The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-04-12
BEAR AND FISH AREDESTROYED,
 WHITE CHARGES
Stewart Edward White Leads Conservationist
 Raid in Territory

On the double allegation that Alaska has removed all protection from the Alaska brown bear, and is financing the U nj t e d States Bureau of Fisheries in the destruc- tion of game trout" Stewart Ed ward White, noted writer of out door articles as well as fiction, in the current issue of the Saturday Evening Post sounds a rallying cry to conservationists of the country to come to the rescue of threat ened brute and fish.
 MT. Whites article, entitled An Emergency Is Declared to Exist" is admittedly written to stir up agitation against Alaska. Plainly he "sicks" his cohorts on Gov. Parks to save the trout, and on the Game Commission of Alaska" for relief of the hard pressed bear
 Alaskans Have No Right In concluding his exhortation to the life guards" to be up and doing, he intimates that any rights and privileges that Alaskans may have in the whole matter are mere ly those acquired through courtesy, and ends with this final urge;
 "You must remember that, no matter where you live, you have every right and obligation to say your say. Not the faintest shadow Of States rights interposes. AL asks is a Territory, belonging to us all
 An emergency is declared to exist The Alaska Legislature says so. I agree. It certainly does! How are we going to meet it?' His suggestions are for conserva- tionists to accept his word that the situation is as he has depicted it; to grab the inkpot, pencil or type writer, and lombard Congressmen and Senators, Coy. Parks, the Unit ed States Bureau of Fisheries, the Alaska Game Commission, etc, with protests until the dastardly mlScnle1 IS St0ped.
 Bears Unprotected
 But let MT. White tell his own story in his own way, at least as far as limitations of space will per- init. He writes regarding the brown bear:
 By recent legislation Alaska has removed all restriction from the killing. at any season. of the big brown bear. Now any Mexican or Filipino or Chinaman of the hordes imported for the canneries every season, any summer beach comber with which Alaska is amply sup plied-can hie him to the nearest stream, post himself and proceed to kill all the bears that come along. Any passing troller can pot what he sees on the beach. Any visit ing yachtsman, avid of the glory of shooting brownie, can do so almost from the deck of his craft.
 There is not a doubt in the world that, if this regulation is permitted to remain in effect, our unique brown bear of Alaska is doomed to as complete extinction as the California grizzly.
 Worse to Come
 That is bad enough, but at least the game commission did not offer a bounty on the slaughter. In that the Territorial Legislature went them one better. There is already a bounty of a dollar head on the American eagle, by which this bird has been greatly reduced in numbers until it is approach ing comparative scarcity. But re- gently it promulgated an act which appropriates from the general fund or the Territory of Alaska $40,000 to be used in the cleaning of sal mon-spawning streams and for the destruction of trout and other pre- datory enemies of the salmon. It ends by the statement: An emer- gency is hereby declared to exist
 Jumping then to the conclusion that Forty thousand dollars is for the restruction of trout alone and for no other purpose, MT. White Fassails the salmon fishing industry for everlasting, and expresses the opinion that the Legislature was stampeded into declaring war on game trout because it didn't know what else to do.
 A Real Bear Killer
 MT. White devotes most of his space to the brown bear, which. he apparently believes. is not entirely harmless, has been at any rate woefully maligned. So much, in fact, that with MT. White as ex-