The Cordova daily times., 1920-05-17
VOICE OF THE ALASKA PRESS

VOICE OF THE ALASKA PRESS
 With a start made for a larger cold storage plant, work in progress for permanent streets, and the prospect in sight for getting a large pulp mill On the channel, Juneau's immediate future is looming very bright.-Ju- neau Capital.
 ''Tis an ill wind that blows no good. 1 Possibly if the crime wave keeps up along the Pacific coast lovers of peac and security will take to Alaska, where the only thing it is not safe bottle of liquid joy Anchorage | Times
 Mary Baen Wright, we'll known in Valdez, where she spent some time last summer, is editing a department in the COrdOva Times under the head of Village Gossip" which is calculat- ed to make the average editor green with envy over the good fortune of Bro. Steel in securing this service. A perusal of her snappy writings con- vinces us that Mary Baen Wright has real ability.-Valdez Miner.
 The eagle is one of the most des- tructiVe of all the agencies that prey upon the game and commercial fish and animals in Alaska. They destroy young deer, ptarmigan, grouse and water fowl, fur-bearing animals and fish in great numbers. Alaska could very easily spare all her eagles, but there is no danger that the species will be eXtrminated-mOres the pity. They are too numerous for that Juneau Empire.
 The Coast League has started it's season. The umpire last Tuesday in his most tragic manner bawled out the old song starting with, Ladies and gentlemen, the batteries for to- day are---;;" the bleachers settled back and yelled, Let's go," and the great American game was on. The pitcher wound up and the catcher spat on his glove-but why go into the narrowing details and make the old fans around here feel bad. She's a grand old game-Douglas News.
 Now that Clifford PinchOt has come out of his retirement long enough to attack Thomas B. Drayton in the big newspapers for what ex-Chief For rester calls Weaving detached, un- related, and exceptional incidents in to an ingeniously connected narrative probably intended to poison the public mind, and certain to create a false otion of the scope and purpose of conservation in Alaska" we look for ward to an answer from our fellow toWnsman that will make fair reading.
 With no intention to horn in and take sides in their dispute, we would, though, chance little bet that when Mr. Pinchot emerges he will know he has been mixed up in a contrO- versy.-Seward Gateway.
 Every now and again the peaceful residents of Alaska are startled with press dispatches telling of the activity of radicals in Alaska. Is there an or ganized campaign in the States for the purpose of discrediting the territory? So it must seem to every reasonable minded citizen of the territory. The latest bit of horsep1ay indulged in by those responsible for the circulation of defamatory propaganda against the territory has resulted in the dispatch ing of the United States coast guard cutter Algonquin to Alaska to curb the activities of alleged alien radicals near Hyder. It is high time that the good people of Alaska organized themselves into 100 per cent American club for the purpose of combating the vicious propagandist.- Times. 
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