SEWARD DAILY GATEWAY
OF SEWARD, ALASKA
Established, August 19, 1904
Published daily except Sunday by
Gateway Publishing Co.
Entered in the postofrice at Seward,
Alaska, as second-class mail matter.
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ADVERTISING ALASKA
During this month, magazines hav
ing a combined circulation of 1,<62,
000 will carry page advertisements
bearing the caption, “Watch Alaska.”
These advertisements are being plac
ed by three railroads, the Chicago,
Burlington & Quincy, the Great North
ern and the Northern Pacific. The
magazine in 'which they will appear
were published in Saturday’s issue
of the Gateway.
It will be noted, pointed out the
Ketchikan Chronicle of recent date
In commenting on good work of the
railroads, That the list covers the class
of magazines read by the educated,
the cultured and to a degree the peo
ple of means. It is the- class of peo
ple who, if they become interested
dn the Territory would be able to do
it much good in the way of develop
ment.
Alaska owes a debt of gratitude to
these railroads for this s Ivertising.
EXPOSITION MAY FLUNK
Considerable discussion is going
on in Philadelphia regarding the pro
posed sesqui-centennial celebration
of the Declaration of Independence,
planned to be held there next year.
Promoters of the idea are going
ahead while others fear the exposi
tion will be a failure, because of lack
of time in which to prepare for it.
Come to think of it, 150 years is a
rather short pertod in which to get
ready for spoh in .important event.
Besides there are some who consider
Philadelphia a slow town. Anyway
.the big Alaska exhibit which. will be
held in New York prior to the one
in Philadelphia ‘will be removed to
the Quake r to wo to get dts share of
“con it be so!”
BOLL WEEVIL "LICKED”
.Commenting on a headline “Boll
Weevil Licked,” the Chattanooga
News points out that .the same thing
may be said of small pox, yellow fe
ver, malaria, typhoid, diphtheria and
a multitude of other enemies of man
kind, and adds: “And it is of the
utmost importance to remember that
not a single one of these enemies has
been ‘Licked’ by ignorance, narrow
mindedness, prejudice or standpat
ism.”
SECRETS WILL OUT
No doubt many readers marvel at
the literary ability of our champion
prize-fighters, baseball players and
other athletec. With trained news
paper men to rwrite their stuff, it
must be admitted that some of them
ao exceedingly wen. vjue receuuy
complained, however, that a publish
ed article made ham say that a cer
tain umpire’s “decisions were ques
tionable,” when what he really want
ed to convey was that said umpire
-was a ‘‘blind thief and a big bum.”
FLORIDA, AS IS
In an able description of Florida
written to his home town newspaper
by an Alaska visitor it is stated that
‘‘Florida is bounded on the north by
the 18th amendment and on the
other three sides by the 3-mile limit;
the only state with both an east and
a west coast, separated by 200 miles
of subdivisions.”
THAT WISE CONGRESS
We scarcely expected to see the
gunmen put out of business by the
House ways and means committee
with one sweeping swipe, but it ap
pears that suoh is about to happen,
though the simple expedient of plac
ing a 10 per cent tax on all pistols
and automatic revolvers, thus making
these necessary implements too ex
pensive for the bandits. How simple!
Why didn’t someone think of it be
1 fore?
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HUMANITARIAN ACT IN SOUTH
People are becoming more humane
in their attitude toward dumb crea
tures. This can/hardly be better il
lustrated than ,by the case reported
off a Southern legislator, who cham
pioned a bill making it a criminal of
fense in this state to swallow a!n oys
ter alive, and providing that, oysters
be slaughtered by a painless method.
While the bill .failed to pass, the sup
port it received unmistakably shows
the trend toward more merciful prac
tices. Why don’t they hang .them to
a tree and shoot at them?
IRON HOUSES NOW
A British concern is building iron
houses for which orders totalling
$70,000 are now on hand, a 11-ton
house costing $2,125. Now who can
think up a nice proverb about “People
who live in iron houses,” etc.?
POLITICS AGAIN
Again politics has made a pair of
strange bed-fellows.. Roald Me- !
Neill when a member of the British
Parliament in 1914 threw a book
across the house of commons at Win
ston unurchiii curing a aeDaie on
the Irish question. Now O’Neill is
financial secretary to the British
treasury, while his boss is Churchill,
chancellor of the exchequer.
FAKE WILSON MEMORIAL
That drives and movements staged
by slick promoters for personal
gain sometimes catch big suckers
was shown in the recent collapse of
a plan to establish a Wilson Memor
ial University, in honor of the World
War President.
Although many fo the leading men
of the nation, including senators,
governors and generals, had allow
ed their names to be used as patrons
of the enterprise, without investigat
ing its real character, most of them
have resigned from any connection
with it during the past few weeks.
It developed that the idea had or
iginated wdth one A. Milton Petty,
an ofescure,, government clerk, and
A. Winslow ,Lowell, a professional
drive prompter, working on a com
mission basis.
!So long as people or ail wains o:t
life continue to fall for promiscuous
schemes of this sort, so long will a
horde of smooth fakirs find easy
pickings.
THE PLiGHT OF FRANCE
With -the fall of two cabinets with
in a fortnight and with no assurance
that the latest body of ministers will
be more successful than its pred
ecessors, the plight o>f France is
serious, indeed.
Driven to desperate straits .through
lack of funds, her statesmen appear
to be unable to agree upon any prac
tical plan whereby she may extricate
herself from her perilous position.
When Caillaux was recalled to
power as minister of finance some
weeks ago, hopes were entertained
not only by France but throughout
■the world that (he might solve the
difficult financial problems of the
republic. Had he been given full
support, this might have been pos
sible, but the bitter opposition to his
policies that developed led the re
mainder of the cabinet to resign in
order to get rid of him.
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A STORY OF THE WILD WEST
The Man Whom All People Like
EUGENE O’BRIEN
AND THAT PERFECT ACTRESS
MAE BUSCH
With Mitchel Lewis and Mildred Harris in
“FRIVOLOUS SAL’
A FINE 8-KEEL WESTERN STORY
Mostly staged on the slopes of Mt. Rainier
This is the first play here for some time that
shows the Frontier Days in the Great West.
SOMETHING THRILLING and EXCITING
This proved to be an extra good show on
the first showing Saturday night.
YOUR LAST OPPORTUNITY TO SEE IT
IS TONIGHT
The failure of the later Painleve
cabinet shows that nothing wTas gain,
ed while probably much was lost by
repudiating Caillaux before he had
really had a chance.
As this is written, there appears
to be no statesman available strong
enough to command 'the support
necessary to bring order out of
chaos. Party strife and a rule or
ruin attitude on the part of her
politicians seem likely to spell dis
aster for France.
SLIPPERN SAWMILL READY
TO START UP AT INDIAN
The Slippern sawmill at Indian, on
the Alaska railroad south of Anchor
age, will begin operations in the near
future, says the Anchorage Times of
recent date. The mill has been put
in readiness for a long season of ac
tivity, a mess and bunk house having
been constructed, and a road extend
ed from the mill to the scene of log
ging operations. Lumber and railtbad
ties will be produced.
Earl Slippern is owner of the new
plant.
VALDEZ WOMAN HURT
Mrs. M. Gravelle met with a painful
accident last week when one of her
hands became entangled in a clothes
wringer, badly lacerating the thumb
and bruising the whole hand.
In extenoing the Season’s Greeting to all its \
friends and patrons, The Alaska Railroad takes oc- \
easion to announce a
. .CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEARS
EXCURSION FARE
of one and one-third the regular one-way fare, for
round trip, between all stations. Reduced rate tick
ets may be purchased at all agency stations Decem
ber 21st 1925 to January lst'1926, inclusive; final
return limit January 5th, 1926. Passengers board
ing trains at non-agency stations may avail them
selves of this Special Excursion Rate by purchasing
reduced rate tickets at first avency stations.
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
accomplishment of this purpose The Alaska Rail
road will continue to lend its earnest and whole
hearted cooperation at all times.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
The Alaska Railroad
(McKinley Park Route)
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