Seward Daily Gateway
OF SEW^ARD, ALASKA Established August 19, 1904
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THE INDIAN SERVICE
As The Gateway commented several weeks ago,
the transfer of Indian affairs in Alaska to the Indian
Service from the Bureau of Education, is no doubt
proper and no harm at all can be seen in the future un
der the Indian Service administration; rather, an im
provement.
There may be other Alaskan papers with a similar
viewpoint, but we have thus far failed to observe a sin
gle favorable comment, other than ours, of the change.
However, we have noted many busting out into tears
over the transaction. Why, ye don't profess to know.
Nor do we mean that the Bureau of Education has
not carried on its Alaskan functions prpperly. Handi
capped as are most Territorial bureaus, -we believe
they have earned forward their activities admirably.
But the Indian Service was conceived for one pur
pose, to administer to the American Indian; through
the years they came to know the ways of the Indian as
none other possibly could; and they have facilities
far greater in scope than the Bureau of Eduucation.
The fundamental principle of the Indian Service is
irrefutable and they adhere strictly to that principle,
10 per cent welfare of the Indian which now includes
the Eskimo.
100,000 NEW ALASKANS
The unemployment problem is no new thing; it is
as old as the evening star.
But, why do those poor souls in the States hotly
compete with one another when they can come to Alas
ka and live the life of Riley?
Immediately many will ask how in the dickens will
they get by up here? In reply The Gateway asks: How
in heck are they getting by in the States? They starve
Outside but who ever heard of an Alaskan starving
excepting through accident?
Alaska can absorb thousands upon thousands; pop
ulation will solve all of our internal problems. If Uncle
Sam desires to put an end to the so-called petty Terri
torial whimperings, let him send a few hundred thous
and of the States’ unemployed to Alaska. They’ll solve
Alaskans colonization ideas quickly enough; they’ll
flock into the hills; into the valleys and in a very few
months, acclimate themselves to not only the moderate
climates but to the country as well.
Such a plan may not be the answer to a maiden’s
prayer, but it will be the answer to Alaska’s greatest ill.
: Send up 100,000 in the first batch.
OUR FEDERAL PRISONERS
Captain Hobson of Spanish War fame, is waging
war on narcotics. Although we have been outlawing this
traffic for more than a decade, Captain Hobson says:
“The largest group in the population of our Fed
eral prisons is not the liquor group but the narcotic
group, and the Commissioner of Health of a great
American city has told me that a stream of youth pour
ing into the underworld today, with few exceptions,
are traveling by the drug road.”
And so the goverment concentrate every effort to
wipe out the liquor habit. They chase a rabbit instead
of a wolf.
Almost every household in Seward has been visit
ed with illness in one form or another—principally in
fluenza—during the past few months. None have prov
en serious, thanks to local medical skill, but now that
the first day of spring is but a few days away, is every
reason that precautions should continue until every
vestige of winter has vanished.
Sewardites may now date all happenings from the
day of the “Big Shot” at the breakwater quarry.
ALASKA RAILROAD
TO RAISE RATES
OH MARCH a
LARGE increase in fare
EFFECTIVE NEXT FRIDAY,
MARCH 20
Increased passenger rates on
the Alaska Railroad will go into
effect March 20. The advances
average about 4 cents a mile—
from 6 cents, the old rate, to 10
cents, the proposed new rate
Under new schedules, the fares
from Seward to Anchorage, ap
proximately 114 miles, will be
$11.45; under the old schedule
it was $6.85.
The fare from Seward to Me
Kinley Park will be $34.80 as
compared with $20.85 and the
fare from Seward to Fairbanks,
approximately 470 miles, will be
| $47.05 as compared with $28.05.
Freight tariffs have also been
ordered increased, it is under
stood but The Gateway has had
1 nothing authentic as to when
they become effective. The pas
senger rate increase, as stated
above, was received from other
sources than the railroad offices
as The Gateway was apparently
passed by when announcement
was made some days back
ITUS WHO
LURE TOURISTS 61
GAMBLING DIKES
SAN REMO, Italy, Mar., 16, (;P)
—There are dreams here of creat
ing two great gambling centers
to lure from Monte Carlo and the
French Riviera the dollars of
those who pursue the path of
chance—but they are only on
paper.
Venice promoters, who vision
a casino here and one at Venice,
are discussing the advisability
of asking Frank Jay Gould, who
cieated Juan-les-Pins on the
French Riviera, to try his wand
on the City of Lagoons.
Venice would like to capitalize
on this and make of the Lido an
even greater center for tourists
by building a casino that would
outshine any other similar one
CARRIED TOO FAR
LISIUX, France, Mar., 16, (TP)—
Tax reductions have been carried I
too far and Government expendi
tures have been permitted to mount
too high for the good of the coun
try’s restoration to financial sta
bility, Minister Henry Cherotn, a
former finance leader, warned in j
an address to bankers.
$150 TO KILL COYOTE
McClelland, ia., Mar., 16, (/P)
—Floyd Leslie, McClelland drug
gist, spent $150 to collect a $10 I
bounty on a coyote pelt. He chas- |
ed it in his motor car, finally
landing in a ditch on top of the
animal; car repair bill $140, med
ical attention $10.
HELD-UP JEWELRY OFFICE
NEW YORK, Mar., 16, UP)—
Two cool and efficient gunmen
entered a wholesale jewelry office
of Frederick Weiss, bound him
to a chair and escaped with cut
and uncut gems worth • f if thy
thousand dollars.
EMPHATIC WAR ON FASCISTS
COLOGNE, Ger., Mar., 16, (/Pi
Emphatic warring against Facist
movement in Germany was issu
ed in a Pastoral letter by Car
dinal Schulte, Archbishop of Co
logne. He said that the Catholics I
have waited long enough for Hit- I
lerites to define their aims and
allay anxiety.
Tech. Sgt. Lawrence, who was
operated upon Saturday in the
Seward General Hospital, for ap
pendicitis, is as well as can be
expected today.
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LIBERTY THEATER
8 O'CLOCK
ONE SHOW
8 O’CLOCK
SHOWING TONIGHT
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The brand-new imported star—
MAURICE CHEVALIER
The most famous French actor is to be seen for the first
time here in Seward in the comedy drama
“INNOCENTS OF PARIS”
—A very fast action play staged in France.
With it there will be a two*reel comedy starring
JIMMY ADAMS
“OH MUMMY”
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