SEWARD DAILY GATEWAY
OF SEWARD, ALASKA
Established. August 19, 1904
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JARDINE KNOWS FARMING
William M. Jardine, the new secre
tary of agriculture, brings to his im
portant duties exceptional ability and
experience, which should make his
administration of the department a
means of real benefit to the farmers
of the country.
Born on an Idaho farm, he worked
on ranches in that state and in Mon
tana in early life and graduated from
the agricultural college of Utah, lat
er becoming a teacher and investi
gator of farm troubles. He has been
connected with the Kansas State Ag
ricultural College since 1910 and the
president of that institution since
1918.
He was a member of the commis
sion appointed by President Coolidge
to study the needs of the farmers
last year and is in sympathy with
the president’s views regarding need
ed legislation.
These views do not contemplate
any elaborate system of supervision
for the farmer, but aim to give him
such advice and assistance as may
be necessary to encourage the farm
er to help himself, through economi
cal methods of producing and bet
ter marketing.
It is said that strong efforts will
be directed by the department to the
extermination of insect pests, which
have become a positive menace in
many sections, also to the conserva
tion of forests and other construc
tive plans, many of which require
no new legislation.
Secretary Jardine appears to have
the confidence of the fanners of the
country, especially those in the west,
where he is best known. It is safe
•to say that he will not favor the vis
ionary and expensive schemes which
have been proposed, whereby a bur
den would be placed on the taxpay
ers without the realization of corres
ponding benefits.
MERCHANT CONFESSES
An unusual statement was recent
ly published in the News-Gazette,
Champaign, 111., signed by E. L. Mur
dock, head of a former leading lad
ies’ ready-to-wear store, which had
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HEADQUARTERS FOR
Delicious Hams and Bacon,
Wild Rose Lard, Mayflower
Butter and Eggs, Steer Beef,
Fancy Lambs, Select Poultry
always on hand.
SPECIAL FOR THE WEEK
Steer Pot Roast, per lb. _ .20
Pure Lard, per lb. ____.25
Pioneer Butchers of Alaska, Whole
sale and Retail, Phone 94.
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I closed its doors to avoid being thrown
• into bankruptcy.
In this statement, the merchant* set ^
forth the principal reasons for the
store’s failure to maintain the pres
tige and prosperity it had enjoyed in
times past. He said:
“Perhaps the greatest contribution
to our failure, is the tact that four
years ago our firm, because we thot
the rate was too high, discontinued
all advertising in the News-Gazette.
We tried other forms of advertising
to supplant the News-Gazette, but
found none that was effective. Our
business continued on the downhill
grade. Seemingly our friends had
forgotten about us. The fault was
ours.”
In every city and town there are
stores which have from time to time
made the serious mistake to which
Mr. Murdock confesses in such a
manly fashion.
People look to their newspaper for
their store news. No amount of
handbills, circulars, sign-boards or
other devices can take the place of
the newspaper that gose in the home
and is read by every member of the
family.
ARE OUR TIMES BETTER?
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In a recent sermon a New Jersey
pastor made a statement that sounds
quite familiar, as follows:
“There is lawlessness everywhere.
Children no longer obey their par
ents. It is evident that the end of
the age is at hand.”
Then the pastor told his congrega
tion that the words were not origin
al with him, not even an utterance
of the present day. They were
translated from an inscription on a
brick found in the ruins of ancient
Assyria, dating centuries before the
time of the patriarch Abraham.
Records which have been preserv
ed during all periods of recorded his
tory give evidence of similar condi
tions existing in the world. Some
times an improvement is noted; again
lawlessness and violence become a
lot more prevalent than ever.
While present day conditions are
bad enough, it seems that on the
whole they are better than in the
past. There is more thought given
to the relief of suffering, to the bet
terment of industrial conditions, to
mutual helpfulness and like matters
of benefit to humanity than in for
mer times.
Although the world war has appar
ently given civilization a severe set
back in some respects, we must re
member that war has marked the
history of every generation of man
kind. The same is true of lawless
ness, oppression and every other man
ifestation of immorality.
These will always exist in greater
or less degree, so long as good and
evil struggle for mastery in the heart
and mind of man.”
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AN ALERT SHERIFF
From Steeleville, Mo., comes the
story of a public official on the job,
whose keen eyes and alert mind saved
his fellow citizens from loss and
brought a gang of bandits to grief.
When five strange men of suspic
ious appearance drove into town the
sheriff, Enke, did not like their looks
and suspected they were bank rob
bers. He quietly passed the word to
a number of business men to get
their guns and secret themselves at
points near the bank.
True to his- prediction the gang
shortly afterward drove up, one re
mained in the car and the other men
entered the bank where they forced
the cashier and bookkeeper into a
vault and seized the cash.
As they emerged with their booty,
a score of guns and pistols mowed
them down, two being killed, two
wounded, while the fifth escaped. One
citizen was wounded, but not seri
ously.
Daylight bank robberies have be
come extremely frequent lately in
many parts of the country and in
most cases the bandits have secured
large sums and made their escape
in high-powered automobiles.
Only by the utmost vigilence can
i these gangs be broken up and Sher
1 iff Enke by his prompt and decisive
| action performed a distinct public
j service, not only to his local com
munity, but to the country at large.
His exploits should be given the wid
est publicity as an object lesson to
the criminal element.
Gateway want-ads bring results.
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REENE ADOREE ROBERT FRAZER
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An 8-reel high-class feature billed to us as far above the average
A red-blooded play laid in a Cape Cod fishing town.
FULL OF THRILLS AND ACTION
You will miss something good if you don’t see this—Not a white
handed society play, but of peopl e who work for their bread and
fight for their pleasures.
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MORE INVESTIGATIONS
An attempt is being made to work
ip another national scandal over the
;ranting of special rates and privi
eges to members of Congress tray
ling oi^ passenger vessels operated
>y the United Shipping Board.
Charges are made that congress
nen and their families have been
urnished, trans-Atlantic passage in
usurious suites at minimum fares,
"he matter will probably be aired at
he next session of Congress.
This means more investigating
ommittees with their attendant cost
o the taxpayers. Regardless of the
esults of these pending investiga
ions, the people must pay thous
.nds of dollars. And the chances
,re that everybody and everything
onnected with the affair will be neat
y whitewashed when it is all over.
There has never been found any
ray to prevent public officials from
aking advantage of their positions
or their private benefit. Political pat
onage is distributed to pay political
lebts. Members of Congress sent
iut tons of political advertising for
hemselves through their franking of
he Congressional Record, which car
ies thousands of speeches never de
ivered, but inserted in the Record
iy courtesy.
Congressional investigations cost
nore money than the evils they are
upposed to correct. The worst of
t is that they do not correct the
vils.
COLUMBUS NOT FIRST
If asked who first conceived the
dea that the world is round, many
>ersons wrould instantly give the
rdeit to Columbus, as it was thru
tis belief in the spherical shape of
he earth that he undertook the voy'
.ge which led to the discovery of
Un erica.
As a matter of fact, the true fig
ire of the earth was known to as
ronomers centuries before the birth
if Christ, although it appears that
he spherical theory never gained
vide acceptance among the ancients.
Erathosthenes, a Greek geometer
ind astronomer, who flourished in
he second century before Christ,
s credited with being the first to dis
cover the correct principles 'whereby
he figure of the earth might be
letermined. Although his results
vere inaccurate his method was the
same as that followed at the present
lay.
Centuries before Erathosthenes, as
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tronomers regarded the earth as a
sphere, but generally considered it as
the center of the univeres. It is
said that Pythagoras bora in 582 B.
C., was the first to declare that the
earth revolved around the sun, but
he only taught this secretly to a few
chosen disciples.
Many persons today do not be
lieve, or pretend not to believe, that
the world is round. Among these
may be mentioned Overseer Voliva
and • his# community at Zion, 111., al
though Rev. Voliva is a college grad
uate, uses all modern scientific ap
pliances and is an ardent radio fan.
Chinese living in northern Aus
tralia relish a dish of octopus and
herbs.
Poorly nourished trees at the Uni
versity of California, are being fed
by hypodermic injections.
Phonograph records now in the
British museum preserve the voices
of Queen Victoria, Gladstone, Tenny
son, Florence Nightingale and other
notables of the past.
More than 85 per cent of the popu
lation of Egypt are tillers of the
soil.
Newspapers of France are prohib
ited from publishing news of divorc
es.
Another cable between England anil
America will be laid at a cost of five
million dollars.
Japan will shortly establish its first
air mail and passenger service be
tween Osaka and other cities.
Early man preserved fish by freez
ing, drying, salting and smoking, be
fore he learned to carve hieroglyph
ics on the rocks. <
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