SEWARD DAILY GATEWAY
OP SEWARD, ALASKA
Established, August 19, 1904
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PLAYING THE OTHER FELLOW’S
GAME.
A dapper young man of 32 blew
into Portland, Ore., with a plan for
a $1,000,000 tire factory, lived com
fortably and negotiated for five acres
of river frontage and hired an archi
tect to«. prepare factory plans. A
few days later, after the Betf.er Bus
iness Bureau and the police had
communed with him, he left town.
But meanwhile his three compan
ions, who had been enlisted iu his
cause on his assurance that he had
the backing of a Los Angeles million
aire—one an elderly cripple and the
others two youths whose interest he
had gained—had spent sums ranging
fuom $300 to $400 each in the hope
of the success of his venture. In
vestigation by the Better Business
Bureau showed that the slick promo
ter, who had bilked a trio of easy
come-ons, had been arrested two
years previously under an alias for
an automobile theft and impersonat
ing an officer and had served thir
teen months at a federal prison.
The elderly cripple whom he vic
timized to the extent of his savings,
borrowed 50 cents from an official
to get to Vancouver, whence he plan
ned to walk to Tacoma, and the
youths sought funds to get back to
California.
If the victims had spent a few dol
lars investigating before they swal
low the hook, line and sinker of the
Los Angeles slicker they might have
been able to buy a flivver with
which to return to their respective
homes. But in their blind faith they
were like most investors in fakers’
goods.
The American Research Founda
tion at Chicago has issued a bulle
tin says that 23 per cent of all wells
drilled for oil have been failures.
Dry holes in the last few years have
resulted in an average loss to opera
tors of $90,000,000 a year. Drilling
oil wells has cost $12,000,000,000 since
the beginning of the oil industry and
all the oil ever recovered has brot
the producers only $7,00,000,000. 8C
per cent of wells drilled in wildcat
territory never struck oil.
“The loss of stock promotion fakers
who iook the public’s money and
never drilled at all Is a loss not fig
ured in these estimates,” the bulle
tin says. "There is as much dan
ger today as in the past in invest
ing in fly-by-night oil schemes and
companies not backed by a personnel
of intelligent and skilled oil opera
tors. Only companies equipped with
scientific and thoroughly trained men
have more than a fighting chance tc
win in a business that is becoming
more costly each year.”
The same thing might be said, in
general terms, of other promotion
schemes, notably gold mine opera
tions. Easy marks, like the trie
that fell for the piker crook at Port
land, make two fundamental mis
takes in that they put their money
into something about which they
know little or nothing and that they
do their investigating after theii
Ratinp-B ot-o cron q
One sourdough up the street saic
they should take the monkey bus
iness out of evolution.
Modernizing it: “Joseph had a coa
of flowered georgette.”
Knickers: Modest feminine gar
ments that keep the knees hidden.
One way to handle the Mexican
situation is with clean hands.
When Greek meets Greek, the Ital
ian enjoys sitting on the fence.
Every man is capable of originat
ing the ideas he has the capacity to
comprehend.
Slowly man’s inventiveness will
knock everybody out of a job except
the reformer.
A philosopher is an old soak who
reflects that at last whisky costs
as much as it is worth.
It might be worse. No magazine
really is as naughty as the cover de
sign indicates.
How odd it seems to hear a pur
ist call the slugger who whams the
pill a batsman.
The people who send us bills are
considerate, at that. They don’t use
dun-colored envelopes.
“Smile with Nile” Saturday night.
There are two million laws to se
lect from, but men still prefer break
ing the original ten.
Put: Verb; meaning to place a
things where you want it. Putt:
Noun; a vain effort to do as above.
The ladies are lucky, as usual. The
man who barbers them has no ex
cuse to pull their noses.
The rolling stone may gather no
moss, but'the traveler collects a lot
of fine hotel towels.
An intellectual is one who can
quote the good authors who furnish
ed the few ideas he posseses.
Nearly all of the great by-products
are bting utilized now except the
discarded safety razor blades.
Among the government depart
ments that have contrived only to
make a “mess” of things is the
weather bureau.
Correct this sentence: “I have had
two hundred cases,” said the law
yer, “and never yet have insulted
a helpless witness.”
Americanism. Act. 1: “He’s a darn
ed failure; snub him.” Act 2: “Now
he’s a success. Throw a brick at
him.”
“Smile with Nile” Saturday night.
BUSY MUSSOLINI ADDS
ONE MORE JOB TO HIS
VARIETY OF ACTIVITIES
ROME, Aug. 34. (^)—Not satisfied
with having created Fascism, with
having put it into effect during three
arduous years, and with bearing the
Herculean responsibility of holding
simultaneously five cabinet posts,
Benito Mussolini is now undertaking
the task of incorporating hsi achieve
ments by becoming the interpreter
and historian of the political creed
he brought to power.
Undaunted by the almost superhu
man exertions and responsibilities ol
his unusual position, the premier
has found time and energy to con
tribute to the political monthly, Ger
arehia (Hierachy), which he found
ed, two carefully written articles,
explaining the Fascist conceptions
of the “1922 revolution” and of the
new labor union.
The articles, apparently the initial
ones of a series, each militant and
controversial in tone, survey tl>e his'
torical background of the subject
matter, justifying the Mussoliniar
point of view, and agressively point
out how the 1922 revolution and the
Fascist labor union can be used as
weapons in the struggle to Faseistize
Italy.
Writing on the labor unions or
ganized by his party, Mussolini ar
gues they are different from those
in all other countries in two re
spects: they accept fully the ide«
of Fatherland, rejecting any interna
tionalism which implies political ad
Iterance or class fealty breaking thn
national boundaries, and they con
sider capital not as an element to be
suppressed but as one to be liberated
and strengthened for the benefit of
the Fatherland.
Supporting the thesis that Fascism
came into power by a revolution and
is now defending itself as a revolu
tionary government, the premier as
serts that the two years before the
now famous “March on Rome” con
stituted a war between Fascism and
the government then in power.' An
swering the objection that the march
on Rome was a parliamentary coup
d’etat, Mussolini maintains that it
was an insurrection, adding that a
revolution does not necessarily co
incide with its most important in
surrectional acts which, he declares,
is but a single moment of the revo
lution and often not the first one.
If the Fascist revolution were com
paratively bloodless, it was merely
because the government in power re
alized it would have been folly to re
sist.
The premier concludes his survey
with a plea that Fascists realize the
possibilities and necessities of the
revolution, that they keep ever in
mind the need for defending it and
using it militantly against its oppo
nents who are hence not merely
peaceful parliametaly enemies but
traitors and subversives.
NOTICE.
The Mayor and Common Council of
the Town of Seward, Alaska, will con
vene as a Board of Equalization for
the purpose of making uniform and
equitable the assessed valuation of all
property situate within the corporate
limits of the Town of Seward, Alaska,
subject to taxation, for the year 1925,
and will sit as such Board of Equali
zation for a period of five days, to
writ: on August 18, 19, 20, 21 and 22,
1925, between the hours of 2 o’clock
and 4 o’clock p. m. of each day in
the Town Hall, Seward, Alaska, in
accordance with the resolutions and
ordinances of said Town in such case
made and provided; and shall con
tinue in session for such further time
as may be fixed by ordinance as ne
cessary to complete the duties of
such Board of Equalization.
Dated at Seward, Alaska, August
11, 1925.
J. P. HANNON,
Municipal Clerk of the Town of Sew
ard, Alaska.
First pub. Aug. 11, 1925.
Last pub. Aug. 17, 1925. 6t
FALL AND WINTER SUITS
My fall and winter suit and over
coat samples are now on display. If
you are planning a new suit or over
coat it wTill be to your advantage to
look these over.
tf JORDAN’S VALET SERVICE.
CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING
FOR SALE—Ford Bug Auto, light,
classy, and speedy.—Ogles Gar
age-^
WANTED—Go to camp, man and
wife, cook and helper, will go any
where. Apply Gateway. tf
FOR SALE—Ford Touring car, self
starter, demountable rims, new, one
spare tire, car 1925 model, run but a
few miles. See Fisher’s Cafe. tf
FOUND—Keys of all descriptions; if
you have lost any keys lately come
to the Gateway.
FOUND—One corkscrew and bottle
opener; no attachments; call at the
Gateway and recover property.
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.
Good fishing in lake and
stream and hunting in
season.
Apply A1 Davis
SEWARD, ALASKA
One Show Tonight—8 Sharp
Gloria Swanson
—IN—
A SOCIETY
SCANDAL
The picture that makes an open book of
society’s Innermost secrets
A story of New York high life
Produced entirely in New York City
An entensely interesting story combined
with a beauty show and a
fashion show
Different fro mthe usual run of this
class of play
A KNOCKOUT FEATURE
DON’T MISS IT!
A Pathe News and a Fable Reel
Senora Calles, wife of President
Calles of Mexico, is said to have
spent $4,000 on a recent Los Ange
les shopping trip.
Mrs. Emma Lewis, now a practic
ing lawyer in St. Louis, began to
study law after she was the grand
mother of five.
“Smile With Nile” Saturday night.
Anna Bell, 14 year old, won the
spelling championship of Madison
county, Ohio, in a 10-hour contest in
which she defeated 157 competitors.
Miss Nellie Hamel-Smith employs
60 native laborers on her West In
dian coconut plantation, which covers ^
more than 100 acres.
Smile With Nile” Saturday night.
FOR ONE WEEK
Lowered prices on all
merchandise.
Friday and Saturday
we will have a DOLLAR
SALE.
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