SEWARD DAILY GATEWAY
OF SEWARD, ALASKA
Established, August 19, 1904
Published daily except Sunday by
Gateway Publishing Co.
. Entered in the postoffice at Seward,
Alaska, as second-class mail matter.
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BELL-RINGERS EXPOSED
An illuminating expose of the meth
ods of house-to-house peddlers was re
cently made by the Oklahoma City
Times, which detailed one of its best
reporters to employment with a “di
rect selling” house and afterwards
write up his experiences.
The reporter told of the tricks to
which he was taught to resort, in or
der to gain the interest of housewives,
how positive rudeness was encourag
ed when necessary to get into the
house, how persistence enabled sales
men to force women to make purchas
es against their will.
He told of the trick of giving some
trifling article as a means of “break
ing the ice,” and securing a second op
portunity to gain admission to the
home. Most important of all, he
showed that in most cases the articles
sold by order-takers, could be bought
for less in regular stores.
It was also shown that housewives
are getting tired of the bell-ringers,
who disturb them at all hours of the
day, and make their lives a burden.
Still, a persistent peddler makes num
erous sales, because a good-natured
lady is too considerate to turn him
down flat, as she ought to do.
EXPECTING TOO MUCH
Small town hotels have been ob
jects of criticism, ridicule and sneers
on the part of their guests from time
immemorial. But probably most of
them are furnishing the best accom
modations they can under the circum
stances.
Travelers who are accustomed to
modern conveniences and comforts in
larger hotels probably expect too much
when they strike a village hostelry.
As a reminder of this fact, one coun
try town hotel-keeper placed signs in
his rooms, which read as follows:
“This ain’t the Waldorf-Astoria—If
it was you wouldn’t be here—You
ain’t J. P. Morgan—If you was you
wouldn’t be here—We knowr this hotel
is on the bum—Well,how about your
self?”
COWS THAT ARE COWS
At the state college for women at
Montevallo, Ala., are kept some Hol
stein cows that show uncommon class.
The institution is very proud of them
and with good reason.
One favorite, named Jessie, recently
presented the college with fine twin
calves, a male and a female. Another
has a heifer calf that weighed 111 lbs.
at birth.
Annie, the three-quarter Holstein,
very forcibly illustrates one phase of
evolution, as affecting the genus Bos.
Her grandmother was considered a
very good common cow, one of the
best of her tribe, and produced 4,000
pounds of milk in 300 days. But An
nie has vindicated eugenics by deliv
ering more than 12,000 pounds of milk
in a like period of 300 days.
This increase of milk output, quad
rupled in two generations, is another
argument for better-bred cattle.
ELIMINATING MISFITS
Industrial executives are wrestling
with the problem of how to aid young
college men in selecting suitable car
eers in industry, with a view to elimi
nating misfits.
A survey recently conducted indi
cates that many young men make the
mistake of selecting a vocation with
out knowing anything about its re
quirements or whether they are natur
ally adapted to fulfill them.
In order that mistakes in the choice
of a vocation may be avoided, it is
suggested that a courste of reading be
provided for nigh school students, to
acquaint them with the fundamentals
of several vocations the nature of their
activities’ and demands, as well as
something concerning the atmosphere
in which they must be pursued.
Then, after completing high school,
it is recommended that a tentative
choice be made and that practical
work in the industry selected be under
taken for a time before entering col
lege. Owing to the highly specialized
character of most occupations, it is
| declared to be desirable that a final
choice be made as early as posible so
that college courses may be pursued
! with a view to practical preparation
i for the selected activity.
There is little doubt that some such
| plan as this, carried out under the di
j rection of competent vocational ad
! visers, would tend to better prepare
| young men for their life work, thereby
j greatly enhancing their chances for
[ success.
'THE “HERDING" INSTINCT
Is the world becoming afraid of sol
itude in its mad rush for society and
companionship? The social columns
of the newspapers and Sunday sup
plements are rapidly growing in size.
Public dance halls, which are more
in number and larger in size, are
nightly filled to capacity. The thea
ter prospers. Everywhere one hears
of parties, teas, dinners, balls and
smokers. The social life of church
and school extends^ over the entire
week. The public eating places with
their many people, bright lights and
music are attracting the nation away
from the family dining table. The
social instinct in man is manifestly
strengthenig itself.
Many will welcome the trend away
from human solitude but not so Scho
penhauer, the “divine pessimist,”
wrho wrote:
“A chief lesson of youth should
be to learn to enjoy solitude—a source
of peace and happiness. In my years
of youth I was delighted when the
doorbell rang, for I thought, now it
(the great romantic adventure) had
come. But in later years my feeling
on the same occasion had something
rather akin to terror—I thought,
there it comes!”
There have been others who have
found solitude preferable to society.
Thereau said: “I love to be alone. I
never found the companion that was
so companionable as solitude,” and
Lowell compromised, “•Solitude is as
needful to the imagination as sock
ety is wholesome for the character.”
Many will agree with all three of
j these past masters in philosophy and 1
literature that solitude and society
are both to be cultivated, that those,
who fear solitude have failed in life
as utterly as those who have not en
joyed the pleasures of human society.
It is possible to overdo either, but
there is' little evidence or danger of
the present generation over-cultivat
ing solitude.
ADVERTISING AIDS BOTH
_
Duck eggs are as edible as the egg
of the chicken and are much larger
but there is no market for duck eggs.
The explanation for this as given by
the advertising man is that every
time a chicken lays an egg she cack
les all over the barnyard, proclaim
ing her product to the world, but the
duck lays her egg in seclusion and
makes no noise about it.
Business is like the egg. Some
merchants advertise their goods and
sell them. Other merchants do no
ATTENTION!
COURT WITNESSES.
Airship pictures will be a diversion
from fish cases. Come up and see the
pictures and ask any question about
the freight and passenger craft, the
ore carriers, and heavy duty aircraft
for local and long distance service.
Right over the bank, plenty close
enough to court house. Bring your
pipe and come early and ooften. Noth
ing on sale, no obligation; just sim
ply welcome—come every day. Give
us your confidence.
ltf ALASKA AIRSHIP COMPANY.
advertising and, consequently, little
business. The wise merchant, when
he recieves a shipment of goods which
he knows the public wants does not
whisper the event down a bottom
less well. He comes boldly forth in
the newspaper pages and heralds his
wares. When the general store filled
every mercantile need in the embryo
communities there may not have
been much need for advertising. Only
the bare necessities were obtainable
and the consumer had only the gen
eral store at which to obtain them.
All that has been changed. There has
been specialization in business just
as there has been in labor, the pro
fessions and industry and speciali
zation has brought competition and
expansion.
The inevitable outcome of the evolu
tion, or revolution, of business has
been the realization by both merch
ant and customer that advertisiing is
as necessary to modern business as
service. In fact the consistent ad
vertising of its goods in the newspa
per is a part of the service of every
modern store which aims to serve
the public.
luxury
If love of luxury and beauty is a
sign of national decadence, this great
country is in an advanced stage of
decay. The Roman Empire is said
by historians to have declined and fell
at the zenith of its luxury and extra
vagance. The moralists and cala
mity-howlers predict the same for
the United States. But it was only
a few years ago that other moralists
and crepe-hangers were lamenting the
absence of beauty and the lack of
luxury in these states.
It looks as if the masses must
make a choice between home-spuns
and decay and that they have select
ed the latter as the most remote and
lesser of two evils. Luxury in the
United States shows itself every
where. The American home is the
most luxurious in the world. The
home of the American wTage earner
is often a palace compared with that
if the more well-to-do abroad. The
store ‘ has been developed in this
country into an institution of splen
dor and refined beauty and so has
f
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“family.” Decoret Enam
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full of ideas on finishing
and refinishing furniture
and ornaments.
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ONE SHOW TONIGHT AT 8:00 O’CLOCK
HA! HA! HA!
yes, that’s what you’ll do
if you see the
All Comedy Programme
A SIDE SPLITTING 6-REEL COMEDY
The Girl in the
Limousine
and a TWO-REEL COMEDY
‘DANDY LIONS’
Besides a very interesting Pathe Review
IT WILL MAKE YOUR HAIR GROW—
AND YOUR FEET TINGLE
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| SEE THE INTERIOR I
| THE GOLDEN BELT j
To the end that the countless places of scenic and other inter- jjjj
= ests in the Territory may be thoroughly enjoyed and understood, and E
s to enable them to acquire first hand and accurate information con- E
E cerning all Alaskan activities and development; travelers to the E
E 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. Mc
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.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
For train and automobile schedules, passenger rates and other in
formation, confer with any steamship agent, or
The Alaska Railroad I
Seward
(McKinley Park Route)
Anchorage Curry Nenana
Fairbanks
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the hotel and the better class of res
taurants.
The Pilgrim forefathers were con
tent with log cabins and only the
plainest of foods. Civil war times
found at least one large house in
every community. The twentieth cen
tury found wage earners and salar
ies classes content with plain houses,
rag rugs or none at all and unuphol
stered furniture. Today every man
who works, and many who don’t, be
lieves he is entitled to luxury and
beauty and is having both.
The Foremost, another large fishing
schooner, came into port last evening
from the South. Together with the
other four large fishing vessels in
port, they make a splendid appearance
tied up alongside the Seward wharf.
Much fresh snow Is glimpsed on the
surrounding mountains.
HUM
The Alaska Railroad
TRAINS LEAVE SEWARD
7:30 A. M.
MONDAYS AND THURSDAYS
TRAINS ARRIVE SEWARD
7:30 P. M.
WEDNESDAYS AND SATURDAYS