The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-07-30
the suN-klssED SOUTH.


tn. Monthly Bulletin published in Juneau.
Alaska for the promotion of the Land of the Yukon
carries as its slogan Pull for Alaska or Pull Out
and as an indication OF the spirit of its promoters
under a reproduction of the great seal OF the ter
ritory carries this
curb your taste for sun-kled countries
where natives loaf and shirk;
Come richer northern regions,
where the people think and work
On turning the page in contradiction to this
verse, find the following:
Never have labor conditions in Alaska been
more unsettled than at present not that there
il a scarcity of men numerically. but that many
of them not disposed to work.
Down in the kissed countries men are not
only disposed work. but it is to this DISPOSE
part that this republic owes its being
and has reached its present height Of achievement
washington born in the south. as was JEFF
ferson. and woodrow Wilson. Lincoln and Lee. Clay
and Calhoun southern. Roosevelt was born
in New York but his mother was southern born. and
bred
knowledged sanitarian of the world. who took the
fangs from yellow fever. cleaning up Cuba and the
Panama Canal Zone. was born In Alabama, was
educted at the University of the South and was a
surgeon the Pensacola navy yard. preparatory to
his great lfe-work.
Read the Columbus of the air. and Towers and
Bellinger all trained at the Pensacola naval air
station, and in spite of the southern CLINE. managed
to learn enough of the rudments of flying to make
good
Sergeant York who bagged more Germans than
anybody else. born in Tennessee. near that same
region where Lincoln spent his early days.
Worth Bagiey OF North Carolina the first
man killed the Spanish American war; Richmond
r. Robson. who bottled ceveras fleet. a
southern man. Josephus Daniels is North Caro-
nnian.
The songs Lanier were the songs Of a man
Of vision. not the lays of the idle dreamer; the
stories OF Thomas Nelson Page hrob with the vigor
and spirit of the south land
Aiaskans vet invented ANYTHING to taxi
the place of the southern cotton fields but Florida.
through the genius of DIR. John b. Gorrie born at
q the Alaskan product and In the statuary halls of
the national capitol monument has been placed
I'm honor of this contribution to science.
Rsx Beach, the best publicity writer that Alaska
has ever boosted. attended the public schools of
Tampa as boy and the southern climate evidently
did not take the pep out Of his system.
The editor of the Boston Transcript known as
the New England Bible. is alumnus of the Uni
versity OF the South is the editor Spring
field Republican, one of the ablest of American
newspapers.
o. Henry. acknowledged to be the best short
story writer in the world. southern born and
bred Don Marquis. the eleverest paragrapher I'm
New York city. graduated from an Atlanta paper
Bruce Barton is southern.
The great majority OF the prohibition leaders are
southern and the first woman suffrasists the
Grmpke sisters. of South Carolina who freed their
slaves and went north start the first suffrage
campaisn ever inaugurated in this country
And would II be out of place to call attention
W INV Adct that the historic phrase: Americans
not know how to retreat" voiced by a southern
officer who led our boys Chateau Therry !?
There Is one thing that the people of the sun
Kissed countries do not have the spirit to do-and
tnat Is to depreciate the intellect genius vgor
Of other countries.
As for us OF the far south in America we are
TOO busy cutivating fertile fields caring for
our miles or fruit groves. mining immense min
erai deposits drilling great oil wells claiming
our tremendous water power TO turn the wheels of
commerce. building ships hoeing the cotton and the
corn 10 have time or inclination deprecate the
products or the people OF richer northern re-
sions OF which the Monthly Bulletin of the Alaska
Bureau of Publicity boasts