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THE NOME TRI WEEKLY NUGGET. FRIDAY AUGUST 29, 1919
SHOULD TAKE A HAND
Publication of the report of tlie food investigation branch of the
Profiteering Investigation Committee has developed a storm of caustic toned
• omment seriously reflecting on both the scope and character of the com
bers. The general tone of the criticism offered is strongly indicative of a
belief in the minds of the < ommentor’s that the committee merely applied the
go deeply into the living situation to determine conclusively whether or not
the public is being exploited by excessive profit' seekers.
the merchants make little or nothing on a few staples discloses nothing at all.
They aver that the committee report covers only a limited number of com
1 ut small profit, leaving a wide range of others, on which it is claimed
they are making an overly large if not excessive profit, entirely outside the
range of investigation.
means of determining. We believe, however, that the committee ucconi
our attitude. The whole volume of local commercial advertising is not of
commercial misdealing. We will go on record here and now as being not in
people first and the interests afterward. We offer this statement of policy so
tl . t there shall he no misunderstanding in the minds of anyone lega. Jiug
condemn the profiteering committee if we believed that it had failed to do
its duty to the public To use the expressive term of the street, we are
Playing no favorites and will use our verbal cudgels whenever and wherever
they are needed. If the policy is not agreeable to anyone they can make
the most of.it.
We believe, however? i that thy food committee accomplished itq
failed to disclose evidences that there is profiteering here cannot in justice he
the details of local food costs and sales values in an exhausitve manner, even
to the extent of investigating commercial records extending over several
did not lay bare to the public the full extent of its researches is probably
due to the fac t that it would have cumbered the report with an .endless array
The principal object of the committee was to ascertain if the public
thereto, the committee* devoted the bulk of its attentions to investigating the
cost and selling values of the principal items of subsistence. Because the
report mentioned as examples only ten of the articles investigated, does not in
the slightest degree warrant the charge that the committee "picked out only
a few" articles of merchandise and paid no attention to others. Such a
leaves the Inference that both are really guilty of double'dealing, whereas, it
do and was aided and assisted by the merchants in every manner desired.
Doubtless if the hypercritical ones who are raising the present clamor
about the supposed derelictions of the c ommittee devoted a portion of the time
they spend in criticism to unearthing the profiteering they allege the com
mittee overlooked, we might get better results that the committee accomplished.
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WV don't know who wrote It hut we are sure from personal as well ^
;*s outside observation that it contains a little sermon regarding a widely ^
apparent failing of many who attend the movies. We received it in the
mail a day or two ago and are presenting it here in the hope that It will '
serve as a gentle reminder that is not entirely un-nccded In Nome. Here it is: 4
IN SIX PARTS
I went to the Movie's last evening.
A wonderful picture to see:
Roldly I purchased a ticket
And entered in high gaiety.
I picked out a seat to my fancy
And sat in anticipant bliss.
And my Joy of the pictorial opera
Proceeded to unreel like this.
s ' . t
Two ladies of social distinction
Arrayed themselves at my side.
While one chewed her gum with a vengence
■ The other, a self-destined guide.
Elected herself a eo|nmitt©j
To read all inscriptions aloud.
And the plot of each scene she unraveled
And announced to the ignorant crowd.
When “End of I’art I” flashed before us
The Samaritan’s worlc was complete
The plot of the five reels to follow
She had gathered and laid at our feet.
So why should she heed any further
The course of the film yet to run.
Interpreted thru to the finish.
Her work for the public was done. '
So I sat thru five reels of enchantment.
And gazed on a wonderful scene: *
I sighed, and I gasped and I strangled, <
And yet. I saw naught on the screen. j
I saw naught of the merciless vampire. (
I saw not the villians despair: j
1 saw not the brave dashing hero,
Or the smile of the heroine fair. 4
And when the last lovo scene had faded. .... j
I knew naught of the play of the players, j
Hut I knew all the scandal of Nome. {
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WILSON STARTS ON
TOUR U. S. WEDNESDAY
Special to The Nome Nugget t>y The Associated Press. |
WASHINGTON. Aug. 28—president Wilson will start Wednesday on
Ids contemplated tour of the nation in the interest of the peace treaty, ac
cording to a White House announcement today.
The announcement comes at a somewhat earlier period than expected
anil tho view is expressed that, the obv»o«« inclination of the senate to hack
and hew tlie l^umu of Nation* —ov.na.nt has hustoi*r,«i u** »"—«*>«•'♦i“l n—.’.
Tho president will make his first speech at Columbus, Ohio, Thurs
day. Mrs \\ il on. I»r Grayson, the president's physician. Secretary Joseph
Tumulty and a corps of stenographers will accompany the president through
out the tour.
The inilta.ny includes a<1 dresses at Los Angeles, San Francisco, San
Diego, Portland, Spokane and possibly Seattle.
SEATTLE’S FIGHTING''
MAYOR HAS RESIGNED
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Special to The Nome Nugget by The Associated Pros*.
SEATTLE, Aug. 28—Mayor Ole Hanson. “Seattle's Fighting Mayor”,
l.as announced that he intends to lay down the reins W city government
this afternoon on account of needing a complete rest. \
Mayor Hnson has not been in the best of health recently owing to
attain and overwork. It is believed that Hanson is contemplating a lecture
lour in the near future and is also writing a book telling? of his fight for
Americanism during the great general strike occuring herie last Spring.
Councilman C. B. Fitzgerald will succeed to the maj'or’s seat. The
S*attlo Labor Council wants W. 1). Lane, president of the coluncil to succeed.
Hanson says he is a labor radical •
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