SEWARD DAILY GATEWAY
OF SEWARD, ALASKA
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DEBUTANTE LEGISLATION
Next week the Territorial legisla
ture starts grinding out laws for
those of us left at home. Not that we
need any laws, hut it is quite fash
ionable among debutante legislators
to introduce some bill during the ses
sion in order to show their constitu
ents they are live ones and are look
ing after our interests. It is an ill
day whose low descending sun does
not see at least one bill introduced
designed to place its framer in the
hall of fame. During a long and ab
stemious life we have never recorded
any legislator holding down his job
without letting the hens scratch up
the flower beds. To be perfectly can
did, we might state that our idea of
an efficient legislator is one who is
elected, but is too ill to attend the
sessions.
The Territorial legislature has been
in session since 1913, and during these
11 years several hundred bills have !
been placed on the statute books. One
or two are so important that once in
a while some unfortunate is convict
ed of violating them. The others are
dead letters, never heard of, and used
something like a spite fence, on rare
occasions. There is no doubt that
Alaskans who came to the Territory
in 189S and previous, suffered great
hardships by the paucity of laws. How
they lived and loved and had their be
ing is hard to understand, but some
of them became so discontented they
have remained here from 25 to 40
years, and will probably remain until
they are legislated out.
To be serious, we have too many
laws enacted and too much legisla
tion. Take the state of Washington,
for instance: the legislators there
have enacted laws covering every pos
sible subject, including thfe size a
sheet must be on one’s bed; and re
cently attempted to enact a law com
pelling the taxpayers of the State to
buy seed wheat for the poor farmers
of the State. With seed wheat at $2
a bushel and several thousand farm
ers too busy getting their touring cars
in shape for the season’s activities,
the bill would have bourne down heav
ily on the State’s treasury. Fortu
ARE YOU o
GUILTY•
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A FARMER carrying an ex
press package from a big
mail order house was accost
ed by a local dealer.
“Why didn't you buy that
bill of goods from me? I
could have saved you the ex
press, and besides you would
have been patronizing a home
store, which helps pay the
taxes and builds up this lo
cality.”
The farmer looked at the
merchant and then said:
“Why don’t you advertise
your goods and prices in your
home paper? I read it and
didn’t know that you carried
the goods I have here. Pic
tures and prices of your
goods would keep me posted
on your stock.”
Moral—-Advertise
] nately, Governor Hartley vetoed the
proposition.
We now have laws by the score
telling us what we must not do and
charging us for not doing it. We can
not eat, drink, dress or indulge in pro
miscuous conversation, without we are
legislated into it. The length of time
one must work is provided by stat
ute, as well as who shall work. Our
recreation is censored from baseball
to moving pictures. Laws control our
destinies and actions are firmly fixed
as those of the celestial planets.
Are we any better for this multi
plicity of laws? Are the people as
contented and prosperous? Are jobs
as plentiful and the wage as good as
before we were legislated out of the
cradle and into the grave?
We will bet a year’s subscription to
this great family journal that the an
swer is No! People are becoming too
spineless and dependent upon legis
lation to fix the orbit in which they
swing. They are uneasy until told
what to do and how to do it. They
mill around from coast to coast with
no settled ideas as to what they want
or where they are going.
If the coming session of the Terri
torial legislature passes without some
additional tax being placed upon our
! people, they may consider themselves
fortunate. And there is no such thing
as luck.
Alaskans who are intending to join
the stampede to the Siberian gold
fields should pause and consider be
| fore buying their ticket. Under the
Soviet regulations, but 9,000 rubles
can be taken out of the field by any
one prospector, and the ruble at the
present time is worth but little more
than the German mark. Added to this
will be taxes, licenses and the other
thousand and one petty grafts practic
ed by the Reds on foreigners who try
to develop the resources of the coun
try. To cap all, one’s life is of very
| little value in Siberia, the Soviet gov
ernment practicing ley fuego of the
! Mexicans, without the opportunity of
i their prisoners being footloose and
j free. Alaska has much gold placer
| ground undeveloped and there are as
! good fields lying dormant in the Ter
j ritory as have as yet been discovered,
j It might be better to stop at home.
This is emphatically not an adver
tisement for any clothing or shoe store
but we cannot help but not with sat
isfaction that the styles in shoes, dis
played in local stores for spring, have
the good, old-fashioned, comfortable
broad toes.
One never-failing source of legisla
tion which might be called to the at
tention of the Territorial body is that
of an additional tax on the canneries.
Let Jones pay the freight. The can
nerymen have become used to it and
can undoubtedly stand a few cents
more here and there before being leg
islated out of Alaska.
We may look for an increase in the
Territory’s population with the advent
of spring. Alaskans just will not re
member that the stork is a tropical
bird.
The luncheon given by the Seward
Chamber of Commerce last Tuesday
would have made the chambers in
many cities in the States sit up and
take notice; not only by the attend
ance, but from the interest taken.
Apparently it is just one thing after
another. No sooner does the Gateway
prune its expenses in one place than
Congress increases the rates on post
age to a prohibitive point.
Many Alaskans returning this spring
will remember their trip to the States
by the long hard winter, experienced
Outside.
The Supreme Court can tell wheth
er a law is constitution, but it can’t
tell whether it will work.
Famous last words: “My dear, I
am afraid you are getting stouter
since you stai’ted to reduce.”
The actual necessities in Seward
are four: air, food, water and an
alibi.
Don't let them hurry you: The oys
ter is considerable of a success and
he stays in his bed all his life.
The three R’s now are reading,
’riting and radio.
The father who licks Wille for
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1. 0. 0. F. DANCE
TONIGHT !
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EVERYBODY WELCOME
MUSIC BY JOLLY THREE
ADMISSION $1.00 LADIES’ FREE
lying about his report card has never
shown us his income tax report.
There is no way to stop petting par
ties unless the onion is adopted as
our favorite flower.
Every town has a man who is used
as a horrible example and for no oth
er purpose.
A consoling thought: If janitors go
to hell, where did the idea come it
was so sultry in the satanic abode.
It is estimated that only one of S32
men can enter a ten cent store with
out apologizing to his neighbor who
is also there.
Every cloud has a silver lining. You
never heard of hunger giving a man
indigestion.
The “atrocious and unspeakable
Turk’’ has never driven an auto past
a school playgrounds at a speed of 60
miles an hour.
Some people are queer. They buy
beefsteak instead of radio sets and
walk instead of riding in an auto.
An Anchorage man and his wife
were sentenced for bootlegging. Judge
Ritchie will probably give them a
family rate.
The Arkansas man who kept a wife
and a sweetie happy with both living
in the same house might he said to be
. the ne plus ultra in diplomats.
MISTAKES HAVE DIFFERENT
VALUES, ACCORDING TO PRESS
When a plumber makes a mistake
; he charges for it.
When a lawyer makes a mistake, it
gives him a chance to try the case
all over again.
When a carpenter makes a mistake
i it’s just what he expected,
j When a doctor makes a mistake he
I buries it.
j When a judge makes a mistake it
When a dentist makes a mistake he
j pulls it.
j becomes the law of the land.
| When a preacher makes a mistake
| nobody knows the difference.
I But when a printer makes a mis
j take—Good Night!
OIL TANKER IN
The oil tanker El Segundo was in
port last night with a cargo of oil for
the local plant. Another boat will
reach here tomorrow with fuel and
lubricating oils.
INDIAN UPRISING AT PANAMA
WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 28.—
Minister South of Panama, reported
an Indian uprising on the north coast
of Panama. The revolution is gen
eral. Ten to thirty policemen and
others have been killed.
Gateway wanf-ads bring results.
Chris’ sr
SMOKES CARDS
AND TALK
Come On In!
CHRIST LARSEN, Prop.
Next Door to Liberty Theatre
I LIBERTY THEATRE I
Tonight: Two Shows, 7:00 and 8:45
I Constance Talmadge J
| The Dangerous |
| Maid |
II A stirring story of a revolution in England .
in the Seventeenth century. A madcap
rebel maid routed a king’s army with her
sword and kisses. 1
TRUE TO HISTORY! TRUE SETTINGS! B
TRUE COSTUMES!
A beautiful picture and a Pathe News
SUNDAY—“The Wanters,” a seven reel drama H
starring Marie Prevost, and a special musical gj
! g treat. Mrs. Anita Spaulding and Miss Margaret 1|
Roegler in a vocal duet, accompanied bv Mrs. M
g| Schmidt, violin, and Elsie Leslie, piano.
jj EIGHT REELS
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KING OF IRAQ DECIDES
HALF PAY WILL SUFFICE i
BAGDAD, Feb. 28.—King Feisui of :
Iraq is trying to teach his subjects
to practice self-denial and in order
to cut state expenses, has offered
to forego half the monthly allow
ance to which he is entitled under
time civil list. He has taken this
step on learning the true conditions
of the Iraq treasury which suffers
from a serious deficit.
One Arabic newspaper, while thank
ing Feisul for this acknowledgement j
of the country’s financial difficulty
suggested that the leading officials
might copy the king’s excellent ex
ample. While such a course is high
ly probable, there can be no doubt;
that further cuts will have to be t
made in the expenditure of the gov-1
ernment on salaries and allowances.
Mrs. J. S. Bogart is a returning pas
senger on the steamship Alaska sail
ing from Seattle today. She is the
wife of the well known American Le
gion commander, and has been visit
ing in Seattle for several months.
DEMOCRATS WILL BACK
RIVERS AND HARBORS BILL
WASHINGTON, D. C.. Feb. 2S —
Democratic senators at a conference
here today decided to back the rivers
and harbors bill unitedly, hoping to
secure its passage before adjournment
of Congress. They agreed that the
chances of passing the $41,000,000
measure is jeopardized by the filibus
ter against the purchase of Cape Cod.
by the government.
Supreme Court Sets Aside
California Alien Laws
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 28.—Th*
State Supreme Court decided yester
day that the treaty made in 1911 be
tween the United States and Japan
is still valid, and permits Japanese
residents of California to lease lands
and residences for business purposes
James Newman mashed his ham
severely last night while working th*
El Segundo.
Crown Clour
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Ham - Bacon
BROOKFIELD
Eggs - Butter
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