Seward Daily Gateway
OF SEWARD, AT.ASK A — Established Autrust 19, 1904
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THE ARCADIAN VIEWPOINT
Coming to the support of bur
eaucracy in its principles and using
The Gateway as the object of its
premise or postulate, the Valdez
Miner epitomizes its premise'
in the statement that it is better
for Alaska as a whole to “crook
the pregnant hinges of the knee
where thrift may follow fawning”
than to “take up arms against a
sea of troubles and, by opposing,
end them.”
Like the condemned sailor ac
companying Drake on his ravages
of the Spanish main, the Valdez
Miner “thanks God lit) he
is permitted to die for so gracious
a Queen.” i
Since the Miner’s “stuff" is ap
parently done by the pen or at
least at the behest of Bureaucracy, j
as was the figures he quotes as I
coming through Mr. Alan Faith of ;
the Cordova Times, from Mr. Chas.!
Flory, the question reposes more
upon the question of Bureaucracy,
than upon the attitude of The,
Gateway with respect to its criti
cisms of the Alaska Road Com- i
mission, which criticism was:
printed in The Gateway several
weeks ago.
The Miner has a second in its;
mission of defending bureaucracy
in Strollers Weekly, which, in ad- :
dition to giving the entire system
a clean bill of health, tells us that j
until Alaska reaches a point where
she can finance her own affairs j
.she should submit herself to the
weal or woe of the commissions
set to govern and guide her.
And here is how the Miner takes
The Gateway and Seward to task
for going after and getting its just J
deserts: >
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1
‘Of all towns in Alaska Seward ;
has been the most persistent wan- i
ter, and has been fortunate in se
curing much that it wanted.!
there is no sense of gratitude for j
the numerous requests granted . . . f
“It got the breakwater for small j
boats at government expense . . . j
It got a dyke to protect the town
from the floodwaters of Lowel Creek
from Uncle Sam and the Territor
ial Legislature to protect the town
and is to have coal bunkers at
government expense, and it is not i
satisfied.
“ . . . . Seward wants a road to j
Kenai. The Alaska Road Commis- |
sion has informed Seward that it j
Is precluded by law from buliding I
roads paralleling railroads or nav
igable waterways.”
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If we are to accept as fact the
first paragraph, it would be inter
esting to know if the Miner as
cribes this result to going after
what i s wanted and getting it
•whether it has merit or not. or be
cause it was sustained by its own
merit only needing plausible fact
and argument to support it. If not,1
are we to believe that the Miner
is accusing the Bureau of Public
Roads, The Alaska Railroad Bur
eau, the Legislature, and the Board
of Engineers of the Federal Gov
ernment of making a pet out of
Seward in order to be good fellows?
Whatever might be said in criti
cism of bureaus The Gateway has
never been so broad in its stric
tures to hint that they could thus
be played with.
The Miner failed to inform its
readers that the Lowell Creek
flume at Seward Is being paid for
jointly by the Federal government,
the Territorial Treasury and the
citizens of Seward, the latter of
which, some 400 in number, being
compelled to contribute the sum of
$15,030, the Territory $10,000 and
the Federal government $125,000.
It did not tell us that the great
est property volume affected was
that of the Alaska Railroad, owned
by the Federal government, whose
costs, accruing from overflows,
promised within a few years to
exceed the entire cost of the flume.
It did not tell its readers that
the breakwater was a purely mar
ine obligation designed to assist
! the halibut and other fishermen
! with a safe harbor hi stress and
I storm at a point possessed of fac
ilities for repairs, commerce and
liason with interior Alaska and
the United States.
| Now get this: The Miner says it
i is illegal for the Alaska Road Com
mission to parallel a railroad or
i navigable waterway. Possibly the
Miner is prepared to explain why
the Forestry Bureau has this pri
vilege and it is not accorded the
Alaska Road Commission. The
Miner might have pointed that
the "Loop Road,” leading out of
Anchorage, parallels Knik Arm for
eight miles of its way. and if ex
tended to Matanuska, as desired
by Anchorage, with promising suc
'cess, would parallel navigable wat
ers practically all the way; also,
.The Alaska Railroad for the entire
: distance of some 37 miles
But what brought the suburban
press out of its somnolence and set
it to hammering away at The Gate- j
way was the green-eyed monster.:
It must be disconcerting to Arcad-'
ian temperaments and viewpoints
| to witness progress engendered
right under their nose and sup
ported by irrefutable facts and ar
guments. Even The Gateway, in
' pardonable modesty, has never al
located to itself such palms of vic
jtory.
The Miner tells us through the
words of Mr. Charles Flory of the
■ Agricultural Bureau, and “co-ordi
i nator of ail other bureau func
tions”—when they will let him,—
j that:
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; “It is within the reaim of possi
i bility that the continuous spLrit of
I antagonism displayed b y Seward
' will result in the peninsula being
withdrawn from the forest reads,
; and the entire forest area sulfer."
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If Mr. Flory is correctly quoted
by Mr. Faith and the Miner, it
confirms The Gateway’s stand
1 against bureaucracy in principle.
It deliveres an ultimatum some
thing after the manner of the Sino
Japanese embrogiio: “Either obey j
our mandates or we will exercise j
the powers we possess to discipline j
you.”
This was actually said to The
Gateway when it attacked the:
| Cameron-Zellerbach timber grab’
: in Southeastern Alaska in an ef- I
j fort to prevent it from revealing j
| the inside of the bureaucratic pre
i sent to what is known as the big
shots in corporate greed and priv
ilege. It was not threatened by Mr.
Flory.
Yet it did not deter The Gateway
any more than Mr. Flory’s alleged
threat to abandon the Kenai Pen
insula and will not deter it in its
battle to break the strangle-hold
of bureaucracy and prevent such
discipline as is threatened.
There are higher authorities
than those on the ground.
If the Miner is solicitous for the;
preservation of federal b u r e a u - j
cratic control and that unquestion
ed. it might find food for cogita- j
tion in the vast outlay by the Alas- j
ka Road Commission on its own
great highway which was the
most potent threat at The Alaska
Railroad last summer when Val
dez drew a large volume of freight
and passenger traffic diverted from
| the railroad to Fairbanks. Surely
the Miner cannot permit this as
sault upon the federally-owned
railroad to go unspanked.
With regard to Seward’s pro
gress in securing worthy applica
s tion of federal money, it might be
I said that The Gateway, backed by
j the citizens of the town, has ac
! complished the results.
Eefore the Miner can boast any
such leadership and such con
structive journalism it must aban
don archaic and Arcadian meth
ods for progressive ones.
j ~r ■ ■ ’ ' * --
' j The radio announcers in the
j States should inform themselves.
. | They broadcasted that Seward was
■ wrecked by a storm when it was
; only a suburb called Anchorage.
HOSPITAL NOTES
j Manual Domingos will be able to
j join the crew of the SS Admiral
i Evans upon its arrival In port from
the South.
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J. C. Johnson, night watchman
| of the SS Starr, is in the hospital
| for treatment.
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Pete Carlson of Seidovia is mak
ing a rapid recovery after his op
eration of last week.
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Thos. Anderson. Ketchikan resi
dent and a fisherman of that city,
has come to the hospital to be un
der the doctor’s care.
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! Mrs- George Wagner from An
chorage will leave the hospital to
i day.
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John Barka, fisherman, had his
tonsils removed yesterday.
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Mrs. Martin Leckwold, Anchor
age resident, is making a rapid
recovery from her operation mid
will be able to return to her home
next week.
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Enright Stimson from Unga was
operated upon yesterday and his
condition is critical.
* * * *
Frank Moore, who froze both
hands, is coming along fine. It
will probably be necessary to have
some skin grafted after the hands i
are healed.
* * * *
Frank Wills, from the Westward,!
is again in the hospital where his'
foot is receiving the necessary
treatment.
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Jim Regan from Valdez has been
feeling slightly better the last few
days.
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Thos. Roberts, Anchorage resi
dent, who has been receiving treat
ment at the hospital for his eyes,
is reported to be recovering splen
didly.
Local fresh eggs, 50 cents a doz.
McMullen’s Grocery.
! FIRST HALIBUT OF THE
; season brought in
The halibut schooner Portlock,
Capt. Martin Seines, arrived in port
Sunday evening from Sawmill Bay
to seek refuge from the harsh ele
ments prevailing. The vessel liad
a coating of about eight inches of
ce on her deck superstructure when
she arrived.
The vessel had been on the
banks for about two days and made
a catch of 10,000 pounds. About
500 pounds was to be discharged
locally. The vessel will go to the
banks and fill its holds and will
then proceed to ports south to dis
pose of its catch.
The Portlock expected to get
away from Seward as soon as wea
ther conditions would permit.
A NARROW ESCAPE
George Parker and Pete Swan
son escaped injury when the Gold
stream bridge on the Happy-Gold
stream road broke down as they
were hauling a 20-h. p. boiler
across with a "cat” tractor. The
machine fell 15 feet, says the Fair
banks News Miner. j
A ron Ericson
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CHARLES FARRELL Feature
‘The Man who Came Back’
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MARCH 10,1932
SAN JUAN FISHING & PACKING CO.
Chas. A. Jansen, Agent
Phone Madison 139 Seward, Alaska
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YUKON _ Feb. 23 Mar. 2 11 a.m.
NORTHWESTERN .- Mar. 1 Mar. 9 11a.m.
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