SEWARD DAILY GATEWAY
OP SEWARD, ALASKA
Established, August 19, 1904
Published daily except Sunday by
Gateway Publishing Co.
Entered in the postoffice at Seward,
Alaska, as second-class mail matter.
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NEWSPAPER A NECESSITY
A newspaper is a necessity in every
town.
Newspapers depend upon the com
munities in jvhich they are published
for support.
Their business is to sell service in
every home.
This service is a necessity in every
business.
Without the newspaper cities would
go back to times of long ago; pro
gress would be stopped.
A city is judged by its newspaper.
Boost yours—for as the paper grows
so will the city grow.
To say nothing of your business.
CANADA’S DISCOVER
Canada has honored her discover
er, Jacques Cartier, the famous
French navigator, by the erection at
Quebec of a magnificent statue, a re
plica of that raised to his memory
in his native seaport, St. Malo,
France, where he was born in 1494.
Commanding two ships under a
commission from Francis I of France
in 1534, he crossed the Atlantic
touching at Cape Buenavista, New
foundland, sailed northward along
the coast and then southwest thru
the Straits of Belle Isle, discovering
the mainland of Canada and taking
possession in the name of his king,
thinking it a part of Asia.
The following year he explored
the St. Lawrence as far as the In
dian village of Hochelaga, the pres
ent site of the city of Montreal. Af
ter many hardships, with his crew
-weakened by scurvy, a disease then
unknown in Europe, he returned to
France in 1536.
In 1541 Cartier returned to Canada
with five ships and established a set
tlement, which he named Charles
bourge-Royal, near the present site
of Quebec. The regorous climate
and attacks of hostile Indians so dis
couraged the settlers that Cartier
abandoned the place and took them
back to France in 1542. He lived
quietly at St. Malo until his death
in 1557.
While Cartier did not found a per
manent colony, his explorations
blazed the way for the building of a
great empire—but under another
flag.
Recent news dispatches from the
Nation’s capital state that three and
three-tenths persons out of every ten
in Alaska are on the Federal payroll.
The white population of the Territory
is given at 33,000 and the number of
Federal employes at 3,300. This ac
counts for the retrogression of busi
ness conditions in Alaska. The aver
age government official spends little
money in the Territory, a majority
of them saving to go to the Outside
when their term of office is over.
A number of others are old timers
who intend to remain in the Terri
tory and are helping build it up in
every way possible. The dispatches
state that 223 bureaus controlled the
affairs of the territory last year, many
interlocking and all pulling one
against the other. One way to place
Alaska in a flourishing condition
would be to give Federal jobs to the
remainder of the population.
This section of the banana belt is
experiencing some most unusual cli
matic changes this year, in common
with the rest of the world. Old Sol
appears to be nervous and appears at
short intervals, just enough to give us
a taste of what w’e might expect,
were he to get on the job regular.
The Alaska Fisherman, published
at Ketchikan, Alaska, by one William
L. Paul, who advertises himself in
the editorial sub-head in pica type as
“Attorney for the Alaska Brother
hood,” is evidently a hermaphrodite
publication as it devotes most of its
space to boosting Mr. Paul and says
but little about the fishermen or the
business. According to the publica
tion Mr. Paul is a silver tongued ora
tor of great ability who devotes his
time in succoring the oppressed and
sucking the fishermen. After reading
the last issu6 of the Fisherman we
are most firmly convinced of the the
ory of evolution. It appears that an
ass has been evolved from a man.
DO YOU KNOW?
That 21,000,000 letters went to the
dead letter office last year.
That 803,000 parcels did likewise?
That 100,000 letters go into the
mail yearly in perfectly blank envel
opes.
That |55,000 cash is removed annu
ally from misdirected mail?
That $12,000 in postage stamps was
found in misdirected letters.
That $3,000,000 in checks, drafts or
money orders never reached their in
tended owmers.
That the government gets $92,000
a year in postage for the return of
mail sent to the dead letter office.
That it costs Uncle Sam $1,740,000
yearly to look up addresses on misdi
rected mail?
That 200 million letters are given
this service each year. <
That in one city alone it costs the
government $500 daily to look up ad
dresses which should be on the let
ters.
And do you know that this vast
sum could be saved and the dead let
ter office abolished if each piece of
mail carried a return address and if
each parcel were wrapped in stout
paper and tied with strong cord.
Moral—Put your address in the up
per left hand corner of the envelope
and write plainly.
Word comes from the interior that
Tom Marquam. republican boss and
a politician of undoubtedly ability,
will make the race in 1926 for Dele
gate to Congress. That the new's is
taken seriously is shown by the wind
blast emanating from the Alaska
Fisherman, the hermaphrodite organ
of the men who toil, published at
Ketchikan. Mr. Marquam will make
a good race, if he decides to run, and
will undoubtedly be a credit to his
constituents. He has a host of wrarm
friends in every part of the Terri
tory, and they are urging his candi
dacy.
Work On New Steel
Bridge Out of Seward
To Begin Near Future
Work on the construction of an 80
foot steel span bridge at Mile 3*A
will be started within the next ten
days, according to information reach
ing Seward yesterday. About 30 men
will be employed on the project. The
old wooden structure will be torn
down. The railway frog at that
point has already been taken out.
Gravel for the concrete piers has
been at the bridge site for a number
of days.
A man can be boss in his owrn
home, opines a Sewrard hubby, when
all the rest of the family is aw*ay.
LIVING IN HOPES
The joyous feeling I never had,
But one I’ve often sought
Is to learn that I have in the bank
More money than I thought.
A little learning is a dangerous
thing, and leads you often to put
down the wrong wrords in crossword
puzzles, declared Mildred Fisher.
A new printer was recently fired
on a paper for writing “Face” in
stead of “Pace” in “the pace that
kills.”
Eaton, Crane, Pike Stationery at
the Alaska Shop. tf
Haas Fresh Candles at the Alaska
! Shop.
THE WATCH DOG
It always makes me lau^h,
So wonderful a treat,
To see an athlete run a mile
And only move two feet.
The thirst for education seems to
be confined to the basket ball floor.
A half truth soon grows into a
whole lie.
A lot of us think we are good be
cause we pretend to be shocked at
the sins of others.
A Seward flapper expresses the
opinion that a safety pin can hold
up most anything but a porch swing
or hammock.
Time will tell, according to Sew
ard Pan players that it doesn’t al
ways tell us the pleasant things.
SMILE
If 1 knew the light of a smile
Might linger the whole day thru
I And brighten some heart with a
heavier part,
I wouldn’t wit hold it, with you?
To remember a girl's birthday is
a mark of courtesy, but not to re
member which one it is a mark of
tact.
Hitch your wagon to a star—
You may go up like a rocket,
You may go high and travel far,
But put a parachute in your pocket.
But, asked one of Seward’s blush
ing newlyweds, how did they serve
refreshments before lettuce leaves
were invented?
Isn’t it. strange that when some
body’s wife gets a new hat or dress
every woman in the block knows
what it cost within a coupla hours.
The trouble with good things, says
a Seward baseball fan, is that so
many of them turn out bad.
The greatest detective known is
your conscience.
The only difference berween the
dime novel of yesterday and the novel
of today is about one dollar and nine
ty cents.
Tne closer a man is the more dis
tant his friends are.
Cross words, cross words—have you
tackled any?
Many! That I have, sir; too danged
many.
And tell me, do you find it, sir,
Worth the time you lose?
I hear a lot of funny words which I
can never use.
Bryan has made every kind of
speech except an inaugural address.
Never try to show off your radio
before company, says Cal M. Brosius.
Pride goeth before static.
Life is a good deal like a vaude
ville show, says a Seward critic. You
think all of the time that the next
act will be better but it isn’t.
We often wonder lio-w our pastor,
knowing the deacons as he does, can
believe so thoroughly that we have
time for foreign missions.
Some people are not satisfied to
do nothing, even when they have
nothing to do.
Many people enjoy radios, says
Mr. Schallerer of the Alaska Shop;
others, he adds, made their own.
It is difficult to avoid a draft and
get fresh air, but if you overdraft
you get the air promptly.
The watchman in the graveyard
approached a figure lying on the
grass of the cemetery. He kicked
the tramp who woke up with an in
jured air.
“What are you doing?” yelled the
guardian of the dead.
“Playing dead,” was the w’eary an
swer, “When I’m in Rome I do as
the Romans do.”
: Every household has a ways and
means committee. The man is per
sumed to furnish the means and the
woman wrays of spending it.
THE JOYOUS COMEDY-DRAMA
“Happiness”
A VERY CHARMING EIGHT REEL
PRODUCTION
WITH AMERICA’S BEST LOVED
STAGE ACTRESS
Laurette Taylor
as the Star
This star has made the famous play,
“Peg o’ My Heart” a success. She gives
to this play the sparkle of the very wine
of life.
A DELIGHTFUL PLAY OF A LITTLE SHOP
GIRL WHO BRINGS THE JOY OF LIVING
TO TWO BLASE SOCIETY FOLKS—
tt
THERE WILL ALSO BE A ONE
REEL PRODUCTION
Under Cover”
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NOTE—The Seward Orchestra has dis
banded for the summer vacation, but there will
be special instrumental music every Thursday
beginning a week from today.
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