Seward Daily Gateway
OF SEWARD. ALASKA — Established August 19, 1904
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GOVERNMENTAL WASTE
It is a sad commentary on the efficiency of govern
ment methods that practically every state and minici- j
pality in the country is faced with a financial crisis, as j
a result of mismanagement or worse, while the Federal j
government exhibits a mounting deficit.
Saturday, President Hoover announced while at
his summer camp, he intended ot probe into the ex
penditures of the Interior Department with the view
toward retrenching. If economy is his sincere plan, let
him start with the prohibition enforcement bureau, the
the pork-barrels and a half-dozen such items.
We have countless departments and bureaus and
yet overnight new ones are created and added to the
tax payers burden. While bureaus lie awake at night
thinking up new ways of spending the public revenues
in the way they think best, legislators try to discover
and shove over ideas as to imposing fui'ther tax buiSr
dens. Since 1913 the cost of government in the United
States has increased four times. The population has not.
This increase is entirely out of proportion even
making liberal allowance for the improved public facil
ities which have been provided. Too much public money
is devoted to purposes foreign to the legitimate func
tions of government. For example, hundreds of millions
of dollars are appropriated for the purpose of bringing
more farm land under cultivation through irrigation,
while other hundreds of millions are appropriated in an
effort to aid in disposing of the surplus farm crops that
are raised on the land under cultivation already.
The main for investigations is sickening as is the
appointing of special committees, both of which cost the
tax payers millions with practically no resulting bene
fit to anyone. Still other millions are expended in the
attempted enforcement of a mutitude of laws and regu
lations of doubtful advantage to the public.
All this governmental waste will continue until the
taxpayers themselves are aroused to the point of calling
a halt, through relegating to private life the legislators
and other officials who are responsible for it. What the
government needs right now is a spring cleaning; the
majority of alleged “big political shots” should be turn
ed down at the next election and a new deal, with new
faces, not politicians, at the head of our affairs.
We are glad to notice airplane companies are begin
ning to realize the potency of the Port of Seward as an
airplane base. Three were here for two days. It wont
be long now before hangars will be built and the new
Territorial landing field extended in length. In the
meantime Seward has two natural landing fields and
an unbeatable seaplane base behind the breakwater.
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Some of the great dailies in Alaska turn up their
red and haughty noses to contributors submitting
poetry; but not so The Gateway. We’ll take a chance on
anything, Alaskan. Shoot them in.
With graineries and warehouses bursting with food,
hundreds of thousands are walking the streets hungry
and wtihout any hope of steady employment for a year
or two. Something wrong with the present system, as
suredly. Alaskans returning from the States can’t fig
ure it out excepting that they are glad they are back
home and not Outside with the restless millions.
In bygone days they called ‘em panics; now it is de
pression.
The Gateway lost a subscriber the other day. The
chap died.
National Editorial Association
We leave the port of Seward,
Traveling north by rail;
Climbing hills and mountains,
O’er a winding trail.
The skies are, oh, so blue,
And trees along the ledge.
We are coming to a stop
At the town of Anchorage.
This place is sure surprising,
As over its streets we ride.
Buildings and the people
Are much like those Outside.
We travel on to Curry,
Which the tourists praise,
At the base of Mt. McKinley,
We can see its summit raise.
Another town is Healy,
The meals served there are fine.
Besides this there’s not much,
Except a large coal mine.
Now we reach Nenana,
Here rail and water meets,
And chechako and sourdough
Each other friendly greet.
At the end of the rail is Fairbanks,
All are waiting patiently.
If different from the Outside,
What the change might be.
Fairbanks is a marvel
And strictly up to date;
With talkies and quite modern
Like cities in the States.
Sorry that my stay is short,
The place appeals to me;
I must take the plane to Betties,
Where a “dear one” I will see.
Seven thousand feet our altitude
Things look so small below;
And animals like midgets
Are moving to and fro.
The “ship’* Sails Over mountains,
With weather calm and clear.
When pilots know the way,
One has naught to fear.
Two hour’s trip from Fairbanks,
The plane sets down on snow;
Where a dog team is awaiting,
For further North we go.
Sixty miles by dog team;
Over a snow packed trail,
With cabins few and far between,
! It would not do to fail.
‘ With a native as a guide,
! We meet many on the way,
i All bound for Wild River
Where we expect a pay.
: The weather here is splendid,
; And night as bright as day;
For in this land at this time,
At midnight one can play.
Men and grub arrive
Locating around the lake
Each one hurrying to the creeks
And all a claim to stake.
The mining game is hard,
One to win must work;
For in a land of hardships
It does not pay to shirk.
To say that you have won
When your story’s told;
Is considered an achievement,
When you seek Alaskan gold.
-J. M. Smith.
The immaculately white and
clean halibut schooner Zenith,
Captain Iverson, arrived in port
Sunday with 18,000 pounds of
fish.
LEGAL NOTICE
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE
INTERIOR
GENERAL LAND OFFICE
U. S Land Office, Anchorage, Alaska, May
12, 1931.
Notice is 'hereby given that Harry V.
Henrikson. entryman together with his
witnesses Joseph B. Stanton and Almar F.
| Davis, all of Seward, Alaska, has submitted
| final proof on his homestead entry serial
06219 for the E^E^SE^SE^ eection 11, T.
1 N. R. 1 W. S. M. and it is now in the files
of the U. S. Land Office. Anchorage, Alaska,
and if no protest is filed in the local land
office at Anchorage, Alaska, within the per
iod of publication cr thirty days thereaftei
said final proof will be accepted and final
! certificate issued.
Date first publication May IS, 1931.
Date Last Publication June 15, 1931.
Pub: May IS, 25, June 1, 8, 15, 1931.
J. Lindley Green
Register.
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THREE AIRPLANES HERE
So many planes were coming
and going in Seward Saturday
and Sunday that this mroning
many people here woke up with
stiff necks. All planes were from
the fleet of the Pacific Internat
ional Airways of Alaska. Pilots
Holden and Cope took Major M.
Eliott and M. C. Edmunds West
ward; Pilot Blunt retuned to An
chorage and Pilot Barnhill, with
Attorney Harry F. Morton of An
chorage, flew over the mountains
to Valdez. Owing to the almost
| continuous daylight, the airmen
I are buzzing late at night and as
eaiily as 2 a. m.
INVITATION FOR BIDS ON
I COMPLETING DORMITORY
AT EKLUTNA, ALASKA
;
Sealed bids will be received at
the office of the Bureau of In
dian Affairs, Anchorage, Alaska,
until 2 o’clock p. m. Saturd
May 23, 1931, and then publi
opened, for completion of c<
struction of Girls’ Dormitory
Eklutna, Alaska requiring c
crete work, erection of b
chimney, painting, plum!
heating plant and laundry bo:
The entire work will be
eluded in one contract. Bid
items only will not be accep
Copies of specifications
prescribed form of contract
be obtained and plans of
building may be inspecte
I application to the undersign*
Bids should be forward<
I sealed envelope addressed t<
' Bureau of Indian Affairs, An
1 age, Alaska, and marked “B
Completing Dormitory, Eklu >
The right is reserved, as ..
the interest of the governmen
all bids and to waive any info'
mality in the bids received.
Arthur H. Miller, Acting D
trict Sup’t. of Schools.