The Cordova daily times., 1922-12-06
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1922
ALAsKA's SHARE


 In an .seconomy year, the country faced with $6OO,O0O,000 deficit and Congress pledged to drastic retrenchments, Alaska s share in the general looping off of approprla- tions as recommended in the Presidents an nual Budget, was hardly unexpected. 1t IS one of the anomalies of the after-War sltua- lion that the reconstruction era, calling tor the wide expenditure of moneys in general de- velonment. should be faced with the poverty incident to the war burdens Alaska IS no excention to the rule in this respect, renewed nrosperity and promise of increased develop ment having created special need for ade- ouata appropriations. In the absence of flg- nres showing the general disposition ot the Federal funds, however, 1t IS taken for grant, ed that Alaska has fared no worse, pfopor- tionatelv, than other commonWealths, ana a survey of the division among Alaskan depart ments discloses the fact that all have pretty evenly shared in the general reductions me cnt in one particular instance IS to pc re, oretted The appropriation of but Sloo,oOo for +ho replacement of the cable between s;+ko and Seattle, just half the estimated cost of +hot oneration looks very much like sheer waste since with that amount hardly more can be done than to effect repalrs WHICH ,r q. U best are but temporary make-shAlt' ,, nc. 't temporary make shifts, however, are all. Una, :, are to be expected at this time, IS eVlaehce.. .a bv the appropriations all along the iine' anu II tbe funds granted are even sufflcleht to iilaiil- tain the work of various servlces ana insure aoainst depreciation, it IS as mucn, pelhaps' as we should expect The President put !. snccnct]y when he said that whether or not +bare ia to he curtalment in Government eA- nanditnres would depend lpon the extent or +ba aid which the Government gave along the lines of research, development. and improve ment The country has demanded of the pres. ent administration reduction in taxes ana economy in the expenditure of doVerliineh.. . ,onevs That President Hardlng's Budge1 has managed to effect saving of about Sooo,- 0OOO over the estimates for thls flscal year. is his answer to that demand. He gets at the kernel of the nut when he reminds the na1ioh that the "extraneous activities included III projects for which Federal aid IS asked, nave flow,d from laws pursuant to popular de- mands,'' and that "taxation, which provides the finds to meet them is a necessary mel dent to the fulfillment of popular demand
 You can't eat your cake and have it, in other words. and in the administration efforts at economy Alaska must be willing to forego its share of the Federal aid upon which it, more than any other Territory in the Union, de pends One thing is expressly impressed ppor Alaskans by the present budget, and that is the advisability of Alaska's getting in on thF next omnibus road bill, by which some $lOo, 100000 is appropriated among the severa states fer road building. Alaska's share II the last bill would have netted the Terri tory close to $4,0OO,000. The most vital neee in Alaska today is roads, and the looping of of construction funds from the appropriation to the Alaska Road Commission, is eloquen testimony to the advantage of sharing II the general distribution of ad-buildinf moneys which no commonwealth in the lant needs so much as Alaska
 The law-abiding people of the country vii ha o1ad tO read list of names of men wh