The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-03-22
ARGUMENTS FOR NOT BASED ON FACT
Vast Area Need Not Be Sci Aside for Wild Life
 Safety
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Odlely
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 Cummings, he declares, did great deal of the work on the manuscript while you and he were at the Has selborg cabin at Mole Harb5r, and he wrote Hasselborg sometime later he had completed it and mailed it to you in December.
 The first chapter purports to be an account of your expedition to Admiralty Island in 1927. Possibly you meant 1928, or did you?. If not, then it is possibly pure fiction. You were not in Alaska in 1927, at least there is no record of it to be found anywhere. You did a little cruis- ing on the shores of Baranof and Chichagof Islands with Walter Sharp and another man named Lynch in 1926, and spent two and lone-half days at Hasselborg's in that year. When you next met Hasselborg in 1928, you told him ly you had been elsewhere in 1927 If, as HasseIborg asserts, Prof. Cum mings is the real author of Holz- wcrth's. Wild Grizzlies Of Alaska, !" he had in mind your 1926 ex- periences rather than those which befell you in 1927. Since you make no reference to Cummings at all, T presume even the fact of his existence has escaped your mem cry.
 You can readily realize under such circumstances you can hardly be taken seriously in Alaska. Never theless, you have managed to arouse some alarm among genuine conservationists that threatens to do incalculable injury to Alaska which makes your vicious broad sides more evil than if they were founded on fact and disseminated by someone of responsibility. Inaccuracy Is shown
 Your claim that "in all cases the bears showed no ferocious attributes" may be true insofar as your personal experience is concerned. It is utterly at vari ance with the facts generally known and admitted except by biased or predudiced observers.
 Your statement of the Thayer case is not in accord with the statement made under oath by Fred Herring, Thayer's companion when he was killed by a brown bear near Eliza Harbor on October 16, 1929. Believing you do not desire to do the dead man an in | justice, quote from Herring $ account of the regrettable tragedy We were crossing an open muskeg when I heard a noise
 and saw a movement in the
 brush about 15 feet behind
 and to the left of us. Then I saw the bear raise up his head
 and foreouarters. He was plainly i seen. He was large brown bear. very dark in color and
 apparently fully mature said
 There's a bear, Jack" And
 started immediately for a tree, AS I passed Jack he shot, and almost imediately the bear be-
 gan to howl. I ran about 25 yards and climbed a tree. From the tree heard the
 noise of struggle and saw
 the movements through the
 underbrush, and then first req
 lized what had happened.
 | This is altogether different from your own statement. It seems clear that Thayer did not walk up on Ithe bear, as you allege, but that he and Herring had passed the ami lmal which charged them from the Irear.
 No Bear Complex l You intimate that Alaskans have bear complex. Let me assure Eyou this is not the case. More than 20 years residence in Alaska has convinced me that most Alas kans are not enemies of any game animal indigenous to tht Territory. They have a wholesome respect for the brown bear, but they do not regard him as al ogre nor desire his extermination They are anxious to give hin every reasonable measure of pro, ttection to insure the perpetult, iof the species. If this fact wer' bfrst recognized by eastern con servationists before they under Etook to take matters into their ow1 Ehands, there would be little fric Etion and the ends all of us desir' Ewould be accomplished withou Edifficulty. But when you peopl' Ipfoceed on the theory that Alas Lkans are either openly antagpn Iistic to the bear or indifferen IIabout his fate, or that they are no l. lcompetent even if willing to pro Etect him, you make it almost i'm Epcssilble for us to meet you on an. Ecemmon ground.
 You say T am quite as mucl Lin love with Alaska. as an Iirihabitant." Yet you would prov , fit by making it impossible fo