THE NOME DAILY NUGGET
GEO. S MAY'NARD. Editor
RUSSELL G MAYNARD, Manager.
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GOVERNMENT IS VVIIAT TIIE PEOPLE MAKE IT
It might help our political arguments a good deal
if we could understand, once and for all, that a stream
never can rise any higher than its source.
That is to say that it is foolish of us to expect any
thing more from our government in the way of intell
igence. tolerance, and foresight than we, the great body
of undistinguished voters, are willing to give it.
It can’t go above our level. If it does, the chances
are that we ruthlessly shall yank it back down at the
first opportunity. Washington is a reflection of Main St.
All this is brought to mind by a reading of the set
of principles approved at the recent National Progres
sive Conference in Chicago.
The last item on the list of objectives for progres
sive voters reads like this:
‘‘The right of every American to live under a gov
ernment strong enough to suppress the lawless, wise
enough to see beyond the selfish desires of the moment,
and just enough to consider the welfare of the people
as a whole.”
That is a noble objective It is well to reaffirm that
every American has that right, and to insist that the
reality at Washington come as close to the ideal as is
humanly possible.
But to do so it will be necessary for us to remem
ber constantly that a river cannot rise above its sour
ce—that government never will be any better than the
people as a whole want it to be,
For we, the people are the government. Our con
stitution was skilfully designed to make us so. When
we demand strength, wisdom, and justice for our gov
ernment, we simply are demanding those qualities for
ourselves, contrariwise, the very forces which assail
the government and occasionally prevent it from exer
cising those qualities come also from ourselves.
The government must be strong enough to sup
press lawlessness—as, for instance, during prohibition,
when thd lawlessness of bootlegging drew its support
directly from the great mass of citizenry?
The government must be wise enough to see be
yond the selfiish desires of the moment—as. for instance
in 1928 and 1929, whn any attempt at Washington to
curb the runaway boom would have drawn from all
corners of the land a blast strong enough to level the
walls of Jericho?
The government must be just enough to consider
the welfare of all the people—when the people, all ac
cross the land, organize themselves into pressure groups
to make sure that their own problems shall receive at
tention before the problems of the nation as a whole?
The problems of democracy are many, but none
is greater than this; that democracy calls on individ
ual citizens to give to their government a strength, a
wisdom, and a tolerance greater than they ordinarily
know they possess themselves.
Democratic government is a mirror in which the
common man sees his own virtues and his own failings.
To improve it we must start at the very bottom—with
ourselves.—Exchanee.
ARMY AIRBASE MAKES FAIRBANKS
PIVOTAL CENTER
All lingering doubts as to where Uncle Sam’s great
army airplane base for Alaska would be located were
swept away with the announcement appearing in the
News-Miner October 24 to the effect public lands for
such a site have been set aside as a reservation within
four miles of Fairbanks.
By executive order four square miles are reserved
and two square miles more are withdawn from public
entry and may be added to the present reservation. The
total of these two areas will provide a site three miles
in length and two miles in depth along the Chena Riv
er and skirting the Richardson Highway.
The site is practically in Fairbanks. Come when it
may, next spring or later, the construction of the field
and the base facilities proper, will bring a new tide of
activity to Fairbanks that will vastly improve the gen
eral conditions here.
The coming of the army planes and their personnel
the handling of traffic into this city incidental to the
construction period, the employment of many b, ilders,
all will contribute to the greater prosperity in store for
this community. In all probability the benefits will be
permanent.
The fixing of Fairbanks as the site for this pre-em
inent base of America’s Northland major defensive and
sub-Arctic training for her flying forces orients Fair
banks in the eyes of all the nation. Selected as one of
seven similiar bases for America, Fairbanks will be es
pecially conspicuous because of her far northern fron
tier location. s
The army air base will go a long way toward en- 1
trenching Fairbanks as the outstanding hub on future |
air lines between the Occident and the Orient. Com- I
mercial lines will find it advantageous to tie in here, 9
establishing permanent routes between the old world fj
and the new. Future air mail routes between Alaska &
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and the States and between the two hemispheres will |
come this way. Already there is heralded from Moscow %.
announcements of plans to establish in the near future Ir
regular air routes between that city and metropolitan |
American centers. Establishment of service over such -
a route would be sure to be followed by others that ^
would come this way. %
Although appropriations for the Fairbanks army *
air base construction are yet to be made, and the initial j
units may not be as large as some would imagine, the |
national defense scheme and the desire on the part of |
the high direction of the army to give its army pilots a
and others of the personnel advantage of thorough §
training in sub-Arctic flying, is sure to witness action I
along these lines within a reasonable period and it may |
not be long until actual work of preparation of the |
base begins. %
Fairbanks as the heart of Alaska’s great mining, %
industrial and traffic operations is now vested with a |
vastly augmented status of virtue of also being made |
the home base of America’s most northerly army unit. 1
It is logical that such a great portion of the nation’s land |
ed possessions should not continue defenseless—and the i
selection of Fairbanks for the base is fraught with a |
world of meaning to this region. Fairbanks News-Miner 1
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