OOPS. OUR POLICE IS SHOUJinG
The policy of The Frontiersman was se
verely criticized by one reader last week.
It was stated that in the time the paper has
been published in Seldovia (not two months
until Jan. 20) the paper had done not one
thing of benefit for the community.
It is the opinion of the editor that in
six weeks1 time, a newcomer to Seldovia can
not yet be well enough acouainted with all
the old ills of the city to know what they
are. And as far as can be discovered, no
new ailments have been brought to light in
the past six weeks.
The policy of The Frontiersman, now and
always, is first of all fairness. There are
those who are perfectly willing to acquaint
the editor with all the bad points which
have arisen in the government of a.newly-in
corporated city. However there are no‘two
of those who seek to indoctrinate who take
the same set of facts and arrive at the same
conclusion,
It is still our opinion, as it was when
the first issue was published last Nov. 20,
that the fairest and the wisest policy for
The Frontiersman, as it is for any other
newspaper new to a community, is to learn
all there is to know of that community be
fore the editor begins to sum up its short
•comings and prescribe a remedy.
When controversial issues arise, The
Frontiersman will endeavor, always, to pre
sent the facts as they are given in its news
columns. When it appears to the editor that
there is a clearcut right or wrong of the
case, then the editorial columns of The
Frontiersman will reflect that opinion.
In the meantime, the editor will go right
on pursuing the present policy of ’Find out
all you can first, and then make up your
mind.’ And when a decision is reached, our
readers may be sure that it is a decision
that has been weighed and examined from ev
ery side, and that it is not the decision of
any individual or group which has been pre
digested and spooned down a compliant edi
tor.
SMITH TO GIVE
AIR SERVICE
Merrill Smith, pi
lot who brought pas
sengers to and from
this city during the
holiday season, will
continue to make ir
regular trips to Sel
dovia until further
plana service is av
ailable to the city,
it was learned this
week.
Mr. Smith’s Stin
son has been equipped
with skis, and he is
using the outer lake
as a landing field at
present•
Although the pi
lot’s plans are for
stopovers of indefin
ite length in Seldo
via, he has promised
to continue to opar
ate here unti!
delivery is made on
the plane now on or
der for Dr. Melvin
Beltz of Seldovia
hospital.
This plane, a Cub
Cruiser, will be de
livered here by Fred
Frakes, and Mr.
Frakes will make Sel
dovia his headauar
ters for charter pas
senger flights. The
Cruiser is a three
place plane.
1 MRS. 8ODEWI6
NOW AT HOME
Mrs. Bernard Bode
wig and her new son,
Bernard Leroy, Jr.,
left Seldovia hospi
tal to go home on Hew
Year’s day last week.