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' tttfftWAY PUBLISHING COMPANY, (Inc.)
F. B. CAMP, EDITOR AND BUSINESS MANAGER.
Entry V. Hoben, President.. Frank L. Ballaine. Sec.
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Hie' Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication
of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper
sod also the local news published herein.
shANI PfiRt FACfSl^TTffE-j
THE IMPORTANCE OF NEWS
PAPERS.
It is hard to realize the predica
ment of any town or city suddenly de
prived of its newspaper. We cannot
fully appreciate the value of any pub
lic utility until we have to do without
it. From grim experience we know
, that a traffic tie up cuts off our legs,
0. that a coal famine chills us and that
. every other seriods break in the ondi
rarv run of daily affairs causes great
inconvenience to the -public and em*
V .. barrassment and restriction to all bus
. irtss. But a tie up of a newspaper of a
... town or city deprives the entire pub
... Ik at once of eyes, ears and world in
.. ... feelligence. What this means to a town
v. is beyond mere conjecture. It is a ca
lamity of the worst kind. It is a blow
. at the prestige of the town. It is a
. . . knock against eveiy real citizen in the
vu; community. Mere words cannot ex
; ^ - press the harm it would do. The first
. effect is the depriving of the people
pr all authentic news of the day. The
v; wildest rumors become current
. j % throughout the community. Ignorance
v. • heads an interminable procession ol
doubts, suspicions, anxieties and fears.
Having no circulatig medium of intell
igence, the great mass of the popula
Uoq is utterly unable to discern what
.. and what not to believe, what and
what not to do, and what and what not
to expect.
The first material effect of depiiv
. IV the people of a newspaper is the
••• decrease in business. Having no me
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: diuin of advertising the stores suffer
•' many losses. Theatres, unable to an
nounce their attractions become heavy
losers. The experience of towns and
• ' cities which haVc been deprived of
. their newspapers clearly demonstrates
that'without newspapers business can
not be effectively carried on and the
daily routine life of a community can
•' * not iubction.
A rural newspaper can be of assist
’ ante to all its subscribers and the pub
lic generally if they will only accept
the offers which the papers make with
the sipirft tendered. We are trying to
* publish' a newspaper that will be ac
doffealde trf all of our subscribers. We
' are’ kb independent institution and will
cuitinue to be independent whenever
it Is' necessary to uphold that which is
- right: Heghrdless of politics we will
sdjpport the man who has pi-oven that
he is a liiian and entitled to our sup
port. We do not make it our policy to
tear'down* any thing worth while. But
' we do and will continue • to do that
which we believe is* most beneficial to
tbetown of Seward ami tlie surround
5\ .% t- . f. •. t ot*
ik territory, help tear down and
'* tfuftk* into the discard every obstacle
to” success.
We feel that we can succeed and
at the same time render a real service
' to the'people of’ Seward, by delivering
to them a real newspaper and conduct
4 Hjjf tbe new«phper on the' same basis ■
by which other substantial businessj
' fcHtfpitate1 succeed We cannot do this !
a&t continue to chargefhe same price *
for advertising and Job work which1
weHaVfe been'charging. Flint paper is
serib^n^ a lASh* price and is going to
c£*t!fcb*to serf'at a high price. It is1
tfbw eottiftf 13c per lb. more than it
irnm ymf afo. The pweat price
is more than twice"that of three years
ago. Labor is selling at a high price
and is going to continue to sell at a
high price. All men engaged in the
mechanical department of a newspap
er are today receiving from eighty to
over one hundred percent more in
wages than they did three years ago,
and while conditions of the future may
bring that price down to a small ex
tent it will not come down to any
thing like three years ago. Everything
that enters into the making of a news
paper, or any other product of a print
ing office, has increased in the sam<
proportion that is true of print pape
and labor, and these prices are go in;
to stay up because all other commod
ities are going to stay up. We have
been realizing this fact only recentl.
n the Gateway office. We have be-.':
attempting to carry on without in
creasing our charges to keep pace wit:,
the increase of our costs. We can no
onger do this unless we desire to
to the wall and see a sheriffs si;;:
posted on the dome
We are not going to continue alon;;
he old lines and we are not going to
see any sign posted. The day of tilt
so-much-per-day-daily or the so- much
-per- year weekly is over and-if the
publishers of such papers do not knov.
ihat they cannot continue to do busi
ness at the old prices they had bette;
ret out of the business and save what
.hey can of yieir investments. The
day of ten and fifteen cents an inch
idvertising is over and will never re
turn . The cost of setting the typ*.
irom which the advertising is printed,
the cost of the paper on which it is
print A, the cost of the ink with which
it is printed, the cost of the coal and
other fuel for' the power supply and
the cost of every other item that en
tors into the service to the advertiser,
has doubled or more than doubled. Th*
time worn wail “that the public will
not pay more,” is out of date and oi
no consequence. The public simply
must pay more if the newspaper is to
continue at all, and no apoligies for an
increase a^e needed. We have simply
got to meet existing cost conditions
and to do so we have got to make our
prices in proportion to present-day
costs. We refuse to sit here and con
tinue to watch our plant depreciate,
our savings dwindle and our credit go
ing by the boards simply because we
are afraid to meet conditions as they
exist. j
On the first day of December we
are going to meet existing conditions
or. a business basis fair to us and to
all of our subscribers and advertisers.
You will all receive more value in ser
vice and worth while news than you
have ever received. Your advertise
ments will be individual instead of
having the lack of_ individuality. We
are taking this course of action be-J
cause we believe in our business and
feel that it is high time to awaken to
existing conditions before we find ou/
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stives on the rocks of financial 1is
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aster. Our action does not call for an
apelogy to the public. We have noth
mg to apologize for. ^e are stating
facts pure and simple and we firmly
believe that the majority of our sub
scribers and all of our advertisers are^
enough interested in the success of the
Gateway to refuse to see it cease
functioning because it is eoateat to
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PERT PARAGRAPHS OF SENSE
AND NONSENSE FOREIGN AND
. LOCAL, CAUGHT ON THE
FLY BY “THE HUMAN
TOOtHPICK ”
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Mr. E. Monut of the Seward Shoe
Repair Shop has a notice on another
page of the Gateway about the closing
of his shop. Mr. Mount will leave on
or about the 12th of next month for a
three months trip outside. He is going
to gather some new pointers about
r pedal extremities and the care of soles.
There will be many dances pulled off
here in Seward during the winter
months and it will behoove all you
fantastic trippers to have your soles
✓ v
pi-operly looked after before he leaves.
Your dancing pumps and slippers
should be properly half soled and
heled. Don't swamp him with the work
at the last minute but take it to him
*r\v so that he can finish it before
saving. Get your footwear out tcnight
and give it the once oxer and see what
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it needs and then take it to the shop.
Do it Qovj.
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The earth quake shock which shook
jp Seward last night about 10:15
nade many people in the town realize
tfliit Old Mother Nature controls more
han the sun and the moon. The town
ite might have had a chill owing to
10 fact that its blanket of snow was
ory light, t is snowing today and the
:ew fall will probably be heavy
'uough to keep the town warm for the
balance of the winter. We hope so*’
‘cause we don't relish such chills like
the one we experienced last night.
The Turnagain Arm Breeze is the
aame of the first paper to be publish
ed in Hope, Alaska. The Breeze is
dited and published by the school
hildren every month. The first copy
was printed this month.
The glacier stream is now a wee
ittle body of frozen water. Its menace
to the town is safely removed until
spring. k
RESULTS OF THE FOURTH DRIVE
OF THE AMERICAN RED CROSS
SEWARD CHAPTER .
November 24th 1920 j
New members and renewals for 1921, j
•eported up to 4 p. m.;— '
3. F. Adelman, Wm. J. Arvig, E. E.
Vyers, Charles Benson, C. W. Brown,
vV. C. Baird, Emelian Berekoff(Un
Alaska) Charles Cameron, A. S. Evans
Jessie Ellsworth, Harry Ellsworth,
Thelma Ellsworth, J. L. Graef, Thom
as Gamble, J. A. Hachey, C. Henning,
Tom Jeffries, L. H. Lauritsen, Ed. Le
*ris, Geo. Laughlin,, C. R. Morford,
John Matich, F. C. Miller, Happy ’
Moore, W. Mooney, E. Mount, A. H. *
AIcNeer, A. McDonald, James New
nan, Mis. J. Nelson, Miss N. Nash, W.
0. Perry, Willis Periy, Gateway Pub
lishing Co., Arthur'Prieket, D. J. Rier
don, Mrs. L. V. Ray, Sylvia Sexton,
C.* I. Sexton, Geo. Sextont Elwin Swet
inan, Gabriel Santos, 0. C. Schallerer,,
Mrs. 0. C. Shallerer, Mrs. William j
Shell horn, Miss Clare Schwarz, E. A.
Thede, Mrs. B. Urbach,;—
Total enrollment to date 48.
Total «ash receipts $52.00
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Donations to the Seward chapter
$3.00. *
Membership' paid for 1920, $1.00
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continue giving away more than it is
receiving. Later we will announce the
new scale of prices for advertising
which are being used by all otherf Al
aska papers, also t^e new subscription
rate. The new schedule is not exlun*
ntant, it is simply necesiary and we
are confident titat you will all consid
er it absolutely hit, ^ ^ 4
The subject of Re?. Duane Earl
Career’s sermon Sunday evening was,
•‘The Evolution of a Saint.” The
charcter was taken from the parable
of the Prodical himself. This partial
lightful sattee.
lar parable is one of the most widely
known patables and needs only to be
mentioned by name to call up memor
ies of the days when we were associ
ated with the church and the Sunday
school wherein we learned many
things that were worth remembering.
It is claimed by some writers and
thinkers that each person is the poss
essor of two selves. J)ne may be writ
ten with a capital letter, Self, and the
other self with a small letter. The Self
written large is the divine element
breathed into the living soul. The oth
er is the mortal self much given to in
dulgence and gratification of the sen
ser rrjrcrdlcfn of the rights and inter
est ; of o’Ji *r people. In the parable of
thr nnxl '*ai son the mortdt self at
first dominated. The young man re
ceived h's portion of the father’s pro
perty and Went away into a far caun
try to have a good time. He woke up
up one morning to find that he had
gravitated to his own. He was among
the pigs . The evolution of the saint
began. The young man looked with
disgust upon his surroundings and
said, “I will arise.”'The essential fact
or in seeking the better way. Then he
said “I will go.” Carrying the will into
action. When he meets his father he
says to him: “Father, I have sinned
against heaven, and in thy sight.”
These are the steps or stages of the
evolution of a saint. The will to do, the
uction~suited to the will and the ac
knowledgement of his own mistaken
and wrong course of action. The par
able of the prodical is typical in a
greater or less degree of all nlen and
women who strive for the higher and
better things of life. The lower self,
the physical sense, the animal'impul
ses must be made the servants of the
divine Self which is the real man and
the real woman.
MONEY USELESS
ROCHESTER, Nov., 29— A large
business house having headquarters in
this city has undertaken to conduct
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its affairs entirely without the use of
money. Instead of currency, it intends
to use checks, trade acceptances and
travel checks to make payments of ev
eiy kind, including its payroll. As the
concern deals with more than 8^0,000
individual customers the result of the
experiment will be watched with inter-*
est.
The company’s reason for adopting
this method is given as an effort to
demonstrate means of ending'the epi
demic of payroll robberies an<d “to
show that modern business may . be
conducted most efficiently without the
use of small change , thus leaving the
nation’s money where it belongs;, in
the banks, to serve as the basis of cre
dit”
The announcement says even car
fares, hotel bills and railroad fares for
the company's force of several hund
red salesmen, and other sundries are'
to be paid by checks. All petty items
even to one-cent postage stamps will;
be paid henceforth by check apd “no
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currency, of any amount or denomina
tion is to be carried in any form as
company property."
To meet the payroll of its factory
the company has offered to employes
either a regular pay check or the op
tion of receiving bn pay day a deposit
slip showing that his earnings for the
week have been deposited to his cred
'it m a local bank. This plan is expect
ed by the house to prove popular with
the thrifty class of employees and to
increase the volume of bank deposits.
Executive employes .who have no
banking account have been advised to
start one at once.
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It was recently announced in Ber
lin that a dyfcamite company of Ham
burg had obtained the patent for the
manufacture of diamonds and was in
a position to produce several hundred.
carats daily at a cost less than'the
present world price for the natural
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DLK SKWARD, Nov., 30th. SAILS SOUTH ABObf Ifce. Ad.
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Company reserves right to change schedule without notice
ADMIRAL LINE BUILDING
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SAILING SCHEDULE
Sail i rom
SEATTLE
Dec. 5
Dec. 15
Dec. 26
; Jan. 5
- Due
STEAMER SEWARD
Northwestern Dec. 11
ALAMEDA Dec. 21
Northwestern Jan. 1
ALAMEDA Jan. 11
Dae Lv Seward
Dec. 11
Dec. 21
Jan. 1
Jan. 11
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