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THE NOME DAILY NUGGET
GEO S MAYNARD. Editor
RUSSELL G MAYNARD, Manaeer
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ALASKA A SCIENTIFIC STOREHOUSE
Among Alaska’s countless undeveloped resources
is one which, although considered minor by men of the
commercial world, will nevertheless add to the world’s
progress as much and in the opinion of some, more, than
new smokestacks, humming factories, or rumbling rail
roads.
It is of Alaska's great scientific storehouse which
we speak.
Today, Dr. Ales Hrdlicka, venerable and renowned
scientist, curator of the division of physical anthropo
logy of the Smithsonian Institution, is making his fifth
trip to Alaska and the doctor speaks of his skeletal
finds on Kodiak Island.
The relatively small spot in which he and his col
lege men helpers are excavating will in all probability
form a valuable link in the exceedingly fascinating but
darkly mysterious migrations of man over the face of
the earth. Dr. Hrdlicka has not yet revealed the tre
mendous worth of his discoveries on Kodiak Island but
when he is ready to tell the story it will be an enlight
ening one to the world of science.
Another eminent man of science who will probe
Alaska’s treasure grounds for the fifth time is William
Collins, Jr., who goes to the Arctic to continue his re
search into the origin of the Eskimo. He is also of the
Smithsonian Institution and finds Alaska particularly
intriguing for his work.
While it is not a happy detail to point out, Alaska
has already made her sacrifice to science, when an in
fluenza epidemic wiped out many lives at Pt. Barrow.
These good people, although they did not know it,
played the part of martyrs, for from their sufferings
two men of science in Pennsylvania, have gained tre
mendous knowledge of the influenza germ and the
world is to be greatly benefited by Alaska’s contribu
tion.
The unspoiled remains of hairy mammoth have
added greatly to the knowledge of the Pleistocene geo
logical age and have long been a fountain of facts to
scientists.
The entire land of Alaska itself is new geologically.
It has only recently taken shape, and is now in a rapid
state of erosion offering geologists an opportunity to
study first hand the making of valleys and rivers and
waterfalls.
Thus Alaska, long considered the land of money
wealth, pouring raw gold and silver, proceeds from fish
eries products and furs into the coffers of the United
States, is also equally potent in its cultural donation
without which the world cannot be great.—Exchange.
WHY ADVERTISING MUST BE PERSISTENT
Editors have been told a million times or more by
certain men in the community that they do not need to
advertise because everybody knows them. Maybe so,
but “everybody” can forget.
When in Columbia recently we enjoyed a visit with
Floyd Shoemaker, secretary of the state historical so
ciety. While there, an inquiry came over the phone:
“Who was the vice-presidential candidate with Hughes
in 1916?” Shoemaker could not recall, neither could
the writer. We scurried through the “blue books,”
whose election figures, though complete, gave only
Hughes’ name in the tabulations. A clerk in the library
finally stumbled on to a document with the missing
name. The man had been for years one of the most
prominent men in the nation, and for six hectic months
his name was in the mouth of every citizen of the Un
ited States.
Who was he? You tell.—Holden, Mo., Progress.
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are cotton roads coming ?
An interesting experiment will be tried on a large
scale when the United States Government makes avail
able to various states 1.800,000 yards of large mesh
cotton fabric to be used in road budding or repair.
Cotton growers are interested in the possible devel
opment of a new market for the staple, but highway
engineers are anxious to test claims that the fabric will
prevent development of holes in roads due to severe
weather conditions.
As we understand it, use of the fabric will be limit
ed to ko-called lateral roads, rather than main highways.
The idea is—a layer of tar, the fabric, and then another
layer of tar on top.
If the experiments prove successful after being
tested by time, the benefits will be two-fold, to the cot
ton growers who get a new market, and to those who
use the roads, who will get cheaper and better high
ways.
People who know no better may talk all they please
against what they are pleased to call “book learning,”
but the work being done with the boys on the farms of
the country, and the splendid leadership of the agricul
tural and home agents, have done a lot in the past de
cade to bring about an appreciation of the scientific ap
proach to everyday tasks.
In fact, what some people fail to understand even
about school work, it is not so much the intelligence
that one acquires from study as the development of the
brain into a thinking machine that counts. There are
grown people in Nome today, who have been through
college, but they have stopped long ago their quest for
knowledge and their minds are as dead as the dodo.
On the other hand there are educated people here who
have never gone through high school. If anyone has
any trouble figuring out the thought behind this, let
them tell us about it and we will write it out in full.
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