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PvWWMd Daily, ‘Cnacpt Sunday* and Holiday*
Haffy V. H*bt*i Owaar —-F. B. Camp, Editor.
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ftfttcrei as Second -Cl** Matter September 2nd, 1915, at the Post Office at
Sowar4 Alaska. Under the Act of March 9, 1879.
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SAHacial and -Office — Telephone Main 71.
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As a part of the nation-wide cam
paiga for the improvement of tht,
schools and other agencies of educa
tion U. S. Commissioner of Education j
Dr. P. P. Claxton. has designated the j
week of December 5-11. as “school |
veek” and requested the governors j
ami obief school officers of the sev- |
eral states and territories to tsk ? > •. ch ;
action as will advance the interests of j
education throughout the nation.
Ways and means of improving the j
rational facilities in Seward have ?
boon under consideration for a consid-,
c'tible length cf time. In the first j
j iacc the high-schoool curriculm |
should be extended to include a full[
foir years course. When this matter
was strongly urged a year ago the ob
jection was raised that the number of;
pupils entering the high school was 1
nut sufficient to warrant the expense, i
tKa Hir* aTiVets f unDreuardness for*
emergencies has been sadly demon- j
strated throughout the nation in the
last few years. A lack of preparation
to meet an emergency and the detri
ment to educational interests was ob
served in our school last year when
pupils arrived from other sections or
the Territory and from the States and
wished to enter the high school and
take up studies in the third and fourth
year. There were neither the rooming
facilities nor the requisite number of
teachers to meet the demand. The pu
pils dropped out and the school wa.
criticised for inefficiency in not being
prepared to meet an emergency.
The elementary schools are of ne
cessity largely given up to teaching
the rudiments of education and this is
chiefly the work of the first two years
in the high school. Not until the third
and fourth years in the high school
can the problems that moat vitally af
fect us as a nation be successfully
taken up and pursued by the pupils.
The nation is awakening to the fact
that if we are to have in the future a;
united bocfy of intellligent and loyal {
citizens we must definitely and and j
systematically begin to instruct the J
pupils who enter the high school in j
. those studies which especially bear up- j
on good citizenship. The State legis* j
lature of New Jersey last year enact-.*
ed a law making it obligitory in thej
high schools to take up the study of;
problems in American democracy. The
law requires that the study shall be
begun not eartttr than the thiul
of the high-school course and that at
least sixty full hours in periods of at
least forty minutes shall be given to it.
A very obvioue reason why we
should have a standard high school
here is that parents may not be’oblig
ed to send their children to the States
to secure the advantages of an edu
cation. Parents living in Seward and
helping to develop a new country have
a right to expect the town and the
Territory to provide for the education
of their children including a four year
high-school course.
With an extended high-school coarse
other subjects such as domestic science
jinnl training can he introduced
with advantage to the pupils and com
munity. With the proper equipment
more attention can he given to physi
cal culture which is now largely ne
glcted. f f
To carry on the work ot education
in Seward as it should he done wfll
require”the addition of a new school
building with provision for a gym
nasium. class looms and an assembly
room.
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LOCOMOTIVE IS IN HARNESS
The Baldwin locomotive that was
assembled at North Nenana recentl..
and which will be placed on tho
Fairbanks division of the railroad
arrived in town yesterday afternoon.
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The big engine was piloted Into
town by engineer Pete Galaghei.
with Superintendent Packer and J. C.
Seeley as passengers. Today thi
new engine is making the creek run,
ollowing the Chatanika regular in or
der to learn whteher the greater
length of the new locomotive over the»
older types will hinder it in making
the sharp curves on he Tanana valley
tfad. I c- j
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The donations for the Community
Tree yesterday were as follows:
SEXTON’S - $1.00.
The KEY-$4.15
The SEWARD DRUG CO. -*...25 |
The NORTHERN - $1.2^
Total $0.05
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TRACK LAYING GANG
FINISH TO MILE 272 1-2
Wm. Gerig, chief engineer in charge
of the Alaskan Engineering commis
sion, leaves Saturday morning for the
end of steel, on the northern division,
:o inspect the work. Mr. Gerig re
ports the track laying gang laid steel
to Mile 272 1-2 on December 4, ami
would finish to Mile 275 Friday or
Saturday of this week. Graders are
working on the roadbed between 272
1-2 and 275 at the present.
Contractors Working
Forces are scattered all along the
right-of-way from Hurricane Gulch,
Mile*284, to Mile 292 on contract work
consisting principally of grading and
rock work. The steel, Mr. Gerig
states, will not be laid beyond Mile
275 this winter.
Bridge Work Progressing.
The work on the big Susitna river
bridge is progressing rapidly, and
with every indication that the struc
ture will be erected by the last of
this month. The north pier is about
half done and 1,300 tons out of a total
of 1900 tons of bridge material have
been placed. ' —
(Anchorage Times)
Establishing of the first trading
post at Senaibine straits, by the
crew of the Siberian commercial
company’s schooner Iskum, was an
nounced by Frank W. Hanford , sec
retary-treasurer of the Siberian Com
mercial company, who received ad
vices to that effect The vessel is
now on her way to Kolyma river.
According to Mr. Hanford, the seer
ond and third trading stations will
be established along the Siberian
coast during the coming week, and
the vessel will go as far - north
as the ice will permit In case the
Iskum will be unable • to get back
to Nome, Alaska, before the straits
| are closed, the vessel will be moored
in Kolyma bay and her crew will
trap all winter. ,
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“Glacier
Breezes
PERT PARAGRAPTHS OF SENSE
AND NONSENSE FOREIGN AND
LOCAL, CAUGHT ON TOE
FLY BY "THE HUMAN
TOOTHPICK "
More than a foot of snow fell last
night and fiom all indications t*i«ther
foot will fall today. It is falling stenu
ity. The absence of wind has kept the
snow from drifting. The favorite ex
ercise this morning on the Main -St.
w«? shoveling snow.
Mary Pickford as Pollyanna last
night at the Liberty Theatre thorough
ly demonstrated why she is capable of
earning more than $1,000,000 per year.
She- well she’s Mary Pickford
that s all. Nuff said. If you did not j
see the show last night you missed j
something. Go tonight. It’s well worth j
while and it may develop the Glad !
Habit.
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Harding called at the White House, j
Left his card. Did not meet Wilson. 1
Telegraph flashes tell us this. Wonder !
if Woodrow will mention the occasion
in the history he is contemplating
writing when he retires. When his j
book is completed it will probably be j
among the best fiction sellers. He ha$
lots of'material for a series of books.
The other day a little fellow was |
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rolling in the snow and having a won
derful time regardless of his clothes.
That night his mother who was al
ways scolding him about getting his
clothes soiled and dirty, showed him
the picture of two little boys all dress
ed up in pretty white suits. Jimm>,
she said, “Wouldn’t you like to be
nice and clean like these childre n |
here. “Huh”, replied Jimmy scornfully ;
“They’re not children, them’s pets.”
President Wilson has at last tume 1
in an itemized bill showing the ex
penses of the Peace Mission. Almost:
two million dollars. Some trip. What ? I
Can’t blame Wilson for breaking
down after he returned cause we ima
gine it is quite a strain to spend that
amount in such a short time.
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DAN M’GANN
Said Dan McGann to a foreign
man who worked at the self-same
bench, “Let r§e tell you this,” j»nd
for emphasis he flourished a monkey
wrench. “Don’t talk to me of this
bourjoisee, don’t open your mouth
to speak of your soviets of your
anarchists, don’t mention the Bolshe
veek, for I’ve had enough of then
foreign stuff, I’m sick as a man
can be of the speech of hate, and
I’m telling you straight that this is
the land for me!
“If you want to brag, just take
that flag and boast of its field of
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blue, and praise the dead and ' the
blood they shed for the peace . of
the likes o’ you. I’ll hear no more,”
and he waved once more his wrench
j in a forceful way, “o” the cunning
creed of - some Russian breed— 1
stand for the U. S. A.! I'm done
with your fads and your wild-eyed
lads, don’t flourish your flag of red
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where I can see , or at night there’ll
be tall candles at your bed.
“So tip your hat to a flag likei
that! Thank God for its stripes
and stars! Thank God you’re here
where the roads are clear, away from
your kings and czars. I can’t. ’ just
say what I feel today, for I'm not
a talkin' man, but first and last I’m
standin’ fast for all that’s American
So don’t you speak of the Bolnhe-,
veek; it’s sick of that stuff ram.
One God, one flag, is the creed that
I brag! I’m boostin’ for Uncle Sam.
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SHOES
AT URBACH’S'
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SHE DOES IT
LONG BEACH, Cal., Dec., 9—
Mrs. Bertha Irene Abbott, sole teach
er of the South Cerritos school in an
outlying section of Long Beach is the
“model* instructor of California, ac
cording to claims of local school au
thorities.
She sleeps in the school building to
protect it from vandalism.
She pastures a cow on the school
grounds to provide milk for the hot
chocolate sh$ serves every noon to her
sixty-one pupils.
She conducts sewing classes in ad
dition to the curriculum provided for
the school.
She has established a branch of the
Long Beach public library in the «
school.
Mrs. Abbott, before coming to Long
I »ach v. ta dished a school at Saugii3,
Cal., a id served as its teacher for a
yeur without pay before it was incor
porate! in the Los Angeles county
Hiooi system. She is 23 years old.
OLD STUFF
PORTLAND, Ore., Dec., 9— That
a i-ace corrrespondingto the cliff
dwellers of Arizonia or the Axtecs of
Mexico, though not so highly civilized
as the latter , once lived in the region
along the Columbia river is the opin
ion of George H. Hines, assistant sec
retary of the Oregon Historical soc
iety, who recently returned from the
scene of excavations at Big Eddy, Ore.
where skeletions and implements of
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various kinds were unearthed by a
state road construction crew.
Copper utensils which were uncov
ered along with stone implements and
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a stone image of the sun correspond
to other relics dug up at other points,
according to Mr. Hines, though some
of the objects uncovered in the latest
find were of finer workmanship than
any in the possession of the historical
society.
Mr. Hines expressed the opinion
that these articles had been left by a
race of people preceding of the white
men.
F B. Hall, who lives at Big Eddy,
uncovered what can nearest be de
scribed in modem terms as a vase. It
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is made stone and is slightly larger
than a teacup, with handles projecting
about four inches on each side. It is
made of solid stone and is decorated
with a symetrical design formed by a
hapital “V” standing errect with a
capital “V” inverted, the two letters
Joined.
John Powell found what was appar
ently an idol worshipped by the trtye,
a stone image of the sun. The center
of the disc is depressed forming the
sun, while from it to the edge of the
circle are wavering lines such as used
by modem artists to indicate light
waves.
On the cliffs back of Big Eddy
many hieroglyphics suggestive of
those found in ancient Egypt are to
be seen. These are all painted in red,
yellow and black colors. In all these
the sun predominates, images of it ap
pearing in virtually all designs. At one
place high on the cliffs crude figures
of what were evidently intended to re
present two men may be seen. At an
other place an excellently designed '
human face with a hideous grin upon
it is. painted uponthe rocks. The ex
treme age of these paintings is shown
by the fact that many of them have
been obliterated by the elements, per
fect specimens being seen only with
moss in many instances and some are
cracked with part of the design miss
ing, where the cliffs splintered years
ago.
B. Frazier, a traveling man of Port
land reported that.on a recent hunting•
trip, he found picture writings chisel- j
ed on the cliffs at Roosevelt,* Wash., j
across the Columbia river from Ar-1
lington, Ore.
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He was a wise man who said that
he hadn’t time to worry. lit the day
time he was too busy, and at night he
was too sleepy.
The Seward News Company
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Arrives in Seward About Dec., 22nd.
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SAILING SCHEDULE
Sailing from Seattle Leave Seward
Northwestern Dec., 5th via Inside Passage Dec. 11th.
Victoria Dec., 17th via Outside Passage Dec., 22nd.
Northwestern Dec 30th via Inside Passage JaiL, 4th.
Victoria Jan., 10th via Outside Passage Jan., 15th.
NOTE— The S. S. Victoria sailing of the 17th will be
the Xmas Trip. She does not go the Inside Passage.
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