THE NOME DAILY NUGGET
GEO S. MAYNARD. Editor
RUSSELL G MAYNARD. Manager.
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PARENTS, NOT POVERTY, PERMIT CHILD CRIME
When you think of juvenile delinquency, you al
most inevitably think of slums and poverty. The child
from a poor family doesn’t have the chances that the
child from a more solvent family has; he has to play in
the streets, economic pressure warps his budding per
sonality, and a drift toward crime is more or less nat-1
ural for him.
That is the accepted theory. It is surprising to
learn from a competent authority that it just isn’t so.
Dr. Sophia M. Robinson recently made a study of
juvenile delinquency for the Research Bureau of the
Welfare Council of New York City. Amazingly enough
she discovered that in one year as many children from
families with incomes of $50 a week or more as from
families with incomes of $25 a wreek or less were on pro
bation as delinquents.
In a sample year, 1930, the New York children’s
court put on probation 1,260 children from families
with incomes of $50 a week or more—and 1,258 children
from families with incomes of $25 a week or less. Be
tween the $25 and $50 levels a similar proportion held
good.
Now this, as Dr. Robinson points out, does not
mean that poverty is a healthy social condition. But it
does seem to mean, indisputably, that poverty is not
the decisive factor in causing delinquent behavior. It
often enough may give a child the final push; but it
cannot, by itself, be blamed as a primary cause.
Dr. Robinson’s disclosure may compel us to revise
our thinking about the whole problem of delinquency,
and it probably will be a very good thing for us. For—
like all other mortals—we are lazy, we hate to make
any involved mental effort if we can avoid it, and above
all things we do not like to find ourselves guilty of
anything.
When the juvenile delinquency figures go on mount
ing, year after year, the easiest way out is to blame
them on poverty—and then forget them.
• We might have known that it wasn’t as simple as
that. If a nation’s children “go wrong” in ever-increas
ing numbers, it means that there is something wrong
with the nation’s parents. They are failing to do their
jobs properly, somehow.
If the poverty excuse is taken away from us, we
may take the trouble to find out just how and where
we are failing.
When you stop to think about it, we always have
hunted for excuses. Long ago we were blaming dime
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novels. At one time good people blamed the theatre. 1
More recently wr? have been blaming the movies. It’s i
about time we began blaming ourselves.
For this world now and always, is precisely what -
we ourselves make it. We can remold it in any shape i
we desire—if we will just begin with ourselves.
The road to a better social order is very much like
charity. It begins at home.
NO ONE KNOWS HOW MANY
The Commerce Department reports that 5,200 000
people unemployed in 1933 have found employment
since then, and it would be less than kind to a. k the
department how it knows. The Administration obvi
ously is going to set considerable store by this figure
during the balance of the national campaign, the num
ber findng employment being one measure of its success
in promoting recovery.
We should imagine the number reemployed since
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933 would be at least 5,200,000. But the fact is that
lobody ever knew how many were without jobs in 1933
md that nobody knows how many are unemployed now.
\nv calculation that involves substracting an unknown
lumber from an unknown number is bound to be open
o doubt as to its complete accuracy.
Accordingly, no less than the Commerce Depart
nent, we ourselves are entitled to guess that the num
ber re-employed since 1933 is either 1,000.000 or 25,
jOO.OOO. We shall refrain from making a guess.
We might add that the last count of the unemploy
ed was made in the census of 1930 when their number
was actually about three-fifths of the number now said
to have been re-employed.—Cordova Daily Times.
Gold payments may be suspended by the treasury
when the quantity in hand is below $100,000,000 and
they round up the profiteers to get it back.
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Oldtime Alaskan
Died In Frisco
In San Francisco October 9th,
death came to Al Zipf, said a ra
diogram received by George Pres
ton at Fairbanks from Volney
Richmond. The message was
brief and did not state the cause
of death.
The name of Al Zipf is familiar
:o a host of old timers. He was |
arominently identified with the 1
transportation and fish packing j
ousiness during a long residence
n Alaska.
A man of commanding physi
que and radiant personality, he
was about 63 years of age.
With Carlisle Firm
From 1904 until the fleet was
acquired by the White Pass and;
ifukon route, Mr. Zipf was super j
ntendent of transportation for
the Northern Navigation Com
pany at St. Michael. For some!
time after the sale the fleet was
operated under the name of the!
American Yukon Navigation Co.,
and for about two years Mr. Zipf
served that company as traffic
manager.
Later he was manager for the,
Carlisle Packing Company dur
ing the period when salmon were
aacked at the mouth of the Yu-!
con River.
After leaving Alaska Mr. Zipf
located in San Francisco and be
came manager of the Williams
Steamship Company, a position
which he held up to the time of
his death.
Surviving him are a son and a
daughter. Mrs. Zipf died about
10 years ago.
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HOW can the new cars give you up to 88 per cent more horse
power with the same size engines? The big reason is—higher
engine speeds!
Nine hundred Revolutions per Minute more than in the 1930 cars
is today’s pace, with compressions, temperatures, piston speeds
and bearing pressures all higher, higher, higher! That’s what has
changed the motor oil picture. Great heats, great pressures and
great speeds burn up oils—tear them to pieces.
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