THE NOME DAILY NUGGET
GEO. S. MAYNARD, Editor.
RUSSELL MAYNARD, Manager.
Published every evening except Sunday by the NOME PUBLISHING
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DO YOU KNOW WHAT A NEWSPAPER IS?
What is a newspaper? Realizing that there are many,
intelligent people right here in Nome who really do not un
derstand just- what a newspaper is or what its function is,
we are taking the liberty to reprint below the definition of a
newspaper given by that well-known veteran newspaper
man, Arthur Brisbane, who recently celebrated his seven
tieth birthday and, a few weeks before that his fiftieth anni
versary as a newspaper man. We; believe every person who
reads the sentiments expressed by Mr. Brisbane will have
a clearer, broader and more definite understanding of just
what a newspaper is.
“What is a newspaper? A newspaper is a mirror in
which are reflected events and human beings. Don’t break
the mirror. If you don’t like what you see in it, change the
face like they do in the beauty parlor.
“What else is a newspaper besides a mirror? It is a
second hand. On the face of your watch there are three
hands. There is the slow hour hand—you cannot see it move.
That is history written a long time after. Then there is the
rapidly moving minute hand. You cannot see that move,
although if you watch, you see the change of position and
that is the making of law and the other minor things that
make it up.
Then, there is the second hand. The part that the sec
ond hand plays in time the newspaper plays in the history
of events.
‘ Newspaper men make a great tuss aoout tne little ev
ents in the lives of men. In newspaper work it is the little
things that are the important things. You might have a mil
lion atoms in the corner of your eye and not know they are
there.
“You may compare a newspaper with the rainfall. Na
ture distributes the water in drops. The rainfall comes
down in quantities that the small flower can absorb. If it
were dropped a cubic yard at the time the flower would be
washed away and there would be no irrigation. Newspap
ers distribute information similarly in drops, easily absorbed,
to a man who will take Greek quotations in a series, when a
heavy volume from the library dropped on his head would be
too much. ->
“The first great piece of news sent out was the rainbow,
put in the sky promising that there would be no more floods, j
It was the world’s greatest advertisement and it was very
well done, because it was the biggest that could be printed:
and printed in every color of the rainbow.
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“When the Ruler of the Universe has anything to say He
piles up the black clouds bigger and blacker than any type
we can use, and if that isn’t enough, He shoots red light
ning through it. Then He does what we can’t do, but what
we would like to do—He makes the front page thunder.
“A newspaper man’s work is forgotten but everything
in time is forgotten. The earth on which he lives will grow
cold and old and die; and this entire corner of the universe
that we call the Milky Way will disappear and be only a
memory like some great actor of former times.
“But it all offers opportunity. A man is made from
nothing; does not know how he got there; does not know
where he is going; does not know what he wants to amount
to, but he does know that he is 'a small part of the entire
thing. He has an opportunity to work. If he does his best
and lives up to the opportunity that is given to him, he needs
not pity himself but thank his Maker.”
A PUBLIC SERVICE
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All citizens should hail the action of Thomas N. McCart
ner who promptly reported to the government the offer of
certain agents to fix an income tax case for “twenty percent”.
Mr. Cartner, a public utilities operator of New Jersey,
was quite properly commended by Secretary Morgenthau,
who praised him as a “good citizen”. He performed a real
public service in exposing the crooked racket and enabled the
government to be on guard against “sell outs.”
The example of Mr. Carter could be emulated by citiz
ens of every government agency in the land. Here and there
we hear reports of “influence” of various kinds, which, it is
said, protect certain interests but rarely do we hear of anyone
turning up the racketeers who claim the power to “fix”
things.—Exchange.
A FAIR QUESTION
Stirred by growing tendency of his fellow townsmen to
use the newspaper for everything but advertising, a South
Dakota editor recently asked them pertinently, in a page-one
box:
“If a member of your family died, would you send out
the obituary in a circular letter? If your wife entertained,
would you run a slide on the screen of the movie show? If
you were to enlarge your store, would you tell folks in a hot
el register? If you were to have a wedding at your house
would you tack the news on a telephone post?
“Then why in heck don’t you put your advertising in
the newspaper, too?”*'
No city can be better than the average intelligence of its
citizens.
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If you listen to any man he can tell you many instanc
es illustrating how smart he has been.
Great Britain gave the Duke of Kent a raise of $50,000
a year when he got married. We know of a number of folks
in this country who would get married for much less.
Some business men should realize that time spent in
civic work is time spent in important work for their business.
In every administration differences of opinion arise. This
is regarded by some as opposition. Opposition is needed.
Without it, people with a ’’one-track” mind might lead us
the wrong way.
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