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OF SEWARD, ALASKA — Established August 19, 1904
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TIME HEALS ALL THINGS
Thru this area the month of May dragged along
on leaden feet as tho loath to give way to the smiling
advent of Spring. 0 .
And then the sun burst thru the clouds and Spring
came in all smiling as if wafted from far southern
climes. In that instant, it seems, the blades of grass
sprang up and flowers parted their petals. The hills
were clothed with a delicate carpet oi green; lambs
stumbled awkwardly about and the new-born calves
nudged eagerly at the udders of their mothers.
The sprouts of the potatoes, the radishes and on
ions came up as tho drawn by an invisible string. All
Nature seemed to enrobe herself for a period of passion
ate embrace with Old Man Sol who has sweethearts in
many lands and whose virility and fecundity have nev
er been questioned. It may be indecent to speak of these
things but we hope Sol doesn’t ever get tangled up with
those Tropical Queens that he forgets our Northern
Beauties.
A CYCLE OF HISTORY
Beginning with March 25, and to be continued for
one year, the Greeks are celebrating the lifting of the
Turkish yoke which the nation had borne for 476 years
01* since about 1453. when the Turks captured Constan
tinople.
This year the celebration of Greek independence
has a greater significance in that it has emerged a long
step further and may be said to be free from the mon
archial yoke and is rapidly re-establishing the spirit
that ruled before the once great nation and mother of
the republican idea became flabby and an easy prey to
the Ottomans.
Remarkable as it may seem, Greek decadence dat
ed from the time when the people, made careless by too
much luxury and excessive indulgence, permitted their
affairs to drift into the hands of demagogues and extre
mists. Her women became careless and marriage was re
duced to a mere formality. The ‘‘wise crack” ‘Pause ta
eutrapella’ (be your age) rang thru Athenia salons and
was the watchword of the masses. By degrees the labors
of Pericles dissolved into a general abandonment of the
foundation upon which Greek liberties was reared
Came the vindication- of Aristotle’s philosophy that the
haws have no vitality save in the spirit of the people.
With the passing of the people’s spirit and with it
those fundamentals of liberty—eternal vigilance—pass
ed the last vestige of Greek ability to ward off the Tur
kish conquest.
By the history of Greece we may begin to compute
the utter decadence of the American republic.
We have approached so close to the margin that the
analogy is startling. Like the Greeks we are trying what
we believe to be an experiment, but which, like the Hel
enes, is but a cycle in world history—an immutable
force apparently destined to reoccur when given impe
tus through the abandonment by the masses of equally
immutable forces working to their uplift.
It remains to be seen how long the nation can sur
vive the forces that have wrecked other democracies.
The price paid by Greece stands as a warning of the dan
gers lurking in the rapid abandonment of the fundamen
tals of free government, a process in the United States
that is startling when we consider the shell of what was
once the land of the free.
Another startling discovery was made recently by
the Gateway. At Umnak the police reporter found a
magnificent breakwater which would just fit Seward’s
idea of what it desires for Resurrection Bay.
Strange names, strange shores, strange customs;
that’s the country lying to tthe southwest of Seward.
NINE DIE IN FLOOD I
WATERS UNO ElECTRIC
STORM. NEST TEXAS
DALLAS, June 16, UP)—Nine
persons are dead, the result of
a sudden flood and electrical
storms in West Texas. The flood
came after a three-day general
downpour of rain.
Mrs. Norris Durham, Mrs. Cora !
Whitekar were killed at Lamesa
when lightning struck the Dur
ham home, and five were i.11- '
j ured.
Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Tidwell and
two children, and their mother- j
in-law, died in the flood; their \
bodies were recovered from the
waters of Lake Creek; a freshet
carried away their home.
Lindsey Philips, 15, was drowned i
near Fairfield when his automo- ; i
bile skidded into a creek. P. C. Lee jj
was drowned at Luling when his:
car was swept off a creek crossing. ;
EFCRETSRV SHOTS
FUNDS TO FOREST
FOR SOSO HSR
Expenditure of $200,000 Forest j
Highway money in Alaska during!
the fiscal year beginning July 1,
has been approved by thhe Secre
tary of Agriculture as recommend
ed by United States Forest Service
officials in Alaska
t Of this sum, $115,000 is alloted for
an extension of about three miles
i to the Ward Cove section- of Ton
gass Highway at Ketchikan: $75,000 ;
for maintenance on the Forest j
Highway system in Alaska; and i
$10,000 for minor miscellaneous
projects that may arise during the
year and for which no specific al
lotment has been made.
During the next fiscal year, there
will be about 225 miles of highway
in the Forest Highway system
which will require a normal amount j
of maintenance. It is estimated
that the cost for this work wall j
average $375 per mile. The federal j
from the Territorial road funds will i
allotment of $75,000 and $10,000
provide money for the work.
NARROW ESCAPE, DEATH
| ENREKA, June 16, (TP)—Mr. and
Mrs. James Willette of Eureka, were
killed when their auto went over a
grade and dropped 100 feet into the
Trinity river. Mr. and Mrs- Chas.
Brooks and baby, passengers, were
ithrown clear and escaped uninjur
ed.
Alaska was purchased from Rus- i
sia in March 1867, for the sum of ■
$7 200,000 in gold, and in October ,
of the same year, formal transfer j
was maae at Sitka.
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WOULD NOT COMPEL
WASHINGTON. June 16, (JP)—>
The dramatic controversy between j
Bishop Cannon Jr., and the Senate ,
Lobby Committee was offically
ended when the investigators:
agreed they would not compel him j
ito answer questions about his 1928 j
anti-Smith activities and voted to j
submit a report to the Senate
! i
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j Alaska derives its name from an
English correction of the native j
word “Al-ay-ek-sa”, probably
meaning “The Great Land’' or
“Mainland”.
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TRAIL BLAZERS
Ralph Reed and Charles Lech- j
ner have blazed a dandy trail with!
their autos up Resurrection River!
ibed and cars can go up for several,
miles- It is a beautiful drive and
Ithe scenery ois magnificent. One j
drives over the new cuv-off then
!turn west under the old road bridr !
I i
and under the railroad bridge and j
I continues up the river bed. Sev !
| eral autos made the trip yesterday, i
| Frank W. Richards, a resident!
! of Juneau for about one year, was
! recently adjudged insane and '
1 se t to Morningside. i
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JULY 14
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