The Cordova daily times., 1915-11-29
BOTH LOGICAL AND CORRECT.

mail all the tme but in their zeal to receive an increased of the interior newspapers have made number reckless statements which do not be with the facts The kind of campaign that bears results however IS one that IS based on truthful exposition of conditions and until that policy pursued friends at Fairbanks cannot hope for much improvement in their present service
 Before venuring any editorial comment this question: the writer made thorough investigation of the whole on and dha the bu kOf the hOldOver mail that not dispatched interior during the winter months consisted principally of catalogues advertising matter and parcel post packages also stated tha at loss to understand why the commercial organization business men should this class of mail transported the trai at an enor expense and to the derment of their local merchants
 The Fairbanks Daily Times under the caption of ''Ms eadng" publishes lengthy editorial which shows its ab oue ignorance of the subject issue the statements aned therein borne out by the records While there is nothing to be gained by controversy with our interior contemporary cannot refrain from repubhsng its edl ora just to show how gby 1t discusses the suoect ana deals in generaities without any regard to the truth:
 Tn recent issue of the Cordova Daily Times there ap peared editorial which hamper Interior Alaska ser Ousy their campaign for better mail The edl- ora contains statements regarding the delivery ot mall m the interior that without foundation Reference also was made the mail order houses of the Outside, and n that regard least hearty accord with our coast con temporary But the statement is made that Farbank sans received all of their second class mail last winter we must take Nothing could be farther from the truth as most Fairbanksans
 ssTat is not the issue however refer particularly to the embarrassment which may be caused us by the discus sion of the mail question va newspaper unfamiliar with conditions and uncOncened the outcome ot the capalg If we cannot have the assistance need at least have the right that other Alaska publications refrain from discussing the question haphazardly
 'Thp Fairbanks Commercial Club has to consider able trouble and expense to gather statistics regarding the mail and prepared letters send to the department and to outside publications setting forth the fact that the people Cf Fairbanks and Interior towns do not get thelr mall during the winter months This not guessWork with the club fact which be attested by practically every person residing in this part of the territory
 'he Cordova paper not knowing the real sltuaton but aware simply of the fact that of the Interior mail had been held up at the town careessy assumed that all of our mail reached with the exception of parcel post mat fer and mail order catalogues In Washington such state ment in an Alaskan paper might carry weight especially Tn view fact that those charge are unacquanted with conditions the North They do not know back there that Cordova Fairbanks hundreds of miles apart and that
 CordoVa newspaper not Tn position to dScuSS lnCelo mail conditions inteigenty.
 'Interor Aaskans not getting all the mall that IS adoesod h them Tn the past including winter Outside newspapers mailed during the winter months arrived here after the opening of navigation. few came through wn prompness while others have not yet reached their destination, those are the facts in the case
 ''Aaskans must have better mail service The people of the Interior devotng their lives to the develop mept the country, entitled to better treatment and neither CordOva Times the people ot the coast town have right attempt to discourage our effor noWh standing the fact the editor of the local evening con temporary has branded the Cordova editorial as seeming logical and correct" :,
 The News Miner takes little broader view of the mall ouestion as the following editorial excerpts show
 'The editorial from the Cordova Times regarding the mail for the Interior has caused quite little discussion It written by the COfdOVa poStLltoIe anu lhoy hF wrong impression The stand that the editor o the CordoVa Times took insofar the catalogues concerned IS good one The NewsMner believes in patronizng home indus tres and that end thinks that the editorial reprinted in nart here is both logical and correct
 ''Undoubtedy, the Cordova editor was moved to com en the way he did the mail service to the Interior be- ause of the that the Fairbanks Times n the same issue in which there appeared very good editorial asking for all the mail all time contained storyto the effect that local reghter going Outside to contract with big ma order house catalogues the trail with the Idea or taking the business from the local merchants and giving It to some outside firm That does not appeal to the CodoVa editor any more than does We believe in patronzng