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The Nugget extends a
Happy New Year to All
It is not time— seconds, minutes, hours, even years— but the us
that men make of time that makes the difference in men's fortunes.
Nature is absolutely impartial in the distribution of her hours.
She gives to no man time that she does not give to another. The same
morning gives every man an equal start with his fellow and the same n.ght
finds each an other day further on the journey or lost by the waysid*
But all the time that Nature gives to any man is the present. Alan
makes his own past and future. Grasp the opportunity of the golden
present that the past may not bri-ng regrets, nor the future be without
The great, promising but evanescent NOW must be grasped in its
potent whole to secure the future and free the past Of regret.
Are six, eight, ten. twelve or eighteen hours a day man's allotted
work? Not by all eternity. There are twenty four hours on the clock
acd in man’s working day. Man's work is twenty four hours of sleep,
recreation, eating and labor. There are no hours in the diurnal circuit
for idleness, misguided recreation and intemperance in eating or sleep
ing. After the day's wages have bee-n earned, there is still life’s wage,
the dues of evolution, which must be earned in fruitful reading, healthful
thought and deep-delving retrospection.
Too many work-a-day men end work with the eight hours and wish
for less, sleep ten hours and crave for more, eat to fullness and leave
the table unsatisfied, hope in vain for the "luck in leisure." accept no
opportunities to improve mind and body and see not that those who are
getting ahead in this life are those for whom every "waking hour" is a
“working hour.”
Working hours are found for the unwise, but the wise find hours
In which to work.—Exchange.
IT WASN’T A DREAM
When the Congressional Party was in Fairbanks last summer.
Jack Underwood in a talk the writer had with him in his rooms at the
Nordale Hotel was very much irr earnest that we should go after and get
Alaska benefits from the Federal Highway Act, which Jack said would
V,' Tko hnj ro
ture Wallac
It would
moan J3.uuu.uvu a year ior Alas]
could finurc with, and therefore seemed a dream.
A short time thereafter. President Hardin*:
of his cabinet were in Fairbanks, and Secretary of Agricult
while riding with Charley. Paul and I near DesJardine*
“You ought to get Alaska under the Federal Highwu
mean FOUR millions of dollars a year for roads in A
time he ba<l hit a few spots in the Farmers- Road and had been reminded
that the roads to the farms were ALWAYS the worst roads in America.
And. FOUR millions being biRRer than three millions, and above any
price of ours, we couldn't see where to start work.
Now. Jack has reported to the Seattle Chamber of Commerce,
which he represents in Washington. that Alaska is sure to win this bip
road point at the next session of Congress. Col. Stoese, on his way t««
Juneau, says the same thing, and that at Janeau this winter he wilt plan
and start intensive road work in Alaska^ Secretary Wallace, out in the
hills with the Fairbanksans. told them that he would help in any way
in his power to get Alaska under the Federal Highways Act, and—it is
HIS Department that has the working of that Act.
All in all. optimistic as we always are. we feel that we can see
where this is the last year the editor of this Great Family Journal will
have to rest under the indignity of being the only man in town who
doesn’t own a Rambling interest in an automobile. With all these good
roads coming up. as they seem to us to be. the chances are that next year
we will acquire one of those things, in celebration of Aliska’s progress—
Fairbanks News-Miner.
KQUALI/I\G RKPRF.SKNTATKIN
In the tentative reappottloument of delegates to the next Repub
lican National Convention the object Is to reduce the representation of
southern states in which the party has but normal existence. Nothing
could be fairer than its design to withdraw voting strength on the con
vention floor from those states that contribute nothing toward electing
a Republican president and add it to states in which the Republican vote
is material, if not in the majority.
Never was there sound reason for apportioning delegates on Con
gressional representation alone. The system gave equal voice in the
choice of a candidate to those who could contribute nothing to success
Years of criticism of the injustice of large southern delegations finally
induced action in the convention of 1920 and the apportionment now
made is in furtherance of the reform.
The convention next year, if the apportionment made is not al
fered. will be larger than heretofore, the number of delegates being in
creased from 984 to 1.036. Pennsylvania. Ohio and West Virginia wil
gain two each, and New York four. Georgia. Louisiana. Mississippi
South Carolina and Texas will lose heavily, hut in those southern state
; where there is a live Republican organization and a creditable vote t(
the Republicans living amid those conditions will not be penalized. Th
latter applies to Florida. Tennessee and Virginia, which will have thei
ivotes increased.
The step is one that has been long delayed but if is better taker
at this time than not at all. It was unfair to give a section that coulc
do nothing material toward electing a Republican president an equa
voice in nominating a candidate. Under the new plan those states wil
provide the bulk of the Republican vote on election day will have a dom
inant influence on determining who the candidate will be. Exchange.
‘IMtElWKATION VS. ItKIMIMTION.
(“I'nconuiion Seiw" b> .Volin Itlake in Sralllc I*. -I.)
This is not a war editorial. Eminent statesmen are engaged in
trying to straighten out the world tangle.
In this corner of the page we are contented with the humbler task
of making suggestons to the individual citizen on tht> settlement of his
1 own problems.
In a good many years of newspaper experience the writer has
observed that a large amount of every man's time is devoted to making
up for past mistakes and past neglects.
At fifty a man who has accumulated enough money to last him
for the rest of his life discovers that there are thing* about literature
ami art that he has not had time to find out.
In the company which his money enables him to keep he feels the
lack of them.
His grammatical slips bother him.
He is embarrassed when he tries to talk about history and dis
covers that he is not quite sure whether Napoleon was a contemporary
of He-nry the Eighth, or whether Christopher Columbus discovered Am
erica for Spain or for Italy.
So at fifty he laborously seeks to repair this lack, and finds it too
Another man who ha* abundant book learning finds when he
reaches forty that ho ir hard pat to it to s, living.
AfifJ be has so little kn-wl.dge ot the practical ways of life that
lie has no chance of earning more money than l* just sufficient to keep
body and soul together.
So he casts about for some remunerative occupation—and he
also Is too late.
Deficiencies of this kind can, it is true, be made up.
Hut it is far easier to avoid them than to make up for them.
The Number
of Buyers
Attending our sales is steadily in
creasing as we carry on a con
tinuous publicity campaign in the
chief Fur Buying Centers.
Sales every month in the year.
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