THE NOME NUGGET
QEO. S. MAYNARD, Editor
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Are We as Democratic
As We Think We Are?
The minute you begin to take
a thing for granted, you begin to
lose it.
That’s true of liberty, of dem
ocracy, of religion, and many
other things.
We think the United States is
a democratic country. We hope
so, at any rate. We are impres
sed by the way in which for
eigners are impressed by our in
formal manners, and the lack of
servility in servants.
But the truest democratic spir
it is in equality, and it will come
es a shock to most Americans to
read of at least one foreign ob
server who didn’t think we are
'especially democratic at all. He
is Prof. Gunnar Myrdal of Swed
en, an economist now touring the
country to study certain prob
lems of American life, especially
that of the Negro.
Sweden has a king, and there
is quite frankly an upper and 1
lower class in Swedish life. But
the class lines are not drawn i
with that finality which exists in |
Britain, and exceptional persons I
move from class to class with 1
complete freedom.
But Professor Myrdal, in an in- j
tefview with Marquis W. Childs j
of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, j
fevealed that he felt class dis- j
tihctions in the United States,1
subtle but clear, of which he J
thought Americans themselves i
might not be conscious.
Professor Myrdal noted that
Pullman passengers in trains re-.
ceived extreme courtesy from
porters and train officials but the
day-coach passengers got scant
attention from either. He noted
that Park Avenue residents were
spoken to with deference and
excessive politeness by police
then, but that poorly dressed peo i
pie often got sharp words and j
short shrift from the same offic-:
ers.
Of course it was not the differ!
ence in accomodations on the I
train that impressed the foreigr
er, though he felt that was z
greater difference in these thar
in Europe between third-class
and second-class trains. After all
the customers were paying foi
the difference in physical accom
odations, and that was all right
It was the difference in the atti
tude of the porters and police
men toward people evidenlty dif
ferently situated.
Does this seem a trifling mat
ter? Perhaps. But yet perhaps it
is not. For real democracy lies
not in equal physical professions
for all, but in equal respect and
consideration for all by one an
other.
It would be shameful if, with
out our quite realizing* it, we
were beginning to lose the spirit
of the Legendary Irish ditch-dig
ger. A friend asked him, you will
remember:
“Shure, Pat, and is not one
man as good as another?”
‘‘Indade he is,” snapped Pat,
“and a dom sight better!”
"How many cigars do you
smoke a day?”
“About ten.”
“What do they cost you ”
“Twenty cents apiece.”
“My, that’s two dollars a day.
How long have you been smok
ing?”
“Thirty years.”
“Two dollars a day for thirty
years it a lot of money.”
“Yes, it is.
“Do you see that office build
ing on the corner?”
“Yes.”
“If you had never smoked in
your life you might own that
fine building.”
“Do you smoke?”
“No, never did.”
“Do you own that building?”
"No.”
“Well, I do.”
Write to your friends and rela
tives on the ‘Outside’, using Sotir
ough Stationery. They’ll get a big
kick out of it.
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Described by Tower Man
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Crowned by a 1000-watt bea
con, easily visible 25 miles and
• more, KFAR’s transmitting tow
er will loom a 300-foot metal
monument to Interior Alaska's
i spirit of continued progress.
U. M. Culver, Portland engin
i eer who has supervised the erect
j ing of more than 50 such struc
i tures on the Pacific Coast and in
j the Midwest, expected to issue
I the call to start work on the
j KFAR tower last Tuesday.
KFAR's highpowered all-steel
| “totem pole" is one of the largest
Culver has ever erected, exceed
ed only by some 325-footers now
standing as part of the State of
Misouri’s police radio system.
Culver represents the Contract
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ated of Portland. His is the job
i of supervising construction for
the company.
Barring unforseen weather
| handicaps, Culver expects the
1 KFAR tower to be gleaming com
i pleted on its foundations in 30
| days.
I Verbal description given by
j the construction supervisor of
, the structure calls for a tower
approximately 14 feet square at
! the base and tapering to two
| square at the pinnacle. The tow
er will be of the “shunt fed” type
I being uninsulated and fastened
| directly to its concrete founda
! tion. There will be no “guy”
| wires.
I At the 100 and 200-foot levels
; will be attached red 100-watt air
; way markers. These, Culver stat
j es, are to prevent “some airplane
! from chopping the tower off
close to the ground.” At the top
will be a 1000-watt beacon.
Almost 10 miles of wire will
| be “plowed under” in the ground
! ing system for the tower.
One hundred twenty wires run
I ning up to 400 feet in length will
radiate from the tower’s base,
one at each three degrees. The
wires will be “planted" by a spec
ial plowing implement which ]
lays the wire as it furrows the
earth.
Culver will also supervise
throe jobs for the U. S. govern
ment in Interior Alaska upon
completion of the KFAR project.
Course of Instruction
In Radiotelephony
A very complete and well co
ordinated course of study is now
made available to Alaskans, in
terested in the science of radio
and the operation of radio trans
mitters, receivers, and associated
devices, through the recent re
leases by the Federal Commun
ications Commission, of hundreds
of sample questions such as used
! in the various examinations giv
en for the various classes of ra
diotelegraph and radio-telephone
operators licensed by them under
i and by virtue of regulations form
! ulated at the International Con
ventions held bi-annually at dif
ferent world capitals.
Investigation of the sample
questions now made available in
dicates that interested persons
< can delve into the radio field
very completely or as completely
as desired by obtaining sample
questions on Elements 1 to 6, in
elusive, which should be studied
in their numerical order for max
imum profit, from the Federal
Communications Commission or
one of its field offices.
The more advanced subjects
are covered in the higher num
bered elements and persons mas
tering those questions pertaining
to elements 3 and 4 will have ob
tained a good working know
ledge of the theory of electricity
and radiotelephony. While Ele
ments 5 and 6 deal more partic- j
ularly with radiotelegraph trans-1
mitters, both ashore and afloat,
they likewise offer the interested {
student much material for study.
The Alaskan office of the Fed
eral Communications Commis- j
sion is located in the Shattuck
Building. Juneau, Alaska, and
may be addressed Box 2719, Ju
neau, Alaska.
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