The Cordova Daily Times
GREATER CORDOVA’S GREATEST NEWSPAPER
ASSOCIATED PRESS TELEGRAPHIC REPORTS. 1
H. G. STEEI_PUBLISHERS—C H. SCHEFFLER
H. G. STEEL, Editor and Manager
CORDOVA, ALASKA. .M'lXDAY, XOVKMBKU 2!>, lTl-Y
BOTH LOGICAL AND CORRECT.
This ]taper lias no desire to in any way attempt to inter
fere with the efforts of the Fairbanksans to secure all their
mail all the time, but in their zeal to receive an increased
service some of the interior newspapers have made a number
of reckless statements which do not jibe with the facts. The
kind of a campaign that bears results, however, is one that is ;
based on a truthful exposition of conditions, and until that
policy is pursued our friends at Fairbanks cannot hope for I
much improvement in their present service.
Before venturing any editorial comment on this question,
the writer made a thorough investigation of the whole ques
tion, and foun dthat the bul kof the hold-over mail that is not
dispatched to the interior during the winter months consisted
principally of catalogues, advertising matter and parcel post
packages. We also stated tha we were at a loss to understand
wliv the commercial organization or business men should
want this class of mail transported over the trail, at an enor
mous expense, and to the detriment of their local merchants.
The Fairbanks Daily Times, under the caption of “Mis
leading,” publishes a lengthy editorial, which shows its ab
solute ignorance of the subject at issue, as the statements con
tained' therein are not home out by the records. While there
is nothing to be gained by a controversy with our interior
contemporary, we cannot refrain from republishing its edi
torial, just to shew how glibly it discusses the subject, and
deals in generalities without any regard to the truth:
“In a recent issue of the Cordova Daily Times there ap
peared an editorial which may hamper Interior Alaska seri
ously in their campaign for a better mail service. 1 he edi
torial contains statements regarding the delivery of mail in
the interior that are without foundation. Reference also was
made to the mail order houses of the Outside, and in that
regard’, at least, we are in hearty accord with our coast con
temporary. But when the statement is made that Fairbank
sans received all of their second class mail last winter, we
must take issue. Nothing could be farther from the truth, as
most Fairbanksans are aware.
“That is not the issue, however. We refer particularly
to the embarrassment which may be caused us by the discus
sion of the mail question b ya newspaper unfamiliar with
conditions and unconcerned in tin* outcome of the campaign.
If we cannot have the assistance we need, we at least have the
right that other Alaska publications refrain from discussing
the question haphazardly.
“The Fairbanks Commercial Club has gone to consider
able trouble and expense to gather statistics regarding the
mail and prepared letters to send' to the department and to
outside publications, setting forth the fact that the people
of Fairbanks and other Interior towns do not get their mail
duiing the winter months. This was not guesswork with the
club. It is a fact which can be attested by practically every
person residing in this part of the territory.
“The Cordova paper, not knowing the real situation, but
aware simply of the fact that none of the Interior mail had
been held up at the coast town, carelessly assumed that all
of our mail reached us, with the exception of parcel post mat
ter and mail order catalogues. In Washington such a state
ment in an Alaskan paper might carry weight, especially in
view of the fact that those in charge are unacquainted with
conditions in the North. They do not know, back there, that
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a Cordova newspaper is not in a position to discuss Interior
mail conditions intelligently.
“Interior Alaskans are not getting all the mall that is
addressed to them. In the past, including last winter, Outside
newspapers mailed during the winter months arrived here
after tin* opening of navigation. A few came through with
reasonable promptness, while others have not yet reached
their destination, those are the facts in the case.
“Alaskans must have a better mail service. The people
of the Interior, who are devoting their lives to the develop
ment of the country, are entitled to better treatment, and
neither the Cordova Times nor the people of the coast town
have any right to attempt to discourage our efforts, notwith
standing the fact that the editor of the local evening con
temporarv has branded the Cordova editorial as seeming
‘logical and correct.’ ”
The News Miner takes a little broader view of the mail
question, as the following editorial excerpts show:
‘The editorial from the Cordova Times regarding the
mail for the Interior has caused quite a little discussion. It
was written by the Cordova postmaster, and may have created
a wrong impression. The stand that the editor of the Cordova
Times took insofar as the catalogues is concerned is a good
one. The News-Miner believes in patronizing home indus
tries, and to that end thinks that the editorial reprinted in
part here is both logical and correct.
“Undoubtedly, the Cordova editoV was moved to com
ment the way be did on the mail service to the Interior be
cause of the fact that the Fairbanks Times in the same issue
in which there appeared a very good editorial asking for all
the mail all the time, contained a story.to the effect that a
local freighter was going Outside to contract with a big mail
order house to haul catalogues over the trail with the idea of
taking the business from the local merchants and giving it to
some outside firm. That does not appeal to the Cordova
editor any more than it does to us. We believe in patronizing
home industry wherever it is possible so to do.
“The Cordova postmaster could only use in his editorial
lie information that he knew to be correct, and therefore he
s not to blame if he created a wrong impression. That his
‘onclusions were wrong will be proven next spring, and have
jeen proven every spring when the first mail via the river
•oute brings Fairbanksans an accumulation of newspapers
lating from October of the year before they arrive until the
rerv month of their arrival. Therefore, he may be doing
Fairbanksans an injury. But the logical and correct part of
he editorial is the part that refers to the patronage that isj
hie home industries. We are for the home merchant first,
ast and' all the time. Everybody knows that a town is meas
ired by its commercial activities, and we believe that charitx
logins at home, and that the people of Alaska should patron
ze Alaska merchants, and Seattle and the rest of the big
•ities that foster mail order houses can look out for them
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