THE NOME DAILY NUGGET
GEO. S. MAYNARD. Editor
RUSSELL G MAYNARD. Manager
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CONGRESS IS RELIEVED OF TOWNSEND
SCARE
L' '.he congressional investigation of the Townsend
plan g> os on long enough, our congressmen are likely
to wind up by concluding that what they had feared
was going to be a raging tornado has been just a mild
breeze after all.
Congressmen scare easily. It goes with the job.
And when the Townsend business got under way, the
noble representatives began to recall the fearsome whip
which Wayne B. Wheeler used to crack, and took it for
granted that another great extra-political organization
was coming into being to issue orders to them.
But now things are looking different. The fine un
selfishness of the organization takes on a less beautiful
hue in the light of revelations about high fees for or
ganizers. The venerable doctor himself may be just
as devoted as he ever was, but it is pretty apparent that
some people in his organization were much more con
cerned with the loaves and fishes than with the idea of
securing old age pensions for the unforunate.
And that can be expected to lessen Congress’ fears.
For what frightened the congressmen about this busi
ness was the high moral purpose that hung over it dur
ing the time of its youth. A congressman can. if press
ed, say “No” to a lobbyist or a self-seeker; but it you
confront him with an outfit which is sincerely and in
tensely devoted to a great Cause, it just isn’t in him
to get tough.
The thing to remember, after everything else is
said and done, is that this Townsend movement did
voice a great deal of pitiful fear and pathetic hope.
Growing old is no part of a joke, for many Ameri
cans. It means the loss of security—dependence on
someonelse who may meet that dependence grudgingly,
the shadow of poverty across the path, the constant fear
that tomorrow, or he day after, some unpredictable ac
cident may destroy what little security has been won.
Because millions of old people know that fear all
too intimately, the Townsend plan drew an amazing
response.
We have had time, by now, to look at the thing
sanely; time to study its cokeycd economics, time to
weigh the somewhat unlovely way in which district
organizers collected so much a head for every pathetic
hopeful they could bring into the fold. These things
are beginning to convince Congress that there is noth
ing to fear, after all.
But underneath it all there remain the conditions
which gave the Townsend plan its initial momentum.
These conditions will still exist, no matter how
damaging the congressional investigation may prove.
The Townsend plan, as a movement, may be crippled
to the point of death; the fear and hopelessness that
made millions of people embrace it are yet to be dealt
with. And it will take more than a congressional in
vestigation to set them right.—Exchange.
CHANGING PIGMENT
There is no distinctive racial strain of blond
Eskimos or white Indians, according to Dr. R. L. Ol
sen, California anthropologist, but he does not dispute
the exis'ence of the individual types upon which ex
plorers and researchers have made report. For these
he accounts in simple fashion. There are few if any
communities of dark-skinned natives on earth that
have not been visited by white men, many of whom
were blondes—Seattle Times.
In reply to Mencken’s assertion that a Chinaman
can defeat Mr. Roosevelt, H. E. Phillips in the New
York Sun timely comments that “the leaders at the
moment are Li Hung Landon, Long Hop Borah and Fu
Man Choover.”
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Norman McCav, Pastor. .
11 A. M. Sunday School.
The Beginners and Primary De
partment will present a Mother’s
D- y program as the opening per
iod of the whole school. The par
on is of these boys and girls are
especially invited.
7:-U) P.M. A Mother's Day wor
i.in service. Sermon theme:—
‘Mother.’’ Special music.
Mother’s Day has become one
of the outstanding days of the
calendar. Come -and worship !
SALESMEN WANTED
MEN WANTED for Raw
icigh Routes of 800 famil
ies in Nome and Council.
Reliable hustler should
start earning $25 weekly
and increase ranidly. Write
today. RawleVh, Dept.
SNC-17-S, Oakland, Calif.
Notice for Applications
Applications will be re
ceived at the City Clerk’s
office up to 5 P. M. May 11,
for positions of CHIEF, EN
GINEER and DRIVER of
the Nome Fire Department
and INSPECTOR of con
struction for the new school
building.
M. J. WALSH
City Clerk.
Publish—May 4, 9.
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Perhaps the quickest way for nations to get rid of
their surplus populations is to build up big armies and
then start making snoots at each other.—Boston Herald
War threatens everywhere. We will never again
make fun of the Dark Ages. Modern Covilization is a
ghastly joke.—Achison Globe.
Several scientists are reported to be working on
the problem of whether it’s harder to earn money or
to pay all the taxes on it after you’ve earned it.—Bost
on Transcript.
Wonder how oldtimers got along in the early
days without dozens and dozens of government offi
cials cluttering up the landscape.
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