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®lt? £>nuarft (Satmtay AND She Alaska Hurniwi fast t»t'BLt*MKD DAILY. KXCKVt SITSDAY* ANl> HOLIDAYS MY GATEWAY PUBUSHI NG COMPANY, (Inc.) Harry V. Hoben, P. Frank L' Ba,la,n‘‘’ So<''; ^ « «a^ys&AS.r**- “ ^ " I SUBSCRIPTION RATES: ONE YEAR. In advance. THE ALASKA WEEKLY POST by mall S.00 PER MONT, delivered.*l*wv ADVERTISING RATES on ai»t>llc*tlon. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED TRESS The Aoftociated Tress is exclusively entitled to the use for repuhlica lion of all news credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. ■ ■— ■ '■ . I MOQUAWKIE VILLAGE IS NOW ON T11K MAT An old landmark name has l>een changed. I he vil lage long known as Tvonek is now properly designated as Moquawkie. This new name is as near to an Indian word meaning a sheltered place as the white man s or thography can express it. Moquawkie is very appropri ate, when applied to the village on the west side ot the Inlet, for it is quite sheltered by high hint's lrom the pre vailing northerly winds of winter. . . « ni The postomce department abandoned tne name i\-j onek nearly ten years ago, when it appeared that the use of that name might confuse some who knew ot^old Tyonek, further down the Inlet. In fact, the name Tyo nek was never properly applied to the village where the Government’s Indian school is located. But the name se lected by the postal authorities. Beluga, was eventual 1\ found to be fully as misleading as the former name. An old station near the mouth of the Beluga river is far more entitled to be called Beluga, and in fact, is always meant when seamen and other wayfaring people use that name. In February, 1915, President M ilson established an Indian reservation of (15,000 acres, which includes this much-misnamed village. On the map used by the Presi dent, and adopted by him as part of his proclamation, the reserve is called the Moquawkie Reservation. A short time afterward the Postmaster General accepted the new* name for the postoflice, substituting it for both Tyonek and Beluga. At the close of that fiscal year the new ap propriations were made for Moquaw kie school instead ol Tvonek school, and the Commissioner of Education very promptly changed the name of the school accordingly. Now the Bureau of Navigation lias signified its will ingness to concur in the change, and the forthcoming charts will give Tyonek its proper location, beyond the village long incorrectly so called, marking the latter vil lage Moquawkie. Some slight confusion may be anticipated among boat men, a few of whom are really tenacious for old forms; but this will all pass away in a little time, no doubt, and the name Moquawkie will be generally used in a very few vears.—Ex. * -- TAXATION AND THE BONDS With the purpose of America to win the war ever in the mind of government and people, and with the means of winning on land and sea and in the air already provided lETTES I The Satisfy!—and I yet. they’re ILD * THEY CAN’T KEEP US BACK. „ | i rcrs -»• t ... - - - —Carter in Philadelphia Press. for, there remains foremost the question: How shall tie money lie raised? To answer that question is the complex and difficult problem now before Congress, lhere are two methods by which the government can provide tor its pecuniary needs: by taxing the people diiectly 01 met rectlv and by borrowing from them, and it has long >een recognized that both must be employed. Then comes the further question as to amount to be raised by each met kh . Whether it is the desire of those who would shoulder :,n undue part of the burden on taxation to make the war unpopular or not, imposing too heavy a financial load on the present generation would tend to have that effect Moreover, too drastic a policy of taxation would defeat its own object in many cases, since it would discourage effort. At the same time, we do not believe that any eonsidera >le number of men of great wealth would oppose heavy tax ation of their excess incomes. Because a man is rich does not mean necessarily that he is a miser or a slacker. Nor is to be credited that men who have seen their sons enlist and have swelled with pride at the sight would hesitate to give their mere money to equip their sons and the sons of other men. . . . , 1 • i J*_ f n v War profits are legitimate sunjecis iui nutvv uu. ation. That any man should be allowed to fatten and to thrive on profits made from the sale of shells, munitions and supplies, without giving back to the country which protects him a large share of those profits is unthinkable. And that these men will be compelled to pay heavily for their opportunities is as certain as that we are at war. All of us. however, must contribute. The stamp tax, elim inated bv the Senate, was an illustration of a fair impo sition designed to make all America bear its share of the burden. Other subjects have been found ami still others will be found, so that in the end the cost of war will be distributed fairly. But after all, the great mass of war costs will be met by borrowing from the people, by the issuance of bonds. By this means, those yet to come will bear their part jointly with this generation. That is as it should be. Such vast sums are required for the prosecution of the war that the early hope of a pay-as-you-go policy has been discard ed. If it were enforced, business and industry would be retarded and crippled, if not paralyzed. As it is, busi nesses and industries will share ratably in present pay j ments and will not be sacrificed to posterity. For it is as much posterity’s war as it is ours. Indeed, so far as Amer ica is concerned, it is almost more important to America’s material future that Germany shall be defeated than it is to her material present. If the war were to end today, with Germany victorious, it would be many years before Germany couid afford to invade America, but after those years posterity would know the horrors of an even great er war. The people of today and taxation; the people of to rnorrow and bonds. We must pay and lend, else even America will not be safe for democracy.—Ex. _.v ALASKA TRAVEL The stories of German submarines on . the Pacific coast appear to have had a discouraging influence upon the movement of Eastern tourists to Alaska during the summer season now closing. Reports from the various transportation lines serving the Northern territory indi cate that hundreds of tourist reservations were canceled WM . I - I i I III — , r 1TI —— O.W. PALMER KNIK, ALASKA SOME OF OUR SPECIALTIES: I WELLMAN CANNED GOODS TIP TOP EGGS MARSHFIELD CHEESE RED CLOVER BUTTER SPERRY’S FLOURS AND A FULL LINE OF HARDWARE Stoves. Hay and Feed ___,.i - - -- - No Better Goods Can Be Bought At Any Price G. VV. PALMER, KNIK, ALASKA ~ .. " A STEAMSHIP JAftn COMPANY sfsKPVto Sailings from Seattle: Alaska . Sept. 9 Northwestern .Sept. 19 Mariposa .Sept. 13 Alameda .Sept. 25 The Northwestern, sailing September 19th, will connect at Sew ard with steamer for Alaska Peninsula Route points. All ships go through to Anchorage. For further particulars of service, rates.apply to Agent. A. H. MCDONALD, Agent. i — ■ ■■ ■ ■■■ " 1 ■ - J I,- --- ' For the benefit of those Interested in Alaska in General and Seward in Particular an INFORMATION BUREAU has been established in connection with this paper, and all those desir ing information as to the value of real estate and business opportuni ties are requested to address their communications to INFORMATION DEPARTMENT, SEWARD GATEWAY. Seward, Alaska. -- ----' The Seward News Company GEORGE PHELPS Booksellers, Newsdealers and Stationers __—gM—^——— II. V. Hours ’ A- **’• l,AUS ALASKA TRANSFER li. V. HOItKX. Man \cr.K Coal, Wood and Ice General Trnnsferrinjr. Phones. Main IT and «1 soon after the rumors of the presence of submarines be came current, and that the summer’s business was affect fed. Fortunately the regular passenger traffic to and from Alaska increased very materially, the movement of com mercial travelers being especially noticeable, and the sea son’s gross passenger traffic was thus very good. The to ! tal number of passengers conveyed to the Northern ter ritory from Seattle, Vancouver and Prince Rupert during the eight months ending August 31 was 24,409. The stories- of German submarines along the Coast were unfounded in fact, though, at the time, the govern ! ment officials considered the danger sufficiently great to i justify a warning. There were circumstantial accounts of the sighting of submarines or periscopes, and the dan ger for a time, appeared real. Subsequent events indi cated that there were no enemy submarines on this t oast, ' and none likely to be as long as the United States gov rnment controls the Panama Canal.—Seattle P.-I. 1 -o Membership in the American Red Cross has grown from 275,000 at the beginning of this year to the enor mous number of 3,500,000, and it is increasing at the rate I of 25,000 to 100,000 a day. -These are fresh figures fur nished by headquarters at Washington recntly. They tell only a part of the magnificent story. There are in fact many more than 3,500,000 members of the American Red Cross in the names of workers not appearing on the rolls. I