The Kusko times., 1932-01-09
SEWARD GATEWAY WILL
 CHANGE TO WEEKLY PAPER
Steward Gateway.)

tanned thelr regular size advertise ments, yet, owing to the number of other advertisements which have either been cut down in size or can- celed entirely during the last twelve months and additional cancellations the past few days, the Daily Gateway will as soon as paper arrives be cut down to four pages; semi-weekly will be the next move after that.
 One thing is certainty. The ed- itor does not propose to continue the load of publishing an eight-page daily paper single day longer than is now necessary. We do not believe there is another business in town which has lost more money in two years than point where we must make up not only what we have lost but reason able profit for our endeavors. We are going to do that or turn the key in the door. No one in Seward has work ed harder or more conscienti0usly for the upbuilding of this city and dis tricts than the Gateway staff, to whom long hours has never meant thing. One and all enjoy their work. but they are sick of being made the 'goat."
 Retrenchment has followed re- trenchment in practically every busi- ness in Seward during the last two years with the possible exception of the Seward Gateway Publishing Com- pany, which has constantly striven to maintain its standard of the last seven years. This standard could not be expected to continue indefinitely in the face of the annual deficit of the last two years. That time has now arrived; it is impossible to continue with an eight-page daily with the present income.
 There are number of local con- cerns who have never advertised in the daily either for personal reasons or took the paper for granted; that is their prerogative, of course, but we cannot refrain from saying that from that source alone has come criticism of the Gateway's progressive attitude. 1t Is this progressive attitude which ] has caused the combined circulation of the Gateway to grow almost as big as that of the Fairbanks News Miner and the Anchorage Times com bined circulation; both of these towns are two or three times the size of Seward yet the cost of publishing a daily paper here is as great, but the advertising. :, income is relatively smaller.
 Others pleading poor business have discontinued their advertisements, some of which were as low as $5 per month, while others have cut their ads in half or less.
 Contrary to the belief of many, it requires cash to run newspaper We are not getting enough cash, so, like other concerns, must retrench OF uit.
 We have no apologies to make; only condemnation of ourselves in that we did not have the foresight or "guts" to put this retrenchment into practice two years ago.
 It must be added here three fine members of this staff will be added to the list of unemployed; the daily file of Associated Press dispatches cut to the minimum, and all other items cut to the very bone.
 It has been said a newspaper re- fleets towns progressiveness, but in the local instance this is not true; the Gateway, apparently, has been ahead of the town; a better paper than the town could afford or deserved.
 Our last word is directed to those advertisers who have loyalty kept their "tails" erect, kept their ads the same size or enlarged them and who