Seward. Daily Gateway
OF SEWARD. ALASKA — Established August 18. 1904
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THE VALUE OF LEADERSHIP
When prosperity reigns throughout the land the
necessity for leadership is lost in the natural flow of cap
ital and industry which guarantees to every man a share
of the good things of life. %
It is when there is a slacking up at the fountainhead
of prosperity that the real leader emerges, and his value
as a citizen is given its fullest emphasis.
This is why Oapt. Austin E. Lathrop, pioneer Alas
kan and among its first successful citizens and a man of
great wealth and genius, stands out so eminently as the
leader in Western and Central Alaska.
Captain Lathrop heads the list of those who have re
invested in Alaska a large portion of what he has amass
ed. In this investment he has contributed signally toward
keeping the effects of the depression in the States out of;
tne Railroad Zone.
Not content with pioneering the cinema field and
supplying Alaska with entertainment equal to that of
the outside world, building up a great banking institu
tion for the stimulation of business, he is also a pioneer
in the coal fields, maintaining the largest payroll of any
coal mine in Alaska. This key industry is responsible for
tne advent of the Fairbanks Exploration Company,
which, in addition to disbursing millions of dollars in the
purchase of placer ground in the vicinity of Fairbanks,
expended approximately $5,000,000 in labor and install
ed five monster dredges, which extracted 30 per cent of
the placer gold going to make up Alaska’s $o,341,840 of
placer gold included m Alaska’s $9,539,000 gold produc
tion for 1932.
Now Captain Lathrop has turned his attention to
lode mining, the key to Alaska’s future permanent pros
perity, and it is reasonable to expect that the same sig
nal success which has characterized his prior invest
ments and industries will crown his efforts.
Throughout his career as a frontiersman from the
’98 class Captain Lathrop has set an example worthy of
emulation by ah those who have surplus capital to invest.
And while applying the strictest business principles
to his progress, Captain Lathrop has not overlooked the
purely human sid^ of life, in that he has been one of the
strongest contriouters to all public causes, including the
erection of permanent, handsome buildings for his thea
ters. installation of needed conveniences for supplying
Fairbanks and the lower Tanana, railroad belt and the
Yukon with Hr.ah River coal, built modern apartment
h uses ana each \ ear conducts an excursion from his
Suntrana mines to Fairbanks for his employees.
There is hardly an Alaskan activity in which .Cap
tain Lathrop has not participated, including the fur
thering of transportation in McKinley Park, donating
with a free hand to innumerable public enterprises. And
not the least has been his investment in the Alaska Ju
neau mine when it required preliminary funds with
which to place it, as at present, among the great gold
mines of the world.
It is this foresight and energy which builds nations,
and leadership which counts when leaders are demanded.
According to a report returned by President Hoov
er’s fact finding commission after three years of study,!
prohibition repeal will shift the racketeers into less luc
rative crime, they will have less money with which to
bribe public officials and may have to go to work. How
eveiv the idea of putting official crooks in jail did not
seem to present itself to the learned commission.
The Literary Digest-could render the nation a ser
vice by using a search warrant instead of a straw in a
pell to ascertain who has all these billions we hear spo-1
ken of so glibly.
We believe it was the Governor of New Jersey w*ho
burst into print with (he suggestion that Alaska be*made
a penal colony. He has just refused to extradite a hold
up convict to complete a prison sentence in Georgia. He
might have become scriptural and added: “I go to pre
pare a place for thee.”
A subscriber asks: “What is the difference between
technology and technocracy?” The first taught a man
how to make the money and the other teaches how to
take it away from him. In this latter respect technique
is purely a feminine accomplishment.
It would appear that the attitude of Greece is not to
allow Insull to leave until he teaches its politicians how
he did it. , 1 #
The weather man reports that the blizzards in
Southern California are due to the falling of the temper
ature? of Clara Blow and Aimee Simple McPherson.
IS. L. DESTAFFANY
SUICIDE ATTEMPT IS
“ALL A MISTAKE"
Explaining her suicide attempt
was “all a mistake,” Mrs. Dorothy
DeStaffany, 23-year-old estrang
ed wife of Lyman DeStaffany, Arc
tic explorer and fur trader, was re
leased from a Seattle hospital. She j
was reported to have returned to
the home of her mother, Mrs- Sa- I
rah Flannigan, political worker, j
with whom she has been living.
According to police records, Mrs.
DeStaffany swallowed poison du
ring a midnight party at the apart
ment of H. W. Barnhill, Alaska av
iator and friend of DeStaffany.
The potion was diluted, doctors
said. *
Her estranged husband, whom
she joined earlier in the evening
at her mother’s home, told the po
lice they were sitting in the living:
room when Mrs. DeStaffany sud- j
denly screamed, “I’ve just taken
poison,” and collapsed. DeStaffany,
Barnhill and Miss Jean Okeh,
fourth member of the party, gave
her emergency treatment and sum
moned aid. They said they did not
see her drink it.
In a note found in her purse
Mi'S. DeStaffany wished her hus
band “a very prosperous Newr Year
—I know it can’t be really happy.”
DeStaffany married his second
wife after being divorced by Mar
tha Ardelle Town,send, whom he i
married in 1926. The second Mrs.
DeStaffany obtained a divorce in
1931.
FATHER, SON BANQUET
The Father and Son Banquet is
being planned for the second week
in February. Probably February 8.
Tickets including man and boy
will be $1.00 this year. This is the
greatest annual men’s gathering in
Seward
“NERTZ”
SAN JOSE. Jan. 19—The first
"Jones’ Law Raid” conducted by
Sheriff William J. Emig since the
Wright Act, state dry law was re
pealed, netted a $25,000 alcohol
plant and tw?o men.
Haas Candy always an appro
I priate gift. Alaska Shop.
FRESH STOCK OF TURKEYS
AT 27 CENTS PER POUND AND
SMALL LEGHORNS AT 25 CENTS
A POUND. PAULSTEINER’S MEAT
MARKET.
LOWLY ANCHORAGE
An Anchorage “Worm’* mailed
The Gateway a stack of tickets to
the Arctic Worms’ First Annual
Ball at Anchorage, January 28
with instructions to dispose of
them at 99 kopeks each.
Business is poor; only two have
been purchased.
But now, in view of the fact that
the Anchorage dance will doubtless
be presented Sunday night, the
29th, because of the Seward bas
ketball teams and fans arriving on
the 29th, hopes are entertained
that all those going over with the
teams will purchase the tickets
sent, if for no other reason than
for old Alma Mater, KFQD Seran
aders.
10 a. m. Sunday school. 11 a. m.
Morning service- Theme: Watch
man, What of the Night? 7:30 p.
m. Evening service. Subject: Christ
at the Door. Illustrated by Hof
rnan’s and Hunt’s famous pictures
of Christ at the door. Good sing
ing. Everybody cordially invited
to attend these services.
BEAUTY WORK
Enhance your individuality with
a personalized, scientifically ap
plied wave, deep, even, lasting
waves, as well as other beauty
work. Make an early appointment.
Phone Madison 29, Struve Apt.,
upstairs. Jessie Lander.
A Masters Work
Jonas Bros, offer you a com
plete Fur, Taxidermy and
Tawning Service — unexcelled
anywhere.
Game heads, fur rugs, birds.
;tc., mounted true to nature.
Your raw fur skins dressed
and made into coats and
chokers.
Write for free catalogue.
JONAS BROS.
1030 Broadway, Denver, Colo.
Paulsteiner’s Market
Armour's Quality Meats—Blue Ribbon Poultry
Butter and Eggs—Black Hawk Hams and Bacon
Fish and oysters—Wc ship and deliver—Phone Madison 56
MID-WINTER CLEANUP SALE!
Prices Reduced 10 per cent to 30 per cent
The Blue Shop
Pacific Alaska Airways Inc.
SPEED - - - COMFORT - - - DEPENDABILITY
Running on Regular Schedule
AND
Planes Available for Charter
RADIO EQUIPPED PLANES
OFFICES
ANCHORAGE—FAIRBANKS—NOME—SEATTLE
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McGee Airways
SAVES YOU TIME AND MONEY
Seward, Anchorage, Fairbanks Air Service
AT > OUR SERVICE ANYTIME
Rates: Seward to Anchorage $15; Seward to Fairbanks
$o5. Ten per cent less on round trip fares.
(Joy hops. 3 passengers, $5 each, 30 minutes flying)
THEATRE
Show Tonight at 8 o’clock
We have for you tonight a rip-roaring program, the like of
which you haven’t seen for some time
Tom Mix
and his “Wonder Horse” Tony in the thrilling, fast action tale
“DESTRY RIDES AGAIN”
A play of the h.ird-riding, hard-shooting West of 40 years ago.
And also something unusual; we have two comedies of 2-reels
each of the oil slapstick style that will make the old young and
the young old.
One, “NIGHT CLASS,’ has Nat Carr as the star, and the other,
“LIGHTHOUSE KEEPING,” has Mack Swain and Ben Turpin
in the leading roles.
Besides all this there is a very interesting
TRAVELOGUE and a NEWS
SOME PROGRAM!
Seward General
Hospital
Seward. Alaska
The Alaska Railroad
(MT. McKinley park route)
TRAINS ARRIVE TRAINS DEPART
Each Saturday G:30 p. m. Each Sunday 7:30 a- m.
Mixed train between Anchorage and Seward.
SOUTHBOUND NORTHBOUND
Each Thursday Each Sunday
Mixed train for Anchorage and intermediate points
leaves not earlier than 10:00 a. m. each Sunday.
Mixed train carries a coach and passengers.
STEAMSHIP STARR
CAPTAIN ARTHUR RYNING
NEXT SAILING FEBRUARY 5
SAN JUAN FISHING & PACKING CO.
^ Chas. A. Jansen, Agent
Phone Madison 139 Seward, Alaska
PACIFIC STEAMSHIP CO.
ADMIRAL LINE SAILINGS i
SEATTLE
SAN FRANCISCO
LOS ANGELES
SAN DIEGO
NEW YORK
Leave Sewara Sooth
EVANS .Jan. 25
EVANS .Feb. 15
EVANS .Mar. 8
EVANS .Mar. 29
Wayne Blue, Agent.
The Admiral Evans
will call at Yakutat
north and southbound.
Leaves Seattle North
EVANS .Jan. 14
EVANS .Feb. 4
EVANS .Feb. 25
EVANS .Mar. 18
Parts of call: Ketchikan, Wrangell, Petersburg,
Juneau, Haines, Skagway, Cordova, Valdez, and
Latouche, North and South, except SS. North
western does not call Latouche either direction.
Sailings from Seattle at 9 a.m. on
dates shown.
\• H. Flickinger, Agent