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NOME, ALASKA. MAY 2 1917.
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Every one knows that we are crea
tures of habit. We eat, drink, clothe
ourselves, regulate our business or
pleasure, not according to our own
idea, but according to the ideas of
other people. It makes no difference
whether these ideas are good or had.
They are “accepted” conventional.
They rule our lives.
Just now the people of this coun
try arc trying to save daylight—that
is, to get up an hour earlier, to break
fast an hour earlier, and go to to
work an hour earlier.
Any employer could put this plan
into execution If he so desired. He
might meet with complaint and ob
jection from his employes, but they
would soon get usod to it and find it
far better for their health and com
fort than the old plan.
But it is not regarded as feasible
or even possible unless the clock can
be made to say that it is 8 in the
morning when It is really only 7.
Cities that have tried the "day
light saving plan" without making the
clock tell a convenient fib for them
have failed.
Cities that have taken the clock
into their scheme and forced it to
testify falsely for them have suc
ceeded.
We could all save daylight if we
chose. Each of us could make his
hours harmonize with those of nature.
We could cut down our lighting bills
and conserve our energy and our eye
sight by making a change ,of one
hour or two hours in our time of ris
ing and retiring.
But human nature Is as much a
slave to,the clock as Aladdin's genii
were slave to his lamp.
Unless the clock changes its habits,
we refuse to change ours.
We get up in the morning and look
at the untruthful time piece, which
has been "fixed” by the daylight sav
ers.
"It Is C o’clock.” we say, “and there
Is time for another nap.”
"It is not 6 o’clock,” says the time
piece; “it Is 7 o'clock, and you have
just time to get our breakfast and get
Professional Cards
Or. A. F. Heimlich
OVER HILL’S DRUG STORE.
Hours 2 to 5 and 7 to 9 p. m.
Phana Main 7
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on the Job.”
We know the clock Is lying. We
know that we are right. But never
theless we obey its ruling, and out
we go to breakfast and to work.
In a little while we get the habit
fixed on us. We no longer think
about the clock. Knowing that It is
not giving us the truth, we neverthe
less take it at Its word, and regulate
our lives by it until such time ns
there is plenty of daylight at both
ends of the day, and it Is set back
again to keep accurate account of the
progress of the world on its daily rev
olution.
This is not an attempt to make,
light of the daylight saving plan. It
is a very good plan- one that should
generally be adopted.
Nature Intended that men and wo
men should bo awake under the sun
and asleep under the stars.
Sunlight is of great benefit to hu
man beings. Artificial light, neces
sary as it is. Is injurious in many
ways. As little of it as possible should
be employed by men who have to use
their eyes a great deal.
Midnight oil proverbially has made
geniuses, but most geniuses wear!
spectacles.
The day Tight saving plan should I
be put Into effect. And we really
believe that this cannot he done with
out changing the clock.
As far as the integrity of that in-'
tituiion is concerned there Is little to
worry about.
Few clocks have consciences; very
rarely do they take the interest in
family affairs that Mr. Longfellow
credited to his old clock on the stairs.
The grandfather’s clock that “stop
ped short, never to go again, when
the old man died" was probably more
affected by rust and dust than by
grief at the aged gentleman’s passing.
The clock will not suffer by its
daily false witness against the time.
It is, however, interesting to ob
serve that a collection of brass
wheels, regulated by the device that
Galileo put Into use many years ago. I
must be brought in to conduct our f
business affairs for us.
It Is a curious instance of how firm
ly fixed we are in habits, good and
bad, and how llltle we really thing
of ourselves.
Perhaps same t'unfef.tvc shall the
able to change our hours without [
asking the assistance of the hands! 1
that move about the lettered dial. | ’
When we become sufficiently intel
ligent for that, however, we will have i
abolisheil stiff white collars, whisky,
war, and a groat many other evils
that should never exist among people
who really think.
WAR NEWS—InTfst your name now. ’
on the subscription list of ths Nugget
and keep posted on the war. I;
THE REAL MAN.
According to telegraphic news, the
|500,000 appropriation thut was In
tended for roads and trails in Alas
ka the coining year, was at the sug
gestions of Delegate Wlckersham
stricken off the bill when it came
before the house recently.
Incredible as this may seem, it is
possible. There are some who are
inclined to believe that it was done
to punish Colonel Richardson. But
while it is a well known fact that
the delegate would travel any dis
tance to got at the colonel and hin
der him in his work, to us we think
we see a deeper motive which Is to
punish the people of the Fourth di
vision for having .given a majority
vote to Sulzer.
Every Alaskan knows that the
Fairbanks division—as the Fourth di
vision is best known—has been get
ting at least sxty per cent of all the
money appropriated by congress for
roads and trails in Alaska through
the efforts of both the delegate and
Colonel Richardson; mostly from the
effort of the latter. Despite all that,
those people at the last election* show
ed a preference for Sulzer as their
delegate. Now, knowing the delegate:
to be by nature as revengeful as a j
savage; can any doubt the reason for
his action?
It has always been said that the
delegate know more about the needs
of the territory than any ten Alas
kans together. In this instance, how
ever, it is safe to say that not one
Alaskan could be found who would
agree with him that money expended J
for reads ami trails in the territory
does no good.
Conclusively, we do hope that the
report is exaggerated if not entirely
without foundation, because, the un
masking of the man would be a shock
alike to his supporters and enemies.
As a matter of fact, lifting of the
mask would only reveal a man devoid
of even a grain of principle. Ret us
liope that we may hear of a contradic
tory report. Really we would hate
like sixty to have to acknowledge
having had such a man as our rep- !
rosentativo.—The Progressive.
THE OBNOXIOUS "IF.”
.S. S. McClure, the New York pub
isher, who has just rburned trom the
var zone where he ca vied on a rpiiet
nvestigation, is reported to have
nade the following deduction: "If
he r boat is a success Germany will
vin the war, btit Germany Is begin
ling to doubt the practicability of the
indersea craft.
“Another possibility is that Russia
rill make a separate peace. In case
he U boat is a failure and if Russia
dheres to the allies. Germny is lost."
We can readily sec that "If" cuts
a big figure In the deduction and It
has always been thus. If the Bel
gians and the French had allowed the
Germans to pass the latter would have
reached Paris and London. If the
kaiser had not been the kaiser, there
| would have been no war. If the man
j who )was killed and by his death
fanned, the flames of war had not
^existed there would jliave ibeen no
war. If Hover had not stopped he
would have caught the rabbit. The
publishers might have said that if
fortune favors the entente allies, they
shall win and vice versa. And there
you are. His conclusion is as en
lightening ns a ghost. You c^n see
the ghost but you dont' know who he
is.—Ex.
COMPARATIVE I
TEMPERATURES 1
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Following are the lowest recorder J
temperatures for this year and last 2
on the days lesignated. The minus 5
sign before n number moans below 2
sero. e
U. S. Weather Bureau. S
1916 1917 J
May 1 . 23 22 f
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