THE NOME DAILY NUGGET
GKO S MAYNARD, Editor
RUSSELL G MAYNARD. Manager.
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'rnARCHERS ARE
TO TEACH
A Pennsylvania school
dirc.tM- declared to his fel
low m.mbers i t the board
that directors “have a right
to lea k at the physical char
• ■ ;ell as ‘
cultural ride of an appli
can for a teaching position.”
This may remind you. in
a roundabout way, of the
story of littleJohnnv,whose
teacher wrote a note to his
mother suggesting that
Johnny was perhaps a trifle
too fragrant and that he
should be bathed. The ma
ternal reply was tersely
succinct. “Learn him.
don’t smell him,” replied
Johnny’s mother. She was
sure she knew what Johno
ny was sent to school to ob_
tain.
There is no slightest ob
jection to prettiness in a
teacher, if she is truly a
teacher, nor should there
be any to plainness, when
a plain teacher is fully qual
ified. Teaching is a hard
enough lot, as matters now
are, without requiring that
the teacher should be a vis
ual delight.
We consider it not unlike
ly that many plain teachers
are loved by their pupils,
and are in every essential
adequate to their duties. It
is a trifle non~sensical even
to notice the objection rais
ed by the Philadelphia di
rector, but at least it con
stitutes replying in kind.—
Portland Oregonian.
Trader On? Of
Kotzebue Sees
Life In South
BORIS MAGIDS, A NEW
YORK BOY, MADE
GOOD. VISITS
SEATTLE.
SEATTLE, April 21st—
Boris Magids, a city boy
who made good in the far
north sat comfortably in a
chair at the Olympic Hotel
and talked of gold dust and
furs sub~zero temperatures
and airplanes, Eskimos and
other incidents, important
to a man who manages
chain stores beyond the
Arctic Circle.
A short, well dressed man
with graying hair and a
pleasing smile, he had left
his home at Kotzebue on
the Arctic Ocean ten days
ago. Clad in furs, he had
flown in three airplanes al
most 2.000 miles over a
roundabout route to Jun
eau. Th re he had dressed
for civilization and boarded
the steamer Victoria, arriv
ing in Soattle in tim to s e
Frc ■ i'o Steele defeat Babe
IuSiaO.
Tod gv, he rose, luxurious
ly cons ous of steam heat,
traffic noises and city bu'ld
ings, and, after breakfast,
settled back to chat—of the
Arctic.
“I came through Seattle
in 1909 when I was just 16
years old.” he said. “I was
born and raised in New
York City and I was going
to Nome, Alaska, to visit
my brother, Sam, who had
a store there. I took the
old steamer Umatilla to
Nome, and I’ve lived in the
North ever since.”
Experienced Fur Trader
Boris Magids and his bro
ther Sam went into busi
ness together. The Arctic,
to the 16-year old boy seem
ed like a strange place to go
into business. But he learn
ed the things an Arctic tra
der must learn to succeed.
His brother Sam died in
1930. but by then the two
brothers had stores in Shis~
hmareff, Deering, Kewalik,
Candle, Kotzebue and the
Kobuk sections.
Today Magids conducts
business along a thousand
miles of the coast of the
Arctic Ocean. His custom
ers come two, three and 4
hundred miles to his stores
to trade gold and furs for
needles, rope, groceries, an
chors, gasoline, clothes, and
every other necessity of
life.
Before he learned the se
crets of a trader he learned
the secrets of the North.
The • boy, fresh from the
sounds of New York City,
learned about silent wastes
where no sound save the
creak of sled runners a^id
the panting of dogs broke
the stillness. He learned to
take care of himself when
blizzards struck and his
dogs buried themselves in
the snow, bushy tails over
their noses.
He still remembers those
things.
Use Airplanes Now
“We use airplanes now,”
he said, “and I can lift up
the receiver of a radio tele
phone and talk to Nome,
but it’s still the Arctic. If
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the Arctic, and you can
walk away from the land
ing, you just start building
a shelter, because you’re
sure to be there for a while.
He learned that Eskimos
who traveled hundreds of
miles to trade judged a tra
der by his honesty. If an
Eskimo got nine fathoms of
rope, even through an acci
dent, when he had ordered
ten, the native would go 5
hundred miles farther the
next year to trade with an
other man.
Like other Arctic traders,
Magids learned that credit
in the North must be ex
tended for periods as long
as 15 years. He learned
well. The boy from the city
succeeded.
It’s been almost .30 years,
he reflected comfortably.
It’s a hard country. So cold.
It’s nice to get out to a city
like this.” He lighted a
cigarette and cocked an ear
to the rumble of traffic on
the streets below, “But I
always want to go back.”—
Exchange.
Offshore Dredge
Leon Starmont, president
of the Offshore Gold Dredg
ing Company of Spokane,
indicates plans to send the
company’s ship“GoldKing”
to Alaska this year, about
May 1, to extract gold from
the sands on the sea bottom
according to recent word
received at Seward. Geo
rge L. Holmes, consulting
engineer on the Mel Ion
Shields placer ground in
Moose Pass, is also consult
ing engineer for the Spo
kane company. The Gold
King is a sea-going dredge,
equipped with sluice boxes
and pumps to draw sand
from the bottom of the sea.
The ship is 202 feet long &
will be captained by G. E.
COMPLETE LINE OF MOTHER S DAY
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(Opposite The Dream Theatre)
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L, Howard. The ship is
now at San Francisco, and
it is said will proceed to
Nome.
Weather Today
(by U.S. Weather Bureau)
Clearing weather was re
ported from most airway
stations between Nome and
Fairbanks but some dense
ground fog conditions were
observed at Ruby. Tem
peratures continue mild &
above the seasonal average
in most sections of Alaska.
Barometer readings are
rising thruout central Alas
ka today but are falling a~
long the Gulf and in south
eastern Alaska. Rain was
reported from southeastern
Alaska while partly cloudy
conditions prevail along
the coast of Oregon and
Washington.
Airways conditions at 11
A.M. were as follows:
Nome clear temperature 42
Solomon clear 38
Golovin clear 35
Nulato clear 56
Kaltag clear 48
Unalakleet clear 42
Ruby partly cloudy 38
Flat clear 50
Candle clear 46
Fairbanks clear 52
Juneau raining 44
Ketchikan raining 42
Kodiak raining 38
Cordova cloudy 40
Bethel clear 42
VOTE FOR
ANTHONY J. DIMOND
For Re-election On Democratic Ticket
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Best Argument For His Re-election
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