THE NOME NUGGET
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Entered as second class matter October 14, 1943 at the
postoffice at Nome. Alaska, under Act of March 3. 1879
SURVIVAL ARITHMETIC’
“The Communists have not failed to realize that i
the key to technological success lies in education,” says
the editorial “Survival Arithmetic,” which appeared
in a recent issue of Air Review, published by the Na
tional Security Commission of The American Legion.
“In 1928 they graduated only about 9,000 engi
neers,” says Air Review. In 1954 they turned out a
whopping 53,000. In the United States the trend has
been in the opposite direction.” (In 1950 we graduated
50,000 engineers, and in recent years less than half that
number!)
As the Legion sees it, the seeds of career are plant
ed early and “our schools play a most active part in
guiding our youth during their formative years. . . . And
the importance of science in the air-atomic age of peril
in which we live cannot be too highly emphasized. Cer
tainly algebra, geometry and physics are fundamentals
of science.
“Yet the proportion of high school students study
ing algebra has dropped from 50 percent to 20 percent
in the last fifty years. The proportion studying geom
etry has dropped from 30 percent to 12 percent, and
in physics it has plunged from 20 percent to 4 percent.”
The editorial makes the point that this is due in
part to the increasing practice among high schools of
making science subjects elective; that teen-agers are
too immature to make such far-reaching decisions, and
lack adequate advice and guidance.
“The task for Legionnaires, indeed all Americans
then, is to counsel American youth in the vital impor
tance of education for their future as well as the future
security of the nation ... Now, air power is the first line
of defense. The endless frontiers of opportunity to all
facets of industry cannot be over-emphasized to our
youth.”
If you are a parent, or a teacher, or a big brother,
or merely a good American, this problem is for you. It
is the moral responsibility of everyone to whom youth
will listen. It’s too big for Uncle Sam.
THEY ALSO SERVE
In the North Country there are hardships galore,
Problems to solve—many things to explore.
But there are heroes unsung in a place called Nome,
A barren spot that we call Home.
The valiant dog is not the least of these:
As you may well know—we have NO trees !
—By Vera Siegwart
Kefauver Scores
New Code of
Military Conduct
WASHINGTON, ^Sen. Ke
fauver (D-Tenn said Saturday he
is dissatisfied with the “lack of
anything substantial” in the new
ly-proclaimed code of military
conduct.
In a caustic vein, Kefauver
wrote Secretary of Defense Wil
son, terming the code “a fine
patriotic set of principles which
are excellent and beneficial for
club conditions. . . .”
President Eisenhower last Wed
nesday proclaimed the new mili
tary code, which sets forth guide
posts for the conduct of American
fighting men, stressing the high
ideals of valor in an effort to
strengthen them against severe
tests either in the front lines or in
enemy prison camps.
The code—which already has
been ordered posted in all Ameri
can bases, units and ships—was
framed by a committee composed
of high-ranking retired military
officers and civilian Pentagon of
ficials. Experiences of Americans
held captive by the Reds in the
Korean War had indicated the
need for such a code.
The Tennessee senator, a mem
ber of the Senate Armed Services
Committee, told Wilson he hopes
“you will undertake a more thor
ough study of the treatment of re
turned prisoners of war and their
needs for the future.”
Kefauver asked whether “as a
nation (we) are playing square
with some of the boys whose pho
tographs I have seen in the papers
upon returning home . . . boys
who had but a few years of edu
cation, who now are labelled
‘turncoats,’ tried, and given very
little chance to resume the life of
an American citizen.”
50% Fewer Riders After
52-Day Transportation
Strike in Nation’s Capital
WASHINGTON, (R\—A 50 per
cent drop in the number of riders
was reported today as busses and
street cars rolled again in Wash
ington after a 52-day strike.
Many former customers were
clinging to car pools, taxis and
other strike-born habits.
The walkout was settled early
yesterday when the city granted
Capital Transit Co. fare increases
to offset a 15-cent hourly v/age
boost for drivers and mechanics.
Affecting some 400,000 daily
riders, the tieup was the second
longest in a major American city.
Detroit had a 56-day transit strike
about five years ago.
ALL ABOARD
Let's go "Sailing With Christ"
in Vacation Bible School, Aug. 22
to Sept. 2, 1 to 3 p.m.. at the
Nome Gospel Home.
Officer’s Acquittal of
Collaboration Charge
Held Significant
FT. LEWIS, Wash., (M—An ac
quittal of Lt. Jefferson D. Erwin
of charges he collaborated with
the enemy as a prisoner of war
in Korea should have “heavy im
pact” on other such pending
courts-martial, his attorney said.
The nine-officer trial board’s
announcement of its findings late
Friday in the case of the 38-year
old Blanchard, Okla., career sol
dier brought applause from spec
tators. The board deliberated two
hours, 15 minutes.
Erwin, a prisoner 32 months be
fore his release during Operation
Big Switch Sept. 4, 1953, insisted
to newsmen after the announce
ment his faith in military justice
“never wavered.”
During the sessions, Erwin ad
mitted he had made the statement
while a POW that South Korea
attacked North Korea with the
backing of the United States. He
acknowledged signing half a doz
en propaganda ai'ticles. He was a
POW at both the Pyoctong and
Pyongyang camps.
He contended, however, that
his actions were made under dur
ess, including threats by the Chi
nese that they would kill him if
he did not go along with their
propaganda and indoctrination
programs.
His defense counsel, Lt. Col.
Leslie E. Dixon, Baton Rouge and
Ft. Ord, called it one of his tough
est cases and the “greatest” of
numerous acquittals he has won
for clients. 1
Captain and Mate Stick
To Disabled Freighter
52 Hours After Fire
LONDON, 15*1—A crippled Brit
ish freighter was pulled uncer
tainly toward shelter today. Her
captain and mate finally had to
quit the ship after 53 hours alone
aboard the gale-battered bridge.
The 7,133-ton Argobeam made
a slow progress as the little sal
vage tug Salveda towed her thru
18 foot Atlantic seas toward the
Scottish shore nearly 200 miles
away.
When the water rose in the en
gine room and the Argobeam be
gan to list heavily to port, her
skipper, 46-year-old Capt. George
Wilson, and Chief Officer Ken
neth Seamen left the ship Sunday
night. They boarded the salvage
tug.
The Argobeam was put out of
action by an engine room fire
Friday. Her crew was taken on
board the Swedish passenger liner
Kungsholm, enroute to New York,
but Wilson and Seaman insisted
on remaining on board.
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New York 6, Baltimore 1
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