SEWARD DAILY GATEWAY
OF SEWARD, ALASKA
Established, August 19, 1904
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WHAT IS EDUCATION?
Children have been back in school
only a few days. The routine of
en enrollment in new classes is over.
New teachers and new work confront
them on the opening of the new term, j
They have picked up the task of get
tig an education where they left it
last fall.
What is an education? The par
ent, looking back on his oiwn school
days and glancing at the array of
new books at the openng of the
school year, is included to wonder.
How much he learned has been of
no practcal use to hm. How much,
on the other hand, gathered out of
school durng those impressionable
years has been of estimate benefit.
“If I had only known what I was
going to do,” he is inclined ot say,
“how much better I might have
equipped myself for it.”
But certain things do not depart.
The ability to study, once acquired,
is not quickly lost. Specific knowl
edge goes if it is not used more or
less constantly, but the power to dig
into a subject, to gather its essen
tials and apply them practically,
need never go if the student will
keep his brain processes in good
working order by practice.
Part of what every child learns is
this ability to study, to make his
memory work for him, to put his
brain into harness. Another part
is a broad survey of the world as it
is, some of its sciences, a little of
its historical and literary traditions.
He learns that he is a social being,
that he is the heir to a vast herit
age of thought, and that life is not
simply a span of three score years
and ten but a continuity of mental
lives. Plato, Shakespeare, Goethe—
these are but stepping stones by
which the thought of mankind has
crossed and is still crossing to what
unknown heights.
Education is worthless if it is view
ed simply as a means to personal
advancement. It should not rest
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at equipping the individual for a
competitive existence. It fails in
anything but a narrow and selfish
purpose if it does not early rouse
the child’s mind to a sense of the
solidarity of humanity in this con
tinuous intellectual life inherited
from t;he ages. More than that, it
should persuade him to take a part
in it, to add his quota to the heap
ed up treasures for his children and
his children’s children to inherit.
The American public school is
perhaps man’s highest effort so far
to make a reality of human solidar
ity. It recognizes no classes, no di
visions based on economic or social
prestige.* The humblest and the
highest may meet here and be
friends. How much the public school
has done outside of its curriculum
in fostering those sturdy standards
of democracy and free opportunity
on which the hope of America and
the world, is based no one can say.
Education might be more direct
and more efficient if each pupil
knew in advance just what he was
going to do, to what station in life
he was to be called. But part of
the adventure of our American life
is that no one knows this. The
boy ■whose pants are patched at tne
knee may be president of the re
public a few decades from now. Vo
cational guidance is bound to have
its limitations.
But every boy and girl knows one
destiny which awaits him: He is go
ing to be a citizen in a free land.
He is going to have to learn to live
and work and play with his fellows.
He is going to be a part, in a great
social mechanism designed to carry
humanity farther ahead on its path.
And so, perhaps, the best thing he
learns at school is how to get along
with his fellows, how to cooperate
with them, how to make the puny
individual effort mighty by combin
ing it with numberless other puny
efforts. That is what America is
giving to the world: a lesson in its
great public schools of the essential
solidarity of human existence.
A generalizer says “the theater is
the index to a city’s intellect.” Its
schools and colleges and libraries
then must be the index to its tired
business temperament.
Reminders from Christmas card
manufacturers to “order now” is the
first appearance of the annual “shop
early” pip.
The Alaska Railroad
TRAINS LEAVE SEWARD
7:30 A. M.
MONDAYS AND THURSDAYS
TRAINS ARRIVE SEWARD
7:30 P. M.
WEDNESDAYS AND SATURDAYS
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THE GOLDEN BELT
To the end that the countless places of scenic and other inter
ests in the Territory may be thoroughly enjoyed and understood, and
to enable them to acquire first hand and accurate information con
cerning all Alaskan activities and development; travelers to the
Northland are urged to visit
ALASKA’S “GOLDEN HEART”
Interior Alaska and places en route—including Kenai Lake, the
“Loop District,” Spencer and Bartlett Glaciers, Turnagain Arm, An
chorage, the Matanuska Valley, Curry, Nenana River Canyon, Mt. Me
kinley National Park, Nenana, the Tanana Valley and Fairbanks, hold
much of interest to everyone, whether on business or pleasure bent;
and a tour through these regions creates a true conception of the
good things that Alaska has to offer.
For train and automobile schedules, passenger rates and other in
formation, confer with any steamship agent, or
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
The Alaska Railroad
(McKinley Park Route)
Seward Anchorage Curry Nenana Fairbanks
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FORD’S SYNTHETIC COW
The Gateway commented recently
on an Associated Press dispatch re
garding Henry Ford’s “mechanical
cow,” and now comes the following
from the radio editor aboard the
steamer Northwestern, handed in to
the Gateway office today for pub-,
lication: : &
In reply to the article published in
yesterday’s “News,” regarding the
synthetic cow of Henry Ford’s, we
can definitely state that the Profes
sor is wrong, by quotting the fol
lowing:
Henry Ford, the man who produc
ed a rattle that grownups could play
with and who began the _ develop
ment of rough-riding where Roose
velt left off, now declares that in a
few years there will be no such thing
as the cud-chewing bovine answering
to the name of “Cow.”
Henry helped put most of the
horses out of commission and the j
natural inference is that he intends
to perfect something to take the place
of “Bossie” and her sisters.
The Detroit “miracle man’s” idea
of turning out a Ford that will give
milk may be sound, but anybody who
has ever ridden in a flivver, will
insist that what is most needed in a
Ford is an attachment that will give
some sort of linament.
Mr. Ford is very reticent about
his “Tin Cow,” -which will retail,
probably, at $375.00 up, F. O. B., De
troit, completely equipped, but with
the usual chrages if the buyer de
clares a spare set of udders with his
cow and a deep bass moo-o-o-o.
Out own cow correspondent has
secured a Ford catalogue giving plans
and specifications for the “Ford
Cow.” They follow:
Plain water fuel system.
Milleage: Five quarts of milk to
a gallon (of water.)
Self-starter for those wishing plain
milk.
Cranking device for those wishing
wrhipped cream.
Left- or right-hand drive as prefer
red, both hands if you are a fast
milker.
Special upholstery, in the usual
shades of cowhide.
Borden magneto..
Van Camp carburator.
Two horns with each cow.
Complete, tool kit, including hay
fork, halter, stool, pail and switch.
No oiling necessary except cit
ronella on farms in regions where
mosquitoes are apt to annoy the
cow.
Models
The runabout cow—The touring cow
The sedan cow — The coupe cow
NOTES—Any of these models will
give the same amount of milk but
it will be possible to get more pails
under the . touring and sedan models.
Ford cow bodies will be so con
structed as to make them distinct
from other models. Mr. Ford having
perfected a design for the head and
neck which will make confusion with
the more expensive types of cows
impossible. The outside sheath of
tin will be of sufficient thickness to
make it practically flyproof. This
is important, as it is very difficult
to milk a Ford when it is figety and
nervous.
Guarantee
Each cow will be guaranteed for
ninety days.
Any caw falling apart before that
time will be replaced.
Any cowr found to have missing
parts within that time will be pro
vided with them, upon receipt from
the cow or the owner of the caw.
Spare Parts.
Spare cow parts will be carried in
all Ford service stations and five
and ten cent stores. All parts sihould
be replaced as soon as signs of wear
is detectefi. There is nothing more
discouraging than to have a herd
of caws falling to pieces all over the
pasture. A staff of experts on re
pairing cows will be maintained at
all Ford service stations.
Warning.
To get plain milk drive Fords on
smooth road. To get a milk-shake
drive Ford at high speed over an
unpaved street. To get butter or
cheese drive Ford cow over a cob
blestone road.
What do you thing of that? It
may be a good idea and all that, but
its our private opinion that the
news of Ford’s Tin Cow is mostly
“bull.”
A whole lot of attention is being
paid to coat for a matter that is
neither here nor there.
LIBERTY
ONE SHOW TONIGHT AT 8:00 O’CLOCK
THAT SCINTILLATING LITTLE STAR
Jacqueline Logan
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THE HOUSE of YOUTH
Now here is a story that is at once a startling
exposure of the excesses of the age, and also one
of the most constructive- A thing that old and
young should see so as to get the proper outlook.
The dispair of today—The hope of tomorrow—
YOUTH!
Today’s girlhood laid bare, so that you can un
derstand
This feature is well spoken of by everybody who
has seen it.
LAUGHTER — TEARS — LOVE THRILLS
The above is a wonderful program that you
should take in, and then, go up to the
DANCE IN ODD FELLOWS HALL
and have a gay time tripping the light fantastic
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FOOTBALL!
Football is -with us again. Sport
ing pages already have carried the
first tentative lineups, the first sig
nal practice, even the first minor in
juries from the big varsity camps.
Football is ow with us and the coach
es and captains are wisened and
are taking a definite look at their
material.
At that it’s only two months to
Thanksgiving Day, which will find all
of our colleges and schools resting
on gridiron laurels won or looking
forward to the next fall as the best
way of forgetting their recent past.
It is now time to deplore the hazards
of the game, to grieve at its expen
siveness, to point rebukingly at its
abuse, of amateur standards, and
otherwise to make ready to get out
and whoop it up on the sidelines
or in the stands some clear, crisp
Saturday afternoon in the near fu
ture.
Civilization has much to answer
and no questions asked.
Modern girls are accomplished in
the use of the needle. They know
how to put it in the phonograph.
No auto driver as yet has written
to Washington demanding an inves
tigation into the cheaper price of
gasoline.
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Good checker players head the
•pedestrians’ longevity list because
they know which way to jump.
CLOSING OUT SALE
Beginning Wednesday
9 A. M.
BANBURY & OGLE
When you think Oxfords, think Ur
bach. 229-tf ,
EVERY THIRD CHILD IN
MOSCOW DRUG ADDICT
MOSCOW, Sept. 28. (Jp)— Every
third child among the homeless boys
and girls on the Moscow streets is
a drug addict, according to an an
nouncement made by the Soviet
Health department.
FOR SALE—Fruit Jars. J. L. Graef.
If men wear it, we have it. Urbach.
Cabin for Rent
On Fine Trout Stream
Bungalow with fine fire
place. large living room,
furnished for six persons,
plenty of bedding and
essentials, stove and all
cooking utensils. Will be
rented by the day or week
end to responsible parties. 4
Good fishing in lake and
stream and hunting in
season.
Apply A1 Davis
SEWARD, ALASKA
HOTEL ST. CHARLES
When in Seattle, make the
Hotel St. Charles your head
quarters.
Strictly Modern and
Fireproof
And Managed by an old
Alaskan
J. A. FARNHAM.
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