THE NOME DAILY NUGGET
GEO. S. MAYNARD. Editor
RUSSELL G MAYNARD, Manager.
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THE DEMOCRATIC DRAMA
(New York Times)
Any election is enough to set
one to thinking, maybe a bit wist
fully, about democracy. The strug
gle for freedom is like a youth
ful courtship. full of fire and
poetry. Young Loshinvar comes
out of the West, swings Universal
Suffrage neatly into the saddle,
leans over to tighten the Bill of
Rights, and with the Australian
Ballot in his teeth gallops across
the moors and into the Esk River.
Bugles blare and the drums beat,
and bullets sing about the ears of
ragged men. The British infan
try are moving doggedly up the
slopes of Breed’s Hill; Lincoln
rises to speak at Gettysburg—an
unimportant speech, he thinks,
but a President must say at least
a few perfunctory words: the
Suffragists are annoying Presi
dent wuson Dy picxcung uic
White House. But the victory is
won at last, and then the rom
ance is like a suburban household
—pleasant, peaceful, a little hum
drum, with bills to pay, Johnny's
teeth to be straightened and the
problem of getting father down
to the 7:58 every working morn
ing.
Democratic elections often lack
the outward drama and we try
to make up for the lack by ex
aggerating personalities and stres
sing heavily the clash of ideas.
But since political parades have
largely gone out, democracy has
nothing to compare with the
goose-stepping, the saluting, the
thump and blare, the spinal ap
peal of autoctwtic Governments.
Yet inwardly there is drama of
high order when a people gov
erns itself. Our freedom is no
accident. Some lines of Lowell’s
Comemoration Ode linger in the
memory:
Many in sad faith sought for her.
Many with crossed hands sighed
for her;
But these, our brothers, fought
for her,
At life's dear peril wrought for
her.
So loved hex that they died for
her.
The "Truth" of which Lowell
wrote is this democratic liberty
which we now exercise by going,
however prosaically, to the polls.
Yes, there is drama in the strag
gling lines of voters walking—
not marching, not pounding the
earth with hobnailed boots brot
down in unison, saluting no fatu
ously self-satisfied dictator—go
ing to the polling places. Con
sider its deeper meanings; in
them ay be found the victories
and aspirations of democracy foT
generations past and to come.
With the secret ballot, freely cast,
we say that men are men and
women are women, not ants, not
bees, individuals, members of the
State, but not its slaves.
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Inquiries have been received
by tt _ Office f the Governor at
Juneau. Alaska, regarding th?
following persons supposed to be
in Alaska.
George H. Bowman: Last heard
of in Fairbanks about twenty
years ago, supposed to be inter
ested in a hotel and mine there.
Sister Stella and brother Frank
anxious to locate him.
J. R. Miller or Joe Ridmiller:
A blacksmith who left Montana
for Alaska 1916 has not been
heard from since. He is Slovak
German.
Harry Leroy Place: Six feet
three inches tall, aged thirty
three, brown hair, gray eyes,
one foot longer than the other.
Disappeared from Capistram
Beach, California in 1029 and be
lieved to be somewhere in Al
aska. It is feared he may be suff
ering from amnesia.
Samuel E. Wagner: Last heard
from three years ago from An
goon, Alaska, believed to be
there, Seward or in the Klondike
region and to own some land or
be interested in mining.
Gabriel Richardson Young: A
pioneer of Dawson City and Cape
Nome, last heard from in Seattle
in 1900 stating he was return
ing to Alaska, not heard of since.
His brother Graham, a newspaper
man is seeking information of
his whereabouts.
Anyone having any informa
tion in regard to these people
is requested to notify the Gover
nor’s office, J.uneau, Alaska;
Washington
News - Letter
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on which it ran on the rails of
the Canadian National Railway
j to Hazelton. At Hazelton the
1 standard wheels were replaced
and it fallowed the existing road
to Vancouver, B. C., and across
the line into Seattle. The route
then followed the highway across
the continent via Chicago to New
York City and Washington. D. C.
The trip was made in a Dod
ge truck, on the sides of which
were signs reading “Alaska—Can
ada—United States, Good-Will
Trail-Blazing Tour”, and was
sponsored by the Dodge Brothers
Corporation. The loge of the trpi
shows the driving time was 138
hours and the mileage covered
totaled 4,878 miles. Operating
personnel for the truck were
W. T. Walsh, who was in char
ge, John Cates, photographer,
and A1 Radero, driver. The net
load totaled approximately four
tons.
Dr. Tikhon LavrischefF, re
search associate of the Univer
sity of Alaska, was decorated for
scientific achievement by the
American International Academy
of Arts and Sciences at a meet
ing held recently in Washington
D. C. Dr. Lavrisefheff was em
jployed as a teacher in the Indian
Service in Alaska for a number
of years. He is now engaged in
developing a historical research
project for the Territory under
the auspices of the University of
Alaska.
Mrs. Nels Ulander and daught
er Margaret of Ketchikan, called
at the Delegate’s office Novem
ber 10. They recently returned
to this country from a two-mon
ths’ visit with relatives and
friends in Sweden.
Joseph A. McDonald, United
States Marshal for the Fourth
Division, accompanied by Mrs.
MacDonald and his nephew Ger
ard MacGregor, arrived in Wash
ington for a short visit.
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