Why not sell it?
ON every ranch there is machinery,
implements, stock, or other use
less things that should be turned into
cash to be used for other purposes.
In every home there is furniture,
trunks and other articles that might
also be sold. The money could be put to
use, or in the bank to draw interest.
Why not sell such things now ?
Or perhaps you have chickens,
eggs, plants, or service of some kind
that you want to find buyers for.
GATEWAY WANT AD’S WILL HELP
YOU FIND BUYERS
Every week these little salesmen
are working night and day, selling
for your neighbors, and at a very low
cost: 15 cents a line the first insertion,
and 10 cents a line after that. A liberal
reduction will be made for monthly ad
vertisements.
Look around now and have your
want ad in the next issue. Telephone
it in if you wish and our clerk will take
it down for you.
THE DAILY GATEWAY
COMPETENT PRINTEPvS
Red Russia Has Become
a Country of “Joiners1'
MOSCOW, Jan. 13.—Soviet Russia
has become the country of “joiners.”
Stroll along any Moscow street, and
you will be struck by the numbers
of passersby, wearing emblems and
badges in their buttonholes.
Not that Kiwanis, Rotary, Ameri
can lodges and college fraternities
have installed Moscow chapters.
Closer scrutiny discloses that the
insignia displayed in Moscow indi
cate membership in the host of rev
olutionary organizations which have
sprung up under the soviet regime.
The “joining” epidemic has brought
forth questions peculiar to the new
soviet society. Membership dues
which the ordinary citizen, especial
ly the organized workman is obliged
to pay in order to keep abreast of
these gregarious times, run up to a
tidy figure when the “joiner” draws
up his family budget. Moreover, the
continual social, political and voca
tional meetings, which the “joiner”
is constrained to attend leave him
scant time for family or recreation.
Even in soviet Russia, where time
was always measured in hours, days
and years, but never in minutes, the
demands of membership in innumer
able societies has become a serious
drain upon the life of the party
member.
A coal miner in the Don basin has
written a letter on this subject to
the central communist organ, “Prav
da,” which confronts the rulers of
the country’s destiny with a new
puzzle. The letter evokes the ques
tion of how can the soviet citizen
live on a paltry twenty-four hours’
time for one day.
The coal miner rightly points out
that hundreds of thousands of his
party comrades have not become
“joiners” because their desire to be
come members of this or that club or
society is irresistible, but because
“party or trade union discipline” re
quire that they join. Thus it hap
pens that at a general meeting of
the trade union the union’s president
proposes that all the workers join
the Volunteer Red Air Fleet society.
It would not be “the right thing” to
refuse such a suggestion, and so the
trade unionists “unanimously” vote
in favor of joining the society. Sim
ilarly, every communist party mem
ber or trade unionist (and there are
six and a half million of the latter
becomes, willy nilly, a member of a
veritable flock of organizations.
The coal miner, writing in “Prav
da,” mentions that in this manner
he has become a member of the Vol
unteer Red Air Fleet society, the
Volunteer Society for Chemical War
fare, the International Society for
Relief of Political Prisoners, the
Homeless Children’s Aid Society for
Combatting Illiteracy, the “Hands
off China” society, the political
school, the local club, the trade
union and the Mutual Aid Society.
Each of his associations requires
dues. Nor does this take into ac
count special contributions, elicited
for the Leningrad flood, for improv
ing the district library or adding a
coronet or fiddle to the village or
chestra.
In addition, it is computed, the
party “joiner” is obliged to attend
an average of one special society
meeting a day, each often lasting for
hours.
“A member of the party,” declares
‘ Pravda’s” correspondent, “scarcely
finds a moment to spend with his
family; he has no rest; he has little
or no opportunity to read; and
pleasures and amusements remain in
the realm of might-have-been.
Many candidates for membership
in the communist party are said to
have withdrawn their candidacy be
cause of fatigue. Even full-fledged
members are reported as “retreat
ing” from the party, since they are
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Sails from
Seattle
Jan. 7th
Feb. 4th
Arrives
Seward
Jan. 15 th
Feb. 12th
South from
Seward
Jan. 18th
Feb. 16th
Calling at all regular Southeastern and South
western Alaska ports in eluding Seldovia and
Kodiak.
WAYNE BLUE, Agent
Telephone Main 81
Res.. Madison 40
Pacific Coastwise Service
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STEAMSHIP STARR WILL SAIL FEBRUARY 1
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San Juan Fishing and Packing Co.
6. C. HENDERSON. Agent
PHONE MADISON 13». 8EWARD, ALA8KA
. unable to keep up the rapid pace of
! the “joiner” and do not wish to be
j outdistanced in the “joining scram
! ble” by comrades with greater
stamina.
The test of the social elect is to
gossip about the rigut people.
SAVANTS WEIGH
CELESTIAL BODIES
WASHINGTON. D. C., Jan. 14.—
Ambitious scientists on Uncle Sam’s
payroll have started out to weigh the
earth, sun. moon, planets, and stars
with two little gold balls, a couple of
cylinders and a gallery of mirrors.
Down in a cave 35 feet under the
lowest cellar of the bureau of stan
dards building they are putting the
earth on the scales.
It is done by measuring the attrac
tion of the cylinders on the gold balls
as they swing in a circle from an
aluminum beam.
The attraction is almost immeasur
ably small, but applied to the earth
in relation to the sun and moon it
explains the summer and winter, the
tides and other natural phenomena of
this changing world.
Almost Correct
The figure previously determined as
representing that universal attraction
of all bodies of matter for one an
other, called the “gravitational con
stant,” and fixed at .0000000000000698,
is only 99.98 per cent correct, and Dr.
Paul Rhyl, with special precautions
for accuracy, hopes to obtain a figure
which will be 99.9 per cent correct or
a 90 per cent reduction from the pre
sent error.
With this figure and other data, in
cluring the distance to the center of
the earth, the sun, the moon and the
stars, the business of determining the
mass for weight can be accomplished.
The astronomers have worked out a
formula whereby the mass can be ac
curately computed, the other factors
in the equation being correct.
The Present Estimate
The present estimate for the earth’s
weight is 6,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
tons (six sextillion tons). Astrono
mers, admit however, that there is a
basic error of one-fiftieth of one per
cent in this figure, or about one and
one-fifth quintillion tons in the total.
This discrepancy has bothered them
in their sidereal computations.
If the present weighing experiment
works this error will be reduced to
l-500th of 1 per cent, bringing the
earth’s weight estimate within 120
quadrillion tons of being right, suffi
ciently close for all purposes.
The sun’s weight is now computed
at 332,000 times that of the earth, an
appalling long string of figures. The
same errors enter calculation of its
weight and if eliminated for the earth
they will be eliminated for the sun.
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NOTED SCIENTIST SAILS FOR EUROPE
Right to left: Dr. Alexis Carrel, noted member of the Rockefeller
Institute for Medical Research, who sailed on the Steamship Paris on a
business trip. He is talking to Dr. Pierre Dumont, the ship’s medico.
F. L. ANDREWS DROWNS
Frank L. Andrews of C.nig was
di owned recently at Big Harbor
w hen a row boat in whic.i lie was at
trie cars capsized and pitched him
into the cold sea. Andiews had
been a resident of Craig tor twelve
years. He was a former soldier and
fci longed to the Masonic iougo
The Alaska Railroad
TRAINS LEAVE SEWARD
8 A. M.
Monday and Thursday
TRAINS ARRIVE
8 P. M.
Wednesday and Saturday
WASHINGTON DEAN ILL
OLYMPIA, Jan. 14.—Judge Mark A.
Fullerton, dean of the Supreme Court
was taken to hte hospital today with
throat affliction.
Gas Launch
KENAI
FISHING AND HUNTING
PARTIES CARRIED DOWN
LAKE KENAI FOR THE
DAY OR TRIP. TELE
PHONE ARRANGEMENTS
TO MILE TWENTY
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ALASKA
STEAMSHIP CO.
SOUTHWESTERN ALASKA
ROUTE SCHEDULE
Vessel—
Yukon _.
Alameda
Alaska _
Yukon _
Scheduled
Lv. Seattle
-January 3
.January 10
.January 17
.January 24
Scheduled
Arr. Seward
January 10
January 17
January 24
January 31
February 7
February 14
Scheduled
Sail fm Seward
January 10
January 17
January 24
January 31
February 7
February 14
Alameda --January 31
Alaska ...February 7
Steamers in the above schedule will make all regular ports of call
in Southeastern and Southwestern Alaska.
The steamship Redondo will discontinue operating to the west
ward until further notice, as soon as she completes her present trip.
Freighter Nabesna is scheduled to sail from Seattle, December 30th
Send orders by wire.
J. H. FLICKINGER, Agent
PHONE MAIN 125 SEWARD, ALASKA
AN EMPIRE BUILDER
As all railroads in years gone by have been the greatest
contributing factors in development of the regions through
*hich they passed, so also is THE ALASKA RAILROAD each
day accomplishing much towards the building of an empire.
In place of the old, tremendously expensive and inconve
nient methods of transporting supplies of whatever character
over rough trails from the coast, there is now a modern rail
road that carries supplies and equipment in greater quantities
to and from the Interior, and along the way, in much less
time and at far less expense than was formerly required.
This great steel highway offering regular twice weekly
freight and passenger service between Seward, Anchorage
and Fairbanks; and tri-weekly mixed service over the
Chickaloon and Chatanika branches, is at your service. For
further information write
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sale at all ticket offices
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