IDE APPROACH ADULTHOOD
Seldovia is growing up. One of the
strongest evidences of it is the more strict
enforcement of the ‘ laws which .govern the
city’s conduct, since the seating, of a. new
council last ~pril 25. Seldovia.’s laws haVe;,
always been’ good 1-avs, but in the past,"all’
too’ often the book of ordinances has-been,
closed and pushed away in. a dark- coi\ne3?\ *
while Seldovia!s reputation ? as a wide-open
town grew rapidly.• •
. Things* are different now;,/and’ it is to be
hoped ’ that the increased police activity of
the past weeks is but a beginning of the
strict adherence to the laws that were given
to us that we might shape_Seldovia into some
semblance of a well-ordered, clean-living
family community. It is, to be hoped that
still other laws in Seldovia’s code that
have yet to be dusted and polished will be
soon brought into the light.
There are also territorial laws which can
do much to make Seldovia a more wholesome
town in which to live. Their enforcement
will be welcomed by the Seldovians who hope
to make their town-:*'a decent place in which
to live and rear a family of clean-minded,
right-thinking sons and daughters.
But :as might have been expected, snarling
at the -heels of law and order in • our city
there'has appeared the pack of law-breakers,
ne*er-do-wells and profiteers in full, cry
against those who represent that law, and
those- who stand for 'making' a 'bet.ter^clty off
Seldovia, Our chief of police, the. mayor
his fellow council members, the city Magis
trate and the denuty marshall all are re
ceiving the noisy attention of the mob v.dio
wish to live 'in or make their living from a
wide--open frontier town.
Even The Frontiersman has been -condemned
recently, for meddling in. affairs which do
not 'concern it, when the paper had tried;
editorially, to point toward the improve
ments which will build Seldovia into the
kind of city it ought to be.
And, as do the men and women who -stand for
law in Seldovia, The Frontiersman welcomes
SWAIN SON
VISITS fOLKS
0
Housogijiosts of Mr.
b an d Mr s .•' G. O tr_ S w a i n
~ th"e couplers, s on r
and wife, . Mr ; 'and.1
\ Mrs. How ar d ; Sw ainlt
and Kenneth -Riiy - dr"
Salt Lake City jTftd v
visitors arrived'• dn
last .ThursdayTs mail
boat,.
Mr.. Sw ai n y; .w h p has;,
just.., completed-, his
first year, .of college
at;'Salt Lake, plans
to fish with Joe Hen
ington this summer.
Mr • Ray begins em- *
ployment with the i*l
aska-Seldovia ‘Packers
today .
that criticism. The -•
malicious gossip and
criticism that comes
from the ignorant, _ •
the misinformed and
the deliberate law
breaker, can - only
serve to point to the*
thorough performance
of the job attempted, •
• 1 We hope to see
law-enforcement grow
stricter in the
month s ahead• We
hope to see new crd~
i n a n c e s f r: im e d , where
than 3 is need, and we
hope, to s ee the ones
we ha** a come to be
respected by visitors
and residents alike,- •,
We welcome these days
of growing-pains that
are preparing 3'eldo
vi.a for the adulthood
of an Alaskan city.