SEWARD DAILY GATEWAY
OF SEWARD, ALASKA
Established, August 19, 1904
Published daily except Sunday by
Gateway Publishing Co.
Entered in the postoffice at Seward,
Alaska, as second-class mail matter.
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SURPLUS FARM CROPS
Due to overproduction of several
farm crops last year, particularly cot
ton and corn, with the inevitable low
ering of prices, plans for reviving the
situation thus created are being ear
nestly considered by farm organiza
tions.
Bills looking to federal assistance
in disposing of surplus crops are be
ing proposed in Congress, while farm
bureaus and other similar bodies are
urging a curtailment of acreage to be
devoted to certain products next year.
That something should be done to
ward stabalizing prices of farm pro
ducts is indisputable. Just what
should be done, or can be done, pre
sents a difficult problem.
The natural tendency of production
of a given crop to “see-saw” is well
known. A short crop in one year
causes high prices, which encourage
larger plantings next year. Then,
if weather conditions are especially
favorable, great overproduction re
sults and prices tumble, often caus
ing the farmer to suffer an actual loss
in spite of the big crop.
Theoretically, the farmers have the
regulation of crop production in their
own hands, through greater diver
sification and the limiting of acreage
devoted to crops likely to show a sur
plus. But it is hard to secure coop
eration on a large scale. This is well
illustrated by a study of cotton acre
age, which has increased steadily in
which has increased steadily, in spite
of repeated and insistent warnings
from year to year.
Cooperative marketing has secured
good results in many instances, but
even cooperative marketing can af
ford only a small measure of relief.
When there is a great surplus of any
crop throughout the world; the law
of supply and demand will govern
prices to a large extent, in spite of
the artificial means which may be de
vised to stabalize them.
CITIES SELL PLANTS
According to the Industrial News
Bureau, during the last few months
24 communities in four states of the
Middle West have abandoned munici
pally owned power plants and return
ed to service supplied by private com
panies.
The number of towns throughout
the nation which have adopted a sim
ilar course is not available, but it is
known that the trend in this direc
tion has been marked of late and is
increasing.
vvitn tne steady development or hy
dro-electric power by the growing su
per-power systems it will soon be im
possible for municipally owned plants
to justify their existence, in the opin
ion of the best authorities. Although
, waterpower may not be available, the
great private generating plants are
able to distribute electricity at lower
| rates than public enterprises as a rule
' when taxation is considered.
Even where public ownership is en
gaged in upon a large scale as in On
tario, there are complaints as noted
in a recent issue of the Sudbury
Star, that the government commission
is slow to extend lines for the supply
of new communities and new indus
tries. The Star says: “The commis
sion has never stirred a finger to de
velop power for mining industry any
where in the northern mining coun
try.”
Therefore, from all the existing evi
dence, it appears that government and
j municipal ownership, in spite of all
: that once was claimed for them, have
j been tried in the balance and found
wanting in most cases.
WHOSE ADVERTISING BILLS DO
YOU PAY?
The store that doesn’t advertise
pays the advertising bill for the one
that does.
Every merchant in business pays for
the advertising whether he uses it or
not. If a competitor’s advertising
takes any business away from him, the
profits he would have made on the
SEWARD NEWS COMPANY
GEORGE PHELPS, Proprietor
BOOKSELLERS STATIONERS NEWS DEALERS
lost sale is what his competitors ad
vertising cost him.
You have, perhaps, wondered how
some stores can afford to spend so
much money for advertising. That
is easy to fathom. Their competitor,
who doesn’t advertise and whose bus
iness they take, pays for their adver
tising.
Say the Jones family is a customer
at your store. They have $60 which
they intend to spend with you. They
read the advertising of your compet
itor and are induced to spend their
$60 with him instead of spending it
with you. The store makes twenty
per cent, or $12 on the sale. They
deduct, we will say, the $1 advertis
ing cost and have $11. profit left. The
advertising has cost them nothing,
they got back its cost and had $11
profit they would not have had only
for their advertising.
Who paid for this advertising?
Did the advertiser pay? No. He
got the cost back, and profit besides.
Did the purchaser pay? No. He
paid only the regular price.
Then who did pay?
The store that did not advertise
paid for his competitor’s advertising.
He not only paid for the other man’s
advertising, but he paid out of his
cash drawer the profit his competitor
made on the sale. The store that
does not advertise pays the advertis
ing bill for the one that does. He
pays in loss of sales, profits, and in
creased costs.
The store that loses business thru
not advertising has such high over
head and unit sale cost that it cannot
possibly sell goods as cheaply as the
store that increases its sales and re
duces its cost with advertising.
TOUGH ON MASHERS
Those who would “ply” the advoca
tion of a flirt or masher, find little
opportunity for that sideline of activ
ity in the town of Abilene, Tex., if
an ordinance recently passed by the
municipal authorities is strictly en
forced.
Quite a number of such regulations
have been made in various cities and
towns but it appears that the Abi
lene fathers have tried hard to con
struct a model ordinance covering the
offenses sought to be suppressed. How
well they have succeeded may be
judged by the following extracts of
the law:
“It shall be unlawful for any person
to idle and loiter on any street or
thoroughfare, sidewalk, or alley, or
in any store, theatre, motor car, mo
tion picture show, business house, or
in the entrance or doorway of any
place within the corporate limits of
the city of Abilene for the purpose of
plying the avocation of a flirt or a
masher.
“It shall be unlawful for any man
in the city of Abilene to stare at or
to make what is commonly known as
googoo eyes at, or in any other manner
look at or make remarks to or con
cerning, or cough or whistle at, or do
any other act to attract the attention
of any woman upon or traveling the
sidewalks or streets, or public ways of
the city of Abilene, with an intent or
in a manner calculated to annoy such
woman.”
A Florida newspaper gives it read
ers the timely warning that is unsafe
to walk on ice which is less than two
inches thick.
Those three fishermen who were
rescued after twro days on a floating
cake of ice kept perfectly cool during
the entire adventure.
Six billion bananas were imported
into the United States in 1925 and we
are wondering whether it was because
of the song or in spite of it.
St. Louis policewomen are credited
with having made 2,172 arrests last
year.
Smoking rooms for women have
been provided in municipal dance halls
by the city council of San Diego.
Although women of New Zealand
have had the ballot for 32 years no
woman has ever been elected to par
liament.
Mrs. Emma Guy Cromwell, secre
tary of state of Kentucky and Mrs.
Soledad S. Chacon, secretary of State
of New Mexico, met recently while
visiting in Hollywood, Fla.
Four women sheriffs are now hold
ing office in Kentucky.
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