Seward Daily Gateway
OF SEWARD, ALASKA — Established Aupust 19, 1904
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THE RfiTAL PRODUCERS
1 he steamship Victoria leaves Nome on its last trip
for the season carrying $400,000 in gold, a part of a sea
son’s output of <$1,500,000. This does not represent a paper
Profit Iron* stock market gambling, but a harvest from
nature which adds to the sum total of the world’s mater
ial wealth as expressed in the standard of values.
/There is much maudling sentiment scattered around!
hjjnong supposed ‘‘producers.” The only producer in the j
**frue sense of the word is the man who supplies the mater- i
j * ml gold. Goods may be destroyed along with property,
leaving nothing but ashes. Gold may be melted, remelted,
ground into dust, reassembled and*remains gold, to sus
tain the financial structure of the world.
A DUAL CRISIS
Regardless of who is to blame for the present im-j
passe in Juneau respecting the condition of the treasury
and attendant complications, the situation now staring
the forthcoming Legislature in the face is the remedy
and prevention of recurrence of such a situation.
Therefore the voters will be called upon to select men
equipped by training and knowledge to untangle the web
and bring order out of chaos.
There is no denying that the task is a difficult one
fraught with many pitfalls and eventualities. It embod
ies, primarily, the question of laying a heavier tax burden
upon the shoulders of the public or readjustments calcu
lated to at once reduce the cost of government while at
the same time not crippling progress, and placing the
taxes where they may best be borne.
None but astute and trained minds are capable of
this work; it is not die labor of the novice. The wider the
spread of this ability the smaller is the chance of those!
seeking to thwart this equitable readjustment in doing so.
Seward has an opportunity in L. V. Ray to add to’the
sum total of such men. Mr. Ray’s training and experience
in law and political economy eminently fit him for the |
Territorial Senate, where the major battle will be waged.
^ As set forth by Senator Dimond in his Seward ad-;
dress, it is a question whether the people wish to employ
one who renders loyal service to his clients or one who
might equivocate. Like Mr. Dimond, though of opposition !
politics, Mr. Ray may be employed by the Territory to j!
handle its legal affairs and in the employment assure the! |
voters of protection, such as he would give any other client. I'
VALUE OF ADVERSITY
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It is a notable fact that the old South and the West
are recovering from the depression more rapidly than
rhe East. The reason for this is not far to seek. It has not
been many years since both regions were engaged in a
\ aliant battle against odds which now appall the sybaritic
East and are thought of in terms of romance; adventure.
We have seen the South rise Phoenix-like from the
ashes of a fratricidal war, which might have crushed a
less valiant and self-reliant people. But the spirit of its
people was the outgrowth of a series of battles for pro
gress having its genesis in the War of Revolution. In
both rhe Revolution and the Secession movement all was
sacrificed for a principle; deprivation and suffering were
but concomitants to achievement.
The West was won under the stress of war with sav
ages, war with pr imitive nature and on a spirit of deter
mination to win. Its history is too recent to allow of its
becoming dimmed by an overplus of luxury, which has
blighted and stunned the East.
In our own case of Alaska, its primitive battlements
w ere stormed ana taken by men fresh from the traditions
of Western achievement, men capable of suffering but
whose courage was of steel. Like the older centers of the
States, too much prosperity Engendered a flabbiness now
expiessive in the number who ham about the settle
ments seeking sustenance from their limited sources of
revenue rather than turn to Nature as the earlier pio
neers did. 1
is a gieat stimulant to lethargic drifting Out
ot the present depression will come a sobered people who
only needed such a chastisement to warn them that man’s
success or failure is a matter of his own judgement.
Visitors to Juneau report the Governor is bored with
his job. Evidently the malady which has been affecting
Alaskans is contagious.
Whatever might be said of the back to the farm
movement, there is every likelihood that manv Congress
men and political leeches will go back to the sticks.'
That Texas boy who slept one year is evidently trving
to keep pace with the return of prosperity.
JIM
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| On October 5 the United States
I Geographic Board named a newly
| discovered creek in the Koyukuk re
j gion of northern Alaska, Holmes
creek, after former Associate Jus
| tice Oliver Wendel Holmes, of the
I U. S. Supreme Court. The creek
[ was discovered by a member of the
Geological Survey March 8, < 931,
Justice Holmes’ 89th birthday anni
j versary. At the same meeting of
t the board names were selected for
392 rivers, creeks, mountains and
lakes. Two hundred were desig
nated for Alaska, 75 for California,
30 for Montana, 10 for Wyoming, 3
for Washington, 60 for Utah and
one each in Florida, Michigan,
South America and Colorado.
Some of the old-timers in the
North will remember Robert Lee j
Faris, who assisted in the early
days in making a survey of the
Yukon delta and the north coast of
the Bering Sea. He died in Wash
ington on October 5, and for the
past 15 years had been assistant
director of the Coast and Geodetic !
Survey.
The Federal Radio Commission
has granted the application of the
Anchorage Radio Club, Inc., for a
license covering changes in equip- j
ment and increase in power to
1230 kilocycles, 250 watts, from 6
p. m. to midnight.
Alt-ho it does not now seem likely
that construction of public build
ings at Anchorage and Ketchikan
will follow under the $100,000,000
i elief act, but if they were the am
out allotted would be only $360,000
per building. Controller General
' McCarl has ust decided that the 10
per cent cut authorized by the
economy act must apply to each
project, instead of meaning that
the cut would apply to the total,
which would leave but $90,000,000 j
to be expended. It is possible that j
when another appropriation is
made, at the December session of
Congress, to finish the present
building program that there will, be
no restriction of 10 per cent reduc
tion from the amounts now assign
ed to the buildings allocated, in
which event the Alaska buildings j
will be assigned $400,000 each.
SNOW AND COLD
Heavy snow has fallen all along j
the Alaska Railroad belt with the |
exception of Tunnel to Sev/ard. In j
the Broad Pass country two feet of I
snow now covers the sod; Nenana
has six inches and it is snowing in
the alleged heart of the Golden
North, dear old Fairbanks. Tem
peratures fluctuated like the stock
market from 16 at Kaltag to. 25
above at Crooked Creek.
BOUND FOR NUKA BAY
Ship ahoy! Iceberg dead ahead,
and what have you? At an early
hour today the John Nelson party
Jet go the bow line of the vessel
MS Mayflower and headed for the
Nuka Bay quartz camp. Capt. Alf.
Rosness has about eight on board
his staunch little craft.
Excellent assortment of fresh
candies at Sylvia’s.
Thirsty? Try SYLVIA’S fountain.
FOR EXPERT
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GO TO
s Barber Shop
Shower Baths
V Masters Work
Jonas Bros, offer you a com
plete Fur, Taxidermy and
Tanning Service — unexcelled
anywhere.
Game heads, fur rugs, birds,
etc., mounted true to nature.
Your raw fur skins dressed
and made into coats and
chokers.
Write for free catalogue.
JONAS BROS.
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1030 Broadway, Denver, Colo, i
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Seward. Alaska
JOHN C WHITE
and CO.
High Grade Line
CIGARS
TOBACCOS
CANDIES
FINEST BILLIARD HALL IN ALASKA
AUGUST CLEARANCE SALE CONTINUES
ALL PRICES DRASTICALLY CUT
The Blue Shop
F*acific Alaskan
Airways, Inc.
(Formerly The Alaskan Airways, Inc.)
Serve all of Interior Alaska
Weekly schedules from Anchorage with U. S. Mail
For rates, information, etc., see
Elwyn Swetmann, Seward Representative
Clark Bassett, Manager Anchorage Base
K. K. Katz, Seattle agent, 16 Ray Street
McGee Airways
SAVES YOU TIME AND MONEY
Seward, Anchorage, Fairbanks Air Service
AT YOUR SERVICE ANYTIME
Rates: Seward to Anchorage S15; Seward to Fairbanks
$65. Tern per cent less on round trip tares.
(Joy hops, 3 passengers. S5 each, 30 minutes flying)
LIBERTY THEATRE
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THE CELEBRATED ACTOR—
George Arliss
is to be seen and heard again in a feature just
suited to his great talents
THE MAN WHO PLAYED GOD”
A very fine 9-rcel play ranking way above the average. It is from
the great story by that famous writer
GOUVERNOR MORRIS
The plot is unique, with a sublime theme and superb acting.
Something everyone should see
With it we will show you an interesting News and a Pictorial
MOTORSHIP DISCOVERER
Sails from Sew a r d every two weeks for
Anchorage and Cook Inlet ports. Phone 111,
Anchorage, for schedules and rates.
NEXT SAILING OCT. 3
Capt. Heinie Berger, Master
The Alaska Railroad
ROUTE)
TRAINS ARRIVE TRAINS DEPART
Each Friday 6:30 p. m. Each Saturday 7:30 a. m
Mixed train from Anchorage and intermediate points
arrives each Wednesday p m. Mixed train for An
chorage and intermediate points leaves not earlier
than 10:00 a. m. each Saturday.
Mixed train carries a coach and handles passengers
STEAMSHIP STARR
CAPTAIN ARTHUR RYNING
Next' Sailing Aboue Nov. 10, 1932
SAN JUAN FISHING & PACKING CO.
Chas. A. Jansen, Agent
Phone Madison 139 Seward, Alaska
SEATTLE
SAN TRANCISCO
LOS ANGELES
SAN DIEGO
NEW YORK
EVANS . Nov. 15
EVANS . Dec. 11
The Admiral Evans
will call at Yakutat
north and southbound.
Wayne Blue, Agent.
Phones
Main 81, Madison 40
Leaves Seattle North
EVANS . Nov. 2
EVANS . Nov. 30
Leave Seward South
Steamer
Leave
Seattle
Leave
Seward
Yukon .Oct. 22.Oct- 28 9 p.m.
Alaska.Oct. 29.. Nov. 5 11 a. m.
Northwestern .Nov. 5.Nov. 12 11 a.m.
Alaska.Nov. 15 .Nov. 22 11 a. m.
Northwestern .Nov. 25.Dec- 3 ”
Sailings from Seattle at 9 a.m. on
dates shown.
Reduced winter round-trip tickets
now on sale. Inquire about them.
J. H. Flickenger, Agent
Phone Main 125
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