The Alaska daily empire., 1922-07-08
GOVERNOR BONE GREETS AND APPEALS
 TO ELkS.

lO EIhS.
 "Alaska-Last of American Fronters is the til of a three page, illustrated article in The Elks Mags dine for July from the pen of Gov. Scott c. Bone The subtitle Our Giant Potential Producer Lie Dormant for Lack of Public Knowledge of It's Tru Character" indicates the line of thought that run through the contribution Governor Bone, Fl : himself, begins by greeting the Elks of the Natio and closes by appealing for their aid and that c their magazine for the Territory.
 He begins
 Away off up in Alaska five thousand miles from the Eastern Metropolis. I give greeting through The Elks Magazine to Brother Elks throughout the country, and bespeak their interest in this wonderful Northland.
 Governor Bone compares the period of the Amer can ownership of Alaska with the of the Order 0 the Elks, showing that Alaska purchased in 1S6 the Eks instituted in 1868, and he contrasts tn progress of the two He points to the fact that tn Elks have grown to membership of S5o,o00 whil Alaska has a population, he estimates of 55,OO0. in cludng natives.
 Speaking of Alaska, the Governor says:
 Alaska, after ffty-fve years under the American flag, is still unknown and un- peopled land, manifestly rich in resources, buoyant with hope and promise, but vir tually a sealed territory because of it's aloof and the uniform neglect or inatention received at the hands of Uncle Sam. p He continues:
 Alaska has stood in need of the Elks' spirit all these years. It has not called for Charity, has 1t been lacking in Brotherly Love and Fidelity. but from it has been withheld and to it has been denied that other and prerequisite principle which the great Order has exemplihed-Justice Now Alaska is appealing for aye, demand ing, fair play, common sense treatment, en- frightened understanding and the square dea all of which may be compressed and con- ed into hat cple defined in the word Justice. To the end that this principle may prevail and Alaska come into it's own and take a fixed and definite place the map, I hail the opportunity to present the of the Terri tory to the army of whole hearted red blooded helpful robust Americans who make up The Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks.
 Governor Bone forth in cogent sequence tn facts concerning Aaska's contributions to the wealt of the Nation, her scenic beauties cmati conditions commercial and industrial possibilities an the meddling interference of bureaucratic governmen which he planes for retarding development and kill ing the pioneer initiative spirit He pays tribute the sparse population of the Territory, and then ask and answers:
 How the truths about Alaska to be firmly planted in the popular mind and the untruths and the halftruths forever eradi- cated? How is the real Alaska to be re- moved from the realm of fancy and estab- lished upon fixed foundation of fact?
 The job is up to Uncle Sam. He, and he alone, is equal to the task.
 How is Uncle Sam to do it? By opening Alaska to settlement by inviting people to come in and making it easy for them to gain foothold by unlocking its resources and freeing the Territory from red-tape rule; by unreserving millions of of forest lands senselessly reserved; by silencng and shunting aside the visionaries and theorists who succeeded in bottling up Alaska and whose ideas have been expensively tried and e clearly found wanting; by proceeding with the development of Alaska big business proposition; by dismissng the foolish, demagogical fear that any so-called preda- tory interests will gobbe huge land Alaska a material tion thereof. and. finally, by tardily realiz- ing that Alaska unfettered and given honest chance will populate itself and go ahead and wax opulent and develop grandly and gloriously just the Western domain of the Union, in spite of Daniel Websters obscure vision and dark forebodng, pro- gressed and prospered and grew into States and added bright Stars to Old Glory. Then N' and until then, will Alaska known to the world and the truths about Alaska prevail undisputed and endure for all time.
 In spite of the complaint in the article Governor concludes:
 In conclusion I reveal to you few of the dreams I dreaming about Alaska. Looking into the future this North land not with unnhabted shores and scat