THE NOME DAILY NUGGET
GEO S. MAYNARD, Edit.it
RUSSELL G MAYNARD. Manager.
Published every evening except Sunday by The Nome
Publishing Company, Nome, Alaska.
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BUYING FROM PEDDLERS
We believe that it can be stated as an absolute fact
that no person ever bought a bargain from a peddler.
The price may be low, but in such cases the quality is
even lower. Usually prices paid to peddlers are much
higher than the same article can be bought for from our
local stores.
Not one of these peddlers who find Valdez or any
other Alaska town such a happy hunting ground pays
a cent oi taxes in the town or towns. Most of them pay
no taxes anywhere for they are here today and gone
tomorrow. In no place long enough to get on the t;u<
rolls. Not one peddler helps support our churches, our
schools or donates to any worthwhile activity. Have
you ever known of a peddler making a donation for a
local cause?
Valdez has an ordinance prohibiting the activities
of peddlers: but so far we have never seen it enforced.
It should not be necessary to enforce such an ordinance
if our people would realize what they are doing and
how they are hurting their town bv their selfish actions.
If they would but stop and consider who helps them
through the long winter months, they would help their
benefactors out in the summer—by giving them every
dollar possible.—Valdez Weekly Miner.
RIDING TO A FALL
The Matanuska Valley Pioneer has the following to
say editorial in reference to the colony:
It is quite possible that those few who continue
kicking on the food budgets are riding to a fall which is
apt to carry the whole colony group with them.
Washington, with plenty of living cost statistics
from which to judge says that the local food budget is
too liberal, and there are those in the colony who argue
that it is not enough.
Enquiry among the families here have convinced
us that the difference of opinion is simply a matter of
economy and management in the home. There are
families here who are laying up a reserve on their bud
get; others who are using up their entire bingle allow
ance before the month is half over then come in and
demand additional credit at the commissary.
Few as they are. this is the bunch who will bring
about legislation that will work a hardship on those
who are managing their kitchens properly.
It is foolish to think that an increase will be sanc
tioned by Washington because of the howls of a few.
What will be the result?
That shouldn't be hard to answer in view of what
they are doing elsewhere. Instead of being permitted
to choose from the commissary shelves the families will
receive a box of weekly rations. The day of the $6.00
boned hams, canned sliced peaches and candy bars by
the dozen will be past.
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A REIGN OF TERROR
A Valdez resident returning from a visit to Fair
banks reports that while in the interior town he attem
pted to promote some opposition to the unjust tolls of
$0.00 a ton on freight hauled from Valdez to Fairbanks,
but met with little outspoken comment, as the person
questioned as to his sentiments, would invariably glan
ce over his shoulder to see that no one was listening in
before he would cqmment on the injustice practiced.
Me said it would be humorous if it were not so evident
that the whole village was terrorized by the blight on
Alaska’s progress.
One prominent merchant, however, did not hesi
tate to say that in his opinion the railroad was an actual
detriment to the upbuilding of interior Alaska. He
said he paid at the rate of $120 a ton for his goods re
ceived over the railway, and that many times the
freight was more than the worth of the article sold.
He said the delay in receiving fresh produce resulted
in a loss of vitamins as well as sales, and that he could
see no future in a business taxed out of proportion by
government agencies
With Seward at one end of the line being discrim
inated against and Fairbanks at the other being system
atically held up by extortionate rates, it appears that a
reign of terror, has been inaugurated along the rail
road belt.—Valdez Miner.
Out at Sidney, Neb., recently a slicker drove up to
a filling station and asked to have his gas tank filled up
with water. The attendant gave a gulp or two then
did as requested. Then the man dropped two small
pills into the tank and shaking the car started to drive
away. A pop-eyed bystander thereupon insisted upon
paying $3 for a handful of the potent pills and tried
them on his own car.
Well, what do you think
Yes. it worked, but just as long as gas was in the
carburetor and vacuum tank and no more. There is a
new graft every minute, and most of them work.
In effect, the Democratic platform will be, “Don’t
shoot Santa Claus.” The Republican party’s platform
will be, “Santa Claus costs too much; has no business
sense; oust him.”—Atchison Globe.
15 YEAR OLD BOYS BEATS UP HIS MOTHER
SAN FRANCISCO, June 15—Lawrence Block, 15,
was held by Juvenile authorities for severely beating
his mother about the head with a hammer. The mother,
Mrs. Edith Ellentuck, 45, suffered a fractured skull and
physicians said she might not live.
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VOTE FOR
ANTHONY J. DIMOND
For Re-election On Democratic Ticket
FOR DELEGATE TO CONGRESS
His Work For The Territory Is The
Best Argument For His Re-election
VOTE FOR
0. D. COCHRAN
DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE
For Territorial Senator
General Election, Tuesday, September, 8, 1936.
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