The Cordova daily times., 1920-05-03
MONDAY, MAY 3, 1920
FLAX A ROSE"

Wouldn't it please you, to see how these outside politicians and grafters are ready to take charge of Alaska and make it "Blossom lak' a Rose" as Jaques Crepaud would state it?
 There they are in Seattle, meeting 25 strong in GilmOre's office, par ceiling out the political future and the offices of Alaska among them selves and nobody there to see-just somebody to tell of it at 5th drink time, after the get-together meet. There's the Seattle Times advocating Seattle starting in on the get-rich- quick deal of Selling Alaska" to the Fasteners taking the Eastern easy money and delivering therefore any thing the Fastener wants, even to scenery" Next thing we know the Seattle Chamber of Commerce will through it's Alaska bureau be opening mailorder house and selling Alaska scenery to the bedridden people of the East by mail. And, in the years to come see if our prediction does not come true: "Mt. Mckinley installed in Pioneer Square, Seattle"
 Seriously, however, we are not in so much danger as you might think. It is going to take lot of time and trouble for the grafters to get Us through Washington. In the meantime our Alaska-born children are getting into mans estate every day, and what they get hold of first they will hold. All is not graft advertising We are getting. The following extract from 8 letter received by a Fairbanks hus- band from his wife outside is a case in point:
 "The Los Angeles Sunday Times of March IA has a swell article on Alaska on the front page of the paper, from Washington, D. C., and when Los Angeles papers talk of Alaska you may judge the whole United States is talking the same. The arti- gle states that -Alaska's coal would be gsed on the Pacific coast as it is bet ter than the best Pennsylvania coal, and that they would stop shipping Vir- ginia coal to Alaska. It also states that the Sugar Beet" people intend building a factory at some town on. the government railroad, and give @ll kinds of financial help to the set tiers, to promote the growth of the sugar beet, as those raised in Alaska carry the highest percentage of sugar and the soil and climatic conditions are perfect for the raising of said beets. It spoke of various other mat ters, of which you Fairbanks people have heard for years, but if the fac tory is a possibility, the thing to do is for Fairbanks to Hand" it. One can- not pick up a paper from anywhere but it has Alaska, Alaska, Alaska, which, of course, is good
 '"The article above referred to also spoke of the oil wells of Alaska, and said the one at Katalla, which was producing about fifty barrels a day was of quality of oil that could not be surpassed anywhere in the oil countries so far opened"
 The whole people of the outside are milling around, all dressed up in pro- fiteer clothes and no place to go. Alaska has always had a get-rich- quick name, and any advertising we get now helps some in the right way. When yesterday Secretary Payne named Dr. Alfred Brooks to help them plan an advertising campaign sor Alaska, to send people here, he named man in whom Fairbanks has confidence, and there's chance that the grafters will be older and balder than they now are before they in- herit Alaska to the exclusion. of real Alaskans.-Fairbanks News-Miner.