Seward daily gateway., 1930-05-28
PASSING OF THE FRONTIER


 When the last frontier is no more, where will the nation turn for its stimulus to action? Guaged by the pace going the time is not far distant when the mysteries of untamed nature affordng link between primitive and what has already arrived Ill the pre- sent civilization will no longer be such, and the subject will be treated in text books along with other biological treatses and deduc ons.
 America has it's genesis rooted in achievement, running the full gamut of human activities, from the first foOthOd gained by the first settlers to the present dav miracles of science and invention These earlier epochs in national eXstance like unto chapter marking back the genesis of civilization, to be read and digested as the imagination may digest subject without actual contact with its substance
 Thus the panorama of kaleidoscope history in the making rapidly fading out of perspective must per- force exert sautay effect upon the ethics and usages of near future generations. Will it create new stand ards of values based upon pragmatc computation and with them up marked cleavages between man kind has been the n previous high forms of civ izations will cateclysm, born of consciousness of steady gravltatlOn toward enslaveent of the many while vast powers of wealth accommodating, along with inclination to apply them, and without the great frontiers offering haven for those who are 1ncap- able of yielding their economic desnes to the caprices of the few?
 Unlike the great American West, Alaska's frontier not being eliminated by the encroachment of numbers Rather 1t is being accomplished by the imposition of the rules and standards prescribed by those whose view point is the product of insuarty born of conditions immediately surrounding them, Tn which croWding and q Ul the broader view possessed by the fronersman, who finds greater tranquility in turning nature to his physical needs than would be the If his orb were fixed by inelastic system productive of intensified commerciais, in which the dollar mark suppants the human equation in what is termed progress and pro- sperity by the high apostles of business
 Every restriction placed upon the frontersman of Alaska hastens the day when these will be longer be the mystery of what is beyond the green curtain mark ing what has been accomplished in the hysteria of money madness and where the frontier, with it's op portunities for individuality, conures up re-enact men of those stirring dramas of life written by the man of the covered wagon and the argonauts of ishng epoch.
 While the generation just budding into maturity may like the of the immigrant, entertain contempt for their progenitors and for the with the and gun, they will search long and vanly for an ideal that will match those born of the brotherhood of the frontier where values not gauage by extenas expressed in the dollar sign but computated upon individuality wherein the poorest may claim his or her niche the great edifce of human inship as it was ordained in the beginning and for which the cologians and metaphyscists grope in vain for means of trans mission to mentaties developed under the artificaty of what is boasted as cultural civilization.
 sea elephant at London eats three tons of fish day. That's nothing-Alaska has thousands of sea lions any of which weight nearly ton and which eat haif of their weight in fish every day. To ascertain tlS fact the hlreau fisheries ;n+o,,dc +o ao+