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GATEWAY PUBLISHING COMPANY. (Inc.)
Hairy V. Hoben. President Frsnk U Ball*tn<>' Scc'
Elmer A. Friend, Editor
Entervd a. matter September 2. 1915. at the Poat Office at Seward. Alaeka.
under Act of March S, 1879.
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SHOCKING THE COUNTRY. _
Will the German submarines sink ships twice as fast
as the world can build new ones? Collier’s Weekly says
it will. Its leading article in a recent issue, written by
Mark Sullivan, the editor, in fe\erish, excited tone is in
tended to give the people a violent shock in order to wake
them up. He summarizes the shortage of ships today,
and pictures a crisis—as inevitable as the Fourth of July
—which will be upon us within a few months. “If the
writer of this article,” says Mr. Sullivan, “knew how to
give his countrymen this shock now. on paper, instead of
waiting for its actuality, he would attempt it.” He adds:
“Now. if in March this lack of ships is an inconvenience,
m June it is going to be a calamitv. And there are not
words in the dictionary to express how serious it is going
to be.”
Distorting the figures furnished by the British ad
miralty in order to make out a startling case, and assum
ing that the German submarine, after one year’s exper
ience. is just getting into its stride and will increase its
destructive work. Editor Sullivan reaches the definite
conclusion that we shall not have enough ships to trans
port our armies, nor to carry food and munitions to our
men now in France.
The article will have a <1< pressing effect, not on ac
count of the value of the writer’s opinion, but because Col
liers’ is very widely read, and too many people will uncon
sciously accept opinion for fact. Exaggerated statements
alwavs attract more attention and create more comment
than cold truth. Because the article occupies the fore
most place in the publication, its importance is likely to
be overestimated, and it is certain to create some uneasi
ness. It is entirely useless, because it suggests no reme
dy: it merely megaphones to the country the message,
“Wake Up!”
Perhaps the article is 50 per cent true. II so, the need
to speed up shipbuilding is not more obvious than it has
been any time the past six months. In every quarter the
cry has been for ships, and more ships, and still more
.-hips. Men in authority have quarreled over the mater
ial which should go into ships and the type of wooden
ships that should bo built. Even at this critical time, men
in authority are trying to force the issue that we would
better have no ships at all than to build wooden ships
whose life is not as long as steel ships.
If the situation is half as bad as Collier’s would have
the country believe, it would be rendering a very great
service by using its influence in favor of building wooden
ships to the utmost limit of America’s capacity. If a
wooden ship were able to do no better than to make only
one trip across the Atlantic, it would still do that much
toward preventing the calamity which Collier’s tries so
vividly to picture. The strongest point in favor of the
wooden ship is that it can be built in half the time it takes
to build a steel ship.
Curtailing the manufacture of automobiles may have
the effect of humiliating some folks by compelling them
in go through 1918 in a 1917 model.
War savings and thrift stamps can be purchased at
the banks and postoffice. Remember the purchase is not
a gift, it is a purchase with interest added.
Seward did herself proud last Saturday night in en
tertaining the regulars and the newly enlisted men, and
we must again take our hats off to the ladies; they did it.
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The Allies are going to knock the “hi” spots out ol
Hindenburg before the Germans get very far, believe us.
German raider on the Pacific and captured by a Uni
ted States cruiser! Sounds good—that is the capture.
If the ice was only softer, falls wouldn’t hurt so. Gee
that is a brilliant thing—not.
The Red Cross will give a dance next Monday night,
Easter Monday, at the Arctic Brotherhood hall. The pro
ceeds go for the war cause, so be patriots.
TO “OUR ROYS.”
Here is a little advice to those who are in Uncle Sam’s
service for the war. George Ade, the humorist, has turn
ed his talents to helping the nation with the war. Among j
other things, he says this:
“After the fighting is over you will fnd yourself up j
gainst t v lightly important duty of going back to your,
own people anr resuming the normal home life. Nearly
every fighting man will have a wife or sweetheart waiting
for him. When she is countless miles away, don’t over
look the fact that she is pulling for you and hoping for you
and longing for your return. When it comes time for you
to return to her, don’t be ashamed to meet her.”
POINTS ABOUT SEALSKIN.
Sealskin is valuable.
It is less and less seen.
Tbs fur seals are being conserved.
The United States rookeries are well populated.
A recent census shows a total of nearly 80,000 in the
Alaska fur seal herd.
This total includes breeding cows, pups and bulls of all
ages and conditions.
Over 2,000 salted sealskins are brought in a sing!
summer month from each of the Pribolof Islands to Seat
tle, Washington.
In addition to this, the seal rookeries yield large quan
tities of seal blubber (used in dressing of the sealskins),
salted seal gullets from which a fine light leather is made
and thousands of pounds of seal bones.—(Washington
Star).
“I’m looking for barbed wire to knit a sweater for the
kaiser,” says Al. Jolson.
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What's become of the good old-fashioned idea of try
ing LaFollette for something.
Speaking of names, the steamer Cork has sunk. .
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RUSSIAN EMPRESS
is BEGGING FOR
MONEY TO LIVE ON
LONDON, March 26. — A Reuter’s
IVtrugrad dispatch says the foitner
PowatfM Empiess M.tria Feodoravona
has applied to the Council of Commis
saries for assistance. She declares
she : destitute in consequence of t!m
eonfur tion of fumL Monpring the
Impel ml Family.
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i COOKED FOODS, HOT AND
| COLD TO CARRY HOME. !!!
1* ORDERS FOR DINNERS,
BANQUETS AND LUNCHES
GIVEN SPECIAL ATTENTION j
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Enthusiasm is generally a sensation
, inspired by things we don’t have to do.!
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NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
U. S. LAND OFFICE AT JUNEAU
ALASKA, February 19, 1918.
NOTICE is hereby given that
Louise Manthey, of Seward, Alaska,
who, on November 10, 1909, made
homestead location of and on July 31,
1916, homestead application, Number
02955, for SWHSEH EHSEH EH j
N.E.H Sec. 14, SWHNWH WHSWH
Section 13, Township IN., Range 1
W., Seward Meridian, has filed notice
of intention to make final five years
Proof, to establish claim to the land
above described, before the U. S.
Commissioner W. H. Whittlesey, at,
his office at Seward, Alaska, on the j
sixth day of April, 1918.
Claimant names as witnesses: J. J.:
Romig; Thomas Hambright; George
Sexton and W. N. Sauers, all of Sew
ard, Alaska.
C. B. WALKER,
Register
Dates of Publication: Feb. 26; March
5, 12, 19, 26 and April 2.
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Bakery. Three pounds for 25c. Ml
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