The Cordova daily times., 1922-08-01
Voice of the Alaska Press
IN OUR TOWN

Sometimes if seems to us that we devong all our
 life to explaining" why things do not "come" as they are advertised and expected to come m Our loW Al that there's for everything if you yil only look for it. most failures of the plans or mice anu men are due to natural causes.
 Since before the disappeared we nave been looking for and expecting the 'Iotem 1ourlstS "lo were to have here long since and Ill numoerS S night the first of them arrived over the hchar"so" Highway-two travelled gentlemen from New York |ho before thev finally settle down Lfe's Hard Grind and money grubbng desire to all of the world they can and mostly their country first And they tell why they are of the crowd they should De "lth-tle Bostonese contingent when they arrived at eeatue landed in the midst of threat of Great Strike and could only appear that if they didn't get back home THEN when the trains were running, they might NEVER get back they took their feet m thelr hand quit touring and started back TOT walnut all" Chestnut The two husky New Workers didht 1ee
 that way They have spent so many at home that they are able figure that home will get along all rlsh and they will get along the same way even tho"sn thev are not in daily communication with home, and they didn't quit when the going was good so tbev are here They didn't find the Richardson Highway paved with concrete, other National hgh"ayS pu they landed out wagon their feet and healthy and optimistic last night in Our Town did not de- press their spirits bt and they are here today and will be for few days long as they care to stay
 You will remember that a few days since we pup lished the story of New York Citys new discovery in which they had started in the gadhand' all Vlsl~ tors to that cty-to meet them and try to do somehhS to make their stay pleasant. When these two Ne" Workers stopped the streets last night by men they never saw before asked if they would care to take little ride and our College and Experl- mental Farm, they were surprised and when they salo they would and the feer who asked them stopped an other feler and loaded them into the other fellows auto and sent them their they were surprised Undoubtedly they thought that autosts were all taxi drivers looking trade Charley Thompson who stopped them, and it Tom Marquam's car he loaded into after arranging to take them in his own car longer ride today to another section if the weather was right and talking with them it discovered one of them at the meeting in New York just before left there in which this new discovery in hos ptalitv was launched that he has travelled all the way and found the new" system of New YorN working as the Old System in Our Town And the SYs- tenn appealed to them and when they get back they VIII be among staunches boosters in New York It is an natural thing here but it IS worth while, any where.
 For a generation of years this camp has been gW-
 ing 100 percent of itself and waiting for bread to cast upon the waters to come back to it well soaked The camp still unit in believing that the bread will so come back although the flow of moist bread thsaway is not oppressive threatening as yet And every thinking man here will agree with us that when the Boston crowd turned back at Seattle instead Of com ink on here THEY lost than WE did. We are proud country and what it has to offer to Ev- ervman but we all know it is country and it's facilities still need of fixing and that they get
 ting fixing which brings them nearer to perfection THIS year is the worst cmatcally have had in seventeen years and time for visitors to travel roads farms; to have them do so at this time or THIS SEASON is of knock than
 boost to If tourist travel is light this year lighter than it ever before, it will simply show that God had his arms around Town, and will not assist encourage tourists to see Our Town and Camp when they not at their best-Fairbanks Daily NewsMner