospital
July 3rd at the age of 74 years.
Bom in Maine, he grew up in
Boston and came north in 1892,
sailing from Seattle with his part
ner, Frank Pickart, for St. Mi
chael under a contract to build
a river boat.
When they had finished the boat
the partners sailed on it to Nu
tate and during excursions from
there, Sinclair made the Rampart
discovery and built the first
house in the boom town that de
veloped. He went to Nome later,
and in 1901 arrived on the present
[site of Anchorage, where he pros
nected in the country roundabout
for about 20 years He then made
his home in Anchorage where he
carried on many activities includ
ing carpentry and agriculture. He
is survived by three sisters near
Boston.—Oessen’s Weekly).
MUNZ BUILDING
BEING RECONDITIONED
Last week the Munz Airways,
building was moved to its new site
on Front Street, on the corner op
posite the Miners & Merchants’
Bank, and the Federal building.
During this week the outside of
the building has been undergo
ing a change in appearance. The
building is being surfaced with
white asbestos shingles, and trim
is being painted black. Munz Air
ways will have a very attractive
corner when the building is fin
ished.
MUCH ACTIVITY AT
CARRINGTON CO. OFFICES
Chris Roust, manager for the
Glenn Carrington Co. in Nome, is
busy these days with an addition
al section of building being built
behind the present office on Front
Street, and working overtime on
his other duties, selling tractor
parts and building materials.
Advertise in The Nugget.
There Will Be No More Ice Cream Sold Here Until
the Arrival of the New Ice Cream Machine.
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