THE NOME DAILY NUGGET
QEO. S. MAYNARD, Editor
RUSSELL G. MAYNARD, Manager.
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Can Japan Be
Stopped—Mavbe
With 3 Big If’s
(Continued From Page One)
It is probable, then, that the
on both fronts. On the Nanking
Shanghai sector the Chinese will
gardless of loss of life. The pur
pose will be to engage an enorm
ous and costly invading force by
resisting every inch of the way.
In the north, probably, guerilla
tactics will soon commence in
earnest with the object of demor
alizing the enemy and giving a
chance to undermine Japan’s
home base.
Persuasive Methods Likely
With regard to what sort of
policy is likely to be adopted by
the United States and other for
eign powers, the only thing that
can be pointed out with safety is
a trend. This trend in the direc
tion of concerted action to “quar
antine” Japan has been unmistak
able since the President’s speech.
Will it lead to action that can
actually stop Japan? What seems
likely now is that a conference of
the Nine-Power treaty signatories
will first attempt, by further var
bal denunciations of the war, to
persuade the two nations to cease
fighting.
Can we expect much more? The
next step would be a boycott or
a partial boycott of commercial
relations with Japan. In view of
Britain's preoccupation in Europe
and the United States’ determin
ation to avoid becoming involved
in war, it is extremely doubtful
if as drastic a policy as this will
be adopted.
This brings us to our third ques
tion, the nternal situation in Ja
pan. Only two things can make
Japan stop its aggressive action:
coercion from the outside or in
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ternal exhaustion. Or, what is
: more likely, a combination of
both.
Japan’s Internal Affairs
Mere moral pressure from the
outside serves only to infuriate
the Japanese to further militar
ism, but Japan is economically
dependent to an extraordinary
d gree on exports to pay for the
import of essential war materials.
Further, the ruling class in Ja
pan is sitting on a social barrel of
dynamite, and if the workers and
farmers are subjected to a long
period of lowering living stand
ards, the barrel may blow up.
Therefore, the sort of partial com
mercial embargo which foreign
nations might impose on Japan,
combined with continued Chinese
resistance, would in part provide
the external coercion which would
promote internal exhaustion and
force a halt to the China cam
paign.
These factors, however, cannot
be expected to operate quickly.
If quick results were wanted, the!
foreign powers would have to
find a way among themselves to
effect a complete commercial boy,
cott of Japan—supported by nav-'
al action sufficient to protect the
Philippines, Netherlands, India
and the other raw material areas
of the southwestern Pacific.
Will European politics and Am
erican opinions permit such a
policy? If not the most that can
be expected is a mild sort of in
ternational action of long dura
1 tion. And, if not even this can
be achieved, no influence on the
: course of Japanese aggression can
I be expected from abroad.
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Eskimos Forsake
Moos in Norik
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Says Surveyor
(Juneau Press)
The day of the igloo is peechuk
that is to say. all gone.
No more do the little micka
ninnies crawl through the frozen
entrance of their round snow
houses and nibble on tallow by
the light of a seal oil lamp, while
gaping at the dim world through
the window of ice.
Leonard Berlin, U. S. survey
or who has just finished a long
season in the far north, return
ed here recently with wmrd that
the Eskimos from now on must
be completely disassociated with
igloos, for there is probably not
one in use today, at least in Al
aska.
When Uncle Sam’s northern
most citizens go traveling, they
occasionally erect a snowhouse
for a “one-night stand”, if no shel
ter offers itself. But this is rarely
the case, and if you were to visit
the north country, today, you
would find the natives of the re
gion living either in frame hous
es or in “barabaras” such as are;
used on the Aleutian Islands.
There “barabaras” is built half
under ground, half above ground
and covered with grass or boards
or anything to keep out the ele- j
ments. When built underground
the ground oftentimes has to be
thawed out by building fires on
it.
Such a decidedly rude existence
one would thin, is not conducive
to the highest happiness, but Ber
lin declares that the Eskimos ofi
this far north country, along the
Arctic coast, are as good-natured
and carefree a band of people as:
you will ever meet in this plan-!
et,
‘They treat you right when you
get around Point Barrow” he
said. “It’s not always this ‘two-j
bits, two-bits’ stuff, like the na
tives further south, or, as a mat
ter of fact, like the white man
everywhere.”
The Eskimos are living expon
ents of the truth of Thomas Gray
’s line: “Where ignorance is bliss,
’tis folly to be wise.” They don’t
know any other life than the rig
orous one they lead on the Arc
tic shore. They don’t know warm!
th and sunshine.
As a result they are jolly and
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contcnted, earning an industrious
life off their sea lions and rein
deer. They are not lazy, not by
a long way. And Berlin found
them mighty fine people to know.
The surveyor traveled to Bar
row on the North Star, saw the
Russian searchers for the lost
plane in action thee, and did some
odd survey jobs at the village
with a crew of two men. A vcter
an of many seasons in the Inter
ior, he has concluded his summer
campaign and will shortly be
heading Outside for a vacation.
BETHEL ENJOYS QUIETEST
FREEZEUP IN MANY YEARS
Many people saw the most quiet
freezeup in years, due to the fact
that there was very little drifl
ice conning down the river.
On October 29 the river was
running a little drift ice. During
the night the thermometer drop
ped to 12 above and the following
morning all surface motion ceas
ed, leaving a smooth, glassy sur
face over most of the entire river
front of Bethel.—Kusko Times.
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