SEWARD DAILY GATEWAY
OF SEWARD, ALASKA
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SUTHERLAND MISQUOTED.
The Juneau Empire comments on ;
a recent statement by Attorney Gen-;
eral Stone deprecating Alaska’s mor-1
als, and ended by intimating that his
information was derived from Delegate
Sutherland. The Gateway received
the same dispatch the Empire quotes,
and we failed to see any remark about
our delegate fouling his own nest;
rather it said only that the Attorney |
General had conferred with the Dele-'
gate, but the result of their confer
ence was not made public.
While Delegate Dan Sutherland is
probably able to tote his own burdens,
the point is raised that such inuendo
is not good political practice. It may
influence a few persons at the time of
reading, but when the truth is found
out later, it invariably sways them
the other way. Delegate Sutherland
may be persona non grata to the Em
pire, but so long as he is representing
Alaska, we should back him up with '
our efforts.
Mr. Sutherland has been condemned
unjustly, many times during the past,
year, by the Empire, and many times
when he deserved praise instead of
censure. His work for the Territory
has been nullified by charges of self
aggrandizement, and nothing he has
done has seemed meritorious. The
Delegate’s work in the Nome epidemic |
should entitle him to the thanks of the
Territory, and his efforts in Alaskan
oil leases certainly are commendatory.
While the Gateway has never torn
its shirt, without pay, for the Delegate
he has invariably treated our every
request with the greatest considera
tion, and this paper has been under
many obligations to him for courte
sies received. WTithout regard to party
or policies we believe he has made
Alaska a splendid representative, and
Alaskans should endorse his actions
whenever possible.
SEWARD PROGRESSING.
For the past three years Seward
has apparently made steady progress
along building and commercial lines.
Each winter has seen several new
buildings, and these buildings have
been of the reinforced concrete and
stucco types. Many new fronts of con
crete have been added to our business
houses and the town has kept pace
with personal progress by the con
struction of new sidewalks and widen
ing streets. Seward has always been
a clean looking town, and invariably
awakens admiration among tourists
from this fact.
The Chamber of Commerce and
the Woman’s Club have been largely
responsible for much of this neatness
as they have offered prizes for the
best kept lawns, and have annually
urged citizens to clean up and paint
up. This year will be no exception,
as already citizens are starting in
beautifying their premises, and with
in another month much improvement
will be noted. While business condi
tions are much the same as in other
years at this season, a spirit of op
timism is apparent on every hand.
THE LITERACY TEST
It seems more than likely that the
Alaska legislature about to convene
will enact same sort of a literacy
test for voters. This will be in line
with the actions of most of the state's
of the Union, points out the Anchor
age Times, but great care should be
taken in the drawing of the law.
While most white Alaskans have the
idea that such a law would be sole
ly for the purpose of regulating the
Native vote this must not be the
case. The law must be made gen
erally applicable to all voters and
the force of the act must be in the
law itself and not left to the arbitra
ry action of election judges. The
best interests of the territory will !
be best fostered by a law that will
only recognize an intelligent elec
torate.
There are few towns in Alaska
which can boast of the salubrious cli
mate enjoyed by Seward. Already our
lemon crop is far advanced, Mrs. Jo
sie Emswiler having a heavy crop
on her tree at the Marathon, and
these are sure-enough lemons, not the
kind which generally infest a town.
The opening of the halibut season
witnessed a number of boats sailing
from Sew’ard to the fishing banks. The
local fleet means a great, deal to the
prosperity of Seward. Last season
2,500,000 pounds of halibut were ship
ped out of this port, and from all ap
pearances this season will be even
better. Seward’s immediate proximity
to the halibut banks promises in time
to make this a good fishing camp.
For publishing a birth control ad
vertisement recently, a New York edi
tor drew a year in the pen. At the
same time the papers are filled with
advertisements for stills, marked
cards and cheap pistols. Some trav
esty on justice, what. Many persons
believe in birth control for poor cou
ples who are not able to support large
families, while it is pracitced exten
sively1 by the rich. Why not appropri
ate a fund for parents with large fam
ilies and show that we really are sen
sible instead of merely sentimental.
With the mercury 17 degrees be
Jow zero, 90 guests of a hotel at Che
boygan, Mich., fled from the fire in
their night clothes.
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READING YOUR NEWSPAPER.
“Every day the newspaper presses
of the country put out enough papers
to enable each person to read the news
of the whole world,” said Prof. Joe
Ashlock of the State College of Wash
ington Journalism department, speak
ing over KFAE the other night on j
“How to Read Your Newspaper."
“You may read the news of your
home town, of the state, nation, or
foreign nation. This news, coming
from around the earth, and collected
by an army of wideawake reporters,
is tossed on your doorstep morning
and evening. Since the earth is large,
the news of the earth, its nations and
people, is v^st in quantity and vari
ety. No one person may read it all.
One who tries is apt to become be
wildered. Discouraged, he may quit.
“in almost every locality a few
will be found who practically never
look at the newspaper. Several rea
sons for this might be suggested. A
prevalent one is that they have be
come confused by the storm of news
hurled at them each day, much of it
contradictory in character. As we
shun the task we cannot perform,
these persons shun the newspapers.
"Others try to cover the news daily.
They read hastily, merely skimming
headlines. Such a reader does not
grasp the news. Rather, he gets mo
mentary impressions that in the end
amount to vague, contradictory ru
mors. He has not read any one item
well, hence remembers nothing well.
He has merely heard about the news,
and talking to his neighbor he guesses
at what he heard, thus becoming a
distributing agent for gossip and dis
tortion of facts that a few hours be
fore were told accurately in his paper.
“Another kind of reader hunts thru
the papers for the news or comment
that bolsters his own view’s. If all
his own prejudices and traditions are
favorably treated in the paper, he
likes that paper fine. But if the paper
counters his personal beliefs he at
tacks it for nof printing the truth.
Such a reader is apt to be narrow’,
bigoted, intolerant of the views of
others. He votes the democratic or
republican ticket because his father
or grandfather voted that way, and
belongs to one church or another for
that reason. He rails at the papers
for not telling the truth, when as a
matter of fact he merely does not
like to hear the truth as read.
“There is another kind of reader
whose numbers are increasing. He
reads with care and discrimination. He
weighs what he finds in news and edi
torial columns, not for its appeal to
his own views, but for the actual bit
of fact or ideas. The display of front
page murders, suicides and prominent
divorces ha passes with a glance. The
president’s message he reads. He
may skim the sport page, noticing
that this or that team won the ball
game, or who won the latest prize
fight. He digests the editorial page
and agrees or disagrees with the edi
tor’s view’s. He notices the settle
ment of economic questions, and sees
that Britain has a new prime minis
ter, that France has a new* repara
tions scheme, that Japan has launch
ed a new battleship. He sees how
these happenings may effect his na
tion, his state, his own personal busi
ness or profession. This man is well
informed, can talk intelligently about
happenings of the day, knows howr to
vote, and not often do wre find him
abusing the newspapers, as he knows
they merely repeat what comes to
them, as it comes.
“It is an odd fact that the man who
reads little or reads carelessly, abuses
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SPOILERS
The wonderfully true story of the political
gang who robbed the oldtimers of their
gold claims in the boom days of NOME,
ALASKA. This is not the picture shown
some time ago throughout Alaska, but a new
and much finer production. Everyone in
Alaska should see this picture to see what
the boom days of Alaska were like.
MILTON SILLS AND ANNA Q.
NILSSON HEAD THE CAST jj
and a Pa the News
the newspapers for not telling the
truth or publishing the news, while
the man who reads carefully is less
ready to condemn. Anyone who will
notice what is going on in his own
neighborhood will find that this is so.
“Studious reading is done with ef
fort. Much of our newspaper reading
is of the effortless kind. No effort is
required to read what we like. We sit
up thru the night to follow the for
tunes of the beautiful heroine, or the
less beautiful villain. We let a meal
get cold to read the evidence in the
last big murder case, and from the
murder we jump to Andy Gump, who
“wears no man’s collar,” or to Jiggs,
who at last has got his corned beef
and cabbage. Reading of this sort is
not beneficial nor does it require any
effort.
“But it does require an effort to
skip the beautiful girl in the story,
the fascinating murder and Gump, and
sit dowrn calmly and studiously to read
something that is opposed to our
views, or worse still, may explode and
show the utter fallacy of our ideas. It
takes not only effort, but it takes
courage to do this.
“The newspaper are not to blame it »
I prefer to read things that are revolt
ing, or agree with my own blind prej
udices and ancestral traditions. It
comes to my door all printed ready
for me to read, the news of the vrorld
Whether I read, what I read, or how
I read, is my own personal affair. The
publisher may not compel me. All he
can do is to give me the paper.”
Some people might work faster it
they wrere not too modest to show
off.
The revolution germ must have
migrated from Latin-Ajnerica to
China.
Some hotel guests take medicine
after meals, others only take the
spoons.
Miss Blanch Reneer, 20, of Hous
ton, Tex., has sued a railroad for
! eleven thousand dollars for personal
injuries, reciting that a scar on her
leg prevents wearing of thin silk hos
iery.
LET’S GO !
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