THE NOME DAILY MJGGET
GEO S MAYNARD. Editor
RUSSELL G MAYNARD. Manager
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HOW MANY UNEMPLOYED?
In his message to Congress recommending a relief
appropriation foi next year, President Roosevelt de
clined to estimate how many people now lack work.
No figii'C "can be even approximately accurate,” he
said, "because of the impossibility of an exact definition
of what constitutes unemployment.”
Certain' , -itch figures as a e : valiable fail to car
ry great conviction. For one thin :. they leave a mysti
tying gap between the extent of business recovery and
the extent of re-employment. Though industrial pro
duction is now close to the 1930 level, most current es
timate- of unemployment are several times as large as
the 1930 figure, which was based on an actual first
hand count by the Census Bureau. Moreover, current
estimates themselves are frequently at odds. The Na
tional Industrial Conference Board placed the number
of unemployed in January of this year at 9.715,000. The
American Federation of Labor guessed 12.626,000.
No doubt it is difficult to arrive at a completely sat
isfactory definition “what constitutes unemployment.”
There are many part-time workers, many seasonal
workers, many workers only temporarily laid off, many
people who, while not actually dependent on a job.
would willingly supplement a reduced family income
if they could find employment. Nevertheless, despite
the inherent difficulty of a definition, the Census Bur
eau succeeded in 1930 in making a satisfactory count,
breaking down the total number of unemployed into
seven major classes. .
Less than a month ago a Washington dispatch re
ported that the Department of Commerce had under
consideration a plan for a similar census, to be taken in
1937. The reason for deferring it until 1937 was said
to be in order “to avoid the possibility of charges that
a desire for election-year patronage was behind the
move.” But this is scarcely a valid reason for delay,
when an election year already finds three million peop
le on the WPA payroll and when some of these people
could be much more usefully engaged in taking a cen
'Us of unemployment than in performing the some
what artificial tasks which are allotted to them. Better
data than now exists are imperatively needed. The Fed
eral Government is borrowing three billion dollars a
year to solve a problem which no one has accurately
measured.—New York Times.
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STANDINGS
NATIONAL
Team Won Lost %
St. Louis 14 7 667
Pittsburgh 12 9 571
Chicago 12 10 545
New York 11 10 524
Cincinnati 10 12 455
Boston 9 12 429
Philadelphia 10 14 417
Brooklyn 9 13 409
AMERICAN
Team Won Lost %
New York 17 7 708
Boston 17 8 680
Cleveland 15 8 652
Washington 13 14 481
Detroit 10 11 476
Chicago 9 10 475
Philadelphia 3 15 318
St. Louis 3 13 136
COAST
Team Won Lost L
Oakland 30 14 6o2
Seattle 25 19 563
Portland 21 19 525
San Fn.ncisc 2! 21 509
Missions 20 22 476
San Diego 20 23 465
Sacramento 18 24 429
Los Angeles 16 28 349
Weather Today
(by U.S. Weather Bureau)
Low barometric pressure is cen
tered around St. Paul Island, on
th s morning's weather map while
high pressure overlies the west
ern CanadianProvinces and north
Pacific Ocean.
Generally fair and mild weath
er continues thruout interior and
western Alaska. Rain was re
ported along the Gulf and in SE.
Alaska.
Airways conditions at 11 A.M.
today were as follows:
Nome, Clear, temperature 52
Solomon clear 48
Golovin clear 44
Nulato clear 5t
R by clear 52
F irbanks clear 58
Tanana cltar 37
Nerana clear 52
Flat, cloudy, 43
McGrath. clear, 44
Kotzebue cloudy 48
Candle clear 58
Juneau raining 42
Ketchikan clear 40
Shoots Self
Crumpled over in his chair, his
d head Ij ir his tell
,t!> gun. the body of Harman
; Rolfs, 78 years old. was re
su'ly found in his cabin at Sew
i The weapon rested on two
ee p >und coffee cans" the stock
bri y made immovable by nails
haven in the wall on either side
and elevated by the support of a
w >oden brace. A long stick near
by showed how the trigger had
been depressed. Old age with
accompanying helplessness and
the lonely life he lived evidently
preyed on his mind and he sought
the best way out. Tracks show
ed the aged man had walked back
and forth between his cabin and
the railroad track, evidently de
bating on the rash act. Rolfs
was born in Germany and lived
in the Interior before going to
Seward 34 years ago.
COMPLETE LINE OF MOTHER S DAY
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PIONEER DRUG STORE
BIG SALE RUBBER FOOTWEAR
SOLD AT COST
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EMPORIUM BAZAAR
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Opposite Telephone Office
THE BOARD OF TRADE
NEW LOCATION
(Opposite The Dream Theatre)
MINERS & MERCHANTS BANK of ALASKA
NOME, ALASKA.
ESTABLISHED IN 1904
GENERAL BANKING BUSINESS CONDUCTED
Checking Accounts Carried For Those Who
Prefer Paying By Check.
Interest Paid On Time Deposits
Gold Dust Purchased
WE SOLICIT YOUR BUSINESS
Northern Light & Power Co.
AND
Alaska Telephone & Telegraph Co.
Second Aveiaie and Lane’s Way
LIGHT. POWER ANf ELECTRICAL SUPPLIES
LOCAL AND LONG DISTANCE TELEPHONE SERVICE
Purchase Made
The purchase of the floating and
land equipment, real estate, etc.,
of the Nome Harbor Lighterage
Company was announced today
by company officials of the Lom
on Commercial Co., as evidenced
by their advertisement appearing
on page four.
Henceforth the only solo light
erage company in active business
will be the Lomen Commercial
Company at Nome. The t3kmg
over of such equipment and as
sets of the Nohalico has occupied
the better part of the past week,
and an announcement was made
today confirming the transaction
Alfred J. Lomen, Nome mana
ger of the Lomen Commercial
Company, who has been in the
states for the past few months,
is expected to return to Nome in
about a week, and it was believ
ed that a possible further state
ment would be forthcoming up
on his arrival.
Results Floods
(Hv The Associated Press)
CHICAGO, 111., May 11, —The
American Red Cross totaled the
nation’s spring flood bill and
counted half a million persons
homeless in a dozen states. They
said there were over a hundred
thousand families destitute, and
two hundred dead.
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ANTHONY J. DIM0N1)
For Re-election On Democratic Ticket
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Best Argument For His Re-election
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