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GATEWAY PUBLISHING COMPANY. (Inc.)
g^CT v. Hoben. P Frank L. Ballalne. Sec. Erich Lucas. Tress.
Entered aa eecond-claaa matter September. 2.1915. at the postoffice at Seward. Alaska.
under act of March 3. 1879.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES:
ONE YEAR. In advance.$10.00 PER MONT, delivered.. .$1.00
THE ALASKA WEEKLY POST by mail 3.00 I ADVERTISING RATES on application.
ACT NOW ON ALASKA COAL
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Every possible effort should be bent toward the open
ing of the JIatanuska coal fields this summer to an extent
sufficient to provide for the shipment of coal to coast
ports bv January 1.
Just at present the country is expending its greatest
possible energy at building ships fast enough to keep
ahead of destruction bv German submarine warfare.
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To the same end every available railroad car in the
country is needed to transport munitions of war.
Every ship or car used in the handling of fuel to
the western ports means just that many ships and cars
iess that are available for use in the war against Ger
many.
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Boats i sed on the Alaska run and canpery ships not
used in winter time are available for carrying coal south
ithout touching the country's war resources in shipping,
but the coal is as yet unmined and out of reach.
This matter should be taken up and impressed upon
the minds of the proper officials, who, overworked in
their efforts to solve transportation problems, may not
hit upon this method of relieving the western fuel situa
tion.
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LET l’S UNITE
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Recently business men of Anchorage indicated
through the Anchorage Times that they would like to get
together with Seward on matters of mutual interest.
This is a good thing. The two places should work
more in harmony, but this cannot be accomplished with
out some sacrifices by each in the interest of the other.
If Anchorage desires to do the big and patriotic thing
?he will join with Seward in a petition to the proper of
ficials to have the coal fields opened and the line between
Seward and Anchorage completed at the earliest possible
moment that coai may be shipped out before the end of
the coming winter for the relief of the threatened coal
famine, as reported by the federal trade commission yes
terdav as imminent.
THE GAME OF “HUSHING UP”
Despite the efforts of bureaucrats at Washington to
have it hushed up. an investigation of the accident on the
steamship Mongolia, resulting in the deaths of two nurses
from a shell prematurely exploded, has been ordered. This
is the logical consequence of an effort to suppress from
public knowledge an affair which has no military import
ance.
Incidentally, a light is cast across the purpose of cer
tain department heads in their frantic attempt to have
enacted a drastic censorship bill. If so comparatively
minor occurences as an accident on an armed liner can
be kept from the people, to what lengths are the bureau
crats likely to go if so powerful an instrument as discre
tionary censorship is placed in their hands? In urging
the inquiry into the accident before the senate Senator
Prelinghuysen denounced “that mocking and foolish doc
trine that the people of America must be kept in ignor
ance,” adding:
“My one object is to prevent such accidents after
wards. Publication will do no harm. Let’s stand with
the president in his demand for ‘pitiless publicity.’ ’’
If shells seventeen years old are being used by the
navy it is high time for the public to be informed of the
fact, for nothing can be a tithe so effective in remedying
the situation as a general knowledge of conditions. In
the early part of the war Lord Northcliffe, the famous
London publisher, was hanged in effigy for openly defy
ing the authorities of the British empire, including Lord
Kitchener, by proclaiming in box-car type that the Brit
ish army at the front was being sacrificed by an appalling
shortage o: shells. But soon the public began to realize
“GET OUT OF THE WAY THERE!”
AMERICAN
^BUSINESS
—Donahey in Cleveland Plain Dealer.
the incalculable peril of such a situation and the result
was that Britain began correcting the situation and to
day—thanks largely to Northcliffe and the public demand
—the British superiority in guns and high explosive shells
is acknowledged even by the Germans.
It requires an upheaval to work a vast change and
in the nature of things, human shortcomings being what
they are, no upheaval can come in time of war unless
there is an overwhelming demand for it—and that de
mand can come only from the public. Except for the ex
posure of England’s weakness at the front the British
army today probably would be lagging behind its enemies
in its capacity to take the offensive.
The impression should not be gained that the press
of the nation is opposed to military censorship—properly
defined and properly enforced. The fact is that the news
papers of this country have been praised repeatedly by
dpartments at Washington for refraining from printing
news of the highest interest to their readers because of
its possible value to its enemy. The press would welcome
a censorship of military information—which everybody
must admit to be positively necessary in time of war—
but the point argued is that news of no military import
ance should not be withheld merely because it might cause
adverse criticism to be visited upon some government de
partment. t
If the press is denied the right to criticise the navy
department, for instance, because it uses seventeen-year
old shells in its rifles, the liberty of the press is thereby
abridged and the public is victimized and outraged for the
sake of some incompetent official.—(Ex.)
THE CALL TO PROGRESS
Of no use are the men who study to do exactly as was
done before, who can never understand that today is a
new day. There never was such a combination as this of
ours, and the rules to meet it are not set down in any his
tory. We want men of original perception and original
action; men of elastic, men of moral mind, who can live
in the moment and take a step forward. Columbus was
1.0 backward creeping crab, nor was Martin Luther, nor
•iohn Adams, nor Patrick Henry, nor Thomas Jefferson,
md the Genius or Destiny of America is no log or slug
gard, but a man incessantly advancing, as the shadow on
the dial’s face, or the heavenly body by whose light it is
narked.—(Emerson.)
HIDING BEHIND BABY CRIBS
Out in the “Show Me" country they have dug up a;
trick to dodge selective service that seems to be about1
the last word in un-Americanism.
In Kansas City some young men, married, but with
out children, have proceeded to adopt babies to secure
"dependents" in order to be able to claim exemption.
This shows possession of high imaginative power
which ought to be put to better use. However, the thing
that make5 the matter really worth discussing is that out
of some millions of men only four have been found who
have resorted to such extreme methods to avoid the honor
of serving Uncle Sam and the cause of democracy.
There is mighty little “yellow” in America.—(Ex.)
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Whatever you have to do that will help the national
cause, remember it is up to you and not the “other fellow”
to do it.
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ALASKA
, Sailings from Seattle:
■^Alaska .June 7
Mariposa .June l'J
Northwestern .Juno 10
Alameda.Juno 25
Alaska .June .‘JO
All ships go through to Anchorage.
All passenger ships will touch at Skagway northbound. The Alameda
and Mariposa will be the only ships to call at Skagway southbound.
For further particulars of service, rates, apply to Agent.
A. H. McDonald, Agent.
For the benefit of those Interested in Alaska in
General and Seward in Particular an
INFORMATION BUREAU
has been established in connection with this paper, and all those desir
ing information as to the value of real estate and business opportuni
ties are requested to address their communications to
INFORMATION DEPARTMENT, SEWARD
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Future Fishing Center of Alaska
Gateway and Distributing Point for Central Alaska
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coast—bar none; the most advantageously located townsite in
Alaska; a fishing industry that alone will make a wealthy town;
a modern and complete cold storage plant and cannery; will have
one of the finest Radio Stations in the North Pacific.
SEWARD has a first-class gravity water system, modern electric
light and power plant, has twosolid financial institutions and is
the selected site for the North Coast Government Coaling Station,
the SALT WATER TERMINUS of the Government-built railroad,
the nearest port to the GREATEST HALIBUT BANKS in Alaska
and is tributary to the great mining districts of Alaska.
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your own particular business, address
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