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The Nome daily nugget., 1935-11-28

meet each new contact ready to give their best-and in the end il pays. While there are doubtless here and there people who cannot be suited, or even those who have no scruples about making use of their facilities, the great majority of us are honest In motive and con- siderate of others and make profit able customers.
 There are women like Miss \ who meet life with her attitude of No tickee, no washee." In their friendships and social contacts they apply their philosophy of not giv- ing without return, of holding back until they are sure they are not be- ing taken advantage of. The re suit Is inevitably the same. They can have no friendships.
 should like to tell Miss X that the whole world can rarely be wrong. And when a woman gets the feeling that it is, when all her friends or all her contacts seem to be guilty of the same fault, then is the time to look unto herself and see if that doesn't help to locate the source of trouble.
 e. Bell Syndicate.-WNU Service.
The Nome daily nugget., 1935-11-28
BOWERS are actual humorous tid-bits found in examination pa pers, essays, etc, by teachers.
Celibacy is a disease of the brain

Celibacy Is a disease of the brain.
 The Lord tempers the wind to the shore and the land.
 Hypocrisy means being what you are not.
 Under the Mikado Is an officer called the Shotgun"
 Thomas Cranmer, archbishop of Canterbury, was a college student who translated the Old Testament into the New One.
 Explain in your own words how the French people solved the prob lem of stopping the sand dunes from destroying the farm crops.
 The French passed a law prohib- iting all sand dunes.
 Achilles was invulnerable except In hell.
 e. Bell Syndicate. Service.
The Nome daily nugget., 1935-11-28

jumping. And as 1 have already told you, 1t Is my long tail which keeps my balance In the air But such long tail Is great help" added Nimblehees with a funny lit tie sigh.
 T should say sor' exclaimed Pc ter Rabbit.
 The eyes of Nimbleheels twlnkled. "1 should like to know what you know about It." said he.
 Peter glanced at his own funny lit tie bunch of a tall and laughed. Nothing" said he. My tall isn't the least bit of care. But I was thinking that If I had as long a tail for my size as you have for your size 1t certainly would be some tail and some care. l suspect that lots of times when thought myself safe inside the dear Old Brier Patch my tail would be way out side. really don't see how you keep track of so much tail"
 Oh replied Nimbleheels, "that Is easy enough. When l am not Jumping or running about I keep it curled around In front of me. Then l know just where 1t Is. By the way, Peter, do you mind if go look for pocketful of seeds7 l am rather hungry"
 Look as much AS you like, think you will find plenty here in the Old Brier Patch. but before you
The Nome daily nugget., 1935-11-28
BEDTIME STORY By THORNTON w. BURG ESS

go tell me what you mean by 8 pocketful," replied Peter.
 Just exactly what l said" retort- ed Nimbleheels. If 1 can just get a pocketful of seeds can bring them back here and we can talk while l eat them"
 Peter bllnked hls eyes and stared at Nimbleheels In the rudest way II certainly was most impollte.
 Have you pocketf" Peter de handed.
 Certainly. Of course," replied Nlmbleheels. How in the world was l going to get n pocketful of seeds If l hadn't a pocket to put them in7 As n matter of fact, I've got two pockets, and mighty handy pockets they are. 1 really can't imagine how anyone can get along without pockets. Next to my tall I think more of my pockets than of anything else possess"
 Peter was still staring as rudely as ever. "I don't see any," said he. "Where are they?"
 Tn my cheeks, of course. Where else would they be?" replied Nim- bleheels. Peter didn't know where else they might be. so he said noth- ing. They are so handy that I simply couldn't get along without them" continued Nimbleheels.
 Peter sighed "I wish l had a pair of handy pockets" said he.
 CT W Burgess.-wNU Service.
The Nome daily nugget., 1935-11-28
HROUGHa a WOMAN'S EYES . sx sxEWToN sT6N
"NO TlCKEE, NO WASHEE"

err HERE'S no doubt about it.
 | people will take advantage of you If they can get away with it."
 That was the sum total of long series of complaints of young woman know-complaints about the people with whom she did busi. ness and about her friends. The burden of each was the same. Peo, pie trying to make use of her-to take advantage of her. Her once flourishing business-of kind in- volving personal seryice-was dwindling to nothing because of so many non-paying impositions on her time.
 It so happened then that l met one of my friends who had met this young woman and had business con- tact with her.
 No wonder Miss X isn't getting along" was the comment of this woman whose fairness and generos- ity are unquestionable. Its i'm possible to get any results with her. She seems to have some distrust or suspicion, because she holds back the information one needs before deciding on an order. She prac- tically insisted that l orde first and then learn what she planned to give mel She seemed afraid I wanted to steal her ideas! !"
 That made 1t all pretty plain. Miss X had been soured by a few experiences of giving her time without direct return-and had de termined upon policy, as the laun- dry man put It, of "No tickee, no washee."
 The trouble is that business can not be run that way. Successful business people count on certain percentage of waste effort, but they
The Nome daily nugget., 1935-11-28
Bats That Destroy Fruit

Bats are found in most countries, and tropical lands have species that live on fruit. In Australia, these bats, known as flying foxes. since their faces resemble that of fox, do enormous damage in orchards. They travel in large colonies utter ing screaming cries, nibbling at fruit while lowering before it. often taking a large piece away. When this happens they behave like do nestle fowls, for all the others fol low the one with the prize.
The Nome daily nugget., 1935-11-28
A PAIR OF HANDY
 POCKETS

UVES, indeed" continued Nim-
 bleheels, q take the very greatest care of my tail. The way l feel about IL Is that l might just as well lose my life as my tail. I probably would anyway
 Probably would whatT asked Peter, looking puzzled.
 Probably would lose my life, of course, If l should lose my tail," re- piled Nimbleheels. You see. in times of danger l depend on jump ing to escape, but without looking correctly there would be no use In
The Nome daily nugget., 1935-11-28
DINNER GIVING

MY DEAR Mrs. Post: Would M you please sum up a list, In. cluding all items, for my waitress to remember when setting the din. ner table for dinner party7
 Answer: The items of a properly equipped dinner table include:
 l. A tablecloth, or place mats, or whatever Is to be the foundation of the setting.
 2. A centerpiece, of fruit or flow. CTS, or an ornament complete in it. self.
 5. A place plate (often called a service plate) marking the center of each place set for each person at table.
 4. Flat silver: whichever imple- ments are necessary for the courses to be served, but three forks, three knives and soup spoons, and either fruit spoon or oyster fork maxi mum amount.
 5. Never less than four candle sticks or two candelabra. Two can dies are absurdly out of proportion to any table bigger than card ta- ble. (No candles in daylight.)
 6. Two dishes of sweets on a re- factory table, four dishes on round or square table.
 '. Glasses for whatever you serve. (Never put on glasses or pieces of flat silver, which are not to be used.)
 s. Salt cellars and pepper pots between every two places.
 9. A napkin on each place plate.
 At family dinner, bread and but ter plates are allowed. But never at halfway formal dinner party. Conventional place cards are not very suitable for dinners of less than eight. On the other hand, if you like fancy place cards or fa- vors, there Is certainly no reason why you should not set your own table with what you like-espe- cially at Christmas or Thanksgiv- ing, or at birthday party, or a wedding anniversary, or other inti- mate dinners. On more formal oc- casions, plain place cards are best.
 Salted nuts are put either In small individual dishes above each plate, or in a pair of dishes; one at either side or end of the table. Ger tain hostesses always include them, others rarely If ever do. just as olives, radishes and celery are al- ways served at certain tables and never at others.
The Nome daily nugget., 1935-11-28
Efforts May Be Lost

.'In our desire for the praise of our fellow men," said HI Ho, the sage of Chinatown, valuable lives are often wasted in striving for the good opinion of many whose judg- ment we believe in cander to be of hut little worth"
The Nome daily nugget., 1935-11-28
CONCERNING THE YOUNG

HEAR Mrs. Post: Should a D young girl of fifteen pay party call after dining with strangers, al- though the hostess daughter is a schoolmate of hers? And should she leave a visiting card? After such an invitation Is there anything girl of this age can possibly do to return the invitation?
 Answer: It would be polite to go to see them, yes. Whether to leave card or not depends upon the GUS tom of your community. If all young girls have cards, then yes. Other wise, always best to do as others of your neighborhood do. Return this invitation by Inviting your school mate to your house or to the mov- les or to whatever you can that you think would amuse her.
 My Dear Mrs. Post: am going to college this fall and would like to know now what Is expected of a boy when he invites girl from out of town to any of the house-parties or dances at school. What share of her expenses Is expected from him?
 Answer: He should meet her at the station and take her to wher- ever sne is to stay; send her a few flowers, perhaps, to wear at the dance; and he should make what ever agreeable engagements for her that he can. But he does not pay her railroad or her hotel bill-nor that of her chaperon.
 Dear Mrs Post: am a divorcee. How should my daughter introduce her fathers wife to strangers? She stays with them sometimes because both have agreed that she should not be deprived of either her moth CT or father.
 Answer: AS her "stepmother."
 My dear Mrs. Post: When two boys and a girl Cor perhaps two girls and boy is more usuaD walk or go to the movies together. or ride in car. should the odd person sit between the other two, or is there some other way In better taste?
 Answer: When they walk, the girls together, the boy on the curb side of the pavement. In car or at the movies the boy sits next to the girl whose especial friend he is. If he knows both equally we'll then he sits wherever there is place next to one or the other, or he can perfectly well sit between them. On the street man is not supposed to be sandwlched, because he must walk on the curb side of the street. At present this rule is being recog- nized as rather senseless.
 c by Emily Post.-wNU Service.
The Nome daily nugget., 1935-11-28

When you have hard luck there is, of course, only one thing to do :: endeayor to improve 1t. The neigh bors won't help you; 1t is often the neighbors who stir up your hard lurk
The Nome daily nugget., 1935-11-28

We are commanded to love all alike, including our enemies, but I often sin, and confess I have ia. vorites Some people annoy me 90 much and unnecessarily 1 cannot love them; few others treat me well, and I specially like them. And l believe I'm right about 1t; l do not believe the command that l love my enemies as well as my friends had any great authority back of It.
The Nome daily nugget., 1935-11-28

"When girl gets man eating out of her hand, so to speak," says romantic Pomona, "it is a sate bet she will soon have him eating out of cans"
 e. Bell syndicate.-WNU Service.
The Nome daily nugget., 1935-11-28
Germany Still Has an Army That Keeps in Form

THOUGH the German army Is l small. under treaty restrictions, 1t Is kept efficient. The troops guarding the mountainous Bayari- an frontier have been holding their winter maneuyers, and this photo graph shows one of their mountain batteries in action on the lofty Zugspitze.
The Nome daily nugget., 1935-12-10
Publisher Killed
 Minneapolis By
 Unknown Slayer
(By The Associated PreSs)

Minneapolis, Dec. 10, - Walter Liggett publisher of the Midwest American Weekly, was shot and kill ed by unidentified asSail- ants last night.
 His body was found near his automobile in the rear of his home, this morning. He had been shot three tim es with a revolver which was found lying near his heart.
 Liggett's newspaper has frequently attacked Gov ernor Floyd B Ol5on's ad- ministl ation. Liggctt was recently acquitted in St. Paul of statutory charges against a minor girl,
The Nome daily nugget., 1935-12-10
Revision Election
 Law Referred To
 By Atty. General

;Continued From Page One) name, address and voting precinct of the candidate and a statement; that he IS a qualified elector in such precinct; that he is a mem- Der of the political party from which he seeks the nomination; that, at each primary election at which he has voted during the preceding four years, he has voted a ballot of such party and will vote as a member of such party at the coming primary cleo ton and intends to vote for a majority of it's nominees at the general election which follows; that, if nom mated and elected he will support the principles of such party as set forth in it's last national platform, and it's platform for Alas ka adopted during the pre- ceding two years"
 Territorial Officers Delegate to Congress
 from Alaska.
 Attorney General for
 Alaska
 Auditor for Alaska
 Highway Engineer for Alaska
 Divisional Officers
 1 Territorial Senator Four Territorial Repre- sentatives Two Divisional Road Commissioners All Divisional candidat- es will file their declara- tions with the Clerk of the Court, MT. Truitt points out, and all Territorial can- didates, including the Del egate to Congress, with the Territoial Auditor.
The Nome daily nugget., 1935-12-10
'ManclloukuOan Army Runs Out
 Chinese Police
(By The Associated Press)

(By The Associated PreSS)
 Peiping, Dec. 10, Chin csc sources reported tonight that an invading Manchou- kuoan army, using tanks and airplanes, drove spec ial police southWard from Charar into the city of Yuy van, after a battle in which many were killed, as a re- suit of the Japanese order that the Manchoukuoan forces gain control of more Chinese territory.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-09-13
Debts and Drains

Sheridan County has recently issued S5O4OOO (more
than half mOn) in funding bands take up debt which
1t cannot pay These bear six percent nterest-an over
head charge of $3O,240 per year.
Practically the only things Sheridan County produces
for sale outside it's boundaries is grain and vestocka
produced farms Now there more than 1000 pro-
ductiOn farms in the county.
Figure out for yourself To meet interest charges on
county debt alone each farm must contribute something
over $4,000 per year. Unless this debt is finally paidand
public debt pador even decreased for ongthis
$50 annual charge for all time come Fifty or hun
cred years from now, nuder capitalism farmers will still
contribute about $3.50 per month each predatory inter-
ets on account Of county debt created largely World War
time.
Ii interest payment county debt was the only load
the burden would be bearab 1t is but one of hundred
more OF other drains There district debts village town
and city debts state debts and national debts to say nothing
livestock mortgages and machinery mortgages 1t does not
stop there Taxes have to be paid to maintain schools roads,
towns, cities, counties, state and nation.
And the end is not yet The Sheridan County farmer
must pay an additional toa profit to absentee indus
aSton scrap of food stuff that comes to his table
every item of equipment machinery used on his farm
every article OF clothing that the backs of his family
Under this multiplicity of constant and never ending
drains the total amount of which beyond computation
lew misguided blind optimistic just plain damphool in
dvduas still think they way and back to prosper
y under the present profit racket order We are from Mis-
souri,.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-09-13
Of Course Not /!

American Merchant Marine Information Service is the
high sounding propaganda agency for the Wall Street
steamship interests that subsidized by Uncle Sam
tune OF millions of dollars annually ($3OOOO per pound of
mal actually carried ont route Said Information Ser
vice. is now out with carefully prepared news letter to all
papers, 1890 ~ 80
The west steamship racket does not want another
maritime strike. They willing even anxious to renwe
existing wage contracts without change There is no men
NRA Administrator Johnson had told the whole world that
Federal troops would be called in if great strike was not
seted at once Likewise mention of the fact was made
mat hvng costs have risen from twenty thirty
since present contracts were signed
NOW the EMPLOYERS satisfied. They don't want the
PUBIC to be inconvenience by another struggle thew
Tepore all the turmoil and strife that would he stirod IN
Aney desire to have the whole world understands ;
ping companies do not want strike-Of course not
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-09-13
Princes and Paupers
By Jerome G. Locke

There still millions of intelligent and kindly people
VINO think present captasc system be repaired
mat at least fair prosperity will return They hope for
netter day without materially changing the system
1t is vain hope. Capitalism fails, not only because it
breeds human greed and therefore brings to the surface of
civilization, crime racketeerng corruption and and
ever greater of hardship suffering insecurity star
walton and other destructive forces but also because ca
ZION mas now gone into a machine age
This machine age only be maintained by wealth
centraOn The wealth concentrates the national
productivity will decinethe harder times will becOmethe
Whole process by definite mechanical physical law that
cannot be set aside repealed or set aside.
The following article prepared for use IN pamphlet form
attempts to set forth, in way that all may understand just
how national business system works and why prosperity
that cannot be repealed or set aside
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-09-13

49, sassHs5ses&
been about twice the progress that
was registered in the preceding
twenty-five years. Now we are
barging ahead with new devices
for comfort, greater speed in
movement, more efficient work
methods, labor saving methods
and invention, and substitution of
mechanical power for Drawn at
a rate eight times as fast as a
century ago.
Commercial development has
kept pace with technical and me-
chanical progress. Business organ
izatiOns and congratulations, cor
porations, mergers, trusts, holding
companies, blue-sky security flOta-
ton, stock pools, and dozens Of
other devices for the centraliza-
ton of wealth have sprouted and
grown and flowered. 1t is hard to
tell just who were paupers prior
to the great crash of 1929; no
body admitted it. The U. S. Bur-
eau of Labor Statistics has pub
lished a table showing who got
the income during the last year
of alleged boom. Here it is:
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-09-13
Some People Cannot be Satisfied

The Standard Statistics Company which keeps it's eye
on the financial operations of large corporations and whose
this week.
Net profits of 41S large industrial corporations
1884 tOtaled 100000 than any year since 49,
go ,I1Dz
These corporations paid security holders $991-
OOO,OOO, OF $158OOOOOO more than in 1888.
The other side of the picture painted by Federal de-
secretary OF Labor FRAMES Perkins declared that
during the last few months both Jobs and payros have been
shrinking while President Roosevelt told Congress that
since the slaughter of the NRA chiseng employers have
been radng pay envelopes and forcing workers give long
er hours for smaller pay
anybody has grievance is the worker yet every
suggestion to improve his conditions yes of anguish
from the very people who are deriving the most benefits from
the governments recovery efforts
LABOR Official Paper R. R. Brothehoods)
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-09-13

So again 1 say, do your own
guessing. A group of economic stu
dents with which I was associated
compiled all the data ard estl-
mates it could obtain in 1882 and
concluded that about
500 of wealth was held by O.l%o
of the people. 90,
1870 of wealth was held by zTc
of the people. ,oo,r
500 of wealth was held By reg
of the people.
Continued next week.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-09-13

MIR. Ford helped put America
on wheels and contributed motive
power to its marching song of
"Merrily we roll along, roll along"
AS reward, his balance sheet now
shows ownership of more than one
billion dollars worth of ore mine, S
processing plants factories, rail-
roads, boat lines and other of the
items that make up national
wealth. All this may be cutie fit
ting and proper and very nice for
Mr.. Ford. Unfortunately, the bril-
lance of his financial and other
accomplishments blind most of us
to the background of the picture.
There is only so much national
wealth-about two hundred bill
lion dollars worth at present book
values. Because Mr.. Ford has one
half percent of this total, 625, 900
other flesh and blood humans.
equivalent to the combined popu-
lations of Montana and Nevada)
can have no wealth. These are all
paupers. So. during the thirty odd
years, that Mr.. Ford has done his
best to satisfy nations yearning
to go places and do things, he has
also been creating paupers at an
average rate of 10000 per annum.
As long as he stays in business.
for profit, this process must con-
tinue.
Of course, a few hundred thou
sand or even a hunderd million
paupers would not seriously in
jure Mr.. Ford's business, or the
much defended economic system
under which he operates, if an
other very disagreeable principle
did not always intrude. IF Mr.
Ford is to continue in business no
must take in more than he pavs
out-make a profit. Eighty dollars
per car, or whatever that profit is
can be maintained only bv cettino
f, S s;c:: c,- from the people whose labo1
produces cars, and all the othe,
| goods, commodities, and services
more money than is paid for Az
creation thereof. 'S
Folks who have some vo,,dl,
goods, or other wealth, laft "a;
J still continue to ante to Mr. Fo~ 80.
and other of the big and little. I.s
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-09-13

Hamilton Man Likes
The Producers News
Hamilton, Montana
Sept. 4, 1886

Hamilton, MOnCdIld
Sept. 4, 1885
Dear Jerre:-
I am much interested in the
Progressive movement and still
hope to see the day where we can
do some real effective work. I am
not so bad physically that I can't
be on the firing line" when nee
essary.
1 like the paper. I have pas
sed it around among some of the
liberals" here. Taylor has done
great work in that section-un-
fortunately we have too much sub
sidized press circulating here
However, l have faith that people
are really thinking for themselves.
Anything that can do without
prejudice to the Townsend Plan
l will gladly attempt. Send me the
paper for 6 months. 1t is the best
medium of news that can't be had
otherwise.
Sincerely,
w. B. Mclaughlin
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-09-13
GiUe Human Nature a Chance

Capitalism is a system based indivdualism and a
profit motive The very system makes necessary that
Individual strive to take something wealth. money power
position from the other fellow appropriate it to
himself 1t breeds human greed
proftless cooperative commonwealth will make it nee
cessay for each Individual to keep his brother He will not
be able to help himself without helping society,"
Let's try the latter brand as national economic set
up and see how fast human nature will change