2 THE NOME NUGGETMonday. June 20. 1955
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THE HISTORY OF LIBERTY
“The history of liberty is the history of limitations
of governmental power, not the increase of it,” said
President Woodrow Wilson. Ever since civilization
began, men have had to fight for freedom against all
powerful, oppressive states. And, since the Wilson era,
such states have reached new zeniths of dictatorship
and tyranny.
Many say that cannot happen here, in our own
country. But the lesson of history is that it can happen
anywhere and will happen—unless the people and
their representatives are forever on guard against any
avoidable extension of the power of government.
SIGNAL CORPS’
95th BIRTHDAY
TOMORROW
Tomorrow is the 95th birthday
of the Army Signal Corps.
The changes which have oc
curred in Army signals during the
past 95 years began against the
hard-riding Indian warriors of the
western plains. In those days the
Indians used smoke signals while
the US. Army used signal flags
and the heliograph, which was a
device that shuttered bright sun
light off and on a mirror to pro
duce a series of light flashes that
could be seen for quite some dis
tance.
Scientists as well as military
men have had a profound effect
■on the changing methods by
which the Signal Corps “gets the
message through.” On this roster
jare such names as Myer, Morse,
Marconi, Bell, Armstrong and De
Forest. Gen. Myer and Maj. Arm
strong were Signal Corps officers
while Morse invented the tele
graph, Marconi the wireless and
Bell the telephone.
Other Signal Corps officers, no
tably Gen. Billy Mitchell, Capt.
Eddie Rickenbacker and Gen.
“Hap” Arnold, each had a part in
the establishment of the U.S. Air
Boy Drives Family Car
Thru Neighbors’ Window
DETROIT, UP)—Mrs. Maxine
Metzon, 35, agreed to let her 13
year-old son, Edward Jr., take the
wheel of the family car yesterday.
He was to drive the car up the
driveway into the garage.
Edward started off all light.
But he apparently confused the
brake and the accelerator.
The car shot across the lawn,
smashed an eight-foot picture
window in the home of a neighbor
and came to a halt half-way in the
living room.
Neither Edward nor his mother
were hurt. The car was badly
damaged. The neighbor estimated
his damage at $5,000.
Force.
The Signal Corps was the first
agency of the U.S. Government to
collect and provide weather data
on a national basis. This duty un
doubtedly came to the Signal
Corps because of its telegraphic
communications and wide-spread
posts to collect such information.
Before weather collection duties
i were turned over to other agen
I cies of the government, the Signal
Corps dispatched two expeditions
into the arctic, one in 1881 to
Point Barrow, Alaska, and the
other in 1884 to Lady FranKhn
Bay.
Arctic Wildlife
Not So Abundant,
Says Scientist
The commonly held view that
there is an abundance of arctic
wildlife is not a reality, Dr. A. W.
F. Banfield, chief mammalogist
for the Canadian Wildlife Service,
said recently at the University of
Alaska.
Dr. Banfield presented this
view at a biological sciences sym
posium of the Sixth Alaskan Sci
ence, sponsored by the Alaskan
Division of the American Assn,
for the Advancement of Science.
Dr. Banfield said that the prim
itive numbers of wildlife have
always been exaggerated. Any
critical examination of explorers’
records will indicate there actual
ly was a paucity of such wildlife.
He said that in many areas the
present wildlife populations are
greater than ever before, and the
excessive populations are causing
some detrimental effects ‘n these
areas.
The Canadian scientist said that
because of the general non-abun
dance of wildlife, however, a pro
gram of land and resource utiliza
tion is of fundamental importance
in the arctic economy. He pointed
out that the wildlife should be
considered a renewable resource.
“Primitive man is a part of the
faunal community,” Dr. Banfield
said. “Civilized man, although un
able to completely subjugate the
environment, causes drastic
changes, much in the same man
ner as excessive populations of
hoofed mammals.”
Dr. Banfield told the many sci
entists and non-scientists that the
present use of wildlife can be
divided into two categories: food,
clothing, light, heat and dog food;
and fur bearers supplying income.
He stated that there are many
unused wildlife resources in the
north. These include eiderdown,
seabird colonies, arctic waterfowl,
wolf pelt souvenirs, and domestic
geese raising.
Dr. Banfield also pointed out
the need for preservation of arctic
flora and fauna through national
parks, sanctuaries, native game
preserves and wilderness areas.
“There is a need for conserva
tion education among native
groups,” the scientist asserted. He
pointed out that such education
pays off, and cited the educational
program of the Dept, of Northern
Affairs and Natural Resources.
Heavy Rain Hits Japan
TOKYO, UP—A torrential w eek
end rainstorm swept southern
Japan leaving at least one dead,
three missing, and thousands
homeless.
Another storm cost the lives of
16 Japanese fishermen when the
53-ton Kokoyo Maru capsized yes
terday south of Attu Island in the
Aleutians, the Hokkaido Maritime
Safety Board reported.
Floods brought by heavy rains
in Kyushu Island off southern
Japan washed away or flooded
2,000 homes, destroyed 3 bridges,
broke river levies in 27 spots, and
washed out 4,000 acres of rice
fields.
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Aleutian ’Quake ‘Severe’
NEW YORK, UR—A “severe”
earthquake, probably in either the
Aleutian Islands off Alaska or in
Siberia, was registered today on
the Columbia University seismo
graph. A spokesman at the Pali
sades, N.J., laboratory said the
single tremor occurred at 4:24
а. m. PST.
The seismograph at California
Institute of Technology also re
corded the shock and Dr. C. F.
Richter placed its magnitude at
б. 7 on his scale. The Richter
scale’s top recorded quake is >8.6.
On the basis of the Columbia
report, he said the epicenter prob
ably was in the Aleutian^.
Workmen Find Gold Dust
While Tearing Down Hotel
VICTORIA, B.C., W—Workmen
demolishing the old Royal Alex
andra Hotel at Dawson City, Y.T.,
are finding it a dusty job—gold
dusty.
It was learned here Friday that
a miniature gold rush has devel
! oped at the Yukon /city. Frank
Woolward of Burnaby, B.C. wrote
the Victoria Daily Colonist to say
that workmen are finding gold
dust in the cracks of the floors in
the aged structure. About half
an ounce was found on an old
newspaper beneath a sheet of
linoleum.
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