THE NOME DAILY NUGGET
GEO. S. MAYNARD, Editor
RUSSELL G. MAYNARD, Manager.
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CHAIN LETTERS—DID YOU GET YOURS ?
(From the “Greater Oregon,’ Albany, Oregon.)
“Have you received a chain letter ? Is the government
going to stop it. When is it going to die out. Hove you got
any money back yet. Who started this chain letter racket
anyway.”
No, the above questions were not asked by a group of
children. Lawyers, doctors, professors and business men
at the Albany Chamber of Commerce meeting were the real
question askers.
The concensus of opinion seemed to be that the govern
ment wasn’t going to stop chain letters. People sending out
chain letters can’t be put in jail because there aren't enough
jails in the country to hold a tenth of the people who are
sending out the letters.
Someone said: “Postmaster General Jim Farley does
n’t care if chain letters are mailed out because it increases
the revenue of the postal department.
“Of course, he doesn’t care.” said an old-time republi
can, “Farley probably thought up the idea. It brings in
more money from stamp sales than Farley s souvenir stamp
sales to collectors.”
A lawyer said the “brain trust was the father of the
chain letter idea. Another conservative Coolidge republi
can said, “Well, if the brain trust thought up the chain let
ter idea, it is the only thing they did think up that had any
sense to it.”
“Someone will be left holding the sack. It is a fraud,
it is a graft. You can't give someone 10 cents and get in
$1565 in dimes.” said a pessimist.
“Oh yeah,” said a clerk at the next table. “I have got
ten in over $16 so far from the dime that I spent.
Some bankers like chain letters and others have no im
magination; all they want is eight per cent interest.
" A school teacher said, “Yes, you could spend a dime on
a letter and if you didn’t get any results from the letters you
sent out you could claim you were defrauded out of 10 cents,
but that hadn’t ought to cause anyone to commit suicide.”
In Albany, the postoffice lobby Wednesday and Thurs
day looked like the day before Christmas, so many chain
letter writers were waiting to buy stamps.
There are four kinds of chain letters making the rounds
of Albany stores and residences. One is a 10 cents letter,
then there are 25 cents and $1 letters. Some letters have
three names at the top and eight letters must be sent out.
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Most letters say send out five, but some say send out six
letters to friends.
Well anyway, win or lose, the chain letters have started
a wave of spending. Money is turning over rapidly. Who
knows, perhaps the chain letters may bring back prosperity.
Perhaps that four billion, 880 million dollar relief fund to
end relief won’t be needed by the president.
Some people play golf. Some think it a silly game.
Chain letter writing may be a silly game, yet there are sev
eral thousand people in Albany playing the game and every
one seems to be having a wonderful time.
It is a lot more fun than investing your money in South
American bonds and chain letters cost a lot less than bonds.
The next American song hit will probably be, “Yes, I’m
a member of the Chain Gang Now.”
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REPORT OF THE HOWELL BOARD
In its broad, constructive character the report of the
Federal Aviation Commission justifies the hopes of it; for
air mail subsidies to make possible the immediate develop
ment not merely of airplane services across the major oceans
but of regular airship services as well are of importance to
our trade, as well as of deep interest from the aeronautic
point of view.
Other nations are reaching out overseas to take advan
tage of the swiftness of air travel. France has launched a
seventy-passenger flying boat. Great Britain reveals plans
for one of at least equal capacity. Germany presses her
South Atlantic service by plane with floating mid-sea air
port and by airship as well. The Dutch have made the
South Atlantic crossing by airplane to their West Indian
possessions as a preliminary to regular service. Already
Australia is linked with England, Java with Holland, Indo
China with France, by the invisible rails of the air. The far
sighted provisions of our own Pan American Airways for
swift, efficient flying boats such as the Sikorsky and the
Martin Clippers to carry the flag not only on South Ameri
can but on transpacific and, later transatlantic routes were
evidently taken none too soon.
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DID YOU EVER STOP TO THINK?
By Edson R. Waite, Shawnee, Oklahoma
It is a wild flight of the imagination to suppose that the
ideal of universal peace can be assured.
To entertain such a possibility, it would be necessary
to believe that every nation, be it powerful or weak, would
remain for all time satisfied with its present position in re
gard to all other nations.
Nations have risen, nations have fallen; nations once
powerful have sunk to comparative obscurity, and others,
once obscure, have increased in strength.
So surely that is the way it must ever be !
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