Seward daily gateway., 1928-05-01
AN APOLOGY DUE FROM SENATOR HOWELL

Full particulars about the recent blzzards that cen tered at Omaha state of Nebraska the home of United States Senator Howell would be cause of mirth and gee to the residents of Alaska if the consequent tragedy and suffering and destruction of property could be eliminated
 It was Senator Howell who led the futile but deter mined fight n the Senate against appropriations for the Alaska Railroad which if successful would have stranged to slow but certain death That his am And his ob ectOns all seemed to be based weather He clearly was 0bsessed with the idea that climatic conditions in these parts of Alaska are not the kind that large populations thrive ln although 27500,0OO of the worlds hardest people live Tn the identical climate of northwestern Eur 0pe
 The ink had scarcely dried on the Senator's speech in the Congressional Record when blizzard drove down upon hs home city of Omaha and for three days the r 4h and 9th of April 1t tore and blew and showed and ed with all the intensity of demons let loose in vengefu terocy It bockaded railroad trains in all directions out of Omaha, 1t prostrated telephone and telegraph wires II smashed buildings and altogether it piled up total of property loss that mounts into the millions of dollars
 That was the first week in April mind you in the good old state of Nebraska.
 Then again. seemingly as the Gods of Wrath had col ected their thought after reading Senator HowelPs sDeeches on Alaska for second time the fury of the elements turned loose with renewed violence week ater the 9th, 10th and 11th of April Again the winds howled the piled in deep drifts, railroads bockaded and wires prostrated Omaha the center of this second visitation of wrath equally in the first.
 And here in these parts of Alaska at the identical time of the Omaha disasters of climatic fury what does Senator Howell suppose we were doing?
 Tell it to the world gently not boastngly but sympa thetcay and with heart full of human kindness for stricken brethren in the blizzard regions of the earh tell it gently and kindly, we say preparing spring gardens.
 If Senator Howell of Omaha, State of Nebraska will be so good to insert this editorial from the Seward Daily Gateway in the columns of the Conoressonal Record will feel recompensed and will implore the Gods of Jus tce to snare Omaha and Nebraska from another vsta tion of their wrathfu vengence-until next winter.
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