SEWARD DAILY GATEWAY
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PAUL AIRING ANIMUS.
Representative William L. Paul, of
the First division is apparently taking
advantage of his official position to
take revenge on J. R. Heckman, head
of the Territorial Fisheries Bureau,
and capitalist of Ketchikan. Mr.
Heckman, at the last session of the
legislature, was instrumental in get
ting through a bill establishing fish
hatcheries at Ketchikan, Cordova and
Seward, and Mr. Paul evidently wants
these removed, as he has introduced
a bill in the present legislature ask
ing for abolishment of the Territorial
Bureau.
Without knowing anything of the
workings of the hatcheries at Ketchi
kan or at Cordova, The Gateway be
lieves* that instead of abolishing these
hatcheries there should be others
built at the mouths of all streams
where fish propagate in any consid
erable numbers. Valdez should have
a hatchery at Robe Lake, a magnifi
cent red fish body of water; Wrangell
and Petersburg should have hatcher
ies, and these aids of salmon propaga
tion should be built in such numbers
that an increase of the salmon pack
would be certain.
Unless something is done to increase
our rapidly depleting fish supply, not
only Mr. Paul’s constituents, but those
in every other division will be out of
fishing jobs within a few more years.
Mr. Paul is against the fishing inter
ests, and is as rabid over the question
as is John Rustgard over the steam
ship lines. He would prefer to have no
fish, if thereby, he can get Mr. Heck
man divorced from his job.
Those legislators at Juneau who
are attending the opening of the Ter
ritorial legislature, are probably hear
ing the first prayers in many years.
If they could only legislate their con
stituents into attending services more
regularly, there indeed would be effi
cacy in prayer.
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BENEFICIAL MERGERS
Two mergers have been made dur
ing the past month in Anchorage
which will add greatly to the solidar
ity of the commercial life of the town.
Early in the month the Daily Times
took over and assimilated the business
and plant of the Daily Alaskan, the
only morning paper in Alaska. This
week the announcement is made that
the Bank of Alaska has taken over
the Bank of Anchorage, with its de
posits and assets.
Both the mergers were necessary
and will give the city a stronger bank
and a better newspaper. No town in
Alaska is large enough for two daily
papers, which make for a continual
drain on the business interests, and
can accomplish no worth while civic
promotion. The Daily Times has long
controlled the field and its publishers
have given Anchorage excellent serv
ice. A town of less than 2,000 in the
States is a poor field for even a small
weekly, and as both dailies covered
the same news and the same field, it
was inevitable that one must absorb
the other, wrere either to live. Seward
had two papers several years ago, and
both went to the wall, killing each
other off with their continual bicker
ing and promotion of strife. After a
lapse of several years, during which
time the town languished and nearly
passed away in a business sense, The
Gateway was revived and today again
represents a flourishing community.
The consolidation of the banks will
be beneficial along the same lines. No
bank in the Territory is making its
financial bankers weathlv, and one
good, strong bank in a community is
better than half a dozen losing mon
ey. It might be said, while on this
subject, that too many business en
terprises along the same lines will
kill off any town, instead of building
it up. There is much food for reflec
tion in the experiences of both Sew
ard and Anchorage along these lines.
FARM LEGISLATION
As this is written, certain leaders
in Congress are striving with might
and main to get “some kind” of a
farm relief bill passed. It doesn’t
matter so much to these gentlemen
what kind of bill it is, or whether
it will do any good or not, just so
the farmer will think they are look
ing after his interests.
These politicians have promised
to aid the farmer, knowing full well
that their promises were so much
bunk, but if they can pass “some
thing” that looks like a farm relief
measure, they hope to get by for
| another term.
State Senator Brown of Wyoming
hit the nail on the head a few days
ago, when he said:
“When a man is broke, he is
broke, and nothing but good judg
ment, hard work and strict economy
can help him.”
After long years of bitter exper
ience, many farmers have yet been
unable to learn this simple truth.
They still believe the politicians.
Those dog mushers who are leaving
Alaska to go into moving pictures will
find slim pickings after a few weeks
in movieland. Heroes, like kings, are
quickly forgotten. There are very few
of us today who can give the name of
the man who “carried the message to
Garcia” during the Spanish-American
war, and few'er yet who can tell us
of our own world war heroes. A
prophet without honor in his own
country is a sad spectacle, but the
hero out of a job, after being used to
receiving the plaudits of the multi
tudes is one sadder still.
It is nearly as hard to convince our
citizens that the pulp mill is certain
to be built as it was to convince them
that Gus Borgen was coming back to
Alaska.
If the meat doesn’t come in time for
dinner, and you have a boil on your
neck, and the Baby won’t take his
nap and Johnny has broken a cup, and
you are not invited to the party, do
not worry over it. Folks go crazy
thinking over little things like that.
Miss Alisa Mani, a Brizilian girl,
has probably the longest hair in the
! world, -which measures nearly six feet,
while she is 5 feet 7 inches tall. She
will not have it bobbed.
Women now vote in 26 countries.
In Denmark there are 20 women in
parliament.
Gateway want-ads bring results.
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FASHION IS CRUEL.
Commander Edward Breck of the
Naval Reserve Force and Mrs. Minnie
Maddern Fiske, the eminent actress,
are leaders in the movement to sup
press the extreme cruelty of trapping
fur-bearing animals in steel traps and
other non-killing devices.
According to Commander Breck,
who is a woodsman and author, 100
million wild animals are caught each
year in steel traps in which the help
less animals often suffer days and
even weeks of agony before being
killed.
He declares that the Summer fur
fashion is responsible for much of this
unnecessary cruelty, having increased
the slaughter of fur bearing animals
four-fold. Not more than ten per
cent of the animals now tortured in
traps are needed to supply the demand
for cold weather garments.
Trapping by means of devices which
kill swiftly or capture the animals
without maiming them, thus making
it possible to kill them in a humane
manner, is considered an economic ne
cessity, but the pitless methods now
employed are such as to cause revul
sion on the part of humane persons.
People all over the world sympa
thized with Floyd Collins, dying by
inches in a Kentucky cave, with his
leg held in a remorseless trap. It is
to their credit that his tragic fate so
moved their feelings. Yet Collins did
not go through one-tenth the suffering
a trapped animal goes through before
it dies a lingering death.
She who steps to success need*
a shoe straight on the inner border;
broad and low of heel; flexible and
not too thin of sole; and low, to allow
free circulation and play of the foot
and ankle muscles.
A cross word wife is no worse than
a radio husband.
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CHRIST LARSEN, Prop.
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A FORTUNE OUT OF AIR.
Shortly after the close of the Civil
War, a young inventor, just past 21,
endeavored to interest old Commodore
Vanderbilt in a new brake for rail
road trains, to be opexated by com
pressed air. After listening with im
patience to the proposition, the Com
modore asked whether the inventor
meant that he could stop a train with
nothing but air. He was answered in
the affirmative.
“Then get out of here,’’ he cried.
“I have no time to waste on fools.”
Vanderbilt thought the joke was so
good that he told it at the club and
many a chuckle was indulged in over
the man who though the could stop
a train with air. The man was George
Westinghouse, and within a few years
after the interview, Vanderbilt paid
a large sum for a block of stock sold
by the Westinghouse company. The j
patent made a fortune for several
persons. When Westinghouse died
in 1914 he was rated among the very
wealthy men of America.
His early struggles were typical of ■
those of many young men with an idea
and nothing else. He was more for
tunate than most of them, as he was
not defrauded out of his invention.
Five prisoners at Chelsea, Mich., es- ,
caped by boarding a switch engine
and running it through the gates of
the State cement plant.
GOOD MOVE BY LAWYERS.
If members of the American Bar
Association really put into effect the
recently announced intention of sim
plifying the language of laws and legal
documents they will earn the grati
tude of the public and give many a
struggling more time to ground him
self in the law and less in languages.
Everyone knows that our law books
and legal records are cluttered up
with useless words, which tend only
to confuse and obscure the ideas they
are supposed to convey.
It seems that the old policy has
been to make laws as difficult as pos
sible, so that only a lawyer is able to
make sense out of them, while half
the time they disagree over the mean
ing and intent of the law.
Striking archaic and superfluous
words and phrases from future legal
documents would be a most salutary
and timely reform. Will the lawyers
really do it?
There is but one way to reduce: If
you would grow thinner diminish your
dinner.
Everett Reihm and Jack Read of
Montana, stealing a ride, were locked ^
in a freight car for five days and
nearly starved before they were found t
and released.
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