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SEWARD. Al.VSIv v. SAT l RDAY, OCTOBER 21, 121®.
It often happens that a man who has not spent much
time in Alaska or who has not been in more than one 01
two parts of Alaska is unable to appreciate what has been
done all over the Territory. For instance, new arrivals in
the Territory cannot possible see what has been done in
the matter of road building. It must be said that the it1
is little excuse for the manner in which Delegate \\ lckei -
sham spoke about road building in his speech in Sew ai d.
Whether it had been prepared for or not cannot be said,
but in answer to his question from the platform men in the
audience said something about six miles of roads here and
seven miles of road there and so on, giving the impression
that the work done was very little. Mr. \\ ickersham also
said that the payment of poll tax brought the funds avail
able to the Road Commission from three and a half mil
lions to five millions. It is a pity that a Delegate to Con
gress would give such an example of exaggeration as this.
It is safe to saw perhaps, that all the poll taxes collected
in Alaska did not amount to a tenth part of the sum sug
gested. .. _ . , . ,
But with regard to the road building; it nugni edu
cate some of those new arrivals to tell them that hundreds
of miles of good roads have been built in the territory and
in places where road building was exceedingly difficult.
The employees of the road commission in many places are
the pioneers and their bases of supplies are often very far
away, so that the expenses of building are very.great. But
in spite of the many drawbacks splendid systems of wagon
roads exist in different camps. Of course, those peop*e
have never seen the tine roads traversing the Tanana
valley. They do not know the difficulties besetting the
work in building splendid highways over the tundras in
the Nome division. Ruby has recently gone on record as
thanking the Commission for the fine road to Long creek,
a road which itself is about forty miles in length. Leav
ing aside altogether the members of the C ommission one
need only mention men like Dan Jonps, John Zug, Bob
Sommers and our own Anton Eide, superintendents of
road building in the various divisions, to show that Alaska
has been luckv in the men who build its trails^ The other
day a bridge was built on Cache creek and this reminds
one that one bridge alone near Nome, over Nome river,
cost twenty thousand dollars and had to cost that much
to bo any good. And there are such bridges and roads in
every camp from Ketchikan to Gold Run. Even in ( ircle
city you can travel on roads built by the Commission
Faraway Iditarod has its roads to the creeks. Even Tolo
vana has a road from Fairbanks. Oh, heavens, a man who
knows anything about Alaska and its camps knows \Vhat
the Road Commission has done. He could talk and write
for hours about the work and the roads that have been
built. One who just took ship to Seward and never got any
further does not know and such a man when he speaks
only blows in blissful ignorance of his own ignorance. The
Gateway is simply saying all this because it considers it its
duty to tell the truths which it has learned by many years
of experience in different parts of the territory. I here is
no defense of the Commission needed. It is merely a mat
ter of justice and it hopes that this will be the last time it
will have to allude to the subject.___
LET U5 CONTROL OLR OWN SCHOOLS
The undersigned urges the passage of H K WVJ. a bill now pending in the * om
mittee on Territories, designed to place the control oJ the school system of Alaska
lo the hands.>r the Territorial Legislature.
Name
Address
Cut this out and brine it to the 11 ATE WAV office
JOHN RONAN
Democratic Nominee
Territorial Senator
ELECTION NOVEMBER 7
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PARIS.—A war correspondent who
has just returned from the front in
Northern France, gave the Petit
Journal a graphic story of his obser
vation. In part he says:
"Do you see the church?” said an
officer pointing from his seat in the
automobile.
"The French fliers dropped bombs
in this town yesterday. One of them
fell at the side entrance. See the
window broken to pieces and the steps
gone. That’s what the bomb did.”
The correspondent was riding thru
the town en route to the Argonne
Forest and the captain of the staff
the German commanding general was
telling of the activity of the aviators
on the west front. "At no time since
the beginning of this war,” he said,
"have the aeroplanes been t»o active.
Every clear day there is an air raid
on some town near Verdun.”
If the air raids take place over
.m
some town between fifteen and twenty
miles back of the front, as is fre
quently the case, it becomes as^dang
erous for the French inhabitants as [
for the soldiers. For, strange as it
may seem, every town back of the
front, even some of the towns within
the radius of the artillery fire, are in
habited by a large number of French
women and children. They live in
their houses as unconcerned as if
there was no war. Although all the
houses a block away may have been
razed by the artillery their houses are
still their “homes” and they prefer to
stay.
It is a pitiful sight, however, to see
these people. While many of the
women appear to have forgotten that
they are citizens of France there are
others who have grown old and gray
through worry and fear and they
stand in doorways like statues repre
senting misery.—F.x.
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