The Alaska citizen., 1916-01-10
COMMERCIAL CLUB PRAISED.

COMMERCIAL CLUB PRAISED In recent issue of the Nom, Nugget there appeared column ar ticle praising the business men C Fairbanks for the manner in whlC: they stand together when there :. anything to be done for the benefi of the town. and cited several in stances where much good has beel accomplished by this shouldcr-.o shoulder method.
 The credit given the merchant. oi Fairbanks is only partially jrst tor the Commercial club has Dcc1 the ruling spirit in every endoavo which has taken place in the las three years 10 benefit the con Il tions of the people of the interior and to the discredit of only too many merchants of the communitj they are in no way identified witt the organization and are allow4ns the mere public spirited to carr, the whole burden while they G,' the credit for the work.
 We herewith reprint the Nugse:' ! editorial for the benefit of thost who are knocking the Commercial club instead of joining and boost ing with it:
 Fairbanks may be a long ways behind Nome in many respects: it may not have the same aC- vantages in the way of situation. resources and business devei- opment enjoyed by Nome but it has us beat city block when 1t comes to the possession oI live, wide awake citizens who are thoroughly awake to their opportunities and are ready to take advantage of whatever is offered in the way of benefits to their town and themselves. They have furnished us so many examples of this that. were we not asleep ol utterly indifferent, we would have had to acknoH- edge the fact long ago. Here they are already enjoying the best mail service in the whole interior through receiving, OF their own acknowledgment, over half of all the mail that ttc gods of he postoffice depart ment allow to pass into tn" interior and yet they are still making every possible effort to get more still and, in pursuance of this object, are enlisting the aid of all the leading magazines in the country in assisting their campaign, in addition to such other influences as eau be conveniently approached. We have no fault to find with this nor with the fact that they are securing most of the mail coming
 
 deserve it for the one reason that they have earned 1t by working for it. While we have been sitting around complaining about what we didn't get the citizens of the interior city have been devoting the time to the very sensible business of mal ing such efforts as were possible to secure what they wanted. They didn't sit around kicking to no purpose as we have done, neither did they let the fact that 1t Is long ways to Wash ington stand in the road of going after what they wanted. They simply made up their minds what they wanted and then started out to get 1t. That's the reason. that they have succeeded in SC curing half of all the mail that Is coming into the interior - they worked fer it. And for the very same reason they will prob ably secure an even larger DOT tion through the efforts they are making at present. which in clude among other things the sending of personal appeal to the editors of all influential pub lications throughout the coun- try. In the slang phrase of the day that's the kind of stuff that gets the money" It's get up and get, not hollering, that brings home the bacon, every time. In this the citizens of Fairbanks are giving us only an- other example of the kind or spirit that enabled them to build road to the Tolovana, which isn't half as rich as the Kouya- rok, without waiting for the