Seward Seaport Record
Published each Tuesday and Friday
Seward. Alaska
John M. Coleman . Publisher
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developed the wingless chicken
concentrate on a palmless bell
hop?
In this modern age anyone
trying to make an honest living
can — there’s very little com
petition.
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exactly who, but we’ve been descending for centuries!”
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WALTER W. SIPPRELL, Gen. Agent - Phone Main 125
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By Mildred Kirkpatrick
We find it hard to reconcile
the figures reported by the pre
liminary census report with the
estimated figure of last year
for Seward and vicinity. Last
year’s estimate was made upon
the tax roll showing 1100 tax
payers, according to Mrs. Ling’s
figures. Advice from Del. Bart
lett at that time, was to multiply
the tax roll by three to arrive
at an estimate of the population.
Of course, non-residents, tran
sients and visitors were not en
umerated, a few residents may
have been missed, although Mrs.
Kennedy states that there could
not have been many missed in
the combing that this town re
ceived. Neither of these possi
bilities however could account
for the difference of a thousand
or more in the total number
counted.
So—we are not as big as we
thought we were. Neither is
Anchorage, nor any other com
munity, except possibly, Homer.
It is a disappointment, but no
cause for dismay.
The optimism and enthusiasm
of the people of Alaska for this,
1 our country far overshadows
the lack of actual numbers.
Rev. R. Ulvilden, chairman of
Board of Home Missions of the
Evangelical Lutheran Church,
after visiting Alaska for the
first time last month said: ,
“One is strangely impressed
by the enthusiasm and love for
their country on the part of the
forward looking and optimistic
people who have made their
homes here. . . . Alaskan hospi
tality is something to write home
about. These people know how
to take care of guests and visi
tors and are sure that they will
eventually come back to make
Alaska their home. Judging by
the huge building projects in
some places there is no doubt
that they arc not entirely wrong
. . . They not only tell you how
beautiful the mountains are.
how big the bears are, and sport
ing the fish, but they boast the
same way about everything. Al
aska has gotten into their blood
and they don’t care who knows
it!”
The Skipper of the USS Ma
hopac writes in a letter received
this morning. “I am sure that
no one could say an unkind
thing about Seward within the
hearing of the officers and men
of the Mahopac . . . We deeply
appreciate the hospitality of the
people of Seward and hope that
we may return soon to further
our friendships.”
So—we may not be great in
numbers, but we seem able to
make up for it in goodwill and
clamor. I'll bet the folks back
in Washington and Juneau,
Cleveland, and various other
places believe, from the volume
of mail received from irate Sew
ardites, that we are at least
twice what the census shows.
At least the town has more
than doubled in population since
the 1940 census.
So, let’s go on, just as if we
had never heard of a census.
If it helps to think we are big,
so what? Let’s be big! For it
takes more than numbers to
make a place big. Our reputa
tion for hospitality, for generos
ity, for civic ambition outruns
our actual size, and that is what
makes Seward great! I’m all for
Seward, and so are nine-tenths
of the other Sewardites, the
Bureau of Census notwithstand
ing.
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Library Hours
Mon. and Wed.—3 to 5 p.m.
Tues. and Sat.—7 to 9 p.m.
Well Baby Conference
Thursdays — 2 to 4 p.m. in
City Council Chambers.
Friday, June 2
JUNIOR WOMEN’S CLUB
Banquet
Saturday. June 3
! BAKE SALE, Catholic Altar So
I ciety. 10 a.m., Werner’s Mkt.
Wednesday, June 7
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
meets. Council room.
If you go through life and ac
complish nothing, growing old
seems to be a waste of time.
Motorists: Children look up to
you, so it's up to you to look out
for them.
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Catholic Information
How free is free will?
’Tis said by some that there's no
free will. Like the sunflower, man
must turn to his god in the West.
Like the moth, he must flutter into
the flame. Like the wolf, he must
slay the sheep.
What merit then in being good—
what fault in being bad? What
justice in rewarding the benefac
tor—in punishing the malefactor?
What use at all in the Command
ments of God or the teachings and
warnings of Christ to a race with
no power to choose between God
and Satan?
Free will! Is it the right to do
good or bad? Or isn’t it the power
to choose between right and wrong
between the wise and the foolish,
between the difficult and the easy,
between Heaven and Hell?
Because I must stop my car at a
traffic light, have I no fre$ will?
Isn’t it rather that I freely choose
to stop because I approve the law
or fear its fangs?
Because I must labor hard each
day, is that proof that free will is
a myth? No, I freely choose be
tween the toil and the deprivations
the lack of my wages would bring.
That I must not steal, or kill,
or covet, deprives me not at all
of my freedom of will, but shows
that I choose to obey my God be
cause I love Him.
That I, a Catholic, must assist
at Mass each Sunday, makes me
not a mental slave but proves my
agreement with the laws which my
Church has enacted for my spirit
ual welfare.
Freedom of will! A tremendous
gift! An awful gift! It lifts us
high above the beasts or drops us
down below the worms. Stupid
men who misuse it jam our jails
and asylums. Clever men who use
it ill, wallow in wealth but dread to
die. But wise men freely choose
to reject the magnified trinkets of
the worldly world in order to pay
the price that God has put on
Heaven.
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