The Cordova daily times., 1922-02-16
BY MRS. GRACE BosTWick

takes years of exploration and study to really know any country-but I have a deep and abiding love for the North since my first trip into the in- terior in 1913, when I felt that l had found my own land and my own people.
 At that time was born the purpose that has brought me back-a purpose deepening and strengthening with the years of work outside and the realiz- ation of it's need-to show people the REAL ALASKA. Not the far-off mystical land of the midnight sun, of incredible cold and impossible hardships and the mad lure of gold. But country of sunshine and plenty, of potential hopes and unlimited pos- ment and peace and an existence lacking in that peculiarly wearing stress of city life outside.
 Mere one sees nothing of the ter rible anxiety that liner the face and ages of care which gnaws at the very lives of those outside. That is why Juneau seems to the discerning new conner like haven of refuge. It breathes an atmosphere of peace of which the Juneauite himself may hardly be conscious.
 Outside the cry of brotherhood is beginning to make itself heard above the noise of bluff and insincerity and false competition. Newspapers and periodicals are full of it. lecturers
 nd even schools of selesmanship preach it zealously. Everywhere the need of a more kindly spirit is voiced Here, perhaps to larger degree than you realize, it is the reality. Brotherhood in the substantial rather than the sentimental sense is, I be- ,ieve, lived and practiced more free lv in the North than anywhre else on earth. There are exceptions since even in Alaska one does not look for nerfection. but the Alaska spirit is felt reaching out to one almost as ~non as the boat steams away from Seattle
 PEOPLE MAKE COUNTRY A country or city is only as big as it's people.
 It's possibilities. humanly speaking. are what it's inhabitants recognize
 and have faith in. AS the faith deeD-
 ems and recognition is rewarded bv
 results, the country grows. It is the
 labor of those who at heart believe
 in their land, that make it to blos-
 som like the rose that bring it to full fillment
 Just as love for an individual brings
 out the good qualities, oftimes malS-
 ing man out of what was consid-
 cred noor material, so it is also with
 a community For it is to the one
 who loves his country or his town 1 that the vision comes.
 ALASKA COMING COUNTRY
 That is why I see Alaska as the
 coming country, with huge dairy
 ranches Tn her valleys, herds of cat
 tie grazing on her hills. With great
 fields of waving grain, thriving home steads dotted thick1y here and there where now the lonely wolf lifts his eerie cry to the watching skies. With varied and growing industries suit cd to the different localities and weir various climates. And there is absolutely no doubt in my mind about this Because in the first place she is loved bv her people. Old pi- oneers drift outside again and again horne by the urge for change. but those same old timers. hless their souls, come sailing hack snsniciouslv soon. with warm feeling about their hearts and e sheepish grin at their corstancv to their oldan choice. So strong Is the charm that 1t has be- come a tradition that he who visits Alaska m"st soooer or later return even in spite of himself.
 1 AS far as Juneau Is concerned, I exiect to sec her double, or more probable treble, her size within a re- markahlv short period. Because of that faith which mentioned above The law ot attraction ia potent law. It Is natural and inevitable that