THE NOME DAILY NUGGET
GEO. S. MAYNARD. Editor
RUSSELL G MAYNARD. Manager.
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ARE YOU FINGER-PRINTED ?
The G-Men have announced with pride that they
now have the fingerprints of John D. Rockefeller Jr.,
and other well-known men. These are the latest addi
tions to the federal bureau of investigation’s growing
list of civilian fingerprints.
J. Edgar Hoover explains: “When a person places
his fingerprints in the bureau’s civil files, he automatic
ally insures his family against prolonged mental suffer
ing and the expenditure of a large amount of money in
an effort to locate him, should he be unfortunate enough
to perish in some manner in which all means of identi
fication except fingerprints are lost, or should he be
come the victim of amnesia.”
Fingerprinting heretofore has been allied too close
ly to the criminal side of life. Now the public is be
ginning to realize its importance as a measure of gen
eral security.
ILLITERACY IN ALASKA
There are more than four and a quarter million
persons in the United States over ten years of age who
can neither read nor write. That is a tremendous num
ber. and sometimes we in Alaska are wont to cluck our
tongues over it. But, expressed in percentage, it is
only 4.3 per cent of the total population over ten. If,
instead, we turn to Alaska alone, we find the 1930 cen
sus reporting illiteracy in the Territory at 20.1 per cent.
That is a high figure. No state in the union approaches
it, the next highest being South Carolina with 14.9 per
cent illiteracy. Louisiana has 13.5 per cent, Alabama
12.6, New Mexico 13.3, Mississippi 13.1.
Thus there seems evidence that Alaska has before
it an educational problem the like of which not even
the notoriously illiterate south can match.
An examination of the statistics shows that native
whites of native parentage in Alaska in 1930 were only
0.1 per cent illiterate. Native white of foreign or mix
ed parentage wmre only 0.2 per cent illiterate. For
eign-born white in Alaska were only 1.1 per cent illiter
ate, comparing very favorably with the states as a
whole w-here foreign-born whites wrere 9.9 per cent ill
iterate.
These are old statistics. They have undoubtedly j
improved in the six years since the census wTas taken.'
But they still must be high. In the decade from 1920
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'to 1930, illiteracy among Indians in Alaska decreased
from 56.4 to 44.8. If the same ratio is being maintained
in this decade, the illiteracy must by now have decreas
ed to the neighborhood of 37 per cent. But that still is
big enough to challenge the imagination.—Exchange.
THROUGH SCHOOL AND AFTER
School administrators and pupil personnel workers
held a conference at Cornell university recently that
might well be copied.
It covered the vital problems of adjusting the child
to school and to life after school. In a sense, this con
ference considered every child a “problem” in the view
that each presents a distinct adjustment case.
Said Francis T. Spaulding, associate professor of
education at Harvard university: “The fundamental
need is to adjust boys and girls, not only to school, but
to the situations which they must inevitably face when
they leave school.”
What worthier goal could a conference of educa
tors and parents adopt?
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BEHIND THE GERMAN FRONT
( New York Times )
For more than two years it has been evident that
the apparent phenomenon of Germany’s industrial re
covery under Hitler has been due primarily to the
government’s rearmament program and that this pro
gram has been financed by means of heavy borrowing,
the extent of which is now concealed from the German
people. What is less generally understood is the met
hod by which the German government has prevented
this process of artificial stimulation of business from
reaching the stage of an inflation. This phase of the
situation and some of the risks which it involves are
discussed in an article in the current number of The
Annalist.
The German government, it is estimated here, has
been forced to raise ten billion marks through short
term borrowing, in order to build up its armaments in
the “heavy” industries. Borrowing on this scale, in a
nation with Germany’s present resources, might be ex
pected to have inflationary consequences. But here
dictatorship has played its part. Hourly wages were
not permitted to rise from the level prevailing at the
lowest point of the depression, and this curtailment of
the buying power of the masses has put a brake on a
large inflationary rise of prices. At the same time, the
government has severely punished “unjustified” in- i
creases of prices and effectively crippled independent
initiative in business. The effect of these measures has
been to prevent prices from rising as rapidly as they
would in a nation with a free economy. But it is the
essence of the situation that this has been accomplished
only by lowering the standard of living of the German
people.
The Annalist articles ventures the prediction that
as long as German workers are content to accept this j
steady decline in their standard of living, no serious
danger of large-scale inflation is likely to occur. But
if the continuance of borrowing, and of the credit ex
pansion which accompanies it, forces prices to a level
substantially higher than that now prevailing, then
“increasing uneasiness” may be expected. On the
other hand, if the government stops borrowing, its or
ders for war materials produced by the “heavy” indus
tries will at once decline and unemployment will at
once increase. These are the horns of the German
dilemma. The only escape from them lies through an
expansion of foreign markets, which is difficult to
achieve in a world ringed with tariff barriers.
Astronomers reporting a star 275,000 times as dis
tant as the sun must be referring to Garbo.
The New Yorker who is raising a corn crop in a
penthouse apparently wasn’t satisfied with the one he
raised during the elevator strike.
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A Hempstead, New York, couple was joined in bed
by a burglar, hiding after he was frightened by a noise.
Good case for an undercover investigator.
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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 MAin 149
MRS. LUNDQUIST
BEAUTY SHOP
Will be closed during October.
Ladies wishing Zoto Permanent
please make appointments now.
Second Door West SeifTert Flats
Telephone Main 19
BOURDON’S
Taxi Service
TRANSFER WORK
Trips Made Anytime
Any Place
SEE
Fred Bourdon
Phyllis’ Beauty Shoppe is now
situated in its new location next
door to SeifTert Apts., on the cor
ner of Second Ave„ and Hunter
Way.
Placer
And Lode
Location Blanks
For Sale at Nugget Office
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. tj
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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