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Of SEWARD, ALASKA
Established August 19, 1904
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NOT WHAT, BUT HOW.
Every once in a while one is reminded that in
a little while Christmas will be here. Of course the
merry season is still more than 3 weeks away, but
many children and grown-ups have already begun to
make their plans.
To do the kind of thing that old Kriskingle does
takes a lot of planning if it is to be done well; in a
manner of speaking you have to get ready for it.
Not that this planning is ever hard work, even if
you go at it with all your might and main; because
as every boy and girl knows when you do anything
to make anyone happy, it is never hard work, and
the more patience and skill you have to employ in
doing it, the more fun'it is.
If you were to ask him face to face, Santa
Claus would tell you that a lot of people miss half
the fun of Christmas because they forget that it
isn’t what is given that counts, but how the thing
is given. He would tell you that what a thing
costs, or how much it shines, has nothing to do with
it. What really counts is how much affection and
kindness and well-wishing you put into it. It’s
what you are, and not what the gift is, that counts.
That’s why Christmas is such a wonderful sea
son; and that is why most people who like Santa
Claus and Christmas try to plan and get ready for
this great day, so that they may have most of them
selves to give when that day comes.
Santa Claus never yet waited till the last min
ute and then scurried around and wondered wrhat
he would do about this and about that. You can
guess from the stories they tell about him, and from
the way he looks, that he is the kind who does
things when they ought to be done—quite a while
before the last minute. And in these things it is
well to follow Santa’s example.
BUYING THE TOYS
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Some little girls will have big, flaxen-haired
dolls smiling from their stockings on Christmas
morning. Some little boys will have toy airplanes,
bomb-throwers and all the other paraphernalia of
modern nursery warfare.
Some other little girls and boys won’t.
But those whose dollies are the ordinary saw
dust kind wuth eyes staring, it must be confessed
rather stupidly, in front of them, and those wrhose
toy soldiers are just everyday fellows, are to be con
gratulated.
The *toys have known it all along. They have
known, too, that the humbler ones of the assemblage,
now so shiny with new paint in a thousand toy
shops over the land, are due for a far happier life
than their pretentious brothers and sisters who are
destined for the homes of the rich. For a toy”s
happiness is measured by the love that is lavished
upon it. And the child who has one simple toy
thinks far more of it than he or she who has a new
trinket for every mood.
Psychologists are beginning to find this out.
They have worked* out a whole involved system of
toy teachings, in which the child mind dwells prin
cipally on simple objects, plain contours and brave,
not delecate colors.
So if a momentary sigh comes to you because
you cannot afford to have Santa Claus bring “the
best there is” to your little lad or lassie, smile in
stead. They will be all the better for it.
THE HUNTER’S REWARD
“Many hunters returned unsuccessful,” says
a news report, commenting on the hunting season.
No real hunter ever is “unsuccessful.” He
may not bring game back to the city, but he returns
a better man physically for his outing.
There is more to hunting than the killing of
game, just as there is more in fishing than catching
fish. The stay-at-home giggles inanely as he sees
an angler or gunner trudging home at twilight with
empty creel or bag, but if he only could get it thru
his obtuse skull the laugh is really on him. Of
course, there are pot-hunters and -fishermen whose
hoggish practices bar them from the ranks of decent
sportsmen, but they are not the men who come home
from stream or woods empty-handed.
The true sportsman delights n thtf game rather
than the score. 1 A full creel or a well-filled bag is
his trophy of success. But he knows that no man
can hope to win all the time and he is quite content
when he returns empty-handed, for he has had
healthful recreation and has cdmmunedwith nature
in a manner that only the outdoors-maq knows. He
has learned new lessons from brooks and. trees, from
fishes in the streams, from animals in field and
woods; he has smelled the sweet odors of the forest,
he has in his nostrils the tang of field and moorland,
he has seen pictures artists have striven in vain to
paint, he has found:
“Books in the running brooks,
• Sermons in stones,
And good in everything.”
There is no such thing as an unsuccessful hunt
ing trip.
VOLCANOES, GOOD AND BAD
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We are indeed fortunate who do not live under
the dark menace of nature. A heavy snowstorm or
a flood in spring is unpleasant and frequently full
of danger. But it is a visitation common to man
kind.
It is a little difficult for us to comprehend the
terror, the abject and gripping feeling of panic that
is upon the Mexican population which lives at the
foot of Popocatapetl, that monstrous volcano.
The successive catastrophes that have issuec^
from the lava fountains of Vesuvious are in danger,
it is feared, of repetition by the active Mexican
crater. Engineers, caught in the possibility of the
eruption in the near future, are at a loss for means
to prevent a wholesale wastage of life and property.
All that the world can hope is that Popocatapetl
will hold to its fiery stream.
Not all volcanoes, happily, are sources of de
struction. In Hawaii the extinct crater of Palolo
has just been tapped, and is now supplying the city
of Honolulu with a water supply of 2,000,000 gallons
a day. The town of Hilo is raising a fund to con
quer the active volcano Kilauea, and utilize the tre
mendous volume of gasses there for industrial and
other purposes.
Those gasses, according to scientists, may be
the source not only of practically unlimited motive
power, bu talso contain all the food elements neces
sary to sustain the human body—carbon, nitrogen,
hydrogen and lime.
AN UNNCESSARY SACRIFICE
Much as we adn/ire the youngsters who go
shouting about the streets and trooping into the
school houses, taking sunshine and happiness with
them; most of us are far too careless in allowing
our little ones to take risks of accident.
The statement just made by the American Red
Cross that 20,000 children under 14 years of age
are killed in accidents each year in the United States
is appalling. Big figures are hard to comprehend.
But wrhen we think of each one of these innocent
youngsters sent to the slaughter of carelessness, we
can realize wThat a sum of poignant grief has been
cast up.
Every mother who has lost a child has a con
stant sorrow. But it is not alone in suffering that
the nation* loses. Twenty thousand boys and girls
cut off before their talents could flowTer or their
faculties be developed have lessened the quality of
our citizenship for the next generation in a meas
ure that it is impossible to compute. This should
not be.
Such an easy thing it is to warn a child that
he must be careful. So little trouble to provide
training in the habit of discretion. Burns, falls,
auto and other vehicular accidents, drowning and
poisoning exact the heaviest toll. A certain num
ber of such occurrences are always avoidable acci
dents. But the proportion of them that can be
traced back to carelessness on the part of the child
or some adult is large. Let us have a care. Our
children must not be in the silent army of 20,00ft
that reproaches the nation.
A press humorist counsels his readers to be like
the Indian who never smiles at what is amusing but
laughs when misfortune comes. It’s probably just
as well for the humorist he isn’t writing for an
audience of Indians.
Wayne wheeler says “there are only three mil
lion drinkers left in the country but they get too
much publicity.” They get too much liquor.
Every man likes a wife who flirts unless she is
his own.
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SEE
“The tGold Diggers”
A Screen Version of the big Belasca and Broad
way Sensation with
HOPE HAMPTON, LOUISE FAZENDA and
WYNDHAM STANDING
A gold digger is a young woman, generally
good looking who painlessly extracts money
and other valuables from the gentlemen
of her acquaintance, usually without mak
ing an adequate return.
Dance Saturday Night A. B. Hall
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STILL THE WAR goes merrily on
regarding the proposed literacy bill.
Against it we have seen not a single
argument which would stand analysis
and the arguments for it, which are
predicated on the danger of native
domination, are fully as fallacious.
One camp argues that inasmuch as
the Declaration of Independence says
that “Governments derive their just
power from the consent of the govern
ed,” that any such test is un-Ameri
can in principle. The other group
answers that the framers of the Dec
laration of Independence presupposed
electors of sufficient education to in
telligently consent to or reject any
measure for their government. And so
it goes.
No one should be allowed to cast a
ballot who is not possessed of suffi
cient education to do so intelligently.
Whether that shuts out more natives
or whites is immaterial. By the same
token the duty revolves upon a com
monwealth demanding such a requi
site of those who seek the right of
suffrage, to provide means for the
education of all its people of whatever
race.—Ex.
IN AN UNUSUAL proclamation
issued last week by Olaf Melby, pio
neer merchant and mayor of Summit,
South Dakota, he gives one of the
most sensible bits of advice, to our
mind, that we have ever read. He
says:
“Your home people are the only
ones interested in you and your
welfare. Do not let strangers
tell you what to do. Better ask
your neighbor, your banker or
merchant. Outsiders only want
your money and are not otherwise
interested in your advancement.
Stick to your community and all
your friends, and you will wear
dramonds.”
The advice is pertinent in that dur
ing the past few weeks many propo
sitions have been advanced to local
citizens to spend their money with
outside concerns. As Mr. Melby so
aptly remarks these concerns have no
other interest in Seward than in se
curing their bit. So far as the actual
advancement of the town is concerned,
this is their sole interest and motive.
A1 Benson, transfer king of Anch
chorage, was an overnight visitor in
Seward. Aside from praising the up
to-date fish hatchery he declared him
self greatly pleased over the pros
perous condition found here. He /
beleives that when the Big Ditch
is started at Fairbanks conditions all
along the railroad will, further im
prove. Mr. Benson is a real sour
dough.
The Anchorage basketball team, ac
companied by their coach, Prof. 01
san, left on this morning’s train for
their home in Anchorage. The young
sters were a fine bunch of sports
and made many friends here during
the series of games.
R. H. Hale, master mechanic for .4
the Alaska railway was a Seward
visitor over Sunday.
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