The Nome nugget., 1920-06-12

may be of interest to the people of Nome. A column or two of space will also be devoted free of charge to the Chamber of Commerce in an endeayor to advertise this section of the country, and impart information regarding our great resources in all lines. An en- deRvo will be made in this depart
 ment to cover certain subjects each week or as often as it is deemed ne- eessary to further the desired subject.
 Another feature will he q section devoted to the Eskimo of Seward pen- insula. Owing to the temporary s,is- pension of the Eskimo Magazine is- sued by the Bureau of Education it has been deemed advisable, after ie't ming that there are over 700 na
 tlNes who read the Nugget. to set aside column dealing with their problems and activities. The Nugget hopes through this section to not only hr-a@ added interest to its columns but Ais" to be of service to the natives and some assistance to the Bureau of Education in the good work which if is rarryin" on among them.
 The question of issuing Il daily pa. pc" this summer instead of the Daily Bulletin and Weekly Nugget service inansurated last fall, has been decided in the negative after careful survey of the present situation. The first question to he considered in the mat ter of publishing daily newspaper Is the financial end. In the main the query resolves itself into this: Are there enough people and advertisers in the community willing to make a nominal monthly outlay to support a daily paper and incidently remunerate the publisher" After q careful con. sideration of this question, taking into account also the number of people re- turning from the outside, most of whom will be employed on the creeks and in the outlying camps and towns. We fail to find the outlook sufficiently encouraging. With only a once n month madl to the outlying points if is out of the question to expect more than a Emall amount of support from those who proceed to other sections and there is not enough local business to make daily paper pay it's way. An- other thing to be taken into consider ation in connection with daily publi. cation is the shortage of print paper outside and the resultant cost. Even with the prices soaring sky high. it is almost impossible to obtain paper In any quantity. Publishers throukh. out the states have had to curtail the size of their papers and the U. S. government has demanded of publish. CTS a saving of at least ten percent of their print paper. because of the de- nlaSd being greater than the output
 The management of the Nugget aims to give the people of this section the telegraphic news Of world events in cond&nsed form daily without increas- ing subscription and advertising rates. If it were possible to double the pqdce of subscriptions and advertising in the same Manier as business concerns in other lines have done. 1t might be pos. sibie to publish daily. Yet even in such case the success of daily publication Is not assured for the reason that there is a condition to confront an the news. paper business that does not affect most business concerns. If the price q satscriptsons should be raised. for instance. . subscriber who does no. feel his way clear to keep up his sub. scrtption could or would amply dis- continue his paper. He coulA and