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as Socotid Class Matter, at ths posioffics at Nams, Alaska,
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WILLIAM WKIGLKY, JR., AND PROSPERITY.
That business is improving in the East and that this condition is ]
spreading to the Middle West by degrees, is the opinion of William Wrig-1
ley, Jr. Company, Chicago.
The good old American dollar is coming back tato its own. Peo
ple from one end of the nation to the other are getting around to the
idea that the only basis for real prosperity is an honest day’s work for
a fair day’s wage.
The United States as a whole has been on a "business spree" for
the past five years. Prices, up to recently, were out of all sense of pro
portion for the value received.
The greatest cure tor hard times, Mr. Wrigley says, is to stop talk
ing about hard times, get to work and keep money and goods circulating.
"The year 1921 was regarded as a pretty bad period for lots of
concerns In the East and Middle West," said Mr. Wrlgley. "For as it
was the best year in the thirty years 1 have been in the chewing gum
manufacturing industry.
“We are spending *11,000 a day this year to push Wrigley’s Chew
ing Gum.
"The judicious use of printers’ ink is the greatest selling force In
the world. If you do business on a world-wide basis, or even in the
locality encompassed within a few blocks, you have got to KEEP the
PEOPLE interested or you WON’T SELL THEM YOUR GOODS."
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i I - A "MAIN STREET’’ SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENT.
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; Poor Juneau.
i Even the public schools are made a football to be tossed about in
discriminately by the few special interest players who don t care who
kicks the stuffin' out of it—the football. y
It is hardly conceivable, yet the fact remains that the Juneau public
schools have again, almost surreptitiously, been turned over to a ".Main
Street” Superintendent.
More than five months before a new term commences and on the
eve of an election for School Director, and without any warning or notice
whatsoever, announcement is made that the Board has re-elected the
Superintendent, and incidentally all the present teaclfers.
General indignation is felt and manifested thruout the city because
of this unusual and entirely uncalled for hasty action. There might be
some excuse for it if it were known that the head of our schools was*
efficient and generally acceptable.
But on the contrary, he is known, by those who have had occasion
to look into his capacity and accomplishments, to be disqualified in many
ways for the important duties that should devolve upon him. Tempera-,
mentally and mentally, the job is beyond his reach.
Quite a few parents had thought to make a protest before the
heel Board against the further retention of Prof. Lanz, but is seems
the Board has been too rapid for them. Cruelty and an ungovernable
temper directed toward pupils, with a consequent lack of discipline, are
among the more numerous complaints.
And not. satisfied with giving a little man a big job the Board
again makes the unpardonable error of re-electing the Superintendent’s
wife as a principal. Such a procedure is unknown elsewhere, and cer
tainly is not conducive to discipline and the best results. Neither is
there any apparent, necessity or justification for such over-indulgence.
We can hardly blame the Prof. for looking forward to next
year "with a great deal of expectation and joy.” Sure not. Let joy
be unconflned—with the Prof.’s little circle and the Board. There will
be plenty of mourners, but they will only be the taxpayers and the parents
of school children. And they don’t count.
Whither are we drifting? It was supposed that similar acts of
discourtesy ended with the outgoing Riggs regime. Last April the Gov
emor re-oppointed the Commissioner of Education and had him confirmed
by a complacent Senate nearly a month before his term expired and when
it was expected that every day a new Governor would be appointed.
Again we say. Poor Juneau.—Juneau Capital.
CO-OPKRATION.
A new feeling is coming late being between Seward and Anchora-ro.
It would appear that the old enmity that has existed between the two
towns giving rise to bickering and back-biting, is giving way before a
spirit of co-operation and good will.
Wo hear that Anchorage is going to stand behind Seward to secure
for the latter, the capital of the territory. The building of the govern
ment railroad from Seward to the interior has brought Seward in close
touch with the whole interior of Alaska. As this country, which has
been oueneil up by the railroad develops, the center or population of
Alaska is going to move to Seward. And It the oil fields in western
Alaska prove a success there will be no question about Seward being the
only logical place in the Territory for the capital.
Alaskans generally outside of the first division, are coining to be
lieve that th<- best interests of Alaska would be served by removing the
capital a little further from Seattle, which because of her meddling fn
Alaskan affairs, has almost made herself the Fifth Division.
The stakes arc big and much can be gained by a little more good
feeling and co-operation with our sister city up the line. Seward has
nothing to fear from Anchorage. The greater the city of Anchorage, tin
greater the benefit to Seward for Seward/is the gateway thru which most
everything must pass to get to Anchorage. The possibilities of this coun
try are great; great enough for us all to prosper by its development, so
let’s put our shoulder to the wheel and push things along. Let them
know up the line that we are ready to boost everything and anything
for the common good of all and if we can join hands in a general boost
for this country, we shall all be repaid in the end.—Seward Gateway.
WHEHK IS THK (OAb
Five years ago this month the government railroad to the coal
ields at Matanuska and Eska creek was completed and the Matanuska
iraneh at Chickaloon four years ago. Ever since these dates announc*
nent has been made (inWashington) that the Pacific Coast would he
looded with cheap fuel. The Eska mine was opened in 1913. and has
lupplied a limited local trade since that time.
For five years published statements have been made by naval
>fficers that the steaming^ qualities of the Matanuska coal were better|
han thosr of any known deposits.
At the same time the residents of Seward and other towns contigl
>us and adjacent to these mines have been using British Columbia coal at
tn enormous price.
With the present high cost of fuel and the greatest shortage in
listory it would appear that now was the opportune time to market this
irast reserve. Good business would suggest that every effort be made
>o get this coal on the market while prices are higher than for years.
The residents of Alaska are asking themselves if this fanfare of
trumpets and beating of drums by coal experts is not for the purpose of
iistracting the attention of officials at Washington. It is true that Secre
tary Payne visited the coal fields and saw “millions of tons ready for the
Beets of the world,” but where are the fleets.
It seems rather unkind to view with suspicion the statements of
so many long-range geologists as to the quantities of coal in the fields to
the Northward, but there is a “nigger in the woodpile,” somewhere, and
some one is handing us the bunk.—Valdez Miner.
the EVERLASTING SQUABBLE.
Being opposed to the opening of any more land for agricultural
development, for reasons -not yet made clear, the "farmers' bloc" in the
congress has undertaken to centralize all power in the government of
Alaska in the Agricultural Department under Secretary Wallace, instead
of the Interior Department under Mr. Fall. ^
One supervising authority were better than a half dozen. The
maid advantage of the Interior Department in the present administration
is Secretary Fall's knowledge and experience of mining affairs, which
would come in handy in the development of Alaska. He is said to be
only an indifferent hand at farming but that isn't so important to the
Northland for a few years to come.
The statement comes from the White House that the President
isn’t concerned about the squabble between Messrs. Fall and Wallace and
their partisans; that he aims to cut out the bales of red tape with which
Alaskan affairs have been bound for years and to end the conflict in
authority which has paralyzed progress.
The Alaskans all will say "Amen!” to this statement from the
White House and "more power to Harding!"
Alaska has been afflicted for twenty yearn or more with what a
man from Mars would call "cabinetitis.”—a dangerous but heroic removal
by the President of the center of Infection, and apparently it is about
time now for the operation.
Unity of purpose and harmony of action, both at Washington and
in Alaska, will bring: beneficent results which have been delayed for a
generation.
The only good that may come out of the squabbling over authority
between the department chiefs is the centering of national attention upon
the great Territory. Many members of Congress and reading citizens
generally may, through curiosity, obtain and study a bit a reliable map
of Alaska. Thus they might barn that Alaska is part of the continent,
instead of an island, and that it is a vast land of opportunity instead of
an ‘iceberg” fit only for Esquimeaux and polar bears.—Cordova Times.
“EVERYBODY KNOWS THE LOCAL MERCHANT.’
“If you had newspaper space to sell and a pay roll to meet, would
you sell your space to business men who want it or would you hold it for
local people who won’t take it and who sometimes declare advertising
doesn’t pay.”
The question is one that concerns newspaper publishers every
where. In many places notably smaller communities, the newspaper has
a hard struggle for existence. It may be a live sheet, splendidly edited,
but the local merchant feels that “everybody knows him” and it is not
necessary to advertise; that he does about “the same business anyway.”
He fails to appreciate what it means to bis community to spread
the -news abroad of its doings, of its achievements and of its opportunities
for the new comers.
Every new farajly means at least $1,500 yearly spent in that com
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JAS. SWARTZELL. Prop.
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STEAM HEATED, ELECTRIC LIGHTED
BATHS IN CONNECTION.
munity. Every merchant gets bin share of this.
In supporting the newspaper by advertising, the merchant encour
ages enterprise on th" part of the publisher, and the greater the publicity
given the town and district the more rapid the growth.
The local newspaper is the chamber of commerce and publicity
bureau combined. It should have the support of every one. to the end
that the greatest amount of good may be accomplished.
Thousands of dollars’ worth of FREE ADVERTISING Is given away
every year to the community by the local newspaper. Every little thing
ts boosted, and people abroad begin to find out. what a fine place your
Only in advertising can the local newspaper find reward for its
effort. The subscriptions do not more than pay for the cost of publishing
and delivering the paper.
In supporting the paper by advertising, the merchant is contributing
not only to his OWN direct benefit, but to the future of the community.
—The Red Bluff iCal.) Daily News.
Keep >our dollars circulating in Nome—Order your job printing cion# i* Noma.
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A L L T O G H T II E It X O W-P V L L l
Spit on your hands, set a good hold on the Seward Peninsula
bonds of affiliation, and pull 'em up closer. A chain may be
only as strong as its weakest link. BUT WITHOUT A CHAIN.
THERE IS NO STRENGTH AT ALL.. .Even a ptarmigan and
a timber wolf know there is power in E Pluribus Unnm.
For a long time the different localities of this District have
been backsliding into little hermit villages; there has been a
frightful lack of co-ordination. We have pulled at Congres
sional influence from every point on the compass, with the re
sult that we haven't gotten anywhere. We have been like
some dog teams we all know of: "Geeing” and ‘‘Hawing"
when the command was Straight Ahead.
The NUGGET wants a weekly news letter from every settle
ment in the District. It wants to print your activities, social
and otherwise, and it wants the feelings aBd expressions of
your community on the big issues confronting us all. It
wants your support by subscription A larger paper meau9 a
better paper. Iiuy it; read if, and send us your auggeatiois
as to how to better it. We would like to be a perfect mirror
of the Peninsula's thoughts and desires. This will require
teamwork.
Just laying back there in your cabin, grumbling and growl
ing to yourself wont help any. Clear, constructive criticiem.
though, when given the light of day may accomplish wonders.
Get together Appoint someone in your community a* cor
respondent and let the World know you haven t hibernated for
the winter. We might suggest that your local achool teach
ers be Interested in writing up your activitiea. and we wHl
make substantial remuneration for their literary labor*.
Let's show them we are interested in oureelves
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