THE NOME DAILY NUGGET
GEO S MAYNARD. Editor
RUSSELL G MAYNARD. Manager
Published every evening except Sunday by The Nome
Publishing Company, Nome. Alaska.
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FREEZE-UP PERIOD AND NEED
OF AIRFIELDS
The freeze-up season of the year is at hand in Alas
ka. It brings this year more than ever to attention of
every Alaskan the crying need of more and better air
fields.
Land and inland river means of travel and traffic
between main centers and outlying points are suspend
ing service for eight long months.
More business comes in airlines at this period of the
year than at any other, save in the breakup period,
when the volume is similar and handicaps under which
it is handled are similar.
Right now the annual outward movement of travel
ers and gold frm the numerous mining camps is heav
iest. Intrepid pilots, skilled in sub-Arctic flying as are
no others in the world, pluckily cope with the condi
tions. But they are subjected to unnecessary hazards
because of inadequate fields and other aid to aerial
navigation.
With mining operations rapidly increasing and air
traffic correspondingly increasing, the need of more
and better fields and of auxiliary facilities is greater
than ever.
Alaska never will get the sorely needed fields and
other services without a fight.One round efforts will
be futile.
The battle must go on. Old petitions and recom
mendations soon lose their fire. Change in legislative
and executive personnel necessitates keeping the facts
before new authorities.
The representative organizations and petitioners
and other effective influences at the base of necessity
must keep active. More resolutions, petitions and agi
tation generally are the order.
Now is the time to press home the issue and do it
with vigor.
The Empire of Alaska must have these services.
Once installed they are here forever. Why not get
them now—eliminate the great handicaps of the build
ers of the last rontier and speed up the production and
contribution of wealth to the nation.—Fairbanks News
Miner.
THE BISHOP AND THE SINNERS
Alaskans of today must be a pretty seedy lot in the
opinion of Bishop Rwe, who recently told a New York
audience that we “lacked the stamina” of the boys who
hit the Chilkoot trail in ’97.
We honor and respect those pineers who answered
the call of adventure and flocked to the Klondike and
Nome bonanzas, and who have remained in Alaska to
mould the vast resources of Alaska into an expanding
empire. But how many of them are here A mere
handful, compared to the thirty thousand men and
women who crow'ded the camps in the boom days.
Did it take stamina for a man to take a few hundred
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dollars’ earnings, board a steamer, labor over a moun
tain pass poorly equiped, lose his poke in a few weeks
then drift Outside again—for good?
This was the lot of the average man, and we pre
sume that it is the average man about whom Bishop
Rowe was speaking.
Today you won’t find the simple motive of greed
calling men to Alaska. There is something bigger and
finer—the prospect of starting one’s life anew, and
growing up with a young country which is progressing,
not nugget by nugget, but ounce by ounce, and carload
by carload—basically supported by two great indus
tries, mining and fishing.
It takes a good deal more stamina to clear 100 acres
of land and build a self sustaining home than to rush
pell-mell over a ridge to “get in on” somebody’s strike.
In the west today are scores of “ghost towns,” once
scenes of furious mining activity. But these did not
build the west. The greatest boon of our gold rush was
to bring men up here—a small percentage, but a sturdy
band—who were builders.
Bishop Rowe also announces the folks of today are
“better morally” than the gold seekers. That is a com
fort. If we have no frozen-footed Paul Bunyans to
point to at least we are solaced by the fact that no
Soapy Smiths are on the loose.—Juneau Daily Press.
LOUISIANA, YOU’LL SURVIVE
(Spencer, la., News-Herald)
They are having a lot of trouble over the propose^
new sales tax down in Louisiana; merchants are threat
ening to close their stores; executives say they will
leave the state; some talk of another Boston Tea Party
and threaten to throw the new sales tax tokens in the
Mississippi river, all in protest against a tax measure
that has found accepted favor in more than half of the
states in the union.
Louisiana might as well cool down, however. No
body left Iowa when they enacted a sales tax here; no
merchant went out of business on account of the sales
tax. Nevertheless, the principle of the tax is wrong.
It is a tax on the consumer instead of on the seller.
We saw a man come in a Spencer drug store the
other day and he bought an ice cream soda for wjiich
he paid 15 cents plus a one-cent tax, total 16 cents. Be
fore "the man came in the store he had the 16 cents in
his pocket. He simply paid the state a penny for the
privilege of making a purchase. It would have been
just as reasonable to make him pay a penny for the
privilege of coming through the door, or to get in out
of the rain. It was something he wanted to do—he
wanted to make a purchase—so he paid a tax for the
privilege. He also wanted to take a few breaths of air,
but to-date we have not had the nerve to tax him for
that.
We do not know whether the man wanted the ice
cream soda more than the druggist wanted to sell it to
him, or not, but the state imposing a sales tax on the
buyers of merchandise evidently thinks he did. Any
way, they don’t tax the merchant for SELLING the
article—they tax the BUYER for buying it. Funny
JUST RECEIVED
OLYMPIC AND SCHLITZ BEER.
Also Bulk Wines and Liquors. We Are Closing out
Our Entire line of Mens Furnishings Rubbers
Boots and Pacs.
NOME LIQUOR STORE
(Next Door To Fire Station)
ARCTIC BEER PARLOR
AND CARD ROOM
Between Pioneer Drug Store And Dream Theatre
Jack Solomon, Proo.
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business, isn’t it?.
And yet, the sales tax does produce a revenue. Peo
ple must buy. They must have things, and they are
willing to be taxed in order to get what they want, but
it is our humible opinion, always has been, that the
proper fellow to tax is the man who sells—not the man
who buys.
Louisiana is now just where Mississippi was five
years ago, where Iowa was two years ago, where other
states were when they first adopted a sales tax. The
people said they would leave the state, that they would
not pay it, but they didn’t leave their states, and they
didn’t start a revolution—they walked up like good lit
tle boys and girls and paid the tax. It’ll be the same
in Louisiana before many days, or months, have passed.
Hurt By A Bear,
Is Getting Better
SITKA, Dec. 3, — Titus Demi
doff, the hunter who was mauled
by a brown bear several miles
from Sitka about 10 days ago,
is convalescing now in a hospi
tal in Sitka. In telling of the
affray with the animal, Demidoff
said:
‘The bear charged me as I was
going over the hump of a hill. He
was on top of me before I had a
chance to use my gun. He shook
me around like a dog would
shake a rat. He bit me in the
right thigh and in the right leg
as I played dead. Then he shov
ed his nose in m/'face. I remain
ed still. Finally he went away.
Demidoff was bleeding profuse
ly and hardly abe to stand when
he made his way to help.
A Nice Quiet Place
Heard in a business house—
“Is there any service I can ren
able gentlemen sitting in a quiet
spot in the store.
‘None, thank you” said the
sourdough.
Some time later the proprietor
spoke to the sourdough and ask
ed him why he made his store
a resting place.
The sourdough replied: “I have
been around town looking for a
nice quiet place to rest during
the day, and wherever there was
a store that advertised in the
paper, there was too much going
on and not enough quiet, so I
finally decided to come here
and sit down and rest for awhile.
I see you don’t advertise, and it
is nice and quiet and restful
here”.
HERE ARE THE ACTUAL FOOD VALUES
YOU GET IN A CAN OF SALMON
PROTEIN
M III HUT IM> CHUM
FUEL
At W IMAO. CIMAU
ANO POTATOES
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CALCIUM
Al Ml MILK. 0«AM6f JUKI.
MUTI AND MANS m
PHOSPHORUS
At M PACSH riSM.
WMOIC WMIAT AND LIVID
VITAMIN A
At Ml IUTTER. SPINACH.
CARROTS
VITAMIN D
viii a*ai
AS IN YEAST ANO
f ISH LIVER OILS
VITAMIN G
AS IN OAANGI IUICC.
•UTTER. MILK. CREAM
IODINE
AS IN MILK. OYSTERS.
CLAMS AND OTHER
SEA FOODS
Market baskets should always Include a generous supply of canned
salmon. Now, an analysis reveals that a can of salmon contains all of
the dietetic values displayed on the above chart, ltlch In protein, min
erals and vitamins, this sea-food is Ideal for varied menus, and limited
budgets.
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