THE NOME DAILY NUGGET
GEO. S. MAYNARD, Editor
RUSSELL G. MAYNARD, Manager.
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FAIR LIABILITY AT SEA
(New York World-Telegram)
The merchant marine legislation situation in Washing
ton may be summed up in a sentence: The Copeland-Bland
subsidy bill will be passed; the Sirovich limited liability
must be passed.
The subsidy bill is being shepherded and supported by
a powerful group of ship owners, each standing to receive
millions of dollars of tax-paid largess by its provisions, and
observers report there is no doubt it will go through at the
present session of Congress.
Whether the "must" of the liability bill is to prevail by
its moral strength alone is not yet established. It represents
no special interest—only the people, the traveling public.
It will not prevail if the owners have their way, for their
attitude definitely is. “Millions for subsidies,but not one
cent for damages in case of disaster.”
But in all conscience it must prevail if the American
people are to show any serious concern over the Morro Cast
le disaster—134 lives lost, the present antiquity liability law
allowing a total of S20.000 for everyone—and if the Ameri
can people are to show concern over the Mohawk—forty
five lives lost, a total of $10,000 allowed for all damages.
The Sirovich bill seeks to correct the grewsome absurdity
of this eighty-three-year old statute, just as England decad
es ago brought its shipping liability up to date. It would
make the shipping ljne responsible for negligence if its ag
ents and servants—specifically, the captain—knew of the
dangerous condition. And it would allow damages up to a
maximum of S100 per ton per person.
The opponents of this proposal complain that it would
cause prohibitive operating costs. Their answer lies in their
own cherished subsidy bill, a bill written to insure a profit to
the bankers who have taken up shipping as an investment, a
bill resting upon the oft-repeated theory that the govern
ment must compensate for the more expensive operating
condition required under the American flag.
The Sirovich bill rests now in the hands of the House
MerchTlfcf Marine Committee. It is a practical bill, written
after expert study of the need and of the best practice
abroad. It can be passed by the present Congress. There
is no lobby insisting upon it, but it is the business of every
one who ever uses an American ship. The Morro Castle and
Mohawk dead testify to the urgent need for it. Now is the
time for Chairman Schuyler O. Bland and his committee
to bring this bill out onto the House calendar and for Con
gress to pass it.
DID YOU EVER STOP TO THINK?
By Edson R. Waite, Shawnee, Oklahoma
The editor of the St. John’s, Newfoundland, Daily News
tells in an editorial about an ideal model for a building and
loan association.
He tells of the highly successful Nova Scotia Savings
and Loan and Building Society which has now been in op
eration for 85 years, and last year had to refuse subscrip
tions because it could not utilize them gainfully.
He suggests that the success of this enterprise should
encourage those in St. John’s to feel that an undertaking of
HUMLING & DAVICK
BUILDERS
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Have Built Several Government Buildings In
cluding Kotzebue Hospital. See Us Before Decid
ing On Your Work-By Day or Contract
Call Main 55 For Appointment.
ROUST AIRWAYS
MEMBER OF THE ALASKA AIR TRANSPORT
ASSOCIATION
When You Travel, Fly iu our New
And Comfortably Heated Cabin
Planes_For Rates, Any Place,
Any Time, Call The
ROUST AIRWAYS
BASES AT NOME AND CANDLE
the same kind might be successful in St. John’s—and why
not ?
A good building and loan association, organized and run
right, not only provides a safe investment at good interest
rates, but provides a way to assist thrifty people to attain a
measure of safety for themselves by owning their own home.
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A new antiseptic 250 times as strong as carbolic acid
may be swallowed by man without ill effects. Before pro
hibition, it would probably have been fatal.—Exchange.
When times are good, competition is keen.
When times are dull, competition is keener.
Business concerns that use comprehensive, honest ad
vertising stay ahead of their competitors in both good and.
dull times.
Newspaper advertising creates an increasing desire for
advertised goods.
Under any circumstances, business will grow faster by
using newspaper space. Newspaper advertising will increase
the demand for anything anywhere.
The longer business concerns wait for business to some
without asking, the longer they will wait for business to
come their way.
Those who get the business will be the ones who go
after it hard!
Your own town should come first. You live here, your
interests are here, you are bringing up your children here.
Then show your regard for it and your loyalty to it by pat
ronizing its business people.
WHEN FLYING TRAVEL
VIA
MIROW AIR SERVICE
NOME, ALASKA.
NEW YORK LIFE LEADS
KATHRYN L. GALEN
AN ALASKA RESIDENT AND CITIZEN
Traveling representative throughout the Territory of Alaska
for the New York Life Insurance Company, arrived in Nome
from Interior Alaska and is stopping at the Lincoln Hotel,
where she will be glad to take care of the public interests.
She wishes to advise Nome citizens that the New York Life
Insurance Company holds the enviable rank of first place
amongst all the different companies, consequently can give
them the best returns for all money invested.
NOW PREPARED TO RENDER
CITY SERVICE IN
Cleaning—Pressing—Repairing—And Alterations
Of Men's and Women’s Clothing
TEMPORARY LOCATION 3 DOORS EAST
OF LINCOLN HOTEL
J. P. GALVIN, Mgr.
NEW COAL PRICES
IN YARD
LADYSMITH LUMP.$ 23.00 Per Ton
LADYSMITH NUT.23.00 Per Ton
UTAH LUMP.24.00 Per Ton
UTAH NUT.24.00 Per Ton
ANTHRACITE.32.00 Per Ton
INDIAN STOKER COAL.18.75 Per Ton
BRIQUETS.27.50 Per Ton
BLACKSMITH COAL.. 2.50 Per Sack
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POLET’S STORE
Nome Harbor Lighterage Co.
Phone “NOHALICO”
Distributed By
Bon Marche Stores
Greenberg & Lewis
J. Lepri
Alaska Liquor Store
Ilr. L. W. Fromm
Dentist
Office—West of Nome Liquor
Store
Front St., Nome.
The Mode of The Moment In
Women's, Misses’ and Child
rens Apparrel at Sensible
Prices—Always—At
MILDRED’S
SHOPPE
Nome Laundry
J
Joe Amarok, Prop.
DRY CLEANING AND
PRESSING SUITS
PIIONE MAIN 29
East of Catholic Church
Nome, Alaska.
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CARS FOR KOUGAROK
:i ROUND TRIPS A WEEK
All Kinds of Freight And
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Dieticians contend that fresh milk
contains more nourishment than any
other known food. It has no sub
stitute.
Our cows are selected from the
best clairy stock on the Pacific Coast
—tubercular tested and approved be
fore being shipped.
We deliver at your home—office
—or store; in quarts—pints—or half
pints. Phone your orders.
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Just Received
SHOES
FOR MEN. WOMEN,
AND CHILDREN
JACK
SEIDENVERG
Cavey's Bakery
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OPEN FROM 6 A.M. TO 1 A.M.
GOOD CI P OF COFFEE
BEST PASTRY IN NOME
Good Meals
CITY LAUNDRY
Harry Saito, Prop.
Opposite The Bank
Suits And Hats
Cleaned
Laundry Work At
Reasonable Prices
Baths For Men and Women i
Phone MAin 149
PIONEER DREG STORE
(Nome’s New and Modern Drug Store) :
AGENTS For McKesson-Stewart & Holmes,
Rexall and Eastman Kodak Company
BRING US YOUR KODAK WORK
Mail Orders Given Prompt Attention
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THE MOST PRACTICAL FINISH FOR ALL WALLBOARDS
(Either Insulitc or Plywood)
Makes old walls new and new walls more durable and
beautiful. One pound of Laux Blue Lable wall texture will
cover from 8 to 12 square feet—easy to apply, dries in about
S hours, and is economical. To see applied samples of diff
erent colors on both Insulite and Plywood, also to receive
descriptive literature. Call on The
NOME LUMBER CO
MINERS AND MERCHANTS RANK jj
OF ALASKA
NOME, ALASKA,
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Has established temporary quarters in
the former office of W. J. Rowe Transfer, and is
carrying on its business as usual. ii
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