The Seward gateway., 1921-01-05
THE IGNORNANT KICKER

THE IGNORNANT KICKER
 Last night fellow called us up on the phone ant proceeded call good and plenty because ne haC not received copy Of the gateway tor two nights flrS he wanted why he had been neglected Second ne said he was waiting for to come when Seward would have newspaper that up to the minute, one that he would ashamed to send outside Third, he sald he supposed wOuu cn;frge hm for the papers which he Iaed to get fOur - but why enumerate the
 many things he holered mead off about lie the many who failed copy of the paper last night The reason tor the noldevery should say reasons many The chief and most important because emergency engine reused to emergence 1t quit critical II 1t had not chosen to quit al the time dld the paper would have been printed but It would not have been delivered by delivery g1S simply because would not have let them go out on the kind OI dark windy night such last night was This fellow who hOlered loud about his paper the lack of 1t was tile only person in Seward last who expected the girls to dehver The fact that than fifty of Sub- scrbers kind enough to call up and tell not to seo the girls out with the paper fty more would have pro baby called up too if had been phone in the house This fellow who hOlered oud aving newspaper that he would not be ashamed send out must be all ed particular and at the same te all fired ignorant Ignor
 ant because he evidently not know that the people O1 Seward have the paper Alaska anywhere for that matter where paper printed under the dons which exist here For the size of the town and the support accorded the Gateway the Daily Gateway sixty percent better than any paper we know of which lsts as we do.
 Recently business man of Seward who derives his living from people things in and of Seward heard to remark That 1t wouldn't be long before Seward had real newspaper This business man has given darn little support to any newspaper that has ever been published in Seward He seldom advertises He is one the kind who is continually looking for something for aOthng. We not pinning any medals ourselves as prizes won for conducting real newspaper We not advertising the fact that We supernen in the paper business neither throwing boquets at ou thp hest thatw can do under existing circun Every member of t Gateway staff is working and working damn hard at all times to give the people of Seward paper they will a- 2reclate We think have succeeded There only on. nan who IS ashamed to mail his paper outside Only one merchant who looking for metropolitan paper before ne starts an intensive advertising campaign People kick m general way We want them to kick We like to hear them kicking In natural way particularly when they nave genuine reason for kicking When they kick and
 Kick in unson about something we have done we feel that We may he possibly wrong and immediately take steps to remedy the wrong the mistake We will continue to g'e the people of Seward newspaper as long as we are here We believe that we have improved the paper wee tiny bit during the past ninety days We believe that the paper can stand whole lot improvement and we will continue to do our best to help improve We like to be crit clzed by intelligent people because believe that there is room for criticism, but draw the line when an gnor- anus attempts tO criticize because we feel that our time is being wasted by somebody who don't know eough to give US ,.luable information Bro.her newsi,,., men who are itng papers throughout Alaska have written articles like the following which appeared in re- cent issue of the Skagway paper the Daily Alaskan;
 "The Daily paper published at Sewand- and it is a good is finding the increased cost paper help and all things which go to making of first class paper compelling argument to distinct change in the Get up of the Seward Gateway On December 1s they started out on pagn for disseminating the news to the people of Seward and vicinity Such course taken in the face of many dis couragements deserves the highest commendaon and the