The Cordova daily times., 1922-05-15

sole author of the plan to take from the De partment of Agriculture conrtol over the Ma tional Forests in Alaska and in the continental United States, the forests to be administered by Secretary Falls department. It is probable that Mr. Harding will SC an editorial of Alas ka, edited, expurgated, annotated and sup piled with footnotes by Albert Fall, who frank lv says that he wants to throw wide open to the first conner, who complains that every thing owned by the United States Govern ment is too hard of access
 Secretary Fall is weeping on the Presidents shoulder. That awful Forest Service, he sobs is engaged in spreading ''vicious propaganda about him and he wants the President to stop it. As usual, Fall is wrong. The 'vlcious pro- paganda" against him began the day his sell ection as secretary of the interior was an- nounced, but the Forest Service did not start it. The Forest Service did not care; 1t was in different department. The propaganda was started by Fall himself, by his record ln the rotten politics of New Mexico by his actions regard to Mexico, by his well known reaction arv views. And right at the start of his cab inet career Sunset expressed the fear that Fall would arv to undo the conservation work initiatel by Theodore Roosevelt. Falls at temnt to put his hands on the greatest prize remaining in the public domain, the National Forests, automatically aroused every progress sive individual and publication, caused them +o train their guns on his and rake him fore and aft.
 Your 24-karat acid-tested stand-patter be- nins to froth at the mouth and exhibit every symptom of extreme nervous eXcltement at inc mere mention of the possibility that gov e1nment, any kind of government, might con coivab1v run a business enterprise successfully Socrotarv Fall is a Class A steel-frame stand nattor. He believes in the speedlest poSSloie transfer of the remaining pubic doma1n lll'o n,ivato hands; yet in the case of Alaska ne nro,,oeos with a serious face to have the gov nrnrnnt funds for the establishment of smel- tors of saw and paper mills for the drllIln@ If oil wells and similar enterprises Tn Ihe northern territory, the government to operate them while they lose money and turn them o,,or to nrivate owners when they become profitable. e
 Jsn't this a sweet thought on the part of Secretary Fall? Also, isn't it a complete flip fIon of his firmest convictions? And is it pos sihIo that he has inverted his convictions, turned them inside out like an old sleeve m order to use 9ONtlulllt1lb Ol''Iet''Oii VI itable industries as bait for the people o1 the territory.
 But Albert Fall of New Mexico, goes even further. His eyes flash fire, his mustacheS trpmbo with emotion when he speaks of the National Forest timber sold by the Forest Service to l1mbermen who cut the trees and soil part of the lumber in China and Japan when this material, according to Fall, should supply the American market even though tor many moons the American market has taken only so to 75 per cent of the present mill ca pacitv, even though the West Coast lumber men have spent large sums of money to build up market for American lumber In the Orr tent and in Australia And the worst of It IS that Alaska produces almost none of the hSh- class building lumber mentioned by the sec retarv and therefore his no export business worth talking about, except some spruce tor airplane material.
 A man as densely ignorant of Western busl- ness conditions and methods as Fall has shown himself to be should retire from his important public office, relieve the Harding Admlnlstral ton of heavy weight and give good man chance.