The Cordova daily times., 1920-03-16

l of politics, at least of the partisan
 kind. Many sincere friends of Alaska
 are convinced that the territory will
 benefit by the elimination of the per
 sonal political tactics of our former
 delegate to congress. This feeling is
 confined to no political party, and
 therefore the criticism of MT. Wick
 ersham has no party bias to it. Un-
 warranted and interruptions attacks on
 persons and corporations who have
 done more by spending their money in Alaska to develop the territory than Wickersham did in all his years in the
 halls of congress, have at last opened
 the eyes of the voters. and therefore 1 it is proper to hope that he will not l be afforded an opportunity to continue such attacks by being appointed gov tion he is said to be sedulously culti- vating.
 A few years ego the Chinese gov ernment placed opium smoking under the ban Today the imports of cig- arettes into China are greater in value than all other of the principal imports combined.
 1,1,11 l Chamber of Commerce of the United States says that the COrdOva Chamber of Commerce was one of the first of the member organizations to subscribe
 it's quota to the S2,500,O00 building fund for a national home for Ameri- can business in Washington. D. c. We may be small, but we are on the
 job.
 There is Rye. N. Y; Whisky town Cal; a Brandywine, Penn, and a BourbontoWn, Ind. But despite their names the thirsty sojourner within their gates can only dream of the splendors of a past day
 Them that has, gits.' With this motto as their guiding star, the An chorage Chamber of Commerce has started a movement to abolish the present Alaska road commission and form a new commission under the in terior department. The new commits scheme for the building of wagon roads and trails for the entire terri tory, having in view the prime impOr- tance of such roads as feeders for the railroad" In other words use the funds of the Alaska road commission | for the greater glory of Anchorage and the government railroad which
 in the eyes of some people is all there l is to Alaska anyway.
 Along this line it is pertinent to re-
 mark that the two steamship lines Op
 erating to Southwestern Alaska from
 Seattle have made an arrangement whereby all employees of the engineer 1 ing commission are allowed a 25 per cent reduction in fares, which means 1 that the government railroad has been | favored to the extent that it will cost less to go from Seattle to Anchorage than from Seattle to Cordova, although
 the journey to Anchorage is two days
 longer than to COrdOva. Now, if
 private railroad or other enterprise
 did this, whether because of the vol
 ume of it's business or to help increase
 business through preventing the use
 of private carriers, the steamship
 companies would be prohibited by the government from carrying such an
 agreement into effect. It would be
 unlawful discrimination The average
 traveller on the boats can not be blamed if he fails to see the distinc tiOn between the Alaskan engineering commission and the Alaska Packers Association when it comes to prefer
 ential rates There should be no di
 vine halo associated with a govern
 ment job which should raise it's em
 ployes above the common herd in re-
 spect to the equitable principles of
 law and justice.
 Troubles of the Poor Placer Miner
 The following letter was received
 by the United States Geological Sur
 vey in answer to a request for the
 1919 production of placer gold: Dear Sirs: The last years work
 was sent to you something in the form
 that this years work will be-Two
 Wit-Don quite bit of ground sluce- ing But did not get out any gold. But