SEWARD DAILY GATEWAY;
OF SEWARD, ALASKA
Established, August 19, 1904
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Gateway Publishing Co.
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Alaska, as second-class mail matter.
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HIGHWAY OR TRAIL
From Alaska Weekly, Seattle)
The Seward Gateway recently pub
lished an interesting interview7 w'ith
Mr. F. P. Roper, newspaper man of
Lodi, California. We don’t like to
boost the members of the Fourth Es
tate too hard but do feel constrained
to say that if the public comments
of visiting congressmen wTere in the
main half as constructive Alaska
would have a warmer feeling for
congressmen.
We do take mild exceptions to Mr.
Roper’s remarks concerning the Rich
ardson Highway, however. We hap
pen to be sitting just now' in the
lobby of the Whitcomb Hotel, San
Francisco, doing our stuff to get it
back in time for this week’s paper.
We are tired and dustry and our
arms and shoulders are sore from
yesterday’s drive over the celebrated
PACIFIC HIGHWAY.
We have ridden over the Richard
son Highway and it is not a boule
vard, but we are here to stat’e that
if it is a “mountain trail” as Mr. Ro
per terms it, then the road betwreen
Dunsmuir and Redding in the cele
brated highw'ay state of California
is a cow path fit only for a tractor
to attempt, and with conpensating
scenery which pales into insignifi
cance beside the grandeur of the
vistas which spread out before the
traveler on the Richardson Highway.
No, we do not subscribe to the
idea that “highway” is a misnomer
judging by some fo the highways of
the states. It is a highway and, all
things considered, a good one. We
do not believe that the average among
the traveling public are misled into
the expectation of a perfect roadway
and are more than satisfied with the
trip over the Richardson Highway.
A tourist asked our “Jack London”
if (#>) meant Alaska Packers!
Gateway want-ads bring results.
DREAMLAND
HALL
FOR SALE OR FOR RENT
SEE FRED MILLER
the Barber.
Cabin for Rent
On Fine Trout Stream
Bungalow with fine fire
place. large living room,
furnished for six persons,
plenty of bedding and
essentials, stove and all
cooking utensils. Will be
rented by the day or week
end to responsible parties.
Good fishing in lake and
stream and hunting in
season.
Apply A1 Davis
SEWARD, ALASKA
AN INDEPENDENT EDITOR
After more than 49 years of service
as editor and publisher of the Chica
go Daily News, Victor F. Lawson sud
denly passed away a short time ago.
lie would have been 75 years old on
September 9, yet he was daily at his
desk until the day befoVe he died.
Mr. Lawson’s outstanding accom
plishment in his chosen field was prob
ably his demonstration of the fact the
newspaper may be a success independ
ent of any political party or faction.
There are many such independent
| newspapers today, but when he began
| to build up the News in 1876 strongly
partisan newspapers were the rule.
He also took the lead in printing
newspaper features, drawing his ma
terial from the most gifted writers of
the entire country, giving the News
a broad and nation-wide character,
while other prominent newspapers
were inclined to be narrow and pro
vincial.
Aside from his journalistic activi
ties, Mr. Lawson was a man of altru
istic and philantropic inclinations. He
inaugurated and promoted the move
ment for postal savings banks and has
been called the father of that move
ment, which resulted in the establish
ment of the present system in 1911.
He established and maintained the
Lincoln Park Sanitarium for sick and
poor children and engaged in many
other charitable works.
He left $2,250,000, about three
fourths of his estate to the Congrega
tional Missionary and Extension So
ciety, the Chicago Theological Semi
nary and the Chicago Y. M. C. A. in
equal portions.
Few men have lived more noble and
useful lives than Victor F. Lawson.
WHY A GASOLINE WAR?
Consumers of gasoline have no
doubt been greatly pleased to benefit
by the drastic cuts in prices during
the present gasoline war. Coming at
the season of maximum consumption,
the saving to the public has been enor
mous.
Few, perhaps, have taken the trou
ble to learn the reason for the price
war, which on the face of things would
seem difficult to account for, when it
is known that consumption of gasoline
has been more than 25 per cent great
er this year than ever before.
The reason is not so hard to under
stand, however, in the light of the
facts. Production of crude oil has
been maintained at a high daily aver
age, large stocks of both crude oil and
gasoline are in storage, refining has
been running ahead of consumption.
Due to improved refining processes, a
greater amount of gasoline is now re
HOTEL ST. CHARLES
When in Seattle, make the
Hotel St. Charles your head
quarters.
Strictly Modem and
Fireproof
And Managed by an old
Alaskan
J. A. FARNHAM.
FOR ONE WEEK
Lowered prices on all
merchandise.
Friday and Saturday
we will have a DOLLAR
SALE.
BANBURY & OGLE
CRESCENT HOTEL
IN
Anchorage
> IN THE HEART OF TOWN
Reasonable Rates
J. M. COLLINS, Prop.
covered from a given quantity of oil
than ever before. This alone has
served to almost offset the increase in
consumption.
Refiners find themselves with an
overproduction on their hands and de
sire to turn it into cash. It is the
old, inexorable law of supply and de
mand.
The result will be, undoubtedly a
curtailment of refining operations,
lessening of the demand for crude oil,
a further reduction in crude oil prices,
a slackening of drilling operations
and consequent lowering of produc
tion. Then when the equilibrium be
tween supply and demand is restored
prices will rise again.
In the meantime, let the motorist
enjoy his cheap gasoline while he may.
MUSCLE SHOALS READY
Like the well-known individual who
is “all dressed up and no place to go,”
Muscle Shoals is now ready to pro
duce power, but no provision has been
made for using it.
Wilson Dam is finished, machinery
is in place and preliminary tests are
being made of the four initial units;
power will be available in consider
able quantities within a few days. Yet
no plan has been worked out whereby
this great power plant may be put to
work for the benefit of the people
whose money has built it at a tremen
dous cost.
The matter of disposing of the gi
gantic project, or the power to be gen
erated by it, has been before Con
gress almost continuously since the
war, yet no solution is in sight. A
commission appointed by the Presi
dent is considering the question but
no action can be taken until Congress
meets. If past performances by that
body may be taken as a criterion there
is little probability of any immediate
solution of this vexatious problem.
Politics and conflicting interests
have hitherto prevented a businesslike
consideration of the Muscle Shoals en
terprise, and have effectually blocked
an agreement between the House and
Senate. Whether the new Congrss
will be able to handle the matter ex
peditiously is open to question.
URUGUAY IN THE NEWS
Uruguay, smallest of South Ameri
can republics, has figured somewhat
in the news of late owing to the late
visit of the Prince of Wales, and the
celebration of the centennial of the
country’s independence. It is now
a wonderful little nation and highly
progressive.
Uruguay has a population of about
1.600.000, the only large city being
Montevideo, the capital, with some
400.000. In area the country is slight
not much larger than the states of
New York, Vermont, Massachusetts
and Connecticut combined.
During the last few years great ad
vances have been made in social wel
fare and particularly in education,
which is compuulsory and free in the
primary grades, the rural schools be
ing especially efficient. Church and
state were separated in 1916. Agri
culture and stock raising are the lead
ing industries.
Like other Latin-American countries
Uruguay has suffered greatly from in
terior rebellions. After driving the
Spanish from Montevideo in 1814, war
with Brazil resulted in the annexation
of Uruguay to that country. Revolt
in 1825 wras followed by a declaration
of independence which was recogniz
ed in 1828 and the republic was 'for
mally established in 1830.
Shortly there began a long period of
j civil strife, followed by a war with
Paraguay, which ended in 1870. Since
then the country has been compara
tively peaceful, except for one revolt
in 1903-4.
The centennial of Uruguayan inde
pendence practically coincides w’ith
the 200th anniversary of the founding
of Montevideo, now one of the best
built and most thoroughly modern cit
ies in the world.
THE SERIOU§ PROBLEM
Due to the spectacular nature of
rum running and the wide publicity
given to efforts of the Coast Guard in
suppression of it, the illicit importa
has commanded major attention in con
tion of liquor into the United States
nection with prohibition enforcement.
While importations have been en
ormous, they have embraced only a
minor fraction of the liquor consumed.
The most serious and difficult prob
lem, after all, is the suppression of il
licit distilling, commonly called moon
A story of modern day pleasure-mad France,
wonderfully directed by the famous Russian who
produced most of the greatest European plays.
A GIRL WHO DEVELOPS HER ATTRAC- '
TION FOR MEN UNTIL SHE RISES FROM
AN OBSCURE WAITRESS TO THE MOST
SOUGHT WOMAN OF FRANCE.
GUTTERING! ABSORBING!!
LAVISH!!!
Once more this great actress has a part that
gives her a chance to show the elemental fire
that she did in “PASSION.”
Can a cold-blooded adventuress really
fall in love like a noble woman?
Come and see a woman of two personalities—
WHICH ONE WINS?
And a Pathe News
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While thousands of stills, large and
small, have been broken up, there
seems to be but slight diminuation in
the number yet in operation, judging
from press reports of continued cap
while thousands of stills, large and
large stills, with a total capacity of
17,400 gallons were seized recently in
one day. There is perhaps hardly a
county in the whole country where
liquor is not being manufactured every
day.
Naturally the suppression of impor
tations will enlarge the demand for
the home product, even though it be
inferior and dangerous to the con
1
sumer. Moralizing on the evils of
the situation is futile. The fact is
that the prohibition enforcement or
ganization has a herculean task before
it. And moonshining presents the
most serious phase of the problem.
C. K. Tripp, recent arrival in town
left for the Interior yesterday where *
he will enter the college for his sec
ond term.
Mrs. Leopold David and children re
turned north on the steamer Alaska,
departed yesterday for their Anchor
age home.