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OF SEWARD, ALASKA — Established August 19, 1904
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A DELAYED MESSAGE
Today in modest fashion The Gateway
appears in larger form—200 inches more
space being given to our readers. We have
felt this urge for a long time but lack of
help in our composing room forebade. Now
we have the help, capable men who know
Seward and its people as well as we do our
selves and with their cooperation our new
dress should carry the true interpretation
of what a paper should be for Seward. We
feel proud to give you the service and feel
with pride at having the business men be
hind us in an endeavor to put over a sheet
which will be a credit to the community.
BIG TOURIST YEAR IN ALASKA
Last season Alaska, as well as the Paci
fic Northwest, had a great tourist season.
Seattle's visitors were about 50 per cent, in
number above the previous year.
But Alaska will be out for a new record
for 1926, according to railway and steam
ship correspondence. Reservations for
staterooms have already commenced antici
patory of the rush, and steamship compa
nies are arranging to bring their reserve
ships into service with the beginning of the
season.
Alaska’s government railway is adding
to the general publicity for tourists and
contributing to the chances of a large swarm
of visitors. Mount McKinley Park, near the
Alaska Railroad, is attracting inquiries.
New facilities or roads and trails through
the park are to encourage sightseers.
The summer excursion season is to be
gin on May 11. Many special excursion par
ties have already made reservations for sea
sonal trips.
It is going to be a big year for the
great Northern Territory.—Ex.
CLEANUP WEEK
The prosperity of a community is not
measured by population, but by its civic and
commercial progress and organization.
A hand ful of workers achieve more
than a city full of drones.
Teamwork is what counts in every
thing. A prominent baseball coach recent
ly said: “Give me a team of average ability
who will work together, each with the other
and all for the team and I will win over any'
team up solely of individual stars.”
nldividual ability makes great men—
shining light, but it is mass cooperation
of energetic citizens of civic spirit, home
pride and community enterprises that build
a town’s progress and prosperity.
THE CHURCH AND ITS FIELD
“The more intelligent a man becomes,
the less he attends church services.” This
statement, made by a prominent New York
clergyman before a Methodist church con
ference in Philadelphia a few days ago,
startled even th blase ministers and lay
men gathered there, spending half their
time talking orthodox religion and the
other half discussing Pennsylvania politics.
If the allegation made is true, it stands as
a terrible indictment against eithher edu
cation or reeligion, with the chancese ap
pearing to condemn the latter.
The growing tendency of our religious
leaders to invade the fields o government,
o politics, o finance, oo almost everything
under the sun, is raising in the minds of
thinking men the question of just where
the whole thing is going to end. This same
Methodist conference in Philadelphia,
which was told that “the more intelligent a
man becmes the less lie attends church ser
vices,” spent the greater part of two whole
das discussing what?—affairs of the
church, of religion, of soul salvation? No
debating whether or not the rganization,
mind you!—should endorse any one of
the three candidates for United States sen
ator in Pennsylvania.
When our religious leeaders deliber
ately place the church in politics, is there
any wonder why religion is losing its hold
among the thinking classes? Can you find
not what it should be? Another big
a better reason why our religious life is
chuch conference within the last two
weeks has endorsed the nationalization of
school education, under the proposition
now being debated by congress of placing
a department of education, under a cabinet
officer, in the national government. Since
when has the church been delegated to
control the secular education of our
youth? What right has religion, through
the church, to attempt dictation of our
educationel policies any more than it has
to boss our civic, or state, or national poli
tics? If the tate must be taboo religion,
why not religion the state?
Religion is a very necessary part of
our lives. The church is an institution
needed for our spiritual welfare. Here
is a work challenging the best efforts of
all engaged in it. It is necessary to go fur
ther afield for more worlds to conquer,
else there will be lost what little already
has been gained.
COSTLY SNOOPING
It is easy to get a resolution through
Congress providing for the investigation
of this or that industry or condition, but
the net result, so far as the taxpayer is con
cerned, is generally zero.
A case in point is the inquiry, started
in 1913, regarding the valuation of railroad
properties, with a view to determining
whether they are over-capitalized. After
nearly 13 years the task is a little more
than one-half completed, at a cost to the
government of $25,000,000 and an expense
of $85,000,000 to the railroads, yet the re
sluts so far tend to establish the fact that
the railroads have not been over-capitaliz
ed, as was charged by the late Senator La
Follette, who was primarily responsible for
this waste of approximately $110,000,000.
No one will deny that it is desirable to
keep watch over certain activities of great
corporations, but these matters had better
be left to the several executive depart
ments, which are charged with the duty of
carrying out the will of Congress.
Congressional investigations are al
most invariably inspired by political con
siderations, without any real solicitude for
the welfare of the public at large, and they
involve an indefensible drain upon the pub
lic treasury.
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Sing of Spring: The announcement in
the newspaper that the revenue cutter
“Bear” will come north again.
We don’t believe that this newspaper
poll showed that the nation is “wet” in sen
timent. For every vote cast by a Wet, there
was an indignant letter by a dry.
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