Seward Daily Gateway
OF SEWARD, ALASKA — Established August 19, 1904
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THE BIRDS ARE HUNGRY
“Bird of wilderness, blythesome and cumberless,
Proud bird of the mountain thy plume shall be torn,”
unless citizens of Seward give you some immediate thot
and attention.
Seward’s extraordinarily heavy snow fall and storms
>f ihe last few weeks has blanketed everything; the re
sult is our little winged denizens of the air are hard put
in foraging for food.
Keep a place cleared in your yard and throw out all
crumbs, etc., from the table. The feathered folk are hun
gry. This deep snow means increased insects next sum
mer and if the birds starve this winter, there will be a
terrific scourge of mosquitoes, flies, gnats and other pes
tiferous insects.
Start right now clearing a place for the birds and
toss some crumbs about. They won’t be there in the morn.
TOURING, A NEW WORLD SPORT
Tourists spent $25,000,000 in Canada last year. The
figures on Alaska are not available but seeing the world
was a sport unknown in the middle ages, or even 150
years ago.
The time is not remotely in the past when, even in
settled old England, a man considered that he was in hard
luck if circumstances made it necessary for him to jour
ney from Stratford to London. A broken stage coach
might mean a real and unpleasant adventure, and the
roads were conducive to broken wheels.
It took a war or a crusade to move the people out of
their homes in any considerable mass. Today, a store
clerk can learn, get more knowledge about a country and
its people in a two weeks vacation, than King Henry XIII
could accumulate in a life time
THE GREATEST OF ALL
The greatest natural national park of all is that mys
tic Westward area where hundreds of smoking, roaring
fumeroles and volcanoes are pronounced outstanding
wonders of the world.
That weird land of Aniakchak, the largest active
crater in the world, which last year blew her head off,
should prove to be the goal of hundreds of scientists in
the years to come; perhaps thousands upon thousands of
tourists will come (as Mark Twain would say) for to see
and for to admire.
Alaska has many wonders; the Valley of Ten Thous
and Smokes, Mount McKinley, the Kodiaks, the Aleutians
and others, but none to compare with the marvel of a
crater, 30 square miles in area and 21 miles in circumfer
ence. An active crater within a crater!
This is the crater so vividly described by Ber
nard R. Hubbard, S. J., in the recent issue of the Saturday
Evening Post and who is now enlightening people in the
States about Alaska’s wonders.
Judging by all the fuss being raised in the Orient it
appears that some Chinese laundryman had burned Gen.
Soki Muchi/s shirt.
In New York they call 'em the “side-walks of Neuw
York.” Locally we call them replicas of Chilkoot Pass.
While Seattle pledges itself to “put the Northwest
on the map” it should not overlook the fact that Alaska I
put Seattle on the map.
Cheer up, prosperity and spring are just around the
corner. Bang! ! Who threw that?
A Los Angeles preacher who has been ruled off the |
radio threatens to run for the Senate. He knows where
he can talk without let or hindrance.
Signs of Spring: Have you got your 1932 auto license
yet? Or your city license? Or your driver's license?
DUSK! ITEMS OF !
INTEREST IT THE !
| Carl Lomcn, president of the
1 Lomen Reindeer Corporation, ac
! companied by Mrs. Lomen, spent
j the week in Washington. Comin
I from California they enjoyed th
I holiday ^season with relatives in
: Minnesota, where Judge J. G. Lo
men and wife, of Nome, are spend
I ing a few weeks.
<D TO
Delegate Wickersham on January !
; 3 received a wire from the Alaska i
> Territorial Chamber of Commerce,
I stating that a referendum submit
ted to the Chamber members by
I wire had received the strong ap
| proval of Ketchikan, Nome, Fair
banks. Petersburg, Anchorage, Ju
j neau, Sitka, Wrangell, Skagway and
Seward chambers. This referen
' dum is designated as No. 4 and pe- !
titions President Hoover, Congres- '
sional heads and cabinet officers, j
through Delegate Wickersham, “to!
adopt as a national policy, that ■
l since Alaska is a vast territory1
mostly owned by the Federal gov- !
I eminent and has great undevel- ■
oped resources, although sparsely)
settled and without authority or i
means for raising additional funds j
for development, Federal aid with
out curtailment as in the past,
must be continued; that proposed
policy of retrenchment of Federal
activities will result in retarding ■
development to the lasting detri- |
; ment of Alaska and national in- 1
Iterests; referendum protests pres
ent railroad rates, selling cable sys
tem, cutting road appropriations
and proposed elimination of ap
propriation for agricultural experi
ment stations. The unemployment
situation demands the same Fed
eral consideration it is getting in
the States, where activities have
been increased.” Tie message fur
ther says that “Alaskans are much
alarmed over the reported curtail
ment of various Territorial appro
priations. This Chamber and mem
ber organizations urge you to press
before the President and Depart
ments the sentiment herein ex
pressed.” In answer the Delegate
replied that he was greatly pleased
in receiving the expressed senti
ment of so many of the Alaska
chambers, wrhich would be properly
presented to the interested Depart
ments as well as Congressional
i committees, in the effort to secure
: consideration and favorable action
for Alaska.
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with the new girl find
MARIAN MARSH
Supported by a special cast in the picture of one of the
World’s greatest plays, “Trilby,” now renamed for it* star
character.
A magnificent 9 reel feature that all lovers of fine acting
will enjoy. An artistic masterpiece in every respect.
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Wiih it we will show you a one-reel comedy and a News.
THE LITTLE THEATRE CLUB
—PRESENTS—
“Nothing but the Truth”
SCHOOL AUDITORIUM
.IAS. 30 and FEB. 3
THE CAST:
BOB BENNETT.
E. M. RALLSTON.
BISHOP DORAN.
CLARENCE VAN DUSEN
DICK DONNELLY.
GWEN RALLSTON.
MRS. RALLSTON.
ETHEL ..
MABEL ..
SABEL .
MARTHA.
.NORMAN NILSON
.E. L. SWEEK
LEONARD HOPKINS
.QUENTIN SMITH
- JOHN NELSON, JR.
.VIVIAN NILSON
.MRS. F. E. LESLIE
EDITH KAEMMER
.CLARA SKINNER
.ANNIE HORTON
.DORIS SULLIVAN
ACT I—Brokerage office of Rallston. Donnelly and
Bennett in New York City.
ACT II—Parlor in Summer home of E. M. Rail- i
ston. Long Island.
ACT III—The same as Act II. i
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