The Nome nugget., 1921-07-16
TOM POWERS WRITES OF
 OUTSIDE OBSERVATIONS

CTHn Powers. whose entertaining letters relative to his travels in Europe and elsewhere during the past win.e nave been published at intervals by thi4 journal. is once more back at his home in tnalakleet, from whence he writes to the following effect undoc date of June 22. Ed
 My last letter to the Nugre. was from Ireland. It recited Il milk and water account ftha conditions eS- istins there The shallow dcliniatdon Was q mere subterfuge. however, and was necessary to escape the censor's blue pencil. While the account WIS true in every way. yet it lacked the vItstlizing force of full reality.
 Apache warfare" best describes the conditions existing there but nothina can adeuu;ltely portray the cruclties perpe'rated on the Irish people by the so called Black and Tan's." the pseudo constabulary recruited from the irresponsible clements of d. foreiyp people and foisted upon law and or der. Words cannot picture effectively the villages, towns and hamlets de- srroyed by the score, the innocent men women and children shot down, the Violation of the sanctity of the ha.me and the stcredness of motherhood. nor can they tell the horrors of unleached passions reflected in the taking of men fro mtheir beds in .he depth of nish; to be shot down without trial; of men tortured to make them confess to whar they did not know: of prisoners fog ged to make them confess and of the life Which make the stories of Libby's prison seem Nike tales of Heaven by comparison. Reference to the report of the American Commission on Con ditons in Ireland will substantiate the above statements and also reveal still further hTrors of the ghastiy regime VI pI'ou 'tiiu
 The writer's return to the U. s. A. ny way of Panama was without special incident. We arrived first at San Pedro--the San Pedro made famous by Dana in his tale of two years before the mast. It was then only a small Spanish settlement and it's only ex- ports were green hides, tallow ani other products of new and thinly settled land. Fremont and our war with Mexico again brought it into the iimelight and later the glorious climate of California was discovered: Cata- lima, the sacred home of the billy goat, was found to be an ideal summer re- sort for the gay tourist; tuna fishing, the grentesto fall piscatorial sports developed; the open roadstead. with was converted into q safe 1eepwater harbor and the once sleepy spanish village became great naval base. New therei $ amode-n American town r.,'n it's sic, .he hum of hydropldnes and other 4i- raf: fills the air thru out the day and great naval search lights convert night into day.
 We touched at t'isco on our way 10 Portland. where we discharged our cargo of sand for gla assmaking and Swedish iron and ran into the great national lockout by the Shipping Board and private ship owners against the marine wup,kers. The situation at that period was roughly as follows: TyheShipping Board is a corporation owned by the government and com pIises abop: 7-10ths of American ship- ping. It does business largely through export agents. they paying the upkeep of the ships and sharing in the profits of operation. It has in foreign ports offices which handle the business of the ships operated by them. These offices, in many instances. are operat- ed by foreigners. mostly English. Why they should be operated by English men is move than the writer caQ IL derstand. England is our commercial rival and also a rival in almost every branch of human industry. It is not fair to assume that the Englishmen