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Of SEWARD, ALASKA
Established August 19, 1904
Published Daily Except Sunday by Gateway Publishing Co.
SELBY & HOBEN, Proprietors
Entered in the postoftice at Seward, Alaska, as second
class mail matter.
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GATEWAY MEETS WITH APPROVAL
The new edition of* The Gateway has met with
popular approval, judging by the many compli
ments received by the management over the new
venture. No kicks were received other than a few
from advertisers who asked for better positions.
That the tabloid form is better than the four-page,
six-column is evidenced by the fact that some ten or
twelve galleys more type were required and nearly
double the news was run.
If we receive the encouragement we believe con
sistent with the business done by merchants, The
Gateway will never go back to the old size. Sew
ard deserves a better paper than it has been get
ting, and we are determined to give it to our read
ers.
Saturday’s paper will be twelve pages, to ha?
die our excess advertising on that day, which will al
low us to revamp some of the news of the week for
our out of town readers.
If you have any suggestions to make, we would
be pleased to have them. Only by receiving com
plaints can we know that our work is unsatisfactory.
We desire to call attention to those merchants
who by increasing their advertising space have made
it possible for us to enlarge. They are deserving
of your united support, as are all advertisers in your
home paper. We do not wish to cinch all your
advertising, in case you believe it will pay you bet
ter elsewhere, but we now speak for any extra busi
ness you may feel able to give us.
WHAT IS A JOURNALIST ?
ah newspaper workers are not journalists. The
great majority are but reporters, copy readers, edi
tors or feature writers. There is a dividing line
between just newspaper workers and journalists,
but just what that line is, and who stands on one
side of it and who on the other is a matter of per
sonal opinion. We know of no fixed rule by which
those claiming to be journalists may be weighed or
measured and their claims to the title justified.
To be sure "Webster defines a journalist as “the
conductor of a public journal, or one whose busi
ness it is to write for a public journal; an editorial
or other professional writer for a periodical.”
That sounds very simple, and if the public
would accept it as final the profession of the journ
alist would suffer seriously in the minds of the pub
lic when compared with other professions. But
we do not believe the public accepts that definition
as conclusive. We believe the public differentiates
between the newspaper worker and the journalist
The public looks to the newspaper worker as a
gatherer of facts, as a writer of news or of opinions,
but it looks to the journalist as an interpreter, as
an observer of conditions with an ability to inter
pret them. He must have the instinct of the good
reporter; he must have the ability of expression of
the man on the copy desk, but he must have a far
broader background than the newspaper worker.
Back of him he must have either by training or in
stinct, or by both, a knowledge of philosophy, of
economics, of psychology, of history, of political
economy, of ethnology and other sciences. Many
men have become great journalists without any spe
cial training in these subjects, but they have had
a latent ability in these lines that has been un
consciously applied to their work.
On the other hand the newspaper worker
may have nothing more than a “nose for news” and
a fair ability to write the English language, but
those thnigs alone will not make a journalist.
The journalist may be on the staff of the big
metropolitan newspaper or periodical. It may be
his task to observe and interpret national or world
conditions, or he may be a part of a country news
paper with the task of observing and interpreting
conditions in his community. No matter which field
he may occupy the journalist, in our opinion, is
''mething more than a newspaper worker, ome
thing more than a craftsman. His place is with
those 6f the higher profession.—Ex.
NOT A “LEISURE CLASS”
Reading “dope” on the football season, some
body remarked the other day that he wondered
when college men get any time to devote to their
studies. It seemed to him that from the begin
ning of the fall term until Thanksgiving football
held first place in the curriculum of our modern
educational institutions.
Because a popular sport and pastime naturally
receives more publicity than the .routine of class
and college rooms, many persons attribute to it an
importance in college life that it does not possess.
In any college only a small percentage of the stu
dents go in for football as participants. The in
terest of the large majority is expressed only by
their attendance at the games and most of the con
tests are staged Saturday afternoons.
While there will always be some slackers, most
college students realize the significance of their job.
They know what they are there for and the penalty
for wasting time. The gospel of endeavor is be
ng-preached as never before. “Work hard” should
be the motto of all, whether in or out of college.
RISING EXCHANGE RATES.
Within the last fortnight the currency of two
European countries advanced above American dol
lar parity, challenging, for the first time since the
war, the dictatorship of the American dollar over
foreign exchange. In the same period the curren
cy of a third European counrty arose to par with
the dollar.
On the first day the new German reichsmark
was placed on the market under the Dawes regime
it sold at 23.821-2 cents, although its par exchange
rate with the dollar is only 23.8 cents. The Swed
ish kroner, “worth” 26.8 cents was sold on the
same day for 26.84 and the Swiss franc was at par.
It was also noted with satisfaction that the margin
between the American dollar and the Canadian dol
lar and Dutch guilder had also decreased percep
tibly.
These are the first and long looked forward to
spurts on the foreign market exchange which recall
to memory the normality of 1914. It is only be
ginning, but the consummation may no tbe so long
coming as has been the beginning.
What is most important, however, is that the be
ginning having been made, more is bound to follow.
Currencies that have for so long been forced to bow
to the dollar simply cannot afford to bow to the
reichsmark, say, or the guilder. The British pound,
for instance, must now fight its way to parity, or a
certain amount of British trade will go to Ger
many and Holland. Something or other must be
done to the French franc, or France will not be able
to take full advantage of German reichsmarks paid
as reparations.
The dollar, of course, cannot be placed permanent
ly at a discount. That would be just as abnormal
as having all other currencies discounted for dol
lars. But it must yield its overwhelming advan
tage for the sake of normalcy. A normal exchange
market serves the best interests of all concerned.
It will come when the rule of the dollar has been
challenged by all the rest, when the dollar simp,y
becomes the prime minister of currencies—the first
among equals.
President Coolidge opposes holding an inaugur
al ball if he must attend and try to dance. Never
having learned to dance his New England canniness
warns him against the effort now.
Two Swedish authors are going to engage in a
public debate to determine wdiich of them is a liar.
The chap who lies the most convincingly will.pro
bably prove the other fellow ought to have the title.
Marriages are made in heaven and delivered un
der mistletoe.
A cow has four stomachs and that is what a
boy wishes he has.
Speaking of full measure, many a pint bottle
holds a barrel of talk.
Ordinary travel may broaden one, but holiday
travel flattens one.
Many a husband has to turn over a new leaf be
cause his wife can read him like a book.
New York’s dry spell longest on record, says a
headline. For fear this might be misinterpreted
it is necessary to say that this refers to absence of
rainfall.
The fool killer and joy killer ought to meet.
LIBERTY THEATRE
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She wrote herself love letters because
no one else would. Because she never
had a man she spread,, scandal about
herself. And when her heart would
not bear any more she had to live her
romance—
LEATRICE JOY AND MATT MOORE IN
CHUCKLE! CHEER! CHOKE!
TRULY A LIVING PICTURE
THE LEATHER PUSHERS
—AND—
GIRLS WILL BE GIRLS
ALSO TOPICS OF THE DAY
Dance Saturday Night A. B. Hall
FISH OILS LOSE ODOR
BY NEW TREATMENT
In the October 20th number of the
Chemical and Metallurgical Engineer
ing magazine is an article on “Deo
dorizing Salmon Oil,” written by Dr.
H. K. Benson, professor of chemistry
in the University of Washington. The
method describes an investigation
carried out in the chemical engineer
ing laboratories with various gasses,
such as hydrogen, nitirogen, and car
bon dioxide. The results of this in
vestigation show that fish oils may
be washed free of their offensive odor
by scrubbing them with an inert gas
and that such oils remain deodorized
for a much longer period than by the
ordinary methods of refining.
TOYS! TOYS!
TOYS!
TOYLAND IS IN
OUR BASEMENT
DOLLS, large and
Small,
MECHANICAL
TOYS,
ELLSW0RTH‘S
See Window Display
| MAPLE BROOM HANDLE
USED EIGHTEEN YEARS
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Broom handles may come and han
dles may go, but take for example a
ipaple one. Down in Science Hall at
the University of Washington there
is a maple broom handle that has
been in constant use for 18 years.
This broom handle was on the first
broom ever used in Science Hall. Al
though four or five new brooms have
been used on it each year the handle
ig just now wearing thin where it has
been handled most.
This unique “campus antique” has
been given to the state museum.
MISS NIEMELA IS WED
TO VERNON G. NELSON
In the presence of a few friends,
Miss Nelma Sophia Neimela and Mr.
Vernon Gustaf Nelson, both of Doug
las, Alaska, were married at the
Presbyterian manse in Juneau by Dr.
George G. Bruce.
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