The Nome daily nugget., 1913-01-06

forever. and it Is only after doing this certain number of times we find tha, worse awaits us elsewhere. We also md that those whom we had fool ishly regarded as enemies were people whom we should be glad to meet again when no one but strangers sur rounded us.
 Why should people wish to quit AL aska anyhow
 Climate has absolutely nothing to do with making us happy or unhappy if we are able to guard against It's immediate effects. The size of a town exerts no influence unless 1t is that we know everyone. one can never be half SO contented in a great city as in al small one where he becomes a uyirs and interested portion of the com .. munnl life and not a mere outsider.
 The lack of so-called opportun ties for pleasure and culture Is not a | greater to Alaskans than 1t is to pc l. pie in any part of the world. This may seem to be an absurd statement. at first sight. but there Is really no'h. ing absurd about 1t.
 Let us take two individuals of s'In- liar capacity and opportunity and
 place one in Nome and one in New
 York The Nomei,e makes $500 a month while the New Yorker could hardly make tl00. This, of course. excludes the exceptional cases where one strikes 1t rich on the third beach and the other In Wall street.
 Now. what can the man with $i0o month. or sls0 a month. do in New
 York that the Nomeite cannot do with hls s3007 Can he attend all the great operas and musicales and dramas and lectures and everything else and still keep his head above water? No chance. the fact that New York has those things every day does not mean tha, the middle class people can at
 tend them all the time. nor that they would attend them if they could As a matter of fact the Alaskan who takes a few months trip 10 the states sees more of those things in that time than the New Yorker sees in years. IL is well known that strangers who visit great centers like London. Paris and such places are often able 10 in struct the native in subjects concern ing buildings and various works near which he was born. The only people really interested in them are the peo- pie beyond whose reach they are. This shows that We banker after things only because they are beyond our reach.
 X man who has spent. iet US say ten or twelve years in Alaska. would be really foolish 10 leave il now 'ol seek his fortune outside. The terri tory Is in its infancy and he has learned enough about it 10 make him useful 10 himself and Alaska dur'7 | the great period of developmen, which is 10 come. In all this wide world there is no greater field for the -an wno is worth his salt. In the matter easily here than in any other place on earth. In business success is cas- fer and more sure. In the professions the chances for adysncement excel the chances anywhere because the re- sources. the requirements and the activity of development are beyond all pursue the professions. For the lab orer it is really Gods country because he can live longer on less work. but principally because he is always buoy ed up by the hope that some day he might he lucky enough 10 strike a competency. Of course. all cannot strike i, rich. bu, The hope that inds- pendence is possible is the greatest factor in making us forget our trou- bles: hope is greater than hopes full flment
 We should really be thankful tnat We were guided 10 Alaska and we should try 10 overcome the internal restlessness which comes from pureiyI chimerical views of the so-cailed out side. Let us remember that ereeaeE fields are not so green on approach. and that. without doubt. we are living h the greenest and riches, field of them all.
 Alaska has advanced by gigantic strides right under our eyes in be past few years. Before that time she was a terra incognita. Today she is q territory with a legislature and rep in cnogress. Now her great permanent resources are being The kindling has only been blazing hitherto but the coats are