THE NOME DAILY NUGGET
GEO. S. MAYNARD. Editor
RUSSELL G MAYNARD, Manager.
Published every evening except Sunday by The Nome
Publishing Company. Nome, Alaska.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
Delivered by carrier in Nome, Little Creek and Sunset
Creek, for $2.00 per month. By mail postage paid out
side of Nome and vicinity, $1.50 pe month.
Entered in the Post Office in Nome as 2nd Class Matter
MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS
(CITY OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER)
WHY NOT BETTER MAIL SERVICE FOR
THE KOUGAROK?
The U. S. Mail goes to the Kougarok section from;
Nome once a month. That is the term of the contract,
and unless someone calls at the post office here for mail
for Kougarokers, they don't receive any until another
month goes by—and yet, aifplanes are flying to fields
in that section sometimes as often as three or four times
a week, and on an average of twice each week.
The Kougarok section has, during this past sum
mer, has seen more constructive development work,
more exploration, more actual production of gold, than
for the past twenty years.
The men who developing the country get by in that
section as best they can, with only once-a-month mail.
However, they all criticize the manner in which
this district is left with only one mail trip a month. It
slows up business affairs and transactions of all kinds,
they say. They do business chiefly by airplane, and
that is costly, and yet the planes cannot carry all of1
their mail, being restricted to first class letter mail
only. More and more people are going into the Koug
arok section, and the need of a better mail service is
becoming more pronounced every day.
How can Nome hope to carry on modern business
with this vast gold-producing section when the mail
only goes into the region once a month? It is a pro
blem which Nome should look into. Its citizens are in
terested in the constructive uplifting of the country—
then let them get together and work for an improved
mail service into the Kougarok. The need is great,
and there is a great need.
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Since the city tore down its warehouse, everything
seems to be just dandy—with no place to store their
equipment, some of which sits out doors at the mercy
of the elements. That is good business for the city.
They often say that the man who buys fire insur- i
ance hardly ever has a fire. In Nome, some of the best
types of insurance are: inspect your stove pipes and
flues, don’t wait until you have a red-hot fire in your
stove and then have to call the fire department. Have
your pipes in good condition, and that it one less hazard
which you chance. An active fire-prevention campaign
by the city government might do wonders.
LIFE BEGINS AT $2500 A YEAR
When John L. Lewis says the general wage for
unskilled labor could easily be $2500 a year, the aver-1
age citizen is likely to think Lewis is talking through
his hat.
Yet Lewis’ view is perfectly sane and sensible.
In fact, t is the only sane and sensible view for those
who understand our business system and wish it to
continue its progress.
That wage level could not be attained overnight.
Our present productive capacity is great enough to
support only 20 percent more buying than was done in
the prosperous year of 1929. If bottom wage levels
were raised to $2500 a year, prices would zoom because
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3 Hrs. 20 Min. 3 Hrs. 40 Min.
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of scarcity, and the wage increase would mean little in
actual purchasing power.
But Lewis is not talking about an overnight in
crease. Unskilled workers generally could be given,
$2500 within a very few years if a policy of steadily ris
ing wages was pursued. And that $2500 would mean
a purchasing power in terms of the present or at least
the 1926—dollar.
At the present time 20 million American families,
or 71 percent, have incomes of less than $2500.
The income group from 0 to $950 a year goes into
debt or exists on charity; the group from $950 to $1250
saves nothing; the group from $1250 to $2450 saves
from 3 to 11 percent of its income.
To “save” really means to invest money in pro
ductive enterprise. Thus if the income of 70 percent
of our workers who now can save little or nothing is
raised to the point where they can join the saving group
three things are accomplished:
1. Markets for products are increased enormously.
2. New savings are made available to pay for the
machinery to make those products. t
3. A much larger percentage of the public is pro
tected by its savings.
The Brookings Institution found that in 1929 the
American people had an income of $77,000,000,000 and
saved $15,000,000,000 of that Under the wage con
ditions prevailing then, the rate of saving was actually
too high. The nation could not afford to save money
that fast.
Why? Because wages were not increasing as fast
as the productive capacity, and we had a crisis of “ov
erproduction.”
Of that $15,000,000,000, no less than $13,000,000,
000 was saved by persons with incomes of $4600 or
more. This group saves 38 percent of its total income.
In other words, virtually all our national invest
ment came from a group representing only 10 percent
of the population, whose expenditures for goods amount
ed to only 62 percent of their total income.
Obviously, such an economy is unbalanced.
If the 71 percent of the population now earning
less than $2500 were raised to that figure, we can as
sume that they would be able to save 12 percent of
their incomes, or $6,000,000,000. Savings also would
increase in the groups above $2500, and within a few
years the productive capacity of the nation’s industry
and agriculture could be doubled without fear of over
production.
A pipe dream? America has done it before.
In the days of industrial pioneering we increas-,
creased production at a pace formerly considered in
credible, and that increased production was justified by
a rapidly expanding population.
Now it can be justified only by rapidly advancing
wages.
We can’t stop. Production and wages must both
rise—or both go backward.—Philadelphia Record.
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As Germans ponder whether Hitler is going to re
sign as Chancellor, we wonder if some of them are not
hoping a tiny, silent hope that he might resign as Pres
ident too, and make it unanimous.
Ocean hops are getting popular again, indicating
that there has been wide distribution of “Ceiling Zero.” j
Reports indicate that it is not a case of the Japan
ese Sandman, but rather one of the Japanese Salmon
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NEW LOCATION
(Opposite The Dream Theatre)
ARCTIC BEER PARLOR
AND CARD ROOM
Between Pioneer Drug Store And Dream Theatre
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WE HAVE ON HAND
NEW STOCK OF TIRES
AND CHAINS
Don’t Take Chances With Slippery Roads
—PREPARE FOR WINTER DRIVING—
THE NOME MOTOR COMPANY
--Mayfair Tavern
(First Ave., and B Street)
BEER & SANDWICHES
Baths In Connection
— NO COVER CHARGE HERE —
JUST RECEIVED
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OLYMPIC AND SCIILITZ CANNED BEER. 4
Also Bulk Wines and Liquors. We Are Closing out j
Our Entire line of Mens Furnishings Rubbers
Boots and Pacs.
NOME LIQUOR STORE
I (Next Door To Fire Station)
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