The Alaska citizen., 1915-02-01
THE TIMES CONFESSIONS,

THE TIMES CONFESSIONS.
 It is with what might be termed pardonab,e pride that The Citizen can truthfully reassert that 1t Is 10. day in the lead of all the news. papers of Alaska in the matter of circulation. This assertion continues to go undisputed. and will continue 10 go undisputed until some other Alaska newspaper can make a bet ter showing than at present
 The morning Times of this city tries 10 side-step the question by stating that il is the most widely read" newspaper. and although the term "widely-read" carries no mean ing with it, The Citizen is ready to challenge even that statement. and dares the Times to bring proof to that effect. To the assertion that The Citizen has the greatest circu- lation in Alaska. the Times is si- lent and of necessity must be s- lent. fer The Citizen has dared that newspaper to leave the matter to a committee which can go over the books of the respective newspapers to prove the truth or falsity of The Citizens assertion.
 In trying to side-track the question of circulation, the Times insists that The Citizen obtains from the col umns of that newspaper the latter's telegraphic reports for the week, and that The Citizen rewrites local news stories from the Times. In other words It is practically confessed by tie Times that The Citizen prints all the news published by that paper during the week In addition to Its first-hand news, which amounts to more than that published by the Times during the entire week. This is indeed 6 compliment that should aid The Citizen in getting more sub, scribers, for the readers of weekly newspaper want to know that they are missing nothing of news value
 That the Times prints only smat- tering of the news published by The Citizen is confessed by the former in the following sentence. taken from the editorial of the Times of las. Tuesday morning. showing that this newspaper puts into one page as much Outside news as the Times prints in an entire week:
 On one of the inside pages ap- peared practically all of the tele- graphic news which had appeared in the Times during the week, and no where was there sign of credit"
 The Citizen usually prints an en- tire page of news fresh off the telegraphic wires on Sunday. This means, then. according to the Times own statement, that The Citizen has as much fresh telegraphic news on Monday morning as the Times prints during the entire week
 The reason why The Citizen can print as much telegraphic news on one page as the Times prints in a week is that this newspaper uses few big headlines. does not fill space with large type, and sets it's type solid; that is. does not put spaces between the lines for the purpose of filling up space. A comparison of the two newspapers makes this fac; evident. Thus The Citizen has as much reading matter on eight pages as the Times can get into from l2 to Is pages. where there are no 
 One of the reasons why the Times fails to appeal to the reading pub, lie is the fact that 1t fails to pub. fish local news that does not come to it first. For instance, last week The Citizen had a story about letter received here concerning the burning Of a hotel in Fort George. belonging to Jack Robarts, formerly of this city. The Times failed to get the story until after it appeared in this newspaper. and for that reason 1t denied its readers.