THE NOME DAILY NUGGET
GEO. S. MAYNARD. Editor
RUSSELL G MAYNARD, Manager.
Published every evening except Sunday by The Nome
Publishing Company, Nome, Alaska.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
Delivered by carrier in Nome, Little Creek and Sunset
Creek, for $2.00 per month. By mail postage paid out
side of Nome and vicinity, $1.50 pe month.
Entered in the Post Office in Nome as 2nd Class Matter
MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS
(CITY OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER)
NEW. ADVANCED SAILOR TAKES
HIS STATION
The sailor in Uncle Sam's fleet used to be a gnarl
ed and shaggy person who could lay out on an ice-coat
ed yard in a howling winter gale, spit dead to wind
ward, and lick any three waterfront tavern keepers
single-handed.
He was rough and he was tough, and his officers
ruled him with brutal hands of iron because they knew
that, if they didn’t, he was apt to pitch them bodily out
of the cabin windows.
This old-timer has gone off to oblivion along with
the square-rigged sailing ships that were his home, and
the modern generation of sailor is as unlike him as the
aircraft carrier Saratoga is unlike Old Ionsides. And
in this difference there is a great deal more than a mere
loss of picturesqueness.
An order went out the other day from the U. S.
Navy's Bureau of Navigation in Washington, D. C.. an
nouncing that, due to a shortage of officers, a great
many battle stations on the fighting ships traditionally
filled by commissioned officers hereafter would be tak
en by enlisted men.
“The intelligence and competence of the enlisted
personnel of the Navy,” remarked the order, “is high
er today than it ever has been before in the history of
our navy, and it is confidently felt that utilization of
chief petty officers and other petty officers . . . will per
mit the navy to carry on without reduction in efficien
cy.”
All this would seem to leave the modern sailor
about three laps ahead of the fabulous old-timer.
Now the old-timer was just as good a man as the
colorful traditions of the sea say he was. He could reef
and furl, knot and splice, pull his weight in a small
boat, and take his 50 lashes with the cat without utt
ering a whimper.
But he could no more have filled one of the battle
stations traditionally reserved for commissioned officers
than he could have jumped over the moon.
For with all his seamanship and his sturdy self
reliance, the old-time sailor was usually pretty much
of a clod. The waterfront and the forecastle were his
only school, and the teachers in those institutions be
lieved firmly that to spare the rod was to spoil the
LOCKHEED j
^ VEGA
STINSON
RELIANT
THE FASTEST, MOST FREQUENT, MOST
CONVENIENT SERVICE IS
VIA
MIROW AIR SERVICE
FAST, STURDY, LUXURIOUS PLANES
■■■■■■■■■■■■BwnMauncaBRnien xunw ^
Northern Light & Power Co,
AND
Alaska Telephone & Telegraph Co.
Second Avenue and Lane's Way
LIGHT, POWER AND ELECTRICAL SUPPLIES
LOCAL AND LONG DISTANCE TELEPHONE SERVICE
THE NOME DAILY NUGGET
Job Printing Department
Is Equipped To Handle Your Job
Printing Needs, Efficiently,
Speedily Executed.
AT REASONABLE PRICES
child. He was a marvelous fighter if properly led—but
he had to be led.
Now look at the modern sailor. He has an educa
tion better than that of the average officer of Decatur’s
day. He is at home among intricate technical devices
that would have ha'd the old-timer tugging his forelock
in helpless bewilderment. At sea he is a skilled crafts
man ashore, he is a gentlemen.
We often indulge in a great deal of silly talk about
the glory and romance of the sea in those old, departed
days—the days of iron men and wooden ships, as the
old saying has it.
It’s about time we realized that the modern sailor
is actually a better man than his predecessor. The Navy
Department knows it, and is trusting ourt national de
fense to a reliance on the fact.—Alaska Press.
An editor was dying, mut when the doctor bent
over, placed his ear on his breast, and said: “Poor man.
Circulation almost gone.” the daying editor shouted:
“You’re a liar. We have the largest circulation in Al
aska.”
One way in which Mussolini is diqerent from Mark
Anthony is that Mussolini has come to dig up Caesar,
not to bury him.—Dallas News.
Chamber of Commerce spokesmen demand a re
turn to “sanity in government.” And they don’t mean
Santy.—Boston Transcript.
“Time, says a new dispatch, “hampers the new
Union Party.” Also the tide..—Louisville Journal.
Then there’s the fellow who says, “Aw you could
n't expect those judges to sympathize with the coal
miners they. They all use oil furnaces.”—N. Y. Sun.
It is not only in the prize ring that victory comes
to the man who isn’t afraid.—Chicago News.
This is still the land of promise, except every four
years when it is in the plural.—Detroit News.
John Bull isn’t ready to put the muss in Mussolini.
—Dallas News.
Germany Looks
Make Self Block
ade Proof Now
Bv M. K. Whiteleather
(By The Associated Press)
BERLIN, Sept. 21, — Germany
is seeking to make herself block
adeproof, regardless of cost.
Bitter suffering from the Brit
ish net thrown around her in
the World War has spurred civ
il and military activity toward
organizing the nation bcfore-hand
to live a long while on its own
resources.
An intensive campaign has
been waged for three years by
the Nazis to find substitutes for
products especially raw mater
■ ials, which Germany lacks and
Cavey’s Bakery
OPEN FROM 6 A.M. TO 1 A M
GOOD CUP OF COFFEE
BEST PASTRY IN NOME
Good Meals
BOURDON’S
Taxi Service
TRANSFER WORK
Trips Made Anytime
Any Place
SEE
Fred Bourdon
CITY LAUNDRY
Harry Saito, Prop.
Opposite The Bank
Suits And Hats
Cleaned
Laundry Work At
Reasonable Prices
; Baths For Men and Women
Phone MAin 149
must therefore buy abroad, and
to stimulate exploitation of the
country’s own natural resources.
Army men are beginning to
doubt the wisdom of some meas
. ures already taken. A prepared
ness plan embracing the nation’s
i whole life is under way and
army men wonder if it was wise
to begin exploitation of Ger
many’s scant few mineral re
sources when these might bett
er be saved for wartime when
their purchase abroad might be
impossible.
Mine Closing Suggested
They want to adjust and direct
Germany’s peace-time economy
as well as social life toward up
holding the army at the front.
The Nazi government, with
subsidies, has speeded up opera
tion of copper mines in Mansfield
zinc and lead mines in Upper
Silesia and iron ore veins in
Siegerland. Ordinarily experts
say, these mines cannot be profit
able.
The army says they ought not
to be operated at all. At any
rate, the army would slow
down their exploitation and buy
from abroad during peaceful
years.
“Our exist ig iron-ore”, says
Major Hesse, one of many whit
I ers on the subject, “as far as
j that of the highest value is con
cerned, would be exhausted in a
| few decades if we covered our
| normal peace:.me needs out of
i domestic sup .lies.
Army Asks ‘Long View’
“The same is true for copper,
of which there is still less, and
a number of other metals.
“The experience of the World
War has drawn sufficient atten
! tion to the difficulties in case of a
blockade. Th. >. probably will be
even greater in a future war be
cause the need for iron, copper,
zinc and tin has become greater.”
Major He e says the soldier
demands a long view of the na
tion’s econoi i c possibilities al
though he recognizes Germany’s
present difficulties in the foreign
trade field. The government is
(Continued on Page Three)
; Phyllis' Beauty Shoppe is now
i situated in its new location next
door to Seiffert Apts., on the cor
ner of Second Ave., and Hunter
Way.
Placer
And Lode
Location Blanks
For Sale at Nugget Office
f FLYING
ARCTIC AIRWAYS
MULTI-ENGINED PLANE.
--Mayfair Tavern
(First Ave., and B Street)
BEER & SANDWICHES
Baths In Connection
— NO COVER CHARGE HERE —
THE BOARD OF TRADE
NEW LOCATION
(Opposite The Dream Theatre)
JUST RECEIVED ]
OLYMPIC AND SCHLITZ CANNED BEER. j
Also Bulk Wines and Liquors. We Are Closing out g
Our Entire line of Mens Furnishings Rubbers i
Boots and Pacs.
NOME LIQUOR STORE
(Next Door To Fire Station)
j
\