The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-01-23
SOME COMMENT.

The activities of the many men who have set themselves out to re- deem Nome from the slough of despond no doubt are entitled to credit. if they are intelligently conducted
 4 survey of the present situation reveals the fact that Nome has just now some considerable number of business houses. In no line does il lack a surfeit. How they all make living may be a mystery, but in that they exist is proof enough that they do. Certainly then, if We look around the present industrial prospect we discover the very in teresting fact that there is not enough industrial activity going on to keep a tithe of the business houses supported.
 Yet not only are these houses able to make out. but such Nomeites on the side have time for an abund- lnce of pleasures and dances, soci- als. masks. races, carniyais and all sorts of imaginable devices to speed Times wings on pleasures way Gas Hogan says have been happily devised and successfully as well.
 Nome is now eating the profits of the summer, or more correctly the wages of the summer industry for it Is essentially d summer camp. Be cause th-u ue was considerable mining going on, and because some of those who mined and labored remained in the camp, the city is now annex ing the wages by a slow process, which slow as it is, keeps the camp going.
 In addition of course there is the Fort. there is also the federal wage or saiaricd list. but important as these may be, they are insufficient to keep the highly commercialized or sanitation of this community go- ing. IL is the miner CT other worker who provides the wAera- vitha. directly or indirectly to"hat end.
 Cousequeutly we know that pro gress along any line which would rebound to the D ncft of Nome business is to secure profitable em- plovment for those who live here, and to develop if possible 2 quid pro quo among the business men tA m- selves.
 Speaking from a business point of view, as this article is very frankly, we have to say that when the commercial interests of Nome are seeking for the advent of fresh capital to these fields, they might judicious.y remember that unless that is paid in proportion to the local workers and at Nome wages, 1he camp is not going 10 benefit at all
 Moreover if is moet amaeine spectacle 10 discover business men enthusiastic af;cr the coming s'e- veIopmaut wear after year send out for cases of goods for personal corsrmudon from mail order hou- ,es. Year after year the mail of nulrtadiuous Nome business men clogged with mail order catalogs from those houses from which they have incidentally been supplied, and it. ia an inspiring feeling to get a bill from a Nome business house that Is strong for local development and up-bufdiug of local prosperity which has been printed a few dollars cheaper in some outside printing OGicel
 There are many firms which send outside for their printing and they rejoice at this excellent stroke of business. There are many dry goods and wet goods emporium' which get their groceries and SC forth in from outside houses. Yer further there are grocers who have outside mail order goods shipped in by the packing case. This k Nome, as it is, without boosting and as the truth has it.
 Now the advent of Ncmeites into she field for outside capital to come and to exploit the riches of this locality may be excellent, But what outside capital does come