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VINTAGE, 1914,1939
DISTRIBUTING THE WEALTH
Not so many years ago it was a popular political
pastime to lambaste corporations as a vehicle whereby
a few stockholders robbed the masses. Fortunately
for the stability of our country, such charges are no
longer popular because the facts show that millions
of our citizens are the actual shareholders of the
country’s industries and strange as it may seem, peo
ple of moderate means own the bulk of the stock.
Hundreds of corporations are making it possible
for their employes to acquire shares in the company
for which they work. A good example is the Sun Oil Co.,
which announces that common stock comprising 141,
601 shares, valued at more than $10,600,000, passed
into the hands of 7,906 Sun employes on June 30, upon
liquidation of the company’s 24th annual stock plan.
To date, Sun employes, who total more than one-half
of Sun stockholders, own 1,008,473 shares through
these plans, with an additional 438,351 shares cur
rently credited to employes’ accounts in unliquidated
plans.
Thus do American workers become American
capitalists and the owners of American industry.
Therein lies the great differences between American
private enterprise and socialism, under which latter
scheme the individual owns nothing, fuguratively,
figuratively speaking, but the clothes on his back, and
he works for the state to get those.
Experts Say Earth’s
Population May Double
In The Next Century
ROME, GW — Experts Tuesday
told scientists from 70 nations,
here for the world’s first great
conference on population, that the
earth’s present 2 Vi billion popu
lation may double in the next
century.
Birth rates are holding rela
tively stable, the experts report,
except for the postwar baby boom
in the United States and some
western European countries.
The unprecendented population
gain is attributed, instead, to the
progress of modern science in
steadily prolonging man’s life
span.
Four More Polio Cases In
Seward and Anchorage
Are Reported Tuesday
ANCHORAGE, tfl-Two more
polio cases were reported here
and two in Seward over the
weekend, bringing the year’s, to
tals to 91 in Anchorage and 53
in Seward.
The new patients admitted at
an Anchorage hospital were both
boys, one 3Vz years old and the
other, 18 months. Two patients
were discharge^!, leaving 16 in
the polio wing. /<
The new cases at Seward were
a girl, 12 and a boy, 9.
Meat packers sell practically all
their beef within 14 days after
slaughter.
Distinguished
Guests Highlight
Chamber Meeting
The regular Tuesday meeting of
the Northwestern Alaska Cham
ber of Commerce was held at the
Polaris on August 31. President
Boyd Harwood presided over the
nine guests and 11 members pres
ent.
The visiting members of the
Board and Director of the Alaska
Department of Welfare were
guests of the Chamber. They are:
Mr. Henry Harmon, director;
Mrs. Evangeline Atwood, repre
sentative of the Third Division;
Rev. Father Gallant, the First
Division; and Dr. Ivar Skarland,
of the Fourth Division. Other
guests included Miss Elaine At
wood, daughter of Mrs. Atwood;
Mr. Bus Boyd, of the Northern
Commercial Co.; Rev. and Mrs.
Curtis Johnson, of the Lutheran
Church of Nome; and Mr. Wilson
of the Alaska Communications
System.
Mr. Harmon expressed his
pleasure of returning to Nome
and being on the ground that his
Dad had covered during the gold
rush days, over 50 years ago. He
briefly highlighted the activities
of his department, but didn't wish
to cover the facts that would be
brought out in the public meeting
that nigh*.
Mrs. Atwood stated she was
seeing Nome for the first time,
and was very interested and fa
vorably impressed. Many of her
friends and neighbors have made
the tour to Kotzebue and Nome,
and thought it a wonderful trip.
She made mention of the fact of
the . new trend of vacation think
ing Alaskans have recently ac- j
quired; that is, instead of always
going stateside for their vacations,
they are now traveling within the
Territory, seeing more of the
many things that have interested
our tourists these many years.
Dr. Skarland, of the University
of Alaska, spoke of that institu
tion, stating that of the approxi
mate 400 enrollment, about 75
percent are residents of Alaska.
Additional and replacement build
ings are needed to meet the in
creased enrollment, and it is
hoped that others in addition to
the new dining hall and dormi
tory, can be acquired soon. Alas
kan students are given preference
of the available housing.
Father Gallant stated that al
though he had spent many, many
years in Alaska, it wasn’t until he
had been in the Territory 26 years
that he ventured as far north and
west as Anchorage and Kodiak,
and this was his first visit to
Nome, and he was already looking
forward to seeing Kotzebue and
Point Barrow, possibly next year.
He told about the Pius X Catholic
Mission, in Skagway, of which he
is in charge, and of the several
students from the Nome area,
some of whom have graduated
from that school.
All expressed their apprecia
tion of the friendliness and hospi
tality shown them during their
stay in Nopie, and hoped that it
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French Rejection International
Army PlanJs Virtual Death Blow
To European Defense Community
France Originally
Proposed Plan To Use
German Troops In EDC
PARIS, IIP)—The Western coali
tion against Communism reeled
Tuesday under France’s crushing
rejection of the European Army
plan, but allied leaders rushed
forward new rescue plans.
By a 319-264 vote the French
National Assembly voted Monday
night to postpone debate indef
initely on the six-nation European
Defense Community (EDC) treaty,
signed 27 months ago after long
and troublesome negotiation to
bring German soldiers to the
Western side but with their bay
onets pointed east.
The vote on the procedural mo
tion was a clear-cut death blow to
the plan which France herself
originally proposed to join 12
German divisions in an interna
tionally controlled force with
French troops and those of Italy,
Belgium, Luxemboufg and the
Netherlands.
For three years EDC had been
a keystone of Western defense
policy. President Eisenhower has
termed the French vote a “serious
setback” to the free world. Mos-'
cow's Communist Party organ,
Pravda, was jubilant.
EDC backe-rs shouted “Resign!
Resign!” at Premier Pierre Men
des France Tuesday when he
asked the French National As
sembly to put off further debate
on foreign policy until Nov. 3.
There was no indication, how
ever, that he planned to quit.
Setback Is Serious But We
Must Not Be Discouraged
Ike Declares Emphatically
DENVER, M—President Eisen
hower Monday night called the
wouldn’t,be too long before the
Board would again meet here.
President Harwood then called
upon Miss Atwood, who also is
making her first visit to Nome.
She is busy seeing the points of
interest and hopes to take some
pictures, with the possible result
that she may have an article in
her Dad’s paper, the Anchorage
Times. Commenting that the foul
weather had buffeted hep picture
taking, she asked the Chamber’s
president to turn on the sun for
awhile, so that she could complete
her mission.
Rev. Johnson expressed their
pleasure of being in Nome for the
coming year. Upon completion of
the year, he will return to the
States to continue his schooling.
Both he and Mrs. Johnson were
impressed with the friendliness
of the community and are looking
forward to an enjoyable year
working in their church.
Mr. Wilson, of the ACS, stated
he was on a fast trip through the
Territory, and excused himself
from further than appropriate
complimentary remarks.
—Walter W. Sipprell,
Acting Secretary
French Parliament’s scuttling-of
the European army project “a
serious setback.” But he declared
the United States never will quit
the fight for free world security
against any Communist threat.
“We have our setbacks, we are
disappointed. But we must not be
discouraged,” the President said
emphatically in a speech at the
Iowa State Fair in Des Moines.
Eisenhower learned of the
French Assembly’s rejection of
the European Defense Community
plan for a six-nation army as he
and Secretary of State Dulles
were in conference on another
matter in Washington Monday.
The President flew from Wash
ington to Des Moines, where state
fair officials estimated a crowd
of about 25,000 persons heard
him speak off the cuff.
Before the EDC development
the President had intended to
make no address of any major
importance. That development re
portedly upset him so that he—
after consultation with Dulles—
swiftly switched signals.
At the fair, Eisenhower spoke
of EDC as “a device whereby the
free world could establish, with
out indulging in the traditional
fights among themselves in west
ern Europe, security from any
threat from without.”
West Must Now Restore
Sovereignty To Germany
So It May Contribute
WASHINGTON, UPI—Secretary
of State Dulles said Tuesday the
United States will re-appraise its
foreign policies in the light of the
French move killing the European
army. He called for a prompt
meeting of the NATO council to
work out a new philosophy.
Dulles spoke up in the wake of
action by the French Parliament
killing the idea of EDC.
The secretary said that now the
three Western powers—the United
States, Britain, and France—must
move quickly to do everything
possible—to restore sovereignty to
West Germany “and to enable it
to contribute to international
peace and security.”
He attributed the defeat of EDC
in the French National Assembly
to “nationalism, abetted by Com
munism” and said the effect has
been to “endanger the whole of
Europe.”
Electrical Circuit Goes Out
At Meeting of Electricians
CHICAGO, tPI — There were
more than 3,000 electricians in the :
International Amphitheater Mon
day when the electric public ad
dress system conked out.
Mayor Martin H. Kennelly was
addressing the AFL International
Brotherhood of Electrical Work
ers when suddenly his voice
faded. The mayor waited for 15
miputes while some electrical
workers on duty, not convention
delegates, made the necessary re
pairs.
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