The daily Alaska citizen., 1919-08-28
!. HI.TE DENIES
 CRITICISM OF
 LOCAL SCHOOL

LOCFAE OSkLIUL4 -rEN<rE OF THE LATE ALASKA
 uouSE OF REFRESHMENTS
 SIMS Ur nID NOT STATE THAT
 ALAsEANs SHOULD BE EpU
 GATED IN TIE STATES.
 In letter jus, received by The Clrlz.u. r.. J. White. speaker of the wu.a territorial legislature, takes oN. ryptIon ro an editorial article which aHaryd in The Citizen on July 12, last. and declares that he never gave any interview in Seattle in which he opposed the Fairbanks Agricultural College" and states further that he imported the appropriation measure which was lost in the last Iegisla- .urr
 Mr. Whites letter follows in full:
 duncan, Alaska, July 2S, 1919. "UI J II. Caskey Alaska Citizen.
 Fairbanks, Alaska
 Ny Dear Sir.
 "I was much surprised on reading your paper of tne l2th insranr 70 sec m...jr quoted in an interview pm- ported to have been given by me to Seattle paper of about June 9 in which ! waa quoted as opposing the Fairbanks agriculturaI college.
 "Iu tho first place gave but two interviews while in Seattle and in neither oG them was the agricultural college mentioned, and had it been mentioned it would have been with regret that the appropriation failed To pass the recent legislature.
 "Al tue members of the late legis- aur. of which | had the honor to no speaker know what my attitude .a- uu the asricultural college that a tart having been made, it was very bad policy tO moi continue the good work not only voted for the ap- prupIiation but did all in my power tn induce other members t. do like Hj." For me not to have favored the college would have been be ualal of Inc confidence of the en- tire delegation from the Fourth diyi- sion
 q have said and did say to all the members of the Fourth division that il might have been d mistake in the first place, the 1917 term of the legislature, to start the college pre mature is a better word than mis- DaEe) but that once started 1 Was very much in favor of continuing if. This sentiment, however, was never expressed in any interview to a Seat tIc or any other paper. l do not care aI Dhj- time to go into detail concern ing how the appropriation was los, but lt was thru no lack of interest and work on my part as 1 was heart and soul with the members from the Fourth in their efforts to get a suit able appropriation for their college My disappointment at the failure G.. the bill for the appropriation to pass Was probably aa keen as that of any member of the legislature, those from the Fourth division not excepted. And now tu be quoted in an inter view never given as having opposed the measure is not only unfair to he but also to my good friends the entire legislative delegation from rne Fourth division.
 Friends of the agricultural college who were members of the late legis- Iature know how the measure was lost and the writer will leave it to some member from the Fourth divi- sion to explain the why's and where fores
 "It was thru no fault of yours truly,
 "Very respectfully
 "E. J. WHITE, Speaker Fourth Territorial Legisla-
 ture"
 The editorial to which MT White objects was based upon story sent out by the Associated Press thru it's mail service. It was not run in full l n, nh, Citi1an buf ,arte of if yUara