The Cordova Daily Times
GREATER CORDOVA’S GREATEST NEWSPAPER
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One Month . 1.00 One Year (In advance) .... 10.00
Daily and Weekly, by carrier or mall, $1.25 per month.
H. G. STEEL—PUBLISHERS—C. H. SCHEFFLER
H. G. STEEL, Editor and Manager
CORDOVA. ALASKA, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1915.
CORDOVA’S POSTMASTER RESIGNS.
Announcement is made by Postmaster If. (i. Steel that lie
tendered his resignation the same day he received word from
the Postoffice Department that the clerical force in the Cordova
office had' been reduced and the salary of the one remaining
regular clerk was cut from $125 to $88.33 per month. This
action was taken by the Washington officials upon the recom
mendation of Inspector Neil, who visited Southwestern Alaska
towns last summer, which is the dull season in the postal busi
ness, and without any regard to the effect it would have on
the service during the winter months, when the mail tor prac
tically all of interior Alaska is handled through the local office.
Vnder the new order the present efficient service cannot be
maintained, even of men could be employed to work for the
“scab” wages allowed by the Department, which they are not
likely to do. Experienced help is essential to the quick and
accurate dispatch of mail throughout the territory It is also
necessary to have a force on duty that is willing to work un
usually long hours, without extra pay, and it must be said to the
credit of the Cordova office that there has never been a time
during the past four years at least, when the entire stall was
not on duty at any hour of the day or night to receive, distri
bute or dispatch a mail, if the occasion required it, and it fre
quently did'. As to the service rendered let the public pass judg
ment.
Whoever is appointed as Postmaster Steel’s successor he will
be greatly handicapped and the patrons of the office should not
be hasty in their criticisms if they fail to receive the service
they have been accustomed to, as no official can be expected to
discharge his duties in the most satisfactory manner it he is
provided with insufficient and poorly paid help. Efficiency
was never attained in any business along those lines, and the
sooner the Post office Department realizes that it has been im
posed upon by a bull-headed and incompetent inspector the
better it will be for all parties concerned.
The Cordova office is a distributing station for eight months
of the year and handles a large volume of business. Instead of
endeavoring to practically demoralize a service that it has taken
years to build up the department should be willing and anxious
to add t<» its efficiency, which can never be done by endorsing
the recommendations of a man of Neil’s stamp. He is neither
an Alaskan, nor absorbs tin* spirit of our people, and his acts
(.Jjow his ignorance of conditions in this northland. He may do
for Puyallup or some country section, but not Alaska. Had
men of his calibre migrated north in the early days there never
would have been the Alaska ot today, an empire in the making.
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Louis Shackleford, of Juneau, is already arranging to bar
ter the Governorship of Alaska, in the event of a Republican
president being elected next year, it reports be true. I he man
said to be selected to succeed Major Strong as the Chief Ex
ecutive of the territory is E. B. Collins, of Fairbanks, who is
supposed to deliver to Shackleford the proxies of the delegates
from the Tanaua Valley to the Republican territorial conven
tion, in order that Shackleford may again foist himself on the
party as its leader. Of course the voters of the Fourth di
vision have not been consulted as to this trade and when it
comes to “delivering the goods” possibly both Shackleford and
Collins may find that they have undertaken a bigger job than
they are capable of getting away with.
CALLS KNOCKING BUSH LEAGUE ETUFF.
Just at present quite a lot of “knocking” of the govern
ment railroad and its builders is made evident. Thisfcknocking
com -s from a class of people that knock everything. Remember
this is not saying that Uncle Sam ought not pay better wages]
nml ought not to be more generous in every way. Without ques
tion the government of the United States should set a good ex
ample to employers, but the talk and “threats” which one
hears here just now are not of the kind to carry weight. There
is one litttle circumstance which we should all keep in mind,
and that is that some people might find political reasons for
creating all the trouble possible in connection with the con
struction of the railroad. It should also be remembered that
other “interests” might consider it worth while creating a
sentiment which might result in condemning the present site
of the railroad, and those interests would surely not stop at a
mere matter like hiring agitators. They have done it before
and they can do it again. Of course, the knocking is not much,
but it seems to have been growing in the past day .or.two. One
can hoar about it even if he doesn’t want to talk about it at all.
ft is a sort of a little campaign against officials, etc., around
Anchorage principally. It is so negligible that the very men
tion of it in a newspaper leaves the paper open to the accusa
tion of having been bribed to speak of it at all, and so give it
advertising. Just on the spur of the moment the thought oc
curs that some of this stuff being whispered about is not only
small, but damned small—it is bush league stuff. Forget it.—
Seward Gateway.
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Records are among the few things that may be broken with
impunity, and Uncle Sam is now having a gay old time smash
ing export and trade balance records.
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Physician and Surgeon
Office at Company Hospital
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D E N T I 8 T
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ASA C. BALDWIN
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Address: Valdez, Alaska
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Attorney and Counsellor at Law
Room 1
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Sails from Seattle— Sails from Cordova—
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November 6_NORTHWESTERN_November 18
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without notice. ,
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or freight will not be received at the dock later than one hour before
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General Agent Ticket Agent
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Next sailing from Seattle will be
ADMIRAL FARRAGUT, October 17
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Kataila, Cordova, Valdez, Seward. Cook Inlet points and Kodiak
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