THE NOME DAILY NUGGET
GEO. S. MAYNARD, Editor
RUSSELL G MAYNARD, Manager.
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YOUTH KNOWS NO OTHER LIFE
THAN MODERN ONE
Not quite 20 years have passed since the end of the
World War, and yet we li”e in a new world.
In viewing today’s world a*.d the confusing things
that are going on in it, this should be remembered: that
the youngest layer of people taking part in today’s af
fairs have no personal remembrance of what life was
like before the World War.
In Metz, ranee, a class of young conscript soldiers
was taking an examination the other day. It was a
written test on some phase of their duties as part of
France’s border-defense system that faces uneasily
eastward.
What was the chagrin of Fthe officers conducting the
test, do you suppose- to find this: out of the 350 taking
the test, an even hundred did not even know there had
been a war in 1914 ! Many others, whose own fathers
died in that war- knew nothing of the circumstances
or principles involved, nothing, except that they died.
Now let us suppose that these young French recruits
were not of the highest caliber, or possessed of much
education. Yet the country in which they have grown
up reeled 20 years ago with loss of blood, almost on the
very ground where they stood as they recorded their
answers and the fact that they did not recall hearing
about any war back in 1914-18.
There is something here to give pause to every man
and woman charged with responsibility in teaching or
public affairs- every one who tries to understand what
is going on today.
Let them remember that in Russia, the whole stra
tum of the younger soldiers, factory workers, farmers
has never known of any governmental or social system
than the particular version of socialism being unfolded
there by Stalin.
To the younger German soldiers, the kaiser and the
whole of precise, orderly, stable pre-war Germany has
no existence except in some smattering of reading in a
text book. All they remember is a long nightmare of
confusion—and then Hitler.
To the younger generation of Italians, any other
government but Fascism is unthinkable, because no
other has any reality to them. And let us remember
that a whole generation of millions of young Americans
now taking their place in social and public life was not
even born when the transports pushed off from Hobok
en and Woodrow Wilson thrilled a nation and a world
with the golden promises that were so soon to crumble
to ashes.
The marvel, then, is not so much that the world is
changing, but that it is changing so little- and so slowly.
EMPLOYERS AND EMPLOYMENT
The Detroit manufacturer who matched his employ
ees’ sit-down strike with a sit-down strike of his own
illustrated, somewhat humorously perhaps- a point whi
ch has been largely overlooked during the recent wave
of industrial disagreements.
By sitting down himself, the Detroit capitalist effec
tively demonstrated to his employees that he has been
working for them as well as they for him. Without the
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orders he obtains, there is no work to be done.
In this particular instance the point is more easily
discernible than in the case of a large corporation where
the relationship between employer and employee is less
sharply defined, although of course, the principle re
mains the same.
It should seem obvious enough that the man who
, provides a job is entitled to as much consideration as
i the man who takes the job he provides, but there has
j been a marked distortion of attitude during much of the
! period of sit-down strikes.
In many instances a villainous motive is ascribed to
j the employer who protests that he cannot meet the de
imands of his employees. The necessary interdepen
! dence of employer and employee is lost sight of,in many
cases, and it is assumed that the provision of work is a
sacred responsibility on the part of the employer. Act
ually, of course- the employer may be in a worse predic
a ment than his employees, for while they possess the
strike weapon -to enforce their demands- he may be at
the mercy of competitive conditions without any such
weapons.
In a broad sense, the consuming public is the ultim
ate employer of all—employing employers to employ
employees. The employer, like the employee, is but
| a link in the chain of production.—Cincinnati Enquirer.
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SUCCESS STORY
Poor Richard and his fellow philosophers would have
delighted in a success story just published with corrob
orating balance sheets.
This enterprise began entirely without capital but
was run into huge profits almost overnight. The met
hod exemplifies all the copy book maxims and proves
them. Beginning with a superior product, the manage
ment saw the world beat a path to its door. Their rule
was shrewd merchandising, industry and attention to
business, frugality, avoidance of dissipation, no waste
of time, voluminous advertising. It’s as simple as that.
All these virtues and truths are summed up in the
Dionne Quintuplets- and as a result they are wealthy.
Not yet three years old, they have gilt-edged bonds
worth $543,046' contracts already signed for $200,000
a year for the next two years and bright prospects be
yond that.—New York World-Telegram.
Monday Fixed
Time for Scheme
Co into Effect
'By The Associated Press)
LONDON, April 15—A non
intervention subcommittee fixed
midnight next Monday for putt
ing into operation the wide con
trol schemes to halt the flow of
men and arms into Spain.
Another subcommittee was ap
pointed to consider plans for the
witlhdrawafl of valunteens now
fighting there.
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Foreign Air
Mail Service
i
j The report of the “CopdiaraC.
Committee on Safety in Air”, a
I subcommiittee of the Senate Com
I mittee on Commerce under the
chairmanship of Senator Royal S
Copeland of New York, contains
the following with respect to the
I need Dor development of air tran
sportation in Alaska:
“Your committee is convinced
that the development of the vast
Territory of Alaska, one-fifth the
size of the entire United States.
| depends upon a more adequate
j communication and transport atom
servce. Due to the unusual ter
rain, it is impractical and uneco
nomical to provide highways and
additional railroads. The air
plape is, withqut doubt, the solu
tion of that transportation prob
lem. Air transportation in north
ern Canada, in the mountainous
and undeveloped countries of So
America, and elsewhere, has am
ply proven this fact. Even in
these days when rigid econom>
1 in Government seems desirable
we would appear to be short
sighted if provision for addition
al .tranispontaition and communi
cation. service in Alaska were nor
made.
“At the present time, most of
Alaska’s airplane services are
provided in tihe main during the
winter season onlliy;the frequency
of the service on the existing
routes ranges from once a week
to once a month. A majority of
the 29 air-line companies operat
ing in Alaska are forced by lack
of aids to navigation to have a
lesser frequency of operation
than once a week.
1 “In addition- to providing, at
what is a small cost, better trans
portation and communication by
air across Alaska, provision sho
uld be made for a greater frequ
ency of service. The reasons for
this statement are beyond debate
It is recommended that the pres
ent Congress provide an appro
priation for “foreign” air mail
between Juneau and Faiiirbar«s,
Alaska.
“The Post Office Department
■might well request an amend
ment to the Alaska star-route
Haw, which will permit the Post
master General to provide rea
sonable surcharges on mail car
ried by air over those air lines
By so doing, the Department will,
receive additional postal receipts
to such an extent as perhaps to
repay the Federal Government
for the appropriation we suggest
What is even more important,
such a surcharge wifll avoid the
loading dawn of the airplanes
with mail-order-house catalogs
and similar articles which ser
iously affect the opportunities far
the carrying of passengers, as
well as seriously affecting the
revenues of the contractors. Bid
ders on air-mail contracts will be
relieved of the necessity of mak
ing higher bids for the transpor
tation of air mail than woud oth
erwise be the ease. Alaskan offi
cials, representatives of the var
ious Chambers of Commerce, and
the Alaskan public in general,
have idicated that they would be
glad to pay a seasona/bLe surcharge
on Alaskan air mail.
“We have suggested, under the
subjeot of “airway ends”, that
generous appropriation be made
for airways atkis in Alaska. Th«Be
are needed, not only to cover the
needs of national defense, but to
make possible the only feasible
transportation system that can be
installed to develop this gleet
country.”