THE NOME DAILY NUGGET
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ALL IN THE NEWS
(New York World Telegram)
The word “news” and “novel”, translated, mean
the same thing, and anyone who wants to be shown
may take the scissors and clip out a few items from the
papers of the last day or two. They fit into almost any
plot you choose.
That baby in Chicago, born possibly to hopeless
invalidism . . . “let it die”, said the father. “No”, said
the mother. . . Surgeon listens to mother and operates.
Baby died anyway, but no mother would be satisfied
without a try.
That little boy in New York, 8 years old, son of
an out-of-work truck driver on relief, dying of haemo
philia—same disease as the Prince’s son of the ex-King
of Spain Penniless or a Prince, they’re all alike to hae
mophilia. And the doctor, trying a new treatment,
snatches him back to life. It’s experimental but it may
work.
Met young John Sweeney, 12, of Philadelphia,
nine times a runaway, back at a New York police sta
tion again, wanting to become a bandit, but most of all
wanting Jack Dempsey’s autograph.
And now appears Dr. Voronoff, of Vienna, that
fantastic scientist, announcing that he can produce a
superman. If any mother will give him her 10-year
old son the good doctor will graft onto him the glands
of a chimpanzee, thereby starting a new type, he says,
far superior to normal man.
At Alton, 111, Robert Wadlow, 18, without benefit
of monkey glands, has grown to be 8 feet 5 and one-half
inches tall and is joining a show at $300 a week.
Why, after all, take such pains with the lives of
babies? Is it that they may become bandits and coll
ect autographs, or grow into giants, or serve as guinea
pigs for science?
The Chicago mother who put her foot down ag
ainst ‘mercy killing” of her baby was wiser than to
bother with such questions. She didn’t have to. In
stinct showed her the way, as it does for the heroes and
heroines of the novels.
THE SELF-STARTER
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This year marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of
the practical application of the electric self-starter to
automobiles and plans are under to take note of the
event in New York in connection with the annual auto
mobile shows in mid-November.
Charles F. Kettering, now Vice President of the Gen
eral Motors Corporation in Charge of Research, devel
oped the self-starter in 1911, working with a loyal band
of helpers under severe handicaps in the barn which
served as the first “factory” and “executive offices” of
the Dayton Engineering Laboratories Company.
The self-starter was applied first by Henry M.
Leland to Cadillac cars and became standard Cadillac
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Current Comments
Written From
Washington
(Special Correspondence)
Berlin courts have sentenced an
American sailor to three years in
prison, the length of his term to
be reduced by the fourteen mon
ths that he has been in jail await
ing triah It is said that he con.
fessed to attempting to smuggle
Red literature to his comrades in
Hamburg, the crime for which, in
substance, he was arrested. If
that is true, the Department of
State in this country should re_
mind the Berlin authorities gent
ly and politely that fourteen
months is a long while to keep
an American confined without
trial pick up the next paper on
the desk and forget about the in.
cident.
Publicity is being given to tax.
es in connection with the fact
that the collector gets $5.00 out
of every $25.00 evening gown. In
some organizations it has been
and still is the custom to accept
payment in the merchandise that
is being taxed. Fortunately, the
government requires a settle
equipment in 1912. On the strength of this epochal im
provement, Cadillac that year won the famous Dewar
Trophy in London for the second time. Soon other
makes of automobiles were so equipped and the rapid
expansion of the automobile industry followed. The
self-starting mechanism made motoring safer, easier &
cleaner, and, in particular, met the driving needs of
women.
DID YOU EVER STOP TO THINK?
By Edson R. Waite, Shawnee, Oklahoma
Pedro E. Carr, noted Cuban economist and statisti
cian, Director of The National Bureau of Statistics, Edi
tor and Publisher of The Daily Imports Report, The
Daily Exports Report and The Monthly Imports and
Exports Review, considered the greatest Cuban author
ity on business, social and economic problems and the
pioneer statistician of the neighboring Republic, says:
“Did you ever stop to think that the difference be
tween advertised and non-advertised products is the
same as that which exists between the modern trans
Atlantic liners and the ancient barques?
In fair weather the barque may make good pro
gress, but it can never rival the speed of the modern
trans-Atlantic liner. In the doldrums it stands be
calmed or drifts with the tide, and in the storm it goes
wherever the winds and the waves may take it; whilst
the trans-Atlantic liner pursues its steady course per
haps with variable speed, but without mishap.
“The advertised product and the man who adver
tises like the trans-Atlantic liner, have their own pow
er and directive force. The turbines of scientifically
evolved selling appeal drive it forward and compel con
sumer acceptance, so that it passes undeterred through
the calms of depression and rides the economic storm.
“An advertising campaign, scientifically planned
and effectively carried out in the newspaper in each
community is highly remunerative. It Pays to Adver
tise. ,
“Certain New Guinea husbands buy their wives
for about 25 cents each”. But not until they taste her
first biscuits do they learn whether they were robbed.
A Canada mother expecting her 10th baby report
ed threatening letters. As yet, no suspicion has attach
cd to the people upstairs.
Only six men understand the latest mathematical
theory of the universe—just the fellows to balance the
budget.
Friends were the big problem of political cam
paigners. They have always known how to handle
their foes.
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“The News of the Day In Pictures”
ment on a cash basis. If pay.
ment in kind were permitted with
respect to the tax on evening
gowns, the authorities would get
a pretty small piece of cloth.
The first snow of the year col.
lected a grist of almost a score of
lives in the Rocky Mountains.
Flood control is practical, no one
is likely to be blown out of a cy
clone cellar, and those who re.
main on land can snap their fin.
gers at the hazards of the sea.
Throughout small areas, in large
cities for example, snow can be
carted off and dumped into a riv
er or sewer, but generally stated,
when the ground becomes whit,
ened, Nature looks man coldly in
the eye and says: “What are you
going to do about it?”
At the Soldiers’ Home in Wash,
ington, Joseph Jones at 101 says
that he plans to live to be 109.
Following closely in his tracks in
John D. Rockefeller who shutt
les back and forth from Florida
at 97. Dr. Bosworth, of Phillipi,
W. Va., was honored by his col.
leagues at 99, and Dr. Thompson
was in active practice in Ohio at
the same age. Thomas Parr
rounded out 153 years and came
to an honored grave in Westmin.
ister Abbey, after having lived
under ten kings. Hiram Cronk,
last survivor of the War of 1812,
stretched his existence well be
yond the century mark. Every,
one recalls Zaro Agha the Turk,
who “brought his years” as the
Germans say, to 160. Having con.
sidered the foregoing instances of
high age, most of us will be in
dined to fall back on a quota,
tion from Swift: “Every man
desireth to live long, but few
would be old.”
The heading “Martial Law for
the Holy Land” inclines one to
the conclusion that a land becom.
es holy only insofar as its inhabit
ants approach that stage of per.
fection. (
V irginia Handy
Became Bride
Walt Swanson
Virginia Bandy became the
bride of Walter B. Swanson re
cently in the All Saints’ Episcopal
church at Anchorage. The popu_
lar young couple were married
by Father Warren Fenn in the
presence of several friends and
members of the family.
The bride was dressed in a
white satin gown with lace tunic.
She wore lillies of the valley in
her hair and a coursage of roses
at her waist.
. Mrs. Sam Kinsler, matron of
honor, was gowned in black chif
fon velvet. Charles Swanson, a
brother of the groom, was best
man.
Wayne Priem played an organ
prelude at the ceremony,
A reception followed the cere,
mony.
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