SEWARD DAILY GATEWAY
OF SEWARD, ALASKA
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BACKBONE OF OUR DEFENSE
The country at large is highly
amused and more or less—mostly
less—impressed by the hair-pulling
controversy at Washington over the
relative merits of battleships, artil
lery, and airplanes as the best, of
fensive and defensive military arm
of the nation. Things are becoming
serious at the capital when our stiff
ly-formal bureaucrats take their feet
off the table, spit out their cuds of
tobacco, and dictate harsh notes to
one another. And when things be
come serious at the capital they get
funny for the rest of the' country.
Our ignorance of the controversy
is such that we don’t know whether
a fleet of planes would set a battle
ship comfortably on the ocean bot
tom alongside Davy Jones’ locker,
or whether our modern warcraft
could blow an air squadron six miles
the other side of heaven. Further
more, we don’t give a rap. We hold
that both these services are mere
auxiliary units to the real defense
of the nation, so we should worry
all the curl out of our bobbed hair
about losing one or two of them.
Experience teaches us that the real
backbone of America’s defense is the
swivel chair army of Washington.
Therefore just as long as our bureau
cratic know-it-alls at the capital can
keep their shoes polished, their ma
hogany desks shiny, and their time
honored precedents untarnished, we
should fear an enemy chastising us.
Let the navy and the air service
shoot itself to pieces; what we de
mand is an increased appropriation
for more and better swivel chairs!
ANOTHER MOTH-EATEN TITLE
Stung again! Word comes from
across the pond that that perfectly
good marquis who married himself
to one of our most noted and expen
sive moving picture queens is not
and never has been a member of
the French nobility. In fact, it is
said that, instead of being a mar
quis, he is nothing more than a for
mer bartender in New York City
who has lived abroad long enough to
cultivate a foreign accent, a vivid
imagination, and a pile of debts.
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Horrors! Can not something be done
to put an end to such bare faced be-1
trayal of the faith and confidence oH
our unsophisticated American ladies?
Just because they have a hankering
for titles is no reason why cold
blooded Europe should take advan
tage of their innocence to decorate
them with all the old tin cans on
that continent! If the League of Na
itons were not so busy it would be
well to suggest an international mat
rimonial conference.
A WARNING ON THE WEED
With the anti-tobacco campaign as
suming the proportions that it has,
points out an eastern paper, the wise
American will begin his preparations
for the next great reform in this
land noted for its liberty of thought,
sepech and action. It is not too ear
ly now to begin saving cigar bands
to clothe the synthetic production of
future years. Recipes and formulaes
for home-brew nicotine should be care
fully tucked away in the family Bi
ble. Cigar butts and pipe cleanings
might be kept in water glass after
the winter’s crop of eggs has been
removed. The farmer with an eye to
the future should realize that maple
leaves, alfalfa, and corn-silk eventu
ally will pay a much more import
ant part in one-half of one per cent
tobacco than they do at the present
time. Nicotine, the reformers assure
us, must follow alcohol into the dis
card, and the man who loves his
morning pipe or his after dinner cig
ar should take time by the forelock
and make the necessary preparations
against the fearful day.
A RISE IN TEMPERATURE
An English professor has perfected
an instrument so delicate, it is said,
that it will register the heat of a can
dle four miles away, or the blush
on the cheek of an English girl
three-fourths of a mile distant. If
he can get away with that kind of
stuff on an English girl, he should
be able to register the temperature
of some of our red-hot mammas dear
across the Atlantic Ocean.
GO GET A REPUTATION
Why all this hallabaloo about the
French baker who boasts of having
perfected a method whereby bread
can be kept for two years? On this
side of the Atlantic we have gone
to the mat with railroad depot sand
wiches that Noah must have used to
plug up holes in the ark.
THE BONE DRY LAW
Attorney General Rustgard and At
torney Arthur Shoup evidently differ
with Attorneys Faulkner and Mar
quam in regard to the rights of the
legislature to repeal existing laws.
Last week when the question of re
pealing the Alaska Bone Dry law
came up, the aforementioned gentle
men declared the repeal lay outside
the powers of the Territorial body.
Not being an attorney and being un
versed in the entanglements of law
we must confess that Mr. Rustgard’s
contentions appear reasonable. The
Bone Dry law was voted by the peo
ple and not by the legislature. It
would appear that a referendum would
be required before the legislature
; could act. The only reason for re
pealing the Bone Dry law, as we have
it from eminent attorneys is that it
radically differs from the Volstead
Act in its provisions, and in many in
stances is in opposition to the Federal
act in its application to prohibition.
There is no doubt but that the Terri
! tory would be better off working un
; der the same statutes and regulations
! that the 48 states work under, and
| that too many laws are worse than
none at all. If the attorneys, who
work with the prohibition laws, want
certain sections repealed in order to
expedite their application, they prob
ably know what they want and should
have it.
The constitutionality of the law has
been upheld and it has worked for
many years. As to the legality of its
repeal this paper has no knowledge.
MODIFY MARRIAGE LAWS
Considerable pressure is being brot
to bear upon Congress and upon dif
ferent states’ legislatures to have the
manage laws revised and made more
stringent, many persons believing that
to allow certain persons to marry is
wrong. At the present time any man
or woman who so feels inclined to
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THE LIBERTY THEATRE
ONE SHOW AT 8:00 SHARP
TONIGHT
Thomas Meighan and
Lila Lee in
ESS
“Woman Proof”
A COMEDY DRAMA
that will surely please you. The efforts of a family to marry a
man off to close an estate. Something rich.
guide the matrimonial bark over life’s
tempestuous seas may secure a marri
age license and start housekeeping,
without regard to race, creed or pre
vious condition of servitude. They
may be congenital idiots, eaten up
with syphillis, or have only brains
enough to get away from home and
back.
Man is the only animal which pays
no attention to the laws of scientific
breeding. Any hillbilly who paid as
little attention to his stock as man
does to his or her mate would be
broke within a few years, and have
a fine variety of scrubs on hand. Weak
mentalities are joined to minds crim
inally inclined and the crop of degen
erttes steadily increases. Our asy
lums, our prisons and our poor farms
are filled with these! unfortunates who
should be pitied for the sins of their
parents, rather than for any defection
from moral turpitude.
Unless something is done to weed
out the, scrubs, we may look for a na
tion of weaklings. Already in the
past generation or so the human race
is giving evidence of a decline in phy
sical perfection and mental endow
ments. It would be hard to find to
day a writer, an artist or a statesman
with the brilliant ability of those in
the beginning of the last century. Me
chanical ingenuity is greater and in
ventive genius appears to have im
proved, but machinery is taking the
best out of life and making us a na
tion of mechanics. The avid pursuit
of riches with its attendant ills has
fastened a stronghold upon the nation
forcing the sciences, art and music
into the background. Even the rich
are not buying so much from a love
of beauty as for the sheer joy of pos
session.
An education is a joy forever to
its possessor, but the man who lifts
his head and sees the perfection of
nature, and the beauties which sur
round him on every hand is far richer
than he who piles up money for his
heirs to dissipate.
Perfection can come only from per
fect things, and only by constant ef
fort can we look for a race of physi
cal and mental supermen.
“AMERICAN FOREST WEEK”
For several years, annually, a week
has been set aside in early spring by
proclamation of the President, to be
devoted to the stimulation and educa
tion of public thought and action in re
lation to our American forests, with
special reference to forest fire pro
tection.
The project has been under special
supervision of the Forest Service of
the United States. So successful has
been this work that the Forest Ser
vice is anxious to extend its scope and
enlist the support and active help of
other important national agencies, no
I tablv national professional, education
al and industrial organizations. It is
proposed to change the name of For
est Protection Week to American For
est Week in order that public inter
ests relating to forests other than fire
protection alone, may be included in
the campaign. This means that in
tensive activity will be centered dur
ing the week of April 27 to May 3 in
conservation, extention of forest areas
reforestation and industrial and re
creational utilization as well as fire
protection.
Former Governor Frank O. Lowden
is in active charge of the work and
has cooperating with him The Forest
Service, General Federation of Wo
men’s Clubs, American Forestry Asso
ciation, National Lumber Manufactur
ers Association and the Izaak Walton
League of America. The sponsors
of this movement feel that it should
enlist the endorsement of all organiz
ed groups of citizens so that American
Forest Week may have a truly nation
al character.
Cleaned grain runs through the
drill more easily and produces a
better and more uniform stand.
Farmers everywhere are realizing
the necessity of applying busines*
method to running their farms.
Raise feed crops if you ha\*
available space. It usually cost*
less to raise them than io buy tha n'
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The dairy outlook is good. \Y
will in the future be shipping ou
best dairy products, as we do the
extra-fancy eggs and apples fror ?
Washington.
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