White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1923-04-01

short, for a letter 10 60 from Ely 10
Cleveland ranch, a distance Of only
seventeen miles across. the best that
1t can do is four days. but often II
takes five days and even more.
Mr.. Pierce knows all this 70 b.
true and he dare not deny il. Nor
will the News be SO gnkina 10 him
rs to underrate his intelligence by
saving that he also knows that the
News was not critieising him, Tor he
does know il. He knows the News
was criticising the department md
the Ely Record knows ii, ir att
tude 10 the contrary notwithstand-
ing. To say 1t more plainly, the
Record knew when 1t published the
headline. Mail Carrier Objects te
Roast frcm News that the News
never roasted" Mr.. Pierce or any
other carrier, but that IL did eriticlse
the postofice department for It's
archaic system. And for lie infer
nation of the Cherry Creek contract
or and the Ely newspaper, the News
will say thai 1t will continue TO do
SO until this rotten service IS no
more.
When Mr.. Pierce SAYS the White
Pine News is handled on schedule he
tells the truth. But il Is the sched-
ule that the News objects TO. and
thai is THAT Mr.. Matthias objected 10
when he said the News. which IS
printed Sunday morning and whlch
leaves in the mail Tuesday, lying
over both at Cherry Creek ard An
rum. reaches Cleveland ranch the
following Saturday. six days in s7inG
the sixteen miles from East Ely 10
its destination.
The News does not believe Mr.
Pierce to be an efficient carrier. but
knows him TO be such. 1t says this
gracefully and gladly In spite CT the
sentence with which he closes his
letter in the Record. And when It
saws that it cares not one particle IN
the milky way what he thinks one
way or the other. IL realizes h a he
is peeyed over losing his contract.
But the News had no hand III TINS
and knows of nobody in Ely having
a hand in ii. 1t was upon a petition
of the people on the route thai the
department made McGill the point OF
dispatch. taking it away from Cherry
Creek. which had handled it cred
itably as far as its part of the ser
vice was concerned for half a Gen.
fury. II was only in its issae oil
February II Thai the News made TINS
highly favorable comment on the
service given by Mr.. Pierce:
F. L. Pierce, the mail contractor
hetween Cherry Creek and Aurnm.
was prepared for the storm, nav
ing a team and sleigh to replace
his car. as he has 10 do every WIN
ter.
AZ efficient as all other carriers
are and as heroically as they Dattied
the storm after il came. THIS was 4
compliment which the News couia
nav to Mr.. Pierce alone, he peihe the
only one who was prepared ior lhe
storm. Yet the News has yet 10 re-
eeiye a word of thanks for that neal
little sendoff. On the other manu-
the minute that by willful distortloh
there is a chance 10 register a kich
he can manage to get mold of a post
age stamp to do so.
What the News is fighting Tor Is 4
system by which an automobile-not
a team except when deep sho" ERE
vents the use of a car-will start III
each and every valley where there Is
no railroad, at some initial point
and serve all of hal valley WITH
mail the same day. If in Spring val
Low II is to start from Sehellbourne
Lot a ear he run south through Au-
rum. Cleveland ranch n on ID
Shoshone, and let another car go
east from S~ehellbourne to Tlpp III
Parker and Ibapah, Utah. Or IL the
initial entrance of the valley be at
connor's pass. let q car go north 10
Cleveland ranch. Aurum. Tippett,
Parker and Ibapah, all in one da''
and let another car serve Shoshone.
II is this three times a week part
way out, twice a week another par'
and once a week the rest OF the way
that must be done away with, and
the News purposes to keep I'D the
fight until it is accomplished.
That will mean the employment
of no more carriers and II is to be
hoped that Mr.. Pierce may remain IN
the service and he n of hem
this in spite Of the slur at the News,
which wishes him no harm.
RLIEc tTING DEMOCRATIC