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Entered as second-class matter Feb.
.’tl, 1907, at the postofflee at Nome
Alaska, under the Act of Congress of
March 8 1878.
Copy for regular advertisement.'
trust be In by 10 o'clock on the day of
publication.
NOME, ALASKA, FEB. 24. 1916.
In the announcement that the post
office department has finally made
provision for relieving mail congestion
to interior Alaska ponta, the people
of Nome have spread before them a
forcible example of the value of getting
busy whenever they want anything.
There is not the least doubt that
i he action of the department is the
rituH < ! the efforts made by the com
mercial bodies of Fairbanks and Nome
to secure a betterment of the mail
service. In all probability it Is a
direct result of the action of the mail
committee of the Nome Cham
ber of Commerce In wiring the Alaska
bureau of the Seattle Chamber of
Commerce coneernig the well dem
onstrated congestion existing at the
present time and asking the assist
ance of that body, in the matter of
securing relief. As will be remembered,
the reply of the Alaska bureau, re
ceived last week, stated that the Seat
tle body was wiring to Washington
concerning the matter, and It is, there
fore, reasonably certain that the relief
just granted Is due primarily to the
efforts of the Alaska bureau and the
Nome chamber. The view is further
strengthened by the fact that the
bureau was the first to he informed
that such relief had been orderd. Re
gardless of who is directly responsible
it is a most illuminating and much
needed example to the people of this
section that they can get a whole lot
more than they have been getting If
they will only go after It along sober
and comprehensive lines.
We had another illustration of this
last summer when an appeal from the
chamber of commerce resulted In
securing immediate relief in a matter
of the same nature. That alone should
have been enough to awaken us to
the fact that we could do a whole lot
of things for ourselves If we could
drop our customary attitude of hope
less apath long enough to go after
what we wanted.
In that case as in the present one
the relief was Immediate and compre
hensive and disclosed conclusively
that a little energy and a four dollar
telegram Is worth thirty thousand dol
lars worth of kicking of the Innocuous
kind that It has been the custom of
Nomeltes to Indulge in.
That has been our greatest fault In
the past; we have been too busy kick
ing to take advantage of the oppor
tunities ready to our hands. Also we
have been decidedly slow at recogniz
ing our opportunities. The proof of
this Is that It Is only just now that
we have commenced to try and do
something for ourselves and the com
munity in wihch we dwell. Year
after year we have continued to set
around and complain at the way
things were going hut the Idea never
nn-itrrpfi to us that we could help out
a whole lot by the simple expenditure
nf a little energy and maybe a dollar
or two. But It was cheaper to cuss
the government and let things slide
iftnd his a -consequence we are no
farther along than we were ten of
twelve years ago. Nearly every other
town In the territory has Nome baj d
off the map when It come® to enemy
and c l\ ic spirit. Why la It that the
postal department Is paying attention
to the needs for a better mall ser
vcie to the Interior of Alaska? Is It
because we asked for it, or worked
for it. or did anything whatsoever to
secure it? Is it because the depart
ment suddenly conceived the idea that
something should be done to better the
service? We think not. Had It been
left to either the department or our
selves we would have no better ser
vice than we did seven or eight years
ago. The reason the department has
suddenly become active is because the
citizens of Fairbanks commenced to
tight for a change years before we
ever thought of such a thing as mak
ing an active effort to escape the
same conditions that Fairbanks people
refused to put up with. The result
Is that they have secured a far more
comprehensive service than we enjoy
and have also helped to better the
service for every other town in thv
interior.
Today we are commencing to get
the idea that we should have more
roads. Fairbanks already has them
although Nome w-as the biggest pro
ducing gold camp In Alaska before
Fairbanks was on the map. The
reason is as clear as it is in the case
of the mail service. Fairbanks
demanded them and worked for them.
The fact that we are to have a bridge
over Snake river is also in a great
measure due to the actlvltes of Fair
banks who wanted a bridge herself and
hustled the Alaska delegate into get
ting It with the result thut he also
bethought him that something in the
line of a bridge was needed In Nome
and he therefore asked for two. But
it was mighty little we ourselves
did to help the matter. We put In a
few1 mild call* for help on the strength
of the big flood but If it hadn't been
for the effort* of Fairbanks we would
probably have been waiting for a few
years more before the bridge was
forthcoming. We don’t have to look
to Fairbanks alone for examples show
ing the effect of laboring for what Is
desired, for nearly every other prom
lent town or section in the interior
furnishes us illustrations. And they
all show clearly that we have been
. yr> much asleep to our chances of
bettering ourselves. They all have
had attention from the government In
one way or another while we have
continued to wait and hope that some
one would come and ask us w*hat we
wanted. Seward peninsula has fewer
roads than any other well inhabited
section of the territory; It also has
a poorer mall service and is decidedly
lacking in a number of other desir
able things enjoyed by the other
sections of Alaska and all for the
reason that we haven’t asked for what
we wanted.
While the cause of Alaska lacks no
friends in the, state of Washington
generally, Wenatchee finds particular
reasons for organizing an Alnska de
velopment committee. Says the Wen
atchee World: The Wenachee Com
mercial Club Alaska development
committee Is starting in work with a
vim While all recognize that the
object of the committee in working
for the opening up of Alaska to set
tlement through the building of rail
roads aud remedial legislation is more
or less a selfish one. because It means
added outlet for Wenatchee products,
yet It is something which should have
been done years ago. Wenatchee has a
considerable population of former Al
askans. many of them having come
out of that country on account of the
unjust laws. These men with Secre
tary Soderling initiated the move to
band the commercial bodies and the
trade organizations of the state Into
an Alaska Development League with
the hope of creating a sentiment fav
orable to more Just laws and also for
the purpose of inducing Alaska Im
migration. When this is done.^Uaska
can easily sustain an immense^fcpula
tion and afford a market for a great
portion of the products of the Wen
atchee valley.”—Douglas Island News.
THERE ARE NO MAN ANGELS
(Exchange.)
The Centralia Hub has often worried
about the absence of "man angels"
in the pictures und paintings,, and
after some Investigation It gives the
reason for the dlstrlclnation to its
readers:
"Always was a bit puzzled as to
why the picture books and artists and
story tellers always depicted an angel
as something with form and face of
feminine fetchingness, surrodhded by
snowy wings of wonderous jjinsome
ness, and In an attempt to ggt at the
bottom of the puzzle I started out in
the Sherlock Holmesing business on
my own hook, and I found out that
when the church needs a new carpet
the pastor calls on the Ladles’ Aid so
ciety for it, and when the deacons get
behind with the pastor’s pay they call
on the Ladies' Aid society, and when
the mortgage on the place of worship
falls due It Is the Ladles’ Aid society
that comes to the rescue and beats
the sheriff out of a job, and on Sun
day when the pastor goes into the
pulpit to point the way to the land of
angels and perpetual lif^he usually
faces a lot of women, and the mid
week meetings are the same thing,
only more so, and I have deduced that
the reason that no one paints a man j
angel is because there ain’t no such J
animal, and now what puzzles me is
what they are going to do with the
men preachers. _
A NEW USE 1 WOOD
Pyroligneous acid. that watery
product of the distillation of wood
which was used to cure hams arti
flcally till Uncle Sam's pure food ex
perts got busy, may be turned to the
purposes of the miner if experiments
conducted at the University of Wash
ington prove commercially successful
If so, much will be done to aid in the
establishment of the wood distillation
industry in Washington.
Prof. H. K. Benson, of the depart
ment of chemistry, has furnished
samples of various concentrates of the
acid to the United States bureau of
mines laboratory at Salt Lake City
and there its efficacy in the separation
I
! of ores by the flotation process will be
tested. It will have to compete for
favor with other products furnished
by the University of Idaho and by]
Dr. Walter Rittman, a government j
scientist
Should the Washington products
prove best a ready market where none
now exists would result A cord of
wood, distilled, yields from 180 to 200
gallons of the ‘‘liquid smoke" and the
utilization of this would be of im
mense economic value to the stale.—
N. W Mining Journal.
Don’t miee “The She WolF' Fr'day
n'flht at Eagle hall. Admiasion 26c
SOUTHERN DOCTORS FIND CAUSE
AND CORE OF PELLAGRA
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! Discovery of the cause of and cure
for pellagra was announced by the
public health service. The announce
ment follows the recent publication of
a report by Surgeon Joseph Goldberg
er on a year of experiments In co-op
eration with southern state health offi
cials demonstrating the correctness of
the theory' that a one sided diet lacking
in protelds would cause the disease,
and that a well balanced diet would
cure It.
"The spread of this dread malady
which has been lucreaiang in the
United States at a terrific rate during
the past few years, may now be chock
ed and eventually eradicated," says the
service statement. "It is estimated
that 75,000 cases of the disease will
have occurred In the United States
In 1916, and of this number at least
7,500 will have died before the etvl of
the year. In many sections only
tuberculosis and pneumonia exceed It
a« a cause of death."
1 he final dietary tests were mad : at
the farm of the Mississippi penl'er.
tlary, where half a dozen convcts were
g'ven pellegra by feeding them for
five months on bountiful men's con
s'sting chiefly of cereals and sweets
i nd lacking In meats, mjlks, eggo,
beans and peas. The victims recently
were pardoned by the governo •.
NOTICI
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if the 1916 edition of the Manat Min
ing and Dredging Journal aU aunts in
SMIhge is necessary la —‘“if
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THE SHE WOLF.
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MIKE AND JAKE AMONG
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