THE NOME DAILY NUGGET
GEO. S. MAYNARD. Editor
RUSSELL G. MAYNARD, Manager.
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OVERWHELMING FAVOR OF BONDING
Yesterday’s elections counted and the ballots put to one
side, we see the results with an eye to the future.
The special election held on the bonding issues, showed
an overwhelming approval of the proposed action, each of
the live propositions receiving a tremendous majority.
Considering the number of names on the assessment
roll, which persons were qualified to vote, a large number
of ballots were cast on the bonding issue, and reflects credit
on the property owners who are in favor of going ahead with
the admirable work of rehabilitating city functions and im
proving streets, sidewalks, drains, fire-fighting equipment,
etc., in their efforts to make Nome a better town to live in
and to work in.
The municipal election placed two of the former coun
ci Imen back in the council and one new member to take the
place of councilman Balsiger—Ed Gross, whose name ap
peared on the labor ticket endorsed by the Industrial Work
ers of Alaska. Public Relations Committee.
On the surface the election was decidedly tame, no pub
lic fight having come to the surface, but indications were
observed of political strafing and fixing, although not in the
open.
The small number of votes cast in the municipal elec
tion is the smallest number for several years. The popula
tion of Nome is decidedly greater, and those qualified to vote
number a great deal more, but evidently they could not be
. come interested enough yesterday to cast a large vote.
Nome is now ready to go ahead on its PWA project with
the ratification by the people of its necessary projects. The
referendum on the street question which was on the regular
ballot was passed overwhelmingly also.
THAT TOWNSEND PLAN
Don’t let anybody tell you that the Townsend Plan
“cannot" be put into effect. It can—but it won’t. It would
be impossible to put the scheme into operation with a 20
cent dollar, but it isn’t at all likely that we are going to have
a 20 cent dollar. We are more likely to have the 100 cent
dollar which we had before the much debated revaluation of
gold.
Most critics of the Townsend Plan seem to have over
looked its most dangerous feature, which is its tendency to
destroy the incentive for saving.
For centuries, the various racial strains which make up
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the American people have been taught that thrift was a vir
tue—that every citizen should lay aside a certain portion oi
his earnings against the inevitable rainy day.
Now Dr. Townsend, and many others, are preaching
that thrift is a vice, and that every citizen as soon as he gets
a dollar should spend it in order that some other citizen may
gqt it and pass it along.
The shiny-paper magazines and the economic services
are lull of learned articles pointing out the difference be
tween “durable goods” and “consumers’ goods”. These
phrases are becoming as popular among the copy-cat econ
omists as was the term “occupational obsolescence,” which
is the thing that technocrast aim to abolish.
Dr. Townsend would abolish thrift, abolish investment,
abolish savings, abolish the profit motive, for it is plain to
sec that if everybody is going to get $200 a month at the age
of 60 there isn't much sense in laying anything aside for the
later years.
Whether this would be a step forward or a long fall
backward, is a matter on which men may honestly disagree.
We believe, however, that the American people are still
wedded to the profit system and to the belief that thrift is
a virtue.—Mining Truth.
PAPA BY PROXY
Comes Papa and Mama Dionne, parents of the now fam
ous quintuplets girls, into the news again with the report
that they propose instituting court action to share in the
fortune that is mounting for their little daughters who are
being kept in a private hospital and given every attention
the world of science has at its command. Papa Dionne very
frankly admits he is tired of being “Papa by Proxy” and
wants to take government out of his home.
That homely statement has a ring of true sincerity
which comes from the heart and not the head. The Dionnes
are the parents of five other children but any normal parent
will understand that their affection is just as great for the
five little daughters as for the other children, and Papa
Dionne explains that when he says he does not see the wis
dom of having five of his children raised in affluence by a
big-hearted government while the others are being reared
in comparative poverty.
It is true that the Dionnes, were in no financial shape
to take proper care of their big family when the little daugh
ters arrived. Papa Dionne, the reports have it, was vir
tually jobless. Kind friends, science aroused to interest by
the rare event and finally the Canadian Government itself
came to the rescue. A fine thing that portrays there is a
better side to human kind. But after all had there been no
Papa and Mama Dionne there would have been no quin
tuplets for a curious world to become enthused about, some
thing that can not be overlooked when attention is centered
in the wonder babies.
And Papa Dionee is tired of carrying only a proxy as
father of his brood. Somehow we don’t blame him a bit.
Instead of taking the government out of his home as the
father suggests, wouldn’t it be fitting to take Papa and
Mama Dionne into the government. The man’s entitled to
be a Premier by title at least.—Exchange.
Everyone is interested in good roads. They should
never let up—keep hammering away until they get to ride
over good roads in every direction.
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