©lie Nome Nugget
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and Friday by The
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MONDAY. OCT. 16. 1944.
NOT THE
AMERICAN WAY
The government has
grown to such gigantic
proportions in this country
and has so many millions
of persons on its payroll,
that it is the biggest prob
lem business and industry
are going to have to con
tend with in the so-called
readjustment period.
Already there is an
army of economic planners
and idealists tightening the
checkrein of government
on private industry. This
is being done under the
guise of preventing infla
tion,/ and creating employ
ment. It is clearly appar
entent that business will
have to strive to operate
and employ labor and pay
heavy taxes, in spite of all
such federal ‘controls.”
It is apparent that too few
of the professional “con
trollers” are sincerely de
sirous of encouraging pri
vate business to go out and
try to create the millions
of post-war jobs they know
must be created. Many of
them, by innuendo or plain
threats, say that if indus
* try does not maintain rec
ord employment, govern
ment will. And some seem
to be hopeful that they can
place enough stumbling
blocks in the way of busi
ness so that the govern
ment can take over. Thus
they can retain their jobs.
Imagine the spirit of op
timism that would prevail
in this nation if business
and industry felt that our
government and the pow
erful bureaus that now
dominate it, were whole
heartedly in favor of pro
moting private enterprise
under fair and reasonable
regulation. If risk capital
was encouraged to take a
chance, it is safe to say
that our natural resources
1 industries would experi
• ence tremendous growth
r after the war, as the world
i is going to want the pro
ducts of our mines, farms
and forests in incalculable
quantities, in exchange for
I the goods that others must
sell to us. Let us uphold
the American system for
Americans, instead of ap-;
' ing in so many ways the '
socialized systems of Eu-'
j rope, where some bureau- i
icrat throttles the oppor
tunity of the individual.
It is time the people of this
country really got busy in
| effort to save our own
American system, instead
iof adopting alien philoso
jphies.—(Seattle Journal of
I Commerce).
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BOTHERSOME
TAX RETURN
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A scientist in Maine for
! several winters photo
graphed snowflakes. In
all that time he found no
two alike. We are told by
experts in the Bureau of
Internal Revenue that this
is true of income tax re
turns. Never have there
been two alike. They dif
fer in innumerable ways.
There are gross incomes
which are alike, but be
cause of deductions the net
differs. We take it that the
old proverb “Alike as two
peas” is incorrect. Under
careful scrutiny probably
peas would be found to dif
fer one from the other.
Under the new tax laws
the income tax returns
will be simplified. Really,
however, what we need is
a system that will do away
entirely with, personal tax
| returns. All taxes should
be deducted at the source
so that what a man gets
in wages, salary, dividends
or in any other form of
payment should be free
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and unincumbered. It
should belong to him to do
with as he pleases.—(Cin
cinnati Enquirer).
MINING REPORT
IS GIVEN BY
ANDERSON
In a report recently issued by
Eskil Anderson, associate engi
neer of the Territory of Alaska,
Department of Mines on October
8, on investigations in northwest
ern Alaska during 1944, Mr. An
reports as follows:
During the summer of 1944, in
vestigations of a number of lode
and placer mining districts in
northwestern Alaska were made
by the Territorial Department of
Mines, Included among these are
examinations of copper occur
rences in the middle Noatak ba
sin, asbestos and associated jade
deposits north of the Kobuk riv
er in the Shungnak region, iron
deposits near Sinrock river, and
lead1 arid silvier occurrences in
the Inmachuk basin.
In the season just completed
vaious placer investigations were
also made in most of the placer
! mining districts of the Second
Division.
The work of the Department
of Mines has been largely explor
atory and has consisted chiefly
of preliminary examinatidns of
lode deposits. The function of
the United States Bureau of
Mines has been to carry on ex
tensive prospecting and actual
development work on deposits
I
which appear to justify thorough
investigation.
Reports on examinations made
during the 1944 field season will
be issued for general distribution
from the Juneau office of the
Territorial Department of Mines
during the coming winter.
The Bushmen, a race of short,
yellowish-brown nomad hunters,
are believed to be the earliest
human inhabit£tfits of south Af
rica of whom there is any relia
ble historical record.
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ALONG MEMORY
f, LANE
TEN YEARS AGO TODAY
(October 16, 1934)
Bruno Hauptman testified he
! was at home when the Lindberg A
baby was kidnanped.
Ed Steffen purchased the Lo
men Brothers’ Drug Store.
The Nome Harbor Lighterage
Company was advertising coal
for $22.50 per ton.
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