The Alaskan., 1928-01-20
kicking over the traces. It's the | S9mp old stprv

@tmeFlCdHlSm OL the narDOr drG0g-
 ing. We'll, who's doing the dredg-
 ing? Is it the government of Siam,
 Java, Mongolia of the United States?
 Tell us. Who put the bills through? Who worked the hardest On them?
 Pee-pee goes on: Wont they have a fine effect if they (presumably
 the article in THE ALASKAN) are brought to the attention of Con-
 gross when matters of importance to Petersburg are being consider ed?" It is really too bad, but it happens that Congress is better posted on Petersburg than is the pee-pee. Pee-pee Is either grossly ignorant or a damn fool.
 Pee-pee winds up it's questionable verbiage with: There is no place in Petersburg for the purveyors of | the oral and written untruths that tear down the community; that stab at the vitals of community life" Quite so. It Is a late day for the pee-pee to grasp this as a l motto. It and it's subsidizers should have pasted it in their hats long. long ago. And Petersburg, today, would be a much larger town, better liked and more suc- cessful
 Since the issue, Jany. 9th, of THE l ALASKAN, word has been brought 1 to us that the pee-pee has gone around town requesting the ad- l vertisers of THE ALASKAN to l withdraw their ads We don't that this is true There is pro-
 bably an error some where. Of
 course we'll be able to tell better
 later on. Tn all of our newspaper l experience, from the reporters desk to the art room we have never yet known of anything like this
 Papers may quarrel and shoot back and forth and get along miserab1y, I editorially, but we never heard of
 one publication seeking the destruc-
 tion of anothers advertising All l things come out in the wash. and 1 we'll learn later how much fact there is in the claim.
 l Another thing We are not l crediting Schoettler with "Fouling the Nest" It doesn't sound like l him If he really penned the article he's fallen woefully in style and composition, for we never saw ' worse experimentation nor journal | istic misfit It is a pot pourri of words that take up a deal of space that gets no one anywhere.
 As to the general reception of Our Mission" of Jany. 9th We run, usually, from 75 to 150 copies extra. Sometimes a little under these figures, sometimes a bit over. Almost immediately after the issue of the 9th came off the press city sales began and kept on through the week until we actually had to stack away scant half dozen copies for files, and cut down lists to out side towns one half. It must have taken very we'll. The num- Der who have come into the office and complimented us has, seeming ly been half the town There was one, only one, visitor who took ex- ception, and he said: What you
 have written is true enough, but
 it should have been brought out
 long ago. I fancy it out of place
 now and possibly will work more
 harm than good" We'll, THE AL
 ASKAN wasn't here long ago. We
 replied that there were some things
 in the city that called for a clean
 ing. To do this we had start from
 the bottom up. We had to have
 something to stand on. To begin
 any old place was to get no place.
 As to the advertisers: We great
 ly appreciate every line of advertis-
 ing we get. It's hard struggle to