SEWARD DAILY GATEWAY
OF SEWARD, ALASKA
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WOMEN PLEAD FOR PEACE
Representatives of nine national
women’s organizations took part in
the recent conference on the cause
and cure of war, held in Washington,
where addresses were delivered by 33
speakers, including military men of
high rank.
Xo “professional” peace societies
were represented, the conference be
ing composed of organizations form
ed primarily for other purposes, in
cluding the Federation of Women’s
Clubs, League of Women Voters, As
sociation of University Women, Coun
cil of Jewish women. Women’s Trade
Union League and four religious as
sociations.
After pointing out 28 causes which
threaten war, it was decided that only
by force of public opinion throughout
the world, can war be prevented.
Recommendations made include en
trance of the United States into the
World Court, participation in the dis
armament conference provided by the
Geneva protocol and cooperation with
the League of Nations.
The serious purpose of the confer
ence was well expressed by a promi
nent man, who said on leaving one
of the sessions: “My God, these wo
men mean business.”
DAWES PLAN INDEFINITE
Probably no important development
since the world war is more misun
derstood by people at large than the
Dawes plan of German reparations.
Many seem to think that it provides
a definite amount that Germans must
pay, but it does nothing of the kind.
The Dawes plan merely provides an
easy way for Germany to make a be
ginning to pay also fixes a maximum
yearly payment, to be* reached several
years later—provided these payments
can be met without disturbing Ger
man exchange.
No one can tell for four or five
years whether the Dawes plan will
■work or not. It may even work for
ten years and then break down, be
cause the plan provides that German
payments may be suspended whenev
ARE YOU o
GUILTY •
A FARMER carrying an ex
press package from a big
mail order house was accost
ed by a local dealer.
“Why didn’t you buy that
bill of t goods from me? I
could have saved you the ex
press, and besides you would
have been patronizing a home
store, which helps pay the
taxes and builds up this lo
cality.”
The farmer looked at the
merchant and then said:
“Why don’t you advertise
your goods and prices in your
home paper? I read it and
didn’t know that you carried
the goods I have here. Pic
tures and prices of your
goods would keep me posted
on your stock.”
Moral--Advertise
er the stability of German exchange,
is endangered.
Besides, in order to induce Ger
many to accept the plan, she was giv
en a new loan of more than enough to
meet her first year’s payments. So,
while Germany has made some pay
ments, they have merely been from
borrowed money recently borrowed
from private sources in the allied na
tions, including the United States,
England and France.
Whatever Germany pays during the
next few years will be credited on the
sum decided upon in the annal set
tlements, of course, but the ultimate
amount of total reparations has not
been fixed and may not be definitely
fixed for several years.
The Dawes plan gives Germany a
breathing spell and is a step in the
direction of a final settlement, but it
is only a step and it may have to be
greatly modified from time to time.
THE FARMER’S HOPE
For generations the farmers of the
country have listened to the smooth
talk of politicians, who promised to
make farming pleasant and profitable
through the enactment of laws. It has
never been done and never will be
i done.
Some laws have been enacted which
have no doubt been favorable to the
farmer just as certain laws have been
favorable to other classes of our pop
ulation, but the fact still remains that
the farmer, like anyone else, must de
; pend upon himself.
Much has been done by the Depart
ment of Agriculture in the way of giv
ing advice; extension agents have aid
ed with instruction in modern meth
ods of farming and so on. Rut mere
ly raising more stuff will not mean
prosperity. The trouble with most
products is that too much is raised
now, hence the low prices.
The problem then, is not to raise
more, but to raise it with less ex
pense; to avoid waste; to raise food
and stock feed at home; to take care
of machinery and do things in a sys
tematic way.
Cooperative marketing is beneficial
I if conducted by capable men in a fair
and honest manner. Grading of pro
ducts before dumping them on the
market is also a means of securing
better prices.
But no legislation will ever help the
small farmer very much. The farmer’s
hope is his own effort. Anyone who
tries to make him believe otherwise
! is no true friend of the farmer.
_
IDEAS DO CHANGE
When it is realized that the human
race has been developing for probably
half a million years, the changes ir
ideas during even one or two c-entur
ies seem revolutionary
It may be remembered that a king
of Spain once refused to sanction the
proposal to cut a canal through the
isthmus of Panama, on the grounc
that the Almighty made that neck ol
land connecting North and South Am
erica and that it would be sinful tc
divide it by a canal.
Coming closer to our own times, ii
I is iet.:uiueu mat as late as itszz, wner
a group of men in Lancaster, Ohio
asked permission for the use of tin
school house, in which to hold a meet
j ing to promote the building of a rail
road, the school board replied by let
ter as follows:
“You are at liberty to use the schoo
house to hold meetings for all propei
purposes. But railroads and tele
graphs are impossible and rank infi
delity. If God had intended His in
telligent creatures should travel at tin
j frightful speed of 16 miles an hour
He would have clearly foretold it ir
the Holy Prophets. It is a device o
Satan to lead immortal souls down t(
I hell.”
These ideas seem ridiculous to us
today, but we still cling to many su
; perstitions, which the intelligent per
| son of 2025 will think equally amusing
Another attempt has been made t<
bludgeon the press in the Virgin Isle;
—another in a series of efforts to si
lence any native newspaper which of
fers even the mildest criticism of tin
naval hierarchy which administer!
what Congress called a “temporary
government” in the hurried act whici
it passed when we bought the island;
from Denmark eight years ago. A1
ready two alien editors have been de
ported and one native has been im
prisoned for utterances displeasing t<
our brassbound martinets. Now Mi
Rothschild Francis, editor of th
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Emancipator and a native leader of
high intelligence and unquestionably
devoted to his people, has been sen
tenced without triay by jury to thirty
days imprisonment for criminel libel
because of printing the following par
agraph:
“Something is wrong with our police
force,” everybody is saying.
Recently a policeman fired a shot
which lodged in the tub of a private
citizen, then he attempted a false ar
rest and before we were about to go
to press he used his club in a brutal
manner on a woman that he was or
dered to take home, we understand.
Merchants and other citizens are in
dignant. How long. O Justice! How
long?
We print in full the paragraph ob
jected to in order to show to what
lengths our Caribbean censors go in
restricting freedom of the press. We
do not know whether the statements
in the paragraph are accurate, but we
do know that in the United States any
body accused of criminal libel on such
a basis would be entitled to trial by
jury, and we understand that the laws
of the Virgin Islands guarantee a sim
ilar right.
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I WHY GASOLINE IS HIGHER
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Many people imagine that gasoline
prices are raised or lowered at the
pleasure of Rockefeller and the Stan
dard Oil Company. While nearly
everyone is effected by the recent rise
in prices, few have any idea of t-he rea
son for the advance.
There is a very good reason, as any
one familiar with the oil industry un
derstands, and that is simply the old
law of supply and demand. Nothing
else controls the price to any appre
ciable extent.
For a long time gasoline prices have
been quite low, even with the road
tax imposed by many states added. But
cheap gasoline will soon be a thing of
the past, unless highly productive
new oil fields now unknown, are dis
covered.
Owing to the drilling of tremenduos
ly productive new wells at Long
Beach, Santa Fe Springs and Hunting
ton, California,, the Burbank field of
Oklahoma and the Powell field in the
satte of Texas, in 1923, to mention
Chris’ s«t
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BOBBY VERNON COMEDY—
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inly a few of the principal ones, crude
ail production of the United States
mounted to unprecedented heights,
reaching at its peak the enormous
total of 2.320.G14 barrels in a single
iay.
Some very productive new fields
were also opened up in 1924, but all
have now fallen off greatly, so that at
present the daily production of the
United States has decreased to nearly
1,920,000 barrels, which is not suffi
cient to supply the demand, so that
the accumulation is being drawn upon.
Ko important new fields are in sight
to offset this decline and stocks of
crude oil nowr above ground are only
sufficient for 157 days, supply.
Due to the increased number of au
tomobiles and greater use of crude oil
as fuel, the demand for 1925 will prob
able be from 15 to 20 per cent greater
than last year. On the basis of the
known facts, a scarcity of oil is im
minent, hence the higher price.
Better prices however, will stimu
late drilling and it is probable that
important new fields will be opened
up. but unless this happens higher
gasoline prices may be expected foi
an indefinite period.
Unless reconsideration of the child
labor amendment is had by some of
the 48 states that have already re
jected it, the measure is defeated
This amendment to the constitution
would have given congress power to
i absolutely prohibit the labor of any
! person under 18 years of age. While
it was argued that Congress would
never exercise the power, opponents
of the amendment declared that if it
was not to be used it was unnecessary
to grant it as there are too many laws
now on the statute books that are
dead letters. Farmers were especially
apprehensive of the measure and per
' haps with good reason.
—
Mr. Eckman has just completed a
large sign for the Seward Bakery.
Mr. Fred Miller is having his bar
ber shop repapered by Mr. Erick
son.
It is reported that a term of court
will held in Seward about the middle
of May.
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