THE NOME DAILY NLGGET
GEO S MAYNARD. Editor
RUSSELL G MAYNARD. Manager
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AS WENT ALASKA SO WENT THE NATION”
It appears that the old proverb of “How goes Maine
so goes the nation” has now been relegated to the dis
card. In its place we offer, “as goes Alaska, so goes
the nation.”
Shortly following the Alaska election in Septem
ber, Democratic chairman James A. Farley suggested
that the Maine prophecy be discarded and Alaska be
used as the barometer. The preponderance of demo
crats in Alaska in voting confidence in the New Deal
by better than two to one majority, was reflected in the
national elections throughout the States, Tuesday.
There can be quoted good reason how Alaska could
serve as the barometer. The residents of Alaska come
from nearly every state in the union. Their families,
friends, relatives, are usually in close communication
with them nowadays. It is not unbelievable that Al
aska’s decision to go democratic was brought about
through the close touch which it maintained with the
States, as regards to the many non-partisan voters
throughout the Territory.
At this time Alaska can and does point to the slo
gan—“As went Alaska so went the Nation.”
CREDIT WHERE CREDIT DUE
The assembling of news for publication in Alaska
newspapers is handled almost entirely by The Associat
ed Press. The work entailed in serving these newspa
pers every day revolves around the great organization
which during the past thirty years has built itself into
probably the greatest news gathering agency in the
world. Each paper becoming a member of the Asso
ciated Press helps in that work.
To The Associated Press the Nome Daily Nugget
wishes to give the utmost credit and appreciation for
the speedy and exceptionally correct news dispatches
recording the progress of the vote counting in the na
tional elections which took place Tuesday. With hosts
of special writers, tabulation experts, and men dele
gated to the huge task of assembling the returns as they
were counted throughout the thousands of polling pla
ces in the United States, The Associated Press has turn
ed in another steller performance for service to the
public and the craft. Hour after hour, as the returns
came in, points in Alaska received the important news
as to how the election was going, and not once was it
necessary to send through a correction on the reports
assembled.
The service which the papers in Alaska, and the
public at large, received in being able to take a paper
and follow the course of the election returns, was truly
remarkable, and to The Associated Press goes the high
est tribute, for its work in serving Alaska.
When Alaska can receive the type of service ren
dered on the elections, The United States certainly had
an A-l agent to furnish the news, unbiased, when the
public wanted it—speedy and correct.
THE MAKING OF HISTORY
The 1932 election in which President Franklin D.
Roosevelt, and the Democratic Party swept to victory
comes vividly to mind, when reviewing the results of
the present election which took place Tuesday. In 1932
the country went overwhelmingly Democratic, and de
feated Herbert Hoover, former republican president.
Tuesday last the nation came back and defeated Alf M.
Landon and the republican party by an even greater
majority, Landon receiving only 8 electoral votes,
whereas Hoover in 1932 received fifty-odd.
There have been landslide elections in the past, but
seldom has there been such a vote of confidence of the
nation expressed for a President and a political party,
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such as resulted in Tuesday's election. It is rightly
claimed, we believe, that never before has the majority
been so complete for any party, as was received by the
Democratic Party in this election.
Political campaigns in the United States for the
election of a president and members of the national
congress are described every so often as the “greatest
show on earth.” The nation as a whole has voted for
Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Democratic Party, with
the only exceptions being Vermont and Maine.
The United States, on its slow way back to recov
ery from a world-wide depression, can now expect a
steady acceleration in that pace, and may that recov
ery become a practical benefit to the millions who have
been barely able to survive during the past seven years,
when employment, enterprise and progress, came near
ly to a standstill.
MAN AND MACHINE AGAIN.
Many thoughtful social economists will wager that
1936 will be remembered less by the election or defeat
of Roosevelt or Landon or the schism in the American
Federation of Labor than by the demonstration at Stone
ville.Miss., of a mechanical cotton picker—that worked.
Single inventions have in times past wrought revo
lutionary social changes. The factory system, for in
stance gained great impetus by development of the
steam engine.
But the effect of the cotton picker, Like the effect of
the cotton gin, seems destined to be felt heavier in the
southern states than anywhere.
In the south are concentrated several millions of
negroes who have been a major factor in the cotton in
dustry since its beginning. They have supplied the
cheap labor that matched the climatic and soil condi
tions to make a cotton producing center unrivaled else
where.
In the years immediately before and after the revo
lutionary war the slavery question was heading toward
a solution. Cotton was not then the tremendous crop
it later became. Even with slave labor the cost of sep
arating seed and fiber by hand was tremendous. Then
came the cotton gin invention in 1793 which, one his
torian said, “fixed the institution (of slavery) firmly
on the south.”
War ended slavery but many southerners will tell
you that the position of the negro in the rural south is
one of almost complete dependency upon the white
landholder, who often provides him a cabin, a bit of
garden land and a trickle of money for his periodic
labor in the cotton fields. .
What now will be the effect of the machine cotton
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picker if it proves to be as successful as these early
testyrJy.Will perpetual relief be the fare of the
difpiacSfn£?roes, as well as the share-cropper whites
cut off from a livelihood?
Cries for suppression of the invention seem like
beating the kettle to scare off devils. The invention
is here. Not only is it here, but it is abroad, being
demonstrated in Russia.
Economists challenge anyone to show that labor
saving inventions ever brought permanent disaster to
any people. But it is hard to see how the next dozen
national administrations can escape the tremendous
task of preparing several million southern laborers to
take up tasks perhaps far removed from the picking of
cotton at which they have been employed for genera
tions.
John and Mack Rust's invention may knock $10 to
$20 a bale off the cost of putting on the market a bale
of cotton now worth around $60. If that proves true
it will displace hand picking just as the mechanical
harvester displaced the sickle and the cradle in the
wheat field.—Exchange.
NOTICE OF SALE
No. 513
In the Probate Court for the
Cape Nome Precinct in the Sec
ond Division of the Territory of
Alaska.
In the Matter of the Estate of
Robert B. Benson, Deceased.
Notice is hereby given that in
pursuance of an Order made by
the above-entitled court on the
21st day of October. 1936, the
undersigned Administrator of the
above-named estate will sell at
public auction to the highest bid
der for cash, subject to the con
firmation of said Court, on Sat
urday, the 30th day of January
1937, at the hour of twelve o’clock
noon, at the Office of the United
States Commissioner for the Cape
Nome Precinct in the Second Div
ision of the Territory of Alaska,
at Nome, Alaska, all the right,
title and interest of the said Rob
ert B. Benson at the time of his
death in and to those certain plac
etmiping claims and other real
and personal property situated in
the said precinct and Territory,
and more particularly described
as follows:
P.acer Mining Claims known
and described as: “Nos. 54, 6, 7,
8, 9, 94, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, and 15
on Iron Creek”; No. 1 on Easy
Creek, No. 1 on Rainbow Creek,
“Cold Spring Claim”, “No. 1 on
Benson Creek,” and “Discovery
Claim on Benson Creek”; also,
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all the right, title, and interest
of Robert B. Benson in Lot One
(1) in Block “E”, being 25 feet
by 23 feet, in the Town of Nome,
Alaska; also the north forty (40)
feet of Let Three (3) in Block
Twenty-eight (28) in the Town
of Nome, Alaska; also, all the per
| sonal property of every kind,
name, and description belonging
to said estate, and which is sit
uated on or adjacent to the above
named mining claims, and consist
ing of hydraulic pipe, gates, giants
nozzles, and other hydraulic ap
pliances; and all the buildings
and structures on or adjacent to
said mining claims. ,
The personal property enumer
ated will be sold separately from
the mining claims, if, in the
judgment of said Administrator,
a better price can be obtained for
it than by selling said personal
property in conjunction with said
mining claims.
Terms and Conditions of Sale:
Cash in lawful money of the Un
ited States, twenty-five percent
(25%) to be paid to the under
signed at the time of sale, and
the balance or seventy-five per
cent (75%) upon confirmation of
sale by the above-named Court
and the delivery of a proper con
veyance of title.
Dated this 5th day of Nov
ember, 1936.
PETE A. BLOMQUIST,
Administrator.
Publish—Nov. 5, 12, 19, 26, 1936.
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