THE NOME DAILY NUGGET
GEO. S. MAYNARD, Editor.
RUSSELL MAYNARD, Manager.
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PREPARE FOR CONGRESS
Congressmen-elect, special congressional committees,
members of the administration staff and numerous special
officials and experts in the government service are swarm
ing in Washington now preparatory to the coming session
of congress. j
Plans that are vital to every state and territory and to
every citizen are being formulated and will be launched
when the senate and the house convene January 3.
The time to make representations from various sections
is brief.
Delegate Dimond, on leaving Alaska in September, was
anxious to get back to Washington to sit in on congression
al committees which are shaping important measures for
the session. He knows full well the significance of the work
to be done before congress assembles. The decisions arrived
at before the proposed measures reach the senate and the
house are of vast importance.
Alaska should not go to sleep on these matters and
should get her recommendations over to the delegate, the
friendly western states congressional members and all in
positions of influence.
Anchorage, in common with other parts ot the territory,
has certain measures she wants to see properly handled in
congress. Unless she keeps her recommendations to the fore
she will be worsted. Many interests and many sections are
seeking consideration, and only those eternally vigilant will
succeed. Those localities who go to sleep will fail from lack
of proper and persistent presentation of their case.
Anchorage must not give up her fight for a public build
ing, for the necessary funds for her Matanuska and other
road projects, for full consideration in the selection of army
and navy aviation bases; for new landing fields and im
provements of old; for better airplane mail services over dir
ect routes out of Anchorage as against roundabout routes
from other centers; for more weather stations and more and
better radio-telegraph and radiophone stations for transmis
sion of the weather and other reports; for a better geological
survey service, for proper mining aids and a department of
mines; for proper fishing laws and regulations.
Some of these desired reforms may be within the pro
vince of the territorial legislation. It also meets the first of
the year.
Deducting the holidays at the end of this month, there
is little time to spare. Millions are at stake for the terri
tory and a big sum in the balance for Anchorage.
Everyone who lives here and thrives when the com
munity progresses should get busy right now—and not sleep
on the big opportunity.—Anchorage Times.
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COME UP AND SEE US
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Woeful ignorance that exists in the 48 states of the union
regarding the true conditions in Alaska is one of the most
common laments of Alaskans.
Anent this fact it is pretinent that Alaskans formulate
an invitation to the people of the states to “come up and see
us some time.”
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The more who come be better, but it is particularly de
sirable that men in position to educate the mass fo the popu
lation of America and those in position to do most for Al
aska should come.
It will be a wise move for Alaskans to go formally aboui
the business of getting influential Americans to come here
men who have the public ear, men who are in the limelight
men to whom the public is accustomed to listen and for whost
word they have respect. ' ,
President Roosevelt has announced that before he quits
his high position he will visit Alaska. There is nothing he
could do which would be a greater incentive to the develop
ment of this greater American possession and wealth pro
ducer than to come here. There is no trip which his wearied
and much worked cabinet officers could make to greater
profit to the nation than to come to Alaska. They will learn
that Alaska is largely a dominant mint for America. They
are sure to return to the state imbued with enthusiasm and
appreciative of the fact that Alaska is practically an untap
ped reservoir of wealth.
And they will learn how to tap that reservoir—how to
co-operate for the development of an empire.
Another class of men who should come to Alaska are
the writers for current publications. Take in particular
such renowned writers as Arthur Brisbane, Will Rogers,
and Floyd Gibbons. Why is it that they have traveled hun
dreds of times across America, following beaten tracks,
strumming their harps and singing the praises of lands long
occupied and lying on old beaten routes of travel between
the Atlantic and Pacific? Occasionally, it is admitted, one
of them goes abroad, or, as Will Rogers did a few months
aco. tours the world.
Why should they not get out of the beaten path and come
up here to the top of the world—get an eyeful and an earful
of what Uncle Sam has here in his greatest and most far-flung
territorial possession, and destined by its keystone position
between the Occident and the Orient soon to be the busy traf
fic center connecting those two great divisions of the earth?
Each distinguished visitor to this land will have fresh
material with which to deal when he returns; he will go back
invigorated mentally as well as physically. He will have a
fund of new knowledge and experiences that will enrich him
for a life-time—memories that always will be a joy and
lore that will furnish him with no end of absorbing themes
with which to edify and educate his fellow Americans and
help build this great Empire of the North and make it a mat
erial bulwark of the nation.
Alaskans by all means should get back of the movement
and urge Americans—and especially her distinguished sons
and daughters, to “come up and see us some time”—and
the sooner the better.—Anchorage Times.
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