AMERICAN PLANS TO
MAKE TRADE DRIVE FOR
CHINESE BUSINESS
The American Chamber of Com
merce of China was organized with
headquarters in Shanghai for tho
purpose of extending American trade
in China. It has now been in opera
tion for more than a year, but it has
been compelled to devote most of its
energies to meeting conditions creat
ed by the war In Europe and fighting
to hold what trade thi3 country al
ready had instead of extending it.
The chamber is now about to enter
upon the broader phases of its work.
It will take up trade promotion and
extension and will wage a vigorous
campaign in those fields. China is
almost an unknown territory so far
as commercial information Is con
cerned. Uecau3e of its enormous area
and population Its market for modern
wares cannot he estimated. Its needs
for supplies und machinery for manu
facturing Is enormous.
Aecurute Information must be ob
tained if the manufacturers of this
country are to acquire a share in
China's trade. Every American firm
of standing in China, as well as many
individuals, an- co-operating in the
plans of the chamber to gather the
information that is needed. J. H.Mc
Miehaol, president of the chamber,
and 1'. B. Bryant, its secretary, are
inviting American Arms doing busi
ness in China to Join in its work as
non-resident members. The chamber
intends to give Its members cotiflden •
tial reports recording conditions in
China, and to aid them in other ways
in extending their trade.
Calling raids printed at Nugget cfllc*
COMPARATIVE
TEMPERATURES
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■Followin'; are the lowest recorded
’.etnparatures for thia year and last
on the days designated. The minus
sign before a number means below
aero.
1'. S Weather Bureuu
1915. 1916
Dee. 1.—11 —20
Dec. 2. —12 —SO
Dec. 3. —14 —32
Dec. 4. —18 —82
Dec. 5. —16 —SO I
Dec. 6. —14 — 28 i
Dec. 7. —14 —26
Dec. S. . —16 21
Dec. 9. -is i
Dee. 10. . —11 2
Dec. 11. —13 6
Dec. 12. —16 22
NOTICE TO PUBLIC OF NOME.
1 have secured the Tailor Shop of
Jtbn Feyrer. Ladies and Gent* suits i
made to order. A large stock of '
Fabrics and Fashions to select from. 1
Sulla cleaned, pressed and altered.
All Work Guaranteed
to fit and nirt with your approval.
M. PASCOFF.
Cor. Lane's way and Front atreeL
O V HRSTOCKED
To the puwie. —
We nave Just finished stock taking,
and find tnat we are heavily overstocked
go are making enormous reductions In
Hardware—as much ns oil per cent In |
certain lines Notwithstanding immense
advances outside, sspeclallv Iti Hard
ware and Metal Goods, we are still sell
ing on tne basis of good* purchased the j
pa»t two or three year*.
We win sell tor cash only at the*,
prices, and for a limit* , time, until we
bring our stock down to the require
ments of the camp.
if you nave an order to bs tilled. 1st
us figure oa It: we esn tars you money
Ws ha.e proved It to others we can
prove it to you.
DAHU.NQ ANli DEAN COMPANY.
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For first class work anti prompt deliv
ery phone Main 151 and the People’*
Laundry will send and get your laundry
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REAL MEANING OF
GARY PUBLIC SCHOOL
The school that William Wirt has
built up in Gary is not a mere attempt
to tinker with the old public-school
system. It is not a mere collection
of fads, as some of the popular ac
counts of the Gary school would lead
the reader to believe. It is really a
new kind of a school, a school reor
ganized from the bottom up, to ui(’ 't
the demands of the changing social
and industrial conditions of the day.
It is based on a very definite philos
ophy, for which Mr. Wirt does not
hesitate to give full credit to the
great educator and philosopher. Pro
fessor John Dewey, under whom he
studied at Chicago. The fundamen
tal ideas of this philosophy are two
—first, that the public school should
be a sort of embryonic community
life in which the child would gradu
ally become familiar not only with the
knowledge that lie will need in adult ,
life but also with the occupations |
and the organization of the sociotj
into which he will enter; second, that
learning cotnes only from doing, that
it is idle to learn things that are not
used, and that therefore whatever is
learned in school must be used in
school. School work must bo real
! work, productive in some form that
the child can appreciate and not a
mere storing up of information and
t skill against some possible future time.
It is clear that the attempt to ap
ply these Ideas will result In a public
' ochool very different from the present
; one. The criticism of the school from
business men and college instructors
i has been constantly increasing. The
‘ complaint is that children come from
I the public schools wretchedly prepar
ed either for higher 3tudy or for busl
m s and industrial life. Thev are1
(accurate, dl-lnformed, lacking even
.n the rudiments of education, without '
itlier Intellectual orientation or the
.(kill and knowledge to earn a living, j
Educators have struggled to meet
these complaints, but beyond adding
various kinds of manual training and
commercial studies, both taught In an
academic way, the ordinary public
school has done little to remedy the j
situation. Educators have generally :
failed to recognize these fundamental'
truths, that knowledge must he used1
or it will not be learned. The public
schools have left the children with
out the opportunity to apply what
they have learned. The Gary school
is the first to recognize this truth and
provide on u compren3lve scale for
the learning through practical work.
ALASKA NOTES
I Prom Our Exchanges.)
Fred Vaughn had his right shin
bono broken in two places and the j
flesh of one of his legs badly crushed : (
by a boulder failing on him while j ,
working forMcDonill 6c Beavin, on
Candle creek. In the Kuskokwlm dis- !
trlCw
Herbert Steward, a young miner
who wus injured a tow duys ago by a
cave in on .no 12 below, Cleary creek,
is in the hospital at Fairbanks witti j
both legs paralixed from injuries to'
his back. His legs are also badly
crushed.
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Capt. B. O. Lenoir, Formerly officer
in ciiarge of the military cable au„
telegraph lines at Values, but now ol
Icer in charge at Seattle, was taken
suuuenly ill in h'.s otnce and was taken !
to a hospital, where he underwent an
operation.
A concern known as the Spokane
.V la ska Exploration &. Mining com- :
pany In which Jack Nelson and sev- ;
eral other Koyukuk men are inter- i
ested, has taken a large drill Into the
Koyukuk and will prospect on a large
scale.
Tho Kimball Flume Dredge Co.
has acquired further holdings on
Yankee creek in the Innoko, and is j
doing extensive prospecting with a .
new gasoline drill on lower Yankcs, ]
where they have two miles of ground
under option,
A 8eward paper says that thero is
every reason to believe that Hugh
Wallace, a warm personal j^iend of
President Wilson, has purchased with
Banker Ankeny and others no less
than six hundred lots In Seward as
a speculation.
O. E. Bernud of Fairbanks tried
to climb a telegraph pole In that city
with his Ford. The machlno would
have reached the top but got a wire
tangled In one of the wheels. No
injury was sustained by either the
machine or driver.
A McCarthy booster says: There
is on opening in McCarthy for one
church, one steam laundry, one as
say office and several other enter
prises. With tho presont high price
of gasoline, an electric light plant
would auka big mousy
Ucorge Favollc, an . Austrian em
ploye of the Treadwell mine, had his
arm practically torn from its socket
recently while working in the Mexi
can mine, presumably from a full of
rock. He was taken to the hospital
and his arm amputated.
A new bell, one of the largest ever
imported Into Alaska, has been re
ceived at Fairbanks for tho Catholic
church. The blessing of the bell will
take placo on the arrivel of the Kev.
Father Crimont. prefect apostolic of
Alaska
R. A. Jackson, a well-known Fair
Mr, Miner, Citizen or Merchant
Stop for a moment and consider the mutual
advantages gained by becoming a member of the
FRATERNAL, SOCIAL, PROTECTIVE AND FINANCIAL
PRESTIGE should be sufficient inducement for you
not to lose another moment to request some Eagle
friend of yours to present your name.
One large class will be put through Tuesday
December 12th, get in the next class December 26
NOME AERIE, NO. 75 F. 0. E.
banks civil engineer has been ap
pointed resident by the Alaska Eng
ineering commission jat that place,
and will have charge of the construc
tion of the wagon road from Happy
.Station down Coldstream
The Ketchikan Commercial Club
has adopted resolutions prostestlng
vigorously to tho Forestry service
against the raise in stumpage price of
timber situated within 2,000 feet of
tidewater from $1 to $1.50 per thou
sand feet board measure.
Johnny Beaton with Frank Daw
son and Gillie Bates has bought out
Jack Folsom on Moore creek In the
innoko district and taken option on
tho extension holdings of Jorf Smith
on Moore creek. They intend to in
stall a dredge next season.
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