The Nome daily nugget., 1914-03-28
ON GUARD FOR NORTH


 the Northland. The young of tn, realm temporarily South for finished cducations incidently have gone on the aggressive to carry the gospel of Yukon and A laska into the strong l'olds of the populouS CheechaColand \ Sourdough club has been organized. f. rty strong, among the students uf the University of Washington The object is to encourage lectures by prominent Northerners before the faculty and student body of that uni- versity. with It's enrolment of two to. three thousand.
 A nerve worthy the sons md daugh- ters of the North Is quickened. Thc energy is to be well applied The scope will enlarge. A line of similar clnbs should exis, from san Diego Co Rupert.
 Coast cities are not averse to help ing the North. They perhaps know tl:at hundreds of millions have poured from this region into the coast centcrS ital2ing them in times of pavcrtv and stress. and making them flour. ish. Rut they are not acting in alI| n stances up [" the opportunities They fail to have sufficient of their people keep informed on the North lpDh to held which inevitably must share it's wealth with all the Pacific coast. The S"urdough club is a movement in tho right direction. It's organization Is timely. It Is born out of loyalty to the North, and the benefits will re- d' und to the South as well as to tho North.
 Too much ignorance exists right in the coast cities dealing most directly with Alaska and Yukon. Little won eel then. is 1t that legislators and cn of influence in distant fields often are prejudiccd against the Northland. The students of the Sour dough club have opened channeiI which should be worked thoroughly |, The publicity and education which will come through the movement of tht one club in Seattle cannot but bring more people and greater allow "rccs to the North
 Ii will be well if the Sourdoueh club DerAWads aaud~ntA ana vreuDe.r~, If the faculty at the university tn| C, me North during the summer vaca lion.
 The teachers in particular should take the trip. IL would be an cduca- ton as well as recreation for them. ard they would have an invaluable fund of information to impart to their students year after year. Only hY Visiting this region can any educator or other outsider thorouGhly enjoy the advantages of the country Trans :"r'ation companies should make n special inducement to have educators
 
 Dawson m ... CT cities having students at the university will do well to keep them informed of the prog ross of their home towns and to thus keep them and the friends they make ai the university attached to this region.
 With the promise of q government railway for Alaska within short time and wti the agitation for q railway to span British Columbia to .\laska the likelihood is that millions ill be spent in these regions on those vast projects alone within the next few years.
 No doubt the North will receive 4 tremendous advertising when the government railway project reaches the point of actual contraction, and material begins to come this way. Then will the clubs. bureaus and other agencies for the dissemination of the ruth respecting tho Yukon ana Alaska be most scrviceable. The dawn of the new era for the North is &t hand. FIX. \