! THE NOME DAILY NUGGET
GEO. S. MAYNARD, Editor.
RUSSELL MAYNARD, Manager.
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HOMES FOR ALASKANS
“There is no place like home”.
Old homes made modern and new homes where there
were none. Such is the news heralded to Alaskans by John
Pegues, newly appointed federal housing administrator for
Alaska.
Mr. Pegues returned from Washington to Alaska to
inaugurate the new deal in homes for this part of the nation.
“I doubt,” says Mr. Pegues, “if there is any section of
the United States more interested in modernizing their hom
es than Alaska—and because of our great need the com
mission will extend more concessions to our territory than
it would to other regions.”
Here is a chance, with federal aid, for Alaskans to ex
pand to stature and do for Alaska what must be done if she
is to develop to the maximum—make her a land of homes.
Only by the multiplicity of homes will Alaska become a
land of permanent occupation and a land of happy and con
tented people. Only with a large a permanent population will
she be able to give to the world the bounties wrapped up in
her dormant potentialities.
Young people of Alaska today are confronted with a
great problem. Many of them would like nothing better
than a place to call horpe—something they can hold and call
their own and depend upon as a bulwark for the future, for
themselves in days of disability or for the shelter of the fam
ily they will raise—or for themselves in old age.
Prospective new se tiers, those hoping to come and set
• tie on the lands the government has been talking of settling
with pepole from drought-stricken and other areas; pros
pectors who would open the minerals; men who would en
gage permanently in fur, timber or fishery pursuits; those
who want a home—especially if they are to remain and
add to the permanency of the country’s population.
The federal government has intimated it wants to build l
up Alaska, make it an empire with a people—instead as it;
is today an empire without a people. This being the case,!
the federal government can do no better than extend loans
or make other financial arrangements for those showing
their bona fides in the matter to establish homes in the land, j
Millions, if not billions, are being poured into projects
by the government—some of them only emergency projects, i
Some of them will only tide over the people served.
But here in the home building scheme is the makings of
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something that will bring a tide of wealth to the people whc
are aided.
It is to be hoped Mr. Pegues will be given every lati
tude to help Alaskans not only build for themselves per
manetly—to own and not pay rents—but that it also will
help to colonize Alaskans who will come and make their
homes here—to assist in every way to carry out the program
of vision which will make Alaska one of the greatest, most
populous and productive future state in the great galaxy oi
brilliant stars known as “These United States of America”.
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4 “AIN’T IT THE TRUTH”
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(Denver Mining Record) f
A news dispatch from Russia indicates that the^Iapanese
would like to own Alaska and have control of the vast re
sources contained in that territory. The Russian newspap
er Pravda criticizes the United States for failure to develop
the Alaskan territory and militarize it. Recent develop
ments indicate that the United States has awakened to the
necessity of air bases in Alaska and we may yet see the gov
ernment act to encourage the miners and prospectors to de
velop the riches of that wonderful country.
There has never been a well-planned effort to colonize
and develop Alaska. Half-hearted efforts have been made in
the past and money has been spent on a railroad into the
interior. The prospector who fights the cold and the wild
erness to open the latent wealth of that great country should
be grub-staked. The financier who undertakes the promo
tion of mining and oil development in Alaska should be en
couraged and not hampered by red tape legislation. There
is plenty of idle capital in the States that would patriotically
develop the riches of Alaska if the United States govern
ment would act to encourage such financing and develop
ment. Industry will lag as^ong as the handicap of red
tape is allowed to interfere with the flow of capital into min
It is laughable to note how certain of our'great American
It is laughable to not how certain of our great American
dailies laud certain foreign mining districts to the skies and
tell of the capital of this nation that is going into the develop
ment of the mineral wealth of those nations. They seem to
forget that Alaska is part of the United States and poten
tiallyhas greater undeveloped wealth of gold, silver and
needed metals than any other country under the sun. Some
of these papers should turn patriotic for a change and tell
of the great mineral wealth of Colorado, the West and Alas
ka. Financiers who have been raising money in the United
States and sending it into foreign lands should also develop
a little patriotism and help finance the development of the
riches of Alaska. Such development would build up the
country and make it less of a prye for Japan or some oth
er foreign power.__
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The Bolcom-Canal Lumber Co.
“DON'T TRY TO PROVE THAT THE MAN WITH A NEW
IDEA IS WRONG. HELP HIM PROVE HE IS RIGHT.”
.The old saying: “Adversity Makes Us All Akin”, was
never more vividly exemplified than during and since the
calamity experienced by Nome's citixenry just a (ew short
weeks ago.
At the height of the conflagration, when the fire demon
was devouring everything in sight, everyone forgot past diff
erences as well as personal safety and gave his efforts and
strength for the assistance and protection of his neighbor.
' What an ideal city Nome will build into if this consid
erate spirit is perpetuated. It can be. It is simply a
community demonstration of the old "GOLDEN RULE”.
If there were no better or higher reward offered for such a
utopia, the advertisement in itself would be profitable for
Nome would soon become known and famous as “THE
MODEL CITY”, and it moral credit fixed at the highest rating.
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