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” MONDAY, JULY 10- 1944._
ANNIVERSARY COMMEMORATED
On Friday was celebrated, or rather
commemorated, the anniversary of the
resistance of the Chinese nation to the
Japanese invading aggressors.
For seven long years the Chinese peo
ples fought and died in an attempt to
stop the Japanese butchers from over
riding the country, and making slaves of
the population, in an attempt to plough
under the Eastern civilization.
From the four main Japanese islands
the menace spread out like an octopus
northward to the Aleutians, southward
through the Philippines, Netherlands
East Indies and Melanesia, as far as the
Coral Sea bordering the northeast coast
of Australia.
Other tentacles branched out through
Indo-China- Siam, Malaya and Burma, to
the borders of India.
In spite of constant reverses in China,
the people have continued the struggle,
and now, bolstered up by assistance of
the United Nations, will emerge from
the yoke of oppression a free democratic
nation.
The Chinese are by nature, a friendly,
peace'loving people, but they love their
peoples and their country and wTill fight
and die if necessary for their liberty.
Allied forces are carrying the war to
the enemy homeland, cutting lifelines
by-passing many hundreds of thousands
of enemy troops, and leaving them to die
or surrender. Steadily, the allied ad
vance spells defeat for the Japanese and
liberation of all the countries taken by
them in the Squth Pacific blitz.
The end is in view, but none can tell
just when or how this will be accom
plished.
Nevertheless, as surely as a number of
nations are united for the purposes of
liberation, total victory will come to that
co-ordinated group of free and demo
crat* peoples who will put forth the ef
fort for. its soonest, possible conclusion.
Although China is entering its eighth
year of the war, we believe it can be
safely said that within a short while*
there will be noticeable changes for the
better in the campaign on the China
mainland, driving the Japanese out of
the country.
We cannot attempt to prophesy the
end of hostilities, but we can each and
everyone, help bring that day closer by
doing all we can* in every way we can,
in the war effort.
The brave peoples of China deserve
our help.
A POINT OVERLOOKED
In one of our afternoon contemporar
ies an editorial dramatizes the already
dramatic and historic westward push of
America’s pioneers in the late 1840’s.
Stressing the individual independence of
these hardy migrants, the editorial de
clares they “asked for no social secur
ity”, were willing to take the risks and
hardships of their great adventure with
out benefit of government aid or assist
ance.
It seems to us that the piece missed the
significance of the Westward migration j
in America; in fact the significance of
most migrations since the human race at
tained the powers of thought and rea
son. For most of the individuals involved
in these great movements—aside from
the pure adventures and the ne’er-do
wells—the driving force was their long
ing for security—“social” security, if you
please. They tore their families away
from loved ones; they left the scenes in
which they were reared; they braved the
dangers of the trail or the waves of the
seven seas. Why? Because they sought
to attain for themselves, their children
and their children’s children that intan
gible something we—for lack of a bet
ter word—call security. They opened
new lands because they wanted an as
surance that their future would hold in
some degree greater than they had
known a guarantee of economic stabil- j
ity.
It is true that they did not look to gov
ernment for such promises. It is true
that they looked only to themselves; to
the abilities and ingenuities they devel
oped, in part, through their contacts
with the raw edges of nature. The pio
neers themselves removed many of
those raw edges. In so doing they dimin- '
ished, to some extent- the talents and the
independence of their progeny.—(Cin
cinnati Enquirer). *
Lvng Describes
Department of
Public Welfare
(Editor’s Not:—The following
add iJ ion to the story by Mr. How
ard Lyng on the activities of the
Alaska Department of Public
Welfare, was inadvertently omit
ted from the Special Edition of
The: Nugget on uly 3rd. Because
of the omission we publish the
balance of the resume below):
Medical Aid end How to Apply
Funds are available for medi
cal aid through the General As
sistance (Relief of Destitution),
appropriation, and the Deoart
ment may provide for emergency
care for persons requiring hos
pitalization or medical aid. Phi
Nome Directory
IR A D. ORTON
Attorney At Law
Room 1—Nevada Building
Nome, Alaska
Seattle Office:
1912-13 Smith Tower
Telephone Elliot 8200
O. D. COCHRAN
Attorney At Law
Phone Main 121
Nome, Alaska
N. STRAND
NEW YORK LIFE INSURANCE
COMPANY
Phone Black 156
NOME, ALASKA
HAGEN
JEWELER AND OPTICIAN
Court House is Opposite Us
Phone Mein 40
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marily, this aid is not available
to persons who are capable, and
who have resources or sources of
income. It is provided for indi
gent persons who are unable to
provide for their own care or
maintenance.
Other Welfare Programs
Available
Other types of Social Security
are available to residents of
Alaska through the Old Age and
Survivors’ Insurance program.
This program is administered by
the Federal Government through
the office of the Territorial Di
rector of the Social Security ;
Board, Juneau, Alaska.
Unemployment Compensation
benefits are available to eligible
persons through the Alaska Un
employment Compensation Com
mission, Juneau, Alaska.
Available in each of the four
Judicial Divisions of Alaska are
funds for relief administered un
I
der the Alaska Fund, and distrib
uted by the U. S. District Judges.
These funds are returned by
the Federal Government from
taxes collected by it from Alaska.
Services of the representatives of
the Department of Public Wel
fare are available to the U. S.
District Judges in the administra
tion of the Alaska Fund.
Department Headquarters in
Juneau
Headquarters of the Department
of Public Welfare are maintained
in Juneau. The' able and effi
cient Direc‘or of the Department
is Russell Maynard, son of the
pioneer Maynard family of Nome,
and Nome-raised and educated. In
his Juneau office he has a staff
of 12 assistants, including a su
pervisor of Child Welfare ser
vices.
The successful operation of the
many programs administered by
the Department of Public Wel
fare depends largely on the pub
lic interpretation and understand
ing of their intents and purposes.
They are designed to make avail
able as comple’e a coverage of
assistance as is possible within
the economic structure of the Ter- i
ritory, and they are dependent
entirely on the availability of |
funds provided in the form of ap
propriations by the Territorial
Legislature supplemented in part
by the Federal Government.
Home Arts Club
Holds Meeting
The Home Arts Club met at the
home of Mrs. Andrew Nerland
Wednesday of last week
Miss Eunice Logan reported
that considering the cold weather
during June, the attendance at
the field was very good, many
children having availed them
selves of the opportunity given
them at supervised play
The playfield is open to all the
children in Nome and is supervised
from 1:00 o’clock until 4:00 o'clock
every afternoon, except Saturday
and Sunday. This will also hold
true during July.
Pre-school children are super
vised by Mrs. Vernon Booker on
Monday, Wednesday and Friday,
from three until four o’clock ua
the afternoon. >
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