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THE NOME TRI-WEEKLY NUGGET, FRIDAY AUGUST 8. 1919.
THE BUSY KNOCKER
The ubiquitous Nome “knockers” sire already exercising their de
plorable inclination t > damn everything thsit comes along by deriding the
efforts of the council to un lertnke the construction of a uuinici|uil wharf
on the Snake River basin. \
“What are the darned fools going to do with nothing in the treasury
and scarcely enough revenue in sight to support the city governmen?" is
;i summarization 'of most of their remarks on the subject which shows sill
to plainly that they are out to throw cold water on the scheme if it is
possible to do so.
Nome has always been most unfortunate in possessing an overly
large number of those who never do anything themselves but find it an
apparent pleasure to damn and denounce every effort made by others.
Kvery plan, every project, regardless of its feasibility or of the possible
* enefits which might accrue to the community, that has ever been proposed
in Nome has come In for some share of the reprehensible attentions of
tins pusillanimous fraternity. The instant something is suggested the little
hammers commenced their rapping and many a plan which would have
resulted in wide benefit to the community has died a-borning for no other
reason than that discouragement was the only support tendon-, 1 its pro
mulgators.
Looking back over the long years ...inct- Nome was an infant town,
we recall few instances in which a proposal .f ,,n> • iiar.o tor «liii not re
ceive more contemptuous or jealous animated condomunition than real, notice
support. Time and again, projects have been broach,-.1 which e-.iild hardly
fail to be of substantial benefit to every man-jack in tin < oi.in.,i:.i;> Some
of then\ wWo dlfifciilt of realization, some easy. in p ami. ill\
every case there arose an immediate yapping directed . Mu . . , m l the
proposals or those who were hacking them. This has liapp*nod ... man\
times that some of our more progressive citizens openly a, ; that tin
aestitatc to attempt anything because of the certainty that the busy rat tat
of the hammer will be about the only form of endorsement they receive
from the Nome public. Only recently one well known citizen whose ef
forts to assist Nome's development and | a ogress have been of inestimable
benefit to the community in the past, informed ns that his experience has
led him to believe that every other man in Nome js more or less a con
firmed knocker.
What the knockers expect to gain by such a policy is impossible to
determine. That their belittling activities will do no good to either them
selves or the community is as certain as certain can bo. No one who1
has taken the slightest cognizance of the trend of local events in the past
<au fall to realize that a large part of our present deplorable Industrial
situation is the result of the repressive influence exerted by the knockers,
and the do nothing element with which the town is unfortunately infested.
Kvery one who started something immediately had a stream of cold water
turned on their activities and not infrequently they themselves became
tl e object of insiduous attacks of a personally belittling character.
As a result of this to all apparent propensity, the live, progressive
citizens of the community, knowing full well that they will become the im
mediate targets for the shafts of the knocking fraternity, hestitnte to make
proposals or offer suggestions.
Can any community grow or go ahead under such conditions? Can<
it retain sufficient energy to do more than stand still when every attempt|
•*'* it ahead is made the butt of derision or abuse? When we reflect|
• •n the number of the knocking gentry who Inflict their presence on Nome, we
wonder that there is any town here at all.
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PEACE AND ARMIES ~"
With the War Department planning an army of a million and a
quarter men and enforced military training for the growing youth of the
land, it assuredly does not appear that the millenniumesque era of peace is
any nearer than before the war. regardless of peace league formulations
and world peace campaigns. The determination to build a military force
of millions is in decidedly ill accord with the beatific idea that the war has
changed the views of the nations to the degree that they will -fie happy
to forego future international strife and live forever in peace and amity!
with their neighbors.
If the time has arrived when mankind is willing to turn the sword
into plowshares and devote itself to the abolition of slaughter; what is to
i e the use of the vast military menage the government is contemplating,
, «*r of the great number of powerful battle ships embraced in the construc
tion program of the Navy Department for the next four or five years. It
is true that even under the League of Nations scheme some military force
will be required to assist in maintaining the league dictum*, for It cannot
be doubted that some of the lessor nations are hound to permit their egotis
tical desires to assume a place In the sun to run away with their judge
ment of what is right and wrong. The actions or the Roumanians in
Hungary at the present time are an excellent example of what may be ex
pected from the minor powers who Bee in war their only means of terri
torial expansion. Despite the fact that the abolition of war will benefit
Jiese peoples probably more than any of the greater powers, they will be
Hie last to willingly lay aside their armaments atid look to the peaceful
pursuits of commence and industry for future aggrandizement. It seems
much easier for them to go out and rob a weaker neighbor of his posses
sions than to depend upon the slower processes of industry or trade to make
them great and wealthy. As long as this element exists and .retains the view
tnat something may be gotten by taking it away from some one else by
force, so long will there be a need for the maintenance of armies, regard
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less of nil peace formulations or international leagues.
Although there is a decided incongruity between the wide ranging dis
cussion of permanent peace and the building of might armies, the fact
remains that the world is still far from the state where compacts between
nations can be accepted as other than conventions of convenience. «In
the eyes of a majority of the Internntloal entities, treaties and agreements
.ire no more sacred when thfty stand'in the way of attaining national ob
jects than they were to the Germans. As long as they suit the nlms of
their promulgators, they /ire doubtless binding enough, but when something
is to be gained by their abrogation, few will not devise moans to escape their
restrictions.
The promulgators of the league of Nations themselves recognized
that there Is little or no hope of world peace unless peace is enforced by
a powerful display of military might against which it would lie useless to
rebel. * '
The theory that the war has changed humanity is n beautiful
idealism which vanishes rwhen one looks at tho facts and realizes that the
organization of great armies such as the United States is contemplating
is tlfe only definite means of maintaining pcac-q. Humanity will have to
undergo a Wide change In Its moral makeup and boundry lines will have
vanished before the time arrives when the world can consider itself per
manently relieved of the prospects of international strife.
ALL KINDS OF LEGAL BLANKS AT THE NUGGET OFFICE
SEATTLE SHIPYARD
REDUCING SALARIES
Special to Tne Nugget by The Associated Press.
SEATTLE, Aug. 7—The Skinner and Eddy shipyard has announced a
ieduction of wages which will extend to upward of twelve hundred employees.
The metal trades are largely represented in the wage cut but the
officials of the Metal Trades Council is advising the workers to accept the
reduction without striking, pending an appeal to heads of tin* international
unions who attempted to negotiate the coast-wise shipyard wage agreement.
TWO THOUSAND CAR SHOPMEN STRIKING AT SPOKANE.
SPOKANE. Aug. 7—KlVo hundred additional ear shopmen employed
bv the Great Northwestern struck today for wage increases necessitated by
the living situation.
Tin- walkout today makes a total of two thousand railway shopmen
WICKERSHAM ENROUTE TO KETCHIKAN.
Special to the Nome Nugget by The Associated Press:
SEATTLE. Aug. 7—Delegate contdbtnnt James Wlekersham departed
tor Ketchikan today on hoard the steamer Alaska. Tiie former delegate
contemplates remaining on the southern Alaska coast during most of the
time lie is in the territory.
ORGANIZATIONS CALL NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON R. R. CONTROL.
Spt.-ml to The Nome Nugget by Tie Associated Preta.
WASHINGTON. Aug. 7- Kourteen affiliated railway and labor orgun
iz: tions with headquarters in the capital have issued a call for a national
ronfoienco of railway control.
The conference is scheduled to open here Sunday.
CANADIAN FLYER ATTEMPTING TO CROSS CANADIAN ROCKIES.
' ••’i'll to tie- Nome Nugget by The Associated Press:
VAN't’OfVKIt. A tig. 7—Capt. E. C. Hoy, a Canadian army flyer, left
for l algary imlay piloting a Canadian army biplane. Capt. Hoy hopes to
l >• tin- first airman to fly across the Canadian Rockies. Reports from var
i >u■; points along the contemplated route of the plane indicate that weather
• •.editions are uniformly favorable and great hopes are being entertained
licit the flight will be successfully accomplished.
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