The Cordova daily times., 1922-07-28
TERRITORIAL AFFAIRS

There will be work for the next Territorial legislature along the line of devising ways and means for the raising of money with which to carry on the business of the Territory-pro- vided, of course, there is no revival in the can ming industry within the next few weeks, that being the source of the greater amount of tax on which we are dependent for supplying grease for the Territorial machinery.
 That the outlook for number of Terri torial institutions is not encouraging is the opinion of prominent Territorial official Whc iquotes the time honored saw: "It is hard {. get blood out of turnip.' Others famlhai with the financial condition of the Territory assert that, barring the happening of the un forseen which means a largely increased sal mon pack this year, there can be no appropria tions made by the next legislature for Ter ritorial roads, Territorial fish hatcheries, Ter rial Museum and Library and that the offices of the Territorial Inspector of Mines and that of the Attorney General will both necessarily have to be discontinued for lack of money witt which to maintain them. The theory is ad vanced that the Federal Mining Bureau vii take over the work of the former and that the latter is excess baggage and should be ab olished anyway. In fact, it is said that cand dates for legislative seats will be asked to com init themselves on the question of doing away with both positions.
 In the event of the above program being carried out the Territory will be dependent or the Bureau of Federal Roads and the Alasks Road Commission for all her road building an( road maintenance and, while both are well ad ministered and are accomplishing much good should their appropriations meet with mishm at Washington, road building in Alaska vii become a memory if she is not in position t( do something for herself
 Also, the Territory invested, through the ac 1 tion of the last legislature, twenty thousand dollars in splendid museum, but no provis ion was made for its maintenance, 1t bein} left to struggle along on private subscription until it has struggled almost to the end of it string.
 The public schools and Pioneers Home arr 1 two Territorial liabilities that cannot b shirked under any consideration. They mus be maintained first and foremost of all Ter ritorial institutions. In fact, they are asset rather than liabilities and must be kept up t 1 their present standards of excellence.
 The present outlook must be faced and l will be faced and worked out in the best in terests of the Territory. It is no time for pes simism but rather for optimism and the prac tice of financial shrewdness. There are money that the Territorial is entitled to and can b obtained if gone after properly and througl the right channels and, when obtained, vii enable the continuation of all her institution and the assuming of additional obligations.
 With united front, all the Territory pull ing together, intelligent presentations at Wash ington, more honest work and less politica quackery-Alaska will be all right and vii come into her own instead of merely campin on her resources-the greatest with which an frontier country was ever endowed .-Strol Hers Weekly.