The Alaska daily empire., 1921-03-05
CHAMBERLAIN IS
 SPREADING NEW
 NORTH DOCTRINE
Senator-Elect from Third Dr. vision Talked About New :: CT Alaska While South.

"I have been giving the people in the Pacific Northwest something new to think about, something diff ferent from that of the average Alaskan who goes South after many years spent in the Territory. told them to forget the alleged land of ice and snow, of glaciers and polar bears. told them of the great country, talked along lines of constructive problems and 1 received much attention. This was the kind of missionary work and the kind of publicity I gave Alaska on my two weeks visit in Seattle, Portland and Tacoma"
 The above is the way E. E. Cham berlin. better known among his legion of Alaska and States friends as "Al' and Senator-elect from the Third Division, started on his little talk to The Empire representative last night at the Gastineau Hotel where he is making his headquar- ters while in Juneau to attend the Territorial Legislature. He arrived yesterday afternoon on the steamer Alameda, having spent two weeks visiting in the principal cities of the Pacific Northwest, his first visit Outside for long number of years.
 q talked of Alaska generally" our grand and glorious Third Div ision in particular. You know that l am a booster for all of Alaska, and as I have made my home for years in the Third Division, at Seward, have seen that district de- velop as much as it could with linn ited capital and government aid, l naturally could not help boosting strong for the home section.
 q was given the floor of both the House and the Senate of the Washington State Legislature at Olympia. I was accorded honors that I am mighty proud of. l at tended a moving picture exhibition of an Alaskan production, at school in Tacoma, where there were over 1000 in the audience, and then some body said a real Alaskan was pres ent. and I was called upon for a talk on our Territory. l gave them facts about this big Territory of ours of which they had never before known
 E q met hundreds of my old time friends and told them to forget the dog mushing days and that l have driven my own dogs over many trails in Alaska, for although those days are not over in many parts of Alaska, we are now on a new era of development and prosperity, a | prosperity backed by many kinds of solid industries which only need | capital. less of red tape, and hardy class of people to promulgate. The l old Alaskans like to live over the 1 old days, but l believe fully | awakened the old Alaskans and hundreds of men and also women who will come North to the new Alaska with great opportunities awaiting them in this Northland.
 me pulp industry, now Tn It's infancy in Alaska, told business men, capitalists, homeseekers and others, was one of the great new fields just opening in Alaska. Il discussed the agricultural possibil- ities and the realities already at tained by the farmers in the many districts throughout Alaska dis cussed the oil situation which we fully expected to result when wells were opened. l talked of fishing and luabering and of our vast un- toucher ore deposits, both placer and quartz. l talked Alaska, the new Alaska very nearly 20 hours out of every "A hours spent on my vaca- tion. l know surprised the peo- pie with the newer facts and T. trust that much will come of such publicity"
 MT. Chamberlin was Mayor of Ia coma not so very many years ago. and has not forgotten his early pol