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LDITORIAL
Italy's Weakness
J
(Cleveland Plain Dealer'
A fuller explanation c‘ the It
slian disa.-d r in Alban a is con
tained in economic reports from
the peninsula than in the com
muniques from the front or the
resignations of high Fascist lead
ers. When the home front Ls
shaky there is not much incen
tive’ to go out and slaughter a
people who have done you no
harm. That is the psychology
which pervades the Fascist forces
but back of it are 18 years of gov
crnmental mismanagement which
has brought Italy little more than
a superabundance of wars.
Italy has decreed drastic pun
ishment for all farmers who do
not turn their crops over to the
government. It has cracked down
on mine owners who output falls
below expectations. Such action
is necessary only because econ
omic conditions have been grow
ing increasingly stringent.
In addition to being a military
ally, Italy was expected to fur
nish Germany with large quan
tities of foodstuff-. It has fallen
down on this assignment. Italy
has therefore acc pted German
help in the form of experts and
officials. These people have al
ready overrun Italy since the
Axis was formed and more of
t'h m ara likely to antagonize the
Italians even more. Already they
have tightened their rations to
supply an unloved allv. There is
a s~vcre shortage of cereals, cof
f.e, sugar and olive oi1.
Whatever is done in squeezing
foodstuffs out of Italy will have
little effect on Italian industry
which is feeling the pinch in raw
materials because of the British
blockade Diplomatic reports to
Unit.d States Department of Ag
Ticulture disclose that there is al
•Jnost a total depletion of cotton,
that rubber is almost exhausted
and jute and wool supplies soon
will be.
Without these essentials no na
tion can long conduct a large
scale military op ration. Switch
ing generals and admirals will
not bring improvement. It does,
however help to divert attention
for a time from the regime’s
shortcomings. But the Italian
people hav; had this experience
.before. After each war conditions
in Italy get worse. II Buce may
now be crying ‘‘Wolf” for the
ilast time.
Our Four And a
Half million Aliens
The census of aliens being com
pleted the United States can now
take stock of the problem of th
non-citizen among us.
The total enrollment is expect
ed to exceed 4,500,000. That
means that one person in 28 in the
country is an alien. The figure
may reach as high as 5,000,000.
We know how many there are,
who they are, and where they
are. It is now possible to ap
proach the situation on a factual
basis.
First, a caution. The officials in
charge of this registration have
from the first stressed the fact,
that there is nothing disgraceful
or discreditable about alien Stat
ius. This has been a factual com
pilation, an there is no faint sug
gestion of culpability in the sum
moning, registering and finger
printing of all these people.
There is no intention to perse
cute anyone whose only fault is
that he is not a citizen of the
United States.
Director Harrison has also
Proof Citizenship
Required Workers
On Govt. Jobs
The Alaska Territorial Employ
ment Service Offices have bean
advised to warn all workers seek
ing employment with th Army
and Navy projects and almost all
government jobs that they must
have recognized proof of citizen
:hip, Lowell Morgan, in charge
of t he Employment office in
Fairbanks announced. Service dis
charg papers are not acceptable.
Proof of Citizenship
Any of the following are recog
nized as proof of citiz nship.
1— A copy of birth certificate.
2— Citizenship papers or valid
first papers.
3— Church Baptismal Record .
4— Affidavits executed by some
one at least six y ars older
than the app icant and fa
miliar with the circumstanc
es of his birth. (Birth date
of the affiant should appear
on the instrument).
Should Obtain Necessary Papers
Anyone not having the neces
sary papers should write at once
to the Bureau of Vital Statistics
in the state in which he was
born, requesting that bureau to
-end him a copy of his birth cer
tificate.
In writing for a birth certific
ate, the indivisual should give
his name, place of birth, mo
th r’s maiden name and any o.h
er infonnfation that might assist
the officer issuing the birth cer
tlfiistc to identify the individual
-uch as school attended and oth
er simi ar informaticn in fact
anything that might be helpful in
clearing the records.
All workers should have this
proof of citzenship so that they
are prepared to meet the govern
ment requirements immediately
when a job opening occurs.
warned officials, employers and
others who may now be tempted
to demand that aliens produce
evidence of having registered,
they wer. furnished with no re
ceipt on registering and that not
half of them have yet received
receipt cardi from Washington.
T.iis wi.l take five or six weeks.
Further, th; law provides that
aliens need not carry receipt
cards from Washington. This will
take five or six weeks. Further,
the law provides that aliens need
not carry receipt cards one. re
ceived.
The enforcement of this regis
tration act is a federal matter,
through the Department of Jus
tice. While this department may
later on request certain local co
operation in identifying those
who have fai'ed to register, there
is no thought of having the mer,
fact that registration has been
held turned into a witch hunt by
any individuals who think it
might be a good idea.
Many, perhaps the majority of
these registered aliens, are on
th; road to becoming American
citizens just as fast as the law
allows. Others will have matters
to straighten out with the De
partment of Justice connected
with illegal entry, but even of
these a majority will prove quite
innocent, their offense being tech
nical and committed back in the
days when these matters were
not so important. Only a small
proportion as in any large group,
will prove to be malevolent o
dangerous.
The task of winnowing these
individuals out of the 5,000,000 is
distinctly a professional task —
one that belongs, both by law
and by common sense, to trained
operatives of the Department of
Justice.
Put Teeth In
Gold Tax Act
V
I r^es Truitt
ATTORN’’V GENFRAT RECOM
MENDS OFFICE OF I AI’.OR
COMMISSIONER
Put some t eth in the gold tax
statute. Establish the Office o•
Labor Commission for the Tcmri
t tv. R1 quire applicants for p»r
sions to list al! property owned
hv them. Amend the woman’s
minimum wage law to provide
for the eoli ctien of back wages.
Provida by statute that when
ever the Federal law requiring
mnual labor on mining claims is
suspended, the law also should
be suspended. Make those int.nd
•ig to be married file an applica
n several days in advance.
These and a dozen other recom
mandat ions are mad by Terri
torial Attorney General James S.
Truitt in his annual report to
the Governor and Legislature.
Truitt, who will retire from of
fice April 1, says in his va edic
tory:
Nothing Unimportant
'Leaving the office of Attorn v
General and in all probability,
d parting from public service for
.11 lime to come, we go forth
w th a feeling of the fine memor
ies of the associations w have
had during our eight years of
public service in this office. It
has been a p'easure and an hon
to have served the Territory
n the capacity of Attorney G n
eral, and during this period of
service we have tried always to
keep clearly in our mind that we
wore elected by th. direct vote of
the people of the Territory, and
were available to any and all
who had an interest of the Terri
tory to serv:. In all of our work
we have come to the conclusion
that there is nothing unimportant
that all things that are public in
character are important. We have
never kept aloof from the needs
and d. sires of the public, ana
have endeavored to work for its
1 u timate good.”
Another recommendation of
Truitt’s is that the workmen’s
' compensation act, which has
been declared unconstitutional,
(should be repeal d.
The Attorney General outlines
litigation in which his office has
engag d in the past beinnium
and append 25 opinions he has
deliver d since his last report,
opinions running all the way
from one outlining the Terri
tory's right to collect taxes to
one declaring that a grandson
may legally marry the adopted
daughter of his grandfather.
vib-cribe for Tht Nome Nugget
rHANOr—•’v ea'-v stages Yaki
ebi^o S'”"*' fnbcvp'. the new Jap
■’nr«e minister to Snain and for
mer spokesman f< r Japan’s for
eign office, is making his way to
Spain He reached San Francisco
aboard the liner Nitta IVIaru.
IS THAT SO?
The following is reprinted from
the Napoleon Homestead, Napo
leon, N. D„ issue of Jan. 10, 1941.
Raphael Gross fnurd these fig
ures in a magazine and we pass
them on to you;
Roosevelt was born in 1882, be
cam president in 1933, has been
in office 7 years and his age is
58. Add the figures and you get
3330.
Mussolini was born in 1883,
came to power in 1922. been in
power 18 years, age 57. Total,
3880.
Stalin—born in 1379, came to
power in 1924. in power 16 years,
age 61. Total, 3880.
Hitl r—born in 1389 came to
power 1933, in power 7 years,
age 51. Total, 3880.
Divide 3880 by 2 and you get
1940. In 1941 a year will be add
ed to the age of each and figure
to the years in power, so that
the total in each cas3 will be
3882, which divided by 2 leaves
1941.
All of which means nothing ex
cept that someone took the pains
to figure it out and it makes
interesting reading, or does it?
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FORECAST, NOME AND VICINITY
Cloudy tonight with a few scatte red snow flurries. Thursday gen- 1
j erally fair and slightly colder.
Data For 24 Hours Ending 1:00 pm Today
! Highest temp — 33 Lowest te mp — 23 Precipitation — T
i Total precip this month T Total since Jan. 1 1941 0.19
Temp. Humidity Wind Weather
12 Midnight . ... 28 65 NE 15 Cloudy
’ a m —.-...- - 26 75 NE 18 Pt Cldy
12:30 p m - —... 24 77 ENE 22 Clear
Tomorrow: Sunrise 8:32 a. m. Sunset 4:03 p.m.
One Year Ago Today
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