SEWARD DAILY GATEWAY
OF SEWARD, ALASKA
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ALASKA’ RIGHTFUL HERITAGE
(From Seattle Times)
The purpose of a bill introduced
last week in the House of Repre
sentatives to create a fund from the
revenues obtained from the sale of
seal and fox skins on the Pribilof
Islands to protect and develop the
fur seal fisheries and fox raising and
to assist the Alaska natives is sound
in principle. Various measures of
similar character have been proposed
but so far Congress has taken no
decisive action.
In the first session of the Sixty
eighth Congress, a bill providing that
the surplus revenues from the fur
seal fisheries be converted into the
Alaska fund passed the Senate. Al
askans have frequently pointed out
the injustice of depriving the terri
tory of all benefits of one of its im
portant industries.
Fox farming has developed on a
large scale in Alaska and the im
portance of this new industry war
rants the establishment of experi
mental stations in Southeastern and
Southwestern Alaska.
The principle involved is somewhat
similar to the segregation of large
tracts of lands for federal forest
reserves and retaining for the use
of the entire country the proceeds of
property which rightfully belongs to
the states where the forests are sit
uated. The land is withheld from
local use and taxation and is made
to yield revenues for the states that
have cut their own forests. As a
proposition it hardly could be justi
fied by the rules of fair play.
Under the sealing treaty with
Great Britain and Japan, those coun
tries receive annually a percentage
of the profits from the operation of
the seal fisheries on the Pribilof
Islands. After those payments are
made and all expenses paid there
should be something left for the use
and benefit of the territory where
the seals are found.
NATIONAL LOTTERIES
In view of the proposal to estab
lish a new national lottery in France
in aid of the government’s finances,
it is interesting to note the change
of attitude toward such schemes
during the past century.
It may not be generally known
that an American national lottery
was instituted by the Congress of
1776 and that between that date
and 1820 at least seventy acts were
passed by Congress authorizing lot
teries for public purposes, such as
schools, roads and other improve
ments.
During the presidency of Wash
ington, Harvard College supported
itself in part by a grand lottery, with
capital prizes as high as $20,000.
Most European governments have
at some time or another employed
national lotteries as a means of rais
ing funds for the public treasuries,
and municipal lotteries have been
common. Cuba has conducted a na
tional lottery since the formation of
I the republic.
( France financed the war of the
S Spanish Succession by a lottery which
was not suppressed until 1836. Eng
land authorized lotteries for harbor
improvements and for the financing
of the Virginia Company, which
founded the early settlements in
America, and raised government
funds by that means unti 11824.
Religious and charitable organiza
tions were in some countries per
mitted to operate lotteries, long af
ter the governments had abolished
them as national institutions. On a
j small scale such exist in America to
: day in the form of “raffles,” which
do not differ in principle from the
more pretentious lotteries of the
i past.
But during the last hundred years
the trend of sentiment throughout
j the world has been against lotteries,
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BOOKSELLERS STATIONERS NEWS DEALERS
particularly in the United States,
where drastic legislation for their
suppress/ion has been enacted.
Still the gambling instinct is per
haps as strong as ever and finds op
portunities for expression ni many
ways, ranging from the outright
method of the gaming table to lawful
speculation in markets and stocks,
regarding the morals of which there
is much difference of opinion, even
among the better elements of so
ciety.
ALLEGED MEDIUMS FAIL
In one of the most scientifically
conucted tests ever made of alleg
ed spiritualistic “mediums,” in which
283 of the mtried to prove commun
ication with the spirit world, all have
utterly failed to make good in the
slightest degree.
The tests, recently conducted un
der the auspices of the Scientific
American, were attempts to receive
from the spirit of Mrs. J. Allen Gil
bert of Portland, Ore., who died in
1915, a secret countersign agreed
.upon between her and her husband
before her death.
Thiscountersign was written and
sealed in an envelop and mediums
were invited to call her spirit and
receive from it the secret words. Dr.
Gilbert offered $500 as a reward to
any medium who might be success
ful. All of the 283 mediums receiv
ed what they claimed to be the
sought-for message. But when the
envelop was opened by Dr. Orson D.
Munn, the editor of the Scientific
American, he announced that not one
of the 283 answers “came anywhere
near coinciding w'ith the countersign
taken from the sealed envelop,”
which proved to be the dates of birth
of Dr. Gilbert, his wife and their
daughter.
Many of the most eminent scien
tists and scientific societies are mak
ing an earnest effort to discover the
truth about spiritualism, and while a
few' have convinced themselves that
spirit messages have been received,
there appears to be absolutely on
proof that can stand up against the
findings of impartial investigators.
Imaginings of the human mind
lead into many errors and so far as
positive knowledge exists today, the
idea of communicating with spirits of
the departed is merely one of the
most cherished of delusions, and
nothing more.
At any rate, we knowr from this
latest test that 283 pretended med
iums are imposters.
AMMERICANS IN EUROPE LONG
FOR HOME DISHES AND MENU
PARIS, Dec. 21 (JP)—Paris may
boast the best cooks in all the world,
but hundreds of Americans are starv
ing here for American dishes.
Even the American woman who
diets has her troubles. For European
chefs have not learned how to make
that extremely thin and brittle toast
which enables one to give a pretense
of eating.
In France sauces and butter and
flour used as ingredients in the cui
sine are terrible enemies to the waist
line. In England, boiled unseasoned
vegetables offer little temptation to
the palate. No medals can be award
ed in Italy and Germany for no woman'
wants to wear fashionable gowns who
eats macaroni, spaghetti or raviola.
Wine and beer do not help keep the
slender, boy-like figure.
The Alaska Railroad
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EE A rich, middle-aged woman falls in love and j|§
jEE marries a youth half her age; and then her EE
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H The great Cast is headed by
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M .MALCOLM McGREGOR—HELEN LYNCH. M
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= With it there is a fine one-reel comedy E§
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REHABILITATION OF TORNADO
SWEPT AREA UNDER WAY
CHICAGO, Dec. 21 (/P)—The annual
Red Cross roll call finds this organ
ization just finishing its biggest dis
aster relief job this year—in the sec
tion of Missouri, southern Illinois and
Indiana, Kentucky and Tennessee,
swept by the disastrous tornado of
March 18.
Nearly two million dollars has been
spent by the Red Cross in assisting
the residents of the affected area to
rehabilitate their communities and a
“back to school” campaign is now in
progress.
One of the biggest problems is to
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overcome the fear of the children of
| even entering school buildings from
wihch so many of their playmates
were taken out dead last spring. The
i least puff of wind unnerves them.
There still are 500 injured in need
of medical attention, 266 of them at
! West Frankfort. It may be a year
j before some of these cases are com
pleted.
Sir Jagadis Chandra Rose, a scien
tist of India, has recently demon
! strated an invisible light, said to be
: an improvement on the ordinary X
! rays.
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| In extending the Season’s Greeting to all its |
| friends and patrons, The Alaska Railroad takes oc- |
E casion to announce a =
E . .CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEARS =
1 EXCURSION FARE =
E of one and one-third the regular one-way fare, for |
= round trip, between all stations. Reduced rate tick- |
5 ets may be purchased at all agency stations Decern- | *
| ber 21st, 1925 to January 1st, 1926, inclusive; final E
| return limit January 5th, 1926. Passengers board- |
1 ing trains at non-agency stations may avail them- E
= selves of this Special Excursion Rate by purchasing I
| reduced rate tickets at first agency stations. 5
| It is the sincere wish of The Alaska Railroad |
| that the year 1926 will be most progressive and pros- =
| perous for all Alaskan activities, and towards the §
E accomplishment of this purpose The Alaska Rail- |
| road will continue to lend its earnest and whole- 5 (
| hearted cooperation at all times. E
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