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The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-01-17
ADMIRE THE HAT.

When some particularly beautifl. specimen of the millinery art upon some glorious woman's crowning glory next catches your fancy, [ av. be you would like to inqiure as ot the price, and while you. magma tion is staggering al the euornods expense of such eonfecticn. will you please cool of your imagination studying up some facts arG Gaures as 10 what milliners who make these things are paid. Fabulous sums? Well not that you would no- tiee it.
 Quite recently an investigation has been made as to the wages paid milliners in the hat making industry and Boston was taken as typical average city.
 The figures throw a great white light on the high costs of living We don't think. The wages per annum wary between fifty !o!lars and four hundred and seventy five for a working year. Absorb that please, Fifty per cent of the lady milliners get about $21O.52, sixty three per cent average between one hundred and three hundred. But few rise above five dollars a week. It is i'm possible to properly appreciate the beauties of capitalism until the man from Mars asks in a perpleXed sort of manner how the devil they live upon that wage. We don't know, or don't pretend to know. The fact is they do not live upon it. They in- crease their salaries-but this paper has to pass through the mails. Yet everyone knows how. Moreover con slider the heart to heart talks of the societies which protect bird life con corning the manifest cruelty of wearing feathers in these hats. Who ever asked the women to consider the signs and tears and the heart aches and the chills and terrors ana the doom and disease and death all rolled into the romance of fashion able hat? How beautiful are the unappreciated delights of capitalism and how signal are the blessings ot free labor.
The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-01-17
STRIKES.

Nothing reveals the community ol interest between employers and employees like strike data. Nothing shows how eager are the bosses to pay wages upon which the workers can live. We have been getting some strike data of recent vintage which show all this. We judge from the figures of the Department that at least two million more or less were affected by strikes during the past year. The prices went up for food, clothing and shelter but the tender hearted employers saw no necessity to increase the wages ill even ratio. They left it to the em- ployees as they generally do, to do that. And the way the employees went about it was to strike. Dur ing 1915 there were 916 strikes. During the year of Our Lord 191 there were 2,5S4. Each strike at- fected over a thousand men on an average. Some great deal more, some a great deal less. They will tell you in figures how much labor lost by these strikes in unpaid wages. but what paper will tell you that without these strikes labor would be foundering still in peon wages which could not even begin to reach the cost of living. It may be a waste, and the way to end the waste is to give in to labor's de mands but the community of inter- est people never advise that.
The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-01-17
THEY QUIT.

The militia when used to break strikes never suffered from any shortage in men or officers. State regiments afforded business men nice outings, natty uniforms and a chance to crack workers skull or two-glory in these days of discon- tent and turburlence not wholly to be despised. But, Snakes Alive!, it's another thing altogether when real war pops up and the War De- partment is or was badly puzzled by the way wholesale resignations of militia officers came tumbling in when the prospects of perforation by a Nillatist bullet entered the perspective of their minds eye. For one alarming circumstance is that these officers and gentlemen who were not above ordering fire
 when the strikers got too gay, sent in to the extent of nine per cent ot them their resignations. War is all right for the regulars, but as for the militia, strike duty every time
 Peace has enough glories for them.
The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-01-17
.NN AWFUL PROBLEM.

Do you know what the GnancieIs ot The country are now worrying ahouto Unless you read their jour Journals you never would tell. You might guess it is about the hard job the workers have to get enough to eat. or the difficulties in making the -four shortage go around, or the troubles due to inequality between the earnings and the purchasing power Of labor. But that would be all wrong. They are watching no is just now taken up with the fact that the rate of exchange is going 10 cause all kinds of worry. The rate of exchange is matter only for those who have millions, but it's an Interesting question and one not tirely unconnected with working class aims and objects.
 When a pound sterling is ex- changed for a dollar certain de- finite exchange rate is set, when dollar is exchanged for German mark, an Italian Ira or a French franc there are specific rates. These are known as The rates of exchange. Now tho dollar is higher than ever. The pound, Iao mlrE, tle frra and all European coinage are shot to pieces Less American currency is given for any of them today than before the war.
 That shows the souuduess of the American currency
 Not quite But that is beside the question that is worrying the fnan- ciers. The worry is this; the Ital- ian lira buys just as much in sunny Italy as before the war, so does. the English pound, the German mark. the French franc and so on, making allowances for shortages due to the war And the problem then comes in that after the war with a shrink ing rate for the pound and the lira hi" 'He iIdHO anu 'He hhdi h, 'HoSe nations having such a currency will not deal with America but will deal with those countries where the home currency receives equality of rates in foreign hands.
 And that's only half the trouble with these knights of gold. To re- store the European currency rate of exchange here would mean that the power as monarch in the world of currency. The difficulty is then seen. The old dollar may be some class in
The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-01-17
HINDSIGHT AND FORESIGHT.

Under the caption Workers Re- ward Friends" the Coast Seamen's Journal whoops up paen of re- joicing over the election of Wilson as one would say Labor Did It.. "The issues of the election were so plain that the workers had no diffi- culty in seeing and following the path of duty" which was to vote for Will son. IL is quite interesting that the path of duty like the path of glory leads but to the grave ot hopes. What a blessed thing that foresight is not equal to hindsight or otherwise what a mass of rejoic- ings would die aborning.
The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-01-17
IHE OLD DOC.

Our old friend Doe Wiley has been talking about the prices of food and says, as a good many of his ad- mirers male and female have said, that they are an outrage, and by the same token that brings us as far and no further than anyone else has got in regard to the aviation costs of livng which all the while seem bent upon breaking the height re- cords.
 However the Doc asks d question. He says that the Mayor of a certain city some time ago when spuds went out Of sight bought several carloads of. m2rphies with the city's money and sold them within reason to the citizens. And thereupon Wiley asks why couldn't the other cities and even the nation do that with regard to all foods @',
 Bless tao uHaou1istteatad doctor, The good man has been so busy giy- ing his professional okay to Nuiol and other nostrums-food and drugs that he quite overlooEs the fact that iuterposing an obstacle in the way is the glorious system of pro- tt getting
The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-01-17
ORIENTAL QUESTION.

The oriental question is always with us. The Robert Dollar line i'm ported Chinese to man their lumber schooners thus enabling them to checkmate the coast. t.seaman's union. The case was before the courts. The sailors Of Mongol nationality came from Shanghai. Contract labor was implied. The court decided adverse ly to the union declaring that the sailors home was on the sea. Hurrah for the freedom of the seas, low wages and a ship subsidy.
The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-01-17
DISCOVERY CLAIM.

Beginning at Cor. 1 identical with $. w. Loc. Cor. with Cor. of No. ? below on Saturday Creek, Sur. 695, fir post 4 ins. sq. fit. above ground in earth mond scribed 1-747. 4695, 11175, D. U. s. L. M. No. II bears s. If deg. 05 min. E. 4110.O it. thence N. 20 deg. 16 min. w. Var. 19 deg. % min. F. 665.00 it. 10 Cor. No. ?; thence N. 9 deg. 57 min. E. Var. 19 deg. , min. E. 209.40 it. to Cor. No. 3; thence N, 69 deg. 45 min. E. Var. 19 deg. 10 min. E. 670.00 it. to Cor. No, 1 j; thence S. deg. 2S min. F. Var. 19 deg. 15 min. E. 317.40 it. to Cor. No. ,; thence s. GA deg. 43 min. w. Var. 19 deg. 1 , min. E. 3S6.S0 it. to Cor. l,o. 6; thence s. 45 deg. 53 min. W. Var. 19 deg. 25 min. E. 273.SO it.; thence S. 13 deg. 25 min. E. Var. 19 deg. 05 min. E. 40OS0 it. to place of beginning. ono
The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-01-17
NO. ONE ABOVE DISCOVERY.

with loc cor. on line 1-6 of Sur. No. Wonder Creek and with Cor. No. 2 Discovery claim this survey, previ- ously described, U. s. L. NJ. No. II bears S. IA deg. 57 min. E. 4771.6O ft; thence N. 20 deg. 16 min. w. Var. 19 deg. 15 min. E. 960.50 ft- to Cor. No. 2; thence s. AS deg. 26 min. w. Var. 19 deg. 15 min. E, 2252O it. to Cor. No. 3; thence N. 31 deg. 20 min. E. Var. 19 deg. % min. F. 269.40 it. to Cor. No. 4; thence s. 36 deg. 42 min. E Var. l9 deg. 10 min l.. 647.00 it. to Cor No. ,; thence s. 31 deg % min. F. Var. 19 deg. 90 min. F. 1240.00 it. to Cor. No. 6; thence s. 69 deg. 45 min. w. Var. 19 deg. 15 min. F. 670.00 it. to Cor. No. z; thence s. 9 deg. 57 min. w. Var. 19 deg. 10 min. E. 209.40 it. to place of be- ginning, containing 16.656 acres.
 Odlu CldlIlS dIc SIIudICu Oll ull- surveyed ground on Lake Creek about 45 miles north of the Town of Nome, in the Cape Nome Record ing District, Alaska.
 U. s. Location Monument No. II to which said claims are tied, is fir post ins. so. it. above ground in stone mound it. high it. base scribed |. s. l.. M. No. II, is situat- ed about 275 miles Northeasterly from mouth of Snake River and about 70 it. east of the Bessie road. Is in Latitude GA deg. 32 min. North Longitude 165 deg. % min. West.
 Original locations recorded in Vol 99 Page 445 and 16 Page 116 and Amended locations recorded in Vol 165 Page 225 and Vol. 199 Page S5, Records of Cape Nome Record ing District, Alaska.
 The adjoining claims are: On the North No. 2 Above on Lake Creek, Survey No. 69S and Gold Bug Claim Survey No. ASA; on the East un- surveyed; on the South No. l Below on Saturday Creek Sur. No. 1117 and No. Below on Saturday Creek, Sur. No. 695; on the West. No. 1 Above on Wonder Creek Sur. No. TAT. There are no conflicting claims.
 c. A. ADAMS.
 Register.
 Date of first publ, Dec. 20, 1916.
The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-01-17

| Loreisa lands, but when you start
 out 10 buy grub, clothing or eke to pay the rent. it is pretty small pota-
 toes here. So if it's purchasing
 power is to decline so that it may
 accomodate the Eurpean systems
 what is to become of it? Who said
 oi-metalism? But isn't it grand when you have nothing else to do but think of how much you are going to give the other fellow for his money?
The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-01-17
MIGHT Is WELL.

Iowa elected q blind man to the legislature. As far aa some poIitica! activities Of Alaska are concerned rhey might as well have had deal, dumb and blind solons making the laws Now don't get mad about il, for there is nothing personal aboat Truth and it was only Pilate asked What is Truth.
The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-01-17
IN THE HOME.

It is pleasing to note that inter- esting papers are being read at eco homie organizations showing the in creased employment of women in the industries and urging the still further extension of this system What has become of the cheerful ones who were wont to assert that woman's place is in the home?
The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-01-17
National Bank, Trustees and Floyd

National Bank, Trustees and Floyd W. Osgood, By Fred. R. Cowden
 their Attorney in Fact, whose Post
 Office address is Nome, Alaska, and
 on behalf of Co-Owner Ellis E.
 Powell, has made application before
 the United States Land Office at
 Nome Alaska, for United States Patent for Discovery Claim and No. 1 Above Discovery on Lake Creek in the Cape Nome Recording Dis
 trict, Alaska. being Mineral Survey Mo- 1175, said claims being more particularly described in the field
 notes and plat of the official survey
 thereof now on file ill said Land Office at Nome, Alaska, as follows, to-Wit:
The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-01-17
CAUSE AND EFFECT.

Shoes are high and going higher Meantime it is interesting to know hat the leather trust which earned 33 fc last year expects to earn fifty cents on every dollar of watered stock this year. Shoes will go higher Cause and effect demand it.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-06-24

have not had machines Of this type in use
that has created the impression that Amerl-
can machines are not as efficient as European
machines. But the first demand for this ma
chine in the United States came only few
months ago and the first turned out show
speed Of l22 miles an hour, with slow land
ing speed of So miles and climbing speed OF
10000 feet in ten minutes. And the factor OF
safety is up TO between five and six. or late
the army and navy have both been planning
10 place orders for machines Of this type and
half a dozen manufacturers are prepared TO
turn them out The thing to be decided jus.
now is whether the army and the navy are
willing TO adopt the foreign specifications and
content themselves with fighting machines
that have n factor of safety of two or three
end carry two hours fuel and land AT speed
of close to SIS miles an hour. II they Will
content themselves with this, we feel certain
that American manufacturers can turn out
lighting aeroplanes that will make speed OF
close to 1875 miles an hour. which is the
very best actual performance obtained abroad
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-06-24

torly as the experienced French and Eng
lsh designers and constructors, and can do
the Job on real production basis. This is
true of any size of aeroplane or motor.
There are now over thirty different types OF
motors being developed in America.
/, may be put down as automatic in aero
nautics that TO get performance one must
not see how much you can put on an aero
plane. but how much you can keep of. In
other words. in the final analysis, it is low
total weight and high horsepower, other
things being equal. that give remarkable
performance.
In the struggle for the supremacy OF the
air premium has been put on speed, and
for the sake of speed machines are turned
out with factor Of safety OF only two or
three. OF course. the factor of safety is Of
no value if the machine cannot outperform
the enemy's machine. But if we will per-
nit American manufacturers to adopt the
European practice and cut down their factor
OF safety to two or three and only expect
their machines to carry fuel for two hours,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-06-24

The other workers at the table were ioin-
ing long seams with sticky solution out OF
a tin. FASTING away with short, stubbly
brushes and chattering hard all the time.
BY the time my companion and had sue
ccssfully dsentangled the "Opposite' from
the "As Drawns" and had the appropriate
pieces in the appointed places there were no
available tins OF solution. This necesstated
pilgrimage to shed outside, where two
giant jars Of messy brown stuff looking like
mixture of tofFce and cod liver oil stood
tipsly on table.
Two coats Of solution are applied TO the
seam TO be joined. When 1T has partly
dried one edge Of the fabric is turned up
over the other and every tniest crease
smoothed away with the fingers. As soon as
the seam is fat and smooth small metal
roller is worked backward and forward over
the join, and bag full Of chalk rubbed
along its length TO dry up any overflow OF
solution that may have worked its way out.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-06-24

Axes of an aircraft Three fixed lines
Of reference; usually centroidal and mu-
tually rectangular.
The principal longitudinal axis in the
plane of symmetry, usually parallel to the
axis of the propeller, is called the fore
and aft axis Tor longitudinal axis) the
axis perpendicular to this in the plane of
symmetry is called the vertical axis, and
the third axis. perpendicular to the other
two, is called the athwartship axis Tor
transverse or lateral axis). In mathe-
matical discussions the first of these axes
is called the Y axis, the second the 4 axis
and the third the Y axis.
Ballonet: A small balloon within the in
terror of a balloon or dirigible for the pur-
pose Of controlling the ascent or descent,
and for maintaining pressure on the outer
envelope TO prevent reformation. The bal
lonet is kept inflated with air at the re-
quired pressure, under the control of a
blower and valves.
Balloon: A form of aircraft comprising
!. gas bag and a car. whose sustentation
depends on the buoyancy of the contained
gas, which is lighter than air.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-06-24
Airships Are Made Bit by Bit

In putting the envelope together 1t Is some
times necessary TO initiate part of it with air
and TO crawl inside, as there are certain
parts which cannot be reached in any other
way.
The air is pumped into the ship through
fat pipe Of rubber tubing.
The great mass Of fabric lying on the floor
begins TO shver and shake as the air rushes
in, and soon there energies from il great
bubble OF fabric. quvering like jelly, which
grows and grows until its proportions arc
huge.
As soon as the ship is sufficiently inflated
the manager gives sign for the girls to go
in. and one by one, armed with the necessary
tools, they crawl in on all tours through
tiny opening into wonderful yellow banana
shaped tent and work as they rarely work at
any other time. The one idea they have is
20 get out again as soon as possible, for the
air inside the envelope is very hot and stuhy
and the dope with which the ship is treated
gives of an unpleasant smell with an intoxi-
eating effect.
On one occasion a great lump in the fabric
aroused the curiosity of the girls, and on
going to investigate it the lump WAS suddenly
heard to murmur in weak voice: Cant
breathe. Lost my way" II turned out to be
one of the inspectors. who had crawlcd in a
wrong direction, lost his way and become
overpowered by the dope. He was dragged
out in perfectly intoxicated condition.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-06-24
Learning
The Ropes

Five minutes later !. too. was blue
overalled worker at one Of the tables.
bright-eycd girl with dark HAIR and a
necklace of sham pearls was told OF 20 show
me what TO do.
From ono end Of the table the girl picked
up brown bundle Of rubber-p PROCEED fabric;
II was the color OF ordinary brown paper
very smooth without being shiny, and hav-
ing in certain lights the downy appearance
OF velvet She started TO pick at large but
obstinate knot in the tape which held il to-
gether; presently growing impatient, she
"pnched" a pair Of scissors from the ad-
Joining table and shipped the bundle open.
The brown bundle consisted Of a number
Of separate pieces Of varying sizes and
shares, each piece being marked with dlstin-
gishing letters and figures in big blue type.
/ was initiated into the mysteries Of these
marks By my bright-eyed instructress. who
looked a. me, 7 thought, as though she hoped
IL would be too difficult for me 70 under
stand.
Some Of the pieces were marked AS
Drawn" and others "opposite"; some had
letters, others figures; and all Of them had
to be Joined together faeh one IN ''' ap-
pointed place.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-06-24

cle-the great gray monster, ready for dop-
ing, that is one day going TO soar up into
the clouds to think that it has all been
cut out, bit by bit, by two patient girls with
two large pairs Of scissors.
After the pieces have been marked out, cut
out and the seams solutioned together they
are finished off with double row of machine
stitching on an electric sewing machine.
Sometimes as we are hard at work there
is sudden sound of trsmping feet, and
long line Of men come marching down the
workshop carrying on their shoulders gilt
tering silver envelope tied up with yellow
tapes.
Tramp. Tramp! Tramp, In they come
fifty or sixty of them, their strong backs
bent down with the weight Of their burden.
For all the world, it is like huge silver
dragon in a Drury Lane pantomme.
Seventy-four pairs Of eyes look up from
their work; seventy-four pairs of hands for
the moment are idle, and a sudden titter-a
giggle-runs through the workshop. For,
heading the procession, and walking with q
ridiculous music hall strut, funny little
man with a bright red mustache Ia false
one) is playing the fool TO amuse the girls,
or possibly to amuse himself.
His antics very funny. Now and then
he will break into an elegant pas-seul and
dance neatly down the room, in spite Of the
fact tina. his head and shoulders support a
heavy weight
The girls love him; they call him Little
Tuppy," but his real name is dignhed one
with flavor Of ancient lineage.
Mechanics are very much the fashion In
the workshop II you are anybody at all
you have nickname. In some cases, as in
the case Of Mr.. "Fish-and-C Chips" your real
name is not known.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-06-24
an America Produce Aeroplanes to Defeat Germany

Curtiss twin-motored battleplane was more
Efficient Aver in every way than the best tu-
ropean twin -rnotored machines. This battle
plane. equipped with two motors Of from lou
to 200 horsepower, can, we believe. equal any
performances Of European machines OF the
same type. Half dozen other manufactur'
crs, including the Aeromarine Plane and Mo-
tor Company. the Burgess Company. the Gal
laudet Aircraft Corporation, the Sturtevant
Company, the Thomas-Morse Company, the
l.. W. F. and the Standard Aero Corporation
and other we'll established firms, have re-
ceived orders from the armv and navy and are
now about to produce twin-motored hydro
acroplanes. With the experience they arc
gaining We can expect that they Will soon
turn out most efficient aeropanes. This is
also true of the newer concerns, such as the
New York Aero Construction Company. the
A. s. Heinrich Corporation, the General Aero
plane Company and others.
"a The fast single passenger fighting ma
chine: 1t is principally the fact that we
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-06-24
and will have good flying qualities and
fast climbing speeds.

and will have good flying qualities ana
fast climbing speeds.
But this low factor of safety and extreme
landing speed, while necessary when II ac-
tually comes to lighting enemy aviators, can
be dispensed with at a cost Of only about
five to ten miles per hour in speed so long
az our aviators do not have to fight enemy
aviators, and thereby save considerable IN
juries to men and machines during the pc
riod of necessary training Our committee
came TO this conclusion after watching the
succession of breakages of the fast British
fighting machine which has been tested at
Governors Island during the last few weeks.
This machine was so lightly constructed and
landed lat such great speed that there was
breakage at most of its landings. Finally,
two British officers, who brought 1t over,
Grated it away. The account of the death
or Norman Prince. of the Lafayette Corps,
tells that the machine he was flying landed
at a speed of close to one hundred miles an
hour The new Spad is almost as bad in so
far as factor Of safety and landing speed are
concerned These are machines to use in
battle. and American aviators will use them
when they get there. but it would be wrong
TO say that they are better than the Ameri-
car fighting machines being turned out.