THE NOME NUGGET
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W. A, and EMILY BOUCHER.Editors
filtered as second class matter October 14, 1943, at
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March 3, 1879.
_Monday, August 20, 1945
TO DEVELOP ALASKA
The Smaller War Plants Corporation
issued a report recently showing the
method in which the veterans of this war
can get started in some business venture
in Alaska even though some of the Gov
ernment agencies are not ready with
their planning.
The conclusion arrived at from the
preliminary study of conditions in Alas
ka is that small business enterprises are
almost the only immediate feasible pro
ject for returning veterans.
Some of our returning veterans will
wish to do their own thinking and make
their own plans; others will naturally
fall into some already established jobs
according to the training received in the
service.
Until now Alaska’s economy has been
based on the extraction or depletion
process. The mining, fishing, lumber,
and fur industries have accounted for the
greater part of the income for Alaska.
Although many parts of Alaska have
been developed before the war greater
development is yet to follow in the foot
steps of better transportation.
MORE CLOTHING AVAILABLE
With the revocation of two of the War
Production Board’s orders, a greater sup
ply of wool suits, topcoats, overcoats,
and dresses are beginning to be more
easily obtained. Worsted suits will be
forthcoming in the near future.
The severance of wartime controls
over the production of wools and wor
sted fabrics will make more and more
clothing available.
DDT INSECTICIDE
Limited quantiites of the new insecti
cide, DDT, are now available for civil
ian use. But the user is cautioned that
there is yet a great deal to learn about
safe usage of the insecticide, the effect it
will have on the soil, and the balance of
nature with respect to the beneficial in
i sects and wild life.
Widespread usage of DDT cannot be
expected until such time as more experi
menting will prove satisfactorily the
conditions under which the insecticide
can be safely used.
Recent laboratory experiments show
that a flea can live 63 days without food.
The trouble with the fleas I have met is
they don’t seem to know their own
strength.—Detroit News.
Under a stuffed fish in the Harlem
Uproar House is the priceless adage:
“Take A Lesson From Me—I Wouldn’t
Be Here If I Had Kept My Mouth Shut.”
—Bill Farnsworth in the New York
Journal.
■HOT POTATO!
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WAITING CONTEST
Hard as it may be to get a died
in-the-wool bureaucrat thinking
abou‘ winter problems in the sum
mer time, unless something un
usual happens, cold weather will
come again. One of these days a
school bell will ring, a boy will
come down the street bouncing a
football and after that it won’t be
long. Moreover winter calls for a
lo tof things that are scarce now.
Let’s take shoes as a down-to
earth il’ustraion. Which is better
for keeping a boy’s feet off the
frosty ground, a 1942 price ceiling
or a pair of good, heavy brogues
with wool socks in them? That’s
the problem before the American
people, with school bells only a
month away. Getting into produc
tion cn civilian goods is what the
OPA is currently bungling.
Hold That Price
The OPA’s war job was to keep
orices of needful things from sky
rocketing—a noble work requir
ing some stiff rules. But today,
with our war won and war busi
ness slack, OPA is still making
rules. One of them says: Manu
facturers may make things foi
civilians provided they sell at 1942
prices. There’s the rub, for fac
tory owners ready now to start re
converting, making jobs safe for
their employees.
The 1942 price rule stops them;
nothing else. Workers want their
jobs to .ast. Most civilians have
saved some money and want to
buy new things. Industry is anx
ious to serve them but very few
factories can operate at 1942
prices. Materials cost more now
and labor costs more also. There
is only one thing to do, namely,
beg OPA for special permission to
price-up and go ti work.
Mail Bags Full
The OPA, if you remember, is
famous for leaving no stone un
turned, and all that sort of thing.
It is rumored that some men in
the bureau have their own private
opinions about business people
anyhow. Before they grant any
firm special leave to change a
price, they investigate. That’s all
right, but applications to recon
vert are coming in fast, more
than 500 a day.
The bureau will never wind up
itj red tape in time. The only pos
sible way out of trouble is to make
a reasonable rule for all industry
to follow, let whistles blow at 6:00
a.m., and ask questions later. Will
they do it Who knows Employees
and custom rrs would probably
cneer loudly for any employer
who kept his payroll alive and
said “Ph-f-v-v-ut” to the OPA,
but it’s dangerous.
Formula For Panic
Most business men are conserv
ative. They are likely to wait ex
actly as long as the OPA says
wait. Unable to do business on
1942 prices, they may pull fires
from under their boilers and lay
: off the crew. Then the waiting
. contest starts. Bureaus will wait
on investigations; employers will
Air Forces
Announce New
Super-Superfort
WASHINGTON, Aug. 20—(A
General Arnold disclosed that
United States Air Forces i
plane was “considerably betl
than the Superfortress. The r
plane, he said was capable
ranging all over East Asia fr
Western Pacific bases. He s
the plane wasn’t the recently i
nounced B-32, but was a n
plane.
Arnold gave no detalis of t
new craft, except that its spe
was same as or possibly great
than the Superfort, and recall
that a Superfort had recent
flown from Guam to Washingto
a distance of nine thousand milt
in thirty six hours.
He declared the age of “Buc
Rogers warfare” was not fe
away. The time is coming whe
there won’t be any crews o
bombing planes. He said guides
missies will attain, from jet de
vices, speeds which will mak<
them difficult to knock then
down.
He said that in addition to base!
on the west coast, Honolulu, Mid
way, Wake, the Aleutians and the
Philippines, we must also have
bases in the Marshalls, Marianas,
Okinawa and Tokyo. He added
that Tokyo would have to be used
as a base for quite “some time.”
wait on bureaus; workers will
wait on employers and you and I
will wait for everything.
Idle workers in the soup-line;
farmers without markets let crops
rot in the field. An ugly picture.
Tnc way to avoid it is to let in
dustry convert, sell its products to4
people with money and pay the
men who work. Inflation can be
prevented without starting a pan
ic, if OPA will adopt a workable
[ rule soon enough. But bureaus are
usually more interested in rules
than in reasons— warts cn the
nose of progress; bunyons on the
toe of time.
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