SEWARD DAILY GATEWAY
SEWARD ALASKA
Established August 19, 1904
Published Pailv Except Sunday by
THE GATEWAY PUBLISHING CO.
Selbv & Iloben, Proprietors
H. B. Selby, Editor
Entered as Second Matter, Septem
ber 2, 1915, at the Post Office at
Seward, Alaska, under Act of March
3, 1879. _ _
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HELP THE PIONEERS
What will the 1925 session of the
Territorial legislature do for the pio
neer? The past year the pension
has been decreased to a point where
it is nearly impossible to live on it,
and there is no relief in sight, unless
a larger appropriation is made at the
next session. Many legislators are
said to be in favor of eliminating the
pension entirely, thus forcing the aged
dependent to enter the home at Sit
ka.
We believe this policy to be radical
ly wrong in that it costs the Territory
more per capita to keep a man in the
home, according to the Superintend
ent’s report, than it does to allow him
to remain in an environment desired
by the person affected. It is true
that the home gives the inmate more
care and attention than he would re
ceive in his outi cabin, but many pio
neers are satisfied with things as
they are, and wish to remain near
friends and scenes of their earlier
days. Their wishes should be grant
ed.
But there is no question but that
the pension should be raised to a
point where it will give the receijpent
comfort instead of poverty.
If it costs a man $60 to $75 a mo.
at the home the territory should save
$25 at least by raising the pension to
$50, thus eliminating nurse hire and
medical attention furnished at the
home. Not only as a matter of econ
omy but for sentimental reasons, the
Territory cannot afford to see its pio
neer residents suffer in their old age.
These hardy trail blazers at one time
opened up the Territory for later gen
erations and proved, often with their
flesh and blood, that Alaska was a
habitable, prosperous country, able to
raise anything and with its resources
ready for the taking.
If the cost is more to maintain a
man at the home, give him a pension
slightly less and allow him to stay
where he chooses.
The past year has shown that no
matter what amount is voted by the
legislature it will be opposed by cer
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tain politicians, who would save at
the spigot and waste at the bung. A
little economy on the part of Terri
torial officers and the shifing of seme
fund to the pension fund would have
saved many hardships and self de
nials to our worthy pensioners.
WHY NOT ELECT HIM
At a recent session of the legisla
ture an effort was made to have the
Territorial Superintendent of Educa
tion elected by the people. When
this, bill was introduced a great howl
went up from certain interested poli
ticians that the schools would be pros
tituted by throwing them into politics.
Down in Washington Mrs. Josephine
Preston is again running for the office
of State superintendent of schools, and
strange to relate will again be elected.
The reasons for her reelection are
that she is wonderfully competent.
Twelve years ago the writer voted
for Mrs. Preston, with no thought of
prostituting the schools, but rather
with the idea of adding to their ef
ficiency. We thought then as we
still think that any man could be ap
pointed to an office, but he must deliv
er the go^ds to get by the people the
second or third time at the polls.
The present incumbent, Mr. Lester
D. Henderson, is efficient and very
competent, and has worked the school
system up to a point where it is as
good or better than those outside. Mr.
Henderson would probably be elected
as quickly as he could be appointed,
and the people would have a say in
the matter. And no one can deny
that the voter has the last word as
to a man’s qualifications. If it is
good to elect a superintendent in the
State of Washington, it is better to
elect him in Alaska, where the popu
lation is smaller and personal re
quirements greater.
The last thing the Gateway would
desire is to “throw the schools into
politics,” but we believe they are in
politics much deeper at the present
time than they could possibly be un
der any elective system.
LEASING LAW
President Armstrong, of the South
western Alaska Blue Fox Association
ai Kodiak, has recently taken up with
Delega>e Sutherland, Dr. E. W. Nel
son, ar.d Mr. E. P. Walker, both of
the Biological Survey, the question of
the undesirability of the present leas
ing .aw for the so-cal'ed twelve leas
able islands that are leased from the
Biological Survey.
One of the members of this Asso
ciation who has held a fox island un
der Die Biological lease as applies
to the twelve leasable islar^s for the
past five years, is having difficulty
in renewing his lease. The leasee
had no intimation that he would have
any difficulty in releasing until about
the time his lease expired. He now
has several thousand dollars worth of
property on the island, and should he
not be able to get a renewal of his
lease he will be forced in a very lim
ited lime to remove such property as
he can under the conditions and get
off the island. It is not feasible nor
reasonable to expect that one could
under forced conditions of this kind
remove all of the live foxes in less
time than three years.
President Armstrong also strongly
emphasized the need of an equitable
and uniform method of leasing for all
of the islands lying outside the Nat
ional Forest reservations. He rec
ommends that a leasing law be enact
ed similar to the one used by the for
est service.
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TIMES HAVE CHANGED
Mama loves papa and papa loves
the hired girl or his peroxide neigh
bor. This is the cause of about forty
per cent of the divorces flooding the
country, the remaining sixty per cenl
being incompatability, bad cooking
and general cussedness. Our grand
parents and forebearers in the ole
days never bothered about divorces
The either trimmed up the argumenl
with a tomahawry or a club, or lef1
for Texas, where females were scarce
and competent. Today the flappei
w-eds, divorces and remarries ad in
finitum, hiring their lawyers by th<
year and taking their husbands by
the week—a good la wyer being wort)
more* than a poor husband. One o:
the reasons for this is the giddy pac<
at which the wTorld is traveling. I
requires more actual cash per nigh
in the present age to secure a fev
moment’s diversion than was spent b]
the Confederate Army in a spring
campaign. The jazz hound jazzetl
the gentle flapper and she nicks hi:
roll. Several other nicks are place*
in it by late suppers and gasolim
ramblings, and the outcome is tha
he either hunts a cheaper girl or i
better paying job.
Domestic felicity and a crimpei
poeketbook like the lion and the lamb
do not lie down together. If they d<
they have to be safety-pinned and re
laundered ever so often. A ten dol
lar pair of shoes and a drug stor
complexion added together equal
misery and misery totals divorce.
j The old days when a man took his
I girl to the fair and spent a dollar see
ing the prize pigs are gone. Now
the prize pig rides in an auto with
genuine foot furs and rolled socks. The
gold digger of ’49 has been resurrect
ed for the present era, and her pick
is never broken. She rides the limous
ine.and the old fashioned girl walks.
THE LONG WINTER DAYS just
ahead leave a taste in the mouth like
synthetic buttermilk. Unless our peo
ple get some amusements for the
younger generation how can they ex
pect to keep them in Alaska. With
the exception of the popular outdoor
sport of hustling wood for a herbiver
ous fireplace the young men of Alaska
can look forward to a peaceful and
unexciting winter.
Arsenic is now touted as a cure for
leprosy. We can recommend this.
Give a patient plenty of arsenic and
he will be rid of the leprosy in short
order, but his relatives will have his
affairs in -probate.
Special round-trip raxes and stop
over privileges are given the people
of the Southeast coast during the An
nual Fair which is being staged in
Juneau.
WITH THE SEATTLE police force
force industriously engaged in the
business it is going to be a hard win
ter for an honest bootlegger.
Next to a fortune the best thing a
fellow can get hold of nowadays is
an oldfashioned wife who can sew on
buttons ‘neverything.
A prominent gynecologist says that
smoking alters women’s faces. What’s
the difference, one never sees a wo
man’s real face after seven o’clock in
the morning.
HYDER PAPER RESUMES
The Hyder W’eekly Herald, which
suspended some time ago, has resum
ed publication under the management
of its former editor, Mr. Charles F.
Sanford. The prices of the publica
tion has been raised to five dollars
a year.
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Judge Leopold David returned on
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on legal business.
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OYSTER-EATING KING WINS
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NEW YORK, Sept. 26.—The Inter
national Polo Games and the Beauty
Contest were disregarded in South
Street last night when the Oyster
Eating Sweepstakes was held at Pat
O’Connor’s place, South Street and
Coenties Slip.
The champion who won the gold
medal was W. G. Smith, a seaman
plying between New York and Buenos
Aires. Outwardly there is nothing un
usual about him. He is of medium
height and girth. But he is a master
of technique and in fifteen minutes
he had absorbed from the half shell
eleven dozen large oysters.
All the entrants lined up at the
counter while the spectators were
kept at a distance. At the word “go’’
they started.
After the decision was announced
it was said that the record made by
James Anderson who ate 165 oysters
in fifteen minutes in 1887 still stood.
Mr. O’Connor, after the contest was
over, said that the art of oyster eat
ing had disappeared. He said that the
men in these parts seemed to enjoy
oysters more, but eat less at a time.
He said in Baltimore he had seen men
eat as many as two hundred oysters
at one sitting.
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all flat rates will be discontinued.
In order to reorganize our accounting sys
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installations of meters* on September twenty
fifth and until after October first.
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Meets Second and Fourth Tuesdays
A. E. RUCKER, Commander.
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Pioneers of Alaska
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