The Cordova daily times., 1917-02-27
PAINTS GLOWING PICTURE OF THE
 NORTHLAND

Few lovers of Alaskas towerfn, peaks and sun-kissed valleys have de scribed it in so truthful a manner il few words as Lowell Jackson Tho mas, of Princeton. An article quot ing him appears in a recent issue O the New York Evening Post magazin, as follows:
 You know the general conception of Alaska. Well, that is what Alaska is not. So says Lowell Jackson Tho mas, who is not only college profes sor, but soldier of fortune as well He speaks with a certain authority For he has been to Alaska ten times and hopes to go a hundred times more. A man interested principally in the industrial development of the country, when his business is finished on each trip, he transforms himself into an eager traveller and explorer and penetrates fastnesses to which only the spirit of adventure would send him. Even ardent naturalists have baked at long trips which this member of the Princeton faculty and sometime professor at the Chicago Kent College of Law has taken.
 Now lecturer and author, Thomas has also been a newspaper reporter. He has seen Alaska through the re- porter's eye. The Alaskan Porcu- pines, said to be the farthest north Indian tribe, have given him the eu- phonious name of "Picktoorstsi Ten Jenatai Nunkugatuttahug," designa- tion worthy to be compared. perhaps, with that of 'Bwana Tombo," con- ferred by the Africans upon Colonel Roosevelt in his quality of lion hunt CT In return, Thomas characterizes Alaska as the land that knows man only by his real virtues.
 Tt is a land of strong men, where weddings perish on the trail" he says. 'It measures a man, not by the usual artificial standards of society. but by those qualities that distinguish real men - honesty, generosity, patti ence and indomitable courage. This is the land which Russia, after greed fly footing it of its furs, sold the Uni ted States for $7,2OO,OOO, or half what 1t cost to build the Brooklyn bridge or the Woolworth building.
 Governmental red tape has been responsible for the slow development of the territory. The resources of the region remain virtually untouched. But this red tape is being gradually eliminated. And in this direction great credit is due to Franklin K. Lane, secretary of the interior. You must not forget that Alaska is one fifth as large as the rest of the Uni ted States. Yet its white population is less than that of the Yale Bowl on the day of Yale-Harvard game and just about equal to the number of persons at a worlds series baseball game.
 'I have been north to the Arctic Circle in Alaska when the mercury registered 100 degrees above zero. Millions of Americans continue to re- gard Alaska as the land of ice and snow. But Alaska has two climatic belts - the coast region and the in, terior. The coast has comparative ly mild winter climate, with cool sum- mers; the interior has cold winters but comparatively warm and short summers. More furs are worn on Broadway any Sunday in July than are worn in Alaska in year"
 Professor Thomas describes Alas ka in these words:
 This is the land of colossal ice crowned mountains, of gigantic glac iers, or fjords trimmed in by ranges O jagged, sawtoothed mountains tha make the fjord of Norway shrink by comparison This is the land where the red midnight sun doubles back oI its track when the yeartide is full and where the great God of Mature passes his invisible paint brush across the horizon for hours in the broat daylight of midnight, throwing nev masterpiece of brilliant colors acros the sky every few minutes.
 At Panama, Alaska, I saw the SUI rise and set in two hours and forty five minutes, on December 15, 1915 If you take a photograph showing tn sun every fifteen minutes, from sur rise to sunset, you see eleven equidis tant suns"