Seward Seaport Record
Published each Tuesday and Friday
Seward, Alaska
John M. Coleman
Frank DeLoughery
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"THE DEPRESSION" HIT HIM . .
There was a man who lived by
the side outlie road and he sold
hot dogs. He was hard of hearing
so he had no radio. He had trouble
with his eyes so he read no news
papers. But he sold good hot dogs.
He put ads in the newspapers
telling how good they were. He
stood on the side of the road and
cried. "Buy a hot dog. mister?"
And people bought. He increased
his meat and bun orders. He
bought a bigger stove to take
care of his trade. He finally got
his son home from college to
help him. ,
But then something, happened.
His son said, "Father, haven’t you
been listening to the radio?
Haven’t you been reading the
newspapers? There’s a big de
pression on. The European situa
tion is terrible. The domestic sit
uation is worse. Everything’s going
to pot.”
Whereupon the father thought,
‘‘Well, my son’s been to college,
he reads the papers and listens
to the radio, and he ought to
know.” So the father cut down
on his meat and bun orders, can
celed his ads, took down his ad
vertising signs, and no longer
bothered to stand out on the high
way to sell his hot dogs. And his
hot dog sales fell almost overnight.
“You’re right, son,” the father
told the boy. “We certainly are
in the middle of a great de
pression.”
—Banning, Calif., Record
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A few weeks ago the Cradle
Rocker told of a trip to Hope. So
many readers remarked about en
joying the story that they might
also t>e interested in a ride to
Kenai over the new road.
Starting out at 8:30 in the morn
ing. on Tuesday, hoping that the
rain would end at the divide, we
traveled until noon in a heavy
downpour. i
No matter how often one passes
through this mountain country,
how familiar the scene becomes,
it is ever new. Cloud effects, mist
and rain change the contour and
one sees an old trail in a new
light.
The new Kenai road is so differ
ent from the old drive: wide, no
hairpin turns and much easier
driving. But it is much less pic
turesque. A few miles past Schoon
er Bend the road becomes almost
a skyline drive and one feels that
he is riding on top of the world,
absolutely alone, through a des
olated wilderness. Miles and miles
of burned forest on either side
without a glimpse of human habi
tation, are relieved only by the
myriads of wild flowers pushing
through the dead growth. And the
distant mountain peaks with their
glaciers spilling over the sides
When In Seward
IT'S
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Seri‘t«y /4(t s4la<i£a
that could be seen above the low
lying clouds.
After many miles of this wild
country wc suddenly came upon a
few homesteads dotted at intervals
of a mile or so, and being inter
ested in the kind of people who
have the courage to tame such
land, we stopped to talk at several
places.
The optimism of these people
is amazing, and the courage and
determination to achieve, the will
to create something from nothing,
in other words the pioneer spirit
evident among them is unbeliev
able in this century. One man
proudly stated that his location
was far better than the others, be
cause it was ten degrees "warmer”
than the others. It was only 30 de
grees below zero there last winter
and his neighbors in the valey suf
fered at 40 degrees. This same man
with his 'wife and three children
lived through that cold winter in
a tent. A bear took their barrel
of salmon from the tent one night,
but they had no other trouble. Now
they have a cabin, horses, a cow
and 500 chickens. My admiration
for such a family has no bounds.
By mid afternoon the skies had
cleared and the return trip was in
the sunshine, even a few hours of
which makes up for all the miles
of gloom. This drive to Kenai
should prove very popular to the
people in Seward who enjoy a few
hours away from town.
George Everitt reports that pil
ferers have taken the seine table
from his boat along with a fuel
pump and fuel line and a number
of other items. The loss meant
Everitt was prevented from fishing
during much of the season.
James Construction
Company
General Contracting
Ray F. James - R. A. Beissner
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Catholic Information
Celibacy—is it possible, practical, historical?
Is celibacy without immorality
possible? A gentle old lady of
whom we know makes no bones
about her views where the Catholic
priesthood is involved. “Impos
sible!"- she fumes. "Celibacy’s
against nature. It’s a gross hypoc
risy that fools the fools, degrades
virgins and—and—=■,” and on she
goes about tunnels and convents
and orphan asylums, until her
daughter, beautiful, twenty-eight,
ana unmarried, has to rush for the
smelling salts and the aromatics.
In the United States there are
more than twenty million unmar
ried adults—some of them relatives
and friends of mine and yours.
Who is to accuse even a majority
of grievous immorality?
You and I know many moral un
married men and women who have
chosen the single life for purely
worldly reasons, because they were
called neither to the married nor
the religious state. Knowing this,
how can anyone cast the shadow of
suspicion on the Catholic priest,
who vows both celibacy and chas
tity—who receives daily the many
graces which God bestows on his
priests—whose duties leave little
time for any worldly thoughts?
Common sense gives the answer.
Is a celibate clergy practical?
How often have you read of the
Catholic priest at home and in for
eign lands, sticking to his post
through war and rebellion, through
fire and flood, through famine and
I plague — rushing into the worst
dangers and staying there till his
work has been done or his life
taken. Counjge? Yes, but more
than that—an undivided allegiance
to his duty and to his God. Is a
celibate priesthood practical? Who
can deny it when the real test
comes?
Is clerical celibacy historical?
Did Christ command it? No, but
He Himself practiced it and ad
vised it when He told the rich
young man that to be perfect he
must leave all things and follow
Him. St. Peter, 'tis true, was a
married man. but at the time that
Christ called him either his wife
was dead, or he had left her to fol
low his Master. All the other
Apostles, so far as the Bible shows,
were unmarried. St. Paul, the
great celibate, advised in no un
certain terms the state of celibacy
for those who were called (I Cor.
7:7-8, 32-34). The early Fathers
gave the same advice and from the
earliest days celibacy was willingly
practiced by most of the clergy. At
the time of Leo the Great (440
461>, the law of priestly celibacy
was made obligatory throughout
the Western Church.
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