The Alaska daily empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1912-1926, 1920-10-22
New York Club Asks for Pub
lication Of Correspondence
Here 1t Is in Full.


/ Camp Fire Club of America, made
/ up largely OF New York sportsmen
i end conservationists of which Mar
I shall Mclean, of 81 Cedar Street, is
President and of which all the other
officers are also New Workers with
no record of ever having been in
Alaska.
The Camp Fire Club of America,
October Z, 1920.
Editor,
Alaskan Daily Empire
! Juneau, Alaska.
Dear Sir:
THE resolution given below was
offered and passed at a meeting OF
the Board of Governors of theI
Campfire Club OF America held
this week.
DIR. William T. Hornaday Is
beloved and hoonred member OF that
organization and has never been
repudated by it. The Governors,
feel that your article was mislead-
ing and unfair, and take this means
of demonstrating it.
"RESOhVED, sthat the Board of
Governors of the Campfire Club or
America express their emphatic dis
approval of the article printed in
the Alaskan Daily Empire, Friady,
| June 18th, 1920, wherein by its
beading and direct statement the
said article placed the Campfire
Club in the position of repudiatingl
its hcnored member, DR.. William L.
Hornaday; and of the misintepreta-
ton of the letter of our member
William B. Greeley, of March 18TH,
1920, to Governor Riggs, wherein
the spirit and meaning of this letter
was distorted and the inference Civ
On to the public was most unfair to
Or. Hornaday, to Mr.. Greeley and TO
the Campfire Club, and order that
CODY of this resolution be sent to
Or. Hornaday and to the Alaskan
Daily Empire, with request that
Mr.. Greeleys Letter be printed in
full Yours truly,
"(signed) ARTHUR F. RICE,
Secretary"
Now while the resolution calls
upon The Empire to print the letter
Of Mr.. Greeley dated March 10,
1920 to Governor Riggs in full,
there is nothing therein requesting
Gov. Riggs to make the correspond
once public. However, the Empirel
presented the resolution to the Gov
ernor who has kindly given us thel
letter of Mr.. Greeley, written on
the stationery of the Campfire
Club. together with his letter OF
February oath to Mr.. Greeley which
brought forth the reply. The black
t face in Mr.. Greeley's letter cover
the portions of the letter already
published:
Mr.. Greeley to Gov. Riggs.
Committee On Conservation or
Forest and Wild Life.)
: The Campfire Club of America
: March Is, 1920.
Hon. Thomas Riggs, Jr,
Department of the Interior,
Washington, d. c.
My dear Governor Riggs
| thank you for your cordial
letter of the oath ult. It was
personal pleasure to myself and
. 10 tHe OluCI HCHiDSio VI N'N'
Committee to meet you in
more intimate way than was
| possible at the general gather
ing OF the club on February IT,
? as well as an opportunity to
l discuss the game situation in
Alaska.
In reply to the inquiry made
I the att
! tude of this Committee with
respect to the pamphlet recently
published by the Permant Wild
= Life Protection Fund under the
title "A NEW GAME ACT
FOR ALASKA FOR THE BET
{, TER PROTECTION AND MORE
e RATIONAL UTILIZATION OF
E ALASKA'S GAME ANIMALS
let me say that although the
author of the pamphlet is a fell
low member of the Campfire
Club, much loved and held in
high regard, whose efforts in
the conservation of wild life
have been marked by great &C.
, complishments, there is no or
ganic relation between the Per-
manent Wild Life Protection
Fund and The Campfire Club,
the conclusion of the former
are in no wise binding upon
this Committee, and the views
expressed in the pamphlet are
not to be assumed to be the
views of the members of this
Committee, who do not find
themselves in full accord there
with at all points.
In the various phases of work
in which this Committee has in
terested itself we have endeav-
ored to be thorough and accur-
ate in our ascertainment OF
facts and to give due considera-
tion to the honestly differing
opinions of others, and the pur-
pose behind the invitation to
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