SEWARD DAILY GATEWA1
OP SEWARD, ALASKA
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LEADERS AND FORESTS
When the forest go the waters go,
the fish and game go, crops go, herds
and flocks go, fertility departs. Then
the age-old phantoms appear, stealthi
ly one after another—Floods, Fire,
Droughts, Famine, Pestilence.—Rob
ert Chambers.
Next to the earth itself the forest
is the most useful servant of man.
Not only does it sustain and regulate
the streams, moderate the winds, and
beautify the land, but it also supplies
wood, the most widely used of all ma
terials. Its uses are numberless al
so. It is essential to the well-being
of mankind that these demands should
be met. They must be met steadily,
fully, and at the right time if the for
est is to give its best service.—Gif
ford Pinchot.
Americans owe more than any other
.people on earth to the toils, sacrifices,
and forethought of their forefathers,
•and it is their duty—every man’s duty
to transmit the inheritance they re
ceived from them to their decendants
unimpared by waste and neglect.—
Gen. J. S. Brisbin, U. S. A.
The length of time required for the
growth of timber from the seed to ma
turity shows conclusively that it was
never destined in the order of nature
for the exclusive use of a single gen
eration.—W’illiam Cullen Bryant.
THE FIRE FOOL
(With apologies to Kipling)
A fool there was and he flung a match,
Even as you and I,
Carelessly down on a sun-dried patch,
Giving no heed that a fire might catch
And spread to the timber with quick
despatch,
Even as you and I.
The fool passed on with a wondering
look,
Even as you and I„
He couldn’t explain the fire that took
The forest away and dried the brook,
And left the region a place forsook,
He was a fool—that’s why.
—A. G. JACKSON.
An earnest young Chinese applied
for a position with a Vancouver firm
in a letter worded thusly: “Sir—I am
Wang—I can drive typewrite with
good noise and my English is great—
My last job has reason that the large
man has dead—So, honorable sid what
about it—if I can be as big use to you
I should guess.’’ It is hoped Wang
got the job.
The meanest editor has been discov
ered, at the helm of the Paris newspa
per Quotidien. He charges that the
Marquis de la Falaise, Gloria Swan
son’s newrest husband, is no marquis
at all, but a New York bartender.
Anyway, his fellow passengers on the
way over dubbed him “Mr. Swanson,”
Alaska Cafe For Sale
Well established, ne'« three-year
lease, fixtures and equipment all
standard restaurant equipment;
three-oven French brick range;
10-hole, 2-roast pan copper steam
table; 12 stool counter, five dining
tables, two boxes, new meat block,
O. P. Co. Syracuse China dishes;
low rent, an A-1 location; an ex*
cellent buy for man and wife.
ALASKA CAFE
Seward, Alaska
f when is a more important title whil<
1 it lasts, in view of Gloria’s $15,000 £
week salary.
BOOTSTRAP FINANCE
France is in the throes of one o
’ the worst financial crises it has fac
ed in the history of the present re
. public. Strangely enough, the Frencl
appear to have been the last to fore
| see the crash—either that or they
, thrust their heads into the sand anc
I ignored the approach of danger.
The crisis has forced the downfall
of the Herriot cabinet and it has
| been a factor in French politics foi
, some time. The socialists under Her
i riot brought on their doom by pro
posing the capital levy—a thing they
favored in principle but hesitated
to apply because they must have re
, alized it would mean their downfall,
The capital levy was a plank in the
platform of the British socialists
under MacDonald also, but MacDon
ald hesitated to bring it to the front,
and that fact contributed in part to
his fall because his hestitancy
aroused resentment among the more
j radical of his followers.
•out nernoi coum noi solve a pro
blem that will not yield to theoreti
cal treatment. France has been lift
ing itself by its bootstraps in finan
cial matters so long that affairs sim
ply have reached the breaking point.
The capital levy might help tempor
arily but it probably would really
make matters worse.
The French have been living on
a promise, or a demand, that could
not be met—that Germany should
and would be made to pay for the
war. The government of the repub
lic and the various subsidiary gov
ernments issued promises to pay in
somewhat the same way as the Ger
man government ground out paper
marks. These securities were to be
redeemed when Germany paid. But
Germany never will pay anything like
what the French expected, and it is
improbable that they ever will pay
everything they promised to pay un
der the Dawes plan. In any event,
the French have strained their credit
far beyond its stretching point and
meanwhile have done nothing to in
dicate any intention to honor their
war debts. The natural result has
been a Slump in the franc, and the
question now is howr to meet the
problem ot protecting the govern
ment’s credit.
The British, who pay more taxes
than the French, and who have tak
en care of their war obligations, say
one way for the French to recover
is for the leaders to tell the people
the truth—which is that they must
largely bear the cost of their -war.
So delicate has the situation become
that Joseph Caillaux, former prime
minister, who was exiled from France
during the war as a traitor and lat
er granted immunity, has been call
ed in as minister of finance in the
new Painleve cabinet.
France is at the parting of the ways.
It must recognize its debts and make
provision for them, or suffer a finan
cial reverse that will have serious
results. This fact now seems to be
dawming on the French people.
MAY BE TIPPED OFF!
A lawyer-novelist and an artist
composer of New York who are plan
ning a trip through the Balkans and
the Near East have taken out $500,
000 “bandit insurance,” to be paid
in case they are captured and held
lor ransom. That will be good news
for the bandits—if they only learn
about it.
Seven hundred Yale sophomores re
ceived term bills containing an addi
tional item of $3 each to cover win
dows, doors and fences damages dur
ing their annual freshman rush. The
fun was probably worth it.
WOHLMOSS & CO. of CHICAGO
have advised me to offer extra pair
pants with all suit orders absolute
ly free of charge. Remember this
holds good for one month only,
tf. JORDON’S VALET SERVICE.
MANURE FOR SALE
Good Manure for Fertilizer. Call
Seward Dairy. Fine for that
Garden Your Are Going to
Put in Soon.
fcf A recount press dispatch, which
i tells of a lad in British Columbia who
fell 800 feet down the side of a moun
tain on the family homestead, brings
to mind the old story of that section
in which a settler declared that he had
f fallen off his ranch twice in one day.
The 150th anniversary of the Meek
i lenburg (North Carolina) Declaration
- of Independence will be celebrated at
r Charlotte on May 20. 0
One-tenth of tne families of Paris
1 live with only one room to a family.
Finland has no police system, yet
is one of the most law-abiding of na
tions.
‘ It is a rule of the Widow’s Club of
■ Kalamazoo, Mich., that no member
• shall reveal her age.
1 As an experiment the Des Moines
■ Register is printing all crime news
■ on inside pages.
AGRICULTURAL BUREAU
MAY USE AIRPLANES IN
OBTAINING INFORMATION
WASHINGTON, D. C., May 7.—
The department of agriculture is con
sidering acquisition of a fleet of
airplanes for use in its field work
if experiments now being conducted
prove successful.
The airplane already has been
found useful in obtaining informa
tion on cbtton crop conditions and
crop reporters assert that it allows
them to cover more territory and
get better information than an auto
mobile permits.
Plan Experiments.
CORVALLIS, Ore., May 7.—“Dust
ing” experiments with airplanes on
fruit orchards near Monroe, will be
carried on in May by W. Chamber
lain, assistant professor of entomol
ogy and forest entomologist of the
Oregon Agricultural college. Dr.
Chamberlain believes it practical to
“dust” large orchards with airplanes
and thereby eliminate spraying, the
means hitherto employed to kill j
parasites. Other experiments will be
carried on in alfalfa fields to con
trol the alfalfa weevil.
JAPAN WILL IMPORT
WOOD FROM SIBERIA
SEATTLE, May 7.—A new trade
treaty between Japan and Russia
will result in a gradual increase of
imports to Japan of Siberian pines,
but will not lessen appreciably the
demands for American woods, W.
Watanana'ble, here on official Japan
ese survey of United States lumber
ing and’-limber industries, declared
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SPECIAL MUSIC
The Seward Orchestra will play several
New Selections
in his arrival last night.
“The demand for American woods
is because derwood, fir and pines
from the Pacific coast of the United
States are better for certain uses
than woods obtained in Siberia,’' says
Watananabe. “Americans should
not look for a great increase in
lumber exports to Japan in 1925, due
to large stocks of lumber being on
hand following a reconstruction
demand created by an earthquake
and fire in Tokio last year, and be
cause Japanese financial conditions
are such as to discourage expensive
dealings. Trade between Japan and
America is growing rapidly.”
Parker’s Duofold Fountain Pens, at
the Alaska Shop. tf
Picture Framing at the Alaska
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Fred Miller, Prop.
BATHS OPEN SUNDAY A.M.
ministerial statement
APPROVED BY CABINET
PARIS, May 7.—The new French
cabinet today unanimously approved
the ministerial statement to be pre
sented to the chamber of deputies.
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