The Alaska daily empire., 1920-10-14
DIGEST EDITOR SUGGESTS PLAN
 FOR PUBLICITY
Alaska Club of New York Suggested Governor
 Riggs Talks on Roads.

6OV. T HOtndS RlSSS anu DuIl Mt Cornell, Associate Editor of the Lit erary Digest, were principal speakers at the noon meeting of the Juneau Commercial Association at the Al aska Grill today. Mir. Mcconnell, who has written several articles on Alaska for Eastern publications, including ore for the Literary Digest and another for the New York Times, both appearing last Summer, spoke on the desirability of getting pub licity for Alaska, while Gov. Riggs talked on roads and the Alaska Historical Museum.
 Construction Program Rapid
 Never before in the history of the Territory has road work moved along with such progress as was accom- rlished during the past season. This { fact, he declared. is the result of ! the Cooperative Road Act passed by : inc last session of the Territorial Legislature. By this act, he said, a fund amounting to $25S,000 tied up in the National Treasury was made available for road work in those Div isions in which Farest Reserves are , located
 1 Most of the work from this fund has been done in the First Division One of the projects under the CO., 1 operative agreement, he mentioned, i is the Juneau-Eagle River road. It is planned eventually to extend it to Skagway, he said Another project 1 is to build tourist road from the same road up to Mendenhall Glacier, ] to Montana Creek and back to Aux i Bay, and the construction of pack trails up Montana Creek.
 Copies of the contemplated road 1 programs of all road building agen- cies in the Territory which are con tained in the Bi-Monthly Bulletin of i the Alaska Bureau of Publicity were Governor said that the Territorial Road Bureau, and also the Alaska Road Commission would be glad to receive any criticism that any of the members might have to offer Museum Draws Attention | Alaska Historical Society and the Territorial Museum it has establish ed, the speaker asked for the support of the Association in making it a success. The collection, he said, Iicontains many articles of great fin ancial value. One stone lamp he said, being worth more than $1,000 by an expert. The collection is drawing favorable notice and persons con nected with museums lin the East, he said are coming to Alaska next summer to inspect it.
 Suggests Alaska Society
 My trip to Alaska is one of com bined business and pleasure said MT. Mcconnell. He stated that he was here looking into the pulp possi. bilties of the Territory, the Literary Digest being large consumer of paper and interested in getting a source of supply. While here, he said, he is gathering other informa tion regarding the resources of the Territory.
 Alaska has suffered considerably , from publicity of the wrong kind declared MT. Mcconnell What il needs. he said, is to get lots of the right kind of publicity. It could only come, he said, through legitimate news sources that would get to the proper people. He suggested that an Alaska Society be formed in New York as starting point, which |, would be the center from which helpful articles on the Territory could be disseminated.
 Data From Publicity Bureau | In preparing his article on Alaska for the New York Times a few months ago, MT. Mcconnell said that he got all of his information from reports from Gov. Riggs office and the Alaska Bureau of Publicity. The article, he said, was widely com mented upon by various. Eastern papers and really led to the second article which appeared in the Lit erary Digest.
 Business Session
 In the business session preceding tlc tulhS, IItSlubul AI1tU DHdlLut announced that M. S. Whittier had been appointed Secretary of the As sociation, vice B. A. Rosselle, re- gently resigned. He also announced that the Executive Committee is working on the matter of securing articles for the Juneau number of the Pathfinder.
 MT. Shattuck stated that the near approach of the biennial session of the Territorial Legislature should be given some consideration by the Association. He suggested that other commercial organizations of the Ter ritory be communicated with and an effort made to cooperate with them in securing legislation which other districts might consider necessary and helpful
 Five new members added daring the past ten days were reported as ! follows: The Juneau Lumber Mills, George H. SimpkiEs. Robert Scott, | I AIcIx