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MONDAY, MAY 1, 1944._
NATURE S SPRINGTIME CALL
At this season of the year in North
western Alaska, slightly later than in
“warmer climes ”, one looks to the cus- ■
tomary activities of nature for signs that
betoken the coming of Spring.
The pussy-willows, among other bud
ding plants and shrubs are beginning t©
show as a sign of warmer days ahead.
Birds of various families and species
are beginning to take off their winter
protection and are considered the true
harbingers of Spring. Insects, wasps, flies
and mosuitos stir out of their torpid
states to show themselves on our long,
sunny days.
The winter sleep of our bear has been,
made restless by the influence of nature,
and also the little ground squirrel has
ventured forth to find something to eat
after the long winter in hibernation.
Sap commences its activity and the
buds on the various trees and bushes
present indisputable evidence of the
coming season.
But one other sign, particularly in this
section of the world, has become some
thing of an institution.
The return of the miner to the scene
FORUM TO BE
HELD TONIGHT
4T HIGH SCHOOL
For the past four months the
Community Forum has been dis
cussing the question of the “Post
War World.’’ There have been
six public forums and six study
group sessions on the following
six topics:
1. What shall we do with those
responsible for the present war?
2. What place shall we give
Germany and Japan in the post
war world?
3. What part shall the U. S.
take in the freedom of China, In
dia and smaller and weaker na-|
tions of the world?
4. How far should the U. S. co
operate with Russia in the post-1
wax world?
5. How much sovereignly are
we willing to give up to enter into
a world government?
6. What part should an inter- \
national police force have in,
holding together the new world
organization?
Tonight, May Is4, at 8:00 p. m.,
the Forum will hold a summary
meeting, at which time we hope
Scorchy Smith....
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FOR SCORCH'S TO FINISH
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U.S.O. TRANSPORT IS
READV TO LEAVE ...
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of his activities, in much the same man
ner in which the birds migrate to the
south in the Fall, and north in the
Spring, betokens the fact that another
season is upon us.
Mining activity, which to a great ex
tent has been inactive throughout the
winter, will be reopening with the shov
elling of snow and the repairing o ditch
es, and machinery and other preparatory
work necessary to the smooth operation
for the season.
When the miner returns, activities in
other businesses takes an upward swing
as the “grubstake” or supplies are ga
thered for the various camps and pros
pects.
Many mine operators are arriving
with plans for the season’s operation.
They are getting together the necessities
which they must “fly in” to give them
something to work with, until the regu
lar transportation opens up.
Kougarokers, Solomonites, or those
from Candle, Deering and other areas,
have government-issued permits for op
erations of the season and are taking
advantage of the situation, in using such
labor as is not being used in the war ef
fort, and in giving the older and exper
ienced miners a chance to earn a few dol-1
lars, which he would otherwise not re
ceive as he would be too old for the local
contract jobs for the U. S. Engineers or
the CAA.
Thus, the miner, the true harbinger of
Spring, in Northwestern Alaska for the
present, with no other major industry to
share honors, and except for a few na
ture lovers who look to the plants and
flowers, buds and blossoms for signs of
spring, is the sign of the time.
LITERARY
GlIDEPOST
"THE LOOM OF LANGUAGE".,
by Frederick Bodmer; Lancelot
Hogben, editor (Norton: $3.75).
Frederick Bodmer’s ‘‘The Loom
of Language” is a huge book, |
heavy and hard to hold for read
ing. but it is so exciting and so
important that these considera
tions are most unimportant. I{
have read a third of it. and skip
ped along ‘hrough the rest; if any-.
body tells you he has read the
book in a day he is speaking non
sense. He is also on the stupid:
side, because the book is not in
tended for quick reading, but forj
long <and, oddly, playful) thumb-1
ing.
Lancelot Hogben is the editor,
which may account for the attrac
tive presentation, since Mr. Hog-,
ben was the author of ‘‘Mathema
tics for the Million,” which did a
good .iob of popularizing that
science. Messrs. Bodmer and Hog-1
ben have tried to do more or less i
the same thing here, and their
book will be more interesting!
than “Mathematics for the Mil
lion” to a great many people.
“The Loom of Language” is
about language, of bourse. It
shows how it grew through his-!
tory, and how its service as an!
agent of communication has af
fected the world, and how the
world has affected it. But this is:
only part of it. The book also
shows how one may learn lan
guages, and how dangerous and
dull the usual system of language
study is, because it is based on an
unattainable ideal—perfection.
They believe, for one thing, that
it is not at all difficult to learn
to read or speak language and
not too difficult to understand a
conversation—although this is the
most difficult department of the
study. They even think it easy
to pick up two languages at once,
provided they are of the same
family. That is, German and
Dutch and Danish can be studied
together with satisfying result; so
could French and Italian.
This is a small part of what
‘‘The Loom of Language” does.
The important thing is that
through these resemblances,
through basic vocabularies and
root resemblances and phonetic
patterns most of the important
world languages can be made,
tools in the hands of most fairly'
intelligent people.
By JACK STINNETT
WASHINGTON — Sometimes |
Congress can’t see beyond the end
of its nose. The example at hand
is the increase in the cost of post
office money orders (as high as!
66 per cent in some cases' voted
in the recent Revenue bill.
If the bankers’ lobby had work
ed night and day for months, it
couldn’t have hoped for as great
a benefit as Congress may have
handed them in this seemingly
minor item of increased public
charge for services rendered.
The House ways and means
comjnittee glibly estimated that
increases in the cost of local post
age. airmail stamps and money
orders, would bring an addition-,
al revenue of $96,000,000 i year ;
The government has a monopoly ,
on the sale of stamps and, for the
most pfr\ for services rendered
thereunder. It doesn’t have any
monopoly on money orders. Its
principal hold on this most lucra
tive source of post office profits
was that it could safely transmit i
money in certain amounts as ecc- j
romically as any private agency.
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In those certain amounts, that
may no longer be true. When
the public realizes banks can sup-|
ply the same service for less cost,
the money order profits may nose'
dive. i
t
The first reports on the new,
revenue bill won’t come in until
the middle of May and then only
from the larger cities, but so posi-,
five are post office officials that!
their highly profitable money ar
cher business has be^n dealt a
serious blow, they already are
revamping the whole system
What is proposed is the issu
ance of “postal notes’’—similar to|
travelers’ checks. By buying these
blanks “en bloc”, the cost would
be reduced to compete with those
banks which now perform the
same service for about half the
charge.
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Advocates of the new system
don’t figure the profits wouldi
come so much from increased
sales as in the reduction of man-1
power. It’s estimated the post
office and general accounting of-!
tice, where all money orders must!
now be audited, could save some-,
tbmg like 600 jobs by the propos
ed streamlining.
to evaluate our findings and put
them down in order. We are in
viting all the speakers that have
appeared in this series, as well as
the public to come and help con
tribute their bit as citizens of
Nome, to the solution of one of
the most important questions fac
ing the world just ahead.
NOTICE TO DRIVERS
OF MOTOR VEHICLES
Any person, before driving any
motorised vehicle within the cor
porate limits of Nome, must have
a drivers license, as authorised
by ordinance No. 265 of the Nome
City Ordinances.
On May 1st , any person driving
without a license will be arrested
and fined £20 00.
Nome City Council,
By Carrie McLain.
Cijy Clerk.
Apr. 26-28-May 1.
NEVADA GRILL NOW
OPEN UNDER NEW
MANAGEMENT
Under the new management of
Mrs. Harry Gabrielson, the Ne
vada Grill re-opened its doors at
three o’clock this af'ernoon, after
a period of several months, dur
ing which time it had remained
closed.
Mrs. A. D. Stos'mfeltz, well
known in Nome, will have charge
of the cooking, and it is the idea
of the new management to cater
to those who prefer hot and cold
sandwiches, along with coffee and
tea, in preference to the serving
of regular meals.
Hours of opening for the new
establishment have been set from
3.00 p. m. to 12:00 midnight.
It is the wish of Mrs. Gabriel
son to welcome her friends in
the renovated grill at anytime
during these hours.
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We have recently installed our power ice !
'! cream freezers. We serve it and we sell in large
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NEW POSTAL RATE
BOON FOR BANKS
The s'udy of the money order
svrtem to eliminate personnel h id
been started before Congress toss
ed the bus iness into the l«.pc. of
the banks.
Some post office officials here
d( n’t think that the mid-May re
port will give any true picture,
principally because there’s an old
statute on the books which pre
vents private enterprise from com
pe'ing with the post office. While
there is no record of its naving
been invoked for decades, it has
prevented private enterprise from
advertising specific services in
competition to those performed by
the post office.
Creamed Salt Codfish
2 tablespoons margarine
2 tablespoons flour
1 cup milk
1-4 teaspoon salt
Pepper
Shred three-quarters cup salt
codfish*in pieces and soak in
lukewarm water long enough to
soften the codfish and remove the
briny taste. Drain and add the
following sauce:
Melt margarine in saucepan
and add flour mixed with season
ings. Stir until well blended
making sure there are no lumps.
Then pour on hot milk, stirring
constantly, and boil for two
minutes. Add one beaten egg be
fore serving and garnish with
slices of hard boiled eggs.
TapiocB Honey Cream
3 egg yolk
2 cups milk
1-4 cup tapioca
1-3 cup honey
1-4 teaspoon salt
1 egg white
Mix egg yolk with 1-2 cup
milk in saucepan. Add tapioca,
honey, salt and the rest of the
milk Bring mixture to a full boil
stirriqg constantly. Remove from
fire. This mixture will be thin
so be careful not *o overcook.
Beat egg white until stiff enough
to hold shape and fold hot tapioca
mixture into egg white. Cool and
chill.
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