Why not sell it?
ON every ranch there is machinery,
implements, stock, or other use
less things that should be turned into
cash to be used for other purposes.
In every home there is furniture,
trunks and other articles that might
also be sold. The money could be put to
use, or in the bank to draw interest.
Why not sell such things now?
Or perhaps you have chickens,
eggs, plants, or service of some kind
that you want to find buyers for.
GATEWAY WANT AD’S WILL HELP
YOU FIND BUYERS
Every week these little salesmen
are working night and day, selling
for your neighbors, and at a very low
cost: 15 cents a line the first insertion,
and 10 cents a line after that. A liberal
reduction will be made for monthly ad
vertisements.
Look around now and have your
want ad in the next issue. Telephone
it in if you wish and our clerk will take
it down for you.
THE DAILY GATEWAY
COMPETENT PRINTERS
COMMUNICATED
The Elementary School.
A brief summary was given in the
Saturday edition of the Gateway con
cerning the prevailing conditions in
the High School section of the Sew
ard schools, showing beyond question
that a very great improvement of fa
cilities must be provided before the
high school can funciton in a normal
and efficient capacity.
The grades are in much the same
predicament as the high school. Three
rooms are allotted to the eight grades.
The first and second grades in the
primary room are the only groups
of the entire enrollment that are re
ceiving the attention that is called
for in the Alaska Manual and Course
of Study. The principal reason for
this is the fact that there are only
two grades in the room and the
teacher has ample time for each
grade. Another reason is that most
of the expenditure in school supplies
this year has been concentrated upon
this room with a view of making the
improvement continue through the
other grades as quickly as feasible.
In the intermediate room are the
third, fourth and fifth grades. In
the upper grade room are the six'h,
r-venth and sii;:*.*;: In each of these
rooms there ar* an average of 15
recitations and fifteen study periods
a day, a toial or thirty periods in a
working time of five and one-half
hours. A teacher can net be expect
ed to secure the desired results un
d^r such a load and division of her
lime. Neither can .he p ipil be ex
pected to grasp his subject in a sat
isfactory manner when he has so
short a time for instruction. If. is
very poor school practice tc have
more than two grades of the elemen
tary school under one teacher and a
practice which invariably leads 10 un
satisfactory results from the view
point of both the teacher and the par
ent. Add to this the fact that these
children are working under artificial
light more than fifty per cent, of the
time, frequently all day; the fact that
each of these rooms have little or
no ventilation except by opening a
window and allowing direct draught;
the fact that even with artificial
lights the rooms are not well light
ed because of the color of the walls
and ceilings; the fact that each
room is housing too many students
in proportion to the cubic feet of air
space, especially when not ventilated.
Isn’t it about time something was
done to remedy the situation? Can
a parent be blamed if he or she com
plains that Jimmy isn’t getting any
where in his arithmetic, if Mary com
plains of headaches caused from eye
strain and from impure air? It is
their due that the school should be
able to care for the pupils better
than they can now do with present
facilities.
The grades are allowed fifteen min
utes of recess in morning and after
noon. In such weather that permits
play out of doors the children have
less than twenty feet on either side
of the school and a plot at the rear
that is too small for any playground
activity of any value. In weather that
keeps them indoors they have their
choice of remaining in the room or
hallways. Adequate exercise cannot
be secured inside the building by any
stretch of the imagination. High
school study or recitation is almost
impossible during this interval be
cause of the noise and confusion in
the other rooms and hallways. This
brings up the distinct need for a
gymnasium, built in connection with
the school and adequate not only for
competitive games but for recess play
! space during inclement weather. Such
a gymnasium with an auditorium or
assembly in connection would fill a
long felt community need as well as
serve the school.
The location of the present school
present disadvantages which are well
known by everyone. Being right at
-^ > ^i^Rggular[y and J)ependabJy
STEAMSHIP ADMIRAL WATSON
Sails from Arrives South from
Seattle Seward Seward
Jan. 7th Jan. 15th Jan. 18th
Feb. 4th Feb. 12th Feb. 15th
Calling at all regular Southeastern and South
western Alaska ports in eluding Seldovia and
Kodiak.
WAYNE BLUE, Agent
Telephone Main 81 Res.. Madison 40
Aaci/lc Coastwise Jerviee
^admiral line
H.F.ALEXANDER.
STEAMSHIP STARR
STEAMSHIP STARR WILL SAIL FEBRUARY 1
San Juan Fishing and Packing Co.
G. C. HENDERSON. Agent
PHONE MAD180N 13». 8EWARD, ALA8KA
, (he ho;vom of the hill cuts off natur
| al light early and compels the use
of electricity. Considerable eyestrain
among pupils is a result. This ind
the expense of lighting would he re
moved by geCing away from the
! hill. On either hide of y\-> s-'i' oi
|are dwellings within tw?n'/ feel, in
icreasing the firerisk to both school
and dwellings and necessarily in
creasing the insurance rate. The
nearness of the school is an annoy
ance to these residents because of the
noise and confusion. It is also a
handicap to the school since there
is no possibility of expansion and the
dwellings assist in cutting off the
light. It is unnecessary to go into
further detail in order to show how
unsatisfactory the present school fa
cilities are. It is plainly evident.
These statements are in no way ex
aggerated, some of them are not
strong enough.
(Signed) GUY D. BARNETT.
GRQSVENQR’S LAND
IN HEART OF LONDON
IS UNDER ATTACK
LONDON, Jan. 12.—Sooner or later
i the British government has ,to meet
] rising public opinion and tackle the
question of land reform.
London itself offers numberless
examples of the need for such re
form, for the greater portion of Lon
don is under leasehold and tenants
have only lease rights in the prop
erty on which they build homes and
j places of business.
The Duke of Westminster offers
jan example of the land situation in
j London, for he owns fully twenty
acres in the very center of the best
residential and fashionable shopping
districts of London. The Duke, whose
marital difficulties have recently at
tracted considerable attenton, ac
quired right to this land by inherit
ance.
Originally the Duke’s property
was a farm belonging to the Abbot
of Westminster, who in 1518 leased
it for 32 years for about $100 a year.
After the dissolution of the mon
asteries it was sold by James I. for
$5,500 to agents acting on behalf of
Sir Lionel Chanfield, a judge who
w.'S later impeached for corruption.
This impeached judge sold the prop
erty to Hugh Awdley, a money lend
er. It passed to his nephew, whose
daughter married a Grosvenor, and
the Grosvenors ever since have col
lected millions in ground rent from
those who live or have places of
business upon this property.
Lloyd George charged that the
Grosvenor estates, upon the expira
tion of the least of one large firm,
raised the rates by thousands of
pounds.
This situation is caustically com
mented upon by The Star, which
says:
[ “While the Duke is disporting
! himself at Monte Carlo, Londoners
are working extra hours to main
tain his butterfly existence. The
people who find thcmoney are Ids
tenants, and their workpeople and
their customers. It is because of
the land system that overcrowding
is worse in some parts of the West
End than it is in the East End. It
is for this reason that the good will
that traders have built up a labori
ous lives is confiscated. It is for
this reason that every new London
improvement, every increase in
wealth and population, adds to the
value of the Grosvenor acres, whose
owner, as ground landlord, pays no
rates and bears none of Loudon’s
burdens. It is high time that Lon
don’s traders and workers united
against these evils.”
The Star is not a wild-eyed news
paper. When it speaks as sternly
as this it must speak with its weight
of public opinion back of its words.
REJECTED DENTISTS
FILE COURT ACTION
OLYMPIA, Wtt., Jan. 12.—Charg
ing that they had received passing
grades in the state dental examina
tions but that they had not receiv
ed certificates from the director of
licenses permitting them to practice
their profession in this state, Peter
F. Charrier and David W. Dillehaye,
of Seattle, filed an action in the
supreme court here yesterday.
The rejected dentists asked the
supreme court to issue a writ of
mandate compelling Fred J. Dibble,
director of licenses, to issue them
The Alaska Railroad
TRAINS LEAVE SEWARD
8 A.M.
Monday and Thursday
TRAINS ARRIVE
8 P. M.
Wednesday and Saturday
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a license. They also allege in their
application for a writ that Dibble’s
action in refusing them a license •
damaged them to the extent of $5,
000 and asked the court to award
them a judgment.
It was also charged that a mem
ber of the board of dental exam
iners had been overheard as saying ♦
that “nobody who worked for that
bolshevik Brown will ever get a li
! cense.”
Charrier and Dillehaye had been
employed in the dental establish
ment belonging to Mayor E. J.
Brown, of Seattle.
HEALTHIEST BOY IS ONE
WHO GETS UP AT 7 A. M.
CHICAGO Jan. 1L’ — t *e daily life
of the eleven-year-old boy, as por
trayed by Lome W. B***iay, of Val
paraiso, Ind., vice-president of the
Children’s t oundati' i.. b’.* speech
before the International Boys’ Work
conference here, showed that the
healthiest lad of this age rhea at «
$ T:1b a. m., retires at 8:55 p. m.,
biushes his teeth five out of seven
d.'t'S r.i.'i week io - v!:i ‘3 '-i* ’**
tist once in two years.
Mr. Barclay based his statements
on a survey recently completed by
the foundation.
Eaton, Crane, Pike Stationery at
the Alaska Shop. tf
Gas Launch
KENAI
FISHING AND HUNTING
PARTIES CARRIED DOWN
LAKE KENAI FOR THE
DAY OR TRIP. TELE
PHONE ARRANGEMENTS
TO MILE TWENTY
Louis Bell, owner
ALASKA
STEAMSHIP CO.
SOUTHWESTERN ALASKA
ROUTE SCHEDULE
i
Vessel—
Scheduled Scheduled Scheduled
Lv. Seattle Arr. Seward Sail fm Seward
Yukon _
Alameda_
Alaska_
Yukon _
Alameda .
Alaska .
.January 3
.January 10
.January 17
January 24
January 31
February 7
January 10
January 17
January 24
January 31
February 7
February 14
January 10
January 17
January 24
January 31
February 7
February 14
Steamers in the above schedule will make all regular ports of call
in Southeastern and Southwestern Alaska.
The steamship Redondo will discontinue operating to the west
ward until further notice, as soon as she completes her present trip.
Freighter Nabesna is scheduled to sail from Seattle, December 30th.
Send orders by wire.
J. H. FLICKINGER, Agent
PHONE MAIN 125 SEWARD, ALASKA
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AN EMPIRE BUILDER
As all railroads in years gone by have been the greatest
contributing factors in development of the regions through
which they passed, so also is THE ALASKA RAILROAD each
day accomplishing much towards the building of an empire.
In place of the old, tremendously expensive and inconve
nient methods of transporting supplies of whatever character
over rough trails from the coast, there is now a modern rail
road that carries supplies and equipment in greater quantities
to and from the Interior, and along the way, in much less
time and at far less expense than was formerly required.
This great steel highway offering regular twice weekly
freight and passenger service between Seward, Anchorage
and Fairbanks; and tri-weekly mixed service over the
Chickaloon and CJiatanika branches, is at your service. For
further information write
THE ALASKA RAILROAD
mckinley park route
ANCHORAGE ALASKA
Special week-eend tickets (one and one-third actual fare) on
sale at all ticket offices
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