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Of SEWARD, ALASKA
Established August 19, 1904
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AERIAL MAIL TRANSPORTATION.
Delegate Sutherland has again shown his in
terest in the Territory by having the air mail ser
vice bill extended to take in Alaska. The delegate
was much interested in Aviator Eielson’s contract
to carry the mail from Fairbanks to the Kuskokwim
district, successfully concluded last fall, and thru
statistics gathered from these flights, he interested
the postoffice department in further air mail routes.
Alaska is more in need of air mail service than
many of the States, which are served by railroads
and stage lines. The long distances between Al
aska towns makes for delay and costly mail deliv
ery. Last summer the Gateway received the Kusko
Times in from three to five days after it was
printed. At the present time Kuskokwim mail re
quires from two to two months and a half in deliv
ery, which is made by dog sled. The Bristol Bay
and Nome mails also could be delivered from Sew
ard in about twelve hours after their arrival here.
Phe distance to Nome airline is less than 600 miles,
and the distance to Bristol Bay points, which could
be included in the Nome route, is about 400 miles,
probably less. The Nome district, the vast Kusko
kwim basin, the Bristol Bay section, and many out
lying parts of Alaska can be served by airplane ex
peditiously and‘with but slight increase in cost over
the present methods of transportation.
Many sections of Alaska would be speedily set
tled up if communications, both mail and commer
cial, were better. The present-day settler refus
es to immolate his family upon the altar of isolation,
rather preferring to join the gregarious masses in
the cities. Aerial transportation would solve many
of Alaska’s difficulties.
SHELDON BREAKS RECORD
The local postoffice department made a good
record this week when the Admiral Watson came
in at an early hour. When our people awoke and
came down town to their businesses, they found the
mail distributed, even though the postoffice force
had to labor from two o’clock on to accommodate
the public. Nor is this an exception. The post
master for years has given many hours of the night
to his work, without remuneration or thanks.
IS THE PROSPECTOR GONE?
Is the day of the prospector past? Many Al
askan papers believe this to be true, but the nu
merous strikes being made throughout the territory
show that the oldtimer is still going strong. There
are many men today who, if they had the capital
for a grubstake would be in the hills. In the old
days it wras possible to get a grubstake from nearly
any acquaintance, business man, saloonkeeper or
dealer, whose money was freely given with but little
hope of reward. Today, the prospector wrho can
pry a grubstake out of a man must be able to talk
high finance, and have the tact of a bank cashier.
Money is lavished for everything but mining, and
this industry is yet the one best bet of the Terri
tory, despite its many hard knocks.
PIONEERS VANISHING
Another oldtimer passed away this week, after
a long illness at Tacoma. One by one they are
dropping off, and within a few years, the youngsters
will be the oldtimers and the oldtimers forgotten.
When Alaska’s history is compiled, if it be accur
ate, it will have to devote many pages to the old
timer. The plainsmen who fought Indians and
Mexicans had it easy compared to the men who
fought Nature at its worst. Cold and frost are
worse foes than a few Redskins.
CALIFORNIA reports 858 automobile deaths
during the first nine months of this year—which is
a record California can keep so far as Alaska is
concerned.
A WORTHY CREED
Although it has been widely published, “The
American’s Creed,” adopted by congress in 1919,
is not as well known to the citizens of the country
as it should be.
This creed was selected through a contest, open
to all Americans, for the purpose of securing “the
best summary of the political faith of America.”
The author of the successful manuscript was Will
iam Tyler Page, a descendant of President Tyler.
The phrases composing it are taken from the
Preamble and the Constitution of the United States,
the Declaration of Independence, the Oath of Alle
giance and from utterances of distinguished patri
ots, all woven together into a complete and lofty
sentiment, as follows:
I believe in the United States of America as a
Government of the people, by the people, for the
people; whose just powers are derived from the
consent of the'governed; a democracy in a republic;
a sovereign Nation of many sovereign States; a per
fect union, one and inseparable; established upon
lliose principles of freedom, equality, justice and hu
manity for which American patriots sacrificed their
lives and fortunes.
I therefore believe it is my duty to my coun
try to love it; to support its Constitution; to obey
its laws; to respect its flag, and to defend it against
all enemies.
UNISOLATED ICEBERGS
Down in Colorado this week press dispatches
tell of ten frozen to death. In Vancouver, or rath
er on the Fraser river, one more died from cold.
In Seward the mercury stood 18 above yesterday and
one could walk about with a summer coat on. But
if this were shown to be a fact Outside the moving
picture industry would receive a severe blow, and
the creditability of the public strained. Alaska is
a land of snow and ice, and they will believe noth
ing else but.
TIIE WORST GAMBLER
Every right thinking person condemns the man
who gambles away the means of providing the neces
saries for life for his family, yet many of our worst
gamblers would resent being so designated.
We refer to those who fail to provide insurance
for the protection of those dependent upon them.
Heads of families, especially, who do not avail them
selves of reasonable life and fire insurance are gam
bling with fate. Without this protection, the earn
ing power of the family provider or the savings of
a lifetime may be swept away without warning.
Insurance is one of the most beneficial devices
of civilization and while its costs something, the
cost is insignificant compared to the sense of secur
ity and satisfaction it brings.
Every man owes it to himself and to his family
to provide this protection. He who does not is a
gambler, indeed.
IT’S HARD to head off the advertisement writ
ers, who now extol the virtues of the well-known
weed as follows: “Chief Justice White and Mr.
Justice Harlan chewed tobacco in the Supreme court
room and lived to a ripe old age and in full vigor
at 76 and 78 years respectively’” But they are
discreetly silent regarding the horrors of halitosis.
The English organist who got fired for playing
“Onward Christian Soldiers” as a wedding march
probably had a belligerent wife.
The prohibitionist who refuses to drink dis
tilled water is almost as punctilious as the vege
tarian -who won’t eat animal crackers.
THERE is always something new under the
sun. The great airship ZR-3 was christened the
Los Angeles by Mrs. Calvin Coolidge, not by break
ing a bottle of wine or grapejuice over it prow, but
by liberating a dozen homing pigeons—doves of
peace—which were on board the ship. Perhaps, in
spite of the popular saying, new ways are best.
PRESIDENT COOLIDGE’S veto of the pro
posed inaugural ball may be opposed by two-thirds
of the members of congress, but that is one veto that
nobody can override.
IT IS astonishing how soon a man elected to
office forgets the friends who helped place him
there and imagines it wTas his personality or ability
that was responsible for his elevation. Hell may
be paved with good intentions, but the pavement
will be found to be laid on broken political prom
ises.
In our anxiety to prove our inalienable rights
we sometimes forget the rights of others.
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