Seward Seaport Record
Published each Tuesday and Friday
Seward, Alaska
John M. Coleman ..V. Publisher
Frank DeLoughery ...Editor
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PARKING PROBLEM
Chief of Police Leonard J. Clark
said Thursday that parking of auto
mobiles near the corner of Fourth
and Railroad Avenues is causing
traffic difficulties. Business firms
have complained that they do not
have access to their own places of
business, especially where cars
must be driven inside. He asks
that people who must leave cars
for several hours park either on
Third or Fifth Avenues. The Street
Department will be asked to grade
Third Avenue for parking, he said.
Anchorage flora
Dave Patterson, Mgr.
Extends a
HEARTY WELCOME
TO SEWARDITES
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More Beds Needed in
Native Homes
Juneau—(Special)—Alaska’s na
tives should be taught to install
more beds in fheir homes according
to Bob Druxman, Juneau public
relations counsel, who recently
made an inspection trip for the
Alaska Native Service.
Ho said he found as many as
five persons sleeping in the same
bed and that all family beds were
in the same room. He declared that
this situation should be remedied
for both sanitary and moral pur
poses.
In one home Druxman found a
young girl sent home from school
with tuberculosis sleeping in the
same bed as her three sisters and
brothers. Her parents and grand
mother occupied another bed in
the same room. He declared that
all of the hospitals in the world
cannot cure tuberculosis and other
diseases unless home conditions
are corrected.
Mrs. Tom Osbo returned to Sew
ard on the Aleutian Thursday after
a vacation to the States.
SEWARD ELKS
KIDS’ PARTY!
at BEAR LAKE
Sunday, June 12 - - 1 p.m.
— AGES ONE TO SIXTY —
Transportation Furnished
from Elks Club
When In Seward
IT’S
The New Seward Hotel
Oscar Dahl, owner
PASSENGER SAILING SCHEDULE
ALSO FREQUENT FREIGHTER SERVICE
For further information conlacl
W. W. Sipprell, Gen. Agt. - Phone Main 125
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Have you ever stood before a
cage in the zoo and felt with con
sternation that the animal under
your observation was in turn
watching you with thoughtful
eyes? Did you speculate as to what
could be in his mind?
While watching the passengers
and tourists disembark from the
Aleutian yesterday, I found myself
in the position of the animal whose
j peculiar habits are being studied.
With this in mind I returned to
j the ship late in the evening. That
I is when I discovered that tourists
I are just people away from home.
I They can behave in a manner
| in wlfich they could not in their
: own small circles where their fi
j nancial and social standing is well
I known. For a short time they can
j live a dream, a dream of affluence.
; They can expand, and patronize—
I they are travellers! They will be
j looked upon for years by envious
friends with a little more respect,
I greater admiration, because they
were not content with a camping
trip, but have been to Alaska.
Chatting here and there, observ
; ing (eavesdropping if you will) I
spent a very amusing, entertaining
I and eyeopening evening.
| One group was amazed that we
! seem to be perfectly happy al
| though we are so poor and have to
I work so hard. We have no nice
homes, no paved streets, no recre
ation. They failed to take note of
the large number of new automo
biles on the streets, new paint jobs,
rich jewelry in the windows, splen
i did furs on display. The “few wo
men who might be clothes con
scious," were discussed with pity
because there is no place to wear
good styles if they could be had.
There seems to be a ljttle disap
pointment because we did not meet
the boat in parkas and mukluks.
Incidentally, we may be losing a
point there. Perhaps we should
have a party dressed in native cos
tumes to meet all boats just to kid
our tourists along a little bit.
Another group had returned from
a bus trip to Kenai. They had no
memories of sky blue lakes and
snow peaked mountains, of wind
ing roads and sheer cliffs, of his
toric grounds, nor of engineering
feats of construction. They were
counting bruises from that “awful
ride." Only one man in this group
had taken a plane ride with Gentry
Shust6r. He was enthusiastic over
glaciers, lakes, moose, bear, and
sheep. He will return.
All these people leaning over the
rail of the ship last night saw the
moon setting in a bank of cloud,
throwing a shimmering path of
true gold over the water. They saw
the mountains silhouetted against
the moon glow in the darkening
sky like the arms of God. They
failed to see that at the same time
the sky was lightening at' their
backs with the coming day. They
had seen the moon before, moun
tains were just humps of dirt and
rock—not even green.
They missed the beautiful co
ordination in the seemingly unhur
! ried and quiet confusion on the
dock below them as the longshore
men steadily and efficiently un
loaded their ship.
These Outsiders were totally un
aware of the fact that they were
observing a way of life unknown
to them, watching the activity of
a happy, loyal, brave, and proud
people.
They missed it! They missed all
of the best of their trip. They did
not see the spirit of Alaska. Should
I have pointed it out to them?
Knowing some of the beauty of
Alaska and the deep worth of its
people, should I have told them
something of what they did not
see? Or is it better just to permit
them to return home, happy and
content with themselves, proud to
have “seen Alaska"?
Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Stanton re
turned Thursday on the Aleutian
from a Stateside visit of several
months during which time they
traveled through the Southwestern
States.
ISensationall
Catholic In formation
Do Catholics Have to Say the Rosary?
“If I were a Catholic," a lady j
asked a priest, “would I have to
say the Rosary?” “No," was the |
reply, “but you would say it be
cause you would want to.”
If you were a Catholic, dear
reader, you would not have to go
to Mass on First Fridays, or nu
merous feast days—you would not i
have to confess your sins, or go to !
Holy Communion more than once
a year—you would not have to
pray to the saints or for the souls
in Purgatory—you would not have
to light candles or kneel before
statues and pictures. You would
not have to use Holy Water or
wear medals.
But if you were a sincere, prac
tical Catholic, you would do all
these and many other uncom
manded things, because you would
understand them—you would ap
prove of them—you would want to
do them.
Do not judge Catholics by what j
they do, unless you thoroughly un
derstand what is back of it all. j
Do not judge the Church by so
called Catholics who fail to follow
their Faith. Do not judge any
institution by information supplied j
by the enemies of that institution.!
As the Bible says: “Judge not, I
lest ye be judged.”
If there is anything about Cath- j
olics — their religion, their prac-;
tices—which seems to you evil,
superstitious, unpatriotic, or just
plain ridiculous, remember:
If it's anything Catholic, csk a
Catholic!
Sponsored by The
SACRED HEART
CATHOLIC CHURCH
Seward, Alaska
adv.
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Patronize Home Industry
James Construction
Company
General Contracting
' Ray F. James - R. A. Beissner
SEWARD, ALASKA
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Dodge Electric Co.
Phone Madison 151
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F. & A. M.
Regular Meeting First and Third
Tuesdays of Each Month.
Visiting Brethren Welcome.
R. E. Baumgartner—W. M.
W. C. Erwin—Secretary
United Brotherhood of
CARPENTERS and JOINERS
Seward Carpenters' Union 2304
Meetings in Local 82 Union Hall
Affiliated With A. F. of L.
Meeting 2nd Tuesday of Month
Frank D. Gibbons — President
A. G. McRae—Fin. Sec. & Bus. Agt
International Longshoremen'*
and Warehousemen's Union
Local 39
Meets First and Third Tuesdays of
Each Month at 7 p.m.—Union Hall
President — Harold Davis
TANNING
Send us your furs and skins to be
tanned. Quick, efficient, reliable
workmanship. We return your
finished skins immediately.
Valcauda Fur Co.
National Bldg. — Seattle, Wash.
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I TRAVEL FUNDS
I Protected
AGAINST LOSS
OR THEFT
1 Safeguarding money against |
| loss when one travels is as |
| important as protecting it by \
1 deposit when at home—and 1
1 is just as easy. You merely |
I* convert your travel funds f
I here, before you start, into 1
I American Express Travelers 1
| Cheques. They are readily |
| spendable as cash, and if lost |
| or stolen, the amount in- |
| vo’.ved is refunded to you. |
1 The cost of the protection §
| is but 75c on each $100. |
| Minimum 4 0c. There is no |
| time limit on use. Thous- |
1 ands of people carry these 1
1 protective Cheques when 1
1 away from home, and find f
| them Invaluable. This is |
1 one of the bank’s services §
| to the traveling public.
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