The daily Nome industrial worker., 1916-02-01

Every paper has Steady Reader, or Subscriber who from time to time communicates on various sub jects of no earthly interest in style of no particular attraction:
 There are exceptions and such all exception is. letter to the Fair banks Nows- Miner. which not being copyrighted, is hereunder repro auced:
 Dear Sir:-As if present mail ser yico isn't bad enough, we must have rank discrimination added to the much mooted matter! Now this plaint is not because our parcel post is being piled up at the coast. te be sent here next July, via Daw- spn-we're become accustomed to fhat. "'t' r''5
 In every mail that comes over she trail-and this is true talo fapologfes to Walt--aiwayg with out fail, comes the Christian Science Monitor, Lcslie's Weekly, ia fact, every ono of the ''let-weil- erough-aione" and 'let-tho-think- i1g-poople-rule" publications arriv; on schedule. But when the sup scriber to The Masses, Soc:a list Re- view, Melting Pot ard other pro gressive literature goes to our vili- ago postoffice end gets a rGre copy of his periodical, it is an event among our adv2ncod thinkers. As fer the subscriber to the Rip Saw, he is agin' the government any way; he doesn't worry; he knows soUs, White Pass boat vii! bring ,binN the majority of the yearls Sue M histbclovcd magaaiae - July
 The writer is glad to see the first named literature come among Us--he reads both sides. Besides he is aware of the benefits to the Fairbanks prOletariat in the Hints to Money Makers. column in Leslie's, but believes there should be absolutely no discrimination; be- sides it's un-Christian. q steady Reader
 The News Miners Steady Reader should not feel offended. Probably it is part of the general scheme Of a patriarchal post office department that those served by the limited amount of literature allowed into the country shall be saved the trouble of thinking.
 At is fact that the safe sane and conservative papers which Gra suggested are just the ores V llich will prevent anyone Goubting the general perfection of the powers that be. and they will be able to take their radicalism in harmless homeopathic doses
 There is no end to the unselfish activities of postal department em- pioyees. Not alone is the amount of matter which shall be digested by Alaskans settled with view of pre- venting hypertrophy of tho intellec. through excessive thinking, but the danger of radicalism is eliminated altogether. There is no possible dan ger to any mans conventional ideas in reading nothing but Leslie s The due and mature caution to let Big Business alone is one that should be impressed upon everyone. While there's not very much danger from the radical declaiming against the woes of society to an audience of niggerheads or spruce trees, there is the peril of such a radica! acquiring a homestake and Detaklne himself and his radical ideas out side where they are more con.agi- GUS.
 It's really a blessing in disguise that there should be, even if there is not, an index expurgatorius oi such limited dimensions as sug gested by tho writer of the letter quoted. Economic damnation, poll tiral infidelity is an evil not to be despised. And whose con temncth small things shall fall by little and little The careful watch kept upon the mental fodder furnished the people oF Alaska is a noble function upor the part of government; itaprevenls any undue discontent and lets ths thinking 4'pe6bls, in the ornate language of Leslis's, rules aaFn
 The worst of such papers as art .-nnAionnd l.r aAnads.A T7srNdNr. fa finn