Seward Daily Gateway
OF SEWARD. ALASKA — Established August 19, 1904
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WAITING, WAITING, WAITING!
There are many, no doubt, who may think the great
Fairbanks airplane landing field and base, like Topsy,
just happened. However, such was not the case. One
of the most active and air-minded of Fairbanks citizens
was Thomas A. Marquam, and to him is given much of
the credit for the inauguration of a plan of action wThich
started a movement which is annually gaining momen
tum. This, of course, following the original entry of
the airplane into the Interior by the late Col. Carl Ben
Eielson who was assisted by the late Editor W. F.
Thompson, and Clias. Thompson.
During the past fewT years Marquam has been in
Washington, D. C., and though he seems to have since
vanished into thin air, prior to his disappearance, he
fairly haunted the various departments which were in
terested in aeronautics. Unavoidable incidents of some
nature, forgotten now, were responsible for the German
dirigible Graf Zeppelin cancelling its proposed visit to
the Fairbanks airport. It is said Fairbanks, at one time,
sent Marquam $5,000 in order that he remain on the
ground and keep up the good work. The groundwork
laid by him is perfectly visible today; fliers circling the
globe are making it a point of contact; Fairbanks is on
the world air route and its future, from this angle, is
indeed rosy.
The point desired to be brought out is that what
Fairbanks has accomplished, Seward can do, providing
local leaders and citizens rally in a cooperative effort to
attain such an objective. Because strangers in Alaska,
aviators from the States who, after being in the Terri
tory for a few months, say that the coast is too foggy,
cloudy, etc., does Seward have to stand meekly and listen
to that whooie? Is our coast line any worse than any
other? Not so, according to weather reports and the
United States Coast Pilot.
Its about time for the entire community to rise up
in a united band and fight, shoulder to shoulder, for
what is due Seward.
For years, almost 30 years now, Seward has listened
peacefully to promises of every nature and today the
city is just where it was two or three decades ago; some
say the town is not so good, but that is a subject for
argument.
Soft-soaping, saying nice things to Tom, Dick and
Bill, won’t get us anywhere. You got to battle to attain
the heights and if Sewjard expects to rise above its pres
ent provincialism, it’s a lamb-like docility, it must throw
aside the olive branch, don a suit of armor and dive
into the thick of the fray, letting the sparks fly where
they may.
One of the finest examples of bridge and road
building seen locally in years is illustrated in the Seims
Spokane project. At no time has traffic been held up for
more than an hour or so at the Resurrection River site
where now stands a modern steel bridge, replacing the
former decrepit wood structure. Detours have been
made over and over, thanks to the courtesy of the Bu
reau of Public Roads and the contractors, and for this
the thanks of the entire community is extended.
The big dredge of the Puget Sound Dredge Com
pany is daily making Seward richer and wealthier by
pumping the sea-bottom behind the breakwater and de
positing it in the lagoon behind the railroad tracks where
a considerable acreage will be recovered. Which leads
to the thought what a wonderful aviation field or base
ball field that would make if completely filled in.
A city is only as progressive as its citizens.
/^Member 1q3I^
National Editorial Association
That very learned assembly of
lawyers and college professors
; known as the Wickersham Com
j mission have evidently discovered
that there is corruption in some
of the police organizations in this
country.
In the Associated Press dispatch
received, the charge is made that
major criminals are known by the
police but are allowed to continue
their careers. We think if the
commission had gone deeper into
this matter they would have found
that any effort to interfere with
these major criminals, would have
caused the major bankers, lawyers
and business men, who are prof
iteering off these criminals, to use
their financial, personal and po
litical influence to protest against
such interference, to protect them
against punishment by law, and
as quoted by me in the Detroit
gambling case, punish the honest
official by having him removed.
Vested rights must be protected
at any cost if they are vested in
the right persons or groups, ir
respective of crime or public
morals.
Often police officials, high or
low, have, after several attempts
to enforce the law and protect the
rights of Mr. Average Citizen,
found their, efforts futile on ac
count of the assistance given crim
inals by crime profiteers, either
financial or political, and it would
not be human nature for the po
lice to continue their honest ef
forts and not to take their share
of the profits of crime.
Less law and more justice. If
our courts were public forums, as
the most efficient courts we ever
had in this country were “The
Miners Meeting,” we very quickly
would eliminate the present de
plorable condition. Less law, more
justice, and more average citizens
in public life, is the true remedy
for the present condition.
JOE HOFMAN.
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