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OF SEWARD, ALASKA — Established August 19, 1904
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WASHINGTON DOUBLE-CROSSERS
What those government bureaus in Washington j
can't think up to experiment and fiddle with must be' un- |
thinkable. These scientists who advocate expenditure of i
the tax payers’ money for such things as determination i
of the relative noise-making possibilities of a saxaphone j
player and a tap* dancer; investigation of women’s hose
and the limbs, shapely or otherwise, which wear them, and
such d—fool silly things, haver overnight, decided to
save a few thousands of dollars at Alaska’s expense, but
also, to double-cross our new settlers—the very ones the
government itself spent thousands to induce to come to j
Alaska and become dirt farmers.
A recent order was issued from Washington abolish
ing the Department of Agriculture experiment stations
in Alaska. While the Gateway has consistently supported
development of mining above every other resource in
the Territory, it has also realized and so commented on
innumerable times editorially, the value of what our agri
cultral lands could produce. The experimental stations
have been of great direct benefit to the pioneer.
In the face of Alaska’s 1930 agriculture imports (1931
figures not yet available) of $10,548,708, Washington re
fuses to continue Alaska’s three experiment stations, at
Sitka, Matanuska and at Fairbanks. In other words they
order Alaska to continue to pay tribute to the States—
buy everything from the Outside; continue to live out of
a can. Not that canned food is not good but practically
everything that goes into an import can may be grown in
this fertile Territory.
* The experimental stations have led the way for Alas-;
ka farm pioneer's. Their value and assistance have always j
been highly appreciated Now comes the government, af
ter enticing two-score settlers, with its brand of., well
known double 00. We recall distinctly the real estate
racketeering by the government at Nenana and Anchor
age. The laughable part of all this is when next summer
not winter, mind you—when visiting congressmen spend
a vacation in Alaska, civic organizations and individuals
will doff the lid and bend the knee in kowtow to those
very ones who will, during these ridiculous congression
al sessions, “stab them in the back.”
Seriously, some of the ways and means which the i
government finds for alleged saving of taxpayer’s money j
would be funny if the deficit and the problem of finding
money for taxes were not so deplorable. They moan about j
our increasing national debt yet the commonest man walk- j
ing the streets knows that with one stroke of a pen, the
depression and national deficit could be eliminated by re
pealing the dry laws, the most cankerous growth ever to
have festered upon our necks.
Aye, we hope they choke!
Over in India the world has suddenly discovered the
richest man in the world—an obscure potentate whose for
tune is said to be greater than the combined wealth of
Ford, Morgan and Rockefeller. And hear we have been
sending them millions in the name of sweet charity. No
wonder there is a depression.
Speaking of depression, while there may be many a j
depressed stomach in the States, there is not yet any re-!
cord of a bread-line in Alaska.
In the old and wild days of the Noijth, Alaska hemp j.
was found to be an efficacious antidote for crime waves.
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i IN THE RESURRECTION
; LODGE FOR THIS W
Resurrection Lodge No. A-7, I. O.
! O. F., seated their elective and ap
j pointive officers for 1932, with John
j W. Blase, P. G. and P. C. P., acting
as installing officer. The installed
!officers were:
Gustave Manthey, noble grand;
|B. L. Senft, vice grand; Ludvig Lars
json, secretary; A. H. Thody, treas
urer; Sol J. Urie, warden; John W.
; Blase, conductor; Andrew Novak,
|R. S. noble grand; Ole Sandbeck,
!L. S. noble grand; Peter N. Ander
son, R. S. vice grand; Walter Hol
ben, L S. vice grand; Peter S. La
ilios, inner guard; Joseph B. Stan
ton, outer guard; James E. Leedom,
R. S. S.; Hans M. Siinonsen, L. S.
S. ; Earl E. Reisner, chaplain.
The installation ceremony, at!
which a large number of Rebekahs ;
were present, being concluded, ev- '
erybody retired to the banquet'
| hall where a supper unsurpassed j
in the annals of Seward Odd Fel- 1
lows and at which Brothers Urie I
and Lalios officiated as chefs, was
served. There was much speech- 1
making and a general feeling of'
contentment expressed.
Brother John W. Blase was the
victim of attack by everyone, as
he admitted the day as his birth
day and in the course of a long
speech, replete with reminiscences,
he admitted that his age was over
16, or to be more exact, anywhere
between 16 and a 100 years.
It was an occasion the memory of
which will be lasting among the
participants and regrets were
voiced that so many were prevent
ed from being present, and all
wished Brother Blase would have
a similar birthday celebration each
year.
DESTRUCTION MIN I
RICE BY IN UNKNOWN
OISEISE VISUILIZED
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 8. (JP)
—The possibility that at some fu
ture time the human race may be
completely wiped from the face of
the earth by a yet unknown disease
against which human protoplasm
cannot protect itself and from
which it cannot be protected, is
suggested by Dr. Charles B. Daven
port, of the department of genetics,
Carnegie Institution of Washing
ton, in the annual report of the
Smithsonian Institution, made pub
lic recently.
This is indicated, he points out, j
by study of mutations (changes
which germ plasms undergo) in the
world of organism; the course of
organic evolution has been and is
what it is because the germ plasm
has undergone and is undergoing
the changes, or mutations, that it .
has undergone and is undergoing.
Man is now faced with a dan- i
gerous mutation, he explains, be
cause small parasitic particles, -
called “filtrable viruses,” which are
now practically inaccessible to
man, seem to be changing, with the
result that they may mutate to
evolve a parasite which will com- j
pletely demolish all human proto
plasm.
Ciitng the waves of influenza j
epidemics which have swept the j
country in recent years as exam- j
pies of mutation of these viruses, |
and pointing out the high death 5
rate brought about by these epi- j
demies, Dr. Davenport says “it is>
quite within the range of possibil- ,
ity that at some future time a mu- j
tation shall arise in these viruses j
such that no human protoplasm is i
protected against it or can protect j
! itself against it. Then our boast- j
ed skyscrapers might become in- ,
habited by bats and the safe de- 1
i posit vaults of our cities become j
J the caves of wild animals.”
The freight train scheduled to ar- j
rive in Seward Sunday will arrive j
in Seward Monday instead, accord
ing to an announcement made to
day by the local rail station.
RICHARD BARTHELMESS
In the Great Newspaper
Detective Story—
‘The Finger Points’
IN 9 REELS
A FAST ACTION PLAY DEALING WITH
CORRUPT CITY LIFE
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WITH IT WE WILL SHOW YOU AN INTERESTING
PARAMOUNT PICTORIAL
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THE LITTLE THEATRE CLUB
—PRESENTS—
- “Nothing but the Tnith”
Seward High School Jan. 23 and 27, 1932
THE CAST:
BOB BENNETT.NORMAN NELSON
E. M. RALLSTON.E. L. SWHEK
BISHOP DORAN.LBONARD HOPKINS
CLARENCE VAN DU5EN.QUENTIN SMITH
DICK DONNELLY.JOHN NELSON, JR.
GWEN RALLSTON....VIVIAN NILSON
MGRS, RALLSTON ...MRS. F. E. LESLIE
ETHEL. EDITH KAEMMKR
MABEL. CLARA SKINNER
SABBL .. ANNIE HORTON
MARTHA. DORIS SULLIVAN
ACT I—Brokerage office of Rallston, Donnelly and
Bennett in New York City.
ACT II—Parlor in Summer home of E. M. Rall
ston. Long Island.
ACT III—The same as Act II.
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