The Nome daily nugget., 1915-11-08

lanN people than Is the delivery or atter Indeed, to an isolated com lunity such as this, and other towns n the district, the newspaper and magazine usually represent the differ nee between a Knowledge of. affairs
 nd little or no knowledge at all. is this the case with com nunities not so adequately provided with telegraphic communication az Is Nome. To person in Teller. for in- stance, the delay or non arrival for a ong period of mail of this character means that such person will be de- orived of all knowledge of the worlds | events pending the arrival of the pa per or magazine which forms the | principal bond of communion between | themselves and the outside world. | For educational reasons alone this | class of mail should be given equal privilege with all others.
 It is useless to say that discrimin dllOuS Ol lIllS Ctiilhol DC
 avoided as such arguments are far
 from convincing in view of the fact
 that towns of the interior of no great
 r importance than Nome receive not only their newspapers but in addition receive far greater quantities of mail than are allowed to pass through to
 Nome and Seward peninsula. True 1t
 IS that the interior towns also do con-
 siderable kicking about the service
 out their complaint Is based not on
 the conditions of which we are forced
 to complain, but are rather because
 handling the consignments after their
 lrriYal on the coast. In other words hey want their mail delivered more apidly but have little complaint about
 estrictions or discriminations as they
 eceive fairly prompt delivery of
 everything that may be forwarded
 within a reasonable weight and size.
 These and several other faults of the
 aail service are matters for which the
 nen who are handling the mails for
 the government in Alaska are not
 O blame. They are usually doing the pest they can to expedite carriage and
 -elieve such difficulties as come with
 Il the province of their authority. With no exceptions that we are aware )f they are hardworking, conscientious
 nen who are doing their best. in the face of many difficulties in the way # red tape and bureaucratic official lom. For practically all of the faults of which We complain the postoffice department is directly to blame and that we must look if we expect to obtain any relief whatever. It is no lse to kick at the men who are hand ing the business in the territory for hey are almost as impotent as the every day citizen in the matter of securing change in the hard and last rules set up by the department |
 f we want relief We must 20 straight | to headquarters, to Washington. | where the gods preside in all their for effort in any other 1uarter will be of little avail. We can secure a betterment of the service nut we must go at the task with the firm intention of securing results. Ii
 1ust be remembered, that nothing can be accomplished by merely setting around and grumbling. Nome has a strange penchant for doing that and 1t may be remarked that it has at all times been is ineffective in regulating -hings as it will be in securing the attention of the postal officials who don't care a tinkers hang for kicks as long as they don't come in large punches and backed by a just and fixed determination. We may kick and grumble for the next ten years I md the results will be of little profit | -or II IS only by concerted effort that ( We can secure the necessary attention { f We can manager to rustic up suffi- ( lent energy to get some action to- l 1ard betterment started through the i ledium of the Chamber of Commerce S ght away we may expect to secure c 'me relief before the winter is far W ivanced. The example furnished by ts e mail episode of the past summer
 proof that we can secure attention i'd relief if we only go after 1t with c irit and determination