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Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday by the
NOME PUBLISHING COMPANY
NOME. ALASKA
Telephone: Main 125 P. O. Box 618
$1.50 PER MONTH $16.00 A YEAR
W. A. BOUCHER . Editor-Publisher
EMILY BOUCHER . Society Editor
tod Class Application Made in Nome Post Office
FRIDAY, MAY 19, 1944._
GET ON THE TEAM—AND WORK!
We can’t all carry the ball, but we
can each of us, do our little bit in help
ing to get the ball over the right goal.
Teamwork is essential in the ordinary
peace-time occupations and competitive
games, but it is even more essential in
war, where entire nations are fighting
for their rights, for national existence,
for freedom, and all that it means, there
fore, the team needs all the assistance
we can give.
The service man and woman give
their offering of a human life for the
benefit of the home team, and are carry
ing the ball into enemy territory—that
is real sacrifice.
The Fifth War Bond Drive is about to
start, and will include a quota for Alas
ka, in the amount of $3,000,000.
The buying of these war bonds is very
necessary: in the support of the team,
and if allowed to lapse, the team could
not go on, thus leaving the enemy, who
does have perfect teamwork, take over
the lead and hard-fought gains.
Strikes dan also accomplish this end.
This cannot be. It is no sacrifice to
keep on the job. It is no sacrifice to buy
war bonds.
Who are making the sacrifice for us—
naturally, the men and women at the
front!
•
Buying war bonds is an investment for
the future, a means for securing peace.
The uninterrupted flow of materials and
supplies necessary to carry our team
now battling on a world front, must go
on.
The only way this c#.n be insured is
through teamwork, beginning with the
| raw materials, processing, transporta
tion, and last, but by no means least,
• the end use, or the use to which the
product was intended, to win the war.
ON ALASKA'S FISHING
BILL—SENATE 930
A report of the findings of the com
mittee on commerce on the Senate Bill
930, a bill to assure conservation of the
fisheries of Alaska, was given by Sena
tor Theodore G. Bilbo, democrat, of
Mississippi, with the recommendation
that the committee had reported favor
ably on the bill, and recommended that
the bill be passed with amendments.
Hearings on this bill were held where
in representatives of the employees and
employers of the Alaska fishing indus
try, the Department of Interior, the War
Department, and many other interested
persons and representatives met to con
sider the bill and its various amend
ments.
The sub-committee reported favor
able to the full committee.
It seems that the fishing industry, be- i
ing the major support of the economic
structure of the Territory, needs added
protection, as the annual pack consti
tutes an important contribution to the
nation’s food supply.
The bill is said to preserve the great
fisheries’ resources for the good of the
people.
In the Fourth War Loan Drive Fair
banks was the first city under the
American flag to top its quota, and that
on the first day of the drive.
On May 21st, 1943, Secretary of the
Navy Frank Knox, announced “the bat
tle of Attu is over, and all that is left
! now is a mopping-up process.”
LITERARY
GUIDEPOST
‘‘THEY SHALL NOT SLEEP", by
Leland Stowe (Knopf); $3.)
Leland Stowe’s “They Shall
Not Sleep" is one of the greatest
jobs of reporting to come out of
this war, reporting in the grand
style as good and as useful as
John Hershey’s more particular
ized, small scale work. Top rank
reporting is much more than a
mere matter of ascertaining per
tinent fact and expressing it
clearly. A good reporter gets
through to the spirit of his sub
ject, and expresses that as well.
The word journalistic, as patron
izingly applied by the T. S. Eliots
of this world, should actually be
the trademark of first grade, four
dimensional, reporting. Mr.
Stowe’s book begins in China,
and swings back to Russia through
Burma and India—and some way
stations . Its best parts, for me.
are the sections on the Burma
Road, on the Burmese “campaign”
if it could be called such, and
his sober but surpassingly honest
and shrewd chapters on Russia.
Stowe almost precipitated an
international scandal when he
wrote about the Burma Road two
years ago. He said it was a rac
ket, but the censors stopped him
before he could explain the entire
matter. It was a simple matter—
the Chinese either could not or
would not properly police the road
so that, he says, brigandage,
smuggling, squeeze and murder
were rampant and enormous
heaps of Lend-Lease and other
material simply rotted on the
Rangoon docks while cosmetics
and other high-profit goods went
through.
The Burmese campaign was
like a joke so obscene that the
hearer thereof promptly loses his
lunch. Stowe makes the gravest
charges of inefficiency and stu
pidity against Sir Reginald Dor
man-Smith, the governor. He
says a dry rot began (remarkably)
at the top and ran down through
the governing set-up to the army
command and lower.
It takes more than a conference
at Teheran and an encouraging
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vote in the Senate to provide
a working basis with Russia, he
says. It is his prediction that
1 after the war, all Europe will I
move to the left, partly because
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SCIENCE BEATS
THE BEET
AP Features
BERKELEY. Calif. — The su
gar beet doesn’t like crowds and
won’t produce sugar unless it has
elbow room to grow—as any beet
puller knows who has pulled
beets until he has pulled about
every muscle he owns.
What makes the sugar beet's
habi*s intolerable is that it
sprouts from a seed that is a clus
ter of cells, which means it comes
up in clusters, somewhat like a
bunch of grass.
Every year armies of workers
have to kneel down and thin the
little rascals by hand. That’s a lot
of labor, and the coun’ry didn’t
have labor to spare when it came
beet-thinning time last year.
Whereupon, Prof. Rain Bainer
of the department of agricultural
engineering at the University of
California rigged up a shearing
bar which split the seed into a
lot of little seeds. It couldn’t be
done by hand because the seed
is tiny but tough.
of ingred ents. Mix lightly with
a fork to prevent a soggy heavy
stuffing. Lightly s’uff the fowl.
Sa tldepeanuts can be used and
in this case omit the salt called
for.
STREAMLINED — Science
spurred by war. sliced sugar
beet seed from natural state
(left) to segment (right). Seen
on pinheads, magnified.
Sheared seed was distributed
extensively for the first time in
1943 and agricultural engineers
figured more than 3.000,000 man
hours were saved. Planted at in
tervals, the beets can be thinned
with a hoe.
FORMER NOMEITE
VISITS CITY
Otto Worm is a visitor in Nome
from Wales, Alaska, where he
has been working and also doing
a little prospecting for the past
few years.
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ARTIC TENNIS CLUB
COURT OPENED
The tennis court, which was
built and maintained by the Arc
tic Club, and given to the City
of Nome several years ago as a
municipal tennis court, is again
in operation following much work
by the ACS boys, who cleared
the snow off the court the hard
way. Until they are better paid,
we hope they get a lot of enjoy
ment out of the game this sum
mer.
Persons who play on the court
should remember to be careful
not to wear hard sole shoes, as
there is danger of shoes gouging
or splintering the surface of the
court.
There is no charge to play on
the court.
The public is cordially invited
to *ake advantage of this munici
pal tennis court made possible
by the Arctic Club of Nome.
VISIT IN NOME
FROM JUNEAU
Mrs. Muriel Lowe and child ar
riveed in Nome from their home
in Juneau to visit with Mr. Lowe,
who is stationed here with the
armed forces.
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