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^ MONDAY, JUNE 5, 1944_
FOR RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Representatives of Protestant church
es in this country have asked the Gov
ernment to use* its influence to obtain
legal provision for religious freedom in
all nations, Associated Press dispatches
reported recently
In making this request, the Protestant
leaders are urging the adoption of a ba
sic American principle which is an ad'
mitted fact in this country. The same
cannot be said of many foreign countries
where there exist relationships between
religion and the state that would not
be tolerated in the United States.
It remains to be seen whether the end
of the present struggle will result in the
spread of complete religious liberty
throughout the world. While Americans
think this would be a distinct gain to the
cause of religion everywhere, there is
considerable doubt as to the realization
of such a goal.—'Fairbanks News
Miner)
WHO INVENTED THE JEEP?
A pretty quarrel has developed in
hearings conducted by the Federal
Trade Commission to settle the paternity
of the jeep, an invention worth more to
the Army than most of the “secret”
weapons of which we hear so much. The
commission seems inclined to give cred-;
it to the American Bantam Car Com-1
pany, but two automobile cenvoanies
and a manufacturer of farm implements
are stubborn contenders. Such contro
jversies are not new. Weeks were spent
jafter the last war to determine who in
vented the tank. Whenever a suit is
brought for patent infringement the
defendant ransacks the technical litera
ture and cites one anticipation after an
other of the plaintiff’s claims.
There are good commercial reasons for
establishing priority of invention, but
! the disputes in court leave the sociologist
;eold. To him scientific discoveries and
inventions are inevitable, given the right
social environment. Some years ago
Prof. William F Ogburn compiled a list
Jof 148 major scientific discoveries and
inventions which had been made simul
taneously and independently. Thus
Newton and Leibniz developed calculus
i about the same time. Darwin and Wal
lace independently reached the con
clusion that natural selection was an
important factor in evolution. Adams
and Leverrier both predicted the exist
ence of the planet Neptune.
All this means that “genius” is moie
common than the books on discovery
and invention concede. It is only when
he is subject 10 the right social pressure
that the “genius” streaks meteorically
across the technologic sky. Once upon
j a time the Arabs overrun much of Eu
rope, built great universities, developed
astronomy, chemistry and mathematics
and took a bath every da.V, and this
when the contemporaneous British were
half savages who could not solve the
problems in Euclid and to whom a bath
was a historic event. Now the Arabs
are considered a techonologically back
ward people and -the northern barbarians
jhave forged ahead.
There is probably just as much “gen
| ius” among the Arabs as there ever was,
jbut it has no present chance. The so
jciologists are right in regarding the
' “genius” as the man who short-circuits
ithe aspirations of the community in
which he lives—a highly useful person,
n whose mind society pulls a trigger.—
fNew York Times)
Emily Morgan
Writes From
New Zealand
Miss Emily Morgan, who for
many years was superintendent of
the Maynard Columbus Hospital,
and who was also a nurse at Point
B&rrow, writes to her Nome
friends from New Zealand, ho
following is taken from one of
her interesting letters.
“This is our Easter season. To
US in New Zealand it is autumn,
and we are reaping our harvest
and having our harvest festivals
or thanksgiving. With you it is
the planting season. God has been
gracious to us, we have plenty.
With our strikes and unrest, are
we going to be willing to divide
with those that are starving when
the time comes to send food to |
them? I think this world has
many things to learn. When will
we forget that money is not the
great pleasure in life?
“I am spending a week in the
country about 10 miles from Na
pier. I have harvested my onions,
potatoes and some of the beans, a
very good crop. Blackberries grow
wild here and are a pest, but we
have been going along the ravines
and by-ways to pick them to can.
1 have put up 19 quarts this sea
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Attorney At Law
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Nome. Alaska
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Telephone Elliot 8200
O. D. COCHRAN
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Nome. Alaska
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son, not all for ourselves. I have
learned to make the rose hip jam
and syrup. These are hard to
pick because there are so many
briars.
I still knit, work crossword
puzzles and take pictures. I often
show my Alaskan pictures and
now have an evening’s program
of New Zealand pictures to show
when I get home. It is very
hard to get films now, and are
they expensive? 2 pounds and 10
shillings. It nearly breaks my
heart to fork over that for a col
ored roll.
“My sister is teaching the girls
in her Sunday school class to
piece quilts. The women here
have never pieced them before.
They all enjoy it and I think that
there will be as many quilts here
as they have in the States, soon.
"New Zealand is a beautiful
little country. You can visit the
seashore, or a thermal region, or
the mountains or lakes in a day’s
travel, while in the States it is
so far between these places.
“Conditions are about the same
as in the States. We are ration
ed in many things but can live
well on what we get. When you
grow your own vegetables you al
ways have plenty.
“Have been receiving the Nome
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much,, reading about my many
old friends.”
Playground Opens
Today In Nome
Today, the supervised playfield
under the sponsorship of the Home
Arts Club, opened its fifth con
secutive season. This year the
Bureau of Indian Affairs is assist
ing as the project involves many
children from, both schools. The
Home Arts Club finances this
project with its annual Jamboree
held each fall.
Miss Eunice Logan and Mrs. V.
Booker will have charge of the
playfield this year, from Monday
through Friday, from one o'clock
to four o'clock. Pre-school chil
dren will be cared for on Mon
day, Wednesday and Friday, from
three o’clock until four o’clock.
A feature of the annual open
ing was field day today, when the
children helped to clean the play
field and were rewarded with re
freshments served by a Commit
tee of the club, with Mrs. Frank
Bingham as chairman.
HERBERT SHARP. JR.. NOW
ON WRESTLING TEAM
Cadet Herbert Sharp, Jr., son
of Mrs. H. Sharp, and the late
H. Sharp, is playing a prominent
role with the intercollegiate wrest
ling learn, sponsored by the U. S.
Coast Guard Academy.
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VISITS WITH NOMEITES
AT ALASKA CLUB
Fay Daleene writes from Ban
Francisco that he sees many
Nomeites at the Alaska Club.
Among them are Paul Jones and
his two daughters, Marshal, who
is widowed and lives in Redwood
City, and. Holly Dilg, who is also
widowed and working in the ship
yards. Holly lives with the former
Nomeite, Mrs. Van Sickles.
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