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Box 210 Nome, Alaska. Phone, Black 134
Nome, Alaska, November ~ 1. S!>1(».
a NKU KKMKDY.
tin Padfii < nast .shell the
bus, ss interests began their agi
tation for tlie open shop, the union
ists r< wo meas ires noth
vvhiih proved quite efficacious.
<me urged that local patronage be
■ lis.rt.d from the open shop tirms
to mail order houses elsewhere, and
the other was a co-operative estab
lishment. The co-operative rnove
juet.t lias received a tremendous
stimulus from the increase in the
costs of living and lias in many pla
. -s resulted in redm dig pric s with
astonishing effect.
Some years ago the Los Angeles
brewers locked out union employees
and the latter started a prohibition
agitation made the brewery men
sick. They have not got over it yet.
When the pocket book is affected
the situation becomes exceedingly
grave to employers.
< i:\sokshii*.
Of course the European censor is
a bail man. No one iias a good word
to say for him. Such a condition
would not bq tolerated in America
at all. at all? Well, here is the Rus
sian labor paper the lteboycha Recti.
The Post Office Department of the
United States of America came to
the conclusion that being a labot
paper it ought to be subjected to
a stricter censorship, and ordered
that all articles which were about
to appear in the paper be translated
and handed the department for ex
amination before publication. Be
cause this is a practical impossibil
ity the Reboycha Rech has been de
nied the right to pass through the
mails. It would he very interesting
and instructive “if one of the postal
officials would furnish the country
witli a treatise upon the evolution ot
liberty and with the freedom
press used as an illustration.
PLAIN TALK.
When Warren S. Stone told the
Federation delegates that an alliance
between the American Federation ot
Labor and the Raiiroaii Brother
hoods was impracticable because of
jurisdictional squabbles within the
latter organization, he spoke pretty
plainly. The most tragically
ludicrous development of the rati
form of organization is this vorv
question which lias ex-ited the d>'
rision of all men of sense. The mere
fact that such squabbles are not
only possible but prohabh shoul ' |
occasion some doubt of a reason j
at ' nature in the practicability o |
11. whole form of organization. 4. .
;ii industrial organization ..ii-i
n ji»-s any such fool squabble.- why
isi 'I it adopted?
\ NEW INCENTIVE,
That this war is proving a new
-and valuable incentive to inventive
ability seems unquestioned. Take
the latest aeroplane development b\ i
the Curtiss Aeroplane company
They have invented what they call a
■Zeppelin destroyer. This tvinderfiu
plane travels at the rate of one
hundred and twenty miles an lion:
and rises ten thousand feet in ten
minutes. It will travel Taster and
rise faster than a Zeppelin accord
ing to the test reports.
Moreover they are now experi
menting in France upon a U boat
destroyer of a strictly secret type
but which is said to promise revolu
tionary results in naval warfare.
The evolution is simple. First 3
deadly weapon is invented anil
then the brains of the world direct
themselves to the discovery of a
weapon will destroy the deadly In
vention. If half the intellectual
energy devoted to Instruments of
death and destruction were devoted
to making human life and human
relations more happy and secure—
but what’s the use?
I li.HT BRK\Vi.\(
l
That the Brotherhoods will have
■d strike on their hands seems* quite
! certain. While some of the roads
| will enforce ttie eight hour day. the
i majority will not. Thereupoh comes
j the promised legislation forbidding
a strike without investigation. Be
tween judicial decisions unfavorable
to eight hour laws am* legislative
action unfavorable to strikes, the
j brotherhoods are between the devil
! and the deep tea. But they will
fight it out just the same.
• lil-lHlM) PURSUING.
Newspapers comment upon the fact
that Villatist activities have occur
red between Pershing’s column and
the border. While allowing ample dis
count for int rventionist reports, it
certainly does seem in order to tn
quire what Pershing's column is in
Mexico for just now.
SKXSIBLK.
Governor Phillips of Wisconsin
denounced public charity recently.
He said that there was too much
charity wherein of five dollars do
nated for that purpose, one dollar
alone was spent on actual relief
work. The rest was spent on “relief
workers”. That is a sensible view.
But a still more sentible view would
be to inquire why in the twentieth
century of civilization with industry
producing more than enough for all
there is any reason whatever for
charity?
CRl'CII-'Y HIM.
Crucifixion would oe too good for
Richard Clarke Cabot. He is as
sistant professor of Medecine in the
.Harvard Medical School, and lie
wrote a hook comdemning the prac
! rice of doctors in performing unnee
| essary operations and keeping a
1 hold on paying patients whom they
j could cure in a day. The St. Louis
Medical Society wanted the professor
prosecuted for libelling the pro
fession, but a recent medical con
vention which Cabot himself attend
ed, upheld him. There Cabot went
! further than in his book and he said
j that it was only in free hospitals j
j where doctors gave a Tair and square ;
consideration to the question was i
an operation advisable. Operations !
were performed generally he said
where the money was forthcoming
to pay for them.
The arguments of Cabot are now j
being used fov the purpose of carry- j
iug forward the agitation to have.!
doctors salaried by governments or j
municipalities to correct present day |
evils.
There is also the Chinese system
whereby the doctor is paid so long ,
as the patient is well and where the j
pay stops for the medical man when j
the patient gets sick. Some such
scheme is possible.
AN ETHICAL QUESTION.
Quite recently a reverend gentle
man speaking to other reverend j
gentlemen said that the socialist de
mand that income be established
upon the basis of labor and service
seemed to him as a Christian, funda
mentally moral and the only funda
mentally moral view. He declared
that income based upon power and
control of necessities has no moral
qualities for support whatever.
The reverend gentleman may not
have observed that in no age at all
since man first governed his fellow
man has income depended upon la*
hor and service. Might has been
the income-right in every age, and
ownership of property has the in
estimable faculty of bringing in
money. It would be a poor and lean
condition for many churches were
the ethical state so academically ap
proved by the reverend ‘ gentleman
to become a condition and not a the
ory. . .
It has to be said too for the
Churches that they are resolute that
no such ethical view will become
upon earth an accomplished fact.
The Churches very wisely insist upon
the Kingdom Come being placed in
another world where filthy lucre is
not a matter of discussion.
JACK LONDON.
The death of Jack London re
moves quite a notable figure from
the American literary field. What
ever may be the opinion of those
whose opinion is to be reflected in
posterity,concerning London’s worth,
the popularity of his books signifies
that the keynote which he strut K
“filled a long felt want”. There was
certainly room for the red Wooden
her'oes, every one of them a “strong
man”, whom London .loved to draw.
That there has not been a surf. it
in consequence ef the many, far
from as gjfted as London, who hsv
copied his style of hero and heroine,
is subject to some question.
London's power is not due perl-v v>
to his human realism, but his«vi;; >1
of description affecting the environ
ment of his rather similar chava*’
ters. The power and beauty of the
“Call of the Wild” is not a matter
that can be subjected to question
ing. Only one rarely gifted could
conceive and execute such a work
of genius. There are other works
by London that manifest the grate
vigorous power and tlie same un<-on
scious beauty of delineation of moi.
women and their environments, ’..it
it is without doubt true that London
sacrificed much to the market de
mauds for another and another po
pular novel. His income at the time
of his death was forty thousand dol
lars. Compared to the pleasure that
he has afforded so many, is tiiat
after all an undue reward? Loudens
are rare indeed, and when they
come to their own, their values run
highly.
K.MBA ItfiO.
Congressman Fitzgerald is pulling
off a political or legislative josli
when he talks embargo. The demo
crats any more than the republicans
have no intent whatever of putting
any embargo bill through. National
distress could be twice as acute as
it is, and then some, before ever
any politician would seriously think
of an embargo.
The black list was bad. But
Fitzgerald should remember that it
is upheld by no less a body than
the United States Supreme Court. It
is true that that was in connection
with the relations between capital
and labor, but the fundamental prin
ciple is there.
Anyhow this is not a question of
retaliation. The days when nations,
or the (towers that governed nations,
sat on a fence and cut off their
nose to get even with their face,
are gone for ever. Modern business
enterprise has no room for any
such a policy. Nothing stirring in
that line for it. The question now
asked is will it pay. If an embargo
would have paid it would have been
enforced long ago and certainly
long before- it entered the brain of
Fitzgerald to conceive of such a po
licy. But the business interests, the
invisible government of . which Fit2
doubtless has often heard and felt,
have gone over this embargo ques
tion quite searchingly and they have
come to the conclusion that there is
more to lose than gain by it.
What’s the use of beating about
the bush? The business interests are
doing very well by the Allied na
tions. The financial powers ar.d the
industrial powers have had never
the like in the way of profits. The
allies are laying golden eggs by the
basketful and they want no crazj
Fitzgerald plan to go round the
backward slaying the egg layers: not
by a jugful.
Of course, the United States is
nuetral. Of course the United States
I has a national honor to uphold. But
when honors are divided and the
blacklist only affects the United
States honor in a minority way, the
majority dont want any interference
with the profiteering that never was
in all tide or time so splendidly mu
nificent.
Why these profits from the war
trade are almost staggering to the j
imagination. Avarice with a night
mare could never dream of si'i
globular millions. The most vivid
imagination could not conceive nor
t lie most vigorous men describe the
glorious profits that are coming this
t way by reason of the war. The trea
sury is glutted with imported gold:
cent per cent is nothing dinky plants
that wouldn't pay their fuel lulls
are turning out millions that other
wise were impossible. Wall s reel j
i is saturated with its own wealth!
| An embargo? Why the idea is in it
self an outrage upon plutcgratie de
cency.
I
NOTICE.
All Oddfellows, Rebekhas and
their families are requested to at
tend the first card party and social
of the season to be given by Nome
Lodge No. 5 I. O. O. F. at their hall,
Friday Evening at 9 p. m. sharp.
F. S. POLET, Secretary.
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All Iatyal Moose are going to cele
brate the 3rd Anniversary of the
organization in our city, Monday,
Nov. 27, at our meeting hall. Each
member may invite a friend.. Get
your card from A1 I.omen.
WE CAN DO IT.
For (lrst class work and pron pi
delivery ph >ne Main 151 and tht
People's Steam Laundry rill c*l>
and get poor laundry.
W. J. WILLIAMSON Pro*
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Men’s Women’s Children’s
Since the opening of Navigation we have received ;;270 pairs
of SHOES and RUBBER FOOTWEAR. Every boat brings more.
‘•There is a reason". Our prices are right and our business has
been built by satisfactory service to our patrons.
P. A. PETERSON SHOE CO.
TA Ti|r ml 1 On the last boats we received a gen- H
10 THE PUBLIC
emus supply of fresh Candies, chosen
with particular care. We will give
you the benefit of our e.vperi-ence and otter a special Sale of diff
erent makes each week until Xmas.. This week will be
imperial week.
Chocolates made and packed by the Imperial Candy Co., at
reduced prices. WATCH THE WINDOW.
On and after Wednesday, Nov. 22ml we will give with every
twenty-five cent purchase (or paid on account) a ticket which
which entitles the holder to one chance on one of our beatiful
Baskets, filled with delicious chocolates. Drawing, Jan. 1.
ROSE CANDY STORE AND ARCTIC BAKERY.
Every Sunday and Wednesday fresh whipped “Cream Puffs.”
57 Varieties have arrived at
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Mollers Grocery
211 FRONT STREET
PHONE, MAIN SO
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|l FORD AUTOMOBILES
II Chassis price is now $ 325.00
I Runabout . $ 345.00
Touring $ 360.00
F. 0. B. DETROIT
| PUCE VOUR ORDER NOW
S ALASKA LIGHTERAGE I COIL CO.
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Do You Like Nice Fresh Eggs?
Then Use Hollyhurst,
Kemember we receive fr esh shipment of these eggs on each
boat, thus insuring their freshness.
D. E. CROWLEY
Kent Transfer Oo.
General Transfer & Freighting
Qoal & Qi±
Phone Main 139.
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