SEWARD DAILY GATEWAY
OF SEWARD, ALASKA
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TIMBER HARVEST AND SCENIC
BEAUTY.
A common belief exists that to per
petuate native scenic beauty, no one
must touch with an ax the trunk of
any tree in the landscape. Super-con
servationists preach this doctrine;
others believe it with slight reserva
tions. Even foresters here and there
are prone to accept it, because so ac
tively propounded by certain outdoor
enthusiasts.
They are not practical conservation
ists. They would establish scenic re
serves at certain spots because of the
extensive stands of timber which ex
ists there. Do they appreciate that
forest trees die? They do, some as
seedlings, others are choked out in
the struggle towards maturity that ev
ery tree must face its brothers. Some
trees prevail. These trees form our
forests. They live through youth and
reach middle age, and, like men be
come mature. Then they loose their
grip on life. Finally they fail, and be
come part of the forest floor.
Trees are growing, living, maturing,
dying things. They are not perma
nent elements of the landscapes as
granite canyons, lakes or peaks. This
fact seems to be lost sight of by the
people who would take the f|>rest
which is lovely in its mature stateli
ness, and preserve it just as it is for
all time. But there is no Fountain
of Youth for a tree. Trees, when they
become so aged, had better be har
vested than to permit them to remain
as a ragged worn out bit of scenic
beauty and a menace to their compan
ions.
Timber harvest under the right sort
of direction not only secures the fur
ther service of the old trees to human
ity by turning it into lumber before it
falls and rots, but scenic beauty of ex
tensive forest is improved by the har
vest.
Italy Hears Queer Tales
of Cross Puzzle Zealots
(By Associated Press.)
ROME, Apr. 30.—On the heels of
the arrival in Italy of the cross-word
puzzle, the claim is put forward that
Italy is the home of an ancient game
which, it is asserted, .was the parent
of the present form of cross-word
puzzle.
Although admitting that the in
creasingly popular puzzle is of Am
erican origin, Italian wiseacres main
tain that a cross-word game, a direct
ancester of the modern pastime, "was
popular for many centuries in Italy,
occupying the leisure hours of the
habitues of family cafes in provincial
villages.
Whether or not the claim be well
founded, it is a fact that the Amer
ican importation is making great
headway. Within a fortnight after
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the first puzzle was printed by a
weekly newspaper, two other newspa
pers, one a weekly and the other a
popular daily, followed suit, each of
the three sponsors of the new game
advertising heavily their enterprise
in introducing the novelty.
In addition there have arrived doz
ens of newspaper articles from the
United States and Great Britain de
scribing in somewhat fantastic terms,
and with occasional obvious inaccur
acies, the hold which the cross-word
puzzle is getting upon the Anglo
Saxon peoples. Poker, bridge and
mah jongg, is is said, have been for
gotten; family conversations consist
merely in requests for advice in solv
ing puzzles; dust is allowed to accu
mulate 6n 'radio sets, and the auth
orities are considering laws to force
the crazed addicts to return to their
accustomed tasks.
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Woman Agitate Against
Vow At Altar To Obey
(By Associated Press.)
LONDON, Apr. 30.—Demands that
the mirriage service, which was “in
spired by the ideals of the time of
Henry VIII,” be revised, have been
made upon the National Assembly of
the Church of England by the Nation
al Union of Societies for Equal Citi
zenship. The Women’s Freedom So
ciety also has come out for a change.
The marriage service is antiquat
ed,- according to Miss Florence Un
derwood, secretary of the Freedom
League, who contends that her or
ganization cannot agree to any for
mula which indicates less than ab
solute equality between men and wo
men.
“We do not presume to suggest to
the church any particular alternative
form of words,” said Miss Under
wood, “as that is the business of the
church and we leave it to the bish
ops to consider. But we certainly
do object to the word ‘obey.’ It is
most assuredly high time that a ser
vice was evolved which, while re
taining all the beauty and sacred
ness of the one now used, would de
mand precisely the same from one
party as from the other.”
Radio Has Not Invaded
This Lonely British Isle
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AILSA CRAIG, Scotland, Apr. 30.—
This little island off the coast of
Scotland, near where the Clyde reach
es salt water and one of the loneliest
places of the British Isles, in the
absence of radio inaugurated recent
ly a series of signals for communica
tion with Great Britain in case of
emergency.
There are but 40 inhabitants—old
fashioned fishermen and lighthouse
tenders—and no one has ever thot
of installing a wireless outfit. In
stead, arrangements have been made
with a medical practitioner on the
mainland and a system of signals by
manner of bonfires and carrier pig
ions agreed to, to visit the island
in case of sickness.
The Royal Commission on National
Health Insurance has agreed to pay
for the boat hire for the physician
whenever he is needed by the lonely
island inhabitants. Asisa Craig is a
small island of columnar basalt at
the entrance of the Firth of Clyde,
rising to an elevation of 1100 feet
above sea level.
45 Buildings Now House
Agricultural Department
(By Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, D. C.f Apr. 30.—
Department of agriculture officials
are hopeful that the next congress
will authorize continuance of the de
partment’s building program begun
in 1903, and thus permit concentra
tion of its activities under fewer
roofs. At present the department
uses 45 buildings scattered to the
four corners of Washington, one of
them six miles from the administra
tion office.
For 26 of the buildings the depart
ment pays rent totalling $183,500 an
nually. For the eight-story structure
housing part of the bureau of agricul
ural economics and biological sur
vey, $35,360 rent is paid, while an
other eight-story building used by
the forest service costs $35,000 yearly.
The smallest rented building is a
carpenter shop hidden in an alley in
the center of Washington and for
which $270 is paid annually. The
shop stands next to a brick stable in
which Wilkes Booth is said to have
slept and stabled his horse the night
before he shot President Lincoln.
The stable is used now by (he War
department.
In 1903, during the term of office
of Secretary Wilson, construction
was begun of a building to house ad
ministrative offices of the depart
ment. Two L-shaped wings were com
pleted and occupied in March, 1908.
Before the central connecting unit
could be attempted the department
hard pressed for space, found it ne
cessary to rent a number of build
ings. Since then no progress has been
made in the building program.
Iceland Must Renounce
Dainty Gowns from Paris
(By Asiociated Press.)
REYKJAVIK, Iceland, Apr. 30
Fashionable Icelandic women have
had few new Easter models from
Paris this year, and the modish young
men will not be able to import any
of the flapping Oxford trousers, so
much commented on in England. This
because for two years Iceland is not
to bring in any ready-made clothing.
Shoes and all sorts of fabrics also
are on the prohibited list.
Practically all luxuries and many
necessary articles have been placed
on the prohibited list in an effort to
stabilize the Icelandic crown. Bread,
butter, margarine, cheese, salt meat,
port sausage, eggs, fruit, leather
goods, oils, soap, furniture, films,
watches, clocks, motorcycles, auto
mobiles and scores of other articles
may not be brought into the country.
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U. S. Not Represented
In Soviet Motor Trials
.LONDON, Eng., Apr. 30.—European
representatives of American automo
bile companies -are watching with in
terest preliminaries for this year’s in
ternational motor trials to be held
in August under auspices of the So
viet government. While it is not
likely that any cars made in the
United States will participate, it is
quite probable that several Ameri
cans will be on hand to make note
of what transpires, so as to be able
to report to their respective factor
ies.
„ A committee has been formed in
London to arrange for British parti
cipation, the chief object of which is
to test the suitably of foreign made
cars in Russia and to familiarize po
tential purchasers with types of mo
tor cars at present not well known
in the Soviet Republic. Automobile
dealers of France and Germany are
also planning to take part.
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