SEWARD DAILY GATEWAY
OF SEWARD, ALASKA
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“WHEREASING” FOR THE RAIL
ROADS
The worm it seems will turn. As
the goose that lays the golden egg lies
flapping, badly scotched, there are
those who come to its rescue. The
question, so far as the railroads are
concerned in relation to their short
haul traffic is whether it is too late.
It may not be—who knows.
Anyway it is rather interesting to
find the employes of the railroads
adopting resolutions in defense of the
railroads and attacking their compet
itors. It should not be surprising, and
it is far less surprising now’ than it
would have been two decades ago. At
that time, the railroad, like the boy of
14, had no friends but its mother—
and on the basis of the record, one
may not be certain whether all the
stockholders, while witnessing their
dividends undergoing a constant di
minution, were always friendly to the
railroads.
Not the one national legislature, not
the forty-eight state legislatures, not
the numerous commissions that have
come into being to help runu the rail
roads—none of these things is the
great vital factor in the plight of the
railroads today in respect to short
haul traffic.
The real nemesis is a competitive
means of locomotion, the automobile,
and particularly the freight carrying
truck.
The Great Northern club at Everett
has adopted a comprehensive resolu
tion that is unique largely because it
denotes a new attitude. It is novel
to see employes of a railroad com
pany “whereasing” in behalf of the
company. Primarily, no doubt, the
reasons is a somewhat selfish one, but
one not to be condemned on that ac
count for everybody is selfish in de
siring to hold his job or get a better
one.
Inroads made by motor vehicles into
the business of the Great Northern in
Northwest Washington is of concern
to the employes. Some figures they
have adduced in support of their reso
lution for a “square deal’’ for the rail
roads are rather startling. Local
tickets sold at Everett in 1920 w^ere
80,150 compared with 34,894 in 1924.
Shipments decreased from 8,801,000
pounds to 5,541,850 pounds during the
same period.
Meanwrhile the payroll of the Cas
cade division of the road is $315,000 a
month and—a point particularly em
phasized—the Great Northern in 1924
paid $1,508,175.46 in taxes, more than
one-third of which was used for build
ing and maintaining Washington high
way^ in direct competition to the rail
road.
The Great Northern employes, who
say motor invasion has “reduced the
earnings of the Great Northern Rail
way company to such an extent as to
deprive a number of the railway em
ployes of their jobs, also to reduce the
earnings of the balance of employes
now in service,”’ and they believe that
the only thing that offers a solution
of the problem is to place all motor
transportation under the department
of public works and to tax them on
an equal basis with the railway com
panies.”
That is a poser indeed, and the solu
tion may not be so easy as the em
ployes seem to believe it to be. But
basically, there is something wrong
with the country if it allows the rail
roads to be junked without finding
something to take their place that will
serve the nation equally as well.
MECHANCAL COWS
Henry Ford is the personfieation of
the iron age. If it cannot be done with
machinery something is wrong with
it— that seems to be his dictum. Now
he launches a broadside at the dairy
cow. Avaunt with her says he, and
when she is junked let synthetic milk
machines be placed in her stall. The
idea is not new, but it is news because
advanced by a man who can put the
“can” in the mechanical age. Numer
ous attempts have been made to make
milk synthetically—usually from soy
beans and peanuts—and various pat
ents have been taken out at the na
tional capital. The department of ag
riculture which takes up the cudgels
for bossy, says the only trouble with
the synthetic milk manufactured so
far is that it is not milk. A few of
the faults found with it are that com
pared with the stuff from the original
package it is only 75 per cent efficient
in producing energy, that it is un
pleasant to the taste and that it con
tains glucose instead of sugar. The
federal sharps assert that the human
intestine contains millions of tiny ba
cilli knowrn as acid opliolus which are
essential to digestion and that these
bacilli live on milk sugar. Deprived
of that and mankind would perish. If
that be true then Henry’s ambition to
save humanity from the drudgery of
the dairy farm is hopeless and we
; must content ourselves with the lac
teal fluid from the celebrated Jersey.
But there is nothing to prevent Henry
spending some of his multi-millions in
making experiments.
TWO THIRSTS RUN WILD
Lee Roberts, an Anniston, Ala ,
young man, had just a thirst for
knowledge; neighbors had a thirst
for liquor. Seeking to gratify both,
he became a bootlegger in order to
raise money for college expenses.
Intervention of enforcement sleuths
caused a suspension of the arrange
ment for thirty days; also $100 fine.
THE DIFFERENCE
Florida advertises; crowds throng
thither; values soar. Non-advertis
ing states knock; crowds shun them;
knockers are sore.
THANKS FOR $14,000.
All officials are not uncivil, as
Everett Davis of Marked Tree, Ark.,
can testify. When Davis sawT a
leather brief case fall from another
automobile ahead of him on the road,
he picked it up, overtook the loser
two miles farther on and restored
it to him. The owner proved to be
a deputy sheriff from Memphis and
the brief case contained a $14,000
payroll. The deputy favored Mr.
Davis with a polite “thank you” and
each went his way.
IMPETUOSITY IN HENGLAND
What at first glance looked like
a vicious assault on the person of
the Prince of Wales occurred in a
Dublin movie theater. While a film
depicting the Prince on his South
African trip was being shown,__ Miss
Loda Maguire, a spirited Irish nurse,
rose in her seat and hurled a bottle
of ink at the screen, scoring a bull’s
eye on the royal globe-trotter’s
image. She incidentally ruined the
clothes of a girl musician and was
fined eight pounds sterling for her
impetuosity.
ANENT THE POOR PRUNE
Occasionally a paragrapher ven
tures to revamp the joke anent
boarding house prunes. The board
ing house may still be a joke, but
the prune is not, commercially at
least. The United States now ex
ports more than 110,000 tons of
dried prunes annually, besides those
consumed in domestic boarding
houses and elsewhere
CARDINAL STEPS OUT.
Cardinal Casques, age 79, Vatican
librarian, visited London; commented
on women’s clothes. Said he: “There
is more suggestiveness about the
flimsy clothing they now wear than
there would be in complete nudity.”
Still it’s hard to imagine anything
being “suggestive” to a prince of
the church at 79.
“THE DAGGER GIRL"
Occidental culture continues to
permeate the Orient. Inspired, on
doubt, by the example of our bobbed
haired bandits, a Japanese maiden
of Tokyo has earned the sobriquet of
“the dagger girl.” Her method of
operation is, or was, to approach an
intended male victim with a coquet
tish smile and engage him in con
versation, then quietly draw her dag
ger and demand his money, which
she got—excepting the last time,
when an alert gentleman quickly
flashed back and snatched her knife.
Now she languishes behind prison
doors.
AT THE LIBERTY
The old “Triangle” story—wife—
husband—The other Woman, was han
dled in both a very clever and laugh
able way. This theme for movie plays
is about worked out, but “Wandering
Husbands” show that there are a few
kicks left. It is novel in another way
also, as it is the first time, so far as
we know, that a movie actor and his
wife have played the leads in a story
of this kind. Lila Lee is James Kirk
wood’s wife.
Harold Sogn, son of the postmaster
at Anchorage, arrives in Seward to
morrow on his way to Seattle, where
he will reenter the U. of W. During
the past summer young Sogn has been
employed in the Loussac drug store.
Mrs. Bartley Howard and daughter
Ophelia Howard, will be among those
arriving in Seward tomorrow evening
from Anchorage, en route to the States
on the steamer Yukon. Mrs. Howard
will take up her residence in Seattle,
while Miss Howard will enter the U.
of W.
Allen Horning, University of Wash
ington student, who has been spend
ing the summer with his parents on
Willow creek, is coming over to Sew
ard tomorrow from Anchorage. He
goes south on the Yukon.
Alvear Proposes
Labor Courts
BUENOS AIRES, Sept. 18. (£>)—
President Alvear has sent to congress
a bill proposing the institution of
labor courts in the city of Buenos
Aires. The proposed courts would
deal with all disputes relative to sal
aries and pensions, while decisions
from conciliation and arbitration tri
bunals could be carried by appeal of
these courts.
Perhaps home-made beer lost pop
ularity because people didn’t know
where to place the decimal.
FOR ONE WEEK
Lowered prices on all
merchandise.
Friday and Saturday
we will have a DOLLAR
SALE.
BANBURY & OGLE
Cabin for Rent
On Fine Trout Stream
Bungalow with fine fire
place. large living room,
furnished for six persons, i
plenty of bedding and j
essentials, stove and all j
cooking utensils. Will be
rented by the day or week j
end to responsible parties, j
Good fishing in lake and
stream and hunting in
season.
Apply A1 Davis
SEWARD, ALASKA
One Show Tonight—8 Sharp
JAS. KIRKWOOD
AND
LILA LEE
I
— IN —
There is sure-fire interest in this splendid drama
of two women and a man.
SHOULD A HUSBAND LIVE WITH HIS
WIFE JUST FOR THE SAKE OF HIS CHILD
REN EVEN THOUGH LOVE IS ENTIRELY
GONE?
CAN A WIFE COMPETE WITH A VAMP IN
STIRRING HER HUSBAND?
An absorbing: story in pictures of the everlasting'
triangle of life, vividly portrayed
BOTH STARS DO SPLENDID WORK!
—
And we have again another of those fine two
reel comedies, starring
Jack Dempsey
entitled:
“K. 0. for Cupid”
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