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NOME. ALASKA. APRIL 1. 1915. i
A CHANGE NEEDED
The rapidity with which the lower1
branch of the legislative body embraced1
the new mining law drafted by the
mining committee lends further con*1
iirmation to the belief that the measure
now in force is considered wholly in
adequate by not only the legislators
but the people at large. The Roden law,
after two years of trial, although cor
recting a few of the evils existing by
reason of certain laxities in the prior
measures, as a whole, has proven de
terrent rather than helpful. In relation
to the mining industry on Seward Pen
insula the exacting terms of the meas
ure have in the main tended to no
particular benefit to anybody and in
general hus worked a severe hardship
on everybody.
Instead of forcing development as
was the primary intent, the contrary!
bus resulted, and development lifts j
sadly languished, with a consequent1
tendency to hinder other lines of in
dustry. Probably the most inhibitive
feature, the clause compelling the per
formance of one hundred dollars as
sessment on each twenty acres, is pri
marily responsible for the present
stage of non-development in this sec
tion In several cases which have
• ome to notice, men who owned a
number of claims and who under the
prior law had devoted all their time,
when not employed in earning a living,
to the development of their properties,
to actual and bona fide prospecting,
after the passage of the new measure
wore unable to find time for compre
hensive prospecting between periods of
laboring for existence and performing
the minimum of assessment work on
their several holdings in accordance
with the twenty-acre assessment pro»
vision. From the standpoint of both
tile prospector and capitalist, the law
has been anything but satisfactory and
in the case of the latter it has resulted
in mi almost complete withdrawal
from mining activities except in cases
where the ground was of proven value.
To Seward Peninsula the withdrawal
of capital is a serious matter. Condi
tions are such in this district that, the
prospector can accomplish but little in
the way of comprehensive develop-!
ment and generally speaking must ulti
mately look to the man with means to
assist in placing his property on a pay
ing basis in addition to the several
inhibitive features, the general inde
finUentsss of the measure is sufficient
to warrant amendment if not repeal.
According to the telegraphic advices
concerning the new law, the work of
the legislative mining committee has
jeen well considered and It Is probable
:hat with the wisdom bom of experi
ence they have succeeded In evolving a
neasure which will at least modify the
sells of the existing law and allow a
bit more latitude to both the miner and
Investor.
A GREAT PROBLEM.
The search for the elixir of youth
passed away with the age of fable: the
soarch for the secret of life goes on
with ever-increasing persistence. The
Harvard professor who has just "sur
prised" a Baltimore audleuce with a
theory on the subject is only one of a
host For every bioligist and physiol
ogist today the problem looms large
Chemists are thinking of it Even the
physicists have it on their mind. To
all of them it looks simple, and yet Is
enormously complex Given such sub
stances as oxvgen. hydrogen, nitrogen,
phosphorus, sulphur nnd what not in
the inanimate world, how does it hap
pen that when they come together
under organic conditions life should
result? Do they "get busy" on their
own initiative. or does a so-called
"vital energy" different from physical
energy, intervene to make them alive"
It IS their partnership that gives rise to
life, nr do they already live, if with a
lower order of vitality, in advance of
the combination?
To questions like these several sorts
of scientists are trying to give ans
wers. and they have more than one
method One is to see the thing out
The emprleists bring their micros
copes to hear on the organic cell with
keen attention to parts and workings
They insist on studying the riddle
where it shows itself they believe that
where organic conditions prevail vital
phenomena must appear: many of
them even hold with Schafer, that it
will he possible to "synthesize" life In
■ be laboratory The rationalists, on j
H e other band, despairing of aid from
'lie miscroscope. are content to find out
w here life comes from And even here
two schools of thought have taken the
royal road By the one tt is maintained
that life does not start up suddentv In
'be living body, hut is more nr less
latent” In all matter That hypothesis
’s Implicit In the hvlnzoism of the an
ient Greeks it has been expanded in
modern Germany by the Xaegehs and
the Haechels: it shows itself once more
o the view represented hv Prof Hen
derson at Baltimore Then there is th.
smic theory championed hv Arrhen
■ s in his cosmogony the vital germs
which started organic evolution came
in us from other words, nr from the
•spaces between, wafted thence to the
earth by the impelling power of solar
light Boston Herald
CAN NATIONS BE STARVED OUT?
Since tho world awoke to find that
war was not only a poasihiiltv but
actually ROing on. we have not heard
much of the naive assertions that the
great bankers could prevent wui by j
refusing to finance it That was v«r> 1
much like saying that the owners of
any other kind of property, say horses,
or hay. could prevent war by refusing
to let the government have it. Xow
that it lias been demonstrated that a
government at war can get anything
which exists within its reach, tho dis
cussion has turned to the question as
to whether the necessary supplies ex
ist or not. Obviously that is another
matter. Even a military autocracy can
not get supplies which do not physi
cally exist within its reach. Compared
with this problem even that of financing
the war. that is. of keeping the war
chest full of the means of buying sup
plies and paying other expenses, is of
minor importance.
The question of food, not only for
the armies, hut for the non-tlghtlng
population as well, we will admit to he
of equal importance with that of men
or ammunition. Hut it must lie borne
in mind that the question of food Is not
a question of living as well in time of
war as in time of peace. It Is rather
u question of finding the basic necessar
ies of life. A people who would prefer
to be whipped rather thuu undergo a
change of diet or give up luxuries will
probably get what it prefers. It is
therefore Important that we studv the
available supplies of these basic nec
essaries before .lumping to the con
clusion that any of the warring coun
tries can he starved into submission -
American Review of Reviews
A WAY TO
SAVE CITY MONEY
While the much discussed question
of the finances of the city are in mind
the following clipping from a Cordova
(taper is rather suggestive. Nome <s
paying several hundred dollars a tear
for doing something that the people of
Cordova are compelled hv law to do
I hemselves
CLEAR AWAY SNOW
ORDINANCE NO. 11
An Ordinance Providing for Cleaning
the Snow From Sidewalks. and
Fixing a Penalty for Failure So
to Do,
IP- it ordained by the Common Council
of the Town of Cordova, In the Dis
trict of Alaska:
Section 1 It is hereby declared to
la» the dnlv of every owner tenant and
agent owning, occupt Ing or eontinlling
property abutting on First and .'Second
Streets, and on A. I! and C Avenues,
from Second Street to the town front
in the Town of Cordova, to keep tho
sidewalks on or appurtenant to said
property clear and freo of snow. If any
such owner, tenant or ngent shad fail
So to do within twenty-four hours after
I a ing notified so to do In am official
of the Town of Cordova, he shall be
deemed guilty of misdemeanor, and
upon conviction thereof shall be pun
ished by a fine of not more than ten
dollars
See The notice requited in this
ordinance may ho given In posting the
same in a conspicuous plate on the
property
The Town of Cordova mi v proceed
10 remove the snow front any sidewalk
mentioned in Section one hereof after
the failure of the owner, tenant nr agent
so to do, and any sum of money expend
ed by the town in so removing s*id
snow mav be recovered front the owner,
tenant or agent in any court of com
petent jurisdiction.
Passed by the council January IT,
1 RIO.
Approved January 17. lHio,
GEORGE c HAZET.ET. Mayor.
ATTEST:
JOHN GOODKI.il. Town Clerk.
I.INK WARN. Chief of Police
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Notice is hereby fliven that 0,1 th#
6th day of April, next, in the Council
Chamber, City Hall Building, in the
Town of Nome. Alaska, an election will
be held for seven Councilmen, at which
election the Poll* will be open at 8
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Dated at Nome. Alaska, this the 27th
day of March, 1915.
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