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NOME, ALASKA, NOV. 23, 1915.
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Fairbanks may be a long ways be
hind Nome in many respects; it may
not have the same advantages in the
way of situation, resources and busi
ness development enjoyed by Nome
but it has us beat a city olock when
it comes to the possession of live wide
awake citizens who are thoroughly
awake to their opportunities and are
reads to take advantage o: nr.atever
is ottered in the way jf oe: eflts to
their town and themselves. They have
furnished us so many examples of this
that, were we not asleep or utterly in
different, we would have had to ac
knowledge the fact long ago. Here
they are already enjoying the best mail
service in the whole interior through
receiving, on their own acknowledge
ment, over half of all the mail that the
gods of the postofflce department al
low to pass into the interior and yet
they are still making every possible
effort to get still more and, in pur
suance of this object, are enlisting the
..id of all the leading magazines in the
country in assisting their campaign,
in addition to such other influences
i s can be conveniently approached. We
have no fault to find with this nor with
the fact that they are securing most
of the mail coming in over winter
trail. They deserve it for the one rea
son that they have earned it by work
ing 'or it. While we have been set
ting around complaining about what
we didn't get the citizens of the inte
rior city have been devoting the time
to the very sensible business of making
such efforts as were possible to se
cure what they wanted. They didn’t
set around kicking to no purpose as
we have done, neither did they let the
fact (hat it Is a long ways to Wash
ington stand in the road of going after
what they wanted. They simply made
up their minds what they wanted and ,
then started out to get it. That’s the
reason that they have succeeded in
securing half of all the mail that is
coming into the interior—they worked
for it. And for the very same reason
they will probably secure an even
larger portion through the efforts they
are making at present which Include
among other things the sending of a
persona! appeal to the editors of all
influential publications throughout the
country. In the slang phrase of the
day 'thats the kind of stuff that gets
the money.” Its get up and get, not
hollering, that brings home the bacon,
every time. In this the citizens of
Fairbanks are giving us only another
example of the kind of spirit that en
abled them to build a road to the Tolo
vana, which isn’t half as rich as the
Kougarok, without waiting for the road
commission to do it for them. Its the
same spirit that caused them to ship
one hundred and fifty thousand dol
lars worth of antimony to a hungry
market before we were hardly awake to
the fact that there was a market;
which enabled them to grab half of
all the mail and to do sundry and divers
other things while we ane sitting around
like the proverbial "bump on a log”
praying for capital to come In and
hand us something. Would that there
was a little of the same live spirit in
Nome. If there were it might occur to
us to follow Fairbank’s example and
try and get a little something for
ourselves Instead of waiting for some
one to pilot the band wagon along this
way and give us a chance to climb
aboard when nobody Is looking.
UNIQUE FIGURE IN ALASKA
JOURNALISM.
(Iditarod Pioneer.)
Senator O. P. Gaustad of Fairbanks
took charge of the News-Miner of that
eit> on August 9 as editor and man
ager, succeeding one of ttie unique
figures in Alaska Journalism, W. F.
Thompson who has gone on an ex
tended trip to the outside.
Thompson Is one of the best-known
men in the newspaper field In the
north. He was for several years pub
lisher of a dally newspaper at Dawson
during the most prosperous days of
that famous camp, and has been In the
Tanana valley for many years past.
Recently Thompso has been in
financial straits, and he has unburden
ed himself to his public, not by any
means in a plaintive way, but merely,
■ as he said, to satisfy their curiosity
I as to his financial standing, because,
as he put it, they would talk about
1 him after his departure, and they might
as well have matters straight.
In a lengthy farewell letter to the
! Fairbanks public, which Is a gem of Its
kind, he says:
You know too well the sorrows of the
i poor old man who has been conducting
the destinies of the News-Miner for
the past six years; how it has been nip
and tuck between mo and the sheriff;
how I have been “down and out" every
day of the 2,280 days I have pulled
| the News-Miner along by the scruff of
Its neck through the hopeless circum
stances with which you have Insisted
' upon surounding tills enterprise.
Starting in over six years ago $20,000
in debt, how could it be otherwise? You
concede that I was "some” four-flusher,
and when you received your News
Miner every night, expecting it to be
the last of the series, you no doubt
marveled at the Ingenuity of the
“down--and-outer” who was dragging
the paper along. I have appreciated
your feeling in the matter (jnd your
encouragement. It has been no easy
matter to, with my small family, exist
in your midst upon the miserable pit
tance of $G,000 a year which this com
pany has provided for me, and you can
unaglne my surprise when last evening
upon leaving I discovered that 1 was
leaving Fairbanks owing no man or
woman in town a dollar, with money
enough in my pocket to pay my ex
penses on the trip; without having
old my home, and still owning num
erous thousands of dollars’ worth of
the stock of the Tanana Publishing
Company. I should have mentioned
his in passing, because you know that
t is the spirit of the camp to relate
he delinquencies of departing citizens,
'specially their financial affairs, and
while it will doubtless spoil many a
Tood story about me In the months to
■omo, it should have been told in these
hills, because it is the truth. * * *
I also have other surprises for you up
my sleeve. First, I know where I am
going, and why, and I'm coming hack.
I expect to spend the winter, or part
f It. as a paid booster for interior Al
isha; if I can't do it as a paid booster
I will do it as a voluntary one. I am
going to cover the American continent
iretty thoroughly. I used to do that
very year when I lived In the unre
renernte outside world, and I know
low to do so yet. In every town I hit
I am going to endeavor to fill the
newspapers full of talk of interior Al
aska—the coast can take care of Itself.
The Innate stupidity of man permitting
him to believe nothing save that which
he can see, 9 propose to try to bring
'Very man I can to interior Alaska next
ear, that thereafter he may be able
| to tell the story of the Interior intel
Jgently and well. After leaving the
old home back east, I am going to do.
'ther hard work but that until I return
n time for the PoPtlatch—it is always
c Potlatch when I hit town, if the
ther fellows have anything to oPt
iatch. I am going to talk Fairbanks,
vrite Fairbanks and lie like sin about
lot of you people, for the short-trlp
oer who may visit you will never find
-ne out during his short stay, for on
inch occasions you always put your
best hoof foremost. I am going to tell
hem that we have the finest and the
most prosperous and the most prom
sing camp on earth, and I am going
to try to bring them to town, where
t can he proved to them. * * * For
me the roses of the outside ceased to
bloom and lost their fragrance long
years ago. and the fireweed on the hills
of Alaska is the rose-color of life to me.
Also, the ‘‘rye’’ has blossomed and
distilled or mo until It, too, has run
!*s course and Isn not for me. Fifty years
in advance of the coming of a railroad
seven of those years in the north, and
1 can remember or care for no other
country and no other people. For your
peculiarities and “orneriness” I love
you, for those are my own distinctive
traits. * * * You are better than
you really believe you are, and better
than your neighbors concede that you
are. You need a little fixing in spots,
some of you, but for anybody save the
Great Fixer to try to correct your
curves would be to spoil you. I hope
that nobody will attempt the feat
during my absence, for If I came back
and found you different than you are
today. Fairbanks couldn’t ever be
"homo’’ to me again.
THE DOLLAR MARK.
(Buffalo News.)
There never was a time, when success
was measured less by tho dollar mark
:h.:n now.
A few years ago the accumulation
of a million dollars, or more, was the
surest method of attracting attention.
It prompted endless discussion among
students, It stirred the restless element j
to criticism and vindictiveness. It |
elicited columns of comment from the
newspapers and occasioned debate in
the magazines. Now it may be accom
pllshed quietly, without ostentation,
and its process causes less stir than
I an ambulance run at the noon hour.
The news of the past week offers In
teresting confirmation of the fact.
Norman B. Ream's will has just been
rend, disposing of $70,000,000. Did you
ever hear of Norman R. Ream? Prob
ably no, unless you dwell within finan
cial circles. No romance surrounded
him nr his fortune. His pile of dollars
was hidden behind his greater pile of
personality, the personality that makes
him good friend and good neighbor and
made his fortune only incidental.
T.nst week in California a man nam
'd Harkness confessed an income tax
of $120,000. which means a fortune of
$100,000,000. So little known Is he that
"Who’s Who" and other references In a
newspaper lihrary fail to mention him.
Not even his initials are available for
purposes of identification.
Happily we have reached the point
when money— immense sums measured
in millions—is not the most interesting
thing in the world.
HE’LL STUDY IT.
(Seattle Star.)
All Indications are that President
Wilson has been stirred to action to
ward adequate national defense; but
the extremists, who are prone to think
the administration has been stam
peded. and is mining headlong into the
billion dollar pro|>osition, are doomed
to disappointment.
Being pursuaded of the necessity,
!■« well ns the popular demand, for a
greater navy, the president set right
out to get one, but in a strictly busi
ness-like way.
Tlie best advice, both inside and
outside tiie naval department, Is being
sought; a sane and sensible program
is heing arranged.
The president, finding out the coun
try's needs will satisfy them to the best
of his ability, but he is not going to
go to the jumping off place in doing so.
What the country really needs and
what hungry naval contractors say it
needs, ure far different things. Wilson
is attempting to exactly gauge that dif
ference, before he gets real busy.
Professional Cards
Dr. A. F. Heimlich
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