THE NOME DAILY NUGGET
GEO. S. MAYNARD, Editor.
RUSSELL MAYNARD, Manager.^
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NOME’S SPIRIT IN ATHLETICS
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Nome has the promise of several good athletic entertain
jnents before this winter is over. Already we notice that a
basketball league is to be formed for the purpose of organiz
ing and playing basketball during the next two months.
Yesterday The Nome Athletic Club announced the date for
a smoker. All of the public halls were destroyed in the
lire, where formerly entertainments of various kinds were
given. But that has not subdued the spirit of staging ath
letics of one kind or another.
The Dream Theatre has been secured for the staging of
the smoker and it is understood that the gymnasium of the
native school operated by the Office of Indian Affairs will be
made available for the basketball games.
At present it is reported that there will be four teams
ready to organize in the basketball league, namely: The Al
askans, The High School, The Nome Athletic Club and The
Polarites.
What finer spirit can be manifested than to promote
sport during this winter when activities, of a necessity, are
restricted due to a lack of public places and the reconstruc
tion work going on.
Nome will appreciate these athletic activities and those
who are fostering them. We still continue to display that
spirit for which this city is famous. Let’s get behind these
efforts for further athletics and promote them as they de
serve to be.
POLICE “MUSS UP” SUSPECTS WHILE LAW
REMAINS LAX
How far is a policeman entitled to go when he bumps
into a man known to be a desperado, but whom the courts
can never seem to touch?
Police Commissioner Valentine of New York has the
idea that the cop can go just about as far as he likes. He
complains that his police have been too polite to racketeers,
gunmen, and such like, and he wants to see these gentlemen
mussed up a little.
The commissioner expressed himself in this vein after
watching a man named Harry Strauss brpught into a police
lineup at headquarters.
Strauss has been arrested 18 times in the last seven
years, on charges ranging all the way from homicide to poss
essing narcotics. He has never been convicted of anything,
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however, and when he was pinched he gave his occupation
as a house painter.
He came in dressed like a fashion-plate, and it was his
sartorial magnificence that exasperated the commissioner.
“This man is a paid assassin,” said the commissioner.
“Men like him should be marked up and mtiSsed up. Blood
should be smeared all over tfyat velvet collar. Instead, he
looks as if he had just got out of a barber’s chair.
Very few persons will quarrel with this idea, in itself.
Unfortunately, when the police set out to muss people up,
they aren’t usually very discriminating.
Pretty soon it is the minor offender who gets mussed
up; then, after a while, some totally innocent bystander is
attested by mistake and gets rather frightfully mussed up
before he can convince the cops that it’s all a mistake.
For that reason, telling any police department to be
brutal is a mistake. The brutality is certain to hit the wrong
parties, sooner or later.
Nevertheless, we haven’t answered the commissioner
when we say his idea is dangerous. We must find some way;
of taking care of these outlaws who can be arrested 18 times,
and yet remain free to follow their own devices.
Something pretty shocking must be wrong with our
criminal law and our method of administering it when a man
can be accused three times of homicide, six times of carrying
a gun, and nine times of felonies ranging from grand lar-i
ceny to assault, without even so much as standing trial before
a jury.
So long as such conditions remain, the police are going
to be brutal out of sheer exasperation. We can never abol-j
ish the third degree until we take a few kinks out of our i
system of handling accused persons after they have been
arrested.—Exchange.
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