SEWARD DAILY GATEWAY
OF SEWARD, ALASKA
Established, August 19, 1904
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Gateway Publishing Co.
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Alaska, as second-class mail matter.
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THE AIRCRAFT DISGRACE
For eight years the American air
services have been reeking with scan
dal. Twenty official investigations
have failed to remove the sheet and
ascertain the trouble, until finally only
a corpse remains. Timely warnings
have been unheeded. Truth has been
suppressed and out of a mass of con
flicting testimony it is necessary to
segregate the Important facts and cite
the official records that will fix the
responsibility and indicate the wreck
age that must be cleared away before
a foundation can be laid for a con
structive program.
The officer in charge of the infor
mation division of the Army Air Ser
vice at the Mitchell court martial tes
tified that there were 517 fatalities in
the Government’s air services from
January 1, 1919, to June 30, 1925, and
that 25 per cent of the crashes were
due to structural failure.
The testimony of the officer in
charge of the Army Air Service is
that we now have only 69 planes that
are modern, up to date, and designed
for the purposes for which they were
intended.
At the close of the war Major Gen
eral Mason M. Patrick, chief of the
Army Air Service, testified that when
hostilities ceased our rank in aviation
was far behind any of our Allies and
far below the enemy’s strength, and
that so far as the manufacture of pur
suit and bombing planes in the United
States was concerned we were practi
cally in the satne position as when we
entered the war and that it would be
eight or nine months from the time a
type was settled on before it could be
produced in quantities. The unsatis
factory situation which exists today
may be gathered from the mass of de
tails and conflicting opinions which
have been the basis of charges by
Colonel William Mitchell.
The figures representing costs have
been juggled and it is not possible to
ascertain with any degree of accuracy
the omtuno of money spent or actually
wasted. In an official statement is
sued by officials of the Army Air Ser
vice a discrepancy of $250,610,693.17
was discoveredfi which fals^informa
tion was given to the public with de
liberate design. An amount in excess
of $700,000,000 was spent without pro
ducing a single American-made fight
ing plane, at the battle front, and dur
ing the war aviation fatalities in the
United States, where American made
planes were flown, reached a higher
figure than those of the American avi
ation forces in France where our avi
ators flew over the battlefield in for
eign made planes, some of which pre
viously had been discarded by our Al
lies.
Since the war another half billion
dollars have gone to join the $700,
! 000,000 already spent. Plans are on
i foot for still a further raid on the
I Treasury, this time for subsidies in
jthe name of commercial aviation which
if allowed before the situation is
cleared up, will probably mean a hand
out of another half billion.
The enormous amounts we have in
vested in aviation are almost beyond
human comprehension. Since the war
we have invested in aviation $125,
000,000 more than the entire cost of
the construction of the Panama ca
nal, including the $40,000,000 paid for
the French rights to the canal, and the
$10,000,000 paid to Panama.
Under present conditions, according
to statistics of what we have spent
and what we have got, if an effective
program should suddenly call for 2000
fighting planes designed for the pur
poses for which they are intended, de
livery would be made in 232 years, the
planes would cost more than $17,000,
000 each and 18,453 lives. A rough
comparison of gross expenditures and
gross results shows on its face the
earmarks of a colossal swindle.—H. L.
Scaife, in The Nation for December 9.
Margart Trwohig, who completed
her grade school education in five
years and high school in three, is the
youngest co-ed at the University of
i Wisconsin at the age of 14.
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A Prosperity Edition of the Seward
Daily Gateway was issued on the 12th
of December. It consists of 60 pages
of interesting descriptive matter and
advertisemenfs of the business, prin
cipally of its home town. It is a
splendid advertisement for Seward
and indicates enterprise on the part
of the Gateway owners and staff.—
Strollers’ (Juneau) Weekly.
The Seward Gateway recent issued
a 60-page Prosperity Edition. It was
a mighty fine edition all right and en
tailed lots of work for the manage
ment, being filled with interesting de
scriptive articles and well illustrated.
If the edition is truly indicative of
Seward’s prosperity she is favored
far beyond her neighbors, and we hope
whoever it is who controls this pros
perity stuff will spread it out a little'
bit.—Valdez Miner.
We have received this week a copy
of the mammoth Prosperity Edition
of the Seward Gateway; a 60-page vol
ume excellently printed and compiled,
and replete with an abundance of in
teresting matter relative to the affairs
and conditions in the Territory. A j
striking feature of the publication is !
the splendid cuts with which it s lib-!
erally illustrated. It is evident that
a prodigious amount of earnest and
conscientious work has gone into the
making of this edition; but the result
it highly satisfactory to the reader
and should be a source of pride to the
city. The publication is a credit alike
to the publisher and the rich territory
which made its publication possible.—
First City News, Ketchikan.
Setting the record for Alaskan daily
newspapers the Seward Gateway has
issued a special Prosperity Edition of
60 pages featuring the resources and
general conditions there and to the
westward. The issue contains more
than 100 photographs and Alaska car
toons.—Fairbanks News-Miner.
To the Seward Gateway belongs the
credit for having published the larg
est edition of any daily paper ever is
sued in Alaska. We refer to its Pros
perity Edition of 60 pages received in
the last mall which contains much
interesting matter of a local and his
torical nature and is profusely illus
trated with cartoons and half tone en
gravings. It is splendid advertising
for Alaska and the kind of publicity
the Territory needs. We congratulate
Messrs. Selby and Hoben, proprietors,
upon the achievement which wras made
possible through the progressive mer
chants of Seward in their liberal ad
vertising patronage. On Alaska Day,
October 18, 1908, when the publisher
of the Cordova Daily Times was edi
tor of the Fairbanks Daily Times News
he issued a 36-page edition, containing
a write-up of the mining resources of
the Tanana Valley, which we believe
held the record for the largest single
publication in the Territory until the
Gateway did itself so proud.—Cordo
va Daily Times.
A highly creditable special number
styled the Prosperity Edition, has just
been issued by the Seward Gateway.
The edition comprises sixty pages,
contains a number of splendid special
articles, covering a variety of subjects
and localities; profusely illustrated
with halftones and cartoons and car
rying a generous amount of advertis
ing'. The special cover design was at
tractively designed by E. F. Jessen,
formerly of the Alaskan staff.—An
chorage Daily Times.
The Seward Gateway has issued a
60-page Prosperity Edition which
would be a credit to a tpwrn of the,
size of Seattle. The edition is typo
graphically neat, is well illustrated
and is chock full of interesting arti
cles and news stories of its surround
ing territory. The advertising patron
age shows that Seward business men
stood behind the publication. The
edition, in truth, is one of the best
ads ever gotten up for Seward. The
Gateway is to be congratulated.—Pe
tersburg Herald.
NO INSPECTION FOR
SMALL BOATS, ALASKA
SEATTLE, Jan. 5. —W. T. Isted,
of Seattle, who recently was elected
Vive-President of the National Board
of Steam Navigation returning from
Washington, D. C., said he was con
fident no compulsory periodic in
spection of small craft in Puget
Sound or Alaska waters will Ibe de
manded by the National Board.
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Ernest Torrence and
—and—
Anna Q. Nilsson
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I Looking Ahead!
Alaskan progress of the past forecasts the future greatness of
E the North/land, and justifies all Alaskans in holding to their firm faith
5 in the Territory’s possibilities and worth. By aiming.high and
E working together—actively and 6teadily—those having to do with
E Alaskan progress can accomplish much. Looking ahead to still
E greater things, and planning and working accordingly, is the one
j= way that a high purpose can be realized.
s? The Alaska Railroad—a pioneer system—is gradually and pains
E takingly striding towards a great godl—the greater development of
E Alaska; and, that the future is bright and promising is attested by
E the steady and consistent upward trend of past and present activi
E ties. The Alaska Railroad is “Looking Ahead.”
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
The Alaska Railroad
(McKinley Park Route)
Anchorage Alaska
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