THE NOME NUGGET
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Nome, Alaska, January 23, 1950_
FOOD FOR THOUGHT
In 1923, a very important meeting was held at the
Edgewater Beach Hotel in Chicago. Attending this
meeting were ten of the world’s most successful men. At
least, men who had found the secret of “making mon
ey.” Twenty-five years later let's see where these men
are:
The president of the largest independent steel
steel company, Charles Schwab, died a bankrupt
and lived on borrowed money for five years before
his death.
The president of the greatest utility company,
Samuel Insull, died a fugitive from justice and pen
niless in a foreign land.
The president of the largest gas company
Howard Hopson, is now insane.
The greatest wheat speculator, Arthur Cutten,
died abroad, insolvent.
The president of the New York Stock Ex
change, Richard Whitney, was recently released
from Sing Sing Penitentiary.
The member of the president’s cabinet, Albert
Fall, was pardoned from prison so he could die at
home.
The greatest “bear” in Wall Street, Jesse Liv
ermore, died a suicide.
The head of the greatest monopoly, Ivan Krue
ger, died a suicide.
The president of the Bank of International
Settlement, Leon Fraser, died a suicide.
All of these men learned well the art of making mon
ey, but not one of the learned how to live.
RECORD WAR MAY END
For many years, standerd phonograph records re
volved at the rate of seventy-eight revolutions per min
ute. This was the standard for all recording outfits until
1948, when the Columbia Company began to turn out
micro-groove records, revolving at thirty-three and one
third r.p.m., which virtually tripled the length of play
ing time. Not to be outdone, the Victor Company
brought out its version in 1949—a small-sized, plastic
record, revolving at a new speed of 45 r.p.m. Both com
panies continue to bring out the standard 78 r.p.m. rec
ords.
The confusion was considerable and there was the
prospect that the new speeds would prove a nuisance to
those who wished to play records from all the compan
ies. Apparently, the thirty-three and one-third r.p.m.
record has gained public favor and, last year, six or sev
en companies, including Decca, began to issue the slow
est-speed record. Now, apparently, the battle is coming
to an end because the Victor Company has announced
that it will issue its records on the three speeds.
It is noted by those who know something about the
history of records, that the Victor Company, in the
early Thirties, introduced records revolving at thirty
three and one-third r.p.m., but, because there were no
light pressure pick-ups and high quality amplifiers, the
use of the slow-playing records did not gain in popular
favor.
RUSSIA NEEDS TIN
Tin plays an important role in the conquest of China
by the communists.
The southern Chinese tin mines should be of immense
importance to the U.S.S.R. and probably will permit the
stockpiling of that key metal for the first time since
Truman's Program
Major Issue
In Congress
I Washington, (£*)— Administra
! tion leaders saw little prospect to
day of smooth sailing for the Tru
man program, despite the smart
ing defeat they handed a GOP
Dixie coalition trying to take con
trol of the house.
Much credit for their 236 to
183 triumph yesterday, they said,
must go to the civil rights issue
which cost the coalition a large
chunk of republican votes.
They got little comfort from a
republican hint that a new effort
to change the house rules may be
made later.
The test yesterday was on a co
alition-backed move to give the
rules committee virtual life-and
death control over major legisla
tion. The committee is dominated
by republican and southern mem
bers.
I The debate that preceded the
showdown left no doubt that the
president’s program was a major
issue. Leaders of both sides said
as much.
“The issue is whether or not
the entire Truman program will
succeed or be defeated,”' said
rep. Allen (R-Ill.), top minority
member of the rules committee.
“The gentleman from Illinois,
Mr. Allen, has laid down the is
sue,” said speaker Sam Rayburn
of Texas, head of 'the Truman
forces.
The coalition had proposed to
knock out a 1949 rule allowing
other committees to bypass the
rules group after 21 days. Even
optimistic administration leaders
had not counted on collecting
more than 50 GOP votes. They
Plan New Yukon
Archeological
Expedition
ANDOVER, Mass., (^—Arche
ologists are getting ready for an
other expedition to the Yukon to
look for evidence that Indians mi
grated from Siberia across the
Bering Strait and thus moved
down through the American con
tinents.
Frederick Johnson, curator of
the Peabody foundation for arch
eology at Phillips Academy, said
that plans for the expedition are
already being made, although no
date has been set yet.
The projected study will be the
third made in the Yukon since
1944. The first was sponsored by
the Peabody foundation. The sec
ond, in 1948, by the Viking Fund,
and the American Philosophical
Society and the Arctic Institute,
actually got 64. But they lost 85
democrats.
In short the southern democrat
ic wing of the coalition delivered
its top strength, but their repub
lican support didn’t come through.
Here are some typical explana
tions:
Rep. Kirwan (D-Ohio>, chair
man of the democratic national
: congressional committee — “the
: progressive republicans f i n a 1 ly
decided to bow to the will of the
people.’’
Rep. Clarence Brown (R-Ohio),
who wanted the rule changed—
“The issue was beaten by left
wing democrats and 64 me-too re
publicans.’’
Rep. Cox (D-Ga.), a leader of
the southern democrats—“the ad
| ministration just held the repu
! licans’ feet to the fire too much.”
World War II.
As soon as transportation difficulties are ironed out
this metal which has been so scarce in Russia should
begin to fill their annual requirement which is estima
ted at 15,000 metric tons. During the past several years
Russia has had to restrict its usage of tin to essentials,
using substitutes wherever possible.
Within reach from the Siberian coast in northwestern
Alaska lays a wealth of this mineral, which is in the
area that the U.S. air force leaders would leave unpro
tected, should Marks Air Force Base be closed. •
The tin in China is believed to be in Solikamsk, near
Ousk, and east of Iran, which is north of Vladivostok.
, ULE TRAIN
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Civil Defense
Head Named
WASHINGTON, (£*)—A former
atomic research official was
named today to head the govern
ment agency charged with plan
ning for wartime civil defense.
Paul J. Larsen, who has been
associated with atomic research in
Los Alamos and Alberciueque, N.
M., will take over as first chair
man of the civilian mobilization
office on March 1, presidential
assistant John R. Steelman an
nounced.
The office was set up as one of
eight planning groups in a recent
reorganization of the national sec
urity resources board, which
Steelman has been running as act
ing chairman.
Larsen's appointment was an
nounced on the heels of a defense
department disclosure that r e
cruiting of 150,000 volunteer air
craft observers will start immed
iately to be ready for action if
war should come.
The two announcement; mark
ed a sudden surge of action in the
civil defense program, which has
been dormant since the war.
Larsen will supervise planning
lor civil defense, health resources,
housing and community services,
strategic disoersion of industrial
and governmental facilities, and
censarship.
The decision to recruit thous
ands of airciaft observers for civil
defense was announced yesterday
fcllov mg a two-da\ conference of
defense officials and state repres
ent ati\ es called by secretary « f
ncfcn.c Johnson.
Extension Service
Asks For Funds
To Serve Alaska
WASHINGTON, (/P)_ A house
appropriations subcommittee was
told at a hearing on the agricul
ture department appropriation
bill that the department’s exten
sion service is trying to serve the
scattered villages in Alaska as
well as farmers.
W. L. Wilson, director of the
extension service, said in testi
mony made public today:
“The extension service in Alas
ka is endeavoring not only to
reach the farmers of Alaska but
also the people who live in villi
ges or who are scattered out in the
territory engaged in lumbering,
fishing and so forth.
I he children of many of these
people do not have opportunities
for the kind of associations that
come from 4-H club work, so
that the 4-H club work is being
expanded.
“The home demonstration work
dealing with home problems in
Alaska is being expanded and
more effective service is being
given to home-steaders and to the
farm people.”
Wilson said that because many
of the people are new to the ter
ritory and are farming under a
new environment, personal ser
of great importance,
vice by the extension service is
He said extension workers in
the territory “must like pioneer
ing and not object to Alaska
weather and must be familiar
with dairying and the raising of
potaties and vegetables.”
French is spoken in five of
Switzerland’s 25 cantons and
German in 18 of the others. The
remaining two use Italian and
Romansch.