The Cordova daily times., 1921-06-17
PlNcHOTlTES AGAINST CURRY
 BILL

The opposition of the old Pinchotite crowd has been added to that of the Washington bureaus in the move nent to defeat the Curry Alaska De- velopment Board legislation. Norman Hapgood, who gained fame in the old undertaking days, declared in an art icle in the Washington Times that the Development Board Bill is gigantic plan to hand over the resources of AL aska to commission responsible to nobody" and if enacted into law make czars out of the Alaska Con- missioners, granting them the power to give away vast resources"
 While Chairman Curry and other members of the committee on terri tories and of the house of representa- tives protested against the Hapgood article, the same old Pinchot idea shows it's head in the letter written by the secretary of agriculture to SIall 1lldu culi y, III WHICH ll6 CdD- inet officer said:
 "The enactment of this measure would be highly prejudicial to nation al interests in Alaska in that it would remove wholesome checks against exploitation of our vast national re- sources and would deprive Alaska of the technical help of our Federal agencies which combine long experi- ence and best scientific knowledge in studying and development specific natural resources.
 We have come to the time when economic conditions should bring about gradual development of flask kan industries with corresponding in ment should be on a sound basis and not the result of public property and reckless exploitation of public property by creating an Alaska board compos- ed of representatives placed there by each of the Federal agencies active in the territory and one or two per manent Alaska residents.
 Every proper purpose sought to be accomplished could be brought about without jeopardizing national and ter. ritorial interests" "
 The national interests in Alaska!" Cheeks against exploitation" The general development" How like the old clap-trap of the Pinchotites, who locked up Alaska and practically stop ped development through fear that the greatest national interests in AL aska" would be served through the rapid development of the natural re- sources aof the territory. Pinchot's contention was that the resources of Alaska belong to the people of the nation, and in theory of the nation can profit through that ownership ex- cept by coming to the territory and claiming the resources for develop ment, by staying at home and profit ing through the market created for their products by their development No man in the east or anywhere else can cash a check against his interest in coal, oil or minerals that are locked in the ground, or in the pulp and pa. per resources as long as those re- sources are in standing trees. The potential water power of Alaska is Of absolutely no use to the customers who have ownership in it as long as the water runs unharnessed down to the sea.
 The appropriated resources of AL aska only are profitable to the people of the United States. It has been es- timated that 2 per cent of the re. sources ofeAlaska have passed to pri- vate ownership and that the people of the nation own the other 98 per cent. If the figures are correct the per cent of resources in private owner ship are worth more to the people of the nation than the sS per cent that is owned by the government. The
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