Seward daily gateway., 1931-03-04
PHILOSOPHICAL OCCUPATIONS


 Westward ho! What wealth of eloquence in those two brief words. In the first place must remember that the amoeba of civilization was originally hatched nurtured and developed in the far East and that the seed of Life began growing the gradual tendency of progress toward the West From the Orient to the Occident is short span of living progress when considers the length of time required for the trans grafton of the lowly forms of life to what sider the high forms of existence.
 And yet Time is but fleeting reflection of the passage of spacia existence that in the end to the human than 1t to the marauding Jay brd who in the natural display of his inherited tendencies rapes the waiting nest of the tender swa low and with avidious gup swallows the offspring that, if allowed to grow and mature, would perpetuate the swallow life. Such is life
 And as this is Life so must we reflect seriously upon the tenet of moral and intellectual progress that the Westward is the sleeping grounds of all aspirations that tend to increase the moral and spiritual wealth of the human family. Persons tire of every day happen ings and surroundings they grow weary with monot- regularity and their eyes upon fields that are pregnant with possibilities of personal advance ment! they the persons in every day business and professional life; they home to their same workaday surroundings and their souls instead of soaring into the celean heights cast down before the alters of Baa and they absorb only feeling of de- pression gloom and Life is empty and devoid of interest The past is interesting as the prospects of the future.
 The East is old, the West is new and there is no westward Alaska We envsion the hundreds of islands out there We cast our mental and moral eye back across the bridges of the past and wonder how our ancestors so regarded Life as not to great future for the Westward country generally instead of continuing to migrate sOuthward
 Individually there are less names on this years delinquent tax roll than for many years past but the apparent reinquishment of groups holdings bracng a number of hunderds of lots, brought the total up to the length it appears in this issue Aside from the Hartman group, it will be noticed the of individuals not many It is unfortunate people living outside of Seward-in the States-do not under stand local conditions better One thing is certain the properties listed will be disposed of quickly at the tax sale unless redeemed by present holders.
 There should not be much fear felt by Arctic porers, providing scientists right who claim members of Arctic explorations have died from eating and overheating than of starvation and cold
 From the looks of things they are going to run the Alaska Railroad long enough, anyway, for next summers Congressmen to come up and take ride
 For the family cook book: You can go out quicker than light headed chorus girl by drinking cocktail made of champaigne gin and orange juice
 We'll bet the lads down at Juneau today were as busy as cat a tin roof what with the legislature cOnvenng and what not
 The last gang of Congressmen came to Alaska on destroyers and almost destroyed us If this next crowd comes up cruisers, GOOD NIGHT!