SEWARD DAILY GATEWAY
OF SEWARD, ALASKA
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RECOGNIZING THE SOVIETS.
Hearst. newspapers are pounding
away on the administration at Wash
ington to reverse the policy by which
it has studiously refused to extend
quasi recognition to the soviet gov
ernment of Russia, through the nego
tiation of a trade agreement. The
country is told that “our national wel
fare, as well as a due respect for in
ternational' usage, demand trade rela
tions with the existing Russian gov
ernment,” and the distinction is made
that this involves no recognition or
approval of communism.
Secreatry Hughes is pictured as the
lock in the path of trade recognition
for the reason that he had stood like
a stone wall against any recognition
whatsoever with the Russian govern
mem.
Hearst draws attention to the fact
that Japan has extended recognition
to Russia, thus “guaranteeing her po
sition at home and securing the as- !
surance of raw materials essential to |
her national life in peace and war,” !
as well as a satisfactory division of !
the oil produced in the island of Sa- i
ghalien, half of which came to her as j
the spoils of war.”
This, of course is interesting, but I
it presents no pressing reason for any j
radical change in American policies.
Japan did not lend Russia several
hundred million dollars as war loans,
which have since been repudiated;
Japan did not have her citizens manu
facturies seized and confiscated by the
soviet government as did the United
States, when the soviet government
seized the Standard Oil plants, the
big Singer sewing machine plant, em
ploying several thousand workmen;
the International Harvester company’s
plant, and several hundred other mi
nor industries.
The United States has said that
when Russia recognizes her obliga
tions to America, when she returns
the property confiscated to our citi
zens, then she is ready to talk recog
nition. To recognize Russia after her
criminal acts would be like temporiz
ing with the bandit who robs a bank.
*If Secretary Hughes has been right
in standing as a “stone wall,” he still
is right, regardless of the decisions
of other nations, and most Americans
will support his policy when they re
alize its significance. Japan has sac
rificed principle to commercial gain,
and will rue its concession, just as the
British government retreated when it
discovered that the “concessions” it
hoped to get in Russia as a reward for
recognizing the communistic regime
were not only illusory, but that the
soviets took advantage of the oppor- j
tunity afforded them to foment revo- ;
lution in the United Kingdom.
Secretary Hughes has shown that
there exists no bar to commercial
trade between Americans and the so
viets. The American people can take
their own chances without the support
'Of the government. But history has
shown that recognition of a commu
nistic government is of no benefit to
the country which extends it.
Isaac F. Marcosson, in a series of
excellent articles in the Saturday
Evening Post, showed conclusively
that the soyiets regard a treaty or
trade agreement as a scrap of paper.
He pointed out by example that the
British tradesmen who obtained con
cessions in soviet Russia w'ere sub
jected to wTorse treatment than the
people of other nations. Much has
been said of commercial opportunities
in Russia, but they are largely a
myth. No sooner does Moscow grant
a concession than it begins to harass
the concessionaire with taxes and red
tape and there always hands pendent
over his head the Damoclean sword of
confiscation, the favorite weapon of
the soviet. Mr. Marcosson covered
the situation of concessions in two
twords—“illusion, disillusion.”
It is useless to treat with a govern
ment whose signature is affixed only
in the hope of gaining an advantage
to itself without giving compensation
in return. The manner in which the
soviets have treated not only the
American loans to Russia, but the
property of American people seized by
the communists is complete justifica
tion of the attitude of our government
toward the Moscow oligarchs.
PRESERVE THE TREES.
Inwall that has been said and done
about preserving the timber of the na
tion, few words stand out as striking
ly as those of Muir written in 1897:
“Any fool can destroy trees. They
cannot run away, and if they could
they would still be destroyed—chased
and hunted down so long as fun or a
dollar could be got out of their bark
hides, branching horns or magnificent
bole backbones. Few that fell trees
plant them; nor would planting avail
much toward getting back anything
like the noble primeval forests.
“During a man’s life only saplings
can grow in the place of the trees—
tens of centuries old—that have been
destroyed. It took more than three
thousand years to make some of our
trees in the Western woods—trees
that are still standing in perfest
strength and beauty, waving and sing
ing in the mighty forests of the Sier
ras. Through all the wonderful, event
ful centuries before Christ’s time and
since that—God has cared for these
trees, saved them from drouth, dis
ease, avalanches and a thousand level
ing tempests and floods; but He can
not save them from the fools—only
Uncle Sam can do that.”
And what is true of trees is true of
our game and fish, also decimated by
fools, who slaughter God’s creatures
for sport.—Exchange.
HATS OFF TO THE DOG TEAMS
The dog teams which left Nenana
Sunday afternoon with their cargo of
antitoxins, have already passed Ruby
and will probably reach Kaltag by to
night, while the airplane which was
to have passed the dogs an hour after
it started remains near its hangar,
frozen up and unable to start. The
fable of the hair and the tortoise is
again exemplified. It shows that at
times the speedier way is not always
the most efficient. When one remem
bers the time required between hops
by the American machines which flew
around the world, one can see where
the steady-plugging, ten-miles an hour
dogteam would win the race in zero
temperatures and heavy gales.
Practically every Alaskan wanted to
see Nome relieved as quickly as pos
sible, but those familiar with the deli
cate manipulation of the heavier-than
air machines feared to risk the lives
of two splendid young Alaskans by
starting them out into 50-below weath
er on an unfamiliar route.
In the meantime the red-blooded
drivers and husky dogteams are plod
ding along, foot by foot reducing the
disatnce between Nenana and Nome.
When one considers the long, icy
stretches of the Yukon, with the blind
ing glare of the snows, the biting
force of the wind, and the weakening
effects of the intense cold, only the
reasoning power of indomnitable cour
age can carry a man into such condi
tions. Insensate objects cannot carry
the strain.
People interested in sports both
amateur and professional, have been
invited by Bishop Manning to assist
with funds to complete the great Epis
copal Cathedral of St. John the Divine
in New York City. The bishop calls
attention to the fact that the sculpture
of the cathedral will include figures
typifying “every kind of wholesome
legitimate sport. The stockholders of
the Washington baseball club which
i-ecently declared a dividend of forty
per cent could afford to kick in with
a neat sum.
In case the Cordova boys pass thru
Seward on their way to play Anchor
age for the basketball championship,
the Seward team should take them on
the Saturday night they are in town.
Our boys have come so close time
and again in defeating Anchorage that
wre look for the expected to happen
some of these days.
GOV. BONE JUSTIFIED.
Governor Bone’s refusal to be
stampeded by reports from Nome,
have since been justified by news dis
patches from the Nome board of health
declaring that an airplane flight is
unnecessary under existing conditions.
Very few persons wanted to see two
young men sacrifice themselves upon
the altar of humanity, even though
the cause seemed urgent. Most old
timers had little faith in the perform
ance of an airplane in the murky haze
of fifty-below weather, and none of
them but believed that with dogs and
plane starting on an even footing the
dogs would reach their destination
ahead of the plane.
The remarkable courage of Messrs.
Darling and Mackie is not detracted
from by their failure to get in the
air. Rather it is all the more admired
because they knew what they were
up against and never faltered in what
they believed to be their duty. Those
who look back to the old days for
heriosm and courage need look no
farther. Whenever a crisis arises
some American hero will step forward
and offer himself.
DEFEAT OF AMENDMENT NOT
SECTIONAL
Defeat of the proposed twentieth
amendment to the constitution,
known as the child labor amendment,
was inevitable, and it not surprising
that it has failed to make a favorable
impression. The support of the leg
islatures of three-fourths of the states,
or a total of thirty-six, was required
for ratification. Rejection in thirteen
states, therefore, meant defeat. Al
ready thirteen states have rejected
the amendment while only three—Ar
kansas, Arizona and California—sup
ported it. The thirteen unfavorable
states were about evenly divided be
tween the North and the South, the
East and the West. Defeat was not
a sectional decision, and neither poli
tics or industry was a governing fac
tor. The large considerations were,
first, that the states have child labor
laws, practically all of which are ade
quate; secondly, that the people do
not want to vest in congress control
over their children, with authority to
prohibit the labor of persons up to the
age of IS years. The record shows
clearly that1 public opinion overwhelm
ingly opposes ratfication of the
amendment.
NORWAY CHECKS RUM RUNNING
The foreign office of the Norwegian
government does not look upon rum
traffic by Norwegian ships as a thing
to be winked at on the ground that the
government is not Uncle Sam’s guar
dian. That government has obtained
the names of ten Norwegian vessels
identified as among those on “rum
row” off the Atlantic coast, and their
skippers are going home to a peck of
trouble. The Norwegian Shipowners’
association, pressed by the Oslo gov
ernment. has cautioned masters and
warned them that assistance to ves
sels running foul of the dry laws of
America will be refused. We have re
ceived some superficial support from
the British government, under whose
flag most of the rum-runners are list
ed—such as the treaty for the exten
sion of the legal three-mile limit to
twelve miles—but London has shown
no real sympathy with the United
States in its ridiculous dry laws.
Norway is taking a more positive
position, one that shows its desire to
go beyond the strict terms of the
bond, and will hereafter confine its
ships to more legitimate trade.
Very few countries have sympathy
with the American Volstead act, and
in fact, the lawmakers themselves,
are inclined to break their own laws.
The long cold spell experienced in
practically every section of Alaska
has never been equalled in the mem
ory of the oldest inhabitant. Last fall
Chief Isaac of the Moosehides predict
ed an exceedingly cold winter, but
these predictions are made every year
by either Indian or whites, and have
become so common as to excite little
notice. But next winter watch Alas
kans hole up the first frost. Once
caught, twice shy.
Chemistry will play an important
part in improving the human /ace,
says a scientist. We can refrain at
this point from declaring that chem
istry has already given us some
mighty good looking blondes.
Vertical, No. 2. Who furnished the
money to send John Frame back to
Washington?
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Once in a while we run across that
rara avis, the man who does not be
lieve anything he sees in a paper;
but let the paper say something de
rogatory about him or his business
and he will break his neck to deny it,
fearing his neighbors may believe it.
Fatty Arbuckle has been divorced
by his wife, but he admits that he is
going to get a new one. Simplicity
and satisfaction all around.
, The next time Dr. Sun Yat Sen dies
he will have to stay dead, so far as
this great household journal is con
cerned. After setting up and denying
reports of his death for the ’steenth
time we positively refuse to bite at
this old gag.
“And the odor of her mukluks re
sembled not the rose.” Can you im
agine fifty below weather, a red hot
stove and a cabin full of Indian chil
dren wearing mukluks tanned by the
peculiar Yukon method? If you can,
go to the head of the class, for you
have imagination enough to make a
perfume factory out of a skunk.
A Los Angeles man who admits he
is 10b years old has been ordered to
pay his wife alimony. Some persons
just naturally cannot lay down their
cross.
Next to the pulp mill we would pre
fer to have a quarter section of fine
newly-mined coal.
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YOUR INCOME TAX
Losses arising from fires, storms,
shipwreck, “for other casualty,” or
from theft, whether or not connected
with a taxpayer’s business, may be
deducted from gross income in his
1924 income tax return. If his horn
or automobile is destroyed by fi’-e
or his property damaged by storm,
the loss is deductible for the year
in which it was incurred.
| Loss of property by theft or burg
lary is an allowable deduction, and
need not be incurred in the tax
payer’s trade or business.
A loss from embezzlement is also
deductible.
All losses are deductible only to
the extent «t>y which they are not
compensated for by insurance or
otherwise.
By the recent report of the treas
urer of the Washington baseball club
it is disclosed that $50,000 was paid
for Earl McNeeley, who made the fa
mous $100,000 two base hit which
won the 1924 world’s series.
For efficient disinfection, cleanli
ness without carbolic acid is better
than carbolic acid without cleanli
ness.
A GAMBLING debt cannot be col-,
lected in law, according to all losers.
Regardless of the legal correctness
or incorrectness of this view, it is t
well to note a ruling of the income
tax department which says those
who gamble must pay the govern
ment, win lose or draw. The board
of tax appeals recently held that
persons who win in gaming opera
tions must pay an income tax on
their winnings, and the ruling has been
made by the internal revenue bureau
that losses are not- deductable from
gross income in states where games
of chance are illegal.
Coming up, St. Patrick’s Day dance.
Yes! no autos
today!
But you auto see our shipment of fresh
Goods that auto satisfy the most auto
cratic appetite in Seward.
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