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OF SEWARD, ALASKA — Established August 19, -1904
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JUDGE CLEGG’S SUGGESTION
The suggestion made by Judge Clegg
yesterday that a memorial should be erect
ed in the Territory to commemorate and
perpetuate the memory of Secretary W. H.
Seward is a suggestion which should be
supported by every civic body or organiza
tion, and individual citizens of the Territory.
N The local Chamber of Commerce should
take the initiative in this matter and put it
over.
Judge Clegg said he believed the town
of Seward would be an ideal location for a
monument or a statue of Sec. Seward, in
whose honor this townsite ’was named.
What would be more fitting than a splendid
memorial, carved from stone, placed in a
local public park, wherein one could rest
or gaze upon the likeness of he who pur
chased Alaska fro mRussia, and reflect?
All Seward should congratulate the
learned Judge for his thoughtful sugges
tion. The next thing to do is to get busy
and make it a reality.
BACK UP THE GOVERNOR
Attorney Anthony J. Dimond is right
when he called the members’ and guests’ at
tention yesterday afternoon at the Cham
ber of Commerce luncheon that at least
from a standpoint of humanity all Alaska
should unite and back up at once, Governor
Park’s resolution in obtaining appropria
tions for the construction of a new hospi
tal for the care of the Territory’s mentally
ill patients. “Do not stop to figure out where
the hospital should be erected, be it in Ore
gon, Washington, Alabama, or Alaska, but
first of all endorse the movement, for con
ditions at the present institution are miser
able,” he asserted with much feeling.
The Pioneers of Alaska have endorsed
Governor Park’s effort and after hearing
Attorney Dimond speak on the subject we
are convinced, and all the guests and mem
bers must have thought so, from the tone
of the applause which greeted the conclu
sion of his remarks, that this question is
most urgent and wholehearted support
should be tendered the Governor immedi
ately.
Let every club in Alaska go on record
and thus arm the Governor with creden
tials not to be ignored.
IN BEHALF OF OUR FORESTS
If trees could vote we would not hav(
to speak for them. Plenty of attentior
would be paid to their welfare. Since thej
don’t go to the polls we all have a duty to
ward them.
Fifty years ago the first organized ef
fort to help the forests was made by _ th<
United States government. The Americai
Tree association, with headquarters a
Washington, D. C., is observing the centen
nial by the publishing of the “Forestry
Primer,” by Charles Lathrop Pack.
Pack tells in the primer how Dr
Franklin B. Hough was appointed in 187<
as special agent to inquire into forest con
ditions. This was the first step taken fo
the protection of the trees this countr
ever made.
Looking ahead another 50 years t
1976, Mr. Pack asks if the country will have
advanced any toward economic forestry
independence. He shows in his primer,
briefly and pointedly, how the cost of living
is increased thru dwindling^ forest resour
ces. The book is worth-while and may be
had by any organization or person for sim
ply a 3-cent stamp.
GET BUSY
Mayor Ray has proclaimed this week
as “Clean-up Week” in Seward. Let’s make
it a real one this year. Let’s shine up down
town Seward as never before.
Nature has blessed us with exception
al weather. The spring days are growing
in beauty. Let’s make the city do the same.
Resident owners will take care of
homes, gardens, lawns and vacant lots and
the town officials will see that all debris is
carted away.
But there are buildings downtown
which haven’t had a bath, or a coat of paint
in years. It doesn’t look well to see a be
grimed building alongside of a new one or
a freshly painted one. It isn’t fair to the
multitude of visitors; it isn’t fair to Sew
ard to neglect the thrills of clean-up and
paint-up.
Let’s make all the buildings glisten.
Let’s make Seward a spotless town. Let’s
make our tourist guests glad they came.
Make “Clean-up Week” a real clean-up.
THE EIGHT-HOUR DAY
Another great advance has been made
toward the universal adoption of the eight
hour day through the recent agreement of
representatives of Great Britain, Germany,
France, Italy and Belgium to recommend
its official recognition by their govern
ments.
The struggle of industrial toilers for a
shorter work-day and better working con
ditions is a long story that would fill many
volumes. But it has been on the whole a
successful struggle in most civilized count
ries, and while the methods employed to se
cure victory have been at times open to
question, there is no doubt that both em
ployer and employee are better off today
because of it.
But while the eight-hour day is no
doubt reasonable and desirable for the aver
age wage-earner, we know of no one who
ever made a mark in the world who confin
ed his efforts to eight hours.
MAN’S BRUTALITY TO MAN
Always has the heart of every Ameri-!
can school-boy raged over those Hessians
who were hired by George III to fight Gen.
Washington, and the present exposition of
the details of that hiring is enough to re
vive the rage in present-day grown-ups.
Those Hessians were “sold” at $75 per
head, an additional sum for each man kill
ed in action, three wounded to be counted
as one dead. In short, the more killed the
more money in the pockets of the owners;
and so, the Landgrave of Hessen-Cassel
congratulated his agent in America over
the fact that of 1950 of his subjects in the
battle of Trenton only 300 survived. Every
time that Washington killed a Hessian, he
put money in a royal pocket.
Americans have despised those Hes
sian soldiers because they were the hire
lings from a non-combatant country. Had
they known that their masters hoped to
i profit by their slaughter, maybe they would
l have gone over to Washington. However,
r there is no royalty of consequence in Hes
■ sen-Cassel ,or Hesse anything else, now.
Royal brutality dug its own grave and,
- where it isn’t tottering into, it is being push
s edin.
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t A hick town is one where people sit on
- their front porches to see who goes riding
t by to see who sits on their front porches.
The remarkable thing is not that the
3 bootleggers keep it up, but that the patrons
- keep it down.
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j Bamboo is used for food in the orient,
says a news item. It is also used in this
3 country, only it is called celery.
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H Mikerty Theatre W «
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LEON ERROL LLOYD HUGHES
as the comedian
as the lover
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ONE SHOW TONIGHT—8 O’CLOCK SHARP [ii]
COLLEEN MOORE
in the greatest musical comedy success that
Broadway ever knew.
Our Colleen as Sally—and what a wonder
ful Sally she makes.
And Leon Errol’s there to make the laughs
louder, and if you’ve ever seen Leon you’ll laugh
at the mere mention of his name—
There may never be another like—
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