THE NOME DAILY NUGGET
GEO. S. MAYNARD, Editor
RUSSELL G. MAYNARD, Manager.
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TRACING THE DESCENT
OF THE DEMAGOGUE
(Cordova Daily Times)
Nothing ever stay put in the
United States. Today’s big shot,
who shins painfully to the top of
the flagpole and calls signals for
half the nation, is apt to be down
on the sidewalk tomorrow won
dering where he can get a nice
job shoveling snow.
This philosophical reflection
was provoked by the news that
Father Charles E. Coughlin had
sold his newspaper. Social Justice,
to a syndicate headed by a gen
tleman from Toledo, Having re
cently retired from the air with
the approval of his ecclesiastical
superior, Father Coughlin now
retires from the fourth estate like
wise—and. presumably, returns to
a single-minded devotion to the
cares of his parish.
It is not so long since no ap
praisal of public opinion was
worth a nickel until Father Cou
ghlin had been heard from. Mil
lions of people hung on his words.
No great public issue could be
settled without his say-so; the
President of the United States
could not act without drawing
either a glittering encomium or a
stem rebuke from Detroit's radio
spellbinder.
The man was up at the top—
monarch, if not quite of all he
surveyed, at least of some mill
ions of listeners who clustered a
round the loudspeaker every
week.
But inflation always seems to be
followed by deflation, in this
country. Now the radio broad
casts are ended, and the sizzling
newspaper is in other hands, and
deep peace reigns over Detroit
and its environs.
And the oint is that this is just
a sample of the way American
life seems to work. FatheT Cou
ghlin was a symbol; like Dr.
Townsend, the Rev.Gerald Smith,
Senator Huey Long and the rest
of the great tribe of demagogues,
he rode a wave of blind discon
tent to the very crest—and then
subsided quietly into the trough
again as the wave swept on out
from under him.
Where is Rev. Gerlad, by the
way, Gone to join the shadows,
somewhere.a mute and inglorious
Milton once again. Dr. Townsend,
who once marshalled the pathetic
bewilderment of some millions of
aged folk, is in the shadows, too,
with none but the most timorous
of congressmen to quake at his
footsteps. Huey Long has met
the violent death he courted.
For the confused social condi
tion which produced these men—
produced them, in the sense that
it provided them with a ready
made audience—has changed.
The best indication that the coun
try has passed out of the depres
sion is the fact that the audience
has gone home. The country on
ce more is ready to listen intel
lectually. not emotionally.
We shall probably have another
depression some day, and when
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it comes the old phenomenon will
be repeated. New demagogues
wi'M arise and wax great, and new
panaceas will be offered. And it
' might help if we ould remember
! how it went the last time. The
1 demagogues w„ll follow tlu same
path: a year or two of great fame
—and then oblivion.
There are 390 Public Health Ser
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for the men in federal prisons.
Labor Chiefs Are
Different In
Character
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; cent. He is a master at keeping
his organization of garment work
ers loyal. He is a CIO man.
And a third CIO man, over six
feet, taller even than Murray,
barges out of the door. It is Jos
eph Curran, president of the Na
tional Maritime Union. He is
young, in his early 30’s. He looks
like the pictures on the covers of
adventure magazine—the square
shouldered flat-cheuked first mate
with a pistol in one hand and a
table leg in the other beating off
a band of South Sea Islanders try
ing to board his ship.
Soon they will be seeing Lewis,
who is sitting in his office on a
high floor a dozen blocks away.
You know him already.
For A. F. of L.
First of the delegates of the
American Federation of Labor to
come from the room is George
Harrison.president of the railway
clerks.All the delegates are well
dressed, but Harrison perhaps is
more casually careful in dress
than the rest. He looks a bit like
I a bank vice-president and talks
man-to-man with high railroad
officials. President Jeffers of Un
ion Pacific once introduced Har
rison as speaker at a banquet, say
img something to this effect: We
differ on many questions, but Har
rison knows railroad operation.
Matthew Woll, like Dubinsky,
j is shoulder high to most men. He
wears a wing collar, is dressed as
-if he had come from a corpora
tion director’s meeting. Not all
labor groups like him, but he is
vice-president of the AFL., vice
president of the photo-engravers
and president of the Union Labor
Life Insurance company. That
last sort of makes him a corpora
tion director.
In turn these men will soon be
talking to William Green, presi
dent of the A. F. of L. Like Lew
is, you also know him. It was un
der him that labor split. He’d
like to patch it up.
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Slaughtering of reindeer of the
Nrme-Douglas herd, which has
been going on at Fort Davis since
last week, was completed, it was
learned.
Also, it was understood that
several of the deer are being
trained to the sled, and will make
their appearance on Front Street
at 1:15 p.m., Thursday, Dec. 23,:
when Santa Claus will do the,
driving of his own reindeer.
City officials have been ap- •
proached and they are requesting j
that dog owners pay particular;
attention to keeping their dogs
tied up and off the streets, due to •
the danger of stampeding the
reindeer and, which in the past,
has resulted in the death of sev
eral deer. A city ordinance, it is
declared, will be rigidly enforced, i
regarding loose dogs on the
streets.
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