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OF SEWARD, ALASKA — Established August 19, 1904
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LABOR DAY—TODAY
On the first Monday in September in each year the
hosts of labor celebrate' their annual holiday, dedicated
to those who toil. While in the States the day is pri
marily one of parades and exercises by organized labor,
the festivities are participated in largely by the general
public and business is usually suspended to a consider
able extent. Here in Alaska, there is practically no ob
servance of the day.
Labor Day was first recognized by Congress in 1894
when an act was passed making it a holiday for the Dis
trict of Columbia and for all Federal establishments
throughout the United States.
Prior to that time it had been made a legal holiday
in 27 States and one Territory and it is now so recog
nized in all States except Alabama and Wyoming, and
even in these it is celebrated quite generally. The day
is also observed in Canada.
American labor is the most productive in the world,
as well as the best paid and best protected. Employers
and the public have learned that prosperity for the work
man contributes to the prosperity of all. The high
achievements of those wiho perform the Nation's every
day tasks are fittingly commemorated on this day—
Labor Day.
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IGNORANCE IS INEXCUSABLE
Tomorrow, Seward’s boys and girls will gather in
the school house, marking the beginning of the 1931
1932 term. The child of today is the citizen of tomor
row, and the education which the child receives today
gives the citizen of tomorrow the knowledge and train
ing to be a good citizen, to conduct a good government
and to create a great country. _ {
A great country is not merely a matter of climate
and resources. It is mainly the creation of an intelli
gent and progressive people. Success, whatever it may
mean to each of us, stands pre-eminent in importance.
The opening of another local school year directs
attention once more to the splendid educational institu
tion Seward boasts and of the satisfactory progress and
function of students and faculty. The greatly extended
advantages and opportunities that go with better build
ings, better equipment, carefully planned courses of
study and well trained teachers are testimonial that
conditions of today are far more favorable for effective !
education than ever before.
There are no short cuts to success. As with our
ancestors, success in most cases is the fruit of hard
work, patience, everlasting keeping at it, and recognition
that he or she prospers best who serves others best.
Platitudes? Yes—but, truth eternal!
Seward teachers will head many o^ tomorrow’s cit
izens. You teach them to think, their attitude towrard
life, correct living, and so on. Few kings commanded
such power. Education is civilization; ignorance is
crime producing, world-hampering—-and saddest of all,
inexcusable.
The Mississippi is at the lowest stage recorded since
the Civil War, and boats are aground. This is the time
to fish out an ancient joke. Perhaps someone living may
not have heard it, though it is as old as the Civil War,
and perhaps as old as the Mississippi. Why don’t they
build dams on the Mississippi? Dam it they can’t. The
river probably is being damned at present by the suc
cessors of Mark Twain’s vigorous characters. Increas
ing river traffic may make it profitable for engineers
to attempt to dam it in another way. Progress may yet
knock the last prop humor from beneaith the old time
gag. M&i
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VICTORIA, B. C., Sept. 7. </P)—
Extensive discoveries of halibut
larvae, said to be of great import
ance in studying the life and his
tory of the fish, have been re
vealed here by John P. Babcock,
chairman of the Canadian-Amer
ican Halibut Commission.
The discovery was made by the
staff of the exploring vessel Dor
othy during the summer in the
banks off the south of Kodiak
Island to Wosnesenski Island and
beyond the Shumagins, west of
the Gulf of Alaska.
The early life and history of
the halibut has been unknown up
to now except by a few discoveries
of larvae in the Atlantic near
Iceland and some off Newfound
land.
The larvae discovered off the
Coast of Alaska was found close
to shore which disproves the the
ory previously held that the hali
but is a deep spawner.
The discoveries of the summer
are expected to aid in conserving
the halibut.
BASEBALL
< Saturday’s Games)
AMERICAN
Detroit 8, Chicago 3.
Philadelphia 8-3, Boston 0-6.
New York 7-7, Washington 0-5.
Cleveland 10, St. Louis 5.
NATIONAL
Chicago 3. Cincinnati 4; ten
innings.
St. Louis 5, Pittsburgh 8.
Boston 5-4, Philadelphia 12-6.
Brooklyn 1-1, New York 5-10.
PACIFIC COAST
Portland 11, Sacramento 4.
Missions 2, San Francisco 7.
Hollywood 5, Los Angeles 6.
Seattle 2-1, Oakland 12-6.
AMERICAN
Detroit 1, Chicago 4.
New York 1, Washington 4.
Cleveland 7-13, St. Louis 5-2.
Philadelphia 5, Boston 3.
NATIONAL
St. Louis 3-7, Cincinnati 0-0.
Pittsburgh 5, Chicago 4.
Boston 4, New York 0.
Philadelphia 8-2, Brooklyn 4-7.
PACIFIC COAST
Hollywood 7-0, Los Angeles 9-9.
Portland 4-4, Sacramento 3-2.
Missions 7-1, San Francisco 6-0.
Seattle 4-12, Oakland 5-5.
ANCHORAGE WEDDING
Anchorage was the scene of a
beautiful and largely attended
wedding recently wThen Miss Doro- !
thea Davis, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Charles A. Davis, became the
bride of John G. Cotter, reports
the Anchorage Times. Mr. Cot
ter, who at one time was sta
tioned in Seward, came to An
chorage from Boston about eight |
months ago to join the staff of
the Anchorage radio station.
Two Ninilchik couples were unit
ed in marriage at Seldovia re
cently when Miss Mary Jackincky
and Edward Lingstrang, and Miss
Polly Crawford and Lars Odmen,
were united in the holy bonds of
matrimony, reports the Seldovia
Herald.
DAWSON DISCOVERY
Duncan Michie, of All Gold
Creek, in the Dawson region, re-'
ports having made a strike of
auriferous quartz on Alexander
gulch, a tributary of All Gold.
Values have been obtained prac
tically from the surface. The out
cropping appears in four different
places and the lead has been defi
nitely traced for over 1,000 feet
on each side of Alexander gulch,
according to the Dawson Weekly
News.
Miss Elinora Clements and Fa
ther Mark T. Carpenter, of Ket
chikan, were married recently in
Seattle, reports the Chronicle. Fa
ther Carpenter has been pastor
of the Ketchikan St. John’s Epis
copal Church for the past two
years.
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