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Moving pictures are undoubtedly a great source of i
education but what sort of education are they giving/1
Sometimes it seems as if they were specially invented toj
exploit the “broken home" theory to the limit for the bene-,
lit of the very young as well as the old. Whether it is
better for a child to know everything as soon as possible
or not may be a debatable subject. One thing, however,
about moving pictures is certain and that is that they
trade under great names without any reason. For in
stance the producers may choose a great novel, a master
piece, a book which contains depth ot thought, literary
style, a study of life in some country and all else that
makes it literature. This producer takes the thread of the
story of this book and has it acted and thrown on the can
vas and calls it by the name of the original masterpiece.
Tibs seems to catch the multitude when you might as well
take the bones of a skeleton from a graveyard, put it in a
glass case and call it Voltaire. The fact that even the
bones might not be tile bones of Voltaire at all makes no
difference. They would be just as much his bones as some
of the so-called plots are exclusively the plots of the books i
under whose names they masquerade.
After all, it is really questionable if movies don't do
more harm than good. Crowds go to see a "great play
produced" by movies. It is taken from a book by a world
famous author. That book shows the life of the country.
It pictures great emotions and it carries a lesson in every
chapter, perhaps. To unite all the thoughts and pictures
of the author anil to hold the attention of the readers he
picks out a plot. There is nothing new about that plot.
It is the same old story; The elderly and careless hus
band, the dashing young home breaker, bless the mark,
the lost woman, the forsaken chee-ild, the death, the last
convulsions and convolutions of the repentant sinner, etc.
But this so-called plot is all that occurs on the movie can
vas. The name of the book might be, let us say, Romeo
and Juliet, and the movie pictures are called Romeo and
Juliet, when they might just as well and with just as much
truth be called Rummy and Rubbish.
Anyhow, Alaska thanks providence for the invention
of Movies. W'hat could we do to replace them?_
FOOD IN GERMANY—
IIABIES THRIVE ON
SPIN U H AND l VIHiOTS
By WILLIAM G. SHEPHERD
(United Press StaiT Correspondent)
ROTTERDAM. Holland, May 20.
(By Mail)—Right into the baby's
cradle at his five daily meal times,
reaches the hand of the great Ger
man government, in wartime.
it snatches his milk bottle from j
him, empties out half his milk and
fills up the bottle with breakfast
food.
Twice a day, when bottle time;
comes, thi.-> great hand keeps his bot
tle away from him and. with a spoon;
feeds him with apple sauce, crushed
carrots and seivod spinach.
You can't get the babies to talk
about it, though their mothers have a
great deal to say on the subject. Rut
the fact remains that the babiei
thrive on their new menus and that
perhaps the baby experts of Germany
have found a new and better way to
fill baby stomachs.
“Here’s my little muchacho,” said
a Spanish lady from Germany who
had, as she said, “brought him out to
get him some milk." She displayed
a little fellow of eight months.
“In our town in Germany, if the
doctor gives you a certificate, you
may have a pint of milk a day for
your baby.
“The doteor works with the govern
ment, you understand, and he makes
every effort to persuade mothers to
nurse their children at the breast.
“If he considers that a mother is
able to do this, he will not issue a milk
certificate and the mother will not
be able to purchase milk.
“Nurses also are under government
control and when they discover that
a mother is able to nurse her baby it
is her duty to notify the doctor to
that effect and it then becomes his
duty to cancel the milk ticket.
“The milk that is issued is not
enough for a baby, of course, but the
scientists have worked out a way of
mixing it with an oatmeal or wheat
broth. This is fed from the bottle
three times a day. Hut he must have
food two other times every day and
the scientists an* busily instructing
physicians and nurses, who in turn in
struct mothers how to cook apples, I
carrots and spinach for the babies.
“We cook the apples or carrots un
til soft as porridge and serve it to the
baby with a spoon. He hasn’t a tooth
in his head, yet, but he has learned
to eat with a spoon. We put the
boiled spinach through a seive.”
“What does he like best of the
three ?”
“Apples, because we always put a
■ sugar into the apple sauce.
Carrots he likes also, but spinr.cn!
He makes faces at it, but when he
cries for food, he can’t always be
silenced even with spinach.
"He grows fat on his war food, too.
My other children always had milk
five times a day, and as much as they
want oil. They liked milk, as all
babies do. l>ut this baby is learning
to eat things that he doesn’t like.
“i don’t like to see him have to do
it. I feel sorry when I must feed
him spinach. Think of it! And so
here I am in Holland to give him all
the milk he wants for a time. He
laughs and coos every time he sees
BE PREPARED
When a man begins to outfit to go out in the hills, his
first consideration should be QUALIFY. We are
outfitting men with quality clothing at
encouraging prices
Everything in the Clothing line for men
The MINERS STORE
FRANK J. COTTER.
Buy a Home in Woodrow
The Beautiful Suburb
Of Seward
WOODROW is located 6% miles from Seward.
The Govt Railroad runs through this beautiful tract.
Woodrow lies near Bear Lake the famous fishing
ground of Seward.
Woodrow may be said to be in the warm belt as the
hills arc so situated as to shelter this tract from the winter
winds.
Woodrow is situated just this side of the Bungalow
and plotted on the most desirable portion of the Johnson
Homestead.
A tract in Woodrow is equivalent to more than 12 lots
in Seward.
The price is so low that no one can complain.
You can buy a tract of about one third the size of a
block in Seward for $125. — Some fractional tracts are
selling as low as $25—$50 and $75.
The title is clear—A warranty deed, first handed.
Woodrow is plotted in tracts situated each on a street
and corner on an alley. Each plot is easy to access.
Woodrow is a beautifully wooded tract and a veri
table park.
ROMIG & ROMIG are handling this property and
will be pleased to interest you in the best offer for a suber
ban home ever made in Seward.
ADDRESS:—
Fourth Avenue,
Seward, Alaska.
PHONE ADAMS 48
PHONE ADAMS 93
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the milk bottle coming. He knows
the dilference between milk and car
rots.”
“Doesn't he?” she said, turning to
the baby. He said something which
was taken for “yee."
DETROIT GERMS SCARED STIFF
(Special to Gateway by United Press)
DETROIT, June 22. — Every germ
in Detroit was scared stitf today
when 15.000 doctors and other medi
cal folk arrived from all over the
United States for the 67th annual j
National Convention of the American
Medical Association. This w ill be one
of the largest conventions ever enter
tained by Detroit.
Meeting simultaneously with the
Medical association, the following af
filiated organizations opened their
annual conventions today:
American Academy of Medicine;
American Protologio society; Amer
ican Therapeutic society; American
Gastrologic society and the American
Association of Medical Editors, rep
resenting 200 periodicals.
Next Friday more than a thousand
of the visiting physicians \yill go to
Ann Arbor on special trains to be the
guests of the medical department of
the university of Michigan.
NOTICE OF CALL FOR BIDS FOR
STREET IMPROVEMENT.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN:—
That bids arc called fur by the com
mon council for the improvement of
1’hird avenue, Fourth Avenue and
Fifth avenue, from the North line of
Jefferson street to the north line of
the-Frank L. Ballaine Townsite of
Seward by clearing the same and
leveling them up so that loaded
/chides can pass conveniently there
over; There must be a separate bid
for each street, any bid including
more than one street will not be
considered.
Also for laying a sidewalk, contract
, or furnishing everything and doing
the necessary grading, sidewalk to be
constructed of lumber and be six feet
in width to be laid as follows, to wit:
On both sides of Second Avenue
from the North side of Washington
Street to the South side of Adams
Street except on the west side of
Second Avenue from the South side of
Adams Street south one hundred ana
eighty feet to the end of the present
sidewalk in front of the school house,
said work to be done according to
THE HELLRICH HOUSE
Former Residence of Mrs. J. McCoy.
FIRST CLASS PRIVATE BOARD
ING HOUSE.
HOME COOKING
FURNISHED ROOMS
tlu* plans and specifications of the city
engineer which are open for inspec
tion in his office.
Also a side walk six feet in width
on the west side of Second Avenue,
constructed of lumber, from north
side of Railroad Avenue to South
side of Washington street, said side
walk to be constructed in compliance
with and under the plans and speci
fications now on l'U* in the office of
the city engineer. Also clearing
Second Avenue and leveling same be
tween Railroad Avenue and Washing
ton Street so that loaded vehicles can
••onvenientiy pass thereover.
All work to be done under the in
struction and supervision of the city
engineer.
All bids must be accompanied with
a check certified to by one of the
banks in Seward, or the cash to an
amount equal to live percent of the
amount o fthe bid, which said amount
will be refunded to all unseccessful
bidders. If the successful bidder
shall fail to enter into the
1 contract and stipulations required by
the council, and furnish a bond which
will be approved by the council, with
in ten days after the contract is
awarded, he shall forfeit said deposit
to the town of Seward as liquidated
damages. Council reserves the right
to reject any or all bids.
All bids must be placed in a sealed
envelope addressed to the common
council of the town of Seward, with
the name of the bidder thereon stat
ing what piece of work he is bidding
on and file the same with the munici
pal clerk on or before the hour of
seven thirty o’clock I*. M., July 3rd,
191G.
0. H. POEHLMANN,
(SEAL) Municipal Clerk.
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Mackinaws, Panis, Socks, 3oota,
Packs, Underwear. Anything you
need. SEWARD COMMERCIAL CO.
Fresh Popcorn and Peanuts.—Sew
ard Club.
HARVEY & CO.
Contractors and Builders
ESTIMATES FURNISHED
Cor. 3rd and Adams, Seward
Launch “Pioneer”
Tom Parker with the
Launch “Pioneer” will
hereafter be at Kern
Creek on the day fol
lowing the day that train leaves
Seward prepared to take freight
and Passengers for Anchorage.
Boys Blouses, all weights, colors,
and prices, large assortment to select
from. Brown & Hawkins," Quality
First."
!(: 8: s’:! aunimwh.
L. F 1*. Si S,, (Jlasirow.
J. M. SLOAN, M. D., C. IVI.
OVER GATEWAY
Office flours, t to 3 and 7 to 8 P. M.
Foumkiilt »»i' Numk,
J. H. ROMIG. M. D.
OFFICE FOURTH AVENUE
Phones: Residence Adams 48
Office Adams 93
Hours: 10 to 12 a.m. 2 to 4 p.m.
DR. O. J. KEATING
Dentist
oftiee Over Harriman National Bank.
Hours 9 A M. to 5 1*. M.
U I.. JAM KM, Jit. J. K. WOOI.I.KV
JAMES & WOOLLEY
Attorneys and Counsellors at Law
Over Bank of Seward
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ROMIG & ROMIG
REAL ESTATE AGENTS
Houses for Rent, Rents Collected,
Titles Examined, Lots for Sale.
Large Listing,
Phone Main 48 Seward, Alaska.
Igloo No. 9,
Order of Pioneers
Meets the First and Third Tuesday Nights
of each Mon h at the Pioneer Hall.
LEANDER 1. JAMES, Jr. ISAAC EVANS,
President. Secretary.
Loyal Order of Moose
Meets every Friday night at
8^o’clock, A. B. Hall.
M. J. CONROY, F. R. BIOFORD,
Dictator. Secretary.
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La?y,'t General 1 ,obby
Private Lobby for Ladies
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Why Not Try Our Buttermilk?
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Rainier Buffet
THE BEST IN EVERYTH NG
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RACING ALASKA NAVIGATION COMPANY
"THE ADMIRAL LINE"
Vessel* Leaving (iranU Irunk Dock Lver> Sunday Morning at I I a m.
First Sailing for Anchorage Sunday, April loth
for SOUTHEASTERN AND SOUTHWESTERN AlASKA PORTS
Vessels leaving on Ihird Sunday of laih Month tails lltiamna and Kodiak.
Ail Vessels call at Knik anchorage During Open season
Fourth of Juh Pales I and 1-3 for Round I rip for
Big Celebration at Seward
High! reserved to change steamers and sailing dates w tnou notice.
RICHARD J. RINGWOOD, Manager. WAYNE BLUE, Local Agent.
ALASKA S
Steamers Alameda. North wot enu Marij» >a and
\ Alaska Sail from Seattle at a. m. the loth, -*»tli.
and 30th. of each month for Ketch.kar. .luneau,
Cordova, Valdez. Seward and Arcl.ot.
DORA teases Seward about the 18th of each month tor inaiaska, ana in
May, June. July and August she goes through to Nushagak,_
Pourtli of July Rates l-l-J for Round Trip for
Big Celebration'in Seward.
<ST Right reserved to change this schedule without notice V2>
F. B. TRACY, General Agent A. H. MclK >NA
H.V. HOBEN A. F. DAVIS
ALASKA TRANSFER
H. V. HOBEN, Manager
—--Dealers in
COAL, WOOD AND ICE
General Transferring Phones, Main 17 and 41
ORE TREATED
H. E, ELLSWORTH, Assayer and Chemist
A Complete Equipment for Mining (PWrtffi AlrHkr)
and Technical Determinations OvmQI 115 /lllloHU
FURNITURE AND HARDWARE
COAL MINER’S AND GOLD MINER’S SUPPLIES
Doors & Windows
Lang’s Ranges
I XL Parlor Heaters
Gasoline Stoves
Cook Stoves
Camp Stoves
Air Tight Heaters
Oil Stoves
Alcohol Stoves
Spark Plugs
Jump Coils
Batteries
Granite Ware
Aluminum Ware
Asbestos
P & B Paper
Malthoid Roofing
Tar Paper
Deafening felt
Weather Strips
Gasoline
Gas Engine Oil
Marine Engine Oi<
Valve Oil
Elaine Oil
Floor Oil
Linseed Oil
Cup Grease
Paints
Lacqueret Paint
Asphaltum Paint
Brushes
Varnishes
Turpentine
Japan
Denatured Alcohol
Coal Tar
Lamps
Lanterns
Tents
PHONE MADISON 87
Rifles
Shot Guns
Ammunition
Fishing Tackle
Giant Powder
Caps
Fuse
Bench Forces
Blacksmith's Coal
Bellows
Wheel Barrows
Cutlery
Fire Clay
Fire Brick
Lime
Cement
Glass
Rope
Mercury
Seine Twine
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