THE NOME DAILY NUGGET
GEO. S. MAYNARD. Editor
RUSSELL G MAYNARD, Manager
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CAMPAIGN FOR HEALTH
Apropos the general observance of Child Health
week, attention is called to the war being waged on dis
ease and ill health through the Rockefeller Foundation,
which is aiding institutions of research in various parts
of America and other countries.
A review of the activities of the Foundation during
1936 written by its president, Raymond B. Fosdick, dis
cusses activities of the Foundation in the study of men
tal hygiene and experimental biology.
Out of the experience of the International Health
Division in the control and prevention of disease in this
country and abroad, it became evident that the quality
of medical education is an essential factor in effecting
not only the prevention but the relief or cure of disease.
The Foundation, therefore, beginning in 1916, under
took an extensive program in aid of medical training.
The interest of the General Education Board in this
field within the United States was taken as the basis of
a procedure which left the Foundation free to concen
trate its attention outside the United States. For well
over a decade, the funds of the Foundation, in so far as
they were applied to this general purpose, were devoted
largely to aiding medical schools as institutions of teach
ing. If the expenditures for the building and support
of the Peiping Union Medical College are included, a
total sum of roughly $64,000,000 was spent on this pro
gram. The General Education Board in the similar
work which it was carrying on in the United States ap
propriated $84,000,000; so that the combined grants of
the two boards to improve the quality of medical edu
cation both here and abroad approximated $148,000,000.
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Dr. Herman N. BUndesen, one of the well know
physicians in the States, declared in a recent article,
that surveys made in an institution dealing with the
“problem child’’ showed that 96 per cent of the children
had some trouble with their teeth. It is pointed out
that bad teeth are often the reason for other body dis
orders, disturbed nerve balance, and is directly respon
sible in scores of cases for “problem” conduct in child
ren. Dr. Bundeson declares that “a child must be phy
sically fit before he can be properly trained or guided.”
Imperfect vision, defective hearing—these two phy
isical defects have caused many children to fail in school
iwork without the real reason ever being discovered. It
os to prevent such tragedies that the annual Spring
(Health Round-up for pre-school children has been de
veloped.
( In this era of lectures and strip-tease artists, suc
cess seems to lie in learning how to address an audience
tor undress before it.
A doctor finds that sense of hearing is temporarily
dulled by eating. This is noticeable particularly when
the waiter says, “Who gets the check?”
“Moscow scientists find gold mines 3,000 years old.”
“Gold Diggers of 1063 B. C.” is one we missed.
Shooting a mother-in-law in the leg at her daughter’s marriage
is the custom of certain New Guinea natives, not civilized enough
to curb their impulses.
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MIROW AIR SERYICF
HOW ONE BOOK HELPED BRING ON
WORLD WAR
A great many different kinds of men help to shape
history—inventors, soldiers, statesmen, economists
and industrialists. But strangest and most far-reach
ing of all is the contribution occasionally made by the
man who writes a book.
The publishing house of Little, Brown & Co., in Bos
ton, is celebrating its centennial this year, and in its
records there is the story of how one man—whom mosl
Americans, by this time, have completely forgotten—
helped to bring on the World War.
This man was Rear-Admiral Alfred Thayer Mahan
of the U. S. Navy. He died in 1914 just as the war was
getting under way; but it was back in 1890, when he
was a captain, that he brought out a book called “The
Influence of Sea Power on History.”
Now here was a book to which the ordinary reading
public paid little attention. It was not a “popular”
work; if the average reader passed it up in favor of the
latest novel, he could hardly be blamed. But it has a
tremendous influence.
Captain Mahan s thesis was that sea power was the
aill-important factor in a nation’s rise to greatness. Con
trol of the sea won wars, he asserted, even when the
army got the credit. Napoleon’s grand army, he re
marked, never even saw the British fleet—but in the
end it was the British fleet, and not the armies of the
coalition, that caused Napoleon’s downfall.
The influence of this book was world-wide. It was
quickly translated into German, French, Russian, Spar
ish, Italian and Japanese. In England, it was hailed
as the bible of imperialism. The German kaiser order
ed every officer in his navy to read it; the the Japanese
mikado did the same. All across the globe this book
persuaded soldiers and statesmen that they could buy
national security only at the price of big navies.
So the great, world-wide naval race that led up to
1914 was begun. There were other factors involved,
of course; but it is hardly going too far to say that it
was Rear Adm. Mahan who touched it off. He provid
ed the rationalization of this impulse toward bigger
naval armaments; he it was who persuaded the nations
of the earth that they needed more battleships.
In 1889 the United States had no battleships. In 1898
it had four afloat and eight more under construction
England’s naval budget had gone up from $65,000,000
a year to $160,000,000. Germany’s had doubled. And
the great,powers as a group—England,America, Russia
Germany, Austria, France, Italy and Japan—which had
’ spent a total of $190,000,000 on their navies in 1889
were spending $835,000,000 on their navies in 1913.
| To say that Mahan caused the World War, would be
I absurd. To say that he started the naval race which
helped cause the war is no more than the truth.
So much can be accomplished by a genius who sits
i down to write a book !—Exchange.__
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that the Annual Meeting of the
Stockholders of the Northwestern
Alaska Fair Association will be
held at the City Hall. Nome, Al
aska, on Sunday, May 16th,
at the hour of 2 F. M., 1937, at
which meeting a Board of Direc
tors will be elected.
All Stockholders are requested
to register their stock with the
Secretary. A. Polet, in order to
be able to vote at the meeting.
Stockholders who have lost their
stock must file an affidavit to that
effect and new stock certificates
J will be issued to them. This
; must be done before the day of
1 the meeting.
C. M. ALLYN,
Vice President.
Secretary
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UNITED STATES PATENT
Min. Sur. No. 1888
Min. Appl. No. 0926
IN THE UNITED STATES LAND
OFFICE, Nome, Territory of AI
aslca.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
that R. W. SILVER, whose poet
office address is XTome, Alaska
has made application for a pat
ent for 1454.5 1 ineair feet on th*
Shamrock No. One lode and ior
1500 linear feet on the Good*
lode, each bearing gold and sil
ver, the same being as to the
Shamrock No. One lode N. 44 deg
48 min. W. 63.5 ft. and S. 44 deg
48 min. E. 1391 ft. from the dh, -
covery cut thereon, and a funfh
er discovery of said Shantmck
No. One lode being a cut the
east end of which bears S. IS
deg. 40 min. E., 255 ft. from the
west end of the lode line from
which Cor. No. 1 of the Shamrock
'fo. One Lode claim bears S. 36 deg
48 min. E., 300 ft.: and the Goodfc
lode being N. 36 deg. 47 min. W
25^ ft., and S. 36 deg. 47 min. E
1475 ft. from live discovery out
thereon. A particular description
of the Shamrock No. One lode
claim being as follows:
Beginning at Cor. No. 1, a ftr
post 43 in. long, 4 ins. sq.. 2 ft
in ground, in mound of earth and
stone 1 ft. high, 30 in. base, and
marked SH-1-1-1888, from whit*
U. S. L. M. No. 324 bears S. 41
deg. 25 min. W„ 774.7 ft., and
from which Cor. No. 1 Sur. No
324 Southern Cross lode bears
N. 2 deg. 35 min. E., 204.5 ft,
magnetic declination 19 deg. 15
min. E.; Thenoe N. 36 deg. 48 min
E., 600 ft. to Cor. No. 2, magnet
ic declination 19 deg. 15 mifc
E.; Thence S. 44 deg. 48 mtr
E., 1454.5 ft. to Cor. No. 3, mag
netic declination 19 deg. 15 min
Fii, Ti1ence S- 36 deS 48 min. W
600 ft. to Cor. No. 4. magnetic
declination 19 deg. 15 min. E.,
Thence N. 44 deg. 48 min. W.
1454.5 ft. to Cor. No. 1, and place
of beginning, containing 19.81$
acres. Area in conflict wlifh Goode
lode of this survey 3.493 acres
and in conflict with Sur. No 324
Southern Cross lode 3.36 awes
Net area of Shamrock No. One
lode 12.966 acres.
And a particular description at
the Goode lode being as follows
Beginning at Cor. No. 1, which
is identical with Cor. No. 1 Sur
No. 324 Hot Air lode, a fir poet
4 in. sq., 48 in. above ground, ir.
an earth nwund 1 ft. high, 4 ft
J?ase’ a,nd previousy marked
““4-No. 1, and now marked also
GO-1-1888, from which U. S. L
M. No. 324 bears S. 46 deg 01
nun. W„ 389.4 ft., magnetic de
clination 19 deg. 45 min. E.; Then
ce N. 36 deg. 48 min. E., 599.2
ft. to Cor. No. 2, magnetic declin
ation 19 deg. 00 min. E.; Thence
S. 36 deg. 47 min. E., 1500 V
to Cor. No. 3, magnetic declima
tion !9 deg 30 min. E.; Thence
S. 36 deg. 48 mm. W., 599.2 ft
to Cor No. 4, magnetic declina
Uon„J®,deg. 45 min. E.; Thence
N. 36 deg. 47 min. W., 1500 ft
to Cor. No. 1, and place of be
ginning, containing 19.792 acres
net area, the conflict of 3.493 at
res with the Shamrock No. One
lode claim, same survey, being
shown above and deduction made
therefor from the Shamrock No.
One lode claiim. Total net area of
the Shamrock No. One and Goode
lode claims being 32.758 acres.
Said 2 claims are Located on
Trilby hill between Solomon Riv
er and Trilby Creek, in the Cape
Nome Mining and Recording dlst
rict and precinct, Second Divi
sion, Territory of Alaska; the no
tices of locations being recorded
with the Recorder for the «alg
district and precinct for tke
wiiffluiiuvR jto. une ioae ciarni at
Vol. 214, page 106, and for the
Goode lode claim in VaL • 214
page 107. ’
Adjoining claims are an the
North, Sur. No. 324 Southern
Cross lode; on the East, Sham
rock 2 lode and Goode 1 lode,
unsurveyed; on the West, Sur
No. 324 Southern Cross lode aad
®“r._N°. 324 Hot Air lode; other
adjoining claims unknown.
U. S. L. M. No. 324 to which
these claims are tied is a slate
block on said Trilby hill, In lati
tude and longitude as taken from
the U. S. G. S. map of the Solo
mon Quadrangle, of 64 deg. 39
mm. % N., 164 deg. 16 minT% W.
, ALMER RYDEEN Register
1st Publication Fri., April 16, 1987
Last Pub. Monday June 28, 1937.