THB* NOME DAILY NUGGET
GEO. S. MAYNARD, Editor.
RUSSELL MAYNARD, Manager.
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LET YOUR OPINIONS BE KNOWN
The Second Division delegation to the Alaska Legisla
ture should arrive at Juneau Saturday, to attend the session
to begin January 14th. Perhaps many of you have spoken
to them concerning measures which you would like to see
passed for the betterment of your communities and districts.
Then again, there is the possibility that the majority of you
have neglected the opportunity to voice what you believe
would be a betterment and which could be brought about by
an act of the Legislature.
Here is an opportunity for you to voice your opinions
on matters coming before this session. The Nome Daily Nug
get will carry an open Forum if you care to avail yourselves
of the opportunity to interest yourself in the development
and progress of the Second Division.
Constructive, well-formed arguments and criticism are
always appreciated by the public. Interest yourself in your
Territory and Division and help develop it.
- TO EUROPE BY AIR VIA ALASKA
Captain Charles T. P. Ulm and his two companions,
George Littlejohn, co-pilot, and J. L. Skilling, navigator,
who took off from Oakland for Honolulu on a preliminary
survey of a proposed air route from the United States to
Australia are definitely given up as lost.
The fact that from some cause thus far unknown this
flight experienced misfortune is most regrettable and it is
hoped that the courageous airmen are still alive and some
day may be found.
Their pioneer mission of making a survey with the pro
spect of establishing an air route from the United States to
Australia, and undoubtedly eventually to Europe and Eng
land, was most worthy.
However, many informed aviation experts have ques
tioned seriously the advisability of attempting to link Asia
or Europe with the United States through the so-called
“southern route”, via the Hawaiian Islands. The hop from
mainland to the Island is approximately 2500 miles, a great
distance even with modern air equipment or with the anti
cipated developments in airplanes during the next five years.
The unfortunate experience of Capt. Ulm and his com
panions dramatically brings the hazards of such a route to
the attention of not only aviation companies but to the gen
eral public as well. ;
It should stimulate interest and pioneering in the north-;
ern route to Asia and Europe via Alaska. Many experts
have maintained right along that the Alaska route was the
logical one through which to establish air travel between
the United States and Europe. By this route the water dist
ances are greatly minimized and eventually adequate air
ports, beacons and communications systems could be devel
oped through Alaska and Russia on through to Europe, in
suring a maximum degree of safety for air passenger travel.
Through the regrettable misfortune of the ill-fated Ulm
attempt, the attention of the developers of world wide air
routes should be and will be definitely focused on the most
logical route, via Alaska. —Juneau Empire
NRA CODES IN ALASKA
C. E. Morgan, aid to the deputy NRA administrator of
Alaska, who was in Ketchikan recently, when asked the re
cord of code compliance Alaskan institutions had earned in
comparison to those in other parts of the United States,
said, “Better. We have had but very few cases where crack
down tactics were necessary to force strict compliance.”
Such a recommendation is gratifying. It means that
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Alaskan business men and industrialists have a greater will
ingness to co-operate with governmental agencies to increase
trade and to better the affiliation of labor and capital than
their conferees in the states.
It will be argued by some that the Alaskan business
man or industry was more desperate; that he was in greater
need of government aid than his equal in other parts of the
nation. That, however, is not so.
When reduced to its simplest terms it means merely
that the Alaskan was more highly sensitized to the need of
business changes. And, although few in Alaska besought
government aid, when it came they were ready to cooperate
and assimilate the basic changes which the New Deal demand
ed of business in its inter-relationships with similar business,
with the consumer and with labor.
Mr. Morgan points to the increased earnings of seine
fishermen in this district as evidence of the Workability of
business codes. He has positive examples of code complian
ce in the Alaska fishing industry where such compliance
worked a self-imposed financial loss upon members of the in
dustry.
Furthermore, in each instance operators were protected
by outlets which would afford opportunity of evading the
intention of the act but preferred to adhere to the closest in
terpretation of their code. Alaskan industry has made an en
viable impression upon NRA administrators and for good
reason.—Ketchikan Chronicle.
You should help to make your- home city a brighter
spot for business.
You should get the boosting habit. Your cit^ is worthy
of your continuous service.
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Some cities have a lot of men who spend half their
time finding fault with every bit of progressive work that
is being done for their city. Stay away from that crowd!
They will make your city into an electric lighted graveyard
if they have their way.
Cities are built by men who have a forward vision and
who translate it with practical results.
These kind of men are the ones who go ahead and day
by day make the home city a better, busier city.
The progressive citizens of your city push ahead with
all their might in order to gain the goal of your city’s ambi
tions. Join them and make their work easier!
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