The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-03-22


 The forestry experts on the basis of intense study, and de- tailed surveys over a period of F years, expending thousands ed dollars, of the United States Forest Service agree with them. Wher you reject their findings, is il reasonable to expect any unbiased person to accept your judgment as disinterested?
 Below Park Standard
 You advocate making national park out of Admiralty Island You say you have visited it three times 1927-28-29. Hasselborg denies you were there in 1927, but says you did spend less than three days with him in 1926. Be that as it may, you ought to know from personal ob- servation there isn't a single pre- dominating feature, nor any con- bination of natural phenomena on it that would justify such action by Congress. It does not begin to meet the standard required fol all other national parks of the country. It has nothing in the way of scenery or natural wonders, and no animal life, even including the brown and grizzly bears, that can not be overmatched in many other sections of Alaska.
 It hasn't single glacier deemed sufficiently important to justify name. Its forests are duplicated by every other island and the
 mainland sections of southeast Alaska just as its lakes and streams are, Its mountains are Insignificant in size when measured by those of the mainland ana do not differ any from those of all of Alexander Archipelago. Its animal life, in cluding the brown bears, is mol notable for superiority over that of the surrounding country. You have been there and you know these things are true.
 Attempt Is Outrage
 You clamor for a bear sanctuary but you have never offered single convincing proof that one is nec- essary for preserving that ami maj from extermination. You have not because you cannot. You make emotional appeals and by insinu- ations and silly deductions rouse fears of the sentimentalists to the end that you can put across some thing that can be truly termed nothing except an outrage or Alaska.
 Your own descriptions of tht methods of procedure used 1T facing down brown bear brand you as ignorant. You may convince tat suninitiate that Allen Hasselbore' your favorite guide, yelled at thf top Of his voice" to frighten away a chargings brownie. Hasselborf never did any such foolish stunt and you who have hunted witt him know it. If there is any doubt in your mind, write MT Hasselborg and he will clear i away. He may have talked to ths pear. He does, sometimes success fully. If soft words fail him, ane they have more often than not he has not nesitated to use ho lead. .s You argue from an aesthetic standpoint that timber operations will destroy the scenic value of tlst Inside Passage" Under the scienl tific plan of forest utilization ad- opted by the United States Pores Service, and now in operation here in small way, this could no occur. Maine, Florida, California and other places you mention have not handicapped industrial devel, opment in making the most Q their scenic and other resources Neither will Alaska.
 Figures Are Misleading
 You minimize the importanc' of the projected pulp and papet manufacturing establishment her |by saying it will employ 100 men Ocean Falls and Powell River British Columbia of which l an sure you have some knowledge support populations of seven t ten thousand people in simiia establishments of no greater size You have far underestimated tn number of men it will require t operate a 800 ton paper mill, pull mills to keep it running, am lwoodsmen and transportation em Iployees to furnish them with ras supplies. And this is a sample o tthe trusworthiness-or lack of it. Eof your entire argument.
 | Insidiously, you point to tn material benefits to be attaine'
 from establishing a national par
 on Admiralty Island. You speak c hotels and bridle, or foot trail as if by some magic they spring u overnight following the establish Lment of new park. You know thi lis not true. The Government doe lnot build and operate nations Ipark hotels, but farms them ou Ito concessionaries.
 | Park Is Unnecessary
 | Under the present system (