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The Nome nugget., 1931-01-10
FAIRBANKS WOMAN SUICIDES

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 8, R- Mrs. Eula Short. aged thirty-six. hotel owner iii Fairbanks, Alaska filled hereself today with pistol when she learned she would not recover from a cancer of the liver. She was living at the home of her aunt. Mrs. E. J. Biggs.
The Nome nugget., 1931-01-10
UNAL.AKLEET NEWS ITEMS
(By Thomas Powers)
Unlakleet Dec.

During the last summer the white population of Unalakleet has in
 creased over fifty percent.
 Mir and Mrs. Lohrer direct from the outside are settled here with the view of entering business of some kind when they have mast cred the possibilities of the coun- try They are quite an addition to the social activities of the town. Joe Armstrong old time pros pector and miner. who through
 his activities in the search for the presumably lost plane last
 winter. not withstanding his ad- vanced age, showed the sterling qualities of the old time prospector land miner. He is prospecting on Unalakleet river.
 Clyde Cockburne and Jack F'rike lately from Nome are freighting a years outfit into the Anvik with the intention of giving that sec tion thorough prospecting. Gold and platinum have been discover ed in small quantities. and there is every possibility that pay streak is in the bed of some un- prospected creek
 George Gibson also from Nome is prospecting on north river, gold has also been found in that re zion, but the country is large and
 prospectors few.
 Dora Sambo who last fall mar ried Hannah Power is going to dev elop the coal mine to the south of here with the view of placing on the market high grade liz nite at a reasonable price
 A drive of three thousand deer to Egavik, for the Lomen cold stor age, is now underway. They will
 be kept in cold storage for the spring shipment
 Alec Johnson from st. Michaels, is here in the interest of Frank Williams and is renovating the cold storage barge, that later will , he used for the storing of the deer
 for Waechter Bros, San Francisco. A drive of several hundred deer is on the way to Kaltag to s"pply La Belle. the trader, with reindeer meat for that thriving community The crew of the Sawtooth and
 Unalakleet waiting for the plane,
 the former got tired of waiting
 and beat it with dog team, the
 latter were about ready to leave via the dog team when the plane arrived and left.
 A letter from Frank Beeson who
 was in Frisco at the time of writ ing, writes in eulogistic terms of his trip by bus from Seattle to
 San Francisco and desires to be
 remembered to his old time friends
 through the Nugget. Later he was | to take the bus to Los Angeles
 where he will meet his sister and
 another relative, after an absence in Alaska of over thirty years. An effort is to be made to run
 telephone line from here to Ega- vik. Whether the line is to be
 private enterprise or done by the A. R. c. is yet in the air. Tentative bids have been made and the lowest bid Is twenty-five
 hundred dollars for cutting and putting the tripode in nlace.
The Nome nugget., 1931-01-10
TO REIMBURSE TREASURY

LIMA. Peru, Jan. 9, (P)-The National court sentenced today Aug usto Leguia, deposed president of Peru and his three sons to re-im purse the treasury with ten mill lion dollars which they used and Were not authorized to.
The Nome nugget., 1931-01-10
NO PLANE NEWS

Stormy weather everywhere keeps al! planes on the ground. Two are enroute here from Fair banks and one nroute here from Kotzehue
The Nome nugget., 1931-01-10
ARPLANE NEWS

..,. Both airplanes enroute Nome, from Fairpanks, arrived Unalakleet yesterday. Stormy weather today.
The Nome nugget., 1931-01-10
NICARAGUA RECOGNIZED

WASHINGTON Jan. 8, ~- The U. S. State Department today instructed the American Legation at Guatemala City, to extend re- cognitdon to the government of Nicaragua. Provisional character. President Andrade.
The Nome nugget., 1931-01-10
N 0 T 0 E

Location Notices, Powers of At. torney, Leases, Deeds, etc., on sale at the Nugget Office.
The Nome nugget., 1931-01-10

Dog team mail arrival Nom' yesterday. Empty your boxes.
The Nome nugget., 1931-01-10

NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF JOHN JACOB ToPOLSKY, De- ceased.
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-12
The Amenities of Politics.

It Is pleasant to take note Of the
sportsmanlike, gentlemanly and alto
gether friendly and good natured cam
paign now being waged in Chicago be-
tween the incumbent and another Re-
publican rival for the Office Of mayor.
Big Bill Thompson, who apparently
Wishes 70 spend the remainder Of his
days rs mayor, needs no introduction
here and words In praise of that
affable official are painting the lily.
Judge John H. Lyle, the mayors chief
opponent in the campaign now under
way, Is a comparatively new star in
Chicago's armament, but he is also
blazing his way to well won fame.
The campaign speeches of the rivals
are examples of political gallantry, so
devoid are they Of personalities and
all forms Of mud singing. The forensic
exchanges are notable for the manner
In which they lift politics to q new
and higher plane.
In speaking Of Mayor Thompson, for
instance, Judge Lyle temporarily de-
clares:
I'm tired Of being decent about this
thing. I can't be filthy like Jumbo
the Clown, but he'll find I can be a
lot MASTER than he ever thought of
being. Calls himself q cowboy, does
he? Well, now, just take a look at
him. Does he in any way resemble a
cowboy? OF course not. And I'll tell
you he never was q cowboy. I've looked
into that and I've found out what he
did when his folks sent him out West
TO get his health back. He was
chambermaid in cowboys bunk house.
That's what he was and that's the
nearest he ever got TO honeSt-to-G God
cowboys-the big slob.
To which Mayor Thompson Suavely
replies:
This lily-iivered reformer has at
tackled Big Bills integrity. That's too
much. Ill knock him down, jump on
his face and kick he'll out of him.
I'll put him In the penitentiary. You
watch Bill Thompson.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-12

ton 20 the year-round half holidays on
Saturdays for Government personnel,
except on the ground of economy, but
that, of course, is a rather formidable
exception. The half holidays for the
postal employees will cost something
more than $2,O00.000. A survey was in
stituted recently to discover the cost Of
Saturday half holidays for the entire
Government personnel, but the results
have never been made public and there
seems to be some mystery about the
findings. 1t is not believed that the re-
port could have been very favorable. as
nothing has been done recently to revive
the half holiday project.
Granting the half holiday for postal
workers will naturally bring up the
matter of discriminating in favor Of q
portion of the Government personnel.
Such discrimination cannot long be
justified. The postal employees bill will
serve to revive active agitation for ex-
tension Of the short work week principle
throughout the Government service, and
if bills which already have been drawn
for that purpose reach the floors Of
Congress there is little doubt of favor
able vote.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-12
The Shorter Work Week.

Chief interest in the bill establishing
a forty-four- week for postal
employees, which now goes to the Presi-
dent for his approval, lies in the effect
that the measure will have in providing
a shorter work week not only for private
industry but for the other branches Of
the Government. Senator La Toilette
explained to the Senate that the
measure could be regarded as q step
toward the shorter work week in the
country, and that its passage viii set
a wholesome example to private indus
tries. Here In washington, however,
one may wonder whether the bill viii
not hasten the long discussed step Of
formally putting into effect the Satur-
day half holiday all the year round for
the entire Government service The
short Saturday Is now pretty well
established during the Summer by re-
current executive orders.
There has never been much oppose
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-12
Do Best Work.

From the Dallas Journal.
Seeing is really living, Booth Tai
kington says, after having been saved
from blindness by an operation at Johns
Hopkins. All Americans viii rejoice
with the novelist that he has come out
of the dark ordeal to promise Of light,
and those thousands who hold him their
favorite writer will join in hoping that
the promise will be fully realized.
This has been a more tragic and more
searching experience than the author
of Penrod has ever known. 1t Is such
an experience, such a test of the spirit,
as should put deeper meaning into any
new books that he may be able to white
from this time. To have faced the
darkness, gone down in it and come
out of it, is such drama as only the
man who has done that, and having SIRE
gift of expression. could put into any
story of life.
The classic sonnet of John Milton,
who walked in darkness, is one of the
most poignant poems in the language.
Harrington may now be better able to
write for US the long-awaited great
American novel.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-12
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES z. TRAcEWELL.

Whoever originated the wisecrack,
when you hear about a new book, go
read an old one" must have been read
ing book reviews.
What is the average reader to think,
when he finds two critics saying exactly
the opposite things about the same
volume?
The recent most striking instance of
this divergence of opinion occurred in
the review by H. L. Mencken of Edgar
Lee Masters Lincoln, the Man" (Dodd,
Mead, in the New York Herald Trib-
une'S Books" and in the review by
Charles Willis Thompson of the same
book in the New York Times Book Re-
view.
Mr. Thompson just the opposite. Be-
tween the two every reader will find
plenty of room for his own judgment.
Ones own judgment!
After all, is not that the only criti-
cism which really counts?
Book reviewers exist simply for this,
that they may bring book to the in
dividual readers attention.
What they say about any given book
matters little. Just as no one can live
life for another, so no one actually
is able to read a book for another.
and living, so that he is incapable of
criticism except along his individual
lines, as it were.
Thus any one might have safely pre-
dicted what Mr.. Mencken would say
about Mr.. Masters life of Lincoln.
Yet the reader who respects the in
tegrity of purpose of both the Messrs.
Mencken and Masters will find that he
is unable to say anything against the
formers review except that it may not
be his, the readers, opinion, but the re-
viewers opinion.
~ X "
What else can any book review be
except a personal opinion?
And, as such, what good is 1T to you
the reader?
1t is true that many men and women
are peculiarly qualified to read books
and to tell other people what they think
of the work in hand.
At the best, however, their Judgment
is only their judgment-and suppose It
does not coincide with our own, or-does
not enable us to know whether we will
like the book or not?
Liking the book is the best test. BY
this we do not mean approving of the
book, or finding in 1t that mixture of
interest and delight, and perhaps exal-
tation, which comes from the great
books great for us).
One may like book, of course, with
out approving it, without agreeing with
1t. without even finding it interesting
When a reader can do all that, he is
cosmopolitan reader, and may congrat-
ulate himself on being fair-minded.
X
Not every one can detach himself
from his hobbies, his likes and dislikes,
his beliefs, his life training, enough to
be fair to the book which treats of hob
bies not his own, likes diSagreeable to
him, dissimilar beliefs, unfamiliar life
histories.
We know readers who snort-there
is no other word for it-every time they
read the title of new book about Rus
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-12

ofaciai business, found no favor with
the Senate committee, the committee
believing. as do probably q large ma
jority Of the residents of Washington,
that such q privilege would inevitably
lead to abuses and add to the already
large traffic hazard in the National
Capital.
While It Is conceded that members
Of Congress, in carrying out their duties
for the Government, should be as I'M
impeded Is possible, the addition of
more than FIVE hundred privileged
motorists" to the long. list of those en-
joying diplomatic immunity would OBJ
viously hinder the proper enforcement
of traf1c regulations which have been
instituted to promote safety on the
streets.
As q matter Of fact, with the ex-
ception Of fremen, police and ambu-
lances on emergency runs, there should
be no privileged class Of street users.
Even the act Of parking in a restricted
zone can lead to serious consequences
A privileged car" left standing in
front of a fire hydrant, for instance,
may be the means of preventing the
prompt quenching of the blaze.
If all that members of Congress want
is to be enabled to park in front of
Government buildings while transacting
public business, it should be easy to
accede to their desire. The setting
aside of q special congressional section
at each Of these buildings would have
the advantage Of providing the space
they seek without inconveniencing the
public or adding to the dangers of
traffic. Certainly no congressional i'm
muntty is needed for this. and probably
very little congressional persuasion win
have to be brought into play for the
prompt establishment of these zones.
1t is a simple solution of simple
problem.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-12

STA. They never get as far as to read
the book itself; no doubt they would
have apoplexy or something If they did.
Now such an attitude is wrong, mani
testify wrong, from the readers stand
point. Everything printed should be
strange to him. No matter what one
thinks Of the great Lincoln, he should,
as a reader, be able to read the icono-
elastic biographies written about him.
Mr.. Mencken, for instance, definitely
states that Mr.. Masters new work does
not belong to the class of volumes pur-
posely written to tear down and destroy.
And that, Of course, is exactly what
one would expect Mr. Mencken to say
but-and 1t is very large one-one
does not believe, from past reading in
Masters, that the Illinois poet would
do anything so puerile as tear down
for the sheer pleasure of tearing down.
Spoon River" was not so written. He
might be mistaken, but he is honest.
X
Book reviews, at the best, are con-
fusing, and often misleading. not be-
cause their authors mean them to be,
but solely because in the very nature of
things they cannot help being.
Every reader reads with his own eyes,
mind and heart. He brings to each
ever fairness he has in his makeup,
however much intellectual honesty he
possesses.
What he thinks about book as he
goes along, whether 1t be biography,
novel, poem or whatnot, is dependent
upon the type Of man he is.
His opinion, no matter how unfair
or unworthy, will amount to something
in so far as he, himself, is concerned.
but it will only amount to something
for others If he happens to be endowed
with superior qualities Of mind and
heart Especially must he possess al
most uncanny abilities at trying to get
at the likes and dislikes Of others.
It is right here that the average
book review falls down.
Life is essentially selfish PROPOSE
ton. Reading, as q reflection Of living,
is q selfish thing, too.
Obscure movements in the mind may
sway one reader-or one reviewer-to
like q book, or to dislike 1t, whereas
the next reader, not possessing this
bent, or turn of mind, will feel the other
way round about the book in question.
Every reader must be, and Is, his own
best reviewer. No sensible reader de-
pends upon any one else'S opinion Of
a book. He knows from past experience
that he may differ from it as widely
as the sun from the moon.
He knows that there is but one taste
in the world which amounts to whoop,
whether it comes to books or drinks,
bathing resorts or sports, and that is
his own.
He knows himself best, and knows, as
the result Of many years reading, what
is likely to please this precious person
best when it comes to books.
New books and old books do not so
much matter. The book, whether old
or new, is what counts, and if he likes
it, that is all that matters. To such a
person, book reviewers have little to
offer, and he regards what they do offer
with deep suspicion,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-12
World Is Moved by Romance
Of Royalty and Commoner

the right spirit in a young man Of good
sense and breeding. Meanwhile, every
one hopes the stern grandparent viii
relent-or that he is playing the game
for the benefit of the youngsters them
selves. The Swedish royal match is
occupying the center Of world interest
just now"
Calling the prince "a sensible boy"
the Charleston Is. c. Evening Post
says OF the romance: What does the
great-great-grandson of Jean Baptiste
Bernadotte, whose father was a petty
attorney in Pau, mean by obiecting to
the marriage of his grandson to
'commoner'? Miss Karin Nissvandt,
the prospective bride, is doubtless Of
as good blood as ever were the Berna-
dotteS, and her papa certainly is better
able to set the young people up than
the little French lawyer to do for his
son, who, as a matter of fact, ran
away and enlisted in the Marines and
had the good fortune to make friends
with one Napoleon Bonaparte. And
the boy is grandson. too, of Roma
nof car of all the RussiaS, If that is
anything to help him along. It might
be thought that these royalties would
unbend a little. considering the things
that have happened to their class in
the past few years. Young Lennart.
anyway. ought to get along, even If
farming is in as bad state in Sweden
as it Is in America"
"In popular fancy" suggests the
Dayton Daily News. "there are few
happy marriages of state. Many mon
archs have used their progeny as mere
political pawns, but Gustav of Sweden
is noted for his kindheartedness. His
people are willing to reject the harsh
old code that the human side of a
royal life must be lived solely to fur
Their the welfare of the state. They
hope he will write the characteristic
happy ending to this real life fairy
tale"
Americans rather like to see the
claims of royalty Haunted and disre-
garded," says the Allentown Morning
Call. That paper concludes: at has
ever been the dream of commoners
that the good prince viii find and
marry the beautiful maiden and that
they will live happily ever after. It
is an ideal that is held as an ideal
because it rarely happens"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-12
S,s29,214
Totals. ..... IS

Actually, the first apportionment
was on the basis Of one representative
for approximately each 10000 inhab-
itants, instead of one for each specified
10000.
The extent Of the shift Of representa-
ton in a century and half is shown
in o comparison between New York
and Virginia in 1887 and today. On
the basis of its actual population, New
York was underrepresented In the
first apportionment. She was certain
ly entitled to virtually the same num-
Der of spokesman as Massachusetts, the
two States being almost the same size
But New York was unrepresented in
the convention for almost half Of Its
duration, Hamilton feeling that his
views were not well received and the
other New Workers not being inter-
ested enough to stay on. Gerry, on
the other hand, fought for an increase
in even the tentative representation
allotted his State until q census could
be taken.
Rhode Island and North Carolina
were not Immediately affected by this
temporary allotment for the first Con-
gress under the Constitution, because
they did not ratify the Constitution
until after the Government was set up.
Copyright, 1879