THE NOME DAILY NUGGET
GEO. S. MAYNARD, Editor.
RUSSELL MAYNARD, Manager.
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OUR DISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH
Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Columbia Uni
versity, has called attention to the unreliability of statements
frequently made by radical speakers as to the mal-distribu
tion of wealth in the United States... It is frequently said by
these class-hatred organizers that sometimes like 75 percent
of the wealth of the country is held by two or three or four
percent of the population. The statement is of course erron
eous and misleading. In figuring the total population, the
figures always take a percentage of the entire population
which includes infants in arms, youngsters in grade schools,
high schools and colleges, married women whose husbands
are property owners, and many others who should be ex
cluded in making such comparisons.
But even aside from that, as Dr. Butler well states, the
evidence at hand disproves the statements of the radicals,
regarding the distribution of our national wealth. ..As he
points out, there are more than 15,000,000 holders of cor
porate securities in the United States; 45,000,000 people who
have savings accounts totalling twenty-five billions or more;
10,000,000 members of building and loan associations whose
assets total more than eight billions of dollars; 15,000,000
life insurance policies with a face value of more than a hun
dred billion! In addition to that it may be added that half of
the families in the United States own their homes and more
than half of the farms are without mortgages. ..Compare
these figures with any that can be gathered., in regimented
countries like Russia, Italy, Germany, Poland and Austria!
Compare them with figures which can be gathered in any
other country on the face of the globe for that matter.
The fact is, as Dr. Bulter pointed out, that radicals and
real liberals are entirely different sorts of beings. Few radi
cals are really liberals. What they seek is not the extension
of personal freedom in the interest of the individual but com
plete regimentation to make the state all powerful over
the individual. Their redistribution of wealth, if carried to
its logical conclusion, would be the elimination of wealth.
They would equalize by sinking all to the common level.
They will not increase the number of life insurance policy
holders, building and loan association members,., security
holders and so on, if given power to carry out this plan but
will “equalize” ownership of wealth by destroying wealth,
either through necessarily heavy taxation or inflation.—Ex
change.
WHERE RELIEF BEGINS
Relief must begin where charity begins, with the indiv
idual and the home. This was the special emphasis put by
the President in his appeal for support of the new mobiliza
tion for human relief. It is the basic obligation in such a soc
ial order as ours. Deeper than that, it is the compelling “priv
ilege” of human beings dwelling in communities, great or
small. It might almost be said that the spirit of human kind
ness tends to diminish directly as the square of the distance
from the individual or the family in need. This is the
strongest reason for urging the localities to do their ut
most before asking for State or Federal aid. And even
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when it becomes necessary to accept the latter, its dispens
ing should, especially in smaller communities, be left to the
hands of the local voluntary agencies acquainted with the
real state of need.
It was the custom of a certain people to refer to a series
of years, in which there was intense suffering and want be
cause of failing harvests, as “the dear years”—years when
life was purchased dearly for the multitude, and when many
died of starvation because life was too dear for their possess
ing. The years of our depression have been out “dear
years” in their great cost in terms of human mental agony,
if not of actual starvation or dire want, but as was said by
Mr. Newton D. Baker, the chairman of this second mobiliza
tion as well as that of 1933.
“With our great griefs behind us, we as a people will
be strengthened to enjoy improved and better times by a
recollection of the courage with which we sustained one an
other as we passed through the shadows in the valley.”
We dare to hope that these “dear years” with their
great griefs are behind us, even though the relief rolls are
growing “at the very time that people are going back to
work.” S
France’s gold hoard is now the highest in her history and
her currency has a gold coverage of eighty percent. Still she
is too poor to pay Uncle Sam anything on account.
Arapahoe Indians are preparing to give a sun-dance to
make it rain. If they are successful the AAA ought to sign
them up. They might be more effective than some of the col
lege medicine men.
The Bureau of Home Economics estimates that the pros
pective supply of pork in the United States is just about 70
percent of normal. Wonder what the percentage would be
if we still had those 4,000,000 regimented pigs?
The administration at Washington informs us that food
profiteering will be prevented this fall and winter. There is
to be no gouging of the consumer. This sounded fine until we
happened to think that their platform back in the campaign
of 1932 promised a balanced budget, reduced governmental
expenditures, a cut in the number on the payroll, sound mon
ey and tariff revision.
A dress reformer advocates cutting men’s shirt sleeves
off at the elbow and we don’t see any great objection to the
idea. You can’t get anything on the cuff any more, any
way.
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