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OF SEWARD. ALASKA - Established August 19. 1904
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MEN WHO GO DOWN TO THE SEA
Even in this day with palatial ocean liners and pow
er-driven craft supplanting the old-time square-rigger
and little fishing schooner, time has failed to erase the
high-lights of an era when American commerce saw its
birth on the bleak New England shores.
The toll taken by the sea will never be fully compiled.
If it were, it would present a startling picture of the price
paid by the men who go down to the sea to harvest the
nation’s food crop. The subject has been treated only in
its relation to romance, and strange as it may seem, has
not been accorded its rightful position in the list of in
dustrial activities marking national progress.
The men of the sea have, for the most part, been
compelled to fight their battle practically alone. Possibly
this is because of the development of newer and more
rapid means of transport causing many to lose sight of
the various steps leading to this changed condition. Thus,
we have the national vision focussed upon providing mul
tiple safeguards to land travel, rather than giving the sea
its fair share of consideration.
The history of Gloucester and New Bedford is being
repeated today in the North Pacific whence comes the
nation’s principle sea food supply, without including the
capital account as represented in plants, boats and gear.
Throughout the winter months, this industry is
abandoned to the mercies of whatever might betide. The
fisherman and the ocean liner are subjected to hazards
not found anywhere else in American waters because as
yet Washington has failed to accord Alaska its just meas
ure of safeguards to navigation.
While hundreds of millions of dollars are annually
being expended for Coast Guard cutters to police contin
ental waters in a vain effort to enforce prohibition, a
thousand miles of dangerous waters are allowed to go un
protected against natural hazards of the sea.
The least that could be done would be the stationing
of a cutter at Seward, the central point for operations in
serving a crying need. As it now stands, a tragedy in
waters west of the Gulf of Alaska leaves only the small
fishing boat as a means for bringing succor, and these
must fight their way along a coast almost devoid of lights
and other aids to navigation.
The nation has the cutters and men to man them. It
is merely a matter of assignment.
A CARDINAL VIRTUE
Work, in the pioneer days of America, was one of the
cardinal virtues. And so it must be with the pioneers of
Alaska, for so far situated is the Territory from contin
ental United States that we are practically a foreign land.
Our interests, out homeland, our progress, mean little
to tne majority of citizens of the United States. Alaska,
a place for big game hunts, a place to find raw gold, ice
and snow for story books and the movies! That’s about
all. Well, work never killed anyone as far as we can
recall.
A sweet melody resounds this winter from the con
fines of the big timber between Seward and Anchorage;
the musical strokes of axe and saws on trees, the crash
of the falling giant—a symphony by “tie-hackers” making
grubstakes for next summer’s prospecting in Alaska’s
sunlit valleys and on green mountainsides.
Now is the time for the colonization department of
the Alaska Railroad to bring immigrants North from
the deressed areas in the States. The majority of us came
to Alaska broke and are still broke.
The next war will be purely feminine. It is claimed
that soon one’s thoughts may be transmitted by radio.
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FHVORABLE RESPONSE
! COtL BUNKER QUERY
| Favorable response was received
! by the Seward Chamber of Com
jmerce in its efforts to effect the
construction of the coal bunkers
at Seward and also on the matter
of constructing the necessary road
link to connect the Seward system
with the Moose Pass roads, accord
ing to a message reecived by the
Chamber from Delegate James
Wickersham, at Washington.
The message received by the
Chamber is self-explanatory and
; follows in text:
“I fully realize the great neces
jsity for coal bunkers at Seward if
j coal fields are to be developed and
i tonnage increased on the railroad
jand have prepared a bill for in
jtroduction to Congress authorizing
! erection of bunkers and appropriat
} ing money thjrefqfre. Flory ex- i
jpected here shortly and will take !
i up the matter of building the nec- |
| essary road link.”
Signed: James Wickersham. i
MUCH IMPROVEMENT
Much improvement is noted in!'
'the condition of the Lagoon road u
because of the work which has been |
underway during the last few days. |
With the former temporary a,p- i
j proach and the high bridge taken I
I out and replaced with a dirt road \
| of more substantial construction, J
more riding comfort is experienced i
than heretofore. The road has also ■
been filled in and widened in places *
which heretofore were quite nar- •
! row. !
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A number of Seward children are
ill with measles, colds or other ail
ments at the present time.
The SS Northwestern, of the A.
S. S. Co., is due to arrive in port
tonight at 10 o’clock, according to
a marine bulletin posted by the lo
cal office.
L. McGee who, with Pilot Barn- !
hill, is establishing a base in Sew- J
ard for airplane operations, de- j
parts Wednesday for Anchorage on i
a brief trip. \
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Guthier and Ryan have taken a '
forest permit to cut 1,000 ties in
the Moose Pass area and Mr. Ryan
who is now in Seward, leaves Wed
nesday for the Pass. Mr. Guthier
is now on the ground.
PIGEON PROBLEM
ST. LOUIS, Nov. 24. (A3)—Lee C.
Marquardt, superintendent of mu
nicipal buildings here, is confront
ed with a problem in driving away
hundreds of pigeons.. He received
i many complaints when he resorted ■
to traps. Now he has asked for sug- i
gestions how the birds can be driv- ]
en away without being harmed. ]
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....Fifty per cent off on all clean- J
ing and pressing work (not rush j
work) received on Monday. Sew- j
ard Steam Laundry. i
Try our HORLUCK’S Danish Ice
>eam. There’s none better. Candy
cottage.
HAKE UP YOUR
LIY£R BILE—
WITHOUT CALOMEL
id You’ll Jump Out oi Bed in
the Morning Rarin’ to Go
If you feel sour and sunk and tno world
>oks punk, don’t swallow a lot of salts,
lineral water, oil, laxative candy or chewing
um and expect them to make you suddenly
weet and buoyant and full of sunshine.
For they can’t do it. They only move the
owels and a mere movement doesn t get at
ae cause. The reasow for your down-and-out
seling is your liver. It should pour out two
ounds of liquid bile into your bowels daily.
If this bile is not flowing freely, your food
oesn’t digest. It just decays in the bowels,
las bloats up your stomach. You have a
hick, bad taste and your breath is foul,
kin often breaks out in blemishes. Your head
ches and you feel down and out. Your whole
jrstem is poisoned.
It takes those good, old CARTERS
ITTLE LIVER PILLS to get these two
winds of bile flowing freely and make you
el *Mup and up.” They contain wonderful,
innless, gentle vegetable extracts, amazing
hen it comes to the bile flow freely.
But don’t ask for Liver pills. Ask for Carter^
Ittle Liver Pills. Look for the name Carter a
Ittle liver Pilta ott the red label.
ibstitute. " Q1931C. M. Ctw
EDMUND LOWE
Heads the Specially Selected Cast in
the Unusual Drama—
“MEN OK CAIT
An Excellent Play of the Coast Guard Life Saving Station.
A Very Interesting and Thrilling Story with
Extra Fine Acting Throughout
With it will be one of the finest and most original comedies
shown for a long time with CHARLES RUG
GLES as the slar. Something entirely new.
AND ALSO A ONE-REEL COMEDY
IN ADDITION THERE IS AN INTERESTING NEWS REEL
AND A FABLE REEL
A GREAT 12-REEL PROGRAM
Healy River Coal
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Safe
FREE FROM SOOT
GRADED TO SUIT EVERY NEED
PRICED TO SUIT EVERY PURSE
Healy River Coal Corp.
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