The Cordova daily times., 1922-08-08
MIR HUSTON'S VISIT

Alaska can have what she wants provided her ideas of what she wants coincide with the ideas of the administration at Washington as to what she ought to have. And that IS the situation in a nut shell. The administration mind has been fully made up as to what Al aska needs and until that mind IS dlsabused of it's convictions, Alaska will get only what IS on the slate for her, and no more-and she doesn't get that this year.
 The foregoing is the only logical interpreta- ton of the statements made by Assistant Sec rptary Caudus H. Huston, of the Department of Commerce to Governor Scott C.. Bone and delegation from the Juneau Commerclal As sociation just before his departure on the Coast Guard Cutter Mojave for the westward
 Mr. Huston, like his chief, Secretary Hoover, is a big man. He possesses keen insight Into and quick grasp of all propositions placed before him. but so far as Alaska IS concerned his insight was brought from Washington with him-cut dried and packed for transport be- fore he left there, and it is wholly and ex- clusively the Washington insight rather than the Alaska insight In other words, the Assist ant Secretary knows Alaska as 1t IS known at Washington, and not as Alaskans know It and desire it to be known and he dld not come to Alaska in a receptive mood for ideas and suggestions not wholly in accord With those already in stock in Washington, duph- cates of which he brought with him. Looking further than surface and conversational lndl- cations, it could be analysed as case of "You fellows are all right, but you don't know what you want; whereas We know Just what you want and just what you will get and not get'
 There is no doubt but that the Washington Administration; President Harding, Secretar- ies Fall, Hoover, Assistant Secretary Huston and others of the administration having Jurls- diction over Alaskan affairs, are truly deslr- ous of assisting this Territory in every way and are wholly honest in the means and meas ures they are employing to assist It.. But they do not see it's needs as do those of us who make our homes here and who are more VI tally interested in the welfare and advance ment of it than they can possibly be. And this divergence of view is largely chargeable to AL askans themselves who have permitted sec tional interests and jealousies to dwarf desires for Territorial-wide advancement and better ment Alaska is a vast country but there IS no de-sterIing the fact that 1t is one country and that benefit to a portion of it will event ually benefit all of it. Too many personal and political axes have been ground in Washing ton at Alaska's expense and wrong impress sions of her condition and needs have been ere ated and fostered This has been going on ever since she was taken, young and trusting from the growing Russian bear, and these wrong impressions are so deeply rooted at Washing ton now that only concerted action on the part of all the epeople of all sections of the Territory will remove them. Until Alaskans can them selves agree on what will best serve to rescue their homeland from the slough of despond and despair in which it is floundering it's population will continue to dwindle, it's in dustries will continue to lessen in number and the veil which now aims and obscures it's fu- ture will continue to grow thicker and dark er.-Stroller's Weekly
 Nobody can live for g generation of years