THE NOME DAILY NUGGET
GEO. S MAYNARD. Editor
RUSSELL G MAYNARD, Manager.
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DRY FOOTBALL
(New York World Telegram)
In a symbolic gesture of frisking the coonskin coats
for hip flasks. President Harold W. Dodds of Princeton
University has requested all ticket holders that they
leave their liquor behind when coming to Princeton
football games.
Many a football enthusiast will remember back
from his request to some particuar game when he stav
ed through to the final whistle regardless of a wind
loaded with sharp ice and the temperature reaching
down for zero. How to stand it without a drink? Pres
ident Dodds is virtually saying “Let them eat ice cream
cones.”
But, on the other hand, the universities are entitled
to sympathy, too, for there have been plenty of football
crowds to whom tearing up the goal posts was merely a
start. What is the university to do with its alumni
flocking back by the thousands to the big homecoming,
whooping it up in search of their youth and shouting
the blessings of higher education to the farthest stars?
So long as the universities are willing to furnish the
big seasonal athletic excitement after baseball, giving
the public what it wants and taking the public’s mon
ey, the problem of football crowds is likely to be more
practical than academic. Dr. Dodds showed he was
a practical man by merely uttering a “request”. He
isn t going in for prohibition. Perhaps the next step
may be to take the profits of a good season and air-con
dition the stands against November cold.
Otherwise the second-string football players might
be organized into a flying wedge, like the waiters at
Jack’s, to give obstreperous spectators the bum’s rush.
We hope sweet reasonableness will prevent its going
that far.
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OFFICE HOLDERS
One job in each ten is a government job, accord
ing to the annual report of the National Civil Service
Reform League.
It is a startling fact that the government now em
ploys 824,259 persons with an annual wage bill of $129,
847,167. This figure approaches the World War re
cord.
Six thousand four hundred and three employees
were added in June of this year. This number does
not include 24,178 employees hired “under special let
ters of authorization”, with an additional payroll of
$1,173,469.
Recently a leading Democratic daily in discussing
this situation said: “Except for a handful of policy det
ermining places at the top, and few hundred truly con
fidential positions down the scale, every one of those
government posts, federal, state and city, should be
removed from political control. How otherwise pre
vent the officeholders from exercising an undue influen
ce over elections? In a recent national newspaper poll
88 percent urged that jobs be given to those qualify
ing in Civil Service examinations.”
We have repeatedly urged a curtailment in growth
of government, and a strict adherence to the Civil Ser
vice record established after years of effort. Those
who pay taxes for the upkeep of government have the
right to demand that ofhciency control.—Seward Gate
wav.
War threatens everywhere. We will never again
make fun of the dark ages.—Atchison Globe.
When President Roosevelt met William Allen
White they both smiled—and they both meant it—The
Boston Globe.
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Wheel Landings
Anchorage Field
Been Forbidden
The following copy of a tele,
gram received by O. I. C. Victor
Page of the U. S. Signal Corps
station at Nome, conveys warn
ing to all airplane companies re.
garding landing conditions at An
chorage.
Anchorage Nov. 19, 1936
Signal Corps, Nome.
Broadcast and otherwise not-jfy
public and all airplane operators
your vicinity following informa
tion “All runways at present time
at Anchorage unsafe for wheels,
and landings on wheels must not
be made. Signed Hugh Brewester”
This is official from Hugh Brew
ster, Aeronautical Inspector.
Sjgned: Mason.
NOTICE
The COMMON COUNCIL has
DESIGNATED NOVEMBER 10th
to 20th as a period to conduct a
Ore prevention campaign. The
Chief of the Fire Department has
already begun an investigation of
the smoke stacks and other fiTe
hazards and you are requested to
cooperate with him in this work,
insofar as complying with certain
regulations of our Fire Ordinance
is concerned, as will be explain
ed to you by Chief Laws.
NOME COMMON COUNCIL
By M. J. WALSH,
City Clerk.
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ALASKA’S SHARE AMERICA’S TOURIST TRADE
In this final period of the year when casting up of
budgets for the coming year and planning of campaigns
for the 1937 better business drive is being started by
everyone who scouts the prospects of the immediate
future, it is well that Alaskan’s keep a weather eye
peeled to get a bigger share of the American tourist
business.
Americans spend six billion dollars annually tour
ing the world or seeing their own country. Here is a
line of business from which Alaska should annually
care a greater share.
The State of Washington already does a thirty
million dollar tourist business. The chambers of com
merce of that state already are formulating plans to
materially increase the business this year.
Of the tourist travel into the Pacific Northwest,
Alaska gets a share, but nothing compared to what she
eventually will get and what she may derive in the near
future if she goes carefully about the task.
Facilities for handling tourists, both on transpor
tation lines and in cities, are problems which confront
Alaskans. It cannot be expected that Alaskans can
immediately take care of hordes of tourists such as go
to Europe, but she can gradually develop along these
lines. The money tourists bring into a country is found
money. It is estimated each tourist spends ten to fifteen
dollars daily on a trip. The funds percolate into all
channels of trade.
Hundreds of thousands if not millions of Ameri
can’s who have gone to Europe annually are going to
avoid that strife-ridden and war-torn realm next sum
mer. More of them will turn to American wonderland
attractions—and of these Alaska with her rare north
ern charms is sure to take on a greater lure. The con
ditions bring new opportunities to Alaska. Her scenic
appeal is an inexhaustible resource—one worthy of de
velopment to the fullest as rapidly as possible.—Fair
banks News-Miner.
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