Seward Seaport Record
Published each Tuesday and Friday
Seward, Alaska
John M. Coleman .!. Publisher
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Editorial . . .
DEMOCRATIC government is
government in which the su
preme power is held by the
people.
The government of the United
States of America is Democratic.
It must be Democratic, or our
entire economic system will
crumble and the result will be
disastrous.
SEWARD is just one small
segment in a great and powerful
democratic government, yet the
demonstration of belief in that
form of government which was
evidenced in last Tuesday’s elec
tion was illuminating, and to say
the least, shameful.
In a precinct of approximately
2000 population, just 384 citi
zens of the grandest country on
earth voiced their opinion as to
who should hold the reins of
government for the next two
years. The Seward precinct un
doubtedly has between 600 and
700 qualified voters. Where were
the other two or three hundred
people last Tuesday who could
have voted, but for some reason
or other just didn't make the
effort?
Maybe they're all like one
man who said, “I’m an IWW. I
don’t belief in voting;” or maybe
they are all like the next shirker
who said, “Not me. I'm not going
to take a chance on being called
for jury duty!” or “I hadda go
out the road;” “I didn’t know
any of them anyway;” “He'd get
elected even if I voted against
him.”
The first of those reasons has
a very crimson tint in our esti
mation. As for the other reasons,
they are all just lame excuses
made by people who shirked a
duty which is also a privilege
to be cherished by the American
people.
Those people who were quali
fied voters and still did not vole
last Tuesday should hang their
heads in shame. The people who
did exercise their right of fran
chise are embarrassed for those
who shirked if my own feeling
m the matter is any indication.
FOR THE NEXT two years,
when Seward asks for some
thing, whether it be through the
City Council, the Chamber of
Commerce, or by chronic letter
writers, it will be the voice of
only 384 people, instead of 600
or 700. Think that one over.
One man told me that when
he went, at the beginning of the
last war, to an airplane factory
for a job he was asked for his
proof of citizenship. His birth
records had been lost in a fire
and he told the interviewer that
it would take some time to have
duplicates made. The interview
er said, “Where did you vote in
the last election?” The answer
was, “Well, I didn’t vote in the
last two elections.”
The questioner looked him
squarely in the eye and said,
"You blankety-blank Hitlerite,
you didn't vote, and you think
you are a citizen of this country.
Why, man, you are playing rigiit
into their hands.” That man
now says, "I don't want anything
like that to happen to me again.
I've voted at every election since
and if I'm called for jury duly
I will do my duty as a citizen.”
That man was scorned. He
felt like a Hitlerite. The picture
has changed but litile in the en
suing years.
If you didn’t vote last Tues
day, you may be looked square
ly in the eye within the next
two years and hear the words,
“Well, you blankety-blank Com
munist, so you didn’t vote!”
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By Mildred Kirkpatrick
Alaskans, the most patriotic
and un-communistic section of
the American population, are
sold short again. This time by
the Independent Marine Cooks
and Stewards Union.
We find it hard to understand
why a relatively small and cer
tainly a minority group among
labor unions is allowed to tie up
all passenger service to Alaska,
openly defy a United States
Coast Guard ruling, and ignore
the recently passed Magnuson
Port Security Act.
Congressman Mitchell (D.,
Washington), demanded an in
vestigation this week, and urged
sending an assistant attorney
general to make an “on the spot”
survey. He stated, “Believe this
case a clearcut violation of the
Magnuson Port Security Act . . .
such delaying tactics . . . could
be dangerous to national seeur
lty.
It certainly is dangerous to
Alaskan security and economics.
The Magnuson Act passed
over the President's objections,
docs not meet with his approval
and he has been quoted as say
ing that he will not enforce the
act in its entirety. This may be
the first trial case in point.
In any case Alaskans, particu
larly Seward and Anchorage,
are feeling the pinch. Our loyal
longshoremen here, and the
other loyal union men who have
submitted, in fact welcomed, the
security check are to be com
mended for their attitude of re
fusing to sail with any man who
will not or cannot prove that he
is not a communist.
That kind of man is the po
tential sabateur, and we want
nothing to do with him. Alaskans
should not leave the battle to
Seattle and Washington, but take
up the cudgels in their own
defense and demand a quick set
tlement of this subversive activi
ty that can very possibly tie up
all shipping to the Territory.
People unafraid to roll up
their sleeves seldom lose their
shirts.
Clergymen get paid for being
good—others are good for noth
ing.
COMMUNITY
CALENDAR
Saturday, Oct. 21
EASTERN STAR CARD PARTY
and Dance.
Saturday, Oct. 28
LEGION AUXILIARY HALLO
WE’EN PARTY
RAINBOW GIRLS HALLO
WE’EN PARTY
Sunday, Oct. 29
EPISCOPAL CHURCH DINNER
Friday, Nov. 3
ANNUAL SCHOOL CARNIVAL
Saturday, Nov. 4
BAZAAR, Lutheran Ladies Aid.
Saturday, Nov. 25
BAZAAR, Methodist Church.
STORK PARTY
Mrs. Victor Mahan and Mrs.
Paul Irwin are hostesses today
at a party in the Mahan home
honoring Mrs. Margaret Spencer
Lee.
Seventeen guests are being en
tertained. Pink and blue is the
color scheme for decorations.
WOMAN'S CLUB MEETING
AGAIN POSTPONED
Seward Woman’s Club meet
ing has been postponed again
from October 19 to October 24.
The meeting will be a Hallow
e’en party in the Methodist
Church basement.
LEGION AUXILIARY PARTY
FOR HALLOWE'EN
The American Legion Auxil
iary ladies will entertain all
Legionnaires, their ladies and
guests, Saturday, October 28, at
a party to be given in the Legion
Club at 8 p.m.
The cautious man will get
somewhere — the overcautious
man will get nowhere.
Some men’s train of thought
carries very little freight.
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Caiholic Information
A Catholic won't argue with God!
Pouring water <->n a forehead
while reciting certain prescribed
words may seem like a trivial
peg upon which to hang the
salvation of a soul. But Christ,
who is God, so commanded—
and a Catholic won’t argue with
God.
A hell of eternal punishment
for those who defy their Creator
is something all of us would
like to disbelieve, but Christ
warned of just such a place for
the accursed — and a Catholic
takes God at His word.
Confessing one’s sins to a
priest may seem an unnecessary
mortification when God may
also be reached direct, but we j
believe that His Divine Son
commanded it plainly—and a
Catholic says “yes” to his God.
Changing the substance of
bread and wine into the sub
stance of the Body and Blood of
Jesus, our God, may sound like
oriental magic, but we affirm
that Christ Himself did it, gave
the power to His priesthood to
do it, and commanded its con
tinuance—so a Catholic partakes
of his God.
That a mere human being
can infallibly define God’s reve-l
lations is incredible only if one
considers the mere human being
and forgets the infinite God who
so chose to preserve His truths
and to guide His children. Since
we are assured that God gave
this power to St. Peter, a Cath
olic knows the will of his God.
There’s nothing in Catholic
doctrine that conflicts with hu
man reason: and those mysteries
which transcend our understand
ing are easy to accept if one
bears in mind that an all-power
ful God can reveal His truths
and His commands without ask-,
ing the preacceptance of His
methods by the tiny, finite minds
of His creatures.
No, a Catholic won’t argue
with God. ‘Twould be useless.
’Twould be presumptuous.
’Twould be damnably dangerous.
If it's anything Catholic, ask a
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