TIIE NOME DAILY NUGGET
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RUSSEIX G MAYNARD, Manager
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AUTOCRACIES TO BLAME FOR MENACE
OF WAR
Recent news from Europe may be both confusing
and ominous, but it does seem to prove once more that
it is the autocracy and not the democracy which is a
menace to world peace.
The reason is simple. An autocracy can get very
hard-boiled in an international crisis without stopping
to find out how the man on the street corner feels
about it. A democracy cannot. The democracy looks
for a peaceable way to settle things; the autocracy lays
its chips on the line and invites anyone who thinks it
is bluffing to call the bet.
The Spanish rebellion offers an instructive ex
ample. The two principle democracies of Europe, Eng
land and France, have worked desperately from the
start to keep the trouble from spreading. Obviously,
they do not want to go to war—for the excellent reas
on that their statesmen know perfectly well that the
ordinary Englishman and the ordinary Frenchman
wouldn’t stand for it. So the English and the French
devised a non-interference pact and went around Eur
ope coaxing everyone to sign it.
Now look at the record of the dictatorships. The
Italians gave a contemptuous lip service to the agree
ment and sent a flock of military airplanes to the Span
ish rebels. The Germans sent a naval squadron to
Spanish waters, acted very tough with it, and circulat
ed the impression that they were ready to move up
horse, foot and guns if anyone didn’t like it.
Then the Russian dictatorship followed suit, de
nouncing the Germans and Italians in a way that has
led Europe much closer to the edge of war than most
people like to think about.
All of which creates one more tense situation
which the statesmen from London and Paris are try
ing frantically to ease. The thing to bear in mind is
that all the warlike moves have come from the dicta
torships, and the peaceful moves from democracies.
The dictators are perfectly willing to skate right
up to the edge of the precipice—up to a point where
the smallest “incident” could send them and the rest
of Europe over the brink. The democracies are doing
their best to stay as far away as the law allows.
The ordinary German, Italian and Russian may
not feel any more like going out and getting shot on
some foreign battlefield than the English or French.
But the point is that what the former feel like is of
no importance. They have to do as they are told and
like it. Only in the democracies is the citizen’s ab
horrence of war something to be taken into account.
Nearly 20 years ago we were advised that we
must make the world safe for democracy. The advice is
still sound. A dictatorship is a standing menace to
world peace.—Alaska Press.
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WOMEN'S HATS FUNNY?—
HEARKEN BACK, MEN!
The time seems to have come
for a serious, heart-to-heart talk
about the feathers on women’s
hats.
There are feathers that go
straight up, feathers that go side
wise, and feathers that take a
perky jab to the south-south
west. Some of them emerge
from little slap-dash affairs of
hats and some of them are the
crowning glory of tall but shaky
edifices of felt and fabric that
would make a Zulu chieftain
proud.
Some women look very ele
gant in them and some, alas,
look like nothing human; and
the harassed male, once again,
gets a chance to announce that
there is something fundamentally
wrong and out of whack with a
sex that periodically goes in for
such irrational adornments.
For it does come in waves. Ev
ery so often some natural law
or other makes it necessary for
women to adopt a hat style that
is just naturally gosh-awful, and
we seem to be on the verge of
one of those periods right now.
There is nothing for it, prob
ably, but to dig in, hope for the
best, and wait until the hatters
decide to let upon us again.
Do you remember those Em
press Eugenie things that went
bobbing down the misty corri
dors of time on the heads of
young girls and staid matrons,
making 90 percent of the femin
ine populace look like something
out of one of the less reverent
cartoons in the New Yorker?
Do you get out the family
photograph album and take a
look at the snapshots of 1920,
which show Mother moving about
uneasily beneath a sky-scrap
ing concoction of feathers, flow
ers, and preserved fruit? Or do
you by any chance, recall the
era of the Merry Widow?
But if you do remember these
things, and are a man, you might
do well to pause and reflect be
fore announcing that women have
a monopoly on odd styles.
Dig out that family album once
more and study the hat you your
self wore back in the far-off pre
war days. Remember them—
those flat-crowned, narrow-brim
med things that tried to make
sober men of affairs look like
innocent lads on the way to Sun
day School?
And do you remember the col
lars that were in vogue at that
time—those three-inch-tall things
that looked awful, felt awful, and
were well-nigh impossible to
fasten?
And how about the rest of the
outfit men used to wear? Surely
you can remember the era of peg
topped trousers, when the male
form was ennobled by pants that
were 18 inches too wide across
the hips and six inches too short
at the ankle? And the buttoned
shoes with fatyt tumors on the
top of the toes? And, heaven help
us, the floppy sailor-style breech
es of post-war years?
The male has scant reason to
point the finger of scorn. He togs
himself out in some pretty weird
duds now and then. If women
follow queer styles occasionally,
they at least never went in for
the fad of letting their socks
slop down carelessly around their
ankles.
The truth seems to be that
these rugged individualists we
imagine ourselves.
Instead, male and female alike,
we are regimented within an in
ch of our lives by the stylists—
and all we can do is take it and
try to like it.
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Weather Today
(U. S. Weather Bureau)
Light snow was falling at Fair
banks and light patches of gro
und fog were observed between
Ruby and Tanana otherwise gen
erally fair skies obtained over;
the Nome-Fairbanks Airway and
Nome-Kotzebue Airway at the
7 a.m. observation. Rainfall was
reported along the Gulf and over
southeastern Alaska.
Sub-zero temperatures continue
throughout the interior of Alaska
and western Canada. The lowest
minimum temperature last night
was —50 at McGrath. Other min
imums were Ruby —46; Nulato
42; Kaltag —40; Flat —39; Fair
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Fairbanks reports the thick
ness of ice in the Ohena River as
20 inches and 13 inches of snow
on the ground. Juneau reported
one inch of snow on the ground.
PRESIDENT RETURNED
WHITE HOUSE TONITE
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WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 15,
—President Franklin D. Roose
velt returns to the White House
tonight to face one of the bus
-
iest periods of his active career.
He will find the maritime strike
unsettled and will receive strong
pressure to settle it. He must
fill scores of vacancies in feder
al posts. He must plan a legisla
tive program for congress which
meets in three weeks, and inaug
uration is only five weeks away.
The U. S. S. Cruiser Indiana
polis arrived at the Charleston,
South Cbrd’ina navy yard to
day, bringing the President back
from histrip to the peace confer
ence at Buenos Aires, Argentine,
South America.
The lowest Nome temperature
last night was 19 below and the
highest yesterday 5 below.
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