The Nome daily nugget., 1915-11-23
City Official Paper
NOME, ALASKA, NOV. 23, 1915.

Fairbanks may be long ways be-
 hind Nome in many respects; it may not have the same advantages in the way of situation, resources and busi- ness development enjoyed by Nome but it has us beat a city olook when it comes to the possession of live wide awake citizens who ere thoroughly awake to their opportunities and are ready to take advanta se 0. whatever is offered in the way of benefits to their town and themselves. They have furnished us so many examples of this that, were we not asleep or utterly in different, We would have had to ac- knowledge the fact long ago. Here they are already enjoying the best mail service in the whole interior through receiving. on their own acknowledge ment, over half of all the mail that the iow to pass into the interior and yet they are still making every possible effort to get still more and, in pur-  suance of this object, are enlisting the aid of all the leading magazines in the country in assisting their campaign, in addition to such other influences as can be conveniently approached. We have no fault to find with this nor with the fact that they are securing most of the mail coming in over winter trail. They deserve 1t for the one req son that they have earned it by work ing for it, While we have been set ting around complaining about what We didn't get the citizens of the inte- rior city have been devoting the time to the very sensible business of making such efforts as were possible to se- cure what they wanted They didn't set around kicking to no purpose as we have done neither did they let the
 fact that it is a long ways to Wash
 ington stand in the road of going after
 what they wanted. They simply made
 up their minds what they wanted and then started out to get It. That's the | reason that they have succeeded in | securing half of all the mail that is
 coming into the interior-they worked
 for it. And for the very same reason
 they will probably secure an even
 larger portion through the efforts they
 are making at present which include
 among other things the sending of a
 personal appeal to the editors of all
 influential publications throughout the
 country. Tn the slang phrase of the
 day that's the kind of stuff that gets
 the money" It's get up and get, not
 hollering, that brings home the bacon,
 Fairbanks are giving LIS only another example of the kind of spirit that en- abled them to build road to the Tolo- Vana, which isn't half as rich as the Kougarok, without waiting for the road commission to do it for them. It's the same spirit that caused them to ship | one hundred and fifty thousand dol | lars worth of antimony to hungry | market before we were hardly awake to | the fact that there was a market: | which enabled them to grab half of all the mail and to do sundry and divers | other things while we are sitting around like the proverbial bump on a log praying for capital to come in and hand us something. Would that there was little of the same live spirit in Nome. If there were it might occur to us to follow Fairbanks example and | try and get a little something for ourselves instead of waiting for some | one to pilot the band wagon along this