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Of SEWARD, ALASKA
Established August 19, 1904
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MOVING PICTURE FAKES
It used to be said that seeing is believing but
this is not the ease any more. One can see an Al
askan picture made in California and realize there
is no truth in it. Since the expose of “The Alas
kan,” starred by Thomas Meaghan from Cur wood’s
novel, considerable publicity( has been given the
movie fake. The Alaskan is an impossible story
and is bound to be an impossible play. Its scenes
are mostly laid in the Canadian rockies, and the
fishing scenes were filmed near Bellingham, Wash.
The timber, the environment and the characters are
wierd and bizarre to the average Alaskan as our
scenery is to the outsider, with the added advantage
that while all Alaskans are from the States, few of
the residents of the states have evr seen Alaska.
There can be no doubt but that these fake pic
tures hurt the show business, and people are tired
of substitutes in anything and demand the real ar
ticle. While the government has thrown the safe
guards of censorship around the sex pictures and
morals of the screened play, it has neglected to safe
guard the public from substitutions. It would be
much more appropriate if a picture were stamped
“An Alaskan picture made in California,” giving
the audience an opportunity to admire the beauti
ful scenery in the suny south than to have part of
its audience imagining they were visiting Alaska.
By all means let a law be passed making pro
ducers stamp thei rpietures as to genuineness. Most
of us who go to plays would not cease to be enter
tained with what we saw, and all of us would know
what we were seeing.
THE FRUITFUL NORTH
We are prone to think of bleak Northern regions
as inhospitable and non-productive, despite the evi
dence of facts and the declarations of Nansen and
Amundsen. To most people Siberia is an algid hor
ror. The average American regards our own North
ern domain and that of Canada as devoid of com
fort and agricultural productiveness. In this con
nection the Toronto Globe discusses some interesting
facts.
The box of apples which won the sweepstakes
prize at the Royal Winter Fair came from the shores
of far Georgian Bay. The Globe avers that the prin
ciple that the farther north a product can be grown
the better its quality has been strikingly shown in
several instances. It says that potatoes from North
ern Ontario make the best seed for the farmers of
older Ontario, and that potatoes from New Bruns
wick are sought for seed by the growers of Virginia
and other Southern States; that Candaian hard
wheat has won world honors for bread flour.
The Siberian spring and summer seasons are
swift, but prodigiously fecund; fruits and berries
leap from blossom to life as though touched by the
wand of an enchanter; the grain harvests are rich
and abundant. So in Alaska, fruitage and flowers,
grains and grasses respond to cultivation with mar
velous vigor. Amundsen tells of the potentialities
of the life and production within the Arctic Circle.
Others testify to the same condition and possibilities.
As time passes the world will have greater need
for its frigid and arid territories; these will be con
quered and reclaimed as necessity and progress de
mand. We have but tapped the resources of na
ture. The world will be a good place in which to
five for aeons yet to come.—Cincinnati Enquirer.
AN ARGUMENT FOR BETTER BUYING
Perhaps it may not be amiss to review a.few of
these things that the home merchant does, which the
itinerant peddler ai d the mailorder house does not
do for the community. The home t ;wn merchant
is your friend—your neighbor. He pays taxes in
our city to keep up our government and our schools.
He donates to every worthy cause that comes along.
He works to upbuild our civic enterprises. He em
ploys many of our fellow citizens in his business en
terpriss and he and his employes, no doubt in turn
spend their money with you. The home town mer
chant’s interests are centered in the community in
which he has made and reinvested all he possesses,
and naturally he is working continually to upbuild
the city in which he lives.
Consider the peddler and the mail-order house.
Do they ever contribute to the local churches? Do
they pay any taxes which help to pay the salaries
of your city officials? Do they help to keep up
the city’s parks and playgrounds? When Seward
advertised herself to the world as a tourist center,
did these two elements contribute one dime to that
advertising fund? If we were to bond the county
tomorrow to build roads, would these outsiders pay
one single penny toward the retirement of that bond
ed indebtedness? Do the mail-order houses and the
peddler get out and work for nothing, donating their
cars, their time and their money to help put over
a convention or a county fair? Does any of the
money they take out of a community ever return?
No—they do none of these things.
When 3’ou buy from the peddler taking orders
for future delivery, or patronize a mail-order house
through a catalogue, you take a long chance indeed,
but when you walk into one of the stores of the
home-town merchant, you 'have the opportunity to
examine the merchandise you buy. You know what
you get and can judge its value on the spot. If
you buy something which does not prove satisfac
tory to you. you may return it and the home-town
merchant is always ready and willing to make ad
justments. Buying at home, you have the advan
tage of credit; you may have merchandise delivered
to you and you have the opportunity to see just
what you are getting without advancing one penny
of your money.
Price is 6ne of the biggest talking points of the
outsider. But prices in local stores will be found
to be just as cheap as those of the peddler and the
mail-order house if quality is taken into considera
tion. The quality and price of Seward merchandise
will compare favorably with that of any and all out
siders who attempt to sell their merchandise in the
city.
CAPITALIZING CNIIEST
Agitators thrive on dissatisfaction. Like a
patent medicine ad, their aim is to make you sick,
then get your dollar for the cure they offer. They
tell the farmer how he is robbed by imaginary mid
dleman. They tell the mechanic how he is crush
ed by an imaginary capitalism. They go on the
theory that if you tell a man often enough and loud
enough that he is sick, he will take the medicine. It
would be interesting to inquire into the source of in
come of these fellows. Who supports them? What
job would they hold if the ideal they paint in such
attractive colors came true? If all the things
they attack were wiped out, where would they land ?
The very last thing they want is the peace they so
loudly proclaim they are striving for. Their whole
line of goods is Trouble. It does not concern them
in the least if they turn a happy, prosperous com
munity into chaos, starvation, misery and death.
The measure of their success is the strif they stir up.
In this day and age when statistics show that
one-fifth of the deaths by accidents in the United
States in 1924 was caused by automobiles. Seward
has a clean sheet. She has never had a death or in
jury recorded against the town’s autos.
If this spell of warm weather hangs on perhaps
Seward will have no winter worthy of the name.
The Daily Gateway has been running under its
present form a few days over one month. We be
lieve our people like it too well to permit it to go
back to its old form. Give us all the patronage you
can afford and we can afford to continue as it is.
We don’t anticipate a rebellion among the
“slaves of labor” in this country; at least not among
the plumbers, bricklayers and manicurists.
The chief trouble with the late Progressive par
ty seemed to be that it couldn’t, or wouldn’t, pro
gress.
A New Yorker whose lawyer exhorted the Court
with poetry was eventually acquitted of both charg
In this hectic world, where speed is much over
done, it is restful for trazzled nerves to contemplate
the deliberateness with which France wishes to pay
its debt to America!
LIBERTY THEATRE
TONIGHT ONLY
One Show, 8:00 p. m.
WESLEY BARRY
in a seven reel comedy
GEORGE WASHINGTON, JUNIOR
TUESDAY NIGHT ONLY,
One Show at 8:00 p. m.
WILLIAM S HART
in the seven reel feature,
WILD BILL HICKOK
Also a two reel comedy
“THE COBBLER”
WEDNESDAY NIGHT ONLY
By special request the eleven reel feature
LITTLE OLD NEW YORK
will be repeated with no advance
in price
GOVERNMENT WILL
AID IN FIGHT ON
POULTRY DISEASE
APPROPRIATION OF $1,000,000 AP
PROVED BV BOTH HOUSE
AND SENATE.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 5.—
Moving with unaccustomed speed,
congress today appropriated $100,000
to finance a fight against poultry
diseases and transmitted the result
of its action to the White House for
approval. The bill authorizing the
expenditure was not signed today be
cause President Coolidge had left for
a short cruise on the Mayflower.
The senate passed a resolution
yesterday authorizing the expendi
ture and the house today quickly
gave its approval. With the money
in hand the department of agricul
ture will declare quarantines to pre
vent the spread of chicken diseases.
Surveys to determine the infected
areas will begin at once.
The bureau of animal industry
expects to issue an order tomorrow
prohibiting interstate shipments of
diseased chickens and chicken coups
and railroad cars not disinfected.
Railroads will be requested to ho!.!
up any case not cleaned ana certi
fied.
MORRIS MAY HEAD
MILITARY COMMITTEE
WASHINGTON, D. Jan. 5.—Rep
resentative Morris of Penna, will pro
bably fill the chairmanship of the
Military committee left vacant by tile
death of Julius Kahn, representative
of California.
ANOTHER MINE FATALITY
SEATTLE, Wash., Jan. 5.—Harry
Humecke who was burned in the
Burnett mine explosion died today
bringing the total victims to seven.
Brunswick Radiolas, the Radiola de
Luxe at the Alaska Shop. tf
INVENTORY SALE
Bargains 'n all
Lines
ELLSWORTffS
gUNBEAM CABINET HEATERS
Look them over and see what they will do for
the Home or Store built without a basement—
PRICED AT $128.00 CASH
Terms of $30.00 down and the balance in 12
monthly payments will be made to responsible
home owners. The cleanest and most economical
heater on the market; an ornament to th e home
SEWARD MACHINE SHOPS
PLUMBING AND SHEET METAL-WORKS