The daily Nome industrial worker., 1916-12-28
BRNE l. WORK.

The story Of the search for the missing Conrad Breeding iu tie Kougarok is one that has u.asy times been written by the bra men of Alaska whose greatest claiu to recognition is the fact that il + done without boasting. ant wtlApbt a!.y effort to make it appear above tle ordinary routine of these mons lives
 Yet it is remarkable 1T many ways. and shows that the chief in- oontiye among sdch men is not the search after .he dollar, u the G2- sire 10 make lighter heavy hearts. and to bring aid and succour where aid f.rd succour are needed.
 Tht work conducted by the search party which practically includes the entire population of tEe Kouga- rok is one that required earnestness of ..urpose. self sacrifice patience, daring and fearlessness Onl: these great attributes could have dared the storm swept hills and creeks with the temperature at fifty below zero and the wind blowing shrewdly in their faces. Only these attributes could have enabled them to cterr- fully leave their cabins in the storu and exhaust their resources on the trail hoping against hope to find the missing man.
 Alaskaus like to think that these men did what other Alaskans would do. did the occasion call forth simi- lar effort. and indeed it is this wond- erful knowledge that men will act as the heart and human instinct for mutual aid will inspire them to act regardless of the consequences to themselves, if so it be that succour through their efforts can be forth comirg. that stimulates everyone.
 It is almost impossible to realize done even if done in vain by these men of the Kougarok. Creek after creek, draw after draw, divide after divide. searched and crossed in their tireless quest for traces of the miss ing man, and all done under weather conditions of more than Arctic severity, regardless of all of it. With scanty rations in the benumbing cold they themselves dared no end of risk in that fruitless search not for the sake of any reward or O. any other return than that they would be successful in their quest and dis cover something of him whom they searched for, thus setting at rest all doubts as to his safety or as to his final sleep.
 This is worth considering. It is worth more recognition that any of us may be inclined to extend it. t shows that human nature, un- alIoyed by the savage civilization that compe's all to worship at the shrine of the dollar, is still alive with inc older and nobler instinct Of mutual aid II shows that our dollar civilization has merely per yerted not suppressed those instincts and that it requires but the occasion ! 10 call them forth.
 Time and time again we are told that if the dollar incentive is Ie- moved that all progress will cease | and our civilization totter. Time !, and time again they tell us that if ! the incentive to accumulate wealth ! through the exploitation of our fell lows is denied us, We would relapse ' into barbarism: that men need such i an incentive to dare and to do.
 Such an argument is advanced in ! spite of every thrillingiy glorious experience in the human race to the 1 contrary. It is when this calumnf- ated human nature has been allowed to follow it's primal instincts and to extend to those who need it, mutual aid and help and succour, the finest acts have been done and the greatest achievements effected.
 On the other hand it is the dollar incentive which has perverted or | leadened every decent impulse; it has filled human hearts with fear and checked the instincts that would rise superior to each occasion.
 has made men grovel before the tars of the money god smothering