THE NOME NUGGET
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WILLING TOOLS
(Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
The spectacle of 23 Americans riding into the
Korean neutral zone singing Communist songs and
mouthing Communist propaganda was not a pretty
one, and it makes all of us a little mad and more
than a little sad.
It is to be doubted if the Communists are finding
any great satisfaction in converting that many Ameri
cans to their philosophy, even temporarily as the case
may prove to be with some if not most of them.
Out of the thousands of Americans captured by
the Reds in Korea, the conversion of 23 befuddled
men is skimpy grist to the credit of their propaganda
mill.
But to Americans, the thought of any number of
our people, however small, being willing tools of our
enemies is repugnant.
It is inconceivable that any Americans could be
so ignorant about or blind to reality in America that
they could sincerely call it a land in which “those who
speak out for peace and freedom are rapidly being
silenced.”
If these poor fools don’t know better than that,
their Communist masters most certainly do.
Nowhere in the world is the advocacy of peace
and freedom more freely and safely made than in
America.
Never in all history has there been a greater men
ace to peace and freedom than Communism raises.
We do not know what manner of persuasion the
Communists used to confuse the minds of 23 Ameri
cans about these facts, but we suspect it was the con
dition of the minds they worked with rather than the
weight of their arguments that brought success.
Dr. Lee M. Thurston, federal commissioner of edu
cation: “The urge for getting a college education in the
heart of the American soldier is something terrific.”
Nathan Cummings, grocer, just back from Europe:
“This is the only country in the world where people
are worrying about diets and losing weight.”
GETTING MORE FOR LESS
(Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
The following is not a plug for the sale of cigarets,
but rather a lesson in taxes. Cigarets are involved be
cause this story is about Canada’s experience with
taxes on them, as reported in the Wall St. Journal.
It is a simple story to the effect that you can
reach the point of diminishing returns in taxes as in
anything else. When, in April, 1951, Canada hiked the
cigaret tax 3 cents a pack and also added a 2 per cent
sales tax, sales dropped, more cigarets were smuggled
in from the U.S., and Canadian revenues from this
source slipped $4,600,000.
So a year later Canada cut the taxes 3 cents—and
increased government revenues $9,400,000. Then, last
February, Canada cut another 4 cents off the tax.
Manufacturers at the same time cut 2 cents from
the price.
Smuggling all but stopped. Sales zoomed. If this
trend continues, the “paper loss” of revenue from the
new reduction will be turned into a gain for the
government.
Canada has been very smart with its finances, in
deed. Much smarter than we have been in this country.
The Eisenhower administration’s promised tax re
lief for Americans, scheduled to begin January 1 in
the income levies and to be extended, we hope, to
excise taxes, need not be accompanied by loss of
treasury revenue and can actually result in an increase.
Truman Says Republican
Administration
Wants To “Stand Still”
ST. LOUIS, IP)— The “Old guard
of reactionaries” have gained
new strength and “want to
return to the days of McKinley,M
former President Harry S. Tru
man said last night.
But he said he worried even
more about those in the Eisen
hower administration who want
to “stand still.”
“The greatest danger springs
from the attitude of those who
reluctantly, and 20 years late, ac
cept the reforms we have made,
and then refuse to go forward to
meet the new problems we face,”
Truman said.
Truman, expressing concern
over the Republican administra
tion’s policies toward counteract
ing a depression, was critical of
the use of the Employment Act
of 19,io. requiring the govern
ment to develop specific plans
for economic expansion.
“The present administration has
approached its responsibilities
under tha: act in a very gingerly
and tim'd fashion,”he said. “What
its policy i.= actually going to be,
nobody knows.”
Democrats Accuse GOPs
Spreading Confusion On
Danger of Atomic Attack
WASHINGTON, (S’) — Several
Democratic senators said Thurs
day confusion is being spread by
Eisenhower administration spokes
men on the danger of an atomic
or hydrogen bomb attack by the
Russians.
“It is high time that the Na
tional Security Council or the
President himself made a plain
statement o*f the facts as they are
known in this matter of life and
death,” said Senator Kefauver.
The New York Times said to
day that Eisenhower “has decided
to put a stop to loose official talk
about the Soviet Union’s possible
hydrogen bomb and related sub
jects.”
A Washington dispatch to the
Times by James Reston said the
President was annoyed by what
one leader called “atomic blabber
mouths” within the governmental
family.
Eisenhower, Reston wrote, has
passed the word that he wants all
official statements on this subject
to conform to the decisions of the
National Security Council or to
be cleared at the White House.
VALDEZ MAYOR RE-ELECTED
VALDEZ, OP) — Mayor George
Gilson was re-elected in a three
way contest here Tuesday.
Elected to five city council
seats were: Max Wells, Bruce
Woodford, Dorothy DeVault,
Helen Long and Arthur Welch.
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WEATHER FORECAST
Compiled by the
U.S. Dept, of Commerce Weather Bureau
Increasing cloudiness tonight
becoming mostly cloudy Saturday
with scattered showers. Winds
northeasterly 10 to 15 mph. Low
temperature expected tonight 35,
high Saturday 45.
Nome data last 24 hours as of
7 a.m. today: High temperature
53, low 34. Max. wind 19 mph
from the NE. Sunrise 6:35 a.m.,
sunset 5:02 p.m.
Temperatures a year ago today:
high 37, low 23. Extremes this
date since 1907: high 51 in 1932,
low 13 in 1939.
Other stations, 7 a.m. today:
Station Temp. Weather
Barrow 25 Snow
Kotzebue 30 Cloudy
Wales 3’ Cloudy
Nome 34 Cloudy
Unalakleet 37 Part cloudy
Bethel 37 Rain
McGrath 31 Cloudy
Anchorage 38 Cloudy
Fairbanks 31 Cloudy
Whitehorse 37 Cloudy
Edmonton 53 Part cloudy
Juneau 44 Cloudy
Ketchikan 58 Showers
Seattle 61 Rain
San Francisco 59 Drizzle
Sen. Butler Favors
Alaska Stateliood
If New Bill Is Fair
(Continued from Page One)
have enough land and resources
to insure settlement and develop
ment of the new state.”
The whole statehood issue be
came ensnarled in a deadlock in
Butler’s committee last summer.
The committee’s seven Demo
crats, joined by Sen. Malone (R- .
Nev), blocked committee approval
of the administration’s Hawaii
bill. Their surprise move forced
postponement, by an 8-7 vote, of
action on either bill until hear
ings had been completed on both.
Butler said he does not venture
to predict what his committee will
do after Congress reconvenes in
January but he said he hopes the
two bills will be considered sep
arately.
“The Alaska statehood bill will
be given priority consideration in
my committee in the next ses
sion.”
Senate Republican Leader
Knowland of California has said
he will try to bring the Hawaiian
measure, already passed by the
House, to the Senate floor for
early debate. The GOP leader
ship has given no right of way
to the Alaska bill.
U.S. and U.N. Troops Will
Defend Indian Guards
From South Koreans
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., UP>—
U.S. and other U.N. troops will
defend Indian guards and other
members of the Neutral Repatri
ation Commission in Korea if
South Korea unleashes troops
against the neutrals, a U. S.
spokesman emphasized today.
The Korean armistice agree
ment, signed by both the U.N.
allies and the Communists, guar
antees that, an American delega
tion source stressed.
Assurances that the United
States would live up to the agree
ment signed by Maj. Gen. William
K. Harrison, Jr., for the U.N.
Command last July 27 were un
derstood to have been repeated to
Indian and other delegates here
since the Indians in the field have
protested South Korean threats to
attack their guards and to free
prisoners awaiting repatriation
questioning.
•_
Juneau May Offer Revised
School Bond Proposal
In Next Six Weeks
JUNEAU, UP) — Dewey Baker,
senior member of the Juneau
School Board, said Thursday he
hopes the board will offer a re
vised school bond proposal for
voters’ consideration within a
month or six weeks.
Baker emphasized he was ex
pressing his personal opinion. The
board has not met since a two mil
lion dollar bond proposal failed to
carry by the required 65 percent
majority in last Tuesday’s election.
That proposition included a
swimming pool and civic auditor
ium. Baker said he thought such
extras should be left out of any
new proposal.
“Tuesday’s vote was 56 percent
favorable,” he said. “But many
who voted ‘no’ wrote notes on
their ballots saying they would
have voted ‘yes’ if the question
had included only school con
struction.”
Optometrists say that women
are only one-fifth as likely to be
color blind as men.
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