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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1944.
BUSINESS—BIG
AND LITTLE
William Benton, vice
president of the University
of Chicago, has the follow
ing to say in Reader’s Di
gest:
“Many young men think
they’d rather get into “Big
Business” than try to set
up a little business. In the
first place, big business is
big with fame prestige; in
the second place, it’s the
thing to do, and young men
drift into it without thought
or effort; in the third place,
and more important to
many, it’s safe. In big busi
ness the chances are good
that you’ll never lose your
job.
“But big business did
not build the wealth of this
country. It was individual,
hard-hi tting and hard
working men who built it.
These men started small,
independent, competitive
business. Such men and the
businesses they start will
continue to build the coun
try if it is to contnue be
ing built.”—(Seattle Jour
nal of Commerce).
WHY WORRY ABOUT
THE SOVIETS?
There are some Ameri
cans who are worried about
Russia and they are con
stantly stirred up by the
articles of this, or that, au
thor who is afraid of the
Soviet Union’s post-war
role in world affairs.
It is worth nothing that
Sir Bernard Pares, probab
ly the Englishman who is
best informed about the
Soviet, has no such misgiv
ings. He believes that Sta
lin, when the war ends,
will turn back to “his life
work of building up a new
Russia.’’
The British author sees
nothing excessive or unfair
about the Soviet Union’s
proclaimed policy of seek
ing restoration of its 1941
borders. He warns the peo
’ pie of the United States not
to expect the British to
“throw away the friend
whom Hitler has so stupid?
ly given us” by courting a
new world war in order to
defend “Poland’s very du
bious title to her pre-war
eastern provinces” or the
‘‘equally questionable
cause of Baltic indepen
dence.”
It may well be that the
Soviet Union will become
a challenge to the econo
mies of the earth but the
threat, we suspect, lies in
the possibility that the
Communists will make
their theories work for the
better advantage of their
people. — (Fairbanks
| News-Miner).
ALONG MEMORY
LANE
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TEN YEARS AGO TODAY
(October 27, 1934)
A meeting of the Nome Relief
Committee was called to order
by G. R. Jackson, who appointed
Lyman Browster to replace
James Frawley, who is leaving
for the States.
A petition was presented to the
Committee by the Pioneers of
Alaska requesting the General
Committee appointed by Gover
nor Troy to endorse and use
every endeavor to obtain neces
sary funds to the immediate con
struction of a building sufficient
j to meet the needs of the former
Pioneer Igloo.
Nome was hit by a raging
blizzard, with win velocity of 45
miles per hour, which wipped up
the Bering Sea and was accom
panied by a blizzard. All con
struction work was stopped and
> some of the lumber which had
been unloaded at Snake river
harbor was blown into the river.
LEAVES FOR HOME
IN WASHINGTON
Barney Rolando, mine operator,
at American Creek during the
open season, left for his home in
Tacoma via the Alaska Airlines.
WHITE FLAG raised by be- <
sieged Americans on Corregidor
in 1942 symbolises the dark day
U. S. forces now are prepared
to avenge.
THE LONG
ROAD BACK
1941
| December 7 — Japan attacks
I Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, Philippines
j Guam, Wake, Malaya and Hong
kong, opening war with U. S.
Dec. 10.—Japanese land in
Philippines.
Dec. 27.—Japanese bomb Man
ila.
1942
( Jan. 2.—Enemy takes Manila
! and Cavite naval base.
March 17.—Gen. MacArthur
arrives in Australia.
March 31. — Japanese begin
heavy attacks on Bataan.
April 9.—Gen. Wainwright’s
j forces surrender on Bataan; some
j escape to Corregidor.
| May 6.—Corregidor falls.
Aug. 8.—Americans land on
Guadalcanal.
Sept. 1.—U. S. and Australian
troops drive Japanese from
southern tip of New Guinea.
Sept. 8.—Japanese advance
into Owen Stanley mountains in
New Guinea.
1943
Feb. 10.—U. S. completes Gua
dalcanal campaign.
March 3.—Japanese convoy of
10 warships, 12 transports de
(stroyed at New Guinea.
July 1.—Allies occupy Rendova
Island in the Solomons, land at
Nassau Bay in New Guinea.
July 5.—Vangunu Island, Solo
mons, falls to U. S.
Sept. 7.—Paratroops land be
I hind Lae, New Guinea encircle
20,000 Japanese.
Sept. 13.—MacArthur takes
Salamaua, New Guinea.
Sept. 26.—Americans land on
Muno Island Solomons.
Oct. 30.—American paratroops
land on Choiseul Island, Solo
mons.
Nov. 1.—Americans land at
Empress Augusta Bay, Bougain
ville.
Nov. 21.—U. S. froces invade
Makin and Tarawa Islands.
Nov. 22.—U. S. Marines land
on Abemama, Gilbert Islands.
Dec. 16.—U. S. 6th Army makes
surprise landing on New Britain.
1944
Jan. 31.—U. S. invades Kwaja
lein Marshall Islands.
Feb. 17.—Americans land in
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Eniwetok atoll, Marshalls.
March 1.—Americans get on
Admiralty Island.
May 19.—Allies capture Wake
Island air base.
May 28.—U. S. invades Biak
Island, 900 miles off Philippines.
June 16.—Yanks land on Sai
pan.
June 19.—U. S. carrier planes
attack Japanese fleet between
Philippines and Marianas, sink or
damage 14 ships.
July 9.—Americans complete
Saipan capture.
July 20.—Tanks invade Guam.
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July 29.—President Roosevelt,
Gen. MacArthur and Adm. Nim
itz end three-day strategy
conference on Philippine invasion.
Aug. 15.—Halmahera reported
“neutralized” after heavy u. S.
air raids.
CLOSES DOWN
OPERATIONS
Bob Roberts has closed down
his mining operations in the Sol
omon district for the season and
is in town awaiting transportation
to the States.
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