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OF SEWARD, ALASKA — Established August 19. 19U4
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LOCAL “KING OF SWATS”
Under the direction of boxing instructor N. W.
Stuard, Quartermaster’s Department, a crop of young
athletes have been rounded into shape for the approval
of the public next Wednesday, July 4th. Aside from the
entertainment these lads will furnish, Mr. Stuard has
performed and filled a needed gap in the community,
that of teaching the boys rudimentary principles in the
manly art of self-defense.
Boxing is one of the cleanest of sports and the exer
cise gained from it is unsurpassed by any other game.
The public on Wednesday is in for a treat. Mr. Stuard
says he hopes ladies will not feel they will be out of place
by aatending for he assures the smoker will be conducted
in a gentlemanly manner. It is for the public’s enjoyment
and as such the boys will all give their best.
A POLITICAL DIET
From now until November 6th the people of the Unit
ed States will have politics for breakfast, politics for
.lunch, politics for dinner, and then will go to sleep and!
dream politics.
Politics contains all the vitamins, proteins, fats, leans,
sugars and salts necessary for a patriot’s health. Much
of politics, however, is taken with a grain of salt. But on
the whole, the diet is wdiolesome. Even as shady as poli
tical action sometimes appears, there is still much that is
constructive and good.
It is our humble belief that if all the good in govern
ment were balanced against the bad or corrupt, the good
would tip the scales sooner than the bad. If politics is
crooked, the most that can be said of it is that it is an in
stitution of the people, by the people and because of the
people. No man will ever admit that he is crooked. He
will justify himself at least jn his own mind and among
certain of his friends. Besides, who is a politician? Is
it only he who gains political preferment or public office,
or does the appellation run down to the uttermost pre
cinct ?
It is not so much to “powers that be” that criticism
should attach as it is to the ‘powers that ought to be.’’ If
government fails, the people fail, education fails, morali
ty fails, humanity fails.
We can not properly disassociate politics from the
science of government, for that is its definition. We are
to much inclined to take out politics in broken doses or
every two or four years. In the meantime the dirty work
13 done, if there is any done. It is when the people are
caught napping between the acts that graft and corrup
tion gets in their work. Disinterestedness is a bad habit
iin a democracy.
TOO MUCH POLITICS
(Stroller's Weekly)
There is a report to the effect that General Manager
Noel Smith of the Alaska Railroad, will shortly resign his
position and he might just as well do so as his influence as
an executive and his usefulness to the railroad ceased
when the powers that be in Washington went over his
head last fall and reinstated a number of employees he
had discharged for cause. Smith came to the Alaska
Railroad when it was struggling on the brink of collapse.
It is still struggling but is not nearly so close to the brink
of collapse as when he assumed its management, and yet
when he exercised the authority wdiieh is naturally vested
in a railroad manager, his action was repudiated and he
was placed in a position of having overstepped that au
thority, humiliated on account of politics.
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The satisfaction of tuning out a politician’s radio
speech is lessened by the thought that he doesn’t know he
is being insulted. *•
i Giicciive July 1, all o" rv account,
ing and disbursing activities of the
bureau of the Department of Agri
culture will be placed under the di
lection of H L Redlingshafer, Dis
trict Fiscal Agent, U. S. Forest Ser
vice, it was announced in the Empire j
by Commissioner C. H. Flory of the ■
Department of Agriculture for the
Territory.
Order number two, issued receut'y ,
by the Coi missioner, covers this
transfer rf work. For the present
there are tv. o exceptions to it, the
Alaska Game Commission whose
itus has not been definitely settled,
and the Agricultural Experiment |
Stations whose accounts are handled
at Sitka.
Four bureaus are effected by th2 |
older, the V. S. Bureau of Public!
Roads, the Biological Survey, the ;
Weather .Bureau and the Forest Ser. I
vice. Clerks in these agencies who j
handle the accounting and collecting j
will after July 1, be responsible to ;
Mr. Redlingshafer for these activities !
He is working out a plan of co-ordi '
nation and will be assisted in this by
H. I. Loving, chief of accounts for
the Forest Service, who will arrive
at Juneau *‘hext week.
“The object of consolidating all
fiscal matters under one head are to
simply procedure and promote effi
ciency in accounting,” declared Mr.
Flory.
“Your letfer of recent date received
and am glatl for the information con.
tained therein. Am quiita sure that
if all Alaskan towns had such men as
you, the Outside world would know
more of Alaska. Years ago Alaska
seemed a long way off, but now I am
quite sure You are only on the next
block, T s l^ T n one of the newspapers
you sent me an article advising the
people who intend to go to Alaska and
have cars, to take them with them on
the steamer as there are many good
roads and ;places to be seen having a
car, so you will see something is being
accomplished for you here.” John J.
1 v
Bliss, Vice-president Jamacia National
Bank, Ja.rpafcja, N. Y.
NOT SO GOOD
Indian Pptlaches may be good for
the old bucks, but they are no good
for the squaws and children, accord
ing ta Hen^n Kessler, trader and
trappe'f, Who * has just returned fc3
Fairbanks from Nebesna. The bucks
will so* impoverish their families to
save up for the big event that the
% .■ ' c*
youngestersi.jare almost starved to
death.
SKAGWAY FILMED
Scenes in and around Skagway. and
on the trail of *98 to the White Pass
were photographed by E. P. Pond in
the 2,000 feet of film he took, with his
moving picture camera, for the Fox
Film Co., on his recent trip to Skag.
way and the White Pass.
Wm, Johnson erected a new store
at Dillingham this spring and receiv
ed the largest stock of merchandise
ever disptayqd at Dillingham. He re
ports an excellent trade.
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LIBERTY
THEATER
..urn I. iiT-rr-r i n»
TWO SHOWS—7 and 9 0‘CLOCK
SPECIAL SPECIAL i
Lon Chaney |
and |
Priscilla Dean |
in the thrilling story of Chinatown |
“Outside The Law” |
Another wonderful story of San Francisco
A CROOK MELODRAMA
in which Chaney plays two characters. E
SOMETHING EXTRA GOOD |
A tale of the underworld that will make you |
hold your breath. Priscilla, as the girl crook |
whom Chaney, the hardened criminal, turns =
against The highest class movie play and one i
you cannot help but enjoy.
MASTERLY ACTING
This is a reproduction and reissue of the famous 1
old play that established Chaney’s fame as the =
greatest character actor of the age.
And a very interesting Fox News |
NOTE—We were not charged an extra fee for this Chaney S
picture and so there will be no advance in admissions.
SUNDAY ONLY
May McAvoy in the play of modem life
| “MATINEE LADIES’ |
And we will show with it a
( Ben Turpin I
a fine two-reel comedy
1 “PRODIGAL BRIDEGROOM” I
Also a News reel §
j VAN GILDER HOTEL
HOT AND COLD WATER IN EVERY ROOM
STEAM HEAT
S J. S. BADGER
UNALGA GOES TO PATROL
Sailing majestically down the bay
at 11 o’clock this morning, with the
fleet of ocean-going vessels now tied
up in port saluting with whistles
v,de open, bidding bon voyage, the
Coast Guard Cutter Unalga, Captain
Perkins on the bridge, left port for
U ualaska following a brief visit tc
the port of Seward where a coal car.
go (Alaska coal) was taken aboard.
WILL BE BURIED HERE
Thei body of Chris Hansen, cannery
man from Bristol Bay who passe<
away in the Anchorage hospital oi
June 22, has been brought to Sewarc
for internment in the local cemetery
Arrangements' had not been completet
up to an early hour today.
MADISON, Wis., June 30, (/p)- -
Cadet blue .uniforms, may be worn bj
the University of Wisconsin R. 0- T
C, liert; yeitr.r instead of khaki.;, The
regents been asked to approve
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NEWLYWEDS ARE HERE
aLl and Mrs. Nail Wannamaker,
Anchorage newlyweds, arrived on the
S. S. Alaska last night from Valdez,
having come over the Richardson
highway from Fairbanks. They are
beleived to be the first to have mad3
the trip this season. Mr. Wannamaker
is one of the proprieters of the * An
chorage Commercial Company, An
choi age’s largest firm.
THE TENTH ENTREE
l Eric Eckman, champion of cham
t pious when it comes to the Marathon
1 Mountain Race, has signified his in
• tention of competing again on the
l Fourth, it is announced. This will be
sad news to the other nine contes
tants who have* signed on the dotted
line. * ■
No passenger list from the S. S.
! Aleutian, due to leave Seattle this
’ morning for Alaska, had been received
1 ftf> to the th&rof going to press.