SEWARD DAILY GATEWAY
OF SEWARD, ALASKA
Established, August 19, 1904
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MISDIRECTED SYMPATHY.
Down in San Francisco the other
day a young girl shot and killed her
aged mother, because the latter re
monstrated with her over the fast
life she was leading. Leaving the
corpse of her grey-haired mother ly
ing on the floor of the family home,
bathed in the blood that brought her
into the world, the girl went to a
dance, later spending the night in the
home of a young male companion.
When arrested for the murder the
girl manifested the greatest indiffer
ence, stating that her mother tried
to make her “be good,” and she shot
her. Promptly every sob sister and
sentimentalist in the city became in
terested in her case, and swamped
her with flowers, candy and sympa
thy, giving the youthful matricide the
impression that she had done some
thing noble in ridding the world of
a devoted mother. So effective were
her lawyers pleadings that she was
pronounced insane and sent to an asy
lum until such time as she showed
recovery. Now she has been pro
nounced sane and will again be tried
for her crime. The outcome is prob
lematical, but it may safely be pre
dicted that the same mawkish senti
ment will influence spectators and
jury, and that she will escape proper
punishment.
Had the same energy been display
ed in seeing that the boys and girls
of San Francisco received the right
moral training, Dorothy Ellingson
would today be a useful citizen in
stead of standing in felon’s dock,
charged with the crime of matricide,
the most despicable in the long crim
inal category, according to our no
tion. One of Mark Twain’s despe
rado characters in “Roughing It,” had
the respect of his fellow men because
he never “shook his mother.” The
man was vile to the core, but he loved
his mother, and loked after her in
her old age.
There can be little doubt but that
much of the crime which stalks thru
the land may be traced directly to
misdirected sympathy. To the efforts
of the youthful criminal to excite the
admiration of his tougher companions.
Weak minded men and women who
make a practice of sending flowers
and delicacies to murderers and mak
ing heroes of them are almost as
great a menace to society as the
criminals themselves.
HOUGHTON TOLD THEM.
Alanson B. Houghton, the new U.
S. ambassador to Great Britain, made
a notable speech at a banquet in Lon
don by the Pilgrim Society, welcoming
him to the Court of St. James, in
which he warned Europe against fur
ther warlike movements if financial
aid from the United States is expect
ed to continue.
As the ambassador had been in
close consultation with President
Coolidge and Secretary Kellogg, his
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predecessor in London, just before
sailing to take his new post, his ut
terances were rightly construed as
representing the views of the admin
istration.
His address indicated unmistaka
bly that America does not intend to
further finance the nations of Europe
for war preparations and he told his
hearers that “the time for construc
tive policies had come and the time
for peaceful upbuilding.”
The trend of his remarks pointed
quite plainly to the displeasure which
America regards the hostile attitude
of both Germany and France, although
he mentioned neither by name.
His speech created a profound im
pression throughout England and Eu
rope and the British press of all poli
tical opinions was practically unani
mousing in approving his views.
WORSE THAN WAR.
Figures showing the toll of automo
bile killed and injured for the year
1024 reveal that 19,000 were killed
and 450,000 were hurt in accidents in
; the United States last year,
j During the world war, 36,931 Amer
| icans were killed in action. Thus we
kill by automobiles more than one
*alf as many as lost their lives at
the hands of the enemy overseas. We
injure several times as many.
The tragic thing about it all is that
while the war had an ending, the
death toll from automobiles is end
less. Every day of the year an av
j erage of 52 persons give their lives
as the price of somebody’s careless- i
ness or stupidity, while every day an
average of 1,232 are crippled or oth
erwise injured from the same cause.
Few accidents from autos are really
unavoidable. That is someone is to
blame for practically every accident,
although nine times out of ten it is
the driver. Even the most careful of
drivers in one car is at the mercy
of the idiot at the wheel of another
car and an entire carload of helpless
passengers are at the mercy of their
own driver.
The person who drives a car with
others aboard has a great responsi
bility, but few seem to take such re
sponsibility seriously. Taking chances
seems to be the rule—words of cau
tion are met with ridicule—“safety
last” is the slogan.
Then the surgeon and undertaker.
BRYAN MAY RUN AGAIN.
William Jennings Bryan may run
again—not for the presidency of the
United States, but as a candidate for
the seat now occupied by Duncan U.
Fletcher, as senator from Florida.
Rumors to this effect have persisted
for some time and now appear to be
well founded.
The large vote Bryan received in
his election to the national Democrat
ic convention as delegate at large
from Florida, indicates that he has a
strong hold upon the electorate of
that state, while Senator Fletcher has
been thrice elected the office he now
holds, and is one of the most popular
officials of the state. A contest be
tween the two would be a battle
royal.
Bryan is now engaged in making
real estate talks daily at Miami, for
which he is said to receive $500 per
lecture, and he is reputed to be a mil
lionare, but he denies that he is worth
more than several hundred thousand.
There is no doubt, however, that he
has made a lot of money down there
and thtft his circumstances are differ
ent from that of “the great Commoner
and champion of the masses.’'
When asked the other day as to
whether he would be a candidate for
the senate he replied: “Simply say
for me that I have nothing to say.”
When a Bolitician gets to this stage
it is pretty safe to conclude that he
means “Yes.”
St. Petersburg, Fla., did an unusual
stunt this year—made a special tax
levy for advertising the city, which
yielded about $160,000 a year for that
purpose. Then it proceeded to get
news of the stunt into newspaper
syndicate copy and is getting many
thousands of dollars worth of free
advertising as a byproduct of its tax
scheme.
I H. E. Ellsworth, local business
i man, who departed for Valdez on the
steamship Northwestern, will await at
that city the arrival of the Yukon
* from the south, on which is Mrs.
Ellsworth who is returning to Sew
ard after spending several months in
a hospital outside.
NEW ARRIVAL IS
SERIOUSLY ILL
Clifford Lang, nephew of Mr, and
Mrs. Gordon Shea, who has been se
riously ill with pneumonia for the
last four days, shows marked improve
ment today, but according to Dr. J. A.
Baughan, the patient is still in a crit
ical condition. Mrs. Andrews is (he
nurse attending the patient.
Mr. Lang arrived in Seward from
Mt. Vernon, Washington, .about ten
days ago, landing here with a heavy
cold contracted on the trip. He work
ed two days at the Jesse Lee Home
Site, where it is believed the cold took
a turn for the worse. During the
height of the illness, which apparent
ly was yesterday, he recorded a tem
perature of 106. This is the fourth
day, judged to be the crisis period of
the ailment, and though Mr. Lang is
not out of danger, it it believed he
will pass the day with a tendency to
improve.
Arrangements were completed yes
terday to send the young man over to
the Anchorage hospital, but following
a consultation of relatives, it was de
cided to keep him here under care of
Dr. Baughman. Mr. Lang is living
at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Claude
I Shea.
High School Banquet
Given Seniors Tomorrow
In honor of the Seniors a High
School banquet will be given tomor
row • (Thursday) evening at the Sew
ard Grill at 6:30 o’clock. A special
menu has been prepared for the oc
casion including crab cocktails, com
bination salad, fried chicken, and
strawberry shortcake.
Members of the High School faculty
will be guests at the banquet and a
number of the grade teachers are ex
pected to be present.
Colonel J. F. Morrow, commander
of the Seventh Infantry, departed for
Anchorage today on the mixed train.
He w’ill make an annual inspection of
the Army Post at Anchorage.
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Every man, woman and child in Seward
should see this picture. Why? Because it is
universally declared a screen classic. Some
thing beautiful that you can never forget.
There are no fake exterior scenes in this
picture. Real castles, real soldiers, real
crowds and mobs, real towns. The movie
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