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President Harding brought back from Alaska not only an appreciation of Alaskan problems but an admiration for the Alaskan press. He told the Seattle Press Club...
...Doubtless the Alaskan community is quite as well nourished mentally with its restricted news diet as are some of us who find our nauseated way, if we read our newspapers fully, through elaborated and expatiated stories of crime and scandal and wander through a haze of speculative politics...
...editor in Washington, D. C., and in Seattle, Wash., later Director of Publicity for the Republican National Committee, has definite ideas as to how the Territory can be developed. Others are more or less opposed to his point of view. He wants more authority for the officers of the Alaskan Government and more capital to develop the Territory's resources. Some Alaskans prefer more Washington control, which (if suffering from the red tape and the ignorance of distance) is at least likely to be impartial. As for capital, they fear its invasion, because of the examples of the Guggenheims...
...Alaskans expect much from Secretary Hoover, who was very eagerly received everywhere he went. He has a tentative plan for the appointment of resident secretaries of each Department of the Cabinet to handle Alaskan affairs on the spot (TIME, July 23). He is also expected to recommend to the President the creation of a fish preserve in southeastern Alaska, where otherwise the salmon fisheries, the chief industry of the Territory, will soon be destroyed by the extinction of the fish...
...bandless borders of the Alaskan Gulf...