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THE NOME DAILY NUGGET
GEO. S. MAYNARD, Editor.
RUSSELL MAYNARD, Manager.
Published every evening except Sunday by the NOME PUBLISHING
COMPANY. Nome, Alaska.
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POINTING THE WAY.
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Reports of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation re
veal that nearly half of the tremendous total of $4,608,u00,-v
000 which it loaned to banks, railroads, and other corpora
tions to tide them over the severe days of depression has
■■been repaid to the government.
There is both reassurance and optimism in such a report.
It indicates that industrial and financial recovery has made
considerable progress since those dark days early in 1933,
greater than many of us believe. And it also carries the
thought that the future contains more cause for hope than
it does reason for doubt and discouragement.
MEDICINE SIXTY YEARS AGO.
(New York World-Telegram.)
Here is a man interviewed who varies the ^pattern of
how he, being 80, is still going strong.
He dips back sixty years and brings up out of his youth
a measuring rod of our vast progress. He is Dr. Alfred
Meyer, founder of the tuberculosis sanitarium at Monteliore
Hospital, largest institution for chronic diseases, fifty years
old December 3.
He' told Lionel Houser,. World-Telegram writer:
“When I was a student at the old P. and S.we
saw little children die the most brutally horrible deaths of
diphtheria. They were wholly conscious and they died
slowly of strangulation. We didn’t have the anti-toxin then.
. . . . We had no such thing as trained nurses. Who
did the nursing? The scrubwoman.It was at
Heidelberg that Dr. Koller discovered local anesthesia about
1884. I remember the great excitement here.”
In this man’s life there have been prodigies of medical
progress. Yet the surface seems only to have been scratch
ed. Beyond anti-toxins and anesthesia lie unexplored conti
nents of research in the human body and mind.
Further progress is bound to be increasingly rapid. But
there is urgent demand for far-flung new liberation of re
search talent and genius from the daily grist of money-mak
ing in private practice. The great difficulty in raising
money just to support the minimum humane necessities of j
hospitals shows the necessity of some entirely new provision
of grandiose support of organized medical research correlat
ed on a national and even international basis in a war for
bodily well-being and against human misery.^
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WAR DEBTS AND THE CHEAP DOLLAR.
(Kansas City Times.)
Though the Government of France persists in refusing
to pay interest and maturing installments on the huge war
debt due the United States Government, it has not taken
advantage of this country’s 40 per cent debasement of the
gold value of the dollar in its obligation to citizens of the
United States. Both the French government and the French
cities for which loans were floated through American bank
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ers are paying coupons oifthose loans on the basis of the full
pre-depreciation gold value of the dollar^ which means that
American holders of French bonds are receiving $1.60 for
each one dollar of interest maturity. That explains why
French 7 per cent bonds listed on the New York Stock Ex
change are selling for more than 80 per cent premium, mak
ing them the highest priced bonds in the market.
The British Government also, despite its default on the
war debt to this country, has been able to maintain a high
standing with its private creditors in the United States as is
indicated by the fact that British 4 per cent bonds are quot
ed at 20 per cent premium. Evidently the defaulted war
debt of each nation is considered as a thing apart from the
credit standing of those countries in the financial markets,
and as obligations that never are likely again to assume
importance in international finance.
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Do gentlemen really prefer blondes? Many girls are
just dyeing to find out.
If you have any business worth mentioning, it is a good
idea to attend to it yourself.
Progress always involves risks. You can’t steal second
base and keep one foot on first.
Not every man with good intentions is intelligent
enough to accomplish the good of mankind.
Our own collection of delightful words—“Mr. Editor,
here’s my money for another year.” Try saying this your
self.
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No, the radio will never supplant the newspaper for
the simple reason that you can’t use radio waves to cover
the pantry shelves.
All of us would be far better off if wevcfiilt bothering
about “turning to the left” or “turning to the right” and let
’er go full speed straight ahead.—Fiddlin’ Fool’s Filosofy.
Astronomers have discovered in the skies a distant
nebula which is traveling away from the earth at a speed
of 25,000 miles a second. We hope the cost of living isn’t
attached to its tail.
So far we have been unable to please everybody but
the bright lights burn when we meet some soul who is grat
ified with our efforts to produce a newspaper that will al
ways reflect credit upon Nome.
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