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.
SELBY & HOBEN, Proprietors
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MOVIES AS TEACHERS
As human knowledge becomes
more extended and modern life be
comes more complex, it is utterly
impossible for any individual to ab
sorb more than an insignificant por
tion of the information which would
be available to him had he the time
to apply himself to its acquisitio.
Even to keep in touch with the
marvelous developments of the pres
ent day is beyond the grasp of the
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found delving into the lore of the
past.
After a day of routine duties few
have the inclination to pursue studies
which add to their information and
culture. Here is where moving pic
tures might be utilized most effec
tively to teach as well as .to enter
tain. Here millions who could never,
be induced to open a serious book
might receive valuable information by
the easiest as well as the most di
rect means, the impressions made be
ing also more enduring than those
gained from the printed page. If
accompanied by brief oral explana
tions, the picture method would be
ideal for imparting a wide range of
knowledge.
In the instruction of children this
would hold good to an even greater
degree, especially in the teaching of
history and the natural sciences. In
fact the possibilities for rapid, ac
curate and lasting instruction by this
means is almost limitless.
The time will no doubt come when
every progressive school wlil have
a moving picture machine as an im
portant part of its equipment.
Cannibals of the Fiji Islands have
a poor opinion of the white man’s
flesh as a regular diet, declares Paul
Fenimore Cooper, the author, just re
turned from the South Seas, where
he spent his honeymoon. Cooper
says the islanders consider the whites
too salty, but manage to utilize them
by mixing with the native stew.
They probably never got hold of one
of our fresh young fellows.
A record for posterity having been
set by the Miami News in issuing a
502-page special edition some time
ago, evening newspapers are now
competing for the prestige of issu
ing the biggest regular week-day
newspaper. The score to date: St.
Louis Post-Dispatch, 76 pages; Mi
ami Herald, 80 pages; Tampa Times,
88 pages. All of which may help to
relieve the coal shortage, should one
develop.
OUTLAW THE SUBMARINE
While the loss of the S-51 was not
necessarily due to the fact that it
was a submarine, the disaster may
serve to direct attention to the truth
that undersea craft have no utility
except to cause destruction and
death.
In several respects they differ
from any other form of armament.
While other military equipment—
•warships, artillery, small arms and
ibombs—are also of no value except
to destroy an enemy, they do not
menace the lives of those who han
dle them in training and practice to
any unusual extent. Accidents hap
pen, but hardly with greater fre
' quency than is experienced in indus
trial pursuits.
Aircraft are subject to many dan
gers but at least there is a possibil
’ tty of employing them usefully for
rapid transportation and it has al
, .ready been demonstrated that their
■ conservative use is not attended with
uncommon perils. It is only when
spectacular feats are attempted that
, aircraft become particularly hazard
ous.
Submarines have no value for
transportation or any other useful
purpose in tinte of peace, yet they
take their inevitable toll of lives in
peace as well as in war. They are
subject to all the dangers of sur
face craft, in addition to the many
■perils to which they are constantly
subject when submerged.
Most inventions have certaain re
deeming features to justify in some
measure their employment. The
submarine has none. It is a veri
table death-trap.
Any scheme of disarmament which
does not include the outlawing of
the submarine is a delusion and a
mockery.
LESSONS FROM DROUGHT
No amount of theorizing or argu
ment could have been so convincing
of the necessity for the interconnec
tion of our great power systems as
have been the lessons of the recent
unprecedented drouth, especially in
the southern states.
Many streams which ordinarily
supply enormous quantities of hydro
electric power have been virtually
dried up. Had each individual mill
or other plant been entirely depend
ent upon local generation of power,
»the industries of many sections would
have been entirely paralyzed.
While much curtailment of opera
tions has been necessary, the ser
iousness of the situation has been
greatly lessoned by interconnections
of power lines, whereby a shortage of
power in one state has been relieved
by the tansmission of current from
another.
Alabama, for example, being
particularly fortunate in the extent
of its waterpower development, has
well as in the number of avilable
steam plants of large capacity, has
been able to send vast amounts of
power to nearby states,* while sup
plying all local needs.
Additional great dams now being
built and in contemplation, with fur
ther interconnections of transmis
sion lines, will soon provide the
southeastern states with a super
poyer system capable of meeting all
demands under any circumstances.
The vision and enterprise shown
by the companies engaged in these
developments are making possible a
noticable achievement in behalf of
American industry.
Soviet officials were recently re
ported as taking steps to stop the
smuggling of Bibles into Russia,
which is said to have been going on
for some time on a large scale. Prob
ably Americans would read the Bible
more if there were a law against it.
Scientists now assert that the old
stories about jointed snakes are all
fakes and that “there ain’t no sech
animal.” The nearest approach to
the result of
complete vaporization
It isn’t gasoline that explodes in
the cylinder and makes power.
It’s gas—air, mixed in the carbure
tor with gasoline to form vapor.
Red Crown gasoline vaporizes
completely. It forms a homoge
neous mixture with 12 to 16 times
its volume of air. That mixture
explodes cleanly and powerfully,
leaving comparatively little car
bon residue on valves, spark plugs
and cylinder walls.
That’s why you get better mile
age out of “Red Crown”—and a
cleaner, sweeter-running engine.
STANDARD OIL COMPANY
(California)
ONE SHOW TONIGHT AT 8:00 SHARP
AN UNUSUAL PROGRAM
There will be no regular feature, and
in its place we will show four reels of
Alaska pictures taken by
The Eastern sportsman, who has come
so often to hunt big game and find the
interesting places and scenes of Alaska.
There is a little of everything including
movies of Seward, Anchorage, Cordova,
etc. Big game hunts, wonderful gla
cier pictures, making a very interesting
program.
WITH IT WILL BE ANOTHER OF
THOSE GREAT, “OUR GANG” COM
EDIES, ENTITLED,
“The Buccaneers”
ALSO A ONE REEL COMEDY AND
A FINE REEL OF TOPICS.
A SHOW EVERYONE SHOULD SEE
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it, they say, is a harmless, legless liz
aard, that can drop its tail when in
danger of being caught by that
member. Anyway, we may still be
lieve in mermaids and sea serpents
if we want to.
Mayor Arthur E. Nelson of St.
I'dui accepted the invitation of ‘he
PUD] silfcrs tc edit a Sunday edition
of the Pioneer Press, waioh, he diu
right creditably for a novice, but
without any striking innovations, ex
cept to relegate the crime news to
the inside pages. The regular editor
had wmrned his subscribers that it
was only Mayor Nelson’s “customary
courage’’ that made him think he
could edit a newspaper.
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The yearly agitation and bickering
over income tax rates is in full swing
in advance of the meeting of Con
gress. The man of moderate in
come doesn’t mind the . tax so much
as he does having to fill out the
blankety blank blank.
An interesting one-eyed veteran
of the World War was the object
of considerable attention at the re
cent electrical show in New York. At
tached to the Signal Corps, he carried
51 messages through the shell swept
Argonne, losing his right eye in ac
tion, yet he never has held military
rank, not even that of private. His
name is Mocker and he is a carrier
pigeon.
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GEORGE PHELPS, Proprietor
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SEE THE INTERIOR
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THE GOLDEN BELT
To the end that the countless places of scenic and other inter
ests in the Territory may be thoroughly enjoyed and understood, and
to enable them to acquire first hand and accurate information con
cerning all Alaskan activities and development; travelers to the
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. Me
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.
For train and automobile schedules, passenger rates and other in
formation, confer with any steamship agent, or
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
The Alaska Railroad
(McKinley Park Route)
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