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Address
21 COLMAN DOCK
Seattle, Wash.
F. B. MOORE
Gore Bldg. Adams 145
WALL PAPER PAPER-HANG
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OGLE'S GARAGE
GASOLINE AND
WARM STORAGE
EXPERT MECHANICS
Phone Mad. 66.
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THE PALACE
John Mattich, Prop.
POOL, SOFT DRINKS AND
CIGARS
Furnished Rooms
Phone Main 55
CHRIS' PLACE
Cigars and Tobaccos
Soft Drinks and Candies
CARD TABLES
Phone Madison 54
CHRIST LARSEN, Prop.
Next Door to Liberty Theatre
IGLOO NO. NINE, PIONEERS OF
ALASKA
Meets every Second and Fourth Fri
day nights in Odd Fellows Hall; F. B.
Moore, President; C. M. Brosius, Sec
retary.
SEWARD CHAPTER NO. 10, ORDER
OF EASTERN STAR
Meeets the second and
fourth Mondays of each
month in Odd Fellows'
Hall at 8 p. m. Visiting
members always wel
come; Dorothy Urbach,
W. M.; E. L. Sweek, Secretary.
SEWARD REBEKAH LOGE NO. 6-A.
I. O. O. F.
Meets the first and
third Mondays of
each month in Odd
Fellows Hall at 8:00
p. m. Visiting mem
bers are always wel
come. Mrs. Gust Peter
son, N. G., Mrs. Merritt, secretary.
SEWARD LODGE NO. 1425, L.O.O.M.
Meets every first
and third Tues
day each month
at 8 p. m., at
Odd Fellows
Hall. All visit
ing members
welcome.
PETER N. "ANDERSON, Dictator.
M. A. HORNER. Secretary.
SEWARD LODGE NO 219, F. & A. M.
A Stated communications first
^^p^and third Wednesdays of each
month; visiting brethren wel
come, H. V. Hoben, W. M.; Elwyn
Swetmann, Secretary.
RESURRECTION LODGE *NO. A-7,
I. O. O. F.
Meets every Thursday at
8:00 p. m. in Odd Fellows’
Hall, next to the postoffice. Visiting
srothers welcome. Ludvig Larsson,
ST. G., Charles Lechner, secretary.
Show Cards,
Posters,
Movie Slides,
Cartoons,
Advertising,
Publicity.
E. F. JESSEN,
SEWARD, ALASKA
SEWARD WATER &
POWER COMPANY
SEWARD, ALASKA
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“ Good Water a Necessity in Every Home”
V ' r,u .t,‘n
JOHN NELSON, Manager, WAYNE BLUE, Agent
OFFICE ARdADE BUILDING
HOTEL SEXTON
GEORGE SEXTON, Proprietor
SEWARD'S HOMEY HOTEL, WHERE THE OLDTIMERS
MEET
VAN GILDER HOTEL
HOT AND COLD WATER IN EVERY ROOM
•TEAM HEAT
J. S. BADGER
HOTEL SEWARD
HOMEY. COMFORTABLE ROOMS AND BATH
_ Convenient to Depot and Dock
PENAL COLONIES
SUGGESTED FOR
THE ALEUTIANS
Would be Means of Reform
ing as Well as Segre
gating Offenders
INTERESTS SOCIETY
Islands Be Wholesome En
vironment, Freedom
Within Bonds
The New York Times of recent date
published the following article.
Conceding that the interests of so
ciety are paramount, let us ask: Is
the hardened criminal fit to live or
should he be segregated, abandoned,
mutilated, exterminated, or perhaps
be treated by the psychopathologists?
Should punishment be imposed for re
venge, deterrence, segregation or for
reformation?
The criminal class being generally
regarded by society as an enemy, de
srving only repression under the sys
tem of incarceration, with elaborate
buildings and equipment and expen
sive administration, the mutual antag
onism has yielded little altruistic con
sideration from the public. The rule
in treatment of the criminal has been
physical, mental, moral and spiritual
repression, placing him in confine
ment where he has little to do but to
brood over imaginary injustice instead
of giving him the beneficient minis
try of expression of his better nature,
the right to air and sunlight, land and
water—the free gifts of nature—all
contributing to his emancipation from
evil thoughts and criminal impulse.
Now, has not out treatment of this
class been unwise, inhuman and un
Christain? A criminal of one kind is
not a criminal of every kind but is
capable of development in many ways.
Under the present regime the pris
oner is turned out, after his incarcera
tion, with a more determined spirit
of vengance, to confront the contempt
of people with w'him he comes in con
tact and to whom he must appeal for a
livelihood, or else be led to continue
his career of crime. He is disquali
fied for assuming the duties of citi
zenship, is a spiritual wreck and like
ly to return to the old life whose tread
promoted by prison companionship,
makes him an expert in the line.
The old order of treatment of the
criminal has been based upon the pol
icy of vindication of law and of re
tribution, while reformation of the
criminal has been, and is yet to a great
extent, lost sight of. The result has
been that vindication of law and ret
ribution have made little progress for
the betterment of society.
Instead of a system which is a sur
vival of barbarism, the advance of an
enlightened civilization demands a dif
ferent policy, distinctly based upon re
formation of the criminal that will in
clude, in its practical evolution his
salvation from criminal impulse, re
demption of character, development of
physical, mental, moral and spiritual
potentialities, leading in many cases
to a restoration of political and social
status. To accomplish this, instead of
prisons with segregation the primary
purpose, there should be a wholesome
environment, freedom within bounds,
without unnecessary fetters, outdoor
life necessarily under suitable restrain
industrial activities, education and the
spiritual comforts and ideals of reli
gion. In general, the hope of a re
turn to a better life should be promo
ted and encouraged and be a stimulus
toward that life.
Changing the habit of thought of the
criminal, especially in his vengeful at
titude toward society, would not only
remove the vindictive spirit but open
up a new view of life and its possibil
ities. But the criminal must not be
permitted to forget that he has been
an offender and that he must strive for
his own reinstatement. He should,
in short, be encouraged to hope for
better things and no longer regard him
self as an outcast but as a potential
factor of society. With this changed
incentive he could, in time, subject to
a scientific determination of his con
dition, be returned to the rights and
the honors of citizenship and to a bet
ter companionship.
We have never tried in our country
the plan of segregation through the
method of transportation. This might
be an extension of the “farm-colony”
idea—a great advance. Transporta
tion should not be exile, as formerly—
nor expatriation, but suspension of cit
izenship and not its revocation. Brit
ain pursued a policy of transportation
of criminals, in the cast of Botany Bay
with very different objectives, yet the
Commonwealth of Australia is as high
today as any in moral status.
The separation of the sexes should
be considered, in order that in incor
rigible cases the race might die out.
This could be effected, for example,
by sending the male convicts to a hab
itable one of the Aleutian Islands and
the female convicts to an island of the
Hawaiian group, where all could be
policed and all provided with teachers,
specialists, religious advisers accord
ing to their-preferences and with fa
cilities of every kind essential to the
rehabilitation of character.
Volunteers for this service with an
altrustic and American spirit could
surely be expected, and employes of
the government would be available,
all enlistments being for a short term
of years with ratation in term of ser
vice in consideration of the relief from
duty.
The expense to the State under the
proposed system would be less than
under the present, since plans could be
devised for self-support of the convicts
elaborate buildings and equipment
would be unnecessary and the cost of
transportation need not be excessive.
An efficient administration could be
realized with harmonious action be
tween Federal and State Governments.
But if the expense were more the
advantage that would accrue in an
economic sense only would be great
and the gain spiritually to the nation
would be incalcuable.
In such an environment the prison
ers in touch with the world through
journalism, books, the radio, industry
and especially in company of teachers
and others devoted to the object, a real
reformation of many of the class could
be accomplished and the state be en
riched by restored citizenship.
METHODIST CHURCH NOTICE
Sunday School at the local Metho
dist Church Sunday morning as usual
at ten-thirty o’clock.
As the Rev. W. A. Thomas will con
duct services at the local Episcopal
church Sunday morning there will be
no preaching service at the Methodist
church.
Thomas Philip Graham, Minister.