SEWARD DAILY GATEWAI
OF SEWARD, ALASKA
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VACCINATION NOT POPULAR
In many parts of the States •war
is being waged by scientists and
others upon the question of whether
or not vaccination is worse than
smallpox. So many youngsters have
been ruined by vaccine virus that
parents in many cases refuse to al
ow their children to be punctured
or scraped by physicians at so much
per injection. Back fifty years ago,
when a lot of us attended the little
red schoolhouse vaccination was un
heard of, and if a boy were vaccin
ated he showed the scar on his arm
for weeks as something to brag
about, and even capitalized, the price
of examining the huge cicatrice be
ing one agate or taw. The girls
■were vaccinated also, but their scars
were concealed. Nowadays if a girl
attempted to conceal her vaccina
tion scar she would have to be vac
cinated behind the ears or on (op
of her head.
There is a new serum now for
practically every disease. During the
war the boys were lined up and
punched as full of holes ae a col
ander. Many of them could eat
nothing but oatmeal they leaked so
badly. These things run in cycles.
Ten years ago a scholar could not
learn his three R's unless he "was
vaccinated. Today people are be
coming more tolerant.
WARREN GOOD MAN
THE OPPOSITION bloc in the sen
ate is opposing the confirmation of
Chas B. Warren as attorney general.
Mr. Warren was formerly ambassa
dor to Japan and later to Mexico.
He is regarded as one of the ablest
lawyers of the United States. But
he has some interest in a big sugar
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denins hint in the eyes of the LaFol
lette faction. Henry Ford, know]
for his independence, congratulate
- the president on the appointment
' saying Mr. Warren is “well qualifle*
to become a member of the cabinet
’ and “will prove an asset to the na
tion.” Qualification, in the minds o
- some of the professional snipers, i:
a secondary consideration.
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| THEY WOULDN’T PLAY
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. Here is one for the doubtin*
Thomases who question the clain
( of the United States army and navj
I to the champion marksmanship o
( the world. When Washington was
i snowed-in by the big blizzard lately
1 the news photographers who “cover’
the White House tried, to have t
little fun with cabinet officers. As
Secretary of War Weeks and Sec
retary of Navy Wilbur were coming
out of a cabinet meeting, the pho
tographers asked them to pose ir
schoolboy fashion, throwing snow
balls at each other.
Wilbur and Weeks solemnly did
agree. The secretaries picked up
the right amount of snow, and pat
ted out hard icy balls. The pho
tographers got behind their cam
eras and prepared the focus. The
cabinet officers aimed. “Fire,” bel
lowed the photographers. Weeks and
Wilbur fired—and hit two cameras
square in the lenses.
ALASKA RADIO
ARMY SIGNAL Corps officers hope
some day to build a gigantic radio
station in the icy wastes of North
Alaska to communicate directly with
Europe via the North Pole. The
frigid polar air was found to be a
superlative medium for carrying ra
dio waves and by linking up the
Western Lrnited States with such
a radio station through cables, over
land wires, or radios, fast transmis
sion of messages to Europe could be
effected.
Arctic phenomena, including the
aurora borealis, do not appear to
interfere in the slightest with radio
communication. Though much
blame for static has been placed
on the aurora, it is believed to ex
ercise no evil effect on . wireless
transmission.
Signal Corps men stationed at tiny
Alaska posts to afford them radio
communication with the Outside
world frequently enjoy concerts
from European broadcasting sta
tions, notably Berlin, when com
pletely out of touch with American
stations.
This fact is what first gave the
officers the idea of trans-polar com
mercial communications, which some
day may be a fact.
PERSONALLY we will take no in
terest in the reported approaching
end of the wmrld until we see wheth
er Anchorage is after it or not.
ARE TIMES HARD?
What constitutes hard times? Lack
of business or lack of ready cash to
carry on that business?
In a tour of the town by a Gate
way representative, many merchants
complain that times are hard, wrhile
others claim to have had the best bus
iness in January and February for
many years past. Since our arrival
in Alaska many years ago, w*e noticed
that the -winter months, while dull,
are not nearly so bad as the people
remaining in the Territory suppose,
taking the volume of business as a
whole. It is true that many resi
dents go outside thruogh the winter,
and those who do generally outfit for
the year while there, thus leaving
their money where it does the least
good. Thousands of dollars are tak
en out of each community in this way.
Alaska also shuts down most outdoor
work through the winter months, own
ing to deep snows, cold and added ex
pense of operating.
But times are not nearly so hard
here in Alaska as they are outside, ac
cording to returning sourdoughs. Al
aska has no bread line and no one is
really suffering for the necessities of
life. One can live cheaply through
the winter months, and jobs are plen
tiful through the summer.
Hard times are more are less a state
of mind. Expenses are low in the Al
askan towns. Rents are cheap, fuel
is cheap, and what a business house
lacks in trade it makes up in low
overhead.
- MIDDLE CLASS GERMANS
AIDED BY LUTHERANS;
l COLLECTING $500,001
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, NEW YORK, Mar. 17.—The con
I version of German army wagon:
into food trucks for peadetim:
- charities literally fulfills Isaiah’:
l prophecy about swrords beaten intc
5 ploughshares and spears into prun
ing hooks. The American Nationa
Lutheran Council suggested to th*
German Republic that its idle artil
lery caissons and quartermastei
: trucks could be put to good ust
i transporting food and clothing ship
’ ped from America for the relief oi
the suffering middle class in thai
s country. Hundreds of these trucks
’ manned by army waggoners, are
nowr busy in carrying supplies from
steamship docks to railroad stations
i and warehouses, and from ware
■ houses to the Church free tables
where improverished middle class
Germany receives its daily bread.
Not only are former army vans
pressed into blessed service, but
ample warehouse storage space, in
cluding new annex to the govern
ment customs house at Hamburg,
has beum put at the disposal of the
American Lutherans free of all
cost. Free transportation has been
provided on all government rail
roads. Others were sent down the
line to railway employes to give
right of way to all National Luth
eran Council relief shipments.
The inflation of the mark had
robbed retired mechanics, business
and professional men, and widows
of their lifetime savings, their
courage and health, and reduced
them to direst want. Millons wiio
had independent incomes are now
dependent on the charity of others,
Church free tables were devised to
■which thousands come on personal
invitation from local committees.
Every dollar contributed by the
American churches is matched
from private German charity.
For the contribution of this serv
ice the Lutherans of the United
States and Canada are now collect
ing $500,000.
STANDARD OIL COMPANY
LOOKS FOR GOOD SEASON
The local staff of the Standard Oil
Company are working hard getting
things in shape for the coming sea
son, which they expect will be a good
one. Several improvements are con
templated at the plant, and trade with
the interior will be stimulated. Since
the installation of the local tanks, the
prices of gasoline and oils have drop
ped to a fraction of their former cost,
and the increasing number of auto
mobiles show that citizens are taking
advantage of the fact. Prices at in
terior points are less than half what
they were, and mining and other in
dustries have been greatly stimulat
ed. The. policy of the Standard Oil
Company is to sell its products at the
lowest margin of profit, and their en
trance in the Seward field was one of
the greatest benefits to the surround
ing district, that the city has exper
ienced from any industry.
America’s three ages: Rattle of
musketry; rattle of silver; rattle of
flivvers.
One is born every minute and
nearly all of them learn to sing
“Sweet Adeline.”
Parker’s Duofold Fountain Pens, at
the Alaska Shop. tf
Sheaffer's Life Time Pens, at the
the Alaska Shop. tf
Eastman Kodaks ana supplies at
the Alaska Shop. tf
Ladles’ and Gents' Alfalfa Harvest
ing—O. K. Barber Shop. tf.
Haas Fresh Candies at the Alaska
Shop.
Chris’ s»“
SMOKES CARDS
AND TALK
Come On In!
CHRIST LARSEN, Prop.
Next Door to Liberty Theatre
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POLA NEGRI became world famous from
her acting in “PASSION” and now she adds
to her laurels by her work in this picture,
her latest play.
An unusual story working up to a cli
max never surpassed in a play.
INTENSELY DRAMATIC
JACK HOLT
—and—
CHARLES DE ROCHE
have the men’s parts
(NOTE—This is not a child’s play
and we recommend keeping anyone
under 18 years of age, away.)
and a fine
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