The Nome nugget., 1904-02-13
FOOD FOR THOUGHT.

The following paper was read by Mr.. H.
a. Ingalls, at meeting of the Human Inter
est Club, and is herewith published in full.
In it will be found food for reflection" for
all who have the slightest interest in the
community
This community is here to stay. Nome
will long be the financial center of a vast
and wealthy district. This means a perma-
nent and considerable population, and it
necessarily follows that our civic affairs
must be placed on modern and scientific
basis; else we do ourselves injustice and
wrong our posterity. Let us devote these
long winters to larger knowledge of ma
terial things about us, and when the fierce
summer struggle is on we will have done
our public duty so well that it can safely
rest until fall Hence this club for human
interests.
We must meet and discuss. 1t will be an
individual good if no other results obtain.
Discussion begets public spirit. There is
something inetfable, generous and benign in
the spirit of conversation itself This spirit
finds it's own bliss in the happiness of
Others This spirit in its wide sociality
seeks to make companions for eternity. 1t
teaches broader love of ones fellow beings.
Tibelus says: ''He whom love rules, where err
his path may lead walks safe and sacred. y
Guided by love and human interest we sink
personal for general good. By conversation
and association with larger experiences we
pluck without cost the fruit they gained
by hard study, or in the stern school of do
ing. When one learns to learn from, rather
than envy and antagonize an accomplished
associate, he has appropriated one of the
fairest flowers that can blossom in the hu.
man mind.
attended "a meeting of the academy OF
sciences last week and learned in few mo
mentS what would have cost weeks of study
One attends meeting, a lecture, or reads q
book, and out of it all he consciously or I'M
consciously absorbs an idea that sticks; anC
continued cleaning of this kind makes one
accomplished gives ready address and better
use of English
We are naturally sympathetic, looking
for weak ones in distress. While we are
border born and independent, the advan
tages of cooperation are no longer disputed
Let US take up public, and if necessary, poll
tical questions. Let Nome and Alaska have
the best and most modern of governments
We hear of New Zealand and other new
countries where there are no strikes, bu
cheap railroad fares, and where the aged
and helpless are justly pensioned instead O.
being paupers, and objects of charity.
We know of many cities that are out O.
debt; many that have low tax rates. Let u:
learn from others the best way to do, and dt
it, Let US make it so uncomfortable for thu
tax eater that the species will become ex
tinct in our midst.
AS was pointed out in one of our former
meetings our pure water supply is threatened
Let this city use it's munficent revenues t.
obtain permanent supply of it's own. Wa
ter should be free. We are surrounded witt
snow, ice and water, yet aged men, womel
and children are passing my door from mor1
till night, through wind and Storm struggl
ing with buckets of water, and generally
poor water at that, and the worst is not yet
In the summer poor water would doubles:
cause epidemics here. am thoroughly con