The Nome daily nugget., October 24, 1913, Image 2

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THE
ftomt Daily Kuggct
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tl. 1907, at the Postoffloe at Nome.
Alaska, under the Act of Congrea cf
March •. 1878.
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NOME. ALASKA. OCTOBER 24. 191;
" . 1 . ' .. ■"
\i. Knglish 11nii ' • -•!.«ted t
< omnium! tin Odin*. ?. . \ .ml h*gii
tin* work of ... tnallv turning o lot of
oink into m frttwkTTi fighting' fierce of
tin* s* .' Tin- f.o t i* interesting per
haps .is .i matter ••! news. Perhaps
is may riot nt nil interesting as i
•f<;• 11« i of n« w* i:m it points to the
awakening of the Chinese wow* ni
ne nt to tin.* iiOi.*sit\ «.f at * .in e h ••
ginning t • l• 11il«l up .t ii.iv\ if it ever
expects to |.e< ..in. i p"W*i in Asia
Some year* ago t'liint ami Japan
had a.war. At that tune the Jap
anese ntvy was not w hat it is t.ulav
any \<'t it had not tin slightest
trouble in whipping t'hm.i from tin
seas in one short and sanguinary <<>n
tli* t. Japan could do the same today
• ■lily in a mm h shorter tin.* for Japar
has .nlvaiio'l ill ll« knowledge of na
. a I i'.nstriii t ion :m*l n:t\ <l w.tfa*
while China has stood still
Wli.-n Japan woke up to the far'
that she Was destined to become «i
world po\\, r if she conserved her l**
soars.-s .md at the s.■me time look tin
Im st from all in *r• enlightened coiin
• i i**s slu began s* tiding her yotinr
im n abroad 11 • study in all lines of in
dustry and in tin* art of war. Japai
i* still doing this, although her stu
dents in things milit.it> ate not a.
wrhonie as tiny w* t • when Japai
was ronslden «1 a h.ihy am *ng tli
nations. Jai»an I is tirv l Oiiginale.
anything. Her people at** not in\en
tl •• lln-l* .-III. Ii.it Ill'livt) till
they ar»* the a i cites t t opiests in tin
world and the> «» j• \* so w U that the
sometimes, in. r* Is .n a- . omit of tin*,
attention to detail make th.* « ..py !*••!
ter than the original model.
Japan sent her > • • ^ in n to th
naval schools i Atm-ii. i and Knglatn
she st ilt th-in t I imii. • and (t.-rinan
and Austria and Ua si '.r,::' * .south
picked the Im si >t all I !».•—. service
and when they s\. nt home tiny sa
down and from what tin * had gather
nrl In the Was of ship t' .Vjik! rue! in.
end armament ami ore .n i/at ion the
evolved the 1m\ >- of J..;i..n A « • ill
part little fighting f. i • ..f the se
with all tile best that *lt took 111
powers from whom she l urn.-d man
ninny years to dev.-lope.
Now China is h. ginmti,; t-. s. e th
needs of an etlirii nt tleet. she h i
taken the first step in ih. uphajidin,
of that fleet and sin- Iris taken a w is
step in employing* an mii. . r n.lined i
the finest school in th. w.-tld. tit
English navy.
It is now to I exp. •< ted that th
young men of China destined for fut
ure command in tin navy will !.»• sen
to the English naval school will serv
on hoard English training ships an
will study the \\u\s of England wit
her sea fighters. The Chinaman i
as good, if not a hettci imitator tlia
the Jap. He also has one very won
tierful advantage over the Jap. H
has what the men of Nippon have mi
ami never will hi'., initiative and in
ventivefa ss.
The.se Chinese Htudellfs will not h,
content with merely making gone
copies of what they see in I he En
gltsh system They will go farther
along the lines of naval offence and
defence in the way of working out the
problems that now face the construc
tors and ordanee experts than these
instructors themselves have gone. The
Chinaman will copy up to u certain
point, then he will begin to improve
on the model.
When the time comes that these of
ficers whom thr new admiral of the
Chinese navy will undoubtedly send
abroad for education return and take
up tlie work of putting tin* navy of tin*
republic on its feet then it will be
hove the wiley little imitators in Ja
pan to get very busy for once China
becomes a sea pow er, as great or
greater than Japan, and tln-re is no
i r*■ ison she should not so heroine, then
tin re wll be \ei> little left of the
I Japanese empire, it will he swallowed
: up in the capai ions maw of the real do
| minnnt factor of Asia China is in
I tin* swadling c lothes of development.
| Hut China is coining along and the
time will soon come when the people
I who ran learn and copy and Invent
j W 111 dominate the people \\ l»o c .lli OlllV
| b It. ..tol c op\
Scant people til to he provided hv
i providenc e with more of the material
| goods of this world thin they nee d
I while others, no matter how hard the\
struggle, how chan and honestly thov
trv. can bar* h mating*- m s. rape along
j Why this should he in 11 • s» le mo of
j things in.in- ..tii t* 1' t it seem* to
I I..- II..- . .ISf
i l.ikewist some in endowed with
.
; more brilliant mental ta« ulties than
| others iif . oiirse there is a lot in
I education and oportunities to sttnlv
land ad\.nn» hut hist tie same when
I tile intellects were (bit out some peo
ple drew a goo.! deal nior. in the line
: «-f proper gi*-\ mattr than others
N’o one ever thinks ..f • isting hi«
poverty in a man s fa* • X-- one ever
makes a halt **f the poor devil who is
suffering fiotvt l.o k «*f worldly goods
It isn’t any joke to he \vrn down with
j the la* k of things .,n«l the other fal
low knows it and the man win* i*
i down «>11 his link, who is short of the
I things that make f.r material corn
| fort is pitied and rn* r>- often helped
than s* orne.i
' What a W»*n«ie| full v good thing tills
i is. I!**w a makes fot a t* ••ling of
I hi«*t iiei hood tin**ng ill noli .uni I "\v
jit cheers tie f* lh*\\ who is down b.
jl.av*- s.tin** on* appi* * .'it•• and ssrnpa
| thiz* and understatol Kv*-n If "te
I cannot expert help it l* .. gl* at e**m*
j fort to know that he. ,.t.s. * n. is down
| he is not all out* ..si all *.hie. t of
scorn or a jok* This attitude "f lie
fortunate ones s Solii* I me > the iiliK
that hinds tie liaidlink brother to
Society and lift. Ji makes esisien*'
b» arable.
All that. for tbe mat* riallv d<*ciepid.
the weak ill porketbnok. the man wh>
is mu all there final, i.»11 \ N*»w imw
about the other kind *-f p.o. itv stink
en brother. The man who perhaps
hns not been provided with hli full
share of brains or whose mental view
point has become a little warped. No
one knows by what of sorrow or of
sickness or of hardship. How about
him? Is he treated as Is the material
ly poverty stricken? No. He too
o»ten Is made the object, not of chac
liable thought, of kindness and help,
but of ridicule and scorn and mirth.
Why Is it that the man who will open
l.i* b md to help the -l«i -oped In pock
.1 to i heer along t'e ne lacking 'a
I money, will not have a thought, save
of ridicule, for the one who Is poverty
stricken In brain, who Is decreped In
Intellect.
j Isn't the latter c i«e as sad a one,
I ije, a sadder one than the former’’
■ V nldn't It be sis charitable, as
bra herl>, ns go «i< is to help the
mentally weak as to help the financial
ly weak? Certainly It would and yet
so few of us ever think of it In that
| way. The man who is broke In
; pocket has our sympathy and help.
I 'I h« man who is broke in brain has our
indbule and contempt. Often this
in.in knows his lack as well as he of
th> empty poeket knows his and is
powerless to overcome it. Wouldn't it
, l... a bit better to refrain from jeers,
i from exploiting the empty brain as
we would refrain from exploiting the
. tnntv pocket. There is no pleasure I
In makng a Joke of the man whose I
purse Is not as full ns ours. Why then
make a joke of the man whose brain
is not as highly polished as ours
3 OF DESTROYER CREW
DIE IN CRASH: 1 SAVED
liltlDGEf’ORT.-A» a result of a
| collision in the outer harbor last night
I in which the tug Seaboard ran down a
j motor cutter of the I'nlted States tor
i oedo boat destroyer McCall, three of
I
I the crew of the latter were drowned,
* while another saved his life by swim
1 mine to the breakwater light, more
than a mile away.
The drowned were: K. W Russell,
seaman. New York: A. E. Sheehan,
seaman. New I-ondon; C. Chute, gun
ners' mate, residence not known He
had only recently Joined the ship.
T.. E. Thompson .of Rhode Island,
a seaman, who was steering the cut
ler was thrown in to the water. When
la- rose to the surface there was no
sign of his companions or the cutter,
j After a long swim in a heavy sea he
! reached the lighthouse in an exhaust
i i d condition.
The four men had been on shore
! leave and were returning when run
I down. Search for the bodies has
jfaile dto find them so far.
EDISON TAKES OUTING:
FIRST IN TWO WEEKS
NEW YORK-Thomas A. Edison
j left his home in We9t Orange yester
day for the first time since he was
■aesgesB " '
■taken 111 two weeks ago. D. J. Mam
mon Brudgh^w declared he was "no
longer a sick man."
The day before he had promised
Mr. Edison that he might go out
If the we^fcr should be clear. The
famous Inventor watched the sky all
day and at 5:30 n the afternoon called
Jubllluntly to Mrs. Edison that the sun
had broken through the clouds
They then went for half an hour's
ride, with Mrs. Edison at the wheel
of the automobile.
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p. m. Visiting brothers welcome.
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