THE NOME DAILY NUGGET
GEO. S. MAYNARD, Editor.
RUSSELL MAYNARD, Manager.
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ANTI-WAR PROFIT LEGISLATION
With both President Roosevelt and the United States
senate moving energetically to put a crimp in the manner
private citizens make money out of war, this government
is at last finding an intelligent way of meeting the ex-service
man’s demand for a bonus.
The bonus has been fought over in congress ever since
the war. Time after time presidents and secretaries of the
treasury mentioned all sorts of good reasons why the
bonus should not, could not, or would not be paid; but all
this palavar has had very little effect.
Away off in the background, seldom mentioned by any
one, but never for a moment forgotten by the ex-service men
who wanted the bonus, loomed the vast bulk of industrial
war profits.
It was all very well to tell the former soldier that by de
manding a bonus he put his patriotism on a cash basis; all
very well to say that it was unfair to the rest of the count
ry to give a man a prior claim on the federal treasury simp
ly because he had been drafted into the army; the veteran
had only to think of those war profits to feel completely just
ified in his attitude.
Meditate on some of those war profit figures briefly.
We had, for instance, 181 individuals receiving net incomes
of $1,000,000 a year or more. We had industrial concerns
netting profits which ranged all the way up to 362 percent on
their invested capital.
We had a long list of companies making 50, 70 and 100
percent profits in one single war year.
If those things have been sticking in the war veteran’s
craw all these years it is no wonder; nor is it extraordinary
that he is unimpressed by the accusation that he is being mer
cenary in asking a thousand or so in cash for himself.
In strict logic, the bonus demand may be unjustified;
built up against this background, it is the most natural
thing in the world|.
It has taken us a long, long time to realize that there is
shocking injustice in drafting a man to face death and wounds
while permitting the stay-at-home to make money beyond
the dreams of avarice.
Not until we have written into law an iron-clad system
for eliminating such gortesque war profits shall we be in;
a position to say “No” to the bonus seeker without getting a
horse laught in return.—Exchange.
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David E. Lilenthal, power director of TVA, believe;
that the “big city jitters,” which drew men and wealth fron
the nation’s farms to the cities for so many years, has abou
run its course; and he suggests that one of the best ways o
killing it for good is to go ahead with a broad-guage progran
for electrification of farms.
Even today, he points out, fewer than 10 percent of Am
erican farms have electricity. A tremendous field awaits de
velopment, and he is probably quite right in asserting tha
an electrification program could be of the highest social value
The long period in which huge numbers of people flick
ed to the cities from the farms did the nation very little good
It deprived the rural regions of brains and energy they need
ed, and made crowded cities more crowded than ever.
It can be checked permanently only by making rura
life easier and pleasanter; and an electrification progran
should do much to accomplish that result.
DID YOU EVER STOP TO THINK ?
Edson R. Waite
Today is the day of competition. Nome must compete
with other cities, and the only way it can hope to gain h
through successful cooperation.
After much disjointed efforts on the part of business
concerns in many cities, order has been brought out of chaos
by cooperation.
Difficulties have been smoothed out, obstacles over
come, and they are now getting the business of their tradt
territory by cooperating and going after it.
Cooperation is an essential part in city building foi
which there is no substitute.
What the average city needs is more cooperation.
They can’t have increased business without increaset
cooperation.
An advertisement of the Willard Hotel in Washington
D. C., says it is the political spotlight, home of celebrities
the axis of the colorful happenings in the world’s most ev
entful city. Some hotel
If you will stop and think for a minute, you will real
ize that this newspaper is Nome’s best friend.
Cities whose merchants do not believe in cooperating
often wake up to find out that other cities are getting mucl
business they should get.
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