Seward Seaport Record
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Seward, Alaska
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Editorial . . .
Is the “trick-or-treat” custom
the primer for gangsterism? Con
siderable concern has been ex
pressed, not only in Seward, but
in national magazines, over the
trend of the fairly recent custom
of “tricks-or-trcats” on Hallow
e'en.
It has been pointed out that
among older children, from the
age of 12 up, the custom is be
coming vicious. If the treat is
not big enough, or does not
satisfy the tricksters, minor dam
age to property can be expected.
The time honored custom of
treating small children to candy,
cookies, fruit or pennies is a
part of childhood. But the prac
tice of bigger children, teen
agers, to exact tribute or threat
en annoyance is nothing but a
racket and a beginning of gang
sterism.
We are told of one girl last
year who boasted of collecting
$13 on Hallowe’en by “tricks
or-trcats,” others collected smal
ler sums, but several refused
pennies and demanded larger
coins. In this country where
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apples and candy are costly, it
is quite a burden on some house
holders to provide enough treats
to go around, but it must be
provided in sheer self protection. J
Also, the thing should be con-!
fined to one night, and not be
carried through three or four
.is lias been done.
Extra patrolmen are hired
every year to control the Hal
lowe’en season. This is costly to
taxpayers, but necessary for pro
tection. This year, ALL CHILD
REN will be watched. Only on
Hallowe’en night will any child
be allowed to practice “tricks
or-treats.” If parents will co
operate by cautioning child
ren, it will not be necessary to
invoke an ordinance holding
parents liable for the depre
dations of their children.
Mrs. Barbara Bedford is ill in
Seward General Hospital. She
has been there for a week, but
was reported to be feeling some
better this morning.
Lytle & Green Construction
Company workers are still clear
ing brush for the roadway in the
Mile 38 vicinity where they now
have a big camp. A little snow
has fallen, but they expect to
work as long as possible.
We hope to see Stewart &
Muir's apartments finished this
winter. So many people are beg
ging for apartments.
THE KATHRYN JOHNSON
School of the dance
Instructions in—
Ballet, Tap. Acrobatic and Ball
room Dancing for Girls and
Boys—Age 3 years and up.
Studio in Odd Fellows Hall
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Phone Adams 115
Expert—
WATCH REPAIR
and
ENGRAVING
C. E. Or lander
Jeweler
Established 1918
The Inlet Inn
in Homer
NEW AND MODERN
ACCOMMODATIONS
Carl F. Gulley, Owner
P.O. Box 8 Homer, Alaska
When in Seward It’s - -
The New Seward Hotel
Oscar Dahl, owner
ALASKA STEAMSHIP COMPANY
SCHEDULED SAILINGS _j/' 11
Freighter Service
SCHEDULED SAILINGS FROM SEATTLE
Square Knot.Oct. 31
Walter W. Sipprell, Gen. Agt. - Phone Main 125
The
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By Mildred Kirkpatrick
I was talking this morning
about Alaska and Seward with
some people who have been here
a little longer than I have, but
the consensus of opinion was
this. There is something about
Alaska that twines itself about
the heartstrings of any person
who comes here with the inten
tion to live and be a part of the
country and community. Sever
al families have left recently, but
we look to see them back before
many years. It has happened
many times in the past and will
happen again.
Seward, with its population
of a little over 2000 would be
considered a hamlet, a village
back in the States, but in the
Territory it ranks with the five
largest or most important com
munities. People arrive here
with good intentions of reform
ing the city. After a while they
too, are assimilated, naturalized,
aclimatized, whatever you want
to call it. At any rate, they grad
ually and unconsciously change
their way of thinking. I have
seen it happen so many times in
the last four years, and so have
you.
We are all in the same boat,
or to carry out a simile, we are
a little island, still cut off from
the homeland and in a large
measure from the rest of the
Territory. What we have, what
we do, how we live is largely up
to ourselves. To ourselves as a
group, and as individuals. There
is no room for isolationism iij
any other than the isolation of
the whole.
We as individuals and as
groups, whether it be in civic,
social or religious groups, must
all pull together in order to lie
together happily. The organ
ization or group insisting upon
living within itself, refusing to
cooperate with others, will even
tually be ostracised, shrivel up
and die of its own weight. For
this is Alaska.
Seward is known far and wide
as the Friendly City, it is rapid
ly becoming known as the Con
vention City also. Its friendliness
is offered to every stranger who
shows any desire to be friendly.
True, that friendliness takes
many forms. But it is there and
due largely to the inter-denom
inational, inter - organizational,
inter-club cooperation which is
so strong here, and which has
grown out of the old feeling of
geographical isolation. Unfor
i tunately that friendly coopera
tion is one of the first elements
COMMUNITY
CALENDAR
Saturday, Oct. 28
ELKS CLUB HALLOWE’EN
PARTY.
LEGION AUXILIARY HALLO
WE’EN PARTY, Costumes,
Box lunch. All Legionaires
and guests.
RAINBOW GIRLS HALLO
WE’EN PARTY
SANATORIUM STAFF party,
Jesse Lee Home recreation
Hall.
Sunday, Oct. 29
EPISCOPAL GUILD SUPPER,'
4-7 p.m.
Tuesday, Oct. 31
LUTHERAN SUNDAY SCHOOL
Hallowe’en Party, 7:30.
Wednesday, Nov. 1
AMERICAN LEGION and AUX
ILIARY meet, 8:00 p.m.
Thursday, Nov. 2
RAINBOW GIRLS, Masonic
Hall.
Friday, Nov. 3
ANNUAL SCHOOL CARNIVAL
Saturday, Nov. 4
BAZAAR, Lutheran Ladies Aid. |
Monday, Nov. 6
J.L.W.U., Local 39.
CITY COUNCIL.
Saturday. Nov. 25
BAZAAR, Methodist Church.
Mr. and Mrs. Don Lee are
parents of a son born October
20, in Seward General Hospital.
Shawn MacKensie Lee weighed
7 pounds 12 ounces at birth, j
Mrs. Lee is the former Margaret
Spencer, teacher in Seward Pub
lic Schools.
Frank and Bertha Lewis will
be moving into their pretty little
new home in the ten hundred
block of Third Avenue about I
the first of the month. They
bought the place from Bernie
Wilkinson, who is leaving town.
to be lost by the growth and de
velopment of a community.
As a town grows up each
group, each organization puts
its effort into the increase and
growth of itself, forgetting the
beautiful cooperation for the
good of the whole.
Don't let that happen in Sew
ard! Let’s continue to work to
gether. Catholic and Protestant,
Methodist, Lutheran, Episcopal,
etc., civic and social, all for the
good of the whole community;
and Alaska.
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