SEWARD DAILY GATEWAY
OF SEWARD, ALASKA
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AIR MAIL POST CARDS
As a means ol' increasing air mail
business and thus expanding our air
service, H. Kirkwood of San Fran
cisco proposes a low rate for post
cards sent by this means.
He figures that the present rate of
24 cents from New York to San
Francisco for post cards yields $76,
800 per ton, counting the cards at a
weight of one-tenth of an ounce each, i
At a rate of four or five cents
each there would still be a great
profit in their transportationvand the
low rate would insure a tremendous
increase in the use of the air mail
for this purpose. He estimates that
a billion post cards a year would be
carried at this rate, yielding revenue
to the government of approximately
forty million dollars.
Whether the volume suggested by ;
Mr. Kirkwood would be realized or
not can not be foretold, of course,
but considering the great revenue
possible from such comparatively
small weight and bulk, it appears
that his idea is worthy of develop
ing.
CANADA LOOKS FORWARD
One of the most forward-looking!
movements which has come to our
notice lately is that of the Canadian
National Committee for Mental Hy
giene, which has raised a large sum
for research work and other activi
ties in behalf of insane, epileptic and
otherwise mentally defective per
sons.
The Lady Byng of Vimy fund has
reached $200,000 and the Rockefel
ler Foundation has donated $75,000
toward a total of half a million
which it is hoped to raise.
All the results of this research
work will be placed at the disposal
of the Canadian government for its
guidance in dealing with this great
problem, which includes not only
those totally disabled from mental
deficiencies, but abnormal school
children, potential criminals and all
others who need scientific attention
or treatment.
It has been demonstrated, not only
in Canada, but in every country in
the world, that the economic loss
through neglect of these defectives
is enormous, not to mention the phy
sical and mental suffering that goes
hand in hand with it, all extending
beyond the present to future genera
tions.
Canada’s determined efforts to
meet its responsibilities in these mat
ters will command the sympathetic
and hopeful interest of sociologists
and philanthropists the world over.
FUTURE OF PROHIBITION
Regardless ol' individual views oil
prohibition, it must be admitted by
every citizen that a serious condition
confronts the country in regard to
the enforcement of the Volstead law.
While the Anti-Saloon League and
many government authorities claim
that great progress is being made in
lawT enforcement, others see in the
widespread disregard of law a seri
ous menace to our American life.
At the end of five years of prohi
bition this month, many persons
summed up the results in their own
way, reaching widely differing con
clusions. Some say the results have
been as favorable to prohibition as
could have been expected, while oth
ers profess to see evidences of ulti
mate failure.
No one can foretell what the next
five years, or the next ten, will bring
forth, but the problem seems to be
far from a permanent or satisfac
tory solution.
Neither wets nor drys are very
jubilant over the outlook and it ap
pears that for the tjme being, at
least, the rum-runners, moonshiners
and bootleggers are more numerous
than ever before.
While every good citizen hopes for
a better condition in the future, def
inite means for bringing it about do
not appear to be in sight.
NURMI'S APPETITE
In one department of sport Amer
ican athletes have been decisively
outclassed this year, through the re
markable performances of Paavo
Nurmi of Finland, who has shat
tered about all the running records
in the world.
After winning over all contenders
in the Olympic games, Nurmi came to
America recently to take part in in
door meets in New York and Chi
cago. It was thought by many that
he would be at a disadvantage on a
board track, but here again he prov
ed invincible, breaking two world’s
records the first night he appeared
on a New York track. A few nights
later he broke three world’s records,
followed by other sensational per
formances in Chicago and again in
New York, which stamps him as the
greatest runner of all time.
One remarkable thing about this
Nurmi is his disregard of most of the
accepted theories of training and
diet. An hour or two before going
on ihe track he eats all he wants, of
which the following is a sample
menu: Vegetable soup, spare ribs of
beef, baked sweet potatoes, about
half a dozen rolls, a double helping
of ice cream, two apples and three
cups of coffee.
He evidently believes that it takes
fuel to make steam—and so it does.
MILLIONS ARE STARVING
Civilization does not appear to
have gotten very far, after all, when
we reflect that right now millions of
human beings are starving in various
part of the world.
From the Near East, from Russia,
from India, from China, from Korea
and other lands come heart-rending
stor-'es of hunger and death, in many
cases made more terrible by suffer
ing from cold and lack of medical
aid.
Devastated by war, and by failure
to recover from its effects, vast areas
are unable to produce enough food
to sustain their publications. In other
cases, local disturbances, unfavora
ble climatic conditions, unintelligent
methods, religious and racial perse
cution have each contributed to the
deplorable situation.
At the bottom of it all lie those
two monsters of all ages—ignorance
and greed. These are chiefly re
sponsible for existing conditions.
In all history it appears that the
human race has been largely domi
nated by ambitious and selfish men
and this is as true today as it was in
the time of Alexander the Great.
Even when leaders supposed to
represent the common people rise to
power, as in Russia, they are often
as autocratic and cruel as the aristo
crats whom they displace.
In spite of our vaunted civiliza
tion, a majority of all human beings
born on this earth are doomed to
lives of privation and misery, largely
as a result of “man’s inhumanity to
man.”
SOME MORE RULES
While not entirely original, the ten
commandments of health suggested
by Miss Maria Leonard, dean of wo
men at the University of Illinois, are
worthy of consideration. She says:
“Eat less; cliewr more. Ride less!
walk more. Clothe less; bathe more.
Worry less; work more. Idle less;
play more. Talk less; think more.
Go less; sleep more. Waste less;
give more. Scold less; laugh more.
Preach less; practice more.”
There is a pretty good lot of ad
vice in the above forty words, and it
is worth going over several times,
giving thought to each suggestion.
Eet ter observance of these rules
would tend to promote health, hap
piness and consequently a loner and
more useful life.
When a Kansas pool room went up
in smoke, the wide-awake newrsboys
shouted “Pool room burned; 100 men
homeless.”
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THE “MAILED FIST” OF SPAIN
That is the name sometimes given
to Vaptain-General Emilio Barrero,
literal Dictator of revolting provin
ces of Spain. Recently in Barcelona,
following a revolt, he made over 300
j arrests in his stern campaign of re
pression, and his work is going on
fully as strong and as efficient, sub
duing all movements with full au
thority backing him up. Those who
are captured receive either of two
sentences, execution or court mar
jtial, which means life imprisonment.
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.KEYSTONE VIEW CO NEW YO*«
CAPITAL PUNISHMENT
“Out of my own experience of
twenty-five years as counsel for
i the defense, prosecutor, and judge,
! I say the only thing a criminal
I fears is the penalty of death that
will follow his crime,” said Judge Al
| fred E. Talley, in a New York de
bate on capital punishment with Clar
ence Darrow, the Chicago lawyer
who defended Leopold and Loeb.
After criminals went to jail said
Judge Talley, conditions were made
J rather pleasant for them. Cinema
i shows brighten every evening, the
convicts’ time was lightened in Sing
Sing and other prisons by perform
ances of Broadway stars whom law
abiding poor outside could not see
because they had not the money.
If you don’t like the meals in pris
on you can get them from a private
cafe. At the present time more than
half of the Sing Sing prisoners eat
outside.
“If I, as an individual have the
right to kill in self-defense why has
not the State, which is a group of
individuals, the right to defend it
self against aggression?” Those who
seek to take away from the State
the power of capital punishment seek
to take from the symbol of Justice
her sword.
Mr. Darrow declared that rich men
escaped the death penalty, while
“the poor, the weak and the friend
less” suffered. “I guarantee,” he
said, “that every man awaiting death
at Sing Sing is there because he was
without a good lawyer. Do you sup
pose a good lawyer will defend a
poor client? They are too busy
looking after the wealth of big cor
porations.” At this point the presi
dent of the debate took exceptions
to the remarks of Mr. Darrow, and
stepped from the chair to object.
The winner of the debate has not
yet been announced, but a vote will
About the only show place some
towns have is the circus lot.
Telephone girls have no business
or profession—only a calling.
Many people could say all they
think without making much noise.
Correct this sentence: I really be
lieve our electric light meter runs
too slowly.
SEWARD CLUB
Under New
MANAGEMENT
OLD AND NEW
FRIENDS INVITED
GUS ANDERSON
ED ERICKSON
ADMIRAL LINE PUTS OUT
NEAT FOLDER FOR THE
COMING TOURIST YEAR
The Pacific Steamship Company
has issued a very attractive folder
for the season of 1925, showing
scenes along the Inside route and
giving Seward quite a boost. Round
trip rates this season are quoted at
$188, including berth and meals.
Their vessels will call at Anchorage
Kodiak and all other Southwestern
Alaska ports of call.
Relative to Seward, the folder has
the following to say:
•‘Seward—Is the southern terminus
of the Government Railroad, which
operates 500 miles of modern train
service lo McKinley National Park,
and Fairbanks, Alaska. Located at
the northern limit of Resurrection
Bay, it has one of the finest deep sea
harbors on the Pacific Coast. Pc.pu
lovioL 2,000. Seward is the selected
site for the North Coast Government
Coaling Station and Naval Las\ '1 he
Harbor at Seward is free from ice
at all times of the year. It is the
nearest port to the greatest and most
extensive fishing banks in the world.
Mining is also a growing anu inpoit
an: industry. Seward 13 the Ga e
w;iv to all the great resources of In
tel iov it ia:ka, as well as a disnebut
ing center for that territory.”
Relative to the summer schelule
*I:o folder gives the following:
“Steamships Admiral watsor and
Admiral Evans sail every other 'lues
day alternately at ten o cioca from
the heme company’s whaif a Seat
tle cn the following dates;
S. S. “Admiral Evans” May 5
May 19 S. S. “Admiral Watson”
| S. S. “Admiral Evans” June 2
June 16 S. S. “Admiral Watson”
S. S. “Admiral Evans” June 30
July 14 S. S. “Admiral Watson”
S. S. “Admiral Evans” July 28
Aug. 11 S. S. “Admiral Watson”
S. S. “Admiral Evans” Aug. 25
Sept. 8 S. S. “Admiral Watson”
S. S. “Admiral Evans” Sept. 22
In addition to the regular ports of
call the Admiral Line boats stop oc
cassionally at Yakutat and Katalla.
This year’s radio world’s fair has
been set for the week of September
14-19 at the great 258th Regiment Ar
mory, in New York City. Among the 1
features already planned is a demon-1
stration of a system of transmitting
and receiving light, heat and power '
by radio; another is said to be a
means of transmitting cold, or re- j
frigeration, in tho same manner. May- j
be the coal man and the ice man of
the future are in for rough bumps.
Homage was paid to Vasco da
Gama, the great Portuguese navigator
in commemoration of the 400th anni- •
versary of his death and many fore- j
ign warships joined in the exercises, !
which began at Lisbon on January I
26. Da Gama discovered the water
route to India, sailing around the
southern coast of Africa and through
the Indian Ocean, opening rich trade
to his native country. In his day
Portuguese sailors were among the
most enterprising and daring in the
world and their prowess is worthy of
remembrance.
Mrs. Nellie Brewer Pierce, lawyer
and taxation expert, is being sug
gested by her friends as a probable
candidate for the governorship of
California it: the next campaign.
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A Special Attraction
Miss Lenora Hubbard, 70-year-olci
teacher of Anderson, S. C., cele
brated her birthday by taking a day
off, her first vacation in 28 years.
She has taught four generations o:
children in the public schools.
Miss Grace Abbott is chief of tin
children’s bureau and Miss Mar>
Anderson is chief of the women’s bu
reau, both of the United States De
partment of Labor at Washington.
Mrs. Harry Hodges cf Peach Creek.
W. Va., 13 year of age, is the moth
er of a healthy baby girl. Her
mother, the baby's grandmother, is
only 31.