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FRIDAY. JANUARY 21,1944.
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WHAT AMERICA MEANS TO ME
(By Faith Baldwin)
I have never thought about what my country
means to me until recently. 1 always took it for
franted. just like breathing. But when something
happens which threatens to cut off your supply
Of air you realize how precious it is. Being an
American means life
America means my home. It means the beauty
Of the land and the peace of the skies It means
;the right to earn a living for myself and children,
and to bring up my children as I see fit. It
(neans my children's right to choose their means
Of livlihood. their homes, their church, and their
Oolitics. It means my right to walk as a free
woman upon free roads, under a free heaven.
I have not earned this right to be an American,
f was born here, and had no choice m the matter.
But now I know that I must earn the right which
was given me. 1 must stop and think what it
means to be an American today. I must act like
an American. In short, It is not enough to have
been born in America. 1 must be an .American
every moment of my waking life.
(Foreign Service magazine)
POSTWAR IN MINING
GOLD PRODUCTION has been in the past, the
largest source of revenue, and offers surely,
the greatest occupational activity for the people of
the Second Division. The increase in the price
of the precious metal, with the aid given by Terr
itorial and Federal bureaus of mining, also the aid
given in transportation have contributed largely
to the past increases in gold output.
Intensive mining has teen carried on, ai and
near Nome, and will be resumed as soon as condit
ions permit. New discoveries will be made in
various' sections of the territory. The npjustry
Reeds direct planning, now. for the future.. The
building of roads and landing fields would partly
solve the problem.
The territorial Assay Offices established through
put the Territory have proven of immeasurable
Value to the mmer. 3nd with field men to invest
igate mineral properties should be continued,
Adequate means should be devised to asfst the
Industry in its most trying economic problems.
A Territorial program should be devised where
in the prospector could obtain assistance at a nom
inal cost. Such asistance could be in the form
of sound teaching in the business of prospecting.
In view of the great number of people who are
now employed in Alaska, and who will in all prob
ability remain in the territory after their jobs are
completed, it remains the responsibility of the
Territory to provide the plan through which the
many thousands can find employment of a perma
nent nature.
This brings us to our ideas for future planning.
There should be established depots, where a new
prospector, or a group of prospectors with limited
capital, could obtain the use of prospecting equip
ment, such as drils, and transportation for such
prospecting equipment as would be required in
the venture.
Many of our new citizens will be servicemen
!who are desirous of making their home in Alaska,
j It is our duty to them, which prompt the ideas
I put forth in this mining plan of the future. Many
;of the men will be discharged with funds ranging
jfrom $300 to $1000. which after tranportation-of
j themselves and family to the Territory in search
of a' new home, will not have the funds necessary
I to establish themselves in business unless we aid
m some small way in their plans. We can and
must assist. Those in the industry who can.
must take the responsibility seriously, and at least
through their experience, present plans for post
war industry.
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D EFORE, Pearl Harbor, we were sitting behind
! ■*”'* °ur two expansive oceans, and between our
two pleasant neighbors, and as far as we were
| concerned, the world was at peace.
Our shipping lanes were open, bringing us thou
: sands of tons of raw materials and finished articles
from abroad, we looked upon our accomplishments
with complete satisfaction.
Now, it is not enough for us to say merely that
we are fighting for our homes and our American
way of life, we must consider the future, better
homes, a richer abundance, a fuller life, the secur
ity-of our nation, its greatness we are just begining
to realize.
Our industries have and must continue to take
the lead m the years to follow. They will emerge
from this mele with capacities for producing on
a scale, unforseeh before this war began. .
We need to lay our plans with the known facts
of today, with an eye to the future, for the' pur
pose of taking advantage of our fair share of post
war oportunities and responsibilities.
Our investments today are in plants, which can
toast the latest equipment, and the newest pro-' ’
cesses, bringing forth new and indispensible pro-’
ducts.
We are producing today, materials for destruc
ion. which we must eventually turn to peaceful
ends, for use th$ world over. •' '
In the period ■ following the cancelling of war
cc;n-facts there will be necessary dislocations, the
seriousness of which, time alone can determine,
One thing we know. We will never return to
j our pre-war world. * ’’ '
i In this war we have but one course, ant it lies
} ahead.
Following peace declarations, the true victory
I lies still farther ahead.
With cool, deliberate calculation, we must now.
plan our world of the future, above and beyond
all cast attainment.
LITERARY
GUIDEPOST
By JOHN SELBY
"CLEMEWCEAU". by Gecifr.y
Bruun (Harvard; $3).
It is impossible not to chuckle
at the fact that Geoffrey Bruun's
"Clemeneeau” appears in the
midst of the justification that
Georges Eugene Benjamin Clem- j
enceau could not live to experi- !
cnee The old man. the male Cas
sandra. would be 102 years old if
he were alive—and the chances I
are he would be more alive at
102 than many of his youthful
critics He was bom in the Yen
dee, which is a land of stubborn,
independent, strong and self-suf
ficient Frenchmen, Clemenceau
did not merely fear a German
military renaissance; he knew it
would come. As Mr. Bruun points
out. he also understood the weak
nesses of France, although he may
have loved France all the more
for them. Love never interfered
with duty in Clemenceau’s life,
for long.
Mr. Bruun has not pretended to
write the definitive biography of
Clemenceau. something that must
await the labor’s of the old man’s
friends who are now assembling
the materials for it. Perhaps the
Germans have stolen the needed
documents. remembering the
stem stance and sterner words of
the Tiger when the terms of the
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them.
But he has provided the frame
i work, and he has done something
even more valuable, which is to j
chip off the barnacles from the
Tiger’s reputation, the little!
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thoughts of little men which
made his course so difficult. At
! Versailles he was no knight. Mr.
Bruun remarks, but a lawyer
whose client was France. His job
^was to protect'French interests as
he saw them.
“Like most lawyers”, says Mr.
Bruun, “he had to fight the dis
trust, impulsiveness, ignorance,
| vindictiveness and greed of his
I client as firmly as he fought the
j cunning and coercion of opposing
| counsel. And like most lawyers he
foupd his;, client ungrateful and(
dissatisfied with the inadequate
settlement which he obtained. But
that, too, he had anticipated,”
Typically. France, passed over
Clemenceau after the World War
I, electing Paul Deschanel presi
dent in an insulting gesture. In
11927 Clemenceau wrote: “Note
; carefully what I tell you. In six
months, a year, five years, ten
! years, when they wish and as they
wish, the Boches will invade us.” ■
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MERCURY HITS NEW HIGH
WASHINGTON, Jan. 17.—<AP>
—The national output of mercury
last year was 53,000 flasks, the
largest production of that metal
since 1881, according to the In
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