The Cordova daily times., 1920-04-14
*VOLSTADA ACT
 . IS APPLIED ,. TO ALASKA
5 (From Fairbanks News s-Miner)


 fest in Our Town as to whether the Volstad act applies to Alaska and kills all other liquor acts alludin' at or appertainin' to Alaska, that the NeWs-Miner has gone into the matter as far and as fast as it could As a result of telegraphing the attorney general, interviewing officials here and studying the act as best we could eSa our lawless way, we are here today to render the decision that it does Z that you can keep it in your house and ease it into your guests if you can first get it into your home.
 Straws in the Wind
 First, Federal Judge Bunnell has quit tending bar, as he was compelled or empowered to do under the Alaska bone-dry law, and has issued orders to. Clerk Kelly to make out no more permits for alcohol. So far as he can see, the Volstead act is working here the Canal Zone is exempted, and if any other part of the United States was exempted it would be so stated in the act
 Second, the booze detectives and prosecutors maintain dignifed si- lence upon their interpretation of the act, going so far as to state that they ha xyn hut +bo% taken the time to study it; in the mean tS8ae their regular Tuesday and Sat urday raids seem to have been sus- pended; and it is the consensus of local official opinion that district at tOrney on the coast has looked into the matter, and that he finds that it does apply to Alaska, as contained in his story printed in this paper as taken from the Cordova Times. e..
 George Hutchinson, King
 And, under the Volstead act, George Hutchinson, treasurer-in-general in Our Town, is king of the alcohol traf- fc. According to the Volstad act, nobody can import it or prescribe it or. encompass it in any way until they have first seen George. The first thing George has to do, according to the law, is to come to the Hometown Print shop and have lot of books printed, said books consisting of stubs and or dars for 1iquor-having them, he is compelled to give said books free to doctors, who are thereafter the bar stenders of Our Town. While the act doesn't mention George by name, it rAsts all the power in the hands of the internal revenue bunch, of which George is the sole animal in captivity here of that species. So they are go- ing to let George do it. The only thing which makes us think that George wants to do it is because the duties of the office carry no salary or emoluments with them-just like all the treasurerships George holds; it is to be a labor of love.
 An Erroneous Title
 So, rather than get into trouble and a row with his friend, George Hutchinson, Federal Judge Bunnell has quit the liquor traffic, and has passed the buck up to George and with much satisfaction. Judge Bun nell, as everybody knows, is a real human; a kind-hearted man whom the sstory of sickness and suffering always shocks; an Alaskan who delights to believe that this is the healthiest country on earth; prudent man, and Wise in his day and age as to the proper system to pursue in financial matters. He is of the opinion that the title of the Volstead act should read:
 "An act for the relief of federal
 judges in Alaska"
 For he was strictly up against it in many ways. For instance, he was listening to stories of sickness in men who looked strong enough to do days work, and who swore that they needed alcohol for medical purposes-of course, they wouldn't lie about it. He was being made to believe that half the huskiesl in Our Town were just about to shuff1e off this mortal coil,