The Cordova daily times., 1920-03-04
THURSDAY, MARCH 4, 1920
HOMINY CREEK VS. ALASKA

Recently the house of representa- lives of the federal congress was dis eussing appropriation bills, and the special item under consideration was an appropriation of SS5O,OOO for the ex- tension of the airplane mail service to Alaska. MT. Quin, a representative from the state of Mississippi, ad- dressed the house in part as follows:
 T have no patience with this foolish talk about experimenting up in frozen Alaska, where< nothing but dogs can stand the climate, where a fellow has to be wrapped up in a fur coat, with boots lined with fur, with a fur cap and fur eyelashes, to keep him from freezing to death; and yet this non- sense about sending airplanes up there to carry the mail, appropriating $S50,- 600 for the experiment.
 What I would like to see is for the postoffce department to extend this splendid rural free delivery. Let us get this rural mail out to people who are not now receiving it. I will vote to put $S5OOO0 to experiment further in carrying the rural mail out into the woods, so that the farmers can get their mail. Talk about some man not being satisfied with getting his mail where the trains run across the cOun- try at fifty and seventy-five miles an hour, when the man that lives out on Hominy Creek gets paper three days old. Let us eXpend the money where it will do some good, where the great mass of the country, the backbone of the country live. The farmers only ask the government to give them sim pie justice instead of wasting the money on this airplane business"
 There speaks the true provincial! Although he has travelled from his na- tive Amite county to Washington-a tremendous distance to such as he his narrow vision can encompass nothing beyond the confines of Hom- iny Creek and it's immediate environ ment. It seems not at all incOngru- ous to this patriot, who seeks only simple justice" for his HOminy Creek constituents, that while they are receiving newspapers three days old, good, red-blOOded Americans, pay ing taxes to the government that pro- vides the mail service, are content to get a newspaper three weeks, three months, aye, even year old, and that in regions where Uncle Sam has gone through the farce of establishing post offices.
 Senator BentOn's famous remarks in the senate, when the subject of building transcontinental railroads was nnder discussion, in which he said the regions which now consist of the great northwestern states of the DakOtas, Montana, Idaho, Washington and Ore gOn could never be made fit for the habitation of others than savages, can in some measure be pardOned because of the limited means of knowledge of those regions in those days. But in these times, when the government, scientific societies, commercial bodies and newspapers and periodicals have flooded the country for years with in- formation concerning Alaska, it seems almost imbecile on the part of the Mississippian to make such a show of ignorance.
 There would be just as much reason for the delegate from Alaska to rise in his place in the house and deliver a tirade in which he declared the state of Mississippi was fit only for the habitation of niggers and alligators, and that the heat and humidity were such that it was not worth while ex- pending money on mail service there, as there is in the remarks of the gen. tleman from Mississippi
 Fancy the spectacle of such a man as Congressman Quin in the position of making laws for others who live outside the sacred precincts of Hom- iAy Creek!