SEWARD DAILY GATEWAY
OF SEWARD, ALASKA
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TAXES SHOULD NOT BE
INCREASED.
(From Juneau Empire.)
With the Federal Government and
most of the States and municipalities
In the Union reducing taxes and de
vising methods for further reductions
it would be a grievious mistake for
the Alaska Legislature to increase
taxation in the Territory. The great
est service it could render would be
to make taxes lower. Even a very
slight reduction would have a tre
mendously beneficial effect. It would
stimulate investment, and that, above
everything else, is what Alaska
needs.
The people of Alaska and their
Legislature have not only today to
consider. They are building for the
future. It is not encouraging to cap
ital to invest in Alaska when ac
count is taken of the circumstance
that the Territory is being consider
ed 'as a single unit—that its few
industries must provide funds for
schools, roads, pensions, matters of
public health, subsidies for mail
boats and many other things over an
area of 600,000 square mile3. If we
should permit it to become a fixed
conviction that the Territory is com
mitted to continued growth and cost
of its government at the cost of con
stantly increasing taxes we might as
well bid good-bye to the prospect for
anything like quick growth and de
velopment. The best assurance that
new industries will not be over-bur
dered with high taxation is not to
over-burden the industries that we
now have.
And there is another thing that
should be considered. Alaska’s indus
tries, generally speaking, have been
experiencing very hard sledding. Her
fishing and mining interests have not
been making large profits. Probably
most of the salmon packin compa
nies have not made any profit dur
ing the last four or five years. None
of them have made excessive pro
fits. Many of them have sustained
very large losses.
Alaska is young, and like the in
dividual who starts out in youth to
make his way in the world, she
must learn to get along without
many things that she would like to
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goose that lays golden eggs.
In the mass of matter we have read
about Dorothy Ellingson, one fact
seems to us to be especially interest
ing. Dorothy is reported to have
said: “Mother didn’t understand me.”
Bunk! Dorothy’s mother—and it has
been the same with mothers of head
strong girls since the world began—
did understand her daughter. It was
the latter who did not understand her
mother, nor did she care. The girl,
had she stopped to think, would have
realized that her own completely dom
inant selfishness was the cause of
all the heart-aches, both her own and
her mother’s. The mother knew ex
actly where the hell-bent career of
the girl would end. Selfish girls,
however, at the end of their self-cre
ated trail of misery, have always of
fered the alibi, “My mother didn’t un
derstand me.” They are the same
kind of girls, who, grown up and hav
ing passed through domestic squalls,
fall back on the old standby and say:
“My husband never understood me.”
Poor dolls, of what wondrous clay
they must think themselves made, to
be so beyond the whole world's com
prehension.
Top Floor Tenants Increase
Burden of London Postmen
LONDON, Apr. 14.—Climbing and
descending steps for seven hours a
day, carrying a load of 35 pounds,
is the lot of the average London
mail carriers in certain districts, ac
cording to a recent investigation,
and in Glasgow postmen in the tene
ment sections of the city climb 3,
000 step a day. This is regarded
as too much, and the postal workers
will propose that the load be limit
ed to 28 pounds and the daily dis
tance to 17 miles.
A notable increase in stair climb
ing has come about through the
building of more flat houses and the'
conversion of large dwellings into
living quarters for small families.
Two Officers Killed By
Much Wanted Criminal
KINGSPORT, Tenn., April 14.—Two
police officials were shot and killed
and another seriously wounded by a
man said to be Wagner, wanted on a
serious charge in Mississippi. The
fugitive escaped after a running fight
with five officers.
DOMINION CABLE COMPANY
IS AWARDED BIG DAMAGES
VANCOUVER, B. C., Apr. 14.—The
Commercial Pacific Cable Company
of San Francisco has been awarded
$195,000 damages in the suit against
the steamship Prince Albert owned
by the Western Freighters company.
The suit charged damages done by
the steamship to the cable near the
coast of California.
ORDERS COURT MARTIAL
OF BEUFORD OFFICERS
WASHINGTON, D. C., April 14 —
Wilbur ordered the courtmartial of
six men and officers connected with
the arrival of the Beuford at Hampton
Roads om February 24th, with a cargo
of liquor from the West Indies.
Commander D. W. Fuller will be
charged with negligence, Lt. R. Hill,
Jr., R. 0. How, Lt. C. W. Baker, Ma
chinists mate Frank M. Hendricks,
and chief pay clerk J. P. Gala will be
charged with possession of the liquor.
NEW YORK BROKER DEAD
NEW YORK, April 14.—Robert L.
Livingston, 49, broker, and member of
Newr York’s oldest families died of
pneumonia.
Huge Floating Home
FOR DEADLY AIRSHIPS
TO BE LAUNCHED TODAY
CAMDEN, N. J., Apr. 13.—Built
to contain the mightiest propelling
engines that ever went into a ship,
the. U. S. S. Saratoga takes to the
w’ater here today as the first of Un
cle Sam’s fleet of fast, hard hitting
airplane carriers. The launching
marks a. tremendous stride forward
in the art of naval construction, al
mi
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though the serviceability of the Sar
atoga as a floating hangar and land
ing field for airplanes still is to be
proven.
The huge, queer looking craft will
carry 180,000 horsepower to give her
the 33 to 34 knot speed she needs.
Her dynamos would furnish all the
electricity needed by a city of near
ly 1,000,000 population for light, heat,
cooking, street cars and nearly ev
ery other purpose; her mighty steam
turbines are stronger than the com
bines steam power of ail the ships
in the navy just a few decades ago;
her vast flying deck is long enough
and broad enough to hold two-old
time battleships set end to end.
And yet the ship is just a monster
experiment with the newest form of
auxiliary naval power, air power.
Her future is written in interroga
tion points, so far as naval experts
at home or abroad are concerned; it
depends upon actual, practical expe
rience with the launching into air
and landing again of the 72 airships
that make up her real offensive ar
mament. The ship herself is just
a fast, lightly armed but almost un
armored transport to get her deadly
brood of wasps out where they can
rain bombs on enemy battle fleets
or batteries.
The original plans for the Saratoga
would have set her in the water
some years ago as one of a fleet of
six of the biggest, fastest and most
heavily armed battle cruisers ever
designed. She would have looked ev
ery inch a fighting ship, the whole
888 feet of her length.
Redesigned as an aircraft trans
port, however, the Saratoga will be
one of the strangest in appearance
that has ever gone down to the sea.
All the top-hamper has gone by the
board to leave only the vast flying
deck, running her whole length and
spreading amidships to an extreme
breadth of 105 feet. Crowded over
to one side of that deck will be the
reduced compass of her stacks, a
cramped navigating bridges, and a
stumpy mast to rear her wireless
aerials aloft. She will look, when
completed, like a monster seagoing
barge with a misplaced deckload
and all the symmetry and beauty of
line that would have marked as a
cruiser will be lacking.
But in the 32 heavy bombers and
40 combat and other types of air
craft designed to clear the air from
the decks of the big craft, the Sara
toga will carry a potential destruc
tive force far greater than would
have been the power of her guns.
She will have enough explosives in
reserve to re-equip the airships after
they have dropped charges that would
wreck a city. She will carry machine
shops and expert mechanics by the
score to keep her air brood in fight
ing trim. She will carry enough
gasoline and oil to keep all the motor
cars of a big town in operation for
a week, and she will have every
appliance that naval ingenuity has
yet devised to assist the planes when
they set out on their grim missions
of destruction.
The speed of the ship is her great
est asset. She will be able to slash
thru any but the heaviest seas at a
rate almost equivalent to a railroad
speed of 40 miles an hour. Given
that speed and the engine power
and fuel capacity to maintain it hour
after hour, the carrier could range
far ahead of the battle fleet and
then project her air flotilla another
200 or more miles farther to strike
the first blow at an approaching
enemy. She will be from seven to
ten knots faster than the fastest
battleship, and only the most mod
ern cruisers or destroyers could
keep pace with her.
The navy has had no cnance yet
to practice with any such weapon
as this. The slow, cumbersome and
improvised second line carriers so
far in service have been able barely
to furnish a hint of what such a
ship as the Saratoga might be ex
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pected to accomplish. Maneuver -
in which they functioned have beer
almost entirely constructive, wit!
most of the air fleet and carrier eh
ments imagined rather than real. Bu
during the 1926-27 drills and wa.
games, with the Saratoga and he:
gigantic sister, the Lexington, ir.
commission, there will be real try
outs under war conditions, and it in
from these that final judgment wil
be drawn as to the place of carrier-*
| in future battle formations.
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