THE NOME DAILY NUGGET
GEO. S MAYNARD. Editor
RUSSELL G MAYNARD, Manaper.
Published every evening except Sunday by The Nome
Publishing Company, Nome, Alaska.
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THE DUTY OF ANY COMMUNITY
Incorporated municipalities, mining camps, vill
ages of all descriptions, have primary duties of exist
ence. Someare required to maintain law and order thru
voluntary organizations and consent—some are duty
bound not to allow privation, and others primarily are
interested in preserving humanity, to the extent that
sickness and disease shall be eradicated, and health shall
occupy their place.
Nome is just such a community. In fact it is duty
bound morally to do many things. But we come now
to a concrete example of that oft-used word—humani
tarian.
People use humanity as an excuse for many ac
tions, and causes of proceedure. Let’s really inspect
the word and apply its meaning right at home. Human
ity, says the dictionary, is the quality of being human.
It is mankind collectively—the human race.
Now Nome has been a real tough, hide-bound min
ing camp in its day. Progress and civilization have lifted
if to a higher level. Its people are not alone concerned
in their future richness through extraction of gold, but
think kindly towards Nome’s institutions, its industries,
and its fellow men.
It is no idle remark to say that “kindness begins
at home.” We have a hospital in Nome which has car
ried on the “humanitarian” work of the community
for many years—through lean, as well as prosperous
years. Its financial ability to continue has been threat
ened, and for it to continue to serve Nome in the ex
tremely beneficial and valuable way that it has in the
past it is necessary to develop another manner of its
support. Previously it has been financed through mis
sionary funds subscribed in the states, while Nome has
up to now really not thought much about its support.
Last winter it was announced that it might be nec
essary to close the Maynard Columbus Hospital. Since
then assurance has been given that it will continue.
The point is, that Nome recognized at that time, that
without the hospital here, a serious condition confron
ed the city. They were made aware of its serious
ness, and for the first time thought about its support.
The equipment, to a large extent, is old. There
-are many new appliances and items of equipment need
cd Dr. Thomas Morcom tells us, if this institution is to
continue its work with the best results.
Through its newly appointed Advisory Board, ef
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, forts are being made to develop the support required
to continue the active work carried on by that institu
tion. And here we come back to Nome. Nome must
realize its moral duty and preserve the humanitarian
work of the Maynard Columbus Hospital if it wishes
to continue as a city. Without that feeling so necess
i ary to progress and development Nome would not step
ahead, nor the people in it.
So, we say, you, and each of you, have at heart
the duty to humanity and your city institutions for its
continuance. Subscription to the support of the May
nard Columbus Hospital is subscribing to an organiza
' Mon devoted to the well-being of Nome and its inhabi
tants. The need is acute. The benefits are innumerab’e.
Your duty to yourself and your city demands that you
give your attention to this important matter. Nome has
never hesitated in the pash Don’t think the next fell
ow is sufficient. Step out and help support your hospital
in every way possible—particularly through financial
support for its efficient continuance.
LAND APLENTY ASSURES US
AGAINST COLLAPSE
Drouth and dust stor-m and erosion may continue
to smite western farm lands, but the American has one
unbeatable ace in the hole that will keep the game from
licking him. No matter what is happening to his land,
he has such a tremendous lot of it that he can stand
the gaff.
It is this fact that keeps the recent report of the
National Resources Committee from being a thing of
unmitigated gloom.
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mu iNciiiuiicti xwMJUiues ^urniniiiuu wiucn nas just
completed for President Roosevelt an extensive survey
of our soil and its ills, begins its report by calmly pre
dicting that American civilization will collapse com
pletely unless men come to the rescue of the soil they
have misused.
“The fact is”, says the report, “most of the Terri
tory occupied by the United States is not naturally
suited for a permanent civilization. It is like the land
of the Mayas of Yukatan or the land of Babylon—a rich
country where civilization can dash into a blaze of glory
and then collapse in a few generations into ruin.
“Our soil,” the report continues, “is not enriched
by the usual methods of cultivation, but impoverished.
By the normal processes of our farming, our mining,
and our lumbering, we create a deseret. . . Any nation j
whose land naturally tends to turn into desert must eith
er take measures to preserve the land or it will surely
die.”
That sounds very bad, but there is worse to come. I
x ne report points out tnat otner nations witn iarming
land which had that desert-creating tendency, have
been able to stay in business only by regimenting their
people and undertaking colossally expensive public
works programs. The empires of ancient Peru and Egy
pt, which imposed an ant-like discipline on the masses
as the price of survival, are cases in point.
Bv this time, a man who takes government reports
seriously might well be ready to sell out and move to
Zamboanga or some equally remote spot. But it is just
here, with the sky darkened on all sides, that the Re
sources Committee lets in a strong gleam of sunlight.
After all, it points out, the United States is a big
country—unbelievably big. If it has millions of acres of
soil that should not be farmed as we now farm it, it
has other millions of acres which, with a little care can
be farmed until doomsday.
It can afford to restore whole sections to grass
land, for instance: .to avoid overgrazing—to put forests
; back on mountain slopes too steep for permanent civ
ilization—to farm only that land which can be farmed
' without risk—for it has land, land, and to spare.
In other words—we face a serious emergency, and
we have got to map out a long-range program for pro
per land use. But we can do it without breaking our
i selves. This will continue to be a land of plenty even
after we have plugged the leaks.
A New York women’s union recently started a “sit
down’’ strike. No unpleasantness resulted, however,
until one of the members left the room.
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OPEN FROM 6 A.M. TO 1 A.M.
GOOD CUP OF COFFEE
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Good Meals
CITY LAUNDRY
Harry Saito, Prop.
Opposite The Bank
Suits And Hats
Cleaned
Laundry Work At
Reasonable Prices
Baths For Men and Women
Phone MAln 149
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MRS. LUNDQUIST
BEAUTY SHOP
Will be closed during October.
Ladies wishing Zoto Permanent
please make appointments now.
Second Door West Seiffert Flats
Telephone Main 19
BOURDON’S
Taxi Service
TRANSFER WORK
Trips Made Anytime
Any Place
SEE
Fred Bourdon
Phyllis’ Beauty Shoppe is now Placer
situated in its new location next And Lode
door to Seiffert Apts., on the cor Location Blanks
ner of Second Ave., and Hunter ^ ^ Nugget Qffice
Way.
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. jj
Also Bulk Wines and Liquors. We Are Closing out |
Our Entire line of Mens Furnishings Rubbers
Boots and Pacs.
NOME LIQUOR STORE
(Next Door To Fire Station)
ARCTIC BEER PARLOR
AND CARD ROOM
Between Pioneer Drug Store And Dream Theatre
Jack Solomon, Pron.
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