Seward daily gateway., 1932-02-23

storm at pOlnt possessed Ot fac- ilitieS for repairs, commerce and liason with interior Alaska and the United States.
 Now get this: The Miner says it is illegal for the Alaska Road Com mission to parallel a railroad or Inavigable waterway. Possibly the Miner is prepared to explain why the Forestry Bureau has this pri- vilege and it is not accorded the Alaska Road Commission. Tn Miner might have pointed tn t the Loop Road" leading out of Anchorage, parallels Knik Arm for eight miles of it's way, and If ex- tended to MatanuSka, as desired by Anchorage, with promising suc- cess, would parallel navigable wat CTS practically all the way; also, The Alaska Railroad for the entire distance of some 37 miles.
 But what brought the suburban press out of its Somnolence and set it to hamnlering away at The Gate way was the green-eyed monster. It must be diSconcerting to Arcad- ian temperaments and viewpoints to with sS progress engendered right under their nose and sup ported by irrefutable facts and ar guments. Even The Gateway, in pardonable modesty, has never all located to itself such palms of vic- tory.
 The Miner tells us through the words of MT. Charles Flory of the Agricultural Bureau, and "co-ordi- nator of all other bureau func- | tions'-8hen they will let him. that:
 Tt is within the realm of poSsi- bility that the continuous spirit of antagonism displayed by Seward will result in the peninsula being , withdrawn from the forest reads, and the entire forest area suffer" k *
 If MT. Flory is correctly quoted by Mir Faith and the Miner, it confirms The Gateway's stan d against bureaucracy in principle. It delivereS an ultimatum some thing after the manner of the Sino- Japanese enbroglio: Either obey our mandates or we will exercise the powers we possess to discipline you"
 This was actually said to The Gateway when 1t attacked tn e Cameron -Zellerbach timber gra b in Southeastern Alaska in an ef- fort to prevent it from revealing the inside of the bureaucratic pre- sent to what is known as the big shots in corporate greed and priv ilege. It was not threatened by MT. Flory.
 Yet 1t did not deter The Gateway any more than MT. F1ory's alleged threat to abandon the Kenai Pen insula and will not deter 1t in its battle to break the strangle-hold of bureaucracy and prevent such discipline as Is threatened.
 There are higher authorities than those on the ground.
 If the Miner is solicitous for the preservation of federal burea cratic control and that unquestion- ed, it might find food for cogita- tiOn in the vast outlay by the Alas ka Road Commission on it's own great highway which was tn e
 most potent threat at The Alaska
 Railroad last summer when Val- dez drew a large volume of freight
 and passenger traffic diverted from
 the railroad to Fairbanks. Surely
 the Miner cannot permit this as-
 sault upon the federally- owned
 railroad to go unspanked
 With regard to Stewards pro-
 gress in securing worthy applica-
 tion of federal money, 1t might be
 said that The Gateway, backed by
 the citizens of the town, has ac-
 complished the results
 Before the Miner can boast any
 such leadership and such con structive journalism 1t must aban-
 don archaic and Arcadian meth ods for progressive ones. The radio anuOuncerS in the