Published once n neck in Palmer, ..laska, for the
Matanuska Valley Farmers' Co-operating ..ssocintion,
for tho purpose of giving nous of the Association's
work, problems and accomplishments.
BETTER TELEPHONE SERVICE POSSIBLE
Practically all our readers have received a questionaire from the by this
time, in regard to R.£.-.» financed telephones for the Mutanuska Valley. New, before
you make up your mind, please consider several points. The first question is, do I
want a telephone, and if so why? Well, that is your question, and you should decide.
If your are a farmer, perhaps you feel that it would be just another expense that
isn't absolutely necessary. However, please consider the number of trips it will
save for your car or truck. Wouldn't it bo convenient to have a telephone in case of
fire or accidents on the farm. How many timos could you get some important inforna
tion over the telephone, that you now use your car to get? How many times do you
have something to soli that you don't want to bring to market until the time, is right
and you spend precious time in making trips to get this information? There ere a
thousand times each year when a telephone will be both useful and convenient. It is
an essential part of our present system.
Second, don't gut excited when you find out that you arc expected to help finance
your telephone system. Remember that the more capital the users furnish, the less
interest there is to pay on the principal, and the sooner it will be paid for. It
seems only fair, that, those who will be benefited, should pay most of the bill. What
can you buy for $50 now-a-days, that will givo you more for your money, than a good
telephone system? .md remember this, you are not donating anything to anyone, when
you purchase an interest in your telephone system. It will be a going business, and
it. will be co-operatively owned, just like your R.L,-.. You and your neighbors and
friends will own and control the system. No one will -ruc.ivc any special favors. All
will be treated alike. • -
Perhaps you ask about the present systom ? It should bo remembered that the pres
ent system was never properly financed. We should give credit to the people 'who
tried to establish a system. However, no one can build a reasonably sound telephone
system by stringing second hand wire on fence posts, bushes and mostly on the bare
ground. The climax was reached, when our present system suffered the storm damage
last fall, due to the big wind, which paralized it. Now, if this system had been
built properly, it might have had some temporary trouble. But, a good system could
have been repaired in a few hours. ,
Don't throw your qucstionairo away until you have given the matter the amount of
caroful consideration that it deserves. Talk- it over with your neighbors, and sec
what they think about it, too. No one is trying to sell you a bill of goods that you
can't use to a good advantage.
' VPUSSyFOOTERS* PLfln FOB' inCORPORflTIOII
Some of the boys, ’./ho arc working for Incorporation of Palmer, met last week to
name a group of citizens for the proposed new city council. Newspaper accounts in
dicated that it was just another one of those meetings to blast the Co-op., but when
asked if this were true, some of the people who,were there, stated that the meeting
was really called to secretly select the new councilmcn, if the plans for incorporate
ing go through. This indicates that this is just a samplo of ./hat we may expect lator
on, if the plan goes through.
However, to be fair to some misguided /Jid misinformed citizens who were there, we
would bo willing to concede that they wore there trying to protect themselves from
some of the calamities that might befall them if their fnirrwcathcr*friends arc able
to get the jpower they desire.
If the proposed nominees are afraid to have their names made public now, just how
much stamina could you expect them to show if th^y wero required to vote on any con
troversial subject, in a council meeting ?
OH HUM ,1 KJ3S THE SUdJt.
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