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Scnmr&pailydjnfciuaij OK SEWARD, ALASKA — Established August 19. 191)4 Published daily except Sunday by THE GATEWAY PUBLISHING COMPANY Entered in tbe postoffiee a1 Reward Alaska as second-class mail matter. H. V. HOBEN and E. F. JESSEN, Proprietors E. F. Jbssen, Editor and Manager MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of ajl news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise in this paper and also the focal news published herein. All rights for republicatloL of special dispatches herein are reserved. This paper reserves the right to reject any advertisement it so desires. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Dally, by carrier, per month _____f 1.25 Dally, by mail, pei month _____ 1.00 Dally, by mall, per year_:_10.00 CABINET GUESSES Politicians and newspaper men are busy picking President-elect Hoover’s cabinet, just as they are guessing what President Coolidge and Governor A1 Smith will do when their terms of office expire. Here are some of the cabinet guesses: For secretary of state, Ambassador Morrow or Senator Borah; for sec retary of the treasury, Mellon, reappointed; for attor ney-general, “Wild Bill’’ Donovan, at present assistant; for postmaster-general, New reappointed, or Good; for secretary of commerce, possibly Dr. Julius Klein, foreign trade expert; the rest not even guessed at. Some believe a Southern man will be given qn important cabinet post. Whether any of these guesses will prove correct is just another guess, because Mr. Hoover himself recently said: “Any truthful declaration on the cabinet members will be announced by me and all other statements will be based on theory and conjecture.” In the meantime, Mr. Hoover is homeward-bound from Central and South America; a combination busi ness and pleasure trip, no small part of the pleasure be ing a temporary respite from the importunities of office seekers. Alaskans will be satisfied with those whom Mr. Hoo ver appoints to his official family. Oil seems to effectively lubricate the machinery of justice in favor of those charged with its manipulation. 3 feed, mm RESIDENTS MAY PROFIT BY ! FARM “NUISANCE” BANE OF AGRICULTURIST ' trans- j [formed what was considered a nui- j sance into one of the most valua • j ble products of Alaska. It is short j tundra moss, which lies like a car pet over approximately three fourths of the Territory's 500,000 miles of surface. Short tundra moss has become a I standard poultry feed in Germany, |which is now exporting large quan tities to the United States. One shipment of German moss to the Pacific coast consisted of 20,000 ! [tons, valued at $10 to 20 a ton. Hitherto moss has been the bane j of the agriculturist, who used five [ to free the soil cf its encumbrance. Large areas were burned to reduce +he mosquito breeding fields. Now the farmer’s attention has been di rected to the value of the moss, he is pr-paring to conserve it, a .1 t v ■ that process make it pay a fair pro portion of the cost of clearing laud : for the plow. Tt is said this hitherto worthless material promises to exceed in value the gold production of Alaska to date—some $300,000,000. Father Geo. H. Woodley, who | has been a visitor in Seward since ; last Saturday, departed today for Anchorage. lT. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey Chart and Tide Tables. SCHAT. | | LEllLll S ALASKA SUOP. & Don’t overlook, hearing the new “Okeh” records at Sylvia’s. You il be surprised. 7 - <• U O' t i la to Have an Old English Yuletide Festival d- — When old Thomas Tusscr, born fifty years before Shakespeare, wrote ' At Christmas, play and make good cheer. * For Crrlstv.’s conies but once a year. he K.ado certain the success of "The Farmer's Dally Diet," a grandparent of "Poor r.r y-jud's Alumnalllled -.yith Rober agrlcfiltutsl lor* and so cr,r»r maxims o? thrift and honerty I.ujlisi.u-.jr: I'.r.v; needed no urging i ■> follow 7 ussr.i n welcome advice, and hive celebrated Joyously the "*Twel.« Jir.ys of Christmas," except c .ring Ins Reformation and under » .e reglm3 of the Ironsides when fc .ch festivities were frowned upon. Hut 14 remained for Dickens and Washington Irving In America to re vive with tholr tnnglu pene the old Yuletlde eptrtt. We In the Sts tea navo long fash ioned our Ohilstntas celebrations on the model sf the rid English Christ mas, which we find memorably de scribed In the writings of Dickens and Irving. But during the coming Christmas the festivities hallowed bv six centuries of English tradition will come alive as never before; and for their setting they will have the city of Victoria, B. C.. which has been called "a corner df England on the Pacific coast.” Here, In the Empress Hotel, an Old English Yuletlde Fes tival Is to open on Dec. 22. The holly and Ivy and rosemary, cele brated In English song, all flourish In Victoria, and will furnish the tra ditional setting for the carolling, the wassailing, the mumming, the Twelfth Night merrymaking, the Yule log, the mistletoe, and the other delights that warmed Geoffrey Crayon’s heart. Harold Eustace Key, director o! Canada’s major music festivals, is arranging the musical programs for the nightly concerts at the Empress Hotel. He has In hand a represen tation of "Wardle's Christmas Party'1 as Immortalized by Dickens In the Pickwick Papers. This Is to have a running commentary of Yuletlde music to set off the charming foibles of Its lovably ludicrous characters. Dr. Healy Wlllan of the Toronto Conservatory of Music has composed for the occasion Incidental music tc< “The Chester Mysteries"' a Christmas play selected from a group of me diaeval pageants which used to be enacted by the trade guilds of Ches ter. England, dealing with the time less theme of the shepherds and the Babe of Bethlehem. The first per formance of these Mysteries was In 1328. exactly six hundred years ago. lllllJJlimi33m33SinS!]!J3J]3I33l?]HlJjnJin!33jm!J3JJ:im?;imHJni3H3S!]H!3IIJ3JnmiI5H ;! 8 O’CLOCK — ONE: SHOW — 8 O’CLOCK LIBERTY I THEATER | the CHARMING LITTLE: SALLY O’NEIL with OWEN MOORE in a modern day comedy-drama BECKY An unusually good presentation of the modern flapper with all her sins and virtues—Up to the minute in every detail—Just how far should you go for money— Who can draw the line—If one girl goes farther than another is that proof that she is lower. LAUGHS — LAUGHS — LAUGHS And yet with al! the comedy in this story it is also very interesting as a discussion of modern morals—Laugh yourself to knowledge AND WITH IT WE WILL SHOW A FOX NEWS AND A FABLE ■ IH i muhiiitiEiMHittsmEimti&miisnhitiEHEititimiEEEEtimu'ii'LhULi^hSiir.hHwm! 5211X232 | MOTORSHIP EL HURD gj | For Hire or Charter Leaves Sand Point and Unga, each month right after the Is jf arrival of Steamer Starr from Seward, for Heredeen Bay and all Shumagin Island points, carrying U. S. maU and |p H freight. For further information address §|I | ANDREW GROSVOLD §§ §j Sand Point, Alaska =H l